Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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MAKER VAN NIBIRU GRAANCIRKEL ONTDEKT? ( VIDEO)
MAKER VAN NIBIRU GRAANCIRKEL ONTDEKT? ( VIDEO)
Al in 1994 joegen helikopters van het Britse leger op UFO’s op de plek waar enkele dagen geleden een bijzondere graancirkel werd aangetroffen.
Dit alles gebeurt in het Engelse graafschap Wiltshire en daar komt nu ook één van de meest spectaculaire UFO opnames van dit jaar vandaan.
We schreven gisteren een artikel over een bijzondere graancirkel die was gemaakt in het Engelse graafschap Wiltshire.
Wiltshire (vaak afgekort tot Wilts) is een ceremonieel graafschap in het zuidwesten van Engeland, met Trowbridge als administratief centrum. Het grenst aan de graafschappen Somerset in het westen, Dorset en Hampshire in het zuiden, Gloucestershire in het noorden en Oxfordshire en Berkshire in het oosten. Inclusief de unitary authority van Swindon omvat het graafschap 3.476 km². Het landschap van Wiltshire wordt gekenmerkt door open vlakten met krijtheuvels en brede valleien. De laagvlakte van de Salisbury Plains is beroemd vanwege het megalithisch monument Stonehenge.
Met een monument als Stonehenge in Wiltshire weet je dat je te maken hebt met een bijzondere plek, waar ook al voor onze bekende geschiedenis buitenaardse bezoekers kwamen.
Wanneer we voor nu even de onzinnige theorie van mannen met plankjes onder de voeten die complexe graancirkels maken binnen een paar minuten midden in de nacht omdat ze dat leuk vinden, buiten beschouwing laten, dan zijn deze graancirkels nog steeds een raadsel.
Een verklaring voor die cirkels is misschien te vinden in misschien wel één van de meest mooie UFO waarnemingen van de laatste tijd.
De bewegende beelden volgen hierna en wanneer je dit ziet, dan kan je bijna niet anders dan dit in verband brengen met de graancirkel(s).
Verschillende mensen hebben ondertussen de beelden bekeken en niemand heeft tot nu kunnen vaststellen dat ze niet echt zouden zijn.
De plek in Wiltshire waar de graancirkel verscheen, kwam ook jaren geleden al in het nieuws toen Britse legerhelikopters op die plek jacht maakten op een vergelijkbare UFO en daarnaast probeerden nieuwsgierige mensen op een afstand te houden.
UFO CLAIMS ON THE RISE AS SKY CLEARS, WEATHER WARMS UP
UFO CLAIMS ON THE RISE AS SKY CLEARS, WEATHER WARMS UP
By Janene Pieters
A model of a flying saucer. Photo: Richard Elzey / Wikimedia Commons
It is currently peak season at the UFO hotline in the Netherlands. Reports of UFOs increase every year when the weather warms up and skies clear in the country.
"The days are long, people are outside a lot and then you always see a peak in the number of UFO sightings", Alex Griffioen, the manager of the hotline, said to NOS. "For the vast majority of these reports there is a very simple explanation, but for 1 in 100 there's really something crazy going on."
A video posted online showing a white light slowly pulling over Ouderkerk, turned out to be a plane, for example. Some others are harder to explain. Such as a video filmed above Arnhem that shows three flying objects. They seem to be balloons, gradually disappearing into the sky, until one suddenly makes a sharp turn and shoots left.
Since the hotline was established in 2011, over 5 thousand UFO sightings were reported. That comes down to about 70 per month. Most of the reports involve strange lights, like white or colored spheres, spots and stripes. Sometimes it involves an object moving in an unusual way. The sightings are all discussed on a forum.
"It's a pity that this subject is always placed in the fantasy corner, along with crop circles and chemtrials and such. We're just trying to look at it seriously. It's a phenomenon observed by pilots and other very reliable, sensible people", Griffioen said to NOS.
He also has some tips for anyone spotting a UFO in the future. "It's useful to download two aps that answer a lot of questions: Skywalk lets you see the position of stars and planets. Flightradar shows the planes that come over." Try to take a clear picture. And if you record a video, make sure you have a fixed reference point in the frame.
I cover over-the-horizon technology, aerospace and astronomy.
Nearly four decades after it was received, astronomers still can’t say with 100% certainty that the ‘Wow!’ signal was not an interstellar radio beacon from some far-flung extraterrestrial civilization. But the signal --- which got the Wow! moniker after an astronomer first scribbled those letters in the margins of the incoming data --- was never reacquired.
Even so, Bob Dixon, Ohio State University’s (SETI) Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program director at the time, once told me that the signal had to have at least originated at distance beyond the Moon.
Credit: Terrence Dickinson via NASA
The Milky Way and the constellation of Sagittarius.
What is known is that the signal was received just after 11 PM local time on August 15, 1977, at OSU’s now defunct Big Ear Radio Observatory. Its position on the sky came from the direction of the star cluster M55 in the constellation of Sagittarius. Yet more importantly, it closely-matched the narrow emission line of hydrogen at 1420 megahertz , a radio-quiet spot long touted as a potential interstellar hailing frequency for E.T. civilizations. And at the time, it was also the strongest such SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) candidate signal ever seen.
“So, ‘Wow!’ was appropriate,” Dan Werthimer, chief scientist at the University of California at Berkeley’s SETI program, told me. But he says it would be more convincing if the signal had appeared one after another along the Big Ear’s two different radio observing beams.
That, says Werthimer, would be more of an indication that it was an artificial radio beacon from an interstellar point source. But we occasionally see Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) that's modulated in just the right way that makes it look like it is consistent with a distant point source, says Werthimer. But as he emphasizes, if the signal were really from E.T. and was in the telescope’s observing sights for at least a few minutes, the source of the signal should have moved from one beam into the other.
“It didn't,” said Werthimer. “So, I'm 99% confident that the signal the OSU guys saw was RFI.”
Still, there’s another possibility and that is that the signal did originate from beyond the moon, but was produced by two active comets orbiting within our solar system. That is, within the vicinity of the ‘Wow!’ signal’s position on the sky.
A 2015 paper published by The Washington Academy of Sciences proposed that during that summer of 1977, comets 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) “were transiting in the neighborhood of the Chi Sagittarii star group” and produced by a large hydrogen cloud around their nucleus. Because the frequency for the ‘Wow!’ signal fell close to the radio emission for hydrogen, the paper noted that these local cometary hydrogen clouds would be strong candidates as the signal’s source.
The comet hypothesis sounds somewhat plausible, but I still don’t buy it. If this cometary phenomena were at all statistically frequent, researchers would likely have picked up something similar over the last 50 years. And to my knowledge, this is the first time that anyone has argued that such narrowband emission is from a comet.
My personal best guess is that the signal was not RFI. But more likely, it was the product of some very distant or unusual and/or poorly-understood astrophysical phenomenon.
Credit: Wikipedia
That’s not to say that E.T. isn’t out there somewhere. But the likelihood that we would only receive a lone radio beacon, that’s never repeated and could never be reacquired, also seems implausible.
Most people can live with the fact that there may be no one out there. Some prefer the notion that we are the ultimate undiscovered country in a cosmos teeming with intelligent life. But few like the idea that we narrowly missed E.T.’s one-off phone call.
Werthimer, however, says either the ‘Wow!’ signal’s rise and fall in strength was actually intrinsic to the signal, in which case he says it would have to be RFI. Or if the signal were from a distant source, he says, then it would be constant in power and its rise and fall in strength would be due to Earth’s rotation.
Roswell Deputy Sheriff: 'I saw four dead aliens and 100ft flying saucer at UFO crash site'
Roswell Deputy Sheriff: 'I saw four dead aliens and 100ft flying saucer at UFO crash site'
A FORMER deputy sheriff claimed to have seen a "flying saucer" and "dead aliens" at an alleged UFO crash site in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, it has emerged.
The testimony of Charles H Forgus of Big Springs in Howard County, Texas, is the latest to surface from a person who claims an alien space craft, and not a top-secret US-launched balloon, came down in the desert around the town nearly 70 years ago.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release 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 a mysterious top-secret military base.
There have been claims and counter claims, including that the bodies were crash test dummies and it had been a top-secret balloon spying on the Russians.
All the confusion means it is one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories to this day.
He was interviewed, aged 81, in 1999, but the account appears to have lain buried until now, due to copyright issues according to Flying Disk Press publisher Phillip Mantle.
Mr Forgus claimed to have been driving with an unnamed sheriff on the night of the alleged crash in July 1947, from Texas to Roswell to pick up a prisoner, when details of the incident "came over on the police radio".
He was interviewed in 1999 by Los Angeles private investigator Deanna Bever, who was looking into Roswell, and another interviewer whose initials are only given as LR.
Dr Scott said in the book: "Unlike other eyewitness accounts where few people actually reported seeing bodies, this witness reported seeing the craft and the bodies in a crash that appeared significant enough to report."
He told of a perfectly round saucer being crashed in a canyon, after it appeared to have hit a "side wall".
What I seen of him looked just like the one we see on television, with big eyes.
Charles Forgus
"There was a big round thing in the canyon. It was about 100 feet across.
"They put that on a truck and hauled it away. They wouldn’t let us get very close to it either."
The testimony has met with doubters already.
In a blog post on website theufochronicles.com Roswell UFO expert Kevin Randle said: "Though Forgus didn’t know which branch of the service they were in, the US Army on their fatigues should have been a big clue.
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The 70th anniversary of the Roswell incident takes place this July.
"He was asked if there were lights on the craft and he said, 'No, they went out when it banged into the wall in the creek'
"Though I’m not sure how he would have known that the lights went out when it hit because he wasn’t there."
He said the crash site location described by Mr Forgus matched that given by the late Frank Kaufmann, whose account "has already been discredited."
Mr Randle wrote: "He said he could see the bodies, though he didn’t have a good description of them.
"He talked about the big eyes. He said 'Their eyes looked like the ones we see on television and the pictures of them.'
"But he was so far away, according to him, it is difficult to believe that he would have seen the eyes.
"The real clue is about having seen alien creatures on television.
"He just picked the most popular version of the aliens to describe."
Mr Randle claimed the roads surrounding the crash site would have been blocked so they would have been unable to even get there.
He added: "The other part of the story that fails is that they heard about this on the police radio, which seems unlikely, but even if that had been true, they wouldn’t have heard instructions on how to find the place.
"You can’t see it from the main roads, and the gravel and dirt roads into the area are quite rough and quite confusing.
"If you don’t know where you are going, you’d get lost. Without someone leading them in, or precise directions which wouldn’t have been broadcast, they would never have found their way to the crash site."
Asked what the author and Mr Mantle thought of the testimony, Mr Mantle said: "We remain open minded on the testimony documented bu Deputy Sheriff Forgus.
"We hope that by releasing this information now that others may be able to shed more light on it one way or the other."
The man then said he did not think humans could be alone in the universe.
He claimed JFK replied: "You're right young man, there is considerable knowledge as far as the being of UFOs and the ET phenomenon that we are aware of today."
Unacknowledged claims to expose years of coverups within the US government over the alleged truth of alien visitations of Earth being kept hidden from the public.
The film is directed by Michael Mazzola and follows conspiracy theorist Dr Steven Greer, who is a major player in the so-called disclosure movement, which is calling for an end to an alleged truth embargo which ensures the cover-up continues.
You're right young man, there is considerable knowledge as far as the being of UFOs and the ET phenomenon that we are aware of today."
JFK
The extensive documentary touches on the death of Marilyn Monroe, which it suggests was a murder coordinated by the CIA because of an alleged affair with JFK and claims she was about to blow the lid on UFOs based on pillow talk with the president.
In the film, Dr Greer produces an alleged top secret CIA memo written two days before the star was found dead on on August 5, 1962, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California.
He claims it shows how she was wire tapped by the agency which had concerns about her liaison with the president.
Last year, a new theory alleged that JFK was shot dead because he demanded the release of top-secret UFO files from the CIA.
Alien researcher Scott C Waring, editor of the now defunct UFO Sightings Daily, posted copies to his website of a letter sent by JFK to the then head of the CIA just 10 days before he was murdered.
He blogged: "Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doesn't know it yet, but she does not have the power to release such information.
"CIA would kill her before she could, just like they did JFK.
"Yes, just a week before his death JFK wrote a memo to CIA to release all pertinent info to NASA, but somehow he was killed before it ever happened."
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Hillary Clinton Championed UFO Disclosure, Doc Filmmakers Say
Hillary Clinton Championed UFO Disclosure, Doc Filmmakers Say
by Tatiana Siegel
Screenshot/Abundance of Energy/YouTube
'Unacknowledged'
After debuting on iTunes and digital platforms on May 9, 'Unacknowledged' shot to the No. 1 documentary spot worldwide.
For decades, Hollywood has pondered the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe? The Orchard’s new documentary Unacknowledged claims to have the answer.
Directed by Michael Mazzola and narrated by Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito, the film features the work of Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project, and is dubbed an important expose revealing covert interstellar secrets (that’s right, Hillary Clinton and other high-level public servants know all about ET visitors, says Greer).
“There's no question in my mind that Hillary’s aware of the issue,” Greer says. “Her campaign chairperson John Podesta came out in favor of disclosure and said that the government should come forward with this information. And he remained a disclosure advocate all the way through the campaign. And [former] CIA Director James Woolsey first told me that he had made specific directed inquiries into the subject but was denied access.”
What might come as a shock is how well these documentaries do on digital platforms. After debuting on iTunes on May 9, Unacknowledged shot to the No. 1 documentary spot worldwide and No. 2 in the U.S. (second only to Laura Poitras’ Julian Assange pic Risk). In fact, Unacknowledged, which debuted on VOD on May 23, is outpacing Risk in its first few weeks, despite the latter’s high-profile subject, a Cannes 2016 debut and an Oscar-winning director (Poitras won the 2015 best documentary prize for Citizenfour).
Greer, a retired emergency room doctor, raised more than $700,000 through crowdfunding to finance the film and an accompanying book, published April 25 by A&M Publishing, but he still needed to find a distributor. Enter The Orchard, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment that entered the film distribution space just two-and-a-half years ago and already has an impressive track record with docs, having shepherded Life, Animated and Cartel Land to Oscar nominations in successive years. The company acquired Unacknowledged back in September 2016, with hopes of tapping into the rabid UFO fan base. The film features ET revelations from numerous government sources including Richard Doty, a former special agent for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations and offers whistleblower testimony, documents and more UFO footage than an X-Files marathon.
Over the years, several Hollywood projects featuring Greer’s work fell apart “inexplicably,” he says, prompting him to put an unusual clause in his contract with The Orchard that if the movie wasn't released as planned, the rights would revert back to him. Among the projects he says were deep-sixed were a Fox film being developed by Arnold Kopelson (Seven) and an ABC News segment with Ira Rosen.
“What we did here was ensure that the truth about this issue could get to the public, and if there was any attempt to shelve it, we would call it back,” adds Greer.
Alas, Unacknowledged is out and doing brisk business since its debut. And given its success on streaming platforms, Greer once again has been approached by a few Hollywood producers that he declined to name about pursuing a narrative feature film based on his work. In the meantime, he and Mazzola say no one should be surprised that their film has found its audience.
"I think UFOs are totally underestimated in terms of the public interest in this,” says Mazzola. "Besides pornography it's probably the most searched topic on the Internet. And we're really excited to be the first UFO documentary to have a major distributor backing us."
A new alleged witness to the Roswell UFO crash will be revealed in book UFOs Today.
The testimony will be revealed in a new book, set to be published on Thursday, Express.co.uk can reveal.
The book, titled UFOs TODAY - 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation, and Government Cover-Up, has been penned by Dr Irena Scott, who gained a PhD in physiology from the University of Missouri.
Dr Scott said: "This book features the testimony of a former US Deputy Sheriff who was an alleged witness to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947.
"This gentleman’s unique testimony will be published here for the first time."
FlyingDiskPress
The new book will be released on Thursday, June 1.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release 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.
It has gone on to become the biggest UFO conspiracy theory on record.
Phillip Mantle, of publisher Flying Disk Press, said: "The UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is undoubtedly the most famous UFO event in the world.
"The new book by American academic Irena Scott PhD looks set to keep the debate surrounding this event moving.
"A new witness to the events near Roswell in 1947 is just a small part of this outstanding book.
This book features the testimony of a former US Deputy Sheriff who was an alleged witness to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947.
Dr Irena Scott
"This unique books looks to answer these and many other questions."
The book also looks at Government official investigations into the UFO phenomena since before 1947.
Dr Scott, who claims to have witnessed a Government cover up over UFOS first hand, said: "Examination of government knowledge of the UFO phenomena is vital because it provides important evidence about whether the subject is taken seriously by government authorities, and can potentially provide technical information about the phenomena.
"The book also includes never-before-published first-hand interviews and correspondence with many of the most important and the initial investigators of the phenomena.
"This is significant because many of these people have died and those who are living are getting old.
"Thus, this research provides an historical record of the reasoning and opinions of those making an initial impact in this field."
Dr Scott went on to work for the Defence Intelligence Agency and the Aerospace Center in satellite photography.
She was also a volunteer astronomer at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory and has more than 30 years experience as a UFO field investigator with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Having written two articles this week on questionable and hoaxed UFO documents, I figured why not make it a “trilogy”? As with the previous articles – one on Marilyn Monroe and the other on the Rendlesham Forest UFO event of December 1980 – this one tells a very odd story. Back in 1978, Leonard Stringfield’s book, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, was published. It’s a book that includes a wealth of material on a wide variety of UFO cases – abductions, UFO crashes, radar-visual events, and much more. Also in the book, there’s a weird tale which revolves around the University of Chicago.
The story was told to Stringfield, in February 1975, by a UFO researcher named Sherman Larsen. Some months earlier, Larsen said to Stringfield, he was contacted by a Presbyterian minister from Wisconsin. The man had a strange tale to tell. He claimed that when he was a child his father – who was also a minister – took him to the Chicago-based Museum of Science and Industry. During the course of the day, father and son supposedly “strayed off into a labyrinth of corridors and became lost. Hoping to find an exit, they entered a room in which they encountered a large, glass-covered case.” Contained within the case were several, small bodies that were human-like but not human. According to Stringfield, “The minister recalled that instantly his father was grabbed by several men and forcibly taken into another room. Detained for some time, his father was forced to sign papers before they were allowed to leave the museum.”
It should be noted that within the world of Forteana (and particularly in Ufology) there are numerous tales of people wandering off when in government buildings and military installations, and going down the wrong corridor and stumbling on some terrible secret in a hidden room. The “Chicago story” may very well be just another variation on that theme. The late UFO researcher Todd Zechel took a particular interest in this story. In looking into it, he claimed to have found a connection between the strange bodies at the Chicago-based Museum of Science and Industry and certain events that supposedly occurred at the University of Chicago from the late 1940s to the early 1950s.
In 1979, Zechel quietly shared a controversial letter with Stringfield and several others, which seemed to confirm some of the tales of strange bodies in Chicago, years earlier. It was written on University of Chicago stationery and was dated May 5, 1979. The letter was supposedly written to Zechel by a professor at the university and reads as follows:
“I do not know the source of your information but after having assigned several graduate students to spend considerable time researching the University archives, I find that you are correct in your information about some very strange humanoid bodies being examined here in 1948 and again in 1952. The professors you named did indeed participate in the autopsies and studies but unfortunately, all three are deceased so we can obtain no further information from them. All results of the studies were apparently classified and removed from the university by government agents for whom the studies were performed. The only people my graduate students could locate that were even remotely connected with the studies said that they only remembered talk of four-foot-tall, sexless bodies thought to have been the product of Nazi cloning and genetic experiments and recovered from the ruins of German laboratories.”
Chicago Museum of Science and industry
When Stringfield took steps to have the doctor approached for comment on the controversial letter (and its beyond-dubious contents), the doctor replied: “The information that you have received is incorrect. As far as I know the basis for it is a letter under my name describing such a strange phenomenon. However, the letter is a forgery, the body of the letter having been inserted over a genuine letter and then xeroxed. I am somewhat concerned about this matter and would appreciate knowing where your information came from.”
If you ever come across a copy of the letter, the best thing you can do is throw it out with the garbage. That’s where it belongs.
Filer’s Files #22 – 2017 Philosophical Problems with ET Messages - PART I
Disc captured on May 17, 2017, over Toronto, Canada.
Filer’s Files #22 – 2017 Philosophical Problems with ET Messages - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister, Japan UFO Problem Is a Reality, Zecharia Sitchin Ancient Clay Tablets Describe Ancient Astronauts UFOs, Folklore and UFOs: Jacques Vallee, Philosophical and Other Problems with ET Messages, Space Aggressors’ Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict and New York Times Publishes Manchester Bombing Details
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Chile, Germany, India, Thailand, and England and Scotland in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The 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.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Happy Memorial Day
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Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister, Japan UFO Problem Is a Reality
First of all, I told a magazine this past January that, as an underdeveloped country with regards to the UFO problem, Japan had to take into account what should be done about the UFO question, and that we had to spend more time on these matters. In addition, I said that someone had to solve the UFO problem with far reaching vision at the same time. Secondly, I believe it is a reasonable time to take the UFO problem seriously as a reality.
I hope that this Symposium will contribute to peace on Earth from the point of view of outer space, and take the first step toward the international cooperation in the field of UFOs. Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister, Japan, in a letter to Mayor Shiotani of Hakui City, dated June 24, 1990, endorsing an upcoming Space & UFO Symposium.
Toshiki Kaifu is a Japanese politician who was the 76th and 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.
The recent election of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama of the Democratic Party of Japan was a political earthquake since the outgoing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has ruled the country for half a century. Although the main issue was the economy, the LDP was also run by uncharismatic and dull party leaders.
It now seems that Japan’s new first couple won’t be dull. The new first lady, 66-year old Miyuki Hatoyama, is a former actress, dancer and singer in the Takarazuka Revue all-female theater group, which has some rather eclectic New Age ideas and lifestyles. Japanese and international media went abuzz with Miyuki Hatoyama’s comments about her astral trip to Venus inside a UFO 20 years ago.
“While my body was sleeping, I think my spirit flew on a triangular-shaped UFO to Venus,” she wrote in the book Most Bizarre Things I’ve Encountered, adding that “it was an extremely beautiful place and was very green.”
Zecharia Sitchin Ancient Clay Tablets Describe Ancient Astronauts UFOs
A few years ago before his death on October 9, 2010, I had dinner with Zecharia Sitchin whose work was based on clay tablets some of oldest recorded writings known to man that were found in modern day Iraq (Samaria). Sitchin’s work consists of eight books promoting an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. He explained to me that much of the ancient data is also contained in the Book of Genesis, which is the basis for many of the world’s religions including Christianity and Judaism. Basically it tells that God created the Earth and all living things. Visitors from space called the Nephilim came to Earth and mated with women. A great war occurred in the planet Heaven and a group of angels led by Satan were forced out and settled on Earth. Satan or the Devil attempts to convince mankind to follow his beliefs. The combatants are referred to in the Dead Sea Scrolls as the Sons of Light versus the Sons of Darkness. This war has continued for over 6,000 years.
We can assume the craft in our skies have a connection with these ancient writings. Genesis has more relevance to the present day than you might realize. There are two wills in the universe, God’s will and Satan’s will.
Genesis 19 is one of the most commonly cited passages in the Bible that describes the destruction of Sodom. The term “Sodomite” was originally used to refer to an inhabitant of Sodom — a city which was located in Canaan, present day Israel. It later became a legal term to refer to criminal sexual acts. God apparently had a fierce anger directed at the inhabitants of the town. He destroyed Sodom with fire and brimstone (sulfur) dumped from above. According to the story, he killed all of the inhabitants of Sodom for threatening the rape of two angels who blinded their attackers.
Over two decades ago, eminent scientist Jacques Vallee wrote a provocative book about UFO cases, folklore, and certain unexplained phenomena in Passport to Magonia, which changed our understanding of the UFO phenomenon by connecting documents and data from earlier centuries that related to incidents in the modern era. Among the numerous parallels between UFOs, folklore, and religious traditions were tales of fairies, elves, leprechauns, apparitions, and strange creatures.
In Celtic regions, witnesses described seeing fairies who were accompanied by strange oval objects from the sky, and these beings were also known for abducting people– not unlike modern reports of alien abduction, he pointed out. A ninth century account from the Archbishop of Lyon, France dealt with three people who were said to emerge from a flying ship– villagers thought they came from a magical land called Magonia. Investigators have neglected to recognize one important perspective of the phenomenon: the fact that beliefs identical to those held today have recurred throughout recorded history and under forms best adapted to the believer’s country, race, and social regime.
If we take a wide sample of this historical material, we find that it is organized around one central theme: visitation by an aerial people from one or more remote, legendary countries. The names and attributes vary, but the main idea clearly does not. Magonia, heaven, hell, – all such places have in common one characteristic: we are unable to reach them alive, except on very special occasions. Emissaries from these supernatural abodes come to earth, sometimes under human form and sometimes as monsters. They perform wonders. They serve man or fight him. Vallee spoke of how UFO phenomena seems to straddle different layers of reality, and what witnesses actually observe may be modulated by their individual consciousness. People in Asia view the phenomenon as part of nature, and the alien beings hailing from a different plane, rather than another planet, he added.
Philosophical and Other Problems with ET Messages
Many of the encounters with extraterrestrials appear to be friendly and even loving while others appear hateful and demonic. It appears we are dealing with various alien civilizations or hidden entities. Some may have been here for centuries while others may be recent arrivals with different motivations, Star Wars like encounters seem real with UFOs crashing periodically for the last seventy years. The damage to their craft appears to have been caused by advanced weapons. Either we have these weapons or the various ET civilizations are fighting one another. The Star Wars films may be closer to the truth than we realize.
There seems to be reports and research, components which parallel paranormal, psychic, and spiritistic manifestations, etc. Many UFO abductees, contactees and researchers, for instance, believe there is an interdimensional or multidimensional quality to the UFO phenomena and related experiences. Although the UFO phenomena may appear real enough, it also could be a holographic illusion or a transmogrification of matter and energy. Perhaps certain intelligences have the power to shape matter and spirit or to make our dreams so real, we believe they actually occurred.
Some UFOs and their occupants seem to have an ability to shape shift and appear and disappear.
Dr. J. Allen Hyneck suggested the phenomena appears to be more psychic than extra-terrestrial and perhaps comes from a parallel world. This also seems to be Dr. Jacque Vallee’s explanation who also notes that there are authoritarian overtones to some of the messages given to contactees i.e. Democracy is obsolete, elections should be done away with, racist ideologies are encouraged – some have more alien DNA etc., a New World Order is needed and will be set up with alien help. Once they are in charge there will be no more wars or crime. Vallee also believes that some kind of control system is being set up by the UFO phenomenon which challenges our traditions and human beliefs systems. Many abductees report implants and feel they are being manipulated for some unknown purpose that’s yet to be revealed. Much of the messages given to abductees and contactees seem to be New Age in philosophical orientation and language: there are no moral absolutes, reincarnation is taught, beliefs such as a vague “kinship with the Cosmos and it’s oneness with the Universe or the Universe as a supreme being” are common, we are being told that “we stand on the precipice of a quantum leap forward on both a biological and spiritual level.” Man is or is becoming God…etc. There are several alien types taking credit for the creation of man as outlined in the ancient Sumerian tablets.
Many alien prophesies to contactees of the 60’s or to-day have failed to come true or appear to be outright lies. Many contactees and abductees to-day are again delivering warnings of coming earth changes and disasters along with promises of help from aliens, So what are we dealing with? New Age aliens with a promise of a Golden Age or some unimaginable deception to enslave undiscerning minds. The evidence seems to point to the latter.
There have been many false messianic claims and those foolish enough to repeat history by following the voices of deceiving entities have been warned to “beware of false prophets and Christ’s who come disguised as sheep but underneath are ravenous wolves“.We should be reminded of the likes of Adolf Hitler who not long ago promised a New Age to unsuspecting Germans.
Whitley Strieber, in the MUFON Journal, states –
“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.”
Strieber seems to swing from horror to naive trust; you see this in his books and statements to the public. Perhaps, he is not so sure of the visitor’s intentions. The Reptilian aliens may be the same ones called demons or the devil by religion.
Some UFO researchers suggest that perhaps the so called ‘aliens’ aren’t much of a threat, after all if they have been around for this long and have not taken over then why should we be concerned. However, if they are not what they appear to be and the phenomena has other potentials and realities which include: deception, false messianic claims, dangerous ideologies, the formation of cults, etc., then for historical, social and political reasons we should not abandon our need for discernment and caution.
“Here are some great UFO quotes that shed light on the deceptive nature of the “alien” presence. But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.” John Ankerberg, The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena, p. 10
‘We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which is largely indigenous to planet earth.” Brad Steiger, [cited in] Blue Book Files Released in Canadian UFO Report, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1977, p. 20
“We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.” Terrence McKenna [from a lecture]
“A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing and invisible entities as well as phenomena like poltergeist [ghost] manifestation and ‘possession.’ Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic on and psychic phenomena.” -Lynn E. Catoe, UFOs and Related Subjects: USGPO, 1969
“UFO behavior is more akin to magic than to physics as we know it the modern UFOnauts and the demons of past days are probably identical.” Dr. Pierre Guerin, FSR Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 13-14
“The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon” John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 299
“Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.” Dr. Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 20
“The ‘medical examination’ to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscent of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: Any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks.” Dr. Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, p. 13
“The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals the UFO beings of today belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult] entities that were described in centuries past.” Dr. Jacques Vallee citing the extensive research of Bertrand Meheust in Confrontations, p. 146, 159-161
“[The occultist] is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or any false impressions they choose to impart the demons seem permitted to do various wonders at their request.” -G.H. Pember, Earth’s Earliest Ages and Their Connection with Modern Spiritualism and Theosophy (1876), p. 254 Thanks to Noah’s Dove.
Space Aggressors’ Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict
Elite military units are specializing in mock space warfare, as Russia and China develop anti-satellite weaponry. By Greg Walters
In a large, tin-roofed warehouse near Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, members of a team of modern space warriors spend their days hatching plots to defeat the US military in extraterrestrial combat. They’re called Space Aggressors. Their job is to act like the enemy during mock space battles to help US units prepare for a conflict that may one day extend into the cosmos.
US Army Spc. Angel Mendoza, assigned as a space aggressor operator to the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron, Schreiver Air Force Base, Colorado., secures a helical antenna to a gravel pad adjacent to the flight line Aug. 8, 2016, during RED FLAG-Alaska (RF-A) 16-3, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Along with two modems and an amplifier, space aggressors at RF-A 16-3 interrupt GPS systems for navigation and weapons, which pilots use during the exercise designed to simulate the first 10 combat sorties of a surge operation or conflict. | US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel
“We play the bad guys,” said Captain Christopher Barnes, chief of training for the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron. “Our job is to not only understand the different types of threats and potential enemies, but also to be able to portray them and replicate them for the good guys, our Air Force.”
The 26th and 527th Space Aggressor Squadrons are headquartered in a two-story warehouse at Colorado’s Schriever Air Force Base, stocked with advanced radio and satellite equipment and nicknamed “the barn.” Behind the building, antenna dishes trace the sky. While attacks by the Space Aggressors are simulated, senior U.S. military and intelligence officials warn the threat in space is very real.
America relies heavily on space assets to project force around the globe, from launching missiles to directing warships across the seas. Indeed, the Global Positioning System, or GPS, is actually a group of 31 high-orbiting satellites owned by the US government and operated by the US Air Force.
The 527th Space Aggressors Squadron and 26th Space Aggressors Squadron emblems are painted side by side on doors inside the Space Aggressors’ facility at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. | US Air Force/2nd Lt. Darren Domingo
Some worry that disrupting America’s vast network of satellites and ground-based systems could send US forces back to an antiquated era of targeting, communications, and navigation systems — deeply undercutting battlefield superiority.
This spring, rhetoric from US military officials about the need to bolster American defensive position, and even offensive capabilities, in space has ratcheted up amid concern that Russia and China are rapidly developing anti-satellite weapons.µ
“While we’re not at war in space, I don’t think we could say we’re exactly at peace, either,”
Vice Admiral Charles Richard, Deputy Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, known as Stratcom, told a conference in Washington DC in March. “We must prepare for a conflict that extends into space.”
His operational assignments include command of USS Parche (SSN 683) as well as Submarine NR-1, then the U.S. Navy’s only nuclear-powered, deep-submergence submarine. Richard previously served as the director, Undersea Warfare Division (N97) in Washington, D.C., and was responsible for the planning, programming and budgeting for acquisition, operational readiness and modernization of the submarine force and its support
In his remarks, Vice Admiral Richard pointed to press reports that “China is developing an arsenal of lasers, electro-magnetic rail guns, and high-powered microwave weapons to neutralize America’s intelligence, communications, and navigations satellites.”
The US military has now opened the National Space Defense Center. Thanks to www.space.com/tech-robot
New York Times Publishes Manchester Bombing Details
As a longtime reader of The Times, I was shocked, saddened and frankly confused by the decision to publish pictures of forensic evidence gathered by the British police from the scene of the bombing in Manchester. The release of any detail from a continuing counterterrorism investigation can have a harmful effect on that investigation. In particular, in a case in which it is suspected that the bomb maker is still at large, the forensic details could provide him or her with useful damage assessment information to “improve” the next device manufactured. Against this risk, it is unclear what public interest or informational need was served by publishing these pictures of the scene of an atrocity. I expect efforts to capitalize on sensational details from my country’s tabloids, but not from The Times. Andrew Gawthorpe Leiden, the Netherlands
“The alleged leaks coming out of government agencies are deeply troubling,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. “These leaks have been going on for a long time, and my administration will get to the bottom of this. The leaks of sensitive information pose a grave threat to our national security.”
Prime Minister Mrs. May’s statement followed expressions of outrage by top law enforcement officials after The New York Times published images on Wednesday of the shrapnel, backpack and battery used by Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old bomber who killed 22 people and injured scores outside the Manchester Arena as a pop concert ended Monday night. The Times did not disclose the source of its information.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council in Britain called the leaks a breach of trust, adding, “This damage is even greater when it involves unauthorized disclosure of potential evidence in the middle of a major counterterrorism investigation.” The disclosure of potential evidence “undermines our investigations and the confidence of victims, witnesses and their families,” it added.
On Thursday, Manchester’s top police official, Chief Constable Ian Hopkins, joined the chorus of criticism, saying that the disclosure “has caused much distress for families that are already suffering terribly with their loss.” Thanks to the NY Times
US Constitution Article III Section 3 — Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. The United Sates is at war with ISIS and I feel the major news media is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.
Trouble in Europe
A Muslim in Germany has been caught on video saying this to a German man:”
“Islam is coming to take over Germany whether you want it or not … not through war but by the fact that Germans don’t reproduce and Muslims have seven to eight children for each wife but not only that, your daughters will marry bearded Muslims and wear the hijab; their sons will wear a beard!”The Muslims will have four wives and 27 children living on the welfare state, and what does the German man have? One child and maybe a little pet dog! The German has taken advantage of the Muslim for too long, just so he can drive his Mercedes. … “Now Islam is coming and your daughters will wear the hijab!
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Filer’s Files #22 – 2017 Philosophical Problems with ET Messages - PART II
Filer’s Files #22 – 2017 Philosophical Problems with ET Messages - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
Joshua Tree — I just return from a weeklong trip for a yearly 4 day UFO/ET “Contact in the Desert” Event.
This event was well attended by over thirty world renowned UFO personages, and when event was over, as I was on Greyhound Bus back to OKC,
I took several pictures. But when I decided to review them, I noticed that two pictures had very bright light Orbs in them which I did not see when picture was taken. I have seen several other UFOs in the past, so I know them when I see then.
I am also a Zetan Contactee since 1998. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Orlando – On May 16, 2017, my dad took this picture near Epcot Center. My dad said he was at a hotel in Orlando on the 18th floor at around 8 AM in the morning. He was looking out his hotel room this past Tuesday admiring the view. He never saw any object in the sky until he got home and looked through the picture. So it could very well be a flash, but he took other photos of the same scene without the object there. My dad used his I-phone 7. I also attached the other pictures he sent me. Thanks for any information you can provide. I find this very fascinating. I hope that you can figure it out. I did some research and there were some pictures and video online of UFO’s in that area.
Note: Although the photo above is somewhat compelling it is likely a reflection of a light fixture off of the window glass and therefore is not a real object. Several other photos show the object. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Miami– I saw a triangle with orange circle lights on the corners in 2012. I was working outside and doing squats looking at the sky.
I saw it but got lost in some trees. I am blessed that someone saw it with me (my dad) otherwise I would go mad.
I told my family about it. It glided smoothly. The second I saw it, I thought it was none other than a ufo it was so distinct how it glided and the lights on it.Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois “Vs” Craft
The picture was taken with one of my sister’s trail cameras on April 20, 2017 at 11:49:23 am in the southeast sky.
She leaves the cameras out for a couple of weeks and this strange picture was from one of them.
She contacted MUFON but has not received anything back. I was wondering if you know what it is and if you seen anything like it before? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Object
Annapolis — I’m traveling all over America, helping people to break the chains. I want you to know that I’m still witnessing UFOs at times during my travels, and as recent as yesterday morning May 15th, 2017 at my home at 5 am.
I was just getting into bed and turned the TV off at 4:55 Am and the only sound in the room was a fan. I had just gotten myself comfortable, when I heard a copter outside of the building. I quickly dismissed it as the fan motor and tried to go to sleep. It was getting louder and louder. Then I asked my wife if she heard it and she said yes. I jumped out of bed and went to the window to see a very large triangular UFO, slowly moving away to the Northeast. It looked more like a boomerang and it had white lights all over it, with a red light under it. The red light was flashing as it moved away and then it stopped flashing. I saw the craft wobble from side to side and the red light began flashing again as it moved towards I-97. Anyone driving on that part of I-97, at that time surely would have seen it! As you know George, I have taken hundreds and hundreds of UFO pictures since October 5, 1995 and I’m attaching a few for your review. Please feel free to add them in Filers Files if you like. I’m convinced that the UFO phenomenon is absolutely connected to paranormal/supernatural activity, (along with divine experiences as well.) Psalm 68:17 says: King James Bible the chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
In my work as a Spiritual Warrior, I have come across a few people who were under demonic possession, and had eyes that looked Reptilian. Some of these people told me of having UFO experiences as well. There’s much more that I could say, but I will stop here.
Brentwood — During the morning of May 5, 2017, I was taking pictures from across the street from the 360′ free-standing Microwave Tower at the intersection of Hanley and Manchester Roads. I wanted a good picture for a Power Point presentation and didn’t see anything. The next day I was editing the pictures and in two of the three pictures there was a star-like image. The three pictures were taken two seconds apart and the image was in the last two. Within two seconds something wasn’t there and then it was there at 10:20 am, I returned to the exact photo spot on May 7, 2017, at 10:30 am and took a series of 12 tower photos and 11 frames had 22 points of light. Two seconds later in #6 they are gone but now there are two lights considerably right of the tower. I returned on May 9 at 10:20 am and took a series of 10 pictures, 2 seconds apart. Seven of the frames had 9 lights. I have included frames 1 and 2 where the light(s) has a fuzzy quality. I returned at 10:20 AM on May 21, took 10 more pictures and caught 4 more lights. In summary, on 4 occasions I took a total of 35 pictures and zoomed into 38 points of interest. I can’t account for the now-you-see-it and now-you-don’t UFOs and two seconds later two appear somewhere else. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Disc
Las Vegas — On May 15, 2017, at 2:16 pm on Las Vegas Boulevard I was shooting the Nellis Air Force Base aircraft coming in for a landing. I have Sony a350 DSLR, shooting specs of iso 400, f8. I was looking north as some airplanes come straight down the Vegas Boulevard to make two 180 degree turns and land at Nellis. There were. At about plane 18 in a group of 22 planes, I spotted a light coming behind and out of the clouds. I began to shoot, getting 10 shots off in 12 seconds. I recorded an image on 9 out of 10. The UFO is about two miles away that was like a bright light, but when I blew it up, it looked like a descending Smokey Goldfish Cracker. The object started up at 1000 feet and pulled a 45 degree fast descent and just disappeared. The planes run north parallel to the runway, do a sharp 180 and fly south for the landing. Whatever this object was it was observing the aircraft landing?
Note: Enlargement reveals an irregularly shaped object. I don’t have any reason to believe that the object is bird or balloon. The witness saw the object and thought it was unusual and that it appeared to be observing the Nellis AFB jets landing at Las Vegas Airport. The first photo in the animation shows one of the jets landing. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
New Mexico Object
Albuquerque – I was hiking in Petroglyph National Monument in Piedras Marcadas Canyon on Saturday, May 20, 2017, at 4:30 pm. I was returning to the trail head when I noticed a bright pulsating light pulsating every 5-10 seconds. It was moving south of Sandia Peak and I had my camera with zoom lenses and was able to capture several photos of the object.
The object was about 10 miles from me descending below the mountain peak. It was too large to be the Sandia Peak Tram. As object pulsated I attempted to capture photos of the craft. I stopped other hikers as the object quickly ascended above the Sandia Mountains. After several minutes, its altitude lowered and it suddenly disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Light
Medina — On May 17th 2017, around 7 PM I walked outside on my deck and noticed the southeastern sky was making a twister type cloud. I went and grabbed my camera and took a few pictures and nothing was out of the ordinary. I went back to the other side of the house and looked up, and yelled to my fiancé. “Look at the sky!!” He also saw this amazing sighting for only two minutes or so, the twister had formed and a blue glowing ball was coming closer and closer. It appeared and disappeared, being closer every time. The blue glowing ball, or orb, ended up being only about 500 feet higher before it disappeared. We then watched and took more pictures because the clouds looked like they had something in them. After it all started to blow over, or break apart… there were smoke like clouds that looked different than any other we have seen, and then they were gone. We felt extremely exhilarated and excited about what we had seen. We saw these awesome glowing blue orbs in the pictures and we then decided to share the beauty. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Green Light
San Antonio – I have observed a green light arrive nightly about from 8 PM and stay until 4AM, for the last three weeks since the beginning of May.
I see it only when sitting in my entry way at a certain angle. The object is green, very bright, and has flashing lights that seems to reconfigure.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Disc
Toronto — My Mother-in-law was visiting Downtown Toronto with my wife on May 17, 2017, and took some pictures of the tall buildings on her way home.
Next day she was showing pictures of downtown buildings to her friends at the ESL program where she is studying English, and they noticed that there was a strange object flying in the sky.
The picture is really clear and you can see something flying that looks like a space ship. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Chile Lights
Santiago de Chile -After a night storm, I took two pictures of the Snow Mountains on May 18, 2017. My view of the photos shows a light ascending that I couldn’t see when I took the pictures) My position is on a little terrace of my apartment. The site is in front of San Ramon mountain in Los Andes, Santiago de Chile. I can´t see the object during the shooting of the photos; I only see it while checking the pictures. When I looked up between shots I saw the lights upper movement. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Object
Stuttgart— I was filming an American Football game in Germany on November 9, 2009, when I turned around and saw this object hovering in mid air.
I asked my camera man to film this real quickly, he filmed it sadly not long enough, after he stopped filming, and the object flew off. Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Lights
Bhopal— I was on my terrace at 5 PM, and was clicking pictures of the cloud cover using my mobile camera on May 25, 2017.
After taking 4-5 pictures and a short video when I viewed those pictures there were two pictures within an interval of a minute without turning on the camera flash. These images had a yellow color circular light which had descended down in the second image from its initial position in the first image. The other images that I have taken with the camera flash do not show that yellow circular light. I am amazed and want to know what I have clicked. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thailand Light
Bangkok –. I looked out of my balcony and noticed an extremely bright light in the sky, quite low on May 6, 2017. I assumed it to be a star which was burning unusually bright, but on closer inspection it was below the low clouds.
This object was so bright it would leave a blind spot in my vision with tentacles of frozen/static electricity. The hovering object seemed to be a mushroom or triangle shape with a base. I observed it for almost two hours, even as the sun began to rise. It was still visible in the sunlight but slightly harder to see I became fearful as I had never seen anything like it. I went to bed around 7am and the object was still there. When I woke up a few hours later, the object had disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
United Kingdom /England Sightings
Newton Abbot Devon England — I was watching a propeller plane fly above the clouds when I spotted a black object that was emerging from the clouds.
I quickly took a photograph and watched as the object went back into the clouds from where it emerged. The Photograph was taken on the 14th of May 2017 at 12:02 PM. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Newton Abbot Devon England — I have again spotted and photographed an alien craft near a passenger plane. The photo was taken on of May 22, 2017, at 11:55 AM. It was a beautiful hot day, so I decided to go out in the hot sun and sky watch. I watched as many passenger planes passed over head, but I didn’t see anything strange so I decided to focus my attention on distant planes. I spotted a passenger plane and an alien craft that was moving up along the planes contrail towards the plane. Once the alien craft was near the plane it matched the planes air speed and began to follow the plane. These alien craft are checking out more and more passing aircraft over this airspace. It is as if they are looking for someone or something. The mind really boggles to why they are so interested with our planes? I continued to watch the plane and the alien craft as they flew across the sky. Then after a while the alien craft seemed to lose interest with the plane and broke off its pursuit and then flew off into nearby clouds. The alien craft was oval shaped and was the size of the passenger plane. There were also other smaller black spheres flying that were ejected by the larger alien craft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
United Kingdom /Scotland Saucer
Blairgowrie –. The sun was out and there was far away mist like clouds on April 2, 2017. I was walking on the road not far from the standing stone and thought I saw a giant star in my peripheral vision. I looked closer to it and could see a rough outline of a shadow and seemed like something metallic and spherical. But the shadows did not show spherical but as if it was round and slim and on its side, as if it was a flying saucer.
The shadow was just on the left side of the edge so I knew it was not spherical like a weather balloon would be. It was not shiny silver but as if was similar to a shiny surface. It was stationary, and I am not too sure if it shrank as it kept fading quickly and coming back again. Then it became a small ball of light and then disappeared completely. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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An illustration of Bigelow Aerospace’s expandable spacecraft
In an eye-opening interview on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, aerospace mogul and entrepreneur Robert Bigelow said he was ‘absolutely convinced’ there were alien visitors to Earth.
Most of the segment focused on how NASA and the Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace are in a partnership to develop an expandable craft for humans to use in space. Bigelow’s far-reaching vision puts him right in the middle of a new privatization of space, a race that includes billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
In the following video, Bigelow describes a typical expandable system to be used on future space flights.
However, during the “60 Minutes” interview with correspondent Lara Logan, the conversation shifted to Bigelow’s reported obsession with UFOs and aliens.
Logan: “Do you believe in aliens?”
Bigelow: “I’m absolutely convinced. That’s all there is to it.”
Logan: “Do you also believe that UFOs have come to Earth?”
Bigelow: “There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions ― I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.”
Logan: “Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?”
Bigelow: “I don’t give a damn. I don’t care.”
Logan: “You don’t worry that some people will say, ‘Did you hear that guy, he sounds like he’s crazy’?”
Bigelow: “I don’t care. It’s not gonna make a difference. It’s not gonna change reality of what I know.”
Bigelow wouldn’t elaborate on what kind of results he had achieved from his well-funded UFO research. When asked if he thought future space missions would result in any encounters between humans and aliens, Bigelow said, “You don’t have to go anywhere. It’s just like right under people’s noses.”
While Bigelow declined to describe his personal UFO encounters, he offered more elaborate details about UFOs, extraterrestrials and the private space industry during an interview on the national radio program, “Coast to Coast AM.”
'The Close Encounters Man' tells the unlikely story of how the government's astrophysicist debunker became the phenomenon's most expert defender.
If you're jonesing for an extraterrestrial, you should check outThe Close Encounters Manby Mark O'Connell. O'Connell, a writer for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and founder of the UFO blog High Strangeness, set out to write "a UFO book people wouldn't need to hide from other people." He found his ideal subject in J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer hired by the United States Air Force in 1948 to debunk the reports of strange objects in the sky flooding in from across the country. Eventually Hynek broke with his handlers and became the first scientist to lend credence to the UFO phenomenon. The author of 1972's The UFO Experience: A Scientific Study, he would go on to found the Center for UFO Studies in 1973, present a speech on flying saucers to the United Nations in 1978, and develop the "close encounter" scale that would inspire Steven Spielberg's popular Close Encounters of the Third Kind ("a huge boon to his work," O'Connell told me. "They shot a scene where the little aliens grab Hynek's pipe from him and stick it up their noses, but it was cut down to a six-second cameo.")
In telling the life story of Hynek, the "astro-beatnik," O'Connell winds up with a stunning panorama of the UFO movement—from fringe conspiracy theorists to amateur astronomers to agnostic scientists—as well as its colossal impact on pop culture and modern science. I recently spoke with O'Connell over the phone about Hynek's unique story of skeptic turned believer, the scientific study of the inexplicable, and what makes a good UFO witness.
A fascinating new book seriously tackles the question of extraterrestrial life from the perspective of leading astronomers, astrophysicists, geneticists, and neuroscientists.
VICE: What had to happen for a scientist as disciplined as Hynek to reach an epiphany and come around to a belief in flying saucers?
Mark O'Connell: It was a gradual process punctuated by traumatic moments. He had been involved in the Air Force's first UFO study, Project Sign, where he simply looked over the collected UFO reports and classified as many as he could as misidentified astrological objects like comets or meteorological phenomena like strange clouds, or normal things like aircraft or weather balloons. At the end, there were about 20 percent of the cases left unsolved. He just put those aside, thinking with enough time and resources we could probably explain those away as well. So he filed the report, went back to teach at Ohio State and Wesleyan Universities.
What led to Hynek getting involved with UFOs again?
Three years later, the Air Force's UFO studies were reinvigorated under a new commander who wanted to take a fresh look at things. When he discovered Hynek was still teaching about 90 miles up the road, he paid him a visit to hear more about the work he'd done. And Hynek was shocked to discover it hadn't faded away. People were still seeing and reporting close encounters and there remained a consistent 20 percent that couldn't be explained. The numbers never changed, but his thinking changed.
How did Hynek's thoughts on UFOs change?
Shortly after that he gave an address to the Optical Society of America in Boston in 1952. He said, "Look, this is something we need to study that could represent an entirely unknown realm of nature, and as scientists we ought to be curious enough to want to study it." And that was earthshaking. But he often outraged the other side too, like in the infamous swamp gas case in Michigan of 1966. Over a hundred witnesses had seen floating lights in the nighttime and it caused huge national furor, made headlines all over the country. So the Air Force sent Hynek in to investigate. After three days of intense investigations, Hynek—a guy who went where the facts lead him and nowhere else—concluded that these people had quite possibly seen swamp gas. Everyone in Michigan was deeply offended to be shown up nationally as crackpots. So Hynek said, "You know, I'm not going to carry water for the Air Force any more," and went his own way and decided to begin conducting his own research. And, by the way, one of the things he said to the Optical Society was something that's always stuck in my mind: "Ridicule is not part of the scientific method, and the American public should not be taught that it is."
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Where's the line between a conspiracy theorist and a fact-based skeptic who becomes skeptical even of other skeptics?
I don't think we've found that line and that was one of the frustrations of Hynek's career. There was a brief period in the early 1980s when his Center for UFO Studies was really thriving. They had money coming in—they had a lot of support from the scientific establishment and were able to dedicate resources to investigating UFO cases. But over time they became less exciting to other UFO people. They were grabbing fewer headlines; financing fell apart; and the Center wasn't able to do nearly as much. So I think Hynek's efforts to bring the phenomenon into the sunlight and devote scientific study to it never had the opportunity to fully blossom. His goal was to cross that line and bring those two sides together. He came close, but I think he never quite achieved it.
What were Hynek's chief takeaways about the study of UFOs?
Hynek observed that a meteorologist can't study a tornado in a lab, only the results. He thought the same thing about UFOs: You have to get a little creative when you're researching something as off-the-wall as UFOs, which do seem to deliberately make it hard for us to understand them. I compare it to the "Confuse-a-Cat" sketch from Monty Python. We're the confused cat and we need to be shocked out of our stupor by something that seems to have little to do with our version of reality. And so many of us who write and think about UFOs have to reach for new frameworks to define the issue and then study it.
How has our relationship with UFOs changed in the present time as compared to Hynek's heyday?
It's changed quite a bit. One of the sad things about my book—and maybe this makes a case for writing a sequel—is that Hynek passed away in 1986, and it was exactly a year later that the entire UFO field went through a complete paradigm shift with the publication of Whitley Strieber's Communion [which was later made into a movie starring Christopher Walken]. Strieber was already a successful horror writer at the time, right up there with Stephen King and Peter Straub. In Communion, he tells the true—according to him!—story of his alien abduction while he and his family were staying at their cottage in upstate New York. So all of a sudden, the alien encounter narrative was flipped on its head. Up to that point, close encounters, when they were reported, generally took place in isolated locales—a lonely country highway or a deserted farm out in the boonies where there would be very few people to see what was happening. Now, after Communion, the aliens are appearing in your bedroom at night, a scenario Budd Hopkins and several other researchers confirmed. Now whether that shift is conscious or whether it points to some change in how we see ourselves, who knows?
If on one side of the spectrum we have Carl Sagan and on the other, say, ErichVon Däniken, who theorized that ancient culture and religion was created by alien astronauts,where do we place Hynek?
I would put him maybe close to the center, but more on the Sagan side. They both had a lot of contempt for UFO charlatans. So yeah, he would definitely put himself far from the Von Däniken side, but he also would have thought Sagan was being closed-minded and intellectually dishonest to a degree.
What can ufology bring to modern science?
The ability to use imagination as part of the scientific process. We hear all the time from NASA how, just recently, we've discovered a planet that has five or six other planets in its orbit or how the Tabby Star dims in such a way as to suggest an alien megastructure. We have all these wild, seemingly impossible things that are now proving to be true. At the same time, we have people—and I'm not knocking them because I love and respect the work they do—like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye the Science Guy, who're crusading for scientific education, but will draw the curtain on UFO stuff because it "makes us look silly." I think we need to get past that, because it doesn't make you look silly, it makes you look like someone who is interested in learning more about the world around us and finding the borderline of science and studying the things that science could not explain. And I think that's a pretty good approach for any scientist.
What makes for a good UFO eyewitness?
A keen sense of observation is key. A strong linguistic capability is very helpful because people who see UFOs are trying to describe something unheard of in human experience and need to be able to develop a new language. Too often you see people unable to describe what they've seen and experienced simply because there are no words for it, at least not yet.
I've been haunted by the fear that there is no vast conspiracy guiding the government, only stupidity and bungling. To what extent are you able to believe in the military's ability to orchestrate certain cover-ups, as opposed to just lose things or mishandle data?
Hynek made a good distinction: "You can cover up knowing something or you can cover not knowing something." I think government obfuscation is a big part of the story, but for many people that translates into "Oh, they're hiding something from us." One of the first important UFO writers, Donald Keyhoe, was provoked by the fact that nobody in the Air Force would return his calls. His reaction was, "Ah ha, they're covering something up!" Well, no, they just didn't want to talk to you.
This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.
Recent work by J.W. McCormack appears in Conjunctions, the Culture Trip, the New York Times, and the New Republic.
Close Encounters Manby Mark O'Connell will be published on June 13 by Harper Collins.
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UFO expert accuses co-author of 'deceiving' him with account of sighting during infamous Rendlesham Forest incident
UFO expert accuses co-author of 'deceiving' him with account of sighting during infamous Rendlesham Forest incident
Peter Robbins has sparked a war of words after revealing he now believes that former US airman Larry Warren's account of the incident near RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, in 1980, was "not true"
BY JOHN JEFFAY
Peter Robbins has accused Larry Warren of 'deceiving' him
(Photo: Facebook/Peter Robbins)
A UFO expert has become embroiled in a bitter feud with his co-author and one-time friend after accusing him of 'deceiving' him with his 'false' account of the infamous Rendlesham Forest incident.
Peter Robbins and Larry Warren co-authored 'Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwater-Woodbridge UFO Incident, its Cover-Up, and Investigation' 30 years ago, but are now at loggerheads.
US researcher Robbins sparked the row when he accused Warren, a former member of the US Air Force Security Police who now lives in Liverpool, of 'deceiving' him during a radio interview.
Warren, in turn, blasted Nick Pope, former head of the British government's 'UFO desk', for siding with Robbins. He hit back Pope on Facebook for branding him a liar in an online rant.
American Warren claims he witnessed a UFO land near RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, while stationed there with the US Air Force in December 1980.
Larry Warren has hit back at Robbins' claims(Photo: EARTH MYSTERY NEWS/Youtube)
He blew the whistle on the so-called Rendlesham Forest incident in 1983 in a News of the World interview and went on to co-write the best-selling book with Robbins, which was published in 1997.
However, Robbins has now cast serious doubts over the validity of Warren's account.
Speaking on the Inception Radio Network, Robbins said: "Over the past year, even a bit more, highly specific information has been brought to my attention that has disturbed me tremendously.
"The encompassed picture is the subjective account of my co-author's story of the events that he was involved in, the events surrounding him, things that don't directly relate to the story but to his life, were not only not accurate but that they were not true.
"Having worked with him for decades, for having spent several intense years at the beginning we're talking 30 years ago next month when we shook hands, that I would assist him in writing this book. I have a long history with Larry Warren and I felt that after doing the research that he was absolutely good on his word."
Left At East Gate, by Warren and Robbins, is a bestseller(Photo: cascadenews)
He added: "I felt I had proved enough to myself of Larry's account and details surrounding it that he was telling the truth. And I feel now that in part that was not the case and there was an intent to deceive. To say this has tore me up over the last year is an understatement."
The Rendlesham incident took place in December 1980 over a series of three nights.
On December 26, 1980, military personnel at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge saw a strange light in Rendlesham Forest, which lies between the two bases.
Three airmen were sent out to investigate where two of them encountered a small, triangular shaped craft.
One of them, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object. He and another of the airmen present, John Burroughs, made sketches of the craft for witness statements.
Two nights later, Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team then encountered the UFO.
The Rendlesham Forest incident occurred near RAF Bentwaters in 1980(Photo: Vimeo)
He said later: "Here I am, a senior official who routinely denies this sort of thing and diligently works to debunk them, and I'm involved in the middle of something I can't explain."
Despite an MOD investigation the Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained, despite theories it was a lighthouse, a meteor shower or a satellite re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and burning up.
Warren's account differs as he maintains the UFO landed in a farmer's field and was seen by dozens of military personnel including the Base Commander General Gordon Williams.
He also claims small entities could be seen floating underneath the strange craft, which shone beams of light into the nuclear bunkers at the NATO base at the height of the Cold War.
Nick Pope, who ran the Ministry of Defence's Secretariat (Airstaff) 2a - dubbed the 'UFO desk', which investigated military sightings but was closed in 2009 due to budget cuts - has backed Robbins' claims.
Nick Pope, who ran the MoD's 'UFO desk', is siding with Robbins(Photo: Publicity picture)
In a post to his 4,980 friends and 13, 852 followers on Facebook, he praised Robbins for "having the courage and integrity to make what was clearly a difficult and painful admission that he'd been taken in by Warren's lies."
He ended his post by saying: "The verdict from the wider UFO community is clear: the Larry Warren story is officially dead."
But Warren slammed the ex-MOD man, who now lives in Tucson, Arizona, for "whoring himself out" in a 20-minute Facebook rant.
He fumed: "I'm aware of your posts on your page, your slander, defamation, whatever you want to call it. You've been out of the UK a long time, you're not really respected here brother. You don't speak for Ufology brother, I can tell you that, you just whore yourself out for just about whatever you can do, that's fine. Works for you."
He added: "I wrote all my parts in my book and I remain proud of them. I stand by them."
Warren has engaged in a war of words with Nick Pope on Facebook(Photo: cascadenews.co.uk)
Warren also accuses Pope of "abject jealousy" and offers to hand over a UFO courage award he received from UFO Truth Magazine, edited by former police detective Gary Heseltine, at a conference in Holmfirth,Yorkshire, last September.
He tells Pope: "Your books tanked after months, my book's been in print 20 years and will be print another 100 probably. I've been around longer than you in this and I've seen it all for years."
Warren challenges Pope to take it off him, saying: "You can have it if you can take it from me. I'll even bring the gift box. You seem to want it because I don't deserve it.
"You stuck your nose into Rendlesham years ago to the point some morons out there think you were working the MOD desk when they happened - I think you were being beat up on the school yard at that time. So that's impossible but you don't stop that myth."
He ends his video by saying: "The book is my story, 100 per cent. I've done stuff that you could never do and seen things you'll never see and I'll still be standing tall when you go cock a doodle do ... You were never in the military, you wore a tie somewhere."
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Spacecraft Galileo: To Jupiter and Its Moons
Spacecraft Galileo: To Jupiter and Its Moons
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
An artist's conception of the Galileo spacecraft, which was launched in 1989 for a mission to Jupiter.
Credit: NASA
Galileo was the first spacecraft to examine Jupiter and its moons for an extended period.
It launched from the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis in 1989, got some speed boosts by swinging past Earth twice and Venus once, then arrived at Jupiter at last in 1995.
Circling the solar system's most giant planet for eight years, Galileo beamed back a string of discoveries to Earth despite encountering several mechanical problems.
It discovered evidence of saltwater below the surfaces of three moons – Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – and also got close to the infamous "pizza moon" Io as its volcanoes belched into the atmosphere.
When Galileo was almost out of fuel, NASA deliberately sent the spacecraft on a suicide plunge into Jupiter on Sept. 21, 2003. The sacrifice, the agency said, was necessary to protect Europa – which likely has a subsurface ocean that could contain life.
Galileo's legacy
Studying Jupiter from Earth is easier than ever thanks to improvements in imaging technology, making it easier for even amateur astronomers to watch Jupiter's weather and periodic cometary impacts. Along with Galileo's data, this is helping professional astronomers gather data on how gas giants change on the scale of a few years, or decades.
Still, wider mysteries about Jupiter remain – even as NASA returned to the planet in 2016 with the Juno mission. Some missions are being considered for Jupiter's icy moons in the 2030s, such as NASA's Europa Clipper and the European Space Agency's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE). Open questions concerning Jupiter include the global abundance of water in Jupiter, how deep storm features go and where Jupiter's magnetic field comes from.
Galileo's work at Jupiter has gained even wider implications in the years afterward, because scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanet candidates. Studying Jupiter in our own solar system gives us a window into the formation of these planets outside of our solar system.
It's not clear if the solar system shares all of the same "life history" characteristics of other solar systems. For example, some Jupiter-sized extrasolar planets are very close to their parent star, and as such as are called "hot Jupiters." It's possible these planets migrated, but the processes are poorly understood.
The case for Jupiter
Jupiter was a target of interest for NASA for decades before Galileo's launch. Four spacecraft had flown by the giant planet before – Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, and Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
Pioneer 10, when it zoomed by the planet in 1973, discovered Jupiter's radiation was far less than scientists had anticipated. This made a long-term mission to Jupiter more feasible, since the spacecraft wouldn't need to be as heavily shielded (making it more expensive to launch.)
NASA was intrigued by the thought of a Jupiter mission, but the idea went through years of budgetary discussions and management changes, as well as machinations in Congress.
By 1977, NASA was far enough in its planning to propose a "Jupiter orbiting probe" in its budget, but the idea was thrown out by a congressional appropriations subcommittee with oversight of the agency. That decision was reversed after a massive lobbying effort by the scientific community, and Congress approved the project later that year.
It would take another 12 years to get Galileo off the ground. There were continual government funding threats to the mission and even the existence of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where it was being built. Debates also arose about Galileo's planned launch vehicle. Then, just as the probe was readying for a space shuttle mission, Challenger exploded and killed seven astronauts in 1986, grounding the fleet for two years.
Named for astronomer Galileo Galilei, the spacecraft launched at last on Oct. 18, 1989, from the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis. To save on fuel, the probe whipped by Venus once and Earth twice to pick up speed, with the aim to reach Jupiter in 1995.
Solving problems in space
Operating missions for the long duration can be a marathon for both humans and spacecraft alike. As components on the spacecraft break down, it's up to the people on the ground to figure out how to resurrect them – or do without them.
Galileo spacecraft observations: a three-color global scale view of Io obtained on 3 July 1999 (Orbit 21) with a resolution of 1.3 km per pixel is shown on the left. The corresponding infrared image on the right was taken at 4.7 μm on October 16 2001 in daytime and has a spatial resolution of 30 km/pixel obtained . The near infrared picture shows the active volcanoes glowing thermal radiation.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Galileo's most prominent failures were a high-gain antenna that failed to open – threatening the transmissions of data back to Earth – and a data tape recorder that temporarily jammed during the final approach to Jupiter.
The sticky antenna, shaped somewhat like an umbrella, lay stowed on the spacecraft for nearly two years after launch. NASA determined it might be risky to set it free when Galileo was closer to the sun during its gravity assist by Venus.
On April 11, 1991, controllers sent a command for Galileo to unfurl the antenna. The motors ran for eight minutes at higher power levels than expected, which indicated there might be a problem. The spacecraft then failed to send a signal to Earth saying the antenna had opened.
A fault analysis determined that some of the antenna's "ribs" got stuck. Managers did everything from rapidly spinning the spacecraft to exposing the antenna to sunlight, with no luck.
To get around the problem, they came up with ways to compress data so that Galileo could send back more information to Earth, which helped save the crippled mission.
NASA now relied on Galileo's on-board data recorder and low-gain transmission antennas to bring information back to Earth. That worked well until the recorder jammed for 15 hours while rewinding on Oct. 11, 1995 – just as the spacecraft was finally closing in on Jupiter.
Fortunately, NASA found a work-around and was able to resume work a few weeks later. The tape recorder acted up in future years, though, necessitating more fixes.
"Among the Galileo mission's memorable achievements were the repeated successes of its staff in solving serious technical problems," wrote Michael Meltzer in the NASA publication Mission to Jupiter: A History of the Galileo Project.
"In each instance, the team attacked potentially mission-ending problems and found ingenious ways to keep the spacecraft operational and productive.
Entering Jupiter's system
One of Galileo's first science targets was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Jupiter's gravity had pulled the comet towards the planet and broken it up into more than 20 pieces. When the shards slammed into Jupiter in July 1994, the astronomical community eagerly watched. Galileo was en route to Jupiter at that time and snapped some shots of the hits.
The spacecraft encountered "interplanetary dust storms" on its way to Jupiter, possibly from particles coming from within the Jovian system. At one point, Galileo was tracking 20,000 dust particles a day, compared to a typical one particle every three days.
Galileo was still flying at Jupiter when in July 1995, it released a probe to smack the planet's atmosphere in December. When the probe finished its descent, NASA was surprised at its measurements of helium – half of what they expected – and the dryness of the region in which the probe flew.
"These initial findings are encouraging scientists to rethink their theories of Jupiter's formation and the nature of planetary evolution processes," wrote NASA in a January 1996 press release.
Planetary, moon and asteroid science
Galileo itself reached Jupiter on Dec. 7, 1995, beginning its years of circling the planet and its moons.
These global views of Jupiter's icy moon Europa were captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in June 1997. The image on the left shows Europa in natural color, while the right-side image has enhanced colors to bring out subtle color differences to show differences between pure water ice (white and bluish white) and non-ice components (red, brown and yellow spots).
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
In the early days, Galileo took a close look at the faint rings of Jupiter to find out how they formed. Data from the spacecraft determined that meteoroids, crashing into small moons around Jupiter, were sending dust up around the planet. Over time, the dust coalesced into rings.
While Galileo was often called a mission to Jupiter, the spacecraft also made extensive observations of the planet's largest moons.
It found evidence of a liquid ocean underneath Europa's surface, sparking questions about what sort of life could lie underneath. From watching volcanoes at Io, Galileo's data showed the moon's volcanic activity could be as much as 100 times more than what is seen on Earth. And at Ganymede, Galileo found the first magnetic field around a moon.
Galileo even made a few side discoveries. When taking pictures of the asteroid Ida, it discovered there was a smaller object orbiting around it. Later called Dactyl, this was the first confirmed satellite of an asteroid.
In 2003, the aging spacecraft – battling radiation problems and other mechanical issues – was running low on fuel. NASA chose to send Galileo straight into Jupiter rather than leave it in orbit, just in case the spacecraft accidentally crashed into Europa and disrupted possible life there.
Galileo broke up in Jupiter's atmosphere on Sept. 21, 2003.
Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes
Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
The hexagonal vortex at Saturn's north pole changed color significantly between June 2013 (left) and April 2017 (right), as seen in views from the Cassini spacecraft. For the left image, each frame occurs approximately 130 minutes after the previous one, and for the right, each frame follows after an average of 230 minutes. Researchers combined images taken with the spacecraft's red, green and blue filters for the natural-color views.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Hampton University
The Cassini spacecraft at Saturn watched over the ringed planet's solstice Wednesday (May 24), accomplishing the main goal of its second extended mission. A solstice occurs on Saturn roughly every 15 Earth years as its seasons change.
Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004, and the spacecraft completed its primary mission to study the planet, its rings and its moons by 2008. Its first extended mission, which lasted until 2010, was to observe the system during the planet's equinox, when the sun strikes the rings edge-on and the days are of equal length on the north and south poles. The goal of its second extended mission — a seven-year plan called the Solstice Mission — was to observe all the way up to the north pole's summer solstice (when the days are longest at Saturn's north pole, and shortest at the planet's south pole) and investigate the system's seasonal changes.
"During Cassini's Solstice Mission, we have witnessed — up close for the first time — an entire season at Saturn," Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, said in a statement. "The Saturn system undergoes dramatic transitions from winter to summer, and thanks to Cassini, we had a ringside seat." [Epic Cassini Mission to Saturn Gets Awesome Video Treatment]
A giant storm passed by its own tail after circling Saturn in this true-color Cassini photo, taken Feb. 25, 2011, about 12 weeks after the storm started. Lightning deep in the planet's atmosphere produced significant radio noise during the storm. The storm formed and dispersed over the course of seven months; researchers said this type of Saturn storm happens only about every 30 Earth years.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
During the Solstice Mission, researchers watched a huge storm encircle the planet and disperse over the course of seven months. They watched the hexagonal jet stream surrounding Saturn's north pole change from blue to yellow (except for the very center) over the course of the northern hemisphere's spring.
Cassini data suggests that the increased sunlight interacts with compounds in the upper atmosphere to form particles called photochemical aerosols, which accumulate into a yellowish haze. The very center may stay blue for one of two reasons, researchers said in an image caption: it hasn't been exposed to sunlight as long as the areas around it because it's at the very top of the planet, or the circulation in the whirling vortex pulls the compounds downward.
Cassini saw the seasonal changes come over the planet suddenly based on latitude, rather than gradually, the researchers said.
"Eventually, a whole hemisphere undergoes change, but it gets there by these jumps at specific latitude bands at different times in the season," Robert West, a member of Cassini's imaging team at JPL, said in the statement.
The solstice's intense sunlight heated Saturn's rings, letting Cassini's instruments better investigate ring particles' composition and the way they clump together. The planet's orientation compared to the sun and Earth, with its rings tipped maximally toward Earth, also meant that Cassini could easily send a radio signal through the densest part of the rings to investigate, according to the statement.
Storms on Saturn's moon Titan changed as Saturn moved through equinox and toward solstice. In this 2011 image, methane clouds can be seen concentrated near the moon's equator.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
On Saturn's largest moon, Titan, methane storm clouds shifted up from the south toward the moon's equator from 2004 to 2010. Their corresponding shift northward as the solstice approached was surprisingly slow; according to the statement, cloud models had expected the activity to happen years earlier.
But some action was sudden: In 2013, haze and trace hydrocarbons formerly found only in the north suddenly built up in the Titan's south, indicating that its atmospheric circulation had changed direction due to the changing sun exposure, the statement said.
"Observations of how the locations of cloud activity change and how long such changes take give us important information about the workings of Titan's atmosphere and also its surface, as rainfall and wind patterns change with the seasons too," Elizabeth Turtle, a researcher on Cassini's imaging team at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, said in the statement.
And on Saturn's moon Enceladus, which hosts a subsurface ocean and blasts geysers of material out through its plumes, the main seasonal change was its southern hemisphere's transition to winter darkness. This change let Cassini monitor the moon's temperature more easily, to investigate the intriguing moon.
Cassini is in the middle of the "Grand Finale" phase of its mission, in which it is diving between Saturn and its rings repeatedly to investigate the planet more closely than ever before. Once it finishes seeing the planet through the change of seasons and charting its moons, rings and surface as deeply as possible, Cassini will plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15. The mission is a collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
Surprise! Galaxy's Monster Black Hole Likely Has Huge Neighbor on a Crash Course
Surprise! Galaxy's Monster Black Hole Likely Has Huge Neighbor on a Crash Course
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A radio image of the galaxy Cygnus A captured by the Very Large Array (VLA) in 2015 (orange), overlaid on a photo by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The orange dot below and to the right of the larger orange circle at the galaxy's center is the suspected second supermassive black hole.
Credit: Perley, et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, NASA
Two monster black holes are apparently on a collision course near the heart of a nearby galaxy, a new study reports.
Astronomers have spotted an extremely bright object located about 1,500 light-years from the supermassive black hole known to occupy the heart of Cygnus A, an oft-studied galaxy that lies about 800 million light-years from Earth.
"We think we've found a second supermassive black hole in this galaxy, indicating that it [the galaxy] has merged with another galaxy in the astronomically recent past," study co-author Chris Carilli, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in New Mexico, said in a statement. [Images: Black Holes of the Universe]
"These two would be one of the closest pairs of supermassive black holes ever discovered, likely themselves to merge in the future," Carilli added.
The researchers studied Cygnus A in 2015 and 2016 using the Very Large Array (VLA), a system of radio telescopes in New Mexico. These observations revealed the mysterious bright object, which had not appeared in earlier VLA images of Cygnus A from the 1980s and 1990s.
The completion of a VLA upgrade in 2012 motivated the new imaging campaign, study team members said.
"To our surprise, we found a prominent new feature near the galaxy's nucleus that did not appear in any previous published images. This new feature is bright enough that we definitely would have seen it in the earlier images if nothing had changed," co-author Rick Perley, also of the NRAO, said in the same statement. "That means it must have turned on sometime between 1996 and now."
This GIF shows VLA radio images (orange) of the central region of the galaxy Cygnus A from 1989 and 2015, overlaid on a Hubble Space Telescope photo.
Credit: Perley, et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, NASA
Additional observations made in 2016 by the radio telescopes of the Very Long Baseline Array, which is also located in New Mexico, detected the object as well.
Infrared images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Hawaii's Keck Observatory between 1994 and 2002 show a faint object in the same spot within Cygnus A. This mysterious body had originally been interpreted as a clump of stars, but the recent and dramatic brightening is forcing a rethink, study team members said.
There are only two viable possibilities that could explain the new observations, the researchers added: The object is either a supernova or a supermassive black hole in outburst mode.
Artist's illustration of a newly discovered secondary supermassive black hole orbiting the main, central supermassive black hole of the galaxy Cygnus A.
Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
The team favors the black-hole hypothesis, because no known type of supernova could stay so bright for so long, the researchers said. The second supermassive black hole probably became so active after stumbling onto a lot of material to gobble up — perhaps a star that strayed too close, or gas stirred up by the galaxy merger, the researchers said.
"Further observations will help us resolve some of these questions," said study lead author Daniel Perley, of the Astrophysics Research Institute of Liverpool John Moores University in England (and Rick Perley's son). "In addition, if this is a secondary black hole, we may be able to find others in similar galaxies."
The new study has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
Les lignes de Nazca, située au Pérou actuel, sont des géoglyphes mondialement célèbres. On peut les observer du ciel à plusieurs centaines de mètres de la terre ferme. Si elles sont si spectaculaires, c’est que les civilisations pré-Incas n’avaient ni avions, ni satellites à l’époque où elles ont été tracées. Motherboard rapporte une étude de leur structure en spirale qui permet enfin d’expliquer comment elles ont été construites, et pourquoi. Les scientifiques affirment aujourd’hui qu’elles étaient liées à la ressource la plus précieuse du désert, l’eau.
Rosa Lasaponara, chercheuse au Conseil National de Recherche de Rome, estime que la civilisation nazca « utilisait l’eau souterraine pour le système d’irrigation de leurs activités agricoles. En ce sens, les Nazcas pensaient pouvoir transformer le désert en jardin ».
La scientifique a utilisé l’an dernier la technique d’imagerie satellite pour étudier les structures trouvées près des lignes de Nazca : des trous en forme de spirale appelés « puquios ». Grâce à ces images, les chercheurs ont pu observer sous la surface du sol et identifier des canaux souterrains d’eau connectés à ces trous en spirale. Ils se sont ensuite aperçus qu’ils faisaient partie d’un ancien système d’aqueducs.
Si ces structures appartenaient à un système d’eau aussi sophistiqué, il apparaît évident que les dessins – araignées, lamas, fleurs – étaient tracés près des sources pour remercier les dieux de ce cadeau inestimable. « Il est clair que les puquios et les lignes de Nazca ont la même signification, car l’eau était le seul moyen de survivre dans cet environnement désertique. Les lignes de Nazca sont sûrement un moyen de remercier les dieux pour cela ».
A UFO has been videoed hovering over Cley Hill near Frome.
The video, taken by a Frome resident, shows a streak of light circling over the National Trust owned land in Corsley.
Located at the edge of the Longleat Estate in Warminster, Cley Hill has long been thought of as a hot spot for UFOs.
The resident who took this video believes this streak of light could be one such UFO – although he is a little sceptical.
Speaking to Somerset Live, he said: “I took this video from my house in Frome last night. It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs”
“Probably a drone with a fancy flame effect tail or something. It's been spotted a few times locally.”
The Frome resident thinks the streak of light could have been created by a drone
For more than 40 years, this lofty hilltop has been a meeting place for UFO spotters, all drawn by talk of lights, flying objects and what have been described as ‘other unidentifiable oddities’.
Nigel Vile, a local rambler, regularly goes on walks around the area.
Speaking of the hill, he said: “Some experts have gone as far as to describe the nearby town of Warminster as Britain’s UFO capital on account of a phenomena first encountered in the mid-1960s that became known as the ‘Warminster Thing’.
“Strange noises were heard in the skies above the town, and an equally strange shimmering light was observed in the vicinity.”
It’s not just in Warminster that these UFOs are spotted, however. There are many towns around Frome that have similar experiences.
This crop circle was spotted near Cley Hill recently
Nigel said: “More recently, a report in the local press recorded the experiences of a number of people who witnessed a UFO in the skies in June 2001.
“A slow-moving bright light was spotted at Semington which was buzzed by an aircraft. Later, a number of people in Trowbridge saw an object comprised of three lights in a triangular formation heading west towards Warminster.
“As one critic noted, however, considering the proximity of the military training area on Salisbury Plain, was it not more likely that the UFOs people have been seeing during the past 50 years or so are more attributable to military activity rather than visits by alien life forms?”
The top of Cley Hill looking towards Frome
Cley Hill can be found just off the A36 heading towards Longleat. It is more than 800ft in height and is surrounded by relatively flat agricultural land. At the top of the hill are the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort that encloses two round barrows.
Have you seen UFOs in the Frome and Warminster area? Get in touch using james.wood@westgaz.co.uk
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Superaarde ontdekt op ‘steenworp’ afstand. Bestaat hier leven?
Superaarde ontdekt op ‘steenworp’ afstand. Bestaat hier leven?
Wetenschappers hebben op een astronomische steenworp afstand van onze planeet een superaarde ontdekt waar mogelijk leven kan bestaan.
De rotsachtige planeet is drie keer zo zwaar als de aarde en gedacht wordt dat er vloeibaar water kan voorkomen.
De planeet bevindt zich in de bewoonbare zone van een rode dwergster. Onderzoekers hopen de atmosfeer in kaart te brengen om te bepalen of de planeet daadwerkelijk leven kan herbergen.
De planeet draait in 14 dagen om zijn moederster, GJ625 (Gliese 625).
“Omdat GJ625 een relatief koele ster is, bevindt de planeet zich toch in de bewoonbare zone, waar vloeibaar water kan bestaan,” zei Alejandro Suarez Mascareno van het IAC.
Signaal
“Of er leven kan bestaan op de planeet, hangt af van het wolkendek in de atmosfeer en de rotatie,” voegde hij toe.
Aangezien de planeet zich op amper 21 lichtjaar van de aarde bevindt, zou het zelfs mogelijk zijn om er een signaal naartoe te sturen.
Er is een mogelijkheid dat er nog meer rotsachtige planeten rond GJ625 worden gevonden, aldus onderzoeker Jonay Gonzalez Hernandez.
Baanbrekende ontdekkingen
Wetenschappers hebben de laatste maanden verschillende baanbrekende ontdekkingen gedaan van planeten waar buitenaards leven weleens zou kunnen bestaan.
Vorige maand ontdekten sterrenkundigen ook al een superaarde, op 39 lichtjaar in het sterrenbeeld Cetus. Deze exoplaneet bevindt zich eveneens in de bewoonbare zone.
NIEUWE GRAANCIRKEL KONDIGT KOMST NIBIRU AAN ( VIDEO )
NIEUWE GRAANCIRKEL KONDIGT KOMST NIBIRU AAN ( VIDEO )
We zitten midden in het seizoen voor de graancirkels en vooral in Engeland duiken weer talrijke nieuwe en vooral ook hele interessante graancirkels op.
Via een lezer werden wij opmerkzaam gemaakt op een bijzondere nieuwe cirkel, op ook nog eens op een bijzondere locatie.
Gisteren schreven wij een artikel over een Braziliaanse politicus die het parlement waarschuwde over de komst van de planeet Nibiru en daarnaast een deel uit de voorspellingen betreffende 23 september 2017.
Een datum die zonder enige twijfel wordt voorspeld in het Bijbelse boek Openbaringen die verwijst naar een unieke stand aan de hemel die maar eens in de 7.000 jaar voor komt.
In dat artikel kwam ook de volgende afbeelding voor:
Naar aanleiding van dat artikelen bovenstaande afbeelding ontvingen wij het volgende bericht (dank!).
In jullie stuk tonen jullie een foto van het Nibiru stelsel (met dat kruis er in), vinden jullie ook niet dat dit op de nieuwe graancirkel lijkt van 25 mei 2017?
Dan gaat het om de volgende graancirkel die op 25 mei 2017 is ontdekt in het Engelse plaatsje Alton Barnes in Wiltshire.
De afbeelding in het artikel van gisteren laat een afbeelding zien van het mini zonnestelsel Nibiru zoals dat eruit zag in 2008, toen deze foto naar verluid werd genomen op Antarctica.
Net zoals er aan de linkerkant zeven halve bollen voorkomen in de graancirkel, zo komen er op de afbeelding in totaal ook zeven planeten voor en net zoals in de afbeelding vormen deze planeten samen een kruis.
Een kruis wordt ook in verband gebracht met Nibiru en het in Engels is de betekenis van dit woord dan ook: Planet of the Crossing.
We kunnen bovenstaande graancirkel dan ook absoluut zien als aankondiging van de planeet Nibiru en misschien is er nog een tweede aanwijzing die tot nu toe, bij ons weten, door niemand is opgemerkt.
En dat is wanneer we kijken naar de locatie van de graancirkel, dan ligt deze pal naast het witte paard van Alton Barnes.
En het witte paard is weer bekend uit hetzelfde boek uit de bijbel, Openbaringen waar het voor komt als het eerste paard van de vier ruiters van de Apocalyps.
Het lijkt er hier dan ook op dat we met een dubbele aanwijzing hebben te maken: de komst van de planeet Nibiru en de Antichrist die er binnenkort winnend op uit zal trekken in een tijd van valse vrede.
Billionaire helping develop NASA spacecraft says aliens are HERE - but it's covered up
Billionaire helping develop NASA spacecraft says aliens are HERE - but it's covered up
A US billionaire entrepreneur, who is working with NASA to create a new expandable spacecraft, has said he believes that intelligent aliens are secretly living on Earth.
Robert Bigelow, 73, CEO of Bigelow Aerospace, appeared in the latest edition of prime time CBS current affairs show 60 Minutes.
But, during the programme, which looked at his work on developing the expandable spacecraft, which inflate in space and could one day change how humans live and work in zero gravity, he made the sensational admission.
He described a UFO encounter his grandparents had on an undisclosed date while driving on a canyon road outside Las Vegas.
He said: "It really sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car.
"And it took off at a right angle and shot off into the distance."
He told reporter Lara Logan it began an obsession with aliens and is the reason behind his "alien logo" for Bigelow Aerospace.
He said he had since had his own "close encounters", but did not go into details.
The business guru also revealed being a subscriber to a widely held conspiracy theory that the US Government, and others across the globe, know that aliens are here on Earth, and even interact with them, but it is all kept top secret from the public amid fears over the impact it would have on religion and the rule of law.
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Robert Bigelow (pictured) is convinced aliens are here on Earth.
Ms Logan described it as "the kind of conversation you don't ordinarily have with an accomplished CEO".
She asked him if he believed in aliens?
He said: "I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it.
"There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence.
"And I spent millions and millions and millions - I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject."
Ms Logan asked: "Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?
"You don't worry that some people will say, 'Did you hear that guy, he sounds like he's crazy?'"
I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it. There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence.
Robert Bigelow
But, he replied: "I don't give a damn. I don't care.
"It's not going to make a difference. It's not going to change the reality of what I know."
She said: "Do you imagine that in our space travels we will encounter other forms of intelligent life?"
Mr Bigelow addded: "You don't have to go anywhere.
"It's just like right under people's noses."
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed to CBS that for several years, it had referred reports of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena to a company Bigelow owns.
Ms Logan said: "Robert Bigelow's quirky and he knows it, but when you have as much money as he does, no one - not even NASA - seems to care."
Stephen Bassett is the executive director of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), which is campaigning for the US Government to life an alleged "truth embargo" about the existence of aliens.
He said: "Billionaire Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace spoke truth to power and finally said publicly what he and hundreds of millions of people around the world already know to be true.
"And he said it on CBS 60 Minutes Sunday night. There is an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.
"How many military officers, political figures, intelligence agents, scientists, entertainers, and, yes, billionaires have to speak this truth before the investigative journalists in America figure out the biggest news story in history has been right under their noses for 70 years?
"For decades CBS 60 Minutes has avoided the ET issue with great resolve.
"It simply would not cover the subject. Better late than never.
"PRG tips its hat to Robert Bigelow. Thank you.
"So, hello Elon Musk and Richard Branson. Would you care to say what you really think about the extraterrestrial presence? Nothing invigorates like speaking truth to power."
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Is Roswell a UFO mecca? New sighting in town preparing for 'alien crash' 70th anniversary
Is Roswell a UFO mecca? New sighting in town preparing for 'alien crash' 70th anniversary
EXCLUSIVE: A new 'UFO sighting' in the 'alien mecca' Roswell is being investigated as the remote US town gears up to mark the 70th anniversary of the alleged crash of a flying saucer there in 1947.
Another UFO sighting in Roswell is being investigated.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's biggest organisation dedicated to alien and UFO research, is investigating a report from a mother about a bizarre sighting in the New Mexico town.
In a report to MUFON, the unnamed mother said she was driving with her son at around 9pm.
She wrote: "Out of the corner of my my eye, I saw a stationary, white and red light, bigger than a star, appear, but I did not pay attention to it right away.
"It was off the horizon.
"I could see it easily through my vehicle windshield, then, a few seconds later, another light appeared on the left to the first.
I could see it easily through my vehicle windshield, then, a few seconds later, another light appeared on the left to the first. That's when I looked directly at them."
New witness
"I pulled over, and stayed parked on the side of the road for another five minutes or so, hoping to see them again.
"Me and my son were excited, and we were really hoping to see some more. I was hoping to be able to record them, so i can show someone what I saw. but they didn't come back when we were parked there."
The case, which happened on April 13, is being investigated locally by MUFON investigators.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release 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.
It has gone on to become the biggest UFO conspiracy theory on record.
The MUFON database holds around 50 alleged UFO sightings connected to Roswell.
The belief that aliens really are visiting Earth is strong in the West Midlands, where regional media have reported an upsurge in sightings.
A local newspaper reports that there has been 13 UFO sightings in the past four years, including four in the UK's second biggest city Birmingham.
Ten of the alerts involve objects seen in the sky, mostly at night, while the other three reported seeing lights.
But as Birmingham Mail reports: "The truth is out there – but don’t ask the police to investigate just yet."
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The publication adds: "Because, perhaps unsurprisingly, none of the calls were investigated by officers."
Four of the 13 calls came from Birmingham, and the rest from Sandwell, Coventry, Dudley, Solihull and Walsall.
One sighting came in January 2015, when a mum from Selly Oak, near Birmingham, rushed into her three-year-old son’s bedroom to find him screaming “spaceman” repeatedly.
She recalls that when later shown a picture of an alien with grey skin, a bulbous head and large eyes – known by researchers as a Grey – her son immediately repeated the same word and began crying.
There have been numerous sightings of a triangle-shaped UFO have been reported over Dudley, the Mail adds.
Its most recent appearance was in Quarry Bank in 2011, when a man smoking in his garden saw a mysterious object with flashing lights - which was then chased away by another strange craft.
In Tipton near Dudley in 2010, two young men saw an “amazing fast-moving and silent craft in the shape of a triangle fly across the sky at a mind-boggling speed.”
The object has also been spotted hovering over Dudley Castle and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Brierley Hill.
And in April, 2009, builders at West Midland Safari Park were stunned to see a UFO floating right above them.
Market trader Michele Bardsley filmed mysterious lights over her home in Kingshurst, Solihull in May 2014.
She said the lights were “just hanging there” as she watched from the back door of her house while having a cigarette break.
She filmed the lights on her phone and, when the footage was shown on her big TV screen, she could see much more activity among the cluster of UFOs, as some appeared, disappeared and suddenly zoomed.
And in 2012 an off-duty police officer claimed he witnessed a UFO speeding across the sky near Birmingham Airport.
The figures, from a Freedom of Information Act request, were originally published on West Midlands Police’s website and covered the years 2013 to 2016.
Asked how many were investigated, the force told the Mail: “Based on the graded response/log none of the calls were investigated."
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA gaat morgen een indrukwekkende nieuwe missie voorstellen. Ze wil in de zomer van volgend jaar een sonde lanceren met onze zon als bestemming. Doel is voor de allereerste keer "de zon aan te raken".
Het is niet de eerste keer dat de NASA een sonde richting zon stuurt. In 1976 werd al eens een toestel gelanceerd dat onze zon tot 43 miljoen kilometer naderde: de Helios 2. Die had voor 370 kilogram aan instrumenten mee en moest zonnewinden en kosmische straling bestuderen.
Temperaturen De nieuwe missie is nog een flink stuk ambitieuzer. De Solar Probe Plus zal voor de eerste keer in de atmosfeer van de zon binnendringen en de oppervlakte van de zon naderen tot op 6,4 miljoen kilometer. Dat lijkt misschien nog ver, maar op amper negen keer de radius van de zon zal de sonde temperaturen van 1.400 graden moeten weerstaan, terwijl ze haar lading op kamertemperatuur houdt. En dat is goed voor een temperatuur en straling die nog geen enkel ruimtetuig ooit heeft doorstaan.
Tegelijk moet het toestel de buitenste atmosfeer van de zon bestuderen en antwoorden bieden op enkele eeuwenoude vragen over hoe een ster precies werkt. Met die data hoopt de NASA betere voorspellingen te kunnen maken over zonnestormen, die een impact hebben op het leven op aarde, het werk van astronauten in de ruimte en satellieten.
Overleven Want we zijn alsmaar meer afhankelijk van technologie en die kan enorme schade oplopen door extreme zonnestormen. Mensen die misschien ooit buiten onze atmosfeer zullen moeten overleven, zullen ook bescherming nodig hebben van zonnestormen en straling.
Lancering De lancering zal vermoedelijk plaatsvinden in augustus volgend jaar. De sonde zal over een periode van zeven jaar in totaal zeven keer rond de planeet Venus cirkelen, tot ze in een perfecte baan is om de zon zo dicht te naderen als we nooit eerder hebben gedaan.
"Het technologische pronkstuk van de missie is het hitteschild", aldus Brad Tucker van de Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics aan de Australian National University. "Dat is een plaat van 11,5 centimeter dik die bestaat uit koolstof en temperaturen van 1.400 graden aankan."
De binnenkant van de sonde - die 1.34 miljard euro kost - zal een speciaal systeem van watercirculatie gebruiken om de instrumenten te beschermen die onder meer de elektrische en magnetische velden van de zon moeten bestuderen, foto's van de zon moet nemen en zonnepartikels moet vangen.
Mars "De activiteit van de zon begrijpen en het zonneweer voorspellen zijn cruciaal als we de ruimte verder in willen met mensen, denk maar aan bemande missies naar Mars", aldus nog Tucker. "Een beter begrip van hoe zonnepartikels een hoge snelheid krijgen, zal ons ook een beter beeld geven van hoe objecten zich door de ruimte bewegen. En kan ons helpen om ruimtetuigen een hogere snelheid te geven. Zoals het Light Sail-project van de vzw Planetary Society, dat de energie van de zon opvangt met grote reflecterende zeilen en wil gebruiken om snelheid te maken."
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NASA WANTS TO TOUCH THE SUN - BIG ANNOUNCEMENT AHEAD
NASA WANTS TO TOUCH THE SUN - BIG ANNOUNCEMENT AHEAD
NASA is getting ready to make a huge announcement about their first mission to touch the sun.
ASTRONAUTS WOULD FACE EXTREME TEMPERATURES AND RADIATION LEVELS
The agency is intending to send a spacecraft much closer to the sun than they have been able to do before. Astronauts will have to face radiation levels along with temperatures that are far more extreme than ever before.
During the press conference, which NASA is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, they will talk about the Solar Probe Plus; the conference will be streamed live on NASA Television along with shown on the website from 4 pm BST.
MISSION TO THE SUN BEGINS IN 2018 COLLECTING MECHANISM DATA OF CORONA
NASA have revealed that the spacecraft is going to set off for the sun during the summer of 2018 and it is going to collect data about the mechanisms that heat up the sun's corona, which is the outermost part of the atmosphere of the sun.
The corona is said to be many hundreds of times hotter than the surface of the sun, but no one knows why. The temperatures are said to reach around 500,000 degrees Celsius or even higher. It also lies behind the solar wind, which is a stream of constantly charged particles that impact the life on Earth.
SPACECRAFT WILL BE AROUND FOUR MILLION MILES FROM SUN SURFACE
NASA said that the spacecraft they are sending up would be placed in orbit around four million miles from the surface of the sun and it is going to have to deal with radiation and heat that no other spacecraft throughout history has had to deal with. It is going to be exploring the outer atmosphere of the sun along with making critical observations that should give some answers to question that are decades old about just how the physics of stars really work.
The data that comes from the exploration should be able to help with forecasting of big space weather events that may have an impact on life down on Earth along with astronauts and satellites out in space.
ASTRONAUTS PROTECTED BY CARBON COMPOSITE SHIELD
The spacecraft is going to have to be able to deal with temperatures that are about 1,400 degrees Celsius and NASA are planning to deal with these temperatures thanks to a carbon composite shield of 11.5cm in thickness.
The Solar Probe Plus conference is going to be held at the University of Chicago William Eckhardt Research Center Auditorium.
THIS DECIPHERED MEMO IS THE FINAL PROOF FOR THE ROSWELL ALIEN CRASH
THIS DECIPHERED MEMO IS THE FINAL PROOF FOR THE ROSWELL ALIEN CRASH
Ufologists have said that deciphering a top secret memo that was captured in a photograph following the Roswell crash almost 70 years ago, may finally prove that an alien UFO did crash at the site and put an end to one of the most enigmatic mysteries surround UFOs.
They say that a part of the memo says ““…And the victims of the wreck…in the ‘Disc’… they will ship…”
In July 1947 it was alleged that a UFO had crashed in New Roswell Mexico and since this time many theories have come out as what the military attending the crash site actually found.
FOR 70 YEARS QUESTIONS HAVE REMAINED UNANSWERED
Countless questions have been floating around, such as whether they found alien bodies in the wreck, or if it was an actual UFO that had crashed and the government had covered up the whole thing. These are questions that are have been circling around for almost 70 years and up to now have remained unanswered.
Not analysis has been made of a top secret memo and this may be able to shed some light on what has become one of the biggest and most interesting UFO cases to have ever come out.
The crash in Roswell had great weight among popular culture for many decades and it has been the subject in many fiction books along with documentaries. Everything began when many farmers in Roswell New Mexico reported that they had heard loud explosions during the night on July 4 1947.
PEOPLE OUT WALKING SEE OBJECT WITH LIGHT REFLECTING OFF IT IN DISTANCE
The following day Gerald Anderson, a father, and his five-year-old son, his brother, and cousin had been walking in a relatively deserted region with the name of Plains of St. Augustine. They saw an object that was in the distance and which had light reflecting off it. This was said to be the alleged UFO that had crashed.
The book “A History of UFO Crashes” by Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt, said that they researched and during this they found out that military radar had tracked a UFO in the sky over southern New Mexico for four days. On July 4, 1947, the radar suggested that the object had crashed about 30 to 40 miles to the northwest of Roswell.
Eyewitness William Woody lived to the east of Roswell and he said that he was outside the house along with his father on that night when they saw a brilliant object just plummet to the ground and crash.
On 8 July a press release was issued and this was picked up the many news outlets.
It said that there had been lots of rumors about a flying disc and that the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb group of the Eighth Air Force Roswell Army Air Field had gained possession of a disc thanks to the cooperation between the Sheriff of Chaves County and local ranchers.
It went on to say that a flying object had crashed close to Roswell on a ranch and the rancher stored the disc until he could get in contact with the Sheriff, as he did not have a telephone. On doing so the Sheriff notified Major Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office and the disc was picked up from the home of the rancher.
The photograph that has been of interest to ufologists was taken of a secret memo that is said to show General Roger Ramey at Fort Worth Army Air Field, holding a memo whilst crouching over debris that was said to have been taken from the crash site. This was later said to have been identified by the military as being nothing more than a weather balloon.
DOCUMENT MAY LEAD TO ANSWERS ABOUT ROSWELL CRASH
Ufologists think that to solve the long-standing mystery behind the crash at Roswell, people need to get a better look at that document that is being held by General Ramey. Experts have said that the barely readable memo may be proof, finally, that the military did recover a UFO that had crashed in Roswell along with the bodies of aliens.
The intelligence officer, Jesse Marcel, who was given the job of inspecting and collecting the material, said that he, was told to go along with the story and not to ask any questions.
It was also claimed later that the debris in the photos taken was a part of the cover-up and that the material from the weather balloon had been used to trick members of the public. The explanation was then accepted by members of the press and public. It was not until the 80s when Marcel came forward that the Roswell incident caught the attention of the public.
MODERN TECHNOLOGY ALLOWED DECIPHERING OF MEMO
Thanks to the modern technology of today the experts have managed to decipher some of the Roswell memo that was said to have been seen in the hands of General Ramey. David Rudial said that using technology he managed to zoom in on the memo and this allowed him to decipher around 80% of it.
It was said that there is a reference to a disc and that part of the memo says ‘and the victims of the wreck’.” It is said that this is finally proof that a disc-shaped UFO crashed at Roswell and was recovered. What happens to be more startling is the fact that it seems to corroborate alien bodies were also found in the wreck.
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US forking out to redesign interceptors for missile defence system
US forking out to redesign interceptors for missile defence system
THE Pentagon is spending big to redesign interceptors for its missile defence system amid a growing threat. But Australia doesn’t have the same luxury.
THE United States is shoring up its missile defence system in the face of an increasingly belligerent and dangerous North Korea.
The US government awarded Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, $1.48 billion for the development of a “Redesigned Kill Vehicle”, the Pentagon said in a statement last week.
The extra money brings the total publicly known value of the US government contract with Boeing to a whopping $7.78 billion.
The White House wants to upgrade the system before Kim Jong-un develops the capabilities to strike the continental US.
So what is a kill vehicle? Simply put, kill vehicles intercept and destroy long-range ballistic missiles. Launched atop missiles of their own, they use sensors, lenses and rocket thrusters to pick out ballistic warheads and steer into their path.
When it comes to shooting down ballistic missiles “there is a fundamental difference in the technology — whether you want it to do that inside the atmosphere or in space,” says Dr Stephan Fruehling from the ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
In the case of medium and long range missiles coming from North Korea, an Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) which intercepts the missile in space would be the technology of choice.
If a threat is detected by a system of sensors based on land or on warships at sea, then a Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) will be launched into space using a rocket booster. Once outside the Earth’s atmosphere, operating at the edge of space at hypersonic speeds, the kill vehicle is deployed.
It seeks out the target using sensors, a sophisticated on-board computer and a rocket motor used for steering in space. It hones in on the missile and destroys it using nothing more than the force of a massive collision.
Simple, right?
An illustration of a kill vehicle designed by US defence contractor Raytheon.
Source:Supplied
MULTIPLE FAILURES
The technology has been around for more than two decades but it hasn’t always worked as intended. In fact it’s been hugely problematic.
In 2010 a meticulously controlled test of its missile defence technology at a site in Alaska ended in embarrassment for the US military. Despite knowing the exact speed and coordinates of the target, the intercepting kill vehicle completely missed the fake warhead.
Eleven months later, when the US Missile Defense Agency staged a repeat of the test, it again failed. During a test in July 2013 success once again proved elusive, raising serious questions over missile defence system the Pentagon had poured more than $US40 billion ($A53 billion) dollars into.
Dr Stephan Fruehling is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council’s project on nuclear deterrence and was a member of the Australian Government’s external panel of experts on the 2016 Defence White Paper. He says the latest contract awarded to Boeing by the US military is about reinventing a kill vehicle that isn’t wedded to ageing technology.
The United States deployed an operational GBI system in California and Alaska which was rushed into the field after September 11 under the George W. Bush administration. Essentially the system is situated to intercept missiles from rogue states like North Korean or Iran during their trajectory to the continental United States.
But much of the system was based on technology from the previous decade, which has been plagued with issued since testing began in 1999.
“It has a lot of limitations,” Dr Fruehling told news.com.au. “And essentially what the US is stuck with is evolutions of a kill vehicle that remains based on this technology from the 1990s ... and that’s caused a lot of problems that they’ve had with that system.”
“What this is about now is taking a step back and developing a interceptor that addresses those issues,” Dr Fruehling said.
The National Missile Defence launch of an EKV (Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle) sensor at US Army's Kwajalein Missile Range in central Pacific Ocean in January 1998.
Source:News Corp Australia
CALLS FOR AUSTRALIA TO DEVELOP MISSILE SHIELD
Advances in missile technology made by North Korea — as well as China — in the past few years have taken some western analysts by surprise. And the situation has led to growing calls for Australia to develop its own missile shield.
Defence specialist Andrew Shearer who previously worked as a national security adviser to Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott is among those who believe Australia needs to invest in this area.
He wants the government to examine systems “to defend the continent against the new and growing threat posed by long-range ballistic missiles that could be used to strike or intimidate future Australian governments”.
“The cumulative effective of these capabilities is to increase the missile threat to ADF forces deployed forward in the (Asia) region, whether independently or as part of an allied coalition,” he told Fairfax Media last month.
He also warned that over time such weapons could be used to “reduce Australia’s strategic depth and put Australian and allied forces operating from rear bases on the mainland at greater risk.
“The latter is a new threat but one that will become very real over the next decade,” he said.
According to Dr Fruehling “there has been an ongoing debate about whether Australia should actually acquire interceptors. But so far that’s not been done.” Largely because it’s not really a threat Australia could thwart on its own with current technology.
“If you look at the threat to Australia from intercontinental ballistic missile, there’s little that Australia could do to address that on its own,” he said. “If you look at North Korean missiles, for example, you’d have to have a ship with SM3 (a ship-based missile interception system) off the North Korean coast. Or you would have to base ground based interceptors in northern Australia but you would be looking at sensor infrastructure and an investment cost that runs into the dozens of billions, so it’s not really feasible.”
But that certainly doesn’t mean Australia isn’t engaged in aspects of missile defence systems on the research and development side of things.
“There’s been some technology co-operation, even going back to the 1990s” with our US ally but these experiments have been “largely in the sensor space in terms of looking at the overall horizon radar and how that could be to detect missiles,” Dr Fruehling said.
“There is some scope for integrating some Australian sensors into missile defence systems,” he said.
Everybody always says, “if they’re here then why don’t they just show up.” “They” is referring to extraterrestrials of course, and there are probably a million reasons as to why a more intelligent race from the “outside” looking in would not want to interact with us on such an open level just yet. To an outsider, we might not look the most attractive. The planet is plagued with war, poverty, diseases, greed, and secrecy. Environmentally it’s a disaster, and despite the fact that our potential is literally limitless, we choose to live in a way that is not really harmonious with the planet and all life on it. These are just a few of many reasons. Not to mention the fact that full blown contact might be a little more than our minds can handle, but perhaps not?
All of the theories surrounding the “alien takeover” agenda fail to account for the evidence that points to the fact that they’re already here, and that they’ve been visiting us for a very very long period of time.
That being said, sightings of unidentified objects, even ones performing physics-defying maneuvers have been documented by military authorities via visual and radar confirmation for decades, but whether or not these craft are ‘ET’ is an entirely different question. We do have, however, statements from hundreds of credible witnesses alluding to the fact that yes, some of them are indeed extraterrestrial in origin.
Was this the case with what happened in Phoenix Arizona in March of 1997? On this day, something extraordinary happened that, as Kurt mentions in the video below, was witnessed by 20,000 people, recorded by multiple cameras, which was then in-turn witnessed by millions.
Kurt Russell, a well known American actor is also a pilot, and on that day he was flying into the city and witnessed this phenomenon first hand. Listen to him share his story in the interview below.
“We’re on approach and I saw 6 lights over the airport in absolute uniform, in a V shape…It’s unidentified, it is flying and it’s 6 objects….That was the most viewed UFO event, over 20,000 people saw that.”
What Actually Happened?
It began with Luke Air Force Base, the media, the National UFO Reporting Center, the Governor’s office, and the police receiving a number of reports from people in Nevada of a very large craft hovering in the sky. Some people were reporting it as a boomerang formation of lights, just as Kurt describes in the video above.
The object (or objects) began moving south towards Arizona where even more people would see it. Again, people were not reporting just lights hovering in the sky, they were reporting an actual solid object, a craft of some sort, spanning the size of one or two football fields. The witness reports detail lights, sometimes multiple lights, in a pattern that ranged from a few all the way up to a dozen, all in some sort of organized formation. Witnesses reported them as white, and in some cases they were orange, red, or yellow. Reports indicate that at some point, the lights moved at very rapid speeds, while at others, they moved slowly and were also reported to hover. Some people described it as a huge, wedge-shaped craft with five lights on it. Some people claim that it passed directly over their heads and even hovered there for extended periods of time. People reported seeing, again, a large solid object, even going into detail about certain features they could spot on the craft.
“It was a giant V, and the right side of the V went over us, the left side was a couple blocks over.” – One (out of thousands) of the witnesses (source)
Again, this object has been described as massive, the size of one to two football fields.
There were a number of these types of descriptions from people who witnessed the object.
These types of reports came in at a time where it was much easier to make out the object or objects that were in the sky, as there was still some daylight. It was not until later that evening at approximately 10 pm when people in Arizona witnessed something truly spectacular. As UFO researcher Richard Dolan describes it:
“People in Phoenix were treated to an amazing display of hovering lights over the city. These lights appeared to be motionless and in perfect formation. They were truly an astounding sight to behold: an enormous semi-circular string of lights in the night sky.” (source)
The event received massive amounts of media attention.
Fife Symington, the Governor of Arizona at the time, even held a press conference that featured a large and costumed alien mocking all of the UFO enthusiasts, but it seemed goodhearted in nature and, according to him, was done to lighten the mood.
What is interesting to note, however, is that Fife was keeping something to himself – he actually witnessed the event, and the former Air Force veteran spoke out years after the event (when his stint as governor ended) saying:
“If you had been here 10 years ago, standing out here and looking out there at the lights, you would have been astounded, you would have been amazed. I suspect that unless the Department of Defense can prove otherwise, then it was probably some form of alien spacecraft. It was enormous and it just felt otherworldly, in your gut you could just tell it was otherworldly.” (source)
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Famous Hollywood Actor Kurt Russell Admits Witnessing Phoenix Lights UFOs
Famous Hollywood Actor Kurt Russell Admits Witnessing Phoenix Lights UFOs
Actor Kurt Russell and Chris Prat recently visited the BBC’s The One Show to promote the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 movie. When the host cites a news story involving a pilot’s report of spotting UFOs while on approach at an Arizona airport, Russell comes in and admits that he was indeed that pilot. Interestingly, the event happened on the same night when mass UFO sightings took place, which is now known as The Phoenix Lights.
Russel recalled seeing six lights over the airport while on the approach. He said that the lights were on an absolute uniform in a V-shaped. Russell stated that the lights were unidentified and they are six objects, which he reported on his log.
Since then he never thought about the experience anymore. Two years later, he saw in a television show about UFOs. It was not clear to him at first why he seemed to know the story of Phoenix Lights. The show also mentioned an aviation pilot who reported seeing strange lights on landing. Later, he realised that the pilot was him. He then went to his log books and saw the flight at that time and confirmed it. However, he did not mention anything about UFOs. He just said that they are lights or objects and are unidentified.
Dozen of UFO Sightings Reported To West Midlands Force
Dozen of UFO Sightings Reported To West Midlands Force
The truth may be out there, but worried callers may have to wait longer to find out if humans are alone in the universe. The police may not be the right group to call if you happen to experience a UFO sighting.
In the past four years, twelve UFO sightings have been reported to the West Midlands force. However, the officers investigated none of the calls.
Ten of the reported sightings involve objects spotted in the sky, mostly at night. Others reported seeing lights.
The figures were published on the website of West Midlands Police. They are covered from years 2013 to 2016. The data was released through Freedom of Information Act request.
Four of the calls were from Birmingham, and the rest were from Walsall, Solihull, Dudley, Coventry, and Sandwell.
When asked the number of investigated reports, the force answered that none of the calls had been studied based on the graded response or log.
No other details available on the figures, but the Midlands has been a hotspot of possible unidentified flying object sightings over the past years.
The Birmingham UFO Group spoke to a mother from Selly Oak in January 2015. The mother recalled having rushed into the bedroom of her three-year-old son after he was screaming, “Spaceman” repeatedly.
Later, when her son was shown off a picture of a typical Grey alien with grey skin, large eyes, and bulbous head, he immediately repeated the same word and started crying.
Several sightings of a triangular UFO have been reported over Dudley in the Black Country. In 2011, a man saw a mysterious object with flashing lights while smoking in his garden. The object was then reportedly chased away by another strange craft.
In 2010 in Tipton, two young men spotted a fast moving but silent triangle-shaped craft flying across the sky at a tremendous speed. The triangle UFO has also been reported hovering above Dudley Castle and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Brierley Hill.
Builders at West Midland Safari Park also claimed to have seen a UFO floating above them in April 2009.
Mysterious lights were filmed over market trader Michele Bradsley’s home in May 2014 in Kingshurst, Solihull. According to Michele, the lights were hovering as she watched them from the back door while having a cigarette break.
An off-duty police officer reportedly spotted a UFO speeding across the sky near Birmingham Airport in 2012.
And in 2010, two fighter jets were recorded on video whizzing above the M5 in the West Midlands, reportedly chasing a UFO.
Australian Government Investigates Taxpayer Funding of UFO Group
Australian Government Investigates Taxpayer Funding of UFO Group
An urgent investigation was launched by social services minister in Australia to determine how a UFO group get thousands of dollars in funds from taxpayers. Christian Porter described being in a “beam me up, Scotty” moment after discovering that his department approved nearly 6,000 Australian dollars or around £3,400 of grants for the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group in the New South Wales central coast since 2013.
Mr Porter said that there’s no doubt they are very nice people, and lots of volunteers are getting something out of it, but it did not seem to pass a common sense test looking it from his perspective, representing taxpayers.
Mr Porter revealed that he asked the department to hold the fund transmission until they could give him a little more information on what the group is all about or what the group does specifically.
The Labour government initially provided the funding to assist with the cost of transporting volunteers with a disability.
According to the official records, the department approved AUD 2,645 in the 2017 volunteer grant program for the UFO group.
Under Labour government, Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group got AUD 2,994 in 2013.
The UFO group’s Facebook has over a thousand followers. According to their Facebook, the group wants to share information on UFO and related topics, support and encourage like-minded people and promote disclosure on UFO.
Close-up image from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft of a portion of Europa’s icy surface, cracked in patterns suggesting floating sea ice.
Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
NASA is setting its sights on getting a much closer, deeper look at Jupiter’s tantalizing moon, Europa, and the mysterious ocean hidden beneath its icy crust. With two orbital missions already in the works, by NASA and the European Space Agency, NASA is looking further into the future toward a possible mission to put a robot on the surface.
Europa’s ocean, which may lie under only a few miles of ice—perhaps only a few hundred feet in some places—may be as deep as 30 miles, and contains more water than in all of Earth’s oceans. With the possibility of some form of hydrothermal vents supplying heat and life-supporting chemicals on the ocean’s floor, like those on Earth, the tiny moon has become one of the hottest subjects in the search for extraterrestrial life in the solar system.
Artist illustration showing speculations on the conditions in Europa’s ocean based on observed evidence on and above its surface.
Photo by NASA
In advance of issuing a call for formal proposals, NASA is priming the scientific community to begin thinking about what set of scientific instruments should be included on a lander. Ultimately, ten proposals will be selected to proceed to a competitive concept study, which carries funding of $1.5 million for each selected group, who will have a year to submit their technical proposals.
Europa’s ocean
Past spacecraft, including NASA’s Voyager and Galileo, gathered the first evidence leading to the discovery of Europa’s ocean: patterns in the cracks of the moon’s icy crust interpreted as ice sheets floating on water, as well as disturbances in Jupiter’s magnetic field in Europa’s vicinity that can be explained by the presence of a salty ocean.
Fractures and lines in Europa’s icy surface, one of the first pieces of evidence for the existence of the moon’s ocean hidden beneath.
Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
Most recently, the Hubble Space Telescope detected plumes of water vapor erupting from Europa’s surface, further wetting scientists’ appetites to explore the liquid realm beneath.
Europa was discovered by Galileo in January 1610, along with three other large moons, the “Galileans.” Through a small telescope like Galileo’s, they appear as mere star-like dots, and for over 300 years that’s about all that humans could see of them. Only when the first robotic probe, Pioneer 10, passed through the Jupiter system did we get a closer picture.
Our first close-up look at Europa, through Pioneer 10 in 1973. Photo by Pioneer 10/NASA
Envisioning the lander
How would you design a robot to probe Europa’s deep dark waters from a landing site on the icy surface above? That’s the primary framing question for any competitive design concept. NASA will only select proposals that address specific scientific goals—namely, to look for evidence of life and a habitable environment in Europa’s ocean.
What instruments would you include? Ground-penetrating radar to survey structures in the moon’s crust? Chemical detectors to sniff for water vapor and other volatiles that may seep up from the ocean? Motion sensors to measure the movements of floating ice? Sensitive microphones to listen for any sounds penetrating the ice from below? NASA has issued just the right challenge to get imaginations churning….
Artist concept of a possible future landing mission to the surface of Jupiter’s ocean-bearing moon, Europa.
Photo by NASA
It’s not technically feasible at present to deliver a probe directly to the waters under Europa’s ice crust—let alone to the ocean floor tens of miles below that—so a lander will need to do its job without direct visual inspection. Pictures of Europan jellyfish swimming around would be nice—but we can’t get a camera down there yet. It’s difficult enough exploring the depths of Earth’s oceans….
What else does the lander need?
The final design of the lander ultimately will comprise more than the scientific instruments it carries. There will be plenty of engineering challenges and considerations further along in the design process.
Simply landing the probe will require some serious thought. Unlike landings on Venus, Mars, and Saturn’s moon Titan, parachutes are not an option since Europa has no atmosphere to help slow a lander down. Some form of rocket-powered descent and soft touchdown might work.
Deciding where to land requires planning as well. A landing site where the ice is thin and the waters relatively near the surface could make it easier for the lander to measure properties of the ocean, but we know very little about the nature of Europa’s surface terrain. Other than a few pictures taken by passing spacecraft, Europa is mostly unexplored. Planners should get some guidance from surveys by upcoming missions–NASA’s Europa Clipper and ESA’s “JUICE“—but right now the icy moon is terra incognita.
Another design consideration is a lander’s end-of-mission disposition. The nuclear-powered Galileo spacecraft was deliberately incinerated in Jupiter’s atmosphere at the close of its mission, to prevent it from crashing into a moon like Europa and contaminating a potentially life-bearing environment. Even if the lander doesn’t carry nuclear power cells, an outer space version of environmental “green” responsibility is a requirement.
Bigelow Aerospace founder says commercial world will lead in space
Bigelow Aerospace founder says commercial world will lead in space
NASA and Las Vegas entrepreneur have partnered on a technology that could change how humans live and work in space
CORRESPONDENTLara Logan
There's a new space race and it's not between the U.S. and Russia. It's between private companies and it's attracted multimillionaires and billionaires, like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. A less likely player is Las Vegas real-estate tycoon, Robert Bigelow, who, at 73, is making the biggest gamble of his life -- not on rockets -- but on expandable spacecraft, large, lightweight structures that inflate in space, a technology that could dramatically change how humans live and work in zero gravity.
Robert Bigelow
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NASA has partnered with Robert Bigelow, who's an unconventional figure in the aerospace world. He's more at home on the Vegas strip than at America's space agency, and he's obsessed with aliens and UFOs. In the spring of last year, he and NASA carried out an historic test to prove his high-flying technology is ready to support humans in space.
When Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket roared into the skies above Cape Canaveral, it was on a mission for NASA, carrying nearly 7,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station -- food, supplies and Robert Bigelow's expandable spacecraft.
Robert Bigelow: Flying to the International Space Station is a really big deal. It's an experimental spacecraft, which is a big deal. We don't know how it's gonna behave for sure.
Lara Logan: Does that make you nervous?
Robert Bigelow: I'm nervous because I'm a nervous person, I think, and I don't necessarily always expect things to go right.
The Olympus
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Bigelow's inflatable was packed inside the rocket's cargo capsule, known as Dragon, which you see here making it's way to the space station. We sped up this video from NASA because it took two days to get there.
It was moved into place, then just over a month later, we joined Bigelow at Houston Mission Control to see it inflate, the last critical step. If it worked, it would make history, the first expandable structure for humans in space.
Lara Logan: So what is it like for you this moment watching this happen?
Robert Bigelow: Severe curiosity as to what's gonna happen next.
Some 250 miles above the Earth, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams injected air. It was supposed to last about an hour. But took two tries over two days.
Finally, it worked. In this time-lapse video, you're seeing it expand in seconds. Close to $300 million and 16 years to get here. But for Bigelow, it was just a beginning.
Inside the Olympus
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Under 80-foot ceilings at his company in Las Vegas, he showed us his next generation plans for outer space. He calls this the Olympus, a mansion for the skies. It's so large the rocket powerful enough to launch it is still years away.
Lara Logan: Is there anything this big that astronauts are working in today?
Robert Bigelow: No, nothing even remotely close.
Bigelow said he can turn this into anything a client wants -- a first-ever orbiting hotel, hospital or inflatable research facility. The B330 is smaller than the Olympus. This is what it would look like if it were used as a space station.
Lara Logan: This can function on its own?
Robert Bigelow: Well, it can function as a standalone destination because it has all the facilities that it would take to keep people alive.
The B330
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For countries hoping to make their mark in space, Bigelow said this offers an affordable way in. Private industry, he believes, is becoming more dominant in developing space.
Robert Bigelow: NASA and government still has a role because it is still in a sort of embryonic stage. And there will come a time when it's not necessary at all. And the commercial world will absolutely be the leader for everything in space.
Lara Logan: What about the idea of national pride and what we do as nations. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. He didn't do that for a private company. He did that for the United States of America and it meant something.
"...the commercial world will absolutely be the leader for everything in space."
Robert Bigelow: You bet it did. And that created a period of inspiration that hasn't been matched ever since. So now we're looking for a new era that says, "All right, how can we now shape this to where it's more accessible for a lot more folks at a lot less cost and still have safety and reliability at the same time?"
With no formal training in science or engineering, Robert Bigelow created an aerospace company with scientists and engineers that's achieved what no one else in the industry has done. His expandable spacecraft are the first and only alternative to the metal structures that have housed every astronaut in space for over half a century.
For Bigelow, it all began with growing up in a time of nuclear tests. As a young boy, he would watch the skies over Nevada light up with the bursts of atomic bombs.
Robert Bigelow: Witnessing those explosions in the 50s and 60s, you weren't aware of the ultimate ramifications of those kinds of things but there was a real strong feeling of energy and a secretiveness and so forth and it was cool.
Armstrong: "That's one small step for man…"
Later, he watched Neil Armstrong take the first steps on the moon, a moment in history he said still inspires him.
Robert Bigelow: The approach wasn't lightening fast…
But on this canyon road just outside Las Vegas, Robert Bigelow's story takes a turn that some may find, to put it lightly, improbable. He told us this is where his grandparents had a close encounter with a UFO.
Robert Bigelow: It really sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car. And it took off at a right angle and shot off into the distance.
Bigelow Aerospace's alien logo
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The story sparked his obsession, and explains the alien looking out from the side of Bigelow Aerospace. And it made for the kind of conversation you don't ordinarily have with an accomplished CEO.
Lara Logan: Do you believe in aliens?
Robert Bigelow: I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it.
Lara Logan: Do you also believe that UFOs have come to Earth?
Robert Bigelow: There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions -- I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.
Lara Logan: Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?
Robert Bigelow: I don't give a damn. I don't care.
Lara Logan: You don't worry that some people will say, "Did you hear that guy, he sounds like he's crazy"?
Robert Bigelow: I don't care.
Lara Logan: Why not?
Robert Bigelow: It's not gonna make a difference. It's not gonna change reality of what I know.
Lara Logan: Do you imagine that in our space travels we will encounter other forms of intelligent life?
Robert Bigelow: You don't have to go anywhere.
Lara Logan: You can find it here? Where exactly?
Robert Bigelow: It's just like right under people's noses. Oh my gosh. Wow.
The FAA confirmed to us that for years, it referred reports of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena to a company Bigelow owns. He told us he's had his own close encounters, but declined to go into detail.
Robert Bigelow's quirky and he knows it, but when you have as much money as he does, no one -- not even NASA -- seems to care.
He bought the idea for his inflatable technology from the space agency. NASA had been working on this since the early 1960s -- but when Congress killed its program in 2000, Bigelow seized the opportunity and invested tens of millions of dollars to advance NASA's original idea.
It took him just six years to launch the first expandable spacecraft into orbit. His second followed a year later. But those were never meant for humans.
At that time, Bigelow was still trying to prove his inflatable structures would survive in space. A decade later, with both still circling the Earth intact, NASA felt the technology was ready to be tested for humans. Bigelow still monitors these spacecraft from his own mission control in Las Vegas.
Robert Bigelow made his fortune with a low-budget chain of rental apartments called Budget Suites of America.
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Robert Bigelow didn't start out a rich man. He made his fortune not far from the Vegas strip, with this -- a chain of low budget, long-stay rental apartments called Budget Suites of America. In a time of glitzy high rises, he focused on creating homes for the city's temporary workers. And it paid off. Today, he has 19 of these across three states.
Lara Logan: And made you how much money?
Robert Bigelow: Enough to support the aerospace indulgence and Bigelow Aerospace.
Lara Logan: Well, "aerospace indulgence" is a big term. So do you want to put a figure on that?
Robert Bigelow: We're approaching 290 million.
Lara Logan: Of your own money?
Robert Bigelow: Oh, yea yea.
Lara Logan: So for a man who has had extraordinary success in the business world--
Robert Bigelow: Some some.
Lara Logan: This space business is financially the worst investment you've ever made?
Robert Bigelow: It's atrocious. I mean, we are not in control of our own destiny.
Lara Logan: Who is in control of your destiny?
Robert Bigelow: We're hostage to what happens with transportation, space transportation.
Thanks to innovators like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Bigelow told us reusable rockets -- like this one you see sticking a perfect landing after launching his inflatable -- are making routine transportation a real possibility in the next decade.
When Robert Bigelow's inflatable structure was added by NASA to the International Space Station, humans had never been inside one in space. This test would be the first time. And astronaut Jeff Williams, the first American to experience it.
Astronaut Jeff Williams
The interior only has sensors, and for two years, NASA will use them to monitor how this holds up to solar radiation and extreme temperatures.
Lara Logan: How far are you from us right now?
Jeff Williams: Well currently we're over Libya as I recall, but when we started this conversation, I think we were probably over the Atlantic Ocean.
From Bigelow's Mission Control, NASA connected us with Jeff Williams on the space station. As we spoke to him about Bigelow's inflatable room, he was orbiting the Earth at nearly five miles a second.
Jeff Williams: I was very excited to be part of it and to be part of something new.
Lara Logan: And how is it holding up?
Jeff Williams: Oh, it's holding up well. It was a little bit cool, and that was expected. Cooler than the air here, but not overly cold, and had that new car smell that you would expect. And it was very quiet, too.
Lara Logan: What do you think about men like Mr. Bigelow, people with deep pockets, private citizens getting involved in your world, in the world of space?
Jeff Williams: Oh, I'd say anybody that has the means to do exploration and is willing to jump in the game, more power to them. Private enterprise is trying to open up economic doors to space exploration and everybody will benefit from that.
Produced by Max McClellan. Lani Levine and Lejla Radoncic, associate producers.
Twelve UFO sightings have been reported to West Midlands Police in the past four years, new figures show.
But the worried callers will have to wait a while longer to find out if we really are alone in the universe because none of the calls were investigated by officers.
The witness said: “I went for a short walk around 8.15pm behind my accommodation, i.e. Heronbank West, Heronbank, University of Warwick.
“While coming back, I happened to look at this glowing (because of the flame) cylindrical type object in the sky, steering upwards in a somewhat fast motion.
“I was able to take a picture of it. But when I started taking a video, my phones battery died. My first reaction to that was ‘clearly it’s not a shooting star’.
“It could be a rocket launch though. After gazing at it for about a minute, I walked inside my accommodation building.”
On May 13, another spotter saw seven circular objects above the city through binoculars - they then drew them out for Mufon.
Another sighting - again in Coventry - on March 15 involved ‘two bright lights which were ellipses initially but became circles’.
The witness reported: “I was standing outside work having just finished a shift. A storm had just passed over and a beautiful rainbow was showing. I was taking photos of the rainbow and didn’t actually notice the lights in the frame.
“I took a series of photos to catch as much of the rainbow as I could but after transferring to a memory chip I put them away and forgot about them. I was sorting through old memory chips a few days ago when I found these photos.
“The first one showed a couple of ellipses with what appeared to be a solid centre. This was at 15.24 GMT. The next photo showed two large balls of light low to the ground and apparently in front of the lamp post.
“The time of the photo was also 15.24 so the lights had moved very quickly.”
Residents of Nottingham, England were awoken over the weekend to a mysterious noise which seemed to emanate directly from the sky. The sound occurred throughout the night and early morning hours on May 27 and 28 and could be heard throughout the city center and surrounding suburbs. Mystified townsfolk described the sound as a “roaring” or “whooshing” sound and took to Twitter to express their shock and awe:
It sounds like the war of the worlds in Nottingham at the moment. Unknown catastrophically loud noise every two minutes.
Nottingham local Hayley Compton told the BBC that the noise was similar to a giant flame in the sky:
For the last two mornings, I’ve heard a series of noises outside my house in Wollaton which sounds like a giant blowtorch. We went outside and it was really loud, I looked up into the sky expecting either to see flames or a very close aircraft of some sort.
Nottingham police received dozens of similar reports about the noises but have yet to identify their source. On Reddit’s Nottingham subreddit, users began speculating what the source of the sound might be. Some of the more popular theories included UFOs, (naturally), noises generated by industrial machines at nearby factories, or even a hot air balloon. However, the frequency of the noise and timing would suggest that it’s probably not the latter.
There are a few factories nearby, but so far none have come forward as the source of the sounds.
Meanwhile, similar noises were heard around the same time in nearby Derbyshire. With all of the unexplained and strange aerial phenomena being reported in the UK lately, these noises shouldn’t be taken lightly. Sure, there’s likely a prosaic origin of these sightings and sounds involving heavy industry, military testing or the like, but for now, these occurrences all add up to one big English mystery.
Face to face ontmoetingen met aliens zijn een feit. Lees dit bizarre verhaal van een betrouwbare bron
Face to face ontmoetingen met aliens zijn een feit. Lees dit bizarre verhaal van een betrouwbare bron
De Canadese oud-minister van Defensie Paul Hellyer probeert mensen ervan bewust te maken dat we niet alleen zijn en dat er sprake is van een buitenaardse aanwezigheid.
Of zoals voormalig astronaut en Princeton-professor wijlen Brian O’Leary zei: “Er is overvloedig bewijs dat we worden bezocht.”
Waarom worden de uitspraken van dergelijke prominente figuren niet breed uitgemeten in de media?
Eerste
Er zijn inmiddels vele honderden hooggeplaatste militairen, politici en wetenschappers geweest die hetzelfde hebben gezegd als Hellyer.
In 1989 haalden UFO-landingen het NOS Journaal nog. Daarna werden mensen die in UFO’s geloven plotseling gekkies genoemd. Wat is er veranderd?
Hellyer was de eerste minister van een zittende regering van een G8-land die zich openlijk uitsprak over het onderwerp. In onderstaand interview met Motherboard doet hij zijn verhaal.
‘Elk woord klopt’
De oud-minister was in eerste instantie sceptisch, tot hij het boek The Day After Roswell van kolonel Philip Corso besloot te lezen.
Hellyer nam contact op met een gepensioneerde generaal van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht om te kijken of het boek echt was of op fictie berustte.
De niet met naam genoemde generaal zei: “Elk woord klopt en meer nog dan dat.”
Face to face ontmoetingen
Hij zei dat er face to face ontmoetingen zijn geweest tussen Amerikaanse functionarissen en buitenaardsen uit andere zonnestelsels.
The UK is no stranger to crop circle formations. Four more incredible designs have popped up this week with the first design being discovered on the 21st of May in the county of Wiltshire.
The circles were documented via drone footage, thanks to Matthew Williams, via Crop Circle Connector, a website dedicated to documenting crop circle formations all over the world.
Check out the video below for a look at the crop circles.
What could these formations be? Is it depicting some sort of eclipse or celestial event? To look deeper into the subject, this documentary is a great place to start. Keep in mind that there are also many hoaxes out there, clearly the work of a bunch of pranksters. But we shouldn’t let that fact take away from the fact that there have been hundreds of documented formations that are so complex and so unbelievable in their nature that they’ve been subject to scrutiny at the highest levels of science. (See below) Whether or not these particular ones are real or fake should not detract from that fact, and this article is being used to create more awareness about a very real phenomenon that’s been happening for a long time.
According to coasttocaostam.com, “this particular formation, one of the four, appears to depict a solar eclipse and bears a striking resemblance to a 2004 design that also showed such a celestial event…Intriguingly, much like how the 2017 crop circle predates this summer’s solar eclipse by three months, so too did the 2004 formation.”
You can find links and footage to the designs here.
The video footage below is extraordinary, especially with regards to the close up footage where you can the pattern in which the crop has been pushed down, (using some form of heating method, more on that later in the article).
What’s Really Going On Here?
Again, some of these formations are so complex, precise and mind-altering that everyone has taken notice, including the academic world. For example, professor Richard Taylor, who is the director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon, has suggested that the circles are created using magnetrons, which are found in microwave ovens, or similar technology to complete their detailed patterns in a couple of hours.
What do you expect from the mainstream? Just look at the images in the above video, for example. Do you really think that hoaxers could be out in the middle of nowhere, in the dead of night, going completely unseen and leaving no tracks of entrance or escape, with only a few hours, is possible?
The people responsible must have a tremendous amount of resources, people, and money at their disposal, not to mention the skills necessary to make such a large and mathematically perfect design. This is why Taylor believes that “crop circle artists are not going to give up their secrets easily.” He believes that unknown artists are venturing “into the countryside close to your homes” to “carry out their craft, safe in the knowledge that they are continuing the legacy of the most science-oriented art movement in history.”
He published those words in an August 2011 edition in Physics World, and it’s not hard to see why he feels this way. These designs are truly jaw dropping.
Lab Studies
The formations have also been studied in a laboratory setting, and some have indicated that the nodes of some of the stalks were blasted out on one side. It’s not conclusively known how this was done, but the effect has been replicated by highly localized microwave heating. This type of technique causes water inside to vaporize and dislodge. As a result, the stock flops completely over to one side. You can refer to this article for more information about that, and to view some other formations.
One source for this information comes from one of the worlds leading UFO researchers Richard Dolan. It’s also again shown by Taylor and his microwave theory, as well as other scientists who have published results showing strange heating occurrences that some have brushed off as light phenomena.
“There is a mounting body of evidence that suggests that a rare form of electromagnetic energy called an ionised plasma vortex (generally known as ball lighting) is involved.” – Greg Jefferys, historian. (source)
This explanation was originally offered by physicist Dr. Terence Meadon, who believed that these patterns were the result of atmospheric phenomena. He suggested that wind currents and ionized plasmas are the culprit. But given what we now know about the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon, the extraterrestrial hypothesis is very plausible.
Clearly something very sophisticated is going on here.
What On Earth?
What On Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery, winner of the Best Feature Documentary Award from the UFO Film Congress, is filled with stunning imagery of the circles. It deals with how our scientific materialistic worldview hampers serious investigation of one of the greatest mysteries of our time, and the many indications that the phenomenon is not a human perpetration. It goes on to speculate about what would happen if it were ascertained that the circles do indeed come from another intelligence, whether that be a civilization or something different — how that would help us think as a planet, which would give us our best chance to solve the pressing global problems that challenge us now.
The film was released in 2009. If you’re interested you can find out more about it here.
If you want to view our latest articles on the UFO/ET phenomenon, please click here.
Below is a short segment from the Thrive documentary, which now has more than 100 million views worldwide.
Vier bijzondere graancirkels ontdekt. Kijk hier naar deze unieke dronevideo
Vier bijzondere graancirkels ontdekt. Kijk hier naar deze unieke dronevideo
In Groot-Brittannië zijn vorige week vier indrukwekkende graancirkels verschenen. De eerste werd op 21 mei ontdekt in het graafschap Wiltshire.
De formaties zijn door Matthew Williams van Crop Circle Connector, een website die melding maakt van graancirkels van over de hele wereld, in beeld gebracht met een drone.
De eerste formatie lijkt een zonsverduistering uit te beelden en vertoont opvallende gelijkenissen met een graancirkel uit 2004 die hetzelfde fenomeen leek te tonen, schrijft Coast to Coast AM.
Pendel
De nieuwe formatie is net als de graancirkel in 2004 precies drie maanden voor een zonsverduistering verschenen, aldus de site.
De tweede formatie werd op 22 mei ontdekt in Dorset en de derde, die op 25 mei verscheen, lijkt op patronen die eerder dit jaar zijn gevonden. De vierde graancirkel werd ook op 25 mei gemeld.
Bekijk hieronder de derde formatie:
Tijdreizen
Horace Drew, die jarenlang voor het Australische wetenschappelijke instituut CSIRO werkte, doet al bijna een kwart eeuw onderzoek naar graancirkels.
Dr. Drew claimt dat graancirkels worden gemaakt door aliens of tijdreizigers.
Volgens hem zijn een aantal van deze formaties echt en bevatten ze puzzels die kunnen worden gelinkt aan tijdreizen en buitenaards leven.
Drew zei dat aliens of tijdreizigers graancirkels achterlaten op aarde als boodschappen ‘voor ons of voor zichzelf’.
De buitenste planeet van het stelsel TRAPPIST-1, dat mogelijk leven kan herbergen, draait in negentien dagen rond haar moederster. Dit heeft een internationaal team van wetenschappers, ook van de Luikse universiteit, berekend.
Begin dit jaar stond de wetenschappelijke wereld in rep en roer toen bleek dat er rond dwergster TRAPPIST-1, veertig lichtjaar van ons, zelfs zeven aardeachtige planeten wentelen, een groter aantal dan elders (buiten ons stelsel). Zes daarvan hebben de omvang van onze aarde, en drie een vergelijkbare temperatuur.
Van zes van de zeven was de tijd die zij nodig hebben om een volledige omloop rond de ster te maken, reeds bekend. Maar volgens een communiqué van de Universiteit van Bern bleef men in het ongewisse over de omlooptijd van de buitenste, TRAPPIST-1H.
Maar onlangs gaf het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA ruwe data vrij van de expoplanetenjager die de Keplertelescoop is. Onder meer een team van de universiteit van Bern en collega's van onder andere de Universiteit van Luik, stortten zich razendsnel op de tussen december en maart vergaarde gegevens.
-100 graden Niettegenstaande de Kepler niet werkt zoals het hoort, slaagden de wetenschappers er toch snel in de data te ijken. Er was maar één resultaat mogelijk: TRAPPIST-1H draait in 18,764 dagen rond de ster die veel kleiner en kouder is dan onze zon. Terwijl de exoplaneet een iets kleinere straal dan de aarde heeft, bedraagt de temperatuur minus 100 graden.
Voorts bleek, volgens een publicatie in Nature Astronomy, dat de zeven planeten als een "halsketting" rond de ster zijn gealigneerd, en interageren. De dwergster zelf draait in 3,3 dagen rond haar as, en lijkt iets ouder dan voorheen aangenomen.
TRAPPIST is een programma dat op gang is gebracht door Michaël Gillon van de Universiteit van Luik (ULG) en Didier Queloz van de Universiteit van Genève. Gillon behoorde ook tot het Luikse team dat de Kepler-data uitwerkte, samen met Catarina Fernandes, Valérie Van Grootel, Emmanuël Jehin en Pierre Magain.
Een grote openstaande vraag is de samenstelling van de atmosfeer van de planeten rond TRAPPIST-1. Een antwoord kan komen van de opvolger van de Hubble-telescoop, de James Webb, die na jarenlang uitstel eind volgend jaar de ruimte zou ingaan. Dan kan ook duidelijk worden of er op de planeten water- of andere moleculen zijn die leven mogelijk maken.
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THERE HAD IN FACT BEEN FACE TO FACE MEETINGS WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS FROM OTHER STAR SYSTEMS
THERE HAD IN FACT BEEN FACE TO FACE MEETINGS WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS FROM OTHER STAR SYSTEMS
The former Minister of Defence in Canada, Paul Hellyer, has come forward to talk about the fact that aliens do exist and humans are not alone. He also went on to say that the nations on Earth have identified an extra-terrestrial presence.
RELIABLE SOURCE REVEALS THERE HAVE BEEN ALIEN FACE TO FACE MEETINGS
It may be easy to scoff at the words of the Minister of Defence in Canada and class him as being plain crazy. However, Dr. Brian O`Leary, the ex-astronaut, and physics professor have made it clear in the past that there is lots of evidence of aliens having visited Earth.
HIGH RANKING PEOPLE, MILITARY, POLICE, AND ACADEMIA KNOW ABOUT ALIEN EXISTENCE
The doctor went on to say that many high ranking people in the police, military, and academia are coming forward to reveal that aliens do in fact exist. Hellyer is not alone in his thinking and beliefs; he is among the many who roam among the highest levels of defense and government.
A five-star admiral of the Royal Navy and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee said that there is a serious possibility that Earth has been visited for many years by people from other planets and it should not be the subject of rubbishing by tabloid newspapers, but it should be scientifically investigated.
HELLYER IS FIRST AMONG G8 COUNTRIES TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT ALIENS
Hellyer held an interview recently, and he gave details about personal happenings that had involved him along with his nephew. Bear in mind that many high ranking individuals from Defence Ministers to Presidents and all made statements about aliens that have been eye opening. Hellyer is among the first to have spoken up from the G8 countries of the cabinet.
He talked about a conversation that he had with his nephew about the book along with having another conversation with a general of the United States Air Force, in which the general had said that every word of the existence of aliens was true.
OFFICIALS OF US HAD MEETINGS WITH ALIENS FROM OTHER STAR SYSTEMS
Hellyer said that he had called the general on the phone and even before he had been able to identify himself and greet the general, he had said that every word was true and more. He went on to say that there had even been meetings between officials of the United States and aliens from other star systems.
More and more credible people are now coming forward to spread the word to the public, they are not talking about alien movies, they are talking about the real world, a world in which aliens really do exist and have existed on Earth for some time.
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CHINA JUST RELEASED NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HD IMAGES OF THEIR 2013 MOON LANDING
CHINA JUST RELEASED NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HD IMAGES OF THEIR 2013 MOON LANDING
Chinese lunar mission has discovered new form of space rock.
The Chinese space agency’s Chang’e 3 lander have made an incredible discovery on the surface of the Moon. In its travels across the lunar surface, the highly advanced lunar lander managed to discover a new type of moon rock which has never been accessed by human beings before. Furthermore, the high-resolution camera capabilities of the lander have managed to capture thousands of astonishing images of the Moon that allows people on Earth to see the natural satellite in its full, bleak glory.
The Chinese launched the Chang’e 3 lander in 2013 and directed it to land in the region known as the Mare Imbrium on the lunar surface. This area was of particular interest to the Chinese scientists as it is believed that water could have once existed in this region of the Moon. The lander explored the region and took thousands of impressive images. Despite the fact that the images were all amassed during 2013, they were not released to the general public until 2015.
Since the images were released, Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society has been meticulously trawling through the immense haul of images in order to present them to the general public in an easily accessible and downloadable way. She said that the Chinese were fairly open about sharing their data from the lunar mission and it was easy for her to access the images as they use the same system as NASA and the European Space Agency. However, she said that her task was made quite difficult as she cannot read Mandarin.
The images have generated a great deal of excitement in the scientific community, particularly the ones which depict the newly discovered form of space rock which was not discovered by American or Russian missions to the lunar surface. “China is trying to reach the top tier and show that they’re a major space power, ” said Kevin Pollpete who is a Defense Group, Inc. Analyst affiliated with the University of California in San Diego. “They’re also contributing real knowledge about the moon that we haven’t been able to get before.”
The Chang’e 3 lander is still functional today, but the Chinese have even more ambitious plans when it comes to exploring the lunar surface. In 2017, the Chinese plan to send another lander to the Moon which will collect and return lunar samples to Earth. It is hoped that these missions will expand the bank of knowledge regarding the geology of the Moon. It is also hoped that the missions may even give scientists an inkling about the origin of the natural satellite which has always been a great scientific mystery.
STRANGE STATUE DEPICTING AN ALIEN UNEARTHED IN MEXICO
STRANGE STATUE DEPICTING AN ALIEN UNEARTHED IN MEXICO
One ancient civilization that is the most fascinating is found within the American Continent, and it has been from here that some myths and legends that are the most mysterious and strange have come from.
The Mayan civilization was well known for the huge cities that they built along with erecting some structures of monolithic proportions back in ancient times. A lot of the treasures left behind by the Mayans still hold a great deal of mystery.
MAYAN STATUE SHOWS ALIEN HEAD LOOKS LIKE GREY ALIEN
One of the most recent of findings has been that of an ancient statute that has the looks of an Alien humanoid that is holding a human head. This strange statue was found by public workers in Mexico in the Maxtaloyan community while improvement work was being undertaken. The statue seems to show a snake that is surrounding a figure and at the top, there is a head that looks to be the face of a Grey alien or perhaps a reptilian entity.
It was said that perhaps the statue is a representation of a God that the Mayans worshiped during that time, perhaps with an origin that is extra-terrestrial and that the head may be a symbol of aliens being above humans as creators.
STATUE DATES BACK TO MAYAN CULTURE DURING 400AD
The discovery of the statue has been said to be an important piece in the Mayan culture, and it is thought that it perhaps dates back to 400AD. The head of the statue was pointed out to have oval eyes, and the statue has four inlays of semi-precious stones, including jade, obsidian, turquoise and shell. The discovery of the statue is said to be a fundamental sample of culture from the Mayan period. It has been suggested that more pieces of the same type may be found in the region during construction works and experts are going to be monitoring the work as it takes place.
PRE-HISPANIC SETTLEMENT MAY BE LOST IF VOLCANO ERUPTS
The director of the museum that is housing the statue is worried that the nearby volcano could erupt and possibly bury forever an entire pre-Hispanic settlement. More than 5,000 important pieces have been located up to now throughout several parts in the municipality, all of which have been put on display in the museum.
Experts at the museum are still unsure of what the new statue is meant to represent, but several theories have arisen from those who have managed to get a glimpse of the statue at the museum. Many have said that the statue clearly shows a Grey alien with a long head and oval shaped eyes, holding a human head, while others have said that the statue may represent an alien deity.
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CLOSE ENCOUNTER -Nasa admits its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter collided with a UFO – but aliens were NOT to blame
CLOSE ENCOUNTER -Nasa admits its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter collided with a UFO – but aliens were NOT to blame
American space boffins claim to have worked out what caused a very unusual glitch in a spacecraft which monitors the lunar surface
By Jasper Hamill
NASA has admitted that one of its spaceships was struck by an unidentified flying object travelling as fast as a speeding bullet.
In October 2014, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was hit by a tiny object – but lived to tell the tale.
An artist’s impression of Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
The collision caused a strange glitch in the LRO’s cameras (which you can see in the picture below), causing it to produce images showing “jagged patterns”.
However, Nasa thinks “a small natural meteorite” was to blame for the collision.
This is the strange image snapped after a meteorite smashed into Nasa’s lunar probe
Mark Robinson, a professor at Arizona State University’s school of earth and space exploration, said: “LROC was struck and survived to keep exploring the moon.”
He suggested a tiny meteorite hit the space probe, knocking its cameras so they produced a “wild and jittery” image of the moon’s surface.
“The meteoroid was travelling much faster than a speeding bullet,” Robinson added.
“In this case, LROC did not dodge a speeding bullet, but rather survived a speeding bullet!”
“Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles from the Earth,” said John Keller, LRO project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
As a (kind of) follow-up to my article on the controversy surrounding Marilyn Monroe, UFOs, and a questionable document, there is the matter of an equally controversial document that concerns the famous December 1980 UFO event at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England. The most widely accepted scenario within the UFO research community is that extraterrestrials landed/manifested in those dark woods in late December. There is talk of a small, intelligently controlled vehicle moving through the trees, of lights beaming down to a weapons-storage area in the vicinity, of bizarre activity in the woods, and of strange, dwarfish entities seen at close quarters.
Rendlesham Forest alleged UFO landing site
There is, however, absolutely no doubt at all that this particular document is completely and utterly bogus. I mention it, though, in the event that it might catch your attention and provoke a “WTF?!” response. The document is actually a letter, written on British Ministry of Defense paperwork and is undated. It reads (without interruption) as follows:
QUOTE: “Dear [Deleted], As you know, OSI has completed a report on the landing of a craft of unknown origin crewed by several entities near RAF Bentwaters on the night of December 29/30 1980. Interestingly, OSI reports that the entities were approximately 1 1/2 metres tall, wore what appeared to be nylon-coated pressure suits, but no helmets. Conditions on the night were misty, giving the appearance that the entities were hovering above ground level.
“Tape recordings were made on which the entities are heard to speak in an electronically synthesized version of English, with a strong American accent. Similar transmissions intercepted (possible word omitted) irregularly by NSA since 1975. According to OSI, entities had claw-like hands with three digits and an opposable thumb. Despite original reports, OSI said the craft was not damaged but landed deliberately as part of a series of visits to SAC bases in USA and Europe. Reports that craft was repaired by US servicemen or was taken on to the base are not confirmed by OSI.
“Landing is not considered a Defence issue in view of the overt peaceful nature of the contact, but investigations by DS8 are to be continued on [Deleted] authority. Precautionary plan for counter-information at a local level involving [Deleted] and a [Deleted] is strongly recommended.” END OF QUOTE
Well, that’s quite a story! But, a story is all it is.
The document was reproduced in the 1986 paperback edition of a book on the Rendlesham Forest affair titled Sky Crash. The authors were Brenda Butler, Dot Street, and Jenny Randles. In their book, the authors note that the “memo” – sent to the team as a photocopy – was received in early 1984. They added that, “We have investigated it…and our conclusion is that it is a deliberate fake by certain parties, whose identities are strongly suspected by us.” They concluded: “This hoax has clearly been planned to test us or, more likely, to impugn our credibility should we fall for the trick. We call their bluff.”
I recall how several colleagues in Ufology, in the 1990s, sent copies of the “document” to the British Ministry of Defense, asking for an opinion on it. MoD staff did not avoid commenting on it. They were careful to make it very clear that it was what it really is: a hoax. Ironically, because copies of the document were sent to the MoD for comment, they ended up in the MoD’s “Rendlesham File.” And when, years later, that same “Rendlesham File” was finally declassified, people who accessed it saw the fake document in the file! I know from emails I got at the time, that this created a few issues for people who assumed the document was the real deal! It is, perhaps, for this very reason that I know some people still hang onto the possibility that the document is genuine. But, trust me, it ain’t.
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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.
Mysterious monuments
Archaeologists in England discovered a Neolithic earthwork and burial site that could date back to 2000 B.C.
Credit: Archaeology Warwickshire
A 4,000-year-old henge monument, containing five well-preserved human burials, has been discovered in England, archaeologists announced.
Archaeologists still debate the purpose and the origin of henges, but researchers know that the earthworks started showing up in the British Isles in the third and early second millennia B.C. Most of these monuments contain no traces of everyday activity, and some feature burials or are aligned with cosmic phenomena. So, some researchers believe henges must have had some sort of ceremonial or ritual significance. [Read more about the henge monument.]
2017 hurricanes
The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite captured this image of Hurricane Matthew at 11:13 p.m. ET on Oct. 6 (03:15 GMT on Oct. 7) as it approached Florida. The thermal infrared image shows the temperature at the top of the hurricane.
Credit: ESA
Stock up on emergency supplies and get those galoshes ready — this year's hurricane season is likely to be a big one.
This year, there is a 45 percent chance of an above-normal season, a 35 percent chance of a near-normal season and just a 20 percent chance of below-normal activity, NOAA reported. [Read more about the upcoming season.]
Expanded boundaries
A scene from the virtual reality experience showing vikings repairing their boats at the camp.
Credit: University of Sheffield
A spot in England where thousands of Viking warriors and their families spent their winter months was bigger than most contemporary English towns.
"These extraordinary images offer a fascinating snapshot of life at a time of great upheaval in Britain," University of York archaeologist Julian Richards said in a statement. [Read more about the Viking wanderings.]
Mysterious cosmic object
An artist's illustration of Boyajian's star, which experiences unexplained changes in brightness. One hypothesis is that a planet has broken up around the star, and the debris is block the star's light.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The perplexing cosmic object known as "Boyajian's star" is once again exhibiting a mysterious pattern of dimming and brightening that scientists have tried to explain with hypotheses ranging from swarms of comets to alien megastructures.
The brightness changes exhibited by Boyajian don't show the kind of regularity that is typical of a planet's orbit around its star, and scientists can't see how the changes could be explained by a system of planets. [Read more about the dimming star.]
Sad state
Four baby squirrels get their tails tangled in Bangor, Maine.
Credit: A Day/YouTube
A quartet of adorable baby squirrels recently got into quite a sticky predicament.
Andrew Day saw the ensemble of squirrels hobbling across the grass with their tails fused "like a giant dreadlock, Day told The Bangor Daily News. After capturing a video of the odd scene, Day took the squirrels to a veterinarian, who liberated them. [Read more about the cute squirrels.]
ER and Drugs
Alcohol and marijuana may be the most commonly used recreational drugs in the world, but "magic" mushrooms appear to be the safest, a new survey finds.
The Global Drug Survey is a London-based research group that's focused on making drug use safer. The results of the 2017 survey were published today (May 24) and included responses from more than 115,000 people from 50 countries. [Read more about the ratings.]
Test success
At a mammoth 302 feet (92 meters) long, the blimp-like Airlander 10 is the largest aircraft currently flying.
Credit: Hybrid Air Vehicles
It's a plane, it's a blimp … it's the world's largest aircraft.
On May 10, the Airlander 10 flew for a total of 180 minutes to test the aircraft's handling, improved landing technology and more, according to Hybrid Air Vehicles. This was only the third flight of the Airlander 10. It first debuted as HAV-304, and successfully flew in 2012 as part of the U.S. Army’s Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle program. The reimagined and modified Airlander 10 made its maiden voyage in August 2016, kicking off a flight test program to assess the aircraft's performance and attempting to fly the airship farther away from its base in Cardington, England. [Read more about the large craft.]
Genetic intelligence
A new study finds 52 genes that are related to intelligence — a rousing success in a field that has often struggled to find correlations between smarts and genes.
These genes "are basically a tip of the iceberg," Posthuma told Live Science. "But there are still a lot more genes that are important for intelligence." [Read more about intelligence genes.]
Deadly outbreak
An illustration of Clostridium botulinum, the bacteria that produces the neurotoxin linked to botulism.
Credit: royaltystockphoto.com/Shutterstock
A botulism outbreak has killed one man and sickened nine other people who ate nacho cheese sauce contaminated with the toxic bacterial protein. Heath officials traced the outbreak to a gas station in California's Sacramento County.
The toxin blocks nerve messages, which, in turn, causes people to lose control of their muscles, Chapman told Live Science. For instance, people who have consumed the toxin may have trouble swallowing, droopy eyelids and difficulty breathing, he said. [Read more about the tainted cheese.]
Healthy babies
Mouse pups derived from sperm that was freeze-dried and stored on the International Space Station for nine months.
Credit: Wakayama et al./PNAS
Mouse sperm preserved on the International Space Station for nine months gave rise to healthy pups, a new study reveals.
This work also raises the possibility of a "doomsday vault" for sperm in space that could help preserve animal species from disasters on Earth, much as the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, does for plant species. The sperm-vault idea is similar to one depicted in a novel by the author of "A Game of Thrones," scientists added. [Read more about the mouse sperm.]
The south pole of Jupiter is seen from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) in this enhanced color mosaic of images from NASA's JunoCam. Cyclones up to 600 miles wide (1,000 km) are visible.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles SCOTT BOLTON - 3
Juno gets a first look at Jupiter's marvelous poles, the world's largest (current) aircraft goes for a spin, Earth science loses on the proposed NASA budget and two astronauts perform an urgent spacewalk — it's Space.com's top news stories of the week.
Jupiter whirls
The first science results from NASA's Juno probe reveal huge cyclones raging near Jupiter's north and south poles and the workings of is spectacular auroras. Juno is the first spacecraft to get a close look the planet's beautiful and bizarre poles. [Full Story: Mysteries at Jupiter: NASA's Juno Probe Reveals Cyclones, Auroras & Surprises]
Astronauts kept freeze-dried mouse sperm on the International Space Station for nine months — and when brought back to Earth it gave rise to healthy pups. [Full Story: Freeze-Dried Space Sperm Gives Rise to Healthy Baby Mice]
After a computer relay box malfunctioned, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer went out for a quickly-planned spacewalk to replace the failed part. (Don't worry, a backup took over in the meantime.) Whitson built the replacement from spare parts aboard the International Space Station. [Full Story: Astronauts Restore Space Station to Full Health in Quick Repair Spacewalk]
Clash of the dwarfs
New research suggests that most of the Milky Way's antimatter could come from the collision of two special kinds of white dwarfs — the Earth-size cores of dead stars. [Full Story: Supernova Face-Off May Solve 40-Year-Old Antimatter Mystery]
Mammoth flier success
A massive blimp-like aircraft called the Airlander 10 successfully flew for 180 minutes and landed, testing its improved landing technology and handling. It's the third test flight for the world's largest aircraft currently flying, which is designed to stay in the air for up to 5 days at a time with people on board. [World's Largest Aircraft Completes Successful Test Flight]
Earth science nix
The White House's official 2018 budget request curtails five NASA Earth-science missions, including the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem satellite; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 experiment; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder; the Earth-viewing instruments aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft and, now, the Radiation Budget Experiment. [Full Story: Trump's 2018 Budget Request Axes 5 NASA Earth-Science Missions]
The Cassini spacecraft has seen Saturn through the seasons as the planet has orbited the sun, watching its dramatic changes. Now, it's finally the planet's solstice and the end of the spacecraft's second extended mission — just in time for its Sept. 15 Grand Finale dive into the planet's atmosphere. [Full Story: Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes]
Listening in
The world's most sensitive dark matter detector, XENON1T, has gone online deep beneath a mountain in Italy, completing a 30-day science run hunting for the minuscule fireworks that could be caused by a certain type of dark matter ramming into a xenon atom inside the detector. [Full Story: The World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Is Now Up and Running]
It's a Phantom
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Boeing to build the U.S. military's new XS-1 space plane. The plane, called the Phantom Express, is designed to launch to the edge of space to deploy a second stage rocket, which would deposit a satellite in orbit. [Full Story: US Military's XS-1 Space Plane Will Be Built by Boeing (Video)]
Should We Try to Colonize Other Worlds or Stay and Fix Earth?
Should We Try to Colonize Other Worlds or Stay and Fix Earth?
As NASA continues to make incredible discoveries about nearby exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, it’s easy to wonder “what if?”
What if we made successful manned missions to those planets? What if there was life on any of those planets, and we could make contact? These questions have driven astronomers and science fiction enthusiasts alike for countless years. And, as planning for manned missions to Mars and the search for extraterrestrial life continue, these questions become more relevant than ever.
However, putting aside all the excitement generated by space exploration, it’s important to ask not only if we can, but if we should. According to acclaimed science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, sending humans to nearby exoplanets would be a terrible idea. To discuss his opinions the best way he knew how, Robinson expressed himself in his 2015 novel “Aurora.” In this book, Robinson imagines a capsule-type human society that takes an extended journey to a nearby star on a large vessel built to sustain human, plant, and animal life for centuries.
While Robinson’s book was technically science fiction, it wasn’t all that far from reality. Darpa funded the construction of an ark-like vessel similar to Aurora’s ship around the time the book was written. But instead of reinforcing Darpa’s aspirations, Robinson’s tale highlighted the issues that could potentially arise and compound on each other with such lengthy space travel. And, as his narrative illustrates, Robinson believes that these problems would be too great for humans to overcome.
CLOSE TO HOME
The challenges the fictional crew on the Aurora face paint a picture of the potential issues with space colonization that are rarely discussed. For example, we can clearly see how climate change is slowly but surely wreaking havoc on our planet. Now, imagine that Earth was a smaller, completely contained vessel in which the emissions and gasses produced had nowhere to escape. Even if the ship launched with environmental systems perfectly equilibrated with each other, any changes that occurred over the hundred years in space would throw multiple systems out of balance.
As time goes on, this imbalance would only become more severe, and a trip to even the nearest exoplanet could take an extraordinary amount of time. These scientific concerns of imbalance in long-term, artificial environments are in addition to the sociological issues that are bound to arise.
Terra-forming and space colonization are getting a lot of buzz since NASA announced that a nearby dwarf star named TRAPPIST-1 was discovered with seven surrounding planets, three of which orbit within the “habitable zone.” So, we may be wise to take this discussion about the repercussions of a manned mission to a nearby exoplanet more seriously than we would the latest piece of crazy science fiction. A voyage like this is becoming more and more of a possibility, and it’s important to take a step back and think about obstacles that might not be obvious.
While it will be temping to bound ahead with interplanetary space travel as soon as it becomes more feasible, we might not want to take the leap too soon. The problems we have on Earth will not disappear when we leave — they will follow us wherever we go. So let us remember even while we work towards a technologically advanced future that just because we can doesn’t always mean that we should.
A Quick Rundown: The Five Closest Exoplanets That Could Potentially Support Life
A Quick Rundown: The Five Closest Exoplanets That Could Potentially Support Life
HE HIGH FIVE
Artist interpretation of Proxima b. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Astronomers have long been seeking an Earth-like planet that could support some form of life. One prominent discovery is the Proxima Centauri b, also known as Proxima b, which was found in the habitable zone of the red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri.
Despite these discoveries, there’s still a lot to learn.
“We know very little about these [types of] planets,” Thomas Barclay, senior research scientist and director of the Kepler and K2 missions, told Space.com.
So let’s go over what we do know about five of the closest Earth-like planets to us.
1. Wolf 1061c
Located in the habitable zone of Wolf 1060 in the Ophiuchus constellation, this exoplanet is 4.3 times as large as the Earth, and is believed to have a rocky surface. It is also the second-nearest known exoplanet to us at 13.8 light-years from Earth, second only to Proxima b.
2. Gliese 832c
At five times the size of the Earth, astronomers identified Gliese 832c as a “super-Earth.” It was found 16 light-years away and revolves around Gliese 832 in just 36 days.
3. Gliese 667Cc
Located 22 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation, Gliese 667Cc is also a super-Earth (3.9 times larger than Earth). It takes only 28 days for it to revolve around Gliese 667C.
4. TRAPPIST-1d
40 light-years away from Earth in the Aquarius constellation, TRAPPIST-1d is one among three Earth-like planets orbiting the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1.
5. Gliese 163c
Located 49 light-years away in the Dorado constellation, Gliese 163c is also a super-Earth at a whopping seven times that of the Earth. It takes 26 days for it to orbit Gliese 163.
MILLIONS OF CHANCES FOR LIFE OUT THERE
Using the Kepler Space Telescope, NASA has discovered more than 2,000 planets that could possibly support life, but there’s still so much mystery surrounding these alien worlds. “For some of them, we know an approximate mass or an approximate radius, and we know roughly how far they are from their star — but that’s really all we know.” said Barclay.
And while living on these exoplanets may be possible, it will be an entirely different experience as life forms would have to adapt differently to its unique temperature, climate and environment. On Proxima b, for example,
“The light also isn’t the bright white-yellow light we get from the sun. It would be much more red. So, you would expect biology to evolve differently,” Barclay said, adding that solar flares from red dwarfs could also have a large impact on exoplanets orbiting them.
In the end, we won’t be packing our bags anytime soon to settle on one of Earth’s closest neighbors.
Frank Drake, astronomer and father of SETI, the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence, in front of the Green Bank Telescope. Photograph: Stephen Cooter/BBC/Stephen Cooter
The most startling revelation of the year so far came at the end of a BBCHorizon programme called Strange Signals From Outer Space!. I’ve always admired the lads and lasses who produce Horizon; for decades, they have been giving us programmes that stretch our minds and fill them with uplifting concepts about the possibilities of human endeavour. Clearly, though, the producers haven’t been reared in a newsroom environment. If they’d been schooled in the arts of detecting and conveying hard news, they would have stuck this potentially game-changing information at the top of their programme.
It seems astronomers and space scientists have been showing more than a fancy to some bursts of activity in the blue yonder, which they believe might give them a chance of detecting alien messages. They’ve been looking at bursts of radio waves produced by neutron stars to search for unusual signal formations. Basically, these signals happen routinely and intermittently. But if any were to form into a pattern then there’s a decent chance that ET and his chinas are trying to contact us.
This edition of Horizon had been a great wee programme where I got to discover that there was a Scottish connection to another set of signals that, alas, turned out to be less amazing than they’d otherwise promised to be. This was called the Lorimer Burst and can only have been so called in memory of Peter Lorimer’s screamer against Zaire at the 1974 World Cup. That, too, had promised amazing things but, in the end had turned out not to be as Scotland’s challenge ended in glorious heartbreak – just like the Lorimer Burst.
Then, right at the very end, the narrator suddenly says: “Then in 2016 a new burst was detected; the distinctive pulse of radio waves released as the neutron stars collided and were destroyed, followed by nothing – silence – just as the astronomers expected. [At this point, the producers inserted a long pause for dramatic effect.] But then, when they looked again, the signal came back.”
And that was the end of the programme.
Essentially, the narrator was telling us that an alien signal was detected last year from outer space. But then, as soon as he did, the final credits started rolling. They should have put this at the start of their programme and then worked backwards with all sorts of delicious speculation about what it could be and how scientists had reacted. Indeed, the fact that they didn’t is deeply meaningful in itself and slightly unsettling.
Although I don’t own a telescope, I’ve been keeping an eye on space for a good wee while now. And I can tell you that there’s an international executive protocol whenever there is even a hint of aliens sending us messages. Presidents and prime ministers are informed and soon there is a Cobra-like huddle in Geneva or somewhere similar as they determine whether they ought to be alarmed by the signal. Until now, nothing much has happened at these gatherings beyond the Russians getting an opportunity to collect more material for future blackmail operations.
I think that last year’s signal – let’s call it the Archie Gemmill Burst in honour of the wee man’s goal against Holland in 1978 – is even now being scrutinised by international heads of state and their military advisers. What if the Archie Gemmill Burst has alarmed them and that they forbade the Horizon team from saying anything further about it? This in itself concerns me and it’s all because of Donald Trump. Prior to Donald Trump, I suspect that the Archie Gemmill Burst would have elicited a proportionate and considered response. Even if they were uncertain about the nature of the aliens’ communique, they would have tried to establish a dialogue. And this is where the Scots could have come in handy again. You see, this wee country of ours has been undertaking quite a lot of space activity recently.
BBC Scotland even has its very own space correspondent, big Kenneth Macdonald, one of the most experienced and respected of its reporters. According to him, the Scottish space industry is a very vibrant one indeed. While Scotland makes up less than 9% of the UK population, it accounts for 18% of jobs in the UK space industry, while more than 100 private and public organisations have created almost 7,000 jobs and are contributing more than £130m to the Scottish economy. And – get this – in the past two years Glasgow has built more satellites than any other city in Europe. Glasgow has even hosted a conference on how to use the increasing amount of data coming from orbit.
I think that Glasgow has shown it has all the credentials to represent planet Earth in any dialogue with the extraterrestrials over the Archie Gemmill burst. And that way, the world could be assured that this would be friendly and upbeat. “How are youze all?” we would say, before inquiring after the kids and asking if they’d had a long journey. Then we’d invite them down for a cup of tea and “perhaps something stronger”. We’d tell them that our intentions were friendly and that we’d be looking forward to getting to know them.
But we’d also issue a friendly warning not to take any liberties. Any extended period of unwanted scrutiny can make Glaswegians feel a bit edgy. Such behaviour can often be met with the response: “What are you looking at, sunshine?” So it would be friendly and business-like at the same time.
Donald Trump’s presence changes everything though. He’ll breenge his way to the front wearing a ridiculous US military brown leather jacket and daft baseball cap. And you can be certain he’ll have seen yon Independence Day movie where the American president himself leads a global military task force equipped with missiles. He’d immediately assume the aliens were an unfriendly shower and want to build some kind of virtual wall to keep them out. The stupid big bastard would see this as a way of rescuing his failed presidency.
The aliens, though, will have seen him coming and have probably been bugging his hotel rooms and family apartments for years… as well as all the rest of them. I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
It may look like much, but it's a new view from our solar system
Imagine that you're standing on an alien world, far out in the galaxy. You look up and see a brilliant bed of stars above you, blanketing totally foreign sky.
But what if you were on a different planet a little closer to home? What would you see then?
A new photo beamed back from Jupiter by NASA's Juno probe, gives us a good idea of what that could be like.
The new Juno image gives us our first view of what it's like to look out from within Jupiter's rings — yes, the huge planet has its own rings — back toward something pretty familiar: the constellation Orion.
"The bright bands in the center of the image are the main ring of Jupiter’s ring system," NASA said in a statement.
An annotated version of the image
IMAGE: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI
"The bright star above the main ring is Betelgeuse, and Orion’s belt can be seen in the lower right."
While the photo may not look like much, it represents a brand new view of our solar system.
Juno is the first spacecraft to take a photo looking out from between Jupiter and its rings.
The spacecraft isn't done reshaping our view of the largest planet in our solar system either. Juno will continue to send back photos showing off Jupiter's cloud tops and storms along with other images of the huge world until its mission ends next year.
Huge cyclones rage near Jupiter's mysterious poles, and the giant planet's powerful auroras are fundamentally different from Earth's northern and southern lights.
Those are just two of the discoveries made by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first few close passes over Jupiter's poles, mission scientists report in two studies published online today (May 25) in the journal Science.
"What we've learned so far is Earth-shattering. Or should I say, Jupiter-shattering," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement. [Photos: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter]
"Discoveries about its core, composition, magnetosphere, and poles are as stunning as the photographs the mission is generating," added Bolton, the lead author of one of the new Science studies and a co-author of the other.
Images of Jupiter's north and south poles captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on Aug. 27, 2016.
Credit: S.J. Bolton et al., Science (2017)
Lifting the veil on Jupiter
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Since then, the solar-powered spacecraft has been using eight instruments to study the gas giant's composition, interior structure, and gravitational and magnetic fields. It will continue to do this work, barring some sort of malfunction, through at least February 2018, the end of Juno's primary mission.
The mission's name is a nod to the Roman goddess Juno, who was able to look through the clouds to see her frequently misbehaving husband Jupiter, the king of the gods, who was hiding within. Likewise, the Juno probe is peering beneath Jupiter's thick clouds to learn about the planet's formation and evolution — information that could shed light on the history of our solar system as a whole, NASA officials have said.
Juno makes most of the measurements relevant to this goal during its close flybys, which occur once every 53.5 days and bring the probe within about 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) of Jupiter's poles. (The original mission blueprint called for Juno to maneuver to a less elliptical orbit and make these flybys every 14 days, but an issue with two helium valves in the spacecraft's propulsion system nixed that plan.)
GIF showing infrared emission from Jupiter, as observed by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
Credit: S.J. Bolton et al., Science (2017)
Before Juno, no spacecraft had ever gotten close-up looks at Jupiter's poles. These mysterious regions are beautiful and bizarre, the Bolton-led study reports.Juno has now made five of these data-collecting "perijove passes." The first came on Aug. 27, 2016, and the most recent occurred just last week, on May 19. The two new Science papers report results just from the first few flybys, as well as some measurements Juno made as it neared Jupiter in June 2016.
"When you look over the poles, all of those zones and belts are gone," Bolton said in a Science podcast that was also released today, referring to the striped cloud patterns prevalent at Jupiter's lower latitudes. "You see this bluish hue to it, and there's tons of these cyclone and anticyclonic storms spinning around the poles. It almost looks like meteor craters, but, of course, it's all atmosphere. It's all gas." [Photos: Jupiter, the Solar System's Largest Planet]
It's unclear what, exactly, drives these polar cyclones, some of which are up to 870 miles (1,400 km) wide, or if they're stable over long periods, Bolton said.
"Over the course of the mission, we'll be able to watch the poles and see how they evolve," he said in the podcast. "Maybe these cyclones are always there, but maybe they just come and go."
Juno also has been mapping out the concentration of water and ammonia deep within Jupiter's atmosphere. Data gathered during the first few passes has revealed that ammonia abundances vary quite a bit from place to place — a discovery that surprised the mission team.
"Most scientists have felt that, as soon as you go down a little bit into Jupiter, everything would be well-mixed, and we're finding that that's just not true at all," Bolton said. "There's structure down deep, but it doesn't seem to match the zones and belts. And so we're still trying to figure it out."
Juno's measurements during the first few close passes also show that Jupiter's magnetic field is nearly two times stronger than scientists had predicted. And the probe's gravity data suggest that "there's a lot of strange, deep motions that possibly are going on inside of Jupiter," Bolton said.
"What Juno's results are showing us is that our ideas of giant planets maybe are a little bit oversimplified," he added. "They're more complex than we thought; the motions that are going on inside are more complicated. It's possible that they formed differently than [suggested by] our simple ideas."
The southern lights of Jupiter, auroras at the planet's south pole, glow in this animation of false-color images from NASA's Juno spacecraft. The red hues suggest emissions from deeper in Jupiter's atmosphere, while green and white indicate higher regions.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI
Otherworldly auroras
Earth's auroras result when the solar wind — charged particles streaming from the sun — slam into the planet's atmosphere, generating a glow. (Earth's magnetic field funnels these particles toward the poles, which explains the phenomenon's other name: the northern and southern lights.)
Scientists already knew that the solar wind is a major driver of Jovian auroras, and that the planet's rotation is involved as well. But Juno has given researchers a chance to study the phenomenon in unprecedented detail; no other spacecraft had ever flown close to the planet's auroral regions before, Bolton said.
The second newly published Science study, which was led by John Connerney of the Space Research Corporation and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, details what the Juno team learned about the auroras and Jupiter's magnetosphere from the initial perijove passes. Once again, there were some surprises.
For example, the particles associated with Jupiter's auroras seem to be different than the ones responsible for Earth's most stunning light shows, study team members said.
"We can see that it doesn't work exactly like we expected, or as the Earth does," Bolton said. "We haven’t been able to see particles necessarily going up and down in both directions like we would've expected to cause the aurora. So there's definitely some strange phenomena that we still need to comb through and understand better."
Further close flybys should allow the Juno team to investigate such questions, he added.
"We're at the beginning of the mission, so these first results are sort of telling us some of our models and ideas are wrong and need to be corrected," Bolton said. "And we have some ideas of which way to go, but it really takes some more data to really test whatever theories we put together and see if we're right."
Buitenaardse levensvormen op het ISS. Russische ruimteagentschap doet opmerkelijke aankondiging
Buitenaardse levensvormen op het ISS. Russische ruimteagentschap doet opmerkelijke aankondiging
Het internationale ruimtestation ISS, dat al bijna 20 jaar rond de aarde draait, wordt elke dag geraakt door micrometeorieten en komeetstof dat mogelijk buitenaardse levensvormen bevat.
Dat onthulde de Russische ruimtevaartorganisatie Roscosmos vrijdag in een persverklaring, meldt persbureau Sputnik.
Zelfs op een hoogte van zo’n 400 kilometer vangt het ruimtestation constant grote hoeveelheden microdeeltjes op, waaronder bacteriën, schimmels en zelfs plankton.
Buitenaardse oorsprong
Volgens Roscosmos wordt het ISS ook vaak geraakt door komeetdeeltjes ter grootte van een graankorrel.
“De micrometeorieten en het komeetstof aan de buitenkant van het ISS bevatten mogelijk biogene substanties van buitenaardse oorsprong,” aldus het ruimteagentschap in de persverklaring.
Russische wetenschappers analyseren aminozuren die aan het oppervlak van het ruimtestation worden geproduceerd.
Overleven
Dat is niet eenvoudig, aangezien de monsters erg klein zijn en standaardmethoden niet gelijk resultaten opleveren. Experts werken momenteel aan een oplossing voor dit probleem.
Kosmonauten hebben tijdens ruimtewandelingen in totaal 19 monsters verzameld buiten het ISS. Die monsters zijn overgebracht naar de aarde.
In 2013 bleek dat sommige micro-organismen buiten het ISS kunnen overleven en zich zelfs kunnen ontwikkelen in de ruimte.
Nieuwe bacterie
Ze waren bestand tegen onder meer de extreme temperaturen en kosmische straling. Het is dus mogelijk dat aardse micro-organismen met ruimtesondes zijn meegereisd naar andere planeten.
Op 20 mei lieten NASA-wetenschappers weten een nieuwe bacterie te hebben ontdekt op filters die waren geïnstalleerd in het ISS. De bacterie is vernoemd naar een Indiase oud-president.
De nieuwe levensvorm, Solibacillus kalamii, is op aarde nog niet gevonden.
NASA-functionarissen zeiden het bericht niet te kunnen bevestigen.
With more than 5000 reported encounters, California leads the nation in UFO encounters. UFOs Over California is the first book to present the complete history of the extraterrestrial presence in the Golden State. Documented here are more than 100 years of encounters, starting with early Native American encounters, the 1896 California Airship Mystery, the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles and the 1947 UFO wave. Hundreds of other cases include sightings and landings at California Air Force Bases, sightings over LAX, celebrity sightings, underwater UFOs, face-to-face encounters, sightings by investigators, implant-removal cases, UFO healings, missing-time abductions, UFO crash/retrievals and more. All the classic California cases are covered: the Cisco Grove robot encounter, the Schidel near-miss with a UFO, the Playa Del Rey landing, the Red Bluff wave, the Bluff Creek encounter, the San Fernando angel hair case and more. The book also contains color photographs of UFOs in flight and illustrations by award winning artist Kesara that will leave every reader searching the skies, seeking the truth!
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The Top Twenty California UFO Encounters By Preston Dennett
In 1995, veteran newspaper reporter Bob Teets published his excellent book, West Virginia UFOs. This was the first book ever to present a state’s UFO history. Teets, I realized, had uncovered an unfilled niche in the UFO literature. Sooner or later, I knew, the other states would eventually have books written about their UFO history. I have been a California-based UFO investigator for almost seventeen years. After investigating hundreds of UFO cases across the state, and writing four UFO books, I decided that I was finally ready. I am now pleased to announce that UFOS Over California: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Golden State has just been released by Schiffer Publishing. California has several unique features that make it stand out from other states. First, it is the most crowded state with an estimated population of 40 million. It is also the nation’s wealthiest state, and is a leader in aerospace and defense, computer technology, oil production, lumber, agriculture, entertainment and tourism. The third largest state, California is actually the leading producer of UFO reports in the United States. In 1977 J. Allen Hynek conducted a study of all the unidentified Blue Book cases. California headed the list with fifty-one cases, or 9.9% of the total number of U.S. reports. More recently, in 2003, the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) listed more than 2800 California UFO reports, nearly twice the number of the second leading state of Washington, and nearly three times the third leading state of Texas. For whatever reason, UFOs find California very attractive. With its rich UFO history, it is not surprising that California has had a strong influence in the evolution of ufology. After having studied several thousand Golden State encounters, I have come up with a top twenty list of what are in my opinion among California’s most significant and influential UFO events. Some of the cases are well known, others are probably obscure except to UFO researchers. Each one, however, represents I think an important chapter in not only California’s UFO history, but in that of the world. Each has added to our knowledge or understanding of UFOs, has changed the way we view UFOs or has contributed to the popularization of the subject. Here are California’s top twenty UFO cases. Each of the cases has been summarized because of space considerations.
20. THE CISCO GROVE ROBOT ENCOUNTER On Labor Day weekend in 1965, three hunters in Cisco Grove had a unique encounter with a UFO and its occupants. It may be the earliest authenticated California case involving a robotic UFO occupant. The main witness, Donald Smythe, became separated from his two companions while hunting, and after a long day of hunting, he became lost. When he saw a light darting back and forth above him, he assumed a helicopter had been sent to rescue him. Instead, the object swooped down and hovered silently overhead. Smythe realized it was a UFO and took refuge in a nearby tree. At this point, three figures exited the craft. Two figures were five feet tall and dressed in silvery-gray material. The third figure appeared to be robotic. Then followed an all-night-long ordeal in which the UFO occupants remained at the bottom of the tree, sending up clouds of noxious fumes. Smythe lost consciousness several times and in the morning, the figures and craft were gone. Smythe’s story was not without corroboration. Upon re-uniting with his friends, one of the hunters revealed that he also saw a “bright, large light” swoop down at low altitude and dart across the sky. All three also remarked upon the coincidence that the government was already in the area looking for an alleged “meteorite.” Finally, Smythe’s wife saw him immediately after the incident and confirmed that Smythe was badly traumatized and covered with scratches. Smythe reported his case to the Air Force who suggested that he was the victim of a prank. The case electrified the UFO community. Coral Lorenzen calls it, “The most spectacular report I have ever examined.” Ted Bloecher and Paul Cerny also conducted an onsite investigation. Writes Cerny, “There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this incident is factual and authentic.”
19. RONALD REAGAN SEES UFO California is home to many celebrities and it was only a matter of time before some of them came forward with their accounts of seeing a UFO. Today, many have come forth including Sammy Davis Jr., Chad Everett, Jill Ireland, Cliff Robertson and others. Among the most prominent of these is President Ronald Reagan. The sighting occurred when he was governor of California. Says Reagan’s pilot Bill Paynter, “We were near Bakersfield when Governor Reagan and the others called my attention to a big light flying a bit behind my plane. It appeared to be several hundred yards away.” As they watched, the mysterious object quickly accelerated and disappeared in the distance. Reagan later confirmed the details to Wall Street Journal reporter Norman Miller. While Reagan never publicly discussed his sighting, it may have been the spark that ignited his interest in the subject. On several occasions, he made enigmatic statements that seemed to reveal his strong interest in UFOs – quotes that are now famous in UFO history. Said Reagan in 1985, “If suddenly there were a threat to this world from some other species from another planet, we’d forget all the little local differences that we have between our two countries, and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings on the Earth together.”
18. THE BLUFF CREEK ENCOUNTER Some of the many odd patterns of UFO behavior are typified in the following extensive encounter which began in early April 1953. The two main witnesses, John Black and John Van Allen, were working at their titanium mine outside of Bluff Creek when they both separately observed a “metallic saucer” hovering over the area of the mine. Over the next few weeks, the object returned on four occasions. Then, on April 20, Black observed the craft from a distance of only a quarter mile. It was now obvious to the men that the UFO was very interested in their mine. Exactly one month later, on May 20, Black returned to the mine and saw the now familiar saucer hovering only a few hundred feet high. It quickly took off and disappeared. Black approached the area where it had hovered and found several small five-inch footprints. Then exactly one month later again, on June 20, Black was outside the mine when he saw what he thought was a small child with a bucket. Upon approach, however, he saw the large saucer landed on a nearby sandbar. He examined the figure and realized it wasn’t a child, but instead appeared to be an unusual-looking small man wearing unusual clothes and carrying a cone-shaped bucket. The small man heard Black approach and quickly ran into the saucer, which promptly took off. And so began one of the strangest chapters in UFO history. Black alerted the local sheriff, and the story was somehow leaked to the press. Because the saucer had appeared on schedule three months in a row, everyone was predicting a July 20th landing. More than 200 people arrived on the scene including local residents, newspaper reporters, cameramen and saucer enthusiasts. Snack bars and chairs were set up as if the event were a circus performance. Unfortunately, the UFO never showed up and the Brush Creek ordeal came to a sudden end. The case was investigated by several major researchers, including Gray Barker and Paul Spade, both of whom were actually jailed by the Brush Creek Sheriff’s station when they tried to conduct a stakeout for the saucer. Today the case is considered a classic in UFO history.
17. SCHIDEL NEAR-MISS WITH UFO
On April 14, 1954, United Airlines Flight 193 was forced to make an emergency landing after a near miss with a UFO over the city of Long Beach. Says Captain Schidel, “It appeared so suddenly, it was as if it was flying dark and had just turned its navigation lights on…it was in sight just two seconds and made no movement to avoid me.” To avoid Captain Schidel was forced to maneuver the jet into a sudden steep climbing turn. The emergency turn caused havoc in the passenger cabin. One passenger was thrown from his seat and broke his left leg. A stewardess lost her balance and fractured her ankle. According to researcher Donald Keyhoe, “Air force intelligence moved quickly to keep the story quiet.” Nevertheless the press found out and the case became a media sensation. The captains’ sterling reputation, the fact that people were injured as a result of the encounter, and that the fact that the mysterious aircraft was not in touch with any airport control towers all combined to give the case a high level of credibility. Today the case is considered a classic in the annals of airplane-UFO encounters.
16. THE CASE OF MELINDA LESLIE
There are an estimated thousand or more recorded UFO abductions coming from California. Office manager, Melinda Leslie is like most abductees. She experienced early childhood visitations and has been abducted regularly throughout her life. However, at first she was unaware that she was an abductee. She became suddenly interested in UFOs in 1987 after visiting Area 51. Then examining her past, she slowly realized that she had been having experiences her whole life. A missing time encounter in 1989 erased any denials that she was an abductee. Since then, she has experienced the entire range of UFO phenomenon, including medical examinations, emotional testing, baby presentations, warnings of future disasters, and harassment from what appears to be the U.S. Military. In July 1991, Leslie and two friends experienced an abduction while driving along the remote Angeles Crest Highway outside Los Angeles. All three witnesses had full or partial recall of the onboard segment and were able to corroborate each other’s accounts, making it one of the few multiple witness abductions on record. She has also had many other conscious encounters, and has explored many of her memories with hypnotic regression. While Leslie’s case is among the most extensive and complicated of all recorded California abductees, it is otherwise pretty typical. Melinda Leslie, however, is different most other abductees in one particular way: she has gone public with her experiences. In fact, she is one of California’s best known abductees and has remained a permanent fixture on the lecture and media circuit, talking about her experiences, publicizing the abduction phenomenon and contributing greatly to the public education of the subject. Her willingness and ability to interact with all aspects of the public media has helped many people to gain a better understanding of what it means to be a UFO abductee.
15. THE CASE OF MORGANA VAN KLAUSEN The Morgana Van Klausen (pseudonym) case is well known among southern California investigators. In most respects, the case is typical. Starting in December 1986, the mother and son began experiencing regular visitations by gray-type ETs in their southern California home. The husband was skeptical at first, until he too received a visitation. In the next two decades, the Van Klausens experienced numerous close-up sightings and missing-time encounters. What makes the case so compelling, however, is the physical evidence. Besides multiple witness testimony and landing trace evidence, on one occasion, Morgana Van Klausen was healed as the result of a UFO encounter. It is this that makes the case unique. As revealed by investigator Bill Hamilton, Van Klausen was diagnosed with a “non-cystic mass” in her left breast. The evening before she was about to have the tumor removed, Van Klausen experienced a visitation. She went to the hospital the next day and was shocked to find that all traces of the tumor had disappeared. Writes Bill Hamilton, “Both the radiologist and the surgeon confirmed that the previous diagnostic had revealed a solid mass and that solid masses just don’t disappear.” Hamilton has obtained the before and after X-rays. This kind of medical evidence is very rare, and makes this case outstanding in terms of proof of UFO reality.
14. THE CAMARILLO SIGHTINGS In late November and early December of 1996, a UFO appeared over the city of Camarillo for six consecutive days. The first sightings took place on November 28 and 29. Local Ventura MUFON investigators heard about the initial sightings, and knowing that UFOs often appear on consecutive days, they quickly organized an on-site investigation. On December 2, MUFON field investigator Alice Leavy arrived on site with several other investigators. To their amazement, the UFO showed up right on schedule. The researchers clearly observed a “small spherical object” hovering in place. As they observed with binoculars and filmed with video camera and still cameras, the object turned red and ejected a smaller object. The larger object then broke up into several smaller objects which promptly disappeared. Throughout the entire ordeal, the witnesses continued to maintain detailed photographic records. While the video camera didn’t have the resolution to capture the object, the telephoto still photos did. Whitley Strieber calls the case, “one of the best documented sightings in recent United States history…I have seen some of the still photos and can verify their remarkable combination of clarity and impossibility. Being that the object’s actions were witnessed by a half-dozen witnesses, both through binoculars and the naked eye, it is hard to maintain a case that they are anything but unexplained.” What makes this case unique and important is the fact that several MUFON investigators converged on the scene and not only had sightings themselves, but obtained comprehensive photographic evidence. This may the only case of its kind in California history.
13. THE LAX SIGHTINGS The Los Angeles Airport is one of the largest and busiest airports in the entire world, shuttling millions of people across the globe. Unknown to many people, it is also the location of an on-going series of UFO encounters. While UFO-airport encounters are not uncommon in the literature, the LAX sightings are particularly dramatic and consistent. They began in the early 1950s and continue to the present day. The first recorded sighting was on July 15, 1952. For four days, dozens of witnesses observed UFOs approach to within a quarter mile of the control towers. Other dramatic sightings continued on a regular basis, including in 1966, 1973, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2002 and 2003. The sightings involve dozens of witnesses including MUFON investigator Mark Hunziker, videotape footage and possible radar evidence. The 1992 sighting was printed in the usually skeptical magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology, which said in part, “The pilot and copilot…said they saw an unusual aircraft coming directly at them and pass under the 747 by an estimated 500-1000 feet…the several second sighting gave the grew the impression that the other aircraft was a lifting-body configuration, and they described it as looking like the forward fuselage of a Lockheed SR-17….Defense Department and Air Force officials said last week that it was not one of their secret projects.” The LAX encounters show that UFOs display a strong interest in our aviation technology, can easily evade our fastest aircraft, and sometimes have little fear of being observed. The conclusion is undeniable: California’s largest airport is under extraterrestrial surveillance. This fact alone should give rise to serious concerns in regards to airport security.
12. AN UNDERWATER UFO BASE?
While the majority of UFOs are seen either flying in the sky or landed on the ground, a small portion of accounts involve ocean-going UFOs. Sometimes, these craft are seen to actually enter or emerge from the ocean itself. Underwater UFOs are relatively rare, except for one location – a small stretch of coastline off southern California – known as the Santa Catalina Channel. North from Santa Barbara down south to Long Beach, the waters seem to be thick with UFOs. In fact, this section of coastline has produced dozens of cases. The sightings reach back to the 1940s and continue to the present day. The first California underwater UFO was on July 7, 1947 when two San Raphael teen-agers saw a “flat glistening object” emerge from the water, fly around and then dive back into the water 400 yards from shore. Throughout this same year, numerous steamers reported a mysterious “undersea mountain” or a “large mass underwater” which kept appearing and disappearing in various locations in the San Francisco Bay and down the coast. Following this, the sightings came regularly, in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1970, 1980, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2004…the list goes on, most from the Santa Catalina channel. The sightings involve many highly credible witnesses including lifeguards, security guards, law enforcement officials, military officers and countless citizens. Numerous southern California-based investigators have uncovered sightings from this area including Bill Hamilton, Yvonne Smith, Ann Druffel, myself and others. Writes Ann Druffel, “The area has for at least thirty years been the scene of UFO reports of all kinds – surface sightings of hazy craft which cruise leisurely in full view of military installations, aerial spheres bobbing in oscillating flight, gigantic cloud-cigars, and at least one report of an underwater UFO with uniformed occupants.” While several theories have been raised to account for this high concentration of reports, the most popular is that there is some type of underwater UFO base off the California coast. In any case, the area is one of California’s most active UFO hotspots.
11. THE CONTACTEE MOVEMENT While some UFO researchers would prefer to forget this strange chapter of UFO history, there is no denying its profound influence on the UFO movement. The contactee movement began in southern California in the early 1950s when amateur astronomer George Adamski claimed to have seen, photographed and been taken onboard a flying saucer piloted by friendly human-looking extraterrestrials. His story touched a nerve and electrified the public. Adamski became an instant celebrity, writing books, giving lectures and attracting wide audiences. Before long, many other contactees converged on southern California, all with similar claims. California became the place to be if you were interested in UFOs. Daniel Fry, Orpheo Angelucci, George Van Tassel, Frank Stranges and others all claimed to have made contact with ETs. They also all wrote books and lectured widely. Each of the stories had the same theme – warnings from the extraterrestrials that humans are too war-like, that nuclear weapons are dangerous, that we must not pollute our environment and other philosophical messages – all of which today remains a prominent theme in modern abduction accounts. The ETs were usually described as human-looking, attractive and originating from various planets in our solar system. Often the stories seemed to contain information that is believed by mainstream science to be false (for example: life existing on the moon and other planets in our solar system.) And yet, the cases also have considerable corroborating evidence, including photos or multiple eyewitness testimonies. One example is the case of Sid Patrick of Watsonville, who experienced a contact with friendly human-like ETs on January 30, 1965. Padrick was taken inside a craft and told that the ETs had a Utopian-like society with no illness or crime. While Padrick’s claims were incredible, he was well known in his community. Also, at the time of his experience the mayor of Monterey George Clemens and numerous park rangers in the area reported UFOs. Padrick was eventually contacted by the Air Force, who interviewed him and asked him to not talk publicly about his encounter. Says Padrick, “There were certain details they asked me not to talk about publicly, but I think in telling it that everything should be disclosed.” While the contactee enigma is controversial and has divided investigators, the movement was extremely popular and is responsible for introducing countless people to the subject of UFOs. The annual Giant Rock conference held annually throughout the 1950s and 1960s in the southern California desert still holds the record for the largest gathering of UFO enthusiasts, attracting at one point more than 5000 people. While many people consider the contactee movement to be a product of the 1950s, it continues today. A good example is Los Angeles reporter Philip Krapf, who has written two recent books about his own experiences with friendly ETs.
10. THE TOPANGA CANYON WAVE On June 14, 1992, the small community of Topanga Canyon experienced an enormous wave of UFO activity involving hundreds of objects. On that evening, at least seventeen independent adult witnesses had incredible encounters throughout the canyon. Ten witnesses in five different vehicles driving along the boulevard that evening were all “buzzed” or “tail-gated from above” by large glowing objects. One driver pulled over and observed dozens of objects coming out of a larger mother ship. Another one of the vehicles was picked up inside a beam of light, causing a period of missing time. The witnesses called the police and reported their encounter. As the driver said, “I’m telling you, I’ve never been more frightened in my life.” Other witnesses were inside their homes where they observed bright beams of light coming from above, or oval-shaped glowing objects darting back and forth across the sky. One couple was woken up from a sound sleep when an object hovered low over their home and lit up the entire interior. Another couple living high in the canyon observed more than 200 objects over a period of three hours. This particular wave was one of the strongest to ever hit California, and it remained strong for at least two more years, producing more than fifty additional reports of all kinds including sightings, landings, UFO-car chases, UFO-helicopter chases, face-to-face encounters, missing time abductions, onboard experiences, possible animal mutilations, cryptozoological creatures and more. While the main wave was from 1992-1994, the area has a long history of encounters starting from 1942. From that point, the cases increased quickly, with two cases in the 1950s, two in the 1960s, fifteen in the 1970s, fourteen in the 1980s, and at least forty-seven in the 1990s. The June 14, 1992 encounter was listed in Timothy Good’s book Alien Update as one of the best reports for the year. Today the area continues to be one of California’s few major UFO hotspots with sightings as recent as 2004.
9. THE CALIFORNIA AIRSHIP MYSTERY
In late 1896, northern California experienced its first recorded UFO waves. In fact, as researcher Richard Dolan writes, it “represented the first UFO wave – though it would be fifty-five years before anyone used the term.” From October to December 1896, thousands of residents of the cities of San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, Oakland observed one or more zeppelin-like objects that glided at low elevations over the city, sending down powerful beams of lights. Several of the witnesses reported seeing human-looking figures on board. Others heard distinct voices. As one witness, Charles Ellis, said, “It hovered effortlessly and looked like a strange bird with four rotor wings, traveling about twenty miles an hour…I didn’t want to believe it was an airship. I had always regarded such reports as a joke. But now I have no choice but to believe them.” The airship mystery is important because people had never been confronted with the idea of extraterrestrials. As Richard Dolan writes, “The idea of spaceships from another world wasn’t popularly considered and would not be until the late 1940s…Most thought they were merely seeing a man-made object.” While the sightings originated in California, they soon spread across the United States. The strange objects became front-page news and caused a media sensation. Interestingly, zeppelins were invented only a few years later. These initial reports, however, remain a mystery. While they have many similarities to modern reports, many investigators are baffled by the dirigible-like appearance of the objects. Some researchers (ie: Jacques Vallee, Jerome Clarke) have pointed to the air-ship wave as evidence that UFOs “track” cultures and have an explanation other than extraterrestrial. Whatever the case, the sightings marked the beginning of California’s involvement with the UFO phenomenon. 8. REX HEFLIN PHOTOGRAPHS UFO
On August 3, 1965, some of the world’s most famous and best-verified UFO photographs were taken by Los Angeles County Highway Investigator Rex Heflin. At that time, the entire United States was experiencing one an intense countrywide wave of UFO activity. While driving outside of Santa Ana, Heflin observed a silent hat-shaped UFO approaching his truck. He radioed his supervisor but then the radio went dead (a fact later confirmed by his supervisor.) As part of his job, Heflin carried a Polaroid camera. He quickly snapped a series of four photos before the object moved away. While he sought no publicity, reporters from United Press International heard about the photos and persuaded Heflin to turn them over. He agreed and UPI photo experts conducted an extensive analysis, even returning to the site of the incident and attempting to restage the event. They declared the photos genuine and they were published in the Santa Ana Register. The photos electrified the public and Heflin’s case became an instant classic. Not surprisingly, the Air Force declared the case a hoax. Heflin, however, later received a visit from two men claiming to be from Norad. The men demanded the photographs and Heflin turned them over. The story gets more complicated from this point. However, numerous other studies of the photos have since been conducted. NICAP photographic analyst Ralph Rankow and a team of other specialists studied the photos in detail and declared them genuine. Journalist Frank Edwards calls the photos “the best UFO photographs in civilian hands.” Today, the photos are still considered genuine and among the most widely-published of all UFO photographs.
7. UFO DESTROYS MISSILE
On September 15, 1964, a crew of 120 military personnel at Vandenburg AFB prepared for the launch of at Atlas F missile. The launch took place as scheduled, however, at about 60 miles of altitude, the missile mysteriously malfunctioned and plunged into the Pacific Ocean. Dr. Robert Jacobs (then a lieutenant) was in charge of filming the missile launch with a telescopic camera hooked to a radar display that kept the viewfinder locked on the missile. The next day, his superiors called in Jacobs to view the film. To his shock, he observed “a round object” hovering next to the missile. Says Jacobs, “It flew right up to our missile and emitted a vivid flash of light. Then it altered course and hovered briefly over our missile…and then there came a second vivid flash of light. Then the UFO flew around the missile twice and set off two more vivid flashes from different angles, and then it vanished. A few seconds later, our missile was malfunctioning and tumbling out of control.” Jacobs was ordered to remain silent about what he saw. He dutifully kept silent for seventeen years, before he finally went public with his story. Despite his sterling reputation, he was immediately attacked by arch skeptics/debunkers Phil Klass and James Oberg. He also received numerous death threats, lost his employment, and his mailbox was destroyed with skyrockets following another threat. Investigators, however, located Jacobs’ superior, Major Mansmann, who, on multiple occasions, confirmed the details of Jacobs account. This account is one of several in which UFOs have shown their capability to affect even our most advanced technology. It also shows evidence of the UFO cover-up.
6.THE CORONADO MASS ENCOUNTER This case was originally uncovered and investigated by UFO researcher Yvonne Smith. In mid-March, 1994, the TRIAD UFO conference was held in Coronado, featuring several leaders in UFO research. A few hundred people were in attendance. Seven of the attendees were staying at the nearby Village Inn in three adjacent rooms. As UFO researchers know, it is very unusual to uncover an abduction case involving more than one or two people. However, in the middle of the night of March 15, these seven witnesses simultaneously experienced a visitation by several gray-type ETs who came into their hotel room and abducted at least two of the witnesses. What makes this case unique is not only the large number of independent witnesses, (all of whom have provided extensive interviews) but the medical evidence. All of the witnesses have a lifelong history of UFO encounters, and each of them has experienced a wide variety of physical symptoms including puncture wounds, cuts, bruises, scratches, flu-like symptoms, high-blood pressure attacks, multiple infections, scoop-like scars and more. One of the witnesses has undergone an operation by Dr. Roger Leir DPM, to have an apparent implant removed. The implant was placed in her leg during their Coronado encounter. An analysis of the object has shown it to contain many unusual properties. Two of the other witnesses, Laurie Angelone and Mike Evans, have gone public with their experiences. Evans has undergone extensive medical examinations including X-rays and MRIs, which show evidence of several foreign bodies in his head and legs. Says Evans, “I have one [foreign body] around my left ear. One around the pituitary, sitting on top of the limbic system. And the other one is in the occipital…I’ve had doctors and radiologists tell me that they don’t know what it is…I have things in my head – things which nobody seems to be able to explain…which I can’t get rid of without major brain surgery. Where does that leave me?” Dr. Roger Leir has examined Evans and verified his post-abduction symptoms. Says Leir, “I have known Mike for many years now and can personally attest to the physical findings such as bruises and scratches on his skin. While this case has not yet been published, it has accumulated an impressive amount of evidence. Says Dr Leir, “The number of mass abductions are sparse in the literature and this case will be ranked high on the scale of importance.” The case is also the subject of a full-length book by Mike Evans and the author of this article, soon to be released by Galde Press.
5. THE TUJUNGA CANYON ABDUCTIONS Among the first abduction cases to be professionally researched and written about are known as the Tujunga Canyon Contacts. The case involved two southern California ladies, Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley, who experienced a missing time episode while staying in their remote cabin in Tujunga Canyon. They later located southern California investigator Ann Druffel, who, along with D. Scott Rogo, Dr Bill McCall and others, conducted an extensive investigation into the case. Today, most of the details of the case are commonly reported such as the medical examination, star-maps, highly technological equipment, telepathic hairless entities...and so on. At the time, however, UFO abductions were considered to be extremely rare events, with only a few recorded cases. Investigators were impressed by the many details that corresponded with other cases that had not been published, such as that of Betty Andreasson case. Some of these details include a strange stillness preceding the encounter, levitation of entities, movement through solid objects, telepathic communication, the medical examination, the appearance of the ETs and many other details. As Druffel and Rogo write, “The similarities are even more striking when one realizes that these two abductions occurred so far apart in time and locale.” Another detail that was first revealed in the Tujunga Canyon case is the fact that encounters can be contagious. As Druffel and Rogo wrote in 1980, “We know of no other case in the archives of ufology typified by the odd ‘contagion’ phenomenon that seems to have spread from Sara and Jan to Emily, and then to Lori and Jo. This fact tends to make the vastly complicated Shaw-Whitley case even more important to our eventual understanding of the UFO mystery.” Today, the many details first revealed in the Tujunga Canyon case and the few others that preceded it have been confirmed numerous times in the hundreds of cases that followed.
4. THE RED BLUFF ENCOUNTER On August 13, 1960, and for the next five days, California experienced one of the most intense UFO waves ever recorded. The wave was centered over the northern California town of Red Bluff, but actually encompassed Willow Creek, Concord, Corning, Eureka, Pleasant Hill, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Roseville, Mineral, Dunsmuir, Honeydew and Redlands. It all began at 10:05 pm on August 13, when Deputy Sheriff Clarence Fry of Red Bluff observed a large glowing object over the Red Bluff prison. Two hours later, two other patrol officers observed a large glowing object hovering 200 feet above their vehicle. The officers alerted neighboring sheriff’s stations and took off chasing the object. Meanwhile, law enforcement officers in numerous other cities also observed the same or different objects. At the same time, hundreds of calls poured in from citizens. Researcher Paris Flammonde calls this wave, “One of the most impressive multiple sightings.” Researcher James Harder Ph.D. was so impressed by the case that on July 29, 1968, he delivered an official paper in support of the case to the Committee on Science and Astronautics, House of Representatives, United States Congress. Incredibly, Air Force Blue Book officials labeled the case as “atmospheric inversion” without any investigation. Still, this case remains one of the most intense waves in California history.
3. THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES
In February of 1942, only a few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Los Angeles experienced a visitation by dozens of unknown objects, one large one which hovered over the city for a period of at least six hours. The incident caused an enforced total blackout, and the military was called in to fire upon the strange object. By order of General Marshall, 1430 rounds of ammunition were fired upon the object, which sustained no damage. Numerous searchlights were trained upon the craft, which was also photographed. Six people died of heart attacks, car-accidents or falling debris. The next day, the LA Timesprinted a now-famous photograph of the object on its front page. The military attempted to enact a cover-up, stating that no objects were seen. They then said that balloons were responsible. The incident, however, was witnessed by several thousand people, making it the most widely viewed UFO sighting in California history. It eventually caused the first congressional investigation into the subject of UFOs. A later de-classified memorandum from General George Marshall to President Roosevelt says, in part, “…unidentified airplanes, other than American Army or Navy planes, were probably over LA, and were fired on by the elements of the 37th CA Brigade between 3:12 and 4:15 am.” While the “planes” were suspected to be Japanese, no evidence of this has ever turned up. Nor do the descriptions given by witnesses corroborate with this theory. To this day, the case remains unsolved.
2. THE IMPLANT REMOVAL SURGERIES
On August 19, 1995, one of the most important event in UFO history took place in a small doctor’s office in Ventura, California. At 5:00 pm on that day, Dr Roger Leir DPM performed three surgeries to remove alleged “alien implants” from the bodies of three abductees. The surgeries were successful and the three “implants” were recovered and sent off for scientific analysis. This, however, was only the beginning. Further successful surgeries followed. By 2003, Leir and his team and performed nearly a dozen surgeries. In each case, the procedures were successful and the implants were recovered. Here’s where the story gets incredibly interesting. The studies of the implants are showing remarkable features that may eventually provide conclusive proof of extraterrestrial intervention. Some of the unusual features include a similar or identical appearance of implant from patient to patient, the presence of an electromagnetic field coming from the implants, strong magnetic properties, fluorescence, a composition that is elementally similar to meteorites, a lack of inflammatory or foreign body response in surrounding human tissues and more. The complete story is told in Leir’s groundbreaking book, The Aliens and The Scalpel, though the research is still ongoing. The surgeries have rocked the UFO community. Budd Hopkins writes, “Dr. Roger Leir has finally and dramatically laid his cards on the table. His carefully documented surgical removal of possible alien implants can no longer be ignored. It may well turn out to be of extraordinary importance.” Raymond Fowler writes, “Dr. Leir is to be praised for his pioneering research into the removal and analysis of suspected alien implants. Only peer review and acceptance separate his findings from the proverbial smoking gun of physical evidence for the abduction phenomenon.” Whitley Strieber writes, “Sometimes the whole world knows when a history figure makes his history…Dr. Roger Leir is such a historical figure. The time will come when the extraordinary breakthrough that he has made is noted in every textbook…the evidence is here…so overwhelmingly powerful that a sane person cannot easily deny that it is real.” Dr Leir himself writes, “If these scientifically derived results are not disproven by subsequent analysis, then we can safely conclude that some individuals with abduction histories have artificially manufactured objects in their bodies of a demonstrably extraterrestrial origin. In short, we now have the ‘smoking gun’ of ufology – the hard physical evidence of a continuing alien presence on Earth!”
1. THE EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE VISITATIONS Many California military bases have been associated with UFOs including George AFB, Hamilton, Norton, Miramar, Castle, Alameda and others. Of all of them, however, Edwards Air Force Base (formerly Muroc) tops the list. Located in the vast Mojave Desert, this area has attracted an incredible amount and variety of UFO activity starting in 1947 to the present day. In fact, the events at Edwards AFB are of such a magnitude that they may rival even the Roswell incident. The story begins on July 7, 1947. On that day, the base experienced a series of seven fly-overs by UFOs as witnessed by dozens of military officers and pilots. Listed as Blue Book case number 50 (unidentified), this encounter changed the way the Air Force handled UFOs. As researcher Michael David Hall writes, “Those disk sightings over Muroc on the seventh and eight really shook up the Pentagon [and] were the pivotal event which sprung the United States military into serious action on the saucer mystery…the incident led the United States Army Air Force to issue classified orders requiring reports of any ‘saucer-like’ objects to be given to the Technical Intelligence Division of the Air Material Command.” Researcher Richard Dolan writes, “The Muroc incident continues to provide evidence for military knowledge, interest and secrecy regarding UFOs.” This, however, was only the first sighting. Over the next fifty years, the base would be visited again and again by UFOs, including in 1952, 1954, 1958, 1965, 1967, 1978, 1995, 1998 and more. Several of these sightings were made by extremely reputable witnesses, including Air Force base officers and on one occasion, astronaut Gordon Cooper. In 1958, Cooper was at the base when a UFO landed on the dry lakebed. Base personnel filmed the incident, and Cooper developed and viewed the film. As he says, “Good close-up shots. Nothing like I had ever seen…double inverted saucer shape. It didn’t have any wings on it or anything…There was no doubt in my mind that it was made someplace other than Earth.” Another noteworthy incident occurred on October 7, 1965, during which several jets were scrambled to intercept UFOs which were hovering over the base. As researcher Steven Greer writes, “This extremely important case involves a seasoned Air Force Traffic Controller, an official ‘UFO officer,’ four separate radar stations, lock-on from onboard radar on a jet interceptor, many hours, and many objects over several hours. The debunkers and those who would ridicule the UFO matter need to be able to explain away all of these elements – and the voice tape of the actual event.” While the sightings, UFO-airplane chases and landings are enough to place Edwards at the top of this list, the story doesn’t end there. At this point, things become very controversial. According to a growing number of sources, on February 20, 1954 President Eisenhower visited Edwards AFB where he and other high-ranking officials had an alleged face-to-face diplomatic meeting with extraterrestrials. Numerous researchers have looked into the story and have come back with some surprising confirmation. At this point, however, the whole truth remains obscured. Beyond that (if that isn’t enough) there are also claims crashed UFOs, reverse engineering of UFO hardware, and even actual live aliens working at the base along with humans. While these stories remain on the fringe of UFO research, the stories continue to circulate. Whatever the case, as can be seen, Edwards AFB has an undeniably very close and on-going association with UFOs.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As with any list, there are other encounters/events that could just as easily have placed, including the publication of UFO Magazine by Vicki Ecker, the launching of the Black Vault website (www.blackvault.com) by David Greenewalde Jr., the influential investigations of Edith Fiore Ph.D., Richard Boylan Ph.D., Jacques Vallee, James Harder Ph.D. Barbara Lamb MFCC, Yvonne Smith HT, Michael Lindemann, Ann Druffel, Bill Hamilton and many other prominent California researchers, the sightings over several California Air Force Bases, the California-based crash/retrieval cases, the November 16, 1963 San Fernando Valley Angel Hair case, the Antelope Valley sightings, the Kim Carlsberg case, the Licea Davidson case, the Jaoa Buist case, the Clint and Jane Chapin case, the Reverend Harrison Bailey case...the list goes on. Also, another investigator would probably come up with a different and equally valid list. I can only apologize and beg for mercy and the understanding that I am literally neck deep in UFO cases, making it difficult to choose the best ones.
A FEW CONCLUSIONS
All of the above cases and many more are presented in my book in detail. Having researched so many California cases, I have come to some tentative conclusions. Although I’ve been investigating UFOs for years, I am still shocked by how many cases there are. California has approximately 5000 recorded encounters. But as every researcher knows, only about one person out of 100 reports their encounter in any official capacity. In my own experience, the number is even less. Therefore, the actual number of California encounters is at least a half million or more. My next big surprise was just how much evidence there is in support of UFOs. After more than fifty years of citizen and governmental investigations, there are literally mountains of evidence. If one takes the time to examine the evidence objectively, one will find that the proof of UFO reality is now in the public arena. Several of the above cases provide, I think, enough evidence to show that UFOs are real and are probably extraterrestrial in origin. The next tasks are educating the public, particularly the mainstream skeptical scientific community, the continuing fight against the UFO cover-up and, of course, attempting to mount better-funded on-site, real-time investigations.
A school pupil's drawing of a UFO in February 1977
New details have emerged shedding light on a spate of mysterious UFO and alien sightings which gripped a West Wales community almost 40 years ago.
Dubbed the 1977 Broad Haven Triangle mystery, conspiracy theories went into overdrive when reports emerged that 14 pupils from Broad Haven primary school had seen a UFO landing in Pembrokeshire.
The head teacher at the time backed up their claims, saying they had all drawn similar pictures of the craft.
Many others reported being petrified by a strange silver alien.
Now a new novel claims to have revealed details of a declassified MoD document which suggests top-ranking officials carried out a covert inquiry into the mysterious activities.
Broadhave beach in Pembrokeshire
'Archive evidence'
The Watchers by Neil Spring is said to be based on “true events” and promises to reveal the truth about what really happened at Broad Haven.
According to the Express, Mr Spring researched the case through documents sent to the National Archives 30 years after the bizarre happenings and after a new witness came forward.
“I visited Broad Haven a sceptic, and came away convinced that some of the locals knew far more about the mysterious occurrences of 1977 than they are willing to reveal,” he said.
'Faceless humanoid'
According to documents held at the National Archive in Kew, the story began one night in April 1977 at 2.30am when Rosa Granville, who ran the Haven Fort Hotel in Little Haven, was awoken by strange noise and lights.
Broadhaven School children Drawings of UFOs February 1977
Looking out of her window, she described seeing an object which looked like an “upside-down saucer” in the field next to the hotel and two “faceless humanoid” creatures with pointed heads.
The incident, she said in a subsequent letter she wrote to her MP Nicholas Edwards, left her “agitated and disturbed and not the least bit desirous of another encounter”.
'Inundated with sightings'
On receiving Mrs Granville’s letter back in 1977, Mr Edwards contacted the Ministry of Defence and Flight Lieutenant Cowan, an officer from RAF Brawdy, then visited the hotel.
The MP said at the time: “I am being inundated at the present time with representations about UFOs said to have been seen in Pembrokeshire.”
Other incidents reported in the Broad Haven area at the time included a class of schoolchildren who claimed to have seen a spacecraft near their playground.
Then a family said they saw several UFOs in the space of a week, as well as several sightings of silver-suited creatures.
MoD officials expressed no interest, saying there was no threat to national security.
'Discreet inquiry'
However, among the documents was a letter from the head of the MoD’s S4 wing to the Provost Security Service, the RAF’s internal police force.
The S4 chief wrote: ”I have not even told the Minister I am consulting you” and called for a “discreet enquiry” after expressing bewilderment at the number of apparently “level-headed” witnesses to the strange activity.
Mr Spring said: “(The new witnesses’) testimony rocked the very foundations of the British Government.”
'Bombshell document'
Nick Pope, who worked as UFO investigator for the MOD, said: “This bombshell document shows how the MoD’s UFO project asked the RAF Police to conduct a secret investigation into these mysterious events, while Parliament, the media and the public were being told the subject was of no defence significance.
“Defence ministers were cut out of the loop.”
The disclosures have prompted Tory peer Lord Black of Brentwood to call for a full explanation from the MoD of what it uncovered.
'More answers needed'
Lord Black said: “A number of recently released MoD files leave little doubt that a small number of sightings of aerial phenomena - particularly by military personnel, pilots and air traffic controllers - remain unexplained and unidentified.
“There needs to be further examination of these issues in the hope of learning something new.”
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In A First, Atmosphere Detected Around An Earth-like Planet
In A First, Atmosphere Detected Around An Earth-like Planet
The observations of GJ 1132b, which is located about 39 light-years away from Earth, suggests the planet has a thick atmosphere containing either steam and/or methane.
For the first time, astronomers have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like exoplanet. Although it is unlikely that the planet is habitable due to its scorching surface temperature of 370 degrees Celsius (698 degrees Fahrenheit), the discovery is still being hailed as a major step forward in the search for extra-terrestrial life. Why? Because it is the chemical composition of a planet’s atmosphere that scientists presently use as basis to detect whether life on that planet exists.
Basically, it has to do with the chemical imbalances caused by living organisms – in our case, it’s the presence of huge amounts of oxygen. Spotting an atmosphere on a planet other than the Earth therefore brings to mind the possibility that life might or might have existed on that planet too.
The exo-planet is known as Gliese 1132b (or GJ 1132b). It’s located about 39 light years away in the southern constellation Vela and is referred to as a ‘super-Earth’, with a mass and radius that’s slightly larger than our own planet.
The discovery of the atmosphere was made by a research team led by John Southworth from Keele University in the U.K. and Luigi Mancini from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Other members of the team include researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.
To get a better idea on the size and composition of the planet, the team — using the GROND imager at the 2.2 m ESO/MPG telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile — measured the dip in brightness across seven wavelengths of light as the planet passed in front of its host star (red dwarf star Gliese 1132) once every 1.6 Earth days.
Based on the amount of light lost, they were able to deduce the size of Gliese 1132b — 1.4 times that of the Earth.
The team also made a surprising discovery. They noticed that the planet appears to be larger in one wavelength than it does in all the other wavelengths. This suggests that its atmosphere is opaque to this particular wavelength, which is what causes it to appear larger as it is able to absorb some of the host star’s light. At all the other wavelengths, however, the atmosphere appears transparent.
Researchers say that one possible explanation for this is the presence of water and methane in the atmosphere. As Dr. Southworth said in a statement they issued: ‘The planet is significantly hotter and a bit larger than Earth, so one possibility is that it is a “water world” with an atmosphere of hot steam.’
Another point of interest about the planet is the fact that it is orbiting a red dwarf of low mass. As it is, such stars are quite common across the universe and though they are often found to host small planets, they are believed to be extremely active that the atmosphere of any nearby planet cannot survive the harmful X-rays and ultraviolet light it produces.
With the discovery of Gliese 1132b’s atmosphere, it now appears that a planet’s atmosphere can actually endure the continuous bombardment of harmful cosmic rays. This in turn suggests that there are probably more planets like Gliese 1132b. More importantly, this might be an indication that the conditions suitable for hosting life are more common in the universe than we thought. Which is why further study of Gliese 1132b has now become a priority for the world’s most powerful telescopes including the Hubble Space Telescope, ESO’s Very Large Telescope, and the James Webb Space Telescope (scheduled for launch next year).
Details of the study have recently been published in the Astronomical Journal.
Mysterious ‘Alien Megastructure Star’ Flickers Again
Mysterious ‘Alien Megastructure Star’ Flickers Again
It has been puzzling astronomers since first discovered due to its weird flickering behaviour which no other star in the universe is exhibiting.
KIC 8462852 — also known as Boyajian’s Star, Tabby’s Star, or the “alien megastructure star” — has gained much interest and attention from astronomers around the world because of its unusual light fluctuations. Located in the Cygnus constellation nearly 1,300 light years from the Earth, the said star regularly loses its luminosity, only to revert to its original brightness after a certain period of time. In short, the star flickers. And this weird phenomenon has not been observed in any other star, which is what makes it so excitingly mysterious.
Using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, the flickering of Tabby’s Star was first detected in September 2015 by a team of volunteers led by astronomer Tabetha Boyajian (for whom the star was named after). And now, it’s doing it again.
As reported by Space.com, scientists all over the world were alerted to the situation by Jason Wright — an associate professor of astronomy at the Pennsylvania State University who is also managing a study of Boyajian’s star — during a live webcast on May 22nd. He received a phone call from the Fairborn Observatory in Arizona confirming that Boyajian’s star has once again exhibited its unusual behavior and was observed to be ‘3 percent dimmer than it normally is’.
With the return of the perplexing event, amateur and professional astronomers alike have become more determined than ever to understand the star’s puzzling behavior and solve the question of why it behaves the way it does. Triggering the request to ‘turn as many telescopes as possible toward the star, to try and crack the mystery of its behavior’, some of the world’s largest and most powerful telescopes are now focused on Tabby’s Star, including the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W.H. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Automated Planet Finder telescope at Lick Observatory in California through the Breakthrough Listen Initiative — deemed to be the most powerful and comprehensive scientific search ever undertaken for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.
Scientists have formulated a number of hypotheses that attempt to explain the star’s unusual behavior. The most common hypothesis suggests that nearby planets have broken apart and that fragments of planetary material are blocking the view from Earth. Another popular hypothesis suggests that swarms of comets passing in front of the star cause it to dim. And of course, there’s the alien theory proposing that the dimming (which was up to 20% at one point) is being caused by an alien megastructure orbiting around the star, collecting its energy.
The fact that there doesn’t seem to be a pattern to Tabby’s Star’s flickering is what’s making the explanation for it quite elusive. Which is exactly why its present flickering is quite significant. With so many scientists focused on it, there’s a better chance of figuring out what’s causing its behavior.
At the very least, the star’s luminosity can be observed using different colors and light spectra, which can then provide us with a clearer picture of the types of chemicals present when the flickering occurs, or even the characteristics of the objects or materials blocking the star’s light.
Whatever the answer behind this star mystery turns out to be, the world will surely be waiting. And scientists will be watching.
Close encounters of a blurred kind! UFO hunters ZOOM in on faded Roswell photo and claim US general’s memo reveals a ‘disc-shaped craft and victims’ found in 1947 mystery crash
Close encounters of a blurred kind! UFO hunters ZOOM in on faded Roswell photo and claim US general’s memo reveals a ‘disc-shaped craft and victims’ found in 1947 mystery crash
Air Force General Roger Ramey was pictured in 1947 holding the memo
Now a UFO expert has claimed it makes reference to a 'disc' and 'victims'
The military maintain that the Roswell crash was a downed weather balloon
But it has still become one of the most infamous UFO conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theorists claim a blurry letter seen in a picture could be the key to solving the Roswell UFO mystery.
The photo shows Air Force General Roger Ramey crouching over debris which was claimed to be from the Roswell Crash.
He appears to be holding a memo, which UFO researchers believe could be key in finally unlocking what happened in the New Mexico desert 70 years ago.
Air Force General Roger Ramey can be seen holding the memo in his left hand while examining remains of the 'weather balloon'
UFO researcher David Rudiak claims the letter makes reference to a wreck "victims"
David Rudiak, a UFO researcher, has used modern technology to zoom on the letter.
Alejandro Rojas, a presenter for Open Minds Radio, told Express Online: 'He [David] says it is clear that there is a reference to a disc and believes he can also make out a portion of a sentence that reads "and the victims of the wreck".
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UFO BOMBSHELL: Could this memo solve Roswell 'flying saucer' crash mystery?
UFO BOMBSHELL: Could this memo solve Roswell 'flying saucer' crash mystery?
DECIPHERING this memo captured in an alleged image of the remains of whatever crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, nearly 70 years ago, could solve the world's biggest ever UFO mystery, it has been claimed.
Mr Ramey holding the memo (circled) in the picture in question.
Roswell has been at the heart of the alien hunter scene since the military sensationally announced in a press release in July 1947 it had found a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day the statement was retracted and officials said the debris was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been a cover up and alien bodies were found within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.
The alleged cover up has become the world's biggest UFO conspiracy theory.
The photograph in question shows General Roger Ramey in his office at Fort Worth Army Air Field, later known as Carswell Air Force Base.
He is holding a memo and crouching over debris that he claimed was from the Roswell crash and was identifiable as coming from a weather balloon.
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The Ramey memo in close up.
But, many UFO researchers doubt the debris in the photo is actually from the object which crashed outside Roswell in July, 1947. They say it is was used as part of a cover up.
They believe the text in the memo could proves their claims once and for all.
Just hours before the pictures were taken, the public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field, sent out the infamous press release saying they had discovered the remains of a crashed flying saucer.
This was on the orders of his superior, Colonel William Blanchard.
Then the story gets stranger.
Jesse Marcel was the intelligence officer who was sent to inspect and collect the material a day earlier.
He was ordered to bring the material to Fort Worth.
He later testified that when he got to Fort Worth, he was taken to Mr Ramey’s office where a photographer and chief of staff, Colonel Thomas Dubious, were waiting.
He claimed on the floor was different material that clearly came from a weather balloon and he was made to pose with it as if it was the debris he collected.
These were the pictures that accompanied the subsequent article which claimed a mistake had been made and it was a weather balloon and not a UFO.
Alejandro Rojas, a presenter for Open Minds Radio, said: "Marcel says he was ordered to go along with the story, and like a good soldier, he did what he was told, no questions asked.
"Incidentally, Dubois also later claimed the debris in these photos were part of a cover-up. He said the weather balloon material was set out to trick the public.
"The weather balloon explanation was accepted by the press and the public.
"It was not until the 1980s, when witnesses like Marcel came forward that the incident began to catch the public’s attention."
But the plot thickens.
An inquiry into Roswell by New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff, led to an admission from the Air Force that the weather balloon explanation was a cover-up.
He says it is clear that there is a reference to a disc, and believes he can also make out a portion of a sentence that reads 'and the victims of the wreck’.
Alejandro Rojas
But this inquiry still concluded there was nothing extraterrestrial.
The conclusion stated a top secret project called Project Mogul - to send balloons with sensitive listening devices used to detect Russian nuclear tests - was underway, and the debris was from one of these devices.
The weather balloon cover-up was to stop Project Mogul being compromised, the inquiry concluded.
But, now UFO researchers think modern technology could solve the case once and for all.
In the photos, the memo is seen in Mr Ramey's hands.
David Rudiak has used modern technology to zoom in on the text and claims to have deciphered some of the words.
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David Rudiak claims to have deciphered these words in the memo.
He believes he is now able to read 80 percent of it.
Mr Rojas added: "He says it is clear that there is a reference to a disc, and believes he can also make out a portion of a sentence that reads 'and the victims of the wreck’.
"Rudiak says this proves that a disc-shaped craft was recovered.
"However, perhaps more startling, he says it also corroborates the claims that extraterrestrial bodies were recovered from that wreck."
The inquiry report said it had not been possible to decipher the text, saying: “The photo was sent to a national-level organisation for digitising and subsequent photo interpretation and analysis.
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David Rudiak claims to have been able to read 80 percent of the memo.
“This organisation reported on July 20, 1994, that even after digitising, the photos were of insufficient quality to visualise either of the details sought for analysis.”
Not all researchers agree with Mr Rudiak’s interpretation, but it is felt more needs to be done to read the memo in full.
An anonymous donor has pledged a huge reward for information, says UFO author Kevin Randle.
In a blog titled “Ramey Memo and the $10,000 Reward”, he wrote: “A trusted colleague who is not a Ufologist but does have an interest in Roswell and UFOs and who has the money, has taken this in a slightly different direction.
"He is offering a $10,000 reward for the first person or group/lab that can provide a definite read of the Ramey memo.
“To claim the reward a number of criteria will need to be met, including full reproducibility of the result (with methodology of the individual/lab completely explained and transparent so that anyone knowledgeable can replicate in much the same way that the placard on the Not Roswell Slides was revealed).
"There must be overwhelming agreement that the result is definitive with most of the text clear enough that there is little or no disagreement on what it says across a broad spectrum of people of all opinions whether true believer or complete sceptic.”
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Roswell geen mysterie meer? Doorbreekt deze vreemde memo de geheimzinnigheid rond de UFO-crash?
Roswell geen mysterie meer? Doorbreekt deze vreemde memo de geheimzinnigheid rond de UFO-crash?
In juli 1947 bracht het Amerikaanse leger een persbericht naar buiten dat er een vliegende schotel in de buurt van Roswell was gecrasht.
Een dag later werd dat bericht weer ingetrokken en zeiden de autoriteiten dat de wrakstukken afkomstig waren van een beschadigde weerballon van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht.
Getuigen zeiden later dat het incident in de doofpot was gestopt en dat er lichamen van buitenaardse wezens waren geborgen, die naar Area 51 in Nevada waren gebracht.
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De Ramey-memo (Wikicommons)
Op de oorspronkelijke foto’s is te zien hoe generaal James Ramey in zijn kantoor op het Fort Worth Army Air Field een memo in zijn hand houdt.
UFO-onderzoekers zeggen dat die memo voor eens en voor altijd kan bewijzen dat het incident in de doofpot is gestopt.
Inlichtingenofficier Jesse Marcel moest de wrakstukken inspecteren en verzamelen. Hij kreeg de opdracht het materiaal over te brengen naar Fort Worth.
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Hij getuigde later dat het materiaal dat in het kantoor van generaal Ramey lag anders was dan de wrakstukken die hij had onderzocht.
“Marcel zei dat hij het spelletje moest meespelen en zoals een goede soldaat betaamt deed hij wat hem werd opgedragen,” zei Alejandro Rojas van Open Minds Radio.
De fotograaf en stafchef, kolonel Thomas Dubois, claimde later dat de wrakstukken op de foto’s onderdeel waren van de cover-up, aldus Rojas.
Misleiden
“Hij beweerde dat het materiaal van de weerballon werd gebruikt om het volk te misleiden,” zei hij. “Pas in de jaren tachtig kwamen getuigen zoals Marcel naar buiten.”
Het Amerikaanse congreslid Steven Schiff stelde een onderzoek in naar het Roswellincident. De luchtmacht gaf tijdens dat onderzoek toe dat er inderdaad sprake was van een doofpot.
Moderne technologie kan deze zaak voor eens en voor altijd oplossen, denken UFO-onderzoekers.
Ontcijferd
David Rudiak heeft ingezoomd op de memo in de handen van Ramey en claimt 80 procent van het document te hebben ontcijferd.
“Hij zegt dat er duidelijk wordt verwezen naar een schijf,” zei Rojas. “Hij denkt dat één van de zinnen betrekking heeft op ‘de slachtoffers in het wrak’.”
“Rudiak zegt dat dit bewijst dat er een schijfvormig vaartuig is geborgen,” voegde hij toe. “Hij zegt dat uit de memo ook blijkt dat er buitenaardse lichamen zijn geborgen.”
PHAETHON - THE MISSING PLANET OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: DESTROYED BY AN ANCIENT NUCLEAR WAR?
PHAETHON - THE MISSING PLANET OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: DESTROYED BY AN ANCIENT NUCLEAR WAR?
There is a belief that if we study other planets in our solar system, we might be warned of the fate that could befall the earth if we aren't careful. This could certainly be the case when it comes to Phaethon, the tenth planet in our solar system. Some of you are no doubt thinking wait there are only nine planets in our solar system, and we have never heard of Phaethon. Well, some have heard of Phaethon and have been researching the existence of the planet for years. A scientist has for years studied the asteroid particles that seem to hoover around the area between Mars and Jupiter. These asteroids have scientists and even writers of science fiction wondering if perhaps hundreds of year ago another planet existed in our solar system.
TENTH PLANET IN SOLAR SYSTEM DISCOVERED
The planet which has been named Phaethon has been researched for years, and many believe that this planet could have been highly advanced civilization. So, what happened to Phaethon, why does it no longer exist? Well, many believe that the asteroid belt that surrounds the large expanse of space between Mars and Jupiter is all that remains of Phaethon and that it was lost in a huge blast that caused it to explode literally. There are those who speculate that the blast was so monumental that it could be that of a nuclear explosion. But was the nuclear explosion man made or was it done by the atmosphere itself? Well, this has also been researching, and some scientists believe it was an implosion by the atmosphere itself. There is also a belief that Phaethon got into a battle with it's closest neighbor Mars which many believe was also habitable at that time. Either way, there could be a cautious lessen for the earth itself since the atmosphere if the earth is now suffering and the earth has much unrest along with nuclear technology.
But despite the research evidence that Phaethon did exist there are those who argue the other side of the coin. There are researchers who dispute that Phaethon ever existed at all, despite the distance between Jupiter and Mars, along with the huge asteroid belt that surrounds this area. According to these researchers believe though that these asteroids aren't the debris of a planet but the beginnings of new planets that will evolve in the future. It turns out there is an argument for this theory as well, along with proof. So, which theory is true, perhaps none of us will know in our lifetimes. After all, if these asteroids are the beginning of new planets it could take millions of years for these to form and none of us will be around. In the mean time the area around Jupiter and Mars remains a mystery one that scientists, researchers, and authors have pondered, even if they don't always agree on what this area represents.
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RAW FOOTAGE OF UFO CRASHING - NETHERLANDS EARTHQUAKE
RAW FOOTAGE OF UFO CRASHING - NETHERLANDS EARTHQUAKE
Today at 3h30 local there was a 2.6 earthquake in the Netherlands. Right after the earthquake a sky watcher that was watching the skies above Groningen for the last couple of days shot this amazing footage of a UFO that was clearly shot down right after the earthquake.
The raw video shows us an object falling down while it's attemping to correct it course. It appears that it's main propulsion system is down but it's trying to gain altitube to boosting some kind of trusters. The video shows the object in a falling trajectory, while it's attempting to regain control of it's propulsion system.
The sky watcher tried to shoot as many video as possible but suddenly the object outsmarts the tracking system and we don't know whether the object crashed to the ground or whether it regained altitude.
The video is unique because it's shows the raw inside of a UFO and it's propulsion technology.
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A Model Series: Six Of The Best From UFO
A Model Series: Six Of The Best From UFO
UFO is currently being broadcast on Forces TV at 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. We’ve restored some beautiful pictures of our favourite models from the show.
Let us know your favourites and make sure you watch UFO this weekend!
The SHADO Rocket
Only featuring in one episode (The Man Who Came Back) and located at The Cape, the rocket is one of our favourite models because of how incredible the launch sequence is. Check out the video above to see it in its full glory.
The MoonBase Interceptor
Designed by Mike Trim and then revised by Derek Meddings. Armed with a single nuclear missile distinctively attached to the front of the craft, SHADO’s first line of defence against the UFO attacks.
The Lunar Carrier & Lunar Module
The gorgeous Lunar Carrier is responsible for flight within the Earth’s atmosphere. It carries the Lunar Module which is released into the upper atmosphere before flying on to the Lunar Base.
The Lunar Mobile
Charged with ground defence of the Moonbase and equipped with rocket launchers. These fantastic models still look incredibly modern.
The Skydiver
It’s never said how many Skydivers are patrolling the oceans in UFO. If a UFO penetrates the Earth’s atmosphere SHADO launchers a fighter to intercept it.
One of our favourite episodes, Sub Smash, will be broadcast on Sunday, June 4, at 6pm. It features a damaged Skydiver in the dept
hs of the ocean.
A UFO
The aggressor itself, the UFO. Pronounced as “You-FO”. They have a transparent outer shell protecting an opaque core.
Capable of travelling at 12 times the speed of light but forced to slow down in the atmosphere, these are a force to be reckoned with.
UFO continues at 6pm on Saturday and Sunday on the Forces TV Channel, Sky 264, Virgin 277 and Freesat 165
Inside the 'UFO state' of Nevada: Cruising the Extraterrestrial Highway and hearing eye-opening tales from the owner of the Little A'Le'Inn by Area 51 makes for an out-of-this-world trip
Inside the 'UFO state' of Nevada: Cruising the Extraterrestrial Highway and hearing eye-opening tales from the owner of the Little A'Le'Inn by Area 51 makes for an out-of-this-world trip
Nevada boasts the most UFO sightings in the world, is home to the mysterious Area 51 military base
To find out more MailOnline dropped in to the aptly-named Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, near the installation
There we spoke to owner Pat, who told us tales of strange craft 'really weird manoeuvres at high speed'
They say that Nevada has the loneliest roads in the whole of America.
You can certainly travel for hundreds of miles and not see a single person. But are you really alone?
After all, Nevada boasts the most UFO sightings in the world, is home to the mysterious Area 51 military base, where many say alien technology is being analysed – and it even has a road called the 'Extraterrestrial Highway'.
To find out more MailOnline Travel dropped in to the aptly-named Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, the nearest town to Area 51, to have a chat with the owner about the area’s strange goings on.
Pictured is MailOnline reporter Anthony Joseph on the Extraterrestrial Highway in Nevada
Pictured is the road sign for the Little A'Le'Inn (left) in Rachel, Nevada, and a rather frightening warning sign for Area 51 (right)
Pat, the owner, has lived in Rachel all her life.
To say it's a small town is an understatement - only 50 people live there.
She is utterly convinced that Area 51 is testing alien life and is adamant she has seen UFOs.
The 63-year-old said: 'I have actually watched a craft do manoeuvres. It was probably 15 years ago. I can tell you I was just coming home with my niece. It was in a place where there were things that just should never have been there.
Many people around the world have their theories, but local knowledge is always the best. MailOnline visited the Little A'Le'Inn cafe and chatted to the owner, Pat, about her out-of-this-world experiences
Pat said: 'I have actually watched a craft do manoeuvres at high speed. It was probably 15 years ago'
Pat has lived in Rachel all her life. To say it's a small town is an understatement - only 50 people live there. Pictured is an alien museum in the desert
THE MYSTERIOUS PASSENGER JETS THAT FLY FROM LAS VEGAS TO AREA 51
At Las Vegas McCarran International Airport is a fleet of passenger aircraft (pictured) it's impossible to buy tickets for - because they fly to the US's secret Area 51 military base
In August 2016 it was revealed that a number of passenger planes were flying from Las Vegas McCarran Airport to Area 51.
They don't carry any company logos – they're plain white with a red band down the side - and anyone who boards one is sworn to secrecy about where they're going and what they do for a living.
The reason that the aircraft, mostly Boeing 737s, are so shadowy in nature, is because they serve America's most secret military base.
But why are they there and what do they do? A Las Vegas taxi driver who served as a pilot for these aircraft said: 'The people there (at Area 51) are not like us.'
'It did really weird manoeuvres at high speed. I think we work side by side with alien beings – can I prove it? No. But I feel that. Just the shape of it – it was a saucer shape. It could have been a new technology that we were never aware of yet. But things just happen like that.
'We told reporters of a sighting that had happened and they did their report. They got part way up the road and saw this thing and they got scared and came back.
'They came inside and said “I want a shot of tequila” and then he told us their story.
'They couldn't get to their cameras as there was actually a vehicle that they couldn't describe. It was really awesome.’
A sign that all is perhaps not as it seems: Rachel in Nevada is the nearest town to Area 51
Other locals are also convinced that aliens have landed.
She continued: 'Some of them (the locals) have their own stories. Other people don't talk about it. We have one lady who was followed from Alamo to here by a craft. She could see it. She feels the only reason she didn't get abducted was because she was over child-bearing age. Can I prove it? No, but that was what she told me.
'Many people have seen things happen over the years. Strange things. I think we've had beings too – I think about three. We had one who came and attended a conference and we were in the building and in 12 hours he never used the bathroom, never drank anything or ate anything.
'Can I prove it? No. But I can tell you what happened. I think he was an alien being – I think a lot of them are just like humans.’
Pat talks about aliens almost as if they were an accepted part of life.
She added: ‘It's kind of common knowledge in these parts that they exist. It's not to be afraid of. Everybody talks about – it's been going on so long.'
NEVADA'S OTHER BIZARRE ATTRACTIONS
There are many places to visit between Las Vegas and the Extraterrestrial Highway (State Route 375) in Nevada.
Around two hours north-west of the city you will find yourself in the ghost town that is Rhyolite.
There you will find whacky art displays, including the ghost sculpture of the Last Supper.
There are many places to visit between Las Vegas and the Extraterrestrial Highway (State Route 375) in Nevada. Around two hours north-west of the city you will find yourself in the ghost town that is Rhyolite
An abandoned building in Rhyolite, which is on the eastern edge of Death Valley. It thrived during the early 20th-century gold rush
At the Goldwell Open Air Museum near Rhyolite is an outdoor sculpture park that contains a ghost sculpture of The Last Supper
Further up the road there is an abandoned school, pub and jail from the early 1900s, which is intriguing.
One hour's drive north from here is a tiny place called Tonopah. This town was once the home of a mining industry worth $2million.
But real estate and gaming became big business throughout central Nevada and by 1910 the town of Tonopah had less than half the population it had 15 years earlier.
The Mizpah Mine still exists and has now become an attraction for visitors.
This abstract stone circle adds to the mysterious atmosphere in Rhyolite
A symbolic mining emblem near Rhyolite that reminds visitors of the town's gold-prospecting heyday
On the way back to Vegas after Rachel is the ever-popular and picturesque Cowboy's Dream B&B in Alamo
If you are staying in Tonopah, it is recommended that you stay in the Mizpah Hotel.
The hotel is said to house a ghost deemed 'the Lady in Red' by guests who have experienced her presence.
A book at the reception of the hotel has regular updates of similar ghost sightings and experiences from guests who have stayed there.
On the way back to Vegas after Rachel is the ever-popular and picturesque Cowboy's Dream B&B in Alamo.
This is a real throwback to the Wild West and is in a stunning location.
And just before arriving back in Vegas, on Route 93, is Cathedral Gorge State Park, a public recreation and nature preserve area featuring a gorge that’s been eroded in spectacular fashion.
If you're heading back to Vegas on Route 93, it's worth stopping off at Cathedral Gorge State Park, a public recreation and nature preserve area featuring a gorge that’s been eroded in spectacular fashion
ZIJN CHEMTRAILS ONDERDEEL VAN BUITENAARDSE OORLOGSVOERING?
ZIJN CHEMTRAILS ONDERDEEL VAN BUITENAARDSE OORLOGSVOERING?
Vooral het laatste jaar is het aantal waarnemingen van UFO’s in de buurt van chemtrails nogal fors toegenomen.
Als daar nu eens, mogelijk bovenop de bekende redenen zoals klimaatmanipulatie en het onzichtbaar maken van de naderende planeet Nibiru, een hele andere reden voor is dan dat wij tot nu altijd hebben gedacht?
Niemand weet formeel wat deze vliegende objecten zijn, waar ze vandaan komen of wat ze willen. Zijn ze gewoon nieuwsgierig zoals sommigen denken of zit er veel meer agenda achter dit veelvuldig(er) verschijnen bij chemtrails?
Het gaat zelfs zo ver dat die UFO's soms deze chemtrails als het ware lijken op te eten zoals we vorig jaar heel duidelijk hebben kunnen zien in de buurt van Parijs. Iets wat tot nu toe ook nog niet echt duidelijk is, is wie verantwoordelijk zijn voor de chemtrails in de lucht en ook hier weer: waarom?
Er zijn verschillende theorieën zoals het blokkeren van het zonlicht op aarde om verdere opwarming tegen te gaan, het verbergen van de planeet Nibiru voor al te nieuwsgierige ogen tot aan het testen met en het uitroeien van de wereldbevolking door het sproeien van giftige deeltjes in onze atmosfeer.
Maar, wat als die chemtrails nu eens met een heel andere reden in de lucht worden gesproeid? Wat als die reden zou zijn het verstoren van elektromagnetische velden in het kader van oorlogsvoering waar buitenaardsen bij betrokken zijn?
Dit klinkt voor velen uiteraard als sciencefiction. We leven echter in een tijd waar dingen gebeuren waarvan we dachten dat het sciencefiction was, maar nu steeds meer realiteit aan het worden zijn.
Van een lezer ontvingen wij (dank!) het volgende bericht:
Dat Poolse filmpje zie je een vliegtuig met chemtrail en die andere is een zelfde vliegtuig alleen dan zonder chemtrail. zelfde soort die een andere positie inneemt een paar bochten vliegt om vervolgens zijn rook kanon weer aan te zetten.
De rasters die ze vliegen lijkt wel op een soort kooi van Faraday en wat zo raar is boven Nederland heb ik er 5 geteld van deze vliegtuigen die dus weer niet op internet zijn te traceren.
Ook daar zie je op een gegeven van rechtsboven een UFO naar beneden duiken richting chemtrail, alsof het wil onderzoeken welke ellende daar in het luchtruim wordt gesproeid.
Net zoals wat de getuige in Engeland beschrijft, lijkt het alsof degene die deze UFO’s onder controle heeft ronduit nieuwsgierig is.
Kooi van Faraday, genoemd naar Michael Faraday, is de benaming voor een kooivormige constructie van elektrisch geleidend materiaal, zoals koper of ijzer, die ervoor zorgt dat statische elektrische velden niet tot binnen de kooi kunnen doordringen. De kooi is wel doordringbaar voor statische magnetische velden zoals het aardmagnetisch veld. De kooi biedt bescherming tegen statische ontladingen zoals bliksem.
De voortstuwing van UFO’s gebeurt door middel van antizwaartekracht en elektromagnetische velden. Onderdeel van wat er in onze atmosfeer wordt gesproeid zijn metaaldeeltjes die natuurlijk heel goede geleiders vormen en waarmee je een magnetisch veld kunt creëren.
Een dergelijk veld zou het weleens heel moeilijk kunnen maken voor UFO’s om te vliegen en te navigeren.
Nu er ieder jaar meer wordt gesproeid boven onze hoofden, zie je ook vaker UFO’s opduiken in de buurt van deze chemtrails. Zijn deze misschien op onderzoek om te kijken wat ze eventueel kunnen doen om dat verstorend magnetisch veld te elimineren?
Woedt er wellicht binnen de heersende macht een oorlog tussen twee verschillende kampen die zich voor een deel afspeelt in de ruimte, een oorlog waar wel of niet ook buitenaardsen bij betrokken zijn?
Voor het gemak gaan we er altijd van uit dat die chemtrails door vliegtuigen worden gemaakt, maar misschien is dat wel helemaal niet zo.
Precies vijf jaar geleden publiceerden wij al een artikel waarin de mogelijkheid werd onderzocht dat chemtrails misschien wel eens door buitenaardsen gemaakt zouden kunnen worden.
Het is een theorie, geschreven door een voor ons onbekend individu. Misschien is het vergezocht, maar er zou ook een kern van waarheid in kunnen zitten als je luchten ziet zoals op de volgende foto:
De eindconclusie van het artikel is als volgt:
De chemtrails zijn echt en hebben een echt effect in de derde dimensie. De sproeivliegtuigen, die niet van de aarde of de maan of uit de derde dimensie afkomstig zijn, komen “ergens anders” vandaan. Het sproeien wordt niet gedaan door onze regeringen. En de regeringen hebben ook geen controle over de sproeivliegtuigen. Dus, het enige wat de regering kan doen is wat ze deden met UFO’s. Ze gaven als verklaring “Venus” of “moerasgas”. Chemtrails? Dat zijn contrails mijn vriend. Einde discussie.
Chemtrailpatronen zoals op de hierna volgende foto kunnen eenvoudigweg niet gemaakt worden door vliegtuigen, ook al halen ze nog zulke vreemde capriolen uit.
Uiteraard weten wij ook niet hoe het precies zit en wie voor wat verantwoordelijk is, maar door het verleggen van grenzen en het denken buiten de normaal gangbare patronen zijn tot op heden al heel wat onduidelijkheden opgelost.
De lijnen van de machthebbers stoppen niet aan de rand van de aarde en daarom kunnen chemtrails wel eens (óók) voor iets heel anders dienen dan wat tot nu toe altijd is gedacht.
Credible Source Says Extraterrestrial Prevented The Nuclear Detonation Test In Space
Credible Source Says Extraterrestrial Prevented The Nuclear Detonation Test In Space
Colonel Ross Dedrickson was working as inventory maintenance of the nuclear weapons stockpile for the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in the 1950s. He was also responsible for assisting security teams monitoring the safety of the arms and among many other duties.
His obituary states that he was assigned to the AEC between 1950-1958. His responsibilities included administration at Nevada test sites, nuclear weapon manufacturing and quality assurance in Albuquerque, management of Pacific Nuclear Test Area in the west of Hawaii, and inspection of facilities across the country both nuclear and non-nuclear. He was put to the 5th Air Force in Japan and later served as a ranking Colonel. He then served as an officer in charge of the Pacific Unified Command in Hawaii. He was transferred to the 832 Air Division at Canon Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico and served as deputy. In 1964, he retired from the USAF.
His verified professional background has made him one of the credible whistleblowers from the military. His testimony involving UFOs and nuclear weapons can now be corroborated with information and evidence within the public domain.
Dedrickson explains how the U.S. government attempted to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon. The plan that was called Project A119 wanted to investigate the capability of weapons in space and get insight on the detonation of nuclear devices within the space environment.
However, Dedrickson revealed that space aliens destroyed a couple of nuclear weapons sent into space. He said that they tried to put a nuclear weapon on the moon and explode it for scientific measurements and other things at the very end of the 70s and the early 80s, but extraterrestrials destroyed the weapon before it reached to the moon.
Canada’s Falcon Lake Incident Still A Mystery 50 Years Later and The Best-Documented UFO Case
Canada’s Falcon Lake Incident Still A Mystery 50 Years Later and The Best-Documented UFO Case
His father came home sick and injured from the Falcon Lake woods in Manitoba on the long weekend of May 1967. It is how Stan Michalak can still remember the ongoing mystery that put his family life into upheaval. The incident remains one of the best-known UFO encounters in the world.
Michalak, who was nine years old at the time, recalled that his father was in bed and did not look good as he looked pale and haggard. When Michalak walked into the bedroom, he noticed a major stink in the room. He described it as like a real horrible aroma of Sulphur and burnt motor all around. He later discovered that the smell was coming out of his father’s pores.
Michalak, who co-authored the book “When They Appeared,” was terrified to learn that his father had been injured as he did not know anything about it. Within a couple of days, he knew more, but so did much the public. The Winnipeg Tribune newspaper ran a story about of a UFO that burned his father. It was the time everything hit the fan.
The Encounter
An industrial mechanic by trade, Stefan Michalak is also an amateur geologist who is interested of the wilderness around Falcon Lake, about 150 kilometres east of Winnipeg, specifically for quartz and silver. The prior year, he had staked some claims, so he decided to explore some more on the long weekend of May.
The 51-year-old Stefan was close to a vein of quartz along the Precambrian Shield on May 20, 1967, when a gaggle of nearby geese, which erupted into a clattering of honks, startled him. Stefan looked up and spotted two cigar-shaped objects having a reddish glow floating about 45 metres away. One of the two landed on a flat section of rock and now took more of a disc shape. The other one stayed in the air for a few minutes before flying off.
Stefan thought it was a secret U.S. military experimental craft, so he decided to sketch it over the next 30 minutes. Then he approached the object and felt the warm air and smelt a sulphur-like smell as he got nearer. He also heard a whirring sound of motors and a hissing of air.
The door on the side then opened with bright lights inside. Stefan said that he heard voices muffled by the sounds from the craft. He called out and offered mechanical help, but he got no answer. Stefan decided to speak his native Polish but still got no reply. He also tried Russian and German, but only whirr and hiss of the craft responded.
Stefan claimed he went closer and noticed the smooth metal without seams of the object. He then looked into the bright doorway and saw light beams inside and panels of several coloured flashing lights. However, he could not see anyone or anything inside.
When Stefan stepped away, three panels slid across the door opening and sealed it. He reached to touch the craft but shocked to see the fingertips of the glove he was wearing melted. The craft then started to turn counter-clockwise, and Stefan noticed a panel that contained a grid of holes. Moments later, a blast of air or gas struck in his chest that pushed him backwards and set his cap and shirt ablaze.
As he ripped away the burning garments, the craft lifted off and flew away. Stefan stumbled through the forest and vomited. Fortunately, he made his way back to his Falcon Lake’s motel room then ride a bus back to Winnipeg. He cared for burns to his chest and stomach at a hospital. His injuries later turned into raised sores on a grid-like pattern. Weeks after, he suffered from weight loss, blackouts, headaches, and diarrhoea.
Eventually, the story was out of the media, RCMP, the air force, various government agencies, and the public. All of them descended to the Michalak’s’ small bungalow in River Heights, Winnipeg. Michalak received endless visitors and phone calls as the media and people camping on the lawn. It had taken several years before it died down.
Stefan, who died in 1999 at the age of 83, felt that time that it was his duty to share the story for the others to avoid it and not get hurt. Stefan was a military policeman back in Poland before he moved his family to Canada. As a police officer, he had set moral guidelines and that if something happened, it should be reported.
The family endured criticism and condemnation, Stefan’s sanity was questioned, and Stan was bullied in school. However, these were not enough for Stefan to back away from the story. Until his death, Stefan’s story never changed.
After intense investigations that were carried out by a number of levels of government, the official conclusion was that the case was unexplained. Investigators retrieved Stefan’s glove and shirt, as well as some tools from the encounter site, but no one could tell what caused the burns.
At the landing site, investigators found a circle measuring about 15 feet in diameter. They saw devoid of the moss and vegetation in other areas of the same rock. Samples of clothing and soil samples were tested, and they discovered that they were highly radioactive.
Cassini maakte 13 jaar lang foto's van Saturnus en dit zijn de allermooiste!
Cassini maakte 13 jaar lang foto's van Saturnus en dit zijn de allermooiste!µ
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De ringen, de maantjes, de machtige gasreus zelf: de foto’s van Cassini gaan nooit vervelen!
Cassini is nog onderweg naar Saturnus als deze in mei 2004 een fantastische foto van de gasreus maakt. Naast de gasreus en zijn prachtige ringenstelsel zijn ook enkele manen zichtbaar. Het zijn slechts stipjes. Dat is ook niet zo gek: Cassini bevond zich op het moment dat deze foto gemaakt werd op zo’n 28 miljoen kilometer afstand van Saturnus. Pas een paar maanden later, op 1 juli 2004, nestelde de ruimtesonde zich in een baan rond de gasreus.
Foto: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute. Klik voor een vergroting.
Phoebe Saturnus heeft meer dan zestig manen. En Phoebe is er eentje van. Het maantje is ongeveer 220 kilometer groot en cirkelt op een afstand van zo’n 12,9 miljoen kilometer om Saturnus heen, In juni scheert Cassini langs de maan en het resulteert in verbluffend mooie kiekjes van een maantje dat het klaarblijkelijk zwaar te verduren heeft gehad. Het maantje is rijkelijk bedekt met inslagkraters.
Foto: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
Foto: NASA / JPL / ESA / University of Arizona.
Titan Terwijl Cassini ons verbluft met het ene na het andere kiekje, zou je bijna vergeten dat de sonde niet in zijn eentje naar Saturnus is afgereisd. Er ging een lander mee. En die reisde eind december af naar Titan: een andere maan van Saturnus. Deze maan is mysterieus – er hangt een dikke nevel omheen die het oppervlak aan het zicht onttrekt – en wetenschappelijk gezien razend interessant, onder meer omdat deze net als de aarde grote hoeveelheden stikstof in de atmosfeer heeft zitten. In januari 2005 zette Huygens voet op de maan en dat resulteerde onder meer in de eerste kleurenfoto van het oppervlak van Titan. Je ziet ‘m hiernaast. Huygens was na de landing op Titan nog zo’n 72 minuten actief. Daarna is niets meer van de lander vernomen. Hoewel Huygens maar kort werkzaam was op Titan heeft deze echter wel een schat aan informatie verzameld over de maan.
Dit filmpje laat zien wat Huygens zag toen deze afdaalde richting het oppervlak van Titan.
Vreemde manen Zoals gezegd heeft Saturnus heel wat manen. En daar zitten natuurlijk ook wat vreemde exemplaren bij. Wat denk je bijvoorbeeld van Hyperion? Je ziet het maantje – dat wel wat wegheeft van een spons – hieronder.
Foto: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
Of van Pan? Dat maantje heeft eigenlijk nog wel het meest weg van een vliegende schotel.
Foto: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
Of maan Mimas die – vanwege een enorme krater – wel eens vergeleken wordt met de Death Star?
Foto: NASA / JPL / SSI.
Ook heel bijzonder: Enceladus. De maan spuit ijsdeeltjes in de lucht.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Saturnus en de aarde en Mars en… Naast de maantjes heeft Cassini na aankomst bij Saturnus ook de gasreus zelf herhaaldelijk op de gevoelige plaat vastgelegd. Enkele van onze favoriete foto’s zie je hieronder. Hierop zien we behalve Saturnus en zijn ringen ook enkele andere bekenden. De aarde bijvoorbeeld!
Op deze fantastische foto van Cassini zien we niet alleen Saturnus en zijn ringen, maar ook andere planeten uit ons zonnestelsel, waaronder de aarde. Klik voor een vergroting.
Afbeelding: NASA.
De aarde! Onze planeet was op het moment dat deze foto werd gemaakt zo’n 1,4 miljard kilometer van Cassini verwijderd.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Stormachtig Als je Saturnus zo in volle glorie ziet, ziet de gasreus er heel rustiek uit. Maar niets is minder waar. Saturnus is namelijk stormachtig! Zo bevindt zich op de noordpool de beroemde hexagoon: een zeshoekig wolkenpatroon met in het hart ervan een orkaan-achtige storm die niet van locatie verandert. En rond de evenaar haasten winden zich met snelheden van zo’n 1000 km per uur voort.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Een gigantische storm die in 2010 ontstaat en pas een maandje of zes later stilvalt.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Schitterend Toch nog even terug naar Titan. De maan die tot de verbeelding blijft spreken. Zeker als Cassini ontdekt dat op de noordpool verschillende grote meren te vinden zijn. Je ziet ze op de fantastische opname hieronder. De met ethaan en methaan gevulde meren schitteren in het zonlicht.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. Arizona / Univ. Idaho.
De ringen Ook de ringen van Saturnus zijn heel fotogeniek. En ze weten ons vaak te verrassen. Zo toonde Cassini aan dat aan de rand van de ringen soms verticale structuren ontstaan (mogelijk door toedoen van manen die het ringmateriaal omhoog stuwen). Die verticale structuren kunnen tot wel 2,5 kilometer(!) hoog zijn.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
En de foto’s die Cassini van de ringen maakt, worden naarmate de missie vordert, alleen maar beter. Begin dit jaar mochten we bijvoorbeeld onderstaande foto verwelkomen, gemaakt terwijl de sonde langs de buitenste ringen van Saturnus scheerde.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
En op dit moment duikt Cassini namelijk met tussenpozen in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen. En daarbij kijkt de sonde beurtelings naar de planeet en naar de ringen. Het levert prachtige close-up beelden op.
De A-ring van Saturnus. De heldere streepjes die je ziet, zijn zogenoemde ‘propellers’: kleine verstoringen in het ringmateriaal.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
De missie van Cassini duurt nog tot half september. Dat betekent dat de sonde nog een maandje of vier de tijd heeft om foto’s te maken. En wel vanuit een uniek gezichtspunt: de ruimte tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen. Misschien dat de mooiste foto die Cassini tijdens zijn missie maakt, dan ook nog wel gemaakt moet worden!
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Did you see anything strange in the sky last year? Were you out in the woods and encountered a mysterious animal unlike anything that you had ever seen before? Did you experience an incident that you couldn’t find an explanation for? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you were not alone. Many Residents from across the state of Pennsylvania reported numerous observations of strange lights and objects in the sky throughout 2015. Some claimed to have seen formations of glowing lights, while others reported encountering spherical, cigar, triangular and rectangular objects from many locations of the Keystone state.
Even stranger were reports from many locations of encounters with mysterious creatures. Sightings of Bigfoot have historically been recorded for years, and these incidents continue to be reported annually, There were reports of huge birds with massive wingspans (thunderbirds) and even black panthers that are not common to this part of the world. Some creature reports were even stranger.
Citizens of Pennsylvania reported many types of strange incidents including seeing strange footprints, hearing frightening howls, whoops and screams from nearby woods, observing odd clouds, seeing fireballs crossing the sky, and experienced loud mystery booms that shook their homes. Some reported various paranormal experiences including capturing strange images on their cameras. As in past years, the majority of anomalies reported concern unusual lights and objects in the sky.
My interest in strange occurrences began in 1959, when I began to record and document mysterious incidents that were occurring in my home state of Pennsylvania. I was 16 years old in 1965 when the Kecksburg UFO incident occurred in Westmoreland County, and I began to document details about what had taken place. I began to conduct in the field investigations of UFO and cryptid reports after that incident, and set up a hotline in 1969, for the public to report UFO sightings and other unusual accounts. After so many years of interest in these strange occurrences, I still have never seen a UFO or Bigfoot.
I continue to record such incidents that come to my attention yearly via phone or email. Today there are many other researchers and organizations who also receive Pennsylvania reports. Some of these resources gathering this information include the National UFO Reporting Center, The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society, the PA Chapter of MUFON, Jim Brown of Jim’s Destinations, and Lon Strickler of “Phantoms & Monsters.” I maintain contact with many UFO and Bigfoot investigators statewide and across the country.
When I began my field investigations many years ago into various phenomena, it became apparent that many incidents that initially sounded unusual, when properly investigated, were found to be explainable and determined to be of manmade or natural origin. Many UFO sightings are found to have logical explanations and over the years some observations were explained as bright planets and stars, brilliant meteors or re-entry of space debris, lights on aircraft, satellites, NASA high altitude tests, searchlight beams, lights reflecting off of insects, Chinese lanterns, and remote control aircraft. And now we have to deal with quadcopters (drones) with led displays.
Some Bigfoot sightings were only misidentifications of bear or large shaggy dogs. Others were camouflaged hunters in the woods. Many strange footprints were normal tracks that had been distorted by weather and ground conditions. The point is that many anomalies of various types can be explained. Not every UFO and cryptid encounter, however, can be so easily explained away.
While strange encounters are reported from many widespread locations from across the state, one of the most active areas for such unusual incidents continues to be along the Chestnut Ridge that covers sections of Westmoreland, Fayette, and Indiana Counties.
The following are some of the interesting incidents that came to my attention in 2015.
March 12, 2015- Two people had gone out to do some late night shopping near Monessen, located in the Mon Valley area. As they passed under a bridge, the car headlights struck a nine feet tall man-like creature that was covered with black hair that was standing along the side of a road. As soon as the lights hit it, the creature squinted its eyes and turned and tilted its head. The couple stared at the creature for about 15 seconds then quickly left the area. About 50 feet away from where they saw the creature, they noticed a terrible odor. The Mon valley has had a long history of Bigfoot sightings.
March 16, 2015- Numerous sources received information of a loud boom that shook houses that evening over a wide area of Fayette County from Connellsville to Uniontown. About the same time odd lights were reportedly seen in the area, which were followed by observations of an unusual amount of helicopter activity. A similar mystery boom was reported the night before in Allegheny County.
April 17, 2015- During the evening at a rural location in Westmoreland County not far from West Newton, two people were sitting off a country road and observed a bright white light in the sky moving in their direction which began to make a circular motion. The solid round white object, which made no sound, approached closer to them and hovered over some trees. Suddenly, the car and the area around it became illuminated by a dim white light that was emitted from the hovering object. The witnesses quickly left the area.
April 18, 2015- At a rural location in Greene County not far from Waynesburg, a driver observed what looked like a tall upright figure covered with hair moving quickly up a hillside near a construction site.
April 18, 2015- During the early morning hours, a witness located in a rural area near South Greensburg saw what looked like a tall dark figure in the yard. Later at that location, a large unusual footprint was found that measured approximately 16.5 inches long and 8 inches wide. In past years, other strange creature encounters have been reported from this general area.
April 21, 2015- Around 10:30 AM, a couple was driving between Parker and East Brady in Butler County when they saw a bright flash of light in the sky. The flash appeared to have been the sun reflecting for a moment off the surface of a very large solid object that appeared to be off in the distance over the Allegheny River. The witnesses pulled over to take a better look. The object looked solid black and rectangular shaped and looked to have 4 rows of windows or indentations on its surface. The object entered a large dark cloud that was nearby. The man readied his camera to photograph the object when it exited the cloud, but after 45 minutes, the object was never seen again.
May 8, 2015- Two people driving up a hill during the afternoon in North Huntingdon Township observed a silver metallic “pill” shaped elongated object that was rounded on the ends. The object was moving rapidly across the sky and was soon blocked by trees. When they reached an open view the object was not seen again. There have been many UFO sightings reported around the Irwin and North Huntingdon areas for years.
August 28, 2015- In the distant evening sky over the Laurel Ridge near Ligonier, witnesses observed an object that looked like a clear bubble with a fuzzy looking outside edge. As the witnesses watched, the strange object suddenly dropped straight down from the sky towards the ground. They expected there to be an impact and explosion but they neither heard nor saw anything after that. Many strange events have occurred over the years around both the Laurel Mountain area and Chestnut Ridge.
Late August-Early September, 2015- This incident took place around 5 PM on a sunny afternoon as the witness was taking a leisurely drive in eastern Butler County. Suddenly, 15-20 feet ahead of the vehicle and about ¾ of the way across the road, a being that was hard to describe was moving from right to left in front of the car. Whatever this thing was, it had a skinny body, stood about 4-4 ½ feet tall, and was similar to the color of a deer.
The head looked somewhat like that of a deer but was not real pointy. It narrowed at the top then rounded off. The creature was observed only from the side. The arms were very short and were held close to the chest. The hands were quite small and looked as though they were carrying something or being held together. No legs or feet were observed. The driver said the thing just “glided” above the roadway. When the witness reached the location on the road where the creature had been, it was no longer seen. The witness could not understand how the thing was just gone in a matter of seconds.
September, 2015- A witness reported seeing a huge black bird with a wingspan estimated to be over 15 feet wide that wasn’t flapping its wings, but just soaring through the sky. The sighting took place near the Cedar Street exit outside of Greensburg. This area has had a history of thunderbird reports. There were other reports of giant bird sightings from across the state during the year.
September-October 2015- Numerous reports of triangular objects were reported from various locations.
On September 1, 2015, a witness near Springdale located about 18 miles NE of Pittsburgh observed a very bright white light toward the west that evening. As the light got closer, an unusual loud sound was heard unlike that of jet or propeller aircraft. As the object passed low overhead, it appeared to be huge and was not any type of aircraft the witness was familiar with. The observer looked up at the bottom of a solid boomerang shaped object that had evenly spaced dim white spotlights that were all non-blinking along the edge of the underside of the object. The underbelly of the object had a greenish tinge. The object moved toward the east, then banked to the south and moved out of sight.
In early October at a rural location between Fayette and Westmoreland counties, a man walked outside of his home around 11 AM and looked up to see the bottom of a very large solid black triangular object that had appeared to have four exhaust vents. The object was moving very slowly about 500 feet above the ground and was completely silent. The man grabbed his cell phone which was completely charged to take a picture. When he aimed at it, the phone reportedly lost all power and would not function. This effect has been reported by other witnesses over the years.
November 23, 2015- At about 2 PM, a married couple was driving on a rural road about 2 miles from Ligonier. The driver noticed some movement in the bushes to the right of the road. Suddenly, an animal began to trot from right to left about 10-20 feet ahead of the car. The car was stopped as both witnesses watched something quite strange.
The animal was four legged and looked somewhat like a fox. However, they could only see the outline of the animal, as this creature was not solid, and no color or fur was observed. The husband told me that the animal had a “smoky veil shape” but his wife who had a longer look at it stated that she could “see through it.” She also said that there was a specific area within the body shape that was like an energy pattern. They watched as the animal entered the woods to their left and never saw it again.
December 24, 2015- At about 9 PM, a witness was outside when he noticed a solid triangular object southwest of Greensburg. There were a number of non-blinking lights on the silent object which was approaching closer to the witness location. The witness grabbed a floodlight and aimed it towards the object. As soon as the light hit the object, it disappeared and was not seen again.
December 9, 2015, was the 50th anniversary of the Kecksburg, PA UFO crash-landing incident.
Late that afternoon in 1965, a brilliant fiery object was observed over a widespread area. That object reportedly fell from the sky into a wooded ravine near that Mount Pleasant Township community. Soon after the object fell, many eyewitnesses reported military personnel arriving in that area to search for the fallen object.
The object was reportedly taken away from that location on a military flatbed tractor trailer truck where it was transported first to Lockbourne Air Force Base in Ohio for a short stay over. The truck then continued on to Wright Patterson Air Force Base where it ended its journey. There have been many theories brought forth over the years as to what the object was that fell near Kecksburg in 1965. What that object was remains open for speculation.
To report a UFO, Bigfoot, cryptid, or any mysterious event from Pennsylvania, contact Stan at 724-838-7768 or email him at: paufo@comcast.net. Visit Stan’s website at: www.stangordon.info.
Vidéo : ovnis capturés dans la Quebrada de la Flecha
Vidéo : ovnis capturés dans la Quebrada de la Flecha
La page facebook "Guardianes del cielo cuyano" a publié le 12 mai dernier une vidéo d’ovnis filmée le dimanche 23 Avril 2017 vers environ 22h45 dans la zone de La Quebrada de la Flecha, situé dans le Nord-Ouest Argentin.
Des ufologues ont filmé plusieurs objets volants non identifiés à la frontière de la zone 51, une zone secrète appartenant aux forces aériennes des États-Unis et qui se trouve dans la partie sud de l'État du Nevada.
L'un des témoins a déclaré : « L'objet est surgi du néant. D'abord, il se déplaçait dans le ciel nocturne, lentement et sans faire de bruit. Puis, il a accéléré jusqu'à atteindre une vitesse incroyable. Ayant fait une analyse de la vidéo, nous avons remarqué un deuxième et même un troisième objet. On ignore ce que c'était ».
Selon des témoins, le premier objet sphérique est surgi « de nulle part » et semblait examiner le terrain. Au début les ovnistes l'ont pris pour un satellite.
Un célèbre acteur américain déclare avoir été témoin des lumières de Phoenix
Un célèbre acteur américain déclare avoir été témoin des lumières de Phoenix
Le célèbre acteur américain Kurt Russell vient de rompre un silence de 20 ans au sujet de l’une des plus grandes observations d’ovnis de masse des États-Unis.
Kurt Russell a déclaré avoir été témoin des mystérieuses lumières de Phoenix, en Arizona, alors qu'il se trouve à bord d’un avion. Russell a tout révélé sur la chaîne BBC lors d’une interview avec d’autres réalisateurs de films de science-fiction. Le pilote et les deux passagers de l’avion ont repéré six lumières dans le ciel nocturne avant de les signaler à la tour de contrôle pour savoir ce qui se passait. Russell a affirmé : « Le numéro de l'avion était Bonanza two Tango Sierra, et j'étais le pilote ». Il a déclaré que lui et Oliver Hudson, son fils, volaient au-dessus de Phoenix. Il a déclaré : « Nous étions en en phase d’atterrissage lorsque j'ai observé six feux au-dessus de l'aéroport, en forme de V ». La tour de contrôle de l’aéroport a déclaré à Russel ne rien avoir observé sur son radar.
Il a déclaré au sujet de l’incident de Phoenix dont il a découvert l’ampleur que plusieurs années plus grâce notamment à un documentaire : « C'était l'événement ufologique le plus regardé. Plus de 20 000 personnes l'ont vu. » Dans ce documentaire, il a été mentionné qu'un pilote avait déclaré avoir vu l’ovni lors de son atterrissage, et c'est à ce moment-là que Russell a su qu'il s'agissait en fait de lui. Il a dit : « Cette observation était tout simplement sortie de ma tête. Oliver ne l'a plus jamais mentionné… Si je n'avais pas vu ce documentaire, je n'aurais jamais pensé à cela… » Selon Alejandro Rojas, animateur d'Open Minds Radio : « Apparemment, c'est la première fois que Russell raconte cette histoire en public. » Avant cela, Russell n'avait pas été associé à la célèbre observation d’ovnis de Phoenix. Rappelons que cette manifestation de grande ampleur eu lieu le 13 mars 1997 lorsqu’une formation de cinq lumières a été vue dans par des milliers de personnes durant trois heures : de 19h30 à 22h30. Les observations ont eu lieu dans une zone d’environ 300 milles, allant de Phoenix jusqu’à Tucson.
Pour rappel, voici une compilation des différentes vidéos capturées à Phoenix :
Astronomers working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in New Mexico have discovered a mysterious object in the Cygnus A galaxy. Cygnus A is about 800 million light-years from Earth and is one of the strongest sources of radio waves in the known universe.
In this radio image taken by the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA), the object in question is the bright orb below the large galactic center.
The object was first spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994, but it was believed to be a cluster of young stars at the time. These most recent observations show that the object has very quickly become “extraordinarily bright,” baffling astronomers as to what its identity might be.
The object is found in the Cygnus A galaxy, seen here by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
Rick Perley, an NRAO astronomer who spotted the luminous anomaly, says that whatever the object is, it lit up to its current brightness relatively recently:
To our surprise, we found a prominent new feature near the galaxy’s nucleus that did not appear in any previous published images. This new feature is bright enough that we definitely would have seen it in the earlier images if nothing had changed. That means it must have turned on sometime between 1996 and now.
There are two leading theories about what the ‘extraordinarily bright’ object might be: one, that it could be a black hole outburst. An outburst is a jet of energy and matter which was lucky enough to be flung away from the gravitational center of a black hole as opposed to pulled into its inescapable grasp.
Cygnus X-1, the supermassive black hole at the heart of Cygnus A.
The other theory is that it could be a massive supernova, although its brightness appears to suggest otherwise. Cygnus A already has a supermassive radio-emitting black hole named Cygnus X-1 at its center, so this discovery could mean that a second black hole has joined the galaxy thanks to a recent galactic merger. If that theory is confirmed, they would be the closest known pair of black holes ever discovered.
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Bewijs voor ‘leven na de dood’. Deze mensen stierven en vertellen nu wat ze meemaakten
Bewijs voor ‘leven na de dood’. Deze mensen stierven en vertellen nu wat ze meemaakten
In een uitzending van het programma Dit is de Dag deden drie mensen die een bijna-doodervaring (BDE) hebben gehad hun verhaal.
Rinus van Warven werd in 1981 aangereden door een dronken automobilist. Hij zag zichzelf liggen in de ambulance en ging naar eigen zeggen een tunnel in met licht.
Hij hoorde vervolgens een stem zeggen dat hij nog niet verder mocht. Hij moest terug naar de aarde. Het voelde alsof hij in de hemel was geweest.
Licht en helder
Lucia Prinsen zei dat een BDE je leven op zijn kop zet. In 2005 was zij in het ziekenhuis voor de bevalling van haar tweede kind.
Ze kreeg een verkeerd medicijn en zakte weg. Ze was buiten bewustzijn, maar zag toch alles om zich heen gebeuren.
Prinsen bevond zich in een allesomvattende, pure liefde. Alles was licht en helder, zei ze.
Niet begrepen
“Ik heb geprobeerd erover te praten, maar dat ging niet,” vervolgde ze. “Mijn omgeving had er geen oor voor. Artsen konden het niet verklaren.”
Machteld Blickman was in 1975 ernstig ziek. Ze zag zichzelf uit haar lichaam treden. Ze overzag haar leven en zag een prachtig licht. Het voelde alsof ze er eerder was geweest.
Ook zij kon er lange tijd niet over spreken omdat mensen haar niet begrepen.
Meer openheid
Cardioloog Pim van Lommel zei onlangs in het programma Langs de Lijn En Omstreken dat het taboe er inmiddels wel een beetje vanaf is.
Niet alleen in de samenleving, maar ook in de beroepsgroep is er meer openheid voor het bestaan van BDE’s.
Laptop
Van Lommel stelt dat ons bewustzijn niet in de hersenen zit, maar maken de hersenen het mogelijk om bewustzijn te ervaren.
“We ontvangen, net als een laptop,” zei hij. “Maar bewustzijn is niet afhankelijk van onze hersenen, net zomin als het bestaan van de iCloud afhankelijk is van het aanstaan van je laptop.”
Video topgeheime basis Area 51 gelekt. Is dit ruimteschip gemaakt door aliens of mensen?
Video topgeheime basis Area 51 gelekt. Is dit ruimteschip gemaakt door aliens of mensen?
Er is een filmpje opgedoken waarin ‘gelekte’ beelden van een buitenaards vaartuig bij Area 51 in Nevada te zien zouden zijn. Dat schrijft Fox News.
In de video, die ruim een kwart miljoen keer is bekeken, is een vliegend object te zien in de lucht. Het lijkt in niets op bekende vliegtuigen.
Het vaartuig zendt licht uit terwijl het heen en weer beweegt. Het filmpje is hieronder te zien:
Volgens Tyler Glockner van SecureTeam 10 zijn de beelden ergens in de jaren tachtig of negentig gemaakt.
Hot topic
“Het is één van de mysterieuze puzzelstukjes binnen de ufologie,” zei hij over de beelden.
Area 51 is een hot topic geworden voor alien-jagers, aangezien de Amerikaanse overheid in 2013 het bestaan van de geheime basis erkende.
CIA-documenten
Het Amerikaanse Nationaal Archief openbaarde in augustus 2013 CIA-documenten na een Wob-verzoek van archivaris Jeffrey Richelson, die overtuigd was van het bestaan van de legerbasis in Nevada.
Inmiddels is bevestigd dat het spionagevliegtuig U-2 en de Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird zijn getest op de basis.
Wie of wat John St. Clair is, is niet duidelijk, waarschijnlijk een pseudoniem voor het militair-industrieel complex.
Een lezer komt het een zinnige suggestie (dank!) over wie of wat de mysterieuze John St. Clair zou kunnen zijn:
Wellicht een gekke gedachte hoor maar ik heb de initialen van de bedoelde man ( John St Clair)eens genomen, JSC, en als je die op google intypt krijg je het volgende Johnson Space Center.
Daar lees je het volgende;
NASA's Johnson Space Center has served as a hub of human spaceflight activity for more than half a century. It is home to the nation's astronaut corps, the International Space Station mission operations, the Orion Program, and a host of future space developments. The center plays a pivotal role in enhancing scientific and technological knowledge to benefit all of humankind.
Dezelfde lezer vond trouwens ook nog een ander bericht over een uitvinder met diezelfde naam.
John Quincy St. Clair is perhaps the 21st Century's most important inventor.
Dan, een andere lezer (dank!):
Goeden avond.
Ik zag dat artikel over die UFO.
En ik wou even zegen. In de tijd van Hitler was dat al uitgevonden. Oud nieuws natuurlijk. Werk met vril energie.
Weet wel een en ander. Maar wou alleen even dit patent lijst laten zien. Ik heb het gecheckt en dit bestaat echt allemaal. 14 verschillende. Dacht misschien interessant voor je.
Dat is het zeker en bij de boodschap zit de volgende afbeelding bijgevoegd. Zo te zien geen twijfel mogelijk dat we hier te maken met UFO-achtige ontwerpen. Voor de liefhebbers zijn al deze patenten op te zoeken omdat de nummers van het patent of de aanvraag zichtbaar zijn.
Het één leidt tot het ander en dus kregen we van een andere lezer de vraag of de patentaanvraag waarover wij schreven misschien iets te maken kon hebben met het volgende.
Het gaat om een eenvoudig experiment waarvoor je geen raketwetenschapper hoeft te zijn om het zelf te kunnen uitvoeren.
Het resultaat is echter verbazingwekkend, want je ziet de constructie inderdaad omhoog komen wanneer de stroom wordt aangezet en er een elektromagnetisch veld wordt gecreëerd.
Uit de commentaren onder de video blijkt dat sommigen dit geen anti zwaartekracht vinden, omdat zij zeggen dit theoretisch nog nooit op papier is bewezen en dus bestaat het niet.
Tja, dit is typisch wetenschap. Als iets werkt zoals hier, waarbij we duidelijk zien dat de zwaartekracht wordt overwonnen, dan bestaat dit niet omdat zij de theorie daarvan op papier niet kunnen bewijzen. Er is groeiend bewijs bovendien dat zwaartekracht zoals ons dat is geleerd niet bestaat en ook Newton had er een theorie over. Met dat in gedachten lijkt dit antizwaartekracht apparaat wat ons betreft al veel logischer en dus ook hoe UFO's die wij in de luchten zien zich verplaatsen.
Misschien iets voor Coen Vermeeren om een schriftelijke cursus: “Hoe bouw ik mijn eigen UFO in tien eenvoudige stappen op de keukentafel?” te ontwikkelen?
Wie of wat John St. Clair is, is niet duidelijk, waarschijnlijk een pseudoniem voor het militair-industrieel complex.
Een lezer komt het een zinnige suggestie (dank!) over wie of wat de mysterieuze John St. Clair zou kunnen zijn:
Wellicht een gekke gedachte hoor maar ik heb de initialen van de bedoelde man ( John St Clair)eens genomen, JSC, en als je die op google intypt krijg je het volgende Johnson Space Center.
Daar lees je het volgende;
NASA's Johnson Space Center has served as a hub of human spaceflight activity for more than half a century. It is home to the nation's astronaut corps, the International Space Station mission operations, the Orion Program, and a host of future space developments. The center plays a pivotal role in enhancing scientific and technological knowledge to benefit all of humankind.
Dezelfde lezer vond trouwens ook nog een ander bericht over een uitvinder met diezelfde naam.
John Quincy St. Clair is perhaps the 21st Century's most important inventor.
Dan, een andere lezer (dank!):
Goeden avond.
Ik zag dat artikel over die UFO.
En ik wou even zegen. In de tijd van Hitler was dat al uitgevonden. Oud nieuws natuurlijk. Werk met vril energie.
Weet wel een en ander. Maar wou alleen even dit patent lijst laten zien. Ik heb het gecheckt en dit bestaat echt allemaal. 14 verschillende. Dacht misschien interessant voor je.
Dat is het zeker en bij de boodschap zit de volgende afbeelding bijgevoegd. Zo te zien geen twijfel mogelijk dat we hier te maken met UFO-achtige ontwerpen. Voor de liefhebbers zijn al deze patenten op te zoeken omdat de nummers van het patent of de aanvraag zichtbaar zijn.
Het één leidt tot het ander en dus kregen we van een andere lezer de vraag of de patentaanvraag waarover wij schreven misschien iets te maken kon hebben met het volgende.
Het gaat om een eenvoudig experiment waarvoor je geen raketwetenschapper hoeft te zijn om het zelf te kunnen uitvoeren.
Het resultaat is echter verbazingwekkend, want je ziet de constructie inderdaad omhoog komen wanneer de stroom wordt aangezet en er een elektromagnetisch veld wordt gecreëerd.
Uit de commentaren onder de video blijkt dat sommigen dit geen anti zwaartekracht vinden, omdat zij zeggen dit theoretisch nog nooit op papier is bewezen en dus bestaat het niet.
Tja, dit is typisch wetenschap. Als iets werkt zoals hier, waarbij we duidelijk zien dat de zwaartekracht wordt overwonnen, dan bestaat dit niet omdat zij de theorie daarvan op papier niet kunnen bewijzen. Er is groeiend bewijs bovendien dat zwaartekracht zoals ons dat is geleerd niet bestaat en ook Newton had er een theorie over. Met dat in gedachten lijkt dit antizwaartekracht apparaat wat ons betreft al veel logischer en dus ook hoe UFO's die wij in de luchten zien zich verplaatsen.
Misschien iets voor Coen Vermeeren om een schriftelijke cursus: “Hoe bouw ik mijn eigen UFO in tien eenvoudige stappen op de keukentafel?” te ontwikkelen?
WE WERE WRONG ABOUT JUPITER! NEW IMAGES OF NASA'S PROBE JUNO STUN SCIENTISTS
WE WERE WRONG ABOUT JUPITER! NEW IMAGES OF NASA'S PROBE JUNO STUN SCIENTISTS
When NASA launched the Juno space probe back in August of 2011, the goal was that the over a billion dollar project would give them a chance to study the planet Jupiter more closely. Five years later in July of 2016 Juno finally made it to the orbit of Jupiter.
JUNO REVEALS SURPRISING INFORMATION ON JUPITER
At that time the eight instruments that were installed in the space probe were initialized to study the composition of Jupiter more closely. But perhaps nothing could prepare the research scientists for what would be discovered when Juno Apparently the atmosphere on Jupiter consist of cyclones and stunning, powerful auroras the likes of which the Earth has never seen or experienced. The cyclones which are massive take place around Juno's icy poles. So, what has the scientific community have to say about these new discoveries about Jupiter? One researcher and author Scott Bolton from the Southwest Research Institute has been quoted about these stunning images of Jupiter's atmosphere as saying:
"Discoveries about its core, composition, magnetosphere, and poles are as stunning as the photographs the mission is generating,"
These are just the most recent information gathered on Jupiter from the now fame Juno space probe. Since 2016 Juno also gave vital information about the composition and measurements of Jupiter as well. Now the question is what will ultimately become of Juno? Well, eventually it will burn out in Jupiter's atmosphere which has been estimated to occur some time at the beginning of 2018. So, yes this was a one-way mission.
May seem like a whole lot of money wasted, but was it? After all, for decades, the other planets of our solar system have been a mystery, very little was known about them. Now thanks to Juno we know so much more about Jupiter than ever before. So, mission accomplished, as for the images of Jupiter that the space probe has gathered, these can now be seen online. The images can certainly show just how intimate a look this truly was, and are worth seeing for ourselves.
EXPOSED: US MILITARY HAS TWO 'SPACE AGGRESSOR SQUADRONS' TO COMBAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS
EXPOSED: US MILITARY HAS TWO 'SPACE AGGRESSOR SQUADRONS' TO COMBAT EXTRATERRESTRIALS
Two teams of Air Force specialists are right now out there in the Rocky Mountains in the US preparing to defend the interests of America in space. These are the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron along with the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron. Their job is to train the remainder of the military for any possible arguments that might lead to war with extraterrestrials, along with coming up with strategies that would allow them to defend interests of the US in space.
This might sound like something out of a movie, preparing for an alien attack. They are taking on bad guy roles, playing out at intergalactic scale attacking along with provoking troops from the US in mock space battles. They have the mindset that space battles could occur and threaten America just as foreign countries and any other hostile powers.
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More Troops Commit Suicide Than Die In Combat In The War On ISIS666 Cult Illuminati Gestures Exposed In This Video The job of the Space Aggressors is to train the troops of the US Military to be able to make strategic use of space resources. An example would be taking part in brute force jamming, using the satellite networks to send signals so that any original messages that are sent cannot be read by outsiders. They are also training the forces in the US to fight without the use of any space resources; this would include satellite communications or GPS, to make sure that they would be able to fight competently using only maps, inertial navigation, and compasses.
Captain Christopher Barnes, the 26th SAS chief of training said that they study any threats to the space realm, which can come from land or space. He went on to say that if they are unable to replicate them directly with hardware, they work out if there is a software solution or whether there is a way that people can be trained so that it is possible to fight through them or if everything else fails, fight in the conflict.
The Space Aggressors launch attacks that are simulated along with doing training exercises. However, more than just games, the simulations are a response to threats to security that are taken seriously. The majority of the American warfare and defense are reliant on the GPS system, which is made up of a chain of 31 satellites.
IF SATELLITES ARE TAKEN OUT TROOPS IN US WOULD BE HELPLESS
Over recently years officials who are high-ranking in the US military said that more preparation is needed for defending space, more so due to the development of anti-satellite weapons in Russia and China. It was said that the enemy could take out satellites and that this would then leave the troops in the US helpless.
The executive director of the Office of Space Commerce, Ed Morris, said that the threat may stretch even beyond the battlefield. He said that when people lose their internet connection at the office they find it difficult to work, he then asked what would happen if the cell phone connection was lost, the TV, radio, credit card use, ATM access and maybe even the electricity.
MANUAL ON INTERNATIONAL LAW APPLICABLE TO MILITARY USE OF OUTER SPACE DRAWN UP
The world over has now recognized the threat of warfare along with aggression in space and how important it is to prepare for it. A group of lawyers has been drawing up the first body of law to have been applied to space. The work has been based largely on the principles of international law that already exist and come from the efforts of the coalition and will have the name of the Manual on International Law Applicable To Military Uses of Outer Space.
At the moment it is undecided on how the manual is going to apply to the various nations on Earth, however, if it is going to work nations such as the US are going to have to choose to take part. Rather like the United Nations, without commitment and the participation of member states, international law, whether it has been applied in space or Earth, will more than likely not be effective.
Huge cyclones rage near Jupiter's mysterious poles, and the giant planet's powerful auroras are fundamentally different from Earth's northern and southern lights.
Those are just two of the discoveries made by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first few close passes over Jupiter's poles, mission scientists report in two studies published online today (May 25) in the journal Science.
"What we've learned so far is Earth-shattering. Or should I say, Jupiter-shattering," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement. [Photos: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter]
"Discoveries about its core, composition, magnetosphere, and poles are as stunning as the photographs the mission is generating," added Bolton, the lead author of one of the new Science studies and a co-author of the other.
The south pole of Jupiter is seen from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) in this enhanced color mosaic of images from NASA's JunoCam. Cyclones up to 600 miles wide (1,000 km) are visible.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles SCOTT BOLTON - 3
Lifting the veil on Jupiter
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Since then, the solar-powered spacecraft has been using eight instruments to study the gas giant's composition, interior structure, and gravitational and magnetic fields. It will continue to do this work, barring some sort of malfunction, through at least February 2018, the end of Juno's primary mission.
The mission's name is a nod to the Roman goddess Juno, who was able to look through the clouds to see her frequently misbehaving husband Jupiter, the king of the gods, who was hiding within. Likewise, the Juno probe is peering beneath Jupiter's thick clouds to learn about the planet's formation and evolution — information that could shed light on the history of our solar system as a whole, NASA officials have said.
Juno makes most of the measurements relevant to this goal during its close flybys, which occur once every 53.5 days and bring the probe within about 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) of Jupiter's poles. (The original mission blueprint called for Juno to maneuver to a less elliptical orbit and make these flybys every 14 days, but an issue with two helium valves in the spacecraft's propulsion system nixed that plan.)
GIF showing infrared emission from Jupiter, as observed by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
Credit: S.J. Bolton et al., Science (2017)
Juno has now made five of these data-collecting "perijove passes." The first came on Aug. 27, 2016, and the most recent occurred just last week, on May 19. The two new Science papers report results just from the first few flybys, as well as some measurements Juno made as it neared Jupiter in June 2016.
Before Juno, no spacecraft had ever gotten close-up looks at Jupiter's poles. These mysterious regions are beautiful and bizarre, the Bolton-led study reports.
"When you look over the poles, all of those zones and belts are gone," Bolton said in a Science podcast that was also released today, referring to the striped cloud patterns prevalent at Jupiter's lower latitudes. "You see this bluish hue to it, and there's tons of these cyclone and anticyclonic storms spinning around the poles. It almost looks like meteor craters, but, of course, it's all atmosphere. It's all gas." [Photos: Jupiter, the Solar System's Largest Planet]
It's unclear what, exactly, drives these polar cyclones, some of which are up to 870 miles (1,400 km) wide, or if they're stable over long periods, Bolton said.
"Over the course of the mission, we'll be able to watch the poles and see how they evolve," he said in the podcast. "Maybe these cyclones are always there, but maybe they just come and go."
Juno also has been mapping out the concentration of water and ammonia deep within Jupiter's atmosphere. Data gathered during the first few passes has revealed that ammonia abundances vary quite a bit from place to place — a discovery that surprised the mission team.
"Most scientists have felt that, as soon as you go down a little bit into Jupiter, everything would be well-mixed, and we're finding that that's just not true at all," Bolton said. "There's structure down deep, but it doesn't seem to match the zones and belts. And so we're still trying to figure it out."
Juno's measurements during the first few close passes also show that Jupiter's magnetic field is nearly two times stronger than scientists had predicted. And the probe's gravity data suggest that "there's a lot of strange, deep motions that possibly are going on inside of Jupiter," Bolton said.
"What Juno's results are showing us is that our ideas of giant planets maybe are a little bit oversimplified," he added. "They're more complex than we thought; the motions that are going on inside are more complicated. It's possible that they formed differently than [suggested by] our simple ideas."
The southern lights of Jupiter, auroras at the planet's south pole, glow in this animation of false-colorimages from NASA's Juno spacecraft. The red hues suggest emissions from deeper in Jupiter's atmosphere, while green and white indicate higher regions.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI
Otherworldly auroras
Earth's auroras result when the solar wind — charged particles streaming from the sun — slam into the planet's atmosphere, generating a glow. (Earth's magnetic field funnels these particles toward the poles, which explains the phenomenon's other name: the northern and southern lights.)
Scientists already knew that the solar wind is a major driver of Jovian auroras, and that the planet's rotation is involved as well. But Juno has given researchers a chance to study the phenomenon in unprecedented detail; no other spacecraft had ever flown close to the planet's auroral regions before, Bolton said.
The second newly published Science study, which was led by John Connerney of the Space Research Corporation and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, details what the Juno team learned about the auroras and Jupiter's magnetosphere from the initial perijove passes. Once again, there were some surprises.
For example, the particles associated with Jupiter's auroras seem to be different than the ones responsible for Earth's most stunning light shows, study team members said.
"We can see that it doesn't work exactly like we expected, or as the Earth does," Bolton said. "We haven’t been able to see particles necessarily going up and down in both directions like we would've expected to cause the aurora. So there's definitely some strange phenomena that we still need to comb through and understand better."
Further close flybys should allow the Juno team to investigate such questions, he added.
"We're at the beginning of the mission, so these first results are sort of telling us some of our models and ideas are wrong and need to be corrected," Bolton said. "And we have some ideas of which way to go, but it really takes some more data to really test whatever theories we put together and see if we're right."
UFO Sightings: Kurt Russell Talks Being Witness To Famous ‘Phoenix Lights’ Incident
UFO Sightings: Kurt Russell Talks Being Witness To Famous ‘Phoenix Lights’ Incident
UFO sightings have been a regular occurrence since time out of mind, and one of the most popular UFO events in the last century happened in Phoenix, Arizona. Famously referred to as the “Phoenix Lights,” the UFO sighting, which happened in 1997, was reportedly witnessed by thousands of people. Twenty years since the incident, veteran Hollywood actor Kurt Russell finally opened up about being a witness to the event. And he was no regular witness, either. He didn’t see the alleged UFO from the ground looking up, he saw it from behind the cockpit of the private aircraft he was flying.
The interview took an interesting turn when host Gyles Brandret pulled out a folder with the letters “Top Secret” written on it. In reading the folder’s contents, Brandret told a story about an unidentified pilot who was flying a private plane with his son near the Phoenix airport. The unnamed pilot reportedly called the control tower to report that they saw six mysterious lights. The control tower promptly responded, saying that they hadn’t detected any planes in the area.
Brandreth capped the story by exclaiming, “Mystery unresolved!”
Pratt, who affected an incredulous look on his face throughout the account, admitted that he was a skeptic when it comes to UFO sightings. Kurt Russell, on the other hand, has been wearing a mischievous grin all along.
And then out of nowhere, Russell, 66, said that he and his son Oliver Hudson (Goldie Hawn’s son from her first marriage) flew a private aircraft from Los Angeles to Phoenix in 1995 so that he could take Oliver to see his girlfriend.
“We were on approach and I saw six lights over the airport in absolute uniform, in a V-shape,” Kurt continues.
Russell recalled that Hudson asked him if he knew what the lights were. When he said that he didn’t know, they contacted the control tower, who said that their radar didn’t find anything. Russell and his son then decided that they may have witnessed a UFO sighting.
The two never made mention of the UFO sighting again after they landed, at least until two years later, when Kurt came home one day to see Hudson watching a TV show reporting on a UFO sighting that occurred in Phoenix.
“That was the most viewed UFO event. Over 20,000 people saw it,” Russell added.
Kurt Russell recalled feeling like “Richard Dreyfuss from Close Encounters” while watching the show, and his suspicion was confirmed when the show mentioned that an unnamed general aviation pilot reported the UFO sighting to a control tower upon landing. “That was me,” Kurt remembered thinking to himself.
Russell then checked his log books, proving without a shadow of a doubt that his flight happened at the time of the popular UFO event.
“The fascinating part to me is that it just went, literally, out of my head. Oliver never mentioned it. Had I not seen that show, I would have never thought of it. That, to me, was the weird part,” he said.
UFO Sightings: Kurt Russell Talks Being Witness To Famous ‘Phoenix Lights’ Incident
UFO Sightings: Kurt Russell Talks Being Witness To Famous ‘Phoenix Lights’ Incident
UFO sightings have been a regular occurrence since time out of mind, and one of the most popular UFO events in the last century happened in Phoenix, Arizona. Famously referred to as the “Phoenix Lights,” the UFO sighting, which happened in 1997, was reportedly witnessed by thousands of people. Twenty years since the incident, veteran Hollywood actor Kurt Russell finally opened up about being a witness to the event. And he was no regular witness, either. He didn’t see the alleged UFO from the ground looking up, he saw it from behind the cockpit of the private aircraft he was flying.
The interview took an interesting turn when host Gyles Brandret pulled out a folder with the letters “Top Secret” written on it. In reading the folder’s contents, Brandret told a story about an unidentified pilot who was flying a private plane with his son near the Phoenix airport. The unnamed pilot reportedly called the control tower to report that they saw six mysterious lights. The control tower promptly responded, saying that they hadn’t detected any planes in the area.
Brandreth capped the story by exclaiming, “Mystery unresolved!”
Pratt, who affected an incredulous look on his face throughout the account, admitted that he was a skeptic when it comes to UFO sightings. Kurt Russell, on the other hand, has been wearing a mischievous grin all along.
And then out of nowhere, Russell, 66, said that he and his son Oliver Hudson (Goldie Hawn’s son from her first marriage) flew a private aircraft from Los Angeles to Phoenix in 1995 so that he could take Oliver to see his girlfriend.
“We were on approach and I saw six lights over the airport in absolute uniform, in a V-shape,” Kurt continues.
Russell recalled that Hudson asked him if he knew what the lights were. When he said that he didn’t know, they contacted the control tower, who said that their radar didn’t find anything. Russell and his son then decided that they may have witnessed a UFO sighting.
The two never made mention of the UFO sighting again after they landed, at least until two years later, when Kurt came home one day to see Hudson watching a TV show reporting on a UFO sighting that occurred in Phoenix.
“That was the most viewed UFO event. Over 20,000 people saw it,” Russell added.
Kurt Russell recalled feeling like “Richard Dreyfuss from Close Encounters” while watching the show, and his suspicion was confirmed when the show mentioned that an unnamed general aviation pilot reported the UFO sighting to a control tower upon landing. “That was me,” Kurt remembered thinking to himself.
Russell then checked his log books, proving without a shadow of a doubt that his flight happened at the time of the popular UFO event.
“The fascinating part to me is that it just went, literally, out of my head. Oliver never mentioned it. Had I not seen that show, I would have never thought of it. That, to me, was the weird part,” he said.
Is A “Breakaway Civilization” Behind The Mysterious Secret Space Program?
Is A “Breakaway Civilization” Behind The Mysterious Secret Space Program?
Richard Dolan author of, UFOs and the National Security State 1&2, and A.D. After Disclosure, came up with the term Breakaway Civilization to describe a separately evolving covert, technically advanced community of people with trillions of dollars of resources siphoned off from our host society. This very autocratic, even fascist elite society uses fear, greed and intimidation even murder, to remain invisible to its host society all under the guise of National Security.
Anything that relates to this Breakaway Civilization is classified Top Secret or above with access by need to know and Special Access Programs (SAPS). While much of the Breakaway Civilization is centered in the United States it has integrated itself into allied governments around the globe. It is what President Eisenhower called the Military-Industrial complex in his farewell speech, just before leaving office, warning that it was breaking away from constitutional controls.
If a person really thinks about it, Special Access on a need to know basis, is how the plantation slave owner controlled his slaves, educating them just enough to do their jobs but no more. To educate them further than need to know would invite rebellion. The old plantation system promoted ignorance among slaves in tandem with methods of control based on fear, intimidation and reward. I think the New World Order (NWO) as envisioned by the Elite Military-Industrial Complex Globalists is no more than a more sophisticated version of old feudal society reintroduced into the modern age.
The NWO’s wage slaves are not controlled by the whip or the withholding of food as in the past, but through the creation and control of paper money and the mass media. Money is created and distributed through private central banks disguised as Federal, in almost every country of the world. Paul Hellyer the Ex-Defense Minister of Canada gave a very good speech called Global Fraud, Global Hope that explains sophisticated mechanism of control and even slips a little ET information into the mix as well.http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23431
I explained in the introduction to this book that there should be nothing surprising about the idea of elite breakaway civilizations. Humanities past is replete with instances where the ruling elite of a society overtly maintains a standard of living and technology in advance of what subjects as a whole have access to. What is different is when such a system becomes covert, and hides behind a guise of National Security, while growing like a cancer to such size that it subverts and corrupts legitimate transparent constitutional governments all around the world.
I am going to provide the reader with evidence that supports the idea that much of this Breakaway civilization’s advanced technology and its super-secret Space Program is based upon reverse engineering extraterrestrial technologies. These advanced exotic propulsion and exotic power technologies have been gained first through extraterrestrial crashes, and soon afterward from what are called Technology Transfer Programs (TTPs), negotiated between different ET civilizations including the Tall Whites and the Greys. Such negotiations imply embassies and ambassadors, in fact Charles Hall states that his female teacher in the 1960s was, “The Ambassadors Daughter”.
This Military Industrial Complex is the real reason the UFO/ET cover up has lasted so long because the corporations involved profit immensely from maintaining a monopoly on ET access or in the suppressing of exotic cheap energy technologies that would put the fossil fuels industry out of business. I call this loosely knit conglomerate of allied special interests the Alien Resource Cartel.
According to aerospace engineer Bill Uhouse and Ben Rich this cartel was spun off of the MJ12 organization in a purge by the Nixon administration in the 1960s. These following quotes from Bill Uhouse material provide fascinating window into how, what he calls the Satellite Government operates. As one can see from these quotes Nixon left a dark imprint upon society in this arena as well. In this early report Bill was called Jarod, but later the ET he worked with was called the Jarod. Bill Uhouse states:
“Understanding how this social structure works is like trying to understand the internal relationships of a tight-knit family in some Asian culture.” “If any area seems dubious, he asks his boss about it, who says either “Okay” or “Let’s hold off on that a while.” For example, his boss said it was okay to mention Nixon as the founder of the Satellite Government, because “Nixon is dead. ” Playing by the rules is very simple for Jarod. He is not working from any rule book or security classification system.”
“Jarod says the satellite government lives by its own laws, completely separate from the conventional government except for an interface with the military. It is not controlled by any other agency, so it does not have to obey the security regulations of other agencies. The fact that Jarod is allowed to speak does seem to imply permission from a higher level than the supervisor, but perhaps a word from management, without any paperwork, is all it takes to make something secret or not secret. Security could be both more intrusive than in any conventional defense program and more informal to those who are used to the structure. Consider the special circumstances….”
“This agency was separated from the rest of the government over 40 years ago. Thus, it would have had an opportunity to evolve in its own way, adapting to the unique requirements of the subject matter.” “The organization is largely composed of older men who have worked with each other for decades. A worker’s supervisor and his security officer are assigned to him for life.”
“The organization is extremely hierarchical, especially given the needs of compartmentalization. A worker reports only to his immediate supervisor, and direct contacts with members of other departments and higher management are rare.” (End)
In my estimation one of the most important documents released by the United States Government is the declassified Wright Patterson 1956 paper on Electogravitics. It’s technical, but it provides a powerful foundation and basis for the technological development timeline to a present day Secret Space Program based on electromagnetic and electrogravitic propulsion and exotic power technologies.
It also includes the names of corporations that became the major players in the Military Industrial Complex. I have included it in its entirety at the end of this chapter so that it is available to the technically inclined, but the lay person can just skip over it and move to Chapter Three if they like.http://www.padrak.com/ine/INE24.html
Many researchers believe that this Secret Space Program and its Space Fleet is capable of not only rapid travel about our solar system with bases on the Moon and Mars, but is deep space capable as well as first was indicated by Ben Rich. This is why there has been no overt return to the moon because in the 1960s NASA became little more than an expensive and dangerous cover and public propaganda operation. Several NASA employee whistleblowers have testified to being involved in airbrushing out any and all images of the ET presence from images of the Earth, Moon, Mars and even space.
There is so much evidence for this Secret Space Program and the Breakaway Civilization in which it is imbedded that I hardly know where to start. Maybe the best place to start would be statements that Ben Rich made in public and in private before he died.
Ben Rich Lockheed’s CEO Admits on Deathbed: ET/UFO Are Real
What he said might be new to many people today, but he revealed the information before his death in January 1995. His statements helped to give credence to reports that the U.S. military has been flying vehicles that mimic alien craft. The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building technologically advanced airplanes of small number and of high class for highly secret missions.”
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”
“We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.” When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected? ” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!”
Lockheed “Skunk Works” former CEO knew the Roswell extraterrestrial UFO influenced designs of Testor model kits for Roswell UFO models, and U.S. top secret aircraft. According to a CNI News report by Colorado resident Michael Lindeman, the design information was derived from forensic illustrations and numerous witness testimonies about the Roswell UFO, provided by William L. “Bill” McDonald.
In an e-mail, dated July 29, 1999, apparently addressed to Lindeman, McDonald referenced an excerpt of a discussion with Harold Puthoff, founder of the highly classified U.S. “remote viewing” program. McDonald said: “Well Hal, you asked for it! Now that legendary Lockheed engineer and chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation, John Andrews, is dead, I can announce that he personally confirmed the design connection between the Roswell Spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), spy planes, Joint Strike Fighters, and Space Shuttles.
Andrews was a close personal friend of “Skunk Works” CEO Ben Rich — the hand-picked successor of Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson and the man famous for the F-117 Nighthawk “Stealth” fighter, its “half-pint” prototype the “HAVE BLUE”, and the top-secret F-19 Stealth Interceptor. Before Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my questions to him.
1. There are 2 types of UFOs — the ones we build and ones ‘they’ build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actual “hand-me-downs.” The Government knew and until 1969 took an active hand in the administration of that information. After a 1969 Nixon “purge”, administration was handled by an international board of directors in the private sector…
2. Nearly all “biomorphic” aerospace designs were inspired by the Roswell spacecraft — from Kelly’s SR-71 Blackbird onward to today’s drones, UCAVs, and aerospace craft…
3. It was Ben Rich’s opinion that the public should not be told [about UFOs and extraterrestrials] . He believed they could not handle the truth — ever. Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the “international corporate board of directors” dealing with the “Subject” could represent a bigger problem to citizens’ personal freedoms under the United States Constitution than the presence of off-world visitors themselves.”
Lindeman added that “Bill McDonald received the above information from Andrews from 1994 until their last phone call near Christmas in 1998.” Lindeman also noted “It should also be known that Dr. Ben R. Rich attended a public aerospace designers and engineers conference in 1993 before his illness overwhelmed him in which he stated — in the presence of MUFON Orange County Section Director Jan Harzan and many others that – ‘We’ (i.e., the U.S. aerospace community/military industrial complex) had in it’s possession the technology to “take us to the stars”. See the complete letter in May, 2010 MUFON UFO Journal from John Andrews and the hand written reply from Dr. Ben Rich.
Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer USAF, and CIA Contractor Don Phillips confirms Ben Rich’s statements, “These UFOs were huge and they would just come to a stop and do a 60 degree, 45 degree, 10 degree turn, and then immediately reverse this action”. During the Apollo landing, Neil Armstrong says, “They’re here. They are right over there and looking at the size of those ships., it is obvious they don’t like us being here”. When I was working with the Skunkworks with Kelly Johnson, we signed an agreement with the government to keep very quiet about this.
Anti-gravitational research was going on. We know that there were some captured craft from 1947 in Roswell, they were real. And, yes, we really did get some technology from them. And, yes, we really did put it to work. We knew each other from what we call an unseen industry. We can term it black, deep black, or hidden. The knowledge I have of these technologies came from the craft that were captured here. I didn`t see the craft, nor did I see the bodies, but I certainly know some of the people that did. There was no question that there were beings from outside the planet.
Are these ET people hostile? Well, if they were hostile, with their weaponry they could have destroyed us a long time ago. We got these things that are handhold scanners that scan the body and determine what the condition is. We can also treat from the same scanner.
I can tell you personally that we’ve been working on them. And we have ones that can diagnose and cure cancer. One of the purposes I had for founding my technology corporation in 1998 was to bring forth these technologies that can clean the air and can help get rid of the toxins, and help reduce the need for so much fossil fuel. Yes, it is time. I can tell you personally that it has already started. pp. 375, 383.” (End)
The following is an article I wrote after I first heard the term Solar Warden being used as the alleged code name for the part of the Secret Space Fleet that operates within our solar system. I already had an interest in the Secret Space Fleet and had written material about what I already knew.
Here is an interesting little ti-bit folks, that Vince White our exopolitical poet in residence sent me yesterday that I think deserves sharing. People that have been following my blog know I have discussed this alleged allied space fleet in some of my articles.
Forwarded Message: “Subject: Solar Warden Date: 4/5/2009 Dear Jerry: I have verified a little about the Solar Warden that you asked about some time ago. It is the overall project identification for out Space Fleet Carrier program coming out of Regan’s old Star Wars efforts. We apparently have one or more Space Carriers, like Aircraft Carriers at sea, but in deep space, that supports our Space Patrol efforts and house our American built flying discs that require no fuel and operate on free energy.”
“The STS-58 video clip that was filmed from one of our space shuttles showed such an intercept and that footage was immediately suppressed and resulted in that free video from the shuttles being shut down. Gary McKinnon, the English computer nerd that lived with his mother in London, using a cheap home PC late at night, said that he discovered this project and that he found evidence of three such carriers and their names and numbers and even the names of some of the commanders in those black project files.”
“Now you can see why our government is spending so much money and political clout to extradite that foreign national to our country for trial in our country for silencing and then elimination. One has to wonder how much it took to persuade the English House of Lords to give him up to us. Regards, W” (End)
After I posted the two articles on Solar Warden, Open Minds Forum ( OM) management sent the following to me. It would appear that the code name Solar Warden first surfaced at OM before the Gary McKinnon affair. As far as I know Gary did not know of the name Solar Warden.
“You may come to find the information somewhat shocking and unable to understand as. I pray the Almighty will look out for the inhabitants of this planet as the coming years will bring much misery. I pass on this information in the hope that you, as an unbiased observer, will make sure the public learns the truth.”
“All space programs are a cover that exists to deceive the people of this world. We have a space fleet, which is code named ” Solar Warden.” There were, as of 2005, eight ships, an equivalent to aircraft carriers and forty-three “protectors,” which are space planes. One was lost recently to an accident in Mars’ orbit while it was attempting to re-supply the multinational colony within Mars. This base was established in 1964 by American and Soviet teamwork. Not everything is, as it seems.”
“We have visited all the planets in our solar system, at a distance of course, except Mercury. We have landed on Pluto and a few moons. These ships contain personnel from many countries and have sworn an oath to the World Government, also, known as the Bilderbergers. The technology came from back engineering alien-disc wreckage and at times with alien assistance.” (End)
I think we can begin to build points on a historical timeline from the very strong foundation of the 1956 Declassified Wright Patterson Electrogravitics paper to the present day Secret Space Fleet. One very important point has been presented by Senior Research Engineer Boyd Bushman who worked for Lockheed Martin, Texas Instruments and Hughes Aircraft.
In October of 2011 he provided evidence to investigators in an interview that by 1959 the U.S. government had already reverse engineered an extraterrestrial spacecraft using a nuclear reactor for propulsion! I mean this was three years after the Wright Patterson Electrogravitics paper was published. It should not be hard for the reader to begin to logically create a time line from 1956 to 1959 to the present super-secret space fleet.
There has been speculation and some evidence that the Navy has operational control over the Secret Space Fleet, in a case of fact imitating Star Trek fiction. It is well know that the Navy pretty much has had a monopoly on engineering small compact nuclear reactor power plants for its ships and carriers in its large ocean going fleets. The Navy’s organizational structure is well suited for operating large ocean going fleets. On the other hand the Air Force has experience in the research and development, testing and flying advanced aerospace craft and expertise in aerospace tracking and base support in conjunction with Air Force Space Command.
One would assume that some kind of working arrangement has been worked out over the years between the Air Force and the Navy. As it the fiction movie Avatar, one would expect the Army and Marines to have operational control of ground operations on Secret colonies and bases on the Moon, Mars and even on other solar systems. A second important point on the historical time line to a Secret Space Fleet and it’s off world bases and colonies using exotic electromagnetic propulsion systems with compact nuclear power plants to provide the huge amounts of electrical power necessary, is the Piney Woods Incident, the Cash-Landrum UFO Case that took place in December of 1980.
One can speculate from the revelations of Bob Lazar now backed up to some extent by Boyd Bushman and some material in UFO Crash at Aztec, that alien power plants are not that easy to replicate, so these first craft used electromagnetic and electrogravitic off the shelf power plant technologies.
The Cash-Landrum case has been well researched and has withstood the test of time, and seems to have involved a core meltdown in a super-secret exotic aerospace craft. It was surrounded by military helicopters and it severely irradiated the witnesses involved. The three witnesses sued the U.S. government for damages to their health and the case even went to a Congressional Hearing but the government would not admit responsibility for the incident.
Technological Singularity: Beyond the Event Horizon
While many may not realize, it humanity is a rapidly approaching what is being called a Technological Singularity and I believe the Breakaway Society has already passed beyond that event horizon leading the way for the rest of society to follow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
I and others believe that at the technological singularity boundary the technological rules change just as drastically as the rules of physics change at the boundary of a black hole.http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae251.cfm It is at this Technological Singularity where we begin to rewrite our genome and our external reality giving us superhuman powers and intelligence. In a case of monkey see, monkey do, I believe we are copying this process from covert extraterrestrial contact.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7681252/ns/health-cloning_and_stem_cells
A friend of mine at Open Seti suggested to me after reading my article on genome security that my next article should cover the man in the machine or the concept of human machine hybrids.http://surroundingsignifiers.com/2011/03/13/the-future-of-uxui-and-human-machine-integration/ We need to explore what will happen to us and what will we look like when we no longer interface with our computers through keyboard and mouse but through mind-machine interfaces.
The first step toward a man-machine hybrid as suggested to me by whistleblower Clifford Stone is through a bio-suit loaded with microprocessors and sensors, while the second and final step is integration of these devices into our genetic structure as suggested by Ar Borden. Both individuals claim contact with several ET races. I think the main driver behind the approaching Technological Singularity is extraterrestrial contact.
While this contact is still being hidden from the public it is filtering out into the public domain accelerating our technological development in ways suggested by Col. Corso in his book, The Day After Roswell. This has happened before in our history with the covert release of newly discovered Chinese technology in the 12th and 13th centuries by the autocrats of the day, so as to preserve their control over the masses. (See next section)
I think that many of these extraterrestrial races and civilizations now becoming known to us are already in this technological singularity domain, and by association we are ourselves drawn rapidly into the domain as well. Let’s hope we can handle ourselves in a creative rather than a destructive fashion becoming an asset rather than a liability in this domain. I think that this domain is what the Hopi and other Native Americans have foreseen as the Fifth World as described to them by the Sky People in their past. http://www.mondovista.com/flyingshields/http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_leyenda_hopi21.htm
I think that the extraterrestrials are shepherding us into this technological or evolutionary singularity for better or for worse, but once there our future is for us to decide, if we will take responsibility for our thoughts and actions.
ET’s Ignite a Modern Renaissance Similar to China in Europe 600 Years Ago
I am always interested in discovering historical material that helps to better understand this process of humanities integration into extraterrestrial realities and the nature of information locked up in the Breakaway Society. I stumbled across Gavin Menzies book 1434 in the course of my studies that provide quite a body of evidence suggesting that the European Renaissance was sparked by the overt and covert introduction of advanced Chinese science and technology. This technological transfer from the world’s only real superpower of the period reached its zenith in 1434 when the Chinese fleet that had already explored and mapped the world in 1421 sailed to Italy. http://www.gavinmenzies.net/
I had read Gavin’s first book 1421 years ago, but the evidence he had collected was a bit flimsy and a fishing expedition of sorts, but since then many more historical scholars have become involved all over the world and a huge body of evidence is building supporting his speculations and initial data. (See evidence section http://www.gavinmenzies.net/evidence.asp ) This is causing a complete rewrite of history for the 1300s and 1400s, even interesting the Smithsonian, and gives us a road-map of the process by which contact with a more technologically developed civilization integrates into a lesser advanced hierarchical society on earth.
History seems to be once again repeating itself where global rulers are allowing scientific and technological knowledge from extraterrestrial contact to covertly leak out into the public domain for their own benefit, while at the same time suppressing other knowledge that would weaken their hold on power. This exact same process seems to have happened in Europe when the Chinese leaders make contact with European leaders, who supported at the time, severely distorting the historical record as to where these ideas and knowledge originated.
“On the cover jacket Gavin says, “Florence and Venice of the early fifteenth century were hubs of world trade, attracting traders from across the globe. Based on years of research, this marvelous history argues that a Chinese fleet –official ambassadors of the emperor–arrived in Tuscany in 1434, where they were received by Pope Eugenius IV in Florence.”
“The delegation presented the influential pope with a wealth of Chinese learning from a diverse range of fields: art, geography (including world maps that were passed on to Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan), astronomy, mathematics, printing, architecture, steel manufacturing, military weaponry, and more. This vast treasure trove of knowledge spread across Europe, igniting the legendary inventiveness of the Renaissance, including the work of such geniuses as DA Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo and more.”
This new knowledge uncovered by Gavin Menzies and others clearly shows that learned men with access did not make many of the discoveries attributed to them, but simply copied already existing technological and scientific ideas that had been in use and known in China for hundreds of years. A small part of the huge Chinese fleet sailed to Italy in huge ocean going ships armed with cannon, mortars, exploding bombs, flamethrowers etc. when at the time the European navies were not more that sail and row galleys, armed with archers. One can imagine the shock to the European political and military authorities when they realized they were basically defenseless against such superior military technology. http://www.gavinmenzies.net/pages/evidence-1434/view-chapter.asp?EvidenceID=22
Not only did this spark the Renaissance; it sparked an arms race to catch up militarily with the Chinese very similar to what we have today after the crashes of extraterrestrial spaceships in the 1930s and 1940s. The Chinese after bankrupting themselves building such a huge ocean going fleet along with other excesses fell rapidly into decline while the Europeans rapidly became the world’s technological power. There are many lessons from the past that are as applicable today as 600 years ago.http://www.gavinmenzies.net/pages/evidence-1434/view-chapter.asp?EvidenceID=3
I find it interesting that contact between both humans and extraterrestrials seems to always result in genetic mixing of races. In the 1400s there was also a flourishing slave trade of Chinese slaves mostly young girls to Italy, as many as ten thousand a year. http://www.gavinmenzies.net/pages/evidence-1434/content.asp?EvidenceID=47 This resulted in a genetic mixing in Italy that reminds me of the forced genetic mixing going on between earth humans and certain races of aliens today in what I call the abductee alien slave trade. In both cases the autocratic authorities approved and facilitated such abhorrent forms of human trafficking.
I believe extraterrestrials have ignited a modern global renaissance in science and technology the likes of which has not been seen for 600 years. When the Chinese ignited the Renaissance they were just as alien and technologically advanced in relation to the Europeans as extraterrestrials are to us today. European political, military and religious leaders acted is very similar ways to exploit the technologies involved while at the same time suppressing the real source of the information and other information that would weaken their hold on power.
In both cases the initial cultural shock was quickly replaced with the emotions of fear and greed. In 1434 the military feared the advanced gunpowder weaponry and naval capabilities of the Chinese that quickly sparked a rapid gunpowder arms race and naval buildup that resulted in the European voyages of discovery and colonization. In 1947 the discovery of extraterrestrial weapons and advanced ET space fleets resulted in a rapid space and arms race resulting in a multi trillion dollar secret space fleet.http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/solar-warden-articles.html The greed side of the equation kicks as economic power figures out how the new information could be exploited for the benefit of the ruling classes at the expense of the lower classes.
In both cases the famous learned men of their time became complicit in cooperating with the ruling classes to suppress certain knowledge and to fraudulently take credit for the inventions and scientific discovers that were not theirs. http://zlandcommunications.blogspot.com/2010/05/carl-sagan-knew-ufos-are-real-confidant.html How this was done 600 years ago is explained in 1434 just as Col. Corso explained how it was done after 1947 in the book, The Day After Roswell.
For those who would study the evidence accumulated in the book 1434 and on the website, it is obvious that Leonardo DA Vinci, Santini, Taccola, Di Giorgio all took credit for inventions and scientific discoveries that were not their own. Just compare the similarity of the illustrations in chapter 16. Furthermore the laws of celestial mechanics http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/lost_discoveries3.asp#excerpt credited to Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo were know by the Chinese and used to create a very accurate calendar in 1280 for Kublai Khan (page 23 -28) that was later adopted by the Europeans. This calendar required very complex astrological calculations of the earth’s rotation, varying speeds around an elliptical orbit around the sun, etc. The Chinese had even noticed moons around Jupiter visible to the naked eye in certain locations in China in 364 B.C…
How can we account for such similar political reactions and responses by the authorities of both periods and their learned servants? I think the answer is inherent in autocratic rule that is driven in a large part by fear, deception and greed and is by nature insecure as leaders can fall from power just as quickly as they rise to power. Obviously any democratic or populist countermanding force has been far too weak in both cases to have any significant immediate check on autocratic power and societal exploitation of the technologies involved.
It remains to be seen if the situation will change over the longer term in regards to extraterrestrial knowledge due to democratic disclosure rumblings and extraterrestrial disclosure activities by the ET’s themselves. If the Chinese source for this advanced scientific and technological knowledge in 1434 could be effectively covered up for 600 years, 60 years seems a very short time. But on the other hand just as Chinese advances in printing technology helped to rapidly integrate Chinese advanced knowledge and fuel the Renaissance, so too the Internet seems to be not only uncovering old Chinese-European secrets but now ET secret classified knowledge is being uncovered and distributed to the public.
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De eerste resultaten van de Juno-missie zijn er
De eerste resultaten van de Juno-missie zijn er
Tim Kraaijvanger
Sinds juli 2016 draait de Juno-ruimtesonde om de grootste planeet van ons zonnestelsel. In twee papers in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Science staan dan eindelijk de eerste onderzoeksresultaten. Zij schijnen een nieuw licht op Jupiter.
“Wat we tot dusver hebben geleerd is verbazingwekkend”, zegt hoofdonderzoeker Scott Bolton, Juno’s hoofdonderzoeker. “We zijn veel te weten gekomen over de kern, compositie, magnetosfeer en polen. Daarnaast zijn we veel nieuwe foto’s rijker.”
Forse cyclonen In het eerste paper presenteert Bolton de resultaten van Juno’s scheervluchten over de wolkentoppen. Daaruit blijkt er op de polen van Jupiter heldere, ovale structuren te zien zijn. Deze structuren zien wij niet op de polen van Saturnus. Uit timelapsebeelden blijkt dat de ovalen cyclonen zijn, waarvan sommige exemplaren een diameter van circa 1.400 kilometer hebben.
Cyclonen op de noordpool en zuidpool van Jupiter.
Opwellende ammoniak Daar stopt het niet. Juno heeft de samenstelling van de atmosfeer nabij de evenaar geanalyseerd, toen het ruimtevaartuig over de wolkentoppen vloog. Daaruit blijkt dat ammoniak opwelt uit de diepe atmosfeer en vervolgens gigantische weersystemen vormt.
Sterk magnetisch veld & rotsachtige kern Verder blijkt het magnetisch veld van de gasreus sterker dan verwacht. Nabij de atmosfeer is het veld ongeveer tien keer zo sterk als het aardmagnetische veld, namelijk 7.766 Gauss. Minder verrassend is de kern van Jupiter. Die blijkt – zoals modellen al voorspelden – rotsachtig te zijn.
Magnetosfeer In het tweede paper gaat onderzoeker John Connerney in op aurora’s en de magnetosfeer van Jupiter. Toen Juno op 24 juni 2016 de magnetosfeer van de planeet binnendrong, voelde de ruimtesonde een zogenoemde boogschok. Opvallend is het feit dat het ruimtevaartuig op latere tijdstippen meer schokken te verduren kreeg. Connerney en zijn collega’s vermoeden dat de magnetosfeer op dat moment aan het groeien was.
Aurora’s Tenslotte heeft Juno elektronen gespot die energie afgaven in de Joviaanse atmosfeer, waardoor er grote aurora’s ontstonden. Wetenschappers concluderen dat de verspreiding van deze elektronen anders gaat dan op aarde. Wellicht is de interactie tussen Jupiter en directe omgeving anders dan op aarde.
Een aurora op Jupiter. Rechtsboven een aurora op aarde. De schaal is ongeveer gelijk.
Fantastische foto van mogelijk levensvatbare maan van Saturnus
Fantastische foto van mogelijk levensvatbare maan van Saturnus
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Op het kiekje schittert Enceladus: een maan waarvan gedacht wordt dat deze wel eens leven kan herbergen.
De foto heeft iets mysterieus. We kijken tegen de zijde aan die op Saturnus gericht is en een klein beetje verlicht wordt door het licht dat Saturnus reflecteert. De rechterzijde van de planeet baadt ondertussen in het zonlicht, waardoor de vele breuken en groeven in het kilometers dikke pak ijs goed zichtbaar zijn.
Cassini Ruimtesonde Cassini maakte de foto eind vorig jaar, maar NASA heeft deze nu pas vrijgegeven. Op het moment dat de foto gemaakt werd, was Cassini zo’n 168.000 kilometer van de 504 kilometer grote maan verwijderd.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Snoepwinkel Enceladus spreekt tot de verbeelding. De maan van Saturnus is bedekt met een kilometers dik pak ijs. Maar onder dat ijs gaat hoogstwaarschijnlijk een vloeibare oceaan schuil. Onderzoekers achten het niet onmogelijk dat in die oceaan leven huist. Recent stelden onderzoekers dat de drie basisingrediënten voor leven – vloeibaar water, een energiebron voor metabolisme en de juiste chemische ingrediënten, te weten koolstof, fosfor, waterstof, stikstof, zuurstof en zwavel) bijna allemaal aanwezig zijn op Enceladus. Onderzoeker Hunter Waite noemde de maan “een snoepwinkel voor microscopisch leven”.
Of er ook echt leven is op de maan blijft onduidelijk. Want Cassini – de sonde die momenteel Saturnus en omgeving bestudeert – is niet in staat om leven op te sporen. Een goede reden om er op korte termijn een ruimtevaartuig naartoe te sturen dat dat wel kan. De ijskap die op de maan rust, heeft een gemiddelde dikte van 18 tot 22 kilometer. Maar op de zuidpool is deze dunner dan vijf kilometer. “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,” aldus onderzoeker Alice Le Gall eerder dit jaar.
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"Slim Crescent of Ice" - NASA De foto bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute
Social media and local news outlets throughout upstate New York were swamped with reports of strange lights over Lake Ontario on the evening of May 23rd. Just around dusk, a formation of eerie floating lights appeared over the Canadian side of the lake, prompting curiosity from hundreds of local residents.
Many social media users speculated the lights could be drones.
Eyewitness Kate Caven told local Buffalo news station WIVB that residents throughout the Lake Ontario region were perplexed about the source of the lights, which seemed to hover in the air above the lake:
Some people were concerned maybe they were distress signals, but we couldn’t see any boats. And then some people mentioned maybe a meteor shower, but again they weren’t really moving. So that’s pretty much what most people were saying other than UFOs or aliens. I joked around with my friend Matt who was with me, if they were coming to take us, I was ready, that that wasn’t a bad way to go out if I could see an alien.
It sure wouldn’t be, Karen. Shortly after the reports came in, however, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) claimed responsibility for the sighting. According to an RCAF spokesperson, the lights were training flares dropped by a Hercules Model 8 CCC-130H aircraft in the 424th squadron out of 8 wing Trenton, Ontario, who were conducting a search and rescue exercise in the area.
Smoke trails can be seen trailing behind each descending flare.
However, there are some alleged inconsistencies in the RCAF’s story. The RCAF spokesperson’s statement claims the flares were dropped around 9:30 p.m., yet some social media commenters noted that they observed the flares hours earlier. Other commenters noted that the lights appeared to move up and down in the air above the lake. Of course, the mind sometimes sees what it wants to see, and at such a distance, it could be difficult to judge movement.
After the RCAF claimed similar exercises are routine, some residents wondered why flares aren’t a more common sight.
Meanwhile, according to a few sources, the U.S. Coast Guard reportedly initially ruled out basic flares as the source of the phenomenon. However, a quick comparison with images of artillery flares indeed shows a clear resemblance to the Lake Ontario lights. While a government UFO cover-up makes for great headlines, this case is likely exactly what the RCAF says it was.
Artillery illumination rounds are commonly used in military operations.
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De reuzenplaneet Jupiter lijkt anders in elkaar te zitten dan aanvankelijk gedacht. Dat blijkt uit eerste resultaten van de Juno-missie waarover is bericht in de wetenschappelijke vakbladen Science en Geophysical Research Letters en waarover betrokken vorsers van de Universiteit van Luik hebben bericht.
Op 27 augustus 2016 maakte de ruimtesonde Juno een eerste scheervlucht langs Jupiter, de grootste planeet van ons zonnestelsel. Sindsdien gebeurde dit nog vijf keer, en er volgen er nog zeven. Doel is meer te weten te komen over de atmosfeer, het magnetische veld en het inwendige van Jupiter.
De eerste resultaten dateren van die eerste omloop. Anders dan sondes die Jupiter eerder hebben verkend, volgt de in augustus 2011 gelanceerde Juno een baan over beide polen van de planeet. De daarbij gemaakte opnames tonen een chaotisch tafereel van heldere ovale structuren: cyclonen met een diameter tot 1400 kilometer. Van de karakteristieke bandenstructuur die de Jupiteratmosfeer op lagere breedten laat zien, is rond de polen niets meer terug te vinden.
Zelfde weersysteem als op Aarde Thermisch onderzoek van de atmosfeer leerde dat rond de evenaar ammoniak uit de diepte opwelt. Dat duidt op een weersysteem dat wij ook op Aarde kennen: de circulaties waarbij warme lucht bij de evenaar opstijgt en vervolgens richting Noord- en Zuidpool stroomt. Wat zich in het hart van Jupiter afspeelt is echter nog steeds onduidelijk.
Voorts is het magnetisch veld rond Jupiter veel sterker dan verwacht: tien keer zoveel als het magnetisch veld rondom de Aarde. Onderzoek van de hele magnetosfeer leert dat de reuzenplaneet een heel andere wisselwerking met zijn omgeving heeft dan onze planeet.
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Paul Davies puts a brake on the idea of a universe teeming with life
Paul Davies puts a brake on the idea of a universe teeming with life
An artist's conception of what the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f may look like. AP
by Andrew Masterson
Around half a century ago, when NASA's Apollo missions were taking brave men to play golf on the moon, the idea of extraterrestrials was the province of science-fiction authors and acid-tripping dreamers.
How times change. Today, the press is full of stories about planets and moons, near and far, pregnant with the possibilities of life.
We read about abundant hydrogen on Saturn's moon Enceladus, a sign, perhaps, of microbial activity. We note another of Saturn's moons, Titan, likely boasts a subterranean ocean, surely the harbour of something twitching.
Then we thrill to the suggestion that the planet Proxima b, four light years away, could support life if its climate is right. And we wonder, enthralled, about the Trappist-1 system, seven planets orbiting a star 39 light years distant, a couple of which, astronomers tell us, are in just the right orbits to be warm and wet and friendly.
A computer generated image showing Britain's Beagle 2 probe on the surface of Mars. AP/European Space Agency
The expectation now is palpable: surely, within our lifetimes, we will detect at least a bacterium, some weird arsenic-based extremophile by a thermal vent in an underground sea, or a smear of purple anaerobic slime beneath a rock on the edge of a liquid methane lake.
But is this expectation based on solid science, or romance, or a barely sublimated need to assert that we are not alone in a vast and godless universe?
"The change is for no reason that I can put my finger on," says Paul Davies. "I've lived through this pendulum swing. Now the whole scientific community is charging down the direction that holds the universe is teeming with life, and I'm now the voice of caution, saying: 'Hold on, hold on, you have no basis for that belief'."
Davies' objections are not to be lightly dismissed. He is, after all, perhaps the most distinguished astrobiologist alive, not to mention a quantum physicist of such import that two of the field's fundamental constructs bear his name (the Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect, and the Bunch-Davies vacuum state, for those taking notes.)
Based these days at the University of Arizona's Centre for Fundamental Concepts in Science, he is also the head of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Post-Detection Science and Technology Task Group of the International Academy of Aeronautics.
Physicist Paul Davies. Macquarie University
And years ago he used to teach at Adelaide and Macquarie universities. So, even though he lives in the United States and was born in England, we can kind of, sort of, claim him as an Aussie. It's not a sustainable claim, of course, but, he would suggest, it has more evidential weight behind it than the notion that the cosmos is crawling with amoeba-things and all that's left to do is find them.
Back in the '60s, Davies says, most serious astronomers were convinced there were planets throughout the universe, even though technology at the time was insufficient to detect them.
Indeed, in 1961, an astronomer called Frank Drake came up with an equation to predict the probability of intelligent life emerging anywhere in the universe. In his 2010 book, The Eerie Silence, Davies calls it "not so much an equation in the conventional mathematical sense, more of a way to quantify our ignorance".
Seven years later, he maintains that we're still thick.
Apollo astronauts Roger Chaffee, Edward White II and Virgil Grissom who later perished in a fire during a training session inside this Apollo Mission Simulator at Cape Kennedy, Florida, in 1967. NASA/AP
"Nothing has changed except our expectations," he says. "The big unknown is the fraction of planets on which life emerges, and we have no idea what that number is and no way to quantify it because we don't know what the process was. You can't estimate the odds of an unknown process. We know almost no more about it today than we did in the '60s."
The difficulty in all this – and perhaps the only point of consensus among astrobiologists – is that we don't know how groups of molecules, non-living matter, coalesce and combine to become living. What is the animating spark? Or, more prosaically, what is the minimum level of complexity for a living organism?
The main reason for this shortcoming is that the only life we have to study is the stuff found here on Earth. Given that everything, from cholera bacteria to Bactrian camels to Justin Bieber, descended from a single common ancestor, we have a sample size of just one – which is a hopeless number from which to draw generalised conclusions.
Without another evolutionary tree to compare, Davies points out, we have no idea what aspects of Earth life are specific just to our mob, and what aspects are "law-like" – common to all life right across the universe.
Images of the Saturnian system prepared from an assemblage of Voyager 1 views. Fairfax Media
This is very much his field: he is tasked with examining the fundamentals of science (he also advises space agencies, and pursues cancer research, but let's stick to the big picture here).
Lately, this work has been taking him in a fascinating, if controversial, direction. In a recently published paper – a sketch, really, for a book he is working on – he and colleague Sara Imari Walker suggest that the real law-like essential for life to emerge anywhere in the universe is not biology or even chemistry, but information.
The processing of information, the pair wrote, might be the causal agent at the bottom of all life. Things such as water, carbon and DNA might be just local-level stuff, not required by extraterrestrial life forms.
Davies and Walker also make the point that if their assumption is correct then, even if we do encounter alien organisms, we quite possibly won't recognise them. The problem of life, they conclude, might "ultimately not be reducible to known physical principles".
Professor Paul Davies during his Adelaide University days in 1990. Fairfax Media
"That's principles not yet known, rather than principles that can never be known," Davies is quick to point out. "We're open to the suggestion that there may be new physics that will be uncovered by studying biology. That's different to saying that all of biology can be explained by using physics already known."
It is entirely reasonable, he says, to define all living things as information-processing systems. It is also reasonable to define them, as physicists do, in terms of energy and matter and the forces that govern their interactions.
But suggesting the two explanations are simply different ways of expressing the same thing is wrong.
"Where you can't get away with that is with the origin of life," he says. "Because, somehow, out of blind and purposeless forces at the molecular level, somehow out of that sort of melee, an informational system had to emerge."
Probing that mystery, he suggests, is where new physics principles will be found.
Other things, too, may emerge, not the least of which could be a profoundly new discussion around the relationship between science and religion.
Most of Davies' colleagues are atheists, if for no other reason than because physics seems by definition to exclude the supernatural. He himself, however, has long had a subtler, more nuanced position. In his 1992 bestseller, The Mind of God, he suggested that conscious beings manifest self-awareness in the universe and that, thus, "we are truly meant to be here".
The use of the word "meant" occasioned much spirited debate, on the not unreasonable grounds that it implied a creative intention – and a creator, perhaps – buried deep in the workings of the cosmos.
For Davies, however, it is not he but those who work beside him who are falling prey to religious thought – precisely because they believe the universe is teeming with life. "Once we get rid of the idea of miracles, are we happier with the idea of life as a freak accident on one planet alone," he asks, "or are we more comfortable in a universe that is fundamentally bio-friendly?"
It's a critical question, he points out. The odds of inanimate molecules transforming into living matter are gazillions to one. The odds of it happening more than once are gazillions-squared to one, and the odds of it happening billions of times are infinitesimal.
For that to come to pass, there has to be something more, a life-friendly principle at work that rises above brute probability.
"That's a religious position," he says.
"Now, I would feel very comfortable living in such a universe, knowing that we're not the result of some freak chemical quirk. We would know that we're actually deeply embedded in the great cosmic scheme of things – part of the grand cosmic plan, if you like.
"So, for me, the notion that life is intrinsically built into the nature of the universe is deeply pleasing, and close to a religious belief. But that's also the reason that I'm so sceptical."
Paul Davies will be one of the speakers at an event titled Life on Mars: NASA's 2020 Rover Mission, on August 17 at the Sydney Opera House. Tickets on sale now.
A space aggressor operator at the Schriever Air Force Base, ColoradoUS Air Force
A real life Independence Day may not be far away. Only this time there is no defined threat the military is working against, although it is about "extraterrestrial combat".
Space Aggressors is what the US military is calling them, a team of soldiers training at a warehouse near Colorado's Rocky Mountains. Their job is to act like the enemy during mock space battles to help US units prepare for a conflict that may one day extend to outer space.
"We play the bad guys," Captain Christopher Barnes, chief of training for the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron told the Seeker. "We study threats to the space realm, either coming from space or based on land. If we can't directly replicate them with hardware, then we figure out if there's a software solution or some way we can train people to the point where they can fight through them, if they have to, in a conflict," he says.
The elite military unit is being prepared to take on what US calls 'very real' threats from space powers like Russia and China. US intelligence chief Dan Coats recently told a Senate hearing that Russia and China are aggressively pursuing space warfare by building anti-satellite weapons, some of which in future could not only destroy US satellites but may even posses the capability to hit targets on land.
Vice Admiral Charles Richard, deputy commander of U.S. Strategic Command, had told a Washington conference in March that "China is developing an arsenal of lasers, electro-magnetic rail guns, and high-powered microwave weapons to neutralize America's intelligence, communications, and navigation satellites."
Captain Barnes said some people think space is the Achilles heel for the US because of its heavy reliance on space assets for most everything, from launching missiles to directing warships across the seas. For instance, any damage to the Global Positioning System -- a group of 31 satellites owned by the US government and operated by their US Air Force -- could make the US military to fall back to outmoded tactics, greatly eroding its technological edge over an enemy.
The army however, stresses that it is not space war yet but like any other unit of the military that has to be ready for any existential threats, a space threat is very real in today's scenario.
"While we're not at war in space, I don't think we could say we're exactly at peace, either," says Vice Admiral Richard. "We must prepare for a conflict that extends into space."
The universe's "most interesting star" just started acting up again.
Known as KIC 8462852, or the WTF star (for "Where's The Flux"), this sun became famous a few years ago for its strange short-lived dips in light output. Its behavior was weird enough that astronomers added "alien megastructures" to the long list of possible explanations for WTF star's changes in brightness. My twitter feed was lighting up this weekend as WTF star started, once again, to show a pronounced diminution.
The excitement over WTF star is, ultimately, about finding evidence for life on other planets. But even without alien megastructures (which are probably not going to be the explanation), WTF star highlights the remarkable range of ways astronomers might be able to find evidence for life on distant planets.
Since we'll be staring hard at thousands of these worlds over the next few decades, each kind of life detection method is exciting in its own right. That's why today I want to introduce you to "The Red Edge" (which, also, just sounds pretty cool).
The story starts with one of space exploration's greatest tragedies.
Back in 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded during launch, killing the entire crew. The loss was devastating for so many reasons, but one of its consequences was that the Galileo mission to Jupiter was left without a launch vehicle. The plan had been for it to ride a shuttle into space, where a powerful booster would then send it on to a half-billion-or-so-mile ride to the solar system's largest world. In the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, NASA scientists were forced to launch Galileo using a less powerful booster, placing it onto a complicated trajectory that used the gravity of a number of planets to slingshot the spacecraft out to Jupiter. In particular, Galileo first headed inward to Venus and then back to Earth — twice — picking up speed with each gravity "assist." It was during these Earth-return fly-bys that scientists came to the novel idea of viewing our planet as if it were an alien world.
The idea was, in part, Carl Sagan's. As Galileo passed by Earth, it trained its instruments on our planet and recorded the light it reflected from the sun. In this way, scientists could run an experiment to see if Earth's light "signal" could reveal the presence of life.
Of all the features the scientists found in the Earth-light, one of the most important came in the form of a sharp change in our planet's reflectance just past the wavelengths of red light. Reflectance means how much of the sunlight falling on the planet gets bounced back into space. Low reflectance means much of the light is being absorbed, while high reflectance means the opposite. The Galileo data showed that Earth's reflectance depended strongly on the light's color (meaning its wavelength). Most of the light in the visible spectrum was strongly absorbed. But around the wavelength of red light (past a half of a millionth of meter) the reflectance shot up. This wall in the reflectance curve was known from remote sensing studies and was called The Red Edge. In a paper titled "A Search for Life on Earth From The Galileo Spacecraft," Sagan and his co-authors highlighted the planet's absorption and reflection properties as one of four critical pieces of data that confirmed Earth was, in fact, a living world.
But what causes the Red Edge and why might it be a cosmic life-detector? The answer lies within even the most lowly houseplant.
Almost all of the world's vegetation will strongly absorb light in the blue and green parts of the spectrum. Much of this is due to photosynthesis, since these are the wavelengths of light plants absorb to make sugars and power their metabolism. At longer wavelengths, the leaves have no need to absorb sunlight, so they've evolved to reflect this light back into space. So what Galileo was seeing as it flew by Earth was the combined absorbing power of an entire planet's worth of vegetation.
Of course, Sagan and other astronomers knew that what works for Earth may work for alien worlds, too. Maybe we could detect Red Edges in the spectra from other worlds. If so, wouldn't that be proof of alien life and, even better, of full alien biospheres?
Astronomers are now deep in their "exo-planet" revolution. That means they're learning how to probe the light from these worlds in ways that, in principle, mimic what Galileo did for Earth. The crucial difference, of course, is distance. These planets are light-years away. That means we get just a minute fraction of the light they reflect from their stars. Astronomers must be extremely clever in how they go about their searches for exoplanet Red Edges. That's a challenge they're already working to overcome.
One early example of of these efforts is a well-regarded paper from 2005 by Sara Seager and collaborators titled Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants. The team laid out arguments for how the Red Edge might be detected in light from other worlds. They also made the important case that evolution on any planet might lead to some kind of feature like the Red Edge. As they put it, " ... while extraterrestrial 'light-harvesting organisms' have no compelling reason to display the exact same red edge feature as terrestrial vegetation, they might have similar spectroscopic features at different wavelengths than terrestrial vegetation." Thus a Red Edge of some kind, may, perhaps be universal.
For years now, movies and TV have taught us that the only way to find life in the universe was to directly detect purposeful signals from intelligences on those worlds. With the advent of the exo-planet revolution, a new era has opened. The WTF star raised the issue that we may detect intelligence by the artifacts they leave. Even more important, and more likely, is that we might find evidence of less-evolved forms of life by the imprints they leave on the planet as a whole. The lesson of the Red Edge is that life — even plants — can change planets in ways that might be visible from across the depths of space.
Adam Frank is a co-founder of the 13.7 blog, an astrophysics professor at the University of Rochester, a book author and a self-described "evangelist of science." You can keep up with more of what Adam is thinking on Facebook and Twitter:@adamfrank4
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HOUSTON -- Houston isn't nicknamed the Space City for nothing! Besides NASA being in our backyard, there's a man in town who calls himself the "Alien Hunter." NewsFix caught up with Darrell Sims who showed us some cool stuff he says came from outer space.
Sims, a private investigator, claims he was once a G-Man and used those skills to uncover alien abductions.
"I come from an intelligence background with the Central Intelligence Agency in covert operations," he explained.
Sims claims to have proof that life really does exist in the Cosmos.
"We have 1950 cases worldwide," he said. "A lady came back with an implant [which] fell out of her eye in front of her boss at her desk and her boss is the one who made sure I got the implant, which I have with me today."
Sims got into the business after he says an alien visited him as a child, and kept coming back until he was 17 years old.
While most recollections of UFO and alien sightings are theoretical, Sims collects and tests physical evidence from those who claim to have had a real alien encounter.
"A lot of these people do not realize if you've, in fact, had a real life UFO event where the entities actually touched you - physically taking you. This sort of thing, abduction, whatever they want to call it.....they leave a physical trace on you in the infrared range," he said.
Black light and infrared are just some of the technologies Sims use to detect traces of alien contact. That technique detects the temperature level on skin and detects a residue that comes from "out of this world."
"Sometimes the alien entity will leave scars, cuts, lumps, bumps on them that make absolutely no sense," Sims said.
Does it sound unreal to you? Well, many of Sims' artifacts are featured in museums around the world, including Slovakia, Japan and Roswell, New Mexico.
"Some of the physical evidence that we've recovered from several abductees, suggests that these entities in fact may be biological and also have a metallic level in their biology," Sims explained.
Sims showed NewsFix a set of spheres he says a young girl sneezed out after an alien came into her room and sprayed something into her nose.
So is this space fact of fiction?
"It doesn't matter what I think, or what anybody thinks. It only matters what we can prove," he said.
So....are you convinced? Are we really alone out here?
We have just the show for these guys: the lone gunmen from the ' X-files' would dig History's UFO drama Blue Book
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If you're into UFOs, History has just the show for you.
The cable network announced Thursday that it's picked up the sci-fi drama Blue Book from executive producer Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future).
Set in the 1950s and '60s, the 10-episode series will follow the as-yet-uncast Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a college professor recruited by the Air Force lead Project Blue Book, their top-secret effort to research and verify cases of UFO sightings. Episodes will mine actual case files, weaving together theories with history.
“Blue Book is inspired by the true covert events of an era in American history shrouded in mystery,” said A&E president Paul Buccieri in a statement. “Robert Zemeckis and the creative team have shaped an incredibly compelling narrative, building upon History's unique, growing brand of fact-based scripted programming.”
“Rarely ha0ve I been associated with a project that is a perfect fusion of historical fact and extraordinary entertainment,” added Zemeckis, who knows a thing or two about that, having directed the 1994 Oscar best-picture winner Forrest Gump, about a developmentally disabled man who stumbles into defining moments of American history.
Blue Book will mark History's fourth scripted series after Vikings, which returns for its fifth season later this year, the Navy SEAL drama Six and the upcoming Knightfall, which traces the history of the medieval military order known as the Knights Templar.
Photos: Arizona UFO witness describes six hovering discs
Photos: Arizona UFO witness describes six hovering discs
An Arizona witness traveling by train through Apache County reported watching and photographing six hovering, “two-story” objects beaming light to the ground level, according to testimony in Case 83376 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image.
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The case was reported for the witness – who had the experience on April 14, 2017.
“My mother was traveling through the Arizona desert via train, on her way to Texas,” she stated.“She was unable to sleep due to movement of the train. She said she was looking out of the cabin window and saw a very bright light that became brighter as the train approached.”
The witness saw more than one object.
“She said she then saw six objects hovering side-by-side; close enough to see that each object had two rows of windows. She described them as being ‘two-story.’ She said that they were so bright and that a foggy sort of light was beaming down from underneath each object.”
Cropped witness image.
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The witness attempted to photograph what she was seeing.
“She frantically reached for her cell phone in time to snap a couple of photos. I, myself, have seen some pretty amazing things in the sky that I can only describe as being extraterrestrial, and she was the biggest skeptic until she seen for herself. She was so excited to share this with me. She is not one to exaggerate or seek attention in anyway. She’s a no BS kind of lady. I know what she saw was genuine. She asked that I share with the UFO community. Enjoy.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
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The witness included three images with the MUFON report, which was filed on April 27, 2017.
Please be very cautious with UFO photography before investigation analysis is completed. The witness report indicates the objects were a disc shape less than 100 feet away.
MUFON Arizona Field Investigator Kristine Wulf 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.
The weird, loud noises have been heard across several continents, but have now hit the UK, and scientists cannot agree on the reason for the widespread phenomenon.
For the past few years increasing numbers of people have posted online videos of themselves witnessing strange unexplained 'trumpet' noises.
In some cases, the sounds have been accompanied by shaking windows and people being frozen with terror.
The YouTube videos have been uploaded from as far afield as Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, Australian and North America.
But, now a worried resident of Derbyshire has contacted his local paper with concerns.
The reader approached the Derby Telegraph for help after hearing the "strange noise."
They tweeted the paper and police asking for an explanation for "trumpet-like booming sounds" which he heard Riddings, near Alfreton.
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The noises have been heard across the world with no definitive explanation.
The reader wrote: "Any idea what the strange noise is over Riddings that's been going on and off all day?"
Earlier Calvin Kirlew recorded video of a similar noise in Nottingham.
Derbyshire Police tweeted back that the incident was "intriguing," but the force was bewildered.
Aaron Traylor, from Montana in the US, is one of those to have uploaded recordings of the creepy noises to YouTube and claims to have suffered "vivid nightmares" ever since.
He said: "Since I've been following this worldwide strange sounds phenomenon for some time, the whole 'End of the world' thing popped instantly into my head.
"What if this was one of those sounds? I had my phone ready to capture the next one just in case. Sure enough, five minutes later the sound had returned."
However, level-headed Kimberly Wookey, from Terrace in British Columbia, Canada - who first recorded the odd noises in June 2013 and has since caught the weird sounds on camera a number of other times – dismissed fears the sounds signal the end of the world or the arrival of aliens.
Any idea what the strange noise is over Riddings that's been going on and off all day?
Derby Telegraph reader
She has also ruled out trains or building work, believing the cause of the noises may be "geophysical", such as atmospheric pressure or tectonic plates grinding together.
As yet, there has been no firm breakthrough in attempts to explain the loud 'trumpet' sounds.
Some scientists have said earthquakes can produce sub-audible sounds while lightning creates eerie noises heard through radio emissions.
NASA researchers say the planet does make background noises, but people would usually require radio antennas to pick it up.
Sociology lecturer at the University of Derby and conspiracy theory expert Andrew Wilson told the Derby Telegraph some clips may have been hoaxed, but "such stories have actually been reported for at least 200 years."
He said: "There is an account from an 1804 book called British Mineralogy, in which the author describes going to Yorkshire and hearing noises in the air. The next day, he found evidence of a meteorite a couple of miles away.
"There are a wide range of explanations for these sounds. Most of them are put down to unusual, but natural, phenomena such as subterranean earthquakes, thunder without lightning and falling meteors."
Mr Wilson said, however, conspiracy theories for the mysterious noises have a sociological explanation.
He said apocalypse fears or alien theories come about when scientific explanations are not obvious, as people become desperate for an explanation.
He said: "Conspiracy theories offer a very attractive and simple way of viewing that world. But they are flawed, and over-simplified."
The anonymous air force man claims to have a recording of the operation he alleges involved three other fighter jet pilots.
But he claims to have been sworn to secrecy by the Singaporean government who allegedly told him he will face the death penalty if he speaks a word.
The remarkable claims have been made in a report to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which is the world's largest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research.
The alleged whistleblower has given himself the pseudonym John in the report and there is no way of verifying if he is a genuine pilot or not at this stage.
He said in the report filed yesterday: "My life is in critical danger.
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The man claims to be an air force pilot at risk of death for the leak.
"Disobeying a direct order from my superior would cause me the death penalty. I hope you understand how urgent and serious this incident is.
"I will only had over hard copies of the evidence you need to see and not send this over the internet as I am not sure who else is watching."
He claimed to be part of the Republic of Singapore Air Force.
The pilot added: "Just this morning at 5.20am hours Singapore time, we were given orders to scramble our F15s to intercept a strange looking orb that kept on appearing and disappearing on radar by command control.
"This object entered Singapore air space at around 5.20am and was hovering for at least two hours before 7.30am.
"It is difficult to explain, it kept on appearing and disappearing and re-appearing on another part of our air space."
"Disobeying a direct order from my superior would cause me the death penalty. I hope you understand how urgent and serious this incident is.
Alleged whistleblower
He said there were three other pilots were required to "intercept this orb like thing or whatever the hell you want to call it".
He said: "In fact, when we landed at Changi Air Base, we were given orders by command not to reveal this incident to anyone.
"I cannot in good conscience give you my real name over the internet, but give me your number, I will call you directly.
"I have evidence of the chase itself, I am willing to hand this over to you, a recording of the entire incident between air traffic ground control and the four pilots including myself while in pursuit of this orb."
The Singaporean air force does use F15s and the pilot has named a legitimate air base.
MUFON will investigate the claims, but has previously said that it is hit by several hoax reports which come in from all over the world.
Sceptics are not convinced by the report and have suggested if the pilot was concerned for his safety he would not have posted it on a database which can be seen online by anyone anywhere in the world, and would have contacted MUFON directly.
Scott Brando, who runs hoax busting website ufoofinterest.org told Express.co.uk: "This looks like a joke."
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: "A UFO that is seen for a long time in the same area of sky, generally indicates that it is a star.
"Besides a star we might also wonder if a drone or drones were responsible for this activity, or it is just a hoax report?"
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Multiple Unknown Lights Pictured Over Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Multiple Unknown Lights Pictured Over Los Angeles, U.S.A.
The witness was walking out to their garage and noticing strange lights in the sky. Amazed by what he had seen; he ran inside to get his phone. When he got back out, he saw the lights did not move. He managed to get a photo and send it to a friend. After doing so, he looked up back, but the mysterious lights were not there anymore.
According to the witness, the unusual lights did not fade gradually or drift off. They were just there one moment and suddenly gone, the witness explained.
The witness said that he could not explain the bizarre event and still can’t until today. He tried to get a scientific explanation about it and not jumped quickly to the alien thing, but he just could not explain it.
The witness said that he lost sighting of the mystery lights after he looked away for just a moment.
Cigar-shaped UFO over Stutensee, Germany 11-May-2017
Cigar-shaped UFO over Stutensee, Germany 11-May-2017
Cylindrical UFO sighting was recorded in the sky above Stutensee in Germany on 11th May 2017.
Witness report:
We were on the way to a sportevent (WWE Live in Stuttgart), we drove by car. On the way from Friedrichstal to Blankenloch, we saw an object which did not moved. It just hovered in the air, the object was quite in black and approximately as large as a plane but shaped like a cigarette. I thought it would be a tower but when we were came closer I saw that was not the case. We could see the object for 5 minutes until we were too far away.
Bright & silent craft flying over Eugene, Oregon 23-May-2017
Bright & silent craft flying over Eugene, Oregon 23-May-2017
Check out this UFO video of a bright unidentified flying object that was silently flying across the night sky above Eugene in Oregon. This was filmed yesterday (on 23rd May 2017).
Witness report:
Bright white UFO object 04:50 AM heading from W/NW to S/SE. No noise, straight line, steady brightness. Eugene, Oregon. This is a THIRD sighting of a bright white UFO coming from the same heading at almost the same time.
The Space Aggressor squadrons train other military troops for war in space and determine how to best keep space assets like satellites secure. Although it may sound like science fiction, the threat of extraterrestrial conflict is serious.
U.S. Army Spc. Angel Mendoza, assigned as a space aggressor operator to the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron, Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, secures a helical antenna to a gravel pad Aug. 8, 2016, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska.
Credit: U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel SPACE ‘Space Aggressors’ Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict Elite military units are specializing in mock space warfare, as Russia and China develop anti-satellite weaponry. BY GREG WALTERS MAY 22, 2017
EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONFLICT
Right now, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains of the American West, there are two teams of Air Force specialists preparing to defend America’s interests — in space. They are the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron (26th SAS) and the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron (527th SAS), and their job consists of training the rest of the military for any possible contingency involving extraterrestrial combat and creating strategies to defend the security of any U.S. interests in space.
In other words, they play the role of the bad guys on a potentially intergalactic scale, “attacking” and provoking U.S. troops in mock space battles — as foreign countries and any other hostile power looking to threaten America in space. Space Aggressors train troops to make strategic use of space resources, for example by engaging in “brute force jamming,” which uses satellite networks to transmit signals to make any original message unintelligible to outsiders. However, they also train U.S. forces to fight without space resources, such as GPS and satellite communications, to ensure that they can competently fight using inertial navigation systems, compasses, and maps.
“We study threats to the space realm, either coming from space or based on land,” 26th SAS chief of training Captain Christopher Barnes told Seeker. “If we can’t directly replicate them with hardware, then we figure out if there’s a software solution or some way we can train people to the point where they can fight through them, if they have to, in a conflict.”
The 527th Space Aggressors Squadron and 26th Space Aggressors Squadron emblems are painted side by side on doors inside the Space Aggressors’ facility at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado.|US Air Force/2nd Lt. Darren Domingo
SECURITY IN SPACE
Space Aggressors launch simulated attacks and training exercises, but these space “games” are in response to security threats that are very serious. Modern American warfare and defense are almost completely reliant upon our GPS system, which basically consists of a chain of 31 satellites. In recent years, high-ranking officials in the U.S. military have argued that more preparation for space defense is essential, especially in light of the development of anti-satellite weapons in China and Russia. If taking out satellites effectively renders our troops helpless, it is a smart strategy for enemies to adopt.
Furthermore, the threat would stretch far beyond the battlefield, as Ed Morris, the executive director of the Office of Space Commerce, wrote in the report, A Day Without Space: Economic and National Security Ramifications: “If you think it is hard to get work done when your Internet connection goes out at the office, imagine losing that plus your cell phone, TV, radio, ATM access, credit cards, and possibly even your electricity.”
The threat of warfare and aggression in space — and the need to prepare for it — has been broadly recognized all over the world. An international group of lawyers is now drawing up the first body of law to be applied in space. Based largely on existing principles of international law, the work that results from the coalition’s efforts will be called Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS).
How it will apply to Earth’s various nations is as yet undecided, but for it to work, nations like the United States will have to choose to participate. Much like the United Nations, without participation and commitment from member states, international law — whether applied on Earth or in space — is unlikely to prove effective.
NASA has release pictures of an artist's concept of their new Mars 2020 rover. The robot will land on the Red Planet in 2020 to look for evidence of ancient microbial life.
ROVER’S NEW TRICKS
NASA has released pictures of its newest robot scheduled to be sent to the Red Planet in 2020. The images show an artist’s concept of the rover at work on the surface of Mars. The design of the robot has not changed significantly since Curiosity, but this new rover will have a completely different mission than the models before it.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
The Mars 2020 rover’s mission will be to search for signs of ancient Martian life. Scientists have been discovering more evidence of ancient life on the Red Planet from photographs taken of certain areas on the surface, and the rover will land on that location in search of tangible evidence. “The mission takes the next step by not only seeking signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past but also searching for signs of past microbial life itself,” explains NASA in a statement.
The statement also goes into how the rover will accomplish this. “The Mars 2020 rover introduces a drill that can collect core samples of the most promising rocks and soils, and set them aside on the surface of Mars. A future mission could potentially return these samples to Earth.”
NOT FAR BEHIND
Elon Musk’s space travel company SpaceX has its own plans regarding the Red Planet as well. Initial plans are for the company to begin unmanned missions to Mars in 2018 and follow those up by sending humans in 2025. The long-term vision is to colonize Mars to make humanity the first known multi-planetary species.
Unlike the contentious nature of the last space race, NASA does not feel that it is in competition with SpaceX (or any other commercial space organization) to get to Mars first. NASA recognizes the value that private enterprise can have on expediting the innovation necessary to put a human on Mars.
“It’s really important to create, bring some empathy to the table,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science, said in an interview with Seeker. “There’s a lot of stuff that can be learned by just talking to people.”
Perhaps the Mars 2020 rover will unlock some of the secrets that will make it easier for humans to colonize the planet.
Recently, there has been a re-sparking of interest in the moon. The closest celestial body to our planet could hold some novel benefits for humans such as being cultivated as a jumping-off point for future space travel.
BACK TO THE MOON
Forty-five years have passed since humans last set foot on an extraterrestrial body. Now, the moon is back at the center of efforts not only to explore space, but to create a permanent, independent space-faring society.
Planning expeditions to Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor is no longer just a NASA effort, though the U.S. space agency has plans for a moon-orbiting space station that would serve as a staging ground for Mars missions in the early 2030s. The United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, is planning a lunar fueling station for spacecraft, capable of supporting 1,000 people living in space within 30 years.
Right now all space missions are based on, and launched from, Earth. But Earth’s gravitational pull is strong. To escape Earth’s gravity, a rocket has to be traveling 11 kilometers a second – 25,000 miles per hour!
Any rocket leaving Earth has to carry all the fuel it will ever use to get to its destination and, if needed, back again. That fuel is heavy – and getting it moving at such high speeds takes a lot of energy. If we could refuel in orbit, that launch energy could lift more people or cargo or scientific equipment into orbit. Then the spacecraft could refuel in space, where Earth’s gravity is less powerful.
Those locations would be tricky to mine because they are colder and offer no sunlight to power roving vehicles. However, we could install big mirrors on the craters’ rims to illuminate solar panels in the permanently shadowed regions.
Mining operations on the moon, an artist’s rendering. Sung Wha Kang (RISD), CC BY-ND
Rovers from Google’s Lunar X Prize competition and NASA’s Lunar Resource Prospector, set to launch in 2020, would also contribute to finding good locations to mine ice.
IMAGINING A MOON BASE
Depending on where the best ice reserves are, we might need to build several small robotic moon bases. Each one would mine ice, manufacture liquid propellant and transfer it to passing spacecraft. Our team developed plans to accomplish those tasks with three different types of rovers. Our plans also require a few small robotic shuttles to meet up with nearby deep-space mission vehicles in lunar orbit.
An artist’s rendering of lunar rover concepts. Sung Wha Kang (RISD), CC BY-ND
One rover, which we call the Prospector, would explore the moon and find ice-bearing locations. A second rover, the Constructor, would follow along behind, building a launch pad and packing down roadways to ease movements for the third rover type, the Miners, which actually collect the ice and deliver it to nearby storage tanks and an electrolysis processing plant that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen.
The Constructor would also build a landing pad where the small near-moon transport spacecraft we call Lunar Resupply Shuttles would arrive to collect fuel for delivery as newly launched spacecraft pass by the moon. The shuttles would burn moon-made fuel and would have advanced guidance and navigation systems to travel between lunar bases and their target spacecraft.
A GAS STATION IN SPACE
When enough fuel is being produced, and the shuttle delivery system is tested and reliable, our plan calls for building a gas station in space. The shuttles would deliver ice directly to the orbiting fuel depot, where it would be processed into fuel and where rockets heading to Mars or elsewhere could dock to top up.
The depot would have large solar arrays powering an electrolysis module for melting the ice and then turning the water into fuel, and large fuel tanks to store what’s made. NASA is already working on most of the technology needed for a depot like this, including docking and fuel transfer. We anticipate a working depot could be ready in the early 2030s, just in time for the first human missions to Mars.
To be most useful and efficient, the depot should be located in a stable orbit relatively near both the Earth and the moon. The Earth-moon Lagrangian Point 1 (L1) is a point in space about 85 percent of the way from Earth to the moon, where the force of Earth’s gravity would exactly equal the force of the moon’s gravity pulling in the other direction. It’s the perfect pit stop for a spacecraft on its way to Mars or the outer planets.
LEAVING EARTH
Our team also found a fuel-efficient way to get spacecraft from Earth orbit to the depot at L1, requiring even less launch fuel and freeing up more lift energy for cargo items. First, the spacecraft would launch from Earth into Low Earth Orbit with an empty propellant tank.
Then, the spacecraft and its cargo could be towed from Low Earth Orbit to the depot at L1 using a solar electric propulsion tug, a spacecraft largely propelled by solar-powered electric thrusters.
This would let us triple the payload delivery to Mars. At present, a human Mars mission is estimated to cost as much as US$100 billion, and will need hundreds of tons of cargo. Delivering more cargo from Earth to Mars with fewer rocket launches would save billions of dollars and years of time.
A BASE FOR SPACE EXPLORATION
Building a gas station between Earth and the moon would also reduce costs for missions beyond Mars. NASA is looking for extraterrestrial life on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. Future spacecraft could carry much more cargo if they could refuel in space – who knows what scientific discoveries sending large exploration vehicles to these moons could enable?
By helping us escape both Earth’s gravity and dependence on its resources, a lunar gas station could be the first small step toward the giant leap into making humanity an interplanetary civilization.
Editor’s Note:This story was updated to clarify the distinction between escape velocity and the velocity needed to achieve orbit.
Six hours a day, seven days a week, for four straight months. That's how long radio astronomer Frank D. Drake pointed the 26-meter telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) research facility in Green Bank, West Virginia, towards the heavens, looking for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. He dubbed his efforts Project Ozma, in honor of the Queen of Oz from L. Frank Baum's famed children's book series.
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Between April and July of 1960, Drake recorded some 150 hours of tape speckled with radio noise. While no meaningful encoded signals or patterns emerged from those readings, Drake still earned himself a place in history for performing what would become the first scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the modern era.
Since then, research organizations around the world have performed nearly 100 SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) experiments. Even NASA got in on the hunt, working with the SETI Institute between 1988 and 1993, when Sen. Richard Bryan (D - Nevada) introduced an amendment that cut the program's government funding.
"Senators kind of looked at this line item and said, 'Hey wait a minute. Are we are we paying to search for little green men?'" explained Steve Croft, an assistant project astronomer at the UC Berkeley SETI Research Center and researcher with the Breakthrough Discovery project. "That's kind of a laugh factor which has always come along with it."
But as the next generation of telescopes come online, like the upcoming Webb Space Telescope or dedicated planet hunter the Kepler Telescope, the scientific community is beginning to warm to the idea of SETI as not just a valid scientific discipline but an essential one. "I think people are kind of coming around to the idea that SETI as a scientific endeavor is one that's worth pursuing," Croft added. Especially, "when we can answer a scientific question or attempt to answer the scientific question are we alone in the universe?"
The SETI Institute of California is trying to do just that. The 33-year-old organization formed in 1984 with the mission of understanding the origins and nature of life in the universe. It employs 120 staffers, 75 of whom are PhD-level researchers, and conducts research among 22 fields of inquiry over seven branches of research: astronomy and astrophysics, geoscience, exoplanets and exploration, exobiology and SETI.
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For its SETI efforts, the Institute relies on radio and optical telescopes. On the radio side, the Institute leverages its Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a 42-dish setup located at Hat Creek Radio Observatory, nearly 300 miles Northeast of San Francisco. It can scan 4 octaves of radio frequency and generates roughly 55 TB of data every day. Unlike conventional radio telescopes used for radio astronomy, the ATA scans a broader swath of the radio spectrum, albeit at a lower sensitivity.
The group is also working with Paul Horowitz, a physicist and electrical engineer at Harvard, to develop "all sky all the time optical SETI survey systems" where the ATA would perform wide surveys of the sky while other, more sensitive telescopes -- like the Lick -- would follow up with more focused surveys covering a smaller portion of sky.
For its optical surveys, the Institute splits its time between the UC Berkeley's Lick Observatory and the Harvard Haystack telescope. These telescopes are looking for laser emissions, specifically. These could be from any number of alien sources including communication arrays, weapon tests or transportation (hello, laser sails). "But in any case a monochromatic high-intensity highly focused coherent beam of light would be a fairly indicative sign of technology that could potentially be seen from very far away," Bill Diamond, CEO of the SETI Institute explained.
However, both the radio and optical instruments have noticeable limitations. While humankind is theoretically capable of blasting a laser beam into space that is 10,000 times stronger than the sun, Diamond continued, "there isn't an instrument on Earth that can detect an Earth-like planet with Earth-like leakage of electromagnetic radiation." This leakage refers to the general emission of radio signals a civilization gives off through its various technologies, rather than powerful, highly focused signals intentionally designed to get another planet's attention. And while using overlapping technologies, as in the case of the SETI Institute-Horowitz collaboration, can boost our relative capabilities, it's still not good enough to intercept complex communications that rely on, say, wideband carrier signals.
"We don't want to make too many assumptions about the kind of signals that an extraterrestrial civilization might be sending," Croft said. "It might not be kind of a simple tone. You know a transmission which is a single frequency will have a drifting tone because it is on a planet that's going around a star." [Thanks, Doppler effect - ed] Who knows, maybe Frank Drake did find an alien message in that radio static but it's encoded in a manner that researchers haven't yet been able to identify and decipher. "They might be sending some kind of complicated data; we make all sorts of complicated transmissions ourselves as humans," Croft concluded.
This technological wall has spurned SETI researchers to seek out more effective means of scouring the galaxy. In the case of Berkeley's Breakthrough Listen project, that involved securing a 10-year, $100 million funding grant from Yuri Milner, a Russian entrepreneur, and physicist Stephen Hawking. This money will be used to buy time on two of the world's most powerful telescopes (the Green Bank in West Virginia and the Parkes in Australia).
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"We are in a position with the telescopes that we would be able to detect transmissions at a level that is similar to what we ourselves as humans generate," Croft said. "As of right now we're kind of relying on the fact that if civilizations are out there that they're broadcasting to higher power than we are. But we're not very far off being able to detect human-like emissions." Hopefully, as the Square Kilometer Array comes online in Australia and South Africa, that will actually happen.
Over the past 18 months, the Breakthrough Listen Initiative has also teamed with the SETI@Home project, run by a team from UC Berkeley, to process a portion of the data generated each day. SETI@Home launched in 1999 as a means of distributing the computational workload that analyzing dozens of terabytes of radio signal data generated by the Arecibo telescope across hundreds of thousands of personal desktop computers. "Actually Berkeley and the SETI Institute have a long history together," Diamond said. "Berkeley was involved with us in the very early days of developing the Allen Telescope Array, so we go back a long time. "
The program currently only has around 150,000 volunteers (down from a peak of 1.5 million users) and "we're getting back into our problem again in that the telescope can generate far more data than we can analyze with the best sensitivity," said Dr. Eric Korpela, head of the SETI@Home project.
The Breakthrough Listen Initiative has a "pipeline" that divides 1 GHz of spectrum into 3hz channels (330 million in total) that are scanned for potential signals. You want the channels to be as narrow as possible in order to maximize the sensitivity, however, as both the Earth and whatever exoplanet the telescope is looking at move through their respective solar systems, signals tend to "drift" in frequency. "You want to use computer power to correct for that motion," Korpela explained, although the process is incredibly CPU-intensive. But that's exactly what SETI@Home is trying to do.
However, even with the million-odd CPU cores at SETI@Home's disposal, analyzing all that data is still slow going. Its volunteers only account for around 2 percent of the Breakthrough Listen Initiative's analytical power. The program simply doesn't have enough volunteers to keep up with the demand. And the fact that many people have ditched their desktops for mobile devices is not helping either.
"It is an issue that we worry about," Korpela admitted. "We do have an app for Android. The processors that are in a typical phone right now are not comparable with what are in most desktops, but they're certainly better than a processor from 1999." The app is currently running on 22,000 volunteer mobile devices, or around 15 percent of the total base. However, these devices are only contributing 2.3 TFLOP/s of processing, 0.5 percent of the program's total computational power. As such, SETI@Home doesn't face a technological hurdle in accelerating its search for intelligent extraterrestrial life so much as a societal one.
"But given that there are a couple billion Android devices out there," Korpela mused, "there are another 200 petaFLOP/s out there that we haven't tapped yet." The SETI@Home team hopes to garner new interest in their efforts when they release their report from the Breakthrough Listen Initiative this fall.
As for the SETI Institute, its technological roadblocks are being resolved with upgrades -- and lots of them. The research group is looking to expand the number of dishes in the Allen Array from 42 to at least 128 in the near term before eventually growing it to more than 300 dishes. The Institute is also improving the sensitivity of its feeds -- the antennas that take the collected radio signals from the dishes and convert them into digital signals -- as well as their frequency response and converting the whole feed system to run cryogenically. "That improves the signal-to-noise ratio," Diamond explained "since heat generates radio noise." Finally, the Institute is looking to upgrade the antennas' backend to enable them to sample more parts of the night sky -- expanding from current 3-beam system up to 12.
"But even those enhancements probably don't get us to the point of being able to detect Earth-like leakage," Diamond lamented.
That's why the SETI Institute is teaming with IBM to apply the company's advanced machine learning algorithms to the Institute's massive data archive. The Institute is already the only SETI group that performs real-time analysis of its collected signals, using fast Fourier transform to look for narrow-band carrier signals that would indicate a non-natural source. The Apache Spark cluster computing tools, however, "have the ability to extract, if it exists, from patterns that, to us, would otherwise look like radio noise," Diamond said. "It's given us the ability to actually do experiments that we've never been able to do before, including possibly detecting an Earth-like planet that's just emitting leakage."
Essentially, the Institute can point the ATA at a known exoplanet (or system like TRAPPIST-1), measure the star system's radio signature, then wait for the planet to transit behind the sun and measure the system's radio signature again. If there's a significant difference in the readings, that could mean there's something afoot on that exoplanet. The Institute wouldn't necessarily be able to understand what's encoded in the transmission but it would provide strong impetus for other astronomical research groups to follow up with their own observations. This is actually very close to what the Breakthrough Listen Initiative team is doing, albeit with a less sensitive piece of equipment.
And while the SETI Institute (as well as the Breakthrough Listen Initiative and SETI@Home, for that matter) can't say for sure when humanity will find life outside of our own, the group is already cultivating interest in the subject with the next generation. The SETI Institute is sponsoring an IBM hackathon this June -- they're giving teams from around the world access to ATA data as well as to IBM's machine learning tools. The competition will finish up with a live event in San Francisco come August. For now, though, we're still alone (as far as science knows).
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Area 51 is one of the most secretive locations in the world.
Now, UFO hunters at SecureTeam 10 have released leaked footage which they claim shows an alien craft is hiding in the Nevada-based military facility.
The strange video appears to show a flying object hovering in the sky and then flying away - emitting a strange light as it sporadically moves side to side.
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UFO hunters SecureTeam 10 have now released leaked footage which they claim shows an alien craft is hiding in the Nevada military facility
SECURETEAM 10 CONTROVERSY
SectureTeam10 is one of the most viewed YouTube channels, with over 785,000 people subscribing to its conspiracy videos.
But the channel has come under fire, as Lions Ground, a rival channel, claims that it has been intentionally fooling its viewers.
According to Lions Ground, SecureTeam10 has been raking in an estimated £600 ($745) a day by posting fake videos that 'outsmart UFO believers.'
'It's one of the mysterious pieces in UFOlogy', said Tyler Glockner who runs SecureTeam 10 on the YouTube clip.
He described the footage, which was believed to have been filmed in the 1980s or 1990s, as a 'hidden gem'.
The unexplained object appears to be getting higher and higher and releases a strange light as the footage goes on.
The Nevada-based military testing facility has been a focal point of many conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists since the late 1970s, who claim that the base houses secretive alien technology.
The sprawling military complex sits between a dry lake bed to the North East, and a small mountain to the West.
Area 51 has been a hot spot for extra terrestrial enthusiasts because the government did not acknowledge its existence until 2013.
It has long been fenced off from the prying eyes of the public, with armed guards swarming the surrounding area.
'Area 51 has always been a magnet for those who believe the US Government knows a lot more about UFOs than they are prepared to reveal to the public,' Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline.
'People like the late Boyd Bushman, a senior scientist who worked for Lockheed Martin, have declared that Area 51 is a base where extraterrestrial spacecraft and technology is stored and examined.'
The strange video appears to show a flying object hovering in the sky and then flying away - emitting a strange light as it sporadically moves side to side
'It's one of the mysterious pieces in UFOlogy', said Tyler Glockner who runs SecureTeam 10 on the clip. He described the footage, which was believed to have been filmed in the 1980s or 1990s as a 'hidden gem'
The Nevada-based military testing facility has been a focal point of many conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists since the late 1970s, who claim that the base houses secretive alien technology. Pictured is the most recent sighting by SecureTeam 10
Claims of alien conspiracies around Area 51 have largely been debunked.
But the site has been confirmed as a historic test site for military aircraft.
Famous machines developed there include the U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter.
The unexplained object appears to be getting higher and higher and releases a strange light as the footage goes on
In this image, the base is shown in a small yellow square within the massive Air Force base at Nevada's Groom Lake. Area 51 is blanketed by a strict 23 by 25-mile (37 by 40km) no-fly zone for civilian aircraft
The extraterrestrial Highway is between Highway 6 and Highway 93 in Nevada, and is the closest main road to Area 51. The sprawling military complex sits between a dry lake bed to the North East, and a small mountain to the West
Area 51 is blanketed by a strict 23 by 25-mile (37 by 40km) no-fly zone for civilian aircraft, and nearby viewpoints Freedom Ridge and White Sides Peak, which provide vantage points looking down on the base, are off-limits to the public
Images of the base are extremely rare, with any photographers brave enough to travel there kept far back from the perimeter by the base's many armed guards.
Area 51 is blanketed by a strict 23 by 25-mile (37 by 40km) no-fly zone for civilian aircraft.
Nearby viewpoints Freedom Ridge and White Sides Peak, which offer vantage points looking down on the base, are off-limits to the public.
After a series of declassifications, official details of Area 51 only came to light in 2011. This image shows a suspended, upside-down titanium A-12 spy-plane prototype as it is 'prepped' for radar testing
The U-2 spy plane is photographed as it is tested at Area 51 in 1955. Early missions involving the plane were used throughout the Cold War for surveillance over Cuba, the Soviet Union and China
The U.S. Air Force's SR-71 (double cockpit training version pictured) was in many ways a product of Area 51 testing and an evolution of the A-12, which was decommissioned in 1968
The unique design of the A-12 made at Area 51. A mock-up of the aircraft is seen here upside down as it is tested. Ironically, this is is also how test pilot Collins had to eject in 1963
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World's Largest Aircraft Completes Successful Test Flight
World's Largest Aircraft Completes Successful Test Flight
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
At a mammoth 302 feet (92 meters) long, the blimp-like Airlander 10 is the largest aircraft currently flying.
Credit: Hybrid Air Vehicles
It's a plane, it's a blimp … it's the world's largest aircraft.
A massive airship dubbed the Airlander 10 recently completed a successful test flight, bringing the helium-filled behemoth one step closer to commercial use.
Though it looks like a massive blimp, the Airlander 10 combines technology from airplanes, helicopters and airships. It is designed to stay aloft at altitudes of up to 20,000 feet (6,100 meters) for up to five days when manned, according to Hybrid Air Vehicles, the company that built the aircraft. And at a mammoth 302 feet (92 m) long, it is the largest aircraft currently flying. [In Photos: Building the World’s Largest Airship (Airlander 10)]
On May 10, the Airlander 10 flew for a total of 180 minutes to test the aircraft's handling, improved landing technology and more, according to Hybrid Air Vehicles. This was only the third flight of the Airlander 10. It first debuted as HAV-304, and successfully flew in 2012 as part of the U.S. Army’s Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle program. The reimagined and modified Airlander 10 made its maiden voyage in August 2016, kicking off a flight test program to assess the aircraft's performance and attempting to fly the airship farther away from its base in Cardington, England.
This latest flight had two main objectives, beyond safely completing a takeoff, flight and landing. The first was to determine how the Airlander handles, including the aircraft's new, additional "landing feet" that make up the Auxiliary Landing System (ALS). The second was to collect data on the flight's performance, such as airspeed, according to Hybrid Air Vehicles.
During the successful test flight, the Airlander 10 "handled superbly," said Dave Burns, the Airlander 10's chief test pilot. A statement from Hybrid Air Vehicles said the flight test team was "very pleased" with its initial analysis of the Airlander 10.
Hybrid Air Vehicles said the Airlander 10 could one day be used for search and rescue missions, by border control agents, for crowd monitoring, security, filming or academic research.
"There will also be passenger variants for the ultimate flying experience and eventually Hybrid Air Vehicles will fulfil a crucial role in point-to-point cargo transportation to remote areas," company officials said in a statement.
An artificial Venus flytrap can open and then close on cue, just like its namesake in nature, according to a new study. Scientists said this flexible gripping device could give soft robots a way to grasp and release objects autonomously, without the need for programming or computer-controlled parts.
"If you want to make something intelligent, oftentimes it's made using computers and some control circuitry that incorporates sensors and detectors. You have a system with many different pieces that have to be integrated to make the device work," said the study’s lead researcher Arri Priimagi, an associate professor of chemistry and bioengineering at Tampere University of Technology in Finland. [Biomimicry: 7 Clever Technologies Inspired by Nature]
The team tried to make this simpler he told Live Science.
Priimagi and his colleagues described their device in a study published online today (May 23) in the journal Nature Communications.
Although the device could serve in a range of applications, from biomedical manipulators to microchip-assembly lines to warehouse robots that stock shelves, Priimagi said he hasn't devoted much time to thinking about how the technology might be used.
"This wasn't application-driven," he said.
The artificial Venus flytrap could be used to help soft robots grasp and release objects autonomously, according to the researchers.
Credit: Owies Wani et al./Nature Communications
In nature, the carnivorous Venus flytrap waits with its jaw-like leaves open until an insect descends to drink from a nectar gland inside the plant. Last year, a study published in the journal Current Biology by researchers at the University of Würzburg in Germany, showed that the plant doesn't react instantly if a fly lands on it. Instead, hair-like sensors inside the flytraps' leaves need to be triggered twice in 20 seconds for the jaws to close, and five times to trigger the production of digestive enzymes, the scientists found.
Priimagi's gripper doesn't trap or ingest insects, but it does use a stimulus in order to close its trap, he said. What's more, the power source, sensors and devices that convert energy into motion are combined into one simple device.
The device has two main components: an optical fiber stem and a leaf made from a light-responsive liquid crystal elastomer. When open, the leaf and the fiber form a capital letter "T."
When light in the fiber-optic stem shines up through the leaf and out into the air, it creates a cone-shaped beam. If an object passes into the beam, light scatters back to the bendy leaf, triggering molecules inside the material that respond by changing shape. This changing of shape generates heat, causing the molecules to misalign, and this creates a bend in the elastomer. The leaf closes, opening when the light is turned off.
The leaf is tiny: a strip measuring no longer than 0.4 inches (1 centimeter) and thinner than a strand of human hair. But because it's made of soft material that becomes even softer when it heats up a bit, the leaf's gripping strength is high, the researchers said. It's able to grasp objects that have a mass hundreds of times higher than itself, the scientists added.
In lab experiments, the team showed that the device could grab objects of any shape, including round or square objects, as well as random bits of Styrofoam and thin sheets covered with reflective material, such as aluminum foil. The scientists used lasers for the study, but Priimagi said they could do the same with LEDs or even with white light.
"We just need light and optical fibers," he said.
Priimagi said his team has more work to do, such as experimenting with different colors of light, finding ways to move heavier objects and making the device snap shut more quickly, the way a real Venus flytrap does.
Vorig jaar begonnen eigenlijk de eerste meldingen binnen te komen van UFO’s die zich ophielden in de buurt van chemtrails.
Dat schijnen geen incidenten te zijn geweest, want ze worden nu op meerdere plaatsen gesignaleerd in de buurt van vliegtuigen die enorme “vliegtuigstrepen” achter laten.
Wanneer er eens een keer een UFO wordt gesignaleerd in de buurt van een chemtrail, dan zou je nog van toeval kunnen spreken. Komt dit echter op regelmatige basis voor, dan zit er wellicht een bepaalde reden achter waarom ze dit doen.
Na een aantal meldingen vorig jaar zijn er nu weer twee binnen een tijdsbestek van enkele weken. En dat zijn natuurlijk alleen nog maar de UFO’s die zijn opgemerkt in de buurt van chemtrails, want ook dat is niet altijd even gemakkelijk.
Er zijn nu zoveel waarnemingen, dat we vergissingen kunnen uitsluiten en dat roept natuurlijk de bekende vragen op: wie zijn het en wat willen ze?
De eerste melding is afkomstig van Mufon (nummer 83933) en het betreft hier een man uit de Engelse plaats Newton Abbot, die zegt dat hij op 22 mei naar buiten in de tuin ging omdat het een mooie zonnige dag was.
Hij keek naar de lucht waar regelmatig vliegtuigen over kwamen, maar daar zag hij verder geen bijzondere dingen. Newton Abbot ligt niet ver van het vliegveld van Execter, dus het betrof dan waarschijnlijk aankomend of vertrekkend verkeer van dat veld.
Op een gegeven moment werd zijn aandacht getrokken door een vliegtuig dat veel hoger vloog en volgde dit.
Toen zag hij plotseling een vreemd onbekend object dat zich richting het passagierstoestel begaf. Of beter gezegd, het bewoog zich naar de enorme chemtrail achter het vliegtuig en vloog hierlangs en haalde het als het ware in.
Op gelijke hoogte aangekomen, bleef het met dezelfde snelheid vliegen voor een tijdje en verloor toen kennelijk belangstelling, want het boog af en verdween met grote snelheid.
Deze UFO heeft volgens de getuige de grootte van het passagiersvliegtuig, maar hij merkte ook op dat er zich op een gegeven moment kleine zwarte bollen losmaakten van de UFO. Het hoe en waarom daarvan is een raadsel.
Hierna volgen de opnames die deze man wist te maken:
Ook daar zie je op een gegeven van rechtsboven een UFO naar beneden duiken richting chemtrail, alsof het wil onderzoeken welke ellende daar in het luchtruim wordt gesproeid.
Net zoals wat de getuige in Engeland beschrijft, lijkt het alsof degene die deze UFO’s onder controle heeft ronduit nieuwsgierig is.
Anderzijds was er vorig jaar natuurlijk die spectaculaire opname van een UFO die als het ware een chemtrail opeet.
Vooralsnog blijft het een mysterie wie of wat deze UFO’s zijn, waar ze vandaan komen, wie ze controleert en vooral ook waarom ze zoveel belangstelling hebben voor chemtrails.
Duidelijk lijkt dat zij zich meer zorgen maken over wat er in onze atmosfeer terechtkomt, dan dat de meesten hier op aarde dat doen. In dit artikel tref je een lijst van stoffen en hun schadelijke effecten op de gezondheid van flora en fauna.
A new crop circle which appeared this week in Dorset, England, is unusual not so much for its shape but for its close proximity to the mysterious hill figure known as the Cerne Abbas Giant and the earthworks called the Trendle or Frying Pan. Are these new and old (although that’s a subject of debate) formations related?
The website Crop Circle Connector provides an excellent drone video and close-up photographs of the crop circle. Both show details of the swirls left when whoever or whatever knocked down the wheat to create the pattern. The pattern itself is pretty simplistic compared to the more complex crop circles that tend to get them all of the attention. The comments section of the website contains an analysis by well-known crop circle expert Dr. Horace Drew, who claims he can decode crop circles, says many of them contain messages from aliens and human time travelers and professes that he can identify man-made (by today’s humans) crop circles.
Dr. Drew says this one is “paranormally real” (not man-made) and gives comparisons to its shape and various religious symbols. The intersecting circles looks like a Vesica Piscis, a symbol for Christ, and the almond-shaped intersection is a popular framing device for surrounding religious icons in many religions. So in this case, the shape could be a symbol of Christ emitting rays – another popular picture.
Interpretations of the crop circle provided by Dr. Drew
However, the religious aspects don’t necessarily fit with the crop circle’s close proximity to the Cerne Abbas Giant – whose looks and history are as controversial as many crop circles. The most well-known features of the crushed chalk outline of a large naked man are his large erection and his large club – that’s not a redundancy. While some have tried to date the figure back to Roman times because of its resemblance to Hercules, it’s not mentioned in historical documents until the late 17th century. An interesting theory is that it may be a satirical drawing of Oliver Cromwell.
The crop circle (left) and the giant (right) are too close for coincidence
It the crop circle and the hill figure – particularly the giant’s “lower” club – are related, then the circle takes on the resemblance of a female’s sexual organ. That would make sense if the crop circle was man-made, but Dr. Drew says it’s “paranormally real.”
What about the Frying Pan? Located above and to the right of the Giant’s head, the trendle (which means ‘hoop’) or frying pan would predate a 17th century Giant. Most experts believe it’s the remnants of a temple and was later used for maypole dancing – a maypole would be erected in its center and childless couples would circle it in a fertility dance.
The Giant and the Frying Pan
Erect a pole? Giant erection? Fertility dance? Crop circle in the shape of a female sex organ? Despite Dr. Drew’s comment that “For people who think about “sex” all of the time, this might seem to be a good theory!”, it actually seems like this is the most likely connection … even for people who don’t think about sex all of the time.
Whatever the case and whatever the cause, this new crop circle provides a great reason to call attention to one of Britain’s unique features – the Cerne Abbas Giant – and to ponder why an alien or time traveler would choose that shape for a nearby crop circle.
I was interested to see Paul Seaburn’s new article, “New Film Suggests Marilyn Monroe Was About To Reveal Aliens.” It’s a saga that dates back to the mid-1990s and which is clearly not going to go away anytime soon, as this latest development shows. The vast majority of the story is reliant on a controversial document of questionable origins and of equally questionable authenticity. Allegedly, it’s a CIA document dated August 3, 1962 and which deals with Marilyn Monroe’s supposed knowledge of Roswell and UFO-themed conspiracies. You can find the document here.
What particularly interests me about the “Monroe document” is not so much what it says, but what it specifically doesn’t say. Despite what many researchers have said, there is not even a single reference in the document to aliens, extraterrestrials, flying saucers, or UFOs. Not a single one. In fact, the wording could actually push the whole thing down a very different path. I’ll explain what I mean by that. But, first, let’s see how and under what circumstances the controversial one-page document surfaced.
It all began in 1995, at a Los Angeles-based press conference. It was a press conference held by a man named Milo Speriglio. He was a guy with a deep interest in the circumstances surrounding Marilyn’s death. Speriglio was so interested in her final day that he wrote three books on the issues of her life and still-controversial death. They were Crypt 33, The Marilyn Conspiracy, and Marilyn Monroe: Murder Cover-Up. Until 1995, Speriglio had not made any kind of connection between the Hollywood uber-babe and UFOs. So, what was it that prompted Speriglio to head off into new and highly inflammatory territory? It was a revelation from a man named Timothy Cooper.
Today, many people within Ufology might not recognize that name. But, from the early-to-late 1990s, Cooper – of Big Bear Lake, California – was a well-known figure in Ufology. He was also a controversial figure, too. Most of the controversy stemmed from the fact that Cooper claimed to have received a wealth of old, sensational, leaked documents from retired figures in the intelligence community – almost all of them on crashed UFOs, Roswell, dead aliens, and the notorious Majestic 12 group.
There’s no doubt that the documents existed (and still exist). You can find PDF versions of most of them at Ryan Wood’s MajesticDocuments.com website. There are literally hundreds of pages. The big question is: are they the real deal? When the papers were made available, there were those researchers who believed that the documents were 100 percent real. Some considered them to be government disinformation. And others were firmly of the opinion that Cooper had created them himself. The controversy raged for a while, but finally imploded upon itself with barely a sigh. The Marilyn document was one of those which Cooper claimed to have received from one of his various sources, or as I call them “ufological Snowdens.”
I know quite a bit about the Cooper papers (including the Marilyn Monroe document), as the following extract from my new book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, makes clear (QUOTE): “It’s a little known fact that in late 2001 Tim Cooper sold all of his voluminous UFO files to Dr. Robert M. Wood. Bob is the author of Alien Viruses and the father of Ryan Wood, who has spent years researching alleged crashed UFO incidents – all detailed in his book, Majic Eyes Only. It is even less well-known that in the early days of 2002, Bob hired me to spend a week in an Orange County, California-based motel-room, surrounded by all of the thousands upon thousands of pages of Cooper’s voluminous collection of the cosmic sort. The plan was for me to catalog all of the material, to compile each and every piece of it into chronological order, and to summarize the content of each document, every letter, and every Freedom of Information request that Cooper had submitted to government agencies – which is precisely what I did. It was a week in which I most definitely earned my loot. It was also a week that paralleled the infamous story told by Hunter S. Thompson in his classic gonzo saga, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Whereas Thompson was hunkered down with his whisky, margaritas and shrimp cocktails, for me it was cases of cold beer and club sandwiches” (END OF QUOTE).
Hunter S. Thompson
Contained within that huge amount of material at my disposal was the Monroe document – the original one that Cooper is said to have received from one of his sources. There were also a number of FOIA requests from Cooper that he had sent to various military and intelligence agencies, in search of any and all files on Marilyn Monroe. Cooper was clearly seeking out as much as he could find on Marilyn and UFOs – regardless of the actual origin of the document. For around eight weeks, Speriglio did absolutely nothing with the document, aside from sitting on it and pondering on what his next move should be. What Speriglio finally did was to hold that aforementioned press-conference. And that’s how the story began and how the document and its contents spilled over into the UFO research community.
One of the lesser known aspects of this story is that Speriglio made a very brief comment to the effect that copies of the document were in the hands of what he described as “two federal agencies.” At the press conference, Speriglio flatly refused to reveal the identities of the two agencies. And he refused to reveal the names when questioned later, too. So far, nothing of any substance has ever surfaced in relation to what, exactly, those two agencies may have done with the document. If anything, at all, of course.
Now, let’s take a look at the contents of the document. Most of those contents are focused on conversations between two people: Dorothy Kilgallen and a friend named Howard Rothberg. The former was a well-known figure in the field of celebrity-journalism in the 1950s and who was deeply interested in the JFK assassination (see this link for more information). As an aside, when the Speriglio-Cooper document surfaced, I fired off FOIA requests to the CIA and FBI and received copies of their files on Kilgallen. The CIA papers were few and brief, to say the least. The FBI, however, mailed me close to 170 pages on Kilgallen, demonstrating that she was someone watched closely by J. Edgar Hoover’s Special-Agents.
J. Edgar Hoover
As for what the purported CIA document states, there is this: “Rothberg discussed the apparent comeback of [Marilyn Monroe] with Kilgallen and the break up with the Kennedys. Rothberg told Kilgallen that she was attending Hollywood parties hosted by the ‘inner circle’ among Hollywood’s elite and was becoming the talk of the town again. Rothberg indicated in so many words, that she had secrets to tell, no doubt arising from her trists [sic] with the President and the Attorney General.”
Now, we get to the crux of the story. The document states: “One such [illegible] mentions the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space. Kilgallen replied that she knew what might be the source of the visit. In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to identify the origins of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies, from a British government official. Kilgallen believed the story may have come from the [illegible] in the late forties. Kilgallen said that if the story is true, it could cause terrible embarrassment to Jack and his plans to have NASA put men on the moon.”
It is true that Dorothy Kilgallen wrote – briefly – about UFOs back in 1955. While vacationing in the U.K. in that year, Kilgallen was on the receiving end of a very odd story, as she noted: “I can report today on a story which is positively spooky, not to mention chilling. British scientists and airmen, after examining the wreckage of one mysterious flying ship, are convinced these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or Soviet inventions, but are flying saucers which originate on another planet. The source of my information is a British official of cabinet rank who prefers to remain unidentified.”
Dorothy Kilgallen (left)
That same “British official of cabinet rank” reportedly advised Kilgallen of the following: “We believe, on the basis of our inquiry thus far, that the saucers were staffed by small men – probably under four feet tall. It’s frightening, but there’s no denying the flying saucers come from another planet.” Kilgallen had more to say: “This official quoted scientists as saying a flying ship of this type could not have possibly been constructed on Earth. The British Government, I learned, is withholding an official report on the ‘flying saucer’ examination at this time, possibly because it does not wish to frighten the public. When my husband and I arrived here from a brief vacation, I had no premonition that I would be catapulting myself into the controversy over whether flying saucers are real or imaginary.”
The references in the document to Marilyn having “secrets to tell” (secrets supposedly shared with her by JFK and RFK) have led a number of UFO investigators to conclude that Marilyn was killed because of what she knew about Roswell. The alleged CIA document goes on to refer to Monroe’s “diary of secrets,” “what the newspapers would do with such disclosures,” and how she had “threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all.” A countdown to death, all in the name of maintaining UFO secrecy? Well, yes, that’s how it seems. But, in Ufology practically nothing is as it seems.
It’s important to note that at the top of the document there is a reference to a Project Moon Dust. In a January 2017 article I wrote for Mysterious Universe on Moon Dust I stated: “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?”
No, it was not. A November 3, 1961 U.S. Air Force document states: ““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…”
That all sounds very interesting…but…if you take a careful look at all of the Moon Dust documents in the public domain (which I have done), it becomes very clear that when the military was referring to “UFOs” in their files they were not talking about alien spacecraft. Rather, they were referencing probable space debris that originated with the former Soviet Union. Which brings me back to the document that got Milo Speriglio fired up.
Keep Moon Dust in mind as you read the following. You’ll recall that earlier in this article I stated the following: “Despite what many researchers have said, there is not even a single reference in the document to dead aliens, extraterrestrials, flying saucers, or UFOs. Not a single one.” That’s absolutely true. What it really says is that JFK allegedly traveled to “…a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space.” No references to aliens or to extraterrestrial ships. The document also refers to “crashed spacecraft and dead bodies.” But, again, no specific references to mangled E.T.s or wrecked saucers.
Now, some might say that references to “dead bodies,” to “things from outer space,” and to “crashed spacecraft” are references to Roswell and deceased aliens. On the other hand, however, the very fact that the document references Project Moon Dust suggests another possibility. Namely, that the subject-matter may have been a failed – and still unknown – early Soviet manned-mission into space. One which predated Yuri Gagarin’s flight into outer space on April 12, 1961. There is another bit of data that supports this scenario. Recall that the document states: “Kilgallen said that if the story is true, it could cause terrible embarrassment to Jack and his plans to have NASA put men on the moon.” For ufologists this is – or should be – a problem.
Why on Earth would widespread knowledge of the existence of aliens “cause terrible embarrassment to Jack and his plans to have NASA put me on the moon?” The answer is: it wouldn’t. If such information on aliens reached the public it certainly would have caused widespread fear, wonder and amazement among the public – and within government, too. But, specifically provoking embarrassment in relation to plans to put a man on the Moon? That doesn’t make any sense. If, however, those “dead bodies” were Soviet cosmonauts, if the “crashed spacecraft” was a Russian rocket, and if the Soviets did have a number of unsuccessful manned-missions that predated Gagarin – and that such information threatened to surface during the time Kennedy was in office – then yes that would have caused significant embarrassment for the JFK administration – and, possibly, for NASA.
So, where does all of this leave us? Admittedly, since the Marilyn document first surfaced in 1995, my views and opinions have gone back and forth. I think it’s probably a hoax. Probably. Mainly because it gives Ufology just about all the things it wants and yearns for: the references to “dead bodies” and “crashed spacecraft” inevitably provoke Roswell-like imagery. The mention of a “secret air base” effortlessly points us in the direction of Area 51, thus adding another layer of sensational conspiracy to the story. The JFK-UFO angle reinforces the belief in some quarters that Kennedy was whacked because of what he knew about Roswell. The same with Marilyn, too. It’s The X-Files-meets-Dark Skies-meets-Oliver Stone’s JFK.
But, I have to admit, I do find it intriguing that whoever really wrote the document, they were extremely vague in terms of what they were talking about. I have seen more than a few questionable UFO documents in my time, and the one thing that nearly all of them share is an explicit, collective reference to ETs, aliens, flying saucers, and extraterrestrial craft. In other words, there is no doubt about the subject-matter: creatures from other worlds.
For me, though, the Marilyn document remains interesting because of the undeniable haziness of what it says. Or of what it doesn’t say. It doesn’t tell the reader that aliens crashed anywhere – despite the assumptions of Ufology. So, maybe, with that in mind, there is something to the document, after all. That’s not a case of me fence-sitting. As I said, I think it’s a hoax. But, if it is, then a great deal of thought went into it. As did a great deal of restraint – in terms of the unclear subject-matter. Maybe, there’s another answer: that we’re seeing a document crafted by disinformation experts to confuse Ufology, and for reasons presently unknown.
In light of all the above, it’s not surprising the document is still “alive and kicking,” close to a quarter of a century after it surfaced.
Alien life could exist on Pluto and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, claim scientists
Alien life could exist on Pluto and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, claim scientists
EVERYTHING we believe about the universe could change, with several planets in our very own solar system may host alien life, stargazers have discovered.
Does alien life exist? Scientists are closer than ever to finding out thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope. This revolutionary spacecraft is on a mission to find habitable alien planets.
ALIEN hunters may be one step closer to finding ET.
Several planets in our very own solar system may host alien life, stargazers have discovered.
The Sun reports Saturn’s moon Enceladus, Jupiter’s moon Europa, Pluto and its moon Charon, as well as the dwarf planet Ceres are potential homes for extraterrestrials, scientists at University of Texas at San Antonio and the Southwest Research Institute claim.
It’s all down to a process called radiolysis, which experts believe could breed life across the universe.
All that’s needed is a rocky core and water molecules — something scientists reckon our solar system has plenty of.
The study found that a the rocky cores of some planets and moons emit radiation which break up water molecules and in turn feed microbial life.
Scientists conducted an experiment to predict how the radiation would affect interior oceans on planets like Pluto and Saturn’s moon Europa.
Alexis Bouquet, lead author said: “The physical and chemical processes that follow radiolysis release molecular hydrogen, which is a molecule of astrobiological interest.”
The radiation comes from elements like uranium, potassium and thorium — all of which are found in a group of rocky meteorites called chrondites.
Pluto, as well as Saturn and Jupiter’s moons, is made up of chrondite.
That means any ocean water permeating the porous rock of the core could be affected by radiolysis, producing molecular hydrogen and reactive oxygen compounds — the building blocks for life.
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NASA seems pretty convinced that Europa has a big ocean on it, and is planning to send a spaceship there to search for alien life.
Lifeforms which have formed through radiolysis can be found closer to home.
Bouquet said that they have been found in extreme environments on Earth.
These include a groundwater sample found nearly two miles deep in a South African gold mine and at hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.
Their existence suggests microbes could be found where rock and ocean meet in planets like Enceladus or Europa.
“We know that these radioactive elements exist within icy bodies, but this is the first systematic look at the solar system to estimate radiolysis.
“The results suggest that there are many potential targets for exploration out there, and that’s exciting,” added co-author Dr Danielle Wyrick, a principal scientist in Southwest Research Institute’s Space Science and Engineering Division.
Radiolysis could also help create food for these aliens.
“Radiolysis in an ocean world’s outer core could be fundamental in supporting life. Because mixtures of water and rock are everywhere in the outer solar system, this insight increases the odds of abundant habitable real estate out there,” Bouquet said.
It’s just the latest discovery to delight UFO hunters.
Conspiracy theorists tongues were wagging after a mysterious star which could be home to alien life began flashing again last week.
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Canadian witness describes cigar-shaped UFO
Canadian witness describes cigar-shaped UFO
A Canadian witness at Ottawa reported watching a white-gray colored, cigar-shaped object hovering and then moving away at incredible speed and making no sound, according to testimony in Case 83359 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was alone on a home balcony smoking a cigarette at 4:30 a.m. on April 23, 2017, gazing at the “waning crescent moon.”
“As I was observing the moon, thinking about different non-related things in my mind, I all of a sudden noticed a big, cigar-shaped object a couple degrees to the right of the moon,” the witness stated.
Cropped version of the witness illustration.
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The witness described the object.
“The object seemed large. It was of a white-gray color, cylindrical-shaped. What seemed to be the front of the cylinder was a couple degrees upward and the bottom a couple degrees downward. In other words, it was at an angle. It did not move. It was static in the sky at the moment I noticed it.”
Cropped version of the witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was confused and did not know what the object was.
“A lapse of three seconds went by until the object seemed to pulsate with a white, circular light at the bottom end of the ship. In a fraction of a second after this pulse was emitted, the object propelled itself at an incredible speed. The movement lasted about a second. At the end of the second, the object pulsated another white circular light. This time at the front of the ship. And it seemed to have entered this light and disappeared. There were absolutely no sounds emitted whatsoever before, during or after the incident.”
Cropped version of the witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness noted that Ottawa Airport is about two minutes away from where the sighting happened.
“I am used to seeing airplanes taking off or flying by. I always hear them, and I am more than certain that this was no plane. This object was huge, had no wings. It was static in the air. It made no sounds whatsoever. It flew at a speed of a shooting star upwards and disappeared.”
Cropped version of the witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
After the incident, the witness went inside and woke up a friend.
“I told him what had happened, but he was really sleepy, so he went to bed. I have attached a sketch of what I saw and I have enumerated the sequence of how the event happened.”
Canada MUFON Field Investigator Robert Shimmon is investigating.
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada, population 934,243. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Witness describes helicopter chasing ball of light
Witness describes helicopter chasing ball of light
A Kansas witness at Lawrence reported watching a military helicopter apparently chasing an orange ball of light moving overhead under 1,000 feet, according to testimony in Case 83535 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness went outside upon hearing a low flying helicopter on May 4, 2017. Pictured: Lawrence, Kansas.
(Credit: Google)
The witness was inside an apartment watching television when the sound of a helicopter was heard at 11:15 p.m. on May 4, 2017.
“It sounded very low and powerful, so I figured it had to be military, and I, being a total nerd, had to run out to the parking lot to get a look,” the witness stated.“By the time I was out my door and in the parking lot, I had just enough time to watch a small, orange ball of light being chased by what I assume to be a Blackhawk helicopter (because of size and sound) disappear behind the rooftops of the buildings east of me.”
This struck the witness as bizarre.
“I saw something similar some months ago in the same general area – the skies south of Lawrence. I live on the south side of town, not far from Baker Wetlands.”
The witness saw a military helicopter apparently chasing an orange ball of light.
Pictured: Lawrence, Kansas. (Credit: Google)
The witness described the event.
“The light was small and orange in color and was about 50-100 yards ahead of the helicopter. It made no erratic movements, but was travelling at a fair clip as the helicopter was tracking it at almost the exact speed and it was moving pretty quickly.”
The witness does not believe the orange light could have been a sky lantern.
“I have my doubts that this could’ve been a paper lantern – though the color and intensity of the light were similar to one – and the distance ahead of the helicopter rules out a refueling boom. I’d give the altitude of the two objects to be between 500-1,000 feet AGL and the speed of both to be about 100 knots at the time I saw them.”
The witness noted there was one other object in the sky.
Both objects were flying under 1,000 feet. Pictured: Lawrence, Kansas.
(Credit: Google)
“I saw another object in the sky in the general area at the same time, though it may not have been connected. This object seemed to be an aircraft judging by the red and white lights it had on it, but it hovered in place for a moment until the lights slowly faded out with no apparent change in location. The direction I was looking toward would be about a straight line to KCI, so I wasn’t immediately suspicious, but – having seen plenty of air traffic heading to and from KCI on that flight path – this didn’t look like anything I’d seen before – and no landing lights. I mention this because it was odd and because the previous sighting of a few months earlier of the same kind of event had two helicopters chasing the light instead of just one. Maybe this was the second.”
Lawrence is the sixth largest city in the state of Kansas and the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, population 87,643. Kansas MUFON State Director Stan Seba is investigating. No photos or videos were included with the report which was filed on May 5, 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.
SHOCK CLAIM: Footage of ‘alien UFO being tested at Area 51 leaked’
SHOCK CLAIM: Footage of ‘alien UFO being tested at Area 51 leaked’
VIDEO footage showing an unidentifiable object flying above the ground was leaked out of the mysterious Area 51 US Air Force (USAF) base, it has been claimed.
Video released on YouTube shows grainy footage of a flying object which appears to rise and hover in the sky.
Conspiracy theorists believe the video to have been recorded in the late Eighties or early Nineties.
The "UFO" appears to emit a light as it seems to move from side to side.
Secureteam10 is behind the release and its producer Tyler Glockner claims in the video it is some of the most compelling UFO evidence out there.
He said in a video about the clip: "It is alleged to have been recorded back in mid to early 1990s or possible even late 1980s.
"It is said to be of an alien vehicle being tested over the very secretive base known as Area 51."
But, sceptical ufologist Scott Brando, who runs hoax busting website ufoofinterest.org said the video was not even recorded at Area 51, but another top-secret USAF base in Nevada.
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The footage was not filmed at Area 51, but at the Nellis base.
Mr Brando provided the same footage which was said to have been recorded at the Nellis Air Force base in Las Vegas on May 30 1995.
He regularly highlights Secureteam10 for misleading its more than 750,000 subscribers.
He, and a number of UFO hoax busters claim to have exposed its use of CGI footage and misrepresentation, and the channel appears on a numb roy UFO website blacklists.
Mr Glockner denies being a deliberate hoaxer, and claims his research is genuine.
He added in his new video: "It's one of the mysterious pieces in UFOlogy - a hidden gem."
The heavily guarded Area 51, deep in the Nevada desert, is at the centre of many alien-related conspiracy theories, but so is the Nellis base.
It is claimed that alien flying saucers have crashed on Earth, such as the alleged 1947 Roswell incident, and that the wreckage and even corpses have been taken to both bases to be analysed away from public view.
It is alleged to have been recorded back in mid to early 1990s or possible even late 1980s.
Tyler Glockner
One theory suggests that USAF scientists have tried to back engineer the alien technology to create their own top-secret spy craft capable of travelling into space.
The conspiracy theories have been fuelled by the fart the US Government did not acknowledge Area 51 existed until 2013.
But, it is accepted that the USAF does secretly test new aircraft there, with the U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter all developed there.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: "Area 51 has always been a magnet for those who believe the US Government knows a lot more about UFOs than they are prepared to reveal to the public.
"People like the late Boyd Bushman, a senior scientist who worked for Lockheed Martin, have declared that Area 51 is a base where extraterrestrial spacecraft and technology is stored and examined."
Mr Brando said he believes the 1995 footage from the Nellis base is a standard military craft or other operation taking place, and that there is no evidence to connect it to alien technology.
Mr Brando told Express.co.uk: "It's old footage published in the 1990's by several UFO magazines with VHS.
"We don't know if the audio of the video is original or counterfeit.
"These kinds of movies were deliberately cut and packed for the mentioned magazines."
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UFO BOMBSHELL: Could this memo solve Roswell 'flying saucer' crash mystery?
UFO BOMBSHELL: Could this memo solve Roswell 'flying saucer' crash mystery?
DECIPHERING this memo captured in an alleged image of the remains of whatever crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, nearly 70 years ago, could solve the world's biggest ever UFO mystery, it has been claimed.
Mr Ramey holding the memo (circled) in the picture in question.
Roswell has been at the heart of the alien hunter scene since the military sensationally announced in a press release in July 1947 it had found a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day the statement was retracted and officials said the debris was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been a cover up and alien bodies were found within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.
The alleged cover up has become the world's biggest UFO conspiracy theory.
The photograph in question shows General Roger Ramey in his office at Fort Worth Army Air Field, later known as Carswell Air Force Base.
He is holding a memo and crouching over debris that he claimed was from the Roswell crash and was identifiable as coming from a weather balloon.
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The Ramey memo in close up.
But, many UFO researchers doubt the debris in the photo is actually from the object which crashed outside Roswell in July, 1947. They say it is was used as part of a cover up.
They believe the text in the memo could proves their claims once and for all.
Just hours before the pictures were taken, the public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field, sent out the infamous press release saying they had discovered the remains of a crashed flying saucer.
This was on the orders of his superior, Colonel William Blanchard.
Then the story gets stranger.
Jesse Marcel was the intelligence officer who was sent to inspect and collect the material a day earlier.
He was ordered to bring the material to Fort Worth.
He later testified that when he got to Fort Worth, he was taken to Mr Ramey’s office where a photographer and chief of staff, Colonel Thomas Dubious, were waiting.
He claimed on the floor was different material that clearly came from a weather balloon and he was made to pose with it as if it was the debris he collected.
These were the pictures that accompanied the subsequent article which claimed a mistake had been made and it was a weather balloon and not a UFO.
Alejandro Rojas, a presenter for Open Minds Radio, said: "Marcel says he was ordered to go along with the story, and like a good soldier, he did what he was told, no questions asked.
"Incidentally, Dubois also later claimed the debris in these photos were part of a cover-up. He said the weather balloon material was set out to trick the public.
"The weather balloon explanation was accepted by the press and the public.
"It was not until the 1980s, when witnesses like Marcel came forward that the incident began to catch the public’s attention."
But the plot thickens.
An inquiry into Roswell by New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff, led to an admission from the Air Force that the weather balloon explanation was a cover-up.
He says it is clear that there is a reference to a disc, and believes he can also make out a portion of a sentence that reads 'and the victims of the wreck’.
Alejandro Rojas
But this inquiry still concluded there was nothing extraterrestrial.
The conclusion stated a top secret project called Project Mogul - to send balloons with sensitive listening devices used to detect Russian nuclear tests - was underway, and the debris was from one of these devices.
The weather balloon cover-up was to stop Project Mogul being compromised, the inquiry concluded.
But, now UFO researchers think modern technology could solve the case once and for all.
In the photos, the memo is seen in Mr Ramey's hands.
David Rudiak has used modern technology to zoom in on the text and claims to have deciphered some of the words.
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David Rudiak claims to have deciphered these words in the memo.
He believes he is now able to read 80 percent of it.
Mr Rojas added: "He says it is clear that there is a reference to a disc, and believes he can also make out a portion of a sentence that reads 'and the victims of the wreck’.
"Rudiak says this proves that a disc-shaped craft was recovered.
"However, perhaps more startling, he says it also corroborates the claims that extraterrestrial bodies were recovered from that wreck."
The inquiry report said it had not been possible to decipher the text, saying: “The photo was sent to a national-level organisation for digitising and subsequent photo interpretation and analysis.
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David Rudiak claims to have been able to read 80 percent of the memo.
“This organisation reported on July 20, 1994, that even after digitising, the photos were of insufficient quality to visualise either of the details sought for analysis.”
Not all researchers agree with Mr Rudiak’s interpretation, but it is felt more needs to be done to read the memo in full.
An anonymous donor has pledged a huge reward for information, says UFO author Kevin Randle.
In a blog titled “Ramey Memo and the $10,000 Reward”, he wrote: “A trusted colleague who is not a Ufologist but does have an interest in Roswell and UFOs and who has the money, has taken this in a slightly different direction.
"He is offering a $10,000 reward for the first person or group/lab that can provide a definite read of the Ramey memo.
“To claim the reward a number of criteria will need to be met, including full reproducibility of the result (with methodology of the individual/lab completely explained and transparent so that anyone knowledgeable can replicate in much the same way that the placard on the Not Roswell Slides was revealed).
"There must be overwhelming agreement that the result is definitive with most of the text clear enough that there is little or no disagreement on what it says across a broad spectrum of people of all opinions whether true believer or complete sceptic.”
But unlike the dramatic dimming event of two years ago, scientists are now prepared and organized to be able to figure out what the hell is going on with Tabby’s Star, thanks to the leadership of its namesake, Tabetha Boyajian.
Two years ago, Boyajian — now an astrophysicist at Louisiana State University — analyzed month’s-old data from NASA’s Kepler telescope, which has its eye trained on thousands of stars in a specific part of the universe. One star, KIC 8462852, behaved like no other. At one point, the star lost nearly a quarter of its radiance, an inexplicable event that earned it the “alien megastructure” name. Since the discovery, the star continues to flummox scientists. Although a number of decent theories have emerged, scientists have been eagerly waiting for Tabby’s Star to begin dimming again, giving them an opportunity to observe it as the darkening events unfold.
“It’s critical to keep an eye on it, stay on our toes, and see what comes,” Boyajian told Inverse.
The initial dip, announced on Friday, showed a three percent drop in radiance – which is quite a bit. If alien observers 1,300 light-years away from Earth were to watch our sun lose three percent of its radiance, something the size of Jupiter would have to obstruct the sun’s light.
Throughout the weekend, astronomers around the world observed the erratic star and sent their data to Boyajian, the ad-hoc expert for the star-watching operation. “This is the central clearing house for all the observations coming in,” she says.
Two NASA images of Tabby's Star, taken in Infrared (right) and UV. The star is located 1,300 light years from Earth.
The assumption is that something with a lot of mass is blocking out a considerable portion of Tabby’s light – perhaps a group of orbiting comets, a giant mess of planetary leftovers, or (probably unlikely) an alien superstructure that intelligent beings use to harness the star’s energy. To find out, scientists are looking at the spectrums of light coming from Tabby’s Star, because light is manipulated as it travels through different things, like expansive bodies of gas or hot cosmic dust. Boyajian hopes that these observations will reveal important insights about what this obstructing matter is, along with its temperature and density.
Although there are compelling ideas about what might be blocking the light, Boyajian doesn’t yet favor any particular hypothesis. “At this point I’m keeping an open mind,” she says. “We’re trying to stay responsible about not drawing any early conclusions.”
As of Monday, May 22, the three percent dip ended, as shown in the graph below, tweeted by Jason Wright, an astrophysicist at Penn State University. But, explains Boyajian, the previous dimming events came in clusters, so there’s a “good possibility that another event or dip will happen.”
Although the new activity just began, some scientists propose that the dimming events may keep to a schedule. The earlier Kepler data, examined by Boyajian, showed that the dips might occur around every two years. “It’s suggestive of something that is periodically dimming the star – perhaps something bound to the star,” says Brian Metzger, an astrophysicist at Columbia University.
In January, Metzger published a study proposing that an Earth-sized planet or moon got kicked a bit too close to Tabby’s Star, allowing Tabby to shred off its surface and mantle. Now, that big messy pile of planetary debris could be orbiting Tabby’s Star on a pretty consistent basis, periodically blotching out a significant amount of its light.
If so, scientists using infrared telescopes should be able to find some evidence of this hot debris, especially when it passes close to Tabby’s Star and gets sizzled by the star’s heat. “If we see this infrared evidence it will be strong support of our model,” explains Metzger.
As for a massive Dyson sphere – an alien super-structure designed to surround and harness a star’s energy – it’s still in the running, although it’s probably in last place. A distant last.
“Technically we haven’t ruled out anything,” says Metzger. “Let’s talk about the Dyson sphere when we have all the cards on the table.”
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The Kardashev Scale – Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization
The Kardashev Scale – Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization
We have reached a turning point in society. According to renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, the next 100 years of science will determine whether we perish or thrive. Will we remain a Type 0 civilization, or will we advance and make our way into the stars?
Experts assert that, as a civilization grows larger and becomes more advanced, its energy demands will increase rapidly due to its population growth and the energy requirements of its various machines. With this in mind, the Kardashev scale was developed as a way of measuring a civilization’s technological advancement based upon how much usable energy it has at its disposal (this was originally just tied to energy available for communications, but has since been expanded).
MEET THE KARDASHEV SCALE
Credit: Chris Cold
The scale was originally designed in 1964 by the Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev (who was looking for signs of extraterrestrial life within cosmic signals). It has 3 base classes, each with an energy disposal level: Type I (10¹⁶W), Type II (10²⁶W), and Type III (10³⁶W). Other astronomers have extended the scale to Type IV (10⁴⁶W) and Type V (the energy available to this kind of civilization would equal that of all energy available in not just our universe, but in all universes and in all time-lines). These additions consider both energy access as well as the amount of knowledge the civilizations have access to.
First, it is important to note that the human race is not even on this scale yet. Since we still sustain our energy needs from dead plants and animals, here on Earth, we are a lowly Type 0 civilization (and we have a LONG way to go before being promoted to a type I civilization). Kaku tends to believe that, all things taken into consideration, we will reach Type I in 100 – 200 years time. But what does each of these categories actually stand for in literal terms?
A Type I designation is a given to species who have been able to harness all the energy that is available from a neighboring star, gathering and storing it to meet the energy demands of a growing population. This means that we would need to boost our current energy production over 100,000 times to reach this status. However, being able to harness all Earth’s energy would also mean that we could have control over all natural forces. Human beings could control volcanoes, the weather, and even earthquakes! (At least, that is the idea.) These kinds of feats are hard to believe, but compared to the advances that may still be to come, these are just basic and primitive levels of control (it’s absolutely nothing compared to the capabilities of societies with higher rankings).
The next step up – a Type II civilization– can harness the power of their entire star (not merely transforming starlight into energy, but controlling the star). Several methods for this have been proposed. The most popular of which is the hypothetical ‘Dyson Sphere.’ This device, if you want to call it that, would encompass every single inch of the star, gathering most (if not all) of its energy output and transferring it to a planet for later use. Alternatively, if fusion power (the mechanism that powers stars) had been mastered by the race, a reactor on a truly immense scale could be used to satisfy their needs. Nearby gas giants can be utilized for their hydrogen, slowly drained of life by an orbiting reactor.
What would this much energy mean for a species? Well, nothing known to science could wipe out a Type II civilization. Take, for instance, if humans survived long enough to reach this status, and a moon sized object entered our solar system on a collision course with our little blue planet–we’d have the ability to vaporize it out of existence. Or if we had time, we could move our planet out of the way, completely dodging it. But let’s say we didn’t want to move Earth… are there any other options? Well yes, because we’d have the capability to move Jupiter, or another planet of our choice, into the way – pretty cool, right?
So we’ve gone from having control over a planet, to a star, which has resulted in us harboring enough “disposable” energy to essentially make our civilization immune to extinction. But now, onto Type III, where a species then becomes galactic traversers with knowledge of everything having to do with energy, resulting in them becoming a master race. In terms of humans, hundreds of thousands of years of evolution – both biological and mechanical – may result in the inhabitants of this type III civilization being incredibly different from the human race as we know it. These may be cyborgs (or cybernetic organism, beings both biological and robotic), with the descendants of regular humans being a sub-species among the now-highly advanced society. These wholly biological humans would likely be seen as being disabled, inferior, or unevolved by their cybernetic counterparts.
At this stage, we would have developed colonies of robots that are capable of ‘self replication’; their population may increase into the millions as they spread out across the galaxy, colonizing star after star. And these being might build Dyson Spheres to encapsulate each one, creating a huge network that would carry energy back to the home planet. But stretching over the galaxy in such a manner would face several problems; namely, the species would be constrained by the laws of physics. Particularly, light-speed travel. That is, unless they develop a working warp drive, or use that immaculate energy cache to master wormhole teleportation (two things that remain theoretical for the time being), they can only get so far.
An artist rendering of such a civilization (Credit: Sid Meier’s Civilization IV)
Kardashev believed a Type IV civilizationwas ‘too’ advanced and didn’t go beyond Type III on his scale. He thought that, surely, this would be the extent of any species’ ability. Many think so, but a few believe there is a further level that could be achieved. (I mean, surely there is a limit?) Type IV civilizations would almost be able to harness the energy content of the entire universe and with that, they could traverse the accelerating expansion of space (furthermore, advance races of these species may live inside supermassive black holes). To previous methods of generating energy, these kinds of feats are considered impossible. A Type IV civilization would need to tap into energy sources unknown to us using strange, or currently unknown, laws of physics.
Type V.Yes, Type V might just be the next possible advancement to such a civilization. Here beings would be like gods, having the knowledge to manipulate the universe as they please. Now, as I said, humans are a very, very long way from ever reaching anything like this. But it’s not to say that it cannot be achieved as long as we take care of Earth and each other. To do so, the first step is to preserve our tiny home, extinguish war, and continue to support scientific advances and discoveries.
Area 51: Leaked video purports alien craft being tested at secret military base
Area 51: Leaked video purports alien craft being tested at secret military base
(Credit: SecureTeam 10 YouTube)
A video from noted conspiracy theorists SecureTeam 10 describes what it calls "leaked" footage of an alien craft at Area 51 in Nevada.
The video, which has racked up over 200,000 views on YouTube, appears to show a flying object hovering in the sky, then flying in a way that known aircraft can not currently do.
Light emits from the craft as it moves side to side then up and down.
Here is the video in its entirety:
On the video, Tyler Glockner, who runs SecureTeam 10, described the clip as a "hidden gem," noting it was alleged to have been filmed in the 1980's or 1990's.
"It's one of the mysterious pieces in UFOlogy," Glockner said of the footage.
SecureTeam 10, which openly states that it runs conspiracy theory-based videos, has more than 900,000 subscribes to its YouTube channel.
Area 51 has become a hot topic for extraterrestrial enthusiasts, due to the U.S. government never acknowledging its presence until 2013.
The National Security Archive at George Washington University declassified CIA documents in August 2013, thanks to a freedom of information request (FOIA) by Archivist Jeffrey Richelson, which confirmed the existence of the Nevada military base.
The famed U-2 spy plane, as well as the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird are both confirmed to have been tested at Area 51.
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Study shows how radioactive decay could support extraterrestrial life
Study shows how radioactive decay could support extraterrestrial life
A University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) team modeled a natural water-cracking process called radiolysis. They applied the model to the icy bodies around our solar system to show how radiation emitted from rocky cores could break up water molecules and support hydrogen-eating microbes. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
In the icy bodies around our solar system, radiation emitted from rocky cores could break up water molecules and support hydrogen-eating microbes. To address this cosmic possibility, a University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) team modeled a natural water-cracking process called radiolysis. They then applied the model to several worlds with known or suspected interior oceans, including Saturn's moon Enceladus, Jupiter's moon Europa, Pluto and its moon Charon, as well as the dwarf planet Ceres
"The physical and chemical processes that follow radiolysis release molecular hydrogen (H2), which is a molecule of astrobiological interest," said Alexis Bouquet, lead author of the study published in the May edition of Astrophysical Journal Letters. Radioactive isotopes of elements such as uranium, potassium, and thorium are found in a class of rocky meteorites known as chondrites. The cores of the worlds studied by Bouquet and his co-authors are thought to have chondrite-like compositions. Ocean water permeating the porous rock of the core could be exposed to ionizing radiation and undergo radiolysis, producing molecular hydrogen and reactive oxygen compounds.
Bouquet, a student in the joint doctoral program between UTSA's Department of Physics and Astronomy and SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division, explained that microbial communities sustained by H2 have been found in extreme environments on Earth. These include a groundwater sample found nearly 2 miles deep in a South African gold mine and at hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. That raises interesting possibilities for the potential existence of analogous microbes at the water-rock interfaces of ocean worlds such as Enceladus or Europa.
"We know that these radioactive elements exist within icy bodies, but this is the first systematic look across the solar system to estimate radiolysis. The results suggest that there are many potential targets for exploration out there, and that's exciting," says co-author Dr. Danielle Wyrick, a principal scientist in SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division.
One frequently suggested source of molecular hydrogen on ocean worlds is serpentinization. This chemical reaction between rock and water occurs, for example, in hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.
In the icy bodies around our solar system, radiation emitted from rocky cores could break up water molecules and support hydrogen-eating microbes. A University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) team modeled a natural water-cracking process called radiolysis and applied the model to Europa (pictured) and several other worlds with known or suspected interior oceans. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
The key finding of the study is that radiolysis represents a potentially important additional source of molecular hydrogen. While hydrothermal activity can produce considerable quantities of hydrogen, in porous rocks often found under seafloors, radiolysis could produce copious amounts as well.
Radiolysis may also contribute to the potential habitability of ocean worlds in another way. In addition to molecular hydrogen, it produces oxygen compounds that can react with certain minerals in the core to create sulfates, a food source for some kinds of microorganisms.
"Radiolysis in an ocean world's outer core could be fundamental in supporting life. Because mixtures of water and rock are everywhere in the outer solar system, this insight increases the odds of abundant habitable real estate out there," Bouquet said.
Co-authors of the article, "Alternative Energy: Production of H2 by Radiolysis of Water in the Rocky Cores of Icy Bodies," are SwRI's Dr. Christopher R. Glein, Wyrick, and Dr. J. Hunter Waite, who also serves as a UTSA adjoint professor.
Stunning photos show rare UFO-shaped clouds over Devon -
Stunning photos show rare UFO-shaped clouds over Devon
by Zoe Stevens
The mysterious clouds appeared over Sidmouth on Sunday
These amazing pictures show bizarre flying saucer shaped clouds in the skies over Sidmouth which left residents astonished.
The mysterious clouds appeared to stack on top of each other, and the glowing phenomenon caught the attention of visitors and residents walking along the promenade on Sunday lunchtime.
A spokesman from the Met Office has explained that they are, in fact, ethereal clouds.
The spokesman said: "They are most likely stratocumulus clouds, stratocumulus lenticularis. These are wave clouds, probably generated as the south-easterly wind buffeted over the coastline on Sunday.
"These would have been quite short lived as drier, clearer air spread from the continent during the afternoon. The ragged bases of the clouds, especially in the second picture hint at some precipitation falling from them, but probably not enough to reach the surface. This is called virga."
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New evidence emerges that Monroe planned to reveal JFK saw crashed UFOs
New evidence has just been released supporting the authenticity of a leaked CIA document allegedly of wiretaps of Marilyn Monroe and her friends shortly before her suspicious death on August 4, 1962. The wiretap document revealed that Monroe was planning to give a press conference about what President Kennedy had told her of a visit to an undisclosed Air Force facility where he saw the debris of a crashed UFO. The Monroe wiretap document was first leaked in 1992 to a UFO researcher, and was made public in 1994. It has not been confirmed by the CIA to be genuine, and remains open to dispute. The new evidence that was revealed yesterday shows that the leaked document conforms closely to a standard classified Information Report form used by the CIA in 1963. Either someone broke the law by forging or using a standard CIA Information Report form for classified reports at the time of Monroe’s death, or the Monroe wiretap document was indeed a classified report about a wiretap of Monroe and her friends.
This is what the alleged CIA wiretap document, dated August 3, 1962, had to say about Monroe’s knowledge of Kennedy and UFOs:
Rothberg indicated in so many words, that she [Monroe] had secrets to tell, no doubt arising from her trists [sic] with the President and the Attorney General. One such “secret” mentions the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space. 2. Subject repeatedly called the Attorney General and complained about the way she was being ignored by the President and his brother. 3. Subject threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all.
The discoverer of the CIA intelligence report is Lee Nicholson from the Outpost Forum. In his April 14 forum post he described what he found after visiting the CIA’s electronic reading room:
During the process of researching this article I spent several hours at the CIA’s electronic reading room looking at documents from the 1960s, in an attempt to find examples of similar typeface to that seen in our questioned document …. I discovered a CIA Information Report dated 18th March, 1963 with the subject heading: “Projected Soviet Space Launchings” which was declassified on the 16th of July 2011. This authentic CIA information report is an almost perfect match in style and presentation for the leaked ‘Marilyn document’.
Nicholson went on to describe new facts emerging from a comparison between the declassified CIA document and the Monroe wiretap document:
In fact a close comparison gleans some important new facts. Firstly, we can now see that both documents use the exact same form letter or template information report. Presumably the author would have a stack of these ‘blank’ forms which would be placed into a typewriter to add the relevant information before classification and distribution. We can also see that both documents contain the same secondary typeface, which is in fact Courier type commonly used on IBM typewriters in the 1960s.
Nicholson then described a series of parallels between the declassified 1963 Information Report and the leaked Monroe wiretap document. His conclusion was that they closely matched suggesting that the Monroe document is genuine.
The implications of the Monroe wiretap document being genuine are astounding. It reveals that only one day before her death, Monroe was planning a press conference that would reveal what President Kennedy had confidentially told her about UFOs. The fact that the CIA was monitoring her and wiretapping her phone calls, directly implicates the CIA in her suspicious death and the cover-up of information concerning UFOs.
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Amazing video: UFO making maneuvers over Decatur, Alabama 17-May-2017
Amazing video: UFO making maneuvers over Decatur, Alabama 17-May-2017
Here’s one new really interesting footage of a so-called fastwalkers that are making a maneuvers in the sky above Decatur in Alabama.
Witness report:
These are clips from a 20 min recording of a star like object changing directions, hovering, no sound was heard. The recording was made with a infrared low power telescope
Uit elkaar gevallen planeet of buitenaards megabouwwerk?
Uit elkaar gevallen planeet of buitenaards megabouwwerk?
Een vreemd hemellichaam dat zich op een niet eerder vertoonde manier gedraagt, biedt nieuwe perspectieven voor astronomen.
Op deze illustratie is te zien hoe de ster van Boyajian er mogelijk uitziet. De ster vertoont onverklaarbare wisselingen in helderheid. Een van de hypothesen, die hier wordt geïllustreerd, is dat afgebroken stukken van een planeet het licht van de ster blokkeren.
FOTOGRAAF ILLUSTRATION COURTESY NASA/JPL/CALTECH
Zowel amateur- als professionele astronomen breken zich het hoofd over de vraag waarom het hemellichaam dat bekendstaat als KIC 8462852, of de ster van Boyajian, zich zo vreemd gedraagt.
KIC 8462852 wordt ook wel ‘Tabby’s ster’ genoemd, met een verwijzing naar de astronoom Tabetha Boyajian, die de ster ‘ontdekte’ in de gegevens van de Kepler-ruimtetelescoop. Het hemellichaam, dat in 2015 voor het eerst werd gezien, is sinds vrijdagochtend 22 procent in lichtsterkte afgenomen. Dit soort plotseling gedrag is nog nooit eerder bij sterren waargenomen.
Wetenschappers hebben nu de mogelijkheid om het uitdoven van de ster te observeren en fotograferen. Astronomen hopen dat dit ook licht zal werpen op de mysterieuze verschijning van het object.
Op deze illustratie staan kometen afgebeeld die voor de ster van Boyajian langs passeren. Dit is een andere mogelijke theorie voor het flikkerende licht van de ster.
FOTOGRAAF ILLUSTRATION COURTESY NASA
De ster vertoont vreemd gedrag. Hij lijkt te doven en daarna weer net zo helder te gaan schijnen als daarvoor, waardoor hij lijkt te flikkeren.
Er doen allerlei theorieën de ronde over wat er aan de hand kan zijn. Een van de meest gangbare is dat er kometen voor de ster langs passeren, of dat een naburige planeet in stukken is gebroken, waardoor het zicht vanaf de aarde wordt geblokkeerd door brokken planeetmateriaal.
Enkele wetenschappers stellen dat het zwakker wordende licht wordt veroorzaakt door een ‘buitenaards megabouwwerk’ dat rond de ster van Boyajian draait en er energie van opneemt.
Maar wat het object ook is, de huidige observaties van het doven kunnen helpen het bijzondere gedrag te verklaren.
Do planets have feelings? Can they hear astronomers talking about them … giving them derogatory names like “rogue” … referring to them as orphans, wandering or starless without knowing anything about their history or how they came to be in the non-solar-system state they seem to be in? A new study of a so-called orphan planet refers to it as “lonely” – could this be why it is suddenly acting like a brown dwarf or a young star? What is the medical term for “anthropomorphism about planets” and is there a treatment? Asking for a friend.
A group of astronomers from the University of Valparaiso and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, led by Amelia Bayo of Valparaiso, have been using the the ALMA observatory in Chile to study OTS44 — a free-floating planetary-mass object discovered in 1998 and currently located 550 light-years away in the constellation Chamaeleon. OTS44 is approximately 11.5 times the mass of Jupiter and is the smallest and least massive known free-floating planet. On the plus side, it’s one of only four known to have an orbiting disc. However, according to Bayo’s study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, the disc is much different that that of Saturn or other ringed planets, hinting that OTS44 may not be a planet at all.
Artists’ impression of the disk around OTS44. Image: Johan Olofsson (U Valparaiso & MPIA)
Bayo’s analysis shows that the mass of the disk is, well, massive, and its ratio of mass of disk to mass of orbited object is closer to that of a substellar object like a brown dwarf or a young star in the process of forming a planetary solar system. The study also found that OTS44 appears to be pulling in dust and rocks from the dick, causing it to grow – not very planetary behavior. Finally, the astronomers discovered that the dust particles themselves are clumping together and growing, suggesting that they may be forming moons or – if OTS44 is a young star – planets.
Is this a big deal? Yes, says an excited Bayo.
The more we know about OTS44, the greater its similarities with a young star. But its mass is so low that theory tells us it cannot have formed like a star!
Saturn acting like a ringed planet
And yet, the study shows that this process formed … something. Whatever it is, it’s obviously impressive enough to Amelia Bayo and her fellow astronomers to revise their models on both planetary and star formation. So, what should it be called? A big brown dwarf with a belt? Ringed and roaming? Lonely no more?
Any word on that cure for planetary anthropomorphism?
To paraphrase Rick Blaine, Humphrey Bogart’s character in the classic, movie Casablanca … of all the UFO sightings in all the towns in all the world, this is the one you cover? Mainstream media outlets – U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic and others – actually devoted space to a UFO sighting over North Korea which traveled to South Korea. That location should make one suspect that it’s not aliens, but the mainstream knows that linking anything to North Korea these days – even UFOs – is good for business. So, did anyone in the most militarized, scrutinized and monitored area in the world identify the UFO?
I heard a story once — as a matter of fact, I’ve heard a lot of stories in my time.
North Korea reportedly fired a mystery unidentified flying object over the Demilitarized Zone on Tuesday. The UFO sighting comes two days after North Korea’s latest missile test … The sighting also comes after the United Nations Security Council lambasted the country for the missile test, on Monday.
That’s U.S. News & World Report putting the “mystery” UFO sighting at the lead of continuing coverage of the latest North Korean missile test.
As South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reports, an object was detected at 4 p.m. local time crossing the Military Demarcation Line, a 154-mile armistice line that was established by both countries in 1953 at the end of the Korean War, into South Korean airspace. The South Korean military fired more than 90 K-3 machine gun rounds at the object, which was detected over the country’s northeast Gangwon province, just 45 miles away from Seoul, its capital.
That’s The Atlantic, reporting that the South Korean military response to the UFO was “machine gun rounds,” making it a suspiciously low-flying UFO. Yonhap News Agency is South Korea’s largest news agency and it reports that the UFO was brought down by the machine guns and no less than South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a statement.
The South’s military is analyzing the object and its route and has beefed up its air defense.
What kind of extra air defense is needed against UFOs that can be brought down by machine guns? Does it sound like this UFO may be something identifiable? If you have “drone” in the office pool, you lost your bet. CNN revealed the answer:
Unidentified objects which flew across the border from the North were probably propaganda balloons … [South Korea’s military said] the objects were in the shape of a balloon… (and) flew in the wind’s direction before disappearing. Our military responded in accordance to our military protocol.
Propaganda balloons carrying leaflets and videos travel in both directions across the DMZ as both countries use them to deliver messages to and from the Internet and cellphone-deprived North. Obviously, this isn’t news.
What’s news is that the mainstream media chose to cover this incident as a “UFO sighting” as opposed to a military action or a propaganda balloon story. The UFO community struggles to get mainstream reports on other sightings that are much more unidentifiable and in need of explanation, yet propaganda balloons (it’s always balloons with these people) get the attention.
It’s just like the line from Casablanca’s famous song, “As Time Goes By.”
HOUDT UNIEKE VONDST IN DUITSLAND VERBAND MET DE KOMST VAN NIBIRU? ( VIDEO )
HOUDT UNIEKE VONDST IN DUITSLAND VERBAND MET DE KOMST VAN NIBIRU? ( VIDEO )
Ergens in Duitsland werd ongeveer 3.600 jaar geleden een object verborgen dat uniek blijkt te zijn in de menselijke geschiedenis.
Dit object getuigt van een astronomische kennis die normaal gesproken niet mogelijk is voor die tijd en bovendien wordt de terugkeer van Nibiru aangekondigd.
In 1999 waren drie grafplunderaars aan het zoeken in een woud dichtbij Nebra, een 180 km ten zuidwesten van Berlijn, Duitsland. Ze gebruikten gigantische metaaldetectors toen ze plotseling een ongelofelijke schat vonden. Deze streek is bekend als één van de plaatsen die de oudste menselijke nederzettingen bevatte van West-Europa.
Dit maal was de buit niet gering: twee bronzen zwaarden, twee bijlen, een beitel, stukken van armbanden en een bronzen schijf met gouden versieringen. Dit laatste stuk was het meest waardevolle en de rovers beseften dit. Wat ze toen nog niet wisten is dat deze schijf één van de belangrijkste archeologische vondsten ter wereld was.
De schijf in kwestie is nu “De Nebra Sky Disk” genaamd en volgens de UNESCO, is het de oudste afbeelding van een kosmisch fenomeen in de hele wereld. De schijf is 30 cm in diameter en weegt 2,2 kg. De achtergrond is blauwgroen en versierd met gouden stukken die een maan lijken voor te stellen, de zon (of misschien zelfs een volle maan) en sterren, zelfs naar hoge waarschijnlijkheid de sterrencluster “Pleiaden”.
De schijf in kwestie is nu “De Nebra Sky Disk” genaamd en volgens de UNESCO, is het de oudste afbeelding van een kosmisch fenomeen in de hele wereld. De schijf is 30 cm in diameter en weegt 2,2 kg. De achtergrond is blauwgroen en versierd met gouden stukken die een maan lijken voor te stellen, de zon (of misschien zelfs een volle maan) en sterren, zelfs naar hoge waarschijnlijkheid de sterrencluster “Pleiaden”.
De symbolen zijn duidelijk afkomstig van het oude Europese geloof dat de zon de levensbrenger was van al het leven in Europa. De maan zou dan weer staan als symbool voor de tijd. De Pleiaden waren gebruikt door landbouwers en oude beschavingen in Mesopotamië en het Oude Griekenland als referentiepunten voor navigatie en seizoenenbepaling. Deze schijf bevat ongelooflijk veel informatie en een kennis van astronomische fenomenen. Het is een echte archeologische openbaring. De schijf zou na onderzoek geraamd zijn op 3.600 jaar oud en is authentiek.
Vele beschavingen hadden een kennis van de astronomie, maar het is opmerkelijk dat deze schijf werd gevonden in donker Europa en afkomstig is uit de Bronstijd. Van beschaving was hier nog geen sprake. De andere voorwerpen in het gebied getuigen van een primitieve samenleving, maar deze schijf is een onverklaarbare uitzondering. Deze schijf is zonder twijfel afkomstig van iemand die bijzondere intellectuele gaven had, en ver vooruit was op zijn tijd. Deze schijf stelt de wetenschappelijke wereld voor heel wat onbeantwoorde vragen en is een echt archeologisch enigma.
Een schijf die dus gemaakt is in een tijd dat men absoluut nog niet dit soort astronomische kennis had, althans dat denken wij, en is gevonden op een plek waar dat eigenlijk helemaal niet mogelijk zou zijn. De eerste astronomische tekeningen van de hemel komen pas aanzienlijk veel later voor en dan in Egypte.
Onlangs verscheen er nog een interessant bericht via een museum in het Engelse Cornwall, waarin werd meegedeeld dat een aantal Duitse professoren tot de conclusie zijn gekomen dat het goud en tin dat in deze schijf is gebruikt, afkomstig is uit Cornwall.
Eén van de symbolen die we tegenkomen, is het zonneschip en dat is iets dat we specifiek in Egypte zien.
Het zonneschip is het grote schip waarmee de God Ra en zijn metgezellen door de hemel reisden en het licht naar de wereld brachten. Het is ook het schip waarin de Goden reisden van de hemel naar de aarde.
En om het helemaal bijzonder te maken, dateert deze schijf van rond 1.600 voor Christus oftewel van ongeveer 3.600 jaar geleden. En dat getal klinkt ons uiteraard heel bekend in de oren, want dat is volgens Zecharia Sitchin ongeveer de tijd voor de elliptische omloopbaan van de planeet Niburu door ons zonnestelsel.
Omdat velen verwachten dat de planeet Nibiru binnen niet al te lange tijd opnieuw zal langskomen, is het aannemelijk dat die schijf uit de periode van net voor of net na de laatste passage dateert.
Feit is dat men op het moment dat deze schijf werd gemaakt nergens ter wereld de astronomische kennis had om een dergelijke hemelse afbeelding te maken.
De Plejaden waren al in de oudheid bekend. Zij worden rond 750 v.Chr. genoemd in de Ilias en de Odyssee van de Griekse dichter Homerus. Ook de dichter Hesiodus noemt de Plejaden in zijn werken rond 700 v.Chr.
Hoe komen de Plejaden dan in 1.600 voor Christus op die schijf terecht? En is het toeval dat door sommigen de planeet Nibiru ook wel het vlaggenschip van de Plejaden wordt genoemd?
Wat is Nibiru? Nibiru is het vierdimensionale vlaggenschip van de Galactische Federatie uit deze Melkweg. Zoals Pelegai hebben veel verschillende beschavingen vertegenwoordigers die aan boord van dit schip leven. Hoewel het een vlaggenschip van de Federatie is, is Nibiru gelijktijdig een planeet en een gevechtsster. Nibiru is meer dan driemaal de omvang van de aarde. Nibiru was oorspronkelijk een planeet die uit zijn baan gestoten was door een implosie/explosie van Sirius B. Het belandde in een baan in de Plejaden en staat nu bij sommigen bekend als een planeet van de Plejaden.
Waarschijnlijk is de schijf een overblijfsel uit de periode van voor de laatste passage van Nibiru. In de tijd dat de schijf werd gemaakt, zag men Nibiru aan de hemel.
Britse UFO-dossier geopenbaard na verkiezingen. Gaan deze stukken het Britse Roswell-mysterie oplossen?
Britse UFO-dossier geopenbaard na verkiezingen. Gaan deze stukken het Britse Roswell-mysterie oplossen?
Een UFO-dossier dat al bijna 50 jaar geheim wordt gehouden door de Britse overheid, wordt waarschijnlijk na de parlementsverkiezingen in juni vrijgegeven.
De documenten bevatten naar verluidt details over UFO-waarnemingen van de afgelopen vijf decennia.
Alien-jagers hopen dat ze bewijs zullen onthullen van een doofpot rond incidenten die gerelateerd zijn aan buitenaardsen, waaronder het incident in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dat ook wel het Britse Roswell wordt genoemd.
Vreemde lichten
Dat jaar zagen soldaten vreemde lichten in de lucht boven de bossen bij de bases RAF Bentwaters en RAF Woodbridge.
De waarnemingen werden gedaan tussen 26 en 28 december 1980, toen Groot-Brittannië en het Westen in opperste staat van paraatheid waren vanwege de Koude Oorlog.
Eerder werden al duizenden stukken vrijgegeven die in de loop der jaren waren verzameld door het Britse ministerie van Defensie.
Doofpot
De documenten die nog vrijgegeven moeten worden zouden betrekking hebben op de periodes 1971-1976, 1996-2000 en 2004.
Het was de bedoeling om ze in 2013 samen met duizenden andere vrij te geven, maar 18 specifieke documenten werden achtergehouden.
Dat leidde tot claims dat de overheid probeert het bestaan van buitenaards leven in de doofpot te stoppen. Vorig jaar werd opnieuw besloten het vrijgeven van de stukken uit te stellen.
Brexit
Volgens de Duitse website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell is in maart dit jaar alweer besloten tot uitstel vanwege de Brexit.
Een woordvoerder van het Britse Nationaal Archief verwacht dat de stukken in juni dit jaar beschikbaar zijn voor het publiek.
Volgens Nick Pope, die jarenlang voor de UFO-desk van het Britse ministerie van Defensie werkte, is het uitstel vooral te wijten aan bureaucratie, niet zozeer aan een complot.
Kurt Russell alleges he witnessed famous Phoenix UFO event (VIDEO)
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Kurt Russell alleges he witnessed famous Phoenix UFO event (VIDEO)
Kurt Russell claims to have witnessed a UFO above Phoenix, Arizona during one of the largest mass-UFO sightings in U.S. history. He discussed the event recently on BBC One’s, The One Show.
Guardians of the Galaxy actors Chris Pratt and Kurt Russell listen to The One Show host Gyles Brandreth tell a UFO story.
(Credit: The One Show)
Russell is one of the leads in the new movie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which was released recently. At the end of April, Russell appeared with co-star Chris Pratt on The One Show to promote the movie. During the interview, host Gyles Brandreth brought out a folder labeled Top Secret and X-Filish music began playing. Brandreth said he had searched the international news clippings for a story Russell and Pratt may be interested in.
Brandreth told the story in the clipping about an unidentified pilot who was flying in his private aircraft with his son near an airport in Phoenix. The pilot spotted six lights in the night sky and reported this to the control tower to find out what was going on. The tower said there were no other planes in the area.
Then in a grand finale to his story, Brandreth dramatically exclaimed, “Mystery unresolved!”
During Brandreth’s telling of the story, Pratt listened, interested, but with no real reaction. However, Russell smiled coyly. As soon as Brandreth finished, Russell chimed in.
“The tail number for that plane was Bonanza two Tango Sierra, and I was the pilot,” Russell claimed, to the audible amazement of the other The One Show hosts. Pratt apparently was not aware this of this piece of information either. His reaction was to don an incredulous smirk as he listened to Russell tell more of the story.
Chris Pratt reacts to Kurt Russell’s UFO revelation.
(Credit: The One Show)
Russell explained that Oliver Hudson (Goldie Hawn’s son from her first marriage, who considers Russell his father) and he were flying into Phoenix so that Hudson could see his girlfriend.
“We were on approach and I saw six lights over the airport in absolute uniform, in a V-shape,” Russell continued.
According to Russell, Hudson asked him if he knew what the lights were, Russell said he did not and decided to call the tower. The tower said their radar did not detect anything, so Russell said he declared it “unidentified” since it was flying and appeared to be six objects.
The two then landed, Hudson got out, and Russell returned to L.A. The two never gave the incident a second thought after that, until two years later. Russell says he came home one day and Hawn was watching a TV show on UFOs that was covering a famous UFO event in Phoenix.
“That was the most viewed UFO event. Over 20,000 people saw it,” explained Russell.
Russell says as he watched the show, he “felt like Richard Dreyfuss from Close Encounters.” He felt as though for some reason he knew something about the event. The show then mentioned that a general aviation pilot reported seeing the UFO upon landing, and that is when Russell thought to himself, “that was me.”
Russell went to go check his log books, and sure enough, the flight was at the time of the UFO sighting.
“The fascinating part to me is that it just went, literally, out of my head. Oliver never mentioned it. Had I not seen that show, I would have never thought of it. That, to me, was the weird part,” Russell told the group.
Pratt, who had claimed earlier in the show to be a skeptic when it comes to UFOs, still seemed a bit hesitant, so Russell added, “It is unidentified, it is flying, and it’s an object.”
Apparently, this is the first time Russell has told this story in public. Prior to this, Russell has not been associated with the famous Phoenix UFO sighting, which took place on March 13, 1997, and is referred to as the Phoenix Lights. He did not indicate when it was he saw the UFO program that reminded of him of the incident, but my guess would be that The One Show asked the guests for any interesting space or UFO related stories they could share, and Russell certainly came up with a doozy.
You can be sure Russell’s account will be added to the narrative of the Phoenix Lights UFO event, especially if I am the one telling it.
SCIENTIST BELIEVES CIVILIZATIONS ON MARS WERE NUKED INTO OBLIVION!
SCIENTIST BELIEVES CIVILIZATIONS ON MARS WERE NUKED INTO OBLIVION!
A scientist has spoken out about his beliefs that Mars could have been much like Earth with civilizations on it and then it was nuked and life was destroyed.
This is the theory of Dr. John Brandenburg who has been called a pseudoscientist. He does have credentials that are said to be impressive yet his ideas are way out there. He was the speaker at the Secret Space Program Conference 2015; this was a conference that asked the question of what was going on.
BRANDENBURG BELIEVES CYDONIANS AND UTOPIANS USED TO LIVE ON MARS
Dr. Brandenburg has said that the surface of Mars is covered with a layer of substances that are radioactive and this includes thorium, uranium and radioactive potassium. The doctor said that this pattern radiates from a hot spot that is on Mars. He went on to say that as weird as it sounds ancient Martians with the names of Utopians and Cydonians had been massacred in the nuclear attack that had taken place on Mars. He went on to say that such a nuclear attack may have sent debris flying all around the planet. RELATED ARTICLES Scientist Believes Crop Circles Contain an Advanced Binary CodeChina’s 9/11 Now Confirmed: Tianjin Was Nuked. It was not a chemical fire! Brandenburg had given a talk at the Meeting of the American Physical Society in 2014 in Illinois on the subject. He had said that scientists used to think that the explosion had been natural; however, Brandenburg thinks that nuclear isotopes in the atmosphere look like hydrogen bomb tests and they could be a guide to civilization having been wiped out by an attack that was nuclear from space.
NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE LEFT MARS THE WASTELAND IT IS TODAY
Brandenburg dedicated his career to the issues of space, national defense and energy. He wrote the book Life and Death on Mars. A reviewer said that the drama of the book was his talk about the nuclear catastrophe that made Mars, which was once a planet like Earth, become the wasteland it is known to be today.
Brandenburg had made a study of the high concentration of Xenon-129 which was in the atmosphere of Mars, with uranium and thorium on the surface, which had been seen by the Odyssey spacecraft of NASA. Scientists had pointed out that the appearance of the elements was not all that surprising due to the fact that they were natural elements that could be found everywhere.
CREDIBILITY OF BRANDENBURG IS CHALLENGED
Stuart Robbins, however, challenges the doctor’s credibility and said that one of the things that were unique about Brandenburg was that one of his biggest claims of evidence that the ideas of his are correct, is that he says he was present during the scientific conferences and there is no one that has challenged him. Robbins went on to say that this is a claim that he has made many times in just about every interview he had given.
Robbins may have a point if you listen to Brandenburg and what he said. He had said that earlier results of the massacre still stand; but that for the conference he had chosen to focus on one important part and this was the huge nuclear explosions, which the doctor said was the most extraordinary evidence that there has been life on Mars. He went on to say that his goal had been establishing the reality of the explosions to the scientific community along with their non-natural origin and then goes on to focus on the target.
BRANDENBURG CLAIMS TO HAVE SAID MARS WAS COVERED WITH OCEAN
Brandenburg also said that he came up with Mars hypothesis that the planet had once been covered with an ocean, which is something that NASA have recently said. At the Secret Space Program conference 2015, the conference went on to ask what was going on and whether a secret space program was being developed using funds that had been allocated by congress of a different economic system. The question of where the missing trillions had gone was asked as was what is the UFO phenomenon.
The conference asked if there was a series of military projects that were using technology that was advanced and which had been developed in bases that were underground around the globe and whether it represented something that was alien.
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UK GOVERNMENT TO REVEAL PREVIOUSLY SECRET AND UNPUBLISHED REPORTS ON UFO ACTIVITY
UK GOVERNMENT TO REVEAL PREVIOUSLY SECRET AND UNPUBLISHED REPORTS ON UFO ACTIVITY
It has been said that the British government is going to release secret information about all UFO sightings in the UK once the general election is over and done with in June.
50 YEARS OF SECRETS TO BE RELEASED FOLLOWING ELECTION
A German science and paranormal blog said that the secret dossier is going to be revealed and it contains many reports that have been unpublished about UFO activity over 50 years that has been put together by the Ministry of Defence in Britain.
The Ministry of Defence released what at the time they called, all of the files in relation to UFOs, in 2013. However, they then admitted to having held back 18 documents with the reason being that they needed to identify some content that had to be re-examined before then releasing it to the general public under the Freedom of Information Act.
FILES WERE DELAYED SPARKING CONSPIRACY THEORIES
This brought about many claims about a cover-up of alien life and their existence by men who wore dark clothing. The Ministry of Defence then revealed that they would release the files during 2015 and then it was 2016 and then the most recent date is March 2017. It has been said that the delay at current is down to the general election which is scheduled to be held on June 8.
A letter that was said to have been sent to the German website and which was alleged to have come from a spokesperson for the National Archives, said that due to the upcoming election along with the rules that are in relation to the government departments during the period before the election, the files cannot be released until after the election has taken place. They went on to say that they were working to make sure that the files get released as soon as possible after that period, which points to around the middle of June.
ALIEN HUNTERS WAITING FOR CONSPIRACIES TO BE LAID BARE
Alien hunters and paranormal researchers have been waiting for proof of extraterrestrials, and for the conspiracies to be laid bare, they are hoping that something is going to be released that will be worthy of a cover-up by the government. Whatever they hold the documents should contain something that is interesting, which dates back to the 1970s.
A former MoD investigator said that there was nothing in the files that would confirm that aliens do exist; however, he went on to say that there were plenty of reports about UFOs. It is thought that among the information to be released will be documents relating to the Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980, this has been said to be Britain’s answer to Roswell. The incident involved many people giving reports of a UFO landing close to the Bentwaters and Woodbridge RAF military bases.
Alejandro Rojas, host of Open Minds Radio, said: "Apparently, this is the first time Russell has told this story in public.
"Prior to this, Russell has not been associated with the famous Phoenix UFO sighting."
The infamous Phoenix Lights incident happened on March 13, 1997, when 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.
It was blamed by officials as military flares at the time.
New documentary ‘Unacknowledged’ claims to expose years of cover-ups within the US government over the alleged truth of alien visitations of Earth being kept hidden from the public.
The film is directed by Michael Mazzola and follows conspiracy theorist Dr Steven Greer, who is a major player in the so-called disclosure movement, which is calling for an end to an alleged truth embargo which ensures the cover up continues.
The extensive documentary touches on the death of Monroe, which it suggests was a murder coordinated by the CIA, because of an alleged affair with president John F Kennedy.
Dr Greer has produced an alleged top secret CIA memo written two days before the star was found dead on on August 5, 1962, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California.
He claims it shows how she was wire tapped by the agency which had concerns about her liaison with the president.
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The Steven Greer film claims Marilyn Monroe was murdered by the CIA.
The alleged memo suggests JFK told her he had seen evidence of "things from outer space" at a secret air base and officials panicked that she may disclose this at a press conference.
Dr Greer claims the memo was referring to the remains of the alleged infamous Roswell UFO crash said to have landed in the New Mexico desert in July 1947.
On his website, Dr Greer states: "We have a number of smoking gun documents, including a wiretap of Marilyn Monroe the day [sic] before she died, which has never been declassified.
"She was threatening to hold a press conference to tell the world what Jack Kennedy had told her during pillow talk about having seen debris from an extraterrestrial vehicle at what the document calls a 'secret air base'.”
Dr Greer is well respected among some UFO circles, but has been branded a hoaxer by more sceptical investigators, something he vehemently denies.
However, he has been behind some extraordinary claims in the past, including stating that the US government has obtained technology from aliens that could provide the world with free energy, but suppresses it to ensure the fossil fuel industry can thrive.
He also claims to be able to summon UFOs and that he once did this in conjunction with the French ministry of defence.
Harvard University Study Reveals Cosmic Light Flashes Could Be From Alien Spaceships
Harvard University Study Reveals Cosmic Light Flashes Could Be From Alien Spaceships
A study has claimed that bursts of super speed cosmic light picked up by astronomers could be from an interstellar UFO spacecraft.
Described as brief flashes of light, the fast radio bursts are believed to be coming from galaxies over a billion light years away. However, scientists have yet to determine the exact source of these cosmic rays.
A Harvard University study introduced a possibility that these brief flashes of light could be from an alien spaceship.
Co-author of the study and Harvard theorist, Avi Loeb, stated that they had not identified a possible source of the fast radio bursts with any confidence yet. Avi Loeb further said that it is worth contemplating and checking an artificial origin.
Another possible source for the radio bursts could be an alien-made large radio transmitter.
The author of the study, Manasvi Lingam, also of Harvard, as well as Avi, stated that signals like the ones picked up by astronomers could be beamed from a solar-powered transmitter. The transmitter could be used for a feat humanity has yet to discover – interstellar travel.
Because of the speed of the bursts, scientists could only catch a glimpse of it.
Winston Churchill’s Unpublished Essay On Aliens Revealed
Winston Churchill’s Unpublished Essay On Aliens Revealed
It has been revealed that Winston Churchill had a secret obsession with extraterrestrials and believed there could be life on Venus or Mars.
The interest of Britain’s World War 2 Prime Minister has been revealed after the discovery of his 11-page essay titled “Are We Alone in the Universe?” The politician known for his cigar-chomping discusses the possibility of life on Mars and Venus in the newly discovered article.
Churchill suggested that Mars and Venus were the only two planets in the Solar System that could conceivably harbor life other than Earth due to their distance from the Sun.
The essay was never published and it remained undiscovered for years as it ended up in the U.S. National Churchill Museum, located in Fulton, Missouri in the 1980s.
The interest about alien life on Mars and Venus remains until today as scientists have been spending their resources to their probe on the two planets. Scientists are also observing Jupiter’s Europa as the possible home of alien life in the Solar System.
Churchill wrote several popular science essays for magazines and newspapers in the 1920s and 30s on topics such as cells and evolution. He is the first prime minister in the history to hire a science adviser.
Churchill’s interest in UFOs could be very evident when he ordered a secret probe into mysterious airships observed in Britain when he was at the Admiralty.
Astrophysicist Mario Livio looked through the newly discovered essay, and he was impressed by Churchill’s understanding of science.
Dr. Livio finds it moving to recall a leader who engaged with science so profoundly at a time when many of today’s politicians shun it.
Columnist Cheryl Costa examines different possibilities of alien-human contact.
When people talk about having contact with off-worlders, they usually imagine that a flying saucer, or some indescribable alien craft, would land on the grass of the ellipse near the White House. This was depicted in 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Another scenario is that a huge extraterrestrial craft will park itself over the capital cities of the world’s major countries. Again, this scenario was depicted first in the television series V and later with the movie Independence Day.
Of course there is the other notion that first contact will be in some remote, secretive place like in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That film’s premise was a highly secretive coordinated landing and cultural exchange set at the Devils Tower in Wyoming.
Lastly, a vastly different approach, again from Steven Spielberg, was in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. In this situation, an alien craft would land in a wooded area outside a major city on some sort of survey mission. An alien crew member would get left behind and eventually meet up with a local boy and his family. This story presented the idea of contact with extraterrestrials on a less grand, non-government-organized event. Spielberg offered the notion that first contact could be with someone as simple as a young boy. At the heart of these stories is still one fundamental concept: The extraterrestrials have to be the initiators of contact with human beings.
What about the possibility of humans reaching out to the extraterrestrials, perhaps with a radio signal? Impossible you might suggest. Actually, in several ways human kind has done this all ready. Of course the first several notable events that sent radio signals into outer space were at best an unwitting accident.
In 1938, two German firms called Telefunken and Fernseh broadcast 72 hours worth of the Berlin Olympics over the airwaves using high-powered, high-frequency VHF television signals. The signals were intentionally targeted to remote locations in Berlin and in Potsdam to special viewing facilities called public television offices.
It should be noted that VHF radio signals do not bounce off of the Earth’s ionosphere like shortwave radio signals do. Because radio signals in the VHF frequency bands or higher pass through the Earth’s ionosphere, and they radiate into outer space. Since the late 1940s, all television broadcast stations that transmit on VHF and UHF frequencies or higher have radiated into space. Each of those signals carried our images, voices, words and our commercial messages into deep space.
In July and August of 1945, the United States military detonated the first of three nuclear devices. Nuclear explosions generate huge releases of energy. This massive energy release is emitted across the electromagnetic spectrum. The signal would have been considerably loud on all frequencies at once. These nuclear detonations were the first massive signals generated by humans. Moving outward at the speed of light, these signals would be capable of being received as wide-band RF noise many light years in distance. These nuclear burst signals communicated one simple message: Somebody is splitting atoms.
For over five decades, spanning from 1945 through 1996, approximately 2,000 nuclear test detonations were conducted. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963, and for the next 30 years nuclear testing was slowly phased out. Since 1998 only India, Pakistan and North Korea have conducted any underground nuclear testing.
It should be noted that with each of those 2,000-plus nuclear tests caused a burst of wide-band radio frequency energy of massive power to go into outer space. Each time indicating simply that we’re still here, and we’re still splitting atoms.
In 1974 scientists at the Arecibo radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, beamed a high-powered graphic message into space. The message contained encoded graphic information about humanity and Earth. The signal was transmitted at the Messier 13 (M13), which is a Globular star cluster. The intent was to communicate some basic information about our species. As a matter of note, the M13 cluster is 25,100 light-years away from Earth. It poses the question: Why didn’t they choose a closer star system like one that was within 50 years?
Next week we’ll discuss another approach to contact with extraterrestrials: Close encounters of the fifth kind.
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. Follow me on Twitter @American_Skies.
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I-Team: Rock star plans for announcement on UFOs
I-Team: Rock star plans for announcement on UFOs
By: George Knapp
LAS VEGAS - Can a rock star do what generations of investigators have failed to manage -- that is, find out what the government knows about UFOs?
Last year, Tom DeLonge, the co-founder of Blink 182, told the I-Team about his plans to create a multi-media empire based on inside information given to him by military sources he had cultivated.
Since then, DeLonge has taken some lumps, and his grand plan was nearly crushed by the WikiLeaks disclosures.
The rock star life was good for Tom DeLonge. he had millions of fans, sold millions of records, and would occasionally mention his obsession in song lyrics.
But since becoming more serious about UFOs, he's managed to tick off just about everyone, especially the UFO faithful who've accused him of being a dupe, a fraud, a tool of the deep state, or delusional. DeLonge has persevered.
"This is the greatest story never told period, you don't even need to sensationalize anything. It's like science fiction, but more like science non-fiction," said Tom DeLonge, founder of To The Stars.
Last year, when DeLonge showed us the headquarters for his new company, To The Stars, he revealed that he had talked his way into a seat at the UFO table, by somehow cultivating a group of high-ranking sources or advisors from within the defense establishment, the keepers of UFO secrets. He says he did it by making this pitch.
"They have been backed into a corner and need a way for this to get out and I went in there saying, there will never be congressional hearings on this. I understand and accept that but what I think can happen is that we can change belief systems," DeLonge said.
What he offered to do was to invest millions of his own dollars into telling a different story. One that explained why the cone of silence had been dropped over UFOs, why misinformation was spread. In exchange, they told him things.
Tom DeLonge: "He says, 'We found a life form..'" George Knapp: "We found a life form?" Tom DeLonge: "When we first found the vehicles, I know we brought in private industry, military, intelligence, a good diverse group of elevated thinkers and said, how do we handle this?"
Defending the military's handling of UFO secrecy was too much for many researchers. They dismissed DeLonge as a profiteer, out to make a buck on flying saucers, and maybe of making it all up.
Then came WikiLeaks Presidential advisor John Podesta's emails spilled out for the whole world to see and in the middle of them were multiple emails to and from DeLonge, naming his secret panel of advisors, and showing there had been high-level meetings of generals and military contractors to discuss UFO disclosure.
DeLonge had been telling the truth. In February, DeLonge accepted an award from the UFO Congress in Arizona, he has since acknowledged that his panel of advisors had been shell shocked by the leaks, and that his plans had been delayed but not derailed.
For the last few months, DeLonge has been almost silent about his plans. On his Twitter feed, he's acknowledged delays in making his big announcement but says it's still coming. There are other hints about who might be helping him. A former high-ranking CIA operative Jim Semivan wrote the forward to one of DeLonge's books.
Astrophysicist and author Dr. Jacques Vallee did likewise. and a former defense department official named Chris Mellon has made public statements about UFO secrecy. If DeLonge has a new team of advisors, he may be inching closer to his original plan of using movies and TV and other media for a program of gradual disclosure, rather than a sudden announcement.
"I think they really do want us to know. I really do think they do. I do, at this point, feel like it's going to be a tough thing to swallow for people and I think there are elements about it that people are not ready for," Delonge said.
He had hoped to make some sort of announcement about his business plans by the beginning of June but it looks like that will be delayed until later this summer.
In the meantime, he's reportedly in the studio recording a new album.
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Slow Down! Researchers Spot Possible Speeding 'Renegade' Supermassive Black Hole
Slow Down! Researchers Spot Possible Speeding 'Renegade' Supermassive Black Hole
By Ian O'Neill, Space.com Contributor
Astronomers have spied the possible aftermath of a colossal black hole collision that happened in the center of a galaxy far, far away.
Usually, researchers find supermassive black holes that are stationary objects, anchored in the cores of their galactic hosts. So astronomers became excited when they spotted a "renegade" supermassive black hole speeding through space, as reported in a new study.
The black hole, which is 160 million times the mass of Earth's sun, appears to be the result of a collision with another black hole in a galaxy 3.9 billion light-years away from Earth. [Watch: Monster Black Hole on the Move - Where's It Headed?]
Theory suggests that when two galaxies merge, supermassive black holes in the two galaxies' cores orbit one another and eventually collide. The black hole pair may merge to create an even more massive supermassive black hole. But sometimes, the pair can violently recoil, and one of the black holes may be kicked in the opposite direction at great speed.
Researchers spotted what seems to be a "renegade" supermassive black hole speeding away from the site of a galactic merger.
The energy behind this powerful recoil is referred to as gravitational waves. As two black holes approach one other, they generate a lot of these ripples in space-time, and if the conditions are right, there might be a preponderance of gravitational waves blasted out in one direction, ejecting one of the black holes.
While searching through thousands of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) observations in hopes of finding these recoiling black holes, the new study's researchers noticed a very bright X-ray source at the center of one galaxy. This is a telltale sign that a black hole is active and growing, the researchers said in a statement.
Then, using the Hubble Space Telescope, they discovered that the emissions were coming from two distinct objects. Further observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Keck telescope in Hawaii revealed that one of the two black holes is not in the center of its galaxy and is traveling at a different speed than its surroundings.
These clues suggest the object is a recoiling black hole, and the host galaxy itself also carries evidence of the merger that could have instigated it, the researchers said. The galaxy is forming stars at a high rate, for example, which is a sign that interstellar gases have been compressed. Also, the outer regions of the galaxy show signs of a massive disturbance.
Although the data supports a bona fide recoiling black hole, the researchers said in the statement, further observations are needed to rule out other explanations.
The study was recently accepted to The Astrophysical Journal and is available online on arXiv.org.
Fantastische foto van mogelijk levensvatbare maan van Saturnus
Fantastische foto van mogelijk levensvatbare maan van Saturnus
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Op het kiekje schittert Enceladus: een maan waarvan gedacht wordt dat deze wel eens leven kan herbergen.
De foto heeft iets mysterieus. We kijken tegen de zijde aan die op Saturnus gericht is en een klein beetje verlicht wordt door het licht dat Saturnus reflecteert. De rechterzijde van de planeet baadt ondertussen in het zonlicht, waardoor de vele breuken en groeven in het kilometers dikke pak ijs goed zichtbaar zijn.
Cassini Ruimtesonde Cassini maakte de foto eind vorig jaar, maar NASA heeft deze nu pas vrijgegeven. Op het moment dat de foto gemaakt werd, was Cassini zo’n 168.000 kilometer van de 504 kilometer grote maan verwijderd.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Snoepwinkel Enceladus spreekt tot de verbeelding. De maan van Saturnus is bedekt met een kilometers dik pak ijs. Maar onder dat ijs gaat hoogstwaarschijnlijk een vloeibare oceaan schuil. Onderzoekers achten het niet onmogelijk dat in die oceaan leven huist. Recent stelden onderzoekers dat de drie basisingrediënten voor leven – vloeibaar water, een energiebron voor metabolisme en de juiste chemische ingrediënten, te weten koolstof, fosfor, waterstof, stikstof, zuurstof en zwavel) bijna allemaal aanwezig zijn op Enceladus. Onderzoeker Hunter Waite noemde de maan “een snoepwinkel voor microscopisch leven”.
Of er ook echt leven is op de maan blijft onduidelijk. Want Cassini – de sonde die momenteel Saturnus en omgeving bestudeert – is niet in staat om leven op te sporen. Een goede reden om er op korte termijn een ruimtevaartuig naartoe te sturen dat dat wel kan. De ijskap die op de maan rust, heeft een gemiddelde dikte van 18 tot 22 kilometer. Maar op de zuidpool is deze dunner dan vijf kilometer. “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,” aldus onderzoeker Alice Le Gall eerder dit jaar.
Bronmateriaal:
"Slim Crescent of Ice" - NASA De foto bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute
Ooit zou ook de aarde een ‘synestia’ zijn geweest.
Maar wat is dat dan precies? Een enorme, draaiende, donutvormige massa van heet, verdampt gesteente die ontstaat wanneer twee planeten op elkaar klappen. Dat is te lezen in het blad Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Botsingen De synestia is een bedenksel van wetenschappers Simon Lock en Sarah Stewart. Zij doen uitgebreid onderzoek naar hoe planeten kunnen ontstaan na een aantal botsingen. Op dit moment wordt aangenomen dat rotsachtige objecten zoals de aarde, Mars en Venus ontstonden doordat kleinere hemellichamen op elkaar klapten. Die botsingen waren zo heftig, dat het resulterende hemellichaam smolt en deels verdampte. Na enige tijd koelde het af en ontstond een (vrijwel ronde) planeet.
Temperatuur en impulsmoment Lock en Stewart richtten zich in hun nieuwe studie op botsingen tussen draaiende objecten. “Wij ontdekten dat zij een compleet nieuwe structuur kunnen vormen.” En dat is de synestia. Bij hoge temperaturen en een groot impulsmoment kunnen planeten deze nieuwe en veel grotere structuur vormen die grotendeels uit verdampt gesteente bestaat en geen vast of vloeibaar oppervlak kent.
Hier zie je op schaal een planeet, een planeet met ringen en een synestia. De drie objecten hebben allemaal dezelfde massa (ongeveer 1 aardmassa).
Afbeelding: Simon Lock / Harvard University.
Ook de aarde was een synestia Volgens de onderzoekers maken de meeste planeten ergens in hun leven wel botsingen mee die kunnen resulteren in het ontstaan van een synestia. Voor een object zoals de aarde zou de synestia niet lang bestaan: al na zo’n 100 jaar zou deze zoveel warmte hebben verloren dat er condensatie plaatsvindt en weer een vast object ontstaat. Maar synestia’s die ontstaan door botsingen tussen veel grotere en hetere objecten – zoals gasreuzen of sterren – kunnen veel langer standhouden.
Net als de maan De synestia-theorie kan ook wel eens leiden tot een nieuwe kijk op het ontstaan van de maan. De maan doet qua samenstelling sterk denken aan de aarde. Op dit moment wordt aangenomen dat een groot object op de aarde klapte en er tijdens die botsing materiaal in een baan rond de aarde belandde. Dat materiaal zou uiteindelijk de maan hebben gevormd. Maar tijdens een dergelijke inslag kan volgens de onderzoekers ook een synestia zijn ontstaan waaruit de aarde en de maan beiden condenseerden.
Onderzoekers hebben nog nooit een synestia waargenomen. Maar daar kan wel eens verandering in komen als we er in andere zonnestelsels actief naar gaan zoeken, zo denken Lock en Stewart.
TRAPPIST-1h is koud en waarschijnlijk onbewoonbaar
TRAPPIST-1h is koud en waarschijnlijk onbewoonbaar
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De exoplaneet TRAPPIST-1h draait iedere 18,77 dagen om zijn moederster TRAPPIST-1. Toch is de baan nog steeds te groot, want het is ijskoud op deze exoplaneet.
Dit heeft ermee te maken dat TRAPPIST-1 een koude dwergster is. De ster is maar iets groter dan Jupiter en geeft minder warmte en licht af dan onze eigen zon. Planeten moeten dus dicht om de ster draaien om genoeg op te warmen. Hoewel de andere zes exoplaneten daar wel in slagen, heeft de buitenste exoplaneet – TRAPPIST-1h – het toch moeilijk.
Geen verrassingen Wetenschappers hebben de Kepler-telescoop gebruikt om meer te weten te komen over TRAPPIST-1h en publiceerden gisteren een paper in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature Astronomy. “TRAPPIST-1h is precies waar ons team de exoplaneet had verwacht”, zegt onderzoeker Rodrigo Luger van de universiteit van Washington. “Er zijn altijd wel verrassingen, maar dat geldt dus niet voor deze wereld. De theoretische onderbouwing komt exact overeen met onze observaties.”
Resonantie Het TRAPPIST-1-systeem is een bijzonder planetair systeem, omdat de zeven exoplaneten in resonantie zijn met elkaar. Dit betekent dat de verhouding tussen de omlooptijden is uit te drukken in gehele getallen (bijvoorbeeld 5:3 of 3:2). “Deze resonanties zijn zelfsturend”, zegt Luger. “Als een planeet zich niet aan de regels houdt en er sprake is van een koerswijziging, dan duwen de andere planeten het object weer terug. Het is lastig om te ontsnappen.”
Ooit warm? Mogelijk zijn de verschillende planeten gemigreerd naar de huidige plekken om TRAPPIST-1. Dit betekent dat het mogelijk is dat TRAPPIST-1h is verhuisd van een relatief warme zone naar een kouder gedeelte. Momenteel is de temperatuur op TRAPPIST-1h zo’n -100 graden Celsius, maar dat was ooit dus anders toen de ster TRAPPIST-1 jonger en feller was. “De planeet was ooit misschien wel bewoonbaar, maar is later bevroren”, zegt Luger. “Dat is interessant om later te onderzoeken.”
Eind vorige week voltooide de ruimtesonde de vijfde scheervlucht langs Jupiter.
Afgelopen vrijdag scheerde de sonde op een afstand van zo’n 3500 kilometer over de wolkentoppen van Jupiter. De eerste ruwe foto’s van die scheervlucht zijn inmiddels online terug te vinden.
Een stukje van de noordpool van Jupiter.
Afbeelding: NASA / SwRI / MSSS.
Juno werd in 2011 gelanceerd en arriveerde in juli 2016 bij de gasreus. Helemaal vlekkeloos verloopt de missie niet. Zo zit de sonde vastgeroest in zijn huidige, 53 dagen durende baan rond Jupiter. Een baanwijziging die de sonde begin dit jaar in een 14 dagen durende baan rond de gasreus zou plaatsen, werd door technische problemen gecanceld. Hierdoor zit er aardig wat tijd tussen de scheervluchten van Juno. Pas in juli zal de sonde opnieuw rakelings over de wolkentoppen van Jupiter scheren. Dan vliegt deze over Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek.
De scheervluchten leveren een schat aan informatie op. Juno is in staat om onder Jupiters wolkendek te gluren en meer inzicht te geven in de oorsprong, atmosfeer en magnetosfeer van de gasreus. “Juno levert spectaculaire resultaten op en we herschrijven onze ideeën over hoe gasreuzen werken,” stelde onderzoeker Scott Bolton hier eerder over.
Ook de foto’s die we tot op heden van Juno ontvangen hebben, geven een nieuwe kijk op Jupiter. Zo hebben we dankzij Juno bijvoorbeeld voor het eerst een beeld gekregen van de noordpool van Jupiter. Toch moet gezegd worden dat de beelden die we tot op heden van Juno ontvangen hebben, niet bijster indrukwekkend zijn. Zo is resolutie aan de lage kant. Dat is goed te verklaren: de camera dient geen wetenschappelijk doel en is alleen op de sonde gemonteerd om het publiek zo af en toe op een kiekje te kunnen trakteren.
In special reports, this week’s files cover: UFOs Are as Real says Paul Hellyer Canadian Defence Minister, Chinese Dropa Disks, The Day After Roswell, Dr. Bruce Cornet’s Black Triangle Sighting
Colonel Tony Shaffer states “White House Is Under Siege”, and Media War on America
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Norway, Peru, Russia, and England in the United Kingdom.
George A. Filer III
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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.
Special Projects
UFOs Are as Real says Paul Hellyer Canadian Defense Minister
“UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head. I’m so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something. The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalleled. The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied Minister of Defence, were never in-the-loop.” Statements as the University of Toronto, September 25, 2005
Paul Hellyer, also stated, “An unnamed former Canadian Chief of Emergency Measures revealed the astonishing story just before his death from a neurological illness.
Speaking at the “Hearing on ET Disclosure” in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, Mr. Hellyer explained that if he wanted to know about the workings of an alien space craft he would “ask the current chief of Emergency Measures”. Mr. Hellyer, who became a UFO expert after claiming to have seen proof of alien visitations while in office, said: “The reason I know is I interviewed the previous one, who is now deceased, and he went Langley and the CIA asked if he would like to see one of these crafts.”
“They flew him to Area 51 and let him go inside one and observe it and make notes and this sort of thing. Hellyer revealed the claim to a panel of the world’s top UFO and alien investigators and experts on July16, 2016. Thanks to Jon Austin Daily Mail. Paul Hellyer Canadian Defence Minister 1963-67, and Deputy Prime Minister in 1968.
Chinese Dropa Disks
In 1938, Peking archaeology students explored some caves in the Bayan-Kara-Ula Mountains on the border of Tibet and China. Chinese professor, Chi Pu Tei, detected regularly aligned rows of graves. The skeletons measured only around four feet in height and had skulls which were large and over developed. This was said to be the resting grounds for two tribes known as the Han and the Dropa, (shown) a peculiar race of people that fail to fall into any racial or ethnic group known to man especially with their enlarged craniums.
Dropa People
At the time of the discovery, the cave area was still inhabited by two tribes known as the Hams and the Dropas. Anthropologists have apparently been unable to categorize either tribe into any other known race; they are neither Chinese, Mongol nor Tibetan. They are yellow-skinned with thin bodies and disproportionately large heads, corresponding to the skeletal remains found in the caves in 1938. They have sparse hair on their bodies; have large eyes and their height measures between 3’6” and 4’7” with an average height of 4’2”.
Also found in the caves were hundreds of stone disks that were shaped like an “lp” album with a hole in the center and a spiral of circles, that extended from the center to the edge. Scientists were baffled to their hieroglyphics until they were sent to a school that studied prehistoric hieroglyphics.
The message is the same as the drawings, but unfortunately the Chinese Government found the message to be not suitable for public ears. There also were pictures of a ship with concentric circles covering it and inside these egg shaped ships were the Dropas wearing a globe that covered their large heads.
A bit more info on these stone disks was that they would vibrate when unusual notes of music were played; the scientist wrote it as a prehistoric electrical system. I thought that was more evidence to their existence. And what else did they find? The bodies of the Dropas, the burial ground that the Chinese government said was a burial ground for a strange species of apes, since apes don’t bury their dead in underground caves.
The Dropa stones are said to be a set of 716 circular stone disks dating back 12,000 years on which tiny hieroglyphic-like markings can be found. Each disc is said to measure up to one1 foot in diameter and carries two grooves originating from a hole in their centre, in the form of a double spiral.
Inside a nearby cave system, Chi Pu Tei and his team found interesting rock art which depicted figures with round helmets. Engraved in the rock were also the sun, moon, earth and stars, connected by groups of pea-sized dots. Further inside the cave, the team found the collection of stone discs, most of them half buried in the floor of the cave. For the next two decades, it is believed that the discs were labeled and stored at Beijing University before being given to Tsum Um Nui for study in 1958. Tsum Um Nui allegedly managed to decipher the hieroglyphic characters after 4 years of study which he claimed told the story of a spacecraft that crash landed in the area of the cave and that the ship contained the Dropa people. One of the discs apparently said the following: “The Dropa came down from the clouds in their aircraft. Our men, women and children hid in the caves ten times before sunrise. When at last we understood the sign language of the Dropas, we realized that the newcomers had peaceful intentions”.
In 1968 the Dropa stones apparently came to the attention of W. Saitsew a Russian scientist who re-published the findings of Tsum Um Nui and conducted tests on the disks that revealed some very peculiar properties. Physically, the granite stones contained high concentrations of cobalt and other metals – a very hard stone indeed that would have made it difficult for the primitive people to carve the lettering, especially with such minute characters. As recorded in the Soviet magazine Sputnik, when testing a disk with an oscillograph, a surprising oscillation rhythm was recorded as if, the scientists said, they had once been electrically charged or had functioned as electrical conductors.
Ernst Wegerer an Austrian engineer who, in 1974, visited the Banpo Museum in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, where he was able to see two of the Dropa stones. It is said that when he enquired about the discs the manager did not provide him with any information but allowed him to photograph them. He claims that in his photos the hieroglyphs cannot be seen as they have been hidden by the flash from the camera and have also deteriorated.
Later In 1994, the German scientist Hartwig Hausdorf and colleague Peter Krassa are said to have visited China and the Banpo museum in Xian, where they were told that the Director’s superiors had ordered the discs destroyed and that officially they do not recognize their existence.
At the time of the discovery, the cave area was still inhabited by two tribes known as the Hams and the Dropas. Anthropologists have apparently been unable to categorize either tribe into any other known race; they are neither Chinese, Mongol nor Tibetan. They are yellow-skinned with thin bodies and disproportionately large heads, corresponding to the skeletal remains found in the caves in 1938. They have sparse hair on their bodies; have large eyes and their height measures between 3’6” and 4’7” with an average height of 4’2”. This general area is known for its frequent UFO sightings.
The Day After Roswell
Colonel Philip J. Corso, U.S.A. (ret.) in late June, 1997 made startling revelations in a new book, The Day After Roswell and in an interview on NBC’s Dateline program. The majority of the book is an account of Colonel Corso’s claims that he was assigned to a secret government program that provided some material recovered from crashed spacecraft to private industry (without saying where the items came from) to reverse engineer them for corporate use. Corso was a Special Assistant to Lt General Arthur Trudeau, who headed Army Research and Development, and was in charge of the Foreign Technology Desk. Colonel Corso’s background includes being an intelligence officer on General Douglas MacArthur’s staff during the Korean War; member of the President Eisenhower’s National Security Council; head of Foreign Technology in Army Research and Development at the Pentagon in the early 1960s, where he was in charge of the Roswell Files, the cache of UFO parts and information which “an Army retrieval team … pulled out of the wreckage of a flying disk that had crashed outside the town of Roswell in the New Mexico desert in the early-morning darkness during the first week of July 1947.” Corso retired from the Army in 1963 with nineteen medals and ribbons; then served as National Security specialist staff to U.S. Senators James Eastland and Strom Thurmond.
Col. Corso tells that in July, 1947 at the Roswell UFO crash site, an Army Intelligence retrieval team found five extraterrestrials, 4-1/2 feet tall with grayish-brown skin, four-fingered hands and oversized hairless heads, two of them still alive. One tried to run away and was shot by nervous soldiers. The other was still alive but dying when he arrived in the back of an Army truck at Roswell Army Air Field. He was Post Duty Officer at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1947, the night a shipment of Roswell artifacts arrived from Fort Bliss. Colonel Corso examined the shipment, which included one of the dead extraterrestrials preserved in a thick light-blue liquid. The shipment was destined for what is now called Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Corso speaks about serving in President Eisenhower’s National Security Council and seeing the memos about the Roswell incident and the “goods” retrieved from it.
The Colonel divulges how he spearheaded the Army’s super secret reverse-engineering project that “seeded” extraterrestrial technology into American corporations such as IBM, Hughes Aircraft, Bell Labs, and Dow Corning – without their knowledge. He describes the devices found aboard the Roswell craft, and how they became the precursors for today’s integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, lasers, night-vision equipment, super-tenacity fibers (such as Kevlar plastic armor), and classified discoveries, such as psychotropic devices that can translate human thoughts into signals that control machinery, Stealth aircraft technology, and Star Wars particle-beam devices. He also discusses the role that extraterrestrial technology played in shaping geopolitical policy and events; how it helped the United States surpass the Russians in space; spurred elaborate Army initiatives such as SDI (Star Wars Projects), Project Horizon (to place a military base on the Moon), and HARP; and ultimately brought about the end of the Cold War.
X-22 Anti-gravity Craft
Colonel Corso also said that captured UFOs were/are kept at Norton, Edwards and Nellis (Area 51) Air Force Bases. He said a UFO Working Group was set up by President Truman in September, 1947 (a group some call MJ-12), and that it has functioned ever since. In the 1950s two crude prototypes of antigravity craft were constructed, but were powered by crude human nuclear fission generators, and were inefficient and leaked radiation. He says that the Star Wars program was always primarily to prepare for war against the extraterrestrials in case of invasion.
The exotic technology is the real Dark Star, designated the X-22A, and manufactured by the Lockheed Skunk Works, This Dark Star is an operational, two-man, wingless antigravity craft. It’s been operational since 1992. Its metallic airframe in flight is obscured by an intense bluish-white light, which pulsates off and on at about two-second intervals over Area 51. During the phase where the intense light is off, the craft frame disappears from optical view, and then reappears several hundred yards distant horizontally in the lit mode. The craft may bend time jumping from one place to another.
Corso was one of the ultraconservative Cold Warriors who continually feared a Communist takeover and help defeat their attempt to take over Italy. The military and political groups he was allied with adopted the same outlook on the extraterrestrial Visitors, fearing them as some potential invasion force that had to be repulsed by a crash program of back-engineering Star Wars weapons from captured UFO technology. He lumped extraterrestrials with Communists as potential invaders and helped defeat Communism in the Soviet Union.
Dr. Bruce Cornet’s Black Triangle Sighting
I saw Black Triangles bearing navigation lights and producing synthetic jet sounds (verified by spectral analysis) to simulate conventional jetliners. The sighting that Marc Whitford and Dinah Bertran and I had on Muddy Kill Lane north of Montgomery, New York on 17 May 1997 of a Black Triangle illustrates the problem of whose technology did we see?
Would the military put on performances for civilians and unsecured cameras on the ground over residential areas? Do we have the technology to drain the battery on one camera (from a mile away), then recharge that battery once the performance was over? The maneuvers the Black Triangles 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? The F117 and B2 Bomber are the only advanced platforms revealed by the Air Force, even though we not have pictures of the illusive Aurora spy plane. MUFON came to Pine Bush on 3 October 1997 to do a field investigation on the Owen’s Dairy Farm (since sold). I generated a website entitled, The Pine Bush Boomerang. That aircraft turns out to be the illusive Aurora high altitude spy aircraft replacement for the SR71 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 AF fighter jet maintenance specialist confirmed for me its identity.
Colonel Tony Shaffer states “White House Is Under Siege”
Lt Col. Tony Shaffer said that the mainstream media is using “weaponized information” to undermine the Trump presidency. He said the New York Times was “sloppy” in their reporting of a memo allegedly written by former FBI Director James Comey that said President Trump asked him to take it easy on General Flynn the former Director of Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama.
Colonel Shaffer questioned why, if the story regarding an alleged FBI memo was fully accurate, let us see it, Comey’s anonymous associate didn’t give Times reporter Michael Schmidt the memo itself. “This is information warfare,” Shaffer said. “The White House is under siege by the media. Shaffer said:”White House leaks and stories like this one undermine not only the presidency but America’s national security”.
Media War on the President
Why has the news media declared war on Trump and the police? Each night on the news I see criticism of the President and usually showing a policeman shooting a black man. Of course Black lives matter but what about the thousands killed in our cities. Never have I seen TV showing the police trying to protect Black citizens in our cities. I have fought in wars in Vietnam and Saudi Arabia and care for the United States and supported whoever was elected President. I see ABC, CBS, and NBC doing great harm to the country by their actions against the President. What is their motivation? There is an old adage follow the money. The organizations who have the most extra money in America are the Drug Cartels.
President Trump is trying to stop the multi-billion dollar Mexican Drug Cartels that are responsible for the Drug Epidemic in America. It is probably as dangerous as ISIS and they’re certainly killing more Americans. Trump wants to build a wall to stop the flow of drugs and arrest the pushers. Mexican Drug Cartels are primarily responsible for illegal drugs entering the US killing in 2014, a total of 49,714 persons who died of drug-induced causes according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Drug overdose is increasing now killing over 50,000 young people each year. The majority of the drugs that hurt Americans from El Paso to Chicago are shipped through Mexico creating a 50 -100 billion dollar crime business.
Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera bragged during a meeting with Hollywood actor Sean Peen about how he was the largest importer of drugs. The claims even drew the ire of Senator Marco Rubio who called the interview “grotesque”.
The cartels are responsible for mass casualties — according to confirmed murder statistics by the Mexican government, cartel
violence has been linked to more than 179,000 murders since 2006. Those statistics don’t account for the tens of thousands of victims who have been kidnapped, but their remains have yet to be found. Illegal immigrants must pay a fee to the Cartels who control the border to cross into the US or run their drugs for them. Nor do they count the murders in US cities by Mexican gangs who sell the drugs on our streets. Over 700 killed in Chicago 318 killings in Baltimore, 90% relayed to drugs. Despite the thousands of killings the news media ignores their billions of dollars drug trade, kidnappings, and prostitution slavery. Why do they ignore the important stories like UFOs and crime?
Senator Ted Cruz’s El Chapo Act,” proposes to use as much as $14 billion in assets from the Mexican drug lord, as well as assets seized from other convicted cartel members to build the wall. In 2014, alone $382 million was seized from Mexican Drug Cartels in the US.
The United Sates is at war with ISIS in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, etc. “I wonder if the three major networks understand the damage they’re doing to their own country, in which case they are simply stupid, or they understand everything, in which case they are dangerous and corrupt.” Thanks to http://www.breitbart.com/author/ildefonso-ortiz/
US Constitution Article III Section 3 — Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
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Filer’s Files #21-2017 UFOs Are Real - PART II
Filer’s Files #21-2017: UFOs Are Real - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Lights
Gilbert — I was going out for my birthday on March 7, 2017 when I stopped at the gas station and I look over and these lights were in the sky. I thought it was an airplane until they kept popping up and then they were there for awhile. So then I jump on my phone and started videoing it. I don’t know what they were. The airport wasn’t over that way where the lights were in the sky.
Note: The brightness of the video was adjusted to see if the lights were anchored to any structure. It does not appear that the lights were anchored to anything. The lights were stationary, but changed in number and formation. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
California Object
Los Angeles— I was walking out to my garage and noticed these strange lights in the sky on May 15, 2017. I ran inside to grab my phone and they had not moved when I returned. I captured a photo, and after sending it to a friend, I looked back up and they were gone. They did not fade gradually or drift off, they were simply there one moment and gone the next. I struggled to find an explanation for what it was, and still do. I lost sight by simply looking away for a moment. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Orb
Breckinridge— My friend took the picture snowboarding around the Breckinridge area on May 5, 2017.
He didn’t know it was there until he went to erase it he noticed the area I enlarged. Definitely interesting. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Weston — Walked outside and had a sense to start filming the horizon on May 13, 2017. A grey black portal distortion appeared and UFO came into view through a portal. I took a picture in addition to video. It’s not the greatest quality iPhone plus but it’s clear as day. I didn’t fully realize what I had until I uploaded it to my laptop screen. Three days before this I filmed a green orb at the Garden of the Gods; One month I woke up to a third eye dent on my forehead and. I took a picture of the third eye dent and it shows black running out of the “dent.”. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Deltona — On Friday May12, 2017, I was leaving home and saw a bright red glowing light in the sky. After a few seconds I realized it was not a plane as there was no engine noise and it was moving way too fast. I pulled out my iPhone and started recording. When I zoomed in it looked like a yellowish/orange disc flying across the sky. It quickly gained quite a bit of altitude and flew over the horizon in 90 seconds. I try to watch all shuttles and rocket launches from Cape Canaveral and I can view these from behind my house and this was way faster. A UFO group feels I took a video of Venus or Jupiter. I can say with certainty that this was NOT a planet. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Cylinder
Fort Wayne — I was sitting in my truck about to go into work on May 18, 2018, when I saw this fireball or moving object that looked strange to me. I’m pretty skeptical so I tried to come up with what it could be, but the more I look at the photo and video, the stranger it is to me. It could be nothing, but I’m not sure. It just was moving across the sky but there wasn’t a lasting contrail. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maine Object
Coming home after work I started taking pictures of chemtrails on November 15, 2017.
Once home I downloaded pictures and noticed the object clearly and two others appearing in the 2nd and 3rd frames. .Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Discs
Capac — I saw this UFO formation in rural area in January of 1980, when I was 18 years old. It was a bitterly cold night and I was out driving with my girlfriend and another couple sipping a few beers. Nobody had cell phones, and we just socialized and listened to music. I needed to go so I picked a spot to stop and to my right above a farmhouse were three circular craft very close to each other with lights going all the way around. The craft were kind of silhouetted darker against the sky and blocked out the stars. It was 130 feet high and floating east at walking speed. It was about 50 yards wide and the side part was only four feet high. When these things floated a hundred feet closer to me I went to the car and said, “Come out here and look at this!” They all just hollered to shut the door so. I got in the car and we drove off. I’m comfortable reaching out especially now that organization like yours exists. I even made an illustration of it because it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen, Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Object
North Las Vegas — On May 15, 2017, at 2:16 pm on Las Vegas Boulevard I was shooting the Nellis Air Force Base aircraft coming in for a landing. I have Sony a350 DSLR, shooting specs of iso 400, f8. I was looking north as some airplanes come straight down the Vegas Boulevard to make two 180 degree turns and land at Nellis. There were about 22 planes in this group. At about plane 18, I spotted a light coming behind and out of the clouds. I began to shoot, getting 10 shots off in 12 seconds. I recorded an image on 9 out of 10. The UFO is about two miles away that was like a bright light, but when I blew it up, it looked like a descending Smokey Goldfish Cracker. The object started up at 1000 feet and pulled a 45 degree descent and just disappeared moving really quickly. Enjoy we are indeed not alone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Four Orbs
Monmouth County — Driving south on Route 9 south, the orbs became apparent in my line of sight while driving and I’ve never seen the color that these objects were in the sky before. I had no idea what the objects were and I literally said out loud to myself “what am I looking at right now!?”
There were 4 objects. Three of them were mostly in a straight line maybe 200ft apart from each other and the 4th seamed further to the east and further behind the other 3. The first thing I noticed about the color was the shade and brightness of the red. As I continued driving and getting closer I could see what looked like an orange/yellow glowing ball underneath the red. At one point as they were passing over I rolled down my window. There was no sound at all. I basically drove for another 20 minutes trying to think of what it could have been what it resembled or if I had ever seen anything with those colors and shape. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Orb
I’ve noticed that there are multiple lighted orbs that hang around the sun during the mid morning and late afternoon. On May 11, 2017, I caught them around 3:30 pm. It would be the last photo that’s the most orbs I’ve seen at once and up in the left corner it appears to be a planet. I was able to take it to a photo specialist to confirm it wasn’t a lens flare. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orb
Wilsonville – I looked outside and saw this object, so I got my binoculars but, could not identify what it was, It was not moving and was very bright like reflected light on May 19, 2017. It, looks like two bell shaped objects together, and it was very odd that it was not moving, so I could not attribute this to anything I know. It stayed for quite awhile. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Cylinder
I took pictures of a long black cylinder moving like a worm on May 17, 2017. It had what looked like a front window on it.
Personally I’ve never seen a ufo in my life, but I often see lights in the sky at night. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Orbs
I was hanging out with some friends, when one of them noticed an odd object in the sky on May 13, 2017.
We walked into the street to see what was going on, when we noticed strange lights in the sky. I took pictures and video of the objects that seemed to just disappear, like either there was no more fuel, or they had reached such a distance that they vanished from perception. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Denton – I was driving for a case as I am an investigator for child protective services, when I saw the UFO on May 14, 2017. It was broad daylight and there were no clouds in the sky. I saw a silvery shining reflection in the sky. I immediately felt like it noticed me and followed me for at least two-three miles. It was disc shaped and then shone bright white lights before it disappeared. I did not feel apprehensive, but curious and thought that this synchronistic because I lately I have been asking my spirit guides to reveal themselves to me during my mediations. I managed to take a picture of it before it disappeared about a minute later. I observed a UFO briefly reappear an hour later. It was a silvery/grey disk and again seemed to follow my path while I was driving but disappeared after about 30 seconds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Light
Seattle– I have a video of it. It was a bright orb like object just hovering on April 24, 2017. I have been a longtime sky watcher and this was the first time that I have witnessed this. I was on the way back from China and had a layover in Seattle and witnessed this. Response from Witness: It did disappear right after I stopped the video. I was naive think if it would still be there in a few seconds. I was trying to send to my friend a short video and I went to film it again and it was gone. It disappeared in mid air. I’m sure you see a lot of crazy things in Washington, year?
Note: The object is not a bright planet because it is below the clouds on April 24, 2017. It could be a balloon, but there should be some drift with the wind. It is not likely to be a high altitude balloon because the balloons normally are maintained at a constant height and the witness said that it vanished shortly. It is unlikely to be a drone as it is near Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Drones are not allowed to be within 4 miles of an airport. Also a drone would not disappear in mid air. The weather in Seattle at the time of the video showed a few clouds at 6,000 feet and 20,000 feet. Visibility was 10 miles. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia
Rapid Bay — It was stormy wild weather in the morning on January 17, 2017, we were skeptical to go camping in it but went ahead and drove our friends caravan south to Rapid Bay, It was a warm beautiful weather driving down the hill, our friend following us lingered back about noon to take some snaps. I don’t remember noticing anything in the sky, nor does my partner. The UFO in the photo looks nothing like a drone and I believe is too big in relation to the landscape. It has a shine where the sun light is hitting it with an. aura. It’s beyond the hill over the ocean moving fast. I didn’t notice this photo until a couple months later. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Unknown Object
Oshawa, Ontario — I thought to share another strange image taken on May13, 2017.while outside my house. I thought to experiment and took ten photos examining all the photos found something interesting in one of the pictures taken @ 4:34 Pm. reveals a strange ‘ long ‘ colorful unknown object. This was not seen with the naked eye. I do wonder what flies undetected from the naked eye. Thanks to Paul Shishis
Czech Republic Object
Bmo — I took pictures of the landscape and I did not notice any object at the photo shoot on May 8, 2017, otherwise I would have made more photos.
I noticed it at home when I zoomed in on the desktop. When zoomed in, it is clearly visible dark object of regular shape with light around it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Egypt Light
Hurghada – I was at the front of the house and I was drinking a tea on May 5, 2017, when I notice an object.
I started to take photos and movies and thought it’s an airplane but it does not move for hours. Because this area is close to an airport, it looks like a star very close to the buildings. It didn’t move at all and was a beaming light. I felt so excited as I believe in UFOs and I even try the contact them. I saw it again the next day at the same spot and the same time. I lost the sight of the object when the sun light was getting stronger. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Disc
Paris — In June 2016, whilst looking from the viewing platform we noticed a transparent orb in the distance, which when viewed through the ‘telescope’ provided on the Tower appeared to have a small red light in the centre. It was completely stationary and did not have any form of suspension to keep it in the air (e.g. lines, supports). It was visible barely with the naked eye.
I had taken several pictures of the scenery of Paris from the Tower and was only aware that we had captured the orb when reviewing the photos this year. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Norway Object
Oslo — On the afternoon of May 6th 2017 whilst driving over the mountains from Bergen to Oslo Norway I noticed a white flying object. I thought was a plane but noticed I could not see any wings, engines, or any markings. It looked a solid white cigar shape. It was a sunny bright day so I took a photo on my mobile phone and when I zoomed into the photo I noticed other strange anomalies. The experience lasted a couple of minutes as I lost sight of the flying object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Peru UFO over Nasca Lines
Nasca Lines– A farmer, a doctor (my sister) and a journalist (me) were near Majoro Hotel, southeast of Nasca Lines and we saw at least a dozen of UFOs, Two star-like objects passing north one after the other, not so fast. I called the UFO’s to land and the first object projected two white and powerful beams. The lights seemed to reach the entire horizon and was the same quality of light at all its length, Moments after two similar objects passed one of them was carrying a meteorite with a very bright tail, orange, green, and blue. I believe they were protecting the Nasca Lines in order to avoid being impacted by the Chelyabinsk meteorite. The objects disappeared slowly going north. Other UFO’s I saw passed making sudden angles to the horizon in fraction of second. My father had contact with aliens when he was 7 years old. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Russia Cylinder
Tula— I saw a UFO in the evening and it came from beyond the river on July 24, 2011. On my right was the village of Monastyrshchino and the object appeared as a double narrow pulsating band of white light, tapering at the ends. When the object passed over my head, I saw a cigar-shaped dark body against the backdrop of the Milky Way. The orangeish and bluish lights flashed alternately at the ends. The wings were gone, and there was no noise. The object disappeared slowly behind the horizon as a narrow white pulsating band. I have not seen anything more beautiful in my life. It was like going home and there can only be beautiful good people inside. It was during the archaeological expedition on the Kulikovo field. These places are a historical monument of a Russian victory over the Golden Horde. The day before I had a magazine article with a fantastic story written by me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Cylinder
Myself, my partner and our two children had just left her sister’s house on Kenwyn Close in an area of Bedford named Putnoe. We were just loading up into the car to head home when my eldest Vincent noticed what he described as a UFO. We all looked up and saw a bright light moving quite rapidly through the clouds. I took out my mobile phone and tried to record the object. I was very disappointed as it would have been something interesting to have captured and I have always had an interest in UFOs, About 7 months later I was sitting at home one evening just deleting images and videos and to my amazement I managed to capture a glimpse of the UFO. I actually captured 3 more objects in a horizontal line hovering and pulsing green red and blue. I’ve decided to report this and send you the video to make up your own minds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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(This post contains spoilers for Alien: Covenant.)
One of the strange side effects of the rise of superheroes in Hollywood, as well as the borderline superheroes who populate franchises like The Fast and the Furious, has been a lack of equal opposition: The villains in these movies can’t hold a candle to the protagonists. Marvel in particular has taken a lot of guff for its villain problem, but the issue extends beyond just the MCU; in general, the new stress on cinematic universes and endlessly iterative properties puts the onus on continuity, and the agents of continuity are the heroes. There’s no better example of the problem at work than the recent decisions by both the MCU and Fast and Furious to pit the heroes against each other.
Meanwhile, one franchise is showing it’s still possible for a modern blockbuster to have a great villain. In Alien: Covenant, David — the android played by Michael Fassbender, first introduced in Prometheus — comes into his own as a fleshed-out, dynamic, and genuinely striking antagonist, one who isn’t just an equal match for the heroes, but even becomes the central thread of the series. He’s a huge part of what makes Alien: Covenant work, and you can rest assured he’ll play a major role in whatever happens with the next two installments Ridley Scott has teased.
In addition to his importance to the Alien series, though, David offers a few useful lessons that other franchises can take away in trying to solve their own particular villain problems.
1. Give the villain a coherent philosophy
Over the course of Alien: Covenant, we slowly learn David’s worldview. At first, he seems simply scientifically interested in the aliens, but as our understanding of David evolves, we come to recognize him as a much more complex, and insidious, figure. He’s the enlightened monster, the educated, urbane intellectual who should be familiar to anyone with a working knowledge of 20th-century history. Like Nazi scientist Josef Mengele, David is a eugenicist and murderer who couches his philosophies in Nietzschean rhetoric about furthering the species, complete with quotes from Romantic poets like Lord Byron — except in this case, the species is the terrifying, parasitical Xenomorph.
While there are plenty of dangers in basing something as relatively innocuous as a baddie in a popcorn film on horrific real-world analogues — at another point, David annihilates the indigenous life forms of a strange planet he lands on, which has definite shades of the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — it’s also what gives the film its resonance and meaning. It’s just as true now as ever that an elegant sophisticate can be a great perpetrator of evil, and that the urge to create can be used for terrible ends as well as good. David is a far more relevant and instructive villain than, say, Marvel’s generic Ultron, who’s basically a less interesting version of HAL 9000, or the ultracartoonish Cipher of Furious 7, a hacker whose entire plan seems to based on a freshman-level understanding of game theory. If you believe that big films as well as small can aspire to the achievement of art and meaning, then the interrogation of themes like these is a welcome sight.
2. Let the villain do stuff
Similarly, David gets to actually play a physical role in the plot of Alien: Covenant. He welcomes the gang to his lair, climaxing with a fascinating moment in which he rages at one of the crew for shooting and killing a Xenomorph, and, like any good villain, he gets the film’s most interesting dialogue, including a strangely touching scene in which he teaches the other android, Walter — also played by Fassbender — to play music. That might seem an obvious thing for a villain to do, but you’d be surprised how many modern blockbuster villains don’t pass that test. Instead, they often spend their entire films separated from the main characters, hiding behind faceless minions who get killed by the thousands.
Not David. He’s constantly doing stuff in the film: reciting poetry, making art, cutting his hair, lurking. He is active within the fabric of the film, not just a catalyst that makes it happen. And the way he does factor into the end is another major factor:
3. Let the villain win — or at least give him a chance
The biggest problem with the villains of most contemporary studio movies is that they never stand a chance. Their plans are always so hysterically large — destroy Earth! enslave all humans! turn all living matter into an extension of themselves! — that their success wouldn’t just mean the end of the main characters, but also the end of the franchise, the cinematic universe, and, well, everything, in general. Since a big-budget tentpole movie can’t end like that, their villains are hopelessly neutered.
Alien, of course, has a huge advantage, in that the main draw are the aliens, not necessarily any one hero or group of heroes. (Although the fact that the series still produced a hero as emblematic as Ripley is also worth noting.) But that didn’t require Covenant to pull off the coup that it did, in which David ultimately gains the upper hand, taking over the ship while the helpless heroes look on. And beyond that, the mere thought that this could happen makes David a drastically more compelling figure than your average villain: He’s actually dangerous, not just a convenient conduit for stunts and CGI battles who will be disposed of by film’s end. Like many of the best movie bad guys, including Hannibal Lecter and Seven’s John Doe, he represents a demon that even his total defeat couldn’t fully banish.
4. Let the star be a star
Of course, none of this matters without Michael Fassbender. Fassbender is so good in Alien: Covenant, so fully committed and clearly happy to be playing the role, that it’s hard to imagine the part without him. Actors playing blockbuster villains are often obviously showing up for the paycheck, or else so bereft of material to work with that they end up lending the character distracting and unnecessary affectations. But in David, Fassbender has a disturbing, and disturbingly complete, mindset to work with, and he plays the part with relish, never more than in the classic moment at which he kisses himself.
More than just about any other type of role, villains allow actors to leave their stamp on a character — which is why they’re so much harder to play than heroes. In a heroic role, particularly a superheroic one, you basically just have to reflect the arc of the audience, an arc that’s pretty much identical in the vast majority of contemporary blockbusters. Play a villain, on the other hand, and you always run the risk of looking like Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Ascending: You’re giving 110 percent to the movie, but the movie has nothing to give you back. With the best villainous performances, the film will instead nurture and reflect the actor’s performance, as The Dark Knight does for Heath Ledger, Mission: Impossible III does for Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Skyfall does for Javier Bardem. Sure, those actors can’t win — but they’re such an integral part of the movie that it doesn’t really matter.
That’s what Scott’s latest Alien iteration has managed to achieve with Fassbender. And totally apart from what happens with the Xenomorph, the esoteric mythology of the series, and the fate of Katherine Waterston’s Daniels, it’s David who’s worth returning to for another go-round of the franchise.
Are we alone in the universe? It’s been a question that’s haunted scientists, civilians, and sci-fi writers alike for hundreds of years. Unacknowledged, a new documentary about the existence of aliens, may not have definite proof about whether or not aliens exist, but it certainly offers enough of a compelling argument to make even the most skeptical Scully raise an eyebrow.
Following Dr. Steven Greer, Unacknowledged makes the claim that the United States government has been covering up the existence of aliens for decades. However, the documentary’s biggest strength is its extensive list of subjects. Rather than just focusing on a couple of key figures, director Michael Mazzola’s documentary offers dozens of talking head interviews, all of which claim to have seen an alien or UFO, been in contact to an alien, or have seen classified information that proves the existence of aliens. Additionally, most of these interviews come from former military personnel rather than civilians, adding another layer of authenticity to the documentary’s claims. Initially the theories Unacknowledged propose sound insane, but after a nonstop parade of testimonies and footage from JFK and both Bill and Hillary Clinton talking about alien life, it starts to toe the line of possibly believable. And if it’s not that, then it’s at least entertaining.
However, no alien documentary is worthwhile without a crazy conspiracy theory, and Unacknowledged is no different. At one point, the documentary proposes that Marilyn Monroe didn’t die of an overdose. Instead, she was killed to prevent her from leaking the government’s secrets, which included the U.S.’s ties to aliens. Greer initially poses the theory as coming from singer Burl Ives before pointing to a document that was filed a couple of days before Monroe’s death and calling it a “virtual death warrant.” The alleged document says that after Monroe was forced to end things with both Kennedy brothers, she threatened to host a press conference where she would tell everything. That everything supposedly included top government secrets as well as knowledge of a secret air base that was designed to examine “things from outer space.” Greer’s implication is that Monroe’s death a few days later happened as a result of the threat she made. You can watch Greer’s explanation of the Monroe conspiracy theory on Gizmodo.
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Of course, there’s no telling whether or not that conspiracy theory is true. It’s also just an anecdote in an hour and 45 minute documentary that’s primary purpose is to expose the existence of aliens. However, Unacknowledged is nothing if not an interesting watch even if you don’t believe its other worldly claims. It’s a documentary about aliens that’s relatively well-reasoned and has a much higher production value than other documentaries on the subject, but it still maintains the fast pace most conspiracy theories videos are known for.
Whatever side you fall on in the alien debate, Unacknowledged will likely won’t change your mind. For believers, the documentary stands as a well researched and structured argument about the existence of life on other planets — qualities most specials on this subject typically lack. For people who don’t believe, it’s a fun-to-watch documentary filled with conspiracy theories. Either way, it’s definitely worth pouring yourself a drink and pressing play.
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Orbit of Earth-Size Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1h in Alien Solar System Nailed Down
Orbit of Earth-Size Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1h in Alien Solar System Nailed Down
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The orbits of all seven Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are now known.
Astronomers have nailed down the path of TRAPPIST-1h, the outermost planet in the system, finding that this world takes just under 19 Earth days to complete one lap around its small, faint host star.
The new result suggests that TRAPPIST-1h is too cold to host life as we know it, and it confirms that all seven TRAPPIST-1 worlds circle their star in a sort of gravitational lockstep with one another, study team members said. [Exoplanet Tour: Meet the 7 Earth-Size Planets of TRAPPIST-1]
"It's incredibly exciting that we're learning more about this planetary system elsewhere, especially about planet h, which we barely had information on until now," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.
The orbits of the seven planets around the star Trappist-1. The grey region is the zone, where liquid water could exist on the surface of the planets. On planet Trappist-1h liquid water is possible under a thick layer of ice. (1 AU is the distance between the Sun and the Earth.)
Credit: A. Triaud
"This finding is a great example of how the scientific community is unleashing the power of complementary data from our different missions to make such fascinating discoveries," Zurbuchen added.
TRAPPIST-1 is a dim, dwarf star just 8 percent as massive as the sun that lies about 40 light-years from Earth. In May 2016, astronomers using the TRAPPIST (Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope) instrument in Chile announced the discovery of three roughly Earth-size planets in the system. That number jumped to seven with further observation by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, TRAPPIST and other ground-based telescopes.
Three of these seven worlds appear to orbit in TRAPPIST-1's "habitable zone," meaning they might be able to host liquid water, and therefore life as we know it, on their surfaces.
Despite such work, astronomers had not been able to pin down the path of TRAPPIST-1h. But they had noticed that the six other planets in the system are in "orbital resonance." That is, the worlds have tugged each other into stable orbits whose periods are related to each other by a ratio of two small integers.
This illustration shows an artist view of the seven Trappist-1 planets
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Similarly, the Jupiter moons Io, Europa and Ganymede are in orbital resonance: For every lap Ganymede completes around Jupiter, Europa makes two orbits and Io completes four. The TRAPPIST-1 resonances are much more complex, but they adhere to the same principle.
The six planets' relationships with each other led the research team to propose six possible resonant orbits for TRAPPIST-1h. Various observations ruled out five of the six, but the sixth was confirmed with observations made by NASA's Kepler space telescope from December 2016 through March of this year, the scientists announced in the new study, which was published Monday (May 22) in the journal Nature Astronomy.
"The resonant structure is no coincidence and points to an interesting dynamical history in which the planets likely migrated inward in lockstep," lead author Rodrigo Luger, a doctoral student at the University of Washington in Seattle, said in the same statement. "This makes the system a great test bed for planet-formation and -migration theories."
TRAPPIST-1 holds the record for most planets found in orbital resonance. Second place is a tie between the exoplanetary systems Kepler-80 and Kepler-223, each of which is known to harbor four resonant worlds.
TRAPPIST-1h receives about the same amount of energy from its star as the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, gets from Earth's sun, NASA officials said. So TRAPPIST-1h is most likely a frigid world unable to host Earth-like life, they added.
But that may not always have been the case. The star TRAPPIST-1 is thought to be between 3 billion and 8 billion years old. It was likely much brighter in its youth, perhaps bright enough to make TRAPPIST-1 habitable for several hundred million years in the ancient past, Luger said.
The universe's "most interesting star" just started acting up again.
Known as KIC 8462852, or the WTF star (for "Where's The Flux"), this sun became famous a few years ago for its strange short-lived dips in light output. Its behavior was weird enough that astronomers added "alien megastructures" to the long list of possible explanations for WTF star's changes in brightness. My twitter feed was lighting up this weekend as WTF star started, once again, to show a pronounced diminution.
The excitement over WTF star is, ultimately, about finding evidence for life on other planets. But even without alien megastructures (which are probably not going to be the explanation), WTF star highlights the remarkable range of ways astronomers might be able to find evidence for life on distant planets.
Since we'll be staring hard at thousands of these worlds over the next few decades, each kind of life detection method is exciting in its own right. That's why today I want to introduce you to "The Red Edge" (which, also, just sounds pretty cool).
The story starts with one of space exploration's greatest tragedies.
Back in 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded during launch, killing the entire crew. The loss was devastating for so many reasons, but one of its consequences was that the Galileo mission to Jupiter was left without a launch vehicle. The plan had been for it to ride a shuttle into space, where a powerful booster would then send it on to a half-billion-or-so-mile ride to the solar system's largest world. In the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, NASA scientists were forced to launch Galileo using a less powerful booster, placing it onto a complicated trajectory that used the gravity of a number of planets to slingshot the spacecraft out to Jupiter. In particular, Galileo first headed inward to Venus and then back to Earth — twice — picking up speed with each gravity "assist." It was during these Earth-return fly-bys that scientists came to the novel idea of viewing our planet as if it were an alien world.
The idea was, in part, Carl Sagan's. As Galileo passed by Earth, it trained its instruments on our planet and recorded the light it reflected from the sun. In this way, scientists could run an experiment to see if Earth's light "signal" could reveal the presence of life.
Of all the features the scientists found in the Earth-light, one of the most important came in the form of a sharp change in our planet's reflectance just past the wavelengths of red light. Reflectance means how much of the sunlight falling on the planet gets bounced back into space. Low reflectance means much of the light is being absorbed, while high reflectance means the opposite. The Galileo data showed that Earth's reflectance depended strongly on the light's color (meaning its wavelength). Most of the light in the visible spectrum was strongly absorbed. But around the wavelength of red light (past a half of a millionth of meter) the reflectance shot up. This wall in the reflectance curve was known from remote sensing studies and was called The Red Edge. In a paper titled "A Search for Life on Earth From The Galileo Spacecraft," Sagan and his co-authors highlighted the planet's absorption and reflection properties as one of four critical pieces of data that confirmed Earth was, in fact, a living world.
But what causes the Red Edge and why might it be a cosmic life-detector? The answer lies within even the most lowly houseplant.
Almost all of the world's vegetation will strongly absorb light in the blue and green parts of the spectrum. Much of this is due to photosynthesis, since these are the wavelengths of light plants absorb to make sugars and power their metabolism. At longer wavelengths, the leaves have no need to absorb sunlight, so they've evolved to reflect this light back into space. So what Galileo was seeing as it flew by Earth was the combined absorbing power of an entire planet's worth of vegetation.
Of course, Sagan and other astronomers knew that what works for Earth may work for alien worlds, too. Maybe we could detect Red Edges in the spectra from other worlds. If so, wouldn't that be proof of alien life and, even better, of full alien biospheres?
Astronomers are now deep in their "exo-planet" revolution. That means they're learning how to probe the light from these worlds in ways that, in principle, mimic what Galileo did for Earth. The crucial difference, of course, is distance. These planets are light-years away. That means we get just a minute fraction of the light they reflect from their stars. Astronomers must be extremely clever in how they go about their searches for exoplanet Red Edges. That's a challenge they're already working to overcome.
One early example of of these efforts is a well-regarded paper from 2005 by Sara Seager and collaborators titled Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants. The team laid out arguments for how the Red Edge might be detected in light from other worlds. They also made the important case that evolution on any planet might lead to some kind of feature like the Red Edge. As they put it, " ... while extraterrestrial 'light-harvesting organisms' have no compelling reason to display the exact same red edge feature as terrestrial vegetation, they might have similar spectroscopic features at different wavelengths than terrestrial vegetation." Thus a Red Edge of some kind, may, perhaps be universal.
For years now, movies and TV have taught us that the only way to find life in the universe was to directly detect purposeful signals from intelligences on those worlds. With the advent of the exo-planet revolution, a new era has opened. The WTF star raised the issue that we may detect intelligence by the artifacts they leave. Even more important, and more likely, is that we might find evidence of less-evolved forms of life by the imprints they leave on the planet as a whole. The lesson of the Red Edge is that life — even plants — can change planets in ways that might be visible from across the depths of space.
Adam Frank is a co-founder of the 13.7 blog, an astrophysics professor at the University of Rochester, a book author and a self-described "evangelist of science." You can keep up with more of what Adam is thinking on Facebook and Twitter:@adamfrank4
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'This is not a drill': Scientists scramble to observe mysterious Tabby's Star
'This is not a drill': Scientists scramble to observe mysterious Tabby's Star
By Nick Whigham
A mystery star behind an 'alien megastructure' theory is acting strangely again. Scientists have been scrambling to observe it.
An artists depiction of a theoretical Dyson sphere. Photo / Getty Images
The possible existence of an alien megastructure orbiting a mysterious star in the Milky Way is one of the more far fetched theories banded about by imaginative stargazers — but it's not going away.
Over the past weekend astronomers were rushing to fix their telescopes on the mysterious star which spawned the theory because it was, once again, acting strangely.
Known as Tabby's Star, or KIC 8462852, the odd pattern of light emitted from the star located about 1500 light years away continues to leave scientists puzzled since it's strange luminosity was noticed in recent years.
The star's observed brightness dips by about 20 per cent, an unexplained phenomena that has led to a number of theories, some more sensational than others.
On Friday night astronomer Jason Wright from Penn State University — the same academic who recently wrote a paper about the hypothetical existence of an indigenous alien species in our solar system before humans — noted that the brightness of Tabby's Star was dipping again.
The star is named after astronomer Tabetha Boyajian who first reported on the star's seemingly strange behaviour after analysing data from the Hubble Telescope.
She has been posting recording of the star's dimming over the past few days with great excitement.
But we still have no idea why the star appears to be flickering.
One of the most favoured explanations for seemingly random light fluctuation is that a swarm of comet fragments is periodically blocking light from the star. Another very similar theory contends it could be the debris of a destroyed planet that is blocking the star's rays, however such a theory struggles to explain the irregularity of the dimming.
Another technically possible explanation that has been banded about — and gained much attention in the media — is the idea that an alien megastructure has been responsible for blocking the star's light.
It's a notion that has its origins in an idea put forth by physicist Freeman Dyson who proposed that a massive orbiting array of solar collectors (which has become known as a Dyson structure) would be a perfectly rational thing for an alien society to build to meet its energy needs.
Of course, scientists think that's hugely improbable.
Last year SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial life Institute) announced it was going to focus on the star in a bid to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Dan Werthimer, a chief scientist at Berkeley SETI, was quick to dismiss the wild theories of an alien megastructure.
"I don't think it's very likely — a one in a billion chance or something like that — but nevertheless, we're going to check it out," he said.
UK Government To Release “Secret Dossier” Of All British UFO Sightings After Election Next Month
UK Government To Release “Secret Dossier” Of All British UFO Sightings After Election Next Month
Katy Evans
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In a plot that sounds straight out of, if not Bond, then perhaps Kingsman (or even Jonny English), the British government is set to release previously unpublished information it holds on UFO sightings in the UK, once the general election is over in June, a German website has exclusively claimed.
According to Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell, a “newsblog on frontier science and the paranormal”, the secret dossier will reveal previously unpublished reports of UFO activity spanning 50 years collected by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Back in 2013, the MoD released what it said was all of its UFO-related files via the National Archives, although in 2014 it admitted it had held back 18 documents, due to identifying some content that needed to be re-examined before it could be released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
This, of course, prompted claims of a cover-up of the existence of alien life by men with a penchant for dark clothing.
The MoD then announced it would be releasing these files in 2015, which got pushed back to 2016, then summer 2016, then March 2017, and now apparently June. According to a letter to the German site from a spokesperson for the National Archives, the current delay is due to the general election that will be held in the UK on June 8.
“Due to the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election,” the letter reads. “We are working to ensure that the files are ready for release as soon after this period as is possible: hopefully around the middle of June.“
Paranormal “researchers” and alien hunters are hoping for proof of extraterrestrials, conspiracies laid bare, and government cover-ups worthy of the more outlandish episode of X-files, but even if it doesn't deliver on that count (#sorrynotsorry), the documents should hold some interesting information, dating back to the 1970s.
“There's no smoking gun in these files that will confirm the existence of aliens, but there are plenty of fascinating UFO reports and MoD policy documents, so these really are the real life X-Files,” Nick Pope, a former MoD investigator into UFO sightings, told the Daily Mail.
“The delay has been a comedy of errors though, I think it's more bureaucracy than conspiracy,” he added.
Amongst the files expected to be released are documents on "Britain's answer to Roswell", the Rendlesham Forest incident of 1980, where multiple people reported seeing an unidentified flying object landing at close range near the military RAF-bases Bentwaters and Woodbridge.
Coincidence that Mulder and Scully returned to our screens last year after a 14-year absence? We'll see.
Are we alone in the universe? It's a question that humanity has long grappled with. But while astronomers continue to scan the cosmos for signs of alien life, imaginations are free to run wild here on Earth. From pop stars to Hollywood actors to politicians, here are 13 famous people who believe in aliens.
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1. Winston Churchill
History remembers Winston Churchill for his political prowess and his leadership during a complex time in Britain's history, but a relatively unknown part of the statesman's legacy — one in which he confronted the idea of alien civilizations — was recently uncovered.
"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," he wrote in the newly uncovered essay, "or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time."
Churchill's essay was described in an article published in the journal Nature in February 2017.
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2. Khloe Kardashian
It can be hard keeping up with the Kardashians' exploits, but when it comes to aliens, at least one member of the famous family is a believer. In 2015, Khloe Kardashian saw strange lights in the sky and tweeted "Kendall and I are spazzing out!!!!!! #UFO."
Though the U.S. Navy later said the unusual lights were part of a pre-planned missile test, Kardashian stuck to her guns.
"What do we expect people to say? Obvi they are going to say it's a meteor shower. I'm such a conspiracy theorist let me enjoy this," she responded.
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3. Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton has a long political history advocating for children and families, gender equality and health care reform, but in 2016, during her bid to secure the Democratic nomination for president, Clinton turned her attention to the paranormal.
In a radio interview and then later on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Clinton said she wants to review files about UFOs and the mysterious Area 51 site in Nevada and make them public.
"I would like us to go into those files and hopefully make as much of that public as possible," she told Kimmel. "If there's nothing there, let's tell people there's nothing there."
Area 51, located about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert, is a restricted military outpost that is part of the Edwards Air Force Base. It has been the site of a number of stealth military programs, and this secrecy has, in part, fueled conspiracy theorists who claim that scientists at the facility are reverse-engineering alien technology from UFO crashes. In 2013, declassified CIA documents detailed some of Area 51's history, revealing the site's role in testing spy planes such as the U-2. There was no mention of aliens or UFOs in the declassified files
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4. Zayn Malik
Singer Zayn Malik told Glamour in July 2016 that the first time he realized he wanted to leave the boy band One Direction and go solo was after a paranormal encounter. "An alien spoke to me in a dream," he told the magazine.
Malik is in a relationship with model Gigi Hadid, who recently posed for a space-themed photo spread for Harper's Bazaar. "My boyfriend's really into aliens," Hadid told the interviewer from Harper's Bazaar during the photo shoot at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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5. Gigi Hadid
It's always better when two people in a relationship are on the same page about important issues. For model Gigi Hadid and her boyfriend, singer Zayn Malik, their shared belief in aliens makes them a match made in … the cosmos?
In a recent, space-themed photo spread for Harper's Bazaar, Hadid posed at the controls of a spacecraft, in front of massive rockets and rocket engines, and on what's made to look like the lunar surface. In the Harper's Bazaar interview, Hadid revealed that she and Malik both believe that life exists beyond Earth.
"My boyfriend's really into aliens," she told the magazine.
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6. Ariana Grande
Singer Ariana Grande has described herself as "obsessed" with aliens, and in a 2013 interview with Complex magazine, the pop powerhouse said, "We'd be so stupid to believe we are the only people here."
Grande's music video for the song "Break Free" featured her battling aliens and dancing on a spaceship. But Grande told Complex she has never seen a real extraterrestrial (though she said she did have a ghost and demon experience once at a haunted castle in Kansas City).
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7. Ridley Scott
Film director Ridley Scott is no stranger to the concept of alien invasions and hostile encounters with extraterrestrials. His 1979 movie "Alien" explored the scary concept of an aggressive extraterrestrial that targets the crew of a spaceship. The film spawned a franchise with three sequels and two prequels, including "Alien: Covenant," which opens in theaters in the U.S. on May 19, 2017.
While promoting the new film, Scott warned that hundreds of alien species are "out there" and cautioned that humans likely won't fare well if these cosmic interlopers ever decide to pay a visit to Earth.
"If you are stupid enough to challenge them, you will be taken out in three seconds," Scott told the Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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8. Gillian Anderson
Actress Gillian Anderson is best known for playing FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on the hit sci-fi series "The X-Files." But while Anderson spent nine seasons investigating paranormal phenomena on the small screen, does she believe in aliens in real life?
"I do to the degree that the universe is obviously vast and the thought that we are the only planet full of living beings doesn't make sense," Anderson said in an interview with The Guardian in 2012. "That doesn't necessarily mean that there are aliens, but there could be. If we're talking about an advancement of technology, that they'd be potentially further along than us is as conceivable as their existence. So I wouldn't rule it out."
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9. Katy Perry
In a 2014 interview with GQ, pop star Katy Perry spoke about her wide range of beliefs.
"I see everything through a spiritual lens," she told GQ. "I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens. I look up into the stars and I imagine: How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?"
At the time, Perry said she might even take her questions about alien life to then-President Barack Obama.
"I mean, if my relationship with Obama gets any better, I'm going to ask him that question. It just hasn't been appropriate yet."
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10. Nick Jonas
In an interview with the British talk show "The Morning," singer Nick Jonas described his own close encounter.
"I was in my backyard in L.A., and I looked up at the sky and [saw] three flying saucers," Jonas said. "I looked at my friend and said, 'Are you seeing this or am I losing my mind?'"
Jonas said he looked online and saw three similar reports from two weeks earlier. The U.S. Navy later claimed responsibility for the seemingly out-of-this-world display, saying the lights were from a Trident missile test. But Jonas has other ideas.
"I'm obsessed with UFO stuff in general, so I'm all over this," Jonas said. "That blue light freaks me out in the best way possible."
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11. William Shatner
As the most recognizable face of the "Star Trek" franchise, actor William Shatner is probably used to fielding questions about his extraterrestrial beliefs. But in a 2010 interview for Montreal Gazette, the man who brought Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise to life explained why he thinks intelligent beings must be out there.
"There is no doubt that there is life out there; the mathematics of it lead you to that absolute conclusion. In my mind, there is no doubt that the universe teems — teems! — with life in all its forms."
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12. Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking has repeatedly warned that humans should be wary of contacting alien civilizations. In 2016, in a documentary called "Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places," the famed theoretical physicist said humanity may one day receive a signal from a potentially habitable alien world, such as Gliese 832c.
"But we should be wary of answering back," Hawking said in the 26-minute documentary. "Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well."
That's not the first time Hawking has expressed such a concern. In 2015, he cautioned that visiting aliens may be in search of resources to plunder, as they roam the cosmos colonizing other worlds.
"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach," he said in an interview with El País at the time.
Still, Hawking said it's not likely that humanity will find intelligent alien life in the next 20 years. "The probability is low, probably," said Hawking, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is paralyzed, but "speaks" with the assistance of a computer.
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13. Demi Lovato
During an appearance on the talk show "Late Night with Seth Myers," singer Demi Lovato insisted that aliens are real. "How self-centered would we be, as humans, to believe that we are the only living things in the universe?" she said.
While using his all night camera Brad Morris recorded a huge bright flash that suddenly came out of nowhere directly followed by an unidentified illuminated winged object that then moved away at an incredibly high speed.
Brad said “It might be a meteor but it does not explain the winged object.”
However, if it was a typical meteor then it produces a streak of light, both from the glowing object and the trail of glowing particles that it leaves when it passes through the atmosphere but this is not the case here.
In this case we see a sudden burst of light from which an object emerges that then moves away at high speed before it disappears in the night sky.
Editor’s note: Even though I have no clear answer to this strange event but could it be something that arrived through a portal from another dimension or the winged object is something that arrived via unknown Time Travel or Teleportation methods?
In the next video you can see the moment when the flash/winged object appears, including Brad’s analyze of the event.
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Aliens are using Free Energy similar to Tesla’s Free Energy Theory to power their UFOs?
Aliens are using Free Energy similar to Tesla’s Free Energy Theory to power their UFOs?
The new documentary "Unacknowledged" was created to bring out hidden information about UFOs, alien intelligence and Free Energy covert by illegal operations within the Military-Industrial-Financial complex.
One of the secrets explored in the documentation is Tesla’s ‘Free Energy’ theory which could power manufacturing and agriculture in a clean, sustainable way, but …we do not use it!
Then WHY we not use free energy for little or no costs here on Earth?
Because free energy is suppressed by government, powerful oil corporations or advocacy groups whose business model would be threatened. Even they have suppressed, harassed or killed individuals like Thomas Henry Moray, Stanley Meyer and Eugene Mallove for their research on this issue, only to retain their dominant position.
It could also explain how UFOs travel such long distances as it is suggested the aliens use free energy for the drive of their UFOs by harnessing the space all around us that could be converted into energy needed to power the UFOs.
Just imagine how Tesla's Free Energy could have changed the World!
Below the trailer of the film ‘Unacknowledged’ and a short clip, uploaded by Inverse and taken from the documentation, in which they are talking about Tesla’s free energy theory.
She was one of the most popular actresses of all time. She was the first centerfold in Playboy magazine. Her name was – and still is – synonymous with the phrase “sex symbol.” She was married to one of America’s greatest baseball players and to one of the world’s greatest playwrights but is best remembered for her alleged affairs with a president and his attorney general brother. Her mysterious death at age 36 was ruled a suicide but the cause, the reasons why she may have taken her own life and the possibility of murder remain a topic of discussion today. One possible reason for murder is mentioned in a new documentary: actress Marilyn Monroe was silenced before she could reveal the existence of extraterrestrials – information she was given by President John F. Kennedy.
It’s a rumor that has been discussed before, but its unresolved and scandalous history are the reasons why it gets a mention in Unacknowledged : An Expose of the Greatest Secret in Human History. In it, Dr. Steven Greer – founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Disclosure Project, discusses many UFO cover-ups, including the one linked to Marilyn Monroe.
The document Greer is holding in the film is well-known and has been discussed before. Dated just two days before Monroe’s death, it refers to information obtained in a CIA wiretap – not on Marilyn herself but on the phone of Howard Rothberg, a New York antiques dealer who allegedly obtained things Marilyn had said from her photographers and passed it on (there was no Twitter at the time) to popular TV celebrity and gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, whose own mysterious suicide in 1965 is often linked to her investigation into President Kennedy’s assignation. Kilgallen also wrote about UFOs.
Greer reads select lines from the document which states that that”
Rothberg indicated in so many words, that she [Monroe] had secrets to tell, no doubt arising from her trists [sic] with the President and the Attorney General. One such “secret” mentions the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space. Subject repeatedly called the Attorney General and complained about the way she was being ignored by the President and his brother. Subject threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all.
Using these dots, Greer connects them to reveal a different picture of Monroe’s possible secret murder – that she was killed not because she was having a dangerous affair with a president and his powerful brother nor because she was a communist but because she was threatening to reveal that the president told her about the existence of spaceships and aliens at a secret base. Roswell?
Unfortunately, Greer doesn’t reveal much new information on Marilyn Monroe’s link to UFOs in the film, but the fact that we’re still talking about it may be enough of an indication that it’s an incident that should continue to be investigated, along with the many others in the documentary.
Besides that, it’s always nice to have a reason to show clips and photos of Marilyn Monroe, a wonderful talent with a rich and mysterious past that still holds secrets.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a mysterious magnetic ‘bridge’ linking our two nearest neighboring galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) which are each close to 200,000 light-years away from Earth. The magnetic bridge stretches for over 75,000 light-years between the two galaxies and is roughly one millionth of the strength of Earth’s magnetic field.
Astronomers used the Australia Telescope Compact Array to discover the bridge.
Astronomers discovered the field, known as the Magellanic Bridge, by examining distant radio signals which switched polarity when passing between the LMC and SMC galaxies. This effect, known as Faraday rotation, happens whenever radio waves pass through a magnetic field. While such fields have long been speculated, this is the first direct observation of one. The researchers’ findings have been published in the open-source journal arXiv.org.
The presence of the field is indicated by changes in the polarities of neutral hydrogen atoms between the two galaxies.
In a press release, lead author Jane Kaczmarek from the University of Sydney states that these magnetic ‘bridges’ remain a relatively unknown astrophysical phenomenon that might help scientists understand the origins of the universe itself:
There were hints that this magnetic field might exist, but no one had observed it until now. In general, we don’t know how such vast magnetic fields are generated, nor how these large-scale magnetic fields affect galaxy formation and evolution. Understanding the role that magnetic fields play in the evolution of galaxies and their environment is a fundamental question in astronomy that remains to be answered.
The researchers speculate that such magnetic bridges might form from the leftovers of smaller galaxies as they are absorbed by larger ones, but this is still a hypothesis. Magnetic fields and magnetism throughout the universe remain somewhat of a mystery even though magnetic fields are ubiquitous in space. These fields can only be detected through their interactions with other matter or energy, making them difficult to discover.
Magnetic fields help to keep cosmic radiation at bay, but their origins remain unknown.
Toward the end of the 1980s, and with the Cold War era coming to a close, a number of deep sea hydrophones (that is, underwater microphones) once used for spying were getting a new lease on life. Specifically, they were being repurposed by agencies like NOAA for use in oceanographic studies.
By the middle 1990s, researchers had indeed gathered some unique audio, some of which had become the stuff of legend. Arguably, the most famous of all these “mystery noises” had been “Bloop”, an underwater noise of mysterious origin that, according to some biologists, seemed to have the acoustic hallmarks of a living creature.
Further adding to the mystery is that the sound seemed to emanate from out in the remote Pacific, roughly gauged to be around the oceanic point furthest from any land mass on Earth (this is sometimes called the “Nemo point”, or the pole of inaccessibility, amidst other names). H.P. Lovecraft famously used this location for his fictional sunken city of R’lyeh in The Call of Cthulhu, further heaping the folklore onto NOAA’s alleged find.
I say “alleged” here because there just isn’t much in the way of proof that “Bloop” had ever been any kind of living thing, and at the time of its discovery in 1997, it had already been an item of dispute as to whether a living creature could have made the noise. At least as recently as 2002, there were some advocates of the “giant marine animal” hypothesis, although NOAA has concluded (as many thought back in the late 90s and early 2000s) that the source of the noise was likely due to a large icequake. Cthulhu, in other words, wasn’t really wobbling around out there in the Pacific somewhere, drunken and dreaming in an ancient underwater city.
This isn’t to say that there weren’t other interesting things that have turned up over the years, as a result of the unique signatures picked up by deep sea hydrophones. In fact, one of these noises has remained a genuine mystery.
Back in December 1992, an unusual variety of whale song was recorded, which seemed to be registering at a very unusual frequency of 52 hertz. To give perspective, what might be deemed “typical” for a blue whale would register between around 15 and 20 hertz, which is essentially imperceptible to the human ear (we might actually detect it as a sort of low rumbling). 52 hertz, by comparison, is very high pitched.
It might have been considered some kind of anomaly, or a one-off perhaps, if not for the fact that this unusual whale and its high-pitched song continued to turn up over the ensuing years, following its discovery by researchers as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The burning questions were, of course, what kind of whale was singing in this way, and perhaps more importantly, who was its audience?
The whale’s acoustic signature is most similar to a blue whale, although fin whales, who broadcast at 20 hertz (as compared with the lower 10 to 15 hertz songs of their blue whale cousins) would also qualify as a likely candidate. However, due to its similarity to other known whale species, there have been critics that argue against the anomalous nature of this unusual whale and its signature song. Christopher Willes Clark of Cornell University, in particular, has been a vocal skeptic of the idea of a “mystery whale.”
“Many types of idiosyncratic whale calls have been detected,” he told BBC Nature in 2015. “Some studies suggest that groups of whales living in particular regions have dialects. When you consider that, the 52Hz whale is not completely mind-bogglingly unique.”
Hey, even if the big takeaway here were only that different whales, residing in different places, also appear to have discernible “regional dialects” like humans do, that in itself is pretty unique!
Whatever the case, the unusual song of this elusive whale has garnered it the nickname of “the world’s loneliest whale,” inspiring songs, documentaries, and even music which has been inspired by the creature’s enigmatic, high pitched vocal prowess. Even though its song registers well outside the range of what can be enjoyed by the human ear, obviously it has been influential enough to garner attention from those with inclination toward the arts.
Marilyn Monroe werd in 1962 vermoord. Deze nieuwe spraakmakende docu laat zien wat zij wist, waarom zij dood moest
Marilyn Monroe werd in 1962 vermoord. Deze nieuwe spraakmakende docu laat zien wat zij wist, waarom zij dood moest
De makers van de nieuwe documentaire Unacknowledged laten opnieuw een sneak peek zien. De film gaat over de manier waarop de VS het bestaan van bewijs voor aliens onder het tapijt veegt.
In het nieuwe fragment wordt gesuggereerd dat Marilyn Monroe werd vermoord omdat ze had gedreigd met het lekken van geheime informatie.
Dr. Steven Greer vertelt in de film dat de Amerikaanse acteur Burl Ives, een 33e graad vrijmetselaar, tegen hem had gezegd dat ‘we allemaal weten dat Marilyn Monroe niet is gestorven aan een overdosis’.
Doodsvonnis
“Weet je waarom ze Marilyn hebben gedood?” zou Burl aan dr. Greer hebben gevraagd, waarop hij een geopenbaard document laat zien dat haar doodsvonnis zou hebben getekend.
Het document, dat dateert van 3 augustus 1962, gaat over afgeluisterde gesprekken tussen journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, die onderzoek deed naar het Roswellincident, en haar goede vriend Howard Rothberg.
Rothberg had gezegd dat Monroe vanwege haar relatie met de Kennedy’s op de hoogte was van geheime dossiers.
Geheime vliegbasis
Eén van die dossiers had betrekking op het bezoek van president Kennedy aan een geheime vliegbasis om ‘dingen uit de ruimte te inspecteren’.
Als dit verhaal klopt zal het John F. Kennedy in ernstige verlegenheid brengen en de plannen van NASA om mensen op de maan te zetten flink in de war gooien, aldus Kilgallen.
Monroe klaagde volgens het overheidsdocument meermaals dat ze werd genegeerd door de president en diens broer.
Persconferentie
Ze dreigde een persconferentie te beleggen en alles te vertellen, aldus het document.
“Marilyn was een actrice en was dus niet bekend met de nationale veiligheidsstaat en de wreedheid van de mensen die dit soort geheimen willen bewaren,” zei Greer.
Deze raadselachtige signalen duren slechts enkele milliseconden en vermoed wordt dat ze van bronnen op miljarden lichtjaren afkomstig zijn. Wetenschappers hebben geen idee hoe ze ontstaan.
Het onderzoeksteam ontdekte de nieuwe radioflits door slechts acht van de 36 schotels van de telescoop te gebruiken.
Nog meer
De nieuwe flits, FRB170107 gedoopt, was extreem fel en om die reden eenvoudig te spotten.
Onderzoekers verwachten nog meer van deze signalen te vinden als ook de andere schotels worden ingezet.
“We denken er om de twee dagen één te vinden als we 12 schotels gebruiken,” zei dr. Keith Bannister van CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation).
Sauron
“We hebben deze telescoop veranderd in de Sauron van de ruimte – het alziend oog,” voegde hij toe.
De onderzoekers vermoeden dat deze specifieke radioflits een afstand van zes miljard lichtjaar heeft afgelegd voordat hij werd opgevangen door de telescoop.
Vanwege de helderheid van de flits en de afgelegde afstand zegt het team dat er een enorme hoeveelheid energie mee gemoeid is, waardoor het extreem lastig is om een verklaring te bedenken.
Lastig probleem
“We hebben een lastig probleem nog lastiger gemaakt,” zei dr. Ryan Shannon, die de kracht en positie van de flits analyseerde.
Experts zeggen nu dat de ASKAP-telescoop de zoektocht naar deze mysterieuze signalen kan gaan leiden. “Dit is een uniek en krachtig instrument voor de astronomie,” zei directeur van CSIRO dr. Larry Marshall.
Onderzoekers van het Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics claimden onlangs dat deze radioflitsen mogelijk bewijs zijn van aliens die op miljarden lichtjaren van de aarde de ruimte verkennen.
The Beginning: UFO Encounters over Washington D.C. - Open Minds Magazine
The Beginning: UFO Encounters over Washington D.C. - Open Minds Magazine
Published on Sep 16, 2016
Open Minds Magazine #1
The Beginning: UFOs Encounters over Washington D.C.
Welcome to Open Minds Magazine. In this new monthly UFO news magazine show (view above), we will take a closer look at the mystery posed by Unidentified Flying Objects, in hopes to gain a better understanding of the nature of the phenomenon and how the government, including the military, and the public react to it.
Perhaps the most thorough examination into the UFO issue was conducted by the U.S Air Force. They began their investigation in 1948. It was called Project Sign, then changed its name to Project Grudge, and finally changed its name once again to Project Blue Book.
As for the results, the Air Force states:
"As a result of these investigations and studies and experience gained from investigating UFO reports since 1948, the conclusions of Project BLUE BOOK are:
(1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security;
(2) there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and
(3) there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles."
However, upon closer examination of the thousands of files released regarding the Blue Book investigations, it becomes apparent that the Air Force's conclusions were not shared by everyone involved in the investigation, and that there were some truly fascinating cases that remain unsolved.
Often people say they will not believe in UFOs until they land on the White House lawn. Well, one of the most famous and mysterious Blue Book cases came close.
UFO sightings over Washington, DC in July 1952 made worldwide headlines and left the U.S. Air Force dazed and confused. The events spanned several days and included multiple radar identifications of unknown aircraft, some of which were correlated by witnesses on the ground. Many of the sightings caused the air force to scramble jet fighters, and in each of these cases, the UFOs outmaneuvered the jets. This all culminated into what may be the most important official U.S. Air Force UFO investigation of all time.
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RESEARCHERS REVEAL A HIDDEN WORLD UNDER ANTARCTICA
RESEARCHERS REVEAL A HIDDEN WORLD UNDER ANTARCTICA
There is a hidden mysterious world hidden away under Antarctica and researchers have revealed the giant wetlands that are 800 meters beneath the ice.
The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling, or WISSARD for short, a project that was financed by National Science Foundation, has taken researchers that step nearer to discovering just what lies underneath the ice that covers the majority of Antarctica.
LAKE WHILLANS IS UNDER 800 METERS OF ICE IN WESTERN ANTARCTICA
Reports have indicated that Lake Whillans, which was first located in 2007 and which covers more than 20 square miles, is under the 800 meters of ice that is found in Western Antarctica and researchers have said that this is very similar to the wetland. The researchers are hoping that more studies will mean they can understand better how the level of the sea rises and how the ice is behaving in response to the global warming.
RESEARCHERS ARE EXCITED ABOUT RICH DATASET OF LAKES
Helen Amanda Fricker from Scripps Institute said that it was amazing to think that people did not know that the lake was in existence until just a decade ago. It was Fricker that had first found sub-glacial Lake Whillans from satellite data back in 2007. She went on to say that it was exciting to be able to see the lakes rich dataset and that the new data is helping them to understand the function of the lakes as a part of the ice-sheet system.
The sub-glacial Lake is fed by ice which has a small amount of seawater in it from the ancient marine sediments that are on the lakes seabed. The lake's water drains periodically into the ocean through channels that are connected to the lake, but they do not have energy enough to carry much of the sediment.
NEW DATA WILL LEAD TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MECHANICS OF LAKE WHILLANS
Researchers have said that the new data should give them a much better understanding of the mechanics and biogeochemistry of Lake Whillans. It was also said that the data is going to help them to improve the current models and tell them more about how the sub-glacial lake systems in Antarctica interact with any ice that is underneath the surface along with the sediments that are found under it.
In January 2013 three different papers analyzed the studies following the WISSARD project having managed to drill successfully down into the sheet of ice to reach subglacial Lake Whillans, to get some samples of sediment along with water samples that had been isolated from any direct contact with the atmosphere of the Earth for many thousands of years.
The Geology and Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal published two of the more interesting of the papers. Alexander Michaud from the Montana State University and the lead author said that data had come from the 15-inch long core lake sediment so that the water chemistry along with the sediment could be characterized.
LAKE WATER MOSTLY COMES FROM MELTING ICE AT BASE COVERING LAKE
Researchers found that the water in the lake originates mostly from the melting ice at the base of the sheet that covers the sub-glacial lake and that there had been very little contribution from any seawater, trapped under the ice in the sediment during the last inter-glacial period.
A second paper had been published by lead author Timothy Hodson from the Northern Illinois University in which he along with colleagues took a look at the core sediment that had been retrieved from the lake with the hope of trying to find out more about the ice sheet and the relationship with the sediments under it and the subglacial hydrology. Their discovery found that many floods had passed through the lake but that the floods flow was lacking in energy when it came to eroding the extensive drainage channels.
The researchers came to the conclusion that the environment underneath Antarctica is similar to that of wetlands in the coastal plain that is found in other parts on the planet. Antarctica of course, broke away from Gondwana around 25 million years ago; around 170 million years ago it had been part of the Gondwana supercontinent before breaking away.
Research shows that Antarctica has not always been the very dry and cold region that we know to be covered in sheets of ice. Throughout its long history, it was further to the north and this meant that it experienced a climate that was either tropical or temperate, which would have meant that it had been covered in forest, along with being home to many ancient life forms.
NEW ALIEN HUNTING TELESCOPE HAS ALREADY FOUND 3 RARE MYSTERY SIGNALS
NEW ALIEN HUNTING TELESCOPE HAS ALREADY FOUND 3 RARE MYSTERY SIGNALS
The radio telescope array, the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, was turned on just four days ago and already it has made huge leaps forward as it had found its first fast radio burst.
The radio signals are a space mystery that is unsolved, they last only milliseconds and very rarely do they repeat, which makes them extremely difficult to locate or predict. That is until the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, or ASKAP for short began to scan the skies. Up to now on, 23 have been located and many of them had been previously identified in data that had been recorded.
THREE FRBS LOCATED USING JUST 8 OF 36 DISHES
The ASKAP has found not just one fast radio burst, it has located three and only eight out of the thirty-six dishes had been used. Keith Bannister from the CSIRO, leader of the research, said that with the ASKAP it is possible to find an FRB every couple of days. He went on to say that the number would increase fast now that they have got the technology working.
In Late 2018 Bannister went on to say that the key to the discovery was the new radio telescope technology used, which has the name of phased array feed. He said that with many of the telescopes they only look at a single area of sky at any one time. The phased array feed, however, has cameras that are made up of 188 receivers and this means that the researchers are able to look at a region of sky that is 240 square degrees by pointing the dishes in different directions. The researchers hail from the Curtin University along with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.
SQUARE KILOMETER ARRAY COMING IN 2020 MADE OF THOUSANDS OF DISHES
Thanks to the wide field of view the ASKAP and the Square Kilometer Array, which is said to be revealed in 2020 and which is made up of thousands of dishes, it has an edge on the detection of FRBs.
HUGE APPLICATIONS FOR NEW TELESCOPE
The new telescope has huge applications from astronomers from all over the globe. The first of which are the statistics of the population of the FRB, the ratio of the signals that are bright to the ones that are faint. It will be able to help to show if the FRBs are close by or whether they have been affected by the universe`s age. Another factor is that the team is going to add in an extra mode to try to help to pinpoint with far more accuracy just where the FRBs come from, which may help to explain why they occur.
NO THEORIES BEHIND WHAT HAS BEEN OBSERVED
Bannister said that at the moment there is no theory that has been able to explain what they have observed. He went to say that in order to make a fast radio burst and make it visible, it has to be extremely bright as it has come from a long way away. With arriving from so far away the biggest question is how something can make something as bright so that it can be seen from such a distance.
Bannister does have some ideas; he said that there are some things that do generate emissions that are similar, pulsars and magnetars, for example. However, these cannot be detected in other galaxies. But they have detected FBRs and he said that they thought they did come from other galaxies. This leads the researchers to think that it was not due to magnetars or pulsars that are normally seen and if it is not these then what could it be.
The first FRB that was found had the name of FRB170107 and it has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The other two have not yet been published, but they along with others are coming said, Bannister. He said that this is just the star for the ASKAP and it should give a lot more during the next 12 months.
THE GREAT COSMIC WEB HAS BEEN FOUND: ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED
THE GREAT COSMIC WEB HAS BEEN FOUND: ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED
There has been a long hypothesized theory by scientists that a connection called the Magellanic Bridge, a huge stream of neutral gas that stretches around 75,000 light years, is in existence between the two closest galactic neighbors of our galaxy, the large and small Magellanic Clouds.
HINTS OF MAGNETIC FIELD THAT UP TO NOW HAS NOT BEEN SEEN
Now there has been confirmation of the Magellanic Bridge by way of research from the University of Toronto and the University of Sydney. Jane Kaczmarek, the lead researcher for the University of Toronto, said that there had been hints that the magnetic field does exist but up until now it has not been seen by anyone.
She went on to say that the radio emission from the galaxies in the distance served as flashlights in the background that shine on the Bridge. She went on to say that the magnetic field changes its polarization of the radio signal and how the light that has been polarized is changed has told the researchers about the magnetic field that is intervening.
FIELD IS A MILLION TIMES THE STRENGTH OF SHIELD SURROUNDING EARTH
Researchers have found that the field is around one million times stronger than the magnetic shield that is surrounding Earth. However, just how the connection came to be, or whether it was ripped from the interaction between the two dwarf galaxies is not known.
Kaczmarek said that researchers do not understand how such large magnetic fields can be generated, or how the large scale magnetic fields are able to affect the formation or evolution of the galaxy. The LMC along with the SMC are the closest neighbors, so being able to understand just how they have evolved might be able to help researchers understand just how the Milky Way Galaxy is going to evolve.
THE SKY IS FULL OF MAGNETISM
The entire galaxies are said to be magnetic, along with this faint, delicate threads that are joining the galaxies are also magnetic. Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and co-author of the paper, Prof. Bryan Gaensler said that wherever they look into the sky, there is magnetism.
Electric currents produce magnetism, and a magnet is able to produce an electric current. Every electron in all of the atoms is surrounded by an electric field. It is when the electron moves that a magnetic field is created, just like on Earth along with all the other celestial bodies.
It was said that in order for the Theory of Relativity to work a constant had to be created and that medium would be made up of many electrons and positrons. It was said that this is why the God Particle, Higgs Boson, is as important as it is. The discovery of it confirmed that there was a Higgs field, an infinite energy field extending through the universe.
The universe is not simply an empty vacuum of space; in fact, we are existing in an electric universe.
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Did UFOs cause Marilyn Monroe's death? Documentary claims proof
Did UFOs cause Marilyn Monroe's death? Documentary claims proof
File photo: The official poster of the 65th Cannes Film Festival featuring U.S. actress Marilyn Monroe is seen on the facade of the Festival Palace in Cannes May 14, 2012. (REUTERS/Eric Gaillard)
A new documentary claims that Marilyn Monroe was killed because she was going to leak evidence regarding extraterrestrials and their existence.
Directed by Michael Mazzola, "Unacknowledged" goes into a wide range of conspiracy theories, including one that offers up a possible explanation for Marilyn Monroe's death -- that she knew about UFOs and threatened to leak classified documents.
In a clip first spotted by technology website Gizmodo, actor Burl Ives claimed that Monroe did not die from a drug overdose. Dr. Steven Greer, who is the subject of the documentary holds up a so-called death warrant after Monroe had had phone coversations with reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, who was looking into the famous Roswell incident.
Below is the clip in its entirety:
According to a plot summary on movie database website, IMDB, "Unacknowledged" is about the so-called Disclosure Project and how UFO secrecy has been enforced.
"The best evidence for extraterrestrial contact, dating back decades, is presented with direct top-secret witness testimony, documents and UFO footage, 80% of which has never been revealed anywhere else," the plot summary reads. "The behind-the-scenes research and high-level meetings convened by Dr. Steven Greer will expose the degree of illegal, covert operations at the core of UFO secrecy."
The movie is now available on both digital and video on demand.
It has been claimed this satellite images shows a crashed UFO in the Antarctic.
A Russian alien conspiracy theorist says these satellite images show the possible wreckage of a huge alien spaceship which crashed in Antarctica.
UFO chaser Valentin Degteryov says he found the "crash site" on Google Earth.
He then posted the images online for other UFO spotters to debate.
Theories about secret bases in the Antarctic have circulated for years – with one conspiracy detailing that the Nazis had secret bases in the southernmost continent which they used to experiment on captured UFOs during WWII.
But, his staggering claim has been dismissed by many who believe it is just rocks jutting out of the ice.
He believes people like Mr Degteryov deliberately post stuff online stating it is alien related when there is no evidence to back this up, in order to obtain YouTube views.
But, Mr Degteryov from Nizhny Tagil in Western Russia, is adamant the object is 1,900-feet long.
He claimed the wreckage has only become visible because of ice melting.
A video posted by Mr Degteryov has attracted hundreds of thousands of viewings since being uploaded.
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USAF Veteran Films Supersonic UFO Flying At Mach 17, Sends 4K Video To NASA
USAF Veteran Films Supersonic UFO Flying At Mach 17, Sends 4K Video To NASA
A USAF veteran from Ayden, Carolina spotted and filmed a supersonic UFO traveling at 17 times the speed of sound. He filed a report with MUFON, who notified NASA and sent them a copy of the video.
On October 26, the former Air Force member was flying his DJI Phantom 3 Professional 4K drone above Ayden District Park when the unidentified flying object traversed the sky at an unbelievable speed. Its movement was too fast for the naked eye to see but upon playing the video on his 4K TV, the veteran was stunned by what he had caught.
“I m 59 years old and retired from the USAF,” the veteran told MUFON. “In my 20 year military career I thought I had seen it all. This footage took me back!”
The enigmatic object was traveling at an altitude of just 50 feet but its speed far exceeds that of any manned craft that we know of. Its velocity was estimated to be up to 13,000 mph, or 17 times faster than the speed of sound.
To put things into perspective, the Lockheed SR-71 only breaks Mach 3.2 or approximately 2,200 miles per hour. The SR-71 holds the record as the fastest manned air-breathing jet and the UFO filmed in Carolina was nearly 6 times faster!
On the other hand, the fastest man-made, unmanned object was HTV-2 (Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2), a rocket glider built and operated by DARPA as part of their FALCON Project. But while the HTV-2 needs to be launched with a rocket into the stratosphere and only afterwards propelled by its scramjet engine, the UFO filmed by the USAF veteran seems to defy the laws of physics as if it was strolling through the park.
If you play the video at normal speed, blink and you’ll miss it several times. Only when slowed down does the object stay on the screen enough to be seen. According to the YouTube video description, the “UFO traveled 6200 feet (about 1.2 miles) in 1/3rd of a second.”
“I filed a UFO report with MUFON and they notified NASA and sent them a copy of the video. The video is under investigation and analysis work is being performed on it by both agencies.”
While the nature of the UFO is yet to be discerned, two details seem to suggest it has a physical body: the object looks metallic and also reflects light. These characteristics rule out any camera glitch as the possible cause.
The veteran’s video was shot in 4K at 30 frames per second and the object appears like a blur in ten of those frames. The distance it manages to cover during that third of a second is simply staggering. Even stranger is the fact that it makes absolutely no sound. Any man-made hypersonic object would roar like a thunderstorm if passing that close to you.
The video was analyzed by MUFON investigator Sanford Davis, who was unable to find a suitable explanation for the sighting.
“This anomaly was neither observed nor experienced first-hand,” he wrote in the official report. “It was observed as the witness was reviewing aerial drone footage. The whole sighting occurs within a third of a second – a streak arising in the background, streaking across the screen before disappearing in the foreground.”
“It appears as a white dot, flattening out somewhat into a ‘light disk’ right before it disappears off screen.”
The YouTube comment section is a testament to the fierce deliberation generated by the sighting: some users vehemently claim it has prosaic origins while the others see it as indisputable proof of UFO activity.
Undoubtedly, the results of the NASA analysis will favor the former.
UFO FILES: Alien documents compiled by the MoD will be released by the National Archives
The government has confirmed classified documents detailing evidence of UFO sightings and abductions contain nearly 50 years of information about alien experiences.
Spooks have kept the files under wraps for the past five decades – but now UFO hunters are rejoicing as the files are on the verge of release.
The National Archives have confirmed the UFO document dubbed the “real life X-files” will be released after the General Election on June 8.
It will contain information relating the the Rendlesham Forest incident – Britain’s most infamous UFO encounter – which has been likened to the UK”s Roswell.
Military men at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk experienced “alien” activity over a number of nights and encountered a “triangle shaped craft” in the woods.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES: The UFO files have been under lock and key for 50 years
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ALIENS: UFO hunters are hopefully the MoD files will reveal life from space
Conspiracy theorists have claimed the delays in releasing the files have been a cover-up – but archivists have been unable to publish them due to the election.
Documents were meant to be released in 2013, but a number of the files were withheld for release in March.
But their release has been delayed again due to Prime Minister Theresa May calling an election.
While UFO hunters are waiting with baited breath for the files, experts have downplayed their release.
Nick Pope, an expert who worked as the Ministry of Defence's UFO investigator for 15 years, said: "There’s no smoking gun in these files that will confirm the existence of aliens, but there are plenty of fascinating UFO reports and MoD policy documents, so these really are the real-life X-Files.”
He told the Mail: "The delay has been a comedy of errors though, I think it’s more bureaucracy than conspiracy.”
A spokesman for the National Archives told UFO news website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell: “Due to the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to the government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.”
Scientists have never proved the existence of alien-life – but remain hopeful with new discoveries such as Earth-like planet Proxima B.
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Secret Government UFO dossier ‘will only be released after General Election’
Secret Government UFO dossier ‘will only be released after General Election’
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UFO’s have held an especial fascination for some (Picture: Getty)
Secret papers collected by the government will be declassified after 50 years – but only after the election.
The UFO sightings dossier will expose what the Government knows – and what it doesn’t.
Many who do not believe the official story on extra-terrestrial life have said they expect ‘Britain’s Roswell’ to be solved.
The Rendlesham Forest incident has been kept under lock and key by successive British governments since the 1980s.
UFO experts believe the documents will be from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
People still flock to Rendlesham forest at Suffolk (Picture: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/Getty)
They would have been collected by the Ministry of Defence, which used to have a specific desk dedicated to investigating extra-terrestrial life.
However, the desk was closed down in 2009 because it served ‘no defence purpose’.
The so-called X Files have been held back by the National Archives in 2013.
It was rumoured that there were 18 documents that were not allowed to be released.
The Government has pushed back the release date twice after it was initially scheduled for a release in March.
Don’t expect something like this, critics cautioned (Picture: Getty)
But the confusion in Theresa May’s leadership caused by Brexit apparently stopped the release.
A spokesman for the National Archives told German website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell: ‘Due the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.
‘We are working to ensure that the files are ready for release as soon after this period as is possible, hopefully around the middle of June.’
It is hoped the the dossier will explain the Rendlesham Incident.
But it’s not the Holy Grail for alien conspiracy theorists.
What is the Britain's Roswell?
A UFO sign at Rendlesham Forest (Picture: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/Getty)
The Rendlesham Forest incident is one of the most famous of British UFO theories and has yet to be cracked.
Strange lights were reported near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge during a period of three nights. Between December 26-28 in 1980.
It was first exposed on voice recordings from senior American soldiers, who also drew disturbing pictures of the object they saw at the British forest.
‘While in Rendlesham Forest, our security team observed a light that looked like a large eye, red in colour, moving through the trees,’ Colonel Charles Halt said.
‘After a few minutes this object began dripping something that looked like molten metal.’
Another claimed to have telepathically ‘received’ a binary code, which has never been deciphered.
Some of the ‘marks’ left at the site have either been used as evidhttp://metro.co.uk/news/ence of UFOs or simply rabbit holes.
But it certainly has left an impact on the conspiracy theorist community.
‘Even today ufologists squabble over what really happened at Rendlesham Forest in late December 1980. Did an alien spaceship land here?’ Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said.
‘Were the US airmen who saw the UFO fooled by the light from a nearby lighthouse? Was it a smokescreen to hide a nuclear incident or some other type of covert operation? Or was it a hoax?’
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, was cautious about what was truly on offer with the release of the new documents.
‘Getting the majority of the documents into the public domain was a slow process, which was mainly due to the efforts of Dr David Clarke, Prinicipal Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University,’ he told MailOnline.
‘I’m reliably informed that these remaining files contain duplicates of documents already made available to the public.
‘It seems very unlikely they will contain anything like the type of evidence UFO supporters yearn for, like crashed saucers or interviews with aliens.’
The National Archives told Metro.co.uk that they were a non-ministerial government department, and added that they had made the decision to publish the documents after the election because of ‘purdah’ rules and said there was ‘nothing more to it’.
A dossier of files kept secret by the UK government for almost 50 years could be released after June's general election.
The documents will be published by the National Archives and are believed to contain details of sightings of UFOs over almost five decades.
And alien hunters are hoping they will reveal evidence of a cover-up of a number of high profile incidents they believe are related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'
A dossier of files kept secret by the UK government for almost 50 years could be released after June's general election that shed light on a number of high profile UFO sightings (artist's impression pictured), including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980 (stock image)
THE PAPERS
The National Archives has previously released huge swathes of material gathered by the Ministry of Defence.
The files still to be published are believed to date from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
The papers were originally meant to be released in 2013 alongside thousands of others which did see the light of day, but 18 specific documents were withheld.
The latest publication date was set for March this year, but this passed by with no news forthcoming.
But German paranormal news website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell reported on Friday this delay was down to Brexit.
The National Archives has previously released huge swathes of material gathered by the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) UFO Desk, thought to number in the thousands.
The files still to be published are believed to date from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
The papers were originally meant to be released in 2013 alongside thousands of others which did see the light of day, but 18 specific documents were withheld.
This prompted claims of a conspiracy to cover-up the existence of alien life among some theorists and another delay in publication last year added to this speculation.
The latest publication date was set for March this year, but this delay passed by with no news forthcoming.
But German paranormal news website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell reported on Friday this was down to Brexit.
A spokesman for National Archives reportedly told the site: 'Due the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.
'We are working to ensure that the files are ready for release as soon after this period as is possible, hopefully around the middle of June.'
Conspiracy theorists are hoping the files may shed light on the notorious Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980, dubbed Britain's Roswell.
Strange lights were reported by servicemen in the forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge.
The disputed sightings, over three nights between December 26-28, occurred when Britain and the West were on high alert during the Cold War.
But not everyone is convinced that the documents will prove to be the smoking gun alien hunters are hoping for.
Strange lights were reported by servicemen in the forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. Hundreds of people visit the UFO trail at Rendlesham Forest every year after the infamous sightings provoked a flurry of interest (stock image)
In an email to MailOnline Nick Pope, who worked for the MoD investigating UFO sightings until 2009, said: 'There's no smoking gun in these files that will confirm the existence of aliens, but there are plenty of fascinating UFO reports and MoD policy documents, so these really are the real life X-Files.
'The delay has been a comedy of errors though, I think it's more bureaucracy than conspiracy.
'I understand the frustration of people who were expecting these files to be released by now.'
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'Getting the majority of the documents into the public domain was a slow process, which was mainly due to the efforts of Dr David Clarke, Prinicipal Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University.
'I’m reliably informed that these remaining files contain duplicates of documents already made available to the public.
'It seems very unlikely they will contain anything like the type of evidence UFO supporters yearn for, like crashed saucers or interviews with aliens.'
THE RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT: BRITAIN’S ROSWELL
Strange lights were reported by servicemen in the forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge.
The incident came to be known as 'Britain's Roswell' after the UFO sightings in New Mexico.
Soldiers investigated what the lights were, including Staff Sgt Jim Burroughs, Airman First Class Edward Cabansag and Airman First Class Larry Warren.
The disputed sightings, over three nights between December 26-28, occurred when Britain and the West were on high alert during the Cold War.
Retired US Air Force officer Steve Longero broke a 36 year silence, in December 2016, to reveal he also saw something in the night sky.
Mr Longero said the UFOs looked like red and green fluorescent lights hovering over treetops.
The Ministry of Defence has said there was no proof of any UFO landings at Rendlesham Forest (the woodland's UFO trail pictured)
He also dismissed one theory that the lights had been caused by a lighthouse.
The incident became a topic of fascination in the UK after a group of servicemen went into Rendlesham Forest to investigate the mysterious lights and came out convinced they had seen seen an alien spacecraft.
The Suffolk sightings resurfaced claims from those living in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 when an unexpected crash was alleged to have been the remains of a spacecraft and alien bodies.
But this was rejected by the U.S. military following a close investigation into the wreckage.
The British Ministry of Defence has also dismissed the claims regarding Rendlesham.
It said there was no threat to national security and the UFOs were likely to be caused by a series of nocturnal lights.
Saarbrucken (Germany) – Since it became known in Autumn of 2014 that contrary to the claim that the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released all of its formerly secret UFO-files already back in 2013, still 18 files of the MoD’s former UFO-Bureau files were held back, UFO-researchers as well as historians look forward to the release of those files, that has been postponed repeatedly since then. As even the latest release date given – March 2017 – has passed, Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de (GreWi), a German newsblog on frontier science and the paranormal, has asked back at the British National Archives and presents now again exclusively the latest explanation for the ongoing delay.
The early United Kingdom general election called by Theresa May for 8 June 2017, also delays the release of the last secret UFO-files by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD). Copyright: Foreign and Commonwealth Office / (via WikimediaCommons) CC BY-SA 2.0
As a spokesperson of the National Archives explained to GreWi-editor Andreas Müller, the current delay is due to the Brexit-related United Kingdom general election which takes place on 8 June 2017.
“(…) Due the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election. We are working to ensure that the files are ready for release as soon after this period as is possible: hopefully around the middle of June.”
Part of the yet to be released UFO-documents are filed under the title “UFO-Policy” and date from 1971-76 and 1996-2000. Three other files cover June-December 2000, December–March 2004 and March 2004. Furthermore the MoD also confirmed that some files cover topics like “Air Traffic Controll Low Flying UFOs” as well as so-called “ADGE UFO Reports”, which experts assume that they are UFO related documents from the radar unity “Air Defence Ground Environment”.
Some observers even anticipate that parts of the files will include also new information about the so-called Rendlesham Forest Incident, when in December 1980 staff of the military RAF-bases Bentwaters and Woodbridge (used at the time by the U.S. Air Force) allegedly observed the landing of an unidentified flying object at close range.
Background
Contrary to its claim in 2013 that now all of its formerly classified UFO-files were released to the public via the National Archives, in 2014 the MoD had to confirm that 18 of such UFO-files were still held back. However, a publication of this files was initially announced for 2015 – but the date was delayed into early 2016, then to summer 2016 and then again into August. In August it was said that the release was again rescheduled and that the files would not be published before early 2017.
After a review in The New York Times, a book by a couple in Syracuse, U.F.O. Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015 has drawn attention to the phenomena of people seeing things in the sky they can’t immediately identify, a.k.a. unidentified flying objects. The book is a statistical analysis of reports made to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). Here are select sightings from the Hudson Highlands, edited for brevity.
Cold Spring, July 15, 1966
In 1966 I was 8 years old and at sleepaway summer camp at Surprise Lake. That night in our bunk, there was a light shining through the window. We figured a counselor must have set up a flood light. That night I dreamed two figures were standing over me looking down at me, one a typical grey with almond-shaped eyes. On the right, a round-headed, round-faced and round-eyed dude with a mouth stuck in the position like he was saying “Ooooh.” The grey inserted a probe into my forehead.
I pulled the covers over my head. I figured it was a dream. The next evening the counselors transformed an indoor basketball court into a “spacecraft.” A lot of kids were screaming in terror. In retrospect I realize that the whole encampment — 19 kids and five teenaged counselors — had been abducted by the light, and the counselors subconsciously reenacted the whole event.
A grey alien from the TBS comedy “People of Earth,” which is set in Beacon and has been renewed for a second season that begins later this year.
Garrison, June 1974
I was about 15 and was walking with a friend on Manitou Road west of Route 9D at about midnight. We were walking with our backs to the highway and noticed the sky light up. We turned and saw an object in the sky, about 1,000 feet up and half a mile south of us. I saw a white, glowing disk that stood still and made no sound.
After a second or two, the disk moved closer and covered a half-mile almost instantly, stopping on a dime. After another second or two, it veered off to the east, in the area of South Mountain Pass. I have been encouraged by books like Night Siege to think that sightings in the Hudson Valley have not been unusual.
Cold Spring, 1975
I was looking out the window of my elementary school classroom. Against the backdrop of the mountains on the other side of the river, I saw a bluish-grey metallic oval object. It zipped around at high speeds at various angles, then would pause and shoot off. I watched for at least 15 minutes, I remember looking at the school clock, as I was starting to get bored watching it (hey, I was a kid).
When I’d finally made up my mind to tell someone about this, it was gone. I can’t possibly have been the only one who saw this, yet I have never heard of anyone else who admits to having seen anything unusual.
Cold Spring, July 15, 2002
I was in a cabin near the woods. About 10:30 p.m., outside of my window, I saw a gigantic gold circle with flashing blue, red, and yellow lights. It was at least half a mile away. Other people in cabin saw it, too. It was moving sideways and up.
Garrison, Oct. 26, 2002
About 9:30 p.m. I saw an array of hovering red lights through the woods behind my house. Some were blinking. There was no sound. There is no tower or any houses for miles. I watched for about 10 minutes. I’m a nurse and have never seen a UFO and am not even sure they exist.
Cold Spring, March 15, 2004
I was watching The Tonight Show when the cat jumped up to the corner of the window and pushed the drape aside. Curious, I looked out and saw what looked like a 747 going very slow. I went outside to get a better look. The craft was about 300 feet long, going 25 to 35 mph, no noise, maybe 600 to 1,000 feet up.
A UFO photographed in Carmel at 9:10 p.m. on April 18 (MUFON)
Beacon, Feb. 2, 2005
As I stepped outside to the front of my house at 6 p.m. I saw what I thought was the radio tower of Mount Beacon. It started to move slightly, and I thought it was a helicopter. I tried to look through binoculars on a steady point and the object kept on moving around and I am unable to get a clear look. This is going on as I type this.
Cold Spring, June 2, 2008
I was walking my dog at about 10:30 p.m. and noticed a bright light in the northeastern sky. It was too bright to be a plane and there was no sound. This was a bright light resembling a bright star and it was moving in a curving direction. I watched it for about one minute and it disappeared.
Beacon, June 4, 2011
I was driving on the Newburgh-Beacon bridge toward Beacon about 10:10 p.m. when I noticed a strange object. What caught my eye were the lights; they were positioned differently than on a plane. As I approached the toll booth I noticed that it was in the same place it had been while I was on the bridge, hovering in place.
Once I got through the toll, I went to turn around so I could try to get a video on my phone, but by then it had vanished. It was triangular, and not much bigger than a small passenger plane.
Beacon, Dec. 28, 2011
I didn’t want to be the first person to talk about this sighting so I’ve been scanning the internet for two months hoping someone would post about it. This kind of thing makes you doubt your sanity. About 3 p.m. I was driving east on I-84 when I saw something strange. It almost looked like a derby hat hanging in the sky (I know it’s goofy but that’s what it reminded me of). I could see the bulge in the middle and then what sort of looked like a brim sticking out at the sides.
I was doing 75 mph and it quickly passed in and out of my field of vision because of mountains and hills that the road cuts through. I came around that bend and there in the sky right above the highway was a massive object. As I went underneath, it looked almost diamond shaped and a matte gray. After I passed, I looked in my mirror but it was gone. This all transpired in about 30 seconds. People in other cars around me were also looking up.
When I got to the tollbooth, I asked the collector if she had seen it. Beaming, she said, “I finally saw one.” The weirdest thing, it looked aquatic, almost like a manta ray and had two black circles underneath that looked empty, like holes. It was completely still and silent, and freaked me out. I wondered if it wasn’t a military craft, but the woman at the booth seemed positive it was a UFO. I tried to snap a picture but all I got was the roofline of my car.
Beacon, Oct. 12, 2014
Spotted a reddish orange light over Newburgh as I was driving down my street about 7 p.m. It was somewhat stationary and glowed with a slight pulse. It was quite high up. I had watched it for two minutes or so when the red glow faded from a round shape to a triangle with three sections, like looking at an airplane prop. It changed to dull orange like a highway flare glow, then went out. Maybe it was a balloon with a flare attached, of a parachute flare, but I never seen one this high in the sky and I am familiar with flares.
Beacon, March 11, 2015
About 10:45 p.m., I couldn’t make out the shape of the aircraft but the lights were in a cross shape, red and white light and some were blinking. It was flying east to west, about five or six lights on the front and two or three on the back. No noise whatsoever. I have been living in Beacon for four months now and have never seen anything fly that low.
Cold Spring, July 4, 2015
After the fireworks at about 10:30 p.m., while in the municipal parking lot, we noticed an orange glowing object moving north slowly over West Point. At one point it remained stationary. Several times it emitted smaller glowing lights from its rear and bottom that appeared to fall and disappear. The object disappeared and reappeared several times over 8 to 10 minutes.
Cold Spring, July 23, 2015
I was driving to work at 11 p.m. and saw a slow plane and a fast plane. The slow plane was too slow, in my opinion. All of a sudden it got brighter and larger, like an extremely bright star about the size of a golf ball. Then I lost it behind the trees and couldn’t find it again.
Cold Spring, Aug. 3, 2016
As I was driving home north on Route 9D, across from West Point, at about 11 p.m., my friend and I noticed a bright light moving slowly. It wandered overhead and looked almost like a hovering rocket. When we turned around further down the road, the craft had vanished.
UFO photographed in Beacon, Aug. 10, 2016
Beacon, Aug. 10, 2016
At about 2:10 p.m., I was taking photos for landscaping paintings. When I was looking through my photos that evening, there was an object I didn’t recognize. It didn’t appear to be a bird. Many professional photographers said I should submit the photo to UFO experts.
Beacon, Feb. 24, 2017
I was walking into my kitchen at about 11:45 p.m. and noticed an unusually bright white light over Mount Beacon. A series of smaller multi-color lights (red, blue and orange) began moving around the white light. This went on for over an hour, with the lights growing much larger, moving, dancing, and finally disappearing. There’s definitely something happening there.
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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.
Fantastic Specimen
The herbivorous nodosaur was covered with protective, bony spikes.
Credit: Copyright Royal Tyrrell Museum
A spiky, tank-like dinosaur discovered in a Canadian mine is so well-preserved, it looks as if the fossilized creature were frozen in time for 110 million years.
When the dinosaur died, Alberta was as warm as South Carolina is today, and sat on the coast of a shallow inland seaway that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. It's unclear if the dinosaur drowned in the seaway or died on land and then got swept out to sea, Brown said. Either way, the carcass would have undergone a phenomenon called "bloat and float" as the body decomposed and filled with gases. [Read more about the spiky tank.]
Cosmic Memories
A free mobile app will allow anyone to follow the track of the spacecraft holding the human remains, a trek that is expected to last two years.
Credit: Elysium Space
If a celestial memorial seems fitting for a deceased loved one, you may consider sending their ashes into the heavens aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Here's how the mission will work: Once a person signs up for the memorial, they will receive a capsule, into which they will scoop a portion of the cremated remains, according to Elysium Space. Once Elysium receives the capsule in the mail, they will transfer it to a compartment within one of the spacecraft's modules. [Read more about the strange cargo.]
Rising Binges
Millions of Americans say they engage in extreme binge drinking — or downing at least eight to 10 drinks containing alcohol on a single occasion — and the behavior appears to be on the rise in the U.S., according to a new report.
The researchers analyzed information from more than 36,000 Americans ages 18 and older who completed a survey about their alcohol consumption in 2012 to 2013. The researchers asked the participants to report the maximum number of alcoholic drinks they consumed on a single day in the past year. [Read more about the dangerous new pastime.]
Winged Serpent
The newly identified snake species, Zilantophis schuberti, lived about 5 million years ago and bore broad wing-shaped projections on the sides of its vertebrae.
Credit: Steven Jasinski
Inside a 5-million-year-old sinkhole in Tennessee, at a spot dubbed Gray Fossil Site, scientists have unearthed the fossilized remains of an ancient "winged serpent" among hundreds of other snake bones.
The wing-shaped projections on the vertebrae's sides were likely where back muscles attached to the spine, according to the researchers. [Read more about the strange fossil.]
Forecasting Evolution
The new series "Year Million" on National Geographic Channel explores what humanity may look like in the year 1 million.
Credit: National Geographic
In the year 1 million, Earth's continents will look roughly the same as they do now and the sun will still shine as it does today. But humans could be so radically different that people today wouldn't even recognize them, according to a new series from National Geographic.
A look at what life was like 1 million years in the past provides an idea: At that time, modern humans didn't exist yet, and the most technologically advanced things on the planet were fire and the hand axe. (Picture trying to explain an office job to Homo Erectus, whose day was spent hunting and gathering wild foods.) [Read more about the future of humanity.]
Uninhabited yet Trashy
Plastic pollution covers East Beach on Henderson Island, an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean that is considered one of the world's most remote.
Credit: Jennifer Lavers
A tiny, uninhabited piece of land in the South Pacific Ocean, called Henderson Island, is considered one of the most remote islands in the world. But now, researchers say it has earned a much more worrisome new title: the world's most polluted island.
With as many as 671 pieces of debris per square meter (about 62 pieces per square foot), Henderson Island has the densest plastic pollution ever recorded anywhere on Earth, the researchers said. [Read more about the remote pollution.]
Mysterious Flashes
Sun glints off of ice crystals high in the Earth's atmosphere in images taken from the satellite DSCOVR. The orange circle shows one of the sun glints.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
The "pale blue dot" has been twinkling like a brilliant diamond in satellite images, and scientists may have finally solved the mystery of why.
A powerful camera aboard the DSCOVR satellite has been taking pictures every hour since 2015 from its spot between the sun and the Earth. While skimming through these hourly images, Alexander Marshak, DSCOVR deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, first noticed these sparkling lights over the oceans. [Read more about the strange sights.]
Clean Air and Energy
Polluted air enters through a tube on one side, is purified in the middle and exits the other tube as clean air.
Credit: UAntwerp/KU Leuven
A small innovation could have a big impact on air pollution. In Belgium, researchers have engineered a device that uses sunlight to purify polluted air and produce hydrogen gas that can be stored and used for power.
Now, two teams have merged their expertise to create this newest device, which could purify fouled air and produce energy at the same time. [Read more about the double-duty device.]
Celebrity Awareness
Actor Charlie Sheen in April 2013
Credit: Michael Buckner/Getty Images
Actor Charlie Sheen's disclosure that he is HIV positive appears to have had a striking effect on sales of home HIV testing kits, a new study suggests.
In fact, the researchers estimated that sales of home HIV testing kits were nearly eight times greater around the time of Sheen's announcement, compared with sales around the time of World AIDS Day (December 1), one of the most high-profile HIV awareness campaigns. [Read more about the uptick in sales.]
Swarms of Clay
EAT ME. A Plasticine caterpillar glistens with moisture while waiting for a predator to strike, in the forest of Tai Po Kau, Hong Kong.
Credit: Chung Yun Tak
An international team of researchers attached thousands of diminutive clay caterpillars to plants in 31 sites across six continents, from the Arctic Circle to Australia. The faux caterpillars were designed to tempt insect-eating predators in a study of global feeding patterns.
An international team of researchers attached thousands of diminutive clay caterpillars to plants in 31 sites across six continents, from the Arctic Circle to Australia. The faux caterpillars were designed to tempt insect-eating predators in a study of global feeding patterns. [Read more about the strange science.]
Big Milestones for SpaceX, Cassini and Virgin Galactic: The Week's Top Space Stories
Big Milestones for SpaceX, Cassini and Virgin Galactic: The Week's Top Space Stories
By SPACE.com Staff
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-76 spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 1, 2017.
Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX successfully launched its first national-security mission (and landed the rocket to boot), Virgin Galactic's new SpaceShipTwo tested its "feathering" re-entry system for the first time, and NASA's Cassini probe made a surprising discovery at Saturn. Here are the most interesting things that happened in the universe this week.
SpaceX launches first mission for U.S. military
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (May 1) to boost a classified spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. military — the first national-security mission for SpaceX. The rocket's first stage then turned around and touched down at a nearby landing pad. [Full Story: SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite on Secret Mission, Nails Rocket Landing]
New SpaceShipTwo tests out re-entry system for first time
Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo took to the skies over Mojave, California on Monday (May 1) for the first test flight of the craft's atmospheric re-entry system, which was modified after a fatal test flight in 2014 destroyed the original ship. [Full Story: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes 1st Test Flight of Revamped Re-Entry System]
Cassini finds the gap between Saturn and its rings is eerily silent
Researchers monitoring the Cassini spacecraft were surprised to find almost no dust and debris in the previously unexplored zone between Saturn and its rings during the spacecraft's first dramatic dive through the 1,200-mile-wide (2,000 kilometers) gap. You can hear the strange lack of impacts in a new NASA video. [Full Story: Hear Saturn's 'Big Empty' from Cassini, Which Just Made 2nd Ring Dive]
The Breakthrough Starshot project aims to send tiny robotic probes zooming past nearby alien worlds to hunt for signs of life and gather other data. But the scientific return would be even greater if some of the fast-moving 1-gram spacecraft actually slammed into their target worlds, some researchers said. [Full Story: Kamikaze Starshot: Will Some Interstellar Probes Slam into Their Target Planets?]
A long-overdue fiscal year 2017 spending bill unveiled May 1 will provide NASA with $19.65 billion, more than $600 million above the original request for the agency by the previous administration. [Full Story: NASA Receives More Than $19.6 Billion in 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill]
Why 'Star Wars' still has a hold on us 40 years later
A long, long time ago — 40 years ago this month, actually — an initially small group of theatergoers was transported to a galaxy far, far away, heralding the birth of the "Star Wars" universe. [Full Story: Why the Force Is Still Strong with 'Star Wars' Fans]
As Star-Lord and his team head to the big screen this weekend to guard a galaxy in the Marvel universe, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope remind us that there are far more galaxies in our own universe without any superheroes to protect them from villains. [Full Story: Paging Star-Lord! Hubble Spies Hundreds of Galaxies That Need Guarding]
Over the weekend, the so-called "alien megastructure" star or Tabby's Star resumed its unusual behavior. Astronomers hope that new data from this recent dips in light would help explain this bizarre phenomenon.
A SERIES OF EXCITED TWEETS
When astronomers turn to Twitter to ask everyone who has access to a big enough telescope to look at the sky, you know something is up. Indeed, something was up this past weekend, as one of the Universe’s most mysterious stars reignited some baffling behavior. Tabby’s Star, also known as KIC 8462852, once again started the unusual pattern of dimming its lights, a behavior first observed in 2015.
“As far as I can tell, every telescope that can look at it right now is looking at it right now,” Tennessee State University astronomer Matt Muterspaugh told Loren Grush at The Verge. Mutterspaugh, like fellow astronomer Jason Wright from Penn State University, noticed the dip in KIC 8462852’s light emissions this past weekend.
“[W]e are officially on alert and we are asking astronomers on telescopes … to please take spectra (light measurements) of the star,” Wright told CNet. As early as Friday, he already observed that Tabby’s Star had dimmed by three percent in just a couple of days.
Discovered in 2009, KIC 8462852 came to be known as Tabby’s Star because a team of astronomers, led by Tabetha Boyajian from Yale University, noticed the unusual way its light dims. It’s not uncommon for a stars’ light to dim when planets orbiting around it pass in front of it relative to Earth. Tabby’s Star, however, didn’t follow the usual pattern of such dips in light, suggesting no periodic orbiting of planets or other cosmic bodies.
STILL PROBABLY NOT ALIENS
Naturally, such a phenomenon tugged on the curiosity of astronomers, and a number of possible explanations have been suggested. The most common, and perhaps popular among these — you guessed it — is that something alien is the cause. One astronomer thinks that a Dyson Sphere is causing the strange dips, thereby nicknaming Tabby’s Star as the “alien megastructure” star.
However, as much as we’d (maybe) love to find aliens at the root of this strange obvservation, other astronomers have found, and are developing, other explanations. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider,” Wright told The Atlantic back then. Though, it doesn’t hurt to be on the lookout.
Some think that comet swarms, debris from a devoured planet, or possibly even space dust floating around the star are causing the unusual light emissions. Still, others suggest that it could all just be flawed data, which is why nothing conclusive has been said yet about Tabby’s Star. Simply, there wasn’t enough data from two years ago to say anything definitively.
Latest data. Image Credit: David Kipping/Twitter
“We were kind of stuck in a spot where we couldn’t do anything,” Boyajian told The Verge. “We had all the data we could, and to learn anything more, we needed to catch it in action again.”
Now, there is now a lot more data to use, but it would take time for researchers to fully consider what the information could tell us about Tabby’s Star. It’s also possible that the new data won’t result in anything definitive, but it’s worth a shot. Some data is better than no data at all. At the very least, it’ll help us to better understand curiosities in the cosmos like KIC 8462852.
In case you haven’t yet figured it out on your own, the word “Brexit” is a portmanteau of “Britain” and “exit” and refers to Britain exiting the European Union. The upcoming so-called Brexit Election on June 8 is seen as British Prime Minister Theresa May’s way of giving her the authority she needs to make it happen. But, for many people both in the UK and the rest of the world, it means something else.
(…) Due the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election. We are working to ensure that the files are ready for release as soon after this period as is possible: hopefully around the middle of June.
“The files” referred to in that statement from a spokesperson of the National Archives to the German newsletter Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de (GreWi) are eighteen confidential UK government reports on UFO sightings – popularly called “British X-Files” – whose release has been repeatedly delayed since 2014 when it was learned that they were mysteriously not included in the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) release in 2013 of formerly secret UFO files. Why?
British Prime Minister Theresa May not holding the 18 secret files
The release of the UFO files has been scheduled and rescinded a number of times – most recently in March 2017 – with the general explanation that they contain sensitive information which exempts them from normal British Freedom of Information Act rules. As a result, they’ve been sent back to the MoD for re-examination and redaction. Now the latest scheduled release in June 2017 has been withdrawn, allegedly due to the Brexit election. What do these files have to do with Britain exiting the EU?
Good question. The MoD has confirmed that the withheld files, dating back to the early 1970s, have to do with UFO sightings or detections by air traffic controllers and by the Air Defence Ground Environment (ADGE) which is part of NATO. That sounds like a military concern that could be tied to the EU due to security issues, even though the files in question are generally from before 2004.
Brexit wouldn’t seem to have anything to do with the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident, which a number of experts believe the 18 files contain information on … unless that information includes proof of the existence of extraterrestrials. In that case, Theresa May would definitely want to be the world leader who breaks the news. Then again, she’s been prime minister for almost a year. Why is she waiting?
Aliens or not, will the files finally be released after the Brexit election on June 8 or will another excuse be found to keep Britain and the world in the dark about the missing British X-files? We only have a few more weeks to wait.
In 2003, the South American country of Chile was hit by a spate of reports of traumatic and terrifying encounters with flying monsters. One particularly fantastic incident occurred on the night of July 23. That was when three boys, Jonathan, Diego, and Carlos were having a sleepover at Diego’s grandfather’s house, which was situated near San Pedro de Atacama. They were woken from their sleep by the sound of scratching against the outside of the door to the yard. Tentatively, the brave trio got out of their beds and tiptoed to the door, carefully and quietly opened it, and peered into the darkness.
To their eternal horror, they were confronted by a horrific-looking beast standing at a distance of around fifty feet and staring directly at them. It was humanoid in shape, beaked, and around five feet in height. It had large bat-style wings that extended to a combined length of around eleven feet, and talons instead of toes. And its head was crested. As for its color, it was black and shiny, almost wet-like. It wasn’t a local.
It’s interesting – and probably not coincidental – to note that a few days earlier a man by the name of Juan Acuqa contacted police to tell them of his trauma-filled, late night encounter with a pair of strange animals in the Chilean town of Parral. “They were both dog-faced and had wings,” Acuqa told the responding officers. And it wasn’t just a sighting that Acuqa had: as he walked home, the monsters attacked him out of the sky and out of the blue, something which forced Acuqa to leap into a nearby canal to try and shake them off. Fortunately, it worked; although, he was briefly hospitalized for gashes inflicted by the flying, nightmarish things.
Around a month or so later, what were very possibly the same two creatures – along with another pair – were seen by the entire Abbett family, as they drove through Chile’s Pampa Acha region. Such was the sheer weirdness of the appearance of the flying things, the family could only describe them as “dog-faced kangaroos” and as “gargoyles.” Thankfully, the family was not attacked and the creatures swept by, above the road, with barely a glance in their direction. It was, to be sure, a most lucky escape.
It should also be noted that when the details of the 2003 wave in Chile became publicly known, more than a few investigators of strange creatures and paranormal activity suggested that Puerto Rico’s infamous Chupacabra was clearly on the move and had made its way to Chile. It’s not an unreasonable thing to muse upon. After all, some of the initial reports of the Chupacabra – and particularly those seen in the island’s massive El Yunque rainforest – described seeing animals that had monkey-like bodies, that hopped like kangaroos, and which had large, leathery wings.
Of course, no-one was able to offer a viable explanation for how the Chupacabra had made it from Puerto Rico to Chile. The fact remains, however, that the Chilean monsters and those of Puerto Rico were astonishingly similar in appearance.
Ons heelal groeit steeds sneller. Deze controversiële theorie verklaart hoe dit kan
Ons heelal groeit steeds sneller. Deze controversiële theorie verklaart hoe dit kan
Natuurkundigen denken één van de grootste raadsels van de natuur te hebben opgelost: wat zorgt ervoor dat ons heelal versneld uitdijt?
Als we inzoomen op het universum wordt duidelijk dat de ruimtetijd is opgebouwd uit minuscule, voortdurende fluctuerende gebiedjes.
“De ruimtetijd is niet statisch, maar beweegt constant,” zei student Qingdi Wang van de Universiteit van Brits-Columbia.
Nulpuntsenergie
In 1998 ontdekten astronomen dat ons heelal steeds sneller uitdijt, wat erop wijst dat de ruimte niet leeg is en in plaats daarvan gevuld is met donkere energie die materie wegduwt.
De beste kandidaat voor donkere energie is vacuümenergie (nulpuntsenergie), omdat die de energie van de lege ruimte beschrijft.
Volgens de kwantummechanica bestaat zelfs in het absolute vacuüm altijd een kans op het spontaan verschijnen van deeltjes en antideeltjes.
Weggelaten
Als natuurkundigen de kwantummechanica toepassen op vacuümenergie, voorspelt deze theorie dat er een ongelooflijke hoeveelheid vacuümenergie bestaat, veel meer nog dan de totale energie van alle deeltjes in het heelal.
Op basis van Einsteins relativiteitstheorie hebben natuurkundigen berekend dat het universum hierdoor zou exploderen. Dat gebeurt echter niet; het universum dijt langzaam uit.
Wang en zijn collega’s hebben echter ontdekt dat in eerdere berekeningen belangrijke informatie over vacuümenergie is weggelaten.
Compleet ander beeld
Hun berekeningen schetsen een compleet ander beeld van het universum. De ruimte waarin we leven blijkt volgens het team wild te fluctueren.
Het heelal dijt uit en trekt tegelijkertijd samen. Deze twee effecten heffen elkaar bijna op. Het netto-effect is dat het universum steeds sneller uitdijt.
Maar als ruimte en tijd fluctueren, waarom kunnen we dat niet voelen?
Piepkleine schaal
“Dit gebeurt op piepkleine schaal, miljarden en miljarden keren kleiner nog dan een elektron,” zei Wang.
STRAALJAGERPILOOT DOOR UFO ONTVOERD BOVEN NOORDZEE...
STRAALJAGERPILOOT DOOR UFO ONTVOERD BOVEN NOORDZEE...
Eén van de meest mysterieuze verdwijningen ooit is die van de Amerikaanse piloot William Schaffner die in september 1970 een UFO achtervolgde boven de Noordzee.
Drie weken later wordt zijn vliegtuig gevonden op de bodem van de zee en enkele maanden later geborgen, bijna volledig intact, met de kap gesloten, maar geen spoor van Captain Schaffner.
Niet alleen vandaag de dag gebeuren er allerlei dingen die door overheden verborgen worden gehouden voor het publiek. Ze doen het al heel lang en voor hen is het eigenlijk de gewoonste zaak van de wereld om de gewone burger met een kluitje in het riet te sturen.
Schaffner was piloot bij de Amerikaanse luchtmacht en gestationeerd op de basis Binbrook in het Engelse Lincolshire. Hij was op 8 september 1970 stand-by toen er plotseling een vreemd object op de radar werd gesignaleerd.
In grote haast vertrok Schaffner rond tien uur ’s avonds met zijn toestel, een Ligthing XS894.
Zijn roepnaam (call sign) voor deze vlucht was Foxtrot 94. Het toestel was bewapend met twee luchtdoelraketten en Schaffner vloog parallel aan de kust, terwijl men hem volgde op het radarscherm.
Op een gegeven moment komt Schaffner in de buurt van het object en meldt dat het draait en recht op hem af komt, waardoor hij wat ontwijkende manoeuvres moet maken. Dan opeens wordt het stil.
Niets meer, het is een compleet mysterie wat er met het toestel en Captain Schaffner is gebeurd.
Drie weken later wordt het vliegtuig gevonden op de bodem van de Noordzee en dan duurt het nog enkele maanden voordat het wrak wordt geborgen. En dan volgt er een enorme verassing.
Want, wanneer het toestel boven water komt, blijkt het vrijwel volledig intact, is de kap gesloten en ontbreekt Captain Schaffner.
De verdwijning van Schaffner vond plaats in een periode dat er erg veel UFO waarnemingen waren aan vooral de Engelse oostkust. In de jaren 1970-71 was het gebied voor de kust van Lincolnshire een zogenaamde UFO hotspot, voornamelijk geconcentreerd rond de stad Cleethorpes.
Nooit is er een spoor gevonden van William Schaffner, die 29 jaar oud was toen hij verdween.
Later zijn er talloze pogingen gedaan om dit incident weg te poetsen, zoals de piloot zou een fout hebben gemaakt, afgeleid zijn geweest en had daardoor te laag gevlogen.
Er is geen enkele steekhoudende verklaring gekomen voor wat die UFO nu eigenlijk was, terwijl het een feit is dat deze door meerdere radarstations werd waargenomen. Dit was tenslotte ook de reden dat Schaffner op pad werd gestuurd.
Zelfs ver weg werd dit object waargenomen zoals op de Thule Air Base in Groenland en door de Amerikaanse radarbasis in het Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
Feit is dat er op diverse radarstations een onbekend object werd waargenomen, waardoor Schaffner op onderzoek uit ging. Ook uit de conversatie tussen Foxtrot 98 en Flight Control blijkt dat er een onbekend object is wat op het toestel af komt, waarna deze vervolgens compleet verdwijnt.
En dan misschien het meest mysterieuze van alles is de gesloten kap, iets waarvoor men tot op de dag van vandaag zelfs niet geprobeerd heeft een verklaring voor te vinden.
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT — ALIEN DEVICE OR DIVINE ARTIFACT?
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT — ALIEN DEVICE OR DIVINE ARTIFACT?
The ancient Israelites made the Ark of the Covenant according to the design and command of God, and it was a sacred chest that was said to protect the Ten Commandments that were written on two stone tablets along with texts from the Hebrew Bible, a pot of manna and Aaron’s rod.
DOES THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HAVE DIVINE OR EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGINS?
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HAD VALUABLE ROLE TO PLAY IN SALVATION OF MAN
The Book of Exodus says that the Tables of the Law contain the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses upon Mount Sinai and the date is said to be 1440 BC. The Bible is known for the numerous lessons it holds and one the saying “Look but do not touch.”
An Israelite with the name of Uzzah defied this, and he touched the Ark of the Covenant and was said to have been struck down by God. However, in 1933, a professor of engineering said that the cause of death would have due to a lightning bolt of 10,000 volts of electricity. The Ark is said to have played a valuable role in the salvation of man on Earth that has continued until today.
There have been two spellings associated, these are Ark and Arc, Ark was typically associated with Noah’s Ark, it has been suggested that Noah did not make an escape along with his family and two of every animal species on a boat; rather he made an escape through the Arc of the Covenant in the Great Pyramid. There had been a flood previously in which a boat had been made, so some say that the story about Noah’s Ark was partly fabricated so as to hide the Arcs, true meaning. However, the story was said to have been based on truths to help the people who were being deceived to believe it.
The first book of Samuel, Chapter 3: 3 gives, even more, proof about the functions of the Ark when it was said that the Ark had spoken directly to Samuel. It was said that the lamp of God had gone out in the Lords temple, which was where the Ark of God was located and in which Samuel was sleeping. The Lord called to Samuel, and he answered and ran into Eli and said that he had come because he was called and he had not lain down again. This occurred twice and eventually, Eli realized that it was the Lord that was talking to Samuel through the Ark and he told this to Samuel and on the fourth time Samuel had a conversation with the Lord through the contrivance.
There were only Eli and Samuel in the house at the time and so it was proof that it was the Ark of the Covenant that had spoken to Samuel.
SOME SAY ARK IS AN ALIEN INVENTION
It was said that this gave fuel to the argument that the Ark, was an alien invention, an unseemly tool for the all-powerful and true God of the Universe. The great one would not need technological devices such as a weapon of destruction, three-in-one communication device or a religious receptacle.
The Ark of the Covenant was said to have all of these uses, at all times of communication with God along with times of battles that were great, the Ark had been present. Legends, a tradition in North Africa and common knowledge, along with regions of the Middle East have said that the tables have supernatural powers. It was around legends such as these that included the obsession by the Nazis with relics and the occult, which led to one of the most famous missions of fabled treasure hunter Indiana Jones.
Following the destruction of the Solomon Temple in Jerusalem, the Ark of the Covenant disappeared, and no one knows where it went as it was said to have disappeared without a trace. Assuming that the Ark of the Covenant managed to survive the temple`s destruction, the whereabouts of it have remained a mystery to this day.
ARK OF THE COVENANT MAY BE IN SAINT MARY OF ZION CHURCH IN ETHIOPIA
Even so, around 45 million Orthodox Christian Ethiopians will swear that the Ark of the Covenant had been taken to Aksum in northern Ethiopia around 3000 years ago. Many believe that the Ark has been guarded there by monks and that it is lying in a small humble church by the name of Saint Mary of Zion.
Ethiopian legend suggests that Queen Sheba made a promise to King Solomon not to take away anything from his home but when he went to bed and placed a bowl of water close to the chamber of Queen Sheba, she was thirsty and drank from it. The king then said that she had broken the oath. Still, they went on to have a son with the name of Ibn-al-Malik, who went on to become the founder of the Ethiopian Solomonic Dynasty.
THE ARK MAY HAVE BEEN STOLEN
When he was twenty-two, he went to Jerusalem with Azariah, the son of the high priest, and he said that before he went he had a dream that he should take the Ark of Covenant with him. Azariah was said to have stolen the Ark of the Covenant and put a copy in place of it. However, it was found out, and King Solomon along with his army followed them. It was also said that Moses had stolen the Ark from Egypt and the Pharoah did everything possible to get it back.
Theorists have claimed that the Ark of the Covenant is a complex system of the production of energy, the energy that may be used as a weapon along with it being a way of telecommunication. The power is said to come from reading the instructions related to the assembly of the tabernacle, where the ark had been guarded, and the rules for accessing it are inside so as to protect human lives.
Finding the Ark of the Covenant has been the ultimate goal of archaeologists and adventurers and Steven Spielberg brought it onto the big screens in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Up to now, no one knows where the Ark is, or those who do know are not saying.
CHEMICAL EVIDENCE REVEALS WE MIGHT ALL BE MARTIANS
CHEMICAL EVIDENCE REVEALS WE MIGHT ALL BE MARTIANS
People have wondered if there is life on Mars or ever has been but a new report suggests that we might all be Martians.
COULD LIFE REALLY HAVE STARTED ON MARS, NOT EARTH
Reports have suggested that there is evidence building up that life on Earth may have begun on Mars. Steven Benner from the Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology thinks that life may have arrived on Earth onboard a meteorite. But just what might have brought this odd conclusion to light?
Scientists had found an oxidized type of molybdenum, an element which might have been a crucial factor in the origin of life on Earth, which was most likely on the surface of the Red planet a long time ago when it was on Earth.
EARLY EARTH DID NOT HAVE MUCH OXYGEN, BUT MARS DID
Benner said that it is when the molybdenum becomes highly oxidized that it can then have an influence on how early life is formed. The type of molybdenum might have been around on Earth when life began as three billion years ago the surface of the Earth did not have much oxygen, while Mars did. This is another piece of evidence that seems to make it likely that life actually began on Mars and arrived on Earth thanks to a Martian meteorite, instead of life actually having started on Earth.
Organic compounds are said to be the building blocks of life, however, to turn the molecules into a substance like tar they need energy. This is when the oxidized molybdenum comes in, and Boron would be able to accomplish that.
Benner went on to say that recent analysis of a meteorite from Mars revealed that there was Boron on Mars and scientists believe that molybdenum in oxidized form was also there too.
EARLY EARTH WAS MOST LIKELY COVERED WITH WATER
There is another factor that seems to support the theory, and this is that early on Earth was most likely covered completely with water, while on ancient Mars there were many dry regions. The liquid on Earth would, therefore, have made it extremely difficult for boron to have formed in concentrations that would have been high enough when life was evolving at first. Water also causes corrosion to RNA, and this was thought to be the first genetic molecule.
Benner concluded that it was lucky that life did end up on Earth as it has been better than Mars for being able to sustain life. He said that if hypothetical ancestors had stayed on Mars, we might not have survived to tell the story.
UFO’s have held an especial fascination for some (Picture: Getty)
Secret papers collected by the government will be declassified after 50 years – but only after the election.
The UFO sightings dossier will expose what the Government knows – and what it doesn’t.
Many who do not believe the official story on extra-terrestrial life have said they expect ‘Britain’s Roswell’ to be solved.
The Rendlesham Forest incident has been kept under lock and key by successive British governments since the 1980s.
UFO experts believe the documents will be from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
People still flock to Rendlesham forest at Suffolk (Picture: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/Getty)
They would have been collected by the Ministry of Defence, which used to have a specific desk dedicated to investigating extra-terrestrial life.
However, the desk was closed down in 2009 because it served ‘no defence purpose’.
The so-called X Files have been held back by the National Archives in 2013.
It was rumoured that there were 18 documents that were not allowed to be released.
The Government has pushed back the release date twice after it was initially scheduled for a release in March.
Don’t expect something like this, critics cautioned (Picture: Getty)
But the confusion in Theresa May’s leadership caused by Brexit apparently stopped the release.
A spokesman for the National Archives told German website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell: ‘Due the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.
‘We are working to ensure that the files are ready for release as soon after this period as is possible, hopefully around the middle of June.’
It is hoped the the dossier will explain the Rendlesham Incident.
But it’s not the Holy Grail for alien conspiracy theorists.
What is the Britain's Roswell?
A UFO sign at Rendlesham Forest (Picture: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group/Getty)
The Rendlesham Forest incident is one of the most famous of British UFO theories and has yet to be cracked.
Strange lights were reported near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge during a period of three nights. Between December 26-28 in 1980.
It was first exposed on voice recordings from senior American soldiers, who also drew disturbing pictures of the object they saw at the British forest.
‘While in Rendlesham Forest, our security team observed a light that looked like a large eye, red in colour, moving through the trees,’ Colonel Charles Halt said.
‘After a few minutes this object began dripping something that looked like molten metal.’
Another claimed to have telepathically ‘received’ a binary code, which has never been deciphered.
Some of the ‘marks’ left at the site have either been used as evidence of UFOs or simply rabbit holes.
But it certainly has left an impact on the conspiracy theorist community.
‘Even today ufologists squabble over what really happened at Rendlesham Forest in late December 1980. Did an alien spaceship land here?’ Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said.
‘Were the US airmen who saw the UFO fooled by the light from a nearby lighthouse? Was it a smokescreen to hide a nuclear incident or some other type of covert operation? Or was it a hoax?’
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, was cautious about what was truly on offer with the release of the new documents.
‘Getting the majority of the documents into the public domain was a slow process, which was mainly due to the efforts of Dr David Clarke, Prinicipal Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University,’ he told MailOnline.
‘I’m reliably informed that these remaining files contain duplicates of documents already made available to the public.
‘It seems very unlikely they will contain anything like the type of evidence UFO supporters yearn for, like crashed saucers or interviews with aliens.’
The National Archives told Metro.co.uk that they were a non-ministerial government department, and added that they had made the decision to publish the documents after the election because of ‘purdah’ rules and said there was ‘nothing more to it’.
Space experts believe we could be living a massive lie in a vast Matrix-esque virtual world dreamed up by advanced artificial intelligence.
Supporters of the seemingly madcap theory include SpaceX boss Elon Musk, celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and theoretical physicist Brian Greene.
Telsa cars founder Mr Musk, who wants to put humans on Mars, appears to be the theory's most avid supporter that humankind lives in a simulation.
He said the chance of mankind NOT living in a simulation is “one in billions”.
If true, it would mean everything we experience is just lines of code in an advanced programme – in the same way virtual worlds created in computer games are just projections of data.
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A genuine scientific theory suggests we could all be in a Matrix-like virtual world.
If in the future there are more digital people living in simulated environments than there are today, then what is to say we are not part of that already?
Rich Terrile
Musk argues technology is advancing so quickly it will only be a matter of time before we are capable of conjuring hyper-real virtual worlds and someone before us could have got there first unbeknown to humans.
There are other top minds supporting the theory.
Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson said he thinks the likelihood is “may be very high” our lives are just a computer simulation.
He said: "I’m saying, the day we learn that it is true, I will be the only one in the room saying, ‘I’m not surprised.’”
He said humanity “would be drooling, blithering idiots” in the presence of a potential higher being controlling the supposed simulation.
He even claims we should look out for “glitches” in the world which could be proof of a simulated reality.
Rich Terrile, a scientist at NASA, is also interested in the theory.
He said technology is increasing so fast that “very quickly we will be a society where there are artificial entities living in simulations that are much more abundant than human beings".
He said: “If in the future there are more digital people living in simulated environments than there are today, then what is to say we are not part of that already?
"If we are not living in a simulation, it is an extraordinarily unlikely circumstance” and suggested it could have been created by our 'future selves'."
Theoretical physicist Briane Greene says the idea sounds “nutty”, but said is also “mind boggling” could even be true.
He said it was “easy” to conceive of beings being able to "create an electronic world and thus there would be so many more simulated universes than real ones."
But, Havarad scientists Lisa Randall said the theory was mere speculation with “no real evidence”.
And, Max Tegmark, a professor of physics at MIT, questioned whether it was “logically possible” to prove we are living in a simulation.
Rendlesham shock: 'CIA showed up after UK UFO sighting and witnesses were never the same'
Rendlesham shock: 'CIA showed up after UK UFO sighting and witnesses were never the same'
CIA officers mysteriously turned up after the infamous Rendlesham UFO sighting, and afterwards three key witnesses were never the same again, it has sensationally been claimed.
Col Charles Halt returned to the scene of the Rendlesham UFO incident nearly 37 years on.
Colonel Charles Halt, a fourth witness to the mysterious event, made the shock statement as he returned to the site near Woodbridge in Suffolk nearly 37 years on.
The Rendlesham legend has been dubbed Britain's Roswell - after the mystery UFO crash which was said to have happened outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.
The UK alien sighting n the Suffolk forest is said to involve three USAF officers based at RAF Bentwaters who claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.
The three airmen - John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston - who first saw the lights and then a UFO "on the floor" could not account for a 40 minute period while searching in the woods when their communication systems went "off air", it is claimed.
The three later told of feeling "static" as they observed the object's flashing lights and hieroglyphic-like markings.
Mr Halt became involved on the evening of December 27 1980 after officers had shouted: "It's back, the UFO's back."
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Charles Halt showing a photo of the missing plaster cast of one of the indentations at a conference.
The mysterious sighting was later explained away by the MoD as light beams from nearby Orford Ness lighthouse, but believers claim this is a ludicrous explanation.
Mr Halt, who as deputy commander of the Bentwaters and nearby Woodbridge bases is one of the US's former most senior military men to go public on UFOs, told the East Anglian Daily Times: “Whatever we saw was under intelligent control.
“The story has become muddied over the years."
He revealed that after the first night of sightings, officials from the US CIA were sent over and suggested they may have interfered with the three airmen.
He added: "I still don’t know why the CIA turned up here after the first night – and what was done to the three airmen, who have never been the same.”
In 2015, Mr Burroughs won compensation for illnesses he blamed on exposure to radiation from the event.
I still don’t know why the CIA turned up here after the first night – and what was done to the three airmen, who have never been the same.
Col Charles Halt
He went to investigate with a team who found three 1.5inch "impact holes," damage to the canopies of trees and "higher radiation levels" in the "landing" area.
A plaster cast was later taken of one of the holes, but mysteriously disappeared from a box it was stored in.
He said soon after they saw a mysterious object in a field between the woods and a farmhouse with "a red light moving".
He said: "It came towards us into the forest, moving, bobbing up and down in the trees. It was oval, about 100 to 150 yards away, with a dark centre and red around it."
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Charles Halt photographed at the time of the incident
He claimed there were "sparks" coming from it and after a minute it "exploded and disappeared".
They then spotted objects in the sky, 3,000 to 4,000ft up.
One was "elliptical", but became a "full circle".
Also on the visit was Gary Baker, a radar operator at RAF Neatishead from 1978-1980.
Mr Baker, from Ipswich, returned from leave at the end of 1980 and got caught up in the aftermath of Rendlesham.
He says there was an attempt at a cover up, and was told “this never happened” by RAF officers.
He also claims that radar tapes and bridge logs from the night mysteriously vanished.
He said: "Whatever the radar picked up, it wasn’t a subject of interest for interceptor aircraft because it didn’t come from the east – this was the height of the Cold War.
“It would have been sensible to quash any evidence. If something had happened, and it wasn’t picked up, it would have showed we weren’t capable of dealing with something from ‘above’.
“Later, I read the MoD said the radar had been switched off at the time, which is a load of rubbish.
“I’m no UFO nut, but something extraordinary happened here – outside the parameters of manned aircraft.”
Rendlesham remains one of the world's most perplexing unsolved UFO cases.
Investigators hope 18 confidential files set for release by the MoD will be able to shed more light on the case.
Asked how many were investigated, the force said: “Based on the graded response/log none of the calls were investigated”.
No other details were available but the Midlands has been a hotbed of potential UFO sightings over the years.
In January 2015, the Birmingham UFO Group spoke to a mum from Selly Oak who recalled rushing into her three-year-old son’s bedroom to find him screaming: “Spaceman” repeatedly.
(Photo: PA)
Later, when shown a picture of a classic image of an alien with grey skin, a bulbous head and large eyes – known by researchers as a Grey – her son immediately repeated the same word and began crying.
In the Black Country , numerous sightings of a triangle-shaped UFO have been reported over Dudley.
Its most recent appearance was in Quarry Bank in 2011, when a man smoking in his garden saw a mysterious object with flashing lights - which was then chased away by another strange craft.
In Tipton in 2010, two young men saw an “amazing fast-moving and silent craft in the shape of a triangle fly across the sky at a mind-boggling speed.”
And in April, 2009, builders at West Midland Safari Park were stunned to see a UFO floating above them.
Market trader Michele Bardsley filmed mysterious lights over her home in Kingshurst, Solihull in May 2014.
She said the lights were “just hanging there” as she watched from the back door while having a cigarette break from decorating upstairs.
She filmed the lights on her phone and, when the footage was shown on her big TV screen, she could see much more activity among the cluster of UFOs, as some appeared, disappeared and suddenly zoomed.
In 2012 an off-duty police officer claimed he witnessed a UFO speeding across the sky near Birmingham Airport.
And in 2010, two fighter jets were filmed whizzing over the M5 in the West Midlands, apparently in pursuit of a UFO.
The term UFO was officially coined by the American air force in 1953.
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Secret dossier on UFO sightings in Britain to be released after the election
Secret dossier on UFO sightings in Britain to be released after the election
A dossier of secret government files believed to contain evidence of UFO sightings and cover-ups, which has been kept secret for almost 50 years, is set to be released after June’s general election.
According to German paranormal news website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell, the documents will reveal sightings of UFOs over almost five decades, from the 1970s, and be published by the National Archives.
Alien hunters hope the files will show a number of high-profile incidents have been covered up, including an alleged UFO sighting in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed ‘Britain’s Roswell.’
A number of servicemen reported seeing lights in the forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. The disputed sightings, which are said to have lasted for three nights in December of that year, occurred when Britain was on high alert during the Cold War.
At the time, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the event posed no threat to national security, and it was therefore not investigated.
The secret papers were meant to be released in 2013, but 18 documents were withheld.
The latest publication date was set for March this year, but that date passed with no information given.
A spokesperson for the National Archives told Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell: “Due to the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to the government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.”
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Nick Pope, who worked for the MoD investigating UFO sightings until 2009, said: “There’s no smoking gun in these files that will confirm the existence of aliens, but there are plenty of fascinating UFO reports and MoD policy documents, so these really are the real-life X-Files.
“The delay has been a comedy of errors though, I think it’s more bureaucracy than conspiracy.”
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It’s X-Files time with 16 UFO sightings reported to police
It’s X-Files time with 16 UFO sightings reported to police
UFO's have been spotted on 16 occasions across the Midlands in the last four years, new police findings show.
The ‘Dudley Dorito’, the nickname given to the bright lights spotted in the sky
West Midlands Police received 12 reports of UFO sightings between 2013 and 2016.
Meanwhile West Mercia Police received four reports across Shropshire in the same time frame.
The figures have been revealed following Freedom Of Information requests to both police forces.
It comes as two high-profile UFO sightings have occurred across the region in the last three decades.
Shropshire's most notorious 'X-File' incident took place at RAF Cosford in 1993 where an MoD police patrol saw bright lights in the sky. The sighting - dubbed the Cosford Incident - took place on March 31, at 1.15am. Dozens of triangular shaped UFOs were spotted moving at speed in the sky across western Britain at around the time.
In the Black Country, numerous sightings of a triangle-shaped UFO have been spotted over Dudley since the start of the millennium. The numerous reports of the bright lights have gave way to the nickname the 'Dudley Dorito'.
A break-down of the stats from West Midlands Police show the most UFO reports came from Birmingham, with three being made since 2013.
There were two reports in Dudley and Sandwell, and one report from Wolverhampton and Walsall.
Police revealed some of the sightings were described as 'lights', 'objects' and 'objects with lights'. But none were investigated by police officers.
In Shropshire, West Merica Police revealed four UFO sightings took place across the rural county since 2013.
An 'object with lights and flames' was seen flying the low before landing in a tree in Donnington, Telford, on November 11, 2013. The sighting took place in the early hours and was reported at 3.47am.
Around 10 months later, an object was seen 'moving erratically in the sky' over Bridgnorth. It had lights and was doing '90 degree turns'. Police received the report on September 25, 2014, at 4.23am. Police closed the log into the incident pending further enquiries.
A 'UFO' with 'lots of lights and loud screaming' was seen around 30 to 40 feet from the ground in Mickleton, Gloucestershire. The incident was reported to West Merica Police on February 25, 2016 at 19.32pm, but officers passed it onto Gloucestershire Police.
The most recent UFO sighting reported to police in Shropshire took place in Shrewsbury. Strangle lights were reported on March 7, 2016, at 1.17am. But the sighting was established as a helicopter and no police deployment was made.
The term UFO was officially coined by the American air force in 1953 and has since become widespread.
Allied pilots described such sightings as 'foo fighters' during the Second World War.
Staffordshire Police said it was unable to respond to an FOI request regarding UFOs because it would be too costly to investigate.
The Dulce Underground Base: How Deep Does This Rabbit Hole Go?
We’ve all heard rumors of secret government underground facilities such as Area 51 or Cheyenne Mountain, but how many of these facilities could there be, and what is taking place at these bases that is so secretive?
Approximately 83 miles (or 134 KM) north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, exists a top secret U.S. military installation dubbed by pop culture as Area 51 but insiders refer to it as Dreamland, the Nevada Test and Training Range, Watertown, Home Base, Homey Airport, or specific sites such as S-2, S-3 and the infamous S-4. The number 51 is only significant to land surveying, since the site exists in the dry bed of Groom Lake on grid square number 51 near the intersecting boarders of three counties in southern Nevada: Clark County, Lincoln County and Nye County. The nuclear testing site located just to the north is, for example, called Area 13, also named for the stretch of land it occupies. Within grid square 51 is a6-by-10-mile block of land, at the center of which is a large air base the government will not discuss. This air base has the longest air traffic runway on planet Earth, but that’s just what is on the surface.
When it was constructed in 1955, this base was originally named “Paradise Ranch,” to make it more appealing to construction workers and attract personnel. Located on a remote portion of land along the southern shore of Groom Lake, this detachment of Edwards Air Force Base was originally utilized for the testing of the U-2 Spy Plane. The Special use airspace around the field is referred to as Restricted Area 4808 North (R-4808N). Known as the “Groom box”, this restricted air space measures 23 by 25 miles.
The Janet fleet of the US Air Force flies employees into the base on a daily basis from McCarran International Airport and Nellis Air Force Base. Groom Lake Road descends eastward to the floor of the Tikaboo Valley, passing the dirt-road entrances to several small ranches, before converging with State Route 375, the “Extraterrestrial Highway”, south of Rachel. At the entrance to Groom Lake sits a warning sign stating that “photography is prohibited” and that “use of deadly force is authorized” under the terms of the 1950 McCarran Internal Security Act.
The area surrounding the lake is permanently off-limits both to civilian and normal military air traffic. Security clearances are checked regularly; cameras and weaponry are not allowed. Even military pilots training in the area risk disciplinary action if they stray into the exclusionary “box” surrounding Groom’s Dreamland airspace. Surveillance is supplemented using buried motion sensors and the perimeter is patrolled by private military contractors. Projects developed at Dreamland include the development of the F-117 Steal Fighter Aircraft, Project Looking Glass, Project Sidekick and Project Aquarius just to name a few of the more well known operations.
The U.S. Government finally admitted to the existence of the Groom Lake Complex in 2013, although the CIA claims it was just a test facility for aerial and surveillance technology. This disclosure comes as much of the facility has been decommissioned and sensitive operations transported to other Deep Underground Military Bases around the country that are less well known, which is our primary focus.
With more than 130 DUMBs Nationwide, examples of other facilities include Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, Camp David in Maryland, Los Alamos Laboratories in Dulce, New Mexico, National Security Agency (NSA) Headquarters At Fort Mead and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Command Center at Mount Weather in Northern Virginia just to name a few. But there are more than 1,477 DUMBs worldwide that we know of, and since the military was constructing more than two DUMBs per year in the 1990’s, and since this statistic is nearly two decades old, there could be more than 1,500 DUMBs on Earth as of 2014.
So when we consider the bottomless abyss of the black budget; when we consider the phenomenon of sinkholes becoming more prevalent the world over; when we take into consideration that every Underground Base requires nearly 20 Billion dollars of funding to construct; and when we consider that while none of these monetary figures exist on any accounting books, trillions of dollars go missing on a yearly basis from the Pentagon and the Defense Department – we need only consider what is beneath our feet, to understand that greed is not the end game for the elite.
The amount of information the United States government has been willing to provide regarding Groom Lake and other DUMBs has generally been minimal due to the highly questionable happenings of these subterranean operations, and insiders who go public with their information risk their lives in doing so. Former employees who have gone public include but are not limited to Bob Lazar, Dan Berge, David Adair, Derek Hennessey, Bill Uhouse, Milton William Cooper and Phil Schneider, who all confirm the existence of the Groom Lake facility, and have provided the public with detailed information regarding the contents and happenings within the S-4 complex and other Deep Underground Military installations. For exposing this enigma, whistleblowers have sacrificed their comfort, their social status, their economic welfare, and in most cases they have paid for their revelations with the ultimate price. These whistleblowers all possess two very important things: They realize that keeping this a secret undermines everything our republic is supposed to stand for, and they have the intestinal fortitude to shed light on this subject.
HOW ARE THESE BASES BUILT?
This is a $13 million tunnel boring machine (TBM) used for tunneling at the Nevada Test Site and other DUMBs. Many other types of TBMs are used by many government agencies, including the ‘nuclear powered TBM’ [NTBM] that melts solid rock and leaves behind glass-like walls. They are capable of tunneling up to two miles per day.
Most tunneling activity is under military installations and all information is highly restricted. Former employees of said facilities have surfaced over the years to talk of massive underground installations in places like the Northrop facility in Antelope Valley, California (rumored to have 42 levels), and the Lockheed installation near Edwards, California.
The ‘Black Budget’ currently consumes $1.25 trillion per year, and since each DUMB costs anywhere from $18 Billion – $26 Billion just to construct, these underground facilities are a major factor. Presently, there are 131 deep underground military bases in the United States that we know of. They have been building these bases day and night since the early 1940’s. These bases are basically large cities underground connected by high-speed magneto-leviton trains that have speeds up to Mach 2.
WHO BLEW THE WHISTLE ON THIS?
Phil Schneider was a self-taught geologist and explosives expert. Of the 129 deep underground facilities Schneider learned the US government had constructed since World War II, he professed to have worked on 13. Two of these bases were major, including the bioengineering facility at Dulce, New Mexico where Schneider maintained that “gray” humanoid extraterrestrials worked side by side with American technicians. In 1979 Schneider’s team drilled holes on top of an underground alien city during excavation of an underground base in Dulce. A battle ensued during which 66 Secret Service, FBI and Black Berets were killed along with an unspecified number of alien “grays” during which Phil received a beam-weapon blast to the chest which “opened [him] like a fish”, caused his later cancer and burned several of the fingers off of his left hand, as well as toes from one foot. He frequently showed the battle scar on his chest at lectures as proof.
As outlined by the whistleblower organization Project Camelot, Schneider’s accusations that are worthy of attention include:
1) The American government concluded a treaty with “gray” aliens in 1954. This mutual cooperation pact is called the Greada Treaty.
2) The space shuttle has been producing special alloys in orbit. A vacuum is needed for the creation of these special metals, thereby justifying the mandate for a large, permanently manned space station.
3) Much of our stealth aircraft technology was developed by back-engineering crashed alien craft.
4) AIDS was a population control virus invented by the National Ordinance Laboratory, Chicago, Illionois.
5) Unbeknownst to just about everyone, the US government has an earthquake device. Neither the 1995 Kobe earthquake nor the 1989 San Francisco quake had a pulse wave.
6) The World Trade Center bomb blast and the Oklahoma City blast were achieved using small nuclear devices. The melting and pitting of the concrete and the extrusion of metal supporting rods indicated this. (Schneider’s forte, he claimed, was explosives.)
Phil Schneider was liquidated just prior to releasing a tell-all book. He had a Rhyolite clearance ~ the highest level to come out and tell it like it is. In May, 1995, Phil gave a lecture on what he had discovered. Seven months later he was tortured and killed by those for whom he had previously worked. This man’s final acts should not go unnoticed.
Finally, Phil Schneider lamented that the democracy he loved no longer existed: we had become instead a technocracy ruled by a shadow governments intent on imposing their own view of things on all of us, whether we like it or not. He believed 11 of his best friends had been murdered in the last 22 years, eight of whose deaths had been officially explained as suicides.
Whatever one might think of Phil Schneider’s claims, it’s clear that he was of particular interest to the FBI and CIA. His widow has stated that intelligence agents thoroughly searched the premises shortly after his death and made off with at least a third of the family photographs.
Schneider maintained that numerous previous attempts had been made on his life, including the removal of the nuts from one of the front wheels of his automobile. He had stated publicly he was a marked man and did not expect to live long. “If I ever ‘commit suicide’,” Schneider told a close friend, “I’ll have been murdered.”
Here is a transcript of Phil’s may 1995 Lecture:
“It is because of the horrendous structure of the federal government that I feel directly imperiled not to tell anybody about this material. How long I will be able to do this is anybody’s guess. However, I would like to mention that this talk is going to be broken up into four main topics. Each of these topics will have some bearing on what you people are involved in, whether you are patriots or not. “I want you to know that these United States are a beautiful place. I have gone to more than 70 countries, and I cannot remember any country that has the beauty, as well as the magnificence of its people, like these United States.
“To give you an overview of basically what I am, I started off and went through engineering school. Half of my school was in that field and I built up a reputation for being a geological engineer, as well as a structural engineer with both military and aerospace applications. I have helped build two main bases in the United States that have some significance as far as what is called the New World Order. The first base is the one at Dulce, New Mexico. I was involved in 1979 in a firefight with alien humanoids, and I was one of the survivors. I’m probably the only talking survivor you will ever hear. Two other survivors are under close guard. I am the only one left that knows the detailed files of the entire operation. Sixty-six secret service agents, FBI, Black Berets and the like, died in that firefight. I was there.
“Number one, part of what I am going to tell you is going to be very shocking. Part of what I am going to tell you is probably going to be very unbelievable, though, instead of putting your glasses on, I’m going to ask you to put your “skepticals” on. But please, feel free to do your own homework. I know the Freedom of Information Act isn’t much to go on, but it’s the best we’ve got. The local law library is a good place to look for Congressional Records. So, if one continues to do their homework, then one can be standing vigilant in regard to their country.
Deep Underground Military Bases and the Black Budget
“I love the country I am living in more than I love my life, but I would not be standing before you now, risking my life, if I did not believe it was so. The first part of this talk is going to concern deep underground military bases and the black budget. The Black Budget is a secretive budget that garners 25% of the gross national product of the United States. The Black Budget currently consumes $1.25 trillion per year. At least this amount is used in black programs, like those concerned with deep underground military bases. Presently, there are 129 deep underground military bases in the United States.
“They have been building these 129 bases day and night, unceasingly, since the early 1940’s. Some of them were built even earlier than that. These bases are basically large cities underground connected by high-speed magneto-leviton trains that have speeds up to Mach 2. Several books have been written about this activity. Al Bielek has my only copy of one of them. Richard Souder, a Ph.D. architect, has risked his life by talking about this. He worked with a number of government agencies on deep underground military bases. In around where you live, in Idaho, there are 11 of them.
“The average depth of these bases is over a mile, and they again are basically whole cities underground. They all are between 2.66 and 4.25 cubic miles in size. They have laser-drilling machines that can drill a tunnel seven miles long in one day. The Black Projects side-step the authority of Congress, which as we know is illegal. Right now, the New World Order is depending on these bases. If I had known at the time I was working on them that the NWO was involved, I would not have done it. I was lied to rather extensively.
Development of Military Technology, Implied German Interest in Hyperspacial Technology “Basically, as far as technology is concerned, for every calendar year that transpires, military technology increases about 44.5 years. This is why it is easy to understand that back in 1943 they were able to create, through the use of vacuum tube technology, a ship that could literally disappear from one place and appear in another place. My father, Otto Oscar Schneider, fought on both sides of the war. He was originally a U-boat captain, and was captured and repatriated in the United States. He was involved with different kinds of concerns, such as the A-bomb, the H-bomb and the Philadelphia Experiment. He invented a high-speed camera that took pictures of the first atomic tests at Bikini Island on July 12, 1946. I have original photographs of that test, and the photos also show UFO’s fleeing the bombsite at a high rate of speed. Bikini Island at the time was infested with them, especially under the water, and the natives had problems with their animals being mutilated. At that time, General MacArthur felt that the next war would be with aliens from other worlds.
“Anyway, my father laid the groundwork with theoreticians about the Philadelphia experiment, as well as other experiments. What does that have to do with me? Nothing, other than the fact that he was my father. I don’t agree with what he did on the other side, but I think he had a lot of guts in coming here. He was hated in Germany. There was a $1 million reward, payable in gold, to anyone who killed him. Obviously, they didn’t succeed. Anyway, back to our topic – deep underground bases.
The Fire Fight At Dulce Base
“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 Greada 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 firefight 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 burned the fingers right off of me and 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.
Schneider’s Worries About Government Factions, Railroad Cars and Shackle Contracts
“Now, I am very worried about the activity of the federal government. They have lied to the public, stonewalled senators, and have refused to tell the truth in regard to alien matters. I can go on and on. I can tell you that I am rather disgruntled. Recently, I knew someone who lived near where I live in Portland, Oregon. He worked at Gunderson Steel Fabrication, where they make railroad cars. Now, I knew this fellow for the better part of 30 years, and he was kind of a quiet type. He came in to see me one day, excited, and he told me “they’re building prisoner cars.” He was nervous. Gunderson, he said, had a contract with the federal government to build 107,200 full-length railroad cars, each with 143 pairs of shackles. There are 11 sub-contractors in this giant project. Supposedly, Gunderson got over 2 billion dollars for the contract. Bethlehem Steel and other steel outfits are involved. He showed me one of the cars in the rail yards in North Portland. He was right. If you multiply 107,200 times 143 times 11, you come up with about 15,000,000. This is probably the number of people who disagree with the federal government. No more can you vote any of these people out of office. Our present structure of government is “technocracy”, not democracy, and it is a form of feudalism. It has nothing to do with the republic of the United States. These people are god-less, and have legislated out prayer in public schools. You can get fined up to $100,000 and two years in prison for praying in school. I believe we can do better. I also believe that the federal government is running the gambit of enslaving the people of the United States. I am not a very good speaker, but I’ll keep shooting my mouth off until somebody puts a bullet in me, because it’s worth it to talk to a group like this about these atrocities.
America’s Black Program Contractors
“There are other problems. I have some interesting 1993 figures. There are 29 prototype stealth aircraft presently. The budget from the U.S. Congress five-year plan for these is $245.6 million. You couldn’t buy the spare partsfor these black programs for that amount. So, we’ve been lied to. The black budget is roughly $1.3 trillion every two years. A trillion is a thousand billion. A trillion dollars weighs 11 tons. The U.S. Congress never sees the books involved with this clandestine pot of gold. Contractors of sleuth programs: EG&G, Westinghouse, McDonnell Douglas, Morrison- Knudson, Wackenhut Security Systems, Boeing Aerospace, Lorimar Aerospace, Aerospacial in France, Mitsibishi Industries, Rider Trucks, Bechtel, I.G. Farben, plus a host of hundreds more. Is this what we are supposed to be living up to as freedom- loving people? I don’t believe so.
Star Wars and Apparent Alien Threat
“Still, 68% of the military budget is directly or indirectly affected by the black budget. Star Wars relies heavily upon stealth weaponry. By the way, none of the stealth program would have been available if we had not taken apart crashed alien disks. None of it. Some of you might ask what the “space shuttle” is “shuttling”. Large ingots of special metals that are milled in space and cannot be produced on the surface of the earth. They need the near vacuum of outer space to produce them. We are not even being told anything close to the truth. I believe our government officials have sold us down the drain – lock, stock and barrel. Up until several weeks ago, I was employed by the U.S. government with a Ryolite-38 clearance factor – one of the highest in the world. I believe the Star Wars program is there solely to act as a buffer to prevent alien attack – it has nothing to do with the “cold war”, which was only a toy to garner money from all the people – for what? The whole lie was planned and executed for the last 75 years.
Stealth Aircraft Technology Use by U.S. Agencies and the United Nations
“Here’s another piece of information for you folks. The Drug Enforcement Administration and the ATF rely on stealth tactical weaponry for as much as 40% of their operations budget. This in 1993 and the figures have gone up considerably since. The United Nations used American stealth aircraft for over 28% of its collective world-wide operations from 1990 to 1992, according to the Center for Strategic Studies and UN Report 3092.
The Guardians of Stealth and Delta Force Origins of the Bosnia Conflict
“The Guardians of Stealth: There are at least three distinct classifications of police that guard our most well kept secrets. Number one, the Military Joint Tactical Force (MJTF), sometimes called the Delta Force or Black Berets, is a multi-national tactical force primarily used to guard the various stealth aircraft worldwide. By the way, there were 172 stealth aircraft built. Ten crashed, so there were at last count about 162. Bill Clinton signed them away about six weeks ago to the United Nations. There have been indications that the Delta Force was sent over to Bosnia during the last days of the Bush administration as a covert sniper force, and that they started taking pot shots at each side of the controversy, in order to actually start the Bosnia conflict that would be used by succeeding administrations for political purposes.
Thoughts on the Bombings in the United States
“I was hired not too long ago to do a report on the World Trade Center bombing. I was hired because I know about the 90 some- odd varieties of chemical explosives. I looked at the pictures taken right after the blast. The concrete was puddled and melted. The steel was literally extruded up to six feet longer than its original length. There is only one weapon that can do that – a small nuclear weapon. That’s a construction-type nuclear device. Obviously, when they say that it was a nitrate explosive that did the damage, they’re lying 100%, folks. The people they have in custody probably didn’t do the crime. As a matter of fact, I have reason to believe that the same group held in custody did do other crimes, such as killing a Jewish rabbi in New York.
However, I want to further mention that with the last explosion in Oklahoma City, they are saying that it was a nitrate or fertilizer bomb that did it. “First, they came out and said it was a 1,000 pound fertilizer bomb. Then, it was 1,500. Then 2,000 pounds. Now its 20,000. You can’t put 20,000 pounds of fertilizer in a Rider Truck. Now, I’ve never mixed explosives, per se. I know the chemical structure and the application of construction explosives. My reputation was based on it. I helped hollow out more than 13 deep underground military bases in the United States. I worked on the Malta project, in West Germany, in Spain and in Italy. I can tell you from experience that a nitrate explosion would have hardly shattered the windows of the federal building in Oklahoma City. It would have killed a few people and knocked part of the facing off the building, but it would have never have done that kind of damage. I believe I have been lied to, and I am not taking it any longer, so I’m telling you that you’ve been lied to.
The Truth behind the Republican Contract with America
“I don’t perceive at this time that we have too much more than six months of life left in this country, at the present rate. We are the laughing stock of the world, because we are being hoodwinked by so many evil people that are running this country. I think we can do better. I think the people over 45 are seriously worried about their future. I’m going to run some scary scenarios by you. The Contract with America. It contains the same terminology that Adolph Hitler used to subvert Germany in 1931. I believe we can do better. The Contract with America is a last ditch effort by our federal government to tear away the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Some Statistics on the Black Helicopter Presence
“The black helicopters. There are over 64,000 black helicopters in the United States. For every hour that goes by, there is one being built. Is this the proper use of our money? What does the federal government need 64,000 tactical helicopters for, if they are not trying to enslave us. I doubt if the entire military needs 64,000 worldwide. I doubt if all the world needs that many. There are 157 F-117A stealth aircraft loaded with LIDAR and computer-enhanced imaging radar. They can see you walking from room to room when they fly over your house. They see objects in the house from the air with a variation limit of 1 inch to 30,000 miles. That’s how accurate that is. Now, I worked in the federal government for a long time, and I know exactly how they handle their business.
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The Dulce Underground Base: How Deep Does This Rabbit Hole Go? - PART II
The Dulce Underground Base: How Deep Does This Rabbit Hole Go? - PART II
Government Earthquake Device, AIDS as a Bioweapon Based on Alien Excretions
“The federal government has now invented an earthquake device. I am a geologist, and I know what I am talking about. With the Kobe earthquake in Japan, there was no pulse-wave as in a normal earthquake. None. In 1989, there was an earthquake in San Francisco. There was no pulse wave with that one either. It is a Tesla device that is being used for evil purposes. The black budget programs have subverted science as we know it. Look at AIDs, invented by the National Ordinance Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois in 1972. It was a biological weapon to be used against the people of the United States. The reason I know this is that I have seen the documentation by the Office of Strategic Services, which by the way is still in operation to this day, through the CDC in Atlanta. They used the glandular excretions of animals, humans and alien humanoids to create the virus. These alien humanoids the government is hobnobbing with are the worst news. There is absolutely no defense against their germs – none. They are a biological weapon of terrible consequence. Every alien on the planet needs to be isolated.
“Saddam Hussein killed 3.5 million Kurdish people with a similar biological weapon. Do we, the people of this planet, deserve this? No, we don’t, but we are not doing anything about it. Every moment we waste, we are doing other people on the planet a disservice. Right now, I am dying of cancer that I contracted because of my work for the federal government. I might live six months. I might not. I will tell you one thing. If I keep speaking out like I am, maybe God will give me the life to talk my head off. I will break every law that it takes to talk my head off. Eleven of my best friends in the last 22 years have been murdered. Eight of the murders were called “suicides.” Before I went to talk in Las Vegas, I drove a friend down to Joshua Tree, near 29 Palms. I drove into the mountains in order to get to Needles, California, and I was followed by two government E-350 vans with G-14 plates, each with a couple of occupants, one of which had an Uzi. I knew exactly who they were. I have spoken 19 times and have probably reached 45,000 people. Well, I got ahead of them and came to a stop in the middle of the road. They both went on either side of me and down a ravine. Is this what its going to take? I cut up my security card and sent it back to the government, and told them if I was threatened, and I have been, that I was going to upload 140,000 pages of documentation to the Internet about government structure and the whole plan. I have already begun that task.”
“Thank you very much.”
Shortly after this lecture, Phil was found dead in his apartment.
His body was discovered on Januarv 17, 1996. Reportedly strangled by a catheter found wrapped around his neck, the bizarre death was dismissed by authorities as suicide.
The following is a letter from Phil’s ex-wife regarding his death:
My name is Cynthia Drayer, I live in Portland, Oregon, and I am the ex-wife of Philip Schneider. Philip and I met in 1986, were married in Carson City, Nevada, and had a daughter, Marie, in 1987. We were divorced in 1990 and lived in separate residences. Philip lived in an apartment complex in Wilsonville, Oregon. On 1/17/1996 I received a call that Philip was dead in his apartment and apparently had died up to a week before his body was discovered. At the time of the removal of his body, his cause of death was by a stroke. When I went to the funeral home I had feelings of discomfort about his death. I asked to view the body, but due to decomposition, the funeral director suggested otherwise. I wanted to be sure, in my own mind,. that Philip had not died under “unnatural causes”.
For the last two years of his life, Philip had been on the “lecture tour” throughout the United States, talking out about government coverups. You name it, he was talking about it: Aliens (treaties and abductions), UFO’s, the One World Government, Black Budgets, Underground Mountain Bases, CIA involvement in civilian murders and drugs, Stealth technology, the Philadelphia Experiment, Operation Crossroads (Bikini Island A-bomb experiments), Dulce Fire Fight, the Oklahoma bombing, the World Trade Center bombing, missing children, Gunderson Freight Cars, the opening of concentration camps and Marshal Law/UN involvement, man-made viruses and earthquakes, etc.etc.
A day later, I received a call from the Clackamas County Detectives, that the funeral director had found “something” around Philip’s neck.
An autopsy was performed at the Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s office (in Portland, Oregon) by Dr. Gunson, and she determined that Philip had committed suicide by wrapping a rubber cathater hose three times around his neck, and half-knotting it in front. There are several reasons why I believe that Philip did not commit suicide, but was murdered:
There was no suicide note.
Philip always told his friends and relatives, that if he ever “committed suicide” you would know that he had been murdered.
From a number of sources, including his taped lectures (video and audio), and statements to his friends, and the borrowing of a 9mm gun, Philip felt that he and his family were being threatened and were in danger because of his lecutres.
All of his lecture materials, alien metals, higher math books, photographs of UFO’s coming out of the Operation Crossroad A-Bomb, notes for his book on the alien agenda, were missing. (Everything else in the apartment was still there, including gold coins, wallet with hundreds of dollars, jewelry, mineral specimens, etc.)
No coroner ever came out to his apartment after his body was found (against Oregon Law) – and a police investigation never took under consideration that items were missing from his apartment – it was considered a suicide, plain and simple
The medical examiner took blood and urine samples at the autopsy but REFUSED to analyze them, saying that the county would not “waste their money on a suicide”. Although I was assured that the samples would be kept for 12 months, when I asked for these samples to be sent to an independent lab 11 months later they were “missing” and presumed “destroyed”.
Philip had missing fingers on his left hand, and limited motion in his shoulders. I believe that it was physically impossible for Philip to have held the rubber hose in his left hand with missing fingers and then wrap the hose three times with shoulders that had limited motion. In order to end up where his body was, he had to sit on the edge of his bed, wrap the hose around his neck, slowly and painfully strangle to death, and fallen head first into a wheel chair.
Philip was an expert in chemicals and his own medical needs. He had multiple pills at hand that could have ended his life quickly and painlessly. He also had a 9mm gun that he had borrowed to protect himself. Why strangle himself in such an unusual manner?
Philip was very religious, and did not believe in suicide. He had intense chronic pain all of the time I knew him. At the time of his death, he was on disability, had a housekeeper, and had cancer. The operation to help him with his back pain did not alleviate the pain and he had brittle bone syndrome (osteoporosis). He struggled every day, not to die, but to live.
He felt that these lectures he gave was making a difference, and was looking forward to giving more. In fact he was scheduled for another lecture tour that started 1/16/96 in Tampa, Florida. He had just found a friend who was going to help him write a book about the New World Order, and he was enjoying his time with his daughter.
Philip was undergoing “injections” of “Beta Serone” every week in an experiment to stop his multiple sclerosis. After his death I contacted the only agency that conducted these experiments to obtain his medical record (OHSU). They had never heard of him, and he was not a part of their experiments. This would suggest people unknown were injecting him on a weekly basis with an unknown substance. He often times called me after these “shots” to tell me that he was too sick for his daughter to come and visit. I believe that the shots that Philip thought were being given to him to help him back to health, were actually being given to him to make him sick.
Philip was seen with an “unknown blonde haired woman” for several months before his death. Several times this same individual was seen or talked about and her mysterious presence only leads one to wonder if she had anything to do with his “suicide”.
Several people with psychic abilities have indicated that Philip did not commit suicide, but was murdered (some say by 5 people: 4 men and 1 woman, 4 directly and one by taking out a “contract”.
It is perhaps important to know WHY Philip began lecturing.
First: His background was as a Structural Engineer. He was an expert on explosives and their effects on geologic structures. He worked under two social security numbers. Most of his early work in underground mountain bases with Morrison-Knudsen was done using the wrong social security number. I was later able to prove that he had two numbers through the social security office when I applied for his daughter’s death benefits. He worked for the Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Navy with the same wrong number. Only after he obtained SSI in 1981 did his “real” number come into play. He always told me that he had a Rhyolitic Clearance and that his father had a Cosmic Clearance from his work with NATO. And that is the second reason why Philip began lecturing.
Second: On top of his first hand knowledge about underground mountain bases and government black budgets, and the alien agend as (he was one of the survivors of the Dulce Fire Fight with aliens in New Mexico) his father was also involved in government black projects. When Philip’s father, Captain Oscar Schneider, Medical Doctor, United
States Navy, died in 1993, Philip discovered documents and photographs in his father’s basement which proved that Oscar had been involved in both the Philadelphia Experiment and Operation Crossroads. Philip now had letters written in the 1940’s and 1950’s showing that Oscar helped to isolate the crewmembers of the Philadelphia Experiment and that Oscar later autopsied them as they died. He also had photographs of UFO’s fleeing through mushroom clouds after the A-bomb was dropped above the lagoon at Bikini Atoll. This was “Operation Crossroads” and Oscar was involved in medical examinations of the animals and humans exposed to radiation after the bomb was dropped.
Third: I believe the main reason why Philip began to lecture was due to the “murder” of his friend Ron Rummel. Ron was found in a park in Portland in Sept. 1993. The police believed that he had committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth. However, if you read the detectives report, there is blow-back blood on Ron’s hand, but NO BLOW-BACK BLOOD ON THE GUN. The only way this could happen is if Ron had wiped the gun off AFTER he had shot himself in the mouth. Ron, Philip, and 5 other people had been collaborating on a little magazine called “The Alien Digest”. It was starting to get a fairly wide circulation, when Ron was found in the park. Philip felt that his friend had been murdered, and decided that it was time to get everything out into the open, so he began “spilling the beans”, and ripped up his security clearance card.
Pufori, through Jeroen Wierda, is one of several agencies and individuals that have taken up the call for justice in Philip’s death.
My hopes are:
That Philip’s death certificate will eventually be amended with the true cause of his death: murder.
. That the world will come to know the truth about aliens, UFO’s, the government cover-ups, black budgets, etc. and how they are affecting us.
. That assets that belong to his only heir, Marie, can be located and turned over to her.
. That Philip’s true work quarters can be proven by people coming forward with information about knowing him before 1981, and that his daughter can eventually obtain the death benefits she deserves.
. That no more “murders by suicide” ever occur to another individual.
Sincerely,
Cynthia Schneider Drayer
THE UNDERGROUND HISTORY
The idea of building subterranean bases is very old. From Derinkuyu of Cappadocia, Turkey to the Hypogeum of Paola, Malta, there are countless examples of underground civilizations burrowing cities deep into the Earth.
But in more recent history, this idea was probably made popular by Nazi mystics. A possible reason for the use of the Tibetan swastika in Hitler’s Third Reich may be due to the idea of underground networks originating thousands of years ago within the Tibetan traditions, and the Nazis subsequent obsession with the construction of underground bases. Under Hitler’s Third Reich, the Todt Organization was tasked with building many deep underground facilities. Named after the brilliant civil engineer, Fritz Todt, the organization was tasked with a huge range of engineering projects prior to and during the Second World War. Todt helped the German military accomplish several feats including the Autobahn network after being asked by Hitler to contribute his wisdom, but died in a plane crash in 1942. He was replaced by Albert Speer as the Minister of Armaments and War Production. But Speer allowed one Franz Xaver Dorsch to guide, in effect making him the operational chief of the OT. Dorsche was tasked with the construction of several underground facilities, which the 3rd Riech were obsessed with constructing.
When the Third Riech fell the Americans found the underground bases the Nazis had built, kept Franz Xaver Dorsch as a prisoner of war, and transported him back to the United States (along with hundreds of other top Nazi brass) inProject Paperclip 1947. During his stay in the Americas, Franz Xaver Dorsch’s name comes up again and again as an eminent authority on underground construction. Construction of underground facilities by the American Military-Industrial-Complex has continued ever since, and today constitutes the bloody tomb that buries America’s dirtiest secrets.
In addition to subterranean bases, massive efforts have been made to construct bases beneath the sea, off of island chains and tectonic shelves.
World War Two could not have happened without American corporations contributing to and literally funding both sides of the conflict. Rockefeller Standard Oil, for example sold their special patented fuel additive to the Third Reich which resulted in the historic bombing mission over London by German airplanes that had never been capable of such dramatic range before. The revolutionary punch-card system used in Nazi concentration camps to keep track of prisoners was patented by IBM who manufactured punch cards with the explicit purpose of maintaining an inventory of human chattel. Perhaps the most egregious example is the Union Banking Cartel’s laundering of Nazi money – Union was owned and operated by Prescott Bush (President George H.W. Bush’s father, and George W. Bush’s grandfather), who saw no disciplinary action whatsoever despite the public indictment of his firm as a Nazi money laundering operation. There is an overabundance of evidence that not only suggests but proves well beyond a reasonable doubt that American banks and corporations funded Hitler’s rise to power, though their motive may not be immediately clear because it is multifaceted and layered like an onion. On the outset, since there is nothing more profitable than war, and since war leads to great leaps in technology, there is a massive financial incentive for large corporations and banks to remain at war as long as is possible, sustaining conflicts indefinitely if they can. But for a nation to mobilize against a common enemy, they must be afraid of that enemy, so great attention and resources are paid to arming, training and funding boogie men the world over, and false flag attacks are perpetuated against the host nation to seal the deal; whether it be the sinking of the Lusitania that led to the First World War or the 9_11 event that brought about the War on Terror (War OF Terror), puppets, funds and arms are moved about the globe effectively and efficiently to ensure a constant need for more arms and more funds. As long as people are divided against each other, the arms industries will enjoy ever increasing profits. This is an effective means for an elite group of financiers to gain and retain power, but again this is also efficacious for advancing one’s own technological capabilities. So given their role in financing the Third Reich, it should be no surprise that the shadow government transferred the best and brightest Nazis operating in Europe away from the Nuremberg trials and into America to continue their work in developing more efficient weapons and technology for military applications. The 1947 operation to bring top Nazi minds into America was known among the intelligence circles as Project Paperclip.
TURNING POINT 1947
Project Paperclip was not the only significant event to transpire in 1947. On 2 July of 1947 something crashed in Roswell, New Mexico that was retrieved by the US government. According to whistleblowers, the technology retrieved at Roswell as back engineered and now sits at S4 outside of Groom Lake, Nevada.
1947 was the year that the CIA was created. 1947 was the year that the United States Air Force became an independent branch from the Department of the Army. But perhaps most importantly, 1947 was the year that the notorious Majestic-12 were formed under President Harry S. Truman who signed an executive order authorizing a Top Secret cover up of the Roswell crash. Accountable only to the President of the United States, the group was created to analyze the various aspects of crashed UFOs, the technical data, the sociological ramifications, as well as the alien occupants recovered whether dead or alive. The most secretive of all intelligence groups and well above the authority even of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, Operation Majestic-12 later evolved into the Majority Agency for Joint Intelligence (MAJI).By 1987 the MAJI Group was calling itself the Mars Jupiter – Twelve Committee.
When it was initially formed, the twelve members of MJ-12 included:
– Nelson Rockefeller, – Director of the CIA Allen Welsh Dulles – Secretary of State John Foster Dulles – Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Arthur W. Radford – Director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover – and the six men from the Executive Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations known as the “Wise Men.”
All of these men were members of the “Jason Scholars” secret society who recruited their membership from the “Skull and Bones,” fraternity of Yale and the “Scroll and Key” fraternity of Harvard. The “Wise Men” were all key members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and has since been staffed by CFR directors and later members of the Trilateral Commission including George Bush and Zbigniew Brzezinski. The most influential of the “Wise Men” were John McCloy, Robert Lovett, Averell Harriman, Charles Bohlen, George Kennan and Dean Acheson.
The following interview with Bob Lazar aired on Las Vegas television station KLAS on 14 November 1989
Tucked inside thetest tubes of a hidden government base, the secrets of the universe may be unfolding. The area is designated S-4, and according to one man who claims to have worked there, S-4 harbors scientific achievements that would astonish our deepest thinkers. It is technology that, if it exists, could change the world, but is allegedly bottled up by military minds.
Lazar: “It’s not an overall government project. It’s not something that Congress appropriates money for. 2 billion is for this; 15 billion for flying saucers; 8 billion for Star Wars. It doesn’t go like that. I don’t believe that they have any knowledge of it at all.”
The technology that Bob Lazar says he saw extends far beyond flying saucers. An anti-matter reactor allows the spaceships to produce their own gravitational fields, he says, such a technology, if real, would answer UFO skeptics who argue that aliens could never visit Earth because the distances between worlds are too great, even at the speed of light.
Lazar: “Gravity distorts time and space. Just like if you had a water bed and put a bowling ball in the middle. It warps it down like that — that’s exactly what happens to space. Imagining that you were in a spacecraft that could exert a tremendous gravitational field by itself you could sit on any particular place and turn on the gravity generator and actually warp space and time, and fold it. By shutting that off, you’d click back and you’d be a tremendous distance from where you were but time would not have even moved because you essentially shut it off. I mean it is so far fetched, people….it’s difficult for people to grasp, and as stubborn as the scientific community is they’ll never buy it, but this is, in fact, that’s just what happens.”
Actually, Lazar’s explanation is very close to mainstream scientific thought, and can be traced directly to Einstein. The difference is scientists regard it as theory only. There is much that science still doesn’t know.
Dale Etheridge (Scientist): “There are people who say that our main problem with that is we don’t know what gravity is. It’s this magical force that acts at a distance. We can describe how it behaves — that’s what the law of gravity is — it’s just a description of how it behaves, but it says nothing about what gravity really is.”
We’ll use Etheridge as our barometer of scientific thought. He says we cannot produce gravity; that there’s no such thing as a working anti-matter reactor, and that we have yet to figure out a way to get around the speed of light. He also concedes, though, such things are possible.
Etheridge: “Yeah. And really we don’t know what’s possible as there could be other civilizations out there several hundred years or so — a thousand years, even a million years ahead of us — that have found a way to circumvent this. We have no way of knowing for sure.”
Lazar: “Well, the thing is when you harness gravity, you harness everything. It’s the missing piece in physics right now. We really know very little about gravity.”
At least that’s the way it used to be. Lazar says the technology to harness gravity not only exists but is being tested at S-4. And, if such technology is beyond human capabilities, it must have come from some place else. It’s more than conjecture, he says, because he also saw an element that cannot be found on the periodic chart. The element, called 115, can be stored in lead casings much like this one [showing a lead circular container]. Lazar says the government has 500 pounds of it, and it cannot be made on earth.
Lazar: “It would be almost impossible; well, it is impossible to synthesize an element that heavy here on Earth.”
Interviewer: “At least right now.”
Lazar: “I don’t think that you can ever synthesize it. The amount of….you essentially have to assemble it by bombarding it with protons if….atom by atom, it would take an infinite amount of power and an infinite amount of time. The substance has to come from a place where super-heavy elements could have been produced naturally.
And what sort of place is that?
Lazar: “Next to a much larger sun where there would be greater mass. Maybe a binary star system — a super-nova — somewhere where there is just a bigger release of energy to synthesize these things naturally. It has to be a naturally occurring element.”
115 is the fuel for the anti-matter reactors, he says. By bombarding 115 anti-matter is produced. A kilo of anti-matter could produce the energy equivalent of 46 ten-megaton hydrogen bombs, and comparing the energy potential of anti-matter to, say, the Hoover Dam would be like comparing planets to grains of sand. 115 could also make one heck of a bomb.
Lazar: “We’re talking about hundreds and hundreds of megatons off a small piece of it. It sounds incredible, but total conversion of matter to energy would release that amount of power. And it isn’t that difficult to take….get the energy out of it. So it’s not something you’d ever want to fall anyone’s hands.”
The dangers associated with 115 and anti-matter may be the reason Lazar was hired to work at S-4. There was an accident, he says, back in April 1987. An accident that was passed off as an unannounced nuclear test.
Lazar: “Some people got killed. I was told flat out I was one of the people that were to replace these guys.”
Is this why the government might be keeping the whole matter a secret? Because of the military potential of alien technology? Lazar says he believes the Soviet Union was once part of our research on the flying disks, but that the U.S. kicked the Soviets out after making some sort of discovery. He also believes the program at S-4 is operated with funds allocated to Star Wars research, but says he can’t prove it. Some UFO researchers suspect the government is test flying alien craft so that it can one day master the technology and claim it was made in the good old U.S.A., thus obscuring the possibility of alien visitations.
Stanton T. Friedman: “I think they have the duty to inform us. At least to the bare bones of what’s going on. I don’t want technological stuff put out on the table. I mean, I worked on classified projects for 15 years, and I don’t think we need another weapon’s delivery system. But I think the government does have the responsibility to release information that, indeed, the planet is being visited. Probably it should be done in conjunction with the Soviets.”
Lazar: “I don’t think that it will get to that level. They’re not going to have a fleet of them and fly them around and….I don’t think you need to do that. If you’re looking at them from a weapons point of view, you’re looking at an incredibly powerful device. You only need one to operate. You don’t ever need to come public with it. You may want to learn more about it should it ever break which is….might be what they’re doing. Uh….”
Interviewer: “They’ve got one….”
Lazar: “Oh, they’ve got a few. Yeah.”
Lazar is the first to admit that his story is tough to swallow. He submitted to polygraph exams that opened up sensitive parts of his personal life, and fully expects to be ridiculed or perhaps punished for his revelations. His desire to explain what really happened at S-4 took us to Layne Keck, a licensed experienced hypnotherapist who quietly and privately tried to help Lazar remember details of the many briefing papers he says he read.
Keck: “I have no clue as to what we were getting to, and he started saying that there were pictures of what I thought was desks on the wall. Well as it turned out, it was disks that he was referring to. And, at that moment, I realized we were into something that was pretty heavy.”
Keck does not exaggerate his claims for hypnosis. He regards it as a useful tool for uncovering some lost memory. He says people are quite capable of lying under hypnosis, but says the technique can be of help in determining truth. What’s his opinion of Lazar’s truthfulness?
Keck: “It tells me that his subconscious mind believes totally all of these things.”
Lazar has long suspected that his government employers used some sort of mind control technique to prevent him from disclosing too much about S-4. While he says he has vivid conscious memories of the saucers and other technology there were other memories, that even now, remained locked, which is why he sought out Keck in the first place. Keck is convinced that someone really did mess with Lazar’s head.
Keck: “Also they used primitive fear in threatening those in his environment if he did bring this information forth. Also, it appears that maybe there were some chemicals used.”
Lazar: “Nah, I’m not going to change anyone’s mind. That not my intention. I’m just relaying the experience. The job that I went through. It is a fantastic thing. It’s a fantastic story. I can’t take people there to show them what was going on, and uh, you know, I don’t expect anyone to believe it.”
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The Dulce Underground Base: How Deep Does This Rabbit Hole Go? - PART III
The Dulce Underground Base: How Deep Does This Rabbit Hole Go? - PART III
DAVID ADAIR
An Interview with space technology consultant David Adair, compliments of writer and researcher Robert M. Stanley. David went on the record about his extraordinary experiences at Area 51 when he was testing one of his electromagnetic fusion engine prototypes. He was just a teenager.
ROBERT STANLEY: Tell me about the government disclosure letter you are circulating.
DAVID ADAIR: That letter is based on a series of events that occurred when I first testified for Dr Steven Greer in 1997. It’s very simple what we want: a congressional hearing that will grant covert operatives total immunity from their national security oath. Dr Greer is telling us that he has hundreds of witnesses. I know he is not blowing smoke regarding this issue, because in 1971 I saw a lot of people working on these things.
ROBERT: At Area 51?
DAVID: Right. I saw them underground working on all these different craft and back-engineering lots of stuff. I believe there are people that have spent 30 years or more working on these types of projects. Imagine what they could tell us! But more importantly, they would be able to tell us who paid them, who signed the checks.
ROBERT: So you are pushing for public hearings?
DAVID: Absolutely. I really want the world to hear what these hard-core engineers have to say.
ROBERT: You told me in our pre-interview that this event would radically change our lives, that we could begin integrating some of the more advanced technologies into our infrastructure.
DAVID: Exactly, but unraveling everything poses a problem. I know that while I was at Area 51 and was being taken through offices that were off to the side of the hangars and labs, they took me to a room and locked me in it. And that’s where I stayed until General LeMay came and got me. But I saw a lot of people working down there as we were walking past these offices.
ROBERT: Wait a minute. General Curtis LeMay personally came to get you out?
DAVID: Yes. If you read his autobiographical book called Iron Eagle, he was a former commander of SAC [Strategic Air Command]. “General Curtis E. LeMay: retired February 1, 1965; died October 3, 1990. LeMay was the fifth Chief of Staff of the US Air Force.” You will see, in the back of the book, he talks about his parents. They lived in Mount Vernon, Ohio. I lived in Mount Vernon, Ohio, when I built my first fusion rockets. I was on the cover of the local newspaper.
ROBERT: How did that happen?
DAVID: Well, because his parents’ caregiver was my mother, Evangeline Adair.
ROBERT: What a strange coincidence!
DAVID: Yes, and that’s how LeMay came to know me personally. And when our local congressman started funding my second rocket, that’s when the Mount Vernon News got wind of the story. It was the fastest vehicle ever built on Earth.
ROBERT: Is this a picture of the second rocket I’m looking at?
DAVID: Yeah; there were all kinds of newspaper stories printed about me that I have saved. I was being funded by Congressman John Ashbrook. He was chairman of the Internal Security committees of Congress. That’s a pretty powerful place to be. He was also on the Education and Labor committees, which is how he funded my work – through the Department of Education. Then when the Air Force showed up to inspect my second rocket, they were totally gung-ho for all the formulas and the prototype I built from scratch. They knew I was on to something, so they funded me through the NSF [National Science Foundation]. Then my mother got concerned because the government people were really getting involved in our lives. So she went and talked to General LeMay. Curtis really liked my mother a lot and he had seen the newspaper stories, so he came over to talk with me. Later he talked with Congressman Ashbrook. The next thing I know, LeMay told me: “David. I am going to be your buddy. I am going to be your project manager.” And actually, that was the greatest thing that could have happened to me because I found out much later that it was LeMay that saved my ass.
ROBERT: That’s some powerful protection.
DAVID: Yeah, but what’s really interesting is an investigator pulled the records for Congressman Ashbrook from the Library of Congress and found all this documentation. The investigator was shocked to learn that I was telling the truth. In one letter I told the Air Force that without the right electronics and the right formulas to compress and scale down the fusion engine I was building, I would need a really big vehicle to put the engine in and it was going to be a damn big engine! Eventually I found an ICBM, a Titan III, that had been pulled out of mothballs and had been given to the Center for Science and Industry in Ohio. They had recently pulled all the fuel out of it and parked this thing in a storage area. It was flight ready. After a while, I got the Titan. During that time, I had more information-based dreams and from that I eventually reconfigured the fusion engine down to a workable size. Everybody loved that, because hauling a Titan rocket around is pretty tough to do – it’s 30 stories tall! After I told them I could compress this thing down to an engine that would fit in a 12-foot-tall rocket housing, I had to build everything from scratch.
ROBERT: Didn’t you tell me there were two rockets?
DAVID: Yes. You’re right. There were two of these prototypes. This one went to the science fair. But here is the one that no one ever saw publicly.
ROBERT: The one you told me was “stealth”?
DAVID: Right. We built one just for the local people to see what we were working on. The Air Force guys came over to my house every day. They took their uniforms off and walked around in T-shirts and shorts so the locals would think they were just average people helping out with all the rocket stuff I was building. So when the town folks came by, they just thought, “Boy, he’s building a big one this time.” But we had two of them in production. I set up one that I used to win the science fairs with, but here is the design we used to move past the prototype stage with. Anyway, we had a front operation and another in the back. And it worked well. That was my introduction to covert activities. All this documentation that I am showing you here, I brought with me to Congress, I didn’t want to testify because I was really treading the fine line of National Security. However, I could tell this particular story because I was only 17 years old when that happened. According to constitutional law, the federal government is prohibited from signing a minor to a National Security Oath. Strom Thurman said to me one time, “You’re the biggest loose cannon on the deck, boy.”
ROBERT: Let’s go back to your experience at Area 51 with General Curtis LeMay.
DAVID: Okay. What happened was, well, it was very simple. I had blown up my own engine. I sabotaged my rocket after it landed at Area 51. I blew it into a billion pieces. After they showed me the engine downstairs, I knew what they were after from my engine.
ROBERT: Which engine?
DAVID: The Electromagnetic Fusion Containment Engine, because they are so fast. There is nothing like it. The liquid fuel and solid propellant engines are like Model Ts compared to a Lamborghini. This thing took off so fast. It went from zero mph to 8,754 mph in about 4.6 seconds. It was so fast that you couldn’t even see it.
ROBERT: It went that fast from a standing start?
DAVID: Right. You couldn’t even see it. It would be like trying to watch a bullet leave a rifle barrel.
ROBERT: That’s not possible to see with the naked eye.
DAVID: Right. So everyone else at the launch site thought it blew up. I built most of it out of titanium. We also used inconel and carbonite. We had every kind of known material for lightness and strength incorporated in that rocket. And because of the extreme g-force of the launch, everything inside was just warped.
ROBERT: But the engine was still intact when the rocket landed at Area 51?
DAVID: Exactly. It came down on a parachute. And that is where it got weird, because there are a lot of characters in this story. The man that was really on my case, he was a bad guy. Dr Wernher von Braun warned me. As a child, I knew von Braun because I was doing all this work with rockets in the early 1970s when we were landing men on the Moon. An hour-and-a-half’s drive from my house was Wapakoneta, which is where Neil Armstrong lived. His mother Viola and I became friends. She became like a surrogate mother to me. So I was hanging out with her and I would see Neil around the house. And many times I would go over to her house and I would run right past Neil and go hang out with Viola. And Neil loved that about me because I wasn’t interested in his fame; I just loved his mother. Neil was a very reclusive person, almost like a hermit, because when he came back from the Moon mission he literally just disappeared.
Anyway, because I was in that kind of environment, I got to attend parties where all the original Apollo VII astronauts would show up, and von Braun showed up. And that’s how we all crossed paths and I started interfacing with him. The thing is, von Braun warned me that if, during my rocket work, I should encounter a man named Dr Arthur Rudolph, I should be extremely careful because he was so dangerous.
Dr Arthur Rudolph was the chief architect of the Saturn 5 engines of our Apollo Moon rocket. He came into the US with von Braun and other German scientists under Operation Paperclip. Rudolph was a full colonel in the Gestapo. He had killed hundreds of Jews personally during the building of the V-2 rockets and Peenemünde. If you made a mistake, he would put a cable around your neck and slowly lift you up, which would strangle you. Then he would disembowel you and leave you hanging there for everyone to see. There were rotted corpses hanging all over the place. They would also feed you sawdust and water. This would take the hunger out of your stomach until you fell over dead, then they would just replace you with more fresh people. This man was the winner of the Most Distinguished Service award – the highest award NASA can give. The Mossad caught up with Dr Rudolph on May 25, 1984. Due to war crimes, he was deported out of LAX to Munich, Germany, where he died [in jail].
Anyway, General LeMay had sent me from Mount Vernon, Ohio, to Wright-Patterson in Dayton, Ohio, where the SAC headquarters was located. From there, me and my rocket and some other colonels all got on board a C-141 transport and flew to White Sands. Soon after we arrived at White Sands, a black DC-9 plane showed up. LeMay had told me that if this plane showed up, it would represent a real problem for me. Anyway, out stepped these guys wearing suits and mirrored sunglasses. And among them was this one little guy wearing khaki uniform. I knew that was Dr Rudolph because Dr von Braun had showed me his picture.
ROBERT: Whom was Dr Rudolph working for?
DAVID: I’m not sure, one of those alphabet-soup intelligence agencies. But he was primarily working for NASA. And as soon as he got off the plane, he asked to see my rocket. When I asked him who he was, he told me, “Oh, I’m just a guy that inspects rockets for the government.” Then I asked him if he was from NASA, and he said he had never worked there.
So we walked over to my rocket and I opened up a side panel. And when he leaned over to look at the engine, he began mumbling to himself and he seemed really upset – probably because I had built something he thought was impossible to do. So I took that opportunity to lean over and whisper in his ear, “Do you know that in proportional size, this engine has 10,000 times the thrust of the F-1, Saturn V engines, Dr Rudolph?” And he stood up and was furious. He wanted to know who I was and how I knew so much. And I told him, “I’m just a kid that launches rockets in the cow fields of Ohio.” [Laughter] Anyway, I had friends around me who were Air Force colonels that LeMay had assigned to take care of me.
And I got upset when Dr Rudolph told me that he wanted to change the landing coordinates on my rocket. He was really nasty about it. The navigation system I was using was off-the-shelf stuff. Back in those days, it was all analogue. But I had my system programmed to where the rocket would come back down within a two-mile radius of the launch site. Dr Rudolph had me reprogram the coordinates so that my rocket would land 456 miles northwest of White Sands in an area called Groom Lake, in Nevada.
Well, I immediately pulled out my national survey maps and I looked at Groom Lake and thought, “My God! Why are we launching up to a dry lake bed in Nevada? It’s so far away.” That’s when Dr Rudolph told me, “Just do it!” He was really hostile. And I had been warned many times by von Braun and LeMay that if I ran into Dr Rudolph, not to push his buttons.
So I reset the coordinates on the guidance system and we launched my rocket and it took off perfectly. And sure enough, it landed right on target. And you know, it wasn’t until they made the movie Independence Day that I ever heard the term “Area 51”.
ROBERT: How could that be?
DAVID: I always knew this place as Groom Lake. It was the only name I had ever heard for that place, growing up. So we were getting ready to board the plane to go and recover the rocket and I said, “Hey, do you see these rubber tires on this plane? Would you please tell me how you are going to land this thing on a dry lake bed? This thing is going to plow into the ground and never leave.” Someone yelled at me to shut up and get into the plane.
After a while, we arrived in Nevada. And as we flew over the landing site, I looked down at these twin 10,000-foot runways and I said, “My God! There’s a huge base down there!”
So we landed at this place that doesn’t exist on any map, and that’s when I started getting really concerned. I was trying to locate any Air Force emblems, Navy emblems, any kind of logos or emblems that would identify the commanding authority, but there was nothing anywhere on any of the buildings. Normally, standard universal painting of water towers at an airstrip is an orange-and-white checkerboard pattern. But here, everything was painted either solid white or solid black. So they were not conforming to any code.
After we got out of the plane, we got on this go-cart-looking thing. It looked kind of like the electric carts that you see at airports. Then we drove from the landing strip to a series of hangars and headed into the centre one. It was really cool, the way this place was built. There were all these really big lights at the top that had louvres on them so the light will shine down. And when I got close to the buildings, they looked old and ratty, but underneath it was alloy, unlike any alloy I had ever seen. It was an incredible-looking stainless steel type of metal that I thought was really unusual to use for buildings of that size.
When we got inside the hangar, we went down to the basement area. Actually, we drove into the hanger and there were little yellow lights flashing and big hangar doors, and out of the ground came all these little pipes with chains attached that blocked off all the doorways. Then the whole floor – about the size of a football field – slowly dropped down. The entire hangar was an unenclosed elevator.
ROBERT: So, it was more like a hydraulic lift in a garage?
DAVID: Yeah, but it was built to carry some really heavy stuff. The floor was made of concrete. God knows how much weight that was. The whole thing went up and down on giant worm-screws.
ROBERT: I see. That’s a lot more stable than using a hydraulic system.
DAVID: Nothing can take the load like a worm screw. These things were the size of sequoia trees, and there were at least 12 of them lifting the floor! We went down at least 200 feet until we rested flush with the floor of an underground hangar that was huge. It had a huge arched ceiling, but it went so far that you couldn’t see the end of it. It just went forever. And I thought, “My God! You could park a hundred 747s in here and they wouldn’t even be in the way!” At that point I asked, “What in God’s name did you do with all the dirt?” And they just looked really strangely at me. I guess they didn’t expect me to try and figure things like that out. The walls were at least 30 feet high, and all along them were different workshops and laboratories and periodically there were big, huge, work bays. So we kept driving down past all kinds of aircraft that I had never seen. Some of them I had seen, like the XB-70.
ROBERT: Was this area carved out of dirt or was it rock?
DAVID: I don’t know. Everything was coated with a ceramic- like material.
ROBERT: I thought there were mountains surrounding the dry lake bed? Those must be fairly solid?
DAVID: Yeah. There are all kinds of mountain ranges around that area. I never saw any “dirt”, though, because everything had concrete over it or was covered with some type of ceramic material. The most interesting thing about this to me still is how well lit the underground area was. There were no shadows, anywhere. And there were no light fixtures, anywhere. I was wondering how they generated that much light. It didn’t look like the walls were glowing, or the floor or the ceiling. But every square inch of this place was lit, and yet there was no visible source of light.
And after we had been driving for a while and we had passed a lot of different aircraft, we took a road to the left that took us away from a lot of the other activities. I could see a lot of people working on stuff. These aircraft appeared to be operational. Some of them I have never seen before or since. They were shaped like a reverse teardrop. And there were others that looked similar to the flying wing. One aircraft, the XB-70, was a delta-wing bomber built in 1959.
ROBERT: And you were at Area 51 in 1971?
DAVID: Right. June 20, 1971. So, we get there and it was just amazing, because we drove up to the side of these big steel doors and one of the officers got out and put his hand on a scanner-type thing and it flashed a light at him. I thought it took his picture. In hindsight, I would have to guess that it was a retina scanning device. And after the guy was scanned, the door opened up, so I knew this was a security system of a kind. This was 1971.
Let me put this into perspective. In 1971, we had no laptops, no modems, no fax, no VCR, no cell phones; we didn’t even have handheld calculators. Texas Instruments developed those about five years later. So where in the hell did these guys get all this technology?
As soon as we went into the room, I immediately noticed the temperature drop, because it was warm in the big open areas we had just come from. It was very cool in this room. You could almost see your breath. And as we entered the room, the lights – wherever they were coming from – came on. And again there were no shadows being cast, anywhere.
Then someone threw a switch and activated a hoist attached to some cables that were attached to a big tarp. The tarp was lifted straight up, and sitting on this huge steel platform was a giant electromagnetic fusion containment engine! And I immediately knew that, because its configuration was similar to mine but it was the size of a Greyhound bus. Mine was about the size of a large watermelon!
You can recognize engines that are comparable. If I had an internal combustion engine taken out of a Model A Ford and had it sitting on the ground and you pulled an engine out of a Viper today and placed it alongside, you would recognize that they operate on the same principle of internal combustion. However, the difference in performance between the two is unbelievable.
It was the same situation with my little engine and this thing they had stored underground. They both ran on the same principle, the same configuration, but the level of sophistication is like that of the Model A compared to the Viper engine. This thing they had was so powerful. There were so many design features that I didn’t recognize, for reasons that became clear.
ROBERT: At this point you were just looking at the engine. Where was the rest of the craft?
DAVID: Well, that’s where the argument started. They asked me if I liked what I saw. I said, “Well, yeah, but I’m confused. I thought I was the first one to build one of these engines.”
And this is where things really started getting odd. The colonel that was with Dr Rudolph said, “Son, you want to help us with this design here since yours is very similar to it. You do want to help your country, don’t you?”
Well, I had an American flag blanket. And I listened to Anita Bryant’s record before I went to sleep. I was a real patriotic flag-waver even in the ’70s. Of course, it wasn’t real popular to do that then because the war in Vietnam was still raging. My peers couldn’t understand why I loved America so much, but it was just the way I was raised.
So at first I agreed with the colonel that I wanted to help. However, I was very curious and asked, “Where are your people that built this engine?” He paused for a moment, then told me, “Well, they are on vacation right now. You’re off on summer vacation, right?” And I said, “Okay! That’s good. Did they leave any notes on their work that I can look at?” Then I was told, “Well, they took them with them as homework. You get homework.” And I was thinking, “You know, this is really condescending. I am 17 years old.” But that’s how they treated 17-year-olds back then. So I thought, “Okay; I will play along with this asshole.”
I agreed to help them, but told them that I needed to get a closer look at the engine. And they agreed, at which point I walked up and got onto the platform. And the closer I got to it, the more I realized that these people had no idea what this engine was; they were still trying to figure it out. I could tell that it didn’t belong to us. And when I was about three feet away, the first thing I noticed was a perfect shadow of myself on the engine. And what did I tell you earlier?
ROBERT: There were no shadows anywhere.
DAVID: Right. So how is my shadow showing up on this thing? And stranger still was that the shadow moved about a half a second behind me. That really got my attention. And I thought, “If this is what I think it isÉa heat sensitive recognition alloy,” And then I realized we don’t have [any] known material that could do that. So I looked up at the engine and I asked for permission to climb to the top because I wanted to see the damaged area. The thing had a hole about four feet in diameter in the side of it, and this was the area that most interested me. Now, think of a figure eight, and right where the two circles cross each other is the eye of the hurricane. That’s where the damage was located on this engine. Knowing my own engine, I was assuming that this thing had experienced some kind of breach in the electromagnetic flux field that acts as the containment wall that harnesses the power of the reactor engine.
These engines basically function like a magnetic bottle or sphere, and inside you have contained the power of the Sun or a hydrogen bomb continuously detonating. It’s not impossible to figure out how this works, because it occurs all the time out in space. Black holes can suck an entire galaxy full of suns into their point of singularity. Obviously a black hole has no problem containing that fusion energy.
What I did was mathematically figure out a way to artificially create a synthetic black hole. And because it is based on a figure-eight design, once it has stabilized it will always implode and consume itself without pulling everything around it in. But this engine at Area 51 had lost its stabilization in the figure eight, and that’s why I was so curious about the hole.
The way this engine was built was really cool. There wasn’t a single screw or rivet or weld seam anywhere on this entire device from end to end. It looked like it was grown rather than assembled. And I thought, “Man, whoever built this really has some incredible manufacturing techniques.”
Over the years, I have been able to replicate this process to some extent in an experiment that I built. It flew on board one of the 1993 Space Shuttle missions. It was part of the GAS (Get Away Special) program. That’s where you rent space in a 55-gallon drum for your project. The first thing I did was melt alloys together, and when you spin them in a weightless environment you can create any type of dimension you want, because I figured out a way to control this. There was always a question about how you shape liquid metals in a weightless environment. It’s a container-less process. It’s a real phenomenon.
ROBERT: You made a form without using a mold?
DAVID: Right. I figured out how to take a fluid glob floating in this weightless environment and control it. For every geometric shape and dimension, we know there is a corresponding sound wave. So I created this machine that was attached to a Moog synthesizer, which allowed me to replicate any shape I wanted simply by playing notes. This machine generates interlocking standing sound waves that vibrate, even in space, and which allowed me to shape the liquid metal.
That process proved to me what I had suspected when I first saw the engine at Area 51 in 1971: whoever built that engine used this process. This raised an even larger question in my mind. Who could have built an engine of this size in space? I have never discussed this publicly. But I was curious and I wanted to replicate that engine design, which was clearly built in a weightless environment.
ROBERT: Which means outer space?
DAVID: It would have to be deep space. Like intergalactic deep space, away from any planets or stars.
ROBERT: I guess you wouldn’t want your design process to encounter any gravitational fields?
DAVID: Right. The less the better. They are called “gravity conventions”. They didn’t want any gravity convection currents to show up in the alloy shaping process.
Anyway, when I placed my hands on the engine to pull myself up, I began climbing up the exterior of the engine, which was designed with an exoskeletal structure. The best way to explain this is to look at the designs of H. R. Geiger; he is the designer that created all the sets of the Alien movies.
ROBERT: What happened when you touched it?
DAVID: It was warm, which didn’t make any sense at all. It was so cold in that hangar, you could almost see your breath. I looked around on the floor and saw no power lines. And I asked myself, “How in the world could this alloy be staying warm?” And it was really hard. It was the hardest material I have ever touched. It didn’t give anywhere. The surface cohesion tension on it felt more like a baby’s skin. It was supple, but hard and warm.
ROBERT: That is weird, especially for metal.
DAVID: Yeah, and I was thinking, “What the heck is going on?” And as I was crawling up everywhere, I touched the surface and it reacted. When I turned and looked at the Air Force guys, all their mouths were hanging open. And so I assumed that the reaction they were seeing hadn’t happened for them, because wherever I touched it there were these really amazing blue and white swirls moving down through the hull of this thing. It looked like wavelengths that you see on an oscilloscope. When I pulled my hands off, it stopped. And I said, “Wow! This thing is reacting!”
So I continued to climb up until I reached the centre area. It had these vertebrae that branched off, cascading, fiber-like. They looked almost like fiber optic cables filled with some kind of fluid. They were very small tubes the size of angel hair pasta. There were millions of these things cascading over the hull of this engine. And I thought, “Boy, these patterns look familiar.” Then it dawned on me: they looked like neural synaptic firing patterns. There were millions of them going out everywhere on this thing. So I thought that maybe the engine was designed with an exoskeletal brain. And at that point, I reached out and grabbed some of the fibers and found that they were really tough and that there was fluid in them. And wherever I touched, no matter what I touched, there would be a reaction to it like a tremor of visual lights.
As I walked down into the damaged area of this thing, I finally said to the Air Force guys, “You know, this thing is a power plant. It is more than a propulsion system. It is a power plant. It obviously came out of a big vehicle, a craft of some kind. Where is that craft located?” Now they were not happy with me, but I continued. “A craft like this must have had a crew. What did you do with those people? This is clearly not American or Soviet technology, is it, boys? This is some kind of extraterrestrial entity. How old is it? Did you dig it up? Is it millions of years old or did you guys shoot it down?” And man, they got really upset. They told the MPs to take me down off the engine. As I was coming down, I was really pissed off. I was so pissed off because I had had enough.
At this point, I knew where I was. I knew that this engine was from somewhere other than Earth. I didn’t know where it had come from or how long they had had it, but it was obvious that my whole world was coming undone in that moment. I grew up in a world where the government would never lie. We had just landed on the Moon the year before. And here the Air Force had this technology and they weren’t saying anything, which made me furious.
ROBERT: Let’s back up a little. When you were on the engine, there was something that you saw, which you told me about in a previous conversation and which I found really fascinating. How and when did you see the interior of the reactor? Can you describe the crystals?
DAVID: What happened was I asked for permission to inspect the damaged area inside of the engine where it had been blown open. They hesitated on that request.
ROBERT: This was before you made them angry?
DAVID: Before I came out of that damaged area, totally pissed off, because when I got down in this thing, they told me to make it brief. So I got down and looked in the area. Man, there was some incredible-looking technology up and down this engine. And I couldn’t get more than three feet into it before I came up to a wall. And this wall, it was like the iris/shutter on acamera lens. It had lots of interlocking fans that contract or expand – and I’ve always thought that would make the coolest door. Well, there was this little round pod-thing there, and I just put my hand on it; and when I did, the wall just shuttered open.
ROBERT: It opened for you?
DAVID: It made a slight noise.
ROBERT: Maybe that’s where they got the inspiration for the door design you saw at Area 51?
DAVID: It could have been. I have no idea. But I got to look deeper into the engine. And what I saw in there was fascinating. It was such a trip being there because whenever I worked on my fusion engines, everything was so small; some parts I even had to machine under a microscope. Now, here was a replication of my basic design that was big enough to walk through. But man, this thing. what I had manufactured to achieve a certain function in my engine, this thing would have something else in its place. And this something else would be stuff I couldn’t begin to recognize. There were these crystals that were facing each other. They were fabulous-looking crystals. And they were integrated into this plasma duct type thing.
And in my engine, I had such a hard time getting a cyclotron to curve the blast waves I needed for propulsion. This thing had some kind of venting system that allowed them to flush their plasma out through an area that looked like the gills of a shark. The whole thing was so organic looking. It looked like a living machine – both organic and inorganic incorporated together. It was an oxymoron. How do you explain something like that? So anyway, I just got to see a lot of stuff in there that I couldn’t believe.
ROBERT: How many minutes were you in the interior alone?
DAVID: I don’t think I was in there more than five minutes. I know that doesn’t sound like a very long time, but it felt like I was in there a week.
ROBERT: And I believe you said you have a photographic memory.
DAVID: Yeah. I was just clicking non-stop. I was just absorbing it all in. And when I left, I didn’t touch that pod, right? But as soon as I passed that area, the door closed behind me. I never told the Air Force guys that I went into that part of the engine. I don’t think they ever knew there was another compartment in the interior that they could enter.
ROBERT: Why?
DAVID: I don’t believe that it allowed them access. There was a presence, though, about this engine. Just like you have a presence of a person and an entity. It just had its own. So I came out of the engine and was totally pissed off because I knew there was no way we could have built it. It was using some kind of crystal containment field power that we can’t even imagine. I would have to work on it for a long time to figure out how they were doing the fractions. Where I was using the plasma in a linear mode, this thing was designed to go any direction it wanted with its plasma flows. That’s impossible.
ROBERT: With a rocket?
DAVID: Yeah. This thing could do anything. And I really wondered who in the hell built it. So as I started coming down the outside of the engine. After we got into a big argument, I noticed that now, wherever I touched the engine, it was no longer reacting with the nice blue and white swirls of energy. They had changed to a reddish-orange flame-looking pattern. And as I calmed down to try and figure out what that was, it changed back to the bluish white, more tranquil-looking pattern.
That’s when I realized that the engine is not just heat sensitive; it reacts to mental waves. It is symbiotic and will lock on to how you think and feel. This allows it to interface with you. And that means this thing was aware. And it knew it was there. And I knew that it knew I was there.
About the Interviewee:
David Adair is an internationally recognized expert in space technology spinoff applications for industry and commercial use. At age 11, he built his first of hundreds of rockets which he designed and test-flew. At 17, he won “The Most Outstanding in the Field of Engineering Sciences” award from the US Air Force. At 19, he designed and fabricated a state-of-the-art mechanical system for changing jet turbine engines for the US Navy that set world-record turnaround times that still stand today. David Adair is the president of Intersect, Inc., and he lectures and provides consulting services to companies and organizations that want to know how to use the latest cutting-edge technological advances.
Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 9, Number 5 (Aug-Sept 2002)
Excerpt from an interview with David Adair by Robert M. Stanley
HE TRIED TO TELL US
In his 1961 farewell address, 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, warned this nation of the impending dangers of the Military-Industrial Complex. And though the U.S. military now occupies more than 140 countries and has saturated the sea with ships, the skies with bombers and the land with troops, the full extent of Eisenhower’s warning lies beneath the surface of things, tied up in projects that many military personnel are not even aware of. The implications of bringing black budget projects into the light are so vast and so profound, the Military-Industrial-Complex has expended every possible effort to keep these projects secret, the very notion of their existence scorned by the talking head skeptics, marginalizing the conversation into the territory of ‘conspiracy theory.’ So while there have been dedicated attempts to bring this information forward for over sixty years, those who have dared to make public the secrets of the temple have paid with their lives. Would this be the case if this information were trivial?
Expressing concern about the growing size and cost of the American defense establishment since he became president in 1953, Eisenhower chronicled the evolving defense establishment following the end of World War II, emphasizing that no longer could the U.S. afford the “emergency improvisation” that characterized its preparations for war against Germany and Japan. Instead, the country was “compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions.” Admitting that the Cold War made clear the “imperative need for this development,” he was gravely concerned about “the acquisition of unwarranted influence…by the military-industrial complex.” He asked the American people to guard against the “danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
This blatant speech shocked constituents who viewed the man who led the country to victory in Europe in World War II and guided the nation through some of the darkest moments of the Cold War as acting unnecessarily negative towards America’s defenses. But as America has transformed into a global, transnational Empire, Eisenhower’s warning seems more and more obvious in hindsight, and has stuck with us every step of the way. World War II and the ensuing Cold War resulted in the development of a large and powerful defense establishment that has indeed weakened and destroyed the very institutions and principles it was designed to protect, exactly as Eisenhower warned.
Gabrielle Lafayette is a journalist, writer, and executive producer for the Outer Limits Radio Show.
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Diamond Batteries Made of Nuclear Waste Can Generate Power For Thousands of Years
Diamond Batteries Made of Nuclear Waste Can Generate Power For Thousands of Years
Credit: University of Bristol
New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, is able to generate a small electrical current.
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IN BRIEF
Scientist have developed an ingenious means of converting nuclear power plant waste (76,430 metric tons in the US alone) into sustainable diamond batteries.
These long-lasting batteries could be a clean and safe way to power spacecraft, satellites, and even medical devices.
NUCLEAR DIAMONDS
Scientists from the University of Bristol Cabot Institute are hitting two birds with one stone, thanks to their lab-made diamond that can generate electricity and is made from upcycled radioactive waste.
In nuclear power plants, radioactive uranium is split in a process called nuclear fission. When the atoms are split, heat is generated, and that heat then vaporizes water into steam that turns electricity-generating turbines.
A severe downside of this process is the creation of dangerous radioactive waste, which ultimately deposits in the graphite core that it is housed in. Today, this nuclear contamination is safely stored away until it stops being radioactive…and with a half-life of 5,730 years, that takes quite a while.
The scientists found a way to heat the radioactive graphite to release most of the radioactivity in a gaseous form. The gas is subjected to high temperature and low pressures that turn it into a man-made diamond.
When these diamonds are placed near a radioactive field, they generate a small electrical current. The developers enclosed the diamond battery in another non-radioactive diamond to absorb the harmful emissions, which in turn allowed for the generation of even more electricity, making the battery nearly 100 percent efficient.
POWERING THE FUTURE
The nuclear diamond battery has an incredible lifetime, and will only be half used up by the year 7746. This makes it an ideal power solution for “situations where it is not feasible to charge or replace conventional batteries,” said Tom Scott, a materials science professor at Cabot Institute.
Flight times of planes, satellites, or spacecraft could increase with such a lasting battery. Medical devices like pacemakers and the artificial pancreas could become more reliable, empowering users to live their lives more fully.
The development also presents an incredibly efficient way to treat radioactive waste. Within the past 40 years, the US has amassed 76,430 metric tons (84,250 tons) of this waste.
Supplying the Earth with electricity is a daunting task even without a focus on sustainability. Now, it looks like experts are on the right track with this nuclear-powered diamond battery. It’s almost like the holy grail of electricity generation, or as Scott puts it, “no emissions generated and no maintenance required, just direct electricity generation.”
What are they hiding? Brexit blamed for latest delay in release of UK UFO ‘X-Files’
What are they hiding? Brexit blamed for latest delay in release of UK UFO ‘X-Files’
THE Pre-Brexit general election has been blamed for yet another delay to the release of British classified UFO files that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) appears reluctant to let go of.
Conspiracy theorists claim the Government is stalling and using any excuse to stop the release of the files as they may contain a smoking gun piece of evidence about alien visitations of Earth.
Last year the 18 files were sent to the National Archives for release to the public, but then mysteriously sent back to the MoD for further censure.
The latest release date was set to be this March, but, again they failed to materialise.
Now, the National Archives has blamed the upcoming general election – called to give Theresa May a mandate for Brexit – for further delays, according to Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de.
They are believed to date from 1971-76 and 1996-2000, and 2004.
It is also hoped there are further files from the December 1980 Rendlesham Forest UFO incident that will shed more light on the bizarre case, when US military officer claim to have seen a UFO land.
A National Archives spokesman spoke to the German frontier science and the paranormal news blog.
He said: “Due to the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.
“We are working to ensure that the files are ready for release as soon after this period as is possible: hopefully around the middle of June.”
In 2013, the MoD claimed to have released all of its UFO related formerly classified files, after beginning declassification in 2008, but it later emerged in 2014 it had held back the 18 still to be released.
A series of promised dates have come and gone, leading to speculation about what they must contain.
In a blog about the delay, Andreas Müller, editor of Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de, wrote: “Since it became known in Autumn of 2014 that contrary to the claim that the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released all of its formerly secret UFO-files already back in 2013, still 18 files of the MoD’s former UFO-Bureau files were held back.
“UFO-researches as well as historians look forward to the release of those files, that has been postponed repeatedly since then.
“As even the latest release date given – March 2017 – has passed.”
Nick Pope, who was formerly employed by the MoD to investigate the UFO phenomenon, until 2009, told Express.co.uk: “As a former civil servant I understand the reasons for this, but the UFO community will doubtless be suspicious of this latest delay.
“When I made the official announcement of the declassification and release of these UFO files in May 2008, the thinking was the the release project would take two or three years.
“Now, over nine years later, I understand people’s frustration and can see why this delay is generating conspiracy theories.
“I hope the release of the last files can be fast-tracked after the election.”
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Extraterrestrial UFO Are Real : Ben Rich Lockheed Skunk Works Director Admitted In His Deathbed Confession
Extraterrestrial UFO Are Real : Ben Rich Lockheed Skunk Works Director Admitted In His Deathbed Confession
Extraterrestrial UFO Are Real : Ben Rich Lockheed Skunk Works Director Admitted In His Deathbed Confession]
Ben Rich Lockheed Skunk Works director had admitted in his Deathbed Confession that Extraterrestrial UFO visitors are real and the U.S. Military travel among stars.
According to article published in May 2010 issue of the Mufon UFO Journal [Link] – Ben Rich, the “Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber” and former head of Lockheed Skunk Works, had once let out information about Extraterrestrial UFO Visitors Are Real And U.S. Military Travel To Stars
What he said might be new to many people today, but he revealed the information before his death in January 1995. His statements helped to give credence to reports that the U.S. military has been flying vehicles that mimic alien craft. The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
1 : “Inside the Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building technologically advanced airplanes of small number and of high class for highly secret missions.”
2 : “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”
3 : “We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.”
4 : When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected?” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!”
Ben Rich Lockheed Former Director knew of extraterrestrial UFO visitors
Lockheed “Skunk Works” former director knew the Roswell extraterrestrial UFO influenced designs of Testor model kits for Roswell UFO models, and U.S. top secret aircraft. According to a CNI News report by Colorado resident Michael Lindemann, the design information was derived from forensic illustrations and numerous witness testimonies about the Roswell UFO, provided by William L. “Bill” McDonald.
In an e-mail, dated July 29, 1999, apparently addressed to Lindemann, McDonald referenced an excerpt of a discussion with Harold Puthoff, founder of the highly classified U.S. “remote viewing” program.
McDonald said: “Well Hal, you asked for it! Now that legendary Lockheed engineer and chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation, John Andrews, is dead, I can announce that he personally confirmed the design connection between the Roswell Spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), spyplanes, Joint Strike Fighters, and Space Shuttles.
Andrews was a close personal friend of “Skunk Works” director Ben Rich — the hand-picked successor of Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson and the man famous for the F-117 Nighthawk “Stealth” fighter, its “half-pint” prototype the “HAVE BLUE”, and the top-secret F-19 Stealth Interceptor. Before Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my questions to him.
Dr. Ben R. Rich former Lockheed Skunk Works director confirmed:
1. There are 2 types of UFOs — the ones we build and ones ‘they’ build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actual “hand-me-downs.” The Government knew and until 1969 took an active hand in the administration of that information. After a 1969 Nixon “purge”, administration was handled by an international board of directors in the private sector…
2. Nearly all “biomorphic” aerospace designs were inspired by the Roswell spacecraft — from Kelly’s SR-71 Blackbird onward to today’s drones, UCAVs, and aerospace craft…
3. It was Ben Rich’s opinion that the public should not be told [about UFOs and extraterrestrials] . He believed they could not handle the truth — ever. Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the “international corporate board of directors” dealing with the “Subject” could represent a bigger problem to citizens’ personal freedoms under the United States Constitution than the presence of off-world visitors themselves.”
Lindemann added that “Bill McDonald received the above information from Andrews from 1994 until their last phone call near Christmas in 1998.” Lindemann also noted “It should also be known that Dr. Ben R. Rich attended a public aerospace designers and engineers conference in 1993 before his illness overwhelmed him in which he stated — in the presence of MUFON Orange County Section Director Jan Harzan and many others that – ‘We’ (i.e., the U.S. aerospace community/military industrial complex) had in it’s possession the technology to “take us to the stars”.
Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer USAF, and CIA Contractor Admitted : UFO Are Real
Don Phillips, “These UFOs were huge and they would just come to a stop and do a 60 degree, 45 degree, 10 degree turn, and then immediately reverse this action”. During the Apollo landing, Neil Armstrong says, “They’re here. They are right over there and looking at the size of those ships., it is obvious they don’t like us being here”. When I was working with the Skunk Works with Kelly Johnson, we signed an agreement with the government to keep very quiet about this.
Anti-gravitational research was going on. We know that there were some captured craft from 1947 in Roswell, they were real. And, yes, we really did get some technology from them. And, yes, we really did put it to work. We knew each other from what we call an unseen industry. We can term it black, deep black, or hidden.
The knowledge I have of these technologies came from the craft that were captured here. I didn`t see the craft, nor did I see the bodies, but I certainly know some of the people that did. There was no question that there were beings from outside the planet.
And if alien were hostile, with their weaponry they could have destroyed us a long time ago .We got these things that are handhold scanners that scan the body and determine what the condition is. We can also treat from the same scanner.
I can tell you personally that we’ve been working on them. And we have ones that can diagnose and cure cancer. One of the purposes I had for founding my technology corporation in 1998 was to bring forth these technologies that can clean the air and can help get rid of the toxins, and help reduce the need for so much fossil fuel. Yes, it is time. I can tell you personally that it has already started. pp. 375 ,383.
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Latest UFO Sighting Video Shows Disc-Shaped Object At A Very High Rate Of Speed
Latest UFO Sighting Video Shows Disc-Shaped Object At A Very High Rate Of Speed
A new video footage from a group of UFO researchers appears to show a strange object hovering past the International Space Station.
SecureTeam 10, who run their YouTube channel with nearly 900,000 subscribers, claims that a disc-shaped UFO whizzed past the station at an incredible speed.
NASA has issued a statement regarding the alleged anomalies around the ISS saying that they are distortions in a lens and don’t represent any space alien life.
Tyler Glockner, who is behind the voice on SecureTeam 10 videos, said that the latest discovered UFO moved as if it knew the camera was recording.
Reported UFO sightings have increased in recent years. The book “U.F.O. Sightings Desk Reference” revealed that UFO sightings in the U.S. rose to 11,868 in 2015 from 3,479 in 2001.
According to the book’s synopsis on Amazon, it presents data and analysis for over one hundred thousand sightings of UFOs reported during the first 15 years of the 21st century.
SecureTeam 10 has also recently posted videos on an alleged alien tank and a cigar-shaped disc over Paris. Despite openly running videos based on conspiracy theories, their YouTube channel has nearly 900,000 subscribers.
In September of 2015, scientists announced that the star known as KIC 8462852 (aka. “Tabby’s Star” or “Boyajian’s Star”) was experiencing a strange dip in luminosity. At the time, astronomers indicated that this mysterious behavior could be the result of comets transiting in front of the star, but other (perhaps more hopeful) individuals claimed that it could also be the result of an alien megastructure.
This led to a flurry of studies and articles that sought to offer entirely natural explanations for what has been observed. Even SETI weighed in, indicating that they would begin searching for indications of radio signals coming this mysterious star. But after two years and multiple studies that offer explanations other an alien Dyson Sphere (or some other type of megastructure), the star is at it again!
The first indications that the star was dimming again were reported late last month by the Fairborn Observatory in Arizona. The robotic telescope spotted what might be a dip in brightness on April 24th, 2017. Within a week, the brightness returned to normal levels, but the event (known as “Event 1” in the star’s light curve, shown below) caught the interest of astronomers around the world.
Preliminary analysis of incoming data of KIC 8462852, showing the apparent dip.
Credit: Matthew Muterspaugh/Tennessee State University/CEISEM
Then on May 18th, a more significant drop began, which prompted the observatory’s scientists to put out the call to observatories around the world to begin turning their telescopes to Tabby’s Star. According to the alert issued by the Observatory, the star had already dimmed by 2% after just one night of observation. As soon as the Sun set in their respective regions, observatories around the world began monitoring the star and recording its light curve.
The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT), which was regularly monitoring the star already, also joined the observation party. While this was happening, Tabetha Boyajian (for whom the star is named) called Jason Wright – an associate professor of astronomy at Pennsylvania State University – to tell him the news. Wright received the call on Friday, May 19th, at 4 a.m., at which point, he was told that the dimming had reached 3%.
Wright then tweeted the news out 24 minutes later (4:24 a.m. EDT) to let the world know that the most mysterious star in the known Universe was acting up again! Hours later, Wright and SETI Director Andrew Siemion also held a live webcast to update the public on everything that was being learned and to explain precisely what the scientific community was looking for.
As Wright said during the course of the webcast, which began at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT), the goal here is to obtain a “spectral fingerprint” from the star:
“Tabby’s star… went through a lot of very strange dimming events that got up to 22% dimmer during the Kepler Mission, and since then we’ve been eagerly awaiting another dip. And the reason that we’ve been waiting for that is that whatever is causing the star to get dimmer will leave a spectral fingerprint behind. So if it’s a lot of dust between us and the star that’s passing by, it should block more blue light than red light. If there’s gas in that dust, that gas should absorb very specific wavelengths. So we’ve been eager to see one of these changes, these dips in the star, so we can take the spectra.
In other words, if we’re dealing with entirely natural phenomena – like clouds of debris, comets, a consumed planet or anything other than an alien megastructure – that will become clear from the spectra we obtain from the star. If, however, the spectra does not conform to these parameters, we will once again be back to speculating about the possible cause. And you can bet your bottom dollar the alien megastructure crowd will be out in full force!
As Wright went on to explain, during the preceding week, there were indications that something was happening around the star. However, none of it was significant enough for observatories to go from “yellow alert” – i.e. in a heightened state of readiness – to actively training their telescopes on the star. The reason for this is that telescopes have their observation time scheduled weeks or even months in advance.
Artist’s impression of an orbiting swarm of dusty comet fragments around Tabby’s Star.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
As such, no one can hit the override button and demand that their telescopes be trained on a new target without having a very good reason. However, on Thursday, the staff at Pennsylvania State University were waiting for data that would indicate if the dip was really happening. By Friday, in the early morning hours, that is precisely what they got! As Wright recounted during the broadcast:
“[At] about 4 a.m. this morning I got a phone call from [Tabitha Boyajian] that Fairborn Observatory in Arizona had confirmed that the star was 3 percent dimmer than it normally is. That is enough that we are absolutely confident that this is no statistical fluke. We’ve now got it confirmed at multiple observatories, I think.”
So far, several observatories have provided spectra that indicates that the star really is in the process of dimming. And in the coming days and weeks, additional observatories are expected to join in. This may include the Green Bank Observatory, which will collect radio observations, and even space-based observatories like the Swift Space Telescope – which will provide both optical and ultraviolet data.
Regardless of what they find, you can expect we will be hearing about shortly thereafter! And in the meantime, be sure to check out the full live broadcast below:
By Matt Williams - . Matt Williams is the Curator of the Guide to Space for Universe Today, a regular contributor to HeroX, a science fiction author, and a Taekwon-Do instructor. He lives with his family on Vancouver Island in beautiful BC
Astronomers may have ruled out an alien megastructure as the likely cause behind KIC 8462852's strange dimming, but it's still mysterious -- and that's partly due to the lack of live data (as live as you can get for a star 1,277 light years away, at least). How do you understand what's going on when you have to rely solely on historical info that doesn't even account for the star's spectrum? Thankfully, researchers are getting that big chance: they've caught the star in mid-dimming, and they have numerous telescopes trained on it. If they can record the spectrum before and after the oddball behavior, they may have a better idea of the root cause.
Scientists don't expect to find comets. They've mostly ruled that out given that the dimming has taken place for several decades or more. However, the spectral data could at least point them in the right direction. If there's consistent spectral dimming, it would point to a solid object like a planet. More uneven dimming, meanwhile, could point to dust or gas as the culprit.
A definitive answer isn't all that likely, at least not without extended analysis. With that said, just having a general idea of what's involved could be enough to shoot down wilder theories and narrow the focus. That, in turn, could improve humanity's overall understanding of the cosmos and prepare for the next time researchers spot something they can't immediately explain.
Plumes of gas erupting out of Enceladus — a small moon with an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust — contain hydrogen. Scientists infer a lot from that: that there are hydrothermal chemical reactions similar to those that occur at hot fissures at the ocean bottoms on Earth.
On Earth at least, hydrothermal vents thrive with microbial life, offering up the potential that icy moons far from Earth — called “ocean worlds” by NASA — could be habitable.
“That’s just going to be a tremendous opportunity to test our theories and see if there’s life there,” said James L. Green, director of planetary science at NASA.
This is the latest discovery by Cassini, which is heading into its final months after 13 years of exploring Saturn, its moons and rings. On April 22, Cassini begins a journey that will take it between the planet and its rings for 22 orbits before its mission finally ends with a crash into Saturn’s atmosphere in September.
Cassini’s findings also show that levels of carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane measured in the Enceladus plume were out of equilibrium, an imbalance that could provide an energy source that organisms could tap into for food, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its final flyby of Saturn’s Enceladus moon on Saturday.
“It indicates there is chemical potential to support microbial systems,” said J. Hunter Waite Jr., program director for the space science and engineering division at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and lead author of the Science paper.
In a separate paper published Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, another team of researchers, using the Hubble Space Telescope, once again spotted what appears to be a similar plume rising from Europa, one of Jupiter’s big moons that also possesses an ocean beneath an icy exterior.
Cassini had earlier found that there are seas of methane on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, a discovery that has inspired some scientists to suggest sending a boat there.
At a mere 310 miles wide, Enceladus was considered too small to be geologically interesting; scientists suspected that its interior had frozen solid long ago. But 11 years ago, Cassini spotted plumes rising from the south pole region, one of the biggest, most surprising discoveries of the mission.
The tidal forces of Saturn pulling and squeezing Enceladus appear to generate enough heat to melt the ice. From additional Cassini observations, scientists concluded that not only is there a pool of water near the south pole of Enceladus to generate the plumes, but a global ocean that lies beneath the moon’s ice.
In October 2015, Cassini swooped to within 30 miles of the surface of Enceladus, and one of its instruments collected and identified particles in the plume spray. It was mostly water molecules, but Dr. Waite and his colleagues also found hydrogen molecules, up to 1.4 percent by volume.
A NASA illustration shows how scientists studying the plumes at the south pole of Enceladus think water may be interacting with minerals in the moon’s rock. Such hydrothermal chemical reactions are similar to those that occur at hot fissures at the ocean bottoms on Earth. On Earth, hydrothermal vents thrive with microbial life.CreditNASA
While hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, it was not expected to be found in any quantity on a moon as small as Enceladus, where the gravity is too slight to hold on to the gas for long.
“Just finding hydrogen was a surprise,” said Christopher R. Glein, a geochemist at the Southwest Research Institute and another author of the Science paper.
After considering a variety of ways that could continually generate hydrogen, the scientists concluded that hydrothermal reactions offered the most likely explanation for producing that much of the gas. Each water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Geophysical models indicated that as hot water flows past the rocks, minerals in the rocks were grabbing the oxygen atoms and releasing hydrogen, the scientists reported.
There appeared to be enough energy to support microbes. “This is the first time we’ve been able to make a calorie count of an alien ocean,” Dr. Glein said. Asked what that calorie count was, Dr. Glein said the energy available was the caloric equivalent of 300 pizzas per hour.
“This is a great result for the habitability of Enceladus,” said Christopher P. McKay, a planetary scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., who was not involved with the research.
Dr. McKay said the hydrogen levels are far above what microbes need.
Still, the presence of hydrogen does not prove that life exists on Enceladus. It might suggest the opposite.
SCIENCEOUT THEREBy JASON DRAKEFORD, DENNIS OVERBYE and JONATHAN CORUM9:47Dark Oceans: Surveying Saturn’s Moons
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Dark Oceans: Surveying Saturn’s Moons
In a dozen years orbiting Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has changed our understanding of liquid in the outer solar system.
By JASON DRAKEFORD, DENNIS OVERBYE and JONATHAN CORUM on Publish DateOctober 28, 2015.
At hydrothermal vents on Earth, the hydrogen is quickly gobbled up by microbes. That so much hydrogen is rising through Enceladus’s ocean and reaching space could mean there is no life on the little moon to take advantage of it. At a department meeting, say, “if you have those stacks of pizzas, they disappear,” said Mary A. Voytek, head of NASA’s astrobiology program.
Or life could exist, but is limited by other factors. “If there is biology there, it isn’t very active,” Dr. Voytek said.
Scientists will not get any more data for a long time.
Cassini will make no more close flybys of Enceladus. The spacecraft is low on fuel, and the mission will come to a close in September. For the last few months, Cassini has shifted to a different orbit that will allow it to probe the interior properties of Saturn and take a close look at the inner part of its rings.
NASA has at present no plans to return to Saturn or Enceladus. But it is currently soliciting proposals for a mission with a price tag of up to $850 million, and one of the areas in which NASA specified an interest is a mission to explore Enceladus and Titan.
The Enceladus findings also aid the design of Europa Clipper, NASA’s next big planetary mission, which is to launch in the 2020s to study Europa.
In the new Astrophysical Journal Letters paper, researchers led by William B. Sparks of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore report on a Hubble Space Telescope observation in 2016 that revealed a likely plume of water vapor rising from the same spot on Europa where the researchers saw a similar plume two years earlier.
In addition, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s found that this location on Europa was unusually warm, and scientists would not be surprised to find hydrothermal vents there, too. “The geophysics is similar everywhere,” Dr. Voytek said.
Colonel Charles I. Halt returns to Rendlesham Forest.
Picture: TOM POTTER
“It brings back old memories,” said retired US Air Force colonel Charles Halt on his return to the spot where, in December 1980, he was at the centre of a UFO mystery in Rendlesham Forest.
Rendlesham Forest.
Picture: TOM POTTER
As deputy commander of Bentwaters and Woodbridge bases, Mr Halt wrote a memo to the Ministry of Defence describing the incident, and recorded what became known as the Halt Tape – made public the following year.
Colonel Charles I. Halt returns to Rendlesham Forest, with Dawn Holloway, John Hanson, Gary Baker and David Young.
Picture: TOM POTTER
“I never intended for it to get out,” said Mr Halt, who carried out his investigation on December 28, 1980, during which he saw mysterious lights like those witnessed by three airmen on security patrol two nights earlier.
Colonel Charles I. Halt returns to Rendlesham Forest. Picture: TOM POTTER
“I did all I could to keep my memo private.
Colonel Charles I. Halt, Gary Baker and John Hanson (foreground) retrace the route of US airmen in Rendlesham Forest in December 1980.
Picture: TOM POTTER
“When the three individuals came back, the desk sergeant and I had a chuckle and agreed there must be a logical explanation.
Rendlesham Forest. Picture: TOM POTTER
“The next day, we realised all the military cops were looking to the skies. On the third night, [Lieutenant] Bruce Englund came in and said ‘it’s back’. That’s when I became involved.
Gary Baker and Colonel Charles I. Halt walk the UFO trail in Rendlesham Forest. Picture: TOM POTTER
“I was very much a sceptic and expected to find nothing.
Gary Baker and Colonel Charles I. Halt walk the UFO trail in Rendlesham Forest.
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“Whatever we saw was under intelligent control,” said Mr Halt, who rubbished claims he was merely chasing lighthouse beams from Orford Ness.
David Young, John Hanson, Gary Baker, Colonel Charles I. Halt and Dawn Holloway in Rendlesham Forest.
Picture: TOM POTTER
“The story has become muddied over the years. I still don’t know why the CIA turned up here after the first night – and what was done to the three airmen, who have never been the same.”
In 2015, one of the airmen, John Burroughs, won compensation for illnesses he blamed on exposure to radiation from the event.
Mr Halt returend to Rendlesham with John Hanson and Dawn Holloway – authors of the Haunted Skies books, currently working on a second edition of The Halt Perspective – and by local ufologist David Young and Gary Baker, radar operator at RAF Neatishead from 1978-1980.
Mr Baker, from Ipswich, had returned from leave at the end of 1980 for the aftermath of the incident. He claims to have been told “this never happened” by RAF officers, and that radar tapes and bridge logs from the evening of the incident disappeared.
“Whatever the radar picked up, it wasn’t a subject of interest for interceptor aircraft because it didn’t come from the east – this was the height of the Cold War.
“It would have been sensible to quash any evidence. If something had happened, and it wasn’t picked up, it would have showed we weren’t capable of dealing with something from ‘above’.
“Later, I read the MoD said the radar had been switched off at the time, which is a load of rubbish.
“I’m no UFO nut, but something extraordinary happened here – outside the parameters of manned aircraft.”
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Take Me To Your Artist
Take Me To Your Artist
SETI Institute artists are being inspired by our search for alien life.
By Meghan Bartels
If one thing animates scientists looking for life elsewhere in the universe, it is the power of cultural exchange—not just with alien species, but also, in more modest ways, among our own species. In 2010 Jill Tarter, then the director of the SETI Institute, met Charles Lindsay, a geologist turned artist, photographer, and musician who had just been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She told him about the wide-ranging research happening at the institute and invited him to visit its observatory. He became “a beta test,” as he put it, for the institute’s artist-in residence program.
Some of the products of that program are now on display at New Museum Los Gatos in California through March 2017. The exhibition, called “Making Contact,” shows what happens when contemporary artists and leading scientists exchange worldviews or, rather, universeviews. “There’s not an artist I’ve met who doesn’t think the idea of an artist-in-residence program at SETI Institute is just about the coolest thing they’ve ever heard,” said Lindsay, who is now director of the residency program. “The scientists to a person have loved it.”
Art can convey a deeper understanding of science rather than surface-level information.
So far, half a dozen artists have come through the program, with another half dozen doing their residency now. Each residency lasts two years—a year to meet and talk to some of the institute’s nearly 70 scientists, a year to create a project inspired by the science.
Astrobiologist Laurance Doyle, who has studied everything from extrasolar-planet detection to quantum effects in astronomy to humpback whale songs, said the program has made it more clear to him how art can convey a deeper understanding of science rather than surface-level information. “I can see the value of art a lot more clearly than I did before,” he said, adding that art conveys the motivation behind the science and helps people grasp what’s intriguing and exciting about it. He has applied some of these lessons to his own presentations.
We’ve selected three projects from the exhibition that explore what’s in the universe beyond our horizons.
DEAR DIARYArtist Martin Wilner’s interpretations of scientist Mark Showalter’s email correspondence (top, July 2015) and scientist Laurance Doyle’s email correspondence from November 2015. Martin Wilner and Sperone Westwater
“Making History,” by artist and psychiatrist Martin Wilner, looks at first glance like pages torn from a wall calendar. But there are no dates, no days of the weeks, and no notes about appointments or holidays. The artwork is a stylized representation of the daily email correspondence Wilner had with 12 SETI Institute scientists, one per month. In each would-be calendar square, Wilner has drawn something tied to the scientist’s email from that day. Over the course of the month, the eclectic mix of miniatures coalesces into a coherent picture. On the other side of the page, Wilner reproduces the entire correspondence in word art. “I’m not trying to depict the totality of a person’s mind or their life, but to capture something meaningful about this shared experience,” he said.
“I can see the value of art a lot more clearly than I did before.”
Some of the scientists chose which month to participate based on what would happen in their projects at that time. Mark Showalter, a leader of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, picked July 2015, the month of the spacecraft’s Pluto flyby. “I said, well it’s gotta be July because that’s going to be the most fascinating and stressful and interesting and overwhelming month of my professional career,” he said. Looking back on the experience, he says the correspondence helped support him during the month, as if “this psychiatrist was keeping an eye on me and making sure I was okay.”
SANDS OF TIMEArtist Rachel Sussman’s sand mandala of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Matt Reyes (top); Rachel Sussman (bottom)
“Cosmic Microwave Mandala,” by artist and photographer Rachel Sussman, is a Tibetan-style sand mandala of the cosmic microwave background, an image of the early universe before the first stars and galaxies. Whereas most published images of the microwave background subtract out the foreground light of our Milky Way galaxy, she left it in as what she calls a “red gash.” “It made sense to me that we would have this human-centric view of it,” she said. She added: “We’re always trying to anthropomorphize these things, to form a connection.”
“The process of making the piece was incredibly challenging,” Sussman said. She had injured her back and pushed herself to work until she noticed herself getting sloppy. “I kept thinking, well, as it should be, because the universe wasn’t created in a day,” she said. At the end of the exhibition, the mandala will be destroyed, as is traditional for Buddhist mandalas. Sussman hopes to send some of the sand home with museum visitors.
SOUNDSCAPESomnium audio and video interpretation of Kepler exoplanetary data. Danny Bazo, Karl Yerkes, and Marko Peljhan
“Somniuim” is an immersive piece by roboticists and multimedia artists Danny Bazo, Karl Yerkes, and Marko Peljhan. It reinterprets data from the Kepler mission, a space telescope that looks for exoplanets orbiting neighboring stars. (The piece is named for a science-fiction story written by the telescope’s namesake, astronomer Johannes Kepler.) The telescope records stellar brightness, looking for patterns that betray otherwise unseen companions, and the trio converted this brightness data to sound. They used raw light data, rather than the cleaned-up data, in order to capture the human quirks that shaped the data. “There’s a lot of stories in the data about when the telescope was turned on, when a particular piece failed, what was happening in a particular moment in time,” Bazo said. Yerkes added: “It also turned out to be a good aesthetic choice. It makes for a lot richer soundscape; there’s enough noise that it sounds, sometimes, like ocean waves.”
To create a visual piece to the installation, the trio etched a large glass disc with the first photograph Kepler took. The etching process used a laser—“literally using light as a hammer,” Bazo explained. “Like snowflakes, every single crater blast is unique. Under the microscope you can see this.” A microscope is programmed to wander across the disc like a lost record-player needle. As it travels, a screen displays its view, and speakers play matching Kepler data in acoustic form. “It kind of turns into a space orchestra,” Bazo said, conveying “this idea that we’re searching—almost like the cosmic radio dial.”
MEGHAN BARTELS is an editorial intern at Nautilus.
BEWARE OF DIE GLOCKE – NAZI “WONDER WEAPON” IN THE SKY
BEWARE OF DIE GLOCKE – NAZI “WONDER WEAPON” IN THE SKY
DID NORDIC-LOOKING STAR PEOPLE PROVIDE THE GERMANS WITH PLANS FOR A REVOLUTIONARY TIME TRAVEL DEVICE?
By Sean Casteel
“We cannot take credit for our record advancements in certain scientific fields alone; we have been helped by the people of other worlds . . . We should think of the craft in the New Mexico desert as more of a time machine than a space craft.” Professor Hermann Oberth, Father of Rocketry
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“When WWII ended, the Germans had several radical types of aircraft and guided missiles under development. The majority were in the most preliminary stages, but they were the only known craft that could even approach the performance of objects reported to UFO observers.” Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, USAF Project Blue Book
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Ground Zero with Host Clyde Lewis
On a recent a recent airing of “Ground Zero,” a nationally-syndicated, conspiracy-focused program heard in the U.S. on the I Heart Radio Network, researchers Tim Beckley and Tim Swartz shocked bombastic host Clyde Lewis and his thousands of listeners by declaring that NOT ALL unidentified flying objects originate from the stars. Some may have been developed here on Earth by a group of Nazi earthling scientists who were working in collaboration with a group of Nordic-looking extraterrestrials channeling information to the German nationalists as far back as 1919.
This, say Beckley and Swartz, is partially the reason why there is no “Disclosure” in our future, because of fear that the American military would have to admit they have known about these “wonder weapons” in our sky ever since thousands of Nazi scientists and engineers were “legally” ushered into the United States under the highly classified “Operation Paperclip” program, which exonerated them from their war crimes, while many hundreds of other Nazis were executed or fled from the Fatherland.
The new book, “Nazi UFO Time Travelers: Do We Owe The Future To The Fuhrer?” is guaranteed to stir up a hornet’s nest of controversy.
While admittedly a sensational hypothesis, Beckley and Swartz, in collaboration with several other investigators, lay out their complex concept in a just released book, “Nazi UFO Time Travelers: Do We Owe The Future To The Fuhrer?” published by the Conspiracy Journal, an imprint of Beckley’s Global Communications paranormal publishing complex. For over half a century, Beckley and his writers have taken on just about every conceivable topic related to UFOs and Fortean phenomena. The iconoclastic Beckley and Swartz, who also co-host a weekly podcast, Exploring The Bizarre on KCORradio.com, produced “Nazi UFO Time Travelers” with the added assistance of “Phenomena Magazine” editor Brian Allan from the UK and, in the interest of full disclosure, myself.
At the outset we should explain that we in no way intended to glorify the Third Reich. In some instances, others have used the Nazi UFO theory as a springboard to promote pro-Nazi propaganda, which was the farthest thing from our minds. But, in all honesty, this complex theory needs to be bought to the attention of others who refuse to examine any of the evidence, evidence which indicates that we could be dealing with a number of explanations for the UFO phenomenon all rolled up into one. But the uppermost concern here is the acknowledgement that some of the craft we have been seeing in our skies could have been manufactured in underground bunkers somewhere in Germany during various phases of the Second World War. And if, indeed, some of these craft can travel through time, well, then some of the older sightings of “wonder weapons” could be attributed to highly advanced, Germanic technology.
Die Glocke – “The Bell”
As Beckley explains the matter in the book’s opening chapter, “Beyond the mere ability to fly what may still seem like technologically ‘miraculous’ aircraft is the haunting, troublesome possibility that the ships also function as time machines, bringing the ability to travel in time within human reach for the first time in recorded history. Devices like Die Glocke (translated as ‘The Bell’) may have been used to bend both space and time and give the Nazis the unthinkable power to explore the past freely and even to CONTROL THE FUTURE. Are we plummeting headlong toward a world under fascist domination – a nightmare in which grinning, sadistic, jackbooted thugs are waiting for us to ‘catch up’ in time with our own predestined subjugation to open worldwide rule by the Nazis, who are possibly hiding out on the surface of the moon or in ‘secret cities’ at the Poles? Do they lie in wait for us as the clock on our freedom runs down?”
At several archaeological sites, many bell- and saucer-shaped artifacts have been uncovered. Could this be proof of Nazi time travelers?
The concept is a little tricky, but it involves the idea that the Nazis were able to move into the future and exert total control once they got there. That concept does, of course, sound “fringe” on the surface. But, according to Beckley, we should not assume that the Nazis acted “alone” in achieving such a feat. They obviously had help from “Aryan Space Brothers” who seized an opportunity to use the fledgling Nazis to their own otherworldly ends. In other words, the aliens made building a time machine simple enough that mere humans, once properly instructed and provided with the raw materials, could accomplish the task sufficiently well in real-world terms.
What their motives were is open to dispute and debate. Some see the Aryan “Space Brothers” as friendly visitors from the future, while others wonder why they would want to share their secrets with a very negative group of earthbound scientists. Perhaps they were deceived by the attractive mediums who they thought they may have been related to. Or they could have simply lacked the information required to see their channels’ coming evil before sharing their technology.
Maria Orsitsch, also known as Maria Orsic, was a famous medium who later became the leader of the Vril Society.
The history of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis has always included elements of their occult beliefs, but the new book goes back further in time, to the early 20th century, and the mediums associated with the Vril Society. The female mediums, referred to as true “Nordic beauties,” began to channel messages from extraterrestrials whose origin was many light years away. The messages included the technical
designs of advanced aircraft unheard of in their day in addition to a kind of “blueprint” for a time machine. Some years later, Hitler himself, along with several of his SS henchmen, came under the influence of the Vril Society as he began his rise to power in a Germany that was sick enough and corrupt enough to be mesmerized by his unchecked anti-Semitism and militaristic obsessions.
When combined with the high caliber of scientists the Nazis “recruited” to design weapons for the war effort, which included now-legendary names like Wernher von Braun and Hermann Oberth, the fact that they had alien “help” along the way makes some of their more exotic advances a little more plausible.
In fact, the scientists themselves talked openly about this alien help.
The father of rocketry, Professor Hermann Oberth, said the space program was being helped by “Them.”
“We cannot take credit for our record advancements in certain scientific fields alone; we have been helped by the people of other worlds . . . We should think of the craft in the New Mexico desert as more of a time machine than a spacecraft.”
So said Professor Hermann Oberth, one of the early fathers of rocketry and the mentor to the young Wernher von Braun.
Meanwhile, von Braun himself stated in 1959 that: “We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base of operations is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into a closer contact with those powers, and in six or nine months’ time it may be possible to speak with more precision on the matter.”
While neither Oberth nor von Braun specify that they were aided in their efforts by Aryan Space Brothers, they are nevertheless surprisingly candid in what they DID say for public consumption. Their openness may have been part of some larger strategy to steer the belief in UFOs in the direction of the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (or the “ETH” for short) and therefore away from a darker point of origin in the blueprints and designs of the Nazis. In the decades-long campaign of disinformation waged against the truth of the UFO phenomenon, Oberth and von Braun may have simply been firing another salvo of confusion and subterfuge. Or were they simply being sincere in reflecting on their own invention processes? Was there an undeniable alien presence working alongside them? Like most unanswered questions about the UFO phenomenon, the answers await their time.
Another fascinating thread of the story that Beckley holds fast to is this: In many alien abduction accounts, especially the early stories from the late 1950s and early 1960s, the UFO occupants are said to speak in German and to speak English with unmistakable German accents.
On Oct. 5, 1957, 48-year-old Reinhold Schmidt said he stumbled across a spaceship when his car stalled near the Platte River in Kearney, Neb. Schmidt said he was invited inside to chat with the humanoid occupants – four men and two women, who spoke both English and German.
The new book quotes a well-known contactee named Reinhold Schmidt who encountered an alien ship in Kearney, Nebraska, in 1957. After accepting the flying saucer captain’s invitation to come onboard, Schmidt heard the captain and crew speaking to one another in “High German,” a dialect that Schmidt had been versed in by his parents from his youth up. Apparently unaware that Schmidt could understand them, the beings spoke to him with their Deutsche accents intact and made no effort to disguise their voices.
The 1961 abduction of New Hampshire couple Betty and Barney Hill is much better known than Schmidt’s, but, when studying their case, there is an often overlooked moment when Barney, as he undergoes regressive hypnosis with post-trauma specialist Dr. Benjamin Simon, begins to panic when one of his alien abductors takes on the appearance of a Nazi in full uniform. Was this a glimpse into the aliens’ “true” agenda? As an African-American in the early 1960s, Barney was certainly familiar with the oppressive fears that come from being a victim of racism. Did his unconscious mind somehow conjure the Nazi image as an expression of those fears? Or was it intended as a grim warning of future totalitarian domination?
George Adamski
The Nazis also cast a shadow over even the beginnings of the contactee movement in the 1950s. Many people will be familiar with the 1952 meeting between George Adamski and the androgynous, blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryan Space Brother who called himself Orthon. But one may not know that that first contact in the California desert was facilitated by Adamski’s associate, George Hunt Williamson, who worked out the time and location for the landing in the days before it took place by using an Ouija board to communicate with the Space Brothers. Williamson was himself associated with right wing extremist William Dudley Pelley, an American Nazi-sympathizer who had served time in jail for sedition and anti-government rabblerousing. While Williamson would later disavow that he held any racist beliefs at the time, he did serve in Pelley’s employ writing and editing pro-fascist pamphlets and magazines.
From an imprint left in the soft soil. Adamski’s space contact, known as Orthon, had the symbol of the swastika etched onto the sole of his space boots.
Admittedly, no one wants to give up the utopian hopes that accompany belief in the Space Brothers. But the fact that their physical appearance embodied the ideal of Aryan or Nordic “good looks” is not an easy one to ignore. In the case of the desert encounter between Adamski and Orthon, we have this to consider as well: the new book “Nazi UFO Time Travelers” offers a line drawing based on a plaster-of-Paris cast – taken at the site of the meeting – of the boot print of Orthon. One can easily discern a pair of swastikas engraved into the sole of the alien’s boot, leading one to consider the possibility that the visiting alien followed “on the heels,” so to speak, of the Nazis defeated some short few years before.
I think at this point we now have a clearer idea of just what Beckley is aiming for in “Nazi UFO Time Travelers.” When one combines these seemingly disparate events with one another, they coalesce into a picture of the possible: Aryan aliens who matched their advanced knowledge and technology with willing scientists bent on controlling the world, a kind of fifty-fifty split between extraterrestrial and human efforts that resulted in the flying saucer phenomenon as we know it today.
But there is still more. One of the most generally agreed upon historical aspects of the Nazis/UFO theory concerns an aircraft called “Die Glocke,” which is German for “The Bell.” It was believed to be a product of both alien guidance and the work of topflight scientists like the aforementioned von Braun and Oberth.
A mock-up of this purported airship is featured on the cover of “Nazi UFO Time Travelers,” and it is indeed a bell-shaped aircraft, although what kind of propulsion system could enable such an ungainly monstrosity to fly at mind-bending speeds remains unknown. The Bell is also said to contain the time travel apparatus that is so essential to the story, but which remains an even deeper mystery than what kind of fuel propelled it through the skies. Some contend that the propulsion system is based either in the long sought after antigravity energy or some manipulation of electronic principles which can be tapped into throughout the universe.
According to witnesses, the object that crashed near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania was acorn shaped, much like the descriptions of the Nazi Bell.
In 1965, in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, numerous witnesses saw an unknown object crash in the woods outside town. Locals reported that some kind of government/military cleanup crew was on the scene nearly immediately, which indicates that the federal interlopers had been following the craft’s descent on radar. The witnesses say the object was put on the back of a flatbed truck under some kind of tarp covering and hurriedly hauled away. But it was still possible to discern that the clandestine cargo was a large, acorn-shaped object that could easily be said to have resembled the contours of the Nazis’ Bell. In fact, the similarity is so remarkable that one hesitates to conclude that it’s all a simple coincidence.
“Nazi UFO Time Travelers” also features a pair of chapters by Tim R. Swartz, who writes about a tangled trail of conspiracy and secrecy that involves pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla’s research being commandeered by Nazi spies in their desperate quest to develop weapons for defeating the Allies. Swartz also contributes several anecdotal accounts of ordinary people who have experienced time distortion, missing time and other similar anomalies while within close proximity to a UFO. Time does more than stand still at such moments, and Swartz gives some needed insight into how ordinary, non-Nazi witnesses also encounter a kind of time that dances outside our normal understanding.
Brian Allan
Brian Allan, a Scotsman of longstanding fame in the world of the paranormal, provides an introduction into the many elements of the Nazi/flying saucer theory that are essential to the reader’s understanding, a kind of primer in the basics. Allan’s writing is both caustic and amusing, which is treading a fine line when it comes to this kind of analysis of this heavy, some would say “grim,” subject.
So, with “Nazi UFO Time Travelers: Do We Owe The Future To The Fuhrer?,” a certain amount of license must be granted to the authors. While most UFO believers quite understandably like to ignore the links between flying saucers, alien abduction, Germanic origin stories and Nazi technology rumors, Beckley and his crew prefer to look these nightmarish ideas in the eye and report on them as objectively as possible.
Have we assembled a book of “inconvenient truths,” to paraphrase environmental activist and former vice-president Al Gore? It might be more accurate to say “frightening possibilities,” and then to commence praying for deliverance from a future world of high-tech Nazis leering at us from some beer garden around the next corner in time.
Roswell was niet het begin. Is dit waarom aliens ons in de gaten houden?
Roswell was niet het begin. Is dit waarom aliens ons in de gaten houden?
Filmsite IMDb deelde eerder deze maand een fragment uit de nieuwe documentaire Unacknowledged over de UFO-crash bij het plaatsje Roswell op Twitter.
“Roswell was niet het begin,” aldus verteller Giancarlo Esposito, de acteur die bekend is van de populaire series Breaking Bad en Better Call Saul. “Het was een keerpunt.”
“We hadden net twee kernbommen afgeworpen en enkele maanden daarvoor in New Mexico een kernproef gedaan,” vertelt speciaal agent Richard C. Doty van het United Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).
Dimensies
“Dit is waarschijnlijk gezien door aliens,” voegde hij toe. “Zij kwamen hier vervolgens naartoe omdat ze wilden weten wat er in vredesnaam was gebeurd.”
Ten tijde van de UFO-crash was in Roswell het enige squadron ter wereld gestationeerd dat was voorzien van kernwapens.
Ervan uitgaande dat er nog meer (ongeziene) dimensies zijn, hebben we hoogstwaarschijnlijk een heleboel schade aangericht, klinkt het.
Bedreiging
In andere werelden hebben we mogelijk nog meer schade veroorzaakt dan hier.
Close encounters zoals die bij Roswell vinden voornamelijk plaats in de buurt van onze kerninstallaties, zegt de commentaarstem.
Dat suggereert dat deze wezens erg bezorgd zijn over onze vijandigheid en de existentiële bedreiging die wij voor onszelf en voor anderen vormen.
PATENT GEHEIME DRIEHOEKIGE UFO TR-38 ONTDEKT ( VIDEO )
PATENT GEHEIME DRIEHOEKIGE UFO TR-38 ONTDEKT ( VIDEO )
De afgelopen jaren zijn er overal ter wereld mensen geweest die een spectaculair uitziende driehoekig object hebben zien vliegen.
Dit werd vaak geassocieerd met het geheime anti zwaartekracht toestel, de TR-3B, en terecht, want nu is door UFO onderzoekers de patentaanvraag van deze machine ontdekt.
Talloze meldingen zijn er de afgelopen jaren geweest van mensen die vreemde driehoekige objecten in de lucht hebben zien hangen of vliegen en die zich afvroegen of ze hier te maken hadden met een buitenaardse UFO.
Tot op de dag van vandaag gaan de meldingen door, zoals die van een maand geleden boven Exmouth in het Engelse graafschap East Devon.
Een Engelse buschauffeur neemt rond kwart voor tien ’s avonds even pauze en kijkt naar de lucht, waar hij iets vreemds ontdekt. En dat waren drie lichten in een driehoeksformatie die stil leken te hangen en als het ware om de eigen as ronddraaiden.
Hieronder volgt de opname die de man maakte en vooral zijn commentaar is heel interessant en toont aan hoezeer mensen onder de indruk zijn wanneer ze zoiets meemaken.
Hebben we hier te maken met een buitenaards of een experimenteel toestel van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht, zoals de TR3B?
Officiëel is er uiteraard weinig te weten te komen over dit toestel, maar op de website WijWordenWakker vonden wij de volgende uitleg:
Veel mensen verwarren dit vliegend object met een UFO, terwijl het dat niet is, wel zit er UFO technologie in verwerkt. Van de TR-3B wordt algemeen aangenomen dat het een product is van het "Aurora" zwart-project. Volgens verschillende bronnen is dit de top van de geheime projecten. Dit geheime project van de V.S. kost $ 3 miljard per object en onlangs zijn er 3 TR-3B Astra’s aan Israel verkocht.
De TR-3B is een nucleair aangedreven vliegende driehoek, in staat tot fenomenale snelheden. Het toestel kan door reactieve elektrische stimulatie van kleur en van uiterlijk veranderen en een andere vorm aannemen of onzichtbaar worden voor het menselijk oog. De TR-3B Astra bevat een plasmaveld versneller annex magnetisch veld verstoorder ('disruptor') , waardoor de massa van het toestel incl. inzittenden met 90% verkleind zou kunnen worden, zodat de zwaartekracht nauwelijks invloed heeft op de prestaties van het toestel.
Mede hierdoor zou de snelheid boven Mach 50 uit komen, ter vergelijking: de meeste gevechtsvliegtuigen hebben Mach 2. (Mach 1 is gelijk aan de snelheid van het geluid). Daarnaast zou de Astra uitgerust zijn met een deeltjesversneller/pulselasers, 'scalaire' wapens (waardoor de vijand zo verward wordt, dat men vrijwillig de wapens neerlegt) en tevens 40 neutronenbommen.
Maar, nu wordt het echt interessant, want de afgelopen dagen is er via een aantal UFO onderzoekers een patentregistratie naar voren gekomen uit 2004, wat in feite precies dit TR-3B anti zwaartekracht toestel beschrijft.
De samenvatting van de Amerikaanse patentaanvraag US 20060145019 A1 luidt als volgt:
A spacecraft having a triangular hull with vertical electrostatic line charges on each corner that produce a horizontal electric field parallel to the sides of the hull. This field, interacting with a plane wave emitted by antennas on the side of the hull, generates a force per volume combining both lift and propulsion.
Wie de hele aanvraag wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen. Het begint al vrij snel heel technisch te worden, maar wat hier wordt beschreven is een ruimtevaartuig zoals de TR-3B.
De aanvraag staat op naam van John St. Clair, op wiens naam nog talloze patenten zijn aangevraagd. Wie of wat John St. Clair is, is niet duidelijk, waarschijnlijk een pseudoniem voor het militair-industrieel complex.
Hierna twee video’s. De eerste waarin de maker uitlegt hoe ze aan dit patent gekomen zijn: Dit is gebeurd via een kijker van een eerdere video die ze maakten over dit onderwerp en die als tweede is geplaatst.
Is hiermee echt een mysterie opgelost of is er een andere verklaringen? Suggesties zijn welkom.
Voor een christen heet het het plotseling verdwijnen van de aarde, de opname, maar voor een niet gelovige lijkt het verdacht veel op een evacuatie met ruimteschepen.
NASA heeft een aantal telescopen in een baan in de ruimte waarvan de STEREO A en STEREO B de bekendsten zijn.
Deze maken vanuit verschillende posities opnames van de zon en op het volgende plaatje is te zien waar deze telescopen zich nu ongeveer bevinden ten opzichte van onze aarde en de zon.
Op 10 mei 2017 is er een bijzondere opname gemaakt met de STEREO B telescoop. Deze geeft ons dus een beeld van de achterkant van de zon; een gebied waar we normaal gesproken nooit zouden kunnen kijken.
Op die afbeelding staan een drietal enorme objecten.
Iets dichterbij zien we objecten die lijken op enorme ruimteschepen, waarbij op één een fel licht is waar te nemen aan het uiteinde van een soort uitsteeksel.
Een andere bekende ruimtetelescoop is de SOHO. Deze bevindt zich in een omloopbaan rond een fictief punt L, ergens halverwege de aarde en de zon, zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding.
En ook op die telescoop is door de bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 een bijzondere ontdekking gedaan.
Ook daar enkele objecten die veel lijken op enorme ruimteschepen. Ook daar, bij één van die schepen, een soort uitsteeksel met aan het uiteinde iets wat misschien een kleiner schip zou kunnen zijn.
We hebben al eerder geschreven over een mogelijk verband tussen de vaker waargenomen enorme ruimteschepen bij de zon en de eindtijd zoals die in de bijbel wordt beschreven.
Velen herkennen de huidige tijd als kenmerkend voor deze eindtijd en voor christenen hoort daar de zogenaamde opname (rapture) bij. Voor hen zijn het geen ruimteschepen die hen komen halen, maar voor een niet gelovige vertoont het verhaal alle symptomen van een buitenaardse vloot die misschien klaarstaat om een deel van de wereldbevolking te evacueren voor de dingen die gaan komen.
Uiteraard blijft het allemaal speculeren, maar interessant is wel dat er wordt gesproken over een opname voordat het echt misgaat op aarde.
De opname van de gemeente is niet hetzelfde als Zijn wederkomst. Met de opname wordt de gemeente naar de hemel gebracht, zonder dat de Here Jezus op aarde neerdaalt. Als de Heer wederkomt zal iedereen Hem zien komen met de wolken. Dan zal Israël worden verlost van haar vijanden en zal Hij Zijn voeten op de Olijfberg zetten (Zach. 14:3,4). Het Koninkrijk van God zal dan op aarde gevestigd worden (Dan. 2:34,35; Zach. 14:8,9).
Door de opname wordt de gemeente bewaard voor de slotfase van de eindtijd, dat is de Grote Verdrukking.
Wederom, voor een niet gelovige klinkt dit als een evacuatie vanaf de aarde voordat er echte rampen zullen plaatsvinden.
De tijd zal het leren, maar dat het geen camera-afwijkingen zijn die worden waargenomen bij de zon, zoveel is duidelijk.
NEW ERA IN SPACE TRAVEL BEGINS: PLASMA JET ENGINE BREAKTHROUGH!
NEW ERA IN SPACE TRAVEL BEGINS: PLASMA JET ENGINE BREAKTHROUGH!
When it comes to plasma, the word alone invokes thoughts of sci-fi weaponry and space ships shooting out giant balls made of light and energy. What many do not know, however, is that plasma is actually a fourth state of matter alongside liquid, solid, and gas.
The term plasma comes from the Greek word from jelly and is interpreted as a moldable gas. What separates plasma from the previous states of matter, however, is that it never occurs naturally on the surface of the Earth, and must be created artificially by humans using various means of harnessing the plasma.
THE PLASMA ENGINE, NO LONGER SCI-FI?
While the process behind making plasma is enough for an article of its own, it is important to note that plasma is created by taking the electrons out of natural gas in a closed environment to create a reaction, like a neon tube sign. This is a very violate state of matter that is constantly trying to escape and dissipate into the atmosphere, so containment is necessary for some vacuum.
Now there has been a major breakthrough by a team from the Technical University of Berlin lead by Professor Berkant Goskel on a study into making plasma engines, and breakthrough that could change jet propulsion technology as we know it and revolutionize the aerospace industry overnight by creating an engine that runs solely off of air and electricity alone.
What makes these engines unique, is that unlike the normal large jet engine, the plasma genuine would be a series of smaller engines in an array made up of anywhere from 100 to 10,000 of these mini thrusters. The ramifications of an engine that runs purely on air and electricity are obvious and astounding; jet fuel would be a thing of the past and getting to the edge of space would require nothing but a constant supply of air and electricity.
For now, Berkant claims that the first generation of these engines will take aircraft to altitudes of 30 miles (or 50km) with the future being seemingly unlimited. Furthermore, Berkant states that the plasma jets will be able to be used at ground level as well to traverse speeds of up to 20 kilometers a second, something that would liquefy a person until we figure out how to handle the intense amount of g-force traveling at speed like that would create.
A normal jet engine burns fuel and compressed air, with the resulting pressure being forced out of the back of the engine create forward propulsion, a very simple concept that was mastered decades ago. The plasma engine, however, uses much more complicated technically in which it mimics the way a star or fusion reactor creates power.
By turning natural gas into plasma, then create an electromagnetic field around it electricity then is feed into the field, and forward thrust is created, that multiplied by up to 10,000 additional thrusters generating force is what will propel newly created aircraft through the sky if this engine is a success. Creating a public transport jet powered by these new plasma thrusters is exactly what Professor Berkant wishes to do.
There are, however, several problems that need to be overcome before the plasma jet engine will become a reality. First of all is the aforementioned issue where a full sized jetliner will be required to have about 10,000 of these thrusters to safely propel one through the sky which means that the size must be reduced, at the current size however they could use a thousand thrusters to power a smaller sized aircraft such as a private jet.
Secondly, these thrusters run off of electricity, a lot of it, which means there is a need for batters with a large storage capacity and transfer rate, that must also be lightweight enough to not significantly weigh down the aircraft.
So the final problem is the most significant one of them all, to generate that much power is impossible with current technology, and improvements in things such as solar electricity and compact fusion are the only solution. Still, at the rate technology is advancing these days, it isn't a stretch to imagine that ten years from now the technology jump in both electricity and plasma technology will have been enough to create the first real plasma propelled jetliner.
READY FOR SPACE WAR? RUSSIA ACTIVATES MYSTERIOUS 'KILLER SATELLITES'
READY FOR SPACE WAR? RUSSIA ACTIVATES MYSTERIOUS 'KILLER SATELLITES'
Three suspicious Russian satellites spring back into life after two years of dormancy.
International experts have expressed concern after Russia chose to re-activate some deeply suspicious satellites which are suspected of being powerful weapons after a period of two years of dormancy. These satellites are capable of operating in a military context in space which has led to some suspicion that the Kremlin are preparing for a space war.
The three satellites were launched between the years of 2013 and 2015 after Russia submitted a notification to the United Nations. While correct procedure was followed in the launching of the satellites, many nations became suspicious that the Russian government and military were not being entirely honest in the capabilities of these new satellites. Military intelligence in some western countries noticed that the satellites were capable of extraordinarily intricate maneuvers which led to the suggestion that the satellites were intended for use in combat or spying purposes. The suggestion caused such a furor that the Russian space agency chief Oleg Ostapenko was forced to call a press conference in 2014 to reassure the world’s media that the crafts were not ‘killer satellites’.
In 2015 the satellites appeared to go dormant and were not observed making maneuvers again. However, in March of this year, one of the satellites suddenly sprang back into life and was spotted passing within 1,183 meters of a now defunct Chinese weather satellite. Shortly after that, another one of the satellites was spotted moving and making maneuvers again.
It is believed that these three satellites can come within a few dozen feet of other satellites which means that they could be used to spy on, hijack or possibly even destroy foreign satellites. According to the Russian-born journalist and space historian Anatoly Zak, it is entirely possible that the satellites could be equipped with lasers or loaded with explosives which could make them an incredibly dangerous weapon if there was a space war.
Russia is not the only nation that appears to be preparing for this novel form of warfare. In recent years some countries including the United States, Sweden, Japan and China have all tested similar satellites.
Who is Australia’s Fox Mulder? Or in this case, who is Australia’s John Podesta? Social Services Minister Christian Porter — whose department is responsible for Australian government social services like mental health, families and children’s policy and support for careers for seniors and people with disabilities – wants to know why almost $6000 AUD (over $4400 US) of his department’s funds are going to a UFO Group. Are they all over 60?
The minister’s office has been advised that this group was previously funded under the Labor government in 2013 and that some of this grant goes to the transport costs of volunteers with a disability. However, the minister is somewhat surprised at the nature of this particular volunteer group being funded through this grant program and he has instructed his department to hold the transmission of funds pending a re-examination of the application.
Hold on a minute, says Social Services Minister Christian Porter
According to the group’s description on Yahoo, the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group on the NSW Central Coast was formed in 2009 to “share experiences about UFOs, ET contact and information related to those subjects” with “monthly meetings, special guest speakers, movie days and BBQ & Nightwatches” to support – without discrimination – “a common goal of seeking more understanding about ETs and UFOs.” While not an official membership list, the group’s Facebook page is said to have 822 members.
The group’s substantial membership may be due to the large number of UFO sightings reported in the NSW’s Central Coast area, including the famous 1994 Gosford UFO incident when numerous witnesses reported a “huge ball-shaped object with bright lights on the bottom” sucking water from Brisbane Water, and police later claiming to have chased a “strange metallic craft” until it shot upward and disappeared.
Minister Porter isn’t buying it … nor paying for it either, at least not for now.
It’s very hard to unpack cause and effect; you tend to find a lot of sightings when you’re funding UFO sighting groups. But we’ll see what they’re all about. I’m sure they’re very nice people and there are lots of volunteers who are getting something out of it but looking at it from my perspective – representing taxpayers – it didn’t seem to me to pass a commonsense test.
Aren’t the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group members taxpayers too? Aren’t they doing good work for their community? A spokesperson explained it to the Central Coast Gosford Express Advocate.
We have elderly people we pick up and take to meetings, where we need projectors and microphones so everyone can see and hear what’s going on. We also have outings out at night checking for unusual activity.
Given the opportunity, the members of the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group could easily find other taxpayer-funded groups they don’t believe should be receiving their tax money. Unfortunately, the budget is limited and the needs are vast. A continuation of funding doesn’t look good for the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group.
Then again, Social Services Minister Christian Porter might want to think twice about dealing with a group who quite possibly has connections with aliens who could easily modify their water-sucking equipment to inhale politicians.
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DR. STEVEN GREER EXPLAINS HOW ETS MAKE THEIR SHIPS AND HOW THEY CONTROL THEM
DR. STEVEN GREER EXPLAINS HOW ETS MAKE THEIR SHIPS AND HOW THEY CONTROL THEM
Dr. Steven Greer once said: "Anyone with knowledge of this stuff would have a bullet with their name written on it.”
Steven Macon Greer (June 28, 1955) is an American retired medical doctor and ufologist who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Disclosure Project, which seeks the disclosure of allegedly suppressed UFO information.
When it comes to theories on how life began on Earth, there’s quite a high degree of disagreement. Aside from the belief that some glowing bearded man or flying spaghetti monster blinked His eyes and made everything suddenly appear, many scientists are now looking into the panspermia hypothesis. This theory suggests that life came to Earth on a meteorite, asteroid, or other planetoid that crashed into our planet and seeded Earth with living organisms or at least the building blocks necessary for the evolution of organisms.
There are several variations of the panspermia theory, the most popular being lithopanspermia – the theory that the original organic molecules or organisms were embedded into meteorites which crashed into Earth.
Many microorganisms have indeed recently been found to be able to survive the harsh conditions of outer space for long periods of time, lending some credence to the panspermia theory. Of course, there are still other problems to address before this theory can be confirmed, but that’s where a new experiment suggested by NASA-funded scientists comes in. At the recent Breakthrough Discuss conference, several Breakthrough Starshot scientists discussed plans to send human DNA throughout the universe in hijacked bacteria to test the panspermia theory. You might know Breakthrough Starshot as the group planning to propel postage-stamp-sized spacecraft throughout the galaxy by shooting lasers at them.
Breakthrough Starshot wants to send thousands of their nanocraft throughout the galaxy to survey surface features of other planets.
At a panel titled “Scientific Goals and Instrumentation for a Flyby of the Nearest Stars,” Breakthrough Starshot developer Philip Lubin says that human DNA could fly to other worlds on such a craft and that his team already has NASA funding for their panspermia project:
A part of our program — at least on the NASA side, because we haven’t cleared this with Breakthrough yet — is actually to put organisms to sleep, in stasis mode. And there are certain organisms known as C. elegans, which we’re going to embed human DNA into and send them out and then awaken them on arrival. However, I expect that will be a highly controversial thing to do.
Uh, yeah. It will. NASA and other space agencies are very careful not to contaminate other worlds with Earth germs, going so far as to slam their spacecraft and satellites into other planet’s atmospheres in order to incinerate them once they’ve reached the end of their lifespans. By proposing to send our DNA throughout the cosmos, these scientists essentially want to play at being gods.
What could go wrong?
I find some serious problems with this suggestion. First of all, who are we to say that our DNA should propagate throughout the universe? Such an experiment could have completely unknown side-effects that could be disastrous for other worlds. Maybe our DNA will take hold and (over eons) create another race of beings which will wipe out the indigenous life on whatever piteous planet it lands on. Or, that DNA could just spend eternity hurtling through the cold, empty vacuum of space only to burn up in some alien world’s atmosphere. The point is we don’t know. Which means this experiment is probably better suited to the domain of science fiction.
Over the past couple of weeks I have been busily promoting my latest book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. Taking into consideration the fact that I dismiss the idea that aliens crashed outside of Roswell in the summer of 1947 (I go down the dark and disturbing “human experimentation” path), it’s not surprising that more than a few people within Ufology have taken me to task for daring to suggest that Ufology’s Sacred Cow is nothing of the sort. The same thing happened when I wrote my 2005 book, Body Snatchers in the Desert – the new book being the sequel to Body Snatchers. Back in 2005, some people screamed and ranted (I ranted back at them – I don’t do screams). Others complained that I was causing problems for Ufology. My reply: “So what?”
In light of all the above, I expected a near-identical response to the new book. This time around, however, things are a bit different. Far more people – twelve years after Body Snatchers provoked raised blood-pressures in Ufology – have been willing to give the “human experimentation” angle for Roswell serious consideration. And there is something else, too. It’s something which was also pretty much absent in 2005. Namely, ufologists turning on ufologists, all as a result of their attempts to try and keep the E.T. flag flying for Roswell. I’ll explain what I mean by that.
Several people in the “aliens crashed at Roswell and no other theory is acceptable” camp asked me how I could even consider Roswell as a non-UFO event. Two of them cited the many references to “alien bodies” found on the Foster Ranch, New Mexico in July 1947. In response, I pointed out – correctly – that in his latest book on the Roswell affair, titled Roswell in the 21st Century, Kevin Randle now dismisses most of the claims/sources relative to such extraterrestrial corpses. This provoked various messages and emails to me, suggesting that Kevin didn’t know what he was talking about, or that he had been “gotten to,” as one worded it. So, for the ranters, not only am I the enemy, but now Kevin – who certainly does not rule out the E.T.-angle – is the enemy too. Matters don’t end there.
In The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, I include a chapter on John keel’s research into Roswell and his theories of a Japanese connection to the case. This led one fairly well-known Ufologist to inform me that anything provided by “that half-baked demonologist” could be considered completely useless. Another said much the same, suggesting that Keel’s words on Roswell were not even worthy of comment. I also mentioned in the book how the late UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield had been given the “Japanese bodies” angle way back in 1991. Stringfield suddenly became the bad guy to one “I want to believe”-driven soul who phoned me out of the blue. Ironically, there was probably no bigger believer in crashed saucer tales than Stringfield!
Then, there are the notorious Majestic 12 documents. After my interview on Greg Bishop’s Radio Misterioso, I got an email from a guy in San Diego who said that I was talking nonsense. How did he know? Because the Majestic 12 documents state that aliens crashed at Roswell, that’s how. I pointed out that – thirty years after the initial batch of papers first surfaced publicly – very, very few people in Ufology now believe the documents to be the real deal. I gave a few names of those researchers who seriously doubted the papers (Kevin again, and several more) and yet again the attack went away from me and was directed at the pro-UFO Roswell research community.
On top of this issue of pro-Roswell/E.T. Ufologsist turning on pro-Roswell/E.T. Ufologist (all specifically in the name of keeping the case “alive”), I detect a sense of panic. A fear that perhaps aliens didn’t crash at Roswell, after all. A worry that all those years of work might be worthless. But, also a determination to try and avoid even having to deal with such an unthinkable possibility. Interesting times…
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'Styrofoam' Planet Discovery Will Help Us Find Habitable Planets and Alien Life
'Styrofoam' Planet Discovery Will Help Us Find Habitable Planets and Alien Life
By Nancy Atkinson, Seeker
An artist's rendering of KELT-11b, an exoplanet with Styrofoam-like density.
Credit: Walter Robinson/Lehigh University
Since the largest exoplanets are the easiest to spot and study, it makes sense that distant worlds with large "puffy" atmospheres would provide the best and most abundant information about the envelope of gases surrounding these faraway planets. But the challenge comes in finding planets with such large atmospheres.
Enter KELT-11b.
According to researchers at Lehigh University, KELT-11b has by far the largest atmospheric scale height of any ever studied, including our own solar system. Scale height describes the height at which an atmosphere "hugs" a planet, and while the scale height of Saturn's atmosphere is about 60 km (37 miles) and Earth’s is about 8 km (5 miles), KELT-11b's is a whopping 2,763 km (1,716 miles).
And the oddities of KELT-11b don't stop there. The planet itself is one of the most puffy and inflated planets in the known universe, with the density of a Styrofoam ball — the kind that students use to simulate planetary bodies in classroom presentations.
"It is highly inflated, so that while it's only a fifth as massive as Jupiter, it is nearly 40 percent larger, making it about as dense as Styrofoam, with an extraordinarily large atmosphere," said Joshua Pepper, astronomer and assistant professor of physics at Lehigh University, who led the study.
Pepper called KELT-11b an "extreme" version of a gas planet. It is orbiting very close to its host star, circling it in less than five days. The star, KELT-11, has started using up its nuclear fuel and is evolving into a red giant, so the planet will eventually be engulfed by its star and not survive the next hundred million years.
But this star is extremely bright — the brightest known transiting exoplanet host that can be seen from the southern hemisphere — and is the sixth brightest transit host to date. Such a bright star allows for precise measurements of the planet's atmosphere.
The team wrote in their paper that all "these attributes make the KELT-11 system a valuable target for follow-up and atmospheric characterization and it promises to become one of the benchmark systems for the study of inflated exoplanets."
Pepper also said that KELT-11b is "an excellent testbed for measuring the atmospheres of other planets," and that it will help astronomers develop the best tools to see the types of gases in atmospheres, specifically for assessing habitability or possible life on distant exoplanets.
"We don't know of any real Earth-like planets or stars for which we can measure their atmospheres, though we expect to discover more in future years," Pepper said. "These [giant gas] planets are the gold standards or testbeds for learning how to measure the atmospheres of planets."
Another unique aspect of this exoplanet is that it was found with the help of citizen scientists. In fact, 40 amateur scientists from 10 countries contributed directly to the discovery of KELT-11b and are listed as co-authors on the paper.
The KELT (Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope) survey uses two small robotic telescopes in Arizona and in South Africa. The telescopes scan the sky every night, measuring the brightness of about five million stars. Like the exoplanet-finding "champion," the Kepler space telescope, KELT looks for stars that seem to dim slightly at regular intervals, which can indicate a planet is orbiting that star and eclipsing it, called a transit.
But most of the planets found by Kepler orbit faint stars, making it difficult to measure the planets' properties precisely.
"The KELT project is specifically designed to discover a few scientifically valuable planets orbiting very bright stars, and KELT-11b is a prime example of that," Pepper said.
KELT specifically looks for gas giant planets orbiting bright stars, but the team didn't expect to find planets with such low mass and large sizes.
"We were very surprised by the amazingly low density of this planet," Pepper said. "It's extremely big for its mass. It's got a fifth of the mass of Jupiter but is puffed up into this really underdense planet."
They hope that further study of this world by the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes will provide additional information about the mechanism that causes inflated planets.
While exoplanet researchers are anticipating the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, both scheduled to launch in 2018, Pepper and his fellow researchers feel that small, ground-based telescopes still have a special niche to fill in exoplanet studies.
"Notably, the population of transiting planets discovered by the ground-based surveys tend to be large planets with short orbital periods orbiting bright stars," the team said in their paper. "These planets, unlike the vast majority of the Kepler planets, offer great potential for detailed characterization of the atmospheres of exoplanets. For that reason, the ongoing discoveries from ground-based transit surveys will continue to provide great value."
Cassini: de tien hoogtepunten van een fantastische missie
Cassini: de tien hoogtepunten van een fantastische missie
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Met pijn in het hart nemen we in september afscheid van een ruimtesonde die ons beeld van Saturnus en zijn manen voorgoed veranderd heeft.
In oktober 1997 wordt ruimtesonde Cassini vanaf Cape Canaveral gelanceerd. Na een scheervlucht langs Venus, de aarde en Jupiter arriveert de sonde zeven jaar later – in 2004 – bij zijn eindbestemming: Saturnus. Inmiddels zijn we dertien jaar verder en cirkelt Cassini nog altijd rond de gasreus heen. Maar niet lang meer. Na een missie van bijna 20 jaar begint de brandstof van Cassini op te raken. En daarom krijgt deze in september opdracht om zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. Een duik die de sonde al na korte tijd fataal zal worden. Met de snoekduik in de turbulente atmosfeer van Saturnus komt een einde aan een lange ruimtemissie die gekenmerkt wordt door grootse ontdekkingen. De tien belangrijkste hebben we voor je op een rij gezet.
1. De lovehandle van Iapetus Cassini heeft zich eigenlijk nog maar net in een baan rond Saturnus genesteld als deze tijdens een scheervlucht langs Saturnus’ maan Iapetus op een verrassing stuit. Ter hoogte van de evenaar blijkt de maan een flinke bergkam te bezitten. De richel is zo’n 20 kilometer breed en dertien kilometer hoog. Vervolgonderzoek wijst uit dat het gebergte (letterlijk!) uit de lucht is komen zetten. Waarschijnlijk is Iapetus in het verleden in botsing gekomen met een ander object waarbij een ring van puin rond de maan is ontstaan. En dat puin is uiteindelijk weer naar beneden komen zetten.
De bergrug op de evenaar van Iapetus.
Afbeelding: NASA.
2. Huygens In 2005 slingert Cassini de Huygens-lander richting het oppervlak van Titan. En met succes: de lander overleeft de reis door de dikke atmosfeer en landt heelhuids op het oppervlak. Voor het eerst kunnen we dat oppervlak – dat anders schuilgaat onder de dikke, nevelige atmosfeer van Titan, van heel dichtbij bekijken. Het levert spectaculaire beelden op. Zo’n 72 minuten nadat Huygens op Titan is geland geeft deze de geest: de batterij is leeg.
3. Er is vloeibaar water op Enceladus! Een paar jaar na aankomst bij Saturnus doet Cassini misschien wel de belangrijkste ontdekking uit zijn carrière. De sonde fotografeert geisers op het oppervlak van Saturnus’ maan Enceladus. En het lijkt erop dat deze geisers vloeibaar water in de lucht spuiten. Wetenschappers zijn door het dolle heen. Want waar vloeibaar water is, is wellicht leven. Inmiddels weten we dat het water dat de geisers uitspugen afkomstig is uit een wereldwijde oceaan die onder de ijskorst van Enceladus schuilgaat. Of er in die oceaan daadwerkelijk leven te vinden is, is nog altijd onduidelijk. Maar hoe meer onderzoek er naar de maan gedaan wordt, hoe aannemelijker het lijkt te worden dat het een vrij prettige plek is voor aliens. Enkele weken geleden verscheen bijvoorbeeld nog een onderzoek dat aantoont dat Enceladus hydrothermale bronnen bezit die de ondergrondse oceaan verrijken met een potentiële energiebron voor leven.
De geisers op Enceladus.
Afbeelding: NASA.
4. Titan heeft meren! En een paar maanden later doet Cassini weer een grootse ontdekking. Op Saturnus’ maan Titan treft de ruimtesonde verschillende meren aan. Sommige zijn slechts 1 kilometer breed. Anderen meten wel 30 kilometer. In de meren vinden we geen water, maar vloeibaar methaan en ethaan. Naast meren heeft Titan trouwens ook heel aardige bergen: de hoogste blijken meer dan 3300 meter hoog te zijn. En de maan heeft diepe valleien die gevuld zijn met vloeibaar methaan.
Meren op de noordpool van Titan.
Afbeelding: NASA.
5. En nog een maan..en nog één..en nog één Herhaaldelijk ontdekt Cassini tijdens zijn reisjes in de omgeving van Saturnus nieuwe manen. Methone en Pallene bijvoorbeeld. Maar ook de in Saturnus’ G-ring verstopte maan Aegaeon. Het laatstgenoemde hemellichaam is – met een gemiddelde straal van zo’n 300 meter – de kleinste maan die Saturnus rijk is.
De dunne en nauwelijks zichtbare ringen die Cassini enkele jaren na aankomst bij Saturnus ontdekte.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
6. Saturnus heeft meer ringen dan gedacht Naast manen heeft Cassini ook enkele nieuw ringen ontdekt rond Saturnus. De sonde spotte de ringen toen deze in de schaduw van Saturnus verbleef en de ringen in tegenlicht kon bestuderen. De ene ring is zo’n 2500 kilometer breed en bevindt zich tussen de E- en G-ring, in de baan van Pallene. De andere bevindt zich tussen de heldere hoofdringen en de G-ring, is zo’n 5000 kilometer breed en bevindt zich in de baan van de manen Janus en Epimetheus. Aangenomen wordt dat de ringen bestaan uit deeltjes die tijdens inslagen van het oppervlak van Janus, Epimetheus en Pallene zijn weggeslingerd. Dat die deeltjes zo’n mooie ring vormen, verbaast onderzoekers.
7. Storm verslikt zich..in zichzelf In 2010 en 2011 zien onderzoekers – via de ogen van Cassini – iets heel bijzonders gebeuren op Saturnus. In december 2010 ziet een enorme storm het levenslicht op de gasreus. Kort nadat de storm ontstaan is en richting het westen begint te bewegen, creëert deze een tegen de klok indraaiende vortex. De vortex beweegt veel langzamer dan de storm, waardoor een langgerekte monsterstorm ontstaat. Die storm wordt groter en groter en in het voorjaar van 2011 heeft deze zich – op 33 graden breedte – bijna helemaal rond Saturnus gewikkeld. In juni 2011 is het dan echt zover: de snel bewegende kop van de storm stuit op zijn veel trager bewegende staart. En daarop valt de storm stil. Het is voor het eerst dat onderzoekers er getuige van zijn dat een storm zichzelf op zo’n manier ‘consumeert’. “Zelfs de reusachtige stormen op Jupiter consumeren zichzelf niet zo, wat maar weer eens laat zien dat de natuur heel wat indrukwekkende variaties kent en ons keer op keer kan verrassen,” stelt onderzoeker Andrew Ingersoll daar in 2013 over.
De enorme storm op het noordelijk halfrond van Saturnus.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
8. Dione en Rhea hebben een atmosfeer In 2010 ontdekt Cassini dat maan Rhea een dunne atmosfeer heeft. De atmosfeer bevat zuurstof en koolstofdioxide. En een paar jaar later blijkt ook maan Dione een zuurstof bevattende atmosfeer te hebben. Ook Dione’s atmosfeer is maar dunnetjes. Maar het maakt de ontdekking niet minder interessant. “We weten nu dat Dione, net als de ringen van Saturnus en de maan Rhea een bron van zuurstofmoleculen is,” stelde onderzoeker Robert Tokar in 2012. “Het laat zien dat moleculaire zuurstof best veel voorkomt in het Saturnussysteem en versterkt het idee dat het kan voortkomen uit een proces waarin leven geen rol speelt.”
Een prachtige foto van Saturnus en enkele van zijn manen. Op de voorgrond zien we Rhea (1528 kilometer groot). Rechtsachter pronkt Enceladus (504 kilometer groot) en links achter Dione (1123 kilometer groot).
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
9. Magische eilanden Toch weer even terug naar Titan. Want daar ontdekt Cassini in 2014 iets heel bijzonders: magische eilanden. In Ligeia Mare – één van de grotere meren die Titan rijk is – ziet Cassini een 260 vierkante kilometer grote vlek verschijnen en weer verdwijnen. Tot op de dag van vandaag is onduidelijk wat het precies is geweest. Golven? Drijvende vaste stoffen? Of bubbels misschien?
Een magisch eiland.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASI / Cornell.
10. Bergen op de ringen van Saturnus Wie denkt dat de ringen van Saturnus plat zijn, heeft het mis. Cassini onthulde dat de ringen ook verticale structuren kennen. Op de foto hieronder zie je ze aan de rand van de B-ring. Ze torenen tot wel 2,5 kilometer boven het ringvlak uit. De structuren ontstaan mogelijk door toedoen van kleine maantjes (tot 1 kilometer groot) die het ringmateriaal omhoog dwingen.
Foto: NASA / JPL / SSI.
Het is zomaar een greep uit het veelbewogen werkzame leven van Cassini. En stiekem hopen we natuurlijk dat daar de komende maanden nog wat hoogtepuntjes bij komen. Dat zou niet heel verwonderlijk zijn, want de sonde duikt momenteel herhaaldelijk in het gat tussen Saturnus en de ringen. En dat is onontgonnen gebied en levert hoogstwaarschijnlijk behalve spectaculaire beelden ook spectaculaire inzichten over Saturnus en zijn ringen en manen op.
Astronomers scramble to probe 'alien megastructure' star
Astronomers scramble to probe 'alien megastructure' star
Tabby's Star fluctuates in brightness so much, and at such irregular intervals, that scientists can not work out what causes it.
Image:This illustration of Tabby's Star was released by NASA. Pix: JPL-Caltec
Astronomers are scrambling to point their telescopes at one of the weirdest stars ever observed after it mysteriously dimmed again.
KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, has been monitored for several years after it was noticed that its brightness changed significantly and at irregular intervals.
A range of theories have been put forward for this strange behaviour, including one hypothesis which suggests an alien megastructure may have been built around the star to harvest its energy.
Although the star was first discovered in the 1890s, it was not until observations between 2009 and 2013 when scientists first noticed something particularly odd about it.
It was subsequently named after Louisiana-based astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, who wrote a paper about its strange behaviour.
Professor Boyajian noticed that at one point Tabby's Star's brightness had dropped by 22%, which can not be explained by any properly understood phenomenon.
Image:Artist drawing by NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
Last month scientists noticed what appeared to be another slight dimming of the star - but that accelerated significantly on Friday, causing a scramble for additional observations.
Jason Wright, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, told a web chat: "One of the difficulties here is that most telescopes are scheduled weeks, months in advance.
"We can't just jump on a telescope and take a spectrum typically. So we need to have a network of people around the world."
Tabby's Star is in the constellation Cygnus and is approximately 1,275 light years from Earth.
Scientists hope they might be able to work out what is causing the star to dim by analysing its full spectrum of light. But to do this, they need to know when that dimming is going to occur.
Astronomers do not believe it is being caused by a planet passing in front the star as this would not cause such a significant change in brightness, and it would be more predictable.
A number of other theories have been put forward. One suggests there may be a large cloud of dust and debris around the star.
Another suggestion is that it is recovering having been hit by a planet and a third theory suggests a swarm of comets may be responsible.
The most unusual suggestion - but one which scientists can not yet dismiss - is that an alien megastructure has been built around the star to harvest its energy.
The concept, which sounds like it comes straight out of science fiction, is actually referred to as as Dyson Sphere.
It is named after British-born scientist Freeman Dyson who, in the 1960s, hypothesised that advance civilisations would seek to power their worlds in this way.
Above: Prey is a sci-fi action game from the same studio that made Dishonored.
Image Credit: Bethesda
An alien-infested space station isn’t the best place to question your life’s purpose. As Morgan Yu learns in Prey, the existential struggle is just as real as the deadly creatures lurking in the shadows.
Arkane Studios faced similar questions about identity (but with much less bloodshed) while making its sci-fi thriller. Out now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, Prey is an action role-playing game where you have to fight an alien species known as the Typhon. It’s a premise we often see in pop culture, let alone in games. What makes Prey stand out is the story behind its development, where an unproven team resurrected a dormant franchise in a genre that’s difficult to master.
Arkane’s game is a reboot of the original Prey, a story-driven first-person shooter that Human Head Studios released in 2006. That company was working on a promising sequel until publisher Bethesda Softworks killed the project in 2014. Then after years of rumors, Prey resurfaced at last year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow, where Bethesda unveiled a much different takeon the franchise.
But aside from the name, Arkane’s game doesn’t share anything with Human Head’s sci-fi universe. According to lead designer Ricardo Bare, the core idea for Prey had been percolating at the studio ever since they finished the last of Dishonored’s add-on content in 2013.
“Even before we had the name, we wanted to make a game like this: a game that takes place on a space station with aliens that has our signature Arkane-style game mechanics,” Bare said in an interview with GamesBeat. “The opportunity to use the name came afterwards.
“In fact, Arkane has made a game like this before. The first game that Arkane made was called Arx Fatalis, and it was structurally very similar to [2017] Prey. It was a fantasy game that took place underground in a dungeon. So we call the space station our ‘space dungeon’ now.”
Above: Arkane’s first game was Arx Fatalis.
Image Credit: Bethesda
The rise of Arkane Austin
Founded in 1999, Arkane consists of two teams: one group is in the headquarters in Lyon, France, and the other is in Austin, Texas. Bare, a veteran designer who previously worked at Ion Storm (Deus Ex) and Midway Games (Blacksite: Area 51), joined the U.S. branch in 2009. At the time, it only had a handful of people, including creative director Harvey Smith and Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio. It soon grew to around 20 employees.
But the majority of the company (more than 60 people) were in France. Both sides worked together on several games, with the developers frequently traveling back and forth between the two offices.
After Dishonored’s release in 2012, Arkane decided to split the team so it could work on multiple games at the same time. Lyon took charge of Dishonored 2, swelling in size to accommodate the sequel’s bigger ambitions and the arrival of the PS4 and Xbox One consoles. Austin underwent a similar transformation as it began working on the project that would later become Prey.
Above: Prey lead designer Ricardo Bare at GDC 2017.
Image Credit: Giancarlo Valdes/GamesBeat
“On the Austin side, we started to incubate this new IP [intellectual property], this new game, as well as expand the team massively,” said Bare. “We switched consoles, we got a new game engine, a new IP, and a brand new team all in the same dev cycle, which is kind of ridiculous.”
Though the Lyon team helped out from time to time, Prey was very much Austin’s baby. The U.S. team grew to 70 people over the course of development, many of whom were new to the company. While this hasn’t created any rivalries between the studios — Bare said they’re incredibly supportive of each other — it did add some pressure for the newcomers, who felt like they had to prove themselves to the folks in Lyon.
“They wanted to impress their Lyon colleagues by doing a really good job. … They wanted to show that they can make a compelling and beautiful world as Dunwall from Dishonored,” Bare said. “I think they did.”
A believable sci-fi world
Prey’s Morgan Yu is a scientist who is also the main test subject of a mysterious experiment. When the Typhon break loose, it’s up to Morgan to stop them — but the character isn’t your typical space marine badass. One big difference is that Yu is Asian, a rarity among gun-toting heroes in big game releases.
Arkane Austin turned to a lot of science fiction for inspiration. The team studied Solaris, Moon, and other films that explore what it’s like to be alone in space. Bare also read old stories from sci-fi author Robert Heinlein, such as “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”
“Me and some people on the team also just did a lot of actual scientific reading. Even though the game gets wild … we tried to at least start it at a place that was very grounded,” said Bare.
“So we did a lot of reading about neuroscience — learned a lot about the brain [laughs], which was super fun — a lot about the space technology industry. It’s really cool that we live in an age where this private space industry is happening.”
Above: The Talos I lobby.
Image Credit: Bethesda
Prey’s version of 2035 imagines what someone like SpaceX founder Elon Musk would’ve done had he started his ambitions earlier in history. In this alternate timeline, the Cold War space race led to the discovery of the Typhon and the construction of a large space station to contain it. Later, a powerful company called the TranStar Corporation takes over and transforms the vessel into the skyscraper-sized Talos I.
Another example of Prey’s grounded roots is the Neuromod, a tool that you use to learn the Typhon’s powers and enhance your human abilities (such as hacking computers or repairing equipment) by altering the chemistry of your brain. It’s loosely based on real-world experiments where scientists can manipulate neurons by making them sensitive to light.
But instead of lasers, Prey’s device uses needles. Big ones. To unlock the upgrades, you have to stick the Neuromod’s needles into your eyeball.
Above: Would you stab your eye just to get a few supernatural powers?
Image Credit: Bethesda
Like Dishonored, Prey encourages you to experiment with your weapons and powers. You can use the Typhon’s Mimic Matter — which transforms you into everyday objects — to possess one of the space station’s automated gun turrets or to hide from the aliens. With Lift Field, you can either launch your enemies high into the air or use it to propel yourself to hard-to-reach places.
The powers you collect can have consequences outside of combat as well. The turrets, for example, can be a valuable ally because they automatically target any aliens around them. But if you harvest too much Typhon DNA, they’ll turn on you. The other human survivors on Talos I will also react to you differently.
However, you can avoid that by simply not learning any of the alien abilities. It’s possible to finish the game without them.
Lessons from Dishonored
The mix of Typhon powers, tools, and conventional weapons offer a degree of freedom and flexibility that isn’t seen in many games. But that’s not a signature of Arkane’s treatment of Prey. These complex and unscripted interactions are an intrinsic part of immersive sims, which first emerged with PC classics like Ultima Underworld, Thief, and System Shock. The seminal System Shock series from Looking Glass Studios was a huge inspiration for Prey in terms of creating a tense sci-fi setting.
Though Arkane tried to make other types of games before, it keeps coming back to immersive sims. Everything in its catalog, from Arx Fatalis to Prey, have detailed worlds with interlocking mechanics that leave room for the player to improvise. The studio most recently demonstrated this with Dishonored and its sequel.
One of the lessons the Austin team learned from working on that series is the importance of easing players into these digital playgrounds, especially for those who haven’t tried an immersive sim before.
Above: Prey also takes you outside the space station.
Image Credit: Bethesda
“Unless the game invites players to do so, it’s not always obvious that [for example] you don’t have to find the key to this door,” said Bare. “You can look around and find an alternate way, or you could hack the door. Maybe you could blow the door up. I think lots of other games train players [to think], ‘There’s only one solution to this problem. And you have to try to discover what the designer had in mind.’
“Whereas we’re like, ‘No, there isn’t one solution. You can improvise a solution to this.’ You might be able to come up with something we don’t even know about because of all the systems interacting together. Part of the challenge is letting players know that it’s possible. That was challenging on Dishonored. And it’s still challenging on Prey. But we learned we have to present [those possibilities] to the player very early on.”
Yet Arkane didn’t want to overwhelm players with too much information. So the developers decided that for the first few hours, you’ll only have access to your human abilities. Eventually, the story introduces more nuanced tools like the Neuromods and the Psychoscope (a device that scans the different Typhon enemies for their powers and weaknesses).
Above: The Mimics can transform into different objects.
Image Credit: Giancarlo Valdes/GamesBeat
However, planning for what abilities a player might combine in any given situation (and thus rewarding them for their curiosity when it works) is an impossible task. The best Arkane can do is just spend a lot of time playing through the game to identify any interesting combos it should support.
“And the things that don’t [seem cool], we cut and get rid of,” explained Bare. “You know you’re in a good place when different people on the team are arguing about things like, ‘This power is the best!’ and ‘This other power is useless!’ And the other person is saying the opposite. … That means different people are finding different ways to play.”
Ideally, the goal is to make players feel like the only limit is their imagination.
“The best feeling is feeling like you’re playing a game where anything is possible, even if it isn’t literally true,” said Bare.
Above: The Typhon come in different shapes and sizes.
Image Credit: Bethesda
Creating a ‘sublime experience’
If you look through forum threads or YouTube videos about Prey, it’s clear some fans still mourn the loss of Human Head’s Prey 2. That put Arkane in an awkward place when it came to managing people’s expectations for the game.
“It’s tricky because, admittedly, the original Prey was a really interesting game. And the pitch and demo of [Prey 2] was cool, too,” said Bare.
But the designer reminded GamesBeat that the company really only makes one type of game: immersive sims. That specialization is one of the reasons he joined Arkane in the first place. It’s a genre few developers try to tackle.
“For one thing, [immersive sims] are really hard to make because they’re so complicated. But they’re also super rewarding, and they ask a lot of players,” said Bare. “If you’re playing a linear shooter where your instructions are just to keep moving forward and shoot everything that moves, that game doesn’t ask a lot of you, right? It doesn’t demand a lot of the player.
“But playing a game like Dishonored or Prey is a little bit like playing a musical instrument. The game asks a lot of you, but it also rewards you tremendously, more than the other kind of game that I’m talking about.”
Above: The GLOO gun traps the Typhon in a hardening foam.
Image Credit: Bethesda
From Arkane’s point of view, these types of games always have at least two things in common.
“They always have a strong sense of place — that’s where the ‘immersive’ part comes in the word immersive sim,” Bare added. “They always feel like a very cohesive, well-built world where you can look around and deduce the story of the place and [figure out] what happened. Everything has depth.
“It’s like an iceberg: You see the tip, but you know there’s so much more below the surface in terms of world-building. You believe that you’re in a real place. And the second part is those layered, super-rich game mechanics, which just translate to the player feeling like, ‘I can do anything in this world. There are these rules and systems, and I can understand them and make a plan. And when it works, I feel this magical, almost sublime experience.’”
The new Prey can never live up to the promise of the cancelled Prey 2. Instead, Arkane is carving a new identity for the beleaguered franchise (whose origins actually stretch back to 1995), one that builds on the beloved immersive sims that came before it. If the reboot is successful, it’ll further cement the studio as a top-tier developer — and maybe even give the Austin team something to brag about to the Lyon office.
As for why they chose to use the Prey name, Bare said the reason was simple: It’s a great title for a video game, and “naming video games is hard.”
Artist's illustration showing a cloud of comet fragments blocking light from a star—one of the possible explanations for the strange, occasional dimming of KIC 8462852, also known as “Tabby’s Star.” Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The star often called the most mysterious in the galaxy has begun darkening again. Scientists are now rushing to watch the event with as many telescopes as they can muster to attempt to understand what is causing its bewildering fluctuations of light.
The star, called KIC 8462852 and nicknamed “Tabby's Star” after Yale University astronomer Tabetha “Tabby” Boyajian, first made news in 2015 when researchers discovered something odd about its light, whose strange brightenings and dimmings have even caused some to speculate it might host alien megastructures around it. The star is an otherwise-normal F type star—slightly larger and hotter than our sun—located about 1,480 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. When astronomer Boyajian and her colleagues analyzed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, however, they found dozens of strange instances of KIC 8462852 darkening up to 22 percent.
These dimming events are far too substantial to be caused by planets crossing the face of the star, so scientists looked for other explanations. Some have even suggested that it might host signs of intelligent alien life—specifically, a Dyson sphere, a hypothetical megastructure built around a star to capture as much of its energy as possible to power an advanced civilization.
In order to solve this mystery astronomers have been planning to analyze the full spectrum of light from Tabby's Star as it darkens via spectral measurements that split light into its constituent wavelengths. Because different materials absorb different wavelengths of light, spectra from the star could reveal what is causing its light fluctuations. “We’ve been waiting to catch another dip in light,” Jason Wright, an astronomer at The Pennsylvania State University, said in an online chat May 19.
Now scientists have discovered Tabby's Star is dimming again, and are racing to get as many telescopes as they can to watch it in as many wavelengths of light as possible, Wright said. “All week there's been some indication that something might be up,” he said. “Sure enough, at about 4 A.M. this morning [Pacific time], I got a phone call from Tabby [Boyajian] saying that Fairborn Observatory in Arizona had confirmed the star as 3 percent dimmer than it normally is. That's enough to say that it’s absolutely no statistical fluke, and we’ve now confirmed it with multiple observatories.”
Astronomers have proposed several possible reason’s for Tabby’s Star’s strange behavior, and each would create a different spectral signature. If clouds of dust are causing the dimming, they usually absorb bluer wavelengths of light, making stars look redder whereas comets passing close to a star would heat up and emit infrared light, Wright said. If interstellar clouds of gas are responsible, those are usually rich in sodium, hydrogen and calcium. And if the dimming is a phenomenon intrinsic to Tabby's Star itself, the spectra will show no signs that anything is absorbing the star's light. If an alien megastructure is the cause, it is difficult to predict what it might look like—if it is solid, “we might see the star getting dimmer overall,” Wright said.
In 2015 Boyajian and her colleagues predicted a dimming event might happen in May 2017. Based on the Kepler data, they suggested dimming of Tabby's Star might follow a roughly 750-day cycle. “It’s right on schedule,” Wright said. Boyajian herself demurred as to the accuracy of the estimate, noting “the prediction was a long shot—we cast a net of several hundred days.”
Among the telescopes Wright said researchers now hope to use to catch this dimming event in the act:
—The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope
—The Automated Planet Finder at Lick Observatory near San Jose, Calif., a robotic optical telescope
—Both telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, which operate in optical and near-infrared wavelengths
—The MMT Observatory in Arizona, an optical telescope
—NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, which operates in gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet and optical wavelengths
‑Las Cumbres Observatory, a worldwide network of robotic optical telescopes
—Fairborn Observatory in Arizona, which operates in optical wavelengths
—The Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, which operates in optical and near-infrared wavelengths
—The Hobby–Eberly Telescope in Texas, an optical telescope
“Our plan is to observe the star in as many wavelengths as we can,” Wright said. “This could be the weekend that we take the data that solves the puzzle.” Even more telescopes may also join in. “It's been a crazy 18 hours, and it’s going to be a really exciting weekend,” he said.
It remains unknown how long this dimming might last. “Most dips in the Kepler data take two to seven days,” Wright said. “So if this is a deep dip, it might be going on for a week. If it’s a shallow dip, it could be gone soon. Hopefully it’s a deep dip.” The data from Kepler does suggest such dimming events happen in clusters.
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Scientists Have Just Discovered Evidence That Parallel Universes Exist
Scientists Have Just Discovered Evidence That Parallel Universes Exist
Scientists have discovered a mysterious ‘Cold Spot’ in space that could prove our universe is just one of an endless string of realities.
The Cold Spot is an area of space 13 billion-years-old and 1.8 billion light years across, which is 0.00015 degrees Celsius (0.00027 degrees Fahrenheit) colder than its surroundings – and this unfathomable mass ‘might be taken as the first evidence for the multiverse.’
Astronomers have been unable to explain the cause of this massive supervoid – and a new study conducted by Durham University claims it couldn’t possibly exist at all.
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The co-author of the study, Professor Tom Shanks said:
We can’t entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model [of particle physics]. But if that isn’t the answer, then there are more exotic explanations.
Perhaps the most exciting of these is that the Cold Spot was caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe. If further, more detailed, analysis … proves this to be the case then the Cold Spot might be taken as the first evidence for the multiverse.
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The new study suggests galaxies in the Cold Spot cluster around smaller voids that spread over the region like bubbles, and that there is only a two per cent chance that it formed randomly.
If Shanks’ assertions are true, the Cold Spot indicates that our cosmos contains an infinite number of parallel universes which, in turn, contain an infinite number of realities.
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But this theory isn’t straight off the pages of sci-fi, as astronomy expert Dr Stuart Clarke wrote in the Guardian:
These uncountable realms sit side by side in higher dimensions that our senses are incapable of perceiving directly. Each alternate universe carries its own different version of reality.
There will be one where you wrote this column and I read it… even a really weird one in which Donald Trump uses twitter to spread nothing but amusing cat videos.
Adult Swim
Brilliantly sassy and politically-motivated astronomers aside, this news could mean that somewhere out there, Rick and Morty are truly travelling through parallel dimensions and eating Szechuan sauce and that, on another realm, you could play Matthew McConaughey’scharacter in Interstellar.
The possibilities are endless and this is truly the most fascinating timeline.
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Carl Sagan Knew UFOs Are Real, Confidant Reveals
Carl Sagan Knew UFOs Are Real, Confidant Reveals
But Sagan kept his viewpoint quiet to avoid losing academic funding
ZNN – Renowned astronomer and astrophysicist Dr. Carl Sagan revealed to Dr. J. Allen Hynek that he believed UFOs were real but avoided any public statements to prevent the loss of academic research funding. Sagan’s once powerful influence on mainstream science to play-down the reality of UFOs is now in question.
“My recollection is that Hynek said it was backstage of one of the many Johnny Carson Tonight shows Sagan did. He basically said [to Hynek] in 1984, ‘I know UFOs are real, but I would not risk my research [College] funding, as you do, to talk openly about them in public.’’ “
This startling revelation about Carl Sagan, one of this century’s most esteemed scientists and writers, has now been made public by Paola Leopizzi-Harris, a former associate of Dr. Allen J. Hynek who worked with him from 1980 to 1985.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek served as a civilian scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book from 1952 to1969, initially taking a very critical and skeptical position on anything related to the reality of UFOs. In one of his own reports he stated:
“I had started out as an outright ‘debunker,’ taking great joy in cracking what seemed at first to be puzzling cases. I was the arch-enemy of those ‘flying saucer groups and enthusiasts’ who very dearly wanted UFOs to be interplanetary.” Hynek, J. Allen. “The Hynek UFO Report”. Dell Publishing Co. 1977
After leaving Project Blue Book – the U.S. Air Force’s pseudo-investigatory public relations scheme on UFOs, Hynek later wrote:
“Now, however, documentation which puts the UFO- U.S. government controversy in quite a new light has become available. The [UFO] authors have made revealing use of documents released through the mechanism of the Freedom of Information Act and other data which have been made available to them… which show that the CIA and NSA protestations of innocence and lack of interest in UFOs are nothing short of prevarication.”
Hynek went on to say: “For the government to continue to maintain that UFOs are nonexistent in the face of the documents already released and of other cogent evidence presented in this book is puerile and in a sense an insult to the American people.”“The UFO Cover-Up.”(Fireside books, Simon & Schuster 1984)
Hynek’s credentials are indeed impressive, having consulted on the Stephen Spielberg movie Close Encounters. As well he presented a paper on UFOs at the UN in 1978. (All Experts)
Sagan’s link to UFOs and possibly to Dr. Hynek occurred in 1966 when Sagan was a member of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book. This committee concluded that the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book had been lacking as a scientific study, and recommended a university-based project to give the UFO phenomenon closer scientific scrutiny.
In scientific circles much of Sagan’s notoriety came from debates conducted under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 1969 he challenged J. Allen Hynek on whether investigations of unidentified flying objects should be considered serious. Hynek argued yes Sagan no. (NNDB)
Sagan was a prolific writer of some 20 books including Contact – eventually made into a movie staring Jodie Foster. Sagan also hosted the brilliantly crafted and highly popular series COSMOS: A Personal Voyage. In Episode 12: “Encyclopedia Galactica”, Sagan explored UFOs and alien abductions while also including ‘refutations’ on UFOs.
“As I understand what the committee would like from me, is a discussion of the likelihood of intelligent extraterrestrial life… clearly it is the hypothesis that unidentified objects are of extraterrestrial origin which the committee must have in mind. I’m delighted to tell about contemporary scientific thinking along these lines, but let me begin by saying that I do not think the evidence is at all persuasive, that UFO’s are of intelligent extraterrestrial origin…”
Sagan’s confidential conversation with Dr. Hynek in 1984 appears to not only contradict this statement to the House Committee in 1968, Sagan’s new found view – that UFOs were real – clearly did not play any role in Sagan’s later highly successful public work.
This revelation by Paola Leopizzi-Harris appears to raise serious scientific discrepancies concerning Sagan’s public verses private beliefs about the nature of UFOs and Extraterrestrial life.
It appears, therefore that Carl Sagan presumably embarked upon his many television appearances, consulting on major television and Hollywood feature productions as well as his own academic writing while professing one public scientific point of view, yet maintaining a significantly contradictory personal belief – “I know UFOs are real…” as told to Dr. J. Allen Hynek in 1984 according to Paola Leopizzi-Harris.
In later years Sagan also heavily promoted SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which discounts UFOs as an ET reality – advancing the theory that listening for signals from deep space may help locate intelligent ET civilizations. [Ed.note – SETI officials were contacted by ZlandCommunications for a comment on this matter – however at the time of publication no response had yet been received.]
It is unknown how long Sagan held this personal view or when and what changed his mind – future disclosures may reveal this. That Sagan presented much of his finest and most popular work outside the context of his personal belief that UFOs were real remains a salient incongruity for a man of Sagan’s stature, obvious integrity and celebratory contributions to humanity and science.
One can only speculate upon why, during the period between Sagan’s initial statement in 1968 and all during his now legendary writings and media productions, Sagan continued to espouse critical views on the reality of UFOs. Why did his views change so dramatically? Did funding issues alone motivate him not to come forward publicly to declare his change-of-mind?
This revelation made to Paola Leopizzi-Harris by a well-respected scientific figure like Dr. J. Allen Hynek alters if not the magnificent quality of Sagan’s work but re-constructs his considerable scientific influence on the mainstream scientific theories about the universe, the intelligent nature of UFOs and Extraterrestrial life.
How will mainstream science respond knowing now that a corner stone of modern science and one of its most revered members is now recognized as to have conceded – UFOs are real?
Two conclusions emerge –
One of the 20th Century’s most renowned space gurus and scientific leaders, appears to have inadvertently shattered the prevailing notion among the scientific community and the so-called experts, that UFOs are fictitious and that issue is does not merit further study.
The second conclusion – short of full disclosure by government of the UFO/ET reality, this revelation most assuredly represents the most serious damage yet to the wall of secrecy and the truth embargo surrounding the Extraterrestrial presence so ardently maintained by government officials and bolstered by mainstream science.
Notably this information also comes at a time when Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister of National Defence has publicly admonished another pillar of mainstream science, Professor Stephen Hawking, for contributing to misinformation about advanced Extraterrestrial civilizations. Hellyer’s admonishment is timely. It puts all scientists on notice that ponderous changes to their entrenched belief about the universe and Extraterrestrial life are about to occur.
The Sagan story also arrives on the eve of the X-Conference 2010 – the largest annual American UFO/ET Disclosure event coordinated by Stephen G. Bassett Director of PRG – the Paradigm Research Group at the National Press Club in Washington DC, just down the street from the White House and a President that recognizes the need for grave global change.
When asked to comment PRG Director Stephen G. Bassett said,
“Carl Sagan and J. Allen Hynek perfectly represent the intellectual and political dilemma faced by the human race during the second half of the 20th century. Both helped to radically change our view of the world… Yet one must be profoundly wrong on the most important historical event in human history.”
Ironically, a cloistered conversation between to academicians behind the curtain – backstage on the set of the Johnny Carson Show in 1984 seems to have changed science and with it, the paradigm beliefs of an entire planet – we are not alone.
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Could megalithic stone circles be used for alien communications?
Could megalithic stone circles be used for alien communications?
Written by David Montana
What if megalithic stone circles were electromagnetic receptors for alien telecommunication? What if they are still been used for this purpose?
Daniel Montana daniel.montana.paranormal@gmail.com
Abstract
This article presents evidence suggesting that ancient stone circles may have been used as electromagnetic receptors for alien communications similar to what is known today as satellite antennas. This evidence corresponds to anomalies of radio and microwave radiation found in the center of the Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle, United Kingdom.
Could megalithic stonecircles be used for extraterrestrial communications?
Introduction
The idea that extraterrestrial individuals were in contact with ancient civilizations was introduced in the science fiction narrative at the beginning of the nineteenth century (see for example Wilkins, 1946). Later on, this idea was popularized in the 1970s as a formal hypothesis by Eric von Däniken in his book Chariots of the Gods. This author offered arguments suggesting that a number of remains and narratives related to ancient societies (e.g. megalithic remains, miracles of the Bible, ancient Baghdad electric batteries, etc.) were associated with extraterrestrial technology (Von Däniken, 1973).
Nowadays the hypothesis of extraterrestrial contact with ancient civilizations is referred to as the Ancient Astronauts Theory and has attracted the attention of a number of investigators who claim that evidence supporting this theory can be found in archaeological remains, ancient art and iconography, among others (Dennett, 2008). For example, it has been argued that the Nazca Lines of Peru were a type of alien airport were alien spaceships landed and took off (Mason, 2009; Rutkowski, 2010).
In relation to megalithic remains, followers of the Ancient Astronauts Theory have introduced a number of arguments suggesting that these remains were built by aliens, or at least under their influence. Some of these arguments are based on the fact that these remains are too big to be created by ancient human technology (Alford, 1988; Penczak, 2007; Roberts, 2016). Other key facts that have been considered as proof of alien assistance are the astronomical and mathematical precision of the monuments design; the ancient alignment to planets and stars; and the similarities of megalithic across continents. For example, the megalithic stone site near Giza at Nabta in Egypt is aligned to the star Sirius and the constellation of Orion suggesting that they were used as navigation markers for UFOs (David, 2010). Likewise, it has been suggested that the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built by aliens who had advance knowledge of electromagnetic forces because these structures were designed to capture cosmic radiation (La Tulippe, 2016).
In spite of these facts, the scientific community remains skeptical, and the dominant academic view is that there is no actual evidence supporting the Ancient Astronaut and related theories (arguments against these theories can be found in Harrold and Eve, 1986; Hines, 1988; Elitzur, 1991; Patrick, 1994; Feder, 2015).
The disagreement between proponents of the Ancient Astronauts Theory and the orthodox scientific community has not prevented the former from exploring potential links between megalithic remains and alien intervention. On the contrary, an increasing interest has been placed on several local monumental remains that have been subject to much less coverture than the famous megalithic such as the great pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, and statues of Easter Island, among others. A clear example is Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle located in Shropshire, UK. It corresponds to stones (the tallest 1.9 meters high) arranged in a rough circle with a diameter of about 28 meters. This monument was built during the Bronze Age approximately 3,000 years ago and contained initially thirty stones of which only fifteen have survived until today.
A significant number of UFO sightings of discs and triangles have been reported over the years around the area of Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle. It is argued that these sightings are related to the alignment of this site with the general area of Montgomery ley line(*). It is claimed that this alignment is used by extraterrestrial spacecraft as a point of navigation – or to refuel by tapping into the energy (Perks, 2012; UFO Centre, 2017; Rainford, 2017).
The objective of this article is to offer an alternative interpretation of stone circle monuments that apparently has not been proposed so far. That is, it is suggested the idea that these monuments were actually used as electromagnetic receptors for alien telecommunication similar of what is known today as satellite antennas. In order to support this possibility, evidence from an experiment carried out in Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle is presented. The results of this experiment revealed that Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle has the ability to channel radio and microwave radiation.
Methodology
The methodology adopted in this investigation was designed to identify two potential electromagnetic anomalies in Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle that we would expect to find in a modern satellite antenna: (1) microwave radiation anomalies; and (2) EVP (Electronic voice phenomenon) anomalies. They are explained as follows.
Microwave anomalies
As explained in the introduction, the aim of this article is to present evidence supporting the idea that stone circle monuments were used as ancient alien satellite antennas. If this was true, then the types of electromagnetic radiation that would be employed by alien spacecraft would be the ones that can go thought Earth’s atmosphere. Clearly a good candidate is microwave radiation because microwaves have short wavelengths and allow them to pass through the Earth’s atmosphere (Capmany and Novak, 2007). In considering this fact, the methodology adopted in this investigation consisted of measuring microwave anomalies in the site by means of a portable microwave radiation meter. Two approaches were employed for this purpose and are explained as follows.
The first approach consisted of measuring microwave radiation of a mobile phone connected to the Internet across the area of the site using a portable digital microwave radiation meter. The latter was located near the ground and the mobile phone was located 1.5 meters over the microwave radiation meter. The idea behind this approach is to explore whether stone circles were used as a sort of parabolic satellite antennas for space navigation. If this was the case, then the phone devise would play the role of electromagnetic receptor. In this case, higher levels of microwave radiation would be detected in the center of the monument.
The second approach consisted of measuring microwave emission using the same portable microwave radiation meter but without the mobile phone. This approach was employed to determine whether the stone circle needed an electromagnetic receptor to be functional.
EVP anomalies
The EVP phenomenon has traditionally been attributed to dead people voices that are identified from a recording system (Baruss, 2001; Townsend, 2007; Sabol, 2013). It has also been argued that the origin of EVP phenomenon can be natural and it can be caused by radio interferences (i.e. radio transmissions) that are accidentally recorded by a recording system (Leary and Butler, 2015). If the latter interpretation was correct and if stone circles were a type of electromagnetic antenna, then radio interferences would be expected to be found in the site under study. To test this possibility, a digital recorder was employed in different parts of Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle area. Later on, the recordings were filtered and analyzed using the Audacity software.
Results
The experiment was conducted on 12 August 2017, at 20:00 British time. The first activity consisted of measuring microwave radiation in the ground of site and the stones. No radiation anomaly was identified by the portable digital microwave radiation meter. The second activity consisted of measuring microwave radiation of the mobile phone across the area of the site and the stones. In this case, the portable digital microwave radiation meter detected a significant microwave radiation from the mobile phone in the center of the monument. However, this emission disappeared when measures were carried out in places other than the center. This impressive finding suggests that the stone circle has the ability to channel microwave radiation as it would be expected in a satellite antenna.
On the other hand, digital recordings (i.e. EVP) were carried out in different parts of the site. After filtering and processing the recording, a voice was identified only in the recording carried out in the center. This evidence, again, suggests that the monument has the ability to channel electromagnetic radiation, a fact that may have been used for telecommunication.
This experiment was filmed and can be seen at the following link:
Conclusions
The results of this investigation revealed that the stone circle under study has the ability to channel electromagnetic radiation that is normally used in telecommunication. The monument does not emit radiation itself. However, the microwave radiation received and emitted by a mobile phone was significantly strong in the center of the monument. In addition, the EVP result revealed that the center can also channel other types of radiation that may be attributed to radio interferences.
In considering this evidence it is suggested in this article that stone circles played the role of alien satellite and telecommunication antennas. This does not mean that they worked as modern satellite antennas. It appears that the stone circles were markers of sites that have a natural ability to channel radiation. This is consistent with the alternative view that megalithic were located in ley lines with high levels of energy. What is novel in this investigation is the claim that these sites not only may be related to ley lines, but also have the property of channeling microwave and radio radiation useful for alien telecommunication. This can explain why a significant number of UFO sightings have been reported in the area of the Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle and other similar monuments: these monuments are still been used as satellite antennas by alien spaceships.
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(*) Ley lines correspond to invisible hypothetical alignments of magnetic energy that connect ancient sites and it is argued that extra-terrestrial craft use them as a point of navigation.
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Bizar gedrag alien megastructuur. Hoe kan een ster dit doen?
Bizar gedrag alien megastructuur. Hoe kan een ster dit doen?
Eén van de vreemdste sterren in ons sterrenstelsel is weer actief. Op vrijdag werd Tabby’s ster plotseling zwakker.
Astronomen richten nu zoveel mogelijk telescopen op de ster, die zich op 1300 lichtjaar van de aarde bevindt, om het vreemde signaal te ontcijferen.
In 2015 ontdekte een team sterrenkundigen onder leiding van Tabetha Boyajian van de Yale-universiteit dat de ster KIC 8462852 periodieke helderheidsdipjes vertoonde.
Analyse
De ster werd tot wel 22 procent zwakker om vervolgens weer normaal te worden.
In 2016 bleek uit een analyse van oude beelden dat KIC 8462852 tussen 1890 en 1989 in totaal 14 procent zwakker is geworden.
Met behulp van de Kepler-telescoop is ontdekt dat in de afgelopen vier jaar nog eens vier procent van het licht van de ster is weggenomen.
Vreemd object gespot op Google Earth. Is dit een gecrasht ruimteschip op Antarctica?
Vreemd object gespot op Google Earth. Is dit een gecrasht ruimteschip op Antarctica?
Het internet is weer in de ban van een ‘vondst’ op Antarctica. Er gaat momenteel een filmpje rond van een Russische UFO-jager die een ‘ruimteschip’ op het continent meent te hebben ontdekt.
Valentin Degteryov besloot beelden van het object, dat volgens hem al die tijd onontdekt is gebleven omdat het was bedekt met sneeuw, op internet te zetten nadat hij op een donkere vorm was gestuit op Google Earth.
De UFO-jager uit Nizjni Tagil, een stad in het Aziatische deel van Rusland, zegt dat het object bijna 600 meter lang is.
Smelten
Hij vermoedt dat het nu pas zichtbaar is geworden vanwege het smelten van de ijslaag op het meest zuidelijke continent.
Een filmpje dat dinsdag door Degteryov op YouTube is gezet, is inmiddels al honderdduizenden keren bekeken.
Bergtop
De meesten kunnen zich echter niet vinden in zijn theorie en zijn van mening dat het object een bergtop is.
De plek waar volgens Degteryov miljoenen jaren geleden een ruimteschip is neergestort, is te vinden door de volgende coördinaten in te voeren: 73°13’55.09″S,71°57’12.98″W.
Earlier this week, a newspaper in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia reported that an event planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of Canada’s most famous UFO incidents was in jeopardy due to funding. The event is being organized by the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society (SHUFOIS), who had hoped to secure a grant offered by Canada’s Department of Communities, Culture & Heritage. Unfortunately, they were not approved for the grant, putting the event’s future in question. However, according to SHUFOIS, an anonymous donor has come forward to fund the event, and the festivities are now back on.
The Shag Harbour Incident Society Museum.
(Credit: Shag Harbour Incident Society)
Shag Harbour is a small fishing village with around 500 residents. Their claim to fame is a UFO incident that occurred on October 4, 1967.
A website setup by the Canadian Library and Archives describes the UFO event:
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia
October 4, 1967
On the night of October 4, 1967, officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and six civilians witnessed an incredible, yet unexplainable, sight. Earlier in the evening, the RCMP had received many phone calls from residents reporting that an airplane had crashed into Shag Harbour. Both the RCMP and locals had rushed to the shore of the harbour, but what they encountered there was far from a conventional aircraft.
Witnesses reported seeing an object 60 feet in length moving in an easterly direction before it descended rapidly into the water, making a bright splash on impact. A single white light appeared on the surface of the water for a short period of time. The RCMP, with help from local fishermen and their boats, endeavoured to reach the object before it sank completely.
Local fishermen remember travelling through thick, glittery, yellow foam to get to where they saw the object. Bubbles from underneath the surface of the water appeared around the boats. The crews attempted to search the area for evidence of survivors, but found no one.
The Department of National Defence (DND) conducted an underwater search of the area, but failed to locate any evidence of an object.
The crashing of the unidentified flying object into Shag Harbour is still discussed today, with many articles appearing on the Internet. There is no trace of the RCMP reports of this sighting in the files. The Department of National Defence has identified this sighting as unsolved, and the only documentation that exists in the files is a DND memo.
Canadian UFO report linked to in the Shag Harbour UFO Incident summary.
(Credit: Canada Library and Archives)
The incident is famous in UFO circles, and often referred to as Canada’s Roswell. However, SHUFOIS members say they have not received the support they feel they deserve.
Brock Zinck, vice-president of SHUFOIS , told the Shelburne County Coast Guard, “We can’t get a lot of love here in Shag Harbour; they won’t even give us a (Highway 103) sign.”
“Maybe the government doesn’t want to know we are there,” Zinck added.
Inside the Shag Harbour Incident Society Museum.
(Credit: Shag Harbour Incident Society)
Their hearts were further broken when they were denied the grant.
“We were really counting on the grant…we were excited,” Zinck said. “It does throw a wrench in our preparations. We had big plans to take it to the next level.”
However, in a press release OpenMinds.tv received this morning, Zinck writes: “We are back on track to make this the most epic Shag Harbour UFO Incident Festival ever. It’s going to be outta this world!”
Zinck says that a civilian, who is involved with the study of UFOs and “related phenomenon,” read about the lack of funding and, as Zinck puts it, “to our complete shock, offered a significant donation.”
Gazebo and sign outside of the Shag Harbour UFO Incident museum.
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Zinck says the donor wished to remain anonymous, but did provide a public statement.
Although there is much I can’t reveal, without any hesitation I can say the Canadian Government (and the International Community it answers to) appears to be concealing what happened in and around the waters of Shag Harbour, Canada on Oct 4th, 1967. People with the connections, notoriety, and finances are working hard to challenge how we view the world around us. Shag Harbour is one of the smoking guns that will be used to achieve this.
Mysterious, to say the least.
The weeklong festival will be held September 29 to October 1 later this year. There will also be an event on October 4, marking the actual anniversary of the event.
A Wisconsin witness at Sawyer County reported watching “three stacked orbs” hovering at a nearby tree line for 45 minutes, according to testimony in Case 83015 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness observed three hovering orbs from his deck in Sawyer County, WI.
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The witness and his mother contacted Wisconsin Field Investigator Chad Laibly, who completed the report.
“The witness was having a cigarette at 11:50 p.m. when he walked out onto his wrap-around deck, came around a corner, and immediately noticed a bright object out of his peripheral vision,” Laibly stated in the report.“It scared the heck out of him.”
The witness immediately went to get his mother and she too noticed the object.
“As it was fairly cold, she only observed the phenomenon for 10 minutes. He watched it steadily for 45 minutes straight. Went inside, came out two hours later and it was gone.”
The object he observed quite well consisted of three orbs stacked on top of each other with an aura-type force sparkling force field surrounding them.
The edges of the object were observed to sparkle. Pictured: Sawyer County, WI.
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“The orbs were 12-15 feet wide, making the object about 36-45 feet tall. It was observed hovering above a tree line that was approximately one football field away and two football fields high. The orbs were solid, not transparent. The bottom was all white with a smear of pink. The middle was aqua-marine in color. The top was white/yellow to gold in color. All three orbs were surrounded by an unbroken, fuzzy ‘force field’ outline existing about a foot away from the edges of the objects – giving the objects the look of a full peapod.”
The objects were described as brighter than any other observable star. The witness identified the North Star as being to the east and not the object.
“He did not think it could be a drone or Chinese lantern in any way. It made no noise. It did not move slowly as time went on. It hovered silently and stayed about 35-degrees above the horizon with several houses and a golf course beneath. It did not dim. It did not waiver. The edges kind of sparkled, like a sparkler.”
The object hovered over several houses and a golf course for 45 minutes. Pictured: Sawyer County, WI.
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The witness says there were no negative effects related to the sighting.
“No missing time noted. No clouds, a very light wind at 5mph present. About 30-35 degrees in temperature he believed. He has no glasses and sees, hears, and smells fine. He has a phone, but knows from experience he can’t take pictures of stars at night because they never turn out. He’s quite often on his porch and has tried to do so in the past. He was quite shocked, watched it intently for a long time, is certain of his observation as described, and says it has changed his entire outlook on life. He will buy some color pencils and attempt to sketch a likeness.”
Sawyer County, WI, has a population of 16,557. No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on April 7, 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
Because church attendances worldwide are falling and that the percentage of individuals who identify as atheist or as not following a religion is increasing, it is generally increasingly becoming an accepted view that God does not exist.
The idea of a god of some kind isn't necessarily in a rapid decline, rather how people tend to think of God and the idea of organized religion.
It has long been established that the various Christian disciplines contain numerous contradictions not to mention revisions and portions of the Bible hidden from the public by the Vatican City.
The Catholic sect has experienced scandal after scandal over the last few years while the Muslim faith is gaining a worldwide negative reputation due to the continued actions terrorists using their scriptures as justification for their actions.
While religions are self-imploding, the view that most people have of the world and their understanding of the universe and our place in it is also changing.
As recently as a few decades ago people could easily deny the possibility of life on other planets as no other potentially life-bearing planets had been discovered. Similarly, the sheer size and scale of the universe and how tiny and insignificant humankind and the earth are was not known.
While the old ideas of a god being an omnipotent presence who watched over us die off, however, belief in a universal God is increasing. This is a god who does not care what we do, know we even exist or have any interest in being worshiped. More the idea that the universe started from somewhere and as scientific knowledge increases the one defining start point of the universe is increasingly unknown.
This suggests that while a deity as most people think of one doesn't exist, a god of some description becomes more likely. The more questions that science can answer, the more puzzling the fundamental questions become, and the more the answer can only be a deity of some kind.
Other examples of reasons for the existence of God include the spontaneous development of different forms of religion at various points in history, or the constant reemergence of different life forms after mass extinctions.
What are they hiding? Brexit blamed for latest delay in release of UK UFO 'X-Files'
What are they hiding? Brexit blamed for latest delay in release of UK UFO 'X-Files'
THE Pre-Brexit general election has been blamed for yet another delay to the release of British classified UFO files that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) appears reluctant to let go of.
Conspiracy theorists claim the Government is stalling and using any excuse to stop the release of the files as they may contain a smoking gun piece of evidence about alien visitations of Earth.
Last year the 18 files were sent to the National Archives for release to the public, but then mysteriously sent back to the MoD for further censure.
The latest release date was set to be this March, but, again they failed to materialise.
Now, the National Archives has blamed the upcoming general election - called to give Theresa May a mandate for Brexit - for further delays, according to Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de.
They are believed to date from 1971-76 and 1996-2000, and 2004.
It is also hoped there are further files from the December 1980 Rendlesham Forest UFO incident that will shed more light on the bizarre case, when US military officer claim to have seen a UFO land.
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The delay to the release of the UFO files has led to cover-up claims.
A National Archives spokesman spoke to the German frontier science and the paranormal news blog.
He said: "Due to the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.
"We are working to ensure that the files are ready for release as soon after this period as is possible: hopefully around the middle of June."
In 2013, the MoD claimed to have released all of its UFO related formerly classified files, after beginning declassification in 2008, but it later emerged in 2014 it had held back the 18 still to be released.
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UFO hunters hope the files will hold smoking gun evidence of alien visitations.
I understand people's frustration and can see why this delay is generating conspiracy theories. I hope the release of the last files can be fast-tracked after the election.
In a blog about the delay, Andreas Müller, editor of Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de, wrote: "Since it became known in Autumn of 2014 that contrary to the claim that the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released all of its formerly secret UFO-files already back in 2013, still 18 files of the MoD’s former UFO-Bureau files were held back.
"UFO-researches as well as historians look forward to the release of those files, that has been postponed repeatedly since then.
"As even the latest release date given – March 2017 – has passed."
Nick Pope, who was formerly employed by the MoD to investigate the UFO phenomenon, until 2009, told Express.co.uk: "As a former civil servant I understand the reasons for this, but the UFO community will doubtless be suspicious of this latest delay.
"When I made the official announcement of the declassification and release of these UFO files in May 2008, the thinking was the the release project would take two or three years.
"Now, over nine years later, I understand people's frustration and can see why this delay is generating conspiracy theories.
"I hope the release of the last files can be fast-tracked after the election."
It’s almost certainly not aliens, but once again, Tabby’s Star is acting hella weird. The star that first became our planetary obsession back in the fall of 2015—when astronomer Jason Wright suggested its weird flickering behavior might be the result of an alien megastructure—is, once again, flickering. But unlike previous stellar glitches, astronomers are now prepared to study it in the act.
The world was first alerted to a alien signal mysterious change in the star’s light output in a tweet from Wright this morning.
As reported by Popular Science, Fairborn Observatory in Arizona confirmed that the star’s light output has recently dimmed by approximately 3 percent. As with previous dimming events, this can’t be easily explained by any ordinary stellar behavior. Past explanations for the star’s fits and starts include a swarm of cometary fragments, a recently-annihilated planet (full disclosure: my brother, an astronomer at Columbia University, came up with that one), and, every true believer’s favorite, an alien megastructure.
Tabby’s Star, or KIC 8462852 as it was first identified in the Kepler space telescope database, has confounded astronomers since its unusual light curve was first spotted by citizen scientists. Over four years of Kepler observations, the star’s light output intermittently tanked, dropping by roughly 20 percent on one occasion. The more astronomers looked at the star, the weirder things got. An analysis of old photographic plates hinted that the star’s light output diminished a whopping 19 percent over the 20th century, and a subsequent analysis of Kepler’s data seemed to confirm long-term dimming. It was soon decided that the only way to solve the mystery would be to observe the star in the act of dimming across the electromagnetic spectrum. Following a successful crowdfunding campaign by star-discoverer Tabetha Boyajian last spring, that’s exactly what astronomers have been gearing up to do.
Now, they’re wasting no time. A call is currently open for telescopes around the world, including amateur astronomers, to point their eyes at Tabby’s Star and watch how its light curve changes over the course of the ongoing dimming event. “Right now, we’re organizing lots of different telescopes,” Wright said in an interview with UC Berkeley’s SETI program, noting that observers on both Keck telescopes in Hawaii were going to look at Tabby’s Star tonight, along with, hopefully, folks at several other observatories elsewhere in the United States and around the world. “It should be a really exciting weekend.
As I’ve explained previously, Kepler’s data on Tabby’s Star consisted of a smear of white light. More precise measurements at different wavelengths could help us zero in on whatever material is actually occluding it. A spectra with high absorption in blue and ultraviolet wavelengths, for instance, could point to a giant blob of dust around the star, while an excess of infrared radiation may support the comet hypothesis.
But what would support the theory of a vast alien construction project? Only the most extraordinary evidence—although at this point, as long as the star continues to defy natural explanations, the nerds in the room can dream on.
Exciting stuff! I’ve reached out to Boyajian and Wright for comment on what the next steps are, and I’ll update this post if I hear back. If you’re keen to learn more right now, SETI’s hour-long conversation with Wright today, embedded above, is chock full of additional information.
'Alien Megastructure' Star Is at It Again with the Strange Dimming
'Alien Megastructure' Star Is at It Again with the Strange Dimming
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
An artist's illustration of Boyajian's star, which experiences unexplained changes in brightness. One hypothesis is that a planet has broken up around the star, and the debris is block the star's light.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech
The perplexing cosmic object known as "Boyajian's star" is once again exhibiting a mysterious pattern of dimming and brightening that scientists have tried to explain with hypotheses ranging from swarms of comets to alien megastructures.
Today (May 19), an urgent call went out to scientists around the world to turn as many telescopes as possible toward the star, to try and crack the mystery of its behavior.
"At about 4 a.m. this morning I got a phone call … that Fairborn [Observatory] in Arizona had confirmed that the star was 3 percent dimmer than it normally is," Jason Wright, an associate professor of astronomy at Pennsylvania State University, who is managing a study of Boyajian's star, said during a live webcast today at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT). "That is enough that we are absolutely confident that this is no statistical fluke. We've now got it confirmed at multiple observatories, I think.
Star KIC 8462852, or Boyajian's star (also nicknamed "Tabby's star," for astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, who led the team that first detected the star's fluctuations), has demonstrated an irregular cycle of growing dimmer and then returning to its previous brightness. These changes were first spotted in September 2015 using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which was built to observe these kinds of dips in a star's brightness, because they can be caused by a planet moving in front of the star as seen from Earth.
But the brightness changes exhibited by Boyajian don't show the kind of regularity that is typical of a planet's orbit around its star, and scientists can't see how the changes could be explained by a system of planets.
Scientists have hypothesized that the changes could be due to a swarm of comets passing in front of the star, that they're the result of strong magnetic activity, or that it's some massive structure built by aliens. But no leading hypothesis has emerged, so scientists have been eager to capture a highly detailed picture of the light coming from the star during one of these dimming periods. This detailed view is what scientists typically call an object spectra. It can reveal, for example, the specific chemical elements that are in a gas. It can also tell scientists if an object is moving toward or away from the observer.
"Whatever's causing the star to get dimmer will leave a spectral fingerprint behind," Wright said during the webcast, which took place in the Breakthrough Listen laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. "So if there is a lot of dust between us and the star … it will block more blue light than red light. If there is gas in that dust, that gas should absorb very specific wavelengths and we should be able to see that. And so, we've been eager to see one of these changes in one of these dips of the star so we can take some spectra."
But the scientists couldn't predict when the next dimming event would occur or how long it will last. (Dips detected by Kepler lasted for between two and seven days, according to Wright.) Professional-grade telescopes typically schedule observing time weeks or months in advance, so Wright and his colleagues knew their observations would have to come at the behest of colleagues who were already using the telescopes for other projects.
"We need to have a network of people around the world that are ready to jump on [and observe it]," Wright said. "Fortunately, Tabby's star is not too faint and so there are a lot of observers and telescopes … that have graciously agreed to take some time out of their science to grab a spectrum for us [tonight]."
Wright said the call had gone out to amateur as well as professional astronomers to observe Boyajian's star during this dimming period. The largest and most powerful telescopes that will heed the call are the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W.H. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The team is working to gain observing time on at least three other large telescopes on the U.S., according to Wright.
The Breakthrough Listen initiative, which searches for signs of intelligent life in the universe, has also taken an interest in the star and will be observing it with the Automated Planet Finder telescope at Lick Observatory in California, according to Andrew Siemion, director or the Berkeley SETI Research Center, said in the webcast.
"It's Super Bowl Sunday," Siemion said of the atmosphere at the during the webcast. "There's a palpable tension."
Breakthrough and the Berkeley center are now trying to get some observing time on the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia, according to Siemion.
Boyajian was the astronomer at Yale University who led the team that initially spotted the star's brightness fluctuations. It was Boyajian who called Wright at 4 a.m. to confirm that the star is dimming.
REVEALED: The REAL Men in Black exposed by alien hunters
REVEALED: The REAL Men in Black exposed by alien hunters
ARMIES of conspiracy theorists have been desperately seeking the truth about aliens and UFOs for years – could real Men In Black be hiding it from the public?
Sci-fi blockbuster Men in Black was an international hit in 1997 for showing two US secret agents – played by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones – tracking down aliens and erasing the memories of any witnesses that saw them.
The movie – based on a 1992 comic by Lowell Cunningham – was such a success that it spawned two sequels, a number 1 hit record, an animated series, merchandise and now talks of another film are in the works.
But despite the fun and light-hearted tone of the film, the origins of the tale are hauntingly real.
Dozens of sightings of "strange men in black suits" have been recorded over the years and Daily Star Online delved deep into these bizarre accounts.
Who are the REAL Men in Black?
The real Men in Black are rumoured to be part of a secret US government agency who ask questions and give no answers.
The men are believed to be human-alien hybrids that only target civilians who have been abducted by extra terrestrials, seen UFOs or are actively researching alien life.
It is not known what the men do to "believers" but reports suggest they arrive out of the blue, flash security cards and ask questions about the sightings, even if they weren't reported.
The Men in Black are said to demand silence regarding the sighting and confiscate any materials related to aliens or UFOs.
There have been many Men in Black sightings over the years, some of which feature in the video above.
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GALAXY DEFENDERS: The Men in Black could be real if several accounts of sightings are true
When did the first Men in Black sighting take place?
The first Men in Black sighting reportedly occurred in 1947 in "The Maury Island incident".
Harold Dahl claims he saw six saucer-like objects in June of that year on Maury Island in Washington, US.
The alien craft dropped "molten hot debris" that killed his dog and burnt his son but, terrified, he told no one.
The sighting alone was terrifying enough but what happened next is even creepier.
Dahl was then visited by a man in a black suit driving a Buick car who invited him to eat breakfast at a nearby diner to go over the details.
After sharing his flying saucer story, Dahl was warned that "bad things would happen to him and his family if he told anyone about the incident", according to UFO networking site MUFON.
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MIBS: The first sighting of Men in Black took place in 1947
“Was that an MIB experience?”
Dan Aykroyd, Ghostbusters star
Men in Black sightings have happened since?
After Howard Dahl's strange experience, a man called Albert K. Bender started releasing news about UFOs to "believers" after he was visited by men in dark suits and threatened in 1952.
He published a magazine called Space Review and claimed to have discovered the truth about a UFO cover-up.
Bender was going to publish the revelation in an issue but was visited three times by "men dressed in black".
He never released the information, stopped the publishing of his magazine and dissolved a society he had created called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), just one year after launching it.
Bender released this statement: “The mystery of the flying saucers is no longer a mystery. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by order from a higher source.
"We would like to print the full story in Space Review, but because of the nature of the information we are very sorry that we have been advised in the negative."
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SMASH HIT: Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as the Men in Black
But no explanation was given as to why the magazine was stopped or the IFSB closed.
Another man called Paul Miller saw a disappearing "luminous silo" in a field with weird human-like creatures inside, while walking with friends in 1961.
Terrified, he panicked and shot at them with a rifle.
Miller and his friends claimed to have blackouts on the way home afterwards and lose three hours.
A more recent Men in Black experience was revealed by Ghostbusters star Dan Aykroyd.
The 64-year-old actor was about to film a UFO documentary series but had it abruptly cancelled.
Just before interviewing a pair of alien abductees, Aykroyd went outside for a breath of fresh air to see a tall man in a black sedan waiting outside.
The man apparently gave the star "a real dirty look" before disappearing.
In a 2005 documentary called Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs, he says: "The show was cancelled two hours later. Was that an MIB experience?"
The weird light blips coming from this star might be caused by a family of comets or collision debris, but scientists don't really know.
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In late 2015, astronomers noticed something absurd happening around a distant star. Something massive seemed to be blocking as much as 20 percent of the star’s light.
That’s way too much to be a planet. It might be comets, or maybe an alien-made Dyson swarm. The problem is that none of the hypotheses that scientists have come up with (including the one about aliens) really fits with the data. That leads them to think that some as-yet-undiscovered phenomena is happening around this star.
For years, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian and her colleagues have been waiting for the mysterious light dips to happen again, so that they could collect more data and try to get to the bottom of the mystery. And now it seems the star is finally dimming again:
The researchers suspected another dip was happening yesterday, but this morning the Fairborn Observatory in Arizona confirmed that the star has dimmed by three percent. (By comparison, a Jupiter-sized planet would block one percent of a star's light, at most.) The team has put out a call for amateur astronomers and large observatories to point their scopes at the star and try to collect data. The Swift, Keck, Fairborn, and Lick telescopes are among the observatories who'll helping the effort.
In particular, the astronomers want to see how the star looks in different wavelengths. That's because different materials will block some wavelengths but not others, offering clues to the identify of any circumstellar material that may be blocking the light.
The light from 'Tabby's Star' has dipped by three percent so far. Astronomers aren't sure if the light will continue to plummet, or if so, for how long.
If it's dust that's blocking the light, the spectra should show big dips in the blue and ultraviolet wavelengths. If it's other stuff orbiting the star, like a family of huge comets, then the observations should show extra heat being radiated off of this stuff. So far, that excess infrared has remained elusive, but Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State, said that the observations that will start tonight could provide the first evidence of that.
If it's an alien megastructure, or some kind of internal process, all of the wavelengths should get dimmer equally. A bizarre signature, such as Tritium or artificial elements would be a pretty strong hint for aliens, although it would take an extraordinary amount of evidence to prove such an extraordinary claim.
Wright said they might have some preliminary results back as soon as tomorrow night, but other data will take longer to analyze.
“I don’t think we’re going to solve the puzzle this weekend," says Wright, but he added that this weekend may be when they collect the data that eventually solves the puzzle.
This post was updated to include information from a livestream starting at 2pm Eastern on 5/19/2017.
Stan Michalak can still vividly remember when his dad came home sick and injured after something happened in the Falcon Lake woods in Manitoba on the May long weekend of 1967.
It was something that put his family life into upheaval and remains one of the world's best-known UFO encounters.
"I recalled seeing him in bed. He didn't look good at all. He looked pale, haggard," said Michalak, who was nine years old at the time and was allowed to see his dad for a couple of minutes on the day after what soon become known as the Falcon Lake incident.
"When I walked into the bedroom there was a huge stink in the room, like a real horrible aroma of sulphur and burnt motor. It was all around and it was coming out of his pores. It was bad," said Michalak, who co-authored the book When They Appeared with Winnipeg UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski.
Stefan Michalak's sketch of the strange craft he encountered.
The book will be launched on Saturday in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the incident.
"I was very afraid. My dad had been injured and I didn't know anything about it," Michalak told CBC News in recalling that Saturday 50 years earlier.
Within a couple of days, however, not only did he know more — so did much of the public.
The story about his dad being burned by a UFO ran in the Winnipeg Tribune newspaper "and that's when everything pretty much hit the fan," Michalak said.
The encounter
Stefan Michalak was an industrial mechanic by trade and an amateur geologist who liked to venture into the wilderness around Falcon Lake — about 150 kilometres east of Winnipeg — to prospect for quartz and silver.
He had staked some claims the prior year and set out on the May long weekend in 1967 to explore some more.
On May 20, 1967, Stefan was near a vein of quartz along the Precambrian Shield in the area when the 51-year-old was startled by a gaggle of nearby geese that erupted into a clattering of honks.
A grid of dots can be seen on Stefan Michalak's burned shirt.
According to his accounts, as reported in newspapers at the time and since repeated in books, magazines and on TV shows like Unsolved Mysteries, Stefan looked up and saw two cigar-shaped objects with a reddish glow hovering about 45 metres away.
One descended, according to Stefan's account, landing on a flat section of rock and taking on more of a disc shape. The other remained in the air for a few minutes before flying off.
Believing it to be a secret U.S.military experimental craft, Stefan sat back and sketched it over the next half hour. Then he decided to approach, later recalling the warm air and smell of sulphur as he got closer, as well as a whirring sound of motors and a hissing of air.
Apiece of the radioactive metal that was retrieved from the crash site in 1968. It was found in the cracks of the Precambrian rock.
(Chris Rutkowski)
He also noted a door open on the side with bright lights inside, and said he heard voices muffled by the sounds from the craft.
He said he called out, offering mechanical help to the "Yankee boys" if they needed it. The voices went quiet but did not answer, so Stefan tried in his native Polish, then in Russian and finally in German.
Only the whirr and hiss of the craft responded.
He claims he went closer and noted the smooth metal of the ship, with no seams. He then looked into the bright doorway, pulling on the welding goggles he used to protect his eyes while chipping at rocks during prospecting.
Stefan Michalak wearing the welding goggles he says he used to peer into the craft he encountered in Falcon Lake.
(My encounter with the UFO/Stefan Michalak)
Inside, Stefan said he saw light beams and panels of various-coloured flashing lights, but could not see anyone or any living thing. When he stepped away, three panels slid across the door opening and sealed it.
He reached to touch the craft, which he said melted the fingertips of the glove he was wearing.
The craft then began to turn counter-clockwise and Stefan says he noticed a panel that contained a grid of holes. Shortly afterward, he was struck in the chest by a blast of air or gas that pushed him backward and set his shirt and cap ablaze.
He ripped away the burning garments as the craft lifted off and flew away.
Disoriented and nauseous, Stefan stumbled through the forest and vomited. He eventually made his way back to his motel room in Falcon Lake then caught a bus back to Winnipeg.
He was treated at a hospital for burns to his chest and stomach that later turned into raised sores on a grid-like pattern. And for weeks afterwards, he suffered from diarrhea, headaches, blackouts and weight loss.
'It just flipped our lives over'
Once the story was out, the RCMP, the air force, the media, various government agencies, and hordes of gawking members of the public descended on the Michalaks's small River Heights bungalow in Winnipeg.
That's who Michalak refers to in the title of the book — those endless visitors and phone calls, the media and people camping on the lawn, the people who would follow Michalak to school one day peppering him with questions.
"It just flipped our lives over," he said. "It took several years before it finally died down."
When They Appeared is being launched this weekend, on the 50th anniversary of the Falcon Lake incident.
(Chris Rutkowski)
After that, and until the day he died in 1999 at the age of 83, Stefan believed he never should have said a thing, Michalak said.
But at the time, he felt it was a duty. He wanted others, if they were to see the same thing, to avoid it and not get hurt, Michalak said.
In Poland, before Stefan moved his family to Canada, he was a military policeman with a set of moral guidelines that he lived by — that is, if something happened, it should be reported, Michalak said.
In addition to constant probing from authorities, the family endured condemnation and criticism in the public, Stefan's sanity was questioned and Michalak was bullied in school.
Though he wished he hadn't said anything, Stefan never backed away from the story, either. He also never claimed to have seen aliens and still considered it a secret military craft.
"If you asked him what it was he saw, he could describe it in intimate detail but he would never say, 'Oh, it was definitely extraterrestrials,' because there was no evidence to prove that," said Michalak.
"He might ask, 'What do you think I saw?' but right up until he died, his story never changed one iota — nothing about it or how he told it."
In all those years since and with some 300 pages of documentation on the encounter, "there's nothing so far that has flawed his story," Michalak said.
So what does he think?
"I'm not so close-minded that I can't entertain the possibility that it's otherworldly. I can't discount that. But without specific evidence to show me that it is, I don't know," Michalak said.
"What I can tell you is that I'm an aviation fanatic, a huge aviation buff, and I am very familiar with how aviation technology has advanced in the past 50 years. And there was nothing even close to that in the works anywhere at that time."
Intensely investigated
The case was investigated intensely by a number of levels of government and the official conclusion, even from the United States Air Force, was that the case was unexplained, Rutkowski noted.
"The Falcon Lake incident is possibly Canada's best-documented UFO case," he said.
"It even beats Roswell [the alleged flying disc that landed in New Mexico in 1947] because the United States still doesn't recognize that anything happened in Roswell out of the ordinary."
"If Dad hoaxed this — remember we're talking about a blue-collar, industrial mechanic — if he hoaxed it then he was a freakin' genius."- Stan Michalak
Items were later retrieved from the encounter site, including Stefan's glove and shirt and some tools, which were subjected to extensive analysis at an RCMP crime lab. No one could determine what caused the burns.
At the landing site was a circle about 15 feet in diameter, devoid of the moss and vegetation growing in other areas of the same rock outcropping. Soil samples, along with samples of clothing, were tested and deemed to be highly radioactive.
So were pieces of metal that were chipped out of cracks in the rock about a year after the incident. The metal had somehow been melted into the cracks.
Many of the items have long since been lost as they were transferred through various authorities and agencies. However, Rutkowski and Michalak still have one of the pieces of metal, which remains radioactive.
Still sick in 1968 with recurrences of the burns showing up on his chest and suffering from blackouts, Stefan went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Doctors did a thorough investigation and even sent him to a psychiatrist "who came back with the report that this is a fellow who's very pragmatic, very down to earth — pardon the pun — and does not make up stories," Rutkowski said.
"If Dad hoaxed this — remember we're talking about a blue-collar, industrial mechanic — if he hoaxed it then he was a freakin' genius," said Michalak.
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Landschap van Titan lijkt meer op dat van Mars
Landschap van Titan lijkt meer op dat van Mars
Tim Kraaijvanger
Wolken, regen, rivieren, meren en zeeën: Titan heeft het allemaal. Toch beweren wetenschappers dat Titan meer op Mars lijkt dan op de aarde.
Geologen hebben rivieren op Titan vergeleken met vroegere rivieren op Mars en de jonge aarde. Ze analyseerden hoe rivieren op de grootste maan van Saturnus lopen en konden op die manier een hoogtekaart maken. Daaruit blijkt dat er grote verschillen zijn tussen Titan en de aarde. In een paper in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Science gaan de onderzoekers dieper op deze verschillen in.
Zo lijkt het landschap van Titan niet op dat van de aarde. De wetenschappers vermoeden dat dit te maken heeft met het feit dat er geen platentektoniek is op Titan. Op aarde is er wel platentektoniek, wat wil zeggen dat delen van de aardkorst ten opzichte van elkaar verschuiven. Wetenschappers denken dat platentektoniek belangrijk is geweest voor de ontwikkeling van leven op aarde.
Platentektoniek Platentektoniek heeft op aarde een grote invloed op de topografie. Op plekken waar platen botsen, ontstaan bergen. Dit zijn de plaatsen waar rivieren ontspringen. Aangezien er op Titan geen platentektoniek is, wordt de topografie van de planeet gevormd door andere factoren. Deze processen zijn nog onbekend. Een mogelijkheid is dat het landschap van Titan wordt gevormd door veranderingen in de dikte van de ijzige korst van de maan, bijvoorbeeld doordat Saturnus aan deze korst trekt.
Mars Mars is weer een verhaal apart. De hoogste bergen op Mars zijn schildvulkanen, zoals Olympus Mons en Ascraeus Mons. De topografie van de rode planeet werd miljarden jaren geleden al gevormd door vulkanisme.
Drie verschillende waterwerelden “Het is bijzonder dat er drie werelden zijn in ons zonnestelsel waar rivieren stroomden of stromen”, zegt professor Taylor Perron van MIT. “Rivieren hebben het landschap veranderd. Door naar deze veranderingen te kijken, leren we meer over de geschiedenis van deze werelden.”
De maan zou tussen de 240 en 400 kilometer groot zijn.
Astronomen ontdekten de maan dankzij observaties van ruimtetelescopen Hubble en Kepler. Hoe groot de maan precies is, is nog onduidelijk. Waarschijnlijk heeft deze een diameter tussen de 240 en 400 kilometer. Ter vergelijking: 2007 OR10 heeft zelf een diameter van zo’n 1530 kilometer.
2007 OR10: EEN GROTE KLEINE JONGEN
2007 OR10 is te vinden in de Kuipergordel. Het is een dwergplaneet en behoort dus tot een select gezelschap. Tot op heden zijn we ons van het bestaan van slechts negen dwergplaneten bewust. 2007 OR10 behoort tot de wat grotere dwergplaneten: alleen Pluto en Eris zijn groter.
De eerste aanwijzing De eerste aanwijzingen dat de dwergplaneet 2007 OR10 een maan bezat, kregen onderzoekers via ruimtetelescoop Kepler in handen. Deze telescoop ontdekte dat de dwergplaneet er zo’n 45 uur over doet om een rondje rond zijn as te draaien. Daarmee is ‘ie aan de langzame kant. “Doorgaans hebben Kuipergordelobjecten een rotatietijd van minder dan 24 uur,” vertelt onderzoeker Csaba Kiss. Dat 2007 OR10 aanzienlijk langzamer draaide, kon wel eens het resultaat zijn van een maantje dat met zijn zwaartekracht aan de dwergplaneet trok. En dus doken de onderzoekers in archiefbeelden van Hubble. En jawel, op twee foto’s die een jaar na elkaar waren gemaakt, ontdekten de onderzoekers een stipje dat duidelijk bij de dwergplaneet hoorde.
Foto: NASA / ESA / C. Kiss (Konkoly Observatory) & J. Stansberry (STScI).
Baan is onbekend Ironisch genoeg weten onderzoekers nog altijd niet of er een verband is tussen de trage rotatie van 2007 OR10 en het bestaan van de maan. Dat komt doordat de baan van het maantje nog niet in kaart is gebracht.
De ontdekking van het maantje is belangrijk. Het maantje kan namelijk meer vertellen over de omstandigheden waarin 2007 OR10 en andere dwergplaneten zijn ontstaan. We weten nu dat bijna alle grote dwergplaneten – met een diameter groter dan 965 kilometer – in de Kuipergordel een maantje hebben (alleen Sedna heeft geen natuurlijke satelliet). “De ontdekking van satellieten rond alle bekende grote dwergplaneten – met uitzondering van Sedna – betekent dat in de tijd dat deze hemellichamen ontstonden regelmatig botsingen plaatsvonden,” legt Kiss uit. Want de maantjes zijn dar het resultaat van. Het wijst er weer op dat de Kuipergordel 4,6 miljard jaar tamelijk dichtbevolkt was.
Op jacht naar aliens: een bijna onmogelijke zoektocht
Op jacht naar aliens: een bijna onmogelijke zoektocht
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Zoeken naar aliens: we moeten het doen, maar we weten eigenlijk niet hoe. “De kans dat we buitenaards leven in onze directe omgeving gaan vinden, is héél klein.”
Al decennia speuren we met behulp van radiotelescopen naar signalen van buitenaards leven. Zonder resultaat. Misschien zou je bijna gaan vermoeden dat het leven op aarde uniek is. De meeste wetenschappers willen daar echter nog niet aan. Zij kunnen zich onmogelijk voorstellen dat er in een universum gevuld met miljarden hemellichamen maar één planeet is waarop intelligent leven is ontstaan. Ook Heino Falcke, als radioastronoom en astrodeeltjesfysicus verbonden aan de Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen, acht het bestaan van aliens “aannemelijk”. Maar op de vraag of hij denkt dat er buitenaards leven is, antwoordt hij wat terughoudender. “We moeten het eerst vinden, tot die tijd weten we het gewoon niet.”
Zeldzaam En het vinden van die aliens: dat blijkt nog niet zo eenvoudig. “Wat is een succesvolle methode om aliens op te sporen? Dat weten we eigenlijk pas als we ze vinden.” Maar dat de radiotelescopen van SETI ondanks dat ze al decennia op zoek zijn naar buitenaardse signalen nog geen succes hebben gehad, wil niet gelijk zeggen dat die methode niet deugt of dat er geen aliens bestaan. “Intelligent leven is zelfs in de geschiedenis van onze planeet een heel zeldzaam verschijnsel,” stelt Falcke. Het lijkt dan ook aannemelijk dat intelligent buitenaards leven ook niet zomaar overal ontspringt. En dus is het zoeken naar een speld in een hooiberg. Die spreekwoordelijk hooiberg is enorm. “Je moet de omvang van het heelal nooit onderschatten.” En op het moment kunnen we zelfs met de krachtigste radiotelescopen in een gegeven periode slechts in een klein hoekje van die hooiberg naar de spreekwoordelijke speld zoeken. “De kans dat we buitenaards leven in onze directe omgeving gaan vinden, is klein,” denkt Falcke. Maar hoe meer planeten en sterren we op steeds grotere afstand van de aarde bestuderen, hoe groter de kans wordt dat het een keer raak is.
“WAAROM ZOU JE WILLEN COMMUNICEREN MET IEMAND DIE ONS WEL KAN BEZOEKEN, MAAR WAAR WIJ NIET NAAR TOE KUNNEN?”
METI Terwijl SETI in een fractie van dat enorme universum op zoek is naar buitenaardse signalen, gaan er ook stemmen op voor een actievere zoektocht naar leven: METI. METI staat voor Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Het is eigenlijk heel simpel: in plaats van te zoeken naar buitenaardse signalen gaan we zelf radiosignalen uitzenden in de hoop dat aliens die dan opvangen. Falcke is echter niet enthousiast. “Ten eerste denk ik niet dat het wat oplevert. De kans dat iemand dat oppikt, is klein. Ten tweede vind ik het geen goed idee om met heel veel energie echt in de Melkweg bekend te maken dat wij er zijn. Je weet tenslotte nooit wat je tegenkomt.” Want de kans dat aliens de signalen opvangen, is klein, maar weldegelijk aanwezig. En daar krijgt Falcke eerlijk gezegd de bibbers van. “We weten uit de geschiedenis dat een botsing tussen twee beschavingen altijd uitvalt in het voordeel van de beschaving met grotere resources en betere technologieën. In dit geval zou dat de beschaving zijn die de ander kan bezoeken.” En dus lijkt het erop dat we bij voorbaat al aan het kortste eind trekken. “Waarom zou je willen communiceren met iemand die ons wel kan bezoeken, maar waar wij niet naar toe kunnen?” Falcke lijkt er nu al van uit te gaan dat we van aliens geen amicale houding hoeven te verwachten. “Waarom zouden zij beter zijn dan wij? Mensen die dat denken, zijn naïef.”
Aan boord van de beide Voyager-ruimtesondes bevindt zich een boodschap voor aliens. Mocht buitenaards leven de sondes – waarvan er één vermoedelijk al in de interstellaire ruimte is beland – tegenkomen, kunnen ze dankzij de grammofoonplaat onder meer aardse geluiden (wind en vogelzang) horen.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL.
LOFAR Maar als SETI – tot op heden – onsuccesvol is en METI ronduit gevaarlijk, hoe moeten we dan verder? Falcke is wel te spreken over Breakthrough Listen, een project waarbinnen met meerdere radiotelescopen naar buitenaardse radiosignalen en laserpulsen wordt gezocht. “Dat is een slimme aanpak.” Maar als Falcke het voor het zeggen had – en een ongelimiteerd budget toegewezen kreeg – zou hij de zoektocht naar aliens toch net wat anders aanpakken. “Ik zou zoiets als LOFAR (een radiotelescoop met duizenden radioantennes, red.) opnieuw gaan bouwen, maar dan groter. En dan de hele hemel doorzoeken.” Met een beetje geluk resulteert het in het oppikken van een buitenaards signaal. “En anders levert het sowieso fantastische wetenschap op.” Maar zo’n LOFAR 2.0 blijft – ondanks dat we in staat zijn om deze te bouwen – voorlopig een hersenspinsel, denkt Falcke. “Voor zoiets heb je miljarden nodig.”
Vragen Terwijl wetenschappers zich het hoofd breken over hóe we die aliens nu het beste kunnen vinden, rijst wellicht bij jou de vraag waarom we zo nodig op zoek moeten naar buitenaards leven. Falcke kan er kort over zijn: “Het is een bijzonder fundamenteel vraagstuk.” Hij wijst erop dat er wel miljoenen vragen te bedenken zijn die met de ontdekking van buitenaards leven wellicht beantwoord kunnen worden. “Hoe werkt het leven ergens anders? Welke kennis hebben de aliens? Hoe zit hun samenleving in elkaar? Hoe kijken zij naar het heelal of naar religie?” somt Falcke op. “En door naar anderen te kijken, ga je ook nadenken over jezelf.”
“STEL JE STUURT: “IK BEN ER, ZULLEN WE NAAR DE KROEG GAAN?”, DAN BEN JE AL DOOD VOOR JE ANTWOORD KRIJGT”
Communiceren Om die miljoenen prangende vragen te kunnen beantwoorden, moeten we echter niet alleen buitenaards leven ontdekken, maar ook een manier vinden om ermee te communiceren. En dat is waarschijnlijk een stuk lastiger dan veel mensen – afgaand op sciencefictionfilms – denken, vertelt Falcke. “Waarschijnlijk bevinden aliens zich op grote afstand. Als we een signaal van hen oppikken, is dat misschien al wel 1000 of 10.000 jaar onderweg.” En dus is niet bewezen dat de beschaving die dit signaal uitzond er nog steeds is. “Wie zegt dat wij er over 1000 jaar nog zijn?” En als je dan een signaal terugstuurt, is dat ook weer duizenden jaren onderweg. “Stel je stuurt: “Ik ben er, zullen we naar de kroeg gaan?”, dan ben je al dood voor je antwoord krijgt.”
Falcke is binnenkort hopelijk te zien in de documentaire ‘Searching for Aliens‘. De documentaire gaat over vijf mensen die op verschillende manieren zoeken naar buitenaards leven. Om de documentaire van de grond te krijgen, is nog een klein beetje geld nodig. Vandaar dat een crowdfundingsactie is opgezet. Je kunt er hier meer over lezen.
Religie Maar zelfs als communiceren lastig of onmogelijk is, zal de wetenschap dat aliens bestaan of bestaan hebben, toch verstrekkende gevolgen hebben op aarde? Falcke denkt van niet. “Misschien dat de kranten er de eerste dag vol van staan, maar de volgende dag gaat het leven weer verder. Dat gaat onze beschaving echt niet op zijn kop zetten.” Zelfs religies zouden het bestaan van de alien kunnen overleven, denkt Falcke, zelf christen. “Bijna 900 jaar geleden werd er binnen de kerk al gediscussieerd over het bestaan van andere planeten. En toen werd besloten dat het verboden was om uit te sluiten dat andere werelden bestaan. En een Parijse bisschop voegde er later aan toe dat je niet mocht zeggen dat buitenaards leven niet bestaat. Want zo beperk je de macht van God en je moet God niet voorschrijven wat hij wel en niet mag creëren.”
Aliens zetten de wereld dus niet op hun kop. Anders is dat voor de wetenschappelijke wereld. “Als we ze vinden, leren we ontzettend veel. Dan verdubbelt in één klap het aantal beschavingen in de Melkweg! En misschien vinden we wel leven op planeten waarop we het helemaal niet verwacht hadden.” Een andere optie is natuurlijk dat we geen intelligent, maar eenvoudig buitenaards leven vinden. “Plant- of dierachtigen of eenvoudige cellen,” somt Falcke op. Hij benadrukt dat het vinden van sporen van die levensvormen misschien nog wel lastiger is dan het vinden van intelligent leven. “Daarvoor moet je in de dampkring van planeten kijken en daar heb je heel krachtige telescopen voor nodig.” Met de nieuwe generatie telescopen – zoals de James Webb-telescoop – kunnen we die dampkringen onder de loep gaan nemen, maar grote doorbraken verwacht Falcke nog niet. “De komende decennia verwacht ik dat we zo af en toe horen dat er misschien een aanwijzing voor buitenaards leven is gevonden.” Maar zeker zullen we daar – zonder nog betere telescopen – dus niet van zijn. Dat het zo lastig wordt om aliens te vinden, kan eigenlijk geen verrassing zijn. Neem nou Mars, een planeet waarvan sterk vermoed wordt dat deze ooit leven herbergde. “Deze bevindt zich in de achtertuin en we kunnen de planeet bezoeken en nog weten we niet zeker of er leven is geweest.” Of buitenaards leven bestaat, kan dan ook nog eeuwen een raadsel zijn. “Maar dat raadsel kan ook morgen opgelost zijn.”
Strange lights have been spotted in the night sky over Devon, which UFO hunters believe are proof that aliens or the government are conducting anti-gravity flights.
A popular UFO hunting YouTube channel has uploaded footage of an encounter by a bus driver showing a bizarre triangular shaped object.
But one leading expert believes that a more down to Earth explanation, like a drone or Chinese lanterns, is more likely.
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Footage that appears to show a strange spinning triangle of lights in the night sky (circled) is proof that aliens are conducting anti-gravity flights above England, according to conspiracy theorists
ANTI-GRAVITY
Many of the 'spacecraft' captured on amateur footage over they years appear to hover and move at great speed in any direction, according to conspiracy theorists.
They usually do so silently, leading the UFO community to conclude that they do not use conventional methods of propulsion.
One popular explanation is that the craft utilise a method of anti-gravity called electrogravitics, which uses an electrical field to reduce an objects mass.
This could theoretically free it from gravity's clutches and allow it to move in the unusual manner of a UFO.
The video, which appears to show a spinning triangle of lights above Exmouth, in east Devon, was captured by a bus driver who was on a break.
Speaking to UFO website Mufon, the unknown driver is reported to have said: 'I was taking to my best man about my upcoming wedding on the phone.
'I would normally be in our restroom, but since the clock in the restroom was fast I had gone out early to wait while still chatting to my friend.
'While I was talking, I was just kind of walking about near the leisure centre, where my bus stops, when I looked randomly over in the direction of the river, which is when I saw the three lights in a triangle pattern rotating on its axis and wobbling slightly.'
A video discussing the object, which was spotted at around 9:40 pm on April 17 this year, was uploaded to YouTube by UFO Hunters Secure Team 10 earlier this week.
There, it is argued that the craft, known as a TR3B among UFOlogists, is likely of alien or governmental origin.
Many of the 'spacecraft' captured on amateur footage over they years appear to hover and move at great speed in any direction, according to conspiracy theorists.
They usually do so silently, leading the UFO community to conclude that they do not use conventional methods of propulsion.
The footage, which appears to show a spinning triangle of lights (pictured) above Exmouth, in east Devon, was captured by a bus driver who was on a break. One expert says a drone or Chinese lanterns could explain the sighting
One popular explanation is that the craft utilise a method of anti-gravity called electrogravitics, which uses an electrical field to reduce an objects mass.
This could theoretically free it from gravity's clutches and allow it to move in the unusual manner of a UFO.
Speaking in the video, Tyler Glockner from the channel, which has almost a million subscribers, said: 'They've been linked to secret government projects but we've also seen these things in space, so I guess the jury is still out on who owns them and who is operating them.
'I'd wager a guess to say that we both are. There are people outside the planet that have craft like these and the US government has these craft as well.
'This same object has been spotted multiple times. I think there's something strange going on above England.'
But not everyone is convinced that the footage shows anything sinister.
Alien expert and author of the UFO Investigations Manual Nigel Watson believes a more simple explanation is likely.
Speaking to MailOnline, he said: 'The objects are hard to distinguish due to lack of detail.
'Three lights can imply a triangular structure behind them, but in this case the lights seem to be moving about as if they are linked together or flying in close proximity to each other.
'They are silent so they couldn't be caused by an helicopter or conventional aircraft.
'There is a possibility that they are attached to a drone or three drones, or that they are Chinese lanterns that often look as if they are in formation and move swiftly and silently in the night sky.
'I think those possibilities or more likely than them being the lights of an alien spacecraft or a secret aircraft being tested over England.'
DO YOU BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking, according to a study earlier this year.
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and negative psychological traits.
Writing in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the team explained: 'Previous research linked the endorsement of conspiracy theories to low self-esteem.'
In the first study, a total of 202 participants completed questionnaires on conspiracy beliefs, asking how strongly they agreed with specific statements, such as whether governments carried out acts of terrorism on their own soil.
Alongside this, they were asked to complete a narcissist scale and a self-esteem assessment.
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.
WHITESHELL PROVINCIAL PARK — The truth is outthere, but so still are the answers.
New Mexico may have its Roswell, Britain has its Rendlesham Forest, Nova Scotia has its Shag Harbour, but Manitoba also has a claim to stake when it comes to one of the most notable unidentified flying object sightings around the world.
Fifty years ago, an amateur prospector saw something at a remote spot in this provincial park that changed his life and the lives of his family members, and not always for the better.
No one knows for sure what Stefan Michalak saw while he was looking for signs of gold and silver in the rocks in the Precambrian shield, but numerous military and scientific experts went to the site, tested the area, repeatedly interviewed him and, in the end, the report of the United States government-sponsored UFO project concluded that the incident was "unknown."
JESSICA FINN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Stan Michalak points out landmarks matching those in a sketch his father, Stephen, provided to the RCMP following the 1967 UFO incident he witnessed.
Surprisingly, it was only a few days ago that for the first time, his youngest son Stan — who was nine years old at the time and has now co-written a book being launched this weekend about how his family experienced the unwanted attention from authorities and the media — visited the site itself, the big bang of the incident and the elephant in his family’s life.
"I’ve always wanted to do it — and then not," Stan said earlier this month shortly before going to the site accompanied by the Free Press. "I don’t know why. This is closure. Putting the book together is kind of farewell, and I’m done.
"This will be the first and last time. It is a chapter of our family life and history that remained before us for a long time."
What Stefan — who also went by Stephen and Steve — saw on May 20, 1967, at about 12:15 p.m., is now known around the world as the Falcon Lake Incident, considered one of the most documented UFO sightings of all time.
In a short 40-page booklet entitled My Encounter With The UFO, which Michalak wrote a few months after the sighting in his native Polish — and then had it translated into English — he said, "Up until the time and the events I am about to describe I had no special interests in ‘flying saucers’ and other strange phenomena one hears about time and again.
"Maybe they are real, maybe not, but I had never been seriously concerned about them. Not until May 20, 1967, when I, perhaps as nobody else — or at least very few — came in such a close contact with one of those strange objects commonly called UFOs."
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WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Stefan Michalak suffered burns to his torso during his encounter. “A sharp beam of heat had shot from the craft... My chest was severely burned.”
It all began when Michalak, 51, married with three children, and self-described amateur prospector, went to the Whiteshell on the Friday of the first long weekend of the summer looking for precious metals. As he had done before, he stayed at a motel that used to be on the south side of the Trans-Canada Highway. At 5:30 a.m. he got up, crossed the road, and began finding his way north through the pine trees and rock formations. Eventually, he got to a small peninsula on top of which were exposed rocks, trees and scrub, with a lake on one side and marsh on the other two.
He was chipping away at a quartz formation, just after eating lunch, when he was "startled by the most uncanny cackle of the geese that were still in the area. Something had obviously frightened them.
"Then I saw them. Two cigar-shaped objects with humps on them about halfway down from the sky. They appeared to be descending and glowing with an intense scarlet glare. As these ‘objects’ came closer to the earth they became more oval-shaped."
One took off a few minutes later, while the second one landed about 50 metres from where he was crouching. He said there was an opening near the top of the craft with brilliant purple light coming out. After waiting several minutes, he went closer, stopping when he heard voices.
"They sounded like human, although somewhat muffled by the sounds of the motor... I was able to make out two distinct voices, one with a higher pitch than the other."
Still thinking it was likely some type of new American craft, Michalak called through the opening, at first in English. When he didn’t receive any response, he called out in other languages. He even stuck his head in the opening where he saw "a maze of lights."
The opening suddenly closed, but just before the craft took off, he touched it. It was so hot it burned the glove he had on.
"All of a sudden the craft tilted slightly leftward. I turned and felt a scorching pain around my chest. My shirt and my undershirt were afire. A sharp beam of heat had shot from the craft. I tore my shirt and undershirt and threw them to the ground. My chest was severely burned."
Newspaper photos of the time show Michalak, his pyjama top open, with a series of circular third-degree burn marks making a square pattern on his chest.
Then Michalak began to get a headache, started vomiting and felt weak. He was able to stumble out of the bush and later that evening board a bus back to Winnipeg; his eldest son Mark drove him to Misericordia hospital to treat his burns. Doctors there, and in the United States, never could say how he got the burns. The next day he gave his first press interview, the first of many in the days, months and years ahead with media, law enforcement, government and military authorities.
A box of the booklets, written when Michalak and the family grew tired of answering the same questions from strangers, was stationed by the front door so that Mark could hand them to the curious.
Michalak concluded the booklet by not blaming whatever — or whoever — was on the craft for his injuries.
"The burns and suffering I had endured were not caused by any aggressive moves of the craft or its occupants... if I stayed farther away from the craft I would not have been burned or suffered in any other way.
"I offer this warning to all who may also encounter such a craft: keep away from it far enough to protect yourself."
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A copy of the sketch Stefan Michalak made for the RCMP and the Royal Canadian Air Force
Who was Stefan Michalak?
At the beginning of his booklet, Michalak introduces himself as having being born 51 years earlier in Poland and emigrating to Canada in 1949, after "the turbulent years of the Second World War that started in my homeland."
Those "turbulent years" included becoming a junior officer in the Polish army just before the Nazi blitzkrieg stormed in and took over the country, and then joining the Polish Home Army in resistance operations against the Germans. Because they were associated with him, his future wife Maria and her two sisters were arrested and sent to a concentration camp in 1943. All three survived and were liberated two years later.
Michalak, who was now serving with the resistance against the Communist regime, was forced to escape the country, even though Maria, now his wife, had one child and was pregnant with another. They didn’t see each other for almost a decade. They first lived in Regina, where their third child was born, and then moved to Winnipeg.
He was working at Inland Cement, located on Kenaston Boulevard behind IKEA, when he went off to the Whiteshell for what he figured would be one more weekend of looking for precious metals.
By all accounts, Michalak was not somebody who lied and certainly was not somebody who was seeking publicity. He just wanted someone to tell him what he saw and felt it was his duty to report it to the authorities.
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Sketch made by Stefan Michalak after witnessing an unidentified flying object in 1967. It’s now widely known as the Falcon Lake Incident.
By horse, it takes about 45 minutes to get to the site located a few kilometres north of the townsite of Falcon Lake. The trail is narrow, marked with a few elevation changes, and boulders and small rocks that horses try to avoid. There are plenty of tree branches and trunks forcing detours, and streams and boggy areas to cross.
But at least there’s a trail. When Michalak first went to the site, he was simply walking through the bush looking for minerals. He couldn’t even find the site the first time he tried to locate it for police, and then Life magazine. He managed to find it again about a month later.
A half-century later, everything has changed. Then-immature trees are now mature, towering over the site. Young trees are filling in some of the sightlines Michalak would have had. Much of the flat rock area is now covered by lichen and short plants.
But, the outlines of the site, as seen on a drawing he made of the area by memory for the RCMP and Royal Canadian Air Force, are still there.
It took most of Stan’s lifetime to get to the site. Maybe it was part of his personal catharsis of finally seeing the spot his dad saw through his own eyes, but the overriding thought he expressed aloud was simply: "What the hell was he doing here?"
Holding a copy of the hand-drawn map his father had made of the site, Stan continued to stand in place while looking around. Then he walked around, examining for a few seconds the line of quartz running through the rock. He peppered UFO expert Chris Rutkowski, who travelled with him to the site, with a few questions to get a better sense of where everything was. He walked some more, shaking his head back and forth. And then he looked off into the distance seeing only reeds, water and mud between where he was and the lines of trees in the distance.
JESSICA FINN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Stan Michalak describes the scene where he believes his father Stephen was eating lunch when he encountered a UFO in 1967.
It might not have been what Stan expected.
"There is nothing here to attract or entrance," he said. "But I guess this was just a stop. He chipped at some rocks. He took a break. If it hadn’t happened he would have moved on until he was tired and then gone back to the hotel.
"But that’s not what happened."
Seeing the site didn’t shake his continued belief of what his father saw.
"I always believed that what he said was the truth," Stan said.
"I think what happened is exactly as he described... it pisses me off that people didn’t believe him.
"I still get angry.
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Chris Rutkowski is the UFO expert in Winnipeg. He has a piece of radioactive metal (in photo) from a UFO incident.
Chris Rutkowski, research co-ordinator of Winnipeg-based Ufology Research — and Canada’s foremost UFO expert — said the Falcon Lake Incident is one of almost 2,000 sightings from Manitoba’s historical records.
"If it’s a hoax it has enough complications to make it one of the best on record," Rutkowski said.
"It is even better than Roswell, because with that one the government denies anything happened... and it takes effort to get to the place. But (Falcon Lake is) part of Manitoba’s history."
Rutkowski said 1967 was "a watershed year" for UFOs in Canada.
"There were UFOs in Shag Harbour, where it crashed in the ocean, another in Rivers, Manitoba and a case in Calgary, where a photograph was taken of a silver object. Right across Canada there were an amazing number of sightings, for some reason."
There are about 1,200 reported UFO sightings every year across Canada, he said. About three to five per cent can’t be explained away.
"None say we’ve been visited by aliens, but they are very curious cases," he said.
Rutkowski said he not only has copies of the hundreds of documents produced by the authorities, he also has in his possession a piece of the melted radioactive metal found at the site.
Rutkowski said that from his knowledge of all the other cases, the Falcon Lake Incident is notable because, "(Michalak) reported just the facts without very much embellishment."
"If I’d made it up I would have gone to town (with details), but he said what he saw. He didn’t care of anyone believe him or not.
"As far as what Stefan Michalak encountered — I have no idea. But it’s a riveting story."
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JESSICA FINN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Stan Michalak, whose father reported a UFO incident in 1967 while prospecting in the Falcon Lake area. Stan was only 10 years old at the time and while this has influenced the last 50 years of his life, he had never been to the site until now.
Five decades on, whatever happened near Falcon Lake is still of interest to UFO enthusiasts. Regular folks, too.
Local resident Bob Firth has no doubt that Michalak saw what he reported that day. Firth, who works at the Falcon Lake Golf Course, may have seen one of the two objects.
"I was 14 at the time," he said. "It is such a weird story."
Firth said he and three friends were at the beach on the south side of Falcon Lake when they saw something on the other side, north of the lake, moving westward.
"It was little. If you hold your thumb up, it would be that big. The thing just jumped across the sky. ‘What is that?’ And I said, ‘it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a flying saucer.’
"I didn’t think anything more about it."
But later that weekend while his family was in Winnipeg to see Victoria Day fireworks, someone ran up to them and started talking about the Falcon Lake sighting. That’s when Firth realized he might have seen the same thing.
"I was later interviewed by someone with the University of Manitoba," he said. "In my mind I can still see it. Something crossed the sky and disappeared."
Barb Hamilton didn’t see the UFO, but that didn’t stop her and other local kids from getting caught up in all the excitement.
"I was 12 at the time and for young kids, after what happened, it started everyone to wonder," she said. "We kids got together and formed a little club for UFOs."
And they thought they were hot on the trail when one of them heard a beeping sound in the forest.
"We were all convinced it was something. We called all the kids together and we went off in the direction of the beeping sound. We couldn’t find it and came flying back and just screamed."
But Hamilton said her dad suggested they speak with a wildlife expert and, after they did, she heard the sound of the Saw-whet Owl.
"Its mating call sounds like a machine," she said, but quickly added that she doesn’t doubt Michalak’s story.
"I don’t think Stefan was making it up," she said. "I think he saw something. I just can’t explain it."
Falcon Beach Ranch owner Devin Imrie offers trail rides to the site for people who make reservations in advance.
This weekend, the ranch is hosting a 50th anniversary commemorative event with escorted trail rides to the site.
"We’ve been going to the site for a number of years now," he said.
"It’s a real range of people who go there. We get a lot of people who had been in the area as kids. Others never heard of it before they came here and think it sounds interesting. And then we get a few UFO enthusiasts who know more about it than I know.
"They all are just fascinated by it."
Imrie, who grew up at the ranch, said he did a school project on the incident.
"It really is part of the history of this community," he said.
LAUNCH OF WHEN THEY APPEARED — FALCON LAKE 1967: THE INSIDE STORY OF A CLOSE ENCOUNTER
McNally Robinson Booksellers
Grant Park Shopping Centre
Saturday May 20, 7 p.m.
Stan Michalak and Chris Rutkowski
The Falcon Beach Ranch is hosting a 50th anniversary celebration of the Falcon Lake incident Saturday and Sunday, including escorted horseback rides to the landing site at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., a barbecue dinner and a fireside chat with Stan Michalak, Chris Rutkowski and others. The cost is $65.
As well, reservations are taken at other times of the year for trail rides to the site. Call 204-349-2410 or go to www.falconbeachranch.com for more information.
Canada’s history, too.
On June 29, 1967, a rookie Manitoba MP stood up in the House of Commons and asked a question about UFO investigations and the Michalak case.
"I had felt obliged to ask a question — it had happened in my riding," said former governor general and premier Ed Schreyer, then an NDP member of Parliament.
"Plus, I was intrigued that someone seemed so genuinely convinced he had seen something inexplicable. I asked the question and the question was taken not by one of the ministers, but by the prime minister himself.
"What did (Lester) Pearson do? He took it as notice."
A few days later, Pearson offered him a chance to look through the government’s file on the matter. Schreyer refused.
"I didn’t take it because it required an understanding that you had to keep the contents confidential," Schreyer said. "I thought that would put me in a problematic position. I just wanted to make sure there was no danger to the individual, the family and the country.
"I was reassured there was no significant danger... it was left somewhat as an open question."
A few months later, defence minister Leo Cadieux was quoted in Hansard as saying "it is not the intention of the Department of National Defence to make public the report of the alleged sighting."
Although he never met Michalak in person, speaking to him at the time on the phone, Schreyer said he hopes to visit the site this summer with his grandchildren now that he knows they can get there on horseback.
"Having made a point of trying to find out more information at the time, yes, I’d like to see the site with my own eyes."
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Standing on the flat rock that his father described as the one the UFO landed on, Stan was surprised how accurate his father’s hand-drawn map — drawn from memory in the days after the incident — really was.
While he expected to see the flat rock, he didn’t know it was sloped slightly.
"It still baffles me — the slant we are on — but then I remembered how he described the object tilt as it went up," Stan said. "Now I know it probably tilted because it was coming up from a slope."
Again Stan wondered: "What the hell was he doing here?"
"There is nothing for him here, the geology stakes and the looking for precious metals," he said. "I sure as hell wouldn’t want to spend time here.
"But he was here. I know that now."
And he has a theory about why his dad, and many others around the world, have reported so many UFOs in the post-Second World War years.
"When we blew up the first nuclear bomb and we sent our first radio signals, we got attention. Maybe it was, ‘What are they doing on that planet? Oh, they’re killing each other. Let’s check back in a few hundred years.’"
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When Michalak died on Oct. 28, 1999 at the age of 83, there was no mention in his obituary of the Falcon Lake Incident, only of how his "passion for this vast, new country developed into a love of nature, open spaces, animals and birds and a celebration of what Canada’s unending wilderness had to offer" and that "geology became one of his hobbies and the reason for many trips to the wilderness to see the world in a grain of sand."
For a man whose hobby of prospecting had given him such joy, the Falcon Lake Incident also marked the end of his amateur prospecting career, Stan said.
"When he died, we found several wooden boxes of rocks in the basement. I kept only one or two samples — the rest went into the garden."
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Tesla’s vrije energie drijft UFO’s aan. Deze nieuwe documentaire toont het bewijs
Tesla’s vrije energie drijft UFO’s aan. Deze nieuwe documentaire toont het bewijs
Volgens een theorie die is ontwikkeld door Nikola Tesla kan de eindeloze ruimte om ons heen worden omgezet in energie. Men spreekt in dit geval ook wel van ‘vrije energie’.
Deze theorie komt aan bod in een nieuwe documentaire genaamd Unacknowledged, gemaakt door dr. Steven Greer van het Disclosure Project, schrijft Inverse.
De film is gemaakt om verborgen informatie over UFO’s en buitenaardse intelligentie naar buiten te brengen.
Oliebedrijven
Zo wordt onder meer geclaimd dat de overheid al tientallen jaren belangrijke zaken over het UFO-fenomeen achterhoudt.
In de documentaire wordt uit de doeken gedaan dat aliens vrije energie gebruiken voor de aandrijving van hun ruimtevaartuigen.
Vervolgens wordt de vraag gesteld waarom wij mensen hier nog geen gebruik van maken. We komen uit bij machtige oliebedrijven die daar een stokje voor hebben gestoken.
Gratis stroom
Tesla’s uitvindingen vormden later de basis voor radio, radar, röntgenfoto’s en afstandsbesturing.
Zijn meest ambitieuze project was zijn poging tot het opbouwen van een wereldwijd draadloos communicatiesysteem om informatie te delen en de wereld te voorzien van gratis stroom.
Hij wilde eindeloze vrije energie onttrekken aan de zogeheten lege ruimte om ons heen.
J.P. Morgan
Hij werd gefinancierd door de steenrijke bankier J.P. Morgan, die een groot deel van Tesla’s patenten had opgekocht en daar later rijk mee werd.
Zijn patenten hebben ervoor gezorgd dat er grote stappen konden worden gezet op het gebied van draadloze communicatie en dat we vandaag de dag de beschikking hebben over stroom.
ENGELSE KRANT SPREEKT OVER BUITENAARDSE INVASIE ( VIDEO )
ENGELSE KRANT SPREEKT OVER BUITENAARDSE INVASIE ( VIDEO )
In het westen en zuidwesten van Engeland vindt de laatste weken een golf van UFO waarnemingen plaats.
Zodanig zelfs dat de Engelse Express zich afvraagt of we in het gebied waar veel graancirkels verschijnen te maken hebben met een buitenaardse invasie.
Het midden en zuiden van Engeland is natuurlijk zo langzamerhand beroemd vanwege de vele graancirkels die daar in de zomermaanden verschijnen.
Toeval of niet, de laatste weken is er in datzelfde gebied een behoorlijke toename waar te nemen van UFO meldingen.
Er zijn daar eigenlijk twee soorten UFO’s die men in dat gebied waarneemt. De ene is een vrij kleine ronde, vaak een orb genoemd, en de andere is de klassieke retro UFO, zoals veel mensen die associëren met de vliegende schotel.
Een mooi voorbeeld van een dergelijke opname uit dat gebied, in dit geval het graafschap Dorset, is de volgende foto die is genomen op 14 november 2004.
Wanneer dit beeld verder wordt uitvergroot, komt er de volgende prachtige UFO tevoorschijn.
Een dusdanig toename van meldingen in dat gebied dat men zelfs spreekt van een buitenaardse invasie. Ook in een gebied waar met de regelmaat van de klok de meest complexe graancirkels worden gevonden, zoals de volgende in juli 2015 in Dorchester.
Er zijn in het verleden UFO’s gesignaleerd in de buurt van pas gemaakte graancirkels, maar dat waren meestal vrij kleine ronde orbs, geen klassieke retro vliegende schotels.
Horen die kleine orbs misschien inderdaad bij die grotere UFO’s. Zijn het misschien een soort verkenners die ook worden gebruikt om de graancirkels te maken?
Er is ooit een video verschenen waarop een aantal van die orbs bezig waren om een graancirkelformatie te maken. De opname dateert van augustus 1996, ziet er vrij overtuigend uit, maar bleek later toch ook weer nep te zijn.
Het gaat om de volgende opname:
Wel zijn er opnames gemaakt van UFO's die 's avonds laat boven graanvelden hangen en waar de volgende ochtend graancirkels te bewonderen zjn zoals duidelijk wordt uit onderstaande video.
De conclusie in onderstaande opname is dan ook dat de echte graancirkels zeker niet door mensen zijn gemaakt.
Astronomers have more or less confirmed it. Not just one, but 64 alien-like mega structures are said to be orbiting stars close to Earth. Astronomers of various credibility have claimed that these mega structures are more likely to be shaped like thin discs rather than spherically. Many astronomers have a general consensus: If you know where to look, you can probably find these orbiting alien megastructures.
It all started out as a confusion, maybe even a glitch in the equipment that was used. However, as checks were done, more and more confirmed that this was not a technical error. Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale, told The Atlantic that "It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.” This means to say that this is not a false alarm, but a rather shocking and true statement of fact from a credible source.
Many astronomers, based on the research that they have gotten, are now starting to gather evidence that these mega structures are actually the Dyson Sphere - a theory that was hypothesized by the physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson. The Dyson Sphere isn't some fairy-tale - it proves that super advanced civilizations are out there in the galaxy. We are not alone.
Why does this prove that super advanced civilizations, so much more advanced than humankind actually exists? In his theory, Dr. Dyson theorized that as a civilization advances, its energy demand constantly increases, and exponentially, one day, if human civilization were to last long enough, this energy output could actually rival that of a sun.
The Dyson Sphere is a theory of a mega machine that is able to collect the power output of an entire star. Who needs that much energy to power their homeland, and what do they have that requires that much power? Do these logical questions sound scary enough to you yet?
An illustration of the megastructures stealing energy from a star
The theory that humankind is not alone in the entire universe might seem like a far-fetched tale, but in recent years, and as our technological advances in research and Space improves, humankind finds more and more shocking secrets - let us hope that these alien like mega structures are one from a friend - not a foe, if not we would have a reenactment of the Marvel movies - but in real life. If that doesn't sound scary enough for you, nothing ever will.
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ENGINEER TALKS ABOUT HIS WORK WITH UFOS AND ALIENS AT AREA 51
ENGINEER TALKS ABOUT HIS WORK WITH UFOS AND ALIENS AT AREA 51
Bill Uhouse, a former mechanical engineer, revealed that he used to work in collaboration with Grey Aliens at Area 51. One alien he named "J-Rod" taught him how to use the alien vehicle.
The interviewer was German ufologist and author Michael Hesemann. I can hear it from his voice cause he has a little speech impediment. He wrote many good books about UFOs too.
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UFO OVER AREA 51, MAY 2017
UFO OVER AREA 51, MAY 2017
A couple of UFO enthusiasts went to Area 51 and captured this interesting footage. A bright object appeared out of nowhere and started to accelerate until it reached an unreal speed. It did not make any sound and no sonic boom was heard.
Valentin Degteryov posted images of his findings online, leaving viewers baffled.
The video clearly shows a dark object lying next to a large crater close to the Eklund Islands on the world’s most southernly continent.
As the clip continues, it shows the scale of the giant mystery entity – which Degteryov claims measures more than 1,900ft.
YOUTUBE
MYSTERY LIFE: A UFO hunter claims to have identified an alien spacecraft in the Antarctic
He claimed the supposed alien wreckage, which he spotted while studying the continent using images from Google Earth, became visible due to melting ice in Antarctica.
“The huge spaceship in Antarctica,” he wrote online.
“Millions of years ago in Antarctica, the huge spaceship crashed.
YOUTUBE
HOAX?: Some have pointed out the mystery shape could also be a giant rock
“It has fallen on the big mountain. It's length is 600 meters. It became visible after the ice descended.”
Reaction to the stunning discovery has been mixed, with some claiming the clip proves nothing while others remain convinced of its authenticity.
“You simply can’t trust photographs as definitive evidence any more, Photoshop probably has a UFO button by now,” wrote one viewer.
Another said: “Does the first logical explanation we reach really have to be a UFO, not a rock?”
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UFO hunter claims proof of giant alien ship that crashed 'millions of years ago'
UFO hunter claims proof of giant alien ship that crashed 'millions of years ago'
File photo: An oblique view of a massive rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf is shown in this November 10, 2016 photo taken by scientists on NASA's IceBridge mission in Antarctica. (Courtesy John Sonntag/NASA/Handout via REUTERS)
A Russian conspiracy theorist claims these images show the wreckage of a huge alien spaceship which crash-landed in Antarctica millions of years ago.
Valentin Degteryov posted images of the UFO, which he claims has gone undiscovered because it is covered with snow, after spotting the dark shape on Google Earth.
The UFO hunter, from Nizhny Tagil in Western Russia, says the object is 1,900-feet long.
He believes the wreckage has only become visible now because of ice melting on the earth’s most southerly continent.
A video posted by Degteryov has attracted hundreds of thousands of hits since it was uploaded yesterday.
But many dismissed his theories, and said the shape was just a rocky outcrop on a barren mountain.
Valentin listed the coordinates of the object as 73~13’55.09″S,71~57’12.98″W.
It’s not the first bizarre UFO theory to emerge based on satellite images.
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Australian government reviews funding for UFO group
Australian government reviews funding for UFO group
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionAustralian Social Services Minister Christian Porter, left, with Governor-General Peter Cosgrove
If Australian UFO enthusiasts hope to retain government money, they may need more proof of terrestrial activity.
The nation's Social Services Minister, Christian Porter, has described having "a beam me up, Scotty" moment after learning his department had approved grants to the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group.
The group has received A$6,000 (£3,400; $4,500) since 2013 under funding to support volunteers with disabilities.
Mr Porter has halted the payments to seek "more detail" about the group.
"I'm sure they are very nice people and there are lots of volunteers who are getting something out of it, but looking at it from my perspective, representing taxpayers, it did not seem to pass a common sense test," Mr Porter said on the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Funds on hold
The New South Wales group has more than 800 members on Facebook, where it says it shares "news, information, support friends and network in UFO matters as well as related topics".
When asked about apparent sightings in the region, Mr Porter said: "You tend to find a lot of sightings when you are funding UFO-sighting groups, I tend to think. But we will see what they are about."
The Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group has been contacted for comment.
A person identified as a spokeswoman told the Central Coast Gosford Express Advocate: "We have elderly people we pick up and take to meetings, where we need projectors and microphones so everyone can see and hear what is going on."
Australian government investigating taxpayer funding of UFO group
Australian government investigating taxpayer funding of UFO group
Australian authorities have been founding an UFO -groupCREDIT: REX
Australia's social services minister on Friday launched an urgent investigation to determine how a UFO group received thousands of dollars in taxpayers' funds.
Christian Porter described having a "beam me up, Scotty" moment when he discovered that his department approved nearly AUD6,000 (£3,400) of grants for the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group on the New South Wales central coast since 2013.
"I'm sure they're very nice people and there are lots of volunteers who are getting something out of it, but looking at it from my perspective, representing taxpayers, it didn't seem to pass a common sense test," Mr Porter told ABC News.
"I asked the department to hold the transmission of funds until they could give me a little more detail around what the group does."
The funding, exposed by national news, was initially provided by the Labor government to assist with the cost of transporting volunteers with a disability.
Asked about the Central Coast's reputation as a UFO sightings hot spot, boasting the most apparent sightings of UFOs in the country, the minister said that "you tend to find a lot of sightings when you're funding UFO sighting groups."
The department approved AUD2,645 for the UFO group in the 2017 volunteer grant program, according to official records seen by ABC News.
Mr Porter said that the money transfer has been currently put on hold until he is given more detail about what the group does specifically.
Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group received AUD2,994 in 2013 under Labour government.
The Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group has over a thousand followers on Facebook where it says that its mission is to "share information on UFO and related topics, support and encourage likeminded people and encourage UFO Disclosure."
The Telegraph has contacted the UFO group for comment.
AMAZING! British Bus Driver In Exmouth Videotapes Triangular UFO
AMAZING! British Bus Driver In Exmouth Videotapes Triangular UFO
Three lights in triangular formation were reportedly spotted and recorded on video slowly crossing across the sky above Exmouth in East Devon, England. The British witness, who is a bus driver, noticed the strange lights at 9:41 p.m. on April 17, 2017, while on a break.
The unnamed witness was talking on the phone to his best man for the upcoming wedding while walking near the leisure center where their bus stopped. When he happened to look over in the river, the witness then saw the three lights forming a triangular formation while rotating on its axis and wobbling slightly.
He then felt that the triangular object was unusual. The witness told his mate that he would call back and started recording the lights using his phone. However, the witness was having a difficult time focusing on the formation due to the street lights. To get a better view, the witness decided to go closer to the river.
The witness managed to record almost a 3-minute video initially. He also took seven pictures and another 41-second video. He filed a report to MUFON along with the video of the incident and some pictures. MUFON filed the report as Case 832412 and can be accessed in their witness reporting database. The case is still under investigation led by British MUFON field investigator Karl Webb.
This year will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the best documented UFO incidents in history, and the community of Shag Harbour applied for a government grant to fund a large celebration. Alas, the Canadian government axed their request which has left organisers scrambling.
At around 11:20 pm on October 4th, 1967, the small fishing village of Shag Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada was awakened to a loud whistling noise followed by the sound of a crash. A dozen of witnesses saw a bright illuminated object crash into the harbour, and watched for nearly 30 minutes as a bright round shape floated upon the water’s surface before it sank under the depths and vanished. Contacting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the local detachment sent several officers to the location. Fearing an aeroplane crash, they contacted the Coastguard and the Navy. Local fishing boats went out into the bay to look for survivors, but nothing was ever found and no aircraft were reported missing.
The Shag Harbour UFO Incident is one of the best documented UFO incidents in history. Investigations were conducted by the RCMP, the Canadian Navy and Air force, as well as the US led Condon Committee. A media frenzy followed the event, and the Navy even spent several days after the event combing the sea floor looking for the object. Whatever the people of Shag Harbour saw that night, it has never been identified.
Canada is turning 150 years old this year, and to generate excitement, the Canadian government created a grant program called “Canada 150” to help fund major celebrations around the nation. The Shag Harbour Incident is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and the community wanted to do something special.
The society’s vice-president, Brock Zinck, said in an interview,
We can’t get a lot of love here in Shag Harbour; they won’t even give us a [highway] sign…Maybe the government doesn’t want to know we are there.
In regards to the loss of the grant money,
We were excited…It does throw a wrench in our preparations. We had big plans to take it to the next level.
The Shag Harbour Incident Society applied for $20,000 to put on a major event, including a conference with UFO experts and speakers. Many of these speakers had to be flown in from across Canada and the from the United States. The event would have brought significant tourism to the quiet village of 500 people, and the economic benefits would have been significant.
Photo inside the Shag Harbour Incident Center. Photo: Tina Comeau, Shelburne County Coastgaurd
UFO researcher and science writer Chris Rutkowski was slated as one of this year’s guests. Author of several books on UFOs, his latest release, “When They Appeared” came out only two weeks ago. In an exclusive interview with Mysterious Universe, in regards to the benefits of such an event, he stated,
It would have been quite appropriate for a Canada 150 event because it is one of the best-known Canadian [UFO] cases, and one that attracts visitors to Nova Scotia. It certainly would be at least as important as a local community event involving mainstream or more traditional historical projects like museums and artwork.
The internet and its host of conspiracy theorists has taken this denial of funding as another aspect of the “truth embargo” regarding the UFO phenomenon. Perhaps the government is hiding something, and the less attention the Shag Harbour event gets, the better. Most people believe that other cultural events simply took precedence, and the Canada 150 grant committee simply had to make cuts to certain requests.
However, the UFO community in Canada has not taken this news sitting down. Podcasters and UFO enthusiasts around the nation are continuing to bring awareness to the event. Tickets are still for sale, and the society plans to host the event anyway, just on a more grassroots level. Event planners are hoping for the best, and praying for a miracle. The event is slated for September 29th to October 1st 2017, with a celebration party on October 4th.
If you’re one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of people who have seen a triangular UFO over the past two decades or so, now you can see what its original design diagrams look like, courtesy of a viewer (Darian Calhoun) of the Talk is Cheap video podcast and Corey Goode, an unusual fellow who tweeted a link to the podcast and his followers took care of spreading it on the Internet. Where did the diagrams come from? The original patent US 20060145019 A1 for a triangular spacecraft that became the TR-3B!
A spacecraft having a triangular hull with vertical electrostatic line charges on each corner that produce a horizontal electric field parallel to the sides of the hull. This field, interacting with a plane wave emitted by antennas on the side of the hull, generates a force per volume combining both lift and propulsion.
Does that sound like what you saw? The patent, filed on December 20, 2004, by inventor John St. Clair, gets mathematical fairly quickly, but the drawings and abstract make it clear that this is an entirely new spacecraft with a futuristic propulsion system.
This invention relates to a spacecraft propulsion system utilizing a rotating octagon of trapezoidal electrically charged flat panels to create an electric dipole moment that generates lift on the hull. On the interior side of each panel are electrostatically charged rods which produce a planar electric field that emerges from holes in the panel to form an ellipsoidal potential energy bubble on the outside of the hull. The rotating hull dipole moment generates a magnetic moment which, together with the magnetic field gradient developed by the rotating electric field of the electrostatically charged panels, produces said lift force. The potential energy field is enhanced by using a double cladding of hull material with different ranges of permittivities.
Throw in some comments like “This combination of fields produces a spacetime curvature as determined by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity” and it’s no wonder the military keeps it so well hidden … except for this patent that’s been hiding in plain sight. It’s not clear how “Darian Calhoun” stumbled upon it, but kudos to Talk is Cheap for bringing it out into the open where Corey Goode picked it up.
For those not familiar with him, his Sphere Being Alliancebiography describes Corey Goode as “an intuitive empath” (IE) who was recruited at age 6 for a MILAB program (indoctrination for black ops program) where he eventually supported a “rotating Earth Delegate Seat (shared by secret earth government groups) in a “human-type” ET SuperFederation Council.”
He claims to have worked in a “Secret Space Program” interfacing with “non-terrestrial beings.” Goode now works in the information technology and communications industry as well as continuing to use his IE ability to communicate with the Blue Avians (of the Sphere Being Alliance) and “interface with multiple ET Federations and Councils” to “deliver important messages to humanity.”
Like the TR-3B patent? There’s obviously more to this. Iit seems strange that the patent just “suddenly” was discovered. Will someone from the military or the government issue any comments, confirmations or disclaimers? They haven’t so far. For now, we’ll just have to wait for more from Corey Goode.
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Social Services Minister Christian Porter has ordered an urgent investigation into how a UFO group in NSW has been given nearly $6000 in taxpayer-funded grants.
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A group of UFO enthusiasts has come crashing to Earth with a federal minister ordering an urgent probe into their taxpayer funding.
The Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group on the NSW Central Coast has pocketed nearly $6000 in government money since 2013.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter, whose department dishes out the volunteer grants, is in disbelief.
"It was a bit of a 'beam me up Scotty' moment when I found out about it," he told ABC TV on Friday.
"I'm sure they're very nice people and there are lots of volunteers who are getting something out of it but looking at it from my perspective - representing taxpayers - it didn't seem to me to pass a commonsense test."
Mr Porter has requested his department hold any funds until he gets more information about exactly what the group does.
The group, which has more than 800 members on Facebook, is said to share news and information of UFO matters and support friends and networks.
NSW's Central Coast has long been a hotspot for UFO sightings in Australia.
"It's very hard to unpack cause and effect; you tend to find a lot of sightings when you're funding UFO sighting groups.
"But we'll see what they're all about."
The minister's office has been advised the group was previously funded under the Labor government in 2013 and that some of this grant goes to the transport costs of volunteers with a disability.
As we perhaps draw thrillingly/terrifyingly closer to discovering life elsewhere in the universe, the chorus of people warning us to be careful what we wish for is growing louder. Most famously, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has argued for hitting the brakes, reiterating as recently as 2016 his concern about seeking alien contact in his comments about possibly life on Gliese 832c: "One day, we might receive a signal from a planet like this. But we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well." For example, European germs were deadly for the natives and some fear that could happen to us.
Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell, however, disagrees with all of this. From his perspective, things are considerably less scary than many think. In an article recently published on Literary Hub, he offers a host of comfortingly solid arguments for why we should stop worrying.
1. Why Aliens Wouldn’t Want to Enslave Us or Breed with Us
Sure, humans have repeatedly enslaved other humans throughout our history, but we’re not that advanced. Our collective sense of guilt may be making us fear that someone else will do to us what we’ve done to others. Dartnell says we’re looking at this wrong.
There’s an increasing concern that we’ll soon find ourselves competing for jobs with robots. After all, they may offer a more efficient form of labor than us humans. Dartnell points out that any civilization advanced enough to traverse space and arrive here would have no need for slaves. He writes, “Constructing robots, or other forms of automation or mechanization, would be a far more effective solution for labor—people are feeble in comparison, harder to fix, and need to be fed.”
As far as wanting us for breeding purposes, Dartnell’s points out how perfectly in sync two organisms’ chemistry has to be to allow mating — in fact, such mismatches are what separates one terrestrial species from another. For reproduction to be possible, here’s a short list of some of the things aliens would have to share with us. The same:
• polymer, or RNA, we use for storing genetic information
• A, C, G, and T genetic letters we use
• coding system that that translates the letters into proteins
• chromosomal organizational structure
Given how rare a workable match is even here on earth, Dartnell concludes it’s “overwhelmingly improbable that an alien life form from a completely different evolutionary lineage would be compatible.”
2. Why Aliens Wouldn’t Want to Eat Us
As food, it’s likely we wouldn’t agree with them. In order for an alien to derive any nutrition from us, they’d have to be biochemically similar. They’d have to have enzymes that allow them to successfully break down and make use of the polymers of amino acids, polymers of bases and sugars, and membranes of phospholipids from which we’re made.
Dartnell points that while there’s a chance they’d be made of the same stuff as us — amino acids, sugars and fatty molecules have all been found in meteorites , suggesting they’re common across the universe — there’s an interesting additional wrinkle: Enantiomers. Simple organic molecules can occur in mirror images of each other. As Dartnell says, it’s like how your two hands are the same, but can’t be placed atop each other in alignment. All life on our planet has “left-handed” amino acids and “right-handed” sugars, and any creatures looking to us for sustenance would need to have the same, even if they do share our basic microbiology.
Unless we’re just really tasty.
3. Why Aliens Wouldn’t Come Here to Steal Our Water
Europa (NASA/JPL/DLR)
Simply put, there’s plenty of water everywhere, water that would be easier to acquire than the stuff we have. A thirsty alien visiting our solar system would probably head straight for Jupiter’s moon Europa, which holds more liquid water beneath its frozen surface than we have here. There also appears to be lots of water on other icy moons and even in comets and asteroids, the likely sources of our own H2O. It would be easier to suck it off one of those smaller bodies than from a planet like ours with so much gravity trying to hold our water in place.
4.Why Aliens Wouldn’t Come Here for Some Other Raw Material
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Again, asteroids seem like a more logical place to get any of the building materials we have here such as iron, nickel, platinum, tungsten and gold. The lack of gravity would again make them easier to extract from a smaller body. In fact, there are companies on earth planning asteroid mining operations.
What Dartnell suggests may make us a bit more special in this regard is plate tectonics, which hasn’t been seen many other places so far, and could theoretically produce something we’re unaware of that an alien might want. Maybe.
5. Why Aliens Wouldn’t Want to Colonize and Live Here
As an astrobiologist, Dartnell admits that earth hosts a variety of conditions that make it especially suitable for supporting complex life, and that it could therefore be attractive to an extraterrestrial species looking for a new home.
However, he points out that any civilization capable of traversing the mind-boggling expanses of space is probably more than capable of artificially managing, or “bioengineering,” the environment of any planet to make it habitable. If this is so, why would aliens bother with having to eradicate the billions of organisms here that are unlikely to line up with an alien’s own unique biochemistry? It would be quicker and easier to simply design and build a compatible biosphere somewhere free of bothersome inhabitants.
So Why Would Aliens Come Here at All?
From Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dartnell suggests that if aliens do appear, it may simply be that they want to meet us. “I suspect that if aliens did come to Earth, it would be as researchers: biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keen to understand the peculiar workings of life on Earth, to meet humanity and learn of our art, music, culture, languages, philosophies and religions” he writes.
And Where Are They, Anyway?
Dartnell asserts that since we’ve been sending signals out into the void for nearly a century — and recently, intentionally doing so — yet no one has responded, one of two things are most likely:
1. Either no one’s out there, and we’re alone. 2. There’s so much intelligent life in the universe that we’re not that special.
Either possibility packs an emotional wallop.
For many of us, the thought of aliens visitation began with movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind that had us scanning the night skies with a hopeful sense of expectation. Lately, however, some have been shifting our gazes downward with a fearful sort of, “nope, nothing here to look at, keep flying by” attitude. Darnell’s argument makes so much sense, though, that it feels safe once again to look back upward in excitement at that sky full of promising stars.
It has immediately been pushed to the front of the queue in the quest to find alien life – because it lies in the ‘Goldilocks’ zone.
This is an area from a star where the surface temperature is not too hot, or too cold, but just right.
This means water could flow in liquid form, rather than as ice or vapour, allowing life to flourish.
There are three planets in the ‘Goldilocks’ zone (Picture: Getty)
Astronomers studying the rocky world believe its atmosphere could have supported the world for billions of years.
Jason Dittmann of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said: ‘This is the most exciting exoplanet I’ve seen in decades.
‘We could hardly hope for a better target to perform one of the biggest quests in science – searching for evidence of life beyond Earth.’
Further studies are set to take place on the planet, which is 39 light years from Earth.
All seven of Trappist-1’s planets are considered potential candidates for having water in some form, but the chances are highest for three located in the Goldilocks zone.
Xavier Bonfils, an astronomer at the Observatory of the Sciences of the Universe in Grenoble, France, said LHS 1140b now ‘joins Trappist-1 at the head of the rankings’.
He said: ‘We are very excited by this discovery. It’s a super opportunity.’
Atmosphere discovery makes Trappist-1 exoplanet priority in hunt for alien life
Atmosphere discovery makes Trappist-1 exoplanet priority in hunt for alien life
An atmosphere that could have enveloped it for billions of years and possible liquid water make planet most likely home for life, say scientists
An artist’s impression the surface of Trappist-1f. Astronomers originally thought this might be the most habitable planet, but its neighbour, Trappist-1g, appears to be the most likely home for life.
An Earth-sized world that swings around a star in the constellation of Aquarius has become a priority in the search for extraterrestrial life after scientists found that an atmosphere could have enveloped the planet for billions of years.
The planet is one of seven circling a small and feeble star called Trappist-1 which astronomers reported in a wave of excitement in February this year. The rocky world lies in the habitable zone around its parent star, where temperatures should allow for free-running water, but that would count for little if the planet has no atmosphere.
“Since the discovery of the seven planets there has been a great deal of interest in using telescopes such as the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to determine whether these planets have atmospheres, and if so, what their composition is like,” said Manasvi Lingam at Harvard University. “It is fair to say that the presence of an atmosphere is perceived as one of the requirements for the habitability of a planet.”
If Earth serves as a good example, the evolution of complex and ultimately intelligent life calls for an atmosphere that not only contains the right blend of gases, but which persists for hundreds of millions, or preferably billions, of years.
With Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope not due to launch until late 2018, the scientists turned to computer models to find out whether the Trappist-1 planets could have long-lived atmospheres. From details of the Trappist-1 system, which lies 39 light years distant, they worked out the intensity of the stellar wind – the rush of high energy particles streaming out of the star – and the effect it would have on the seven orbiting planets.
The Astronomers have used computer models to determine whether the seven Trappist-1 exoplanets could have long-lived atmospheres, thought to be a requirement for complex life. Illustration: NASA/PA
Atmospheres that exist around planets soon after they form can gradually be stripped away if they are battered by a strong stellar wind from their parent star. The model showed that the stellar wind from Trappist-1 was much faster and far more dense than the solar wind that reaches Earth. On Trappist-1b, the first planet from the star, the stellar wind was 1,000 to 10,000 times stronger than the solar wind that strikes Earth.
The intensity of the solar wind destroyed the atmospheres of the inner Trappist-1 planets within millions of years. But planets further out fared better, their atmospheres surviving for billions of years, the models found. According to the scientists, while the seventh planet around the star is considered too cold for liquid water to exist on the surface, the sixth planet, Trappist-1g, appears to be the most likely home for life in the Trappist-1 system.
In a report submitted to a leading journal, the scientists write: “The outer planets of the Trappist-1 system, which are expected to retain their atmospheres for longer periods, may therefore support more complex biospheres eventually.”
Amaury Triaud, an exoplanet researcher at Cambridge University who helped discover the Trappist-1 planets said: “The work is quite optimistic that the planets could retain an atmosphere, which is nice to hear. It prepares us for what we might or might not see. Maybe we’ll find atmospheres that are denser and denser for the outer planets.”
“Having too much of an atmosphere containing a lot of hydrogen would be detrimental for life, but if you strip everything down to the surface, it’s also no longer habitable. The moon is the same distance from the sun as the Earth and it has absolutely no signs of life,” he added.
Astronomers have now detected about 3,600 planets beyond the solar system. The Trappist-1 planets orbit incredibly close to their parent, an ultracool dwarf star the size of Jupiter that shines 2,000 times less brightly than the sun. Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is six times farther from the sun than the outermost seventh planet is from Trappist-1.
All seven of the planets have Earth-like dimensions, ranging from 25% smaller to 10% larger than our home planet. Most, if not all, will be “tidally locked”, meaning they show only one face to their star. Such worlds would be defined by stark divisions, with one half in constant daylight, and the other in permanent darkness.
“We don’t really know how life started,” Triaud said. “Some people say life was born at the bottom of the ocean. If that is the case and there is a lot of water on the Trappist-1 planets, then it’s good news: it doesn’t matter which side it is on, because at the bottom of the ocean you have no light at all.
“But if life is born on the surface then the UV irradiation the planets receive is important. It drives chemical reactions to begin with, but it can become an issue for DNA mutations, and whether they were on the day or the night side would matter. There really are a lot of elements,” he said.
A mysterious object appeared to have hovered past the International Space Station, according to new video footage from UFO researchers.
SecureTeam 10, who in recent days has posted videos about a supposed alien tank and a cigar-shaped disc over Paris, claims that a disc-shaped object whizzed past the ISS “at a very high rate of speed.”
NASA, which did not respond specifically to the latest video, has often said the objects are “distortions in a lens” and do not signify the presence of extraterrestrial life.
Tyler Glockner, the voice heard on the video from SecureTeam 10, said the object in the video moved “as if it knew the camera was watching.”
Artist’s rendition of the surface of Proxima b, our nearest neighboring exoplanet. Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Ever since astronomers announced the discovery of an Earth-sized exoplanet less than five light years down the cosmic street, the question on every good space cadet’s mind has been whether or not we can colonize it. We’re not going to know if Proxima b is habitable until we can point some very powerful telescopes at it, which won’t happen until next year. But until then, scientists are playing around with models—and one such modeling effort recently came to some promising conclusions.
If Proxima b has an Earth-like atmosphere, researchers found, it might just be a comfortable place to live. A (probably) rocky planet located a measly 25 trillion miles away, Proxima b lies squarely in the “habitable zone” of its star—a tempestuous red dwarf called Proxima Centauri—meaning it might be able to support liquid water, and even life. The latter is still a big question mark, but as we wait for more data, a UK-based team of scientists is trying to figure out whether Proxima b might have the stable climate and reasonable temperatures necessary for life.
So the researchers turned to the Met Office Unified Model, one of the foremost models for studying the climate here on Earth. The team modified this model for extraterrestrial forecasting by considering two potential atmospheres: an Earth-like one rich in nitrogen and oxygen, and a simple nitrogen atmosphere containing trace amounts of CO2. Then they ran their simulations considering a few hypothetical orbits for Proxima b, including one in which the planet is tidally locked, with a permanent dayside and a permanent nightside, and an orbit similar to that of Mercury. The researchers also considered differences in the star’s light output, which produces more infrared and less visible light than our Sun.
Overall, the findings published this week in Astronomy and Astrophysics were promising. In both tidally locked and Mercury-like orbits, the planet’s hypothetical climate featured stable surface temperatures conducive to liquid water, supporting and extending the results of previous studies. Although not all parts of Proxima b were habitable in all simulations (the night side in the tidally locked scenario hovered around a nice, balmy -200 degrees Fahrenheit), the models pointed to enough warmish regions to makeour neighboring exoplanet a very acceptable interstellar vacation spot.
Caveats abound, however. First and foremost, these models assume Proxima bhas an atmosphere, which might not be the case at all. In fact, as another recent modeling study demonstrated, planets in tight orbits around red dwarf stars might be getting lashed by an insane number of high-energy solar flares, stripping their atmospheres faster than they can be replenished. No atmosphere, no rivers, lakes or oceans, no life as we know it.
The model has other limitations, too—for instance, it didn’t consider what the surface of Proxima b is like at all. As we know from studying Earth’s climate, the mixture of land, water, and ice coating a planet has an enormous impact on its temperature.
Avi Loeb, chair of Harvard’s astronomy department and an advisor for Breakthrough Starshot, an effort to send an interstellar probe to the Alpha Centauri system (which includes Proxima Centauri), called the study’s results “encouraging” but agreed that the results are “predicated on an atmosphere being present which remains to be seen.” The way forward, Loeb told Gizmodo, is to figure out whether Proxima b actually has an atmosphere by observing it, and if so, to figure out what it’s made of.
Both questions require more powerful telescopes than our current state of the art, but the technology is on its way. In the meantime, studies like this inject hope in the quest to find habitable worlds beyond Earth, serving to inspire scientists and motivate further investigations. Maybe we’ll even make that interstellar voyage to settle the matter once and for all.
Cover Art on UFO Sightings Desk Reference, a composite drawing by Susann Snyder based on reported UFO shapes seen by people who made reports. The new book by Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa is drawing media and researcher attention
CREDIT SUSANN SNYDER
We’ve all gazed into the sky to look at the moon, maybe a shooting star, and possibly something we couldn’t quite explain. Cheryl Costa has been following U-F-O sightings for years and writes a column for the New Times and a blog. In 2015 She and her wife Linda Miller Costa cast an eye on actual reports
“We figured let’s crunch the data for New York and it suddenly started revealing patterns that none of the UFO researchers in New York had ever seen before.”
And then they decided to check out the entire nation…using that big data approach.
“I started downloading the National UFO Reporting Center databases for all 50 states.”
Cheryl Costa adds more on what she sees as the value of the information they've collected.
You might notice she’s not trying to convince you.
(CLICK TO ENLARGE) -- Yearly data shows reports of UFO sightings increased over the past 15 years.
CREDIT COSTA AND COSTA "UFO SIGHTINGS DESK REFERENCE"
“We couldn’t set out to prove alien life exists. But people have been telling us for a number of years, ‘UFO sightings, they’ve been on the decline since the 1980s.’ Well, we set out to prove that wrong.”
Her book, UFO Sightings Desk Reference 2001-2015, has break downs of the reported sightings from every state, down to the county level. The information came from the national organizations that collect sighting reports, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
What they found – 121-thousand reported sightings from 2000 to 2015 …5200-plus in New York, and on the increase.
SIGHTINGS BY-THE-NUMBERS FOR NEW YORK STATE AND LOCAL COUNTIES
5141 - Total reported sightings in New York State 2001-2015
161 - Total reported sightings in Onondaga County 2001-2015
105 - Total reported sightings in Oneida County 2001-2015
31 - Total reported sightings in Onondaga County 2001-2015
554 - Total reported sightings in Suffolk County 2001-2015 (most in state)
657- Number of reports seeing a Circle Shape (highest shape frequency in state reports)
But Costa says the data revealed other findings…like clusters around the Saint Lawrence and Hudson rivers.
“Those two waterways alone, on a first appearance, it doesn’t look that way, but when you add them up, they are 51% of New York State’s sightings and people have always been saying these things hang out around water for some reason.”
Frequency of shapes people reported seeing in Onondaga County.
CREDIT COSTA AND COSTA "UFO SIGHTINGS DESK REFERENCE"
I talked with Cheryl up on Onondaga Hill, thinking less light pollution = more sightings. But she said the bulk come from urban areas.
“It raises the question, ‘Are we seeing more UFOs in the city because there’s more people there to see them, or is it because there’s more people there and the UFOs are studying the people.”
Cheryl Costa shares more on her findings and how sightings are investigated.
Costa emphasizes her book UFO Sightings Desk Reference – mostly charts and graphs of data, state by state – down to county level – does not prove existence. That’s a job, she says for scientists, academics, maybe government, even though the Air force stopped investigating reports in 1968. The book does group sightings by form, a disc, cigar-shaped …and Costa says the truth is in the shapes and the 6-7 percent that can’t be explained away.
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Central Coast UFO group funding mystery: Federal minister calls for urgent review
A UFO group on the Central Coast says “anything’s possible” when it comes to the possibility of aliens checking out life on Earth.
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Central Coast UFO group funding mystery: Federal minister calls for urgent review
Matt Taylor, Central Coast Gosford Express Advocate
A DISBELIEVING federal minister has launched a probe into an X-File mystery of why taxpayers have forked out thousands of dollars for a Central Coast UFO group to conduct its out-of-this-world activities.
Minister for Social Services Christian Porter this week called for an urgent review into his department’s decision to approve a grant of $2645 for Tuggerah Lakes UFO group to “do their important work”, after it had received $2994 in 2013.
“The minister’s office has been advised that this group was previously funded under the Labor government in 2013 and that some of this grant goes to the transport costs of volunteers with a disability,” a spokeswoman for Mr Porter told the Express Advocate.
“However, the minister is somewhat surprised at the nature of this particular volunteer group being funded through this grant program and he has instructed his department to hold the transmission of funds pending a re-examination of the application.”
One of the most famous aliens, ET, in the 1982 movie of the same name.Not ET. Minister for Social Services Christian Porter has called for an urgent review into the funding of a Central Coast UFO group.
A Tuggerah Lakes UFO group spokeswoman said the close encounter with a funding investigation was “disappointing”, but “it’s not the end of the world”.
Asked what the group — which has more than 800 Facebook members — used the funding for, she said: “We have elderly people we pick up and take to meetings, where we need projectors and microphones so everyone can see and hear what’s going on.
“We also have outings out at night checking for unusual activity.”
The Department of Social Services says on its website that “the funding will help (the UFO group’s) volunteers to do their important work”.
“By sharing their experiences and knowledge within the community, the volunteers foster social inclusion and enrich the local region,” it said.
The Coast has long been a hot spot for UFO sightings. The 1994 Gosford UFO incident, where business owners, policemen and retired academics witnessed a large object beaming “four or five” bright lights into Brisbane Water, made national headlines.
The Tuggerah Lakes UFO group spokeswoman says the truth is out there for the “many” locals who have since spotted unusual activity in the region.
“It’s always hard to get a definitive photo,” she said. “Often people find it easier to speak about their experiences.”
Quizzed on how the public reacted to the UFO group, she said: “It’s getting better, but some people think we’re all crazy. We actually get people come to our meetings from all walks of life.
“We’re all open-minded to aliens being out there. When you read and hear the stories (of UFO sightings), anything’s possible.”
GOSFORD 1994 X-FILES STILL A MYSTERY
IT’S one of Australia’s most intriguing UFO cases.
On New Year’s Eve 1994, police switchboards lit up with reports of an unidentified illuminated object over Brisbane Water.
The Central Coast made national headlines in 1994 after reports of a large object beaming up to five bright lights into Brisbane Water as it took up water. Digitally altered image.
Witnesses reported seeing a “huge ball-shaped object with bright lights on the bottom” where it appeared to be sucking up water.
Some believed the “four or five” beams of light were turning the water to steam, while others described the water frothing.
Researcher Moira McGhee looked into the 1994 Gosford incident but she was unable to find out the UFO’s origins.
Reports came in that night from respected members of the community including police officers, doctors, teachers, nurses and lawyers. Police were sent out to investigate, but they soon found themselves chasing a “strange metallic craft” back and forth across the bay.
Officers said that when they came within 50m of the UFO, the “craft would turn off its own lights and shoot up skywards, out of sight”.
Residents also reported their pets acting strangely, with dogs howling for no apparent reason.
Towns people including business owners, policemen and retired academics talk about the 1994 Gosford UFO incident.
UFO researcher Moira McGhee investigated the eyewitness reports, putting in calls to possible launching sites for planes and helicopters. But her inquiries brought no evidence on the UFO’s origin.
Ceres appears especially bright because Dawn captured the imagery while the dwarf planet was at "opposition" — that is, when the spacecraft was directly between Ceres and the sun.
"Based on data from ground-based telescopes and spacecraft that previously viewed planetary bodies at opposition, scientists correctly predicted that Ceres would appear brighter from this opposition configuration," NASA officials wrote in a description of the new video, which was released Tuesday (May 16). [More NASA photos of the dwarf planet Ceres]
"This increase in brightness, or 'surge,' relates the size of the grains of material on the surface, as well as the porosity of those materials," they added.
Dawn took the photos that make up the video on April 29, from a distance of about 12,000 miles (19,300 kilometers). Mission team members shifted the spacecraft into a special orbit to view the 56-mile-wide (90 km) Occator Crater from this opposition perspective, NASA officials said.
Occator stands out clearly in the video: It harbors the brightest of Ceres' mysterious bright spots, which scientists think reveal the presence of some type of salt on the body's surface.
The dwarf planet Ceres spins in this series of photos captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on April 29, 2017, when the probe was between Ceres and the sun.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The $467 million Dawn mission launched in September 2007 to study Vesta and Ceres, the two largest objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn circled Vesta from July 2011 through September 2012 and reached Ceres in March 2015. In the process, it became the first spacecraft ever to orbit two different bodies beyond the Earth-moon system.
"Dawn's observations of Ceres during its more than two years there cover a broader range of illumination angles than almost any body in the solar system," NASA officials wrote in the same statement. "This provides scientists with an opportunity to gain new insights into the surface properties. They are currently analyzing the new data."
Last month, Dawn lost the third of its four orientation-maintaining reaction wheels. But the failure has not unduly affected the probe or its mission, NASA officials said; Dawn's handlers are used to orienting the spacecraft with its hydrazine thrusters and will continue to do so into the future.
How Do Scientists Search for Extraterrestrial Life?
How Do Scientists Search for Extraterrestrial Life?
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer
The James Webb Space Telescope, expected to launch in 2018, will offer views of distant galaxies in unprecedented detail, and could reveal undiscovered Earth-like planets.
Credit: Northrop Grumman
Human civilizations dating back thousands of years left behind structures and records documenting their studies of the stars as they sought to chart the seasons, help travelers find their way and interpret the world around them. Stargazers among the ancient Greeks, Maya, Egyptians, Middle Easterners and Asians likely also pondered if there were other planets like ours among those distant points of light — and if so, what might live there.
Over the last century, science-fiction storytellers have used books, movies, comics and television to speculate at great length about contact with creatures from other worlds — to our benefit and our detriment. These creatures have been imagined as sometimes benevolent and sometimes bloodthirsty, and they have come in a wide range of shapes and sizes — from inquisitive "little green men" to human-parasitizing, chest-bursting Xenomorphs in the "Alien" movie franchise.
Present-day astronomers have likewise been probing this question, using sophisticated equipment to listen farther and peer deeper into the universe than ever before, to find evidence of our cosmic neighbors. From detecting unexplained radio signals to investigating the atmospheres and liquid water on distant worlds — how are scientists searching for signs of extraterrestrial life? [Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us]
For an alien-seeking scientist, "life" means any living form — including microbes, astronomer Mercedes López-Morales, at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told Live Science.
But even the smallest microbe living on a distant exoplanet — a planet orbiting a star other than our sun — could still broadcast a chemical signal that would be visible to sensitive telescopes, in the form of atmospheric gases that probably wouldn't be there in the absence of life, López-Morales explained.
"Life affects the atmosphere of a planet," she said. "You have gases that are only there because they are constantly being replenished by something — otherwise, they would react with other gases and disappear. For that gas or that molecule to be in the atmosphere of a planet, it must have some mechanism that is continuously producing it," López-Morales said.
One of the atmospheric gases astronomers are searching for in exoplanets is oxygen, which is plentiful in Earth's atmosphere because it is continuously being replaced by plants through photosynthesis.
However, the presence of unusual atmospheric gases doesn't necessarily mean that something living is generating them, López-Morales added.
"Sulfur molecules, for example, could come from active volcanoes," she explained. "For oxygen, there are at least two or three ways to produce it that involve irradiation in the ultraviolet light coming from stars. But we know that oxygen appeared on Earth because life appeared on Earth," she said.
An artist's concept imagines the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f, located in the TRAPPIST-1 system in the constellation Aquarius, where liquid water could harbor extraterrestrial life.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T-Pyle (IPAC)
Of course, even if these chemical signatures can be detected, there's no way to tell what forms of life are producing the signal, Sara Seager, an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at MIT, told Live Science in an email.
And what type of exoplanet is a good candidate for life? Our familiarity with our own world nudges efforts toward those that resemble Earth — "a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere with surface water," Seager said.
"Right now, we can tell — for some planets — if they are rocky, based on planet size and planet mass, which gives average density. But we can't yet tell if a planet has liquid water," she said. [A Field Guide to Alien Planets]
Location, location, location
What else makes an exoplanet a promising candidate? "Anything close by," López-Morales told Live Science. For an astronomer, that means less than 30 light-years away, which would enable humans to actually visit the world where life was detected, she said. (One light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles, or 9.5 trillion kilometers.)
"Eventually, I hope humans will have the technology to get that far, within a reasonable number of years. So for us, the holy grail is to find something within 30 light-years of Earth," she said.
Scientists are also investigating worlds within our own solar system — such as the Saturn moons Titan and Enceladus — which are close enough to be visited by probes that can collect samples and capture images. Several NASA missions are also looking closely at Mars, which once had abundant liquid water on its surface, and where brackish water still flows today, researchers announced in 2015.
This May 11, 2016, self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Okoruso" drilling site on lower Mount Sharp's "Naukluft Plateau." Scientists want to send Curiosity higher on Mount Sharp, to look for evidence of liquid water.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
"Humans are creatures that want to know — where we came from, where we're going, how we appeared on Earth," López-Morales said. "Our research might start providing answers to that." [FAQ: Significance of Liquid Water on Mars]
Radio signals
But scientists aren't just looking for signs of extraterrestrial life — they're also listening for them.
For more than two decades, SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, has conducted research to understand the origins of life in the universe, and to detect and analyze evidence of life emanating from places other than Earth. This effort includes investigations of microbial life within our solar system, such as on the surface of Mars or under the icy crust of Jupiter's moon Europa. SETI scientists are also monitoring the universe for signals in light or radio wavelengths that originate far away and could be signs of technologically advanced alien life, SETI explains on its website.
At SETI, astronomers use the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) of 42 radio antennas to "listen" for signals over a range of radio frequencies, tuned to "hear" the regions around 20,000 red dwarf stars (a broad term describing stars smaller than our sun and in a certain spectral range) that are closest to Earth, Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, told Live Science.
The radio astronomy facility at Owens Valley Observatory in Owens Valley California, which has been used by the SETI program.
Credit: Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan
Investigating red dwarf stars for life-supporting worlds is a relatively recent development at SETI. In the past, stars that were more like our own sun — a yellow dwarf — were thought to be the most likely candidates to host planets harboring life. But over the last few decades, astronomers have determined that many red dwarf stars host planets that could be at the right distance from the star to be habitable, according to Shostak.
"That's something we didn't know when we started," he said.
And SETI radio-signal monitoring is accelerating, as telescopes become more sensitive and technological developments increase the number of radio channels and locations in the sky that can be studied at once, Shostak explained.
"Until now, the total number of star systems that have been looked at carefully over a wide range of the radio dial is measured in the thousands. In the next 20 years, with new technology, you could increase that number to maybe a million," he said. [4 Places Where Alien Life May Lurk in the Solar System]
An alien megastructure?
Shostak also reviews images of alleged alien spacecraft sent to him by hopeful photographers, he told Live Science. A photographer himself, Shostak said that he invariably identifies all the purported "UFO" sightings as tricks of the light or internal reflections in the camera lens — much to the dismay of the observers.
"That never makes them happy," he said.
But even among astronomers, unusual observations can sometimes turn the conversation toward the likelihood of alien technology.
In 2015, when scientists discovered the star KIC 8462852 — also known as Tabby's Star, located more than 1,400 light-years from Earth — they were puzzled by repeated and significant dips in its brightness that took place over several years. During the dips, the star dimmed by as much as 22 percent, far more than could be caused by an orbiting planet passing in front of the star, Shostak said.
In short, the star was "really weird," Tabetha Boyajian, lead author of a study about the star and a researcher at Yale University, told the Atlantic in October of that year.
One possible explanation suggested by some experts was an "alien megastructure," an enormous array orbiting KIC 8462852, built by a hypothetical alien civilization advanced enough to possess technology capable of drawing power from a star. Such a construct could — in theory — periodically block visible light and make the star appear dramatically dimmer when seen from Earth, Space.com reported in 2015.
However, there is no data to actively support this hypothesis. In fact, on all fronts, evidence of any extraterrestrial presence — within our own solar system or beyond its boundaries — remains elusive. But scientists seeking life on other worlds are undaunted by the ongoing challenge, Shostak told Live Science.
"The search should continue, simply because it's a very interesting question," he said.
"Is Earth special? Is it the only place around with intelligent life? That would be remarkable — but it's just as remarkable to find you're not the only kid on the block. That's something that would change our view of ourselves forever," he said.
This recent self-portrait from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the robot shortly after it retrieved a sample of dark sand from shifting dunes along the flank of a Martian hillside.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
MESA, Arizona — Since the dawn of the space age NASA and other agencies have spent billions of dollars to reconnoiter Mars — assailing it with spacecraft flybys, photo-snapping orbiters and landers nose-diving onto its surface. The odds are good, many scientists say, for the Red Planet being an extraterrestrial address for alien life — good enough to sustain decades' worth of landing very expensive robots to ping it with radar, zap it with lasers, trundle across its terrain and scoop up its dirt. Yet against all odds (and researchers' hopes for a watershed discovery), Mars remains a poker-faced world that holds its cards tight. No convincing signs of life have emerged. But astrobiologists continue to, quite literally, chip away at finding the truth.
As the search becomes more heated (some would say more desperate), scientists are entertaining an ever-increasing number of possible explanations for Martian biology as a no-show. For example, could there be a "cover up" whereby the harsh Martian environment somehow obliterates all biosignatures—all signs of past or present life? Or perhaps life there is just so alien its biosignatures are simply unrecognizable to us, hidden in plain view.
Of course, the perplexing quest to find life on Mars may have a simple solution: It's not there, and never was. But as the proceedings of this year's Astrobiology Science Conference held here in April made clear, life-seeking scientists are not giving up yet. Instead, they are getting more creative, proposing new strategies and technologies to shape the next generation of Mars exploration.
A SLUMBERING BIOSPHERE?
Talk about looking for Martians and you inevitably talk about water, the almost-magical liquid that sustains all life on Earth and seems to have served as an indispensable kick-starter for biology in our planet's deepest past. "It all started out with ‘follow the water;' not necessarily ‘follow the life'…but ‘follow one of the basic requirements for living systems,'" says Arizona State University geologist Jack Farmer, referring to NASA's oft-repeated mantra for Martian exploration. "There are many indications of water on Mars in the past, perhaps reservoirs of water in the near subsurface as well," he says. "But what is the quality of that water? Is it really salty—too salty for life?"
Without liquid water, Farmer points out, one would naively think organisms cannot function. The reality may be more complex: on Earth, some resilient organisms such as tardigrades can enter a profound, almost indefinite state of hibernation when deprived of moisture, preserving their desiccated tissues but neither growing nor reproducing. It is possible, Farmer says, that Martian microbes could spend most of their time as inert spores "waiting for something good to happen," only springing to life given the right and very rare conditions. Certain varieties of Earthly "extremophiles"—microbes that live at extremes of temperature, pressure, salinity and so on—exhibit similar behavior.
Farmer says there is as yet no general consensus about the best way to go about life detection on the Red Planet. This is due in no small part to the runaway pace of progress in biotechnology, which has led to innovations such as chemistry labs shrunken down to fit on a computer chip. These technologies "have been revolutionizing the medical field, and have now started to enter into concepts for life detection on Mars," he explains. Things move so fast that today's best technology for finding Martian biology may be tomorrow's laughably obsolete dead-end.
But no matter how sophisticated a lab on a chip might be, it won't deliver results if it is not sent to the right place. Farmer suspects that seriously seeking traces of life requires deep drilling on Mars. "I basically think we're going to have to gain access to the subsurface and look for the fossil record," he explains. But discovering a clear, unambiguous fossil biosignature on Mars would also raise a red flag. "We probably would approach the future of Mars exploration—particularly accessing habitable zones of liquid water in the deep subsurface—more cautiously, because life could still be there. So planetary protection would be taken very seriously," he says. ("Planetary protection" is the term scientists commonly use for precautions to minimize the chance of biological contamination between worlds. Think of it not so much in terms of bug-eyed aliens running rampant on Earth but of billion-dollar robots finding "Martians" that prove to only be hardy bacterial hitchhikers imported from our own world).
THE MARTIAN UNDERGROUND
Like-minded about deep diving on Mars is Penelope Boston, director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the agency's Ames Research Center. "That's my bias," she says. "Given Mars' current state, with all the challenging surface manifestations of dryness, radiation and little atmosphere, the best hope for life still extant on Mars is subsurface." The subsurface, she says, might also offer better chances of preserving past life—that is, of fossils, even if only of single-celled organisms.
The planet's depths hold the potential for harboring liquid water under certain circumstances, Boston thinks. But how far down might that water be? "I suspect it's pretty far…and how we get to it, that's a whole other kettle of fish," she says. Over the years scientists have estimated the average depth of the planet's possible liquid reservoirs as anywhere between tens of meters to kilometers. Then again, recent observations from orbiters have revealed mysterious dark streaks that seasonally flow down the sunlit sides of some Martian hillsides and craters. These "recurring slope lineae" could conceivably be brines of liquid water fed by aquifers very close to the surface, some researchers say.
Such lingering uncertainties emerge from the indirect and scattered nature of our studies of Mars, and ensure that any argument for life there is based solely on circumstantial information, Boston notes. "Each individual piece of evidence is, on its own merits, weak," she says. Only by amassing a diverse suite of independent measurements can a well-built case for life on Mars be made, she says: "In my opinion, we can't make that strong case unless we push to do all of those measurements on exactly the same precise spot. We don't do that because it's very difficult, but it's something to aspire to." Despite decades of sending costly hardware to Mars, Boston believes that what is still missing is a sense of harmony between instruments, allowing them to work together to support a search for alien life. "I think that the precise requirements of a really robust claim of life at the microscopic scale require us to push on further," she notes.
Attendees at the astrobiology meeting in Arizona showcased an assortment of high-tech devices for next-generation exploration, ranging from microfluidic "life analyzers" and integrated nucleic acid extractors for studying "Martian metagenomics" to exquisitely sensitive, miniaturized organic chemistry labs for spotting tantalizing carbon compounds and minerals at microscopic scales. Missing from the mix, however, was any solid consensus on how these and other tools could all work together to provide a slam-dunk detection of life on Mars.
WHAT'S THE WEATHER?
Some scientists contend a new kind of focus is sorely needed. Perhaps the pathway to finding any Martians lurking in the planet's nooks and crannies is to learn where exactly on Mars those potentially life-nurturing niches exist, and how they change over the course of days, months and years rather than over eons of geologic time. That is, to find homes for extant life on Mars today, researchers should probably not just be studying the planet's long-term climate but also its day-to-day weather.
"Right now we're sort of shifting gears. Once you've found out that a planet is habitable, then the next question is, ‘Was there life?'—so it's a completely different ball game," says Nathalie Cabrol, director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute. "On Mars you cannot look for life with the tools that have been looking for habitability of that planet," she argues. "We should be looking for habitats and not habitable environments. You are dealing on Mars with what I call extremophile extreme environments on steroids," she says, "and you don't look for microbial life with telescopes from Mars orbit."
Cabrol advocates making an unprecedentedly robust, high-resolution study of environmental variability on Mars by peppering its surface with weather stations. Sooner or later telltale signs of the possible whereabouts of extant life may emerge from the resulting torrents of data. "Today's environment on that planet is a reflection of something in the past," she says, and planting numbers of automated stations on Mars does not need to be expensive. "This is of interest not only to astrobiology but to human exploration. The first thing you want to know is what the weather is like," she says, adding, "Right now we're not equipped to do this and I'm not saying it's going to be easy to look for extant life. I'm not saying what we're doing now is wrong. Whatever we put on the ground we are learning. But there is variability on Mars. You go up or down one meter, things change. Habitats at a microscopic level can happen at the scale of a slope. It can happen at the scale of a rock!"
MIGHT WE BE MARTIANS?
"I think Mars offers us the highest chance of finding life" somewhere beyond Earth, says Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a planetary scientist at Technical University of Berlin in Germany. But, like Boston and others, he maintains confirmation of life will only come from multiple "layers of proof" that have to be consistent with one another. "We really need at least four different kinds of methods," he says. "My point is that there's no slam-dunk. We need several instruments. You have to build a case, and right now we can do better…unless the biosignature through a microscope is waving hello." The trouble, he adds, is that too-stringent planetary protection rules may preclude getting the evidence necessary for that proof. "We have the technology to go to places where there could be life," he says. "But we can't go to certain areas on Mars, like recurring slope lineae or…under patches of ice. It seems to be ridiculous."
Indeed, Schulze-Makuch speculates planetary protection may be a lost cause for Mars—or at least a misguided endeavor. It may even be that any Martian microbes are actually Earth's long-lost cousins. Or, conversely, Mars rather than Earth is really the sole site of biogenesis in our solar system. Both scenarios are possible, considering that single-celled organisms can likely survive world-shattering impacts and the subsequent interplanetary voyages if embedded in ejected shards of rock that could fall elsewhere as meteorites. Innumerable impacts of this scale battered the solar system billions of years ago, potentially blasting biological material between neighboring worlds. On balance, Schulze-Makuch says, "the chances are higher that we are Martians."
Simulation showing the production of the Higgs boson in the collision of two protons at the Large Hadron Collider. The Higgs boson quickly decays into four muons, which are a type of heavy electron that is not absorbed by the detector. The tracks of the muons are shown in yellow.
I'm sure by now we've all heard the refrain: "The Higgs boson creates mass." And if you haven't heard it, well, now you have. This simple statement seems to pack a wallop of a concept: that every pound and gram of your body, down at the submicroscopic scale, is due to this invisible Higgs goo that fills up the universe.
Hence the nickname "The God Particle," which has frustratingly entered the public consciousness. Without the Higgs, there wouldn't be mass. Without the Higgs, all the physics that we know and love would come screeching to a halt, particles flying off at the speed of light, hardly ever having the chance to interact. [What Is the 'God Particle'? Higgs Boson Explained (Video)]
Or not.
A massive problem
The Higgs boson does indeed play a role in mass, but it's much less significant than you might think. Zooming in on you, we find that your body is made of organs, which are made of tissues, which are made of cells, which are made of molecules, which are made of atoms. Atoms have a nucleus surrounded by a cloud of electrons, and those electrons are incredibly wimpy — so insignificant that for most mass calculations they can simply be ignored.
Digging into the atomic nucleus, we find protons and neutrons, the meat and potatoes of the atom. But they too are made of even-smaller components — the quarks. Each proton and neutron is composed of a triplet of quarks tightly bound together by gluons, the carriers of the strong nuclear force.
And here's where it gets really weird. If you added up the masses of the three quarks that comprise each proton or neutron, you would only end up with around 1 percent of the total mass.
That's right. The total mass of all the fundamental parts of you (electrons and quarks) is just a laughably tiny part of your weight. Instead, most of the blame for tipping the scales is the energy of the interactions between your parts. Those gluons holding the protons and neutrons together are massless, but the very fact that they're doing their job — that is, gluing — gives rise to a binding energy.
It costs energy to rip apart a proton or neutron, and since we live in a universe where E=mc2, energy is mass (the c for the speed of light just tells us how much energy is in a bit of mass; the fundamental concept in that famous relation is that mass and energy are totally equivalent).
Hence, most of your mass is really the binding energy of your protons and neutrons. And none of that has anything to do with the Higgs boson.
The missing mass
But the impressive-sounding statements about the fundamental connection between the Higgs and mass aren't all subatomic smoke and mirrors. The Higgs does play a (small) role here: It's the explanation for the mass of your parts, the electrons and quarks themselves. Even though they aren't very heavy, they're not entirely massless, and they can thank the Higgs for that.
And the nature of that mass-making interaction? Often, the Higgs field is likened to a rich and creamy soup, or maybe a dense and heavy fog, or even a vat of thick and goopy honey. Whatever the poor choice of metaphorical words, the analogy is clear: the Higgs field permeates the cosmos, impeding the free travel of carefree electrons and quarks.[Watch: The Mystery of Mass]
I'm not the biggest fan of these viscous comparisons. They make it seem like movement is the key to the relationship between the Higgs and particle mass. As if the only way that an electron can acquire mass is by traveling through the murkiness of the Higgs field around us.
To me, metaphors like this fall far short of describing the true nature of the relationship. Instead, when metaphors fail, it's best to retreat to the safety of the mathematics. After all, the game of physics is to use mathematics to describe the workings of the universe; it's in the math that relationships are described and discovered. Descriptions of those relationships using a natural language are always going to come up a little bit short.
When it comes to the Higgs and electrons, the mathematics is very clear. When we allow for the existence of a universe-filling Higgs field, that field has certain properties, based on the work that field has to do to split the weak nuclear force from its electromagnetic sibling. And we're free to ask: Given such-and-such field with such-and-such list of properties, does it interact with anything else?
And indeed it does: The Higgs field interacts with the electron field, the quark fields and all the other lepton fields. And it interacts with those other fields in a very specific place in the mathematical formulas that physicists use to describe their nature and evolution: The Higgs pops up in the exact spot where we usually put the mass of the particle.
So there it is. Let the math speak for itself for once in its life. The mass of an electron — or the mass of a quark or any other lepton — is its interaction with the Higgs field. No syrup, no sticky paper, no buzzing flies. No metaphors, analogies, or similes. Just a plain, bare, naked statement of dumbfounding fact.
What is the mass of an electron? It's the interaction between an electron and the Higgs field. And that's all there is to it.
AMAZING! British Bus Driver In Exmouth Videotapes Triangular UFO
AMAZING! British Bus Driver In Exmouth Videotapes Triangular UFO
Three lights in triangular formation were reportedly spotted and recorded on video slowly crossing across the sky above Exmouth in East Devon, England. The British witness, who is a bus driver, noticed the strange lights at 9:41 p.m. on April 17, 2017, while on a break.
The unnamed witness was talking on the phone to his best man for the upcoming wedding while walking near the leisure center where their bus stopped. When he happened to look over in the river, the witness then saw the three lights forming a triangular formation while rotating on its axis and wobbling slightly.
He then felt that the triangular object was unusual. The witness told his mate that he would call back and started recording the lights using his phone. However, the witness was having a difficult time focusing on the formation due to the street lights. To get a better view, the witness decided to go closer to the river.
The witness managed to record almost a 3-minute video initially. He also took seven pictures and another 41-second video. He filed a report to MUFON along with the video of the incident and some pictures. MUFON filed the report as Case 832412 and can be accessed in their witness reporting database. The case is still under investigation led by British MUFON field investigator Karl Webb.
Parallelle universa blijven spectaculair fenomeen. Welke bewijzen hebben astronomen gevonden?
Parallelle universa blijven spectaculair fenomeen. Welke bewijzen hebben astronomen gevonden?
Zijn er nog andere universa naast het onze? Dat is goed mogelijk, blijkt uit recent onderzoek waarover The Guardian schrijft.
Onderzoekers van de Britse Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) hebben een mogelijke aanwijzing gevonden voor het bestaan van een multiversum.
Het multiversum is een kosmos waarin ontelbaar veel universa bestaan. Deze bevinden zich in hogere dimensies die onze zintuigen niet rechtstreeks kunnen waarnemen.
Cold spot
Volgens steeds meer astronomen en kosmologen kan het multiversum raadselachtige waarnemingen verklaren. Elk parallel universum bevat in theorie een andere versie van de realiteit.
De onderzoekers hebben een studie gepubliceerd over de zogeheten ‘cold spot’, een gebied in de kosmische achtergrondstraling waar de temperatuur iets lager is.
De cold spot is in 2004 ontdekt met behulp van de WMAP-satelliet van de NASA en stelt wetenschappers voor een groot raadsel.
Buitengewoon lastig
Het is wiskundig gezien buitengewoon lastig om deze koude plek aan de hand van de inflatietheorie te verklaren. Ook is het uitgesloten dat de koude plek een optische illusie is.
Mogelijk is dus het eerste bewijs voor het multiversum gevonden. Als er inderdaad een multiversum is, zullen wetenschappers wellicht nooit kunnen verklaren waarom ons universum is zoals het is.
Observatiebegrenzing
Ons universum stuit immers op een zekere observatiebegrenzing, ongeveer 14 miljard lichtjaren van ons verwijderd.
Alles daarachter beweegt zich sneller weg van ons dan de snelheid van het licht.
Amerika wilde atoombom op maan gooien. Werden ze tegengehouden door aliens?
Amerika wilde atoombom op maan gooien. Werden ze tegengehouden door aliens?
In de jaren vijftig moest kolonel Ross Dedrickson waken over de veiligheid van Amerikaanse kernwapens.
Tussen 1950 en 1958 werkte hij voor de Amerikaanse atoomenergiecommissie. Hij was onder meer gestationeerd in Nevada, Hawaï en Albuquerque. In 1964 ging hij met pensioen.
In die tijd kwamen er veel meldingen binnen van UFO’s die boven diverse nucleaire installaties werden gezien.
Bewust stilgehouden
“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.
De kolonel zei verder dat er meerdere nucleaire wapens in de ruimte zijn gebracht, die vervolgens door buitenaardsen zijn vernietigd. “Dit werd bewust stilgehouden.”
Geheim plan
“Eind jaren zeventig probeerden we een kernbom te laten exploderen op de maan,” zei Dedrickson. “De buitenaardsen hebben dit voorkomen.”
Het is inmiddels bekend dat de Amerikaanse luchtmacht in de jaren vijftig een geheim plan had ontwikkeld om op de maan een atoombom tot ontploffing te brengen.
Project A119
Dit plan heette Project A119. Doel van het onderzoek was onder andere de zichtbaarheid van de explosie vast te stellen en de gevolgen voor het maanoppervlak.
Officieel heeft de luchtmacht het project in januari 1959 stopgezet, maar volgens Dedrickson is dat niet het geval geweest en is het toch doorgezet.
64 bizarre mogelijke alien megastructuren ontdekt. Lees wat deze astronoom over supercivilisaties zegt
64 bizarre mogelijke alien megastructuren ontdekt. Lees wat deze astronoom over supercivilisaties zegt
Twee jaar geleden werd door astronomen een ‘buitenaardse megastructuur’ gespot rond een verre ster.
Een wetenschapper zegt nu dat deze megastructuren relatief eenvoudig te vinden zijn, mits experts op de juiste plek zoeken.
Hij zegt dat astronomen hun aandacht moeten richten op 64 pulsars in het heelal waar hij een buitenaardse megastructuur verwacht.
Dunne schijven
Professor Zaza Osmanov van de Vrije Universiteit van Tbilisi in Georgië stelt dat dergelijke structuren makkelijk te spotten zijn met de huidige technologie.
In een paper schrijft hij dat de buitenaardse megastructuren waarschijnlijk gevormd zijn als dunne schijven in plaats van bollen.
Als zijn theorie klopt, kan een zogeheten Dysonbol in de bewoonbare zone rond een ster bestaan.
Bijna alle energie
Vervolgens is zo’n Dysonbol makkelijk te vinden met behulp van infraroodtelescopen, aldus de professor.
Een Dysonbol of Dysonschil is een megastructuur die bestaat uit een systeem van rond een ster draaiende satellieten en die bijna alle energie van deze ster zou opvangen.
Hij roept astronomen in zijn paper, dat op de preprintserver arXiv staat, op om hun aandacht op de 64 pulsars te richten.
Extreem krachtig
Mochten we zo’n buitenaardse megastructuur vinden, kan deze extreem krachtig zijn, merkt Osmanov op.
Een superbeschaving die op zo’n megastructuur leeft zou sterk genoeg kunnen zijn om de mensheid weg te vagen.
In 2015 werd een ster ontdekt, Tabby’s ster geheten, die periodieke helderheidsdipjes vertoont.
Sommigen suggereerden dat dit vreemde gedrag werd veroorzaakt door de rotatie van een buitenaardse megastructuur.
OP VERSCHILLENDE PLAATSEN KLASSIEKE RETRO UFO'S GESPOT
OP VERSCHILLENDE PLAATSEN KLASSIEKE RETRO UFO'S GESPOT
Iedereen is zo langzamerhand behoorlijk huiverig geworden voor Youtube filmpjes met daarop de meest fantastische UFO’s die dikwijls compleet nep blijken te zijn.
Misschien is het daarom een idee om voor echt UFO onderzoek een beetje terug te gaan naar de basics en dan kom je ook de meest interessante dingen tegen.
Vandaag een aantal interessante UFO waarnemingen van de afgelopen dagen waar voor de verandering eens geen gebruik wordt gemaakt van de steeds onbetrouwbaarder wordende Youtube video’s.
De volgende waarneming gebeurde op 15 mei 2017 in Los Angeles, waarbij de getuige het volgende verklaart:
“Ik liep naar buiten naar mijn garage en zag deze vreemde lichten aan de hemel. Ik holde naar binnen om mijn telefoon te pakken en toen ik terugkwam hadden de lichten niet bewogen. Ik nam een foto en stuurde deze door naar een vriend.
Toen ik weer naar boven keek, waren de lichten weg. Ze verdwenen niet langzaam, maar waren van het ene op het andere moment verdwenen. Ik worstel nog steeds met een mogelijke verklaring hiervoor. Ik ben een wetenschappelijk denker en ik geloof dat er een logische verklaring voor is en dat het niets te maken heeft met buitenaardsen.
Interessante van bovenstaande waarneming is dat deze is gedaan met het blote oog, voordat er een foto werd genomen. Er kan dus geen sprake zijn van reflecties of mankementen aan de camera. Het zijn ook geen lichtstralen die afkomstig zijn van de aarde omdat in deze duisternis en bewolking je de straal zou moeten zien.
Wat deze lichten zijn is vooralsnog volkomen onduidelijk. De volgende opname is op 3 mei gemaakt in Indiana in Amerika en hier hebben we wel een geval van iemand die niets zag met het blote oog, maar wel toen hij later zijn foto’s bekeek.
Op de volgende foto zie je aan de rechterkant duidelijk iets wat er eigenlijk niet hoort.
Wat uitvergroot lijkt het op een klassieke of retro UFO. Een solide object dat zelfs het zonlicht weerkaatst.
De volgende is ook een interessante en deze waarneming is op 16 mei gedaan in de plaats Bekode in India.
Het verhaal is dat een Indiase jongeman samen met zijn neef boven op een heuvel klom waar ze verschillende foto’s namen met een Samsung Galaxy S3.
Aangezien ze een foto van hen beiden wilden, zetten ze de Samsung tegen een stuk rots en stelden de timer in.
Toen ze later door de foto’s keken, zagen ze op de opname die met een timer van hen beiden was genomen een object wat er niet op thuis hoorde.
Wat aan de bovenstaande waarneming bijzonder is, is dat de twee jongens gingen eten nadat ze het zelfportret hadden gemaakt en dat de Samsung opeens vanzelf foto’s begon te nemen.
Zelf vermoeden ze nu dat dit komt door de elektro magnetische werking van de UFO.
Hoe dan ook, bovenstaande beelden tonen aan dat alledaagse mensen de meest bijzondere opnames kunnen maken als ze een klein beetje geluk hebben en dat er veel meer boven onze hoofden gebeurt dan de meeste mensen vermoeden.
SECRET SPACE PROGRAM UPDATE: TR-3B PATENT NOW IN PUBLIC DOMAIN
SECRET SPACE PROGRAM UPDATE: TR-3B PATENT NOW IN PUBLIC DOMAIN
We just discovered a patent that shows the wicked triangular spacecraft known in the UFO realm as the TR-3B.
Research confirms that the inventor, John St. Clair, has also developed and patented a new type of propulsion system.
This new system is named as "rotating electrostatic propulsion system". Below are excerpts and the links to the patents of the TR-3B and the electrostatic propulsion system.
TRIANGULAR SPACECRAFT
Triangular spacecraft
US 20060145019 A1
A spacecraft having a triangular hull with vertical electrostatic line charges on each corner that produce a horizontal electric field parallel to the sides of the hull. This field, interacting with a plane wave emitted by antennas on the side of the hull, generates a force per volume combining both lift and propulsion.
A1 This invention relates to a spacecraft propulsion system utilizing thrusters comprised of a motor-driven electrostatically charged cylinder rotating within an electrostatically charged annular ring for the purpose of creating a spacetime curvature stress-energy tension in the horizontal direction. The thrusters are augmented by magnetic vortex generators, either embedded in the cylinders or located above each thruster, for the purpose of increasing the permittivity of space by permeating each thruster with low density hyperspace energy generated by a wormhole created between our space and hyperspace. A combination of three thrusters mounted on the underside of the hull of the spacecraft provide thrust and yaw motion control.
The TR-3B is Code named Astra. The tactical reconnaissance TR-3B first operational flight was in the early 90s. The triangular shaped nuclear powered aerospace platform was developed under the Top Secret, Aurora Program with SDI and black budget monies. At least 3 of the billion dollar plus TR-3Bs were flying by 1994. The Aurora is the most classified aerospace development program in existence. The TR-3B is the most exotic vehicle created by the Aurora Program. It is funded and operationally tasked by the National Reconnaissance Office, the NSA, and the CIA. The TR-3B flying triangle is not fiction and was built with technology available in the mid 80s. Not every UFO spotted is one of theirs.
The TR-3B vehicles outer coating is reactive to electrical Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder–or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations. A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology.
ZERO POINT ENERGY: THE POWER SOURCE BEHIND THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM
ZERO POINT ENERGY: THE POWER SOURCE BEHIND THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM
Meet Mark McCandlish, a military aeronautical illustrator that has worked on many classified projects for the government. This all started ever since he was born, as his own father is a United Air Force veteran, working 25 years.
Mark himself is renowned in his field of conceptualization and illustration of military aeronautical machines, over his long career spanning 30 years.
Working on projects such as these has allowed him to come across strange phenomena that have led him to discover the science behind the first UFO he spotted way back in the winter of 1966. Ever since then, he has also had a dozen more sightings, which has caused his firm belief that interstellar fight that does not violate the current laws of physic and gravity is definitely possible.
MARK MCCANDLISH, ILLUSTRATOR OF THE FUTURE
Mr. McCandlish came under fire for conceptualizing and illustrating a project he was not supposed to know about. Since then, he has been an active activist that the government is harboring secrets, they very same ones, that he has always been looking for. He asked the question that has since lingered in the air of much conspiracists: Is there a secret space program?
Mr. McCandlish claims that something called the Zero Point Energy exists on our planet. It is the power source that is fueling the Secret Space Program and is the main purpose of the Breakaway Civilization.
This theory involves how back-engineering off-world technology has allowed powerful corporations to take control of governments, allowing them world dominion. This allowed these corporations to develop its own secret space program and develop a break-away civilization that has its very own different set of objectives.
THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM
One will never know just how many secrets a government can be harboring. Are we truly in control? Nobody knows the real answer to that, only the puppet master does. In the meantime, one can hope that the truth about extraterrestrials with fully proven evidence can be discovered and released to the world.
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A Russian man claims to have found evidence of a giant alien spaceship that crash landed in Antarctica.
He posted images of the alleged UFO wreckage which he spotted while analysing Google Earth pictures of the planet's most southerly continent.
Valentin Degteryov from Nizhny Tagil claimed the unusual object is some 1,900 feet in length, and a video he posted has attracted hundreds of thousands of hits.
The object (circled) claimed by Valentin Degteryov from Nizhny Tagil to be an alien spaceship
The Google Earth images of what the UFO hunter believes proves the existence of alien life
Many people were skeptical about the images, saying the shape was the peak of a mountain
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AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS JUST FOUND OBJECTS IN SPACE THAT COULD LEAD TO THE BIGGEST DISCOVERY OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IN OVER 150 YEARS
AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS JUST FOUND OBJECTS IN SPACE THAT COULD LEAD TO THE BIGGEST DISCOVERY OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IN OVER 150 YEARS
60,000 people recently got together to make history. Their goal? Observe planet nine for the first time. Planet Nine is a theoretical planet that is thought to exist beyond Pluto, but no one has seen it yet. Participants worked using data from Siding Spring’s SkyMapper telescope. Brad Tucker had has the leading role, by ANU Researcher, and team agreed with one of the four possibilities regardless of whether. The scientific value of the project was certainly verified.
Other researchers agree with the ANU team’s sentiment: astronomer Mike Brown of Caltech tweeted his support for the project.For one, it is probably 1,000 times fainter than Pluto. The task for researchers, then, is to sift through old data and make new observations. Learn more in the video below:
New Harvard theory: Aliens have star-powered spaceships
New Harvard theory: Aliens have star-powered spaceships
A couple of scientists from the well-respected Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics recently wrote an astrophysics paper that is so awesome, it will make you want to read an astrophysics paper. The scientists have been puzzling over some weirdly strong radio wave bursts in space, and they’ve come up with an explanation: aliens.
“An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking,” said Avi Loeb, an Israeli-American professor who worked on the study.
It all started when an astrophysicist was combing through the archives in Australia’s Parkes Observatory, and he noticed a mysterious spurt of radio activity. It was short but intense. Really intense. Like, 500 million times the power of the sun intense.
Space is full of weird light, so that’s no big deal, right? Wrong, apparently. Scientists have been trying to figure out what the burst could be for 10 years, and they still don’t know. Some think it’s a massive, particularly weird star that collapsed into its core. Or maybe it’s a solar flare that somehow managed to travel across the known universe. Or …
Yep. Aliens. At least, that’s what the Harvard-Smithsonian scientists are proposing. You can start freaking out now.
Here’s the theory: There’s a faraway alien civilization that uses artificial beams to power spaceships with light sails. They harness energy from a star and cool their beam machine with planet-sized buckets of water.
Cool, right? We’re not talking about boring, single-celled aliens here. We’re talking about an advanced civilization, way more advanced than, you know, us. Our sail-related ships are limited to the kind that stay in water.
“Deciding what’s likely ahead of time limits the possibilities,” said Loeb, an alumnus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “It’s worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge.”
It’s still a theory, but we at From the Grapevine are definitely rooting for it. Discovering alien life would mean a total change in how we view reality. Plus, we could do so much cool stuff with aliens. Like discover new things about the universe and have alien romances.
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New Harvard theory: Aliens have star-powered spaceships
New Harvard theory: Aliens have star-powered spaceships
A couple of scientists from the well-respected Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics recently wrote an astrophysics paper that is so awesome, it will make you want to read an astrophysics paper. The scientists have been puzzling over some weirdly strong radio wave bursts in space, and they’ve come up with an explanation: aliens.
“An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking,” said Avi Loeb, an Israeli-American professor who worked on the study.
It all started when an astrophysicist was combing through the archives in Australia’s Parkes Observatory, and he noticed a mysterious spurt of radio activity. It was short but intense. Really intense. Like, 500 million times the power of the sun intense.
Space is full of weird light, so that’s no big deal, right? Wrong, apparently. Scientists have been trying to figure out what the burst could be for 10 years, and they still don’t know. Some think it’s a massive, particularly weird star that collapsed into its core. Or maybe it’s a solar flare that somehow managed to travel across the known universe. Or …
Yep. Aliens. At least, that’s what the Harvard-Smithsonian scientists are proposing. You can start freaking out now.
Here’s the theory: There’s a faraway alien civilization that uses artificial beams to power spaceships with light sails. They harness energy from a star and cool their beam machine with planet-sized buckets of water.
Cool, right? We’re not talking about boring, single-celled aliens here. We’re talking about an advanced civilization, way more advanced than, you know, us. Our sail-related ships are limited to the kind that stay in water.
“Deciding what’s likely ahead of time limits the possibilities,” said Loeb, an alumnus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “It’s worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge.”
It’s still a theory, but we at From the Grapevine are definitely rooting for it. Discovering alien life would mean a total change in how we view reality. Plus, we could do so much cool stuff with aliens. Like discover new things about the universe and have alien romances.
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Scientists Claim To Have Found 234 Alien Civilizations
Scientists Claim To Have Found 234 Alien Civilizations
Aliens are like buses, you spend ages waiting for one and then 234 come along at once. Or at least, that’s what two astronomers from the Laval University in Quebec are suggesting.
Ermanno Borra and his graduate student Eric Trottier have analyzed over 2.5 million stars and galaxies for pulses of light emitted at regular intervals and discovered it in 234 stars similar in size to our Sun. The team believes that alien civilizations are behind those signals.
The researchers looked at the Fourier Transform (FT) of the light spectrum. The FT is a mathematical tool that allows us to work out where the components of a signal come from. If the light is a milkshake, by using the FT you get the recipe.
The FT analysis has found periodic modulated components which, according to the scientists, are caused by the super quick light pulses (less than a trillionth of a second) generated by Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI). In the paper, available from thePublications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, they discard every other explanation such as instrumental effects, rotation of molecules, rapid stellar pulsations, and peculiar chemistry.
“We find that the detected signals have exactly the shape of an ETI signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this hypothesis,” the researchers wrote in the paper.
“The fact that they are only found in a very small fraction of stars within a narrow spectral range centered near the spectral type of the Sun is also in agreement with the ETI hypothesis.”
These superfast pulses will have to be generated by incredibly powerful lasers, like the one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Interestingly, in previous publications Borra has stated that this area of astronomy is the least explored, which raises the question on why these aliens would all decide to communicate in such a complicated and energy-consuming way.
The researchers admit that although they believe aliens is the most likely explanation, this is yet to be confirmed.
The Stephen Hawking-backed project Breakthrough Listen will conduct follow-up observations of these 234 stars, but the team at UC Berkeley, where the project’s science program is based, invite people to be skeptical.
“The one in 10,000 objects with unusual spectra seen by Borra and Trottier are certainly worthy of additional study. However, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is too early to unequivocally attribute these purported signals to the activities of extraterrestrial civilizations,” the Breakthrough Listen team said in a statement.
While taking the deepest X-ray image of our Universe to date from NASA's Chandra Observatory, researchers detected a mysterious explosion in a galaxy about 10.7 billion light-years away. Scientists know of no astronomical phenomenon that can explain the event.
MYSTERY EXPLOSION IN SPACE
For a few minutes in October 2014, a mysterious explosion occurred in a galaxy about 10.7 billion light-years away from Earth. The magnitude of the explosion was so intense that it produced 1,000 times more energy than all of the stars in its entire galaxy for the space of a few minutes.
We learned about this event after scientists took the deepest X-ray image of our Universe to date from NASA’sChandra Observatory. Researchers narrowed down the source of the blast with the help of data from the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes. The small galaxy is relatively faint and unremarkable, located in a piece of the sky referred to as the Chandra Deep Field South.
Over the past 17 years, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory has watched this far-flung galaxy for a cumulative total of 2.5 months, and it has never detected any evidence of similar events before this unique explosion. Since the event passed, the galaxy appears to have receded into oblivion once more. Capturing it at all may have been a lucky break.
Now, the researchers are poring through the Chandra archive for evidence of similar events and painstakingly searching data from NASA’s Swift satellite and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton telescope for the same kind of evidence. The brief duration of the event means that missing other cosmic cataclysms would have been easy to do. Of course, researchers will also follow up with more Chandra observations of the galaxy.
A NEW CATACLYSMIC EVENT
Scientists know of no astronomical phenomenon that can explain the behavior. “We may have observed a completely new type of cataclysmic event,” said researcher Kevin Schawinski of ETH Zurich in Switzerland. “Whatever it is, a lot more observations are needed to work out what we’re seeing.”
Via NASA
Although they don’t yet have all the answers, researchers do have a few possible hypotheses that could explain the strange explosion. Of the three primary ideas, two focus on gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the brightest known electromagnetic events that occur in our Universe.
These super high-energy explosions are released when two neutron stars collide, when a neuron star and a black hole merge, or when a massive star collapses. When GRBs are pointing in our direction at the time they occur, they spew a jet of gamma-rays that later taper into weaker forms of radiation, like X-rays. That’s how we’re able to detect them.
One theory to explain this mystery explosion is that we’ve simply picked up a GRB that was pointed in a different direction, and we don’t recognize what we’re “seeing.” Another possibility is that we’ve detected a GRB that is actually past the galaxy we’re observing. A third idea is that we witnessed a black hole shredding a white dwarf star.
None of the theories seems like a perfect fit — yet. More data will help explain the strange explosion, and new technologies like the James Webb Space Telescope, which will replace the Hubble and collect seven times more light than its predecessor, should help us explain unique cosmic events like this one.
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Underwater UFOs, A Study to See If Someone Is Here From the Future, and MUFON Conference.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Utah.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia Belgium, Canada, Eire, France, Norway, Switzerland, 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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Under Sea UFOs
Admiral Vladimir Chernavin The former head of the fleet of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Chernavin describes declassified encounters with Russian sailors with three types of UFOs: discs, drums and cigar-shaped craft. The Admiral said, “The former Soviet Navy had gathered a large number of UFO sightings in those decades in various regions of the world.
Weekly meetings on encounters with ships from another world were held AND documented by the section chief former deputy director of exploring the Oceanographic Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The Captain of the first rank Dr. Vladimir Azhazha launched a new career as a UFO investigator after his time in the Navy. All former senior naval officers noted that about half of UFO encounters occur at sea. Statistically, 60 percent occur in the Atlantic and the Pacific, 10 percent in the Mediterranean and the rest in other waters. But of all the meetings around the world, some of the most amazing – and disturbing – incidents have occurred in the Bermuda Triangle. Many men have seen [UFOs] and have not been confused.
While conducting naval maneuvers in the Pacific, six Russian submarines found mysterious phenomena in their sonar echoes. None of the sonar technicians on any vessel could identify the signature of the echoes, nor were they able to determine what type of object their instruments were reading. Everyone agreed that the object was huge and traveling below their submarines at high speed. The submarines were under orders not to break formation or to surface, but all six Russian submarines surfaced when sonar operators confirmed the gigantic stranger was quickly approaching them. The Unidentified submarine object (USO) ascended quickly and came out of the ocean. The USO surfaced and flew into the air and disappeared quickly.
Secret race of ‘underwater alien UFOs’ roaming the depths is at war with Russia.
A hidden race of underwater aliens has been at war with Russia for decades, a UFO expert has claimed.
Russian submarine commanders have been encountering unexplained undersea phenomenon since the days of the Soviet Union. The files on the so called USOs – unidentified submersible objects – are still under lock and key in the Kremlin. But some of the sightings detailing encounters with undersea creatures and giant unexplained objects have leaked out revealing shocking claims about what goes on in the deep.
Alien experts Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle revealed the secret conflict in their new book, “Russia’s USO Secrets“.
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They claim the encounters range from meetings with underwater life forms, mysterious submersibles and UFOs dumping craft into the sea. Russian subs have encounters USOs, the experts claim Strange beings dubbed “The Swimmers” are one of the most extraordinary. The creatures are three-meters tall humanoids living at a depth of 50 meters in the icy cold waters around Siberia.
Stonehill and Mantle tell how a Russian commander of the Military Diver Service, Major General V .Demyanenko, warned his crews about the creatures after a number of strange encounters in 1982. Soviet Navy divers attempted to capture one of the creatures – clad in a silvery suit and wearing sphere helmets. The dive team of seven was then thrown to the surface by a mysterious force as they tried to grab the creature in a net, it is claimed. Admiral V.A. Domislovsky, chief of the Russian Pacific Fleet’s Intelligence Department, saw an object around 900 meters long hovering above the Pacific Ocean.
It spat out smaller objects which descended into the waters, before collecting them sometime later and flying away.
Rear Admiral and nuclear submarine commander Yury Beketov claims to have experienced USO activity in the Bermuda triangle – with objects on their radar screens moving at 250 mph below the surface. Mr. Stonehill and Mr. Mantle collect the encounters in their book “Russia’s USO Secrets“.
“Our knowledge of the depths of the seas and oceans and large lakes is very limited – it is said that we know more about the surface of the moon than the depths of the oceans.”
Captain Azhazha confirmed another declassified sighting stating:
“There is evidence that the sailors of the Pacific fleet in remote waters of the Pacific observed hovering cylinder UFOs. A small flying saucer departed the cylinder and dove into the water. It then flew back again into the master cylinder, and then both flew away.”
Lord Rankeillour, Member of the British House of Lords:
“Many men have seen those [UFOs] and have not been mistaken. Who are we to doubt their word? … Only a few weeks ago a Palermo policeman photographed one, and four Italian Navy officers saw a 300-foot long fiery craft rising from the sea and disappearing into the sky…
Why should these men of law enforcement and defense lie?” [House of Lords, Debate on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hansard (Lords), Vol. 397, No. 23, January 18, 1979.] http://www.waterufo.net/menu.htm
What is not generally known is there has been close cooperation with the Soviet Union and the United States in tracking UFOs. I was in a Military exercise at Norfolk,
Virginia when Admiral Thomas Moorer cleared the Atlantic Command’s command post.
Apparently, a UFO was being tracked on radar over the Atlantic Ocean. After the sighting was over I talked to the audio visual technician who indicated after the Command Post had been cleared the Admiral asked, “If the Soviets were helping us chase the UFO?. Apparently, F-4 fighter aircraft were launched from two carriers in the Atlantic Ocean to chase the UFO. Some were able to capture Gun camera film of the UFO that was sent to the Command Post for review by the Admiral.
Generally, only four star military officers and their designated subordinates had any knowledge of UFOs.
Gulf of Mexico UFO
Brett Tingley reports, “The crew of an offshore supply vessel witnessed a massive UFO rise from the Gulf of Mexico near the southern tip of Louisiana and speed away 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.
The first book about UFOs that I read while in the Air Force was written by Ivan Sanderson. This book is a groundbreaking contribution to the study of the UFO enigma, originally published over 30 years ago. In this book, Sanderson, a renowned zoologist with a keen interest in the paranormal, puts forward the theory that “OINTS”-Other Intelligences who live under the Earth’s oceans. This underwater, parallel, civilization may be twice as old as Homo sapiens, he proposes, and may have “developed what we call space flight.”
Sanderson postulates that the OINTS are behind many UFO sightings as well as the mysterious disappearances of aircraft and ships in the Bermuda Triangle. What better place to have an impenetrable base than deep within the oceans of the planet? Yet, if UFOs, or at least some of them, are coming from beneath our oceans or lakes, does it mean that there is another civilization besides our own that is responsible? In fact, since WWII a number of underwater UFO bases have been discovered and certain Ocean Charts display warnings not to travel in certain areas.
There are numerous reports of UFOs emerging and submerging into the ocean from possible bases. We also had sightings a few years ago off the Palos Verdes peninsula in Southwestern Los Angeles County where UFOs were seen traveling under water. Bill Hamilton writes “What secrets lurk in ocean depths? Are there alien forms of intelligent life that occupy the vast volumes of water that constitute our oceans, seas, and lakes?”The largest of our oceans, the Pacific, covers 64,000,000 square miles and reaches a depth of 36,198 feet, a depth that no ray of sunlight ever reaches. Could these depths hide alien submarine bases?
Underwater UFOs have been sighted on many occasions lifting out of their submerged depths and taking to the air. In an article entitled “UFOs – at 450 Fathoms,” UFO Reporter Ed Hyde told of the sighting made by Dr. R. J. Villela, a Brazilian scientist, who saw a UFO smash through an estimated 40 feet of ice at the South Pole and soar into the sky at amazing speed.
Using Google maps the researcher came across these very strange tracks on the sea bed off the coast of Canada.
43 766304 N44 905025 W It was author and researcher Dr. Ivan T. Sanderson who suggested that aliens could remain undetected by building their bases beneath the world’s oceans. Dr. Sanderson found that by actual count, over 50 percent of the UFO sightings had occurred over, coming from, or plunging into or coming out of water. This includes oceans, seas, lakes, and reservoirs. Of the oceanic UFOs (some term them USOs or Unidentified Submersible Objects), one was tracked by the U.S. Navy near Puerto Rico in 1963. Of course many of these objects have been tracked over Puerto Rico since that time. On a training maneuver, a sonar operator detected a sub aqueous object traveling at over 150 knots! The technicians tracked this object for four days and it maneuvered down to the incredible depth of 27,000 feet. Submarines of 1963 could not dive further than a fraction over a mile into the ocean deeps. What kind of submersible could withstand the tremendous ocean pressures? And how could it overcome the tremendous resistance of water moving at such incredible speeds?
(Note: We now know that may use a process called supercavitation)
Many witnesses have reported huge cigar-shaped vehicles emerging from the oceanic hydrospaces of earth to take to the sky. In 1965, such an event was logged in the records of the Norwegian ship T.T. Jawesta on the 6th of July and in the log of an Argentinean ship, the Naviero off the coast of Brazil on July 20, 1967. The officers and crew could see a shining object in the sea no more than 50 feet away from the Starboard side. It was cigar-shaped and about 110 feet in length and emitted a powerful blue and white glow. It ran silently and without wake through the water. There was no periscope or conning tower or any protruding parts to this mysterious submarine. It paced the Naviero for 15 minutes, then suddenly dived and passed beneath the ship and vanished rapidly into the great depths.
Carl Feindt has written an excellent book about UFOs called “UFOs and Water,” with exciting stories like the one below.
For years witnesses have seen many types of UFOs cruising off the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California. UFOs have actually been seen to come out of the water in the San Pedro Channel. My friend Jim was on the boat returning from Santa Catalina Island to San Pedro Harbor when he spotted a low, flying disk cruise silently over the channel boat. The craft was so close he could make out every detail of its structure including the four hemispherical pods on its underside.
Strange blue-green lights have been seen in the water since 1989. Witnesses have seen as many as 20 events an hour. One large light appeared to be as much as 100 feet in diameter. This large light spawned babies no larger than 10 to 12 feet in length. These lights were seen to move swiftly under the ocean’s surface some 500 to 1,000 feet from the coastline in Abalone Cove. The hypothesis that these may be luminescent fish is discounted by a local marine biologist. These lights were too large and too swift to be fish. One of the lights was reported to have emerged from the water.
A sea kayaker viewed an amazing sight off the Palos Verdes Peninsula. He was four or five miles off the Peninsula when a waterspout suddenly formed some hundreds of yards ahead of his kayak. As he observed this spout, the forward motion of the funnel stopped, the curtain of light mist surrounding the waterspout disappeared and a rotating column of what seemed to be solid ice appeared. As the sun reflected off the rotating mass of ice crystals, it appeared to be a sight of extraordinary beauty. The height of the ice column was estimated at 100 to 150 feet. When the ice column collapsed back into the ocean, it created a whirlpool. After this amazing event, the kayaker paddled over to examine floating fragments of ice and found specimens of fish embedded in the frozen pieces.
The site of these phenomenal occurrences is near the old Marineland Park which closed in 1987. Snoopers believe that the Park is now a Naval Experimental Marine Biology Lab. Access to the Park is now restricted and many “no trespassing” signs are posted around fenced areas.” Thanks to Bill Hamilton, Paul Stonehill
A Study to See If Someone Is Here From the Future
Did you know that there was a study conducted to see if someone from the future was here present in our time? Yes, it’s true! Astrophysicists – Robert Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson at Michigan Tech University did just that as reported in 2014. They figured that if someone from the future traveled back to our time, there may be trace evidence. Someone may have done internet searches of future events. The search dates would have been prior to the events and would stand out that way. Enough of them traced to one user would reveal a pattern of advanced knowledge.
After exhausting their funds, the results of that study remained inconclusive. However, in response to a question posted on one website asking: “Do you believe communication through time would be possible?” I replied that “I believe it has already happened.” Only because I believe that our near future thinkers will be quantum computers with artificial intelligence. I believe that not only would they be able to figure it out, but man has figured it out already.
What? Yes, what we once believed to be impossible is already proven science fact. So although this is complicated, I’ll simplify what’s involved for you. Hopefully the science behind it will become easy to understand. Now I want you to keep in mind that it concerns faster than light communication called “superluminal” which Einstein dismissed as impossible. Although being one of the discoverers of this phenomenon he dismissed it because it violated his own speed limit of light. According to Einstein, nothing in the universe could travel faster. Communication through time however also violates another law called “causality.” The law of causality simply means that any event must have a cause and the cause must happen before the event.
As an example, I often use a glass of milk: I drop a glass of milk, it falls to the floor and breaks, spilling the milk. Then you see and hear it fall from the cause of me dropping it in the first place.
You could never see it break before I dropped it because time as we experience it occurs from past to future. This is called the arrow of time or “Eddington’s Arrow” named after Sir Arthur Eddington who coined the phrase in 1927. It drops, falls to the floor, it breaks and then you see it. All one straight line from the past to the future. But many paranormal phenomena like supernatural abilities which many throughout history have claimed to possess are based on violating these laws. ESP, telekinesis, precognition and many other psi abilities do just that. Many famous psychics like the late Edgar Cayce claimed to leave his body to retrieve information from the Akashic Record which goes by many other names. Some call it the Astral Planes, The Book of Life, universal consciousness, collective consciousness, etc… It is what some believe makes psychic abilities possible.
According to Akashic Records theory, information has no time or distance barrier. Non-local or universal information resides outside of the mind where it is always available and can be tuned into like a radio. With some people like psychics it’s a natural right brain activity and with the population being majority left brain it may be something that can be learned. Although mainstream scientists reject all of these claims as fake or pseudo-science. For people like Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus and others alternative explanations like trickery, fraud and coincidence are the usual suspects.
Now, a funny thing happened on the way to the witch and it’s been happening more frequently lately. It started with atoms and accidents and now it’s routinely done on purpose. Once again peering down into subatomic particles is bringing two worlds together. Believing the impossible but approaching it from different directions.
Scientists have long noticed strange things going on with atoms, electrons and even now with larger molecule experiments. What Einstein used to call “spooky action at a distance,” is now routine. If you follow me I won’t go into depth and it’s really very simple. Say you have a molecule that consists of two atoms and each has one electron. Well, these electrons are spinning. One is spinning upward so the other electron has to be spinning in the opposite direction or downward. That’s the way it works because they are from the same molecule. In quantum physics they call this “entangled” meaning they will always be connected. The “spooky action” comes in when you pull them apart.
We’ll pull them apart in our minds but there are many methods in the real world to do this. Now, by taking a measurement of one electron we will destroy it, but we will know which direction it spins. Knowing which way it spins instantly tells us the direction the other is spinning without measuring it because they are a pair or connected (entangled). What’s weird is that we can separate them and put one in another room or even across town and it will still work. This is called wave collapse because by measuring one the spin direction of the other collapses to the exact opposite.
So what if we separated them by a hundred miles? The truth is, we could separate them by a million miles or a light year and as soon as we measure one it collapses the wave and the other one becomes fixed. So, measure the one in front of you and the other one instantly spins in the opposite direction. See that’s the problem Einstein had with it. The electrons communicate faster than light. One light year away it should have taken at least a year to communicate with the other electron, right?
What does all this have to do with communication from the future? Well, it has to do with the beginnings of figuring it all out and they’ve done it! Through entanglement not only can you separate electrons by distance but by time. Then, you can perform the same experiment in a different way and the electron you measure in the future will communicate back in time. Measure the spin next year and the one you have separated in front of you will collapse today to the exact opposite spin before you’ve even taken the measurement.
Since this is supposed to be an easy article to understand, let me tell you of the implications rather than how it’s done. It’s easy to understand but the article would have to be twice as long. There are different techniques with some straight forward and others overly involved. Creating what they call qubits is one way which is short for quantum bits and is a little more involved but I only mention it for anyone who wants to investigate this further.
Up until recently it was believed that any of this was useless because it couldn’t be used to transfer information through time. However, it is now believed that by setting up a coding system, communicating through binary is theoretically possible. So in theory I could send you next year’s newspaper headline back through time as binary. This is all in the early stages, but the science is solid. Entangled particles like electrons communicate not only faster than light, they also break the time barrier. One current theory is that the electrons communicate bypassing our space time dimension completely.
This is HUGE – it opens up not only communication possibilities but quantum computing possibilities. Meaning computers from the future may already be communicating with one another back through the internet and back through time. So, the original study at Michigan Technology may have actually been ahead of its time or behind its time or something that we may figure out or already have and don’t know it yet or whatever. http://themindunleashed.com/2015/08/someone-conducted-a-study-to-see-if-someone-from-the-future-was-here-present-in-our-time-heres-what-they-found.html/
This article was written using concepts from the non-fiction book “c” available at Amazon written by the author Robert Torres. https://about.me/Towers3
“Sin Thesis” the first book from author Robert Torres is a non-fiction book based on the many paranormal events that he began experiencing after he claimed to have alien contact. It was later after a UFO encounter that he says he first started to notice that he was seeing the world differently than most others. It was these first alien experiences that he says “opened his mind.” But it was all the other extraordinary events that followed which led him to write this book. These events he describes as “life changing,” Note: Assuming the data is correct the possibility of time travel becomes a reality. An advanced civilization thousands of years older than those on Earth may have developed the technology, ET has claimed they travel between planets outside our Solar System to Earth in a few hours or days. I have interviewed abductees who have traveled hundreds of miles and arrived before they left. Although, this seems impossible multiple witnesses confirm the time anomalies happened. ET apparently can conduct time travel.
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Filer’s Files #20 – 2017 Underwater UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #20 – 2017 Underwater UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
I was leaving work and about to get in my truck on September 4, 2015, when I saw the object in the sky to the SW of my position. The object was bright and too big to be a star or planet and was not the moon. The object seemed textured, almost like a mirror ball, and appeared about the diameter of a dime held at arm’s length.
The object just hovered in the sky and did not move. I heard no sound other than that of traffic and had the impression it was very large but a good ways off. I watched for 10 minutes and then it was gone. This is very close to Fort Hood so it very well could be something military, but it was none of their aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
I was in my backyard on May 12, 2017 looking west and started taking photos with a continuous setting. I did not hear or see any objects with my naked eye. There were no airplanes in the area at the time. It must’ve been around 8 pm, when I was taking photos. When loading my photos into iPhoto on my Mac computer is when I saw these three photos of this green object. I was shocked and couldn’t believe I caught something like this. It was an awesome feeling and another UFO to add to my large collection. It was a very beautiful clear night and I used my Nikon D3300. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado 1931 Disc
This is a picture of a photograph my great grandfather took on September 1, 1931 over Colorado. The photograph has been handed down to me showing a disc craft some 86 years ago. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Sphere
Zephyrhills— Walking my wife to her car. I noticed a huge brightness with a flash off the surface of the moon so I went to grab my camera and took images on October 14, 2017. I thought the image was something unique because it was producing a tremendous amount of energy. The object moved very rapidly and stopped on a dime. I was very impressed and intrigued by its movements and shape changing. I knew man made craft can’t maneuver the way this did, because the inertia would kill a human being. I watched it fade away. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Object
Canton— Sitting in a parking lot I noticed a flock of birds, and thought this was unusual for a rainy day. I then noticed a black object in this grayish sky on December 28, 2015. I watched the object change shape and color.
You will notice power lines between me and the object. Thought it might be a weather phenomenon! You tell me. I’m still not sure what I’ve seen. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Light
Atchafalaya — I was on Interstate 10 going from Houston to Knoxville at mile marker 108 on May 3, 2017, when I noticed the bright light up in the sky. I watched this light from about 10 miles before the 18-mile Atchafalaya Bridge all the way through Baton Rouge.
I continued to watch this for the next two hours from 4:30 AM, to 6:30 AM. There were no visible stars out that night. I originally thought it was an airplane inbound, but noticed that the light was stationary and was not making any type of movement. There were numerous commercial aircraft in the sky.
The exceptionally bright light periodically faded to a pinpoint and then came back to a bright light within the two-hour frame. The light remained visible even when the sun began to come up.
Note: A check of astronomical data showed that the witness was viewing the planet Venus which was very light low in the Eastern sky. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Maine Triangle
Orrington — I went outside one more time to let the dog out and noticed a “twinkling star” to the south that was moving higher on April 29, 2017 at 11:15 Pm. I went in to grab my Nikon 10×50 binoculars and thought it was a low-flying aircraft as it had steady red and green wingtip lights, with a steady white light in the center. It initially masked the center red-strobe; giving a “twinkling” appearance. It moved very slowly compared to commercial aircraft. The green/red ‘wingtip’ lights were not visible from the rear of the craft. As it passed over me, it was a distinctly triangle shaped with three solid white lights, with the center red strobe still visible. It was dead silent. It has a distinct diamond shape, from the rear; with three solid white lights visible. The diamond shape was not visible without binoculars and appeared in the same place a vertical stabilizer would be.
The ‘diamond’ shape was the most striking feature of craft while the light configuration was “a good trick” for potentially deceiving any onlookers to appear like a normal aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Sky cam Object
White Hall – I viewed an object in two frames spanning a five minute period, so it was not a plane on May 2, 2017. One frame shows that it was reflecting light. This sky cam has been offline since seeing this object. Here is a link to the sky cam site where I saw the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Cylinder
L’Anse— This object appeared to be planet like which stayed stationery for about ten to twenty minutes on May 8, 2017. Then it started to move towards us and appeared to be a triangle with colored lights. The bottom appeared to have panels that were either transparent and were bright white lights. It made a humming sound over us. We ran to other side of house and it was just gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
Shamong — Checking my home camera footage for March 9, 2017, I came across the attached images. The object moved and set off my camera, so it had to have been within about 45 feet. This thing was hovering and moving for over 40 minutes. My dog was acting very strangely as nothing usually fazes her, Many other dogs in the neighborhood were barking that evening. It wasn’t until I pulled my camera images on May 5 that I put two and two together.
It was 2 AM; dark and flying through trees close enough to activate the sensor on the camera for over 43 minutes duration. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Object
Weaverville — After seeing the flashes, I snapped a few pictures in April 15, 2017. Upon viewing the photos, I saw three objects, one of which might be a masking taking place. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Triangle
Flying from Ohio to Florida, I first noticed the object in the distance. I knew right away it was a UFO. It was hiding behind the cloud cover during the flight.
After I snapped the pictures it dissapeared behind the clouds. The flight attendants told everyone to keep their window blinds shut during the flight which was very strange.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orb
Gresham— Driving home from my Mother-in-laws house I got out my iPhone and took a picture of the sun setting. I realized it wasn’t time for the sun to set. Later, when I got home I decided to post a few images on my Facebook page. When I got a good look at three of the pictures I noticed this green glowing object. I saw that the color of the green was close to the color of the street light. I posted them and mentioned the Green glowing UFO. The shape reminded me of a yo-yo, or a object with a green band around it. The object seemed to change position and direction. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Triangle
Waxahachie — On Saturday, May 6, 2017, at 9:15 p.m. central time, I noticed a glider shaped object flying 50 feet over my head. Its wingspan fully covered the two-car driveway I was walking on, and then some. I noticed something just above my line of vision that had the consistency of a fine, mist type cloud. As it continued to move forward I realized that the object had a solid outline and a somewhat boomerang shape flying 30 feet above the roofs, At that point, It flew at 8-10 mph in a straight, direct path heading north silently with no lights but blended into the starry sky. The event lasted 30 seconds before the object either evaporated, or disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Utah Objects
St. George— My girlfriend and I were sitting on our back patio when we saw what appeared to be a UFO on May 8, 2017. At first it looked like a pure white bird fluttering in the sky. It then floated over fairly low in the sky in a SE direction that looked like it had a wing span. It looked like a large plastic bag fluttering in the wind but it was bright and shiny. It continued ascending in the sky and the sunlight was reflecting off of it which made it appear metallic. It continued floating across the sky then it stayed in one spot for awhile. It continued to go up higher and higher until it looked like a star in the sky, and was no longer visible. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Sphere
Tarro, New South Wales— A local seven-year-old boy has snapped a photograph of an UFO on May 2017. The suspicious object was spotted flying over Tarro on Friday evening. Halo Galli is fascinated with the Roswell UFO incident, where a spaceship crashed in America in 1947. He is convinced his photograph is proof of an alien closer to home. “He was in the yard with his dad and four-year-old sister when he asked his dad for his iPhone,” mother Tanya Beasley said. “All evening he pestered spaceship me to look at his sighting and when he showed me the one and only photo he took of his spaceship, low and behold he actually had captured something.” Halo insisted the photograph be sent in to the newspaper. http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/4634792/ufo-spotted-over-the-hunter/#slide=2
Belgium Disc
Zeebrugge — I was on a cruise from Southampton, UK to Belgium on Saturday 6th May 2017 at 13.45 I took a picture of the cruise ship through the window from inside the coach.
At the time I did not notice anything in the sky. When we got back on the ship I was going through the pictures and saw the object. The picture was taken with a Samsung S7 Edge on the maximum resolution 12M. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Cylinder
Whitby, Ontario— On Monday, May 8th 2017 outside on my deck in Oshawa, I sat down enjoying the start of my week’s vacation by witnessing my ninth UFO sighting for 2017.
The sky was mostly clear as I looked about in the sky for about one minute when I noticed something towards the southwest. Looking very high in the sky and some miles away a brilliant I saw a white unknown object. Whatever it is must have had size to being so distant! It had a shimmering look to it with light intensity. I then grabbed my camera and started to try and capture this long distant anomaly at 1:02 PM.
I filmed until 1:24 pm, as it moved slowly northwest. Examining the photos I could see a cigar shaped anomaly. link Thanks to Paul Shishis
Czech Republic
I was with children at the local playground where I had a celebration of Children’s Day on June 6, 2010. I took about 50 photos, but unknown objects were only in one frame.
I found out after a few days of editing photos on my computer that I found an object at the top and left edges. I did not notice anything in the sky on the day of the event. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Eire Ireland Light
County Leitrim— I saw the small glow above my garden and took a photo as I thought it was odd on May 7, 2017.
There was no movement or sound. I turned to call my wife and it was gone at 2:15 PM. It was very weird and a tad spooked in truth.
The purple haze was not there or visible to the eye. I’m confused in truth. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France Light
Paris — I remember that day because it was my last day living in Paris on July 29, 2008. I was with friends sitting on the edge of the island Ile Saint Louis having a picnic. I was trying out my new camera and started to shoot pictures to test the screen of the camera. The object was changing colors and temperatures. I could see solid oval shape. After several shots I decided to zoom in on the picture shown. I asked my friends if they could check the picture… none of us saw a plane or heard noises. It is not my first time seeing a UFO.
Norway Cylinder
Kristiansand — While exercising in this Frisbee Park on May 5, 2017, I looked over the tree tops and saw this cylindrical vertical/standing UFOs. There were three in a formation like a triangle and moved forward to the horizon. I saw them moving for 30 seconds and they disappeared behind the tree tops. The day was the clearest ever and I am sure these were UFOs. I located this type of UFO in the web and placed a white circle to represent the circle I saw around the three UFOs. They moved together, and being far away they could be massive in size. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Switzerland Orb
Basel— While taking pictures of Basel church across the Rhine River this object showed up on April 24, 2017, in my photos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Light
Bourne— On the evening of the 9th of March 2017, I was witness to a UFO over the skies of Lincolnshire in England on a long stretch of travelling from Gosberton to the market town of Bourne while at work as a supermarket delivery driver. While travelling west along the long Fen Road I noticed a small, white light in the sky directly ahead of me the only star in the sky. It seemed to be too close to be a star. I took out my phone and, seeing that I had a 4G connection, Goggled “space stations” and the first result was the website for NASA’s “Spot the Station” page, which I tapped on to see what information the site contained regarding what I could see in front of me. It was at this point that I began to wonder if what I was seeing actually wasn’t a star or the ISS, but something else. I wanted to try and find out, so it’s not a star or a space station. Perhaps it’s a planet? I knew that Mercury, Venus and Mars could be seen by the naked eye and upon Googling it, I learned that both Jupiter and Saturn could also be seen. I looked up at the small white light in the sky, still hovering where it had been, and then… It vanished for one second. Then it came back for probably two seconds… and then it was gone again. It didn’t come back. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Could Cryoconites Hold the Secrets to Extraterrestrial Life?
Could Cryoconites Hold the Secrets to Extraterrestrial Life?
Posted by Sarah Kai Zhen Toh
In recent years, scientists have found other locations on planets, moons and exoplanets where life might exist. Different animals and organisms like tardigrades (eight-legged microscopic animals commonly known as water bears) have also been sent into space to explore the conditions for survival away from Earth. However, a recent paper published in the journal Contemporary Trends in Geoscience argues that we can look closer to home to understand survival strategies of extraterrestrial life.
More concretely, the authors propose we look to glacier cryoconites, which are granular or spherical mineral particles aggregated with microorganisms like cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, tardigrades and rotifera (another type of multicellular, microscopic animal). Glaciers are among the most extreme environments on Earth due to the high levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation received and the permanently cold conditions. These factors make them analogous to icy planets or moons.
(Clockwise from top left) An ice sheet in Greenland, cryoconite holes, cryoconite granules, and cryconite granules in high resolution
The associations of cryoconites and microorganisms on glaciers are held together in biofilms by extracellular polymeric substances (natural polymers of high molecular weight) secreted by cyanobacteria. They exist as sediment or in cryoconite holes (water-filled reservoirs with cryoconite sediment on the floor) on glacier surfaces.
Cryoconites have been found on every glacier where researchers have looked for them. Cryoconite holes form due to the darkening of color (also termed a decrease in the albedo, or reflectivity of solar radiation) of cryoconite-covered surfaces. The darker color leads to greater absorption of radiation, with an associated warming and increasing melt rates.
“Today we think that simple life forms might have survived on Mars in glacial refugia or under the surface. They can and could have evolved on Saturn and Jupiter’s icy moons,” Krzysztof Zawierucha, the lead author from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, shared with GlacierHub. “Imagine a multicellular organism, even a microscopic one, which is able to live and reproduce on an icy moon… It is a biotechnological volcano.”
Earth’s glaciers could be analogous to environments like floating ice on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons
Organisms that live in glaciated regions are adapted to survive in extreme conditions and could provide insights into the survival strategies of extraterrestrial life. Some possess lipids (organic compounds that are not water-soluble), and produce proteins and extracellular polymeric substances that protect them from freezing and drying. Others are able to enter cryptobiotic states in which metabolic activity is reduced to an undetectable level, allowing them to survive extremely harsh conditions.
The microorganisms in cryoconites cooperate and compete, affecting each other’s survival responses. Therefore, previous astrobiological studies, which have only been conducted on single strains of microorganisms, may not reflect the true survival mechanisms of these microorganisms.
Tardigrades can undergo cryptobiosis and survive in the vacuum of space
In addition, previous astrobiological studies involving some of these microorganisms used terrestrial or limno-terrestrial (moist terrestrial environments that go through periods of immersion and desiccation) taxa, such as moss cushions, which are less likely to be well-adapted to icy planets than their glacier-dwelling cousins.
Tardigrades found in cryoconite have black pigmentation, which probably protects them from high UV radiation. Along with tardigrades, glacier-dwelling rotifera, specifically Bdelloidea, also possess a great ability to repair DNA damage, which confers high resistance to UV radiation. Both may also be better adapted to surviving in constantly near-freezing conditions than terrestrial forms.
“So far, a number of processes analogous to those on Mars and other planets or moons have been found in the McMurdo Dry Valley as well as other dry valleys or brines in sea ice, both of which were considered to be extraterrestrial ecosystem analoguos. There is a great body of evidence that some bacteria and microscopic animals like tardigrades may survive under Martian conditions,” Zawierucha explained.
“Of course, to survive does not mean to be active and to reproduce. Undoubtedly, however, it triggers consideration regarding life beyond Earth, especially in close proximity or connection with permafrost or ice,” he added.
As such, further research about cryoconites could provide insight to mechanisms that enable organisms to survive such extreme conditions. At the same time, cryoconites could also be used in future astrobiological studies to understand how life on other planets functions.
California UFO witness describes six hovering triangles
California UFO witness describes six hovering triangles
A California witness at Escondido reported watching six groups of multi-colored lights in vertical triangular shapes hovering about 500 feet over nearby tree tops, according to testimony in Case 83262 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness Illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was looking north from a fourth-story balcony at 8:40 p.m. on April 15, 2017, when the objects were seen.
“One large, vertically-oriented triangular arrangement of multi-colored lights was seen hovering about 500 feet above the tree tops between one-half mile to one mile away,” the witness stated.
Cropped portion of the witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
But there was more than one object.
“Five more smaller, triangular arrangements of multi-colored lights were seen to the west at a lower altitude, just above the tree tops. The five smaller triangles slowly moved to the west during this 15-minute observation, until they disappeared into clouds.”
Cropped portion of the witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
Escondido is a city located in San Diego County’s North County region, 30 miles northeast of downtown San Diego, CA, population 143,911.
California MUFON Field Investigator Gary Buzel is investigating. The witness included one illustration with the report, which was filed on April 21, 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 spokesman for the hotel said: "We have had spotlights lighting up the majority of the hotel, they are moving spotlights – it's purely because we have a private event on site for a large corporate client.
"These lights were all pointing upward, and moving, but mainly shining on our building."
Despite this explanation, some witnesses were adamant that the lights appeared to be coming from above, and not below the thick cloud which has cloaked Croydon over the past couple of nights.
This is a public domain image showing the planet Mercury crossing our sun.
Whenever a story comes out claiming to show real pictures or video of UFOs, hope springs eternal that maybe, just maybe, this might be that elusive smoking-gun evidence of alien technology.
Not a day goes by, either, without something in the news questioning the honesty of certain Americans or Russians. Now it seems that UFOs have been added to that media storm.
The innocent image above is from a collection called Pixabay, which offers many free stock photos to use for practically anything you’d like. This one shows our sun with a circular black dot, reportedly the planet Mercury, making a transit across our home star.
Still, how would Pixabay feel if a Russian news site, Pravda.ru ― ironically, the name means “truth” ― took that same picture, added two more black dots, called them all UFOs and claimed this was, in fact, a picture captured by a NASA “STEREO spacecraft”?
Wow!
If you compare the two images, it doesn’t take long to figure out that the sun in the two pictures is identical and all that Pravda.ru did was finish it off with two more “UFOs” and a headline that reads: “NASA spacecraft captures three huge UFOs silhouetted against the Sun.”
That deserves another “Wow!”
When HuffPost reached out to a NASA spokesman to comment about all of this, he said, “I’m not aware of this photo being released. Certainly not from NASA. There is no official or unofficial NASA posting of the image.”
For what it’s worth, this isn’t the first time that UFO charlatans have tried to convince the public that extraterrestrial ships are getting a little too close to our sun.
Here’s a video of an alleged alien ship refueling, according to a source that is definitely not NASA:
NASA generally has well thought-out explanations for these types of “UFO” incursions into our solar system.
For its part, Pravda.ru, which is separate from the Communist Party paper, has a history of extremely creative “journalism.” But the truth is out there.
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Underground Catacomb Filled with Mummies Discovered in Egypt
Underground Catacomb Filled with Mummies Discovered in Egypt
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor
The Archaeologists and others can enter the catacomb at the site of Tuna el-Gebel in Egypt only through this narrow shaft leading underground.
Credit: اليوم السابع TV station
Archaeologists have discovered an underground catacomb containing numerous mummy-filled corridors at an ancient cemetery at the site of Tuna el-Gebel in Egypt.
The catacomb can be entered only through a narrow shaft which leads underground. At the bottom of the shaft, archaeologists found that "there are many corridors and many burial places for mummies," said Mohamed Salah bn Mohamed Ahmed El-Kholy, a professor at Cairo University, at a press conference held this morning (May 13) at Tuna el-Gebel. Archaeologists with Cairo University have been excavating at Tuna el-Gebel for about 80 years, El-Kholy said.
Excavations are ongoing and, in his English language comments, El-Kholy didn't provide an estimate for the number of mummies in the newly discovered catacomb. Images of some of the artifacts were broadcast on the Egyptian TV station اليومالسابع(a name that translates to "Video Youm7"). An online video posted by the TV station shows ancient lamps, coins and colorfully decorated coffin remains from the catacomb. Additionally, archaeologists found numerous long, slender pieces of pottery that could have held liquids, according to video shown on the TV station. The largest examples appear to be about 3 feet (0.9 meters) long. [See Photos of Mummies Discovered at Another Ancient Egyptian Cemetery]
El-Kholy did not say when the mummies date to in his English language remarks. However, the presence of coins, which in Egypt started appearing around 2,500 years ago, means that at least some of the mummies must date to after this time, possibly after Egypt was conquered by Alexander the Greator even later, when the Roman Empire ruled Egypt.
Currently, officials are leading reporters, one by one, down into the catacomb, through the narrow shaft. The shaft is only large enough for one person at a time to climb down, making it hard for reporters to bring TV cameras and photo equipment into the catacomb. Dozens of reporters could be seen lining up for an opportunity to venture underground.
Scientists have identified strange light flashes emanating from Earth. First noticed in images taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1993, but overlooked since then, these glints were recently rediscovered in photos taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) since its 2015 launch. Researchers have now figured out that the flashes are sunlight bouncing off of ice crystals high in the air, and that they might even be able to help us find other habitable planets.
EPIC photographed hundreds of the flashes over the course of a year. After studying the images, researchers realized that the glints only appeared when the camera was at the same angle to Earth as the sun was to Earth. That meant that they had to be reflections of sunlight (as opposed to a light source originating from Earth, like lightning); but off of what were they reflecting?
At first, scientists suspected that the light was reflecting off ground water sources, like lakes. But ultimately EPIC data showed that the flashes were coming from a high altitude, around cirrus clouds, so researchers decided that the culprit had to be ice particles.
“It’s definitely ice, and most likely solar reflection off of horizontally oriented particles,” Alexander Marshak of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said in a press statement.
One of the flashes coming from East Africa, seemingly Tanzania.
Beyond the satisfaction of finally figuring out what the heck these light flashes are, this new information yields assets for future space research. If spacecraft can detect lights like these coming from exoplanets, that may indicate that ice particles exist in their atmospheres, too, and maybe even that the planets could be habitable for humans.
Researchers plan to look more into this phenomenon to figure out whether it has a perceptible effect on the amount of sunlight that can enter Earth’s atmosphere; in that case, they would also affect the process by which our planet gets most of its heat.
NASA released a short video describing these findings. Check it out below.
Update! – More Confirmation of Bigelow Aerospace Involvement In The Lake Erie Mass UFO Sightings!
By Michael Lee Hill, Wes Penre, and various other sources.
I try to give credit & names of each source, the actual person the info came from at the end paragraphs that apply, so if you begin wondering why I am writing about myself in 3rd person so just hang on until the end of the info please. I have never written about myself EVER in 3-rd person so if my name comes up it’s not me
“Whatever this is, it’s far more complex than we ever anticipated” Col. John Alexander
“The dimensions of physics are such that I would be quite surprised that in the lifetime of people who are no older than 30 here, we don’t discover some form of life in another universe. -Bill Clinton 2005
“People have been killed. People have been hurt. It’s more than observational kind of data.” Bob Bigelow, following shortly after physicist Stephen Hawking’s warning to avoid the alien extraterrestrials at all cost
“Persons wanting to report UFO/unexplained phenomena activity should contact a UFO/ unexplained phenomena reporting data collection center, such as Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.” FAA advises Air Traffic Controllers
“Mr. Bigelow did not fund MUFON’s work for BAASS, instead “sponsors” that Bigelow revealed to John Schuessler but not to the other MUFON Board Members put up the money.” James Carrion Former Director of MUFON
“…Mr. Bigelow hired Mufon to try and capture a UFO on the ground so he can back engineering it to transport people in space…This is the truth and no exaggeration!” Denise M. Stoner, Chief Investigator Florida – Mufon State Section Director
WOW!
The following recent article is interesting because regardless of peoples personal opinions regarding my ET Contact, parts of my story such as being contacted by Bigelow Aerospace, the owners of the now famous Skinwalker Ranch are now being confirmed by the UFO Community and being reported by the likes of the famous “Filer’s Files”. In this new Filer’s Files. It is proven Gery Hernadez did work for Bigelow Aerospace and he’s exactly who I said he was. I find it strange there are people out there thinking I am making this stuff up. I couldn’t make this stuff up if a tried.
“Michael Lee Hill has made some extraordinary claims on many Ufology blogs, web community pages and TV shows but one is very interesting and somewhat plausible. He claims that in 2010 an investigator for Bigelow Aerospace Corporation named Gary Hernandez contacted him concerning his orb sightings requesting that Michael divulge the coordinates of his orb sighting locations. A search of Linkedin.com reveals that indeed a Gary Henandez with an extensive law enforcement background did work for Bigelow as an investigator on “Classified Projects” from 2010 till 2011. The point of all this is that we have a billionaire aerospace tycoon apparently interested in the coordinates in the Lake Erie Orange Orb sightings. If they are just airplanes like MUFON says – why? If Michael Lee Hill is a charlatan – why?” – Robert Spearing, publisher of http://www.worldufowatch.com (Filer’s Files December 3, 2014)
If the claim is true it casts Orange Orbs in a whole new light. Robert Bigelow is a billionaire real estate developer from Nevada that made his fortune with his hotel chain holdings. His aerospace company has launched two modules for the International Space Station. He sees a future for his company in space tourism. Mr. Bigelow also has an interest in UFOs. It stems from childhood when his grandparents were almost killed in their car evading an Orange Orb in their path. His now defunct National Institute for Discovery Science collected UFO sightings (especially Black Triangle sightings) until 2004. In 2009, Mr. Bigelow entered into a much maligned and ill-fated financial partnership with MUFON (a non-profit) which quickly came undone. Mr. Bigelow also owns the infamous Skinwalker Ranch which is a hot bed of cattle mutilations and Orange Orb sightings. And an even more telling fact is that the Federal Aviation Administration now defers UFO sightings by pilots to Bigelow Aerospace. The point of all this is that we have a billionaire aerospace tycoon apparently interested in the coordinates in the Lake Erie Orange Orb sightings. If they are just airplanes like MUFON says – why? If Michael Lee Hill is a charlatan – why? – – Robert Spearing, publisher of http://www.worldufowatch.com (Filer’s Files December 3, 2014)
Thanks to Robert Spearing, publisher of www.worldufowatch.com
The following information regarding Bigelows involvement in the Lake Erie UFO’s was revealed by writer Wes Penre
BAASS means ‘Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies’, and sounds like a government organization. However, it is not. It is a company, owned by real estate billionaire Robert Bigelow of Las Vegas, Nevada.[12] In late 2009, Robert Bigelow made a deal with MUFON (the ‘Mutual UFOs Network), which is officially a non-profit organization which investigates UFO sightings. It is one of the largest and oldest UFO organizations in the United States. Bigelow has promised to provide MUFON with whatever they need to find actual hardcore proof of the existence of alien spacecraft (and of course, alien beings). This means, foremost, alien debris of crashed UFOs etc. For many UFO enthusiasts, this is met with both positive and negative responses. Positive in the sense that MUFON now have the funding they need to expand their investigations, and negative in the sense that some feel that MUFON is now owned by Bigelow. And MUFON has been working as an independent research group, allegedly.
However, the above debate is probably not even what is the most relevant. In a policy from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Order JO 7110.65U with effective date, February 9, 2012, it says under Section 8. Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) Reports:
9-8-1. GENERAL
a. Persons wanting to report UFO/unexplained phenomena activity should contact a UFO/ unexplained phenomena reporting data collection center, such as Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) (voice: 1-877-979-7444 or e-mail: Reporting@baass.org), the National UFO Reporting Center, etc.
b. If concern is expressed that life or property might be endangered, report the activity to the local law enforcement department.[13]
This should be quite concerning for the serious UFO enthusiast and researcher, because it shows a definite link between Robert Bigelow’s BAASS and the Federal Government. So the FAA, as of February 2012, wants us to report UFO sightings to a private company, under the disguise of a very government sounding name (similar to the ‘Federal Reserve’, which is not Federal at all, but privately owned by International bankers, such as the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers). And of course, if we follow the trail, we find MUFON on the other side, collecting funds from Bigelow, who has his government connection. So, privacy and integrity is therefore most likely to go out the window, although I’m sure MUFON hasn’t been working in public interest for many, many years. This is all, as usual, just the tiniest tip of the iceberg.
So, how does Robert Bigelow come into the picture in regards to the Eastlake UFOs?
which is the story line for this paper?
Well, in the midst of all happenings in Michael Lee Hill’s life, he was contacted by Investigator Gary Hernandez, who said he was looking into the Lake Erie phenomenon. In August of 2010, Hernandez sent a message on Michael’s facebook page, inquiring about what Michael knew about the Eastlake UFOs. In short, they communicated some back and forth, and Michael was sharing some information with the investigator, because he wanted the story to come out in the open as much, and as soon as possible.
In November, curiously enough, Investigator Hernandez, in a facebook message I have in my possession, told Michael there were certain things he couldn’t tell him due to the nature of a contract Hernandez had signed. He added, “I don’t want to disappear now!”, indicating that he was at great risk if he told Michael about classified things. A few days after that he wrote: “In regards to BAASS I am the only investigator who has been revealed through the Isles of Capri, Fla., Niagara Falls, Canada , the Lake Erie incident and the skin walker ranch .org website [Wes’ emphasis] under whos [sic] involved (it just so happened that I was an aggresive [sic] investigator and was written about often). If the report is viewed by the screeners I will be identified. I would like to speak about it but we must keep BAASS out of it for it is a keyword in the system.”
Apparently, Hernandez wanted to keep the Skinwalker Ranch in low profile as well, breaking up the web address in several parts (see bold emphasis above). We will discuss that place a little bit as well in a moment, but first, let’s see what he meant when he was telling Michael about being the ‘aggressive investigator’. Let’s back up a little bit.
Eugene Ehrlikh of Cleveland, Ohio, had filmed some UFOs over Lake Erie, and the media got involved in the case, just like it had with Michael Lee Hill. So MUFON thought they should get involved as well, and sent an investigator named Tom Wertmen to the sighting spot. MUFON’s conclusion over what they saw was planet Venus, but they changed their minds saying that what Ehrlikh had filmed was aircraft coming in and out over Lake Erie from Hopkins-Cleveland International Airport. Investigator Wertmen allegedly had spoken to traffic controllers at the airport, but no references or names were disclosed. This event has been documented by Lon Strickler on his blogspot.
MSNBC contacted the FAA and all local Cleveland Airports who said These objects are not in normal flight paths, that none of these objects were anything they were doing and these objects were not showing up on any of the airports radar as well!
Here is that MSNBC News Clip…
Strickler continues to report that both Ehrlikh and Hill simultaneously had filmed the same UFO event over the lake, without any knowledge of each other. Both were then presenting their material on ‘The Alien Agenda’ radio show. A few days later, on April 8, 2010, Ehrlikh was called by someone who introduced himself as an investigator from BAASS, something which was later confirmed as being correct. The caller introduced himself, and although Strickler doesn’t mention him by name, the investigator was Gary Hernandez. Hernandez then demanded that Ehrlikh gave him the exact coordinates where the sighting had taken place, and when Ehrlikh started questioning the caller, Hernandez told him that these lights were not of terrestrial origin, but alien, and that there was big money involved in trying to get this technology. Ehrlikh then hung up the phone. Ehrlikh didn’t have any particular problem, allegedly, to talk to MUFON or some other UFO investigative organization, but like Strickler says, when someone calls, beings quite ‘aggressive’, and demanding information from the witness, it is indeed time to question the motives of the caller.
So, Hernandez is calling both Ehrlikh and Hill to investigate the sighting, and he reveals to the first that this is alien technology that we are seeing in the skies above the lake (and if he is correct, in other parts of the world, too), and that there is a lot of money invested in this. And indeed, although he seems to have had more cold feet when talking to Michael, in the beginning of their communication he hinted at the same thing, saying (and I quote): “In Regards to the Lights over Lake Erie I am not absolutely convinced that they are coming from conventional aircraft. As an investigator I must be completely objective with any UFO reports which has had multiple witnesses. BAASS employees are paid professionals, all the investigators are formal Law enforcement detectives who have a higher level set of skills and experience. MUFON Takes anyone who pays the money and passes the test and works for free. That does not make them a credible source for information for me to except [sic] they’re [sic] conclusion.”
However, as time went by and he apparently got more confident with Michael, he told Michael that they knew what the Lake Erie phenomenon is, because it is the exact thing that is happening in Hessdalen, Norway. But not only there; these object were also flying over Utah Skinwalker Ranch, which is owned by Robert Bigelow! He said that his conclusion regarding these orbs is not that they are what people think and expect, which would be ‘physical metal, nuts & bolts UFOs’, as he put it, but instead more like portals and have to do with time travel. These were Hernandez’ own words, according to Michael Lee Hill. – writer Wes Penre
“In Regards to the Lights over Lake Erie I am not absolutely convinced that they are coming from conventional aircraft. As an investigator I must be completely objective with any UFO reports which has had multiple witnesses. BAASS employees are paid professionals, all the investigators are formal Law enforcement detectives who have a higher level set of skills and experience. MUFON Takes anyone who pays the money and passes the test and works for free. That does not make them a credible source for information for me to except they’re conclusion.” –
Gary Hernandez Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies Investigator
UFOs have been appearing in our skies for thousands of years.
But now something new is happening. It is the “Orb Triangle” phenomena.
Orbs of light in a triangle formation are appearing above cities all over the world.
These lights are not airplanes, helicopters, or RC planes. Nor are they balloons with lights, flares, Chinese lanterns, or any sort of freely floating object.
This is clear because they always form a perfect triangle. They are individual “orbs” of light which can and do move independently. Yet often three of them will move into a triangular formation. Other individual orbs will somtimes accompany the triangle.
The Orb Triangles have appeared above New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, El Paso…
To start with, wouldn’t it be nice to know how much the government know about these Orbs of Light UFOs that they often are so quick at explaining away as military experiments, illusions, chinese lanterns, flares, etc?
In fact, we do know a few things about how much the government knows! First of all, we know that they are aware of that the Lake Erie UFO orb phenomenon is not local for the Great Lake, and secondly, we know that they have been hiding their knowledge about these kinds of UFOs from the public for quite a long time.
How do we know that? We know, because in 2006, the British ‘Ministry of Defence’ (MOD) released some classified UFO files to the public, which can be viewed here:
When we open up the link, the best thing we are perhaps expecting to find is some general UFO document that doesn’t say much, just like it usually is when the government releases information of this nature. However, when opening up the first PDF file, the image hits us right in the face; it’s the exact same orbs that have been sighted, photographed and filmed over Lake Erie!
So the phenomenon is not isolated only to the Great Lakes! And moreover, we can see that there has been a big cover-up in the United States regarding the orbs over Lake Erie, where so-called ‘experts’ have expressed their ‘informed’ opinions about that this can be, when in fact, their knowledge on the subject was there all the time. Instead, they try to make reliable witnesses look like fools.
In the MOD report it says, amongst a lot of other things that are indeed noteworthy:
“That Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP or UFO) Exist is indisputable. Credited with the ability to hover, land, take off, accelerate to astonishing velocities and vanish. They can reportedly alter their direction of flight suddenly and clearly can exhibit aerodynamics characteristics well beyond those of any known aircraft or missile – either manned or unmanned.
The Conditions for the initial formation and sustaining of what are apparently buoyant charged masses (of Plasma), which can form, separate, merge, hover, climb, dive, and accelerate are not completely understood.
Dependent on a color’s temperature and aerosol density, it may be seen visually, either by it self generated plasma color, by reflected light, or silhouette by light blockage and background contrast.
Occasionally and perhaps exceptionally, it seems a field with, undetermined characteristics can exist between certain charged buoyant objects in loose formation, the intervening space between them forms an area, viewed as a shape, often Triangular, from which the reflection of light does not occur. This is a key finding in the attribution of what have frequently been called black “Craft”, often triangular and up to hundreds of feet in length. –
The UK Ministry of Defence”
This report is interesting in many ways. Although these lights show up clearly in many videos now posted on YouTube, I wanted to ask Michael Lee Hill how he would describe them. He told me:
“They are beautiful! Imagine a house sized ball of Light/plasma that is pulsating with what seems like the brightest most intense multidimensional colors I have ever seen. They usually appear as a single Orb. Then sometimes that Orb will “divide”, or another 2nd Orb will appear next to the first. Sometimes a third Orb will appear and then all three Orbs will join into a huge triangle formation and create what seems to be one solid Triangular craft. Amazingly enough, the UK Ministry of Defense actually has detailed the behavior of these Lake Erie Orbs of Plasma/Light perfectly!” – Michael Lee Hill
Hessdalen is a central Norwegian small village located in a 9.3 miles (15km) long valley. We find it approximately 75 miles south of a larger Norweigian city, Trondheim. Normally, it would have been quite an insignificant little village, with only 120 people living there, and few people in the world would have known it even existed. However, Hessdalen has been quite well known internationally for occasional occurrences of a “sometimes ominous luminous phenomena called the ‘Hessdalen Lights’. The phenomena is monitored by the ‘Hessdalen AMS [Automatic Measurement Station, editor’s note]
These unusual lights have been reported in Hessdalen since at least back in the 1940s. However, there was a great increase in these sightings over the period of December 1981 until the summer of 1984, when people could apparently see the lights as often as 15-20 times a week. Then the amount of sightings decreased again to a relatively steady amount of 10-20 sightings a year, in average.
The light people see is often bright white or yellow (compare the Eastlake UFOs) and of unknown origin to the villagers and scientists. These lights are “standing or floating above the ground level.”[3] And these are not just flashing lights; they can be seen, sometimes for hours at the time!
Due to the increased sightings in the early 1980s, a research team nick-named ‘Project Hessdalen'[5] was initiated by Dr. Erling Strand in 1983. In 1988, the ‘Hessdalen AMS’, which basically is a research station, was built in the valley. It registers and records the appearance of these lights. Later, the EMBLA program was initiated. It brings together established scientists and students into researching these lights. Leading research institutions are Østfold University College (Norway) and the Italian National Research Council.[4] So it’s obvious that these lights can’t be easily explained. In fact, these research institutions, after almost 30 years of steady research, have no clear idea of what these lights are. In Wikipedia, it gives us a number of bullet points, showing us what some scientists are guessing that it is. However, none of these explanations includes that the lights has some kind of higher consciousness, which is quite apparent to anyone who has ever seen them. Nothing artificial can make loops and patterns like that. There are those who would object and say that nothing we know of could make patterns like that, but the thing is that anyone who is objective to start with will see that these lights are moving around by consciousness. I haven’t watches them on site, but it’s enough to watch them on videos to be able to tell.
But to make sure, let’s see what local eye witnesses think about the lights in Hessdalen: Multimedia A-3
Youtube link –
One of the remarks a professor does is “where is the power cord; where is the fuel?” And he is nailing it down right to the point; these lights are not moving around with assistance from any known energy source, at least not to mainstream science.
The video presentation, ‘The Portal’ (Multimedia A-3 above) is a 47 minutes long video, filled with very reliable eye witnesses that have all seen similar things. The light phenomena are changing speed, indicating no mass by physical means, and “seems to be able to take on pieces of plasma or energy from the ground while passing by”.[6] The same thing has been reported regarding the Eastlake UFOs. ‘The Portal’ continues the presentation by saying, “The phenomenon seems to radiate energy, due to the light and frequent change of color”.[7] But also, some eye witnesses have, in connection with the sightings, felt the foul smell of sulphur. Apparently, in 2004 the scientists detected the light phenomenon several times, directly above a specific sulphur mine outside the village. “So this mine must be very special”, says one of the interviewed locals of Hessdalen.[8] Although these lights have been seen hovering above the sulphur mine, it’s just another theory, they add. The lights do not follow any fixed pattern, and certainly don’t always hover over sulphur mines.
Figure A-11. The Light Phenomenon over Hessdalen in 2007, around the time of the aurora borealis (snapshot from ‘The Portal’). The exposure time in this photo was 30 sec, and according to the Hessdalen researchers, the best photo ever taken of this phenomenon.
A spectral study has been done as well of the phenomenon, and it’s been shown to contain oxygen, nitrogen, and silica, which in reality means air and dust. But there were also traces of the rare element of scandium, which can only be found in Scandinavia! Scandium is an extremely hard substance which can be found in the production of Soviet hydroplanes. This material is strong enough to cut through ice caps![9] The same material was used in Soviet fighters (and perhaps still is?) The Soviets had developed high-strength weldable aluminum alloys using Scandium. Now, that is interesting, because it’s exactly what has been reported in the Eastlake UFO sightings! Eye witnesses have sometimes heard, sometimes seen (or both), how the UFOs have cut through the ice cap, making a massive sound. The Norwegian research team has now, as mentioned above, expanded their staff to include college students and others, because they need much more manpower to go to the bottom with this interesting phenomenon. It should be mentioned for research purposes that this phenomenon has also been observed in combination with the aurora borealis, starting out around 9:30 in the evening (fig. A-11).
What we’re seeing in the picture is the light starting out with the glowing orb to the left, moving all the way to the right, and back all the way to the left, past the start point. The distance between the far left and far right is estimated to be 10-15km, which is about 5-7 miles. The exposure time from the camera was 30 seconds. What surprises the scientists is when they look at the spectrum at the bottom (made on purpose by the camera lens) it’s continuous over the spectra, from red to violet. The way the spectrum shows up indicates there is no gas or fuel that’s running the ‘engine’ (if any), but it certainly looks like it could be a solid object, they say, or from plasma with high density, or molecular chemical compositions.
At the same time, the phenomenon is registered on radar. The interesting thing with the radar readings is that the object was only seen for a few minutes, but on the radar it registered for 4 hours!
A scientist that’s interviewed in the video is quite curious about the phenomenon, because it acts like a ball of fire, but it doesn’t expand, and in the combustion process, it should expand according to today’s scientific norms. So something must be able to hold that ball of fire together, he says, like a magnetic field; like a plasmoid; a magnetic field that ‘traps’ plasma and keeps it inside the volume of the orb. They are therefore looking for the mechanism that stores the energy, and why this power source is so incredibly powerful in its intensity. And what’s really curious about it is that the orb can keep this plasma trapped and in a powerful density over a long duration of time. This is mainly what the scientists are now trying to find the solution to. The scientist in the interviews ends off on a positive note, saying that this mysterious way of storing energy could be something we humans may be able to use in the future instead of petrol (gas), and nuclear power. He thinks there may be in the atmosphere, a natural storing mechanism not yet understood by science. Can this become the energy source of the future? they speculate.
The idea of extracting energy from thin air (or vacuum), is not new. Already in the 1920s, Nikola Tesla had discovered enormous energy potentials in what he called the ‘flux field’, or the ‘vacuum field’, by some scientists called the ‘plenum’ (in other words, the 96% dark matter and energy, which in alien term is called the ‘KHAA’, meaning ‘breath’). Today, we hear about this as ‘Zero-Point-Energy’. At this point, the narrator in the video says, there is no known way to extract this kind of energy, but suggests that this may be what we are seeing over Hessdalen; someone, or something is able to do just that, and whatever it is, it’s showing us that it’s doing it!
Lastly, the film producer is elaborating on that this could potentially be even bigger than that. Is Hessdalen perhaps a portal to another world, or another reality?
So, what is known so far about the pulsating orbs of light UFOs showing up worldwide? The following is the conclusions from over 25 years of research and after Italian SETI scientists got involved with much more sophisticated equipment:
The phenomenon is identified as a bright flying object with special characteristics making it unique to science.
The phenomenon is more complex and diverse than expected, indicating more than 1 single kind of phenomenon.
The phenomenon is sometimes made up of separate units that may depart and fly away.
The speed varies from still to 8km per second.
The phenomenon changes course in speeds indicating no mass by physical means.
The phenomenon seems to be able to take on pieces of plasma or energy from the ground whilst passing by.
The phenomenon seems to radiate energy due to the light and frequency change of colour.
Many interesting spectra in the optical and radio frequency range have been detected but more data is needed to draw proper conclusions.
These scientific data are quite sensational! We are dealing with a real existing phenomenon which can be observed even though this is difficult.
For a layman it would be convenient to brush these phenomena off as atmospheric balls of light, which do exist and is an atmospheric phenomenon, and therefore moving back and forth on some atmospheric ‘current’, but this is not logical when we observe how the orbs move and the typical, precise formations they are taking. It’s easy to see that it’s not random, and therefore most likely is something controlled by some perhaps higher intelligence.
Listen to what Army Colonel John Alexander says about the conclusion that the Bigelow Skinwalker group have come to regarding who is behind the Skinwalker Ranch phenomenon and the Lake Erie UFO’s?
The Trickster (The Anunnaki)
The Trickster = In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour.
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Solar Warden: The Secret Space Program Built with Alien Technology
Solar Warden: The Secret Space Program Built with Alien Technology
We now have the technology to take ET home.” –
Ben Rich, CEO of Lockheed Skunk Works, 1993
The story behind this quote is an interesting one. At a lecture held in 1993 at the UCLA alumni center, Ben Rich, the former CEO of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works held a speech about the advancements in space engineering during the previous 40 years. He concluded with the quote about taking ET home while the final image in his slide presentation showed a “black disk zipping out into outer space.”
Was this merely a joke or was he hinting at something?
Over the years, the Skunk Works division of Lockheed has designed and built a number of high-tech aircraft such as the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-22 Raptor and the F-117 Nighthawk. Taking this into account, some have drawn the conclusion that Rich alluded to advanced technology being secretly developed and it might be responsible for some of the flying disks we see today.
Seems too far-fetched? We’re on the same page but wait, it gets better.
In 2001, British systems administrator Gary McKinnon hacked his way into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers. He intended to find top-secret files regarding free energy but stumbled upon something bigger. McKinnon claimed to have uncovered a spreadsheet containing names and information about “non-terrestrial officers” and transfers between fleets. He cross referenced these names with a database of all U.S. Navy and military personnel but was unable to find any of the officers. McKinnon therefore concluded they were not of this world and labeled them as “Space Marines”.
In an interview with the BBC, he said he had been motivated by The Disclosure Project because “they are some very credible, relied-upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and they’ve captured spacecraft and reverse engineered them.”
McKinnon was discovered just as he was examining the image of a UFO stored in a NASA computer in Johnson Space Center’s Building 8. Caught in 2002, he was facing up to 70 years in prison and several million dollars in fines. However, the U.K. never extradited him to the U.S. and McKinnon managed to avoid prison. Some say that he was able to do so because he had amassed sensitive information that he used as leverage.
He maintains his claim that extraterrestrial spacecraft have been captured and reverse-engineered and now the alien technology is being used by entities in our own figurative backyard.
This brings us to Solar Warden. According to conspiracy theorists, Solar Warden is an ultra-secret project that maintains a fleet (or several fleets) of spaceships that are operating within our solar system. Some say they’re defending us against alien threats. Others say they’re involved in the covert colonization of space.
Shh, nobody on Earth has to know!
Such a fleet would require technology way ahead of what we’ve currently got. In order to send manned missions into the far reaches of our solar system we’d need exotic materials and propulsion systems. But there are some who claim we already do.
I suspect that in the last 60 years or so, that there has been some back-engineering and the creation of this type of equipment, that is not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the apparent visitors have.” -
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth astronaut to walk on the Moon
Even so, who would have the coin required to fund such a venture?
The United States’ black budget for 2014 amounted to some $52.6 billion and they plan on spending around $58.7 B this year. But even this astronomical sum isn’t enough to fund or maintain a secret space fleet. And that’s when conspiracy voices start mentioning the deep black budgets. Whether these programs are myth or reality is hard to tell.
As it turns out, there might be UFOs that were built on Earth, based on technology that originated elsewhere in the universe. And we might have a space fleet without knowing it. Leave a comment telling us what you think about this idea.
Nazi’s bouwden ongelooflijke UFO’s. Zijn dit de geheimzinnige ‘foo fighters’ die vaak in Amerika in Amerika rondvlogen?
Nazi’s bouwden ongelooflijke UFO’s. Zijn dit de geheimzinnige ‘foo fighters’ die vaak in Amerika in Amerika rondvlogen?
Halverwege de jaren veertig werden er talloze keren onverklaarbare objecten waargenomen in het luchtruim, meldt zender Gaia.
Tegen het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog werden militaire toestellen ’s nachts gevolgd door snel bewegende objecten.
De piloten zeiden dat deze objecten in staat waren om snel van koers te veranderen, hun toestellen konden afschudden en zich gedroegen alsof ze werden bestuurd door een intelligentie.
Foo fighters
Er werden onder meer witte objecten en rode en oranje bollen gezien, die de piloten deed denken aan kerstverlichting.
Bemanningen van bommenwerpers spraken van ‘foo fighters’, lichtgevende bollen die opeens verschenen, een poosje hardnekkig hun vliegtuigen volgden en meestal even plotseling weer verdwenen.
Overheidsagentschappen probeerden het fenomeen af te doen als massahysterie en hallucinaties, een hoax of een verkeerde interpretatie van bekende objecten.
Thule-Gesellschaft
Desondanks bleven de waarnemingen binnenstromen en is er tot op heden geen verklaring voor de UFO’s.
Sommige onderzoekers stellen dat de objecten vliegende schotels waren die door nazi-Duitsland werden gebouwd.
Aan de wieg van de Deutsche Arbeiterspartij (DAP), de voorloper van Adolf Hitlers NSDAP, stond het Thule-Gesellschaft, een occulte organisatie die in 1918 werd gesticht in München.
Vril
Prominente leden van dit genootschap waren Hans Frank, de hoofdjurist van nazi-Duitsland, en Rudolf Hess, de plaatsvervanger van Hitler.
Hess, de op twee na machtigste nazi, was ook verbonden aan een ander genootschap, genaamd Vril.
Dit genootschap bestond voornamelijk uit jonge, aantrekkelijke vrouwen die claimden op telepathische wijze te communiceren met buitenaardse wezens.
Handleidingen
De leider van het geheime genootschap, Maria Orsic, nam contact op met Hess om informatie te delen over de wezens waarmee ze naar eigen zeggen in contact stond.
Ze had haar boodschappen opgeschreven in twee talen, een taal die werd gebruikt door de Tempeliers en een taal die historici hebben gelinkt aan een Duitse occulte groep die bekendstond als de ‘Thule’.
De informatie werd vertaald in het Duits en bleek handleidingen te bevatten voor het bouwen van vliegende schotels.
Aldebaran
Nadat de schotels waren gebouwd verdween de Vril plotseling en liet Orsic een brief achter waarin stond: “Niemand blijft hier.”
Onderzoekers denken dat zij de vaartuigen hebben gebruikt om de planeet te verlaten. Orsic claimde namelijk te communiceren met buitenaardsen uit het stelsel van Aldebaran in sterrenbeeld Stier.
NIEUWE BEELDEN MONSTER VAN LOCH NESS, SCHOTLAND ( VIDEO )
NIEUWE BEELDEN MONSTER VAN LOCH NESS, SCHOTLAND ( VIDEO )
Eens in de zoveel tijd is het weer raak en duiken er weer nieuwe beelden op van wat misschien wel het meeste beroemde meer ter wereld is, Loch Ness.
Al in de 7e eeuw verschenen de eerste verhalen over een monster in Loch Ness en anno 2017 is er niet veel veranderd.
Het is een tijdje stil geweest rond Loch Ness, waar eigenlijk ieder jaar wel een aantal vreemde dingen worden waargenomen.
De laatste waarneming dateert inmiddels alweer van acht maanden geleden, maar daar is ongeveer een week geleden verandering in gekomen.
Op zondag 7 mei 2017 maakte de 35-jarige Rob Jones uit Wales filmopnames van het meer. Rob reed in zijn bestelauto langs de weg boven het meer, toen hij in het water iets vreemds ontdekte.
Het object bewoog in de richting van een boot en Rob stopte de auto en begon te filmen. Ook een groep toeristen die langs de weg liep, kreeg belangstelling en begon ook met het maken van foto’s.
Het vreemde was dat de boot gewoon verder voer en niets bijzonders scheen op te merken, maar duidelijk is dat het object wel degelijk bewoog in het water.
Het zag er van een afstand zo uit.
En wat uitvergroot, zie je dit:
Rob zegt dat hij eigenlijk niet in het verhaal van het monster gelooft, maar dat hij toch wel heel erg nieuwsgierig is naar wat hij nu eigenlijk heeft gefilmd.
Gary Campbell die het officiële register van waarnemingen van het monster van Loch Ness bijhoudt, is blij, want hij begon zich na acht maanden toch wel wat zorgen te maken over het monster.
Vorig jaar was een record met 18 waarnemingen, het beste jaar sinds 2000, maar de laatste dateert alweer van augustus vorig jaar.
De door Rob Jones gemaakte opname lijkt veel op die werd gemaakt in 1934 waar wij in een eerder artikel het volgende over schreven:
De meest bekende foto van het monster is waarschijnlijk onderstaande foto. Hij is genomen in1934 door een gynaecoloog uit Londen, Robert Kenneth Wilson. Deze foto werd gepubliceerd in de Daily Mail van 21 april 1934. Op de foto zie je het monster met een lange nek en het hoofd boven water.
Echter… het was een grap. De foto was niets meer dan een speelgoed onderzeeër, gekocht bij een warenhuis. Daarbovenop was een hoofd en nek gemaakt van hout door ene Marmaduke Wetherell. Deze was zwaar gepikeerd omdat hij belachelijk gemaakt werd door de kranten in verband met zijn zoektocht naar het monster en besloot op deze manier wraak te nemen.
De oudste verhalen van een monster in Loch Ness dateren van de 7e eeuw. St. Columba, een Ierse monnik, stuurde één van zijn volgelingen het water in om te bewijzen dat er geen monster was.
Maar, helaas, het monster was er wel, kwam uit het water en beet in de hielen van de man. Gelukkig was er St. Columba. Deze bleef onverschrokken staan en verjoeg het verschrikte monster door het teken van het kruis te maken en te commanderen: “Kom niet verder. Raak die man niet aan. Ga onmiddellijk terug”.
Tja, en daar had het monster natuurlijk niet van terug, zodat hij tot de dag van vandaag waarschijnlijk maar besloten heeft om onder water te blijven.
The natural geological formations with at least strange shapes or perhaps the oldest pyramid on Earth posed by human hands, the complex of pyramids in Bosnia and Herzegovina have for years numerous discussions in the contradictory. The dispute continues to this day, though, of which they have researchers investigated, most claim they are nothing more than relief forms polished natural erosion factors. The story behind them, however, is an especially interesting, with scandals, extreme nationalism, tourism at any cost and countless studies whose results not irreconcilable.
Semir Osmanagić was dubbed the Indiana Jones of those in the Balkans, because of its passion for archeology, prehistory and the mysteries surrounding the extinct archaic civilizations. Semir Osmanagić was able to shatter the scientific world in early 2006, when he announced that he had discovered the oldest pyramids in the old Continent, somewhere in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Self-confessed researcher, technician in steel construction, Osmanagić turned the world's attention towards the Visočica Hill, a pyramid-shaped clear formation, located near the town of Visoko, 30 kilometers Northwest of the capital Sarajevo. Visoko, itself, is the former capital of the Medieval Kingdom of Bosnia and holds, among other things, numerous and varied historical vestiges, from the ruins of the Illyrian settlements, Roman forts, plus many artifacts from the Neolithic period.
For more details, you can watch the video or read the article from the following link:
STEPHEN HAWKING: WE WILL LIVE IN CITIES ON THE MOON IN 50 YEARS
STEPHEN HAWKING: WE WILL LIVE IN CITIES ON THE MOON IN 50 YEARS
Stephen Hawking is one of the most well-known scientists in this day and age. The British astrophysicist was recently featured in a movie a few years back which was highly acclaimed and allowed his name to appear and raise awareness about his theories among the general population, and not just the scientific community.
The movie features highlights of his life, especially highlighting the part where he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an extremely rare degenerative neural disease that causes one to lose control of their own body. The 72-year-old scientist now moves around in a wheelchair and speaks to others through a keyboard and voice synthesizer. His extraordinary feat of achieving success even with this disease hindering him has inspired many around the world.
However, Stephen Hawking's personal trials and tribulations are not the only things that got people to notice him. He is famed in the scientific community for his theory on black holes, and "Brief History of Time", his bestseller book that has caused him to be famous worldwide. Recently, Dr. Hawking was featured on Channel 4's "Live from Space: Lap of the Planet", a documentary and live series that shows real-time broadcasts from astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS). On the live broadcast, Dr. Hawking claimed that in order to prevent the extinction of the human species, humankind has to colonize other planets. This is because Mother Earth is an "old world" with a finite number of resources that is being depleted too quickly because of overpopulation.
He suggests humankind venture out into the never-ending cosmos, being the true generation that carries the name of "Space Age". He further added that this would be achieved when humankind will be able to live on the Moon, and then moving on to colonize Mars in the next 50 years.
LIFE ON THE MOON?
This really sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, but what Dr. Hawking claims about our Earth not being able to sustain us is true. Fossil fuels are running out, our forests are being destroyed more and more, and our ozone layer is being depleted. Perhaps his solution is the one that will truly save us all at the very end, and is sustainable for thousands of years, ensuring the survival of our kind.
FATHER AND SON FILMED STRANGE UFO OVER VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
FATHER AND SON FILMED STRANGE UFO OVER VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
Well now..what the hell was that? If this is fake? It's a really good one. At 1:55 there appear to be some strobing lights under the main orb light. The combination of all the lights makes it seem like it has the classic saucer shape.
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NASA DETECTS HUNDREDS OF UNEXPLAINABLE FLASHES REFLECTING OFF PLANET EARTH
NASA DETECTS HUNDREDS OF UNEXPLAINABLE FLASHES REFLECTING OFF PLANET EARTH
NASA has filmed hundreds of huge flashes reflecting off Earth and in doing so they have helped to put an end to a mystery that had Carl Sagan and others mystified more than two decades ago.
The mysterious flashes are so big that they could be seen from space and originally they had been thought to have been caused by the sun reflecting off the ocean’s surface. However, NASA then captured them on land and no-one seemed to know where they had come from and what caused them.
Alexander Marshak said that they saw bright flashes over land and at first they assumed that there was a lake or large body of water and the sun had reflected off it. However, the glint was too big for that to have been behind it.
SAGAN SAW HUGE FLASHES IN 1993 ON IMAGES TAKEN BY GALILEO SPACECRAFT
Astronomer Carl Sagan also saw huge flashes in 1993 on photographs that had been taken by the Galileo spacecraft of Earth. The probe had been launched four years prior so that they could study Jupiter and the moons, however, Sagan used it when it was making a flyby past Earth to look for signs of life on Earth. He said that if he could find signatures of life from up in space, extraterrestrial neighbors would be able to do the same and they would realize that Earth was inhabited.
In the photographs large glints of light, light reflections on mirrors were seen, however, they were only seen in areas that were covered by water. The team said that the large expanse of ocean and coastlines had been present and when looking at them closely the photographs revealed a region of mirror-like reflection in the ocean but it wasn’t seen on land.
TWENTY-FOUR YEARS LATER MORE STRANGE GLINTS APPEAR OVER LAND
Twenty-four years later NASA found 866 light bursts between June 2015 and August 2016 and strangely all of them happened to be coming from the land, not the ocean. The footage was captured by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera that was on-board NOAA Deep Space Climate Observatory.
The team from NASA then got the photos from the Galileo and compared them and then realized that Sagan had forgotten about one thing, a detail that was, in fact, crucial, the reflections had occurred on land too in that survey years ago. Marshak along with his team then had to explain the phenomenon and they set about cataloging all flashes seen over land from the EPIC and Galileo images and then mapped their locations. They suggested that if the glints had been caused due to the sunlight being reflected then only some parts of the globe would have them. They found a pattern and this led to the elimination lightning. The team still thought that water was behind it, but water in the atmosphere instead of on the surface.
GLINTS FROM ICE CRYSTALS HANGING HORIZONTALLY
They used the EPIC data and mapped out exactly where the huge glints were coming from and found in was a source 3 to 5 miles above the surface where there were cirrus clouds that were full of ice crystals hanging. They modeled the sunlight direction reflecting of the hypothetical ice crystals floating on a horizontal angle and the numbers matched with the images from the Galileo and EPIC photographs.
Marshak said that the source of the glints was not on the ground and that it was due to ice, more than likely solar reflections off particles that were horizontally oriented. Their research has not been reviewed by peer just yet; this means that some aspects of their findings may change when it has been verified independently.
Researchers are looking into how common ice crystals that hang horizontally are and whether they have any impact that is significant on how much of the sunlight is reflected through the atmosphere. One thing that is known is that the flashes of light are not the signs of extra-terrestrial life that Carl Sagan had been looking for.
Reports claim UFO whizzes past International Space Station
Reports claim UFO whizzes past International Space Station
(Credit: SecureTeam 10 YouTube channel)
A mysterious object appeared to have hovered past the International Space Station, according to new video footage from UFO researchers.
SecureTeam 10, who in recent days has posted videos about a supposed alien tank and a cigar shaped disc over Paris, claims that a disc-shaped object whizzed past the ISS "at a very high rate of speed."
NASA, who did not respond specifically to the latest video, has often said that the objects are "distortions in a lens" and do not signify the presence of extraterrestrial life.
Tyler Glockner, the voice heard on the video from SecureTeam 10, said that the object in the video moved "as if it knew the camera was watching."
Below is the video in its entirety:
UFO sightings have become more frequent in recent years. A book entitled "U.F.O. Sightings Desk Reference" said that U.S.-based sightings rose to 11,868 in 2015, up from 3,479 in 2001.
A synopsis of the book on Amazon states that it presents "data and analysis for 100,000+ sightings of unidentified flying objects reported by individuals during the first 15 years of the 21st century."
SecureTeam 10 has nearly 900,000 subscribers on its YouTube channel, despite openly running conspiracy-theory based videos.
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Stranger danger: Extraterrestrial first contact as a political problem
The movie Arrival illustrated the difficulties of communicating with an alien intelligence, but even that may have been an oversimplification of the real challenges.
(credit: Paramount Pictures)
Stranger danger: Extraterrestrial first contact as a political problem
by John Hickman and Koby Boatright
The 2016 film Arrival is simultaneously smart science fiction and wildly optimistic about the outcome of first contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Smart because the extraterrestrials appear credible as the products of an extraterrestrial evolutionary process; wildly optimistic both because the extraterrestrials are benign in the way humans have always wanted their gods to manifest themselves and because humans are ultimately able to decode their language.1Arrival’s heptapods sudden appear on Earth aboard interstellar spacecraft but then wait for humans to pass a difficult but not impossible language examination. Testing humans to determine their worth is a common trope in mythology and religion, and its presence in the film betrays an appeal to magical thinking.
Getting it wrong because decision-making was freighted with unreasonable expectations might result in consequences that range from the merely amusing to the deeply frustrating to the existentially threatening.
The 2017 film Life is even smarter science fiction because it doesn’t require interstellar travel, benign extraterrestrials, or communication between species with symbolic language. Instead, it is brutally pessimistic about the outcome of human encounters contact with extraterrestrials, intelligent or otherwise. The test portrayed in Life—biological survival—is far more fundamental and far more plausible. Viewed in succession, Arrival and Life evoke the better angels of our nature and then challenge the reasonableness of our expectations. What follows is a thought experiment, an effort to “game” the test in the most probable presentation of a first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial entity, hereinafter referred to simply as First Contact.
If there is a consensus scholarum on the most probable scenario for First Contact, it would begin with human detection of a radio signal with sufficient structure to suggest symbolic language that had been broadcast from an exoplanet. Such an event would present the most formidable of language problems and confront national decision-makers with extraordinarily important choices, which would be made under extraordinary uncertainty.2 Deciding to respond to such a radio signal would be tempting. Lacking all but the most basic information about the transmitting extraterrestrial entity, buffeted by intense public excitement about the discovery of an intelligent extraterrestrials, and fearing that rival national decision-makers might preempt their decision by being the first to respond, national decision-makers might feel compelled to act based on assumptions that are revealed as incorrect only after the momentous encounter has begun. Getting it wrong because decision-making was freighted with unreasonable expectations might result in consequences that range from the merely amusing to the deeply frustrating to the existentially threatening. So this thought experiment is justified under the cautionary principle.
We proceed by first assessing possible risks and benefits of First Contact. The daunting language problem serves as the linchpin between possible risks and benefits. We then examine the underlying political problem before offering some conclusions about optimal public policy making.
Possible risks
For First Contact pessimists, the Fermi Paradox captures a crucial observation: a universe that ought to be noisy with the radio evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations is instead utterly silent. Searches have yet to detect radio signals operating as distant beacons announcing “we’re here.”3 Silence can be given an optimistic interpretation: Douglas Vakoch suggests that reflects a norm of respect for the wishes of other creatures that requires a species to announce its desire to communicate by broadcasting their wish to do so and proposes broadcasting such an invitation. “Maybe it takes an audacious young civilization like ours to do that.”4
What worries pessimists is the possibility that silence is motivated by rational existential fear. A preference for survival as a species and extraordinary uncertainty about possible risks attending contact between different intelligent technological species may have persuaded most species to avoid alerting others to their own existence.5 Thus, David Brin rejects the idea of broadcasting an invitation as, “seeing my children’s destiny gambled with.”6 Clearly, that proposition must be qualified with “most” because humans have been violating the proposed norm for decades with radio and television broadcasts. Perhaps we have been fortunate that Earth’s atmosphere bounces back most radio transmissions and that mass communication is increasingly transmitted by means other than broadcasting.
When Stephen Hawking warned against alerting any extraterrestrial civilization to our existence he offered as a familiar cautionary example the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus.7The resulting series of first contacts resulted in population collapse of up to 90 percent of native populations across the Western Hemisphere, followed by brutal conquest and colonization by Europeans. The results of first contacts between Europeans and other peoples across the insular South Pacific were similarly tragic. Kathryn Denning critiques this and other historical analogies as a poor model for first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial entity and notes that the historical encounters of the early modern era may be perceived less negatively over the longer term because they resulted in vibrant hybrid societies of value in their own right.8 That there are no Guanches, Tasmanians, or members of many other extinct indigenous peoples available to dispute Denning’s blithe reassurance ought to give one pause before accepting it.9
It follows that silence is thus a plausible strategy for a risk-averse species because the result for any other species that might be listening is indistinguishable from a universe empty of species with technological civilizations.
Given that First Contact would occur between our species and another, as yet unknown, entity, there are analogies that merit consideration. For example, the fate of large animal species after the irruption of humans in virgin soil environments can be seen as tragic. Paleoindians exterminated most of the megafauna in the Americas, including mastodons, dire wolves, giant sloths, giant armadillos, giant beavers, and glyptodonts, soon after their arrival.10 The moose and bison alone survived. Polynesian ancestors of the Maori exterminated all 13 species of the Moa, giant flightless birds, soon after their arrival in New Zealand. The remorseless encounters between native and invasive non-human species competing for the same ecological niches is similarly tragic, at least from the perspective of those of us who prefer a biosphere with more species diversity. Pathogen transfer due to contact between previously isolated wild and commercial populations of the same non-human species has resulted in population crashes.
Examples of the resulting negative outcomes are displayed in Table 1.
Table 1. Tragic Encounters
same species
closely related species
unrelated species
both populations possess human level intelligent
Western Europeans and Native Americans in the Americas11
modern humans and Neanderthals in Eurasia12
no data
only one population possesses human level intelligence
no data
modern humans and chimpanzees in sub-Saharan Africa13
Paleoindians and megafauna in the Americas14
neither population possesses human level intelligence
wild and commercial bumble bees, salmon, pigs15
roof rats and rice rats in the Galapagos16
brown rats and tuatara on Whenuakura Island17
That all of those encounters ended badly for one party, frequently involving population crashes and extinction, should not be ignored by policy makers. We note, however, that the analytic value of these analogies is constrained by three considerations. First, there are no data for the cell in the upper-right-hand corner of encounters between populations of intelligent but unrelated species, which would encompass First Contact. Second, all of the analogies involve encounters between terrestrial fauna. First Contact might be with a species that evolved amid much less aggressive life forms than those found on Earth. Indeed, First Contact might be with an entity that emerged in an entirely non-competitive environment. Third, all of the analogies involved physical contact between different populations. None were limited solely to long distance communication as is expected in First Contact.18
What matters here is that terrestrial analogies to encounters between populations offer the only empirical information for assessing the risks of First Contact. It follows that silence is thus a plausible strategy for a risk-averse species because the result for any other species that might be listening is indistinguishable from a universe empty of species with technological civilizations. Even if every intelligent entity would be benevolent towards other intelligent entity given the opportunity to interact, an implicit silence norm might be self-reinforcing as species choose to interpret the uncertainty inherent in the result as possible evidence of the rational behavior by other species. If you do not hear anyone else speaking, then either there is no one to talk to or they may know to be quiet for a very good reason.
Language
Before surveying possible benefits of First Contact, it is important to examine what is likely to be the most daunting aspect of the encounter. Will humans be able to do more than simply recognize that a radio signal is from an intelligent extraterrestrial entity and actually establish mutually intelligible communications?
When we conceive of extraterrestrial minds, they often inhabit entities with radically different body plans: planet-wide unitary organisms or populations of machine successors to biological organisms. Contrawise, similar body plans are expected to produce similar minds. Optimistic assessments of the possibility of communicating abstract ideas other than perhaps mathematics are typically premised on convergent evolution, as in Don Lincoln’s 2013 Alien Universe.19 John C. Baird’s 1987 The Inner Limits of Outer Space compared the problem of communicating with an intelligent extraterrestrial species with translating ancient hieroglyphics without benefit of a Rosetta Stone.20
Even that may be much too optimistic. Egyptian hieroglyphics were the work of human minds, merely separated in time by five millennia.21 The problem is that even if intelligent extraterrestrials resemble humans, their minds may be radically different. Our current understanding is that humans possess an innate capacity for learning and using a language and associated culture.22 Although language and mind are inextricably linked in humans, they might not be so for an intelligent extraterrestrial entity, no matter how similar in appearance. Their minds may resemble the plastic Standard Social Science Model that dominated social science thinking during the last century and that continues to influence thinking about language among proponents of SETI.23 Alternatively their minds might be organized with comparable but different innate capacities, perhaps even greater rigidity than our own.
The problem is that even if intelligent extraterrestrials resemble humans, their minds may be radically different.
The language problem is daunting in part because although linguists are reliable sources for questions about human language, the film Arrival notwithstanding, they are likely to have little to offer in translating messages from extraterrestrials. Experts in foreign tongues are likely to be flummoxed by efforts to communicate with entities without tongues. First Contact would present multiple “firsts,” at least in the annals of humanity. That newness means nothing should be taken for granted, and certainly not the intent to communicate simply because an extraterrestrial radio signal has been detected.
If extraterrestrials communicate via something similar to human language, it would be necessary to determine which, if either, of the two types of intentional, signification-based communication that we employ: ‘”natural language” like English, Italian, or Proto-Indo-European; or “code” like C++, syntax for expressing an architecture such as Zermelo-Fraenkel, or binary. There are several differences between a code and a natural language, but their similarities are often a source of confusion. An exacting description of these relationships is beyond the scope of this paper, so we will merely point to a few that shed light for the present strategic darkness.
First, a natural language is the product of unintentional evolutionary processes, much the same as the species that makes use of it. It is for this reason that most natural languages have irregularities in structure or spelling which have seemingly no rational basis—sometimes to the great frustration of those attempting to use such a language. A code, by contrast, is formed somewhat deliberately. This usually encourages uniformity in how it is presented and restricts its ad-libbed modification.
Second, natural language has ambiguities that codes do not. Sentence structure, tone, pitch, and a hundred other things all come together to provide variation in significance. Often, we have to simply say that it’s a matter of circumstance. These matters of circumstance cut down on the time it takes to communicate immensely. Codes are, by contrast and by design, unambiguous. A message is to be interpreted only one way, and the very grammar of the code is usually tailored in such a way that it can be deciphered purely mechanically—and let us not miss the importance of the term “decipher” here. This means that every relevant detail has to be spelled out, so if there are a lot of details, a message can quickly become enormous.
Third, along similar lines, natural language is multi-contextual. This means that it is conveyed in situations where more than one medium gives relevant information as to how the communication is to be interpreted. The ability to detect a tone of sarcasm or earnestness is immensely helpful to truly understanding each other, and it is in these areas of subtext that artificial intelligence interactions with humans find their great challenges. Codes, by contrast, contain everything in the letter. The form of the communication itself is expected to be sufficient to extract everything of relevance. This is necessary to program computers, or write out proofs of mathematical concepts that can be carried out by brute logical operation.
To sum up these differences, code operates in highly restricted circumstances on barebones prior information, making it unambiguous but not usually efficient. Natural language operates in situations where multiple external details can be taken into account to clarify, and whole separate channels of information are available, like gesturing or intoning. Humans are so accustomed to dealing with natural language situations that it is easy to mistake any communication with conscious beings for being just that simple. But with so much between us as whole star systems, and little more than a glorified two-way radio, this may be far from the case.
“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.” This statement by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein illustrates partially why the cryptanalyst will likely be more useful to understanding far-flung communication than the linguist. There is little that can be said about the aliens’ “form of life” that isn’t assumption, and though they may have language, this will not be the artifact we pick up when our radios start squawking. We shall merely have a code.
The inability to understand the language of the other would likely engender frustration and suspicion.
Once we have our code, we may think that the problem is merely decryption. However, there is cause to think that the limitations we’ve just discussed not only render the situation more difficult, they may well put sharp boundaries on just what sort of information can be transmitted, and hence on what can be inferred for questions of strategy. The two problems, intertwined, are whether there is sufficient information for deciphering and whether worthwhile information can be transmitted.
The first problem doesn’t seem too difficult, because the message can be expected to provide clues to its interpretation by its form alone. Binary messages, either based on a dot-dash system or an on-off system, allows the transmission of sequences of numbers. Variation of tone around a baseline could simplify this into something like a hexadecimal system. Sequences of numbers that illustrate geometric ratios of importance could thus be a relatively simple matter to transmit and receive. Repeated series like so, replacing an element with a blank or nonsense value, might serve to indicate the variables and operations in equations.
The door of mathematics, it seems, is open to us, though interpreting even this enough to get at “interesting” information could take an incredibly long time. Such messages would not only be very long sequences as the operations became more advanced, but would take a long time to respond to indicating understanding. Further, the messages would likely have to be repeated more than once, and any part of the message that didn’t get through could seriously hamper the decryption process. Messages intended to be reinterpreted through another medium, such as pictures described dot by dot through binary, would both be immense, and a gamble, presuming that the far-flung interlocutor has a means of processing visual information.
Here is where the second difficulty comes in. Mathematical truths can be transmitted in this way because the form of the message itself bears some kind of direct relationship to the matters being conveyed, in the way that the structure of a code-message bears similarity to the structure of the “meaning.” The only comparative measurements that are needed are provided internally, and little reference to external standards, except perhaps the rules of logic, is needed. This is where the univocal nature of radio communication may put a damper on things.
Natural language requires context and the available context is likely to be very thin. Advances in astronomical observation might provide information about the gravity and composition of the atmosphere if a planet is the source of the radio signal. Beyond recognition that mathematics and the natural sciences are shared, radio signals might contain sufficient information to assemble images from binary code. Such communications, if they are to convey much detail, would also have to be quite large, potentially suffering the same difficulties as regards interference as the above-mentioned mathematical operations. After that, however, interpretation is likely to be slow going and perhaps prove impossible.
Those who are pessimistic about the possibility of establishing communication will find philosophic support in the work of the mature Ludwig Wittgenstein as it was articulated in his Philosophical Investigations. His general argument is that the meaning of words is derived from linguistic conventions that permit no external justification and are unconcerned with empirically verifiable reference points. What a word means is determined by what everyone who speaks the same language knows it to mean. Moreover, because our access to reality, facilitated by language, is overwhelmingly social in nature, the common sense meanings of words offer as firm a reflection of reality—what Richard Rorty called a “Mirror of Nature”—as is possible. If the view of the mature Wittgenstein is correct, we may be faced with an impassible barrier for translation between human and extraterrestrial languages because they simply cannot belong to the same type of society and therefore there exists no way to construct commonsense meanings.
Comparing Chinese with German, Christian Helmut Wenzel notes how the tendencies of (human) languages derived from their cultural evolution create habits of thought.24 For example, Chinese language requires Chinese speakers to be more context sensitive than German language requires of German speakers, both in text and in speech. In another example, Chinese speakers use vertical spatial metaphors to reference time—for example the future is described as “down”—while German speakers use horizontal spatial metaphors to reference time.25 The differences in such largely unconscious habits of thought between humans and any intelligent extraterrestrial entity are likely to have more causes deeper than culture. Physical sense-organs are likely to differ. One of the authors of this article is visually impaired and thus aware of the frequency with which visual metaphors are used to reference processes of cognition: “Do you now see what we mean?” The degree to which an intelligent extraterrestrial entity is social might differ. Human sociality lies midway on a spectrum between that typical of arachnids at one extreme and that typical of hymenoptera at the other extreme. The sociality of an intelligent extraterrestrial entity might lie elsewhere along that same spectrum. Thus their capacity for some affect that is equivalent to trust may be less or more than our own.
The human mind is designed for communicating with fellow humans. There is no guarantee that we would ever achieve more than the most rudimentary communication with creatures even very similar to ourselves.
As Table 2 shows, successful communication and Babelian confusion are not the only possibilities for attempted communication in First Contact. A great deal must be achieved by both parties to this encounter for successful communication to be achieved without frustration and suspicion by one or both of the two parties. The everyday human experience is that all that is necessary for communication between speakers of different languages to be moderately successful. Limited shared language may be sufficient to carry out important exchanges of information. That would not be true of communication between humans and an extraterrestrial entity. Instead, such exchanges would more closely resemble the negotiations between political or business decision-makers, who struggle to define their terminology in both languages so as to maximize value by avoiding future confusion or betrayal. Neither an intelligent extraterrestrial entity capable of calculated deception nor humans would be able to trust that they had properly understood the meaning of messages if they were unable to translate back from the language of the other. The inability to understand the language of the other would likely engender frustration and suspicion.
Table 2. Possible communications outcomes
Human Language Intelligible by Extraterrestrial Entity
Human Language Unintelligible by Extraterrestrial Entity
Extraterrestrial Entity’s Language Intelligible by Humans
Communication (Shared Fluency)
Human Understanding coupled with Frustration and Suspicion by Extraterrestrial Entity
Extraterrestrial Entity’s Language Unintelligible by Humans
Extraterrestrial Entity Understanding coupled with Frustration and Suspicion by Humans
No Communication (Babelian Confusion)
Some consequences of unsuccessful communication in First Contact are foreseeable. Humans tend to interpret the “known unknown” with imagined forces and creatures, often elaborated from familiar myths.26 Fantastic beliefs and desperate action based on those beliefs is a possible result. The urge to project theories of mind appropriate to humans onto non-human animals or natural phenomena is well known. That humans do so with the creatures that we know best—dogs—is telling. Across cultures, humans will attempt to reason with dogs using symbolic logic and dogs will mimic understanding because they are rewarded for doing so. This exchange is noteworthy because it may have begun between 15,000 and 150,000 years ago and might represent a form of co-evolution. What matters here is that incomplete understanding between two utterly familiar terrestrial species endures despite its significance for humans as the best possible opportunity to cultivate an ethical practice with “significant otherness.”27 Given such failure, is it altogether reasonable to expect the successful exchange of information with an intelligent extraterrestrial entity that presents absolute otherness?
What does this mean for the possibility of successful communication between humans and an intelligent extraterrestrial entity? The human mind is designed for communicating with fellow humans. There is no guarantee that we would ever achieve more than the most rudimentary communication with creatures even very similar to ourselves. Perhaps we might succeed in checking our math but the possibility of exchanging much beyond that is limited. Moreover that might be fortunate if the intelligent extraterrestrial entity possesses ideas that might be released among our species as destructive memes.
Benefits
Carl Sagan, icon of the First Contact optimists, prophesied that humans might benefit immensely from access to the “scientific, logical, cultural and ethical knowledge to be gained from tuning into galactic transmissions.”28 Sagan was confident that the consequent cultural shock would be relatively small and that the decoding of signals would be possible though perhaps requiring decades or centuries.29 Albert A. Harrison anticipates encountering peaceful and cooperative intelligent extraterrestrial species flourishing in the interstellar equivalent to the Kantian Peace.30 He pictures a Galactic Club of such species operating on broad principles with experience at enrolling new member species such as our own. Alas, several decades of searching now suggests that intelligent extraterrestrial entities broadcasting invitations to communicate by radio must be exceedingly rare or occur at distances so great from Earth as to be functionally non-existent.
Simply being exposed to different and radically alien minds might have a pacifying effect on our behavior by permitting further moral development. That effect is of course dependent on actually communicating in something close to natural language.
What benefits might be derived from communicating with an extraterrestrial entity? We already know that intelligence has arisen multiple times on Earth but have yet to converse with any of the terrestrial species exhibiting intelligence about anything other than naming food, identifying predator threats, claiming territory, and expressing affection.31 To that extent humans already know they are not alone in the universe. Alas, we are unable to compare notes with any terrestrial intelligent species about more abstract matters. That is what we might achieve if we are able to translate messages from an intelligent extraterrestrial entity.
Proponents of attempting to communicate with intelligent extraterrestrial entities typically assume that our mathematics reflects something universal and would thus serve as the basis for the development of a common terminology. They might be mistaken. The mathematics we know might simply reflect the thinking of our species, centered on performing the sort of operation that is useful to us. Even ostensibly “pure” mathematics may simply be applied mathematics applied to itself, rendering the divide a case of degrees of removal rather than a difference in substance. An important benefit of First Contact would be to determine whether we know what we think we know about mathematics, both in content and scope. Discovering that mathematics is not shared might however foreclose use of the most promising means for achieving translation of messages. Not recognizing this, if it is so, may mean we toil in vain at an impossible task for a very long time.
Another benefit would be that we could “avoid re-inventing the wheel” by adopting much of the scientific and engineering advances made by other species. However we cannot assume that the science and engineering of an extraterrestrial entity would be of any practical use.32 Humans might also benefit from exposure to new examples and benefit by recognizing value in what we already possess. Thus we might be in a situation analogous to the pre-contact Inca, who were aware of the wheel but did not put it to use in transportation. An extraterrestrial entity might possess philosophic or spiritual insights as yet unimagined by our species.
Even if the extraterrestrial entity has nothing to offer that we do not already possess, would there be any benefit to communication? Donna Haraway argues that the relationships we develop with domesticated animals, creatures with different minds, is crucial to human moral development.33Steven Pinker argues that mass communications, which has resulted in greater exposure to the minds of humans and other animals unlike ourselves, is in part responsible for our increasingly peaceful behavior.34 So simply being exposed to different and radically alien minds might have a pacifying effect on our behavior by permitting further moral development. That effect is of course dependent on actually communicating in something close to natural language.
What do political decision-makers know about the benefits attending First Contact? The answer is that they know very little. Indeed, the claimed benefits appear to reflect wishful thinking.
The political problem
The search for radio signals from extraterrestrial entities has been ongoing for decades despite the absence of an unambiguous public policy consensus about the wisdom of doing so. Instead, enthusiasm about the possibility of detecting intelligent extraterrestrial life has been assiduously cultivated in popular culture. It sometimes seems as a means of inoculating the public against xenophobia about human Others.35 Belief in the benign character of any extraterrestrial entity is sufficiently common among members of the attentive public that The Planetary Society uses it to raise money. Thus an August 15, 2014, fundraising e-mail message ends with the following promise: “If an alien civilization broadcasts our way, it would be a major discovery in human history. And you’d like to be part of it. Please help keep the search alive.” The appeal for contributions makes no mention of the risks attending detection or response to such a message. Nor is there a mass membership lobby comparable to The Planetary Society opposing the effort. There is dissent from this but it fails to resonate strongly in public opinion.36
What do political decision-makers know about the risks attending First Contact? The answer is woefully little, and what they do know is decidedly woeful.
Scientific experts are divided about the advisability of responding to any detected entity and of unprompted signaling of our species’ existence as an intelligent technological entity.37 Unfortunately, much of the public, which might be in opposition, ignores expert opinion in favor of more entertaining conspiracist narratives of the sort offered up by The Discovery Channel.
What do political decision-makers know about the risks attending First Contact? The answer is woefully little, and what they do know is decidedly woeful. The tragic encounters detailed in Table 1 do not bode well even for encounters confined to radio transmissions. Memes, in the original sense that Richard Dawkins coined the term, could be demoralizing and disruptive in the same manner as pandemics.38 As we are discovering in the 21st century, information itself may be weaponized.
Given the worrisome “cat-killing” curiosity common to our species, some may be tempted to respond to a radio signal before it is deciphered and before it is determined whether humans are the intended audience. Mounting popular and scientific enthusiasm driven by curiosity might be difficult for political decision-makers to resist. Frustration at the inability to derive a message from the radio broadcast is likely to feed conspiracist suspicion that decision-makers are concealing information that they do not possess. The temptation to respond will probably be strengthened by what are, in human perception, very long time periods between sending and receiving radio messages. The time horizons for decision makers are typically much shorter. Long-term consequences of even the most momentous policy making may be discounted in favor of near-term advantages that can be reckoned in public opinion polls and election outcomes.
Decision-makers are no less prone than anyone else to errors of misperception that are the product of a human proclivity to tell one another stories in which missing information is replaced with supposition. Several of the hypothesized misperceptions involved in nuclear deterrence identified by Robert Jervis are relevant here: the tendency to accept or reject new information based on existing beliefs or theory, the tendency to successfully assimilate new information only if it is received piecemeal, the tendency to believe that messages received are in response to messages sent, the tendency to overestimate the clarity of messages sent, and the tendency to believe that message recipients share common interests and perspectives.39 These tendencies to misperception may be reinforced by both the “groupthink” syndrome identified by Irving Janis40 and the competition between bureaucratic organizations even during existential crises identified by Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow.41
In his discussion of conceptualization in international relations, Robert Jervis notes that the most basic perceptual thresholds are also the most difficult to correct: whether or not decision-makers possess a concept for a category of thought.42 Thus the inaccurate image of the West employed by Chinese decision-makers in the mid-19th century delayed their learning about their challengers and rendered their response to those challenges inadequate. They thought they were interacting with a power comparable to 16th century Portugal when in reality they were dealing with 19th century Britain. One hundred years of violence and humiliation were the consequence.
The political problem is initially one of choosing between non response and delayed response. As displayed in Table 3, any response to the message should be delayed at least until the message has been deciphered and the intended recipient identified. Potential existential threats warrant decision making patience born of extreme caution.
Table 3: Optimal near-term decision-making
Intended Recipient
Unintended Recipient
Decipherable
Delay Response
No Response
Undecipherable
No Response
No Response
Unless the message can be determined to have been intentionally transmitted and that humanity is its intended recipient rather than some other extraterrestrial entity, then not responding remains the optimally rational decision.
Non-response will require official messaging to dampen both public and scientific enthusiasm. As the experience of nuclear deterrence during the Cold War reveals, news audiences can be persuaded to accept the strategic logic of preparation coupled with inaction. What that is likely to require are periodic official reports on progress in deciphering the message together with a narrative emphasizing the possible existential threat. Although it rubs against the grain of thinking since the beginning of the Modern Era, humans are proficient at living in a state of fear. Indeed, traditional societies are characterized by hostility to strangers, finding in that antipathy a source of social unity.
The longer-term political problem involves decision making with respect to messages that have been sufficiently deciphered. The choices are displayed in Table 4.
Unless the message can be determined to have been intentionally transmitted and that humanity is its intended recipient rather than some other extraterrestrial entity, then not responding remains the optimally rational decision. The value of not responding would be reduced, though not entirely eliminated, if it is determined that humanity is the intended recipient because that would indicate knowledge of our location in space and perhaps other information. Not responding to a message would deny the extraterrestrial entity additional information that might render humanity even more vulnerable. If the message evidenced some malign intent in the form of a threat or weaponized meme, then not responding remains the optimally rational decision.
There are possible advantages to listening in on communications between extraterrestrial entities without their knowledge. Given prophylactic measures to avoid releasing a weaponized meme, the intelligence collected through covert monitoring could be used in deciding whether and how best to respond to a message. Indeed, such monitoring might provide the benefits of First Contact without incurring the risks.
Conclusion
The relatively high probability of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence has led to conversation about the possibility of prolonged communication with such distant intelligences. A number of logistical details beset and make problematic any attempt to engage in the communication between Earth and whatever lies in the great beyond that might speak back to us. That engaging in such communication will be advantageous is by no means a foregone conclusion. Indeed, there are good reasons to suspect that the encounter will be either non-advantageous or disadvantageous, and very possibly extraordinarily dangerous.
What a national political decision-maker is likely to seek upon encountering an extraterrestrial radio signal will depend on both their relative risk acceptance and on their willingness to act in concert with other national political decision-makers who are in possession of the same information. At present, the bureaucratic scientific apparatus for detecting such is still limited to a handful of countries, but as that number grows a coordinated response becomes more difficult, not the least because of the temptation to defect from a policy of restraint by seeking an advantage in establishing communication.
Michael A.G. Michaud. “Ten Decisions That Could Shake the World.” Space Policy. (2003) 19, 2: 131-136.
Bruce Jakosky. The Search for Life on Other Planets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) pp. 289–290.
Stephen Battersby. “We’re From Earth. Hi There!” New Scientist (2010) 205, 2744: 29.
Stephen Webb. Where is Everybody: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (New York: Copernicus Books, 2002) pp. 108–115; Richard A. Posner.Catastrophe: Risk and Response (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) pp. 40–41.
Stephen Battersby. “We’re From Earth. Hi There!” New Scientist. 205, 2744: 28–31; BBC News. “Hawking Warns Over Beings.” April 25, 2010.
Kathryn Denning, Kathryn. “Impossible Predictions of the Unprecedented: Analogy, History, and the Work of Prognostication” in Douglas Vakoch, ed., Astrobiology, History and Society: Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeographics (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2013) pp. 301–312.
Alfred W. Crosby. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp. 71–94; Jared Diamond. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (New York: Harper Perennial, 1992) pp. 278–283.
Shepard Kech III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999) pp. 33–34.
Henry F. Dobyns. “Disease Transfer at Contact.” Annual Review of Anthropology (1993) 22: 273–291.
Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee, pp. 51–52.
Paul Marchesi, et al., “Census and Distribution of Chimpanzees in Côte D’Ivoire.” Primates (1995) 36, 4: 591–604.
Krech, The Ecological Indian, pp. 29–43.
Sheila R. Colla, et al., “Plight of the Bumble Bee: Pathogen Spillover From Commercial to Wild Populations.” Biological Conservation (2006) 129, pp. 461–462; X.J. Meng, et al., “Wild Boars As Sources for Infectious Diseases in Livestock and Humans.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (2009) 364, 2697–2698.
Franck Courchamp, et al., “Mammal Invaders in Islands: Impact, Control and Control Impact.”Biological Review (2002) 78, p. 356.
Ibid.
John Hickman. “Problems of Interplanetary and Interstellar Trade.” Astropolitics (2008) 6:95–104.
Don Lincoln. Alien Universe: Extraterrestrial Life in Our Minds and in the Cosmos. (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2013).
John C. Baird. The Inner Limits of Outer Space. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987), pp. 190–191.
Ancient Babylonian could be read for the first time in the modern era not only because of the discovery of inscriptions in three languages on a cliff face in Bisitun, Iran but also because the creatures who wrote it and who read it were both human.
Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. New York: Perennial Classics, 2000) pp. 419–448.
Ibid, pp. 421-422.
Christian Helmut Wenzel. “Chinese Language, Chinese Mind?” From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, New Series (2013) 1–18, 3.
Ibid.
David Gordon White. Myths of the Dog-Men. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991).
Donna Haraway. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. (Chicago: Prickly Paragon Press, 2003).
Carl Sagan and Jerome Agel. The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective. (New York: Anchor Press, 1973) p. 218.
Ibid, pp. 218–219.
Albert A. Harrison. After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life. (New York: Plenum, 1997) pp. 194–195.
Angela Dassow and Michael Coen. “Join the Conversation.” New Scientist (2015) 225, 3003: 1–5.
Nicholas Rescher. “Extraterrestrial Science,” in Edward Regis, ed., Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1985) pp. 83–116.
Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto.
Steven Pinker. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. (New York: Penguin Books, 2011) pp. 588–592, 641–642.
Erich Goode. The Paranormal: Who Believes, Why They Believe and Why It Matters (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2012) pp. 242–245.
Popular culture is instead rife with risible pseudo-scientific “ancient astronaut” conspiracy theories that are easily dismissed by national political decision-makers. The problem with conspiracy theories is that they are not theories at all but collections of “questions, suspicions and allegations” that counter “conventionally available narratives.” See Jody Dean. How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002) p. 51.
Christian Enemark. Biosecurity Dilemmas: Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2017) pp. 97–98.
Robert Jervis. “Hypotheses on Misperception.” World Politics (1968) 20, 3: 454–479.
Irving Janis. Victims of Groupthink. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1972).
Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2nd Ed. (New York: Longman, 1999).
Jervis, pp. 466–467.
John Hickman (jhickman@berry.edu) is Professor of Political Science in the Berry College Department of Government and International Studies in Rome Georgia.
Looking Back at the Varginha UFO Incident In Brazil
Looking Back at the Varginha UFO Incident In Brazil
The Varginha town of Minas Gerais in Brazil is not particularly known for tourist attractions. It could be normal to expect the small town could very well cross history without ever being noticed by the rest of people in Brazil and the world. However, that situation suddenly changed on January 20, 1996, when the town became the center of attention as it staged one of the most famous Brazilian UFO incidents.
Three teenagers claimed they observed a strange, short creature with V-shaped feet, red eyes, and horns. They were certain that it was not a man or an animal as it was something different. All of the sudden the three young women put Varginha on the center stage.
Reports of strange creatures, UFOs, strange coincidences, military operations and even mysterious deaths followed the incident. In fact, many questions are still unanswered.
The UFO incident in Varginha started with two sisters and a friend seeing a strange being. The encounter had been followed by a series of events and hysteria as Brazilian media picked up mysterious happenings in the area. Even the Brazilian Army jumped into the case doing a costly operation to investigate it.
The Army operation did not help as more reports on UFOs were spreading. A couple of farmers claimed they spotted something like a gray spaceship flying above their cattle. One farmer said that the cows were running from the silent and no light UFO, which was surrounded by fog.
Furthermore, there were reports about the presence of a strange creature next to the city’s zoo. Mysteriously, the animals in that zoo started to die without explainable reason.
Brazilian ufologist Marco Petit said that the government cover-up operation has made all these incidents to remain unproven. Petit said that the case is more important and bigger than most people think.
There were reports that then the leading forensic expert in Brazil Doctor Badan Palhares examined the bodies of extraterrestrials that were recovered from the spaceship found by the military. However, Palhares has always denied the rumor, calling it utter nonsense.
While all the claims remain unproven, the event made the small town the focus of public attention. Varginha is now described as the hot spot in the intergalactic search for the intelligent alien.
U.S. Military Reveals Instructions On How To Photograph UFOs
U.S. Military Reveals Instructions On How To Photograph UFOs
The manual on how to snap UFOs was recently declassified in the U.S. Department of Defense files. The document “DoD Instruction 5040.6, Life-Cycle Management of DoD Visual Information (VI)” contains 27 pages, including data from 2002.
In Section 21 of Chapter 5, the document shows a table concerning imagery that records unidentified flying objects and other aerial phenomena not clearly identifiable as missiles or conventional aircraft. The table also shows a list of priority assigned to each category of imagery along with appropriate handling instructions. It instructs the military to make digital copies of the media and send them to the Defence Visual Information Center.
UFO researcher and blogger Paul Dean uncovered the document through the Freedom of Information Act. Dean said that the table of what to photograph and not to photograph lays out entirely both UFOs and aerial phenomena with descriptors.
The document proves that the U.S. did not stop documenting and researching UFOs after the 1960s, contrary to what is widely believe.
Dean notes that the files in the document don’t link UFOs to aliens. However, he adds that the government obviously keep a straight face on the UFO issue when they clearly state it in plain English for the military to digest.
Witness says diamond-shaped object was ‘humongous’
Witness says diamond-shaped object was ‘humongous’
A Pennsylvania witness at York reported watching a “humongous” object fly directly overhead after a smaller object was ejected from it at a distance, according to Testimony in Case 83329 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
York is about 26 miles southeast of Harrisburg, PA.
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The witness was inside watching television when two bright lights were noticed at a distance.
“I thought, oh, a new tower with two huge lights attached. But no tower,” the witness stated.“Went outside. The lights did not move at all and a light came off the top right corner and a small craft came off the light and hovered below.”
The larger object then moved toward the witness.
“The big UFO took off towards me and went right over my home extremely low. It was diamond-shaped and had a rectangular light underneath it. In that rectangle was a red light, then a white light, and then a green light. The lights were not flashing. The UFO was humongous, and made a humming noise.”
A smaller object was emitted from the larger object. Pictured: York, PA.
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Both object then began to move.
“When it took off, the small thing that came out of it went straight up. When the light came out of the right corner or what would have been the right corner (the only thing I could see at that point were the two huge lights) it seemed that the small thing came off that light. Almost like it was poured out of that light.”
The witness was afraid of the sighting.
“Anyway, it scared me a lot, and I have looked for a hovering jet picture on the net, but did not see any that looked like it. And why would a hovering jet be spitting out a small craft like that? Before it took off, it had stayed unmoving at least 10 minutes, maybe longer, before I noticed it. In relationship to its size, it was huge. I watch planes in the distance from my backyard and the little thing that came out of the big UFO would have been the size of a commercial airplane like I see all the time going toward Harrisburg Airport. So, the big UFO was really, really, big.”
The larger object then flew directly over the witness. Pictured: York, PA.
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Pennsylvania MUFON Field Investigator Larry Shaak is investigating. York is the city serving as the county seat of York County, Pennsylvania, population 43,718. 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.
Mysterious flashes of light above Earth captured by NASA satellite and ISS live feed camera
Mysterious flashes of light above Earth captured by NASA satellite and ISS live feed camera
Parked in space a million miles from Earth, the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) captured hundreds of flashes of light in Earth’s upper atmosphere.
Flashed of light captured by the Deep Space Climate Observatory.
In the 1990s astronomer Carl Sagan already reported this bizarre phenomenon which he noticed in images from the Galileo spacecraft.
These flashes of light not only appeared over oceans but over land as well and while scientists at first suggested that the lights seen over the ocean may be the reflection of sunlight off a part of the ocean the same couldn’t be said for the flashes seen over land.
After studying this phenomenon the scientists concluded that the source of the flashes is not on Earth’s surface but cirrus clouds up to five to eight kilometers high in the atmosphere where these flashes were seen whereby the cause of the flashes of light are most likely solar reflection off of horizontally ice particles, reports dailymail.
These kind of flashes of light are not only captured by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, parked in space a million miles from Earth but it seems the camera onboard the International Space Station which orbit the Earth at an altitude of between 330 and 435 km apparently also has the ability to capture the strange flashes of light above Earth.
Flashes of light captured by ISS live feed camera.
Streetcap1, who caught similar flashes of light on the ISS live feed on May 10, 2017, said: “What are these weird light ripple effect above Earth.”
Solar reflection off of horizontally ice particles again or is it a phenomenon that cannot be explained?
A mysterious 'flying disc-like shaped UFO' has been captured on a live feed taken from the International Space Station, conspiracy theorists claim.
The creepy footage seems to show the disc hover by one of the ISS's large solar panels before quickly shooting off.
Alien hunters claim that the bizarre footage is proof that extra terrestrials exist, but one UFO expert says the shape is simply light playing on the camera lens.
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A mysterious 'flying disc-like shaped UFO' has been captured on a live feed taken from the International Space Station, conspiracy theorists claim. The creepy footage seems to show the disc hover by one of the ISS's large solar panels before quickly shooting off
ISS ALIEN SIGHTINGS
This isn't the first time an ISS live stream has caused a stir among conspiracy theorists.
Last month a strange object floating past the ISS had UFO hunters claiming visitors from other worlds have developed cloaking technology.
The footage appeared to show the object suddenly appearing near the space station, before starting to approach it.
Part of the cylinder is then seen to disappear, which the UFO spotter who shared the footage believed was evidence of a cloaking device.
A video discussing the disc was uploaded to YouTube this week by UFO Hunters Secure Team 10.
Tyler Glockner from the Secure Team channel, which has almost a million subscribers, said: 'It can only be described as some sort of flying disc-like shaped UFO, that was spotted hovering in the distance behind the international space station before darting away at a very high rate of speed.
'This is one of the most commonly seen and spoken about craft by hundreds and thousands of people over Earth, in space and above the moon.
'This thing moves as if it knew the camera was watching it and it was in the frame before it picks up speed before finally shrinking due to the law of perspective before blasting backwards.'
But not everyone is convinced that the strange shape is an extra terrestrial craft.
Nigel Watson, UFO expert and author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'This looks like the reflection of a light source inside the camera lens rather than an extraterrestrial spaceship zipping past the ISS.
'Adding music and a bit of editing is used by Secure Team 10 to add a bit of mystery to it, but there is no supporting information or evidence to say it is an alien spacecraft.'
One UFO expert says the shape is simply a reflection of a light source inside the camera lens
This isn't the first time an ISS live stream has caused a stir among conspiracy theorists.
Last month a strange object floating past the ISS had UFO hunters claiming visitors from other worlds have developed cloaking technology.
The footage appeared to show the object suddenly appearing near the space station, before starting to approach it.
UFO hunters discover 'flying disk' on NASA space station
This is not the first time that evidence of aliens has been spotted near the International Space Station (pictured). Some believe Nasa is actively covering up evidence of alien life
CLOAKING DEVICES
According to the Institute of Physics, metamaterials which can bend electromagnetic radiation such as light around an object to give the appearance that it isn't there.
To date some researchers have used such properties of metamaterials to create devices that can bend certain forms of radiation, such as near-infrared radiation.
So far, however, producing the same effect with visible light has proved more of a challenge.
Part of the cylinder is then seen to disappear, which the UFO spotter who shared the footage believed was evidence of a cloaking device.
Speaking on his blog UFO Sightings Daily, astro-biologist Scott C Waring said: 'I noticed a UFO in the distance that was coming closer and closer to the space station.
'The UFO was partially cloaked, which made it look transparent.
'In the deep blackness of spaces, blending into the environment means you will be safer from other alien species that may not be so friendly.
A live feed taken from the International Space Station last month appeared to show a strange cylindrical UFO approaching the station, before fading away. The UFO spotter who shared the footage believed it was evidence of cloaking technology
Strange object spotted flying past the International Space Station
DO YOU BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking, according to a study earlier this year.
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and negative psychological traits.
Writing in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the team explained: 'Previous research linked the endorsement of conspiracy theories to low self-esteem.'
In the first study, a total of 202 participants completed questionnaires on conspiracy beliefs, asking how strongly they agreed with specific statements, such as whether governments carried out acts of terrorism on their own soil.
Alongside this, they were asked to complete a narcissist scale and a self-esteem assessment.
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.
A mysterious 'flying disc-like shaped UFO' has been captured on a live feed taken from the International Space Station, conspiracy theorists claim.
The creepy footage seems to show the disc hover by one of the ISS's large solar panels before quickly shooting off.
Alien hunters claim that the bizarre footage is proof that extra terrestrials exist, but one UFO expert says the shape is simply light playing on the camera lens.
Scroll down for video
A mysterious 'flying disc-like shaped UFO' has been captured on a live feed taken from the International Space Station, conspiracy theorists claim. The creepy footage seems to show the disc hover by one of the ISS's large solar panels before quickly shooting off
ISS ALIEN SIGHTINGS
This isn't the first time an ISS live stream has caused a stir among conspiracy theorists.
Last month a strange object floating past the ISS had UFO hunters claiming visitors from other worlds have developed cloaking technology.
The footage appeared to show the object suddenly appearing near the space station, before starting to approach it.
Part of the cylinder is then seen to disappear, which the UFO spotter who shared the footage believed was evidence of a cloaking device.
A video discussing the disc was uploaded to YouTube this week by UFO Hunters Secure Team 10.
Tyler Glockner from the Secure Team channel, which has almost a million subscribers, said: 'It can only be described as some sort of flying disc-like shaped UFO, that was spotted hovering in the distance behind the international space station before darting away at a very high rate of speed.
'This is one of the most commonly seen and spoken about craft by hundreds and thousands of people over Earth, in space and above the moon.
'This thing moves as if it knew the camera was watching it and it was in the frame before it picks up speed before finally shrinking due to the law of perspective before blasting backwards.'
But not everyone is convinced that the strange shape is an extra terrestrial craft.
Nigel Watson, UFO expert and author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'This looks like the reflection of a light source inside the camera lens rather than an extraterrestrial spaceship zipping past the ISS.
'Adding music and a bit of editing is used by Secure Team 10 to add a bit of mystery to it, but there is no supporting information or evidence to say it is an alien spacecraft.'
One UFO expert says the shape is simply a reflection of a light source inside the camera lens
This isn't the first time an ISS live stream has caused a stir among conspiracy theorists.
Last month a strange object floating past the ISS had UFO hunters claiming visitors from other worlds have developed cloaking technology.
The footage appeared to show the object suddenly appearing near the space station, before starting to approach it.
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MARIA ORSIC, THE VRIL & UFOS - NAZI GERMANY SECRETS
MARIA ORSIC, THE VRIL & UFOS - NAZI GERMANY SECRETS
Gaia Staff
HOW ARE MARIA ORSIC AND THE VRIL CONNECTED TO GERMAN FLYING SAUCERS?
During World War II, the Germans yearned for any advantage over their opponents. Whether it was technology, intelligence or strength, they wanted to be the best of the best. When Maria Orsic, a young German nationalist, came forward to share her remarkable gifts, the Nazis were delighted. What they discovered about her was more spectacular than anyone could ever have imagined: Maria could communicate with extraterrestrials.
WHAT IS THE VRIL SOCIETY? MARIA ORSIC & THE GERMAN SECRET SOCIETY
Maria Orsic was a medium and the leader of a Nazi secret society, known as the Vril, that existed in the WWII era. The Vril Society was established after Orsic received communication from extraterrestrials who had once lived in what is now Sumeria. These beings eventually departed Earth for the Aldebaran solar system. The Vril named themselves after the ancient Sumerian word “Vri-ll,” meaning “God-like.”
The Vrill members were attractive young women who grew their hair all the way down past their hips, which was uncharacteristic of the times. The logic for growing their hair to such an extravagant length centered around their belief that human hair acts as an antenna to make contact with extraterrestrials. They believed that they could use their telepathic abilities to communicate with these otherworldly beings and give the Nazis some sort of advantage over their opponents.
After making contact with the extraterrestrials, Orsic transcribed the information in two different scripts. The first was a secret German Templar language that she did not personally understand. The second was an ancient language that historians commonly link to the German occult group known as the “Thule.” Most of these scholars are in agreement that this language stems from ancient Sumeria, where the extraterrestrials once thrived.
Once the transcriptions were translated into German, the Vril were shocked. The ancient race had given Orsic extremely detailed instructions for constructing a flying saucer.
Researchers believe that the information channeled by Orsic led to Nazi Germany's creation of futuristic flying saucers. Some historians point to the alleged Nazi use of so called "foo fighters," or unidentified flying objects, during World War II as evidence of the country's superior aircraft technology. These flying vessels were sphere-shaped and glowed with an intense light, and some believed they were capable of scrambling their enemies’ communication.
After all this, the Vril Society suddenly disappeared without a trace. Their bodies were never found. While no one can be sure exactly where they went, a final letter from Orsic to the Vril members stated “niemand bleibt hier,” or “no one is staying here.” It’s possible that the Vril used Orsic’s channeled instructions to build a spacecraft and leave the planet.
THEORY OF DEPARTURE: VOYAGE TO THE ALDEBARAN SOLAR SYSTEM
It seems that Orsic was intent on communicating with the extraterrestrials in the Aldebaran solar system for a purpose. After receiving instructions for building a flying saucer, it makes sense that the Vril departed Earth for Aldebaran. This solar system exists in the Constellation of Taurus, which is 68 light years away from Earth. (For comparison, Alpha Centauri, the solar system closest to ours, is 4.35 light years away from the Earth.)
Those who believe Orsic departed Earth for Aldebaran argue that the top-tier members of the Vril Society, along with other German secret societies like the Thule, had adequate financing from Adolf Hitler's regime for the construction of flying saucers. After all, Germany's leading engineer, Werhner Von Braun, made no secret of the fact that the Nazis received an abundance of technical information from extraterrestrials before and during World War II.
THE RUDOLF HESS - MARIA ORSIC CONNECTION
Another popular claim from Nazi Germany historians is that Orsic provided all of her channeled information to a rising star within the Nazi party named Rudolf Hess. According to this theory, Orsic supplied Hess with every last detail of her communications with the Vril as a means of expressing her German nationalism. Hess went on to become an influential figure in the Nazi party.
If theorists are correct, Hitler and his henchmen relied on Orsic's detailed channelings to create an array of flying saucers and other high-tech weapons for use in the war. These theorists also believe the Nazis funded millions of dollars to a top secret program dedicated to mastering flight with flying saucers and other UFO-like aircraft.
NAZI SCIENTISTS CONFIRM CONTACT
A fellow German space pioneer named Hermann Oberth echoed Von Braun's claimsthat the Germans had knowledge of extraterrestrials. Oberth was one of the German Reich's top rocket designers during World War II. Though he moved on to work for the United States' space program's push to send men into outer space, Oberth is best remembered for his statements linking the Nazis to extraterrestrials.
According to Oberth, the Nazis could not “take credit” for their advancement in an array of scientific fields. Like Von Braun, Oberth claimed the Nazis received extensive assistance from a super-intelligent, alien life form. Oberth referred to these Vril aliens as “people of other worlds.”
If one takes Oberth and Von Braun at their word, it becomes clear that the Nazi government obtained significant military assistance from highly advanced aliens. Many conspiracy theorists believe Maria Orsic's channelings served as the initial point of connection between Germans and these uber-intelligent extraterrestrials.
VRIL: FACT OR FICTION?
Those who believe in the Vril theorize that they either live below the surface of the earth or in the Aldebaran solar system. Yet many historians argue the supposed Nazi connection to the Vril people is pure fiction.
Some skeptics point to the 1871 novel, The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. In this fictional work a wayward traveler stumbles upon a highly intelligent race of people living in an underground world. These people called themselves the “Vril-ya.” As former surface dwellers, the Vril-ya understood much about the planet's above-ground happenings, yet were forced below the terrain following a worldwide catastrophe. Vril-ya members credited their survival with the unseen force known as “Vril.” The novel describes Vril as a mystical form of electricity or magnetism that provided them with a superpower or cosmic energy that functions in harmony with the natural world.
Based on the striking similarities between the novel and the story of Maria Orsic, the line between fact and fiction is quite blurry. Was Lytton's work of fiction actually based on real-world interactions between Germans like Orsic and legitimate extraterrestrials?
The disappearance of Maria Orsic and her followers remains a mystery. Perhaps these women decided to leave our war-torn planet with the help of an ancient race. Perhaps Orsic lived the remainder of her life on an unknown planet in the Aldebaran solar system. Explore more Deep Space mysteries to come to your own conclusions.
VIDEOHoe zien de wereld en de mensheid er over één miljard jaar uit? Het YouTubekanaal 'RealLifeLore' (RLL) wil een antwoord vinden op die vraag en probeert een realistische toekomstvoorspelling te doen. En wat leert ons dat? Er komt een tijd aan waar vmeer zal zijn. En talen zoals we ze nu kennen, zullen niet meer bestaan. Ga mee op een reian rassen geen sprake s door de toekomst.
Over 10.000 jaar voorspelt RLL een nieuwe milleniumbug, met computers die problemen hebben met de overgang naar een jaartal met vijf cijfers. Daarnaast zal de mensheid zo genetisch gemixt zijn, dat we geen specifieke rassen meer zullen kennen, zo voorspelt de video. Over 20.000 jaar zijn de talen die we nu kennen zo sterk geëvolueerd, dat er nog slechts één procent van de huidige woorden overblijft. De huidige talen worden dus volledig onherkenbaar.
Wat het effect van de opwarming van de aarde ook wordt, over 50.000 jaar zou er een nieuwe ijstijd komen, volgens de makers van het filmpje. Ook verdwijnen heel wat meren in Canada, net als de bekende Niagara Falls. Bovendien zullen we elk jaar een schrikkelseconde bij onze jaartelling moeten toevoegen. Over 100.000 jaarzal het sterrenstelsel er volledig anders uitzien dan vandaag. En zal de mensheid van planeet Mars een bewoonbare planeet hebben gemaakt.
Over 500.000 jaar is het erg waarschijnlijk dat de aarde geraakt is door een asteroïde van een kilometer diameter, tenzij de mensheid de impact van de asteroïde kan stoppen. Daar tegenover staat dat de meteorietkrater in het Amerikaanse Arizona over 950.000 jaar volledig geërodeerd en verdwenen is. En wie dacht dat we met vulkaan Eyjafjallajokull al wat gezien hadden, wacht beter nog een miljoen jaar. Want tegen die tijd is de kans groot dat de aarde een supervulkaanuitbarsting heeft ervaren, met een uitstoot van 3.200 kubieke meter assen (lees verder onder de afbeelding).
Over twee miljoen jaarzal de bekende Grand Canyon tot een grote, weidse vallei geërodeerd zijn. Nog tegen dan zal de mensheid verschillende planeten gekoloniseerd hebben. Op die verschillende planeten zullen zich nieuwe mensachtige soorten ontwikkelen, die zich hebben aangepast aan de omstandigheden op die planeten.
Op onze aarde zal over zo'n 10 miljoen jaar een deel van het continent Afrika loskomen van de rest van het continent. Nog even later, over 50 miljoen jaar, zal de rest van Afrika opgeschoven zijn en de Middellandse Zee volledig overbrugd hebben. De botsing tussen Afrika en het Euro-Aziatische continent zal een nieuwe bergketen doen ontstaan, met mogelijk hogere bergen dan de Mount Everest (lees verder onder de afbeelding).
Hawaï zal over 80 miljoen jaar volledig onder water verdwenen zijn, voorspellen de makers van het filmpje nog. En over 100 miljoen jaar zal de aarde vermoedelijk geraakt zijn door een asteroïde zo groot als die verantwoordelijk was voor de uitroeiing van de dinosaurussen (lees verder onder de afbeelding).
Over 250 miljoen jaar zullen alle continenten op aarde opnieuw tegen elkaar aan liggen en één supercontinent vormen, zoals Pangea. Over 500 tot 600 miljoen jaarzal de aarde bedreigd worden door een uitbarsting van Gamma-stralen die de ozonlaag sterk zullen beschadigen, een grote bedreiging voor het leven op aarde. Nog verder in de toekomst, over zo'n 800 miljoen jaar, zal fotosynthese niet langer mogelijk zijn op aarde door het gebrek aan CO² (lees verder onder de afbeelding).
Over één miljard jaar tenslotte zal de temperatuur op aarde zo fel zijn toegenomen tot een constante van zo'n 47 graden Celsius, waarna de oceanen op aarde langzaamaan zullen verdampen en leven helemaal onmogelijk wordt. Alleen in de buurt van de polen zal nog water te vinden zijn. Dat worden dan ook de twee laatste plaatsen met leven op aarde, zo eindigt de voorspelling.
Something is afoot in southern England. Scores of reports of UFOs, black helicopters, and other anomalous aerial phenomena have poured in over the last year. Many of these sightings have had multiple witnesses and/or photographic evidence. Interestingly, many of these sightings involve slow-moving triangle-shaped aircraft or triangular groupings of lights. There is a joint USAF/RAF base in the area, making military testing of secretive spy aircraft a likely explanation. However, there could also be a social or psychological element to the spate of sightings; as more individuals report sightings and receive publicity, more and more residents might be watching the skies with cameras ready to film any odd sights.
Zoomed image taken from the footage.
Whatever the cause of the rash of sightings is, a new video of strange lights in the sky shot in Exmouth, England appears eerily similar to other recent sightings of triangular aircraft. The footage was shot on the evening of April 17, 2017 by an on-duty bus driver and shows a trio of lights hovering slowly in the distance.
According to the report filed by MUFON, the bus driver spotted the lights while planning his wedding on the phone with his best man, a call he quickly ended to film the event:
I was just kind of walking about near the leisure center, where my bus stops, when I looked randomly over in the direction of the river, which is when I saw the three lights in a triangle pattern rotating on its axis and wobbling slightly. I have been interested in the subject of UFOs since I was about 10. I told my mate I’d ring him back and started filming the lights with my phone. Due to the street lights my camera was having a hard time focusing on the formation. so I moved closer to the river to get a better view. It’s at this point I really had to go back to the bus stop to get my bus.
Hmm… prior interest in UFOs, out-of-focus camera – all the trappings of a dubious sighting. However, given the relatively clear footage and the high number of similar sightings in southern England, the sighting is a bit conspicuous.
The lights in the footage hover far in the distance beyond the capabilities of the witness’s camera. Naturally.
Similar triangle UFOs have been a regular sight in the skies over England for decades. Our own Nick Redfern recently wrote a summary of the UK and U.S. militaries’ acknowledgment of the flying triangle (FT) phenomenon in which Redfern cites former UK Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Nick Pope. According to Pope, both the American and British governments initially suspected that the other side might be responsible, but discovered that neither nation’s military could explain the sightings:
[T]here was an interesting little hint that the Americans, too, were seeing these Flying Triangles over their territory. As we were making our inquiries, they turned the question around and wanted to know if our Royal Air Force had a triangular-shaped, hypersonic prototype aircraft of some sort. So, presumably, the Americans were having Flying Triangle sightings, too.
Triangle UFOs aren’t just an English phenomenon, however. Flying triangles have been spotted around the world with increasing frequency lately. Recently declassified documents show that even the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has documented sightings of similar triangle UFOs which appeared to monitor American nuclear facilities. While many of us would love for these two be proof of visitors from another world, most theories suggest that these flying triangles are likely a form of undisclosed aircraft.
Dozens of witnesses across Belgium reported sightings of the same triangle-shaped craft throughout 1989 and 1990.
Whatever they are, one thing is for sure: the triangle is the new saucer.
If farm animals are turning up dead, dismembered and drained of their blood, and the location is somewhere in Central America, it can mean only one thing – get your license renewed because it’s chupacabra season. Residents of the Monterrey village of Choloma in northwest Honduras have reported finding at least 35 mysteriously slaughtered farm animals so far – a large number in a short period of time – and one young boy claims to have witnessed one of the killings.
He said that he only looked at a shadow that formed in two and pounced on the goats, but that he could do nothing else, because he was paralyzed with fear.
La Tribuna reports that Nely David Martinez claims he heard a noise in a pasture at 12:45am on May 5. He said he got to the sheep in time to observe a shadow surround them, the goats fall to the ground dead and the shadow just as suddenly dissolve away. A ‘shadow’ isn’t much of an identification, but a neighbor claimed it had to be a chupacabra because the killing occurred at night and chupacabra only attack at night. That’s not much to go on either. However, the locals are understandably on edge because another farmer in the Choloma area lost 30 sheep, a horse and three dogs just three weeks before.
What ever it is, Omar Martinez, uncle of Nely David Martinez, is worried about more than just the animals. (Google translation)
The fear of us is that I do that against a child or someone who walks at night; Can be a person ingested of alcoholic drinks that falls asleep in the street.
Sounds like life is tough in Choloma even without the chupacabra.
And it’s not just Choloma and northern Honduras suffering from recent attacks that resemble the mythical blood-draining killings of the chupacabra. La Tribuna reported in early April that at least 30 cows were mysteriously killed in less than a month in a cluster of five villages in southern Honduras. Nunez Colindres was one farmer who lost animals.
The strange animal, which has frightened farmers in the southern area of Francisco Morazán and north of Choluteca, only “sucks” the blood and eats the heart to its victims.
He reported finding a dead calf with a deep hole in its neck that had its heart and anus eaten away and its blood drained. In one of the other villages (Las Agujas de Catacamas, Olancho), witnesses claimed to have seen a “white and ugly animal” prowling the pastures just coming across a dead bull with its eyes and tongue ripped out and, of course, no blood.
Not surprisingly, farmers are spending all of their time with their animals. Whatever is doing the killings, the total was high enough in the south that a number of local police departments investigated and increased patrols. That will likely be the case in Choloma if the killings continue there. The loss of so many animals has a severe economic impact on these small farms and villages. That’s the kind of terror that makes the imagination run wild and the chupacabra becomes the blame for many problems that the government is doing nothing about.
It’s enough to drive a poor farmer to drink. Fortunately, they have good reasons to stay sober — the safety of their flocks and families and the fear that chupacabra allegedly have a special fondness for …
… a person ingested of alcoholic drinks that falls asleep in the street .
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Supergeheim militair hexagon ontdekt. Is dit het Australische Area 51?
Supergeheim militair hexagon ontdekt. Is dit het Australische Area 51?
In 2014 spotte de WorldView3-satelliet iets vreemds in de Australische wildernis. Aan de westkust van het continent bleek zich een enorm geometrisch symbool te bevinden.
De zeshoek beslaat een gebied van bijna 2,5 vierkante kilometer. In de wijde omtrek van de vorm is verder niets te bekennen.
Aan de rand van de vorm bevinden zich puntige structuren die lange schaduwen werpen. Als er wordt ingezoomd blijkt het te gaan om een enorme rij antennes.
Meest geheimzinnige
De satelliet had de meest geheimzinnige en controversiële militaire installatie van Australië vastgelegd.
De installatie, genaamd Harold Holt, is gebouwd door het Amerikaanse leger en wordt gebruikt om met schepen van over de hele wereld te communiceren.
Op de basis worden naar verluidt topgeheime ruimtespionagesystemen gebruikt die zijn ontwikkeld in de VS.
Geheim wapenprogramma
Sommigen beweren dat de instrumenten van een burgervliegtuig in 2008 op hol sloegen door de signalen van de basis, waardoor het een noodlanding moest maken.
Nadien deden geruchten de ronde dat de installatie onderdeel is van een geheim wapenprogramma. Men wil burgervliegtuigen uit voorzorg weren uit het gebied.
De basis is, net als Area 51 in Amerika, strikt verboden toegang. Wat er precies gebeurt blijft geheim.
De beelden zijn afkomstig uit het programma What On Earth?
God bestaat mogelijk toch! Deze wetenschapper denkt er dit bewijs voor te hebben gevonden
God bestaat mogelijk toch! Deze wetenschapper denkt er dit bewijs voor te hebben gevonden
Er is een god voor nodig om de wiskundige onderbouwing van het heelal begrijpelijk te maken. Dat stelt professor Robert H. Nelson van de Universiteit van Maryland.
In 2004 stelde de Britse natuurkundige Roger Penrose dat het heelal bestaat uit drie werelden: wiskunde, de materiële wereld en menselijk bewustzijn.
Net als de wiskunde is het bewustzijn niet fysiek aanwezig in de wereld: de beelden en gedachten in ons bewustzijn hebben geen meetbare dimensies.
Bovennatuurlijke aard
Toch zijn deze niet-fysieke gedachten bepalend voor de acties van ons fysieke lichaam. Professor Nelson stelt dat de wiskunde en het bewustzijn op een wonderlijke, goddelijke manier opereren.
Filosoof Thomas Nagel schreef in 2012 dat we wetenschappelijk materialisme moeten achterlaten aangezien menselijk bewustzijn wetenschappelijk onverklaarbaar is.
De bovennatuurlijke aard van het menselijk bewustzijn biedt ruimte voor de mogelijkheid dat er een bovennatuurlijke god is.
Niet in strijd
Een aantal wetenschappers, waaronder directeur van het Amerikaanse gezondheidsinstiuut NIH Francis Collins, zegt dat het geloof in een god niet in strijd is met de evolutietheorie.
Nelson merkt op dat in de axiale periode radicale culturele veranderingen plaatsvonden. In China ontstonden het confucianisme en taoïsme, in India het hindoeïsme en boeddhisme en in Griekenland het filosofisch rationalisme.
Revolutie
Hij spreekt van een revolutie op het gebied van menselijk denken, die niet kon worden verklaard aan de hand van het wetenschappelijk materialisme.
Deze revolutie vond plaats in het menselijk bewustzijn, buiten de fysieke realiteit, wat volgens de professor verder bewijs is voor de conclusie dat de mens ‘naar het evenbeeld van een god’ is gemaakt.
Neil Armstrong zette als eerste mens voet op de maan. Dit zei hij over aliens die daar ook waren
Er zijn vaartuigen gecrasht en lichamen geborgen. We zijn niet alleen in het universum; ze komen hier al heel lang. Dat zijn de woorden vanwijlen astronaut Edgar Mitchell, de zesde man op de maan.
Hij is niet de enige astronaut die zich heeft uitgesproken over het vermeende bestaan van aliens. Astronaut Brian O’Leary zei dat ‘we contact hebben met buitenaardse culturen’.
Ken Johnston werkte voor de NASA aan de maanlander in het Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.
Drie dagen
In de film Aliens on the Moon: The Truth Exposed, uitgezonden door Syfy, zegt hij:
“Toen Neil [Armstrong] en Buzz [Aldrin] op de maan waren, schakelde Neil over naar het medische kanaal en zei hij tegen de hoofdarts dat ze hier zijn, dat ze aan de rand van de krater geparkeerd staan en ons in de gaten houden.”
Aldrin onthult overigens in dezelfde film dat Apollo 11 drie dagen lang werd gevolgd door een UFO.
Boodschap
Tijdens de landing van Apollo 11 was er twee minuten radiostilte. Volgens de NASA kwam dat omdat één van de twee tv-camera’s oververhit was geraakt, waardoor de ontvangst wegviel.
Volgens Johnston en anderen was dat niet het geval.
Timothy Good, een voormalig adviseur van het Pentagon die in het BBC-programma Opinionated al eens zei dat president Eisenhower drie keer met aliens sprak, schrijft hierover in zijn boek Above Top Secret:
Tijdens die twee minuten radiostilte werd de volgende boodschap opgevangen:
Controlecentrum: Wat kun je zien? Controlecentrum voor Apollo 11.
Apollo 11: Deze dingen zijn enorm. Je zult het nooit geloven. Er zijn hier andere ruimteschepen… ze staan aan de rand van de krater… Ze zijn op de maan en houden ons in de gaten.
Foto’s
Volgens de media was dit allemaal een verzinsel, maar in 1975 sprak een oud-medewerker van NASA zich uit die had meegeholpen aan het ontwikkelen van het communicatiesysteem van de Apollo-missies.
In 1975 schreef Maurice Chatelain in zijn boek Our Cosmic Ancestors dat er twee UFO’s boven Armstrong hingen op het moment dat hij voet op de maan zette.
Onder het tapijt
“Edwin Aldrin maakte er verschillende foto’s van,” aldus Chatelain. “Sommige van deze foto’s zijn in juni 1975 zelfs gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Modern People.”
In 1979 zei Chatelain dat NASA de UFO-waarneming doelbewust onder het tapijt heeft geveegd.
Miguel Mendonça claims he has spoken with aliens after researching the abduction myth.
Miguel Mendonça, 43, published his first book about the extraterrestrial phenomenon - Meet the Hybrids - in 2015
It told the stories of eight people who claim that they are hybrids between humans and aliens after their mothers were allegedly abducted and implanted with alien DNA during pregnancy.
Mr Mendonçaa, a former green energy expert who helped shape UK renewable power policies, went on to produce two volumes of his second alien-related work - We Are the Disclosure Part I and Part II - based on interviews with leading ufologists and "truth" campaigners the following year.
But, in his most recent work - Being with the Beings - a compendium of interviews with nine so-called alien contactees, published this year, Mr Mendonça describes his own alleged contact with aliens.
In the introduction, he states: "I knew at the outset that this project would trigger more contact experiences of my own, and sure enough, things have been getting extremely interesting around here of late.
"In my contacts, I have drawn upon the advice and approaches shared by the interviewees, and I can attest that they are working well for me."
The author suggests that anyone can enjoy contact with aliens if they wish.
He adds: "I trust that you, the reader, can likewise approach contact with safety, security and good sense by working with the practical aspects of this material.
I knew at the outset that this project would trigger more contact experiences of my own, and sure enough, things have been getting extremely interesting around here of late.
Miguel Mendonça
"Because it seems to be that the ET subject is as practical and available as you want it to be.
"If you desire contact you can have it, and this book offers advice on literally centuries of experience and insight, to those who wish to venture into these realms."
Mr Mendonça said he even interacted with aliens during research for the book, after allegedly speaking to them through the nine "contactees" and interviewing them.
In fact, he claims the concept for Being with the Beings came in a "download" from an alien keen to get more known about the subject.
He added: "The project concept came to me as a download, with the title, outline, list of participants and list of questions, including: what message would they like to share? Evidently, someone wanted to say something."
Mr Mendonça is convinced that the people he has interviewed are alien contacts, hybrids and even extraterrestrials themselves.
Sceptics however, argue there is no real evidence for anyone being abducted by an alien or for alien-human hybrids to exist.
They say the accounts from alleged experiencers are remarkably similar because they get repeated and then picked up online, and the growth of social media has led to more and more people making such claims.
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UFO HUNTER MYSTERY: Questions after 'man who found life on Mars' goes silent
UFO HUNTER MYSTERY: Questions after 'man who found life on Mars' goes silent
A PROLIFIC UFO hunter who claimed on numerous occasions to have found evidence of life on Mars has sparked a mystery after suddenly axing one of the world's biggest UFO websites.
An alleged skull found on the surface of Mars by UFO hunter Scott C Waring.
Scott C Waring has spent the last seven years reporting alleged UFO sightings every 24 hours on his website ufosightingsdaily.com.
It had grown to become one of the most well-known UFO websites in the world, with its reports regularly followed up by media across the globe.
Mr Waring also published the results of his own "research" on the website, which involved spending hours looking through images placed online by NASA of the Martian surface looking for signs of alien life.
The conspiracist produced several reports claiming to have found creatures which resembled animal species on Earth, including a giant mouse, baboons, a bear, and crabs.
He also claimed to have found fossils and skeletal remains of an ancient humanoid civilisation he claimed once inhabited the Red Planet.
But Mr Waring, who had posted each day this month, suddenly stopped on Friday, releasing his final post.
He wrote: "My last post. Thanks for the seven years of support. We have accomplished a lot together."
He said he started the blog as a place to defend UFO witnesses, who often faced ridicule.
"Now that happens less," he added.
He said that pressure from readers of his website had pressured NASA into axing a decision to stop a live feed camera on the International Space Station - which was another source on many of the UFO sightings on the website.
He said: "The cams are still up, years later.
"We posted some amazing sightings and discoveries along those seven years and we have made it to major news sites like CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News and even New Scientist which said I was making a new area of science."
But after saying ridicule against UFO hunters was less frequent now, he appeared to blame it for his own decision to quit.
This is serious stuff that has depths that even I can't fathom. It deservers serious thought and research, not contempt and ridicule.
Scott C Waring
He said: "I think it's changed. It was educational before, it was enlightening before, it was even comforting somehow knowing the truth, but it seems to have taken a turn as entertainment.
"That was never my intention. This is serious stuff that has depths that even I can't fathom. It deservers serious thought and research, not contempt and ridicule."
His departure has had mixed reviews among other UFO buffs.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told Express.co.uk: "I think he was genuinely trying to find and share UFO sightings and anomalies captured by the cameras of the International Space Station and other space vehicles, but the sheer quantity of his 'discoveries' undermined their quality.
"This has led to criticism and inevitably ridicule, and the sad fact is that the subject relies on sensation and entertainment rather than searching for genuine evidence or data.
"I think Scott, like many others who become involved with the UFO subject, got obsessed with seeing evidence of UFOs and aliens everywhere.
"How many people really believe his photographic evidence that everything from massive skyscrapers to squirrels exist on the surface of Mars.
The man behind one of the most popular UFO sightings websites has decided to call it quits after seven years of exposing the strangest images that have been found.
Site owner Scott C. Waring said in a farewell post on UFO Sightings Dailythat he began the site in 2010 to give an outlet for people who had allegedly seen UFOs but didn't have an outlet to show off their images.
According to Waring, the site had moved away from education and enlightenment and was heading towards entertainment.
"This is serious stuff that has depths that even I can't fathom," he wrote on the site late last week. "It deserves serious thought and research, not contempt and ridicule."
UFO hunters claim that an image taken by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover shows an ancient tree stump on the surface of the Red Planet.
Media: Fox - M9nj
Over the years the site has been the go-to for photos of strange images on Mars and the Moon, plus UFO sightings from all over world, even here in Houston.
Here at Chron.com the work of Waring and his team of contributors have offered up a unique diversion for readers wanting to see squirrels and groundhogs on Mars or UFOs flying by the "BE SOMEONE" graffiti on I-45.
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During the 1960s, Freeman Dyson and Nikolai Kardashev captured the imaginations of people everywhere by making some radical proposals. Whereas Dyson proposed that intelligent species could eventually create megastructures to harness the energy of their stars, Kardashev offered a three-tiered classification system for intelligent species based on their ability to harness the energy of their planet, solar system and galaxy, respectively.
With missions that are now capable of locating extra-solar planets (i.e. the Kepler Space Observatory) scientists have been on the lookout for signs of possible alien megastructures. Unfortunately, aside from some very arguable results, no concrete evidence has yet come to light. Lucky for us, in a study from the Free University of Tbilisi, Professor Zaza Osmanov offers some new insight on why megastructures may have eluded us so far.
While fascinating, the idea of alien megastructures invariably suffers from the same problem as all other attempts to find signs of intelligent life in our Universe. Basically, if intelligent life exists, why have we consistently failed to find any evidence of it? This conundrum, which was summed up by Enrico Fermi in the 1950s (thereafter known as the Fermi Paradox), has hung like a shadow over all our efforts.
Artist’s impression of an orbiting swarm of dusty comet fragments around Tabby’s Star.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
For example, in the summer of 2015, a team of astronomers announced that they found what might be an indication of an alien megastructure around Tabby’s Star (KIC 8462852). However, they were quick to point out that any number of possibilities could explain the strange dimming pattern coming from the star, and subsequent studies offered even more plausible explanations – such as the star having consumed a planet at some point in its past.
To this, Osmanov has argued that the problem is that we are looking in the wrong places. Last year, he wrote a research paper in which he ventured that an alien super civilization – i.e. one that was consistent with a Level II Kardashev civilization – would likely use ring-like megastructures to harness the power of their stars. This is in contrast to the traditional concept of a “Dyson’s Sphere”, which would consist of a spherical shell.
Furthermore, he argued that these Dyson Rings would likely be built around pulsars rather than stars, and offered estimates on their dimensions which were dependent on the rotational speed of the pulsar. According to Osmanov’s latest study, titled “Are the Dyson rings around pulsars detectable?“, Osmanov extends the problem of spotting alien megastructures to the observational realm.
Specifically, he addressed how alien megastructures could be spotted by identifying their infrared energy signatures, and at what kinds of distances. By examining how such structures would vary in terms of the amount of IR radiation they would emit, he believes that they could be spotted within our local Universe using existing instruments.
Artist’s impression of the exotic double object that consists of a tiny neutron star orbited every two and a half hours by a white dwarf star. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
Once again, it comes down to the diameter of the structures, which would in turn depend on the type of pulsar they orbit. As he states in the paper:
“A couple of years earlier before publishing the paper of Kardashev, the prominent physicist Freeman Dyson has suggested that if such superadvanced (in the terminology of Kardashev, Level-II) extraterrestrials exist, for increasing efficiency of energy consumption they can construct a thin spherical shell with radius ?1AU surrounding a host star (Dyson 1960).It has been argued that for such distances the sphere will be in the so-called habitable zone (HZ) and therefore the sphere will have the temperature of the order of (200 – 300 K), making this object visible in the infrared spectrum.”
Extending this to pulsars, Osmanov estimates that the habitable zone around a relatively slowly-rotating pulsar (with a period of about half a second) would be on the order of 0.1 AU. According to his calculations, a ring-like megastructure that orbited a pulsar at this distance would emit temperatures on the order of 390 K (116.85 °C; 242.33 °F), which means that the megastructure would be visible in the IR band.
From this, Osmanov concludes that modern IR telescopes – such as the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) – would have the necessary capacity to monitor nearby pulsars for signs of alien megastructures. He further concludes that for this purpose, these telescopes would have an effective range of up to 200 parsecs (~652 light years).
Ever since it was first announced in 2015, there has been speculation as to what could account for the dimming of KIC 8462852.
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In addition, he goes on to state that within this volume of space, multiple candidates could be found and examined using these same existing instruments:
“We have considered the sensitivity of VLTI and by taking into account its higher possible angular resolution, 0.001 mas, it has been shown that the maximum distance ~0.2 kpc leads to the IR spectral density of the order of 7.4 mJy, which in turn, can be detected by the VLTI. We have argued that by monitoring the nearby zone of the Solar System approximately 64 pulsars are expected to be located inside it.”
Beyond these distances, up to the kiloparsec range (about 3260 light years), the angular resolution of these telescopes would not be enough to detect the structure of any rings. As such, finding megastructures at this distance would require telescopes that can conduct surveys in the UV band – which corresponds to the surface temperatures of neutron stars (7000 K). However, this would have to wait upon the development of more sensitive instruments.
“As we see, the search of infrared rings is quite promising for distances up to -0.2 kpc, where one will be able to monitor potentially 64 ± 21 pulsars by using the IR instruments,” he concluded. “Observation of distant pulsars (up to -1kpc), although will significantly increase the total number of potential objects – to 1600 ± 530, but at this moment the UV instruments cannot provide such a level of sensitivity.”
There are Dyson rings and spheres and this, an illustration of a Dyson swarm. Could this or a variation of it be what we’re detecting around KIC? Not likely, but a fun thought experiment.
Credit: Falcorian/Wikipedia Commons
So while the range would be limited, the opportunities for testing this hypothesis would not. All told, between 43 and 85 candidates exist within the observable volume of space, according to Osmanov’s estimates. And with existing IR telescopes – and next-generation telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescopes – up to the task, some surveys could be conducted that would yield valuable information either way.
The concept of alien megastructures remains a controversial one, and for good reason. For one, the potential evidence for such structures – i.e. the periodic dimming of a star – can easily be explained by other means. Second, there is an undeniable degree of wishful thinking when it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, which means that any findings could be subject to bias.
Nevertheless, the search for intelligent life remains a very fascinating field of study, and a necessary one at that. Not only would finding other examples of life in our Universe put to rest one of the most burning existential questions of all time – are we alone? – it would also allow us to learn a great deal about what other forms life could take. Is all life carbon based, are there other possibilities, etc? We would like to know!
In the end, the Fermi Paradox will only be resolved when we find definitive evidence that there is intelligent life out there other than our own. In the meantime, we can expect that we will keep searching until we find something. And anything that make this easier by telling us where we should (and what specifically to look for) is sure to help.
As might be expected, pilots are reporting seeing a lot more drones these days but the lather that sightings seem to create might be overblown, according to an analysis by the Academy of Model Aeronautics. AMA looked closely at each of the 1,270 sightings reported by pilots of manned aircraft in data released by the FAA in February that showed that 44 of those encounters could be described as close calls. That’s about 3.4 percent and the same as the results of similar analyses done by AMA in 2015 and 2016. “Back in the 70s and 80s, everything pilots saw was a UFO. Now everything they see is a drone,” AMA President Richard Hanson told Popular Science. “Drones are the new UFOs.”
Hanson told PopSci it’s possible pilots have now lumped everything they see in the air, from dry cleaning bags to kites and weather balloons, as drones. They’re also reporting perfectly legal drone operations. Some of the reports included sightings of drones being flown at well below the 400-foot ceiling. Despite all the hype, the notes that come with new drones about rules and drone registration and numerous programs promoting safe operation of the aircraft, Hanson told PopSci he thinks there’s more education to be done. “The vast number of sightings that are people operating inappropriately is because they just don’t know any better, they didn’t know they weren’t supposed to do what they were doing,” he said. “There are a few individuals who are irresponsible but you find that in any community of people.”
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Guess this might be what I would you expect to hear from someone in the model airplane community who isn't thinking critically. Seems Mr. Hanson thinks the best defense is a good offense. I would suggest Mr. Hanson do some serious flying with someone at his local airport, especially in some urban area and explain to the pilot how a 2 or 3 lb "rock" flying towards the windshield is not an issue. A small bird is an issue when it hits a light aircraft...a "drone" is a deadly projectile and not to be taken lightly.
It is happening much more often than he implies. I would suggest that the "vast number" of sightings that we pilots are seeing are not UFO's and in reality more often an RC model than not. What a stupid premise to suggest. What some in the modeling community fail (or just refuse) to recognize is that the "vast" majority of these aircraft are being operated by people without the requisite knowledge to operate in the National Airspace and all that comes with that...and I would suggest that it is quite a bit more than a few bad apples...many people just understand what they are dealing with when they launch one of these things from their back yard.
I grew up as a modeler myself, but learned quite a bit at the local flying field before flying my own airplane...granted, the deal was quite different many years ago in the RC world with limited radio frequencies and such which served to naturally restrict the flying to a small area with line of sight for the most part. Now, you can go down to the local hobby shop and buy an aircraft and in minutes launch it into harm's way using GPS and not even having to fly it...just send wherever it suits your fancy. Mr. Hanson does no one any favors by diminishing the issue by trying to pawn off the problem on pilots reporting flying plastic bags as drones. Please.
Observations of the exoplanet HAT-P-26b have expanded our knowledge of how universes are formed. New satellites set to launch in October will give us even more information
WHAT ASTRONOMERS FOUND ON HAT-P-26B
Scientists at the University of Exeter have discovered peculiar aspects of the Neptune-sized exoplanet HAT-P-26b using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. Their findings contribute to our knowledge of the diversity of planets as well as how they are formed.
As the planet — which is around 437 light-years from earth — passed in front of its sun, allowing the telescopes to measure it, scientists discovered an atmosphere rich in helium, hydrogen, and water vapor. Hannah Wakeford, co-leader of the new study and postdoctoral researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), said that this atmosphere would result in “a very alien sky […] a kind of scattery, washed-out, gray sky.”
The planet is also of interest because of its formation. In Earth’s Solar System, metallicity (astronomy terminology for anything heavier than helium) tends to decrease as mass increases, but HAT-P-26b defies this pattern. While it is about the size of Neptune, its metallicity is more inline with Jupiter.
The atmosphere of the Neptune-mass exoplanet HAT-P-26b is unexpectedly primitive, composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. By combining observations from Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, Wakeford et al determined that, unlike Neptune and Uranus, the exoplanet has relatively low metallicity. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
So, why does this matter?
David Sing, a professor at the University of Exeter said, “this new discovery about its atmosphere feels like a big breakthrough in our pursuit to learn more about how solar systems are formed, and how it compares to our own” because “This exciting new discovery shows that there is a lot more diversity in the atmospheres of these exoplanets than we have previously thought.” And, while thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, we know relatively little about the compositions of their atmospheres.
This is the first in what promises to be a series of breakthroughs that will emerge as new telescopes launch this upcoming October. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will allow us to explore further with a mirror that has a diameter of 6.5 meters in comparison to the Hubble-Telescope’s 2.4 meter. In addition to this, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will provide “detailed characterizations of planets and their atmospheres”and is expected to survey more than 200,000 planets during its 2 year mission.
HOUSTON -When people see something odd in the sky, we in TV, often hear about it first. But many times what an observer thinks is a UFO, is actually be something else. In this blog I offer a cheat sheet based on my experiences in meteorology, of 11 things to consider before making a report and also some fun facts about our universe that could ... validate ... the existence of UFOs.You decide!
Whether a person calls their local TV station, the police or a friend, there's nothing better than a little acknowledgment of a weird experience! There's also MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, a venerable, science-based organization that's been debunking UFO sightings since the late 60s. While they can explain most experiences as of Earth-origin, many sightings remain unexplained -- and that's where it gets interesting.
Culture has taught us to think, "crazy person!" when the subject of 'unidentified aerial phenomena' or 'flying objects' is breached. Sure there are plenty of hoaxes and confused people out there, but with the occasional story like, "The Phoenix Lights", as recently told from our sister station in Arizona, you'll see why many highly respected people raise an eyebrow.
So are we alone? Your guess is as good as mine, but cosmologists (who study the universe as a whole), astronomers (who can speak of features in the universe), astronomical biologists (people who study the potential for extraterrestrial life), nuclear and theoretical physicists (who use their knowledge of time, space and multi-verse dimensions to speculate) and some philosophers, will tell you the same thing: out of the 2 trillion galaxies in our universe,we are not alone.
The scale of our existence is immense. At light speed it would take 100 millennia just to cross our own galaxy -- and there are 2 trillion of these things. (That's 2,000-million!) Our calendar only goes back 2 millennia. That means over the span of the last 2,017 years, at light speed, we'd have only traveled about 2% across the Milky Way. Physicists today believe travel that fast is impossible due to various atomic forces which hold matter -- you and me -- physically together, so in reality, we'd have traveled far less than that. Considering the scale, to say we are the only example of life in this realm is probably an opinion born from not considering this bigger picture. (Some would more curtly say it's downright arrogant to think we're alone.)
But, even if life does exist, "out there", have they visited Earth? Because space is so expansive, many life forms would likely not remain alive long enough to exit their own galaxy, much less visit ours. Of course, intelligent life may exist within our own Milky Way, but even a relatively, "close" planetary system outside of our own could still take hundreds or thousands of years to get to at light speed.
Enter the world of theoretical physics who speculate that special propulsion systems could help cross those distances -- systems which may not simply travel from point A to point B, but instead, "skip" between the two places instantaneously, as if to cross a dimensional plain and cheat the physical limits of time and space. We are only just now beginning to understand quantum physics, which could hold the key. Considering just 120 years ago, the only way down the road was on horse and buggy, and today we can rocket off to Mars, imagine the technological achievements of species 100 years from now, or 1,000! Some say ET's may have doubled even that number in their technological advancement, easily achieving interstellar travel. Cool.
So let's say for a minute that they're real -- and they're here. It's important to know the difference between a Earth object and ... well ... something else. Here's 11 things to look out for.
Airplanes with their landing lights on, approaching a nearby airport and/or lining up to the runway, doing a series of maneuvers are commonly mistaken for, "orbs" (alien craft believed to be energy-based, which can through dimensions.)
Airplanes at a distance during takeoff or landing, conducting broad turns can glint sunlight off the top of their wings and to the ground-based observer it can look like a short or long-duration sun glint.
Airplanes conducting military activity -- flying in formation at high altitude, etc.
Airplanes of military origin we're not accustomed to seeing, like the B-2 Stealth Bomber, which could easy be confused for a, "black triangle." (That's a genre of UFO occurring time and time again in various UFO sightings, although many are as a big as a football field and fly low, slow and silently, ruling out military activity.)
Airplanes creating exhaust trails, especially at twilight and dusk.
Bird ... or birds. You'd laugh at how many videos of birds I've seen, when the user screen-grabs a single frame, then zooms in, contorting the pixels and making it look like something entirely different.
Drones. As quadcopters, have gained in popularity, many times they look like UFO -- especially if illuminated at night. These things can flash, spin, strobe, etc. From a distance, it might be tough to tell.
Clouds. Many times in Texas after a big thunderstorm, strange clouds can form which resemble UFOs. Essentially high speed winds can shape low-level clouds into perfect tear-drops, disks and circles, resembling what we have been groomed culturally, to be an alien space craft.
Chinese lanterns. Many celebrations these days feature the release of light-weight paper lanterns, powered by a candle. They ascend slowly and often in large quantities -- and from afar can resemble a swarm of flickering ... UFOs.
Satellites. There are 2,271 human-launched satellites orbiting our planet as of today. Many times on a clear night, it's possible to see a half dozen pass by in just 30 minutes. While these objects are in space, an untrained eye may not realize the white, star-like appearance and fast movement across the sky (at an apparent rate about the same as a jet at cruising altitude) is not a UFO, but instead a man-made space craft.
Lens flare. Often when a photo is taken with a bright object in its sights, whether it's the sun, the moon or flood lights at night, lens flare can often resemble an, "illuminated disk." Rest assured, it's only light refracting around the lens and/or it's UV filter, if it's an SLR cam.
Typically sighting experiences happen too fast for an observer to reach for a good means to record it. Usually we only have our cell phones -- and that's a vast improvement from where we were just a decade ago when it was a luxury item to have a camera on your phone. But cell phone cams pose a problem because their wide angle lenses make for terrible UFO photography. In fact, out of the 80,000 or so cataloged UFO sightings taken by MUFON since 1969, there is not one piece of photographic evidence that absolutely proves their existence, much less from any mobile device. There's countless testimony and fuzzy, horribly unclear photos and shaky video. There's tons of computer renderings recreating what an experiencer saw, and then there's the outright fakes. There are claims (by very notable people) that, "the Government" took their solid evidence away (which I can't confirm or deny!) -- but there is zero scientifically admissible, undeniable evidence in existence today that the mainstream can hold in their hand and declare as, "reality." Perhaps the reason is because what most see fall within those 11 items I mentioned above, or perhaps we've all been groomed to think of anything related to ET's as taboo, and even if it was placed in our lap we'd assume it was fake.
If you can produce tangible evidence, you'll not only win the Nobel Prize, but probably unite humanity. In the mean time, hopefully my list can help you determine what you really saw!
Keep those reports coming! If you see anything, I'm all ears. I want to know just like you!
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'Alien' Horror: 9 Terrifying Extraterrestrials from the 'Alien' Movies
'Alien' Horror: 9 Terrifying Extraterrestrials from the 'Alien' Movies
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
Credit: Twentieth Century Fox
INTRO : Extraterrestrial Terror of 'Alien'
Since the first slimy Xenomorph burst from the chest of Officer Kane in the 1979 original "Alien" movie, several other versions of the extraterrestrial monster have terrorized space travelers in the nearly 40-year-old sci-fi saga. From chestbursters to facehuggers, here are the creepiest creatures from the "Alien" movies. [The Best Scary Movies That Take Place in Space]
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1. Neomorph
The latest addition to the Xenomorph family makes its debut in "Alien: Covenant" (in theaters May 19). Director Ridley Scott envisioned the Neomorph as a combination of the original Xenomorph and the prehistoric-looking goblin shark found on Earth.
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2. Queen
She's big, she's scary, and she lays evil eggs: Meet the queen of the Xenomorphs. Much like the queen of a beehive, this queen is larger and stronger than the other aliens in its family. The first queen of the "Alien" saga appeared in the 1986 movie "Aliens," and were later featured "Alien: Resurrection" and "Alien vs. Predator."
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3. Chestburster
The next phase of a Xenomorph's life cycle has another self-explanatory name. After a Facehugger implants an embryo, this little alien violently erupts from the host's body. Chestbursters are responsible for some of the most bloody and gut-wrenching scenes of the "Alien" movies.
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4. Facehugger
As the name implies, this Xenomorph will hug your face—but not as a display of affection. This long-tailed, crustaceous alien shoves a slimy appendage down its victim's throat to impregnate them with an alien embryo. It then detaches from the new host and dies shortly afterward. But it certainly doesn't end there…
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5. Ovomorphs
The Xenomorph egg, or Ovomorph, is the earliest stage in the lifecycle of the various monsters in the "Alien" saga. Queens can lay the eggs, but other Xenomorphs can also create them via a process called "eggmorphing," in which they transform a victim into an egg by trapping them inside a cocoon.
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6. Newborn
What happens when you mix a human with a Xenomorph? This horrifying, slimy killing machine, apparently. When scientists attempt to clone Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in "Alien: Resurrection"—following her shocking extraterrestrial death in "Alien 3"—the clone somehow winds up with an alien embryo in her body. The scientists then extract that embryo, which grows up to be a Xenomorph Queen. That alien then gives birth to this ghastly human-alien hybrid.
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7. Runner
Otherwise known as "Dog Aliens" or "Bambi Bursters," this type of Xenomorph spawns when a Facehugger takes a four-legged animal as its host. Runners made their first appearance in the 1992 film "Alien 3," when an alien emerges from the crew's canine companion, Spike.
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8. Deacon
Named after a bishop's hat, this pointy-headed and terrifyingly toothy alien appears in the prequel film "Prometheus" when a Trilobite impregnates an Engineer—an intelligent, human-like extraterrestrial the crew encounters on the moon LV-223. The trilobite was an octopus-like Facehugger that Elizabeth Shaw ripped from her own body.
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9. Predalien
This Predator-Xenomorph hybrid appears in the "Alien vs. Predator" movies and is the result of a Facehugger impregnating a Predator. Also called a Proto-Xenomorph, it looks a lot like the other aliens in the saga, but sports what looks like a long, tentacled hair. These things are bigger, stronger and arguably scarier than human-born aliens.
Many Vietnam war veterans have come forward since the fierce fighting officially ended in 1975, including high ranking military officials, claiming to have spotted UFOs of alien origine.
The most reputable claimer is Captain George Filer III, who worked for the US secret service in Vietnam, who says he saw the UFOs interacting with the US’s jets.
He claimed: “One of our planes flew at about 500 knots, and suddenly a UFO appeared and circled the aircraft several times before it flew off at three times the speed of our Air Force jets.
“It is a technology that is far superior to ours.”
Captain George Filer III: "Suddenly a UFO appeared"
Since his retirement from the military and with his experience in UFO sightings, Captain Filer dedicated his life to extraterrestrial activity, running the website National UFO Center.
But Captain Filer is not the only person to have seen UFOs that are not of this Earth during the ill-fated Vietnam war.
Pete Mazzola, who served in the Vietnam war from 1965 to the end of the decade said before his death in 1987 that he saw UFOs during the conflict.
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There are many reported sightings of aliens during the Vietnam war
He said: “There were several times, while on patrol in the jungle, that I had time to look up at the stars.
“I saw more than a few unusual ‘shooting stars’ that manoeuvred in a way no meteor could.”
In one incident, Mazzola and his squad saw a UFO hovering over paddy fields and palm trees where they were pinned down.
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“It is a technology that is far superior to ours.”
He said: “I couldn’t believe what I saw. The other guys saw it too but afterwards were too shocked to talk much about it except to say, ‘What the hell was that?’”
Another witness, General George S. Brown, says the alleged UFOs caused confusion among allies.
Gen. Brown said: "I do not know if this story was ever told. They were not called Ufos. They were labelled as enemy helicopters.
“They were seen at night and in certain places. Once they were observed in early summer '68. It triggered a small battle.
“We never found an enemy, we only found ourselves. But someone had fired a shot there. It was always the same. We could not identify an enemy, and yet we reacted.
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Alien Implants: Proof of Physical Contact?
Alien Implants: Proof of Physical Contact?
JP Robinson
For more detailed information on the ET/UFO reality, readThe Alien Enigmaby JP Robinson.
Proof of physical contact with extraterrestrial beings has always been difficult to authenticate due to the mysterious and elusive nature of alien abduction experiences. But many 'experiencers' have reported discovering foreign objects or implants lodged beneath their skin in various parts of their body, following a contact.
Could these bizarre objects prove once and for all that something out of this world is visiting and physically affecting human abductees?
Dr. Roger K. Leir, author of The Aliens and the Scalpel and Casebook Alien Implants has spent many years researching physical evidence for proof of the reality of alien abduction. He and his surgical team have performed numerous surgeries on patients claiming to have been abducted by aliens, with the sole intent of recovering implants left in various parts of their anatomy and presenting them for biological and metallurgical research.
The retrieved objects have been scientifically investigated by many prestigious laboratories including Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Tech, the University of Toronto, Southwest Labs, Seal Laboratories, York University and the University of California at San Diego. The results have been astounding.
On removal of the implants which he described as small metallic rods with strange grey biological membrane surrounding them, initial metallurgic tests drew comparisons with meteorite samples. The laboratories are never informed beforehand of the origin of the objects as this would only compromise and devalue the investigation. One such sample which was extracted from the back of a subject’s wrist bone was described as ‘seed-like’ in appearance as it was only five by two millimetres in size. Dr. Leir commented that “this piece has similar metallurgy as to the earlier specimens and contains high amounts of iron and nickel and has isotopic ratios that are not of this Earth.”
Patient John Smith asked Leir to remove a foreign object from his big toe following an abduction experience. Before the operation took place, other signs of physical evidence were discovered in Smith’s backyard and master bedroom. Recounting that the alien’s craft was seen hovering in the backyard above a patch of turf, soil samples were sent off to be analysed and the results concluded that there was a strange high bromine content present.
Two small four-fingered handprints were visualised under UV light on the interior of the master bedroom wall at the same area as a magnetic anomaly below the window. A biotechnologist has taken DNA from the handprints and the tests are ongoing.
Minor elements found in the toe sample were rare on Earth and never found in the human body. The scientific analysis revealed the presence of ruthenium, iridium, palladium, rhodium, osmium, hafnium, yttrium, rhenium, niobium, cerium, neodymium, samarium, gadolinium, dysprosium, praseodymium, europium, rubidium, thorium and uranium.
The conclusion of the analysis confirmed the object to be non-terrestrial in origin as some of the elements show non-terrestrial isotopic ratios. The iron in the sample appeared to be meteoric in origin. There were also numerous inclusions in the metal portion of the object such as biological tissue growing out of the metal and surrounding it, sodium chloride orthorhombic nano-crystals of varying size plus carbon nano-structures like nano-fibres and nano-tubes. Leir explained that carbon nano-tubes can be used in a medical capacity by injecting them into the body where they eat up cholesterol.
By comparing the isotopic ratios found in the implant to known isotopic ratios of elements in our solar system, Leir discovered that they were not the same. Sub-atomic structures in the implants are also non-terrestrial. With the origin of the material still unknown, Leir concluded that the results clearly indicated that the material is not from this planet and perhaps not even from our solar system.[i]
Leir said, “We have to draw certain conclusions that these are being manufactured by some kind of intelligence, which is certainly not within the realm of our academic science.”[ii]
Discussing the purpose of the bizarre objects Leir speculated, “I think that these are genetic monitoring devices and I believe that there is a signal that is both going in and out. I also believe that the human race is now, and has been undergoing for some years, a genetic manipulation.”
The fact that people are waking up in the morning with these unusual items implanted deep under the skin is cause for concern. Leir’s research, although still in its early stages, is extremely revealing and suggestive of something greater than our understanding coming into contact with our species and physically affecting it.
The question of whether or not extraterrestrial beings are responsible for implanting the metallic devices remains inconclusive, but something physical is definitely occurring, even though it remains unclear where the responsibility lies.
[i] The X-Conference 2009, Gaithersburg, MD, April 17 – presentation on case file # SC001-09-08
Mysterious or otherwise unexplained explosion noises and booms have been reported throughout the United States in 2017. Is secretive military testing to blame? Or could anomalous geological activity be the cause of these unidentified noises? Loud booms have been reported since long before the advent of air travel, after all. Whatever these mystery booms might be, they sure seem to be on the rise. The latest case of unexplained loud noises comes from the rural community of Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, where residents are reporting a spate of mysterious explosion noises that seem to have no identifiable cause.
Sharps Chapel is heavily forested and largely undeveloped.
The noises all seem to emanate from Island F, an island in Norris Lake not far from Rocky Top, Tennessee. The island is small, just a few miles across, and is uninhabited. Hunting and target shooting is popular in the area, but residents report that these noises sound different. Sharps Chapel community watch captain Tom McCaffery says the sound is unlike the usual gunfire heard throughout the rural area:
I have heard plenty of fireworks over my years, but never anything like this. The closest thing I can think of to the sound is cannon fire.
Local authorities speculate that some citizens are perhaps using homemade explosives for target practice, but have so far been able to find concrete proof. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), an administrative body which oversees rural areas of Appalachia, has been investigating the noises at the request of local citizens.
No traces of explosions have been on the island.
According to TVA spokesman Jim Hopson, TVA investigators haven’t found any clues that might explain the source of the explosions:
They’ve gone to the island, searched the area and found no physical evidence to indicate any kind of explosion, including disturbed ground cover, holes or unusual debris.
Reports of phantom cannon-like booms along America’s east coast date back to at least the late 19th century when James Fenimore Cooper dubbed them “Seneca Guns.” Strangely, most of these reports occur near water, leading some geologists to suspect that they might be caused by large volumes of gas escaping bodies of water. With hydraulic fracking on the rise throughout the United States, it’s not entirely inconceivable that underground pockets of natural gasses are being disturbed at an unprecedented rate. Of course, there are any number of events both natural and man-made that could be the cause of these booms, sonic booms from military aircraft being the most likely candidate. Still, without an official explanation, the high frequency of these unexplained booms is a bit conspicuous.
UFO cults – and particularly controversial ones – are nothing new. In fact, they are ten-a-penny. Some are far more well known than others. Take, for example, the Heaven’s Gate crowd. Remember them? “Thanks” to their nuttier-than-squirrel-shit leader, Marshall Herff Applewhite, Jr., they came to a sticky and irreversible end in March 1997, after knocking back significant amounts of Phenobarbital and vodka. A word of advice: do what I do and stick to a few cans of Steel Reserve on a Friday and Saturday night. There was also the Cosmic Circle of Fellowship, which was established in the 1950s by the allegedly dimension-hopping William Ferguson. Both Unarius and The Seekers can also be added to the list. In fact, the list is a long and winding one.
One such cult, which has largely been forgotten, is the subject of today’s article. It was in the 1940s that one Francis Herman Penovic – who went by the very different name of Krishna Venta – created what was popularly known as the Fountain of the World. Its official title, however, was WKFL Fountain of the World; the “WKFL” meaning “Wisdom,” “Knowledge,” “Faith,” and “Love.” It was a pretty harmless group (for a while…), albeit one that eventually had its moments of violence and even death.
The Fountain of the World had its base of operations in Simi Valley, California. And it thrived very nicely – which is hardly surprising, given that those who chose to join the cult were required to hand over their entire belongings and life-savings. Members were also made to wear what became the de rigueur WKFL Fountain of the World uniform. Namely, robes and sandals. Or, as I term it, hippy crap. Worse still, male members of the group were told to grow beards. Even more hippy crap, in other words.
The group was very much a benevolent one, working to improve conditions for the homeless who lived on the streets in Simi Valley – usually by offering beds and food at the Fountain of the World headquarters. Without doubt, the most visible example of the WKFL Fountain of the World’s determination to help whenever and wherever it could surfaced on July 12, 1949. That was the date on which a Standard Airlines aircraft slammed into the Simi Hills, killing around three-quarters of all those on-board. The WKFL Fountain of the World were quickly on the scene to try and lend whatever help they could.
Krishna Venta
Like so many cult-leaders, Venta had delusions of grandeur. Just one year before the tragic crash of Flight 897R on the Simi Hills, he proclaimed: “I may as well say it: I am Christ. I am the new messiah.” UFOs even came into the story. Well, of course they did! Venta / Jesus maintained that he had spent time on a planet called Neophrates and had commanded a veritable armada of spacecraft from Neophrates to the Earth. And as is the case with so many cult-leaders, it all ended violently. But, you knew that was coming, right?
On December 10, 1958, two men – Ralph Muller and Peter Duma Kamenoff, both of who were ex-members of the Fountain of the World, and who correctly believed Venta had been banging their wives – planned to go on a suicide-driven bombing mission to kill Venta. Unfortunately, they succeeded. The crazed, irresponsible pair caused chaos, tragedy and death – and on a large scale. The Los Angeles Timesreported one day later:
The Fountain of the World Monastery in a wooded canyon near Chatsworth was ripped apart early yesterday by a heavy explosion which instantly killed the bearded leader of the cult, Krishna Venta, and seven of his followers. Two ex-cultists linked to the blast by bizarre tape recordings in which they vowed ‘to bring Krishna to justice’ were believed to have also died in the explosion. Two children, both girls, ages 8 and 9, and a 59-year old woman were seriously burned. The explosion blew the roof from an adjoining dormitory for children and touched off a brush fire that swept over 150 acres. Fire completed the destruction of the monastery and dormitory.
The end of Krishna Venta
The heyday of the Fountain of the World was abruptly – and fortunately – at an end. After years of languishing in obscurity, it finally closed its doors in 1975. Good riddance to the group – and to beards and sandals, too.
De Britse fysicus Stephen Hawking en 32 collega's-wetenschappers verwerpen in een kritische brief de zogenoemde 'Big Bounce'-theorie voor het ontstaan van het heelal. Die theorie stelt dat de Big Bang eigenlijk een doorstart was van een vorig, ingestort heelal
De theorie weerlegt de oerknal niet, maar stelt dat er meerdere opeenvolgende oerknallen zijn geweest. Als gevolg van de zwaartekracht trekt het heelal telkens samen tot een dichte, hete toestand, die gezien wordt als de oerknal, waarna het weer uitdijt. Wetenschappers spreken dan van een pulserend heelal.
In een studie in Scientific American beschreven drie wetenschappers deze alternatieve theorie over het ontstaan van het heelal in detail. De nieuwste metingen en theoretische problemen doen immers twijfels rijzen over de lang voor waarheid aangenomen inflatietheorie, stelden ze, en de 'Big Bounce' is een logischere verklaring voor het ontstaan van het universum.
De bekendste aanhanger van die laatste theorie, die stelt dat het heelal uit het niets ontstond en zich na de oerknal in een fractie van een seconde heeft opgeblazen, is Stephen Hawking. Samen met 32 collega's verzet hij zich in een brief tegen het idee van de 'Big Bounce'.
"Elke test doorstaan"
"Door te beweren dat de inflationaire kosmologie buiten de wetenschappelijke methode ligt, wijzen Anna Ijjas, Paul J. Steinhardt en Abraham Loeb het onderzoek van niet alleen alle auteurs van deze brief af, maar ook van een belangrijk contingent van de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap", zo schrijven Hawking en collega's aan Scientific American.
"Bovendien, zoals het werk van verscheidene grote, internationale samenwerkingen duidelijk gemaakt heeft, is de inflatie testbaar. Ze is onderworpen aan een aanzienlijk aantal tests en heeft tot nu toe elke test doorstaan", klinkt het nog.
Ijjas, Steinhardt en Loeb reageren teleurgesteld op de brief. "We geloven sterk in de kracht van respectvolle meningsverschillen in een gezonde wetenschappelijke gemeenschap. We verwerpen de suggestie dat we, door te wijzen op problemen, het werk verwerpen van al diegenen die de inflatietheorie hebben ontwikkeld en gezorgd hebben voor precieze metingen van het heelal."
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UFO caught on tape over Hurghada, Egypt 5-May-2017
UFO caught on tape over Hurghada, Egypt 5-May-2017
This UFO video was filmed over Hurghada in Egypt on 5th May 2017.
Witness report:
Hovering ligtining object for a few hours lights looks like a plane lights with beaming I was at the front of the house and I was drinking a tea . When I notice the object I start to make photos and movies , I thought it is an airplane but I watch it and it does not move for hours . Because this area close to an airport, it looks like a star but was very close to the buildings and the lights looks different than the star lights , it looks like a car or an airplane lights , and it didn’t move at all only beaming light , I felt so excited as I believe in UFO and I even try the contact them by waving lights from my iphone , but no reaction , I did found it also in the next day at the same spot and the same time . I lost the sight of the object when the sun light getting more stronger.
Big Milestones for SpaceX, Cassini and Virgin Galactic: The Week's Top Space Stories
Big Milestones for SpaceX, Cassini and Virgin Galactic: The Week's Top Space Stories
By SPACE.com Staff
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-76 spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 1, 2017.
Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX successfully launched its first national-security mission (and landed the rocket to boot), Virgin Galactic's new SpaceShipTwo tested its "feathering" re-entry system for the first time, and NASA's Cassini probe made a surprising discovery at Saturn. Here are the most interesting things that happened in the universe this week.
SpaceX launches first mission for U.S. military
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (May 1) to boost a classified spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. military — the first national-security mission for SpaceX. The rocket's first stage then turned around and touched down at a nearby landing pad. [Full Story: SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite on Secret Mission, Nails Rocket Landing]
New SpaceShipTwo tests out re-entry system for first time
Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo took to the skies over Mojave, California on Monday (May 1) for the first test flight of the craft's atmospheric re-entry system, which was modified after a fatal test flight in 2014 destroyed the original ship. [Full Story: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes 1st Test Flight of Revamped Re-Entry System]
Cassini finds the gap between Saturn and its rings is eerily silent
Researchers monitoring the Cassini spacecraft were surprised to find almost no dust and debris in the previously unexplored zone between Saturn and its rings during the spacecraft's first dramatic dive through the 1,200-mile-wide (2,000 kilometers) gap. You can hear the strange lack of impacts in a new NASA video. [Full Story: Hear Saturn's 'Big Empty' from Cassini, Which Just Made 2nd Ring Dive]
The Breakthrough Starshot project aims to send tiny robotic probes zooming past nearby alien worlds to hunt for signs of life and gather other data. But the scientific return would be even greater if some of the fast-moving 1-gram spacecraft actually slammed into their target worlds, some researchers said. [Full Story: Kamikaze Starshot: Will Some Interstellar Probes Slam into Their Target Planets?]
A long-overdue fiscal year 2017 spending bill unveiled May 1 will provide NASA with $19.65 billion, more than $600 million above the original request for the agency by the previous administration. [Full Story: NASA Receives More Than $19.6 Billion in 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill]
Why 'Star Wars' still has a hold on us 40 years later
A long, long time ago — 40 years ago this month, actually — an initially small group of theatergoers was transported to a galaxy far, far away, heralding the birth of the "Star Wars" universe. [Full Story: Why the Force Is Still Strong with 'Star Wars' Fans]
As Star-Lord and his team head to the big screen this weekend to guard a galaxy in the Marvel universe, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope remind us that there are far more galaxies in our own universe without any superheroes to protect them from villains. [Full Story: Paging Star-Lord! Hubble Spies Hundreds of Galaxies That Need Guarding]
A secret space program with the name of Solar Warden has been in existence since 1980 but the public has known nothing about it as it has been kept a secret. An investigative researcher looked into the program when making a freedom of information request to the Department of Defense and found out that the program belonged to NASA.
He talked to a representative from NASA who said that Solar Warden did belong to them and it was not a joint program with the DoD and that he should talk with the Johnson Space Center FOIA manager.
GOVERNMENT SLIPPED UP WITH INFORMATION
The Solar Warden program does not just operate classified under the government of the US but also of that of the United Nations. Many people have tried to find the truth about the program but this researcher used information that had been leaked and asked questions, while government departments slipped up in giving information away, in much the same way as when Darren Perks questioned the Department of Defense, while Gary McKinnon contributed.
McKinnon was the guy who hacked into the computers of the US Space Command many years ago and found out that there were such things as non-terrestrial officers along with fleet-to-fleet transfers and the Solar Warden program. He was charged for committing the biggest military computer hack by the Bush Justice Department and was looking at a prison sentence of up to 70 years once extradited from the UK.
Of course, if they tried McKinnon in open court he would testify to the classified facts and his attorney could subpoena officers from the government under oath to talk about the space fleet program they had been keeping quiet about. The extradition of McKinnon, not surprisingly, did not go anywhere.
LARGE CIGAR SHAPED MOTHERSHIPS PART OF SOLAR WARDEN PROGRAM
McKinnon found out that there were craft or ships within Solar Warden and it had been said that there was around eight cigar-shaped motherships, with each of them being longer than putting two football fields end to end, along with 43 scout ships that were smaller.
The Solar Warden Space Fleet was operating under the Space Operations Command and US Naval Network and there was about 300 personnel working at the facility. Solar Warden was said to have US aerospace Black Projects contractors, with contributions from the UK, Canada, Italy, Australia, and Russia. It had also been said that the program was operated and tested from a secret military base much like Area 51.
Whether there is any truth in this remains to be seen, but in the end, no doubt, the truth will eventually come out. Solar Warden does seem to be a possibility that may be real, so it should not be viewed as being yet just another conspiracy. While there is a great deal of hype along with controversy surrounding all the information and facts, it perhaps should not be ruled out. If found out to be real then it would change the views on space exploration along with space travel, so really if there is anything to it there is no wonder that it is being kept a secret.
ISS CAPTURES UFO PASSING AT HIGH SPEED IN THE SKIES OF NORTH KOREA
ISS CAPTURES UFO PASSING AT HIGH SPEED IN THE SKIES OF NORTH KOREA
The unseen video that shows the mysterious object passing at high speeds over North Korea surfaced on the Internet. This unidentified object entered the upper layers of the atmosphere. The object was captured with a camera installed on the International Space Station.
Live broadcasts from the International Space Station (ISS) are usually guidelines for unexplained appearances, which ufologists and conspiracy theorists always associate with extraterrestrial beings. Once again, the US space agency was accused of covering up evidence of the existence of aliens.
It has been going on for some time that not every space technology or celestial body observer approaching Earth has a strictly terrestrial origin. The International Space Station since it began its scientific activities in space seems to have become a point of direct observation of the Unidentified Flying Objects that circulate our atmosphere, and more, "they" seem to demonstrate that they are not even worried about being captured in video Or detected by radars and other instruments of detection of space agencies administered by the superpowers.
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CHASING A UFO WITH A LASER
CHASING A UFO WITH A LASER
UFO's are mostly known as these untouchable discs flying through to the sky. People think that these objects can not be touched, not be messed with, no be tracked. However, when we try to seek contact with these entities, the results are spectaculair.
I went out UFO hunting this evening and I came across this object, I checkec my satelite finder and the results were negative, I checked my plane tracker and the result was negative. The object that I was filmking was showing some strange movements so I decided to shine my laser towards the object and the results were spectacular.
Could this be some form of intelligent being that was trying to communicate with me? Or was it trying to get out of scope really fast? The object did not make any noice whatsoever. The movements were highly irregular. What do you think it is? I don't it was a bird.
Two separate texts were discovered, now being held in the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City and the other at the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, which have recently been deciphered in the past few year
Texts that date back some 1,200 years and written in the Coptic language – a form of Egyptian – describes how Pontius Pilate had dinner with Jesus the night before his crucifixion and supposedly offered his son to be condemned to death in place of the Messiah.
However, more peculiarly, the text describes how the authorities asked Judas to kiss Jesus to identify him because he had the ability to shape-shift.
Part of the text reads: “Without further ado, Pilate prepared a table and he ate with Jesus on the fifth day of the week. And Jesus blessed Pilate and his whole house.”
The Roman, who is considered a Saint in Captic churches which would explain the favourable view of him, then tells Jesus: “Well then, behold, the night has come, rise and withdraw, and when the morning comes and they accuse me because of you, I shall give them the only son I have so that they can kill him in your place.”
To which Jesus responds: "Oh Pilate, you have been deemed worthy of a great grace because you have shown a good disposition to me."
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Judas kissed Jesus to identify him
Jesus then supposedly showed Pilate that he can escape if he chose to by shape-shifting.
The text reads: "Pilate, then, looked at Jesus and, behold, he became incorporeal: He did not see him for a long time.”
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Jesus was allegedly a shape-shifter
The text also describes Judas’ betrayal of Jesus: "Then the Jews said to Judas: ‘How shall we arrest him (Jesus)? For he does not have a single shape but his appearance changes. Sometimes he is ruddy, sometimes he is white, sometimes he is red, sometimes he is wheat coloured, sometimes he is pallid like ascetics, sometimes he is a youth, sometimes an old man’.”
However, historians believe that it is unlikely that anyone took the text as truthful.
Roelof van den Broek, of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, told Live Science that the author probably did not even believe it.
He said: "I find it difficult to believe that he really did, but some details, for instance the meal with Jesus, he may have believed to have really happened.
"The people of that time, even if they were well-educated, did not have a critical historical attitude. Miracles were quite possible , and why should an old story not be true?"
Schokkende oude Egyptische geschriften onthullen bizarre geheimen over Jezus
Schokkende oude Egyptische geschriften onthullen bizarre geheimen over Jezus
Jezus was een gedaanteverwisselaar die soms onzichtbaar was en kon vliegen. Dat blijkt uit oude Egyptische teksten die zijn bestudeerd door professor Roelof van den Broek van de Universiteit Utrecht.
De teksten, die zijn geschreven door bisschop Cyrillus van Jeruzalem, bevatten een aantal opvallende passages.
Zo zou stadhouder Pontius Pilatus hebben gezien hoe Jezus voor zijn ogen verdween. En in een droom zag hij Jezus vliegen.
Kussen
Ook vroegen de autoriteiten Judas volgens de teksten om Jezus te identificeren door hem te kussen omdat hij van gedaante kon verwisselen.
“Toen zeiden de Joden tegen Judas: ‘Hoe kunnen we Jezus arresteren? Hij heeft niet een enkele vorm, maar zijn uiterlijk verandert.”
“Soms is hij rossig, soms is hij blank, soms is hij rood, soms heeft hij de kleur van tarwe, soms is hij bleek als asceten, soms is hij jong en soms een oude man.”
Niet opgenomen
Het boek van Cyrillus van Jeruzalem werd uiteindelijk niet opgenomen in de Bijbel. Historici menen namelijk dat waarschijnlijk niemand geloofde dat de teksten op waarheid berustten.
Van den Broek zei dat waarschijnlijk zelfs de schrijver van de teksten het niet geloofde. Maar sommige details, bijvoorbeeld het avondmaal met Jezus, geloofde hij mogelijk wel.
Wonderen
“De mensen in die tijd, zelfs de hoogopgeleiden, hadden geen kritische houding,” zei hij. “Wonderen werden mogelijk geacht en waarom zou een oud verhaal niet waar zijn?”
Van den Broek schreef een boek over zijn bevindingen, getiteld Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem On the Life and the Passion of Christ.
In physics, some of the easiest questions to ask are the most difficult to answer. From the mystery of dark matter to the inevitable end of the universe, there are many questions we just don't have answers for yet.
BIG QUESTIONS IN PHYSICS
Across all disciplines of science there exists an abundance of unanswered questions and mysteries that have endured for as long as humans have attempted to solve them. Perhaps one of the most query-filled fields is physics, which continues to confound even the most brilliant minds. While it’s unlikely that all these quandaries will be answered in our lifetime, some of them may well could be.
Why is there more matter than antimatter?
In theory, the Big Bang should have created as much matter as antimatter in the universe. But it didn’t — at least not as far as physicists can see. Matter is everywhere, all around us — it makes up everything. But so far, we’ve only found small amounts of antimatter. Why is that? Shouldn’t a particle of matter have an antimatter counterpart? It must be that the laws of the universe and nature just don’t apply to antimatter the same way they do to matter. Scientists have to figure out why that is and what it means for the universe.
What is dark energy/dark matter/all this dark stuff?
For all we can see of our universe, there’s much more that we have yet to see — in part because it’s made up of invisible stuff called dark energy and dark matter. The thing is, we haven’t even actually visualized dark matter — only the effect it has on what we can see. Physicists are trying to gain a deeper understanding of the invisible force by studying the behavior of stars and galaxies which appear to react to the presence of it. It is, however, a challenge to study something we can’t see. We need technology to catch up and let us come face-to-face with these “dark” substances.
THE UNIVERSE’S UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
One of the simplest questions to ask may be one of the hardest to answer:
How big is the universe?
Asking how big, or how old, the universe is depends on what part of the universe you’re talking about: the observable universe, or the entirety of it. We know through studying light that the observable universe is around 13.8 billion years old — that’s 46 billion light years. Determining how big even the observable universe is presents challenges because it isn’t a static entity: the universe is still expanding.
Are there parallel universes?
Even though we don’t quite have a handle on our own universe, it hasn’t stopped us from wondering if there are others out there — particularly so-called parallel universes. The idea is part of the multiverse theory, for which there are at least five accepted theories. Those who don’t think it’s possible point out that after the Big Bang, with all that matter taking up space in space, inflation would have slowed down. Because it slowed down, if there were multiverses they wouldn’t be expanding at the same rate as our universe is. That would throw a wrench in the idea of a truly parallel universe.
This is merely a fraction of the questions physicists are asking, and it all kind of comes down to answering one final question: what’s the ultimate fate of the universe? How will it end? Some theories posit that it will be a lot like how it began: a big bang. More specifically, a big crunch. One of the most prominent theories about the inevitable death of the universe is that eventually, as the universe expands, it will eventually reach a density that exceeds critical density — at which point it would collapse in on itself in an event referred to as the Big Crunch. Of course, that’s just one theory. Another posits that the end will be more of an endless void — but in either case, it won’t happen for billions, if not trillions, of years. As far as we know, anyway.
Technical advances in space exploration and science are driving the increased likelihood of making contact with extraterrestrial life. Contact with alien life, especially if it happens soon, has the potential to transform humanity entirely.
TECHNICAL ADVANCES DRIVING CONTACT
Both the most cynical person on Earth and the world’s greatest optimist could easily look at everything around them and ask: could this truly be all there is in the universe? Whatever your reason for posing the question, you may have an answer sooner than you think — and that answer is likely to be “no.” Science writer and comedian Ben Miller posits in his book The Aliens Are Coming! The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe that one of the most powerful forces shaping science today is the growing search for life in the universe fueled by the belief that we are not alone. He believes that because of our current technologies, we’ll know about life on the Earth-like planets closest to us within the next ten years.
It’s easy to see why he thinks so. Scientists have identified an exoplanet that they’ve described as the best candidate for life as we know it — perhaps an even more important a target for planet characterization within habitable zones in the future than either Proxima b or TRAPPIST-1, and these have also recently been discovered. Speaking of Proxima b, the James Webb Telescope is likely to give us the images that will clarify its potential for supporting life, as it will do for other exoplanets.
In recent months scientists have stated that the fast radio bursts we’ve intercepted from outer space may well be evidence of alien life. Now they’re working to discern whether alien technology could be their source. Scientists also now believe that life might exist on Europa, one of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Recently, NASA’s plans to send a lander in search of biosignatures that might signal the presence of extraterrestrial life within its warm core have sprung into action; Europa may be home to a subterranean ocean, making it an ideal place to search for alien life.
Kepler-186f, pictured here in an artist's concept, is the first Earth-size planet to be discovered in a star's habitable zone.
ILLUSTRATION BY NASA AMES/JPL-CALTECH/T. PYLE
In 2016, researchers made improvements to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array that could make finding water on celestial bodies easier. These improvements were specifically directed toward the ongoing search for alien life, as was the partnership between Breakthrough Initiative to find alien life and the National Astronomical Observatories of China. China’s team uses the 488 meter (1,600 foot) FAST telescope, and now it is being used in partnership with the world’s other largest radio telescopes, including the Parkes Observatory in Australia and the Green Bank Telescope in the US, to seek out extraterrestrial life. In 2016 scientists also adopted more accurate methods for studying gravitational pull of distant stars, making it easier to gather data on the size and brightness of the star, the likelihood of water oceans, and possibility of life being present.
AN UTTERLY CHANGED HUMANITY
Why are we so enthralled with this search for other life in the universe? It’s far more than an AV geek, sci-fi con hangover, if that’s your suspicion. Contact could mean extraordinary things for humanity if it happens soon — some of the possibilities are daunting, but most of them are promising.
Stephen Hawking is one of the best-known and most reputable voices who cautions against making first contact with alien life. His argument is simply that we have no way of knowing what’s out there, and that, historically speaking, as more advanced civilizations have come into contact with less advanced cultures, the latter has typically been oppressed and aggressed against, the former seeing it as less valuable. However, it’s worth noting that when we speak historically we are, by necessity, limited to our own recorded human history. What we’re observing may not be a pattern common to all life; it may simply be a pattern common to human cultures.
In contrast, the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute is populated by people who feel we have little, if anything, to lose by seeking out other forms of life. SETI has now given birth to METI International (Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), which is actively seeking out contact. Douglas Vakoch, a professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute for Integral Studies and the president of METI International, strongly disagrees with Hawking. He thinks it is illogical to hide our existence as a species since we have already leaked transmissions from radio and television broadcasts in the form of electromagnetic radiation for almost 100 years. Vakoch concludes that any culture with the technological sophistication to master interstellar travel can already perceive our leaked signals, and are therefore already aware of us, waiting for us to make the first move.
METI, led by Vakoch, is now working to target star systems within 20 or 30 light-years with repeat messages as part of an effort to accumulate data in order to test the Fermi Paradox and the Zoo Hypothesis. Ideally, within a few decades, Vakoch and his team hope that they will generate a testable hypothesis with enough data and standard peer-review methods.
As for Miller, he’s not on Team Hawking, and thinks that the benefits of contact outweigh the risks. The potential to learn about advanced technology for space travel, repairing our planet’s environment, and many other applications is an obvious benefit to contact. For Neil deGrasse Tyson, the big benefit to contact is more profound: right now, our understanding of life is extremely limited, and that is because we only have our own, terrestrial sample of life to study. The notion that we have an understanding of the tremendous diversity of life is somewhat silly when you think of it in this context; our entire set of observations all share a single origin and an encoded existence that transmits heredity and mediates replication via nucleic acids.
Our current understanding of life is too much like the infamous legal definition of pornography — the classic “I know it when I see it” — which, for Tyson, lacks scientific rigor (and to clarify, he is not responsible for that icky analogy). But our explorations of the galaxy to find contact with other forms of life could give us other examples and samples, and a truer sense of what life truly is. This kind of knowledge has the potential to change everything else we think we know, most likely for the better.
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.
Life in the Rocks
Microscopic images of geyserite taken from the Dresser Formation in Australia provide evidence for microbial life that lived 3.48 billion years ago. The ripply "palisade" texture could have been formed when long filaments of bacteria were entombed by the silica from the mineral-rich water from a hot spring.
Credit: Tara Djokic
Ancient rocks found in a remote stretch of Western Australia may contain the world's oldest known evidence of life on land, a new study finds.
The findings hint that early life may have gotten its start in hot springs on land, as opposed to deep inside ocean hydrothermal vents, as is commonly believed, Djokic told Live Science. [Read more about the oldest evidence.]
Sunbathing Toddlers
A group of great white sharks, babies and 1- and 2-year-olds, was spotted off the coast of Dana Point, California, on May 10, 2017.
Credit: Orange County Sheriff’s Department
A group of more than a dozen great white sharks were spotted swimming in the surf off a Southern California beach, but beachgoers shouldn't panic, say shark experts.
These are not bloodthirsty predators, but rather a group of "toddlers," said Chris Lowe, director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach. They are babies and 1- and 2-year-olds, probably 5 to 7 feet (1.5 to 2 meters) long, that are likely moving into the shallow waters because the area is safe and there's plenty of their favorite food, stingrays, Lowe said. [Read more about the swarming sharks.]
Early Printing Specimen
This 540-year-old page, ripped from a medieval priests' handbook, was found in a library at the University of Reading.
Credit: University of Reading
A librarian in England has stumbled upon a rare page from the early days of book printing.
The double-sided page has black-letter typeface and red paragraph marks that gave it away as an early western European printing, according to the university. [Read more about the ancient text.]
AI Struggles
World Chess champion Garry Kasparov (left) ponders a chess move during the sixth and final game of his match with IBM's Deep Blue computer on May 11, 1997.
Credit: Roger Celestin/Newscom
When the IBM computer Deep Blue beat the world's greatest chess player, Garry Kasparov, in the last game of a six-game match on May 11, 1997, the world was astonished. This was the first time any human chess champion had been taken down by a machine.
Archaeologists have reached the burial chamber of the 3,800-year-old pyramid discovering the remains of a poorly preserved sarcophagus and a wooden box inscribed with three lines of hieroglyphs.
Credit: Courtesy of Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities
Inside a 3,800-year-old pyramid at the site of Dahshur in Egypt, archaeologists have discovered a burial chamber that may have held the mummy of a princess named Hatshepset. A wooden box inscribed with hieroglyphs was also found within the chamber.
The wooden box is inscribed with "Hatshepset," which likely does not refer to the pharaoh Hatshepsut but rather someone else with a similar name, the researchers said. Last month, another inscription, written on an alabaster block, was also found in the pyramid. [Read more about the discovery.]
Poop Diet
Studies in mice have garnered attention for a remarkable result: When the feces of one mouse was transplanted to another mouse, the recipient mouse either gained or lost weight.
All of the patients in the study received stool from OpenBiome, a company that provides stool from healthy donors who have healthy BMIs, said Dr. Valery Muenyi, a resident physician in internal medicine at the University of Miami and the lead author of this study. [Read more about the strange procedure.]
Open and Shut
This illustration, based on computer models, shows how the hanging wall (right) of a thrust fault can twist away from the foot wall (left) during an earthquake.
Credit: Harsha Bhat
Like a crocodile's jaw opening and snapping shut, Earth's crust can rip apart and then violently close back up during an earthquake, a new study finds.
The study focused on a particular paradox associated with thrust faults, a crack in Earth’s crust, where geologic forces are slowly pushing a huge slab of continental crust up and over an oceanic layer. [Read more about the mega-quakes.]
Marijuana and Memory
Marijuana's main psychoactive compound, THC, may improve memory, according to a new study in mice.
Previous research in people — in teens and young adults — as well as in young animals has suggested that THC may actually impair cognition, but it was not clear how the compound might affect the aging brain in older individuals. [Read more about the mind-altering blend.]
What Lies Beneath
Forrest Follet from the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University, removes the soil from the lid of one over 35 graves uncovered during construction in 2013.
Credit: The University of Mississippi Medical Center
An estimated 7,000 bodies are thought to be buried under The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), according to radar scans of the campus grounds.
Exhuming and reburying 7,000 bodies could be very expensive — about $3,000 per corpse, or a total of about $21 million — and UMMC is currently investigating options that could relocate the bodies and create both a memorial center and a dedicated lab for analyzing the remains, UMMC representatives added. [Read more about the buried secrets.]
Ghostbusting Dinosaur
An ankylosaur discovered in Montana in 2016 looks eerily like Zuul, a fictional monster from the movie "Ghostbusters."
Credit: Brian Boyle/Copyright Royal Ontario Museum; Columbia Pictures Corporation
What's as long as a pickup truck, as heavy as a white rhinoceros and as weird-looking as Zuul, the monster from the 1984 "Ghostbusters" movie? A newfound species of ankylosaurus.
Like Zuul in "Ghostbusters," Z. crurivastator has a short, rounded snout, large horns and a gnarled appearance, the researchers said. They found the beast in 2016 in Montana's Judith River Formation, a site known for its vast array of dinosaur fossils. [Read more about the ghostly dino.]
A Robot Can Print This $32,000 House in as Little as 8 Hours
A Robot Can Print This $32,000 House in as Little as 8 Hours
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PassivDom uses a 3D printing robot that can print the walls, roof, and floor of a 380-square-foot model home in about eight hours. When complete, the homes are autonomous and mobile, meaning they don't need to connect to external electrical and plumbing systems.
Building a house by hand can be both time-consuming and expensive. Numerous homebuilders have chosen to automate part of the construction (i.e., by printing the home’s parts) instead.
A new Ukrainian homebuilding startup called PassivDom uses a 3D printing robot that can print parts for tiny houses. The machine can print the walls, roof, and floor of PassivDom’s 380-square-foot model in about eight hours. The windows, doors, plumbing, and electrical systems are then added by a human worker.
When complete, the homes are autonomous and mobile, meaning they don’t need to connect to external electrical and plumbing systems. Solar energy is stored in a battery connected to the houses, and water is collected and filtered from humidity in the air (or you can pour water into the system yourself). The houses also feature an independent sewage system.
PassivDom’s homes, which start at $31,900, are now available for preorder online in Ukraine and the US, and the first ones will be delivered later this year.
Check out the homes below.
PassivDom’s smallest model measures 380 square feet and costs $31,900, designer Maria Sorokina tells Business Insider.
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Here’s what the house looks like when you walk in the front door. It’s a large open space with a small kitchen and floor-to-ceiling windows.
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This model doesn’t include a separate bedroom, which means residents need a sleeper sofa. A small bathroom is located near the kitchen.
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PassivDom offers three models of homes and can make custom models as well. The premium models come with furniture, but the one pictured below comes unfurnished.
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The homes also offer the possibility of living off the grid.
“We should have opportunities to live in nature away from civilization, but have comfortable conditions of a traditional house,” Sorokina says. “This technology can allow us to live in the woods, on mountains, or on the shore — far away from people and infrastructure.”
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To make a PassivDom home, the team maps out the plan for the 3D printer in its factories in Ukraine and California. Layer by layer, the seven-axel robot prints the roof, floor, and 20-centimeter-thick walls, which are made of carbon fibers, polyurethane, resins, basalt fibers, and fiberglass.
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Doors, windows, appliances, an alarm system, solar panels, and the septic, electrical, healing, cooling systems are then added.
Depending on the model, the whole process can take under 24 hours. The design and production of larger houses with more specifications and finishes, like the one below, can take up to a month. If a house is premade, it can be shipped the next day.
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The startup believes 3D printing is a cheaper, more efficient way to build homes that it can sell at a (relatively) affordable price. “Over 100 million people do not have a roof over their heads,” Sorokina says. “It is necessary to build more affordable houses.”
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PassivDom is not the only company using 3D printing to build homes. The San Francisco-based housing startup Apis Cor, Dus Architects in Amsterdam, as well as Branch Technology from Chattanooga, Tennessee, say they can construct homes in mere days or weeks.
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Revealed: Top Secret Base where Alien Bodies and UFOs are kept—Its NOT Area51
Revealed: Top Secret Base where Alien Bodies and UFOs are kept—Its NOT Area51
Area 51 is a top-secret airbase for the CIA and military to test super-secret aircraft years ahead of what the general public is aware of. But there aren’t any UFOS there claims Ufologist. There is, however, an area just to the south and on the same Tonopah Test Range called S4. Based on insider information, this is where work on extraterrestrial recovered craft takes place.
Ever since the Roswell UFO incident—1947, people have gone crazy about the idea that the United State Government recovered alien bodies and a wrecked alien spaceship.
According to several UFOlogists, what crashed in Roswell was NOT a ‘Conventional weather balloon’ as we’ve been told, but a real alien spaceship which was ‘confiscated’ by the government.
The Roswell case has remained at the heart of the UFO scene ever since the US military announced—then denied—in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the nearby desert, of Roswell in July 1947. It is considered by many ufologists as the most important event in the history of UFOs. The Roswell case has caused rivers of ink to flow, as countless stories theories, lies and denials appeared over the years.
But where did they take the bodies and wreckage? Many people are convinced that Area51 is where alien technology and alien bodies were taken to.
However, several Ufologists—among them Jan Harzan, executive director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)—believes crashed FOs and alien bodies WERE NOT taken to Area 51, but to another secret facility located in the vicinity.
In an interview with Forbes, Mr. Harzan was asked if he thought Roswell was real or a hoax.
He said: “Real. Get a copy of the video presentation of ‘Recollections of Roswell’ filmed by MUFON member and well-known UFO researcher Stanton Friedman.
“It is interviews with some 30 survivors of Roswell, including first-hand witnesses, their spouses, and their children.
“What they tell you will send chills up your spine.
“If you don’t believe something extraordinary happened after watching this video, then nothing will convince you. I can tell you this: It was no weather balloon.”
So If Roswell was REAL, and a UFO—or several UFOs for that matter—crashed in the desert, where were the bodies and wreckage taken to? Mr. Hazan believes he know where.
“Area 51 is a top-secret airbase for the CIA and military to test super-secret aircraft years ahead of what the general public is aware of. As best we know, there are no UFOs or aliens at Area 51.
“There is, however, an area just to the south and on the same Tonopah Test Range called S4. Based on insider information, this is where work on extraterrestrial recovered craft takes place. So when the President, or other officials proudly proclaim that there are no UFOs or aliens at Area 51, they may be technically correct because they are at S4.”
Interestingly, several whistleblowers—among them Bob Lazar—claim Area S4 is real.
Robert Scott “Bob” Lazar claims to have worked on reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology at a site called S4, in the Emigrant Valley and Old Kelley Mine area near the Area 51 test facility.
Lazar alleges that the S4 facility is located near the Papoose Range within Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Test Range and is accessed via a dirt road. The details that Lazar provided regarding S4 are very non-specific, with Lazar having stated that he was transported in a blacked-out bus to the site which did not allow him to see the landscape.
Groom Lake (upper left) with Papoose Lake noticeable at the lower right
The name “S4 Area 51” appears in the controversial Majestic 12 (MJ-12) documents. According to Lazar’s claims, access to the area is highly restricted by the United States government to the public.
30 seconden: dat is wat het lot van de dinosaurussen 65 miljoenen jaar geleden wel eens bezegeld zou kunnen hebben. Een team van Amerikaanse en Engelse wetenschappers heeft berekend dat als de meteoriet - die toen een einde maakte aan drie kwart van het leven op aarde - seconden vroeger of later was ingeslagen, de wereld er nu wel eens heel anders had kunnen uitzien. Vermoedelijk zonder ons.
Het was zowat de grootste verdwijntruc uit de geschiedenis van onze planeet. Wetenschappers van de University of Texas en Imperial College Londen vroegen zich af hoe een meteoriet - die in vergelijking met de aarde niet eens zo groot was - toch zo een gigantische impact kon hebben. In verhouding was het alsof een korrel zand tegen een bowlingbal was gevlogen.
"De meteoriet raakte de aarde gewoon op een heel ongelukkige plaats", aldus geofysicaprofessor Sean Gullick van de University of Texas in Austin. "Ze verpulverde een dikke rotslaag vol zwavel, waardoor die verdampte in de atmosfeer en het licht van de zon tegenhield. Daardoor werd de aarde in een globale winter gedompeld. Exit de dinosauriërs. Na 150 miljoen jaar heerschappij."
Oceaan Maar was de meteoriet 30 seconden vroeger of later ingeslagen, zou hij wel eens veel minder schade berokkend kunnen hebben. En zouden de dinosaurussen nog kunnen hebben geleefd. Het ruimtepuin zou dan in de oceaan terechtgekomen zijn, wat een veel kleinere impact gehad zou hebben.
De wetenschappers boorden voor hun onderzoek ongeveer anderhalve kilometer diep in de bodem op de plek waar de meteoriet insloeg, vlakbij het Mexicaanse schiereiland Yucatan: de Chicxulubkrater in de Golf van Mexico. En ze vonden voor de allereerste keer bewijs voor de these. "Volgens de stalen moet er meer dan 100 miljard ton zwavel in de atmosfeer terecht zijn gekomen, plus het roet van de branden die uitbraken", aldus professor Joanna Morgan van het Imperial College Londen. "Dat was genoeg om de planeet een decennium lang af te koelen en bijna al het bestaande leven uit te roeien. Maar het bood ook kansen aan nieuwe soorten. Zoals wij."
De wetenschappers konden ook bepalen dat de meteoriet 15 kilometer breed moet zijn geweest en onze aarde geraakt moet hebben met 65.000 kilometer per uur. Ze kwamen ook tot nieuwe inzichten in hoe dergelijke inslagen mee de toekomst van planeten bepaalt en condities kunnen creëren voor het ontstaan van nieuw leven. Het gaf ook een nieuwe kijk op hoe het oppervlak van een planeet zich bijna als vloeistof gedraagt als een meteoriet inslaat, terwijl tot nu toe eerder gedacht werd dat inslagen de oppervlakte vervormen, doordat de bodem rond de krater wegsmelt.
De resultaten van het onderzoek zijn te zien in de nieuwe documentaire 'The Day the Dinosaurs Died', die morgenavond, 15 mei te zien is op BBC2 om 22 uur.
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA verschuift de eerste test met de nieuwe ruimtecapsule van november 2018 naar ten vroegste 2019. De Orion moet op een dag mensen naar en van Mars vervoeren.
De eerste onbemande test loopt vertraging op nadat het Witte Huis een haalbaarheidsstudie naar de kosten, veiligheid en technische vereisten heeft gevraagd. Ook de tweede test, EM-2, die ten vroegste in augustus 2021 is gepland, heeft wellicht vertraging. Dan zal de capsule voor het eerst astronauten vervoeren.
Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau werkt momenteel ook aan het Space Launch System (SLS), dat de Orion naar de Maan en Mars moet slingeren. Het wordt de krachtigste draagraket ooit.
Het Europese ruimtevaartbureau ESA heeft de dienstmodule voor de Orion ontwikkeld. De Orion en het SLS zijn het antwoord op het op stal zetten van de spaceshuttles eerder dit decennium, in de nasleep van het dodelijke ongeluk met het ruimteveer Columbia op 1 februari 2003.
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Mysterieus onnatuurlijk voorwerp gezien op de maan. Is dit het werk van aliens?
Mysterieus onnatuurlijk voorwerp gezien op de maan. Is dit het werk van aliens?
Een mysterieus voorwerp op de maan is mogelijk ‘een tank’, aldus UFO-onderzoekers. Of het is een ‘vreemd gevormde rots’. Dat meldt Fox News.
YouTube-kanaal SecureTeam 10 heeft een video geplaatst waarin naar verluidt een ‘buitenaardse tank’ is te zien die achtergelaten is door een onbekende beschaving.
“Er is een tankachtig object ontdekt op de maan,” zei SecureTeam 10 in de video. “Eromheen bevinden zich naar wat lijkt een soort ruïnes.”
Sporen
De onderzoekers, die al vele andere UFO-gerelateerde video’s hebben gemaakt, merkten op dat het ook een vreemd gevormde rots kan zijn.
In de video zijn ook sporen op de maan te zien, alleen het is niet duidelijk of er een verband is tussen de sporen en de vermeende tank.
Vreemde activiteit
SecureTeam 10 heeft bijna 900.000 abonnees op YouTube en plaatst vaak video’s die gaan over complottheorieën.
De organisatie beschrijft zichzelf als de bron van nieuws over UFO-waarnemingen, informatie over de cover-up rond de ruimtevaart en vreemde activiteit op aarde en daarbuiten.
The eagle-eyed viewers saw the bizarre disc-like “craft” zooming off into space from the ISS.
Video apparently shows the craft get close to the station, which is constantly manned by astronauts from NASA, Roscosmos and the ESA.
Alien enthusiasts online have claimed it is further proof there is a large population of ETs in space.
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SPOTTED: Alien enthusiasts claim they spotted a UFO at the ISS
UFO blogger Scott Waring hailed it as an excellent example of an alien spaceship.
He wrote: “It is seen on the other side of the solar panels in the far distance.
“It looks like it is the size of a city bus and is disc-shaped.”
He also claimed that if you regularly watch the live feed of the space station you are guaranteed to see a UFO.
It’s just the latest “alien” sighting at the ISS.
Last month, outlandish claims emerged of a NASA alien cover up over accusations the US space agency cuts the feed to the station when a UFO approaches.
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Aliens Are Already Here, Canadian Scientist Says
Aliens Are Already Here, Canadian Scientist Says
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Stanton Friedman is convinced aliens are already here on Earth.
Stanton Friedman is convinced aliens are already here on Earth.
UFO sightings are reported in nearly every country in the world. However, there has never been any substantial evidence that aliens exist or are visiting earth.
On the other hand, someone is entirely confident that aliens have been visiting humanity. He is a Canadian researcher and nuclear physicist.
Stanton Friedman believes that aliens have been here on Earth many times, but they simply don’t have plans yet to reveal their existence.
The Canadian scientist stressed that they have sufficient proof to prove beyond doubt that aliens have visited the Earth, but the information was kept secret from the public to prevent chaos. Friedman explained that there would be mass panic and great concern if the information is made available in public.
However, Stanton pointed out that it is easy for aliens to make themselves seen and they will bound to do it.
The 82-year-old scientist has been leading the UFO movement and claiming he has worked several secret investigations.
His theory states that aliens choose to remain in shadows until they are ready to colonize earthlings and prevent humans to populate other planets. Friedman explains that this is because humans have proven to be evil.
Another reason that Friedman noted is on political grounds. He says that the Earth is a race among U.S., Russia, and China. Anyone of them can copy the technology of aliens and will automatically become the most powerful.
Rolling Stone Guitarist Spotted A UFO While In Brazil
Rolling Stone Guitarist Spotted A UFO While In Brazil
Rolling Stone guitarist’s ex-wife Jo Wood revealed in a chat with Peter Andre that Ronnie Wood saw a UFO while on holiday in Brazil. The guitarist, 69, saw the spaceship hovered over the sea in shining strange lights, which freaked him out, according to his 62-year-old ex-wife Jo, who split from the rocker in 2008.
Jo said that they were in Recife in Brazil with their children. Ronnie was reportedly out wandering around when he started calling the attention of his ex-wife to come and see something weird above the sea.
Jo claimed that they spotted the giant UFO above the sea having strange shining lights that came down. The lights then suddenly went off and on many times until it was gone without a trace.
Jo shared the story to Peter Andre, 44, as part of This Morning new three-part series about paranormal and supernatural. Peter also revealed he had an unusual experience in Nevada Desert. He said that he saw mysterious objects going from one point to another in split seconds, disappearing and reappearing, which blew his mind.
Earlier in the week, the Rolling Stone announced 13 shows in September and October throughout the course of their European tour.
This presentation is from the December 2016 meeting of the Arizona chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Governments around the world have felt compelled to act on credible UFO sightings. The United States, Great Britain and France have had official UFO investigation departments, and have released thousands of files. What many do not know is that France and several South American countries currently have active official government and/or military UFO research organizations. We will examine these organizations, past and present, and the amazing UFO cases that have prompted their creation.
Light Or Fire Beam Destroys Construction Site In Texas
Light Or Fire Beam Destroys Construction Site In Texas
Strange UFO Incident, 1966 Light Or Fire Beam Destroys Construction Site In Texas
In October or November of 1966, J. R. “Milo” Ponce, a deputy sheriff with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Department, received a phone call at around midnight from the sheriff’s department dispatcher, George Rapp. The dispatcher stated that someone had called in to report a group of “disturbed” men standing alongside Farm to Market Highway 490, north of Edinburg, Texas, near Laguna Seca Road.
In October or November of 1966, J. R. “Milo” Ponce, a deputy sheriff with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Department, received a phone call at around midnight from the sheriff’s department dispatcher, George Rapp. The dispatcher stated that someone had called in to report a group of “disturbed” men standing alongside Farm to Market Highway 490, north of Edinburg, Texas, near Laguna Seca Road.
HI Ken : On the 8th of May 2017 at 1:31 PM I spotted a UFO that was going vertically up into the sky at great speed. I quickly took two photographs of the object. Then at 1:44 PM I witnessed the same object coming back down vertically heading in the direction from where it had originally come from. I managed to take another two photographs that once again show the object in flight.
The photographs were taken on the 8th of May 2017 at Newton Abbot Devon England. Photograph one and two were taken at 1:31 PM while Photograph three and four were taken at 1:44 PM. Having witnessed many UFO on the same flight path going back and forth it leads me to believe that there must be an alien base somewhere in the vicinity. The area from where this UFO are emerging seems to be Decoy Country Park. Decoy Country Park has a Very Deep lake that was once a clay quarry. Ball clay was found at Decoy in the late 19th century and the clay was both mined and quarried at the site from 1850 until 1965. When the quarrying ceased the pit quickly filled with water and became the deep lake that we see today.
I believe that these objects are going in and out of this lake undetected. I know for a fact that these alien craft have the ability to cloak and become completely invisible to the naked eye, furthermore they have the ability to enter the water without making a splash or any sound. I believe that there could be an alien base or a portal at the bottom of Decoy lake and I also believe this is were the alien crafts are emerging from. Decoy lake would be a great place to hide and be undetected. Two years ago while investigating this area for any evidence of this I had an encounter with a Pleiadian being. For me this is proof that aliens are in this area and that there is a base in the vicinity. All the Best John
I’m talking to my friend and just enjoying the evening, we’re paddling, you know, we get to that, we get to the point where we have to make the curve and hit the last stretch. When we came around the curve, made that last stretch, I’m looking straight on to the source of the lights and the source of the lights was not on the bank or on the water’s edge, the source of the lights was set back into the woods. And at a 100 yards it was, it clearly looked odd to me. It was clearly something there, a piece of equipment, a machine, an object, something fairly large but it certainly wasn’t fishermen along the bank fishing. Okay, what is this? I don’t know but we’re going to find out because we’re drifting and slowly paddling closer to it. I would say probably at 75 yards out I can clearly tell this was a conical shaped object. Why was it conical because I could clearly see the side of it, the cut off top, the bottom, it was conical in a curve because on the right-hand side, my view looking straight ahead, on the right-hand side, it had three stationary lights lit up. I would call them bars or strips, bars, one two three clearly defining the curve of the object. They were amber in color, amber as in the same exact color that you find on your car in your driveway, your signal light. And they were just lit up. The machine was whitish, glowing. The forest floor all around it had an aura of a fog, a haze, something that you would see maybe as a special effect that would occur with the dry ice, the evaporation of the CO2 but yet there was no movement to it. There was just a white foggy aura over the earth. At 50 yards I can clearly see two entities… What it was, I don’t know, but it was two, not one, but two… two figurines that were hiding behind the machine. I’ll call it a machine. They were hiding because they were clearly looking out the side, peering out the side, taking a peek and watching us. They were watching us because at 50 yards I had started to communicate what my curiosity was. What is this? What am I looking at here? So I yelled out to them. ‘How’s it going tonight? How are you doing?’ Nothing. Dead silent. It was so dead silent that I didn’t hear a cricket. I didn’t hear a hear a frog. I didn’t hear anything.
The whole environment around us is dead silent. Calm, warm, muggy evening. The two figurines, as I yelled out to them, at that point in time, have ferried behind the machine and made a quick duck behind the machine to hide. Okay, I don’t know what this is going on? I don’t even know what I’m looking at? This is odd. It was odd. What is this machine? What was it doing there? What did I just witness? I just witnessed two figurines, pale, white, with dark black shiny eyes They were larger than mine is the most identifying feature I can make to what I just witnessed. My friend sitting in front of me is witnessing this exact same thing. From a hundred yards to the 50-yard event I had been communicating with my friend and all the way up asking, ‘What is this? What the hell is this?’ I badgered this poor guy so much that he snapped back, I mean, he said, ‘I don’t know what it is, shut up!’ He was nervous. What were we watching. As we got closer, now, I’m within thirty 30 yards. The current is taking me towards this beaver dam. I’m no longer paddling. There’s no need to paddle. My eyes are focused on something and I can’t make out what it is and I, once again, the land is aglow, the machine is sitting there. I would say it’s about eight to nine feet tall. It clearly stood on at least three legs that I could tell. It had an additional feature to it. It had light. I call it light. It had an object on top of it and on the left hand side, as I’m looking at it, would be on the top left, during my shout out to whatever it is, I’m shouting out to with no reply, at a certain point in time, I couldn’t tell you if it was 50 yards. I’ll say 50 yards. It was a little bit of a distance.”
THE STRANGE LIGHT
After the figurines had ducked back in to hide, this object, on top of the machine I’ll call it, it made a complete 180 and turned around, nice and slow, and shined right at us which appeared to me to be a typical spotlight, a floodlight of some sort. Only problem was, it was shining right at us. This round white light source but there is no light shining on our canoe, our bodies, on the water. I don’t know how but we were not lit up despite this light shining on us. This did raise a few hackles on our neck, I guess. This is not natural for this type of thing to happen. I’m curious but I’m also respectful not to, you know, butt in where I don’t belong. I’m assuming whatever’s going on maybe I don’t need to know. Maybe it’s none of my business. Am I seeing something beyond my comprehension, what’s on this earth? Is this entity not human? This machine is nothing like I’ve ever seen in my life. What is it? No clue. Yet it’s there. It is in front of me big as day. It’s silent. No communication. As we drift closer now, we can’t be more than 30 yards from this machine in the woods. The canoe makes its way through the current and finally lands on top of the washed-out beaver dam.
THE WAVING ENTITY ENCOUNTER
At that point in time, you know, we actually literally have to get out of the canoe, just kind of drag it over a little bit, so we could carry on. At that point in time, before we did this, now I’m standing there, you know, we’re just stuck there for a while, just looking at it and, standing right there, just came out of nowhere, standing right there, about 15 feet across for me, to where the water is, to where the bank is, is now standing there, one of those entities that we saw earlier, standing right there 15 feet from me. It looks like a figurine. No identifiable clothes. No identifiable anything. It looks like a figurine. I can only describe it as an artist’s model doll that they use, where they are posed to draw with, this smooth normal shape figurine. This is exactly what it looked like. At 15 feet I should have been able to make out great detail of clothes, of what it was, unfortunately, we’re in pitch-black darkness, the light source of the machine, the glowing light, is 30 yards back, the figurine is half that distance. It’s 15 feet right in front of me yet it’s facing me and what all I’m seeing is the dark side of it much like you would at a campfire sitting around with your friend; you two could all see each other’s faces, but if you were to get up and turn and face away from the fire to talk to an incoming incoming friend, they probably wouldn’t see your face or be able to make out who you were because you are now black. There’s no light shining on you. This unfortunately was the situation for me. It was right there 15 feet away yet I’m looking at just its outline against the light backdrop and it’s just this figurine shape; no identifiable clothes, no hats, no shorts, sleeve shirt, sleeves, no pants that I could tell. He’s smooth, very defined figurine. The figurine made an attempt to communicate with us at this time.
Okay, so, during this peculiarity, as I’ll call it, I’m a mechanic by trade, I’m the tradesman, worked on all types of equipment. I can’t tell you I’ve ever seen anything that quite looked like this object, this machine, nothing that I know of in the world. Never seen anything like it what it could possibly be used for? It was a conical shaped machine of some sort. Back to our friends, our figurine entities who were hiding and that from us, who showed apprehension, I would say, I would call it, didn’t reply to us like a human being would. Who wouldn’t shout, who wouldn’t shout back if you’re only 30 yards away as I’m yelling out to you. I’m just a fisherman in a canoe with a friend, fishing, you could be anybody in the woods at a campsite or whatever it is you’re doing. Perhaps you were doing something you shouldn’t have been doing. I couldn’t tell you if anything like that was going on. My story is, I think, it has much more going on than that, but at that point time we had reached that Beaver Dam. We were stuck there. We had to get out and leave. I’m looking at an angle. I’m standing here in a canoe and I’m looking back at an angle, this figurine is standing right there not 15 feet from me. So all that’s separating me is the water. To them, I’m on 15 feet of water to that bank. It’s looking right at me, of course, like I told you, it is pitch black out and so I could see its perfect figurine outline against the lit background of the machine that it’s, it’s behind it. Well, this is what the figurine did to me and my friend and I take this as a form of communication, I would say. You could see its arm, I’ll call it an arm. It’s appendage. You can clearly tell it had a flat sleek hand, probably had a thumb, you see the V here, it didn’t wave but it’s arm was perpendicular to its torso, very square, like perpendicular, just like this, and this is what it did, in this very slow motion form of a wave, I guess, and its wrist was very articulated, just like, you see what I’m doing with mine, just like this.
That was too much at that point time for my friend to handle. I think he got nervous. This was a very odd experience as you could tell by this story. At that point in time, he had already jumped out of the canoe, yanked it from out from underneath me, I was literally, almost fell into the water, I had the paddle to stop me from going face-first into the into the creek. I grabbed the canoe and yelled some choice words to stop and wait a damn minute and at that time, I had looked back at my figurine friend here, who was now no longer waving. He was just standing there in a very statuesque pose, doing nothing. I never felt I was in any kind of danger. I never felt that I was in trouble. My curiosity overcame all these things but yet something told me to get the hell out of Dodge with my friend and leave which is what we did.
In my recent article, “UFO: From New Mexico to Rendlesham Forest?” I highlighted certain now-declassified New Mexico Police files on cattle-mutilations. Specifically those prepared by Office Gabe Valdez, of Espanola, NM, in the mid-to-late 1970s. It’s well worth noting too, however, the sheer level of high-strangeness that appears in additional papers concerning Valdez’s investigations into the mysterious killings. So, here goes…
On the matter of whether or not the mutilations were the work of cults or natural predators, Valdez said in one particular 1970s report: “Both have been ruled out due to expertise and preciseness and the cost involved to conduct such a sophisticated and secretive operation. It should also be noted that during the spring of 1974 when a tremendous amount of cattle were lost due to heavy snowfalls, the carcasses had been eaten by predators. These carcasses did not resemble the carcasses of the mutilated cows. Investigation has narrowed down to these theories which involve (1) Experimental use of Vitamin B12 and (2) The testing of the lymph node system. During this investigation an intensive study has been made of (3) What is involved in germ warfare testing, and the possible correlation of these 3 factors (germ warfare testing, use of Vitamin B12, testing of the lymph node system).”
A further, very strange, report can be found in Valdez’s files, this time from 1978: “This four year old cross Hereford and Black Angus native cow was found lying on left side with rectum, sex organs, tongue, and ears removed. Pinkish blood from [illegible] was visible, and after two days the blood still had not coagulated. Left front and left rear leg were pulled out of their sockets apparently from the weight of the cow which indicates that it was lifted and dropped back to the ground. The ground around and under the cow was soft and showed indentations where the cow had been dropped. 600 yards away from the cow were the 4-inch circular indentations similar to the ones found at the Manuel Gomez ranch on 4-24-78. This cow had been dead approximately [illegible] hours and was too decomposed to extract samples. This is the first in a series of mutilations in which the cows’ legs are broken. Previously the animals had been lifted from the brisket with a strap. These mutilated animals all dehydrate rapidly (in one or two days).”
As the summer of 1978 progressed, so did the number of reports where elevated radiation readings were found, as Valdez noted in his records: “It is believed that this type of radiation is not harmful to humans, although approximately 7 people who visited the mutilation site complained of nausea and headaches. However, this writer has had no such symptoms after checking approximately 11 mutilations in the past 4 months. Identical mutilations have been taking place all over the Southwest. It is strange that no eye witnesses have come forward or that no accidents [have] occurred. One has to admit that whoever is responsible for the mutilations is very well organized with boundless financing and secrecy. Writer is presently getting equipment through the efforts of Mr. Howard Burgess, Albuquerque, N.M. to detect substances on the cattle which might mark them and be picked up by infra-red rays but not visible to the naked eye.”
A lengthy document, prepared by Forrest S. Putman, the FBI’s Special-Agent-in-Charge at Albuquerque, New Mexico was soon thereafter sent to the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. It read: “Information furnished to this office by Officer Valdez indicates that the animals are being shot with some type of paralyzing drug and the blood is being drawn from the animal after an injection of an anti-coagulant. It appears that in some instances the cattle’s legs have been broken and helicopters without any identifying numbers have reportedly been seen in the vicinity of these mutilations. Officer Valdez theorizes that clamps are being placed on the cow’s legs and they are being lifted by helicopter to some remote area where the mutilations are taking place and then the animal is returned to its original pasture. The mutilations primarily consist of removal of the tongue, the lymph gland, lower lip and the sexual organs of the animal.
“Much mystery has surrounded these mutilations, but according to witnesses they give the appearance of being very professionally done with a surgical instrument, and according to Valdez, as the years progress, each surgical procedure appears to be more professional. Officer Valdez has advised that in no instance, to his knowledge, are these carcasses ever attacked by predator or scavenger animals, although there are tracks which would indicate that coyotes have been circling the carcass from a distance. Special Agent Putman then informed the Director of the outcome of Valdez’s run-ins with officials.
“He also advised that he has requested Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to conduct investigation for him but until just recently has always been advised that the mutilations were done by predatory animals. Officer Valdez stated that just recently he has been told by two assistants at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory that they were able to determine the type of tranquilizer and blood anti-coagulant that have been utilized.”
Special Agent Putman then demonstrated to headquarters the astonishing scale of the mutilation puzzle: “Officer Valdez stated that Colorado probably has the most mutilations occurring within their State and that over the past four years approximately 30 have occurred in New Mexico. He stated that of these 330, 15 have occurred on Indian Reservations but he did know that many mutilations have gone unreported which have occurred on the Indian reservations because the Indians, particularly in the Pueblos, are extremely superstitious and will not even allow officers in to investigate in some instances. Officer Valdez stated since the outset of these mutilations there have been an estimated 8,000 animals mutilated which would place the loss at approximately $1,000,000.”
Putman additionally advised the director of the FBI that: “It is obvious if mutilations are to be solved there is a need for a coordinated effort so that all material available can be gathered and analyzed and further efforts synchronized. Whether the FBI should assume this role is a matter to be decided. If we are merely to investigate and direct our efforts toward the 15 mutilated cattle on the Indian reservation we, I believe, will be in the same position as the other law enforcement agencies at this time and would be seeking to achieve an almost impossible task.
“It is my belief that if we are to participate in any manner that we should do so fully, although this office and the USA’s office are at a loss to determine what statute our investigative jurisdiction would be in this matter. If we are to act solely as a coordinator or in any other official capacity the sooner we can place this information in the computer bank, the better off we would be and in this regard it would be my recommendation that an expert in the computer field at the Bureau travel to Albuquerque in the very near future so that we can determine what type of information will be needed so that when the invitation for the April conference is submitted from Senator Schmitt’s Office that the surrounding States will be aware of the information that is needed to place in the computer. It should be noted that Senator Schmitt’s Office is coordinating the April conference and will submit the appropriate invitations and with the cooperation of the USA, Mr. Thompson will chair this conference. The FBI will act only as a participant.”
Putman went on to describe the theories that had been advanced to try and explain the phenomenon: “Since this has not been investigated by the FBI in any manner we have no theories whatsoever as to why or what is responsible for these cattle mutilations. Officer Gabe Valdez is very adamant in his opinion that these mutilations are the work of the U. S. Government and that it is some clandestine operation either by the CIA or the Department of Energy and in all probability is connected with some type of research into biological warfare. His main reason for these beliefs is that he feels that he was given the ‘run around’ by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and they are attempting to cover up this situation. There are also theories that these are cults (religious) of some type of Indian rituals resulting in these mutilations and the wildest theory advanced is that they have some connection with unidentified flying objects.”
In the closing section of his report, Putman said: “If we are to assume an investigative posture into this area, the matter of manpower, of course, becomes a consideration and I am unable to determine at this time the amount of manpower that would be needed to give this our full attention so that a rapid conclusion could be reached. The Bureau is requested to furnish its comments and guidance on this whole situation including, if desired, the Legal Counsel’s assessment of jurisdictional question. An early response would be needed, however, so that we might properly, if requested to do so, obtain the data bank information. If it appears that we are going to become involved in this matter, it is obvious that there would be a large amount of correspondence necessary and Albuquerque would suggest a code name be established of BOVMUT.”
The ultimate outcome was that in 1980, a funded study overseen by a then-retired FBI Special Agent, Kenneth M. Rommel, concluded that, “A perusal of this report reflect it adds nothing new in regard to potential investigation by the Albuquerque FBI of alleged mutilations on Indian lands in New Mexico.”
And that is where matters continue to stand. The FBI was – and still is – officially out of the cattle-mutilation issue. Gabe Valdez, however, continued with his research – right up until the time of his death in 2011.
The search for extraterrestrial life has lately been focused on fast radio bursts (FRBs), short but incredibly powerful spikes in radio signals coming from beyond our own galaxy. While some scientists have optimistically pointed to these as proof of advanced alien civilizations, there are plenty of naturally-occurring astrophysical phenomena which could just as easily create such spikes.
These radio bursts clearly stand out against baseline background noise.
However, a recently-discovered FRB seems to defy the explanations astrophysicists typically assign to such anomalous signals. In a new pre-publication study on arXiv.org, an international body of astronomers searched for the usual follow-up signals across radio, optical, X-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino emission bands. None were found.
The signal was picked up by radio telescopes at the Parkes Observatory in Australia.
The study’s main author, Emily Petroff from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, told Gizmodo that this latest radio burst is a complete anomaly. Astronomers all over the world ran various tests to determine what its origin might be, Petroff says, but none of those tests was conclusive:
We spent a lot of time with a lot of telescopes to find anything associated with it. We got new wavelength windows we’ve never gotten before. We looked for high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos…we ruled out some source classes but no detection is a little unhelpful. We’re still trying to figure out where this one came from. It’s not very often in science that you get to work on something that’s so brand new and so unknown that you get to answer the fundamental questions.
This particular radio burst, named FRB 150215, passed through an incredibly dense region of the Milky Way on its way to Earth, possibly beaming through a tiny gap between stars and other bodies along the way.
Such bursts typically only last a few milliseconds.
While some might say this is a sign that the signal was beamed intentionally towards us by an advanced race of aliens, Petroff has been insisting through her Twitter account that she does not believe the radio burst has an alien origin. In all likelihood, there is a perfectly natural explanation for the radio signal such as a gamma ray burst or exploding star, but our telescopes likely missed it just prior to detecting the burst. Still, discovering how to identify and trace the origins of these signals might some day lead to that one lucky discovery which changes everything – or crush our hopes and make us realize just how alone we are.
Observations by NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes show the atmosphere of the distant “warm Neptune” world HAT-P-26b, illustrated here, is unexpectedly primitive. Credit: NASA/GSFC
Astronomers have spotted water vapor and evidence of exotic clouds in the atmosphere of an alien planet known as HAT-P-26b.
The researchers also determined that HAT-P-26b's atmosphere is dominated by hydrogen and helium to a much greater degree than that of Neptune or Uranus, the alien world's closest counterparts in our own solar system in terms of mass.
"This exciting new discovery shows that there is a lot more diversity in the atmospheres of these exoplanets than we have previously thought," David Sing, an astrophysics professor at the University of Exeter in England, said in a statement. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
"This 'warm Neptune' is a much smaller planet than those we have been able to characterize in depth, so this new discovery about its atmosphere feels like a big breakthrough in our pursuit to learn more about how solar systems are formed, and how it compares to our own," added Sing, the co-leader of a new study about HAT-P-26b that was published online today (May 11) in the journal Science.
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The planet has been described as a "warm neptune"
WATER AND ALIEN CLOUDS
HAT-P-26b lies about 430 light-years away from Earth. The alien planetcircles very close to its host star, completing one orbit every 4.2 Earth days. This proximity suggests that HAT-P-26b is tidally locked, showing the same face to its star at all times, said Hannah Wakeford, co-leader of the new study and a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Sing, Wakeford and their colleagues analyzed observations made by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes when HAT-P-26b crossed its parent star's face from the telescopes' perspectives. The planet's atmosphere filtered out certain wavelengths of starlight during these "transits," allowing the study team to identify some of the molecules swirling in HAT-P-26b's air.
One such molecule is water.
"For this mass range, this is the strongest water-absorption feature that we have ever measured," Wakeford told Space.com.
The data also indicate that clouds scud across HAT-P-26b's skies, but relatively deep in the atmosphere; they do not block much of the water-absorption signal, Wakeford said. These clouds are probably made of disodium sulfide, not water vapor like those of Earth, she added.
"This would be a very alien sky that you would be looking at," Wakeford said. "These clouds would cause scattering in all of the colors, so you'd get a kind of scattery, washed-out, gray sky, which is interesting, if you were looking through these clouds."
Ultrabright light streaming from the nearby star would bombard an observer above the clouds, she added. "There's nothing there to really help stop that sunlight from reaching you."
CLUES ABOUT PLANET FORMATION
Using the transit data, the study team also calculated the "metallicity" of HAT-P-26b's atmosphere — how much of it is made up of elements other than hydrogen and helium. (To an astronomer, anything heavier than helium is a metal.)
In Earth's solar system, metallicity goes down as a planet's mass goes up. For example, Neptune and Uranus both have metallicities about 100 times greater than that of the sun (which is almost entirely hydrogen and helium), whereas the much larger Saturn and Jupiter are just 10 and five times more metallic than the sun, respectively.
But HAT-P-26b does not fit that pattern. Though the exoplanet is about as massive as Neptune, its metallicity is more in line with that of Jupiter, the researchers in the new study found.
This surprising bit of information holds clues about HAT-P-26b's formation and evolution, Wakeford said.
"It suggests that this smaller planet actually formed closer to its star, more like where Jupiter formed," she said. "And we didn't know before that you could form [such] planets in that region. We expected the smaller worlds to be formed further out, where they would accumulate clumps of icy debris and richer heavy elements during the formation in the [protoplanetary] disk." (In these scenarios, planets such as HAT-P-26b migrate inward, toward their stars, after they form.)
Over the last decade or so, NASA's Kepler space telescope and other planet-hunting instruments have revealed a staggering array of alien worlds and solar system architectures. The new study, and others like it, should help researchers better understand the reasons for this variety, Wakeford said.
"This is the first step toward looking at the diversity in the formation process as well," she said.
As fascinated as we are with the possibility of alien life, humanity does not have a plan for how to respond to aliens if they contact us. But however we respond, first contact is sure to change our world forever.
A CELESTIAL SEARCH
From the pointy ears of Vulcans to the sharp fangs of the Xenomorph, humans have long envisioned what alien species must be like. Will they be humanoid, or completely unfamiliar? Friendly, or violent?
We have no evidence of what extraterrestrials are like — or if they exist to begin with — but that hasn’t stopped us from looking for them. For years, organizations like SETI and NASA have been scouring the galaxy and our solar system for signs of alien life — and have actually found a few. Some scientists say fast radio bursts could be explained by otherworldly intelligence, and NASA just announced that they have detected molecules that could suggest life on one of Saturn’s moons.
Despite our many creative tests, we have yet to discover conclusive proof of life originating from another world. And perhaps this is for the best, as, for the moment, Earth has not come to a consensus on how to react to alien lifeforms — or if we should even interact with them at all.
While humanity has not developed a protocol for alien encounters, we do have a a scale, called the “Rio Scale,” for determining how important your evidence of aliens is. It was developed by researchers at SETI and evaluates your discovery based on four criteria. It calculates your score (available here for the next time you spot a UFO), which can range from zero (you think you see stars forming your initials in a NASA picture of a distant galaxy, but no one else gets how important that is) to 10 (you have an alien in the trunk of your car, and are now Googling labs to take it to).
But the question remains, what do we do when we finally reach that 10 — or even a 5? Do we send flowers? Try to initiate trade? Put on a tough front and warn off the potentially dangerous aliens?
The Green Bank Telescope is the world’s largest, fully-steerable telescope. The GBT’s dish is 100-meters by 110-meters in size, covering 2.3 acres of space. The telescope is currently being used in a new SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) attempt to look for possible alien radio signals from Tabby’s Star.
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FIRST CONTACT
While we haven’t officially arrived at an answer to these questions, enthusiasts haven’t let that stop them. Several groups have already sent messages to the stars, hoping to get an extraterrestrial response. NASA included a map to Earth in the Pioneer spacecraft. Carl Sagan helped broadcast a message in “alienese” from the Arecibo Observatory. We have also sent mathematical principles to potentially-habitable star systems so aliens will know that we’re smart.
But many experts think that these attempts, and others like them, have more potential to harm the human race than to help it. Stephen Hawking voiced his concerns about responding to potential alien signals in the video “Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places.” He pointed out that other civilizations could be “vastly more powerful and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria.” After all, he argues, being friendly did not protect the Native Americans from European settlers.
Other experts, like Douglas Vakoch, argue that any alien advanced enough to be a threat to our world would have surely picked up on all the signals we’ve already vented into the universe. We haven’t been at all concerned about hiding our tracks to this point, so what good would ghosting extraterrestrials do us now?
How or whether we respond to alien life when we find it, one thing is certain — it will change our world forever. Sagan believed that the discovery could lead to a more humble and unified humanity. He reflected in Pale Blue Dot, “To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
The famous “Golden Record” carried aboard both Voyager 1 and 2 contains images, sounds and greetings from Earth. (NASA)
Alien contact: A file picture showing Rees giving a lecture “From Planets to Universes” at The University of Cambridge. Should aliens contact us, Rees believes we will hear from the robots they produced. – AFP
HUMAN beings don’t really have to travel to outer space to encounter a hostile, deadly and alien environment. We already have Somalia.
Seriously, human beings devote an inappropriate amount of time towards wondering if there is intelligent life out there. Actually, there used to be but one Al Einstein was only visiting.
Look at all the stuff out there on UFO’s, extra-terrestrial life, aliens and so forth. There are science fiction classics, movies and endless conspiracy theories. In all this, man puts himself in the centre of things; as if we had pride of place in the universe.
It may not be true. What if Jay Leno was right when he famously quipped: “How would we feel if we learned that the only reason aliens stopped by Earth was to allow the kids to take a leak?”
But I have good news for you, dear reader. It turns out that scientists have demolished many myths that Hollywood holds dear.
Movies like Critters have argued that aliens have a propensity to eat humans which gives a whole new meaning to the concept of going out for steak and fries.
Perish the thought. The science of nutrition disputes it. Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell says that to get nourishment from eating us, alien bodies would have to be capable of processing our molecules (like amino acids) which, apparently, is wholly unlikely.
Aliens, you’d be glad to know, also cannot reproduce with us. Alas, poor Spock.
The reason: we can’t even reproduce with our nearest evolutionary relative, the chimpanzee. Indeed, it’s “overwhelmingly improbable” we could do so with aliens, according to Dartnell, who seems to know something we don’t.
They are unlikely to look like us as well which is a relief to know: one Donald Trump may be all we can take.
Human evolution depended on so many unique and unpredictable factors, it’s near impossible that an extraterrestrial species would have human-like features, like the aliens in Star Trek.
It’s far likelier, writes neuroscientist Anil Seth, that they’d be as different as the octopus, “our very own terrestrial alien,” which has a high level of intelligence, a decentralised nervous system and an alternative style of consciousness. You’d be an “alternative” too if you squirted ink every time you got angry. Or afraid.
Would they contact us? Should aliens contact us, cosmologist Martin Rees believes we will hear not from fellow organic creatures, but from the robots they produced, who can, in theory, live forever.
Remember Independence Day, a movie that famously featured aliens arriving to strip Earth of its resources.
But again, that logic doesn’t add up, writes Dartnell.
Most of our metal is in the Earth’s core, not its crust; asteroids would be far better targets for mining. And icy moons, like Jupiter’s Europa, would be easier places to stock up on water.
They’re uninhabited, and they don’t have Earth’s strong gravitational pull.
So if aliens aren’t interested in harvesting our lands or our bodies, why would they make contact? Dartnell suspects a purer motive: curiosity. Which, frankly speaking, is unpleasant enough.
“If aliens did come to Earth,” he writes, it would probably be “as researchers: biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keen to understand the peculiar workings of life on Earth, to meet humanity and learn of our art, music, culture, languages, philosophies and religions.”
So it turns out that even Spielberg got it wrong. ET could never have gone home because it never came here in the first place. So at best, we’ll just have to stick to alien jokes.
Which reminds me: have you heard the one about the alien who landed and ordered the first gardener it met: “Take me to your weeder.”
The eagle-eyed viewers saw the bizarre disc-like “craft” zooming off into space from the ISS.
Video apparently shows the craft get close to the station, which is constantly manned by astronauts from NASA, Roscosmos and the ESA.
Alien enthusiasts online have claimed it is further proof there is a large population of ETs in space.
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SPOTTED: Alien enthusiasts claim they spotted a UFO at the ISS
UFO blogger Scott Waring hailed it as an excellent example of an alien spaceship.
He wrote: “It is seen on the other side of the solar panels in the far distance.
“It looks like it is the size of a city bus and is disc-shaped.”
He also claimed that if you regularly watch the live feed of the space station you are guaranteed to see a UFO.
It’s just the latest “alien” sighting at the ISS.
Last month, outlandish claims emerged of a NASA alien cover up over accusations the US space agency cuts the feed to the station when a UFO approaches.
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ENCOUNTER WITH BLACK EYED KIDS TERRIFIES AIRMAN ON TEXAS MILITARY BASE
ENCOUNTER WITH BLACK EYED KIDS TERRIFIES AIRMAN ON TEXAS MILITARY BASE
Take the following account sent in to us from an airman at a Texas military base. It’s one thing to scare a woman alone in her home, but to terrify a trained military man on base? That only goes to show how frightening these kids really are. Buckle up, this story is a good one.
Modern urban legends are widely publicized by the power of Internet dispersion, which often ends up working as a form of creation or increment of these stories. Whether they are true passages or not, we really can not know for sure. But the fact is that some reports of events have attracted the attention of Internet users around the world.
One of the main current topics that have gained more and more repercussion is the one that deals with children with completely black eyes. Known in the American milieu as BEK ("Black-Eyed Kids" or literally "black-eyed children"), the reports that mention these entities are always more or less the same.
It seems that somebody is alone somewhere indoors (home, car or other), when approached by a child or teenager, who asks permission to enter the place.
NASA'S NEW MARS ROVER PROTOTYPE LOOKS LIKE A BATMOBILE
NASA'S NEW MARS ROVER PROTOTYPE LOOKS LIKE A BATMOBILE
The Kennedy Space Center reveals new Mars buggy on social media.
The latest project of NASA’s privately owned Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has taken even the most ardent space buff completely by surprise. It has transpired that since last year, the company has been involved with the creation of a high-tech concept vehicle which is capable of acting an exploration rover on Mars.
The space center trailed images of videos of the space buggy on social media before releasing the news to the mainstream media. A video was shared to Instagram showing the rover in action, slowly moving across the road in front of the Kennedy Space Center. This video particularly caught the attention of the general public who noted that the buggy bears more than a passing resemblance to the Batmobile in ‘Batman Begins.'
The cinematic reference would most certainly not be lost on the buggy’s creators, Marc Parker and his brother Shanon Parker. Over the years, the brothers have made their names designed audacious and high-spec vehicles for the use in television programs and action movies. Speaking to the press, Marc Parker explained that the buggy had been specifically designed to withstand the obstacles that a voyage to Mars will present. He described the buggy as a ‘dual-purpose vehicle’ that separates into two pieces. The rear section in a full lab and the front section is a cockpit which can be used for scouting. The two pieces of the buggy can act independently of one another and perform their research tasks separately.
However, the buggy will not be used for a visit to Mars. Instead, the buggy is going to be the centerpiece of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s ‘Summer of Mars.' This is a planned educational event that will be conducted in conjunction with NASA to teach the public, especially children, about the mysteries of the Red Planet and the exploration of outer space.
Marc Parker explained that he was incredibly enthusiastic about this project. "Movies are cool, TV is cool, but it's something else to be part of a thing that could inspire kids to go Mars and live in outer space, "he said to reporters. He also revealed that the making of the Batmobile-rescue Mars buggy had been captured in full by a television documentary crew and the whole story should be hitting screens at some point this year.
NASA UNVEILS BATMOBILE MARS ROVER
NASA in conjunction with the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, have unveiled their new concept Mars rover, a six-wheeled vehicle oddly resembling the Batmobile.
NASA plan to begin manned missions to Mars by 2033 and the rover is part of a larger event entitled 'Summer of Mars' held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, which is owned by NASA but run by a third party.
Being a conceptual design, it isn't clear how close the vehicle is to anything that will one day be exploring the surface of the red planet. What the rover will do however is raise interest in the idea of exploring Mars at a time when interest among the general public is fairly low.
The space agency tends to receive a higher or lower budget depending on several factors. Most influential are the economic and political conditions at the time the budget is drawn up. Public opinion of space exploration and the work that NASA is doing, however, go a long way towards influencing their budget as well. The more popular NASA is, the better funded it becomes and the more projects it can pursue.
The lofty goal of reaching Mars in a relatively short time is due in part to the new budget given to the space agency by the passing of a bill entitled the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017. The bill provides NASA with a budget of $19.3 billion per year or 0.5% of the total budget and focuses on reaching Mars and the continued development of the space launch system.
The budget does however dramatically cut certain sections of NASA's operations, namely the Earth sciences. These sections of NASA deal primarily with ecological and environmental issues and don't tend to attract as much press as space exploration.
The designer of the vehicle, Marc Parker, said of his creation:
"What we came up with was a dual-purpose vehicle. It separates in the middle. The rear section is a full lab; the front area is a cockpit for going out and doing scouting, "
The vehicle is solar powered as most rover designs tend to be, and features specially designed tires that allow the fine dust of the Martian surface to pass through them.
Design and construction of the vehicle began in November 2016 and was completed earlier this month. The concept design, although not directly mandated by NASA itself does follow broad guidelines that the space agency put in place.
NASA's New Incredible Rocket Fuel Harvesting Mars Rover
VIDEODe Franse astronaut Thomas Pesquet verblijft momenteel voor zes maanden in het ISS-ruimtestation in opdracht van het European Space Agency ESA. Op Twitter deelde hij vandaag een filmpje waarin het onweer te zien is dat Europa donderdag teisterde.
"Nachtvlucht over Europa met onweders in de verte. Merk op hoe de atmosfeer verandert van groen naar oranje," schreef Pesquet bij het filmpje, waarin te zien is hoe tientallen bliksemschichten de hemel oplichten.
Pesquet voert momenteel met enkele collega's wetenschappelijke experimenten uit in het ISS en houdt zich in zijn vrije tijd bezig met fotografie. Hij is een fervent twitteraar en houdt zijn volgers voortdurend op de hoogte van wat hij in het ruimtestation ziet en beleeft.
Het is niet de eerste keer dat Pesquet indrukwekkende beelden vanuit de ruimte deelt. Zo maakte hij eerder deze week nog een adembenemende foto van het poollicht en deelde hij onlangs ook een foto waarop te zien is dat België 's nachts meer verlicht wordt dan eender welk ander Europees land.
Stanton Friedman is convinced aliens are already here on Earth.
Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist, who worked on classified projects for for US defence contractors across 14 years in the 1950s and 1960s, believes the truth about a global cover up over the existence of aliens will soon be exposed, and it will have a positive effect on the world.
Mr Friedman, who has investigated the UFO mystery for more than 50 years and was the first civilian investigator of the infamous 1947 Roswell UFO crash unsolved case, revealed his thoughts in a new book compiled by author Miguel Mendonca.
The book, called We Are the Disclosure - Part I, tells the stories of a string of campaigners fighting for an alleged "truth embargo" on the existence of aliens to be lifted.
Mr Friedman, although never witnessing a UFO himself, said he was convinced we are not alone.
He said: "There's an enormous amount of evidence from all over the world from respectable, responsible individuals whose testimony you'd accept about anything else.
"We're not alone and that bothers the heck out of some people, some religious people.
"Some of the fundamentalists have explained that the only place in the universe where there are thinking, communicating people is right here on Earth, and that this UFO stuff is the work of the devil.
"And that the Earth was created in 4004 BC.
"Sorry guys all those things are wrong."
He said the subject had been surprised through ridicule by agencies such as the CIA.
He said: "(This) was established by the Robertson Panel report done for the CIA back in 1953.
"They recommended the use of all the tools of propaganda, including Walt Disney and so forth, to persuade people that aliens are not visiting.
We're not alone and that bothers the heck out of some people, some religious people.
Stanton Friedman
"So there has been a concentrated effort on that."
But he believes although the authorities have tried to suppress the subject, more people are starting to break rank and talk.
He added: "I've certainly seen some evidence of more people being willing to talk - maybe because they are getting older, maybe because they watch television and recognise that they have friends who have had sightings."
He said an organisation called the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) also allowed pilots, who are fearful of losing their jobs if they go on record about UFOs, meant they could now anonymously log details of their sightings.
Mr Friedman added: "They've collected thousands of reports, and many of them we probably wouldn't have known about, as pilots have to worry about losing their jobs.
"I see people being much more willing to hold their heads up."
Conspiracy theorists claim the US Government is aware aliens have visited Earth, but have put in place a "truth embargo" to prevent it getting out to the public.
Disclosure activists, such as Steve Bassett, head of Paradigm Research Group, campaign for the embargo to be lifted.
Earlier this month Express.co.uk revealed how Mr Bassett believes that disclosure could be imminent after the CIA put thousands of formerly classified files, including stuff on UFOs, on its website.
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Alien abduction? Unsolved mystery of man ‘who disappeared into space’ after building UFO
Alien abduction? Unsolved mystery of man ‘who disappeared into space’ after building UFO
A SKILLED mechanic who built a replica UFO in his backyard was never seen again after disappearing following claims he was in constant contact with aliens.
Granger Taylor vanished from his parents' home at Duncan, on Vancouver Island, British Colombia, Canada, without a trace at the age of 32 in 1980.
It remains one of the most bizarre unsolved missing persons cases on record.
Granger was a talented mechanic, who dropped out of high school early but was able to build a one-cylinder automobile at just 14.
His most memorable project was constructing a UFO-like shelter from two satellite dishes that he fitted with furniture, a TV and a stove.
But his fascination with the possibility of alien visitations became more serious when he alleged to experience constant contact from alien beings who promised to take him to their world.
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Granger Taylor and the UFO he created in his parents' back yard.
On a stormy night on November 29, 1980, he left a bizarre note for his parents Jim and Grace Taylor, and was never seen again.
The note was left in a barn on the property where he was working on a number of projects.
It read: "Dear Mother and Father, I have gone away to walk aboard an alien ship, as recurring dreams assured a 42 month interstellar voyage to explore the vast universe, then return.
"I am leaving behind all my possessions to you as I will no longer require the use of any.
"Please use the instructions in my will as a guide to help. Love, Granger.”
Dear Mother and Father, I have gone away to walk aboard an alien ship, as recurring dreams assured a 42 month interstellar voyage to explore the vast universe, then return.
Granger Taylor
On the back was a map of Waterloo Mountain, 20 miles to the west of the Taylor property, while his 1972 Datsun pick-up truck was gone.
A huge search was launched by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for around four years, but no trace of him or the car were ever found.
Hospital, passport, employment, and vehicle records were checked to no avail.
His parents did not give up hope of his return and left the back door open each night, but he never showed up.
They also kept the UFO there, along with his other creations, just as he left them.
Dad Jim is quoted as saying years later: "I can hardly believe Granger’s off in a spaceship, but if there is a flying object out there, he’s the one to find it.”
The tale is often retold on alien conspiracy theory websites as alleged evidence of an alien abduction.
The reports all state that no trace of him was ever found.
But, the March 31 edition of the Montreal Gazette in 1986, five-and-a-half-years after the disappearance, said two pieces of bone that could have been Granger Taylor's, and parts of what was believed to be his truck, had been found in a dynamite blast site on Mount Prevost.
The report said Granger had taken dynamite from his parents' home on the night and the blast site was just four miles from the property.
The report said: "Two pieces of bone were found at the blast site and a pathologist confirmed they are human.
"Until further evidence is found, the RCMP is assuming they are Taylor's."
It is not known if it was later confirmed they were his bones.
According to UFO folklore, Granger Taylor was never seen again.
"In space, no one can hear you scream," reads the tagline for the original Alien movie. And that's true: for the most part, interplanetary space is just a big bag of nothing. But that doesn't mean it's completely silent.
Human ears are specially designed to translate changing pressures traveling through a medium (i.e. sound waves). These sound waves are rendered mute once the medium they are traveling through comes to an end (say, when the atmosphere on Earth gives way to the emptiness of space). However, there are plenty of waves that can move through a vacuum. We can then translate these vacuum-friendly waves into sounds that humans can hear (that's how things like radio transmissions work).
Over the past few decades, we've sent a number of satellites to the far reaches of the solar system (and beyond, as you'll see below). For research and communication reasons, these vessels left with sensors designed to "hear" things like radio and plasma waves that flow freely through interplanetary space. Using a technological intermediary, humans are able to "hear" these space waves as audible sounds.
Turning space waves into sounds has a scientific advantage—evolution has cultivated the human brain to be really good at discerning tiny sonic nuances. This ability helped our ancestors know a growling predator was in the area and was instrumental in developing the complexities of speech. In the days before beefy analytical software, listening to audio interpretations of space waves was one of the best ways to learn what was going on.
However, on a more visceral level, these literally alien noises have a definite effect on the human brain—they're super spooky! These audio files are just about the only ways we can appreciate what it's like to actually be in outer space. Here are eight creepy sonic experiences captured by NASA over the past few decades.
During its historic 20-year mission to Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft stopped by Jupiter to receive a gravitational boost en route to its final destination). During its fly-by in January 2001, it captured these spooky and quite alien radio signals.
2. What Europa Sounds Like
As the Galileo spacecraft passed by the Jovian moon Europa, it read these plasma fluctuations resulting from the interaction of Europa and Jupiter's magnetospheres.
3. What Ganymede Sounds Like
As Galileo passed by Jupiter's moon Ganymede, it discovered some strange plasma wave observations that confirmed Ganymede has its own magnetosphere. Translating the moon's interactions with Jupiter's more massive magnetosphere resulted in these spooky sounds.
4. Jupiter's 'Bow Shock'
The sun emits a steady stream of charged "solar wind," which can be repelled by a strong magnetic force—say from the magnetic field of a large planet. When the solar wind meets this strong magnetic force surrounding a planet, it is deflected and all its energy of motion is converted to thermal energy. This energized region is known as a "bow shock" (which borrows its name from a similar phenomenon in aerodynamics). The "sound" of passing through this region was recorded by the Voyager spacecraft.
5. What Callisto Sounds Like
The moon Callisto appears to have the weakest interaction with Jupiter's magnetosphere of any of the four largest moons.
6. The Sounds of a Thunderstorm on Saturn
Researchers have noted evidence of lightning deep within Saturn ever since Voyager flew by. These static-y crackles in radio waves were captured by Cassini in 2006 and show the chaotic environment simmering deep below Saturn's cloud top.
7. What Crossing Saturn's Ring Sounds Like
This static was recorded by Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument as it crossed the plane of Saturn's rings in December 2016.
8. Voyager Crossing Into Interstellar Space
This sound isn't a real-time recording, but rather an audio version of a graph of the Voyager's Plasma Wave Science observations of several months spanning 2012-13. These readings mark the period at which scientists believe Voyager exited our solar system's heliopause—the area in which the pressures from outside our solar system force what's left of the sun's solar wind to turn back. In effect, this is the point at which Voyager left the solar system—the first human-made object to do so.
A mysterious powerful pulse of radio energy from space has baffled astronomers – despite looking at it through 11 different telescopes.
Dubbed a Fast Radio Burst (FRB), it is one of just 22 known examples of a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists since 2007 – incredibly short, high-energy pulses which last for a few milliseconds and erupt with the energy the sun releases in a day.
Scientists are genuinely baffled by the signals from space – and some have suggested the signals could come from aliens.
A new scientific paper describes a fast radio burst called FRB 150215 which was picked up in ‘real time’ by the Parkes radio telescope in Australia in 2015.
Emily Petroff from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy says, ‘We spent a lot of time with a lot of telescopes to find anything associated with it.
‘We got new wavelength windows we’ve never gotten before. We’re still trying to figure out where this one came from.’
The researchers write, ‘The burst was followed up with 11 telescopes to search for radio, optical, X-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino emission.
‘Neither transient nor variable emission was found to be associated with the burst, and no repeat pulses have been observed in 17.25 hours of observing.’
Since they were first detected 10 years ago, rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves, known as fast radio bursts, have remained one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics.
And the latest fast radio burst, called FRB 150215, might be the most perplexing one yet.
Despite spending the last two years using telescopes to find anything associated with it, researchers have admitted they're still clueless about where this one came from.
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Since they were first detected 10 years ago, rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves, known as fast radio bursts, have remained one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. And the latest fast radio burst, called FRB 150215, might be the most perplexing one yet
FRB 150215
FRB 150215 can be viewed through several telescopes, but has not left any detectable signal or trace of light.
In their paper, published in arXiv, the researchers said: 'The burst was followed up with 11 telescopes to search for radio, optical, X-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino emission.
'Neither transient nor variable emission was found to be associated with the burst, and no repeat pulses have been observed in 17.25 hours of observing.'
Adding to the mystery is the fact that FRB 150215 shouldn't have been detectable from Earth given the direction in space it is coming from.
It had to pass through an extremely dense region of the Milky Way to reach us.
The galaxy's magnetic field should have changed the way the light from the radio burst travelled – but it didn't.
Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy first detected FRB 150215 in 2015, and have been working since to understand its source.
Speaking to Gizmodo, Emily Petroff, who is leading the study, said: 'We spent a lot of time with a lot of telescopes to find anything associated with it.
'We got new wavelength windows we've never gotten before.
'We're still trying to figure out where this one came from.'
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.
The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.
This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.
So far, 22 FRBs have been detected, but astronomers believe that there could be up to 2,000 in the Universe every day.
While astronomers can usually use telescopes to pinpoint the likely source of the burst, FRB 150215 has left the Dutch team baffled.
It can be viewed through several telescopes, but has not left any detectable signal or trace of light.
In their paper, published in arXiv, the researchers said: 'The burst was followed up with 11 telescopes to search for radio, optical, X-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino emission.
FRB 150215 can be viewed through several telescopes, but has not left any detectable signal or trace of light
WHAT ARE FAST RADIO BURSTS?
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.
The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.
This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.
The first FRB was spotted, or rather 'heard' by radio telescopes, back in 2007.
But it was so temporary and seemingly random that it took years for astronomers to agree it was not a glitch in one of the telescope's instruments.
'Neither transient nor variable emission was found to be associated with the burst, and no repeat pulses have been observed in 17.25 hours of observing.'
Adding to the mystery is the fact that FRB 150215 shouldn't have been detectable from Earth given the direction in space it is coming from.
It had to pass through an extremely dense region of the Milky Way to reach us.
The galaxy's magnetic field should have changed the way the light from the radio burst travelled – but it didn't.
Speaking to Gizmodo, Ms Petroff said: 'It probably travelled through some kind of hole in the Milky Way that makes it easy to find compared to normal searches in the galaxy.'
While some have questioned whether FRBs are signs that aliens are trying to contact us, Ms Petroff does not think that this is the case.
Fast radio bursts are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly. The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst. This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding (artist's impression)
On Twitter, she said: 'Just to be clear, we don't know what is causing the fast radio bursts we see, but we don't think it's anything to do with aliens!'
But the researchers added that they weren't disheartened by their findings.
Ms Petroff added: 'It's not very often in science that you get to work on something that's so brand new and so unknown that you get to answer the fundamental questions.'
While some have questioned whether FRBs are signs that aliens are trying to contact us, Ms Petroff does not think that this is the case. On Twitter, she said: 'Just to be clear, we don't know what is causing the fast radio bursts we see, but we don't think it's anything to do with aliens!'
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Bizar ruimtesignaal ontvangen. Hiervan staan astronomen met hun oren te klapperen
Bizar ruimtesignaal ontvangen. Hiervan staan astronomen met hun oren te klapperen
Snelle radioflitsen werden 10 jaar geleden voor het eerst ontdekt, maar zijn nog altijd een mysterie. De nieuwste, FRB 150215 geheten, is misschien wel de meest mysterieuze tot nu toe.
Het ruimtesignaal is twee jaar bestudeerd, maar wetenschappers tasten volledig in het duister.
“We proberen nog steeds te achterhalen waar deze vandaan kwam,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Emily Petroff in gesprek met Gizmodo.
Niet bekend
Snelle radioflitsen zijn radiopulsen met een lengte van slechts enkele milliseconden die niet worden herhaald.
Om die reden zijn ze niet alleen erg lastig te vinden, maar is het ook moeilijk om ze te bestuderen.
Het is niet bekend wat de exacte herkomst van de signalen is. Sommigen speculeren dat het gaat om boodschappen van buitenaardse beschavingen.
2000 per dag
Er zijn tot nu toe 22 snelle radioflitsen ontdekt, maar astronomen denken dat er tot wel 2000 per dag worden geproduceerd in ons universum.
FRB 150215 stelt het onderzoeksteam van het Nederlands instituut voor radioastronomie (ASTRON) voor een raadsel.
In een paper schrijven ze dat het ruimtesignaal met 11 verschillende telescopen is onderzocht, maar dat het geen detecteerbaar signaal of lichtspoor heeft achtergelaten.
Groter
Gezien de richting van waaruit de flits kwam zou hij bovendien niet detecteerbaar moeten zijn geweest vanaf de aarde, wat het mysterie alleen maar groter maakt.
Het ruimtesignaal moet een extreem dicht gebied in de Melkweg gepasseerd hebben om ons te kunnen bereiken.
“Waarschijnlijk is het door een soort gat in de Melkweg gereisd waardoor het makkelijk te vinden was,” zei Petroff.
Geen aliens
Ze denkt echter niet dat snelle radioflitsen signalen van buitenaardsen zijn.
“We weten niet wat de oorzaak is van de snelle radioflitsen die we zien, maar we denken niet dat het iets te maken heeft met aliens!” schreef ze op Twitter.
Mysterieus zeemonster spoelt aan op strand. Wat in hemelsnaam is dit?
Mysterieus zeemonster spoelt aan op strand. Wat in hemelsnaam is dit?
Op een strand in de Indonesische provincie Maluku is een gigantisch karkas aangespoeld. Lokale bewoners en autoriteiten staan voor een raadsel.
Het enorme ‘zeemonster’ werd dinsdagavond ontdekt door de 37-jarige Asrul Tuanakota, schrijft de Jakarta Globe.
Boot
Hij zag de enorme massa eerst aan voor een gestrande boot, aldus de krant. Vanaf woensdag doken de eerste beelden op van het karkas, dat 15 meter lang is en twee ton weegt.
Gedacht wordt dat het enorme dier al tenminste drie dagen dood was toen het werd ontdekt.
Lokale media melden dat vissers dachten aan een reusachtige inktvis, maar het Indonesische Marine and Coastal Resources Management Project denkt eerder aan een walvis.
Het aangespoelde wezen doet denken aan een ‘zeemonster’ dat in februari in de Filipijnen gevonden werd. Achteraf bleek dat het ging om een aangespoelde walvis van 4,5 meter lang:
Een passagier is vanuit het Engelse Southampton aangekomen in Zeebrugge in België en neemt nog even een foto van het schip.
Echter, later ontdekt deze dat er boven het schip een bijzonder object vliegt in de vorm van een bekende klassieke of retro UFO.
Het volgende voorval is ingediend bij Mufon en staat geregistreerd onder nummer 83616.
Het gaat om een bijzondere foto die volgens getuige is gemaakt in de haven van Zeebrugge, na aankomst vanuit Southampton.
Het verhaal erbij is als volgt:
Ik was op een cruise van Southampton naar Zeebrugge in België. Op zaterdag 6 mei 2017 rond kwart voor twee ’s middags nam ik een foto va het cruiseschip vanuit de bus (door het raam).
Op dat moment zag ik niets in de lucht.
Toen we later weer aan boord kwamen, ging ik door de foto’s die ik had gemaakt en zag het object.
De foto was genomen met een Samsung S7 Edge op de maximum resolutie van 12M.
Dit is de foto waar het om gaat:
Wanneer we het wat uitvergroten, zie het er zo uit:
En met nog wat dichterbij halen, zien we iets dat duidelijk lijkt op een klassieke retro UFO, met bovenop een kleine koepel en daarnaast nog een kleine ronde UFO.
Wat door de getuige zelf niet is gemeld en misschien ook helemaal niet is gezien, is dat er op een ander deel van de foto nog zo’n kleine ronde UFO voorkomt.
Dus, waar hebben we hier mee te maken?
Feit is dat de getuige zegt niets met het blote oog te hebben waargenomen en dat zegt vaak niets omdat dit soort objecten soms zo snel vliegen of in een frequentiegebied verkeren wat onze ogen niet kunnen zien waardoor ze met het blote oog nauwelijks worden waargenomen, maar wel worden “gevangen” door een moderne camera.
Een tweede belangrijk punt is dat de foto is genomen door het raam van de bus, waardoor je allerlei mogelijke reflecties kunt krijgen die lijken op een object buiten, maar dit niet zijn.
Een leuk voorbeeld daarvan hadden we twee jaar geleden, toevalligerwijze op ongeveer dezelfde plek toen we een plaatje kregen van een lezer die een foto had genomen vanuit een casino waarbij vreemde lichten waren te zien boven de Belgische kust.
Alhoewel de lezer ons toen bezwoer dat het absoluut geen reflectie kon zijn, bleek dit later toch wel degelijk het geval.
Dat wil niet zeggen dat de foto uit Zeebrugge ook automatisch een reflectie is, maar die kans is aanwezig.
Mochten er mensen zijn die slimme ideeën hebben, dan horen we dat graag.
Wie de originele Mufon foto wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen.
A couple of UFO enthusiasts went to Area 51 and captured this interesting footage. A bright object appeared out of nowhere and started to accelerate until it reached an unreal speed. It did not make any sound and no sonic boom was heard.
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UNACKNOWLEDGED - STEVEN GREERS NEW UFO DOCUMENTARY
UNACKNOWLEDGED - STEVEN GREERS NEW UFO DOCUMENTARY
Dr. Steven Greer’s new documentary “UNACKNOWLEDGED” presents brand new, top-secret evidence supporting Extraterrestrial contact including witness testimony, classified documents, and UFO footage while also exploring the consequences of ruthlessly enforcing such secrecy.
'ANCIENT TANK' SPOTTED ON THE MOON SHOCKS UFO EXPERTS?
'ANCIENT TANK' SPOTTED ON THE MOON SHOCKS UFO EXPERTS?
The Moon definitely has it's share of mysteries. We know for a fact that astronauts have stepped on the Moon's surface and collected some samples here and there, which was an historic moment for all of humanity as quoted by Neil Armstrong: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind".
But there have been several conspiracy theories since then about a 'Moon landing hoax' where it was staged here on Earth. And other creepy theories regarding alien encounters on the Moon being one of the reasons why nobody ever returned there with fears of an invasion.
Many think that the Moon is actually hollow and has an extraterrestrial base inside overlooking our World.
But there are quite some strange things that have been spotted on the moon like strange looking objects and some that even resemble things we see here on Earth.
One such strange sighting is a TANK found near several other bizarre objects.
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BRIGHT ORANGE ORB HOVERS "MOTIONLESS" OVER CALIFORNIA AND SCARES WITNESS
BRIGHT ORANGE ORB HOVERS "MOTIONLESS" OVER CALIFORNIA AND SCARES WITNESS
A MUFON report has just been submitted that details an "orange reddish sphere" hovering over Orinda, California in January 2011. Although the sighting occurred a while ago, it clearly affected the witness, who is only just now coming forward with testimony and a photo. According to the witness, the ball of light hovered before taking off at great speed. What do you think this UFO could be? Ball lightning, a ghostly orb, an inter-dimensional alien traveler, or something else entirely?
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UFO MAKES "U" SHAPED TURN ACROSS THE MOON
UFO MAKES "U" SHAPED TURN ACROSS THE MOON
New video from France shows several UFOs changing direction in space. The first UFO makes a subtle course correction from its original trajectory, while the second UFO turns completely around. No known aircraft or technology is known to be able to accomplish such a feat.
INDIAN UFO INVESTIGATOR INTRIGUED BY UFO MYSTERY KONGKA LA PASS, LADAKH
INDIAN UFO INVESTIGATOR INTRIGUED BY UFO MYSTERY KONGKA LA PASS, LADAKH
In January 2017, the CIA declassified and shared 930,000 UFO documents on its website. One of these included a document from 1968 detailing six UFO sightings in India, Nepal, and Bhutan.
An April 1968 report - part of the 930,000 disqualified documents recently posted online by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - details six sightings of unidentified flying objects on Ladakh, Sikkim (then Protectorate of India), Bhutan and Nepal in the previous months.
Although the American security establishment has largely demystified the UFO issue in recent years, the CIA and the US Air Force have taken reports of flying saucers in the 1950s and 1960s so seriously that the intelligence office of the intelligence agency formed A scientific advisory panel to study the phenomenon.
The CIA report, originally not intended to be shared with foreigners, contains "details of bright objects seen on South Ladakh, Northeast Nepal, North Sikkim and Western Bhutan."
In incisive and precise terms, the report mentions that an object was tracked moving east and west over Chang La, Fukche and Koyul in Ladakh at 13h on March 4, 1968. "A white light and simultaneously two very loud bang were Ears. In addition, a reddish light followed by white smoke, "the report said in its description.
As an Assyriologist, I don’t deal in the Bible, and I am not a religious person, but in this case, I can say there is an actual building which does seem to be the inspiration for the Biblical narrative.
Assyriologist Dr. Andrew George, a professor of Babylonian at the University of London, is referring to a sixth-century BCE stone tablet with a carving of a ziggurat – a terraced step pyramid common in Mesopotamia. The ziggurat is flanked by a figure identified as King Nebuchadnezzar II and an inscription that reads, “Tower of Temple of Babylon.” The 2.600-year-old tablet was discovered a century ago. What took so long to connect these seemingly obvious dots?
For those not up on biblical or Babylonian history, Genesis 11:4 says, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the Earth.” It then explains that God didn’t approve, confused the languages and scattered the people building the tower, which is then called Babel, possibly from the Hebrew word balal, which means to jumble or confuse. Archeologists have attempted to link the biblical Tower of Babel to real structures – such as Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk by Nabopolassar, king of Babylonia – but they’ve never had any conclusive proof.
Until now. According to Dr. George, the tablet, discovered a century ago in the Babylonian area of Iraq, is currently in the private collection of Norwegian businessman Martin Schøyen and has never been available for close study until recently. In an upcoming series produced by the Smithsonian, George dates the baked clay tablet to around 600 BCE and illustrates how the faint carvings show the seven tiers of a giant ziggurat. He also shows how the outline next to it is a giant depiction of King Nebuchadnezzar II, who reigned from around 605-562 BCE.
But the key is the faint text carving, which Dr. George translates as:
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, KING OF BABYLON AM I – IN ORDER TO COMPLETE E-TEMEN-ANKI AND E-UR-ME-IMIN-ANKI I MOBILIZED ALL COUNTRIES EVERYWHERE, EACH AND EVERY RULER WHO HAD BEEN RAISED TO PROMINENCE OVER ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD – LOVED BY MARDUK, FROM THE UPPER SEA TO THE LOWER SEA, THE DISTANT NATIONS, THE TEEMING PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, KINGS OF REMOTE MOUNTAINS AND FAR-FLUNG ISLANDS – THE BASE I FILLED IN TO MAKE A HIGH TERRACE. I BUILT THEIR STRUCTURES WITH BITUMEN AND BAKED BRICK THROUGHOUT. I COMPLETED IT RAISING ITS TOP TO THE HEAVEN, MAKING IT GLEAM BRIGHT AS THE SUN
Painting of the Tower of Babel by Marten van Valckenborch the Elder, Flemish Renaissance painter
So what about the babbling and the collapse of the tower? In an interview with Breaking Israel News, George theorizes that the multitudes of languages referred to in the story of the tower may refer to the fact that a monument of that magnitude needed many workers from many countries.
The myth about the multitude of tongues comes from the context described in the stele about the multitude of peoples enlisted in the construction of the tower. There were many languages spoken on the construction site. From that it may be that the Bible got the idea of the confusion of tongues.
That ‘confusion of tongues’ may have also had led to construction problems which caused the project to take 43 years. That may also be why the tower didn’t withstand the test of time and is now most likely the rubble that is at the Etemenanki site.
Good evidence that the Tower of Babel existed and is depicted on a stone tablet? Yes. Undeniable? Not yet. A lesson for construction bosses on big projects? Definitely … always carry a translation app.
Reading Brent Swancer’s May 8 article, “Mysterious Deaths and the Black Eyed Kids,” reminded me of the strange story, and untimely death, of a certain pursuer of the Loch Ness Monster. His name was F.W. “Ted” Holiday. He was the author of a number of very good books: The Great Orm of Loch Ness; The Dragon and the Disc; and The Goblin Universe. Like more than a few monster-hunters, Holiday started out as someone who believed the Nessies to be flesh-and-blood animals, but who later came around to the idea that they had paranormal origins – and were deeply dangerous, too. But, I’m not here today to talk about Holiday’s theories on what the beasts of Loch Ness are. Or are not. Rather, I’m here to share with you a strange saga that involved a creepy character in black, two suicides, and a couple of heart-attacks. One of them fatal.
On the night of June 2, 1973, Ted Holiday took part in an exorcism at Loch Ness – an exorcism which was performed by the Reverend Donald Omand, who had a deep interest in tales of lake-monsters and who believed them to have had paranormal origins. It was a drama-filled affair, to say the least. Before heading home, Holiday had a very ominous encounter. In Holiday’s own words (extracted from the aforementioned The Goblin Universe: “The next morning before breakfast I decided to step down to the lower caravan to collect some oddments from my suitcase. It was a beautiful fresh morning and the lawns were wet with dew. As I turned the corner of the house I stopped involuntarily. Across the grass, beyond the roadway and at the top of the slope leading down to Loch Ness at the top of which the caravan was located, stood a figure.”
Holiday continued: “It was a man dressed entirely in black. Unlike other walkers who sometimes pause along here to admire the Loch Ness panorama, this one had his back to the loch and was staring at me fixedly as soon as I turned the corner.”
F.W. “Ted” Holiday
It’s important to note that this was no regular man. Perhaps, the darkly-dressed figure wasn’t even human. On looking at the Man in Black, said Holiday, he felt “…a strong sensation of malevolence, cold and passionless.” The mysterious figure was attired in an outfit that Holiday said looked like “black plastic.” He wore black gloves and black headgear which resembled a biker’s helmet. Holiday tentatively walked towards the definitive Man in Black. As Holiday got close to the MIB, he was shocked to see that the man wore goggles, but appeared to have no eyes behind the goggles.
Holiday’s quickly thought out intention was to pretend to fall on the grass and reach out to the man for support – specifically to see if he was physical in form, or some kind of intangible specter. Holiday was prevented from doing so, however, when the sounds of whistling and unintelligible whispering filled the air, and the MIB vanished – as in dematerialized, literally. As Holiday – now petrified out of his wits – shakily scanned the half a mile of open road that dominated the landscape, it became clear to him that there was simply no way the man could have made good a stealthy escape in conventional fashion. Stunned to his core, Holiday tried to reconcile the whole thing as nothing but a bizarre hallucination – a theory that, he knew deep down, simply wasn’t viable. He tried to take his mind off the matter by saying his goodbyes to the Reverend Omand. It was all to no avail; the specter of the thing in black remained, like an albatross around Holiday’s neck.
There is a decidedly sinister sequel to this aspect of Ted Holiday’s quest for the truth of the Loch Ness Monster and his Man in Black experience, as Holiday himself noted: “When I returned to Loch Ness in 1974 to continue investigations, I was stopped after a few days with a heart attack. As a stretcher carried me up the side of the loch, I peered groggily over the side and noted with cynical approval that we had just passed over the exact spot [italics mine] where the man in black had stood the previous year. Synchronicity and the forces that control it never give up.” Ted Holiday died from a second heart attack in 1979. He wasn’t even sixty.
There is something else, too. Ted Holiday’s biker in black reminds me of the supernatural bikers in a British horror movie which was released in 1973 (the same year of the “Nessie exorcism” and of Holiday’s MIB encounter). The title of the movie: Psychomania. It’s interesting to note that one of the stars of the movie was George Sanders, who committed suicide not long after Psychomania was completed. Intriguingly, George Sanders was a former owner of Boleskine House – which, until it was destroyed by fire in December 2015, stood over Loch Ness. Its most famous owners were Aleister Crowley and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, both of whom were deeply interested in the occult.
All of which brings me back to Brent Swancer and his article. Ted Holiday said of the Man in Black that he (or it) provoked “…a strong sensation of malevolence, cold and passionless.” Brent Swancer’s notes that the Black Eyed Children “…are almost always described as exuding an intense wave of dread and panic.”
Then, there’s the matter of the eyes. We all know why the Black Eyed Children have the name that has become so infamous in paranormal circles. On the matter of Holiday’s MIB, he was sure that the man completely lacked eyes. But, I have to wonder, if the MIB was wearing tinted goggles, and if the man’s eyes were actually as black as those of the infamous and creepy kids, that might explain why, while he was wearing tinted goggles, it was near-impossible for Holiday to see his eyes. Granted, that’s simply a tenuous theory and absolutely nothing else, but it’s worth pondering on. A black-eyed adult, maybe?
There’s also the color of the clothing: Holiday’s figure was dressed totally in black. The BEK’s are very often seen wearing black hoodies. Finally, there is the matter of death. We have this from Brett: “Scattered amongst the many, many reports of encounters with Black Eyed Kids are those that seem to show a rather malevolent tendency for witnesses to meet with tragic misfortune and death, further casting a wicked shadow over them.”
And on the matter of “tragic misfortune and death”…
As we have seen, Ted Holiday couldn’t fail to note the eerie fact that the site of his 1974 heart-attack was “…the exact spot where the man in black had stood the previous year.” Plus, he died young from another heart-attack in ’79. And let’s not forget that George Sanders topped himself after making Psychomania – which is filled with supernatural bikers. Sanders was not alone in being an owner of Boleskine House who went on to kill himself. Crowley’s old abode was once owned by Major Edward Grant, a retired British Army officer. In 1960, Grant blew his head off, in his bedroom. His housekeeper, Anna MacLaren, told of seeing the major’s little dog, Pickiwig, racing around the house with a piece of the major’s skull in his mouth.
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A Strange, Primitive Atmosphere Has Been Discovered Around a Water-Rich Alien World
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A Strange, Primitive Atmosphere Has Been Discovered Around a Water-Rich Alien World
We didn't know planets like this were possible.
PETER DOCKRILL
Unexpected findings about the atmosphere of a distant Neptune-sized world have surprised scientists, acting as a reminder that as we discover more about planets beyond our Sun, the lessons we've learned from our own Solar System certainly don't always apply.
In this case, HAT-P-26b – located some 437 light-years away from Earth – is what's called a 'warm' or 'hot Neptune', meaning its mass is similar to Neptune, but that the planet closely orbits its host star. These kinds of worlds have been discovered before, but nothing quite like HAT-P-26b.
"Astronomers have just begun to investigate the atmospheres of these distant Neptune-mass planets, and almost right away, we found an example that goes against the trend in our Solar System," says one of the researchers, Hannah Wakeford from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre.
"This kind of unexpected result is why I really love exploring the atmospheres of alien planets."
What's unusual about HAT-P-26b is its unexpectedly primordial atmosphere, composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. For a planet that hangs so close to its star – orbiting it in just 4.23 days, in fact – that breaks a pattern astronomers are used to seeing in the atmospheric composition of other planets.
As it happens, that tight orbit is what made HAT-P-26b easy to study. One of the ways scientists can research the atmosphere of alien worlds is by observing planets as they transit (pass in front of) their host stars.
When planets do this, telescopes can analyse the starlight that gets filtered by the planet's atmosphere, which can tell us about the chemicals that make up that airspace.
The number of planets known around other stars has exploded in recent years, thanks in the main to the astonishingly successful Kepler spacecraft.
NASA Ames/W Stenzel, Princeton University/T Morton
Using data from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, Wakeford's team found that HAT-P-26b's atmosphere is largely clear of clouds but reveals a strong water signature – what the researchers say is the best measurement to date of water on an exoplanet of this size.
Crucially, that water signature enabled the team to estimate HAT-P-26b's metallicity: the extent to which the planet's atmosphere is dominated by elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.
In the case of our own Solar System, metallicities are lower for bigger planets – evidenced by the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, with Jupiter having a metallicity up to 5 times that of the Sun, while Saturn contains about 10 times as much as the Sun.
What this means is that their atmospheres are mostly made up of hydrogen and helium. By contrast, Uranus and Neptune, which are smaller and orbit the Sun more distantly, contain greater metallicity – of around 100 times that of the Sun.
The pattern here is that, among our Solar System's outer planets at least, metallicities are lower for the bigger planets that lie closer to the Sun.
Scientists think that this is because, when these worlds formed from the protoplanetary dust that surrounded the Sun when the Solar System was young, Jupiter and Saturn were bombarded by less icy debris rich in heavy elements.
As a result, their subsequent atmospheres retain less metallicity today.
But in the case of HAT-P-26b, we've got a world that's not far out from its host star – and is in fact virtually clinging to it – and yet its atmosphere is almost entirely composed of hydrogen and helium, much like Jupiter and Saturn.
"[T]hat means that it probably formed much closer to its star, or later in the disc lifetime where it wasn't bombarded by icy debris and rich heavy elements whilst it was forming," Wakeford told Amina Khan at the Los Angeles Times, although in either case the researchers say it's a surprising result.
"We did not know that you could form these-sized planets closer to their star."
While it's definitely a quirk, it's an incredibly valuable one for astronomers, because it tells us that there are a lot more planetary possibilities than the template laid down in our own cosmic neighbourhood – and that means there's more surprising space science coming our way in the future.
"This analysis shows that there is a lot more diversity in the atmospheres of these exoplanets than we were expecting, which is providing insight into how planets can form and evolve differently than in our Solar System," one of the team, David K. Sing from the University of Exeter in the UK, explains in a press release.
"I would say that has been a theme in the studies of exoplanets: Researchers keep finding surprising diversity."
ALIEN SKY: Water has been discovered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet
“This new discovery about its atmosphere feels like a big breakthrough”
David Sing
The planet known as Hat-P-26b is roughly the same size as Neptune and was found closely orbiting its own star.
Using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers have found evidence of water and exotic clouds in the planet's air.
Finding water, which holds the key to life, is extremely rare on exoplanets due to them being so far away.
University of Exeter astrophysics professor David Sing said: "This exciting discovery shows there is a lot more diversity in the atmospheres of these exoplanets than we have previously thought.
"This 'warm Neptune' is a much smaller planet than those we have been able to characterise in depth.
"So this new discovery about its atmosphere feels like a big breakthrough in our pursuit to learn more about how solar systems are formed, and how it compares to our own."
But any space enthusiasts keen to make first contact with Warm Neptune could be in for a long wait, as it lies 430 light years away from Earth.
Space boffins have long believed that extraterrestrials could inhabit exoplanets,.
Around 437 light years away lies the mysterious exoplanet HAT-P-26b — which is a terrible name, but blessedly it’s also known as “Warm Neptune.” Scientists discovered the planet in 2010, but have just now uncovered information about its composition that could totally reshape how we think about the births and deaths of planets.
“Warm Neptune” is roughly the same mass as Neptune and Uranus, so scientists expected there to be many similarities between the planets. However, a new study conducted using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer telescopes found an atmosphere made of unexpectedly light elements: mostly helium and hydrogen. The atmosphere also contains water signatures and scarcely any clouds.
The findings indicate that the planet’s formation probably happened differently than that of Neptune or Uranus, both of which have atmospheres that are rich in heavy elements. Scientists think that our “ice giants” formed near the edge of a giant ring of debris that whirled around the new sun. Being out on the fringe, Neptune and Uranus were hit with the icy, heavier parts of the debris — planets like Saturn and Jupiter got the warmer stuff — which then became part of their atmospheres.
An artist imagines the atmosphere of HAT-P-26b, or "Warm Neptune."
So if “Warm Neptune” doesn’t have those heavy elements, how did it form? The planet may have developed closer to its host star than Neptune and Uranus were to the sun. Alternatively, it could have formed later in the creation of its planetary system than our planets did in the development of the solar system. Or both possibilities could be true.
“This measurement is the first hint that giant planets may not all form the way the ones in our solar system did,” the lead author of the study, Hannah Wakeford, tells Inverse. She says that it’s not yet clear whether the anomaly is “Warm Neptune” or the planets in our solar system; extensive further research is needed.
“The big question we are trying to answer here is: How easy or hard is it to make a solar system like our own?” Wakeford explains. “This question has important implications for planet formation theories and how our planets evolved.”
The Curiosity Rover is on an important geological mission in the Bagnold Dunes, collecting samples and climbing the tallest mountain on Mars’ Mount Sharp. NASA has compiled a breathtaking 360-degree video of the rover’s latest views of active linear dunes near the base of the mountain on the red planet.
The dune campaign, which Curiosity has been on since late 2015, is helping scientists understand how wind affects the planet.
Mars isn’t nearly as windy as Earth, mostly because it lacks a dense atmosphere. But, heat causes winds to rise and it’s enough to pick up the sand and push it around. So far, the campaign has turned up a lot of interesting data including footage of “dust devils,” which are small tornado-like wisps.
This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows two scales of ripples, plus other textures, in an area where the mission examined a linear-shaped dune in the Bagnold dune field on lower Mount Sharp in March and April 2017.
NASA’s goal with this campaign is to learn how Mount Sharp influences the wind and if the wind separates mineral deposits on the surface. In its first phase of the campaign, Curiosity examined crescent-shaped dunes, which didn’t seem to be affected much by the mountain. But, in the second phase, looking at active linear dunes, there are noticeable differences in composition.
Based off the new footage, NASA believes Mount Sharp is significantly contributing to the movement of the linear dunes, unlike the crescent dunes. This could be because the linear dunes are about a mile uphill; closer to the action, so to speak.
“At these linear dunes, the wind regime is more complicated than at the crescent dunes we studied earlier,” Mathieu Lapotre of Caltech, leading the Curiosity team, said in a release.
The linear dunes also change shape more frequently, especially during the high-wind season, and ripples can be seen cascading across the sand. But, there is still more work to do before scientists can fully understand what we are working with on the Red Planet. The rover’s next step will be to measure the strength of the wind and collect and analyze samples of the sand for their mineral composition.
Curiosity’s continued success is helping NASA plan future landings, which will one day contain humans in hopes of inhabiting the planet. So, one step closer for Curiosity is indeed one step closer for mankind.
Alle ogen zijn gericht op TRAPPIST-1. Rond deze ultrakoele dwergster draaien zeven aardachtige planeten, waarvan zich er drie in de leefbare zone bevinden. Toch zou dit planetaire systeem niet stabiel zijn. Uit een nieuw onderzoek blijkt echter dat er niets aan de hand is.
“Als je een simulatie zou laten draaien, dan zouden de planeten binnen een miljoen jaar op elkaar botsen”, zegt postdoc Dan Tamayo van de universiteit van Toronto. “Dat klinkt als een lange periode, maar astronomisch gezien stelt het niets voor.” Daar heeft Tamayo een punt, want ons eigen zonnestelsel is al zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar oud. “Het zou echt toeval zijn als we dit systeem kort voor de ineenstorting hebben ontdekt. Er moet een reden zijn waarom de banen stabiel blijven.”
In harmonie En die reden hebben Tamayo en zijn collega’s gevonden, zo blijkt uit een paper in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Astrophysical Journal Letters. Ze ontdekten namelijk dat er sprake is van een resonante keten. Dat wil zeggen dat de omlooptijden van de exoplaneten op elkaar zijn afgestemd. Wanneer de ene planeet exact twee rondjes om de zon draait, doet de andere planeet er één. Zelfs al zouden de banen kruisen, dan nog zouden de planeten elkaar nooit tegenkomen.
Het is een bekend fenomeen, want we zien het ook in ons eigen zonnestelsel. De banen van Neptunus en Pluto zijn namelijk in resonantie. Neptunus doet 165 aardse jaren over een rondje om de zon, terwijl Pluto er ruim 248 jaar over doet. De omlooptijd van Neptunus is 2/3e van de omlooptijd van Pluto. Wanneer Neptunus drie rondjes heeft afgelegd om de zon, heeft Pluto twee volledige banen voltooid. Beide planeten staan dan weer op hetzelfde punt. Zou er geen sprake zijn van resonantie, dan zou de baan van Pluto waarschijnlijk niet lang stabiel zijn.
Zo klinkt TRAPPIST-1 “Er is sprake van een ritmisch en herhalend patroon, waardoor een systeem lange tijd stabiel blijft”, vertelt postdoc Matt Russo van het Canadese Institute For Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA). Hij heeft een interessante manier gevonden om de resonante keten van TRAPPIST-1 in beeld te brengen, namelijk op muzikale wijze. Wanneer een exoplaneet bij TRAPPIST-1 exact één keer om de dwergster draait, wordt er een keer op de piano gepingeld. Wanneer een planeet zijn nabije buur inhaalt, klinkt er een drumbeat. Het resultaat is een mooie melodie.
Zoals je hoort klinkt dit als een normaal liedje. Zoals planetenbanen in balans zijn, zo geldt dit ook voor muzieknoten. “De meeste planetaire systemen klinken als bands met slechte muzikanten,” zegt Russo. “Iedere muzikant speelt zijn melodie op een andere snelheid. Dit geldt niet voor TRAPPIST-1. De zeven exoplaneten van TRAPPIST-1 zijn perfect op elkaar ingespeeld.”
Einde van de buitenaardse wereld Het team testte de simulaties met een supercomputer. Het resonante systeem bleef lange tijd stabiel, namelijk honderd keer langer dan tijdens de simulatie in het originele onderzoeksartikel. En dat is goed nieuws voor de mensheid, want wie weet gaan we ons ooit vestigen op één van deze planeten op veertig lichtjaar van de aarde. We hoeven dan in ieder geval niet te vrezen dat het einde van de buitenaardse wereld nabij is.
Exo-Neptunus heeft een relatief primitieve atmosfeer
Exo-Neptunus heeft een relatief primitieve atmosfeer
Tim Kraaijvanger
Astronomen hebben de atmosfeer van exoplaneet HAT-P-26b geanalyseerd. Dit is een warme Neptunus-achtige planeet, die op een afstand van 437 lichtjaar om een oude ster draait. Uit de analyse blijkt dat deze exoplaneet een relatief primitieve atmosfeer heeft.
Dit betekent dat er nauwelijks zware elementen te vinden zijn in de atmosfeer van HAT-P-26b. In deze atmosfeer troffen onderzoekers voornamelijk alleen waterstof en helium aan. Verder concluderen de astronomen dat er sporen van water te vinden zijn op HAT-P-26b, al is deze buitenaardse wereld geen waterwereld. Ook zijn er vrijwel geen wolken gespot op deze zogenoemde exo-Neptunus.
Lage metalliciteit En dat is opvallend, want Neptunus en Uranus zijn ongeveer even zwaar als deze exoplaneet, maar deze planeten in ons zonnestelsel hebben wel atmosferen met twintig keer zoveel zwaardere metalen als HAT-P-26b. Qua metalliciteit (de hoeveelheid zware elementen in de atmosfeer) lijkt deze exoplaneet veel meer op Jupiter, die ongeveer twee tot vijf keer zoveel zware elementen heeft als de zon. Wetenschappers denken daarom dat HAT-P-26b op een andere manier is ontstaan dan de twee buitenste gasplaneten in ons zonnestelsel. Mogelijk vormde HAT-P-26b zich heel dicht bij de moederster of is deze exoplaneet relatief laat geboren. Misschien is het wel een combinatie van deze twee factoren.
Niet volgens het boekje “We zijn pas begonnen met het onderzoeken van atmosferen van verre Neptuniaanse planeten,” vertelt onderzoeker Hannah Wakeford van NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “Toch vinden we nu al een voorbeeld van een exoplaneet waarbij de atmosfeer niet volgens het boekje is ontwikkeld. Dit voorbeeld is de reden waarom ik het leuk vind om de atmosferen van buitenaardse werelden te verkennen.”
Planeetovergang Wetenschappers hebben de atmosfeer van HAT-P-26b geanalyseerd tijdens een planeetovergang. Tijdens een planeetovergang schuift een planeet voor de moederster langs. Een klein deel van het sterrenlicht wordt geblokkeerd, terwijl een fractie van het sterrenlicht door de atmosfeer van de planeet reist. Bepaalde golflengten worden door de atmosfeer gefilterd. Wetenschappers kijken naar de vingerafdruk van het sterrenlicht en kunnen op die manier achterhalen wat de chemische samenstelling van een buitenaardse atmosfeer is.
Diversiteit “Er is sprake van veel diversiteit in de atmosferen van dit soort exoplaneten”, concludeert onderzoeker David K. Sing van de universiteit van Exeter. “Dat is een beetje de trend van de afgelopen jaren. Wetenschappers worden continu verrast door al die verschillen.”
Cassini maakt scherpste foto ooit van propellers in de A-ring van Saturnus
Cassini maakt scherpste foto ooit van propellers in de A-ring van Saturnus
Tim Kraaijvanger
De Cassini-ruimtesonde heeft een haarscherpe foto van propellers in het middelste gedeelte van de A-ring van Saturnus gemaakt. Dit zijn kleine verstoringen in de ringen van Saturnus.
De verstoringen ontstaan door piepkleine maantjes. Eén van de grootste en bekendste propellers is de Bleriot-propeller. Deze verstoring wordt veroorzaakt door een dwergmaantje met een diameter van ongeveer honderd meter. De propeller, die eruit ziet als een soort schroef met twee banen, is enkele kilometers groot.
Astronomen vermoeden dat alleen in de A-ring duizenden minimaantjes te vinden zijn die propellers maken. Op de nieuwe Cassini-foto zijn er ontelbaar veel te zien. Kijk maar eens links en rechts van het diagonale golfpatroon.
Ontelbaar veel propellers, zoals het duo aan de rechterkant.
De foto is gemaakt op 19 april. De resolutie bedraagt 385 meter per pixel. Al deze propellers zijn dus ook enkele kilometers lang. Wetenschappers gaan de foto gebruiken om te bepalen hoe groot deze minimaantjes zijn en om opnieuw een berekening te maken van de verspreiding van deze objecten rondom Saturnus.
Weer ontdekking gedaan op Mars. Is dit een dode alien?
Weer ontdekking gedaan op Mars. Is dit een dode alien?
UFO-jagers menen op een NASA-foto van Mars een ‘dode alien’ te hebben gevonden. Dat meldt het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
Door complottheoretici wordt druk gespeculeerd over de doodsoorzaak van de alien, schrijft de Russische internetkrant ng.ru.
De UFO-jagers zien op de foto een figuur, die mogelijk is geplet door een stuk rots. Daarbij zijn het hoofd, een arm en een been van het wezen intact gebleven.
Vulkanisme
De doodsoorzaak hebben ze nog niet kunnen achterhalen. Ze noemen onder meer vulkanisme op de rode planeet als mogelijke oorzaak.
De houding van de figuur doet hen denken aan die van de slachtoffers van de uitbarsting van de Vesuvius.
In 79 na Christus begroef die vulkaan het dorp Pompeii onder een laag lava en as. Alles in en rondom het dorp is perfect bewaard gebleven.
Verborgen
UFO-enthousiastelingen ontdekken vaker vreemde voorwerpen op Mars. Zij stellen dat de NASA dingen voor ons verborgen houdt.
Wetenschappers spreken in dergelijke gevallen echter van pareidolie, de aangeboren neiging van de hersenen om onduidelijke en willekeurige waarnemingen betekenis te geven.
Ons brein is getraind om snel verbanden te leggen tussen de verschillende stimuli die het ontvangt. Het is een nuttig overlevingsmechanisme.
Canadian witness says UFO followed car 20 feet overhead
Canadian witness says UFO followed car 20 feet overhead
A Canadian witness at Edson reported a glowing object following her vehicle just 20 feet overhead, according to testimony in Case 83272 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first thought the bright light was a vehicle approaching from behind.
Pictured: Downtown Edson, AB, Canada.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness was returning home from the hospital at 10 p.m. on April 19, 2017, when the incident occurred.
“It was about a 15-minute drive,but felt much longer that night,” the witness stated.“No vehicles in sight. Out of nowhere a bright, yellow-colored light appeared in my rearview mirror nearly blinding me.”
The driver eventually released the object was 20 feet over the vehicle as she approached Edson.
(Credit: Google)
The witness first thought the light might be a vehicle approaching from behind.
“I continued driving and slowed down a little, hoping it was passing me. That’s when it started to speed up and that’s when I realized it was above the car, maybe a 20-foot distance.”
The witness described the object.
“I noticed it was a bright, yellow-orange color and glowed. I could not make out the details as it was too bright. I sped up to get away from it, but it continued at the same speed overhead. For 15minutes, it remained this way. When I got closer to my destination, I went down a hill to get to my turn and slowed right down. The UFO then abruptly changed direction towards where I was headed to. Hovered above the property and then the UFO glowing light went dim and disappeared into the darkness of the night.”
Once at her destination, the object briefly hovered over the property before moving away.
Pictured: Edson, AB, Canada. (Credit: Google)
Edson is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada, population 8,414. MUFON Canada 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.
UFO At Space Station On Live NASA Cam, May 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO At Space Station On Live NASA Cam, May 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 2017
Location of sighting: Earths Orbit At ISS
There is no place other than space that aliens want to see humanity...at their finest, reaching for the stars. This UFO is seen on the other side of the solar panels in the far distance. It look like is about the size of city bus and is disk shaped. A great catch by Streetcap1 of Youtube.
Many say its impossible to catch a UFO at the space station, however those people never put more than 5 minutes into looking. If you search for about 1-2 hours. I guarantee you will see a UFO.
Scott C. Waring
Streetcap1 states:
This looks like a craft behind the ISS speeding off into the distance. NASA must have been on their coffee break. SC1.
The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova noted by Earth-bound chroniclers in 1054 A.D., is filled with mysterious filaments that are are not only tremendously complex, but appear to have less mass than expelled in the original supernova and a higher speed than expected from a free explosion. The Crab Nebula spans about 10 light-years. In the nebula's very center lies a pulsar: a neutron star as massive as the Sun but with only the size of a small town. The Crab Pulsar rotates about 30 times each second.
By combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, researchers found that the atmosphere of the distant “warm Neptune” exoplanet HAT-P-26b, illustrated here, is unexpectedly primitive, composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. The astronomers also detected water and evidence of exotic clouds in the planet’s air.
Credit: NASA/GSFC
Astronomers have spotted water vapor and evidence of exotic clouds in the atmosphere of an alien planet known as HAT-P-26b.
The researchers also determined that HAT-P-26b's atmosphere is dominated by hydrogen and helium to a much greater degree than that of Neptune or Uranus, the alien world's closest counterparts in our own solar system in terms of mass.
"This exciting new discovery shows that there is a lot more diversity in the atmospheres of these exoplanets than we have previously thought," David Sing, an astrophysics professor at the University of Exeter in England, said in a statement. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
"This 'warm Neptune' is a much smaller planet than those we have been able to characterize in depth, so this new discovery about its atmosphere feels like a big breakthrough in our pursuit to learn more about how solar systems are formed, and how it compares to our own," added Sing, the co-leader of a new study about HAT-P-26b that was published online today (May 11) in the journal Science.
Water and alien clouds
HAT-P-26b lies about 430 light-years away from Earth. The alien planet circles very close to its host star, completing one orbit every 4.2 Earth days. This proximity suggests that HAT-P-26b is tidally locked, showing the same face to its star at all times, said Hannah Wakeford, co-leader of the new study and a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Sing, Wakeford and their colleagues analyzed observations made by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes when HAT-P-26b crossed its parent star's face from the telescopes' perspectives. The planet's atmosphere filtered out certain wavelengths of starlight during these "transits," allowing the study team to identify some of the molecules swirling in HAT-P-26b's air.
One such molecule is water.
"For this mass range, this is the strongest water-absorption feature that we have ever measured," Wakeford told Space.com.
The data also indicate that clouds scud across HAT-P-26b's skies, but relatively deep in the atmosphere; they do not block much of the water-absorption signal, Wakeford said. These clouds are probably made of disodium sulfide, not water vapor like those of Earth, she added.
"This would be a very alien sky that you would be looking at," Wakeford said. "These clouds would cause scattering in all of the colors, so you'd get a kind of scattery, washed-out, gray sky, which is interesting, if you were looking through these clouds."
Ultrabright light streaming from the nearby star would bombard an observer above the clouds, she added. "There's nothing there to really help stop that sunlight from reaching you."
Clues about planet formation
Using the transit data, the study team also calculated the "metallicity" of HAT-P-26b's atmosphere — how much of it is made up of elements other than hydrogen and helium. (To an astronomer, anything heavier than helium is a metal.)
In Earth's solar system, metallicity goes down as a planet's mass goes up. For example, Neptune and Uranus both have metallicities about 100 times greater than that of the sun (which is almost entirely hydrogen and helium), whereas the much larger Saturn and Jupiter are just 10 and five times more metallic than the sun, respectively.
But HAT-P-26b does not fit that pattern. Though the exoplanet is about as massive as Neptune, its metallicity is more in line with that of Jupiter, the researchers in the new study found.
This surprising bit of information holds clues about HAT-P-26b's formation and evolution, Wakeford said.
"It suggests that this smaller planet actually formed closer to its star, more like where Jupiter formed," she said. "And we didn't know before that you could form [such] planets in that region. We expected the smaller worlds to be formed further out, where they would accumulate clumps of icy debris and richer heavy elements during the formation in the [protoplanetary] disk." (In these scenarios, planets such as HAT-P-26b migrate inward, toward their stars, after they form.)
Over the last decade or so, NASA's Kepler space telescope and other planet-hunting instruments have revealed a staggering array of alien worlds and solar system architectures. The new study, and others like it, should help researchers better understand the reasons for this variety, Wakeford said.
"This is the first step toward looking at the diversity in the formation process as well," she said.
New Instrument May Aid Search for Extraterrestrial Life
New Instrument May Aid Search for Extraterrestrial Life
For 2 weeks on the Greenland ice cap, scientists tested an instrument that might help us find life on icy moons with oceans beneath their crusts.
A researcher looks over the Greenland ice cap, a “frozen ocean.” Eleven scientists just returned from a field campaign testing an instrument that can scrutinize holes in ice for signs of life. Someday, such an instrument might find its way to Europa or Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael J. Malaska
Ocean worlds are on planetary scientists’ minds. More and more, evidence rolls in about the potential habitability of ice-covered bodies like Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The findings point to heat-driven processes in their subsurface oceans that could support life. Scientists are now beginning to wonder: Could the search for life end on one of these icy satellites?
Assuming humanity does land a spacecraft on Europa or Enceladus, any evidence of life it might uncover would receive heavy scrutiny. In a recent report on a possible landing mission to Europa, scientists devoted multiple chapters to discussing the kinds of evidence they’d need—like finding amino acids and other organic molecules in patterns similar to those in organic matter on Earth.
But even before these signatures can be detected by a probe or scrutinized by researchers in a lab, scientists need an instrument that can take data directly from a hole drilled into an icy surface.
Now scientists at NASA have begun to test such an instrument, a culmination of 20 years of technological development, called the Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and Engineering, or WATSON. The idea would be to include a WATSON-like instrument on a lander bound for Europa, Enceladus, or even Mars’s polar ice caps, said Rohit Bhartia, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., and a WATSON team member.
Bhartia and a group of scientists recently returned from a 2-week field campaign in southern Greenland, where they tested out WATSON in holes they drilled into the Greenland ice cap.
“What we were doing in Greenland has never been performed before,” Bhartia said. “The technology was simply not available.”
Frozen Ocean
Mike Malaska said that ice poking out of the landscape reminded him of waves or shark fins. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael J. Malaska
Each day of the trip, the team would greet the Greenland morning from their dormitories at the Kangerlussuaq Science Support Facility, which hosts teams of scientists conducting research. They’d load their equipment into a couple of trucks and drive about an hour onto the ice, where they’d spend several hours drilling, looking for new sites to drill, or analyzing boreholes with WATSON.
For Mike Malaska, another WATSON team member and planetary scientist at JPL, the trip was “epically awesome.” It was his first experience conducting field work on a large ice cap.
“It’s hard to put it into words, but you just felt the vastness and largeness of the landscape,” he said. The wind- and Sun-sculpted peaks of ice poked up like shark fins, making the icy scenery look like a “frozen ocean.”
Each fresh snowfall or cloudy sky changed the scenery to dramatic effect, Malaska said. “Every direction we looked it was just an incredible beautiful vastness that couldn’t be captured by a photo; it had to be experienced in person,” he said.
Science on Ice
The WATSON instrument analyzes a drill hole, using fluorescence/Raman spectroscopy to detect organic molecules. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Rohit Bhartia
The researchers set out to study the kinds of signatures life leaves in the ice, like organic molecules or even physical alterations, which will help future scientists evaluate potential evidence for life elsewhere in the solar system, Bhartia said.
Scientists know that microbes on Earth can live under, inside, and around glaciers, but they can’t do any analysis in the field because the technology doesn’t yet exist. Currently, researchers remove an ice core, package it, ship it thousands of kilometers, and study it at a lab bench. Not only can this contaminate the core, but it also leaves out important context about the environment in which the core was found, like how microbes got into the ice: Was it through a subglacial lake? An aboveground fracture?
Enter WATSON, an instrument that can analyze the environment surrounding a core. After the researchers drilled into the ice, they lowered WATSON—a long, silver tube attached to a tripod—into the hole to analyze its walls and hunt for signs of microbes. WATSON contains an instrument called a fluorescence/Raman spectrometer that can detect organic molecules in the ice. It does so by zapping the walls of the borehole with an ultraviolet laser that excites some molecules into a higher-energy state, Malaska said. The molecules then return to their original state, emitting the excess energy as photons. The device collects and measures the energies of those photons to determine what kinds of organic molecules are present on the inner surface of the borehole. It also detects molecules by looking at how much they scatter or change the light of the laser. Other components of WATSON create a visible map of that surface that scientists can overlay with the spectrometer data.
Scientists extracting a core from the ice. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Michael J. Malaska
Once it is fully operational, WATSON should be able to rapidly combine these data sets to identify regions of interest within the walls of the borehole. The combined data set will reveal the distribution of the molecules to help scientists conducting these field tests learn more about the many kinds of signatures that indicate the presence of microbial life, Malaska said.
Next Steps
The April campaign was only the first step in testing WATSON, a step Bhartia called “wildly successful.” WATSON functioned as intended—quite a feat, as it was designed, fabricated, tested, and deployed within less than a year, Bhartia said. WATSON generated heaps of data about the organic molecules within the test boreholes. The researchers also collected ice cores from the locations where they drilled, which they will analyze in the coming months at Montana State University in Bozeman. There, the researchers will use the core data to verify WATSON’s data.
The team is currently “feverishly analyzing” their data and preparing for more Greenland field campaigns in 2018 and again in 2019, Bhartia said. If all goes as planned, on those future trips, the researchers will have integrated WATSON with a drill to test the feasibility of the fully operational instrument.
Citation: Wendel, J. (2017), New instrument may aid search for extraterrestrial life, Eos, 98,https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO073189. Published on 10 May 2017.
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Evidence of ancient life in hot springs on Earth could point to fossil life on Mars
Evidence of ancient life in hot springs on Earth could point to fossil life on Mars
Fossils from 3.5 billion years ago change our ideas about early life on Earth, and how we might look for life on Mars.
Ridges in the Dresser Formation in the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia that preserve ancient stromatolites and hot spring deposits.Kathleen Campbell, Author provided
Fossil evidence of early life has been found in old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara, Western Australia, that date back almost 3.48 billion years.
This extends the known evidence of life at land-based hot springs on Earth by about 3 billion years.
Not only is the find exciting for what it might say about the evolution of early life on Earth, but it also has implications for the search for life on Mars.
Our understanding of these deposits would not be possible without the foundations laid by earlier researchers.
Ancient stromatolites
In the late 1970s, fossilised stromatolites – rock structures built by communities of microorganisms – were discovered within these Pilbara deposits.
But extensive research over the past 20 years has led to a much better understanding of the environment that suggests it was actually part of an ancient volcano.
In modern volcanic settings, hot fluids circulate in the rocks underground and manifest as hot vents at the bottom of the salty ocean, such as the black or white smokers, or terrestrial hot springs on land where fresh rainwater is available.
What was unclear about the volcanic setting in the Pilbara was whether these hot circulating fluids were indeed discharging on land, producing hot springs – such as those we see in Rotorua, New Zealand – and could we link these hot springs to signs of life?
The smoking gun
Our recent findings from the Pilbara, published today in Nature Communications, provide a smoking gun to a terrestrial hot spring scenario in the form of a particular rock type called geyserite. This was found alongside a variety of textures that indicate life.
Geyserite only forms around the edges of terrestrial hot spring pools and geysers. These are found actively forming today in New Zealand, Yellowstone National Park and Iceland to name a few.
The biological signatures that we’ve found include stromatolites, but also some newly identified microbial textures. This includes a microbial texture (called palisade fabric) that represents microbes that grew upon the ancient sinter terraces – the rocks that form around hot spring pools.
We also found evidence of gas bubbles that must have been trapped in a sticky substance (microbial) in order to be able to preserve the bubble shape.
Spherical bubbles preserved in 3.48 billion year old rocks in the Dresser Formation in the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia provide evidence for early life having lived in ancient hot springs on land.UNSW, Author provided
Importantly, all of these textures are comparable to fossil textures found in modern hot spring settings such as Yellowstone National Park or Rotorua, New Zealand.
Ancient life on land
The Earth’s geological and fossil record is like a thousand-piece puzzle, but we only have a few pieces. Every missing piece we discover helps us to better shape our understanding of life.
But these new findings don’t just extend back the record of geyserite and life living in hot springs on land by 3 billion years, they also indicate that life was inhabiting the land much earlier than previously thought, by up to 580 million years.
Before these findings, the world’s oldest evidence for microbial life on land was from ancient, organic matter-rich soils from South Africa, aged between 2.7 billion and 2.9 billion years.
The new discovery has implications for the evolution, and perhaps even the origin, of life on Earth.
Scientists are currently considering two hypotheses regarding the origin of life: that it began in the ocean in hot vents, or alternatively that it began on land in a version of Charles Darwin’s “warm little pond” which was connected to a hot spring system.
The discovery of biological signatures and fossil preservation in such ancient hot springs provides at least a geological perspective of the types of environments available and inhabited by life very early on in Earth’s history.
This may lend weight to the hypothesis that life originated on land and then took a downhill adaptive evolutionary pathway to the salty ocean, whereas the opposite is typically proposed.
Life on Mars
These findings have major implications regarding the search for life elsewhere in the universe, or at least our solar system. Our neighbouring planet, Mars, has long been a target in the search for extraterrestrial life.
It is widely accepted that the red planet was likely similar to Earth once upon a time, in that it had liquid water flowing on its surface and active volcanoes.
Recent data from the spirit rover has even identified ancient hot springs, of a similar age to early Earth, in an area called Columbia Hills.
In fact Columbia Hills is one of the top three potential landing sites chosen for NASA’s upcoming Mars2020 rover that’s includes a primary objective to search for fossil life on Mars.
Our findings imply that if life ever developed on the red planet, and it is preserved in ancient hot springs on Earth, then there is a good chance it could be preserved in ancient hot springs on Mars too.
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The Upside In Transmitting Messages To Extraterrestrials
The Upside In Transmitting Messages To Extraterrestrials
Officially, humanity has not found any proof of space alien existence despite many years of searching in the cosmos. However, if Earthlings succeed in encountering alien species, will the aliens be hostile, indifferent, or a little nice?
Dough Vakoch of METI International, a group of scientists that has been sending radio signals out into the void in an attempt to communicate with alien life, says that it is challenging to second-guess alien motivations. SETI scientists have often assumed ETs that will make contact have survived long enough and overcome any warlike traits during the process of their evolution.
akoch explains that if space aliens have not learned to behave nicely with others, they will not have survived at least thousands of years necessary to be a stable interstellar civilization.
Stephen Hawking has warned about transmitting messages to aliens. He said that intelligent aliens might come to Earth to strip mine. However, Vakoch does not think Hawking’s theory is realistic as it makes no economic sense the idea of aliens traveling across the galaxy to look for something that can be found in their backyard. Second, according to Vakoch, a civilization that can traverse the distances between the stars may already know about our presence, so scientists do not expose our lives to any additional threats in transmitting intentional signals. Vakoch further explains that there is, in fact, an upside to sending such messages and that is to intrigue the aliens about humanity and make a reply.
The small town of Varginha, in the state of Minas Gerais, is not particularly pretty. It has no touristic attractions. Actually, Varginha could very well cross history without ever being noticed by the rest of Brazil – let alone the world. That changed on January 20, 1996, when the town became the stage of the most famous Brazil UFO incident.
Three adolescents claimed that they saw a weird being. The creature was short and had V-shaped feet, horns and red eyes. “It wasn’t a man or an animal. It was something different,” they said at the time. Overnight, the three young women put Varginha on the map.
Reports about creatures and UFOs, military operations, strange coincidences, and mysterious deaths followed January 20. In fact, many questions remain unanswered to this day.
Something weird did happen in 1996
Brazil UFO incident in Varginha began when two sisters and a friend saw a strange creature. That encounter unchained a series of events upon which the Brazilian media feasted, and hysteria spread throughout the residents of Varginha. It didn’t help that the Brazilian Army made a spectacular and costly operation to investigate the case.
Within 24 hours, more reports about UFO appeared. A couple of farmers said they saw something resembling a gray spaceship overflying their cattle. “The cows are running from it. The object was surrounded by fog, but had no lights on it and didn’t make any noise,” said one of the farmers.
Also, another strange creature was seen next to the city’s zoo. Then, animals started dying for no apparent reason.
All incidents, of course, remain unproven. According to Marco Petit, a Brazilian ufologist, that’s because of a government cover-up operation. In a book called “Varginha, toda a verdade revelada” (literally “Varginha, the entire truth revealed”), he says that the case is bigger and more important than people think.
“The military’s high command took part of the case. I present their names so people won’t say I’m kidding about ufology,” he told G1 in 2015. Petit points out that some reports stated that the military found a spaceship and captured part of its crew.
Rumor has it that the bodies of the extraterrestrials were examined by Doctor Badan Palhares, who was Brazil’s leading forensic expert at the time. Palhares, however, has always denied the claims, calling it “utter nonsense.”
The military’s official version
In October 2015, weekly magazine IstoÉ publish an article containing official documents of the Brazilian Army. According to the official reports of the time, the “creature” that the three young women saw was not an ET. It was, in fact, a man who suffered from mental illnesses and lived next to the vacant lot in which they had their “close encounter of the third kind.”
A Brazilian Roswell?
Although every single one of those claims remains unproven, the incident catapulted Varginha into a touristic spot for UFO believers. The Wall Street Journal said about the town: “a hot spot in the intergalactic search for intelligent life.”
Whether the Brazil UFO incident was true or false never mattered for the city. The city was smart in trying to capitalize on it. Until this day, local vendors sell dolls of the “Varginha ET,” as Brazilians call it. Restaurants and stores have alien-themed decorations.
In 2001, the Mayor’s Office inaugurated a 12-meter high glowing tower in the city’s central square (you can see it on the main photo of this article). Its shape? You guessed right, a spaceship.
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Golvende lava ontdekt in Io's grootste vulkaankrater
Golvende lava ontdekt in Io's grootste vulkaankrater
Tim Kraaijvanger
Astronomen hebben een gedetailleerde kaart gemaakt van het grootste lavameer op Io, een maan van Jupiter. De temperatuur van het gesmolten meer nam langzaam toe van het westen naar het oosten. Zij vermoeden dat golven hiervoor verantwoordelijk zijn.
PIZZAMAAN IO
Io wordt ook wel de ‘pizzamaan’ genoemd. Dit maantje van Jupiter heeft namelijk een pokdalig landschap. Io is het meest vulkanisch actieve hemellichaam in het zonnestelsel en is – na Venus en zon – de heetste plek in ons zonnestelsel. De maan Io is vulkanisch actief, omdat de maan intern wordt gekneed door Jupiter en de twee grote manen van Jupiter: Ganymedes en Europa. Regelmatig spuwen de vulkanen op Io zwavel de ruimte in. Dit levert hele mooie beelden op. Io zelf zien? Richt een beginnerstelescoop op Jupiter en de vier manen van Jupiter zijn duidelijk te zien: mits ze zich naast de gasplaneet bevinden (en niet erachter).
De bovenste laag van het 200 kilometer grote lavameer is gestold. De golven zorgen ervoor dat de gestolde bovenlaag wordt afgebroken en naar de bodem zakt. “Hierdoor komt de gloeiende magma daaronder bloot te liggen, waardoor het lavameer in infrarood licht helderder wordt,” legt onderzoeker Katherine de Kleer van UC Berkeley uit. Het paper van De Kleer en collega’s is online te lezen op de site van het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature.
De temperatuurkaart laat een toename zien in temperatuur van 270 Kelvin (waar lava gestold is) tot 330 Kelvin (nieuwe magma). Overigens is dit niet extreem warm. 270 Kelvin komt overeen met een temperatuur van -3 graden Celsius, terwijl 330 Kelvin ongeveer 57 graden Celsius is. Op basis van modellen concluderen de onderzoekers dat twee trage golven iedere dag een afstand van ongeveer één kilometer afleggen. De vernieuwing van de toplaag van het lavameer gaat dus extreem langzaam. Ben je benieuwd welke routes deze golven afleggen? Bekijk de video hieronder.
Simulatie van hoe de golven door het lavameer bewegen.
Europa-overgang Fascinerender is de manier waarop wetenschappers tot deze conclusie zijn gekomen. Ze maakten daarbij slim gebruik van een andere maan van Jupiter: Europa. Op 8 maart vloog Europa voor Io langs. Hierdoor werd het licht van de vulkanische maan tijdelijk geblokkeerd. Omdat het oppervlak van Europa uit waterijs bestaat, wordt er weinig zonlicht gereflecteerd op infrarode golflengten. Hierdoor slaagden onderzoekers er in om de hitte van de vulkanen op het oppervlak van Io te meten.
Temperatuur en leeftijd van het oppervlak van het lavameer.
Tachtig metingen Het Large Binocular Telescope-observatorium werd ingezet om het lavameer Loki Patera in de gaten te houden. In ongeveer tien seconden bedekte Europa dit meer op Io. Toch was dit lang genoeg om circa tachtig temperatuurmetingen te verrichten, waardoor er nu een kaart is van de temperatuurverdeling in het meer.
Adam Savage famously loves space suits. In March, he told The Verge that he owns a number of different types that he’s commissioned or built over the years: “They all kind of satisfy the same thing in me, and it is to create an environment around your body where you are protected. The space suit is the most amazing, because you’re bringing your own mini-Earth with you.” Recently, Savage visited the set of Ridley Scott’s new Alien series movie Alien: Covenant, and nerded out when he got to try on one of the suits used in the film.
In a video posted to Savage’s YouTube Channel, Tested, Savage donned parts of the bright yellow EVA suit, marveling at how well he could move: “When NASA does this, it costs millions of dollars.” The suit’s designer, Michael Mooney, points out that the bearings and parts of the suit were 3D printed, not only for convenience, but because Scott liked the texture.
In the video, Savage also sits down with the film’s costume designer, Janty Yates, who explains that the production didn’t want to reuse the same types of space suits used in Scott’s film Prometheus, but also didn’t want to replicate those seen in Alien. They went back to the drawing board to create two new types of suits: the IVA, used inside the film’s spacecraft, and the EVA suit worn by Danny McBride, which was inspired by underwater suits.
While the IVA suits were reasonably simple to put together. Yates says they’ve gotten extremely good at designing helmets in recent years. The EVA suit was a “technological nightmare,” though, requiring the 3D-printed bearings at every point of articulation. “It’s a thing of extraordinary genius.”
Q: How much pressure does it take to burst someone's chest open?
A: Lots
Around the time ofStar Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson decided to spoil everyone’s fun by imposing actual physics on its far-away universe. Would BB-8 actually be able to roll on sand? Would TIE fighters actually make any sound in space? Are Roman Numerals actually a viable counting method in the 21st century? Stuff like that.
Now two Australian scientists have done the same thing with Alien: Covenant, out tomorrow, on Aussie-founded academic site The Conversation. Michael Milford (Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology) and Juxi Leitner (Research Fellow, Robotics & AI, QUT) ask questions like: Can glass withstand insane pressure? Would 20 crewmates want to kill each other after years on a ship? How much force would an alien need to break out of someone’s chest? Here’s what they reckoned.
1. Wouldn’t this glass panel break?
Maybe, maybe not.
Over at The Conversationthe science-men did some complex maths that they’re modestly downplaying as ‘back of the envelope calculations’. Ultimately they decided that the pressure exerted on the glass by the alien’s head in the above clip was 18,130 Pascals per square inch, which may or not make the glass break. They explain: “tough tempered glass is known to break at somewhere in the 10,000 to 24,000 PSI range, so it looks like it could be touch and go”.
2. Wouldn’t the crew hate each other?
Yes – unless they were hand-picked first
This question presupposes that the company that sent the Covenant spaceship didn’t handpick its crew – which they probably did – but the maths is still interesting, so let’s take a look.
If you’ve got a group of 20 randomly selected people, chances are there are going to be some major personality clashes, especially over a long trip through space. This is simply because of how probability works: imagine there’s a 5% chance that you really don’t get on with someone – if it’s just you and someone else, the scientists at The Conversation say the probability you get on with them is something like this: ‘chance you like them x chance they like you’. This would be (1 – 0.05) × (1 – 0.05), which is equal to 0.9025, or 90.25%. So 9 times out of 10, you and a random other person will get on great.
That chance rapidly decreases the more people you add to the equation. “Grab any random group of 20 people with those individual characteristics, and there’s only a tiny chance there won’t be some significant conflict potential there”. The figure they come up with is about 0.00000034%. “That’s why there’s so much psychological profiling for missions to Mars,” they say.
3. How does an alien break out of someone’s chest?
Method A: cutting
The ‘elegant’ method
If a newly ‘hatched’ alien only weighs 5kg, it’d have to be very strong to break through the chest of something with 16 times its own body mass. But imagine an alien’s incisors working like a saw to cut open a human chest, like sternum saws might do for open heart surgery. Leitner and Milford imagine that, in relation to its body mass, an alien is four times as strong as a human – so, they say, “if the ‘chestburster’ could apply its incredible power as efficiently to cutting its way out as a cardiac surgeon does with a saw, this approach is feasible.”
Method B: brute force
If at first you don’t succeed…
The human ribcage is very strong – a well-placed blow with a force of 3,300 Newtons will break a rib only one in four times. And that’s the force an Olympic boxer might have – not, perhaps, a newly born alien. So can an alien break out of a chest purely by bashing its way out? Leitner and Milford estimate the alien could only produce about 1,175 Newtons of force, so it would probably take a long time, and a lot of bashing to burst from someone’s chest like it does in the original Alien. Cutting > bashing, says science.
The files were released under the US Freedom of Information Act.
Government officials claimed they stopped investigating UFOs in the 1960s after it was said there was no threat to civilisation or evidence of intelligent aliens visiting the planet.
But, the new file released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), shows it was still actively monitoring the matter in 2002, conspiracy theorists have claimed.
The new document even explains to investigators how to photograph a UFO and record a sighting.
The US Department of Defense file, from 2002, contains a manual on how to snap suspected spaceships.
The document, entitled ‘DoD Instruction 5040.6, Life-Cycle Management of DoD Visual Information (VI)’, is 27 pages long.
Section 21 of Chapter five of the document says: "The following table concerns imagery that records UFOs and other aerial phenomena not obviously identifiable as conventional aircraft or missiles.
"The table also lists the priority assigned to each category of imagery and provides relevant handling instructions."
It advises military personnel to make digital copies and send all pictures or footage to the Defence Visual Information Center.
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Former Pres. George W. Bush discusses alleged secret UFO files with Jimmy Kimmel on March 2, 2017.
How can they keep a straight face about the UFO issue when they shove it in plain English for the Armed Forces to digest.
Paul Dean
The document was uncovered by Paul Dean, a UFO researcher and blogger, who used a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain them from the department.
He was gobsmacked by what he received.
He told Mysterious Universe: "What's particularly odd about that the table of what to photograph and what not to, is that it doesn’t vaguely say ‘UFOs’.
"It lays out fully both ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’ with descriptors, and then ‘Aerial Phenomena’ with descriptors."
He said it "blows out of the water" the widely held belief and claim that the US stopped documenting and researching UFOs after the 1960s.
He added: "How can they keep a straight face about the UFO issue when they shove it in plain English for the Armed Forces to digest.
Conspiracy theorists claim the US Government is aware aliens have visited Earth, but have put in place a "truth embargo" to prevent it getting out to the public.
Disclosure activists, like Steve Bassett, head of Paradigm Research Group, campaign for the embargo to be lifted.
Earlier this month Express.co.uk revealed how Mr Bassett believes that disclosure could be imminent after the CIA put thousands of formerly classified files, including stuff on UFOs, on its website.
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This Morning viewers in hysterics as Peter Andre 'hunts' aliens and speaks to 'mysterious girl' who encountered the supernatural
This Morning viewers in hysterics as Peter Andre 'hunts' aliens and speaks to 'mysterious girl' who encountered the supernatural
The singer believes alien spacecraft have visited this planet after a personal encounter with UFOs in the Nevada desert
BY KYLE O'SULLIVAN
This Morning viewers were let in hysterics after Peter Andre spoke to a woman who encountered the supernatural in his "hunt" for aliens.
The singer admitted he believes alien spacecraft have visited this planet after personal witnessing UFOs flying in the sky above him on a trip to the Nevada desert.
Today marked the launch of a new three-part series called 'Peter Andre's World of Weird' that will see him investigating the paranormal and supernatural.
He spoke to a "mysterious girl" who described how she saw a "massive thing" which shone lights from above the sea before zooming off into the air.
Peter Andre is on the hunt for aliens(Photo: ITV)
Jo Wood encountered a flying spacecraft in Brazil(Photo: ITV)
Speaking on This Morning about his reasons for believing in the paranormal, he said: "Witness testimonies and video footage of UFOs are often dismissed as hoaxes or the product of over reactive imagination.
"But you see I do believe alien spacecraft have visited this planet. Why? Because I’ve seen one."
Describing his supernatural experience, Peter said: "A few years ago I was driving through the Nevada dessert with my family close to the famous area 51 military base.
"Now you’re only allowed within a certain distance of the base but believe me I got as close as I could. And what I saw was unbelievable.
The UFO shone bright lights over the sea(Photo: ITV)
"I've never seen anything like it, there were crafts, they were erratic - objects going from one point in the sky to the other in split seconds and disappearing and reappearing - it blew my mind.
"Even since then I've seen loads of things, that in itself made me believe."
The series, which will see Peter tackling the topics of alien visitors, ghosts, and reincarnation, started with an interview with Jo Wood.
Peter will interview abductees and spend a night in a haunted house(Photo: ITV)
Explaining her encounter with the supernatural, Jo said: "I was in Recife in Brazil with my ex Ronnie and our kids. He [Ronnie] was out wandering around and he started shouting 'Jo, Jo, come here, come here, there's something weird over by the sea'..."
Jo added: "Above the sea was this massive thing and the lights came down on the sea from underneath it, and as I'm watching it, it just suddenly went [swift movement action] and stopped and then went... it was gone, just like that."
As the series progresses, Peter will also speak to abductees and witnesses, spend an evening in a haunted castle, and even undergo a past-life regression.
Have aliens visited this planet?(Photo: ITV)
This Morning viewers were left in hysterics as they joked about Peter and his supernatural beliefs.
One viewer said: "Peter Andre believes in aliens on the basis that he once saw a Mysterious Girl
Another added: "Out of all the people @ThisMorning could've got to do an alien report - @MrPeterAndre is who they've chosen."
A third said: "I'm still aghast that Peter Andre exists.....never mind f***ing aliens."
* 'Peter Andre's World of Weird' will be on ITV's This Morning on Thursdays at 10.30am
In 1959, Eileen Moreland was walking across a paddock to collect some cows for milking before she was confronted by a green glow.
Illustrations: Ben Thomson
You know those flashing lights you saw that one time in the sky? Maybe they weren't comets after all.
This article was originally published on VICE New Zealand, it is supported by Alien: Covenant, out in cinemas on May 11. To celebrate the film's release, we spoke to a bunch of New Zealanders who have witnessed what they believe to be UFOs or signs of alien life.
On 22 December 2010 at 1.30pm, the New Zealand Defence Force released their classified sightings between 1952 and 2009 on the grounds of huge public interest. The process took 14 months.
The files contained information relating to the infamous Kaikoura lights sightings of 1978, where hundreds of people saw lights of varying sizes appearing, and reappearing, in the region. The lights were even spotted playing a game of duck, duck, goose, of sorts, with a cargo aircraft.
The reports also documented the 1959 Moreland sightings, where a Mrs Eileen Moreland was walking across a paddock to collect some cows for milking—as you do—before she was confronted by a green glow. She'd stumbled across a UFO trying to land in her paddock. They were harmless, sure, and they were also wearing metallic suits. The controversy fuelled Cold War fears of Russian involvement.
Even though it's been almost 60 years since the Moreland case—and people still often report extraterrestrial sightings—explanation around what's out there still remains unclear. To unshroud the mystery around the phenomenon, we spoke to some New Zealanders who have been spooked by what they claim to be signs of alien activity.
Sarah* was sixteen when she and two friends spotted a UFO in Christchurch in 2006. It was a completely clear, hot, and dry summer night. She was leaning up against her car when her mates noticed something out of the ordinary. All three of them witnessed three bright white lights move together at a steady pace across the sky in what seemed like a perfect lateral triangle.
"We were like, 'Whoa, that's kind of cool', not really thinking too much of it. I thought it must have been a meteorite, plane, or comet, but then they just stopped and froze for about five to ten seconds. We were caught a bit off guard."
"Then, out of nowhere, they each burst away from one another and shot out in different directions really bloody quickly and disappeared."
Before the encounter, Sarah was a sceptical, non-believer type of person. And while she's not going to jump up and down and join forums anytime soon, she says the whole thing was extremely odd. "All of us were a little shocked afterwards, we just looked at each saying, 'No... really, that didn't... But you saw that too, right?'"
She'd had a few drinks earlier, but insists it made no impact as to what she saw. But based on this, friends immediately dismissed the credibility of the story.
"If I'm thinking about representations of alcoholics in film, they are always seen as the village idiot until some knight-in-shining-sober-armour comes along to confirm what this guy has been saying the whole time."
Finn Erikson's UFO encounter also happened last year in Christchurch, between Taylors Mistake beach and Godley Head east of Christchurch. He was parked in a car park up in the valley, chatting to his friend, when they noticed darting small lights above the hillside. While they were akin to light laser points, they were huge and moved erratically. The lights disappeared and were replaced by big red lights on the hillside below, which was particularly strange as there was no road access, and the lights were too big to be from a car.
"The lights were too big to be from a car."
"We were majorly spooked and both agreed it was an authentic brush with UFOs. A major X-Files vibe set in and we gapped it toot sweet to avoid more shocking encounters."
Erikson has always been, and still is, an emphatic believer in life beyond earth. "I love the possibility that we could, as a planet, make alien contact within our lifetime. I think aliens would be peaceful and would have a lot to offer, such as wisdom to solve world crises or advanced alien technologies to help the planet and humanity. Hey, a guy can dream right?"
Where people may try to rationalise the unexplainable as earthly phenomena, Erikson's belief comes down to statistics and odds.
"Given that we know there are billions of stars and planets within our own galaxy, and there are billions of galaxies within the universe, there are overwhelming odds that there are millions of planets with the conditions to promote life."
The cultural fascination with space and UFOs has been a great platform from which to have explored his own musings on the subject too, he says. "I think agent Mulder made believers out of a lot of '90s kids, despite agent Scully's attempts to always find a rational explanation."
Wellington's Jim Chipp also thinks he had an extraterrestrial encounter, but he's still not so sure. He was driving south between Eketahuna and Masterton mid-evening in January over ten years ago. A light appeared over the eastern horizon, 10-12 kilometres away and came toward the car very fast. It veered south above the car then flared brightly before vanishing.
A few seconds after, there was another one, and then another, with six in total. Chipp began counting as they approached, and based on them covering the distance from the horizon to the car in six seconds, he thinks they were travelling at about 7000 kilometres per hour, far too fast for anything man-made.
Chipp read up on it, and found there were similar sightings in the area, but he also found scientific reports suggesting that methane gathers high in the atmosphere and is ignited by lightening, creating a fireball effect.
He has an open mind when it comes to the existence of extraterrestrial life, but seeing their aircraft is a different matter.
"If they were capable of travelling here they are more advanced than us, probably by millions of years. We would only see them if they wanted us to and if they wanted us to see them, they wouldn't leave room for doubt. I don't believe people have seen alien craft."
In all of these circumstances one thing's certain. Whether you're open to the idea of UFOs or not, you still might find yourself being scared silly by erratic flashing lights trying to dominate New Zealand's beautiful vistas.
* Names have been changed
This article is supported by Alien: Covenant, in cinemas on May 11
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X-37B : après 700 jours dans l'espace, le mystérieux vaisseau de l’US Air Force est de retour sur Terre
X-37B : après 700 jours dans l'espace, le mystérieux vaisseau de l’US Air Force est de retour sur Terre
Après un séjour de presque deux ans en orbite, le drone militaire américain X-37B est revenu sur Terre le dimanche 7 mai 2017. -
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Parti en mai 2015, le vaisseau X-37B de l'US Air Force est revenu sur Terre samedi dernier en Floride, bouclant une mission historique de 718 jours dans l'espace dont l'objectif est toujours classé secret défense.
Après deux ans passés dans l'espace, le X-37B a fait son grand retour sur Terre. Samedi 7 mai, à 7H47 heure locale, le vaisseau de l'US Air Force a atterri sur le tarmac du Kennedy Space Center en Floride. Un atterrissage très remarqué alors que l'engin de 9 mètres de long et 4,5 m d'envergure a émis juste avant un puissant bang supersonique qui a surpris les habitants aux alentours.
Le retour du vaisseau aux allures de navette spatiale était aussi très attendu. Parti en mai 2015, le X-37B dépourvu d'équipage a bouclé là une mission inédite qui aura duré 718 jours. "Aujourd'hui marque un jour incroyablement excitant pour l'unité 45th Space Wing alors que nous continuons à briser les barrières", a commenté dans un communiqué, Wayne Monteith, brigadier général de l'US Air Force et commandant de l'unité.
"Notre équipe prépare cet évènement depuis plusieurs années et je suis extrêmement fier de voir que notre dur travail et notre dévouement ont abouti à l'atterrissage réussi du X-37B", a-t-il ajouté. Mais si le vaisseau fait beaucoup parler de lui, ce n'est pas pour ses prouesses techniques, c'est plutôt pour l'objectif de sa mission classée secret défense.
Le X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle revenu ce week-end est le quatrième du nom à s'envoler sous l'égide de l'US Air Force, l'armée de l'air américaine. Le premier vol a eu lieu en 2010 et duré 224 jours. Le dernier s'était achevé en 2014 après une durée record de 674 jours dans l'espace. Or si la plupart des détails techniques du projet ont été rendus publics, les missions restent très mystérieuses.
Interrogé par Space.com en 2014, le général William Shelton avait déclaré : "X-37 fait un excellent travail. Je ne peux pas vous dire ce qu'il fait, mais il le fait très bien". Selon les communiqués de l'US Air force et de Boeing, le X-37B servirait "des objectifs spatiaux à long terme". Plus précisément, il servirait à tester de nouveaux matériaux et technologies dans l'environnement spatial.
Alimenté par l'énergie solaire, l'OTV est un véhicule capable de décoller, rester en orbite basse et revenir sur Terre de façon autonome. Il permettrait ainsi à l'armée américaine d'envoyer des équipements dans l'espace et de voir à leur retour comment ils ont résisté. Pour ce 4e vol, un propulseur de la société Aerojet Rocketdyne aurait notamment été transporté. Néanmoins, ces affirmations sont loin de convaincre tout le monde.
Depuis sa première mission, le X-37B suscite de nombreuses théories plus ou moins étayées. Et les débats se sont intensifiés quand des observateurs ont révélé avoir constaté que le X-37B survolait à plusieurs reprises certaines régions telles que l'Iraq, l'Iran, le Pakistan, l'Afghanistan et la Corée du Nord. Largement de quoi attiser les rumeurs.
Pour certains, ces observations renforcent la théorie selon laquelle le vaisseau serait utilisé pour espionner des régions géopolitiques sensibles. D'autres suggèrent qu'il servirait à mettre hors d'état de nuire des satellites redoutés par le gouvernement américain ou à l'inverse, à déployer lui-même des satellites de reconnaissance.
Plus insolite, des conspirationnistes ont évoqué la possibilité que le X-37B serve en quelque sorte de bombardier permettant de larguer une arme sur Terre depuis l'espace. Une théorie rapidement écartée par les experts au vu des caractéristiques techniques du vaisseau.
Petit et difficile à manœuvrer
"Le X-37 fait la taille d'un pick-up, ce serait difficile de mettre des armes efficaces à bord", a expliqué à l'AFP Victoria Samson, spécialiste de la fondation américaine Secure World Militant pour le développement durable dans l'espace. Par ailleurs, le X-37B étant alimenté via des panneaux solaires, il serait difficile de beaucoup le manœuvrer.
"D'une manière générale, manœuvrer en orbite nécessite une énorme quantité de carburant, donc je ne le vois pas faire beaucoup" de déplacements, a-t-elle détaillé. Or, larguer une arme sur Terre nécessiterait de cibler une zone particulière et donc de changer le plan orbital du vaisseau. De même, ses caractéristiques ne paraitraient pas idéales pour lui confier des missions d'espionnage selon les experts.
Si c'était le cas, "je ne vois pas l'intérêt de l'alourdir avec des ailes et un train d'atterrissage, et de le rendre si visible de la Terre que même des amateurs peuvent le suivre", a relevé Mark Gubrud, physicien spécialiste des technologies militaires spatiales de l'Université de Caroline de Nord. Durant son 4e vol, le X-37B a en effet été repéré à plusieurs reprises par une communauté d'observateurs amateurs.
Pour les spécialistes, le X-37B serait donc davantage un banc d'essai volant qu'une arme potentielle. De son côté, l'US Air Force s'est contentée d'affirmer que le projet ne visait "aucune capacité offensive". "Si les militaires américains voulaient calmer les spéculations, ils pourraient le faire", a jugé Victoria Samson. "Mais peut-être que c'est dans leur intérêt de laisser les gens dans l'incertitude !" Pour l'heure, on ignore si d'autres vols sont prévus.
Hallo Atlantis? Wetenschappers ontdekken bijzondere gangen onder Antarctica
Hallo Atlantis? Wetenschappers ontdekken bijzondere gangen onder Antarctica
FOTO: RR
Het idee dat Antarctica meer herbergt dan alleen maar ijs is een populaire theorie onder complotdenkers. De theorieën variëren van UFO’s naar de verborgen resten van een oude beschaving, en deze recente ontdekking zal alleen nog maar olie op het vuur gooien.
Onder de ijskappen van Antarctica vonden wetenschappers een heel stelsel van gangen en structuren die doen denken aan gewelven. Sommige van die gewelven zouden zo hoog zijn als de Eiffeltoren. De mysterieuze gangen bevinden zich onderaan een de meer dan 800 meter dikke ijskap.
Wetenschappers van de VUB hebben het over stromingen en verzamelingen van sediment onder de Antarctische ijsplaat. In essentie betekent dat dat er groot netwerk van tunnels en richels loopt onder het ijs. Deze natuurlijk gevormde structuren zouden bijdragen aan de stabiliteit van de ijskap.
Op deze beelden zie je de locatie van de gangen (boven) en hoe diep ze zich in het ijs bevinden (onder)FOTO: RR
Hoe de gangen ontstaan zijn, is nog niet geheel duidelijk, maar zou te maken hebben met het feit dat rotsen krassen maken in de onderkant van de ijsplaat. Die krassen zouden door het water verder uitgehold worden en gevoeliger zijn voor smelten wanneer de ijsplaat in contact komt met warmer water.
Eenmaal de wetenschappers voldoende kunnen begrijpen hoe die gangen juist gevormd worden, geloven ze dat ze ook de gevolgen van de klimaatopwarming op het smelten van de ijskappen beter zullen kunnen inschatten.
Mysterieuze gangen ontdekt onder Antarctica. Wie heeft ze gemaakt?
Mysterieuze gangen ontdekt onder Antarctica. Wie heeft ze gemaakt?
Onder de ijskap van Antarctica hebben wetenschappers mysterieuze gangen en structuren gevonden die doen denken aan gewelven.
Sommige daarvan zijn net zo hoog als de Eiffeltoren. De vreemde gangen zijn ontdekt onder de bijna één kilometer dikke ijskap.
Onderzoekers van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel stuitten op een groot netwerk van tunnels en richels onder het ijs.
Littekens
Ze kunnen nog niet met zekerheid zeggen hoe de gangen zijn ontstaan. Mogelijk maken rotsen openingen in de onderkant van de ijslaag, die verder uitgehold worden door warmer water.
Gedacht wordt dat deze formaties bijdragen aan de stabiliteit van de ijskap. De gigantische landmassa’s maken scheuren in het ijs, waardoor ‘littekens’ ontstaan.
De ontdekking zal ongetwijfeld leiden tot speculatie onder mensen die geloven dat Antarctica UFO-bases en resten van een verloren beschaving herbergt, schrijft The Sun.
Verloren stad
Sommige onderzoekers claimen op basis van een 500 jaar oude kaart die gemaakt is door een Ottomaanse generaal dat er mogelijk een verloren stad ligt onder Antarctica.
Anderen zijn er heilig van overtuigd dat Atlantis verborgen ligt onder het ijs van Antarctica.
Volgens de wetenschappers is hier slechts sprake van natuurlijke formaties. Zij spreken in het tijdschrift Nature Communications van stromingen en verzamelingen van sediment onder de ijskap.
A FLYING HUMANOID ENTITY ATTACKED A POLICE OFFICER IN MEXICO
A FLYING HUMANOID ENTITY ATTACKED A POLICE OFFICER IN MEXICO
The city of Monterrey in Mexico has been thrown into a panic after a bizarre story has emerged regarding a police officer being attacked by what has been described as a ‘flying humanoid entity’.
The police officer, Leonardo Samaniego from Guadalupe in Mexico was on patrol in his car around the Colonia Valles de la Silla in the city at around 3.15 in the morning. When Samaniego turned into Alamo Street, he noticed that something was amiss. He says that he saw a huge, black object fall from a tree but that it seemed to stop itself from hitting the ground by levitating. It then slowly touched down to the ground and slowly turned around to face him. A shocked Officer Samaniego turned on the high beams of his patrol car to investigate.
The lights appeared to anger the creature which covered its face. Officer Samaniego said that he could see the being quite clearly. He described it as a woman with two big black eyes without eyelids and very dark skin. He said that the female figure was dressed all in black with a cloak like a witch. After observing him for a few seconds, the creature suddenly burst into a violent rage and leaped upon the hood of the patrol car in an attempt to attack the police officer. Officer Samaniego attempted to reverse the car and called for back-up.
He managed to get away from his attacker and reached the end of the street where he lost consciousness. He was found, unhurt but still unconscious, by officers in two patrol cars and first responders from an ambulance unit.
When other officers heard Samaniego’s story, many of them were incredulous. The officer was asked to undergo several drug tests in order to ensure that he was not under the influence of narcotics or alcohol. All of the tests were negative. He also submitted himself to a psychiatric evaluation at the Hospital Universitario where he was found to be psychologically healthy.
In addition to his clean bill of health, the police officer’s story has gained credibility as others have come forward claiming to have seen the bizarre creature around the city. Two more policemen from the Regia Police have claimed that they saw a flying creature in the sky a few days previously, as have many members of the public.
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THERE ARE NOW 22 ALIEN SIGNALS THAT NOBODY CAN EXPLAIN
THERE ARE NOW 22 ALIEN SIGNALS THAT NOBODY CAN EXPLAIN
Ever heard of fast radio bursts (FRBs)? These bursts of energy last but merely a split of a second at most, but the energy generated by each burst are billions of times more than whatever we know of currently in our world. To put it into a simple perspective, think 500 million of our Suns put together. That is the amount of energy generated by an FRB within a split second.
Till date, scientists are still confounded by FRBs. We have not even a vague idea of where it comes from, what it does or even what they are exactly. Theories about FRBs span from powering alien spaceships to our regular microwaves on Earth. To think that such an occurrence is rare isn't surprising, however, scientists predict that daily, about 2000 occurrences happen.
However, that is still a highly debatable subject as only 22 signals in the world are confirmed as to date. FRBs are notoriously hard to capture as signals only last for milliseconds before they've entirely vanished without a trace.
The most recent discovery has scientists left in a trail of shock. The FBR 150215, the first of its kind to be clearly recorded, was heard in Australia on 15th February 2015.
The FBR 150215, recorded as clear as day
We have been detecting FBR for years, but what makes this one so special? Firstly, Petroff, from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, has claimed that this FBR is detectable through many telescopes but however leaves no trace or signals. More than that, it is even weirder as it is scientifically impossible for us to hear to capture this signal, as the direction it was coming from makes it impossible as it had to travel through a very dense milky way before it can reach Earth. However, miracles happen every day, or maybe it is just another alien spacecraft being powered up some light years away, as some have suggested.
There is still a lot more of the world, much less the galaxy that we are missing out on.
UFOS AND DEAD ALIEN BODIES ARE BEING STORED BUT NOT IN AREA 51
UFOS AND DEAD ALIEN BODIES ARE BEING STORED BUT NOT IN AREA 51
Everyone has an opinion about Area 51 and what may or may not be contained there. Even those who would not consider themselves a conspiracy theorist has their suspicions of what top-secret government actions are taking place at the Nevada desert location. However, many are now coming forward to say that while Area 51 does have its secrets, the real action is in an underground bunker in the Papoose Mountain Range a few miles away.
Area 51 rose to fame when in 1947, it is believed an alien spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. For days government officials scoured the site of what they alleged to be an Air Force balloon crash making sure to erase any traces of what had occurred. People involved with the recovery of the craft stated that the remains of any ship or passengers thereof were hurriedly carried away to what they believed the destination to be Area 51.
Recently, some in the watchdog community have theorized that while Area 51 does house secret government military technologies, any alien tech is stored approximately 15 miles away from the famous site. It could be that the government allows speculation to run rampant about Area 51 to draw attention away from the true site of the government alien archives.
This mountain site would be the perfect place to hideaway and experiment with found alien technology and perhaps study beings from other worlds who found themselves stranded on our planet. Away from public eyes and with Area 51 shouldering the majority of suspicion, those officials and scientists at the Papoose Mountain facility would be more free to develop the government's own devices and weaponry.
If the government were in possession of alien spacecraft, it is certain that its top priority would be to re-create the technology contained within for its own advancement. This is what Jan Harzan, Executive Director of The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) believes makes up close to ten percent of the reported UFO sightings his organization receives. MUFON dedicates itself to documenting any sightings of strange aircraft so concerned individuals can look for correlation and validation between their own personal experience of extraterrestrial beings or crafts and those of similarly minded people around the globe.
The difference in obviously earth-made vessels and vessels made using the technology of alien races is obvious in construction and appearance. While man-made ships have hard lines, visible riveting, and external plumbing systems, ships made with the construction knowledge of advanced beings are smooth and rounded without visible signs of the construction process. It could be that with the information learned from collecting alien tech recovered on Earth, scientists have been successful in recreating the engineering feats of our extraterrestrial neighbors.
It is certain that there are things not easily explained navigating the skies around the world. Perhaps mankind is further along in their development of airspace travel than those in power would like us to believe. Whether the base for alien technology research is at the popular Area 51 or nestled within a secluded mountain range in rural Nevada, those with inquiring minds are keeping their watchful eyes open for signs of the truth.
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THE LATEST DISCOVERY IN QUANTUM PHYSICS SHOWS REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS
THE LATEST DISCOVERY IN QUANTUM PHYSICS SHOWS REALITY IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS
All of the major theories of science are predicated on the idea that everything in this world is formed from building blocks of material particles. However, new advances in the fascinating and ever-expanding field of quantum physics suggest that this long-held assumption might be completely wrong.
THE WORLD IS COMPOSED OF ENERGY, NOT OF MATTER
New experiments and studies conducted in laboratories such as CERN seem to suggest that everything is actually composed of energy rather than material particles, including human beings.
Researchers examining the behavior of particles on the quantum level have found through various experiments with particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN that the building blocks of matter appear to be composed of pure energy.
These experiments have also yielded some incredibly interesting results about the way sub-atomic particles behave when exposed to different interactions and observations. It has been found that when these particles are being observed, they begin to act as physical units. However, when they are left unobserved for any period of time, they act as energy waves. This has suggested to many theoretical physicists that the material world is held together by consciousness rather than material reality.
Perhaps even more interestingly, researchers have also discovered that everything in the universe appears to be connected. This concept, which is referred to as quantum entanglement demonstrates that once particles have interacted with each other on one occasion, then they are irrevocably connected to one another and will respond to each other’s energetic cues. This response occurs no matter how physically distant the two particles are from one another. Given that all of the particles currently in existence have been present in the universe since the Big Bang, it seems logical to assume that every single particle in the universe is connected in this manner.
The scientific theories that explain the bizarre behavior of particles on the quantum level are still in progress, and a great deal more research will need to be conducted before researchers truly understand what these observations mean. However, it is certain that the discoveries relating to quantum physics over the past few years have the capacity to forever change the way that human beings understand and interact with the universe.
Another chapter in the “Aliens” saga is about to be released, and that gives director and “Alien” franchise founder Ridley Scott a chance to talk to the media about aliens again. This time he is warning people not to mess with any visitors from advanced civilizations or else you might be “taken out.”
Ridley Scott.
(Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)
First, I have to brag a bit. Sorry. But as I write this I am excitedly awaiting a sneak peek of “Alien: Covenant,” the second prequel to the legendary franchise. While writing is not always lucrative, it can get you some perks, like early press movie screenings. The movie is set to officially release in the U.S. on May 19.
I am not as used to thrillers as I was when the first “Alien” movies came out, or even the first prequel, “Prometheus,” so I hope I do not squeal in the theater, or worse, wet myself in terror. This one is supposed to be pretty scary.
Even scarier than watching aliens wreak havoc on innocent human colonists seeking to find a new life on an extraterrestrial planet is the real-life prospect of getting annihilated by visitors from outer space.
“I believe in superior beings. I think it is certainly likely,” Scott recently told Agence France-presse (AFP). “An expert I was talking to at NASA said to me, ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it?’ That’s ridiculous.”
However, if you “see a big thing in the sky,” Scott says you better run for it. Because, according to Scott, “they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them you will be taken out in three seconds.”
In his movies, Scott’s aliens dispatch humans even faster than that.
This, of course, is not the first time Scott has shared his ideas about extraterrestrial life. In the first of the “Alien” prequels, “Prometheus,” suggested that life on earth was seeded by an intelligent alien species. This idea is the focus of the television series Ancient Aliens, and was referred to as the “ancient astronaut theory” in the 70s. It was popularized by a series of books written by Eric van Daniken. Books that Scott has apparently read.
NASA and the Vatican agree that is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way . . . That’s what we’re looking at (in the film), at some of Eric van Daniken’s ideas of how did we humans come about.
One of my favorite scenes from “Prometheus” is when the protagonists are landing their spaceship in a valley surrounded by mountains. It is a beautiful shot. At the far end of the valley is a mountain that looks like an ancient extraterrestrial ruin, and, of course, it turned out it was.
Extraterrestrial valley from a scene in “Prometheus.”
(Credit: 20th Century Fox)
Scott’s reference to the growing belief that life must exist elsewhere in the universe, coupled with the burgeoning private space industry, makes his version of the future more and more likely. The idea that humans may discover ancient alien relics one day, like in the landing scene, fuels my deep interest in these topics. I just hope that when, or if, we do discovery intelligent alien life, it has more regard for us earthlings than the aliens in Scott’s movies.
Fortunately, I would argue, most scientists do not share Scott’s pessimistic outlook on our galactic neighbors. Sure, Stephen Hawking is often talking about how aliens might treat us like the Europeans treated Native-Americans, but others, such as Carl Sagan and Michio Kaku disagree. In fact, Time Magazine recently posted an article on why scientist do not think aliens will eat us.
So sleep tight tonight, and do not fear being mauled by aliens (fingers crossed). However, I will not blame you if you take Scott’s advice and run the opposite direction if you see a UFO. Better safe than sorry, right?
UFO Making Orbs Seen Over Ocean On Belgium Cruise, May 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Making Orbs Seen Over Ocean On Belgium Cruise, May 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 6, 2017
Location of sighting: Between UK & Belgium, ocean
Source: MUFON #83616
This UFO was seen over the ocean during a cruise to Belgium from the UK. Strangely enough, the UFO also has to small craft that came out of it and are flying away. Since the ocean covers 75% of the Earths surface and since UFOs are air tight and fly in space, it just stands to reason that UFOs can also travel under water (slower of course). It also stands to reason that 75% of all aliens and UFOs come from the ocean too. Its just logical.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I was on a cruise from Southampton (UK)to Zeebrugge (Belgium). On the Saturday 6th May 2017 at 13.45 I took a picture of the cruise ship from inside the coach (through the window). At the time I did not notice anything in the sky. When we got back on the ship I was going through the pictures and saw the object. The picture was taken on a Samsung S7 Ed
Moon size UFO Near Sun, Looks Like Star Trek Enterprise Ship, May 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Moon size UFO Near Sun, Looks Like Star Trek Enterprise Ship, May 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 10, 2017
Location of sighting: Earths sun
These awesome UFOs were caught by Youtube user UFOnearSun. For those who are new to all this, UFO researchers look for the UFOs that are near the sun, because two Russian scientists about 10 years ago came out and told the world about many large moon and Earth size UFOs that orbit the sun and make erratic path changes like making 90 degree hard turns, suddenly speeding up, or even reversing course. This announcement all happened before Youtube, so no records exit today, however there are many of us that remember the Russian announcement from that day.
Scientists Dug 12 km Into Our Planet—What They Found Left Me Speechless [VIDEO]
Scientists Dug 12 km Into Our Planet—What They Found Left Me Speechless [VIDEO]
Some call it the ‘Door to Hell’. At 12,262 meters the Kola Superdeep Borehole is the deepest artificial point on our planet. No one expected these discoveries.
There are some who firmly believe the human race knows more about distant galaxies and alien planets located light years away from Earth than what lies beneath the surface of our planet.
Curiously, it took the Voyager 1 spacecraft nearly 26 years to exit our solar system, which is about the same amount of time scientists on Earth needed to penetrate 12 kilometers into our planet’s surface.
After more than two decades, scientists created the Kola Superdeep Borehole and a drill depth of more than 7.5 miles (12 kilometers).
The Kola Superdeep Borehole reached 12,262 meters (40,230 ft) in 1989 becoming the deepest artificial point on our planet.
To put that into perspective, the Kola Superdeep Borehole descends further than the deepest point of the ocean, which lies at nearly 6.8 miles (11 kilometers).
Well, after 26 years of intensive drilling efforts, experts found that there’s a LOT of water down there. Scientists discovered hot mineralized water almost everywhere down the drilling path.
But not only is there water down there, scientists discovered the Earth has Gas. Not that type of gas. Scientists found, helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, and even carbon dioxide (from microbes) all along the borehole.
One of the greatest surprises was that experts found there is no basalt under the continent’s granite. Scientists believed that at 9,000 meters the granite would give way to basalt. However, to their surprise, it doesn’t.
Furthermore, scientists discovered there are FOSSILS in granite located around 6,700 meters below the surface.
In addition to the above, scientists found that the temperature at the bottom of the hole reached a staggering 180 degrees celsius, officially too hot to continue, and rightfully earning the nickname ‘Door to Hell’.
“By far the most riveting discovery from the project, however, was the detection of microscopic plankton fossils in rocks over 2 billion years old, found four miles beneath the surface,”reports Bryan Nelson from Mother Nature Network.
“These ‘microfossils’ represented about 24 ancient species, and were encased in organic compounds which somehow survived the extreme pressures and temperatures that exist so far beneath the Earth.”
The project was officially terminated in 2005, leaving only a rusted metal cap as a marker of its existence.
De wolken zijn iets anders dan op aarde. Zo bestaan ze niet uit water, maar uit methaan.
Naast de wolkenbanden vallen ook de donkere vlekken op het noordelijk halfrond van Saturnus’ maan op. Het zijn de meren en zeeën die Titan rijk is. Ook deze zijn gevuld met methaan en ethaan in plaats van water.
Cassini maakte de foto afgelopen weekend. De ruimtesonde passeerde de maan toen op een afstand van zo’n 488.000 kilometer.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
De laatste keer dat Cassini met opzet rakelings langs Titan scheerde, was eind april. Cassini scheerde toen op een afstand van zo’n 979 kilometer over de maan heen. Zo dicht zal Cassini – wiens missie in september tot een einde komt – niet meer bij Titan in de buurt komen. Maar als zich – vanaf een veel grotere afstand – een kans voordoet om de maan te bestuderen, zal Cassini die grijpen. En dat deed Cassini dus ook afgelopen weekend.
De sonde houdt Titan onder meer in de gaten, omdat de zomer zich aandient op het noordelijk halfrond van de maan. En onderzoekers willen natuurlijk graag weten of dat veranderingen op de maan teweegbrengt. Naarmate de zomer dichterbij komt, hadden de onderzoekers wel verwacht dat het aantal wolken zou toenemen. Maar enigszins verrassend is dat we die wolken ook op lagere breedtes op het noordelijk halfrond zien ontstaan.
Op deze foto zien we ook donkere vlekken nabij de evenaar. Het zijn duinlandschappen. Wat verder opvalt is de donkere vlek ten noorden van die duinlandschappen die richting het noordoosten lijkt te zijn uitgesmeerd. Het is waarschijnlijk een gebied dat bedekt is met donker stof dat zich op sommige plekken in duintjes verzameld heeft.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
UFO captured on video by drone over North Carolina
UFO captured on video by drone over North Carolina
A North Carolina witness at Ayden reported discovering a UFO in video shot from a drone, according to testimony in Case 80053 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The 59-year-old witness is retired from the USAF with a 20-year military career who shot the footage at 2:12 p.m. on October 26, 2016.
Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: mjlstudios1)
“I thought I had seen it all,” the witness stated.“This footage took me back. I was flying my aerial camera from Ayden District Park. The skies were clear with unlimited visibility. I did not witness this object first hand; it wasn’t until I reviewed the 4K footage on my 4K TV that I first spotted the object on video.”
The witness explained the footage.
“I shoot in 4K/30fps and you can view this object in 10 frames as it flies towards and passes under my drone. During these 10 frames of viewing, this object travels three-quarter to one mile in one-third of a second – about 10,000 mph. The object appears to be solid and emitting its own light, or reflecting light.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: mjlstudios1)
The file size prevented the witness from uploading the video with his report and it was then posted on YouTube.
MUFON North Carolina Field Investigator Sanford Davis closed this case as an Unknown.
“This anomaly was neither observed or experienced firsthand,” Davis stated in his report.“It was observed as the witness was reviewing aerial drone footage.The whole sighting occurs within a third of a second – a streak arising in the background, streaking across the screen before disappearing in the foreground. The film slowed down, it appears as a white dot, flatting out somewhat into a ‘light disk’ right before it disappears off screen. Our own MUFON photo resource person reviewed the video without a definitive conclusion. A drone flying underneath was considered, then a shadow, then a refection or projection of some overhead object, then a glare, and finally a glitch in the drone camera. No one explanation stands out.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: mjlstudios1)
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.
Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?
Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?
by Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
The Galileo spacecraft took this image of Europa, which is about the size of Earth's moon, in 1996. Credit: NASA.
Emcee Tom O'Key seemed giddy as dozens of guests filed into an outdoor theater in this Mojave Desert town on a recent Saturday night to learn about an icy moon of Jupiter and take a stab at connecting with whatever - or whomever - may be living there.
"We're sending selfies to Europa here tonight, folks," O'Key told those who had gathered in the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater. "Take a moment to reach out to the cosmos and say, 'We here on Earth care.'"
Sponsored by the Southern California Desert Video Astronomers, the public program featured a documentary, 3-D holographic projections, views through telescopes and what was believed to be the first opportunity to send video selfies to a moon of Jupiter that NASA scientists have identified as one of the likeliest homes of extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
Zerrin Leckey, 9, was among the first to take a few deep breaths, smile, then speak into the lens of a video camera connected to a device that converts audio and visual images into flashes of laser aimed at the moon - only 37 minutes away at light speed.
"Hi, Europa!" he said. "This is Zerrin on Earth. I'm turning 10."
Next up was Jean Mueller, 67, a retired telescope operator at the Palomar Observatory who has discovered more than 30 comets.
"I photographed everything in the sky except you, Europa," she said. "Now, I'm talking to you in person, and that's pretty nice."
The casual tone of these pioneering attempts at intragalactic communication was fine with O'Key, who didn't hesitate to note the limits of the technology in the astronomy club's "Europa is Alive!" event or "the giggle factor involved in all this."
It was O'Key, 63, a retired technical consultant in personal injury litigation cases, and Leonard Holmberg, 62, a retired developer of optics-based products, who put together the selfie-sender: "An instrument comprised of a video camera, a laptop computer, fiber-optics technology and a yellow laser that cost us about $400," O'Key said.
"We like to think we're bringing extraterrestrial adventure to everyday people," he said.
"Of course, we'd need the power of the sun to generate a coherent beam strong enough to hit Europa," Holmberg said. "But at least some of the photons in the transmissions we're sending are reaching their target. No doubt about it."
The project, Holmberg said, suggests how far technology has advanced since charismatic physicist Carl Sagan popularized the possibility of making contact with extraterrestrial life.
Sagan led a team that developed communications materials that were aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes launched in 1977 to make drive-by visits to planets in this solar system and then continue on to explore space. The packages included images of a nude man and woman and musical samplings, including Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode."
O'Key and Holmberg consider themselves "Saganites," inspired by NASA's recent announcement that Europa and Saturn's moon, Enceladus, harbor all the ingredients needed for life to evolve: heat, organic material and vast oceans of water capped by ice.
"What they're doing is fine with me," said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the nonprofit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute based in Mountain View, Calif. "But it's fair to say we don't know if aliens are friendly, or if they even exist. If they do, will they be cute and cuddly like the one in the movie 'E.T.,' or will they be like the Kardashians?
"In that case," he continued, "we should keep a low profile. You don't want your tombstone to read: I'm responsible for the obliteration of the human race."
Jim Bell, an astronomer at Arizona State University and president of the Pasadena-based Planetary Society, described the Joshua Tree effort as "delightful."
"It's a testament," Bell said, "to the ability of every man nowadays to have access to technology that was only a dream a decade ago."
Scientists have been searching the skies for signs of alien civilizations for decades, mostly based on the premise that they, like us, would use bursts of radio and laser light we might be able to hear or see.
The SETI Institute runs an array of radio telescopes designed to act as an enormous ear capable of scanning more than a million stars over 10 billion radio frequencies. It still has not detected any signal produced by someone else out there.
The Mars lander Phoenix, launched in 2007, carried recorded greetings. A year later, NASA beamed the Beatles' "Across the Universe" at the North Star, Polaris.
In 2012, a now-defunct company leased a huge radio telescope in Carmel Valley, Calif., and offered to transmit personal messages and photos from Earth to various stars for free.
Now, there's the astronomy club led by O'Key, who as a boy liked to shine a flashlight beam at the Earth's moon knowing it would get there in 1.2 seconds.
"The only exceptional thing about our attempt to communicate with an alien world," he said, "is how easy and inexpensive it has become to give it a try."
Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?
Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?
by Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
The Galileo spacecraft took this image of Europa, which is about the size of Earth's moon, in 1996. Credit: NASA.
Emcee Tom O'Key seemed giddy as dozens of guests filed into an outdoor theater in this Mojave Desert town on a recent Saturday night to learn about an icy moon of Jupiter and take a stab at connecting with whatever - or whomever - may be living there.
"We're sending selfies to Europa here tonight, folks," O'Key told those who had gathered in the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater. "Take a moment to reach out to the cosmos and say, 'We here on Earth care.'"
Sponsored by the Southern California Desert Video Astronomers, the public program featured a documentary, 3-D holographic projections, views through telescopes and what was believed to be the first opportunity to send video selfies to a moon of Jupiter that NASA scientists have identified as one of the likeliest homes of extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
Zerrin Leckey, 9, was among the first to take a few deep breaths, smile, then speak into the lens of a video camera connected to a device that converts audio and visual images into flashes of laser aimed at the moon - only 37 minutes away at light speed.
"Hi, Europa!" he said. "This is Zerrin on Earth. I'm turning 10."
Next up was Jean Mueller, 67, a retired telescope operator at the Palomar Observatory who has discovered more than 30 comets.
"I photographed everything in the sky except you, Europa," she said. "Now, I'm talking to you in person, and that's pretty nice."
The casual tone of these pioneering attempts at intragalactic communication was fine with O'Key, who didn't hesitate to note the limits of the technology in the astronomy club's "Europa is Alive!" event or "the giggle factor involved in all this."
It was O'Key, 63, a retired technical consultant in personal injury litigation cases, and Leonard Holmberg, 62, a retired developer of optics-based products, who put together the selfie-sender: "An instrument comprised of a video camera, a laptop computer, fiber-optics technology and a yellow laser that cost us about $400," O'Key said.
"We like to think we're bringing extraterrestrial adventure to everyday people," he said.
"Of course, we'd need the power of the sun to generate a coherent beam strong enough to hit Europa," Holmberg said. "But at least some of the photons in the transmissions we're sending are reaching their target. No doubt about it."
The project, Holmberg said, suggests how far technology has advanced since charismatic physicist Carl Sagan popularized the possibility of making contact with extraterrestrial life.
Sagan led a team that developed communications materials that were aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes launched in 1977 to make drive-by visits to planets in this solar system and then continue on to explore space. The packages included images of a nude man and woman and musical samplings, including Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode."
O'Key and Holmberg consider themselves "Saganites," inspired by NASA's recent announcement that Europa and Saturn's moon, Enceladus, harbor all the ingredients needed for life to evolve: heat, organic material and vast oceans of water capped by ice.
"What they're doing is fine with me," said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the nonprofit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute based in Mountain View, Calif. "But it's fair to say we don't know if aliens are friendly, or if they even exist. If they do, will they be cute and cuddly like the one in the movie 'E.T.,' or will they be like the Kardashians?
"In that case," he continued, "we should keep a low profile. You don't want your tombstone to read: I'm responsible for the obliteration of the human race."
Jim Bell, an astronomer at Arizona State University and president of the Pasadena-based Planetary Society, described the Joshua Tree effort as "delightful."
"It's a testament," Bell said, "to the ability of every man nowadays to have access to technology that was only a dream a decade ago."
Scientists have been searching the skies for signs of alien civilizations for decades, mostly based on the premise that they, like us, would use bursts of radio and laser light we might be able to hear or see.
The SETI Institute runs an array of radio telescopes designed to act as an enormous ear capable of scanning more than a million stars over 10 billion radio frequencies. It still has not detected any signal produced by someone else out there.
The Mars lander Phoenix, launched in 2007, carried recorded greetings. A year later, NASA beamed the Beatles' "Across the Universe" at the North Star, Polaris.
In 2012, a now-defunct company leased a huge radio telescope in Carmel Valley, Calif., and offered to transmit personal messages and photos from Earth to various stars for free.
Now, there's the astronomy club led by O'Key, who as a boy liked to shine a flashlight beam at the Earth's moon knowing it would get there in 1.2 seconds.
"The only exceptional thing about our attempt to communicate with an alien world," he said, "is how easy and inexpensive it has become to give it a try."
Ridley Scott: aliens are out there and one day they'll come for us ... - modernsurvivalliving.com
In a recent interview with France Presse (AFP), #Ridley Scott, the director of "#Alien" talked about his belief in extraterrestrial species who are more advanced. He said there is a possibility that humanity could be threatened by an aggressive alien species. Scott thinks that the conflict between humans and #aliens may become reality because there are probably hundreds of more intelligent and more technologically advanced alien species in the Universe. If one of these species would get in contact with us, humans must prepare for the worst, according to the director of "Alien"..
"Alien" director thinks humanity would lose a war with aliens
Scott thinks that the reality could be worse than many science fiction scenarios. If a conflict between humans and an extraterrestrial species would escalate, humans would almost certainly lose. Scott told AFP that aliens would annihilate us in three seconds if we challenged them.
The filmmaker argued that there are estimates from experts about the possibility of having "100-200 entities" on other planets. These extraterrestrial species could follow an evolutionary model similar to one from Earth. Scott said that if representatives of such civilizations came to us first (before we get to them) then it would be better to for us to run away and hide.
"Alien" was a great success of the science fiction genre
The possibility of the existence of intelligent beings on other planets fascinates and attracts many people. For this reason it's used very often in science fiction scenarios. Ridley Scott made his own contribution to this genre, especially through the series "Alien" — which describes a contact between humans and an extraterrestrial predatory species.
The aliens from this sci-fi horror movie are a species with a remarkable adaptive capacity and with a great morphological flexibility. They are called "xenomorphs", they multiply very quickly and they are extremely effective in eliminating humans.
A new sci-fi horror movie "Alien: Covenant ", the sequel to "Prometheus" and "Alien" will premiere on May 19 this year.
Contradicted by a researcher from Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Seth Shostak, a researcher from SETI Institute, whose goal is to search and to intercept radio communications from potential alien civilizations, disagrees with the position of the filmmaker. Shostak told Live Science that the estimation of the existence of 100 to 200 intelligent alien species is completely unsustainable.
More, the scenario in which aliens invade our solar system just to steal our resources does not have much practical support, according to the researcher from SETI Institute.
However Seth Shostak, agrees with Ridley Scott at a certain point: if an extraterrestrial civilization is able to build intergalactic vessels to bring them into the Earth's atmosphere, they certainly have a technology far superior to human technology. This means they can be dangerous.
WOW: The document revealed UFOs were still being sought by the US in 2002
The bombshell US Department of Defense files, from 2002, contains a manual on how to snap spaceships.
There are 27 pages in the document titled “DoD Instruction 5040.6, Life-Cycle Management of DoD Visual Information (VI)"
PAUL DEAN
SHOCK: Various documented sightings of UFOs in the US
“It’s actually asking for photos of damn UFOs”
Paul Dean
It contains a section on how to document UFOs.
Section 21 of Chapter 5 of the document says: "The following table concerns imagery that records UFOs and other aerial phenomena not obviously identifiable as conventional aircraft or missiles.
"The table also lists the priority assigned to each category of imagery and provides relevant handling instructions."
It says the military should make digital copies and send all media to the Defence Visual Information Center.
Paul Dean, the UFO researcher and blogger who uncovered these documents via the Freedom of Information Act, was gobsmacked.
PAUL DEAN
REVEALED: The document tells US military to document UFOs
Speaking to Mysterious Universe, he said: "What's particularly odd about that the table of what to photograph and what not to, is that it doesn’t vaguely say ‘UFOs…’
"It lays out fully both ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’ with descriptors, and then ‘Aerial Phenomena…’ with descriptors."
It also blows out of the water the widely held belief the US stopped documenting and researching UFOs after the 1960s ended.
Dean points out the documents do not link UFOs to aliens.
But he adds: "How can they keep a straight face about the UFO issue when they shove it in plain English for the Armed Forces to digest.
A fascinating new book seriously tackles the question of extraterrestrial life from the perspective of leading astronomers, astrophysicists, geneticists, and neuroscientists.
Theoretical physics may be difficult and complicated, "but it does have sex appeal." So says quantum physicist Jim Al-Khalili. "It's easy to find an audience for popular science or for a TV documentary about the Big Bang or about black holes," he recently told me. Al-Khalili's work in the field has led to the fascinating new book Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, which explores what he believes is the likely possibility of alien life.
The Iraqi-born, UK-based Al-Khalili's intro opens with an anecdote: The Nobel Prize–winning physicist Enrico Fermi is jokingly discussing flying saucers with some colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory when he poses a simple question: "Where is everybody?" His point, Al-Khalili writes, is that the universe is so massive and contains so many planets, that it makes little sense for Earth to be the only place where life blossomed, unless our planet is "astonishingly and unjustifiably special."
Aliens, out this week from Picador, proceeds in the way that one imagines that Fermi's conversation at Los Alamos might have: serious scientists, in occasionally cheeky dialogue with one another, acknowledging that the question they're pursuing—Is anybody out there?—has long been pursued by kookier personalities, conspiracy theorists obsessed with Area 51, and alien abductions. Instead, Al-Khalili's book offers research-driven essays by prominent astronomers, astrophysicists, geneticists, and neuroscientists, and their pieces offer a wide range of ways to think about the question of extraterrestrial life. Several astrobiologists consider what life requires and which planets and moons might have the right mix: neuroscientist Anil Seth considers the "alien" intelligence of the octopus here on Earth; cosmologist Martin Rees speculates on the possibility of humans merging with machine intelligence and setting out to explore the universe as a new cyborg species.
But for the most part, these experts are weighing in on one fundamental question: Is life special, a unique and almost impossible trick that happened here on Earth? Or is it easy, almost inevitable, a spark that just arises where the conditions are right? It's an age-old question, that, as Al-Khalili explains, we may finally have the technology to answer.
Photo courtesy of Jim Al-Khalili
VICE: What drew you to the questions that the book addresses? Are you someone who has had a lifelong interest in the idea of aliens?
Jim Al-Khalili: It's not so much aliens, but more to do with the question of what is special about life. Probably all scientists find that topic fascinating. There are certain questions in science that we don't have answers to, which we say, those are the big questions: What was there before the universe, before the Big Bang? How did life begin on Earth? How did chemistry turn into biology? What is the nature of consciousness? These are the questions that transcend disciplines. If you get a chemist, a physicist, a biologist, a computer scientist—all of them are going to be fascinated by this.
When I was young, I suppose I was interested in aliens like anyone else. I'm a sci-fi fan. But, for me, the question was really what is so special about life—how did it start on Earth and whether it is unique to Earth.
The book is serious, but the interest in extraterrestrial life has a reputation for being pretty quirky.
Someone once told me that half the internet is devoted to conspiracy theories to do with alien abductions and UFOs. Half is probably too much, but there's so much out there, from X-Files to science fiction in movies, that it is surprising to think that scientists would treat the question of extraterrestrial life seriously at all. And that's what made this so refreshing. The book is highlighting the fact that there are lots of questions that are of interest to scientists that you can actually treat seriously. If you really want to know the possibility of whether there are little green men out there, here are the serious scientific takes on it, from all angles. So, it's meant to be of interest to the wider lay audience but dealt with in a grown-up way.
You mention that there has been a shift within the scientific community toward taking this seriously and away from the era of imagining little green men. Do you have thoughts on when and how that changed?
This shift has come about because of advances in astronomy and space exploration in the last decade or two. We have started to send probes to Mars, to the moons of the gas giants Saturn and Jupiter, and we are seriously starting to be able to study the places where there potentially could be life in our solar system. And at the same time, in the past decade, we have discovered planets around stars outside our solar system, exoplanets. Astronomy has been advancing so quickly that what was unthinkable a decade ago is now reality. We can now not only pinpoint which stars have planets going around them, but we can look at those planets and even tell whether they have an atmosphere. Just from the light passing through the atmosphere from the star that they are going around, we can study that light and that can tell us the chemical composition of the atmosphere—and that can tell us what elements, what molecules, what compounds are in that atmosphere, and would they be there naturally or would there have to be life present to have made them. So, these advances in astronomy and space exploration suddenly mean that we can actually address this question. It's got to the point now where I'm quite optimistic that in my lifetime, it's likely that we will discover life elsewhere.
Wow.
Ten years ago, I wouldn't have thought that. Now, all these things are coming together. One of the contributors in the book, [professor of evolutionary biochemistry] Nick Lane, talks about the building blocks of life. What do you need? Is there anything magical? You get molecules getting more and more complicated, and then eventually you get something that can make copies of itself, and that's the first precursor of life. Well, until recently we thought there was a missing step—"and then some magic happens"—and then you get biology from chemistry! But there seems to be no magical steps necessary. I now reckon that the consensus among most scientists is that it would be quite surprising if we don't find life elsewhere, probably within our lifetime. It might not be interesting life—it won't be men in flying saucers—it will be some form of microbial life. But, hey, for scientists that will be enough.
"Astronomy has been advancing so quickly that what was unthinkable a decade ago is now reality. It's got to the point now where I'm quite optimistic that in my lifetime, it's likely that we will discover life elsewhere."
So on the big question in the book, which is something like "is life on Earth special and unique or is it common?"—and there are great arguments posed for each side—where do you fall on that spectrum personally?
There's a wide spectrum of opinion among informed scientists. So the fact that I sit somewhere in the middle is because I've been influenced by both sides. My kind of naïve view is that we only know of life happening somewhere: on Earth. We are beginning to see that the conditions on Earth are not unique. Forgive the metaphor, but a lot of stars have to have aligned for that—we have to be the right distance from the sun, we have to have an atmosphere, we have to have a moon that gives us tides, we have to have a big planet like Jupiter that is sucking up the debris so it doesn't bombard us. But there are so many other star systems; there are so many other exoplanets, just in our galaxy alone, that there must be millions, billions of other Earths that have the conditions necessary for life. So in that sense we know we are not unique.
But that doesn't mean that we know how life got started, just because those conditions exist. We know that life began on Earth very soon after Earth cooled down enough for life to possibly exist, almost 4 billion years ago. Now, over 4 billion years ago, the Earth was just a ball of fire. It wasn't conducive to anything. So, as soon as the conditions were right for life, life got started. But it didn't develop into complex life until much, much later. So I'm of the view that life as a simple single cellular form may well be not that difficult. It may be almost ubiquitous in the universe. But multicellular life, life that could then evolve into complex organisms, some of which could develop consciousness and intelligence and civilizations—that actually may be the harder step. How hard it is, we don't know yet.
I wonder if you can talk a little bit about the role of human radio, TV, and satellite communication and how that factors into the search for alien life. Why do people assume that aliens would also use this same kind of signaling?
We're starting with the assumption with the idea that the laws of physics and the forces of nature are the same throughout the universe. We know of four of these forces. Two of them are active inside of atoms, the nuclear forces. And the only other ones are gravity and the electromagnetic force. Gravity is limited technologically, but the electromagnetic force is versatile: Light is the electromagnetic force, and radio waves are the electromagnetic force. So it's a means of sending information from one place to the other. So we're assuming that whatever form life takes elsewhere, even if its not carbon based—it could be something really beyond our imagination—we still think they will make use of electromagnetic forces. It is a potentially universal way of communicating.
So if we are announcing our existence to the rest of the universe, then it may be that life elsewhere that is doing the same thing. Which is why the whole SETI program is about listening out into the universe to hear some electromagnetic signal that we don't think could have just happened naturally. Of course, we've only been announcing our existence to the world for about 100 years or so, when we first developed radio. So our electromagnetic signals have only extended out to a radius of 100 light years. And actually there aren't that many star systems within 100 light years. The universe is vast—there's billions of stars in our own galaxy—but there are only a handful within that range. Of course, an alien civilization may have been announcing their existence to the universe millions of years ago, for all we know, so those signals, if we do receive those signals, they may have traveled across vast distances—it won't mean that we can then say, "Hi, we're here," and then make contact with them. But just the knowledge that there is life out there somewhere would be profound.
Rachel Riederer is co-editor-in-chief of Guernica. Follow her on Twitter.
3.6-Million-Year-Old Early Human Footprints Have Been Discovered In Tanzania
3.6-Million-Year-Old Early Human Footprints Have Been Discovered In Tanzania
3.6 million years ago, a group of Australopithecus afarensis went out for a stroll. 40 years ago, a team lead by famed paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found the footprints of these hominins at a site in Tanzania called Laetoli. And now today, for the first time since Leakey’s original discovery, scientists describe new footprints from the same site that reveal more about the lives of individuals from the same Australopithecus community.
This research, published today in the journal eLife by a team of scientists from Tanzania and Italy, builds upon research on the first Laetoli footprints discovered in 1976. These original tracks, from an area called Site G, represent three individuals and provided one of the first pieces of direct evidence that humans walked upright 3.6 million years ago. But while this evidence is tantalizing, it is limited.
Preliminary digging and cleaning operations at Laetoli Site S.
(Image Credit: Sofia Menconero)
In 2015, only 150 meters away from Site G, Fidelis Masao from the University of Dar es Salaam and colleagues made a fortuitous find. While doing a survey of the Laetoli area and assessing its viability as a site for a museum, they stumbled on something in a test pit they had not found in decades—footprints from two new early human individuals.
The footprints from these individuals at the newly named Site S were found on the same ash layer as the original Site G footprints, which now combined represent a total of five individuals. Study author Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi from University of Florence was excited about the new find because it meant more data: “Now we have a new series of quantitative data,” he says, “and step and stride length can help us figure out how large these individuals were.”
Estimates of body size from these step and stride measurements were surprising when compared to the other individuals from Site G. One of the individuals in Site S was substantially larger—about 5 feet 4 inches tall compared to the other individuals who were 4 feet 9 inches and under. This range in sizes of Au. afarensis is likely explained by sexual dimorphism, with the females outsized by males. For comparison, the male individual from Site S is nearly 20 inches taller than the most famous Au. afarensis, “Lucy.”
Reconstruction of the Laetoli palaeolandscape 3.66 million years ago.
(Artwork by Dawid A. Iurino)
3.6 million years ago this was likely a dry, tropical bushland that was a popular place to hang out. Hominins were not the only living things in this area, as study author Marco Cherin from University of Perugia explains: “The entire locality is completely covered by animal footprints.” He describes over 500 footprints from small cow-like creatures (similar to dik-diks), but also gazelles, giraffes, rhinos and rabbits, conjuring up images of a busy landscape teeming with life.
Discoveries like this inspire the imagination and begin to fill in details about early human life in Laetoli. Now researchers can say with confidence this area contained five individuals of varying sizes and sexes walking on the same wet ash surface, all while surrounded by a diverse community of animals. Finds like this are not only vital for understanding how hominins moved around, but also for understanding how differences in size between sexes developed. Beyond that, Cecchi says, this find is inspiring on a uniquely human level: “We can witness where our earliest relatives took a prehistoric walk, and understand the everyday life of the species.”
INVENTOR FLYS WITH HOMEMADE ‘IRON MAN’ JET SUIT OVER HARBOR
INVENTOR FLYS WITH HOMEMADE ‘IRON MAN’ JET SUIT OVER HARBOR
Inventor Richard Browning has showcased his “Iron Man-inspired” homemade jetpack by taking off from the shore of Vancouver Harbor Thursday.
Using a suit equipped with miniature jet engines attached to a specially designed exoskeleton, the British inventor demonstrated the machine by flying in a circle for a captivated audience who were attending a TED conference in the Canadian city.
“The hypothesis was that the human mind and body, if properly augmented, could achieve some pretty cool stuff,” Browning said in a speech before the demonstration.
The personal flight suit can currently fly uninterrupted for around 10 minutes and Browning said it is capable of flying much higher than shown at the TED event. He said it is easily capable of flying at over 320kmph (200mph) and reaching an altitude of over 1,000ft (300 meters).
The extreme athlete and engineer regaled the audience with tales of the various knocks and mishaps he experienced while building the machine.
“The whole journey was about trying and failing, and learning from that,” Browning said.
Gravity Industries, Browning’s startup company, recently debuted with an early-version suit called Daedalus. The company attracted huge interest when Browning posted video footage of the suit’s maiden flight.
The inventor revealed that he has received attention from investors and even from the British military. However he does not think that the suit is ready for mainstream use anytime soon.
“I don’t think anyone is going to be going down to Wal-Mart with it or taking anybody to school for quite a while, but the team at Gravity is moving it along,” Browning said.
Browning said that his vision is a flight suit that will allow its wearer to launch from a beach, soar along the coast and then perhaps hop into a helicopter in the air to continue their journey.
So remote, they are steeped in legends of snow yetis and mysterious monsters devouring all who dare to venture into these remote areas. With strange occurrences such as that of theDyatlov Pass, which have supported such fears for many years.
Maybe even as old as the great sphinx. More and more is being learnt about them, with ever more daring explorations of the ruins being undertaken, a team discovered a vault in one of the stone megaliths, an access fault that led them into an artificially made stone cavern systems.
These underground structures are truly massive, and are undoubtedly constructed by an intelligent builder, hidden for many millennia these caverns are not only massive but constructed using blocks placed upon one another that are over 50 feet in length in some instances, making these stones many thousands of tonnes in weight, seemingly placed effortlessly into the shape of underground walls.
This discovery has not really shed light upon how the ancients built such structures, but rather pushed their apparent capabilities farther from our understanding.
Not only are these structures purpose a vast mystery, but they also contain placed stones bigger than any we have ever discovered, even eclipsing the unfinished stone found at the ancient chinese quarry known as yangshan, a stone can be found here half cut away from the bedrock, in excess of 16,000 tonnes, thought by scholars throughout time, to have been left at the quarry due to them not being able to move it, yet here we have stones placed into a cave system design which even outweigh yangshan.
This not only proves they could move them, but lift them and work them, just how many quote “natural formations”, are really just extremelly weathered once extremelly large stone built structures? Maybe there are many stone granite hills and even maybe mountains that dot our earth, which were, before mellinia of rain, grand structures of a forgotten people.
The first where to start this journey Vottovaara Mountain – the highest point of the West Karelian Upland – 417.3 m above sea level. Mountain area of 6 square meters. km. The place is just full of strange artifacts after which you start to think about ancient advanced technologies for stone processing, let’s look at the photo.
Mountain Vottovaara. Megaliths scattered blocks.
Middle block cut down at an angle of 90 degrees or a freak of nature?
As if the laser spent geologists believe that the cracks and fissures are formed by a powerful earthquake around 9000 years ago. Smooth stones same plane – the result of the local properties of the rock – quartzite, whose structure and defines a flat plane as the split.
So all the same nature or man-made? Let’s take a closer look.
More like a perfectly sawed blocks podognanye tightly to each other. It is hard to imagine the ancient ancestor with a copper chisel which is somewhere on Mount grinds such smooth blocks.
Good view, perfectly smooth wall.
Who lost the ball?)
There is clearly no high technology for stone processing has not been, or still a freak of nature?
Mountain Pidan. At first glance it looks like an unremarkable pile of stones cracked rock.
But coming closer it becomes more like a megalithic masonry.
Peering between the blocks, where the stones were less susceptible to erosion from wind and rain can be seen as the man-made and kept straight faces.
In a place where the joint units sold can be seen even saw cut, and before us the technology of stacking these blocks.
Stone Town in the Perm region. According to scientists, Stone Town – is the mouth of the river, a tributary of millions of years ago in the Permian Sea this explains beautifully and smoothly, at right angles, carved stones, masonry and trim them perpendicular to each other “channels”, “mouth”.
Stone Town.
See how smooth side of megaliths as if cut down.
Again the old method to look into the masonry between the blocks, looking at the long-range block in the center, clean cut across the length of the block.
Say somewhere on the Kola Peninsula is the swimming pool carved into the rock.
In the south of Western Siberia in the mountain Shoria in Mezhdurechensk area there is a small village called Geological Stones.
In this village lives a few educated talented geologists. This Alexander Bespalov, Vyacheslav Pochotkin and others. These people all his life engaged in research of mountain systems in Western Siberia. One day they came across in the mountains of strange megalithic constructions that for themselves they could not explain. These were the walls, lined with giant stone blocks and a strange construction with vertically mounted stone obelisk. On the Internet, they contacted George Sidorov, since the first expedition was assembled.
Mountain Shoria. Some granite blocks stacked below were red granite, crowned their gray blocks of granite, as above lying polygonal masonry of various blocks as red granite and gray.
Granite in some places oplavilsya from the effects of huge temperatures and flowed under the weight of the upper rows. Kungurov if to say such a thing, it traces the re-flow of a thermonuclear explosion
Wall composed of polygonal masonry blocks of different color.
Block sizes are impressive, according to one version, a find – a man-made structure of the age of more than 100 thousand years.
In the photo Georgy Sidorov, in his opinion all this megalithic structure may be the ruins of an ancient power which translates seismic energy in any other.
Again looking inside masonry where the blocks were less prone to erosion, seen flat straight edge, watching as the two units are tight, man-made, is better visible.
Polygonal masonry.
Mountain Shoria. Huge blocks at the Department of Radio Physics at Tomsk State University showed pictures on the screen, telling about the different types of masonry, stone of the castle, which secured the giant granite blocks and no scientist physicist, said that all this is of natural origin. Most of them were surprised, as they could raise the ancient giant blocks of stone to a height of over 1,000 meters and there to set them on a special platform.
Then the Tomsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society, scientists have studied photos of geologists and geographers. And they both came to the conclusion that the presented artifacts are handmade.
Sklyarov was asked to comment on the find. And what did he say? That all artifacts found nothing but a cracked rock at right angles. That there is nothing man-made here. Just a freak of nature, nothing more. After these words, I do not wonder why Laia does not study Russian megaliths.
Between blocks.
For comparison, the left megalith in Baalbek, in the mountainous right megalith Shoria seems one author
Shaman Mountain near with. Nizhneleninskoye, Khabarovsk Territory.
Ancient megalithic masonry.
Again, the best man-made visible between the blocks and straight lines.
A large block of megalith.
A large block of megalith on small stones, so make for better seismic resistance.
Megalithic masonry reminiscent Mountain Shoria.
Kabardino-Balkaria, a cave in the Baksan Gorge.
First it is necessary to squeeze into the size of 40 by 120 cm hole, and then down on the rope on the narrow vertical shaft.
Its form, two parallel flagstones. At 9 meters – the first “knee”: hole goes away and immediately breaks down again. Already here you will cover the absolute silence – the outside does not get any sound. 23 more meters in depth – and a new “tribe”.
To reach the bottom of the cave, it is necessary to overcome more than 80 meters, and it will take an hour. But, having passed the “bottleneck”, you will find yourself in a huge room, which the researchers called “jar”. Inside, we see the treated wall of tufa and granite, composed of different-sized, closely matched to each other polished megaliths.
The descent into the cave.
Clearly visible faces of blocks and the seams between them.
Smooth clutch hits and stone seams, well adjusted to each other.
Triangular blocks slightly parted.
Barely visible seams blocks on the left wall and crescent on the wall behind her.
Rotate the cave at an angle of 90 degrees. Two large megalithic blocks are on each other.
“Tuff is a cluster of volcanic emissions products – ash, bits of lava , volcanic glass and, to a small extent, debris that form crater wall. release material when the accumulation was hot and so the solidification cracks were formed separately – that is the whole array of tufa appeared as if broken into blocks. Deepening discovered near the village of Zayukovo, is one of these cracks gravity separation, which is characterized by smooth contact surface”.
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: Retire the International Space Station ASAP to Reach Mars
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: Retire the International Space Station ASAP to Reach Mars
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA and its partner agencies should retire the International Space Station and focus on getting astronauts to Mars instead, Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin said.
Credit: NASA
If NASA and its partner agencies are serious about putting boots on Mars in the near future, they should pull the plug on the International Space Station (ISS) at the earliest opportunity, Buzz Aldrin said.
"We must retire the ISS as soon as possible," the former Apollo 11 moonwalker said Tuesday (May 9) during a presentation at the 2017 Humans to Mars conference in Washington, D.C. "We simply cannot afford $3.5 billion a year of that cost."
Instead, Aldrin said, NASA should continue to hand over activities in low Earth orbit (LEO) to private industry partners. Indeed, the space agency has been encouraging that move by awarding contracts to companies such as SpaceX, Orbital ATK and Boeing to ferry cargo and crew to and from the ISS. [Buzz Aldrin's Visions for Mars (Video)]
Bigelow Aerospace, Axiom Space or other companies should build and operate LEO space stations that are independent of the ISS, he added. Ideally, the first of these commercial outposts would share key orbital parameters with the station that China plans to have up and running by the early 2020s, to encourage cooperation with the Chinese, Aldrin said.
Establishing private outposts in LEO is just the first step in Aldrin's plan for Mars colonization, which depends heavily on "cyclers" — spacecraft that move continuously between two cosmic destinations, efficiently delivering people and cargo back and forth.
"The foundation of human transportation is the cycler," the 87-year-old former astronaut said. "Very rugged, so it'll last 30 years or so; no external moving parts."
Step two involves the international spaceflight community coming together to build cyclers that ply cislunar space, taking people on trips to the moon and back. Such spacecraft, and the activities they enable, would allow the construction of a crewed lunar base, where humanity could learn and test the techniques required for Mars colonization, such as how to manufacture propellant from local resources, Aldrin said.
Then would come Earth-Mars cyclers, which Aldrin described as "an evolutionary development" of the prior cyclers.
Aldrin foresees these various cycler iterations enabling a crewed mission to a near-Earth asteroid by 2020 and a Venus flyby by 2024. If all goes well, the first future Mars settlers could launch in the early 2030s, he said.
And they will be settlers, not just visitors, if Aldrin's vision comes to pass.
"Let's be certain that we've developed a sustainable plan to stay on Mars," he said. "No flags and footprints this time."
The ISS is currently funded through 2024, and officials of NASA, the Russian federal space agency and other partners have floated the possibility of extending the $100 billion outpost's life through 2028. NASA officials have repeatedly said that the ISS is a key part of the agency's "Journey to Mars" vision, which aims to get astronauts to the vicinity of the Red Planet sometime in the 2030s.
Never mind Star Trek‘s Squire of Gothos; what if we really found an alien civilization at a 16th-century level of technological development? How would we know? How could we make contact–and should we?
(Credit: Paramount)
Readers of this blog know that I’m a big fan of Quora, because it lets non-experts raise the kinds of speculative questions that don’t normally come up in formal scientific discussions. One frequent theme that comes up is the issue of what we would do if we found intelligent life on a planet around another star. A recent posting in particular caught my eye: “What would we do if we found an Earthlike planet with intelligent life that is 500 years behind us in technology and advancements?”
Well, that’s a fun thought experiment! It’s not one question, really, but a whole set of nested questions about how to find alien life, how to determine the presence of alien intelligence, how to determine the nature of that intelligence, and then how we would study it, or even try to make contact with it. There’s a big moral issue at the end, but a lot of juicy scientific ones along the way. And that got me thinking…
First, how will we find a truly Earthlike planet? Despite all the amazing recent discoveries of planets around other stars, astronomers have yet to find a true Earth twin—that is, an Earth-size planet orbiting a sunlike yellow star at an Earthlike distance. The closest they’ve come is a planet called Kepler 452b. It’s roughly five times the mass of Earth and probably belongs to the class of planets called super-Earths. Habitable, maybe; Earthlike, no. The same goes, even more so, for the recently discovered Earth-size planets around the star Trappist-1. These are extremely exciting worlds to study, and it is possible that some of them could support life. But the Trappist-1 planets orbit a dim red-dwarf star, which means that they are blasted with energetic radiation and are probably tidally locked, with one hemisphere always facing toward the star.
Closer analogs are surely out there, but they are hard to find. NASA’s Kepler space telescope spots planets by the way they blot out a tiny bit of their star’s light when they transit: that is, they pass between the star and us. But for a planet in a one-year orbit (like ours!), that means you see a shadow only once a year, and very briefly. To confirm that the planet is real—and not, say, a random flickering of the star—you want to observe at least three events. So you need to watch a lot of stars, and watch them all for several years. Even then, the only planets you’ll find are the ones that happen to be lined up exactly between us and their star.
Planets in the habitable zones around other stars may not be anything like our own. Kepler-186 (top) is a miniature system similar to Trappist-1. Kepler-452 (middle) is a sunlike star but its key planet is bigger and more massive than Earth.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech/R. Hurt)
Second, how would we know if a superficially Earthlike planet is truly habitable? The leading method right now is to look at light streaming through the planet’s atmosphere when it passes between us and the star. That’s an extremely difficult task even for giant planets. Right now, we don’t have the technology to do it for a true Earth twin—if we even had one to study. Another approach is to search directly for other Earths alongside their stars, and then analyze their light. To do that, you need both a very powerful telescope and a highly effective way to block out the glare of the star, since an Earthlike planet would be right alongside it in the sky, but on the order of a billion times fainter!
Astronomers have some clever ideas about how to do that, using either an external light blocker (called a starshade) flying in front of a space telescope, or an internal device (coronagraph) built into the telescope itself to create a kind of artificial eclipse. The upcoming WFIRST telescope will test the coronagraph concept, but it won’t be sensitive enough to observe other Earths. That will take improved telescopes that are unlikely to be built at least until the 2030s.
Bringing other Earths into view won’t be easy. This is the plan for NASA’s upcoming WFIRST space telescope and its starlight-blocking coronagraph.
(Credit: NASA-JPL/G. Blackwood/Noecker et al)
Third, how would we know if there’s intelligent life on the planet? Proving the presence of any kind of life will be hugely challenging, even after we get past steps one and two above. Astronomers will analyze the atmospheres of the planets looking for “biosignatures”–unusual, out-of-balance chemical compositions such as those associated with life on Earth (eg, free oxygen plus methane). SETI searches focus on possible signals sent by alien civilizations, but aliens with 16th-century technology won’t be beaming us any radio messages. We’d have to find them in more subtle ways. For instance, we might detect heavy-metal signatures associated with smelting and other types of simple industry, although that still would not yield unambiguous proof. Some extreme, speculative types of lensing telescopes might be powerful enough to see evidence of cities or geometric clearing of forests; such observations would certainly be a lot more convincing.
Note, by the way, that it would be extremely unlikely to find an alien civilization that is so close to us in technological development, even if intelligent alien life is fairly common. Stars and planets have most likely been forming in our galaxy for more than 10 billion years. Maybe it’s normal for it to take 4 billion years for intelligent life to emerge; maybe not. Regardless, life on other worlds could have begun billions of years earlier or later than life on Earth. Out of that vast range, the odds that an alien civilization would be within 500 years of our stage of development are millions to one—and that assumes that other planets follow the same path as ours, which is a huge leap of faith. But let’s keep digging into the question.
How to launch an interstellar probe using a laser lightsail. The tech doesn’t exist yet, but it’s all near-term realistic.
(Credit: Breakthrough Starshot)
Fourth, what would we do if we really found rock-solid evidence of a pre-industrial civilization on a planet around another star? We couldn’t communicate with them by any currently known method. Unless physicists make some kind of wildly unanticipated new discovery, there is no practical way that humans could travel there, either. Potentially we could send miniature interstellar probes to examine the planet and learn more about its inhabitants. A project called Breakthrough Starshot is exploring the kind of technology needed to do something like that. Such probes would be so small and speedy that the aliens there would have no idea they were being watched.
Assume a best-case scenario (because, why not?). Sometime next decade we find a potentially Earthlike planet around Alpha Centauri A, the closest sunlike star, or maybe we find encouraging information about the Earth-size planet orbiting its companion star, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. In the 2030s we find plausible biosignatures on one of these nearby exoplanets. In the 2050s we image the planet and see plausible indications of an intelligent civilization. What a moment of discovery that would be! We launch interstellar probes there, which arrive in the 2090s. By 2100, we’re convinced not only that the planet is inhabited, but that it is home to an advanced, semi-industrial civilization. So now what?
NASA will crash Cassini into Saturn in September, to make sure the probe doesn’t contaminate one of the planet’s potentially habitable moons. This kind of caution should extend to any future contact with sentient alien beings.
(Credit: NASA-JPL)
That brings us to the fifth and final part. Should we try to establish contact? Potentially we could use interstellar probes to drop coded messages all over the planet. Maybe the inhabitants could respond by setting huge geometric fires that we could observe from space. We would have a lot of time to think about whether making contact is a good idea and, if so, how best to do it. Each back-and-forth message would take about 9 years—and remember, this is for the very nearest star. Suppose we found a civilization on Kepler 452b. It is 1,400 light years away. Each round-trip message would take 2,800 years minimum. A Starshot-style probe would take at least 7,000 years to get there.
But let’s take all of the what-ifs all the way. What if we find this quasi-technological alien civilization, and what if humans develop some kind of faster-than-light technology (currently thought to be physically impossible, but we’re speculating here) so that we could jump in a ship and go visit, Star Trek style? How would we behave?
Right now, NASA has a detailed set of planetary-protection rules to make sure that humans do not contaminate Mars or other possibly habitable worlds. That is part of the reason the Cassini probe is being crashed into Saturn: to make sure it doesn’t contaminate the moons Enceladus or Titan. I like to think that by the time we are smart enough to find life in other planetary systems and advanced enough to travel there, we will have advanced versions of those planetary protection rules to make sure we don’t contaminate other civilizations, either.
On Earth, meetings between technological and non-technological cultures have generally not gone very well. If we ever get to the point where we find a non-technological culture on another planet, I expect that we will have enough good sense to observe from afar and not interfere.
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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 new sighting took place on April 25.
In a report to MUFON, the witness, who was driving back from Tybee Island with a roommate, said: "I was sitting in the passenger seat, looking out of the window.
We were headed south on East Broad when I saw two very large, triangular crafts hovering above the city.
UFO witness
Five lights in a formation were seen 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.
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.
Some alien hunters believe they are the motherships of extraterrestrials visiting Earth.
However, many conspiracy theorists believe they are actually secret aircrafts developed by the US Air Force (USAF) which are being tested.
The TR-3B is alleged by conspiracy theorists to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US Government that can be flown into space.
The allegations are that these crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
Earlier this month Express.co.uk revealed how Steve Bassett, a prominent UFO disclosure lobbyist in the US, believes that many triangle UFOs could have been secretly built by the US using technology recovered from crashed flying saucers.
The mysterious star with the catchy nickname that refuses to explain itself just got a little more mysterious … and a lot dimmer. Data on KIC 8462852 – aka Tabby’s Star, aka the star that might be surrounded by a Dyson sphere – was analyzed by another set of astronomers and they noticed a 200-day period where it dimmed drastically in comparison to other times. Did the aliens sucking power from the star via the sphere need an emergency energy boost? Did something else temporarily block it from our view? Is this proof it’s some new kind of star? Or what?
KIC 8462852 was nicknamed Tabby’s Star after its discoverer, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian. The erratic behavior of its light, especially the constant dimming, caused speculation that it was partially or fully surrounded by a so-called Dyson sphere of panels absorbing its energy to be used by an alien species for fuel. Farfetched but not yet eliminated as an explanation.
According to a new study, Caltech astronomer Ben Montet and Joshua Simon of the Carnegie Institute measured the light from the star recorded by the Kepler satellite observatory over four years. The dimming occurred at a steady rate of around 0.34 percent per year for about the first thousand days of observation. At that point, the dimming increased dramatically to an annual rate of 2.5 percent for the next 200 days. It then returned to the 0.34 rate for the duration of the Kepler observation. Montet said in an interview with Gizmodo:
The part that really surprised me was just how rapid and non-linear it was. We spent a long time trying to convince ourselves this wasn’t real.
The big dip was real
But it was. What caused the sudden drop in light? Suspecting some cosmic mass (comets, thick dust cloud) may have passed in front of Kepler, Montet and Simon checked the brightness of 500 surround stars and found that only KIC 8462852 took a dip. That means the cause is either in front of, around or inside of Tabby’s Star.
Well, that narrows it down, doesn’t it?
These results introduce us to another delightfully unexpected piece of the puzzle.
Tabetha Boyajian has set up a Kickstarter crowdfunding program to raise enough money to use the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network for a year to watch her namesake and catch it in the act of flickering, dimming, Dyson sphere construction, starship fueling or whatever else it might be.
We will keep you all in the loop as things progress, and will soon send out surveys to gather information for reward fulfillment.
What would Galileo think of a Dyson sphere? Would crowdfunding have saved him from church persecution?
For $10, let’s give them a scroll with my picture on it.
Is there a connection between a strange and controversial cattle-mutilation event that occurred in New Mexico in June 1976, and the equally controversial UFO incident that went down in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in December 1980? Let’s take a look. We’ll begin with the 1976 affair. From 1975 onward, Police Officer Gabe Valdez, of Espanola, New Mexico, investigated multiple UFO/animal mutilation cases in and around Rio Arriba County, NM. In fact, the total was twenty-eight. One of the most bizarre events occurred in June 1976, as Valdez’s files demonstrate:
“Investigations around the area revealed that a suspected aircraft of some type had landed twice, leaving three pod marks positioned in a triangular shape. The diameter of each pod was 14 inches. Emanating from the two landings were smaller triangular shaped tripods 28 inches and 4 inches in diameter. Investigation at the scene showed that these small tripods had followed the cow for approximately 600 feet. Tracks of the cow showed where she had struggled and fallen. The small tripod tracks were all around the cow. Other evidence showed that grass around the tripods, as they followed the cow, had been scorched. Also a yellow oily substance was located in two places under the small tripods. This substance was submitted to the State Police Lab. The Lab was unable to detect the content of the substance.”
Valdez continued: “A sample of the substance was submitted to a private lab and they were unable to analyze the substance due to the fact that it disappeared or disintegrated. Skin samples were analyzed by the State Police Lab and the Medical Examiner’s Office. It was reported that the skin had been cut with a sharp instrument.” Seventy-two hours later, Valdez liaised with Dr. Howard Burgess, of the New Mexico-based Sandia Laboratories, with a view to having the area checked for radiation. It was a wise move. The radiation level was double that which could normally be expected. Valdez’s conclusions on this issue: “It is the opinion of this writer that radiation findings are deliberately being left at the scene to confuse investigators.”
The case was not over, however. Whatever, or whoever, was responsible for the mutilation made a return visit. Once again, we need to take a look at the official files on the affair. In Valdez’s own words: “There was also evidence that the tripod marks had returned and removed the left ear. Tripod marks were found over Mr. Gomez’s tire tracks of his original visit. The left ear was intact when Mr. Gomez first found the cow. The cow had a 3-month-old calf which has not been located since the incident. This appears strange since a small calf normally stays around the mother even though the cow is dead.”
Now, let’s move on to Rendlesham Forest and December 1980. The Rendlesham affair is a case which saw numerous military personnel from the twin-military U.K. Royal Air Force bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge experiencing profound UFO activity in the nearby East coast woods, between December 26 and 28. Without doubt, the most widely accepted scenario within the UFO research community is that extraterrestrials landed/manifested in those dark woods in late December. There is talk of a small, intelligently controlled vehicle moving through the trees, of lights beaming down to a weapons-storage area in the vicinity, of bizarre activity in the woods, and of strange, dwarfish entities seen at close quarters. There is even talk of local prisons being primed for evacuation at some point between December 26 and 28, 1980.
On January 13, 1981, Deputy Base Commander Colonel Charles Halt prepared a memo on the situation for the attention of the British Ministry of Defense. It began as follows: “Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L) two USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge. Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they called for permission to go outside the gate to investigate. The individuals reported seeing a strange glowing object in the forest. The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base and approximately two meters high. It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached the object it maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy. The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate.”
Halt had more to say: “The next day, three depressions 1 1/2″ deep and 7″ in diameter were found where the object had been sighted on the ground. The following night (29 Dec 80) the area was checked for radiation. Beta/Gamma readings of 0.1 milliroentgens were recorded with peak readings in the three depressions and near the center of the triangle formed by the three depressions. A nearby tree had moderate (0.05 – 0.07) readings on the side of the tree facing towards the three depressions.”
And, finally, there was this from Colonel Halt: “Later in the night a red sun-like object was seen through the trees. It moved about and pulsed. At one point it appeared to throw off glowing particles and then broke into five separate white objects and disappeared. Immediately thereafter, three star like objects were noticed in the sky, two objects to the north and one to the south, all of which were about 10 degrees off of the horizon. The objects moved rapidly in sharp, angular movements and displayed red, green and blue lights. The objects to the north appeared to be elliptical through 8-10 power lens. They then turned to full circles. The objects in the north remained in the sky for an hour or more. The object to the south was visible for two to three hours and beamed down a stream of light from time to time. Numerous individuals, including the undersigned, witnessed the activities in paragraphs 2 and 3.”
Now, let’s take a look at the similarities between the two cases, which were roughly four-and-a-half years apart:
(A) In the New Mexican case, the unidentified object left behind “…three pod marks positioned in a triangular shape.” At Rendlesham Forest, “…three depressions 1 1/2″ deep and 7″ in diameter were found where the object had been sighted on the ground.”
(B) The radiation levels at the scene of the mute were twice the level of what could be called normal. In Rendlesham Forest, the radiation level was elevated.
(C) Officer Valdez reported that at the Rio Arriba farm a cow had been mutilated and its calf was missing. At the site of the Rendlesham incident, “…the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy.”
Of course, the connections are without doubt tenuous. But, they are also highly intriguing…
Back in 2013, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “The High Point of a Cover-Up” The subject? The infamous Rendlesham Forest affair of December 1980 – which saw multiple UFO activity in the direct vicinity of two U.K. military installations. Their names were Royal Air Force Bentwaters and Royal Air Force Woodbridge, both in the English county of Suffolk. The article included the following words (QUOTE): “One of the little known rumors surrounding the Rendlesham Forest case is that at the height of the strange encounters a panicky British Government was on the absolute verge of evacuating a number of nearby prisons, all in the county of Suffolk, too. In the 1980s, the late Graham Birdsall, who was the editor of Britain’s UFO Magazine from the 1990s to the early 2000s, had the opportunity to speak with one George Wild – a prison officer at Armley Prison in the English city of Leeds – who had some intriguing data to impart on this notable aspect of the story.
“According to what Wild told Birdsall, a senior prison official from the British government’s Home Office had once let it slip to him, Wild, that high-level orders had arrived at the nearby HM Prison Highpoint North advising staff to prepare for a possible evacuation of the inmates due to a matter of grave national security. The date was December 27, 1980. Well, if that was the case, wouldn’t the prison-governor’s official log-book for that period reveal and reflect the facts? Indeed, it might. That is, if we could find and study its potentially priceless pages (END OF QUOTE).”
By the British Government’s own admission, and as I noted in my earlier article, officialdom would only state: “It has not proved possible to locate that journal.” Anyone surprised? I’m sure as hell not. There is a reason why I mention this. The saga of HM Prison Highpoint North does not stand alone. The late Georgina Bruni – who wrote a book on the Rendlesham affair titled You Can’t Tell The People – uncovered information suggesting that two additional prisons were about to be evacuated at the height of the incidents which went down in Rendlesham Forest. Georgina’s information came from several sources, one of whom worked for the British Police Force’s Special Branch; someone who Georgina came to know well.
One of the facilities was once called HM Prison Blundeston. As is noted at Wikipedia: “On 4 September 2013, the Ministry of Justice announced that it intended to close Blundeston Prison by March 2014. The closure of the prison led to criticism from local politicians, including planning proposals to allow the site to be used for a large housing development.”
According to Georgina’s sources, the other facility was HM Prison Hollesley Bay. Notably, Hollesley Bay is located only eight miles from Woodbridge – once the home to the previously-mentioned RAF Woodbridge. The people of the town refer to the prison as “The Colony.” One of those who took a keen interest in these claims, that mass evacuations were on the verge of taking place when the UFO events in the forest were at their height, was the late Lord Hill-Norton. He raised this issue, in the House of Lords, on January 23, 2001. He did so specifically as a result of the revelations contained in the pages of Georgina Bruni’s book.
Lord Bassam, then the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office, stated concisely: “We can find no record of any such instructions.” Does that mean no such records ever existed? Or, does it mean that, by 2001, they were long gone? We’re talking about destroyed, burned, shredded – you get the picture. The Government has chosen not to expand on its very brief 2001 statement. Again, no surprises.
Whatever the truth, there is no doubt that this is an aspect of the Rendlesham case which is well worth pursuing. George Wild spoke on-the-record about what he knew of a planned evacuation of HM Prison Highpoint North, about which the British Government says: “From 1938 to 1970 the site of the prison was a Royal Air Force base. It was then used as a transit camp for Ugandan Asian refugees, before opening in 1977 as a prison.” George Wild never wavered on his words. Georgina’s sources chose not to speak on-the-record regarding Blundeston and Hollesley. This is not surprising: her Special Branch source was on a much-welcomed pension from the British Government, having retired in the 1990s.
Anyone up for the challenge of looking into the 1980 planned evacuations? When it comes to Rendlesham Forest, there may yet be further amazing revelations to be found. Disturbing revelations, too…
Last year, NASA announced the development of a new vehicle seemingly straight out of science fiction: a space submarine. Since so many of the moons in our solar system are believed to have potentially life-sustaining oceans rife with hydrothermal activity beneath their icy surfaces, an interplanetary submarine may be the perfect tool to search the unexplored waters of alien worlds for any signs of life. To that end, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) want to send a robotic submarine to Europa, one of the largest of Jupiter’s 67 moons and a prime candidate in the search for alien life in the solar system.
Plumes of vapor have been spotted emanating from Europa’s icy surface. These are believed to be from subsurface geysers which some astrophysicists suspect could create the right conditions to sustain aquatic life on Europa.
According to the joint NASA/ESA press release describing their Joint Europa Mission (JEM), both agencies believe there is a good chance Europa might sustain alien life of some kind:
There is a consensus in the planetary community that Europa is the closest and probably the most promising target to search for extant life in our solar system. The Galileo discovery of a sub-surface ocean likely in direct contact with a silicate floor that could be a source of the key chemical species needed for the build-up of biomolecules. […] Europa is likely habitable, and [we] strongly support a scientific plan to go there and see if it is indeed inhabited.
To prepare for such a mission, NASA has funded and is currently testing submarine designs. One such sub designed by Stone Aerospace, ARTEMIS, is currently being tested in Antarctica. NASA revealed the results of some of the preliminary tests at this year’s NASA Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon). The difficulties of sending a submarine to a distant moon, getting through the moon’s thick icy surface, and then operating a remote mission all from a single borehole are many, and ARTEMIS will have to undergo years of testing before it’s ready to be sent to explore Europa.
The submarine was tested under Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf.
The recently-published tests of the ATEMIS submarine were designed around three main objectives:
(1) the ability to reliably conduct operations in completely ice covered waters accessible only via a single borehole for deployment and recovery, (2) the ability to characterize the physical and geochemical environment, and (3) the ability to search for life at the ice-water interface and conduct detailed investigations (in this case, to take and return water samples) in identified areas of interest.
According to the presentation given at AbSciCon 2017, the tests were all successful. Don’t get too excited yet, though. The Joint Europa Mission will first have to send a probe to conduct a flyby of Europa in order to determine where its nuclear-powered laser drill could realistically break through the 10-15 miles of ice covering Europa. You read that right: nuclear-powered laser drill. Those Europan lifeforms are gonna love us.
ARTEMIS has its work cut out for it: the exact composition of Europa’s ocean is still unknown.
Spherical bubbles preserved in 3.48 billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia provide evidence for early life having lived in ancient hot springs on land.
Life on Earth kicked off hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, scientists have claimed.
In a new find, the earliest known living creature popped up about 3.5 billion years ago in a hot spring in Australia.
Well-preserved bubbles and layers of rock formed by microbes signal that life started 580 million years earlier than previous research has indicated.
The clues were found in the Dresser Formation of the North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. The findings were published May 9 in Nature Communications.
The discovery hints that Charles Darwin may well have been correct in his theory that life on Earth in fact began inside a “warm little pond” and not in the sea, as many modern scientists have hypothesized.
“This may have implications for an origin of life in freshwater hot springs on land, rather than the more widely discussed idea that life developed in the ocean and adapted to land later,” said Tara Djokic, lead author of the study and a PhD student at the University of New South Wales.
And it could help scientists in the hunt for alien life on Mars.
The red planet is also believed to have had hot springs 3.5 billion years ago.
Now scientists could focus their attention on these spots to discover whether extraterrestrial organisms ever existed on the Red Planet.
Modal TriggerTara Djokic points at rocks containing geyserite and biosignatures in the Dresser Formation.Bruce Damer
“Of the top three potential landing sites for the Mars 2020 rover, Columbia Hills is indicated as a hot spring environment,” Djokic added.
“If life can be preserved in hot springs so far back in Earth’s history, then there is a good chance it could be preserved in Martian hot springs too.”
“Our exciting findings don’t just extend back the record of life living in hot springs by 3 billion years, they indicate that life was inhabiting the land much earlier than previously thought, by up to about 580 million years,” Djokic added.
Previously, the oldest known geyserite had been identified from rocks about 400 million years old.
You don’t happen to see a Su-27 Flanker dogfighting with a F-16 unless you visit Area 51. Here are the amazing photographs taken near Groom Lake, on Nov. 8, 2016, U.S. election day.
The photographs in this post were taken from Tikaboo Valley, near Groom Lake, Nevada, by Phil Drake, who was lucky enough to observe a Su-27P Flanker-B dogfighting with an F-16, presumably one of the four Groom Lake based -D models in the skies of the famous Area 51.
Although the quality of the pictures is low (the aircraft were flying between 20K and 30K feet) they are extremely interesting since Flankers operating from Groom are not a secret (they have been documented in 2003 – 2004 and more recently between 2012 and 2014) but have rarely been photographed.
The F-16 (bottom – highlighted) and the Su-27 are flying against each other. Both are on a left hand turn.
The two aircraft get closer in the merge.
The two jets almost overlap: the Su-27 is farther, the F-16 is closer to the camera.
The two jets continue to turn as they try to reach the “enemy” 6 o’clock
Here’s Phil’s report of the rare sighting:
“The date was November 8th, US election day, and the sighting was between 1500 and 1525.
I was visiting Nevada hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the latest defense programmes being tested.
On the Monday and Wednesday, Nellis Aggressor F-15s and F-16s were regularly overhead, dropping flares and sonic booms. It was Tuesday afternoon when the skies went quiet for a couple of hours, and I hoped this may be a sign of something unusual being flown.
Eventually the sound of jet noise caught my attention, and I scanned the clear blue skies ’til I saw the tiny speck of an approaching military jet at high altitude, leaving an intermittent contrail.
It was instantly recognisable as a Russian built Sukhoi 27 Flanker, and carried no national insignia or identifying marks.
I took my camera out and photographed the ensuing dogfight between the Flanker and a F-16. The sortie seemed to consist of a head on intercept, conducted at descending altitudes from 30 down to 20 thousand feet, and after each intercept a turning dogfight ensued after they had flashed past each other.
The highly manoeuvrable Flanker was a single seat version, a Su-27P, and it pulled out all of its best moves to get behind the F-16.
I watched in awe as the pair fought it out for 25 minutes before they both climbed to altitude and flew back into Groom Lake restricted airspace.
My scanner remained silent throughout the whole encounter.”
What they were testing is difficult to say. We can’t even be sure the Flanker was one of those reportedly flown from Groom or a privately owned one rented to perform some sort of testing. So all we can say is pure speculation.
Su-27 turning left
Bottom view of the Su-27
It was a daylight operation therefore, unless they were trying to assess the visual appearance of a Su-27 in standard Russian Air Force scheme under a specific angle at a certain altitude and so on, it was, most probably, something not related to a “black project” that would be carried out at night, when spotters (that have become a common presence around Area 51 and Tonopah Test Range) would find it hard to ID the types involved and understand what’s happening.
Anyway, the U.S. armed forces have been operating MiG and Sukhoi jets for decades.
In the late 1960s, CIA, U.S. Air Force, Navy and several other agencies were involved in highly classified programs whose purpose was to evaluate MiG fighter jets and study the best ways to face them in air-to-air combat.
Among these programs, “Have Doughnut” was aimed at exploiting a MiG-21 Fishbed-E that the U.S. acquired in 1967 from Israel that had obtained it in Aug. 1966, when an Iraqi Air Force pilot flew it in Israel during a training sortie that was actually a pre-arranged defection.
Have Doughnut saw the MiG-21, using cover designation YF-110, fly over Groom Lake against F-4, F-105, F-111, F-100, F-104, B-66, RF-101, RF-4 and F-5 during offensive and defensive missions that gave the evaluation team the opportunity to assess the effectiveness of the U.S. air combat tactics.
Half a century after “Have Doughnut” some Russian planes, in this case a camo Su-27, are still used for some sort of testing and training in the U.S.
We Have Rented A Cessna 172 And Skirted Area 51 and Nevada Test and Training Range. Here Is How It Went.
We Have Rented A Cessna 172 And Skirted Area 51 and Nevada Test and Training Range. Here Is How It Went.
By Vincent Vagner
We undertook a very unusual trip over Nevada desert.
Area 51, a myth in the underworld of conspiracy theories, especially for those who believe in alien spacecrafts, flying saucers, UFOs etc, is a highly classified installation in the Nevada desert.
Since the 1950s, the remote site, located south of the dry Groom Lake, has been used to support the development and testing of several aircraft and weapons systems including the famous U-2 Dragon Lady, the Mach 3+ SR-71 Blackbird, or the later F-117 stealth fighter (more precisely its Have Blue prototype).
Groom Lake airbase is located inside the Nellis Test and Training Range, 200 miles north of Las Vegas, under a dedicated and forbidden airspace identified as R4808N in the aeronautical charts. This place is well protected from prying eyes as the ground perimeter extend to 10 miles from the runways, and a small ridge inside the Area prevent anyone on the Tikaboo valley to see anything.
Most enthusiasts and photographers climb Tikaboo peak. This vantage point is difficult to access, is almost 8,000 feet high which puts it 3,000 feet over the airbase but 50 miles away. You need a powerful telelens to see anything from there.
Being a very long time military aviation fan, both interested in the secret life of Groom Lake and in the larger Nellis Test and Training Range (NTTR) where every Red Flag exercise happen since the 70s, I wanted to see it in real. What made it possible is that I’m a private pilot, and the airspace east of R4808N is “just” classified as a Military Operating Area (MOA). It’s a danger area when it’s active or “hot” (meaning some military activity is scheduled or in progress), but still accessible for anyone at their own risk.
While on vacation in the area, I decided to attempt a flight there, during the weekend to lessen any risk, particularly with the Air Traffic Control (ATC) in the area. I booked a rental Cessna 172 Skyhawk at West Air Aviation in North Las Vegas airport (KVGT) and had an appointment with an instructor for a check ride.
KVGT from above.
On a Friday late afternoon, after having spent the day around Nellis AFB, taking pictures of military jets of all sorts involved in their last day of Red Flag simulated war, I met Jacob for my “flight review”. After one hour of questions/answers about air traffic rules in the US and flight safety, I climbed in the small Cessna 172 cockpit for a short flight.
The sun was really low and it was time for me to prove Jacob that I knew how to handle this wingy thing. Fortunately, I use to fly a Skyhawk at home so I behaved myself at the controls. Slow flight, steep turns and simulated loss of engine: I went through all before heading back to the airfield for pattern work.
After a couple of touch and goes, and the radio work with the tower, Jacob asked me to perform a full stop landing on runway 30L. Back to earth, I was now ready to take to the sky as Pilot in Command. The only unknown thing was how would I handle the Bravo airspace controllers of Las Vegas, as KVGT lays in an easier Delta airspace.
Next morning, I was on the tarmac for the walkaround of N9572H, my 42 years old Skyhawk for the day. No glass cockpit here, just the typical six-pack instruments with a trusty Garmin GNS430 GPS. I also had my iPad with a GPS antenna and a good nav app with all the latest charts in it.
At the commands of N9572H, waiting for departure
After a thorough preflight, I started up, listened to the ATIS and talked to Ground with a request to taxi for a VFR flight to Rachel and Lincoln airfield (1L1), with Mike information. No more info given to the controller about my intended and legal visit close to Area 51. Both 30L and 30R runways were in use and I soon taxied to the runup area. Radio was clear and I was now confident that I could handle the communications with McCarran or Nellis AFB controllers. After my routine tests, dutifully performed in accordance with the checklist, I switched to the Tower and requested take-off. Then again, directions were very concise but clear, and my radio ability reinforced my confidence.
Moments later, I’m lining up for a “rolling take-off” on 30L runway, an expedited departure. Full power, no flaps, 55 knots indicated, no alarm, 2300+ rpm checked, I’m rotating and the wheels leave the ground. I’m very concentrated as I inform the tower that I prefer a 350 heading rather than the proposed 280 heading (where do they want to send me ?). My right turn is approved and I’m soon handed over to Nellis Approach. I’m still below their airspace but I need to request a clearance before entering Bravo airspace. I quickly request it and I hear a fast “72H is cleared thru Bravo airspace” ; this is my passport for a further climb north of Las Vegas.
With the hot weather, the climb is slow and I’m passing Gass peak. Again, as I climb to 8,500 feet, I have no problem understanding the instructions from Nellis and I can copy the traffic information when they tell me that I’ll be overtaken by four F/A-18 Navy jets, 2,000 feet above. I will never see them, even with my cranium turning everywhere inside the Cessna cockpit. Shortly after that, I hear a “resume own navigation” and I settled onto a 8,500 feet cruise, still heading to 350, the direction of my first waypoint, Alamo.
After 10 minutes, Nellis Approach wants me to leave their frequency as I’m reaching the virtual fence of their airspace and I’m left with Los Angeles Center on 134.65. This will be a frequency on which no communication will ever be made with my small Cessna, as it’s overloaded with static. I hear some voices, request “flight following” 5 times and I’ll never get a clear reply.
After a while, I decide to climb a thousand feet more. This may improve radio reception and also give me a better view of the area beyond the long north-south Sheep Range to my left. 5 minutes later, I’m stable at 9,500 feet with, still, no radio contact with LA Center, but with a good view. I know that Blackjack control is the ATC facility managing the whole NTTR
A few minutes later, approaching Alamo I get my first good glimpse at Groom Lake and its buildings. With the naked eye, it’s impossible to distinguish anything other than these big hangars, small metallic dots reflecting the sun. I’ve got my camera on the passenger seat and I take some pictures with my 55mm, an easy lens for photographing while handling the yoke, but not big enough for the distance.
Groom Lake from Tikaboo Peak
I decide to turn left as soon as possible to get closer, while staying well out of the restricted area. I take a 270 heading, not directly towards the airbase as I don’t want to alarm the Blackjack air traffic controllers.
The flight track beside the restricted areas (blue track)
As I enter Tikaboo valley, with the straight ET highway (US 375) going north-west to Rachel and the Black Mailbox trail leading to the Area 51, I get a clearer view of the dry lake, the long runway and the various buildings.
Area 51, aka Groom Lake, as seen from over Tikaboo valley, 9500 feet AMSL
I’m elated as this is something I wanted to see by myself, somewhere I wanted to come to for the last 15 years. And being there in this little Cessna, flying alone and wherever I may think of, it’s a dream come true.
Same view as the previous one, cropped and postprocessed.
It’s now time to turn a bit right to skirt the north-east corner of R4808. Bald mountain to my left hides the dry lakebed, then the main airbase. These are the last seconds for me to have a look at this most secret airbase. I don’t circle in the area because I don’t want to draw more attention. Having an F-16 escorting me away may be great for pictures, but this could be a sign that the sheriff is waiting for me on the ground, so that’s the last thing I want for now.
Approaching Rachel, I recognize Coyote Summit where I spent two long days this same week. And I’m now eager to discover from the air all the geographical report points the military pilots use during their Red Flag sorties. Over Rachel, I’ve got now a good view of No Name mountain, west of Bald Mountain. This lone butte is a good mark showing the northern frontier of Area 51, or the Container as the military pilots call it. They also have no right to penetrate that area and if they do, they’re sent back to their home airbase the next day with a bad grade for their career.
North Groom range with Rachel and No name.
Farther west from No Name is Belted Peak, from where all the air-to-ground activity starts at Red Flag, and beyond it I can distinguish Quartzite Mountain, between the 74 ranges and the 75 ranges. I spent a lot of time studying the NTTR chart and reading about it ; that helps me identifying all these now.
Belted peak with Quartzite mountain behind it.
I now turn east to my destination for the morning, Lincoln Co airport (Panaca town). This brings me just south of that long north-south Worthington range.
Worthington mountains.
After a few minutes and an overhead of the Timpahute range mines, I overfly Irish mountain. This peak is used also by Blue Force pilots during Red Flag to report and prepare their collective and structures ingress towards the FEBA (or Forward Edge of the Battle Area).
Heading east, Approaching Irish peak, with its snowy summit.
I fly east over Hiko, hoping for a good tailwind on the return trip to Las Vegas. I’ve been having a headwind for the main 1.5 hours and the gas supply on the few Nevada airfields is scarce (Alamo and Lincoln has none for example). I now can see without any mistake a large gap in between two ridges : Pahroc Summit Pass, also known as Student Gap among Red Flag pilots. This is the main passage point for Blue Force pilots when it’s “push time”. It’s a lot better to be here in my Cessna during the weekend than during a Red Flag weekday.
Heading east in view of Student Gap with US93 crossing it. Red Flag pilots usually fly it in the opposite direction, towards the main ranges.
After ten minutes, I see the small Lincoln Co airfield where I’ll have my lunch break, under the wing and in a 10 kts wind. The landing is uneventful and I find myself really alone on that parking. I’m amazed that nobody other than me, seems to enjoy the Nevada desert by plane, specially when you can be so close to where the most secret planes get tested.
The return trip is straight as gas is a bit of a concern for me, having already burnt 1.7 hours, with a total endurance of 4 hrs. 80 miles out of Las Vegas, I get my clearance for the Bravo airspace and after passing the mines and plants of Apex, north of Sin City, I request to overfly Nellis AFB. Nellis Approach grants it and I can approach the base at 6,500 feet. After some pictures, I’m asked to take a westerly heading to North Las Vegas and I comply.
These few seconds allowed me to get a good souvenir of the big military airbase: the cherry on the cake.
Still dozens of airplanes on the tarmac of Nellis, while Red Flag 17-2 is now just over.
Las Vegas as seen from the downwind leg of runway 30L at KVGT.
While you could spend your summertime beach bumming or exploring nature, maybe its time to pursue another true American pastime—visiting weird UFO sites. Although we are a serious journalistic entity and would never support the extraterrestrial theory of UFOs, here are some suggestions for you as you make the cosmic trip of a lifetime.
1. Kecksburg UFO
In 1965, Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, had its own Roswell when a bell-shaped craft blazed through the late afternoon before crashing into a nearby wood. Of course, it was immediately covered up by the military—or at least the legend goes—but not before the residents saw Egyptian-like hieroglyphics on the side as it was hauled off.
There was a protracted legal battle to find out what crashed in those woods, and strangely enough, Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta got wrapped up in the whole thing. Podesta has had a longstanding interest in UFOs and had been advocating for the release of Kecksburg documents since at least 2002.
Aliens, a failed Russian Venus probe, and even a Nazi aerospace vehicle have been implicated, but a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article points to the research of two Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) member points to an even more mundane explanation: a General Electric Mark 2 Re-entry Vehicle, a spy satellite launched by the U.S. Air Force, went off course, crashing into the woods.
Speaking of Roswell, the town of Roswell, New Mexico, is home to the International UFO Museum and Research Center, which is exactly what it sounds like. It's a kitschy monument to the 1947 crash of what was likely a spy weather balloon developed under something called Project Mogul, which was basically the Google Loon of highly classified nuclear weapons surveillance.
For the "That's what they WANT you to believe" crowd, a couple things to bear in mind: Roswell is near the White Sands Missile Range, aka the Trinity Site of the Manhattan Project.
Interestingly, from that day in July 1947 until the 1980s, no one within or outside of the UFO community remembered Roswell much until UFO researcher Stanton Friedman brought it to light. A documentary called Mirage Men puts forth the claim that the government engaged in deliberate disinformation campaigns to cover up weapons testing featuring a shifty reported government spook who claims he was paid to carry it out.
If you believe that aliens crashed at Roswell, then you likely know they were taken to Area 51. The official line is that it's a top secret weapons testing facility, where crafts like the U-2 bomber were first flown. Regardless of what you believe, you blow $200 of your hard earned Vegas-gambling money on an all-day tour around Area 51. Of course, you could skip that and just drive to the Extraterrestrial Highway yourself.
4. UFO Watchtower
In a tiny town called Hooper in south central Colorado, there's a platform built for staring skyward. According to the National UFO Reporting Center (visualized here by Max Galka), the watchtower has actually yielded "results."
Because the San Luis Valley in Colorado has been hotbed for reported UFO activity, the watchtower was an inevitability. Getting into the watchtower won't cost you an arm and a leg — a single admission fee is $2, a whole car is $5, and you can camp for $10. Be careful camping, cattle mutilations have been also been reported in the area.
5. Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport
In 1994, the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet crashed into Jupiter, sending up quite a fireworks show in the solar system. The Green River city council in Wyoming wanted to build a refuge for any Jovians wishing to flee, and thus rechristened their tiny blip of an airstrip the "Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport." For the most part, though, it's been used by humans. Sadly, Atlas Obscura says the sign designating it the Intergalactic Spaceport has since been removed (or stolen.)
6. UFO Welcome Center
In Bowman, South Carolina, a man named Jody Pendarvis built a trash castle monument to our alien overlords called the UFO Welcome Center. Pendarvis allows visitors to his rickety outsider art project. The idea reportedly struck him in the 1990s (sort of like the potato Devil's Tower in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but made out of sheet metal) and by Memorial Day 1999, it was open for business.
7. Little Green Men Festival
A farm near Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky was the site of an ambush from above in 1955 when several goblin-like creatures reportedly descended on the house of Elmer Sutton. By the time authorities arrived, the visitors were gone though the occupants of the house were spooked by the encounter.
These days, Kelly plays host to the annual Little Green Men Festival, which falls on the third weekend of August every year, the same time as the encounter 62 years ago. This year, the festival happens to fall on the same day as a total solar eclipse sweeping the nation on August 21, the same day as the alleged encounter. Coincidence? Let's see what happens in Kelly that afternoon a few months away.
In other UFO/farmhouse related news, McMinville, Oregon, has its own UFO festival as well, aptly called UFO Fest. This year's event is set for May 18-21. McMinville was the site of one of the most famous UFO photos ever taken.
8.Alien Graves
In the 1890s, there were a rash of "mysterious airship" sightings, and like all good hokum, some of those allegedly crashed to the ground, including in Max, Nebraska. The good people of Aurora, Texas, reported one such landing, and the townsfolk did what was only right: gave the dead occupants a burial in an unmarked grave.
Some small town papers of the time didn't quite have the upstanding journalistic integrity of The New York Times and would, from time to time, throw in a bit of made up entertainment. That may well have been the case both in Max and Aurora, as subsequent investigations of the cemetery have turned up nothing.
9. Betty and Barney Hill
Betty and Barney Hill were driving through rural New Hampshire on the way back to Portsmouth when something happened. Under hypnosis, the couple claims they were abducted by aliens, becoming one of the first widely publicized cases.
Later termed the Zeta Reticuli incident, it's been a contentious story since, though a 1974 Astronomy article tried to take the incident seriously. Current editor-in-chief David J. Eicher tells of the story: "The well-known astronomy popularizer Terence Dickinson, then Astronomy's Editor, penned the article. It probably cost Terry his job, as he was gone from the magazine a few months later. Astronomy was just a year and a half old at the time, and this story set the fledgling magazine's credibility back a long way."
Though the Hills have since passed away, New Hampshire has erected a historic marker of the couple's encounter with...something.
10. Futuro House
In the 1960s, you didn't just have the chance to see UFOs in the sky — for the right price, you could live in one. The so-called Futuro Houses were a Finnish design meant to embrace modernity, but instead were regarding as something more of an eye sore. A few of them still exist today. Atlas Obscura has a map of the homes that still exist today and some remain in better shape than others.
MEDICAL SCIENTISTS: STRANGE MUMMIES FROM NAZCA ARE OF OTHERWORLDLY ORIGIN
MEDICAL SCIENTISTS: STRANGE MUMMIES FROM NAZCA ARE OF OTHERWORLDLY ORIGIN
A couple of years ago, Peruvian tomb robbers exploring the ancient tomb complex in the Nazca region found something startling.
The Nazca region is home to ancient tombs containing mummified human remains from the Inca civilization. These tombs have been studied for many years by scientists and archaeologists. The mummies are often in a sitting position and wearing clothing. They are thought to be individuals who were of high social standing in Inca society. Also, the Nazca region is home to the Nazca lines or glyphs. These are enormous images of people and animals which have been made by removing ground sediment, revealing lighter-colored earth underneath. They are thousands of feet long and cover hundreds of square miles. They are visible only from surrounding hills or from the air.
What the robbers found were mummies, mummified body parts and other objects which did not look human, nor did they resemble any known animal.
As the robbers probed the black market for interest in the remains, French archaeologist Thierry Jamin learned of them and began obtaining as many of the remains as possible. Jamin runs a crowdfunding collect called the Alien Project whose purpose is to learn as much about the nature and origin of the strange remains as possible. He is convinced they are of otherworldly origin and has recently managed to get them DNA-examined by independent laboratories.
The results of the DNA examinations have confirmed that the remains represent genuine biological remnants of individuals who have been deceased for centuries and that they are not a hoax. There is disagreement about the exact nature and origin of them. Some argue that the findings call into question long-standing assumptions about the history and origin of the people of South America.
Did people migrate to the Western Hemisphere from Europe or the Middle East centuries earlier than previously thought? Is there an extraterrestrial connection which would explain the strange nature of the remains? One thing is certain: More research is needed before we can be sure.
Why the search for extraterrestrial life should explore extinct aliens
Why the search for extraterrestrial life should explore extinct aliens
Elizabeth Rayne
We keep probing space in search of aliens—but what if they’ve gone extinct?
If SETI is any indication, scientists have been extremely eager to detect biosignatures that could be signs of life beyond Earth. We live in an age where every methane molecule found on another moon or planet seems to go viral on Twitter. Yet there hasn’t been nearly as much interest in the far-out but possible theory that there could have been aliens floating around in our solar system -- and even crawling around on Earth -- before they either took off for other planets or were wiped out by some unexplained phenomenon. And no, Ancient Aliens doesn’t count.
Astronomy professor Jason Wright of Penn State University wants us to see the search for life from what some may consider a far-out point of view. The pursuit of biosignatures may be in the spotlight and all over the internet, but Wright is wondering whether the aliens most of the astronomical community is looking for in potentially habitable star systems, like TRAPPIST-1, have left behind something else. Technosignatures are basically evidence E.T. already phoned home. Think evidence of mining or materials that were artificially produced. Wright is not suggesting that he is convinced extinct or long-departed aliens exist or ever existed, but he does believe a thorough search for signs of extraterrestrial life should include technosignatures.
We could be missing signs of E.T.’s that have long since phoned home and left.
“One of the primary open questions of astrobiology is whether there is extant or extinct life elsewhere in the Solar System,” said Wright in a paper to be published in the International Journal of Astrobiology. Implicit in much of this work is that we are looking for microbial or, at best, unintelligent life, even though technological artifacts might be much easier to find.”
Where they would be easier to find, is the question. The impact of Earth’s erosion and plate tectonics over millions and even billions of years is likely to have erased potential technosignatures, though there could be secrets from space hidden deep in rock that is just as ancient. While Wright doesn’t completely cancel out our home base for exploration, there are more likely places in our solar system to find hypothetical signs of long-lost life. Eerie signs left by intelligent beings may still exist on objects such as moons and asteroids, whose subsurface environments would have had a much higher chance of preserving them in the face of meteor collisions and extreme radiation. Even Mars may have secrets hidden far beneath its barren surface.
“If a prior technological, perhaps spacefaring, species ever arose in the Solar System, it might have produced artifacts or other technosignatures that have survived to present day,” Wright theorized.
With Ridley Scott’s latest installment in his classic Alien franchise, now’s the perfect time to wildly speculate about extraterrestrials. In Alien: Covenant and so many other movies like it, our cosmic neighbors turn out to be real assholes. They’re always trying to conquer Earth, or eat humans, or do other weird shit, like hunt Arnold Schwarzenegger in the jungle. If you’re not Arnold Schwarzenegger, this usually ends pretty badly.
Alien: Covenant ostensiblypicks up where Prometheus left off, except it focuses on a different crew looking to colonize a planet. Unsurprisingly, once the crew encounters xenomorphs on that strange world, things go awry. According to io9's Germain Lussier, there’s nothing terribly original or scary about it, which is a bummer for fans of the space horror the original Alien movies were so good at evoking. It also begs a question: Is it time we finally move past this trope of humans getting slaughtered at the hands of an intelligent-yet-merciless extraterrestrial? On a scale from E.T. to War of the Worlds, how diabolical would intelligent aliens really be?
For answers, we caught up with Doug Vakoch, president of METI International—a group of scientists that attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life by sending radio signals out into the void. As a literal alien hunter, Vakoch is very familiar with the subject matter—and the sci-fi movies that have so profoundly colored our perception of alien contact.
Gizmodo: Obviously, we haven’t found aliens. But if we did, do you think they’d be hostile? Indifferent? Maybe even a little nice?
Doug Vakoch: It’s tough to second-guess alien motivations. Often SETI scientists have assumed that extraterrestrials who have survived long enough to make contact will have overcome any warlike traits they had earlier in their evolution. If they haven’t learned to play nice with others, the reasoning goes, they won’t have survived the thousands or millions of years needed to be a stable interstellar civilization.
Perhaps rather than trying to anticipate with certainty what extraterrestrials will be like, we can accomplish more by playing out the various scenarios. For example, Steven Hawking has warned that we should not transmit messages to aliens, because they might come to our planet to strip mine it. But is that really realistic? I don’t think so. First of all, it makes no economic sense to travel across the galaxy to look for something you can find in your own cosmic backyard. Second, any civilization that has the ability to traverse the distances between the stars could already know were here, so we don’t expose ourselves to any additional dangers in transmitting intentional signals. But there is an upside to transmitting: we may just intrigue the extraterrestrials enough to get them to reply.
Gizmodo: Would aliens even be hypothetically interested in Earthlings?
DV: My favorite answer to the Fermi Paradox—if the aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them?—is that we haven’t been very interesting so far. Perhaps they are monitoring our TV and radio signals, and they’re just not very impressed. In the Zoo Hypothesis, we postulate that extraterrestrials may be like galactic zookeepers, watching our species as if we were animals in the cosmic menagerie. And so far, all they’re seeing is a bunch of animals talking to one another. But if you go to the zoo and all of a sudden one of the zebras turns directly toward you and starts pounding out a series of prime numbers with its hoof, all of a sudden you’ll have a very different relationship with that creature.
That’s what we’re hoping to do with METI—Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence. We want to let the aliens know that we’re interested in an interstellar conversation. It may just be that our taking the initiative is a prerequisite to learning they’re out there.
Gizmodo: What movie do you think gets it wrong the most when it comes to aliens? For example, I think Signs had the biggest plot hole of all time by making the aliens allergic to water, on a planet that’s full of it. What a bunch of stupid aliens!
DV: The movie about extraterrestrials that I hate the most has to be Species, because it violates a fundamental truth: it’s gonna be tough, if not impossible, to communicate with aliens.
The movie’s premise goes like this. SETI scientists get a reply back to the message transmitted by astronomers in 1974 from the Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico, a three-minute interstellar message that gave a bare-bones overview of chemistry and our DNA. And I do mean bare-bones. In reality, any extraterrestrial receiving the message would be hard-pressed to understand that this low-resolution bitmap has anything to do with chemistry, and if they did understand every part of the message as it was intended, they would only have the most basic description of the chemical elements in human genetic material—how many atoms of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus there are in the different sections of DNA. That’s it.
In Species though, the aliens are able to use the Arecibo message as a blueprint for reconstructing humans, and then go a step further, sending instructions for creating a human—alien hybrid. A supermodel hybrid played by Natasha Henstridge.
The other big scientific error in this movie? The alien reply to the Arecibo message came just a few years after the original message was sent from Puerto Rico. In reality, it will take 50,000 years to get a response, because the destination is a globular cluster of stars 25,000 light years from Earth.
Species does have one thing going for it. It anticipated the Chilbolton crop circle messages, found next to the Chilbolton radio telescope in the United Kingdom, where a modified version of the Arecibo message showed up overnight. Unfortunately, the Chilbolton message is no more compelling as evidence of real contact than the movie Species.
Gizmodo: Why do you think aliens are always really aggressive in sci-fi movies?
DV: In truth, peaceful aliens are kind of boring. We don’t watch Game of Thrones because everyone treats each other nicely. Conflict in fiction is engaging, and what better conflict than the threat of annihilation by marauding extraterrestrials?
But we pay a price for these dire visions of annihilation. They can have a serious impact on science. When Steven Hawking says “don’t transmit, because whenever a more advanced civilization meets a less advanced one, it’s a disaster for the less advanced,” that makes it all the harder to do METI.
It’s easy to dismiss alien invasion movies as simply amusing science fiction. But their impact is much greater. We have no concrete evidence of how extraterrestrials will behave, so to get guidance, we look toward Hollywood. When we’re trying to interpret ambiguous situations, we rely on what psychologists call the “availability heuristic.” We look at the vivid, available images in front of us, and that guides our reasoning.
What could be more vivid as we try to anticipate the nature of contacting extraterrestrials than the latest blockbuster in the Alien franchise? But does that make these images reliable or realistic? Nothing could be further from the truth.
Gizmodo: Do you think realistically we’ll find life somewhere in the next few decades?
The key to success in SETI—the search for extraterrestrial intelligence—is in looking at enough targets. We now know that virtually all stars have planets circling them, and perhaps as many as one in five star systems has a potentially habitable exoplanet at just the right distance from its star to support life. Or maybe more than one suitable planet, as in the TRAPPIST-1 star system. So there’s a lot of real estate out there where life may live.
On a related note, over the past few decades we have discovered that life can survive in the harshest of environments here on Earth—from the frozen tundra of the Arctic, to deep-sea hydrothermal vents, to acid hot springs, to the core of nuclear reactors. Once life get started, it’s tenacious. So we are all the more encouraged that life could survive on planets even radically different from Earth.
But will we ever search enough exoplanets to have success? In the next couple of decades, with the launch of the James Webb telescope, we may be able to image the atmospheres of exoplanets, giving us clues about the existence of indigenous microbial life. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is also ramping up. At METI’s optical SETI observatory in Panama, we’ve already monitored thousands of stars for brief laser pulses, which would indicate advanced civilizations sending intentional messages our direction. So far, we’ve found no direct evidence of intelligence in the cosmos. But as this project develops, along with others, our chances increase dramatically with each passing year.
In the next decade, the Breakthrough Listen project plans to search for signals from civilizations circling one million stars, as well as a hundred other galaxies. With those kind of numbers, we have a reasonable chance of finding ET if they’re are out there and trying to make contact.
Gizmodo: What is your favorite alien from a sci-fi movie or TV show?
DV: When we choose our favorite extraterrestrial, it’s natural to think about who we would want to hang out with. A cuddly, caring ET? A consummately logical Spock? When we watch a movie, it’s natural to project ourselves into the action. I like the recent movie Arrival precisely because it did that—it brought the extraterrestrials to Earth—and yet the scientists in charge of understanding them had to struggle to make sense of their language. And that seems realistic to me.
The scientists in Arrival tried to attribute a positive, unthreatening image to these extraterrestrials by calling them Abbott and Costello, but these aliens never became Amy Adams’ best friends. And that’s the reality of contacting extraterrestrials. As in Arrival, our encounter with a radically Other civilization may force us to re-examine something as fundamental as our sense of time, but it’s never going to bring us in contact with a new best friend. For that, we need to reach out to others here on Earth.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) —If you’re looking for UFOs, head out to Long Island.
According to a new book, Suffolk County has the highest number of UFO sightings in the state of New York, with most coming from the Oakdale, Islip and Great River areas.
Water plays a big part, said co-author Cheryl Costa.
“There’s an awful lot of traffic around water, so Long Island really was interesting,” Costa said.
Cheryl and Linda Costa spent 16 months researching UFOs across the country through two UFO reporting centers to write the book “UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015.”
Cheryl told WCBS 880’s Sophia Hall that she has seen dozens of UFOs since she was 12 years old and if you’re looking, you can see one too.
“You have to get away from the light pollution of the city,” Costa said. “If you’re in a big city like New York City you’ve gotta go up on a high-rise and do it there, if you’re out in there country you gotta go up on a hill someplace and if you sit there and you’re patient they’re there, you’ll see them.”
We all know that dogs are man’s best friends, but could they also be our best UFO witnesses? With their vastly superior sense of hearing, smell, and ability to see in low light, perhaps every field investigator and researcher should consider getting a canine companion!
Over the years of collecting accounts of UFO activity from the tri-state region of the Hudson Valley of New York, northern New Jersey, and western Connecticut, I have heard numerous eyewitness accounts of how dogs alerted their owners or neighbors to a UFO. Generally, the dogs’ reactions are those of fear, accompanied by barking or howling. Such cases are frequent enough that NICAP has a separate classification (Category 4) for “Animal Effect Cases,” and MUFON had a Special Publication in 2005 entitled “Animal Reactions to UFOs.”
This painting is called the “Madonna and Child with the Infant St John.” It is a nativity scene estimated to be perhaps as old as the sixteenth century in which it appears a man and his dog are looking at a UFO in the background.
(Credit: Blastr)
One of my favorite NICAP case involves “Thunder,” the 175-pound Great Dane who “went crazy” barking by the sliding doors toward the woods of his Sandy Hook, CT home at 8:30 pm on the night of March 31, 1983. After several minutes of incessant barking, his owner went to see what was causing Thunder so much distress. There was a massive V-shaped craft which remained hovering in the sky for 20 minutes. Thunder “appeared fearful and barked” the entire time, and the next day he refused to go outside. Anything that would provoke such fright in a 175-pound dog would certainly be enough to make me think twice about going outside!
I recently interviewed a woman from Cresskill, New Jersey who had a German Shepherd named Hans, who had a similar reaction back in 1968. Hans was just two years old; strong, and very protective of his owner. While walking Hans near a schoolyard, the woman and her friend spotted a dumbbell-shaped craft hovering silently over the school field. They were mesmerized by the sight, but their “trance was broken” by Hans, who was “cowering, trying to dig a hole in the dirt on the side of Rose Street (which was unpaved at that time) and whimpering.” This fearful reaction by the usually fearless dog caused them all to run for home.
Book cover to Linda Zimmerman’s Hudson Valley UFOs.
Another dramatic case involved a golden retriever in Putnam Valley, NY in the fall of 1984. The witness, “Joe,” told me that one night his dog began to whine, so Joe assumed he wanted to go out. However, when he opened the back door, the dog began to tremble and whine even more. Joe finally got the dog outside, where he promptly curled up into a tight ball and whined in terror. It was then that Joe noticed the entire sky above him was blacked out.
A massive black triangle, “the size of two football fields,” was hovering no more than 250 feet above him. Yelling for his wife, she came out and was also stunned and frightened by what she saw. The craft “just sat there” over them for at least five minutes. A week later, strange figures began appearing by Joe’s bed at night, he developed uncontrollable nose bleeds, and this activity continued until the following summer when he finally decided to move out of his house. Perhaps Joe should have paid more attention to his dog!
Another case I just covered in my new book “More Hudson Valley UFOs” involved four witnesses on a hot, summer night in 1988. The four friends were by Lake DeForest in Congers, NY—a location I have written about on several occasions, and where I had my own intense experience. The dogs in the neighborhood “began howling crazily” and then an odd “snake-like” UFO appeared in the sky with alternating red and green lights composing the “body,” with a bright, white beacon at the “head.”
Throughout the sighting, the “Dogs were barking and howling and making a total racket,” one witness told me. Another witness described the incredible sounds as “The dogs of Rockland (County) going out of their skulls.” As dogs are capable of hearing at distances four times greater than humans, and can hear at much higher frequencies, can we conclude that these craft—which are often silent to us—are emitting sounds that are alerting our dogs to their presence long before they come into our view? Should investigators consider utilizing sound detectors in the roughly 20,000 to 60,000Hz range to replicate the superior capabilities that dogs have over us?
There were other cases of dog reactions with which I have dealt that may bear this sound theory out. During a cold winter’s night in 1985 in the town of Wallkill, NY, a man told me his dog “was barking frantically outside.” He tried several times to quiet the dog, to no avail. Then a 40-foot diameter sphere of multi-colored lights appeared over a field across the street. This bizarre craft, which looked like a “massive ball of Christmas lights” began rotating and moving, almost as if it was rolling down the field, only it definitely remained above the ground. After this craft “shot straight up into the air” and was gone, an enormous triangular craft passed directly over his house. How did the dog know these craft were in the area before they could be seen, and why was he so frightened by them?4
More recently, on January 4, 2013, a man in Pine Bush, NY, who works in law enforcement, couldn’t get his dogs to stop barking out in the yard. As he was trying to calm them down, he realized “There was something huge in the sky that blocked out all the stars.” The object was an incredibly large, silent rectangle at an altitude of about 200-250 feet. There were several white lights along the edges, one in the center, and one red light, as well.
Finally, there is the remarkable case from Monroe, NY in 1982. A woman, Donna, was in bed with her husband when her two Samoyed dogs “started going crazy” as if there were intruders in the house. Donna tried to wake up her husband, but he somehow remained in a deep sleep despite all the barking.
“Then there were these bright lights shining in the bedroom window, as if a Mack truck had just pulled up.” The next thing Donna knew was that it was morning. Her skeptical husband didn’t believe a word of what she told him about the dogs and the lights, and her being unable to awaken him—until he went outside to look for any signs that something had been there.
Running back in the house, white as a sheet, he told Donna that the huge pile of sand that was in the driveway (which was going to be used for a construction project) was completely gone. All that was left was a few concentric circles of sand which had been compressed and fused into the blacktop! Fortunately, they had the presence of mind to take photographs, so we can estimate the size of the outermost circle, which was about 12 feet in diameter. And while the original circles have been paved over, Donna told me that I would be welcome to uncover and study them, if I can find the appropriate scientific team to do it.
So what are we to learn from “man’s best friends” and their reactions to UFOs? They are able to sense a lot more than we are, and can sense whatever it is at greater distances and long before our eyes and ears can pick it up. Researchers and investigators should always include questions about witnesses’ pets, as well as inquire about the reactions of birds, livestock, wild animals such as deer, and insects.
There is more to UFO phenomena than we can probably imagine, but with the help of the faithful family dog, perhaps we can gain a little more insight and knowledge into the nature of the phenomena. And if your big, strong dog is terrified to go outside, maybe you should stay in the house, too!
From the editor:
Author and occasional OpenMinds.tv contributor Linda Zimmerman was inspired to submit this entry after a recent story about a deer watching a UFO. For more about Linda, visit her website at: www.gotozim.com.
Here is a UFO eyewitness that goes on video and tells about her personal experience. She is very brave to come out and tell others. Most people fear ridicule from family and friends, so they never tell others about it. Coming out and telling the world is part of a healing process that helps you deal with both what you have seen, and how can fit into the world around us. Adjusting and coming to grips with the truth about aliens is a giant step forward. To say you believe is one thing, but to know they exist is a totally different thing. Scott C. Waring
UFOs over City and Soccer Game Recorded Over Pennsylvania and Florida, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs over City and Soccer Game Recorded Over Pennsylvania and Florida, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 23, 2017
Location of sighting: Wallingford, PA, USA
Source: MUFON #83573
Here are two extraordinary videos of UFOs that were reported to MUFON this week. One takes place a a soccer game in Pennsylvania and the other takes place in Florida. Both move extraordinarily fast and without flapping, pausing, or turning. The first UFO has an really strange shape and seems to be observing the players. The second craft is also odd. Nothing known has the speed of the craft in the second video, which was recorded by a drone. Its just mind blowing.
Scott C. Waring
Second sighting below:
Date of sighting: May 6, 2017
Location of sighting: New Port Richey, Florida, USA
YouTube user Frank Zappa recorded a video of mysterious bright light in the sky for 2 minutes. UFO enthusiasts said that the footage is one of the clearest UFO videos in years. The videographer uploaded the clip to the video sharing site. Frank Zappa is a famous musician but has been dead for ten years, so it appears unlikely that the musician himself posted it.
According to the report, the UFO was flying overhead at 5:20 pm on Wednesday, May 3 in the California Desert. California has the most reported UFO sightings in the U.S. A new book “UFO Sightings Desk Reference,” analyzed over 120,000 reports of UFOs and determined more people in California believed they had come in contact with ET life than anyone else in the nation.
Many believe that the UFO video shows the real thing and not faked in any way. However, some linked the sighting to the nuclear weapons testing in North Korea. In 1950’s, an atomic bomb test done in Nevada also attracted hundreds of alien spacecraft. Some speculate that the reported UFO sighting could be the missile from Vandenberg or even the DPRK.
The book’s co-author Cheryl Costa said they found out that every county in the U.S. had at least one sighting in the past 15 years. Santa Clara County has the most number of sightings at 569 in Northern California. Alameda County in second with 578 reported sightings and San Francisco in third with 327 reports.
Phil Schneider has become known to the world after he told an amazing story of his encounter with extraterrestrial beings living underground while working as an explosives expert. He claimed to have helped the U.S. government in building secret underground bases in 1979 in Dulce, N.M.
Schneider further claimed there was a battle with aliens in August 1979 and he was one of the three survivors. He is the only person so far with a high-level security clearance revealing details on the knowledge of the government of alien beings.
Two years before his death in 1997, he was very vocal against the government for keeping people in the dark. He gave various talks detailing his experiences about the alien base and battle.
Schneider claimed many attempts to silence him after he started talking what he experienced. He reportedly died by suicide in 1997, but his supporters suspected it was not the case.
Schneider said that he saw so many Special Forces Green Berets around the camp in the underground base he was helping to build. The work team reportedly drilled four large holes to start the construction. Schneider revealed in a lecture at the Preparedness Expo in 1995 that all the black sooty air came up when they drilled the holes there. He went underground to assess the area, but he found himself just feet away from a 7-foot-tall alien called the big gray.
Schneider described the stench as worse than the worst garbage can, and the entity was horrible. He fumbled for a pistol that was with him at that moment and killed two of the aliens, but one of them managed to emit a mysterious and harmful energy. The alien had made a circular motion with his hand and waved it in front of his chest. Then a blue beam hit Schneider and opened up like a fish.
The beam burned off some of his fingers on the left hand hit his chest and burned his shoes and toenails.
A Green Beret saved Schneider’s life and the former got the latter into a lift and pushed the button to raise him up to safety.
Schneider said that more than 60 people lost their lives that day, including the Green Beret who saved him. He further revealed that the other two survivors were in nursing homes in Canada, protected by the Canadian government that no American citizens were allowed to access them. The two survivors were scared of being kidnapped, according to Schneider.
Schneider also revealed that wars under have been going on since that time. He was referring to 1,477 underground bases in different parts of the world, and 129 of which were in the U.S.
Ok, it’s been a while since I uploaded a new video to my channel. I had to do some research of my own in order to find out the truth about this phenomena. I went to area 51 with a couple of fellow UFO enthusiasts. We captured this interesting footage. This object appeared out of nowhere. It started to move faster until it reached an incredible speed. It did not make any sound, no sonic boom. It was only after the video analysis we noticed a second and even a third object in the video. We don’t know what this object was. Like I said it was captured just outside the border of area 51. What could it be?
On Sept. 15, 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a suicide plunge into Saturn to avoid contaminating the ringed planet's potentially habitable moons, Titan and Enceladus.
Cassini's fate is tied to the issue of planetary protection, which refers to the measures scientists and engineers take to minimize that chances that life-forms from Earth make it to other worlds. And with NASA's Mars 2020 rover planning to cache samples to one day return to Earth's labs, planetary protection also means making sure that our own world is safe from contamination by possible alien life.
Planetary protection was the first item on the agenda at the Astrobiology Science Conference, which was held last week in Mesa, Arizona. Chemists, biologists, planetary scientists, astronomers and other researchers all vigorously discussed the issue at the meeting's first session on Monday morning (April 24). [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
"Planetary protection has never been more important to consider," said Andrew Maynard, a researcher at Arizona State University's Risk Innovation Lab, who led the discussion.
Citing Mars sample return, an upcoming mission to Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa and possible future probes that could visit other icy satellites, Maynard engaged the audience of scientists with the stated intent of changing how they think about the process. Maynard, who is not an astrobiologist but a physicist, turned the attention of the room to studies on risk assessment, urging researchers to consider risk not as something to be avoided but rather as "a complex landscape to be moved through to reach goals."
He also said that analyzing the risk of contamination, either of Earth or another world, isn't the exclusive purview of any particular group of scientists — or of scientists in general.
"Everybody has got some stake," Maynard said.
PROTECTING THE EARTH
Concern about contamination has been part of exploration since the dawn of the Space Age. The first three sets of astronauts to land on the moon were kept in isolation on their return to Earth to ensure they hadn't brought any pathogens home with them. [NASA's 17 Apollo Moon Missions in Pictures]
Before NASA's Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers were sent to Mars to hunt for life, they were sterilized to minimize the odds that Earth microbes could contaminate their experiments. The robotic explorers that followed were similarly cleansed. And in 1967, the countries of the world agreed that their space missions would work to avoid contaminating Earth or other worlds, making planetary protection an international goal.
The moon rocks returned by Apollo astronauts soon revealed Earth's natural satellite as a barren, inhospitable place unsuitable for life. The comets and asteroids sampled by past and ongoing missions have already polluted Earth's surface, and NASA has deemed these objects unlikely to harbor life.
But Earth has received relatively few samples from Mars in the form of meteorites. While some scientists think that life could have started on the Red Planet and then hitched a ride to Earth, the issue is far from certain. So, when it comes to returning samples from Mars, space agencies will take great care not to infect Earth.
According to NASA procedural requirement NPR 8020.12: "Unless the sample to be returned is subjected to an accepted, approved, sterilization process, the sample container must be sealed after sample acquisition, and a redundant, fail-safe containment with a method for verification of its operation before Earth-return shall be required."
The requirement also states: "The mission and the spacecraft design shall provide a method to 'break the chain of contact' (BTC) with Mars. No uncontained hardware that contacted Mars, directly or indirectly, may be returned to Earth unless sterilized."
But scientists are still debating just what the biggest concerns are. Maynard's presentation, which involved randomly polling audience members and engaging them in debate, revealed that many of the scientists involved in studying how life could evolve beyond Earth disagree on just how much we need to worry about contamination.
Although the Martian surface appears bereft of life, some researchers think microbes might still exist underground. A sample-return mission could therefore theoretically carry living organisms back to Earth along with rocks and dirt. Whether a Martian microbe could survive on our planet remains a subject of heavy debate.
For instance, during the discussion period, Vladimir Airapetian, a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, argued that a living thing that evolved on Mars shouldn't be able to find a place on Earth because all of the planet's biological niches have been filled.
But Benjamin Wolf of Washington University in St. Louis disagreed. "I don't like the argument that we think the niches are taken," he said, citing the success that many invasive species on Earth have had when pushing into previously occupied niches.
"People didn't realize that kudzu would take over the entire South," Wolf said, describing the Japanese vine that has blanketed the southern United States since its 1876 introduction. "We need to understand that sometimes scientists don't know things."
Geochemist Stuart Bartlett, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Earth-Life Science Institute, also expressed concern about potentially bringing home organisms able to survive in the extreme conditions on Mars.
"Backwards contamination seems like a more natural candidate for spreading exponentially and invading," Bartlett said.
But Maynard doesn't think that scientists should be the only participants in the discussion. He encouraged opening a dialogue with the public, who would also be affected if a harmful organism were returned to Earth. With most of the world unversed in the potential hazards, Maynard encouraged scientists to do a better job of communicating potential issues, a process that would allow everyone to work together to make an informed decision.
He pointed to the opening of the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator along the France-Switzerland border whose activation some feared would create a microscopic black hole with the potential to destroy Earth. While this risk was considered marginal, Maynard pointed out that the improbable disaster would have a worldwide effect, and that scientists included society in the discussion in a reasonable fashion. (No black hole destroyed Earth when the accelerator was switched on, of course.)
When it comes to sample-return missions, scientists need to determine just how large the threat of extraterrestrial contamination might loom, Maynard said.
"It seems like we have a huge diversity of opinion whether alien life is able to survive on Earth," he said.
CONTAMINATING MARS
During the April 24 discussion, scientists also debated the threat exploration missions pose to the pristine environment of Mars and other worlds. Red Planet rovers and landers are kept in strict isolation throughout their construction, which takes place in clean rooms around the world. Components are sterilized to the best ability of current technology, but researchers stress that it's impossible to kill every microbe aboard any craft.
The concern with carrying micro-organisms abroad is twofold. One issue involves the possibility of interfering with experiments designed to hunt for life on another world. If a terrestrial microbe hitched a ride, it could be picked up by the mission's tests, causing scientists to wrongly believe they had discovered alien life. [6 Most Likely Places for Alien Life in the Solar System]
Such a mistake, while disappointing in itself, could also affect how people around the world view scientists, participants in the April 24 session said.
"If NASA spent $5 billion on a life-detection mission and discovered life from Earth, then the loss of public trust would really shoot up," said Linda Billings, a researcher at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
A terrestrial organism traveling to another world via spacecraft also has the potential to infect that world, overwhelming or driving out any existing life. Many of the commenters who didn't think Martian microbes would flourish on Earth also seemed to believe that terrestrial life would be unlikely to thrive on the Red Planet, because of the considerable differences between the two worlds' environments.
But that's just speculation. And even if life from one world wouldn't last long on the other, it's important to keep things clean for the sake of understanding science, researchers at the session said.
"We need to save the Mars questions for Mars and the Earth questions for Earth," one person in the room said.
The desire to keep Mars free from Earth-based contamination could have serious implications when it comes to sending people to the Red Planet. Humans don't live in isolation; we carry a fleet of micro-organisms everywhere we go, and these tiny creatures outnumber our own cells about 10 to 1.
"If we send humans anywhere, we contaminate the planet, because we're dead if we're sterile," said one commentator. So, human exploration could lead to a conflict with planetary protection.
Not everyone agrees that humans would automatically contaminate the Red Planet, however. John Rummel, an astrobiologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and former NASA Planetary Protection Officer, told the room that he doesn't think there has to be a conflict.
"I don't think it's an all-or-nothing game," Rummel told Space.com. Human exploration could be incremental, he said, with the first explorers making only the most cautious steps outside of their habitation.
NASA and other government agencies aren't the only organizations that seek to put boots on Mars. For example, last September, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled his company's plan to help establish a million-person city on the Red Planet.
Even if such efforts succeed, they won't necessarily cause native Mars life to be swamped by microbes from Earth, Rummel said — especially if Red Planet organisms exist only underground, where they're shielded from harmful radiation.
"Musk is not going to have tourists interfering with the deep Martian subsurface," Rummel said.
Filer’s Files #19 – 2017 Aliens Are Visiting Earth - PART I
A UFO was photographed over Florham Park, New Jersey on April 28, 2017
Filer’s Files #19 – 2017 Aliens Are Visiting Earth - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Mitchell Aliens Are Visiting Earth, Moon Face, UFO Crashes into the Arctic Sea, Trump Orders Complete Disclosure of UFO Data Kept by CIA in Area 51, Commander Bethune VIP Pilot Saw UFOs , Marpha Light Explained by a Plasma Engineer, and Mothman Returns
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Belgium, Canada, India, Italy, Ireland, 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.
George A. Filer III
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
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Special Reports
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s claims he knows for sure UFOs are real, that there is an alien presence visiting the Earth (and the space around us) and the U.S. government has been aware of it for several decades. The sixth man to walk on the moon stated, “My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.”
NASA photos show gigantic artificial structures – suggesting the Moon is being used as a base, and possibly a staging area, by a mysterious race of alien beings. We heard from experts, as well as astronauts who walked on the moon, and revealed new facts and proof of artificial alien structures. NASA photos show the undeniable existence of what look like installations, factories, hangers and huge satellite dishes. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin revealed that a UFO followed his spacecraft for three days on its way to the historic moonwalk. Towers rise up from the lunar surface, higher than anything made on Earth. · Extensive “pipelines” cross over crater rims, and bridges span massive lunar canyons and there is evidence of mining. Russian Space Agency lunar orbiter photos show a huge “spire” clearly sticking straight up from the Moon’s surface, as well as a partially destroyed “dome.”
Moon Face
Astronauts and NASA personnel have revealed that UFOs and aliens were seen when we landed on the Moon. The attached face gives you an idea of their appearance that is part of a Moon structure near the South Pole region.
Here are some interesting discoveries Scott C. Waring made on our moon.
As you can see, there are two glowing UFOs in the distance far behind the astronauts on the Apollo 15 mission. The Apollo 15 mission was the fourth mission to walk on the moon. The UFOs were bright and similar to a lot of the UFOs seen around Earth daily.
They have also been seen over Temple Rock and the mountains of Denver, Colorado. This is 100% evidence that Astronauts did see UFOs during the moon walks. Reports indicate the craft landed near the astronauts and the aliens walked around their craft but did not appear aggressive.
David Scott and James Irwin flew their LM to a perfect landing at 6:16 P.M. EDT July 30, at Hadley Rille. Landing approach over the Apennine Range – one of the highest on the moon – was at an angle of 26 degrees, the steepest approach yet used in Apollo missions.
During three periods of extravehicular activity, or EVA, on July 31, and August 1 and 2, 1971, Scott and Irwin completed a record 18 hours, 37 minutes of exploration, traveled 17.5 miles in the first car that humans have ever driven on the moon, collected more than 170 pounds of lunar samples, set up the ALSEP array, obtained a core sample from about 10 feet beneath the lunar surface, and provided extensive oral descriptions and photographic documentation of geologic features in the vicinity of the landing site during the three days (66 hours, 55 minutes) on the lunar surface.
On August 2, 1971, LM Falcon fired its ascent stage engine and lifted off the moon for its rendezvous with command module, and put Apollo 15 on its path back to Earth.
UFO Crashes into the Arctic Sea
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A UFO crashed through the Arctic ice 6 years ago, and has been operating in the Arctic sea ever since, according to newly released documents made available from State Dept. e mails, by way of the FSB’s Wikileaks division.
The villagers of Igloolik, Nunavut were asleep when a streak quickly crossed the sky and struck the ice with a bang. 200 villagers came out their doors, but there was nothing to see except black water steaming and bubbling through a round, 10 meter hole in the ice. It was a night late in November 2010 and no one wanted to linger long outside in the middle of a dark night. The truth of what had happened was almost unimaginable.
A UFO crashed through the Arctic ice 6 years ago, and has been operating in the Arctic sea ever since. This according to newly released documents made available from State Dept. e mails.
This is not the first time that the Canadian Navy has been forced to investigate UFO phenomena. The Shag Harbor UFO incident was the reported impact of an unknown large object into waters near Shag Harbor, a tiny fishing village in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on October 4, 1967. At least eleven people saw a low-flying lit object head towards the harbor at about 11:20 p.m… Multiple witnesses reported hearing a whistling sound “like a bomb,” then a “whoosh,” and finally a loud bang. The object was never officially identified, and was therefore referred to as an unidentified flying object (UFO) in Government of Canada documents. The initial report was made by local resident Laurie Wickens and four of his friends. Driving through Shag Harbor they spotted a large object descending into the waters off the harbor.
Once at a better vantage point, Wickens and his friends saw an object floating 1000 feet offshore. Wickens contacted the RCMP detachment and reported he had seen a large airplane or small airliner crash into the waters off Shag Harbor. The Canadian military became involved in a subsequent rescue/recovery effort. Assuming an aircraft had crashed, within about 15 minutes, 10 RCMP officers arrived at the scene as the object started to sink and disappeared from view.
But by the next morning, the RCMP had determined that no aircraft were missing. Divers allegedly claimed they spotted a UFO conducting repairs at the bottom of harbor. The cause of the incident was never solved by the Canadian authorities.
There’s a reason the Baltic Sea Anomaly resembles the Millennium Falcon Spacecraft
The Baltic Sea anomaly is a 60-metre diameter circular rock-like formation on the floor of the northern Baltic Sea that emerged in June 2011.
The Baltic Sea anomaly is a 60-metre diameter circular rock-like formation on the floor of the northern Baltic Sea that emerged in June 2011. The CIA has proof that it is really a crashed alien UFO Submersible. Russian intelligence
Trump Orders Complete Disclosure of UFO Data Kept by CIA in Area 51
As he spoke to astronauts on the International Space Station on Monday, President Donald Trump has ordered the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency to review and release all files concerning space aliens and Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs.
Trump promised to take this step in his inaugural speech. He said: “We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.
“A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.”
It comes as a surprising development to some, as Trump hasn’t commented on the issue of extraterrestrial life and has never before specifically said that confidential UFO sighting papers should be released. Talking to Astronaut Peggy Whitson on the ISS, however, Trump recommitted NASA to a Mars mission during his second term, i.e. the early 2020’s.
During her campaign Hillary Clinton made it clear she would do all she could to release secret files on UFO’s. Of course, her husband Bill Clinton made the same promise and never did. The truth is still out there.
Commander Bethune VIP Pilot Saw UFOs
Commander Graham Bethune is a retired Navy Pilot and a good friend. During his 26 years of active duty he qualified in over 100 different models of aircraft.
In February 5, 1951, he and two other Navy Pilots were sent to Keflavik, Iceland on a Secret mission to meet with the Icelandic Government and Lockheed Overseas, who managed the Airport.
On February 10, 1951, while Piloting a four engine Navy R5D Transport returning from Keflavik, to Argentia, Newfoundland, he had an eight minute encounter with an “Unidentified Flying Object” that was 300 feet in diameter. The first chapter of Major Keyhoe’s book “Flying Saucers Top Secret” is devoted to this famous encounter.
During the Disclosure Project, Commander Bethune revealed his Flight 124 from Keflavik, Iceland was involved with a near miss of a UFO in 1951, about 300 miles outside of Argentia, Newfoundland, over the Atlantic Ocean flying a R5D aircraft. Here is Graham’s account of his sighting.
“My name is Graham Bethune. I am a commander, retired pilot from the Navy and I went through the regular Navy program of training pilots. I graduated in 1943 from Pensacola Academy Air. All Navy pilots are trained navigators, which is very important because we had to know all of the star system. I navigated maybe 13 years around the planet with the stars. And when I first graduated from Pensacola in 1943 I went to the South Atlantic and we were hunting German submarines. This was all night flying.”
When we landed at Argentia, an Air Force officer interrogated us and showed us photos of UFOs asking me to choose the type we had seen. He made a good report, which went to the headquarters of the Air Force in Washington, D.C.
Commander Bethune flew Naval Transports for 12 years, and was a “VIP Transport Plane Commander,” and held a “Top Secret” clearance. He was a test pilot and served six years with the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics. He accumulated over 10,000 Navy and civilian flying hours. He flew the Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Army, Chief of Naval Operations, Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Supreme Allied Commander, and the NATO Commander Admiral Lynde McCormick, and numerous admirals. If a UFO crashed or an important meeting concerning UFOs occurred he would be chosen to pilot the VIPs to their destination.
Commander Bethune mentioned he flew high ranking officers to Utah where a 100 foot’ in diameter and slightly oval craft had crashed. There were US Air Force, Army and Navy officers in attendance as well as scientists and academics from various stateside universities. Both discs were retrieved and brought back to Wright Patterson.
Col. Donald Ware shared, “Graham personally told me that he flew General George Marshall and high ranking Naval personal and scientists to two crash retrievals – one in Iceland and one in Utah.Frank Chili sent me this photo that was given to him by Commander Bethune. He was quite insistent that US Air Force was getting the focus of UFO attention from the public, but the real player in this and always behind the scenes was the US Navy. Graham was informed by Admiral Forney himself and Graham never doubted that a ploy was set-up to divert attention away from the Navy. Graham also claimed we had a base on the moon and we had a Navy space shuttle fleet. He felt truth is often stranger than science fiction that ET movies are supported by the government to create acceptance.
Graham confide in Donald M. Ware, Lt Colonel USAF (Ret), who was for ten years Florida State MUFON Director and former Eastern Regional Director — then 18 years as a Director of the International UFO Congress. They discussed Alien-Human Hybrids, underground bases, and the levels of consciousness to contact alien spirits.
Lt. Colonel Donald Ware mentions that Commander Bethune had informed Ware that he had flown Admiral Byrd to Antarctica in 1945 in a secret mission. On this flight were US Navy high ranking personnel, British Naval officers/scientists and some US scientists.
Prior to World War II the Germans had disc technology provided by Off Planet Visitors. The Germans weaponized the discs by putting machine guns and cannons on the craft. ‘
However, the Visitors interceded stating – that this technology violated a prime directive – that it could not be used for purposes of warfare. The Visitors told the Germans that they could use this technology but not for World War II and were given the option of moving the discs to a base in Antarctica, which is what they did with Hitler’s approval.
When Admiral Byrd reached Antarctica he attempted to negotiate with the German scientists to participate in a cooperative sharing their advanced technologies!
The meetings went very badly and the Germans absolutely refused to share any technology with the US and British governments.
Graham told Colonel Ware that Admiral Byrd needed to get this awful turn of events back to the Pentagon – to report directly to those who tasked Byrd with this mission.
Graham flew Byrd back to the Pentagon, wherein he told of the non-cooperation by the Germans.
The resulting failure of that initial meeting with the Germans in Antarctica set into motion the gears for a naval military action to force the Germans to share the technology.
Operation Highjump, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear AdmiralRichard E. Byrd, Jr., USN Officer in Charge. Task Force 68 was led by Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzan, USN. Operation Highjump commenced 26 August 1946 and ended in late February 1947. Task Force 68 included 4,700 men, 13 ships, and 33 aircraft. The Navy claims Operation Highjump’s primary mission was to establish the Antarctic research base Little America
Highjump’s objectives, according to the U.S. Navy report of the operation, were
Training personnel and testing equipment in frigid conditions;
Consolidating and extending the United States’ sovereignty over the largest practicable area of the Antarctic continent (publicly denied as a goal even before the expedition ended).
Determining the feasibility of establishing, maintaining, and utilizing bases in the Antarctic and investigating possible base sites;
Allegedly the Task Force was attacked and took heavy casualties. Naval ships and personnel were withdrawn back to the United States in late February 1947, and the expedition was terminated due to the early approach of winter and worsening weather conditions. Graham did not participate himself in the action of Highjump himself.
Admiral Byrd discussed the lessons learned from the operation in an interview with Lee van Atta of International News Service held aboard the expedition’s command ship the USS Mount Olympus. The interview appeared in the Wednesday, March 5, 1947 edition of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio and read in part as follows:
Admiral Richard E. Byrd warned today that the United States should adopt measures of protection against the possibility of an invasion of the country by hostile planes coming from the Polar Regions. The admiral explained that he was not trying to scare anyone, but the cruel reality is that in case of a new war, the United States could be attacked by planes flying over one or both poles.
This statement was made as part of a recapitulation of his own polar experience, in an exclusive interview with International News Service. Talking about the recently completed expedition, Byrd said that the most important result of his observations and discoveries is the potential effect that they have in relation to the security of the United States.
“The fantastic speed with which the world is shrinking – recalled the admiral – is one of the most important lessons learned during his recent Antarctic exploration. I have to warn my compatriots that the time has ended when we were able to take refuge in our isolation and rely on the certainty that the distances, the oceans, and the poles were a guarantee of safety.”
Colonel Ware claims a new disclosure campaign with military aviation is involved. Most people are not aware yet that between 1943 and 1947 the US Government, with the help of our British and Canadian allies and the Ambassador from Venus and 450 of his trained engineers built 500 discs with gravity motors in a hidden 300 square-mile valley in British Columbia, Canada.
This is much more easily understood after people read John B. Leith’s Genesis for the Space Race and The Man with the Golden Sword Both available at www.timestreampictures.com
Thanks to the Disclosure Project and Frank Chili and Don Ware.
UFO Near ISS
On April 29, 2017, at around 21:06 g.m.t for 15 seconds during a live stream of the International Space Station I observed a faint light which got lighter before appearing as two whitish lights before materializing into what I can only describe as a “flying saucer” the event. I managed to screenshot the photos on my iPhone. i know what this wasn’t and would hope somebody else has this footage on video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Marpha Light Explained by a Plasma Engineer
Sharon and Gerald her husband investigated the Marpha Lights in the late 1990s, and had some close calls. One time a light appeared near them, and began to chase them in their SUV as they raced along dirt roads to get away from it. These are very hot and dangerous plasma lights, that can kill, burn and injure as lightning can. The problem was that they always appeared far enough away that by the time an investigator got close in his car, the show was over. So Jim Bunnell got landowner permission to put cameras mounted on sheds or on poles near where they showed up. These were surrounded by fences to keep cattle and people out, and had an internet dish on top. He put a lot of money and time into this project. He could remotely operate the cameras, and had sensors that automatically turned the cameras to wherever lights appeared. He ultimately got geologic data that showed a deep fault runs across the region where the lights appear, and concluded that energy following the magnetic lines of the magnetosphere interacted with deep electrical energy in the fault, and caused “ball lightning” to form in the atmosphere near the ground. (The Photo is copyrighted and is used by permission)
Bunnell was a NASA and aerospace engineer, who were convinced that all UFO lights were natural atmospheric phenomena that he wouldn’t look at my evidence which showed that some sightings were physical objects operated by intelligent life. Alien visitation scared him.
Mothman Returns
Three separate witnesses in the Chicago area reportedly spotted an enormous flying creature that some have likened to the legendary Mothman entity.
According to Roger Marsh of MUFON, who received the reports, the sightings all occurred during a four-hour period on an evening in mid-April. The first known appearance of the creature occurred around 10 PM when the initial witness says that she and her husband as well as a pair of friends noticed what looked like an enormous bat flying over them while they were out on Lake Michigan. She speculated that the monstrous flying beast was around six-and-a-half feet long and possessed eerie eyes that glowed in the moonlight. Although the mysterious creature departed rather quickly, the group then saw a bright green UFO skim across the sky.
They had an overwhelming sensation of dread. Thirty minutes later when a group of people noticed a huge owl-like creature that looked to be six feet tall and had glowing red eyes. The scene was so strange that they speculated that it could have been a Lechuza, which is a legendary shape shifting entity in Mexico that transforms from an old woman into an owl.
In the final report, a man and his co-workers saw the creature at around 2 AM,. The flying ‘thing’ was nearly seven feet tall and was jet black aside from bright yellow eyes. The creature made everyone feel “very uneasy” and some co-workers actually threw rocks at it! Although the reports could be hoaxes, last year Chicago had 700 murders and in 2017 has 200.
Mothman has often been associated with tragedy. For example, Mothman sightings continued for months in Point Pleasant, West Virginia and came to a head on December 15, 1967, with the tragic collapse of the Silver Bridge. Forty-six people died when the bridge collapsed, which connected to Gallipolis, Ohio. Speculation is that Mothman may provide warning or actually create the deaths.
A man called into the WSAZ News station this past Sunday to report that he saw the Mothman while driving on Route 2 in Point Pleasant WV. The man, who only recently moved to the city, was not aware of the legend prior to snapping three photos. In 1975, John Keel wrote in The Mothman Prophecies that “there would be many changes in the lives of those touched by” Mothman, and a “few would even commit suicide.” Mary Hyre and Ivan Sanderson were named in John Keel’s book as having died before the tenth anniversary of his Mothman investigations. There have been many strange deaths of people who have seen the Mothman. Investigator Gray Barker noted in Spacecraft News #3, in 1966, that when he was investigating Mothman near Point Pleasant, he found a note on his door with this message, “ABANDON YOUR RESEARCH OR YOU WILL BE REGRET. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.” Shockingly Close to the Truth, Barker died on December 6, 1984, at age 59 from the simultaneous failure of various organs, in a Charleston, West Virginia, hospital.
The film stars Richard Gere as John Klein, a reporter who researches the legend of the Mothman.
The film claims to be based on actual events that occurred between November 1966 and December 1967 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. John Keel told me personally that, “the Mothman was likely alien and was the Devil.” Thanks to MUFON and wikipedia.org/
Contact in the Desert
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Statistical MUFON Report – for April 2017
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In April 2017 there were 529 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
US 343,
UK 75,
Canada 49,
Colombia, Australia 6,
India 6,
Sweden 3,
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Ireland 3.
National UFO Reporting Center had 334 sighting reports in April.
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Filer’s Files #19 – 2017 Aliens Are Visiting Earth - PART II
Filer’s Files #19 – 2017 Aliens Are Visiting Earth - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Yuma — Sitting outside on the porch I looked up and saw blinking light on April 24, 2017, .I thought I saw it moving was not sure but I use the telephone pole and wires to use as a guide to make sure I was seeing it move.
I was not afraid; In fact I was talking to it to come closer so I could see it better. It moved down and then going left and out of sight, very slowly. About 8:15 PM. I am still going outside and still see it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arkansas Lights
Bay — Arriving to work under the overcast with no visible lights in sky on May 3, 2017, until I noticed a very bright solid orange light traveling north. At first thought was an airplane but it was strange looking so I pulled over to observe it. The object stopped and hovered as I took two pictures. As I drove to work the object was moving and appeared above me. I asked a coworker to look at the object with me. During this time the object dimmed out completely but then brightened back up three times. I had to go into work but two hours later the sun was up and the object was very high up reflecting the sun off of it. At this time I could also see three jets and four minutes later it just vanished. My coworker also observed this. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
San Jose— I went outside around 3 AM staring at the sky on May 2, 2017. I noticed a star moving around and realized there were more moving lights. Some were larger than others and it seemed like the smaller ones were connected to the larger ones and kind of blue. I noticed that the movements of the two were matching. Foggy clouds came rolling in from the north that looked like the smaller blue objects were dissipating the clouds. I sat and watched all this for an hour and noticed three orange-ish shapes close to the ground towards downtown. I looked around the whole sky and these orbs were all over. They were like bubbles about 20 feet above my head. They looked like transparent chrome/gold spheres with a huge white light hovering just above the East Hills. Now one of those orbs was following me closer only15 feet above my head. If I looked away it would go higher but while I walked around, it would cruise back down closer to me. I crossed through a gate with power lines around it and it disappeared. The light above the mountain started to ascend real slow, getting a little smaller. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Miami– I got home from work around 2:25 AM, and happened to look to the south and noticed a flashing light with colors on April 17, 2017. It was dancing around so I got my phone and started to record and watched for a minute and 30 seconds. There were no planes or helicopters around. There was no way it could have been a reflection from anything where I was at. The recording is a little shaky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Idaho UFO
Gooding— An unknown object in the sky was discovered while viewing a series of “burst” photographs during a relay race. The object only appears in one photo even though there is no evidence of anything in the sky in any of the other photos that occurred only seconds before. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orbs
Franklin Park — My husband and I stepped out on the deck to smoke a cigarette and I noticed a red light coming in real fast from the north on April 28, 2017. There were 6 or 7 moving one after another so I grabbed my IPad and started recording these lights. I live near O’Hara Airport and hear and see planes all the time. These were no airplanes, as planes make a lot of noise and when these were present it was quiet. We stood there staring at these lights trying to figure out what we were seeing. I took like four videos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Rochester — Pamela Stark sent this photo 23April 17,
Pamela has frequent visitors to her home. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Disappearing Cylinder
Gambrills — Between 7:35-7:40 am, on the morning of April 27, 2017, as I was driving north on I-97 halfway between Annapolis and the MD-32 exit, I saw a long, reddish-brown, pencil-shaped cylindrical object that appeared to have been launched,” and was ascending slowly into the sky. This object appeared to be about five miles straight ahead of me, and approximately 1000 feet in the air and climbing slowly. Beneath it appeared to be a black plume of smoke; within the smoke were flashing lights. As I was staring at this object, a passing cloud obscured it completely. I was waiting for it to reappear, but when the cloud passed, the object had completely vanished.
I am a 58-year old retired Air Force member, currently working as a federal civil service worker for the U.S. Army at Fort Meade, MD. I was driving to work from Annapolis when I saw this object. Thanks to Peter Davenport NUFORC.COM
Largo, Maryland— I was on my way home on January 11, 2017 at 1:20 am driving on Harry S Truman Drive. I first spotted it about 700 feet away and maybe 40 feet high just above the tree line. It was just hovering above a vastly wooded area. There were flashing lights what looked like on every corner of the object sometimes white green or red. While I was filming the video I noticed it started to descend a little more below the tree line as if it were trying to hide. I put my window down to get a better image and I noticed the sound that it made was not typical of any aircraft that I’ve ever heard. It was very quiet and had a machine type of sound but no sound of propellers or jets. I saw sporadic flashes of light hitting the wooded area very fast. After I made a u turn to try and get closer it was no longer visible. Since a child I’ve always believed in UFO’s but never thought that I would see one…what was it that I really was seeing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Triangle
Bridgewater — I just got home at night and I looked up at the sky on April 4, 2017, when I noticed the object, I was surprised to see an oval-triangular object. The object was moving west to east. When it got over my house, it hovered for a while. I looked at it, for a long time. After a few minutes I went inside and when I looked outside it had vanished. I was a little surprised, but it didn’t really scare me. It looked similar to a UFO that I have seen before. The object was more triangle than oval. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Ring of Lights
Bloomington
— I saw this ring of lights last night on April 29, 2017. The lights were in the western sky, and it was an overcast night.
The ring of lights was stationary and did not move at all for many hours. The lights were coming from behind the clouds.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Triangle
Florham Park — I was walking through my office park on April 28, 2017, when I saw a craft in the air to the right of the runway. It wobbled up to a height about 500 feet above the runway, and then hovered briefly. After hovering it appeared to get smaller. I photographed the craft with my Nikon D3200 and 200 millimeter lens. It was a clear day so I managed to get a picture during its hovering that is clear. There was no noise from the craft. There was no chatter on the air traffic control regarding planes out of the pattern, balloons, drones, etc. Planes continued to take off and land with no issues or acknowledgement of the craft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Disc
Manhattan— I was taking picture of the building from the Ground Zero Memorial on April 23, 2017.
I recorded three images in rapid succession.
One image displays an object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS Note: A possible bird.
Texas Light
Laredo — My son and I were driving on Highway 59 about 8:15 pm, on 24 March 2017. We noticed three large bright white horizontal lights in the distance. The lights were in a straight line and not offset slightly in relation to each other. The object was traveling due east towards us. I told my son to look at it as it had no red or white flashing lights that would indicate some type of aircraft. I told him it looked like a UFO. As we passed the firing range on the outskirts of Laredo it appeared to be fixing to fly over us. It was very large and I thought I was going to get a good look at it. I told my son to video tape it. He started videotaping the object as it turned north and flew over the highway as it descended towards the lake and out of sight over the buildings. The white lights never flashed and were almost blinding they were so bright. My girlfriend’s brother works at the airport and has never seen anything like it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Dark Object
Monroe — Dan Johnson sent this photo of a dark object above the mountains on April 20, 2017. I don’t think that this is a bird or an insect. Actually, I don’t know what it is so I am classifying it as unidentified. This picture was taken in the same area that the flotilla of 9 cigar shaped craft were seen a few weeks ago on the Monroe property here in Virginia. Love and Light, Dan Johnson
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Belgium Lights
Ostend, Flanders — I was flying from London to Helsinki at night in a Finnair Airlines plane on March 1, 2017. 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 a different direction. Then the lights went out and I couldn’t see the triangle anymore. The rest of the flight was normal. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Object
Oshawa, Ontario — While outside on my deck on Sunday, April 23, 2017 I was admiring clearer skies and looking about for anything unusual. After about one hour I noticed about a quarter mile away directly to the west a very high -slow bright white flashing objects. The intensity of brightness was high and low without the flashing you would not see it being so high. I started to film on high zoom at 10:35 am. I took two short video clips revealing the object with a poor quality. Thanks to MUFON CMS
India UFO
Dang District, Gujarat — While shooting stars, I later observed an UFO in a photo over a tree on April 1, 2017. The object appeared green moving through the atmosphere. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Orbs
Albano Laziale — I was having a cigarette on the terrace of my wife’s parents home on April 29, 2017, in a little country town close to Rome. I looked up the sky and I saw a big storm of lights at 11:10 pm. There were more than 30/35, moving in the sky from NE to SW. They made no noise, moving in circles and going up. The lights were white with a little reflex of blue. I had the clear sensation they were controlled by some entity because of the movements they made, like they had a plan. I was surprised and scared at the same time: I got my iPhone and took a picture and a little video. I called my wife’s father and a friend who were surprised as I was. I stayed there looking up at the sky till they disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland Object
The sighting was recorded on May 1, 2017, while flying over Ireland en route to Orlando, Florida from Manchester, England. The flight number was Condor Flight MT 2604 owned by Thomas Cook Airlines. The object was observed while cruising at 38,000 feet. The object emitted a strange black trail and tended to change shapes. I have to say I was a bit stunned because I did not know what it was. I appear to be the only witness to the sighting. The object eventually turned and flew out of sight. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Philippines Object
Angeles City Pampamga Province — First I will state that being a U.S. Marine, I’m a trained observer. I had already been well awake by 3 am and had coffee and was on the computer, when at 5:40 am, I heard my dogs carrying on outside and went to investigate I caught sight of the object and watched it only for 30 seconds before realizing that it wasn’t a plane, helicopter, or hot air balloon and ran into the house and grabbed my cell phone as it was the closest camera available.
The object first appeared to be about 700 feet high, but as the object had moved into the background of my house it appeared to be gaining altitude, I snapped three photos as it passed beyond the peak of the roof over my bedroom, moving southeast towards Manila.
The object made no sound at all, and it had no visible lights of any kind, it seemed to be moving about the same speed as a small plane at first and was completely out of sight in about 3 minutes or less, apparently gaining speed. When I first looked at the pictures, I thought I missed it, as it looked like a speck of dust or dirt, I then downloaded them to my desktop computer and cropped the photos, and then I could see better detail. I was a bit stunned when saw it, as I had never seen any craft like this before, and it clearly had a some type of leg structure for landing. Three pictures were taken, and numbered in the order taken, the best being the first picture. Semper Fi
UK/England Sphere
Bridgwater, Devon — I was at the Bridgwater Carnival taking photographs of the procession when I spotted two strange objects above the float on November 7, 2015. I quickly took a photograph about 9:15 PM and the two objects moved away and flew over a nearby house when I lost sight of them. When I got home and looked at the photograph I could see that there were four strange objects in the photograph.
The first object appears to be a sphere and the second object appears to be large Ebani that is far away. Ebanis appear to be biological in nature that must have been drawn to the lights, loud music and the heat coming from the Carnival float. ,. These type of entities are usually scared off by loud noise so to see them get this close is very strange. I have taken many photographs of the entities that have appeared in the skies of Devon England. Some Ebanis can change into multiple shapes and sizes with internal motion and can be multiple colors. It really is fascinating has they are always accompanied by a sphere. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Newton Abbot— I was sky watching when I noticed a black object far off in the distance. The object was morphing into different shapes as it moved at a high rate of speed and ascending into the sky. The black object also had a bright white light that it flashed when it took on different forms. I managed to take three photograph of this very strange morphing object. What could this bizarre black morphing object be? It’s incredible, how was this thing able to change shape so quickly while moving so fast. The photographs were taken on the 28th of October 2016. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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When an unmanned space plane landed unceremoniously Sunday morning at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the only warning of its arrival was a sonic boom heard across central Florida. Shortly after landing, the U.S. Air Force got on Twitter to announce that the very loud spacecraft was an X-37B, a Boeing-made Orbital Test Vehicle that had been orbiting the Earth’s atmosphere for the past 718 days.
The X-37B is part of a classified space program that began at NASA in 1999 and was transferred to DARPA in 2004. The Air Force has successfully flown four separate UTV missions, spacecraft in 2010 and clocking a total of 2,085 days in orbit — but the mission’s trajectory and details about the project’s purpose are shrouded in secrecy.
Here’s how the X-37B looks preflight, white as snow:
Beautiful.
When it returned to Earth, it was showing the wear and tear of a plane that’s been in flight for two years:
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle landing in 2012.
The Air Force has essentially been feeding the public the same line on the X-37B missions since it took over the project. The purpose of the X-37B is to demonstrate reusable spacecraft technologies and to operate experiments which can be returned to Earth for examination.
“We are incredibly pleased with the performance of the space vehicle and are excited about the data gathered to support the scientific and space communities,” Lt. Col. Ron Fehlen, X-37B program manager, said in a statement on Sunday.
Naturally, what the X-37Bs are actually doing up there has been on the minds of space enthusiasts for the better part of the last decade.
Evidence of Low Orbits
Back in 2015 Space.comreported on a network of amateur astronomers who had managed to track portions of the X-37B’s latest orbit shortly after its May 20 launch.
“It’s in a lower orbit than normal … had us confused for a while, as I thought it would be the standard operating orbit,” Greg Roberts, of Cape Town, South Africa, told Space.com.
Another member of the network, Ted Molczan of Toronto, had some theories:
“One thing that OTV-4 has in common with each of its predecessors is that its ground track nearly repeats after every 31 revolutions, which takes two days. This could be in support of a surveillance mission, to permit targets to be revisited frequently, or it may serve some other more mundane operational purpose that we have not discovered.”
A two-second–long exposure through power and telephone lines shows a white line indicating the X-37B space plane in orbit.
A Spy Mission?
The spacecraft comes with a seven-foot-long by four-foot-wide payload bay, and what it’s being used for is — you guessed it — unknown.
Due to the vehicle’s low orbit, it’s been speculated that the X-37B OTVs are conducting spy missions for the Air Force.
In 2012, the BBC published a report that stated that the second mission’s similar orbit to Tiangong could imply that it was spying on the Chinese space lab.
Brian Weeden, a technical adviser with the Secure World Foundation and a former orbital analyst with the U.S. Air Force to Space was quick to disagree. He told Space.com that although the vehicles’ orbits appear similar, they only intersect twice per circuit, and at speeds so high it would be difficult to gather any data.
According to Space.com, rather than racing around the Earth in a polar orbit, the second X-37B mission was repeatedly flying over a stretch of the globe from 43 degrees north latitude to 43 degrees south. “It’s probably using that new technology to observe the Middle East and Afghanistan,” Weeden said.
Reconnaissance Payloads
With the orbital path of the most recent X-37B being classified, James Andrew Lewis, director and senior fellow in the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, gave Air&Space an indication of what kind of work it might be doing, even if we can’t verify where it’s doing it.
“I think that’s probably what they’re not telling you, that there are payloads in there that might be part of the design for future reconnaissance satellites,” he said, noting that the Air Force is looking to transition away from large, expensive satellites to smaller, more advanced versions.
A fifth X-37B mission is expected to be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida later this year.
Photos via Boeing Company, Youtube, Greg Roberts, Space.com, U.S. Air Force
The real, human-made tech scheduled to land on the moon next year is currently being used to detect Xenomorph
Well this is a pretty cool little story. The new Moonrover Audi Lunar Quattro, the real piece of advanced technology scheduled to land on the moon next year in order explore and analyse what happened to pre-existing rovers, is also currently being used in the new Alien: Covenant film.
Don't believe us? Then check out this video:
Yep, that's the Moonrover Audi Lunar Quattro in one of the neatest pieces of product/brand placement we've ever seen. Far from the rover being just a piece of excellent science fiction, and a damn cool prop in its own right, it is actually a fully functioning, high-tech piece of real world engineering set to actually blast off to Earth's moon in 2018.
Here is the lead engineer on the project, as well CEO and founder of Part-Time Scientists, Robert Böhme, talking about the Lunar Quattro and its real mission:
Indeed, the Moonrover Audi Lunar Quattro is a really advanced piece of technology. Not only is it super light weight, with it constructed from 85 per cent aluminium (Audi's engineering nous helped reduce the weight of the final vehicle by 23 per cent), but it also features easily replicable 3D-printed components, and a 60-degree pivoting 100W solar panel that supplies it with energy and powers its super-efficient e-tron motor.
Credit: Joe McGorty
These features and more will help the Lunar Quattro navigate the moon's surface, take readings and record information, as well as operate for lengthy periods of time in a challenging atmosphere.
Interestingly, in Alien: Covenant the Moonrover is also deployed to help navigate and assess the challenging, unknown terrain of a new planet. However, in the fiction, the machine also has the ability to detect alien lifeforms - which here at T3 Towers we're guessing it does with dramatic results!
Some Of The World’s Top Scientists Met Recently To Discuss How To Find Alien Life
Some Of The World’s Top Scientists Met Recently To Discuss How To Find Alien Life
A remarkable meeting of minds took place in California last month on April 20 and 21. Stanford University was the scene for the second annual Breakthrough Discuss, where scientists from a variety of fields came together to tackle arguably the greatest question we have ever faced – are we alone in the universe?
The event was part of Breakthrough Initiatives, a bold program started by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner to spark advancements in the search for life. This includes searching for alien signals via Breakthrough Listen and potentially traveling to Proxima b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, with Breakthrough Starshot.
The idea of Breakthrough Discuss was not only to talk about these ventures, but also to explore the broader search for life. This includes finding potentially habitable worlds around nearby stars like the TRAPPIST-1 system and more recent discoveries relating to Enceladus. There were also discussions on the possibility of finding signals from aliens, known as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
“I’m just so delighted with this meeting,” Jill Tarter from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, told IFLScience. “We want to know what our place in the universe is. Are we part of something that’s quite common, or are we totally separate and unusual and unique?”
A panel discussion at the event. Jonathan O'Callaghan/IFLScience
Breakthrough Discuss began with a series of talks on red dwarf stars and their potential for hosting life. The idea has come to the fore recently, particularly with places like TRAPPIST-1 40 light-years away found to have multiple rocky planets in orbit. Red dwarfs are the most numerous stars in our galaxy, and their relative dimness compared to our Sun makes it easier to see and study the planets in orbit around them.
It’s still not clear if a planet in orbit around a red dwarf can be habitable; the stars are temperamental and prone to flaring. But they are undoubtedly attractive targets, and they may be some of the best places to look for life. Just the other day, a new planet was found around the red dwarf LHS 1140b, also about 40 light-years away, which has been heralded as a great place to look.
Guillem Anglada-Escudé from Queen Mary University of London gave the keynote talk of the conference, discussing how he and his team were going to study the nearest red dwarfs for planets. We already know Proxima Centauri 4.2 light-years away plays host to at least one – Proxima b – and it may have more. Now, Anglada-Escudé and his team will shift their focus to Barnard’s Star 6 light-years away, and other nearby red dwarfs, as part of a new project called Red Dots to find nearby planets. We should know by the end of the year if there’s anything there.
“We want to get more science done, look for more planets,” Anglada-Escudé, who was recently named one of Time’s 100 most influential people, told IFLScience. “You never know what’s there until you look for it.”
Anglada-Escudé presents his research at Breakthrough Discuss. onathan O'Callaghan/IFLScience
Finding these planets is only the first part, though. A number of scientists are now investigating what techniques we can use to work out if they have any life on them. Direct imaging of the surfaces will be next to impossible, so instead we’ll need to examine the atmospheres of the planets by studying the light that comes through them from their host star.
Most of the work in this area focuses on a handful of molecules such as oxygen and methane, but in total there are 1,500 molecules that could be useful. Huge upcoming ground-based telescopes – known as Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) – like the upcoming Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii and the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile will help in this endeavor, as will NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
“I’m very excited about the planets around low mass stars,” Sir Martin Rees, the UK Astronomer Royal, told IFLScience. “And I think it’s very good to realize that the next-generation race to build giant ground-based telescopes is going to open up the possibility of getting real spectroscopic data on the nearest planets.”
The field has changed dramatically in just a few years. In 2009, when NASA launched its Kepler Telescope, we still weren’t sure how common planets were around other stars. Now we know of thousands, and we’re honing in on some that could be habitable. Every star is now thought to host at least one planet on average, and likely many more.
And the question of finding life is the driving factor of it all. We’ve got no idea if life like that on our planet is common, or if we’re a rare gem in a dead universe. We may be able to answer that question inside our own Solar System, with places like Enceladus and Europa looking like they may have the necessary conditions for life. But exoplanets carry an almost equal allure.
“It’s an amazing time to be involved in the search for life,” Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University in New York, told IFLScience. “This is the first time in human history we have the means to do it, and if we get really lucky and find life starts everywhere, we could actually have the proof that we’re not alone in hand pretty soon.”
Enceladus looks like a great bet for life in our Solar System. NASA/JPL-Caltech
The idea that life might be common in the universe has also driven SETI for decades, with early pioneers like Frank Drake in 1960 suggesting we might be able to hear signals from advanced civilizations around other stars. SETI has struggled for funding over the years, but Milner’s injection of $100 million ensures the search will continue for at least 10 years as part of Breakthrough Listen.
“We’ll take funding from any source we can,” said Tarter. “If we discover a signal, or if we discover life beyond Earth, that information is not coming to California, it’s coming to the planet. These kinds of scientific explorations should be international and global.”
Truth be told, it was somewhat of an odd marriage seeing SETI discussed alongside more grounded science at Breakthrough Discuss. The prospect of finding a signal from an alien civilization is still far-fetched; in six decades of searching, we’ve found nothing. It’s often said that if we don’t look we’ll never know, but SETI remains somewhat fanciful.
“I’m working on the search for life on other planets, planets orbiting alien suns,” said Kaltenegger. “And at this conference, it’s the most conservative thing that’s being talked about!”
That’s not to say there might be nothing out there, and it might well be worth the search. Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center, presented the first scientific results from the first year of the Breakthrough Listen project, on which he is also the lead. While nothing was found, this is one of the most extensive searches to date. If it draws a blank after a decade, well, that may force a rethink.
“At what point do we give up on SETI?” a panel of experts at Breakthrough Discuss was asked. “Not any time soon,” replied Tarter.
TRAPPIST-1 may have three potentially habitable worlds. NASA/JPL-Caltech
And then there was the grand finale, the discussion about actually sending a spacecraft to a planet around another star. This project, called Breakthrough Starshot, was announced in April 2016 to considerable fanfare. Using a giant laser on Earth, a small chip with a massive sail would be accelerated to one-fifth the speed of light, reaching Proxima Centauri – and thus Proxima b – in just 20 years.
Breakthrough Discuss, however, highlighted just how difficult such a proposal might be. One attendee told IFLScience that they thought the project was now less likely to happen that it was a year prior, based on the huge number of challenges that have become apparent.
One is actually firing the laser at the spacecraft in the first place, laid bare by Zac Manchester from Harvard University in a fascinating talk titled “How to ride a laser beam”. He pointed out that the force of the laser hitting a flat sail could send it spiraling off course, so it may be necessary to use a spherical sail to stay on track for Proxima. This itself presents new challenges that have yet to be solved, such as how to spread the force of the laser over the whole sail.
Even if the spacecraft gets there, sending data back is also a huge issue. The chip at its center will be barely a gram in weight, with the sail mere atoms thick. Thus there will be no room for an antenna to transmit data – including images of the planet – back to our planet. Some novel ideas include using the sail itself as a giant antenna, although we don’t yet know if this is possible.
Will Starshot get off the ground? Breakthrough Initiatives
And even if we get there, the flyby will be extremely brief. René Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany said in a talk how, after 20 years of travel, the flyby would last just a matter of seconds. He instead proposed using Proxima’s companion stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, to slow down the spacecraft and enter orbit around Proxima b, something that would return much more data at the cost of a much longer mission. We’ve covered this interstellar roundtrip idea before if you want some more information.
But even if Starshot never gets off the ground, it is at least inspiring some critical thinking in the area of interstellar travel that has not been explored before. Even materials science stands to benefit, with Heller showing off a small piece of graphene that could be used to develop giant sails for traversing the Solar System and beyond.
And Yuri Milner himself seems anything but disheartened, explaining his ethos in a fascinating but sadly off-the-record discussion with IFLScience and other journalists. He remains committed to the cause though, and clearly wants to be part of a discovery that makes life on another planet a possibility, whether that’s humanity or an alien race.
“Breakthrough Discuss boldly demonstrated that we stand on the precipice of making one of the most amazing discoveries in the history of humanity,” Siemion told IFLScience.
For every speculative fantasy, the conference remained mostly grounded in science. If we are going to discover we are not alone, the people who'll find out were very likely present at this event.
This recent self-portrait from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the robot shortly after it retrieved a sample of dark sand from shifting dunes along the flank of a Martian hillside. Curiosity is a rover designed to look for evidence of the Red Planet’s changing habitability over time, but future missions to the Martian surface may instead engage in more direct searches for past and present life. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
MESA, Arizona—Since the dawn of the space age NASA and other agencies have spent billions of dollars to reconnoiter Mars—assailing it with spacecraft flybys, photo-snapping orbiters and landers nose-diving onto its surface. The odds are good, many scientists say, for the Red Planet being an extraterrestrial address for alien life—good enough to sustain decades’ worth of landing very expensive robots to ping it with radar, zap it with lasers, trundle across its terrain and scoop up its dirt. Yet against all odds (and researchers’ hopes for a watershed discovery), Mars remains a poker-faced world that holds its cards tight. No convincing signs of life have emerged. But astrobiologists continue to, quite literally, chip away at finding the truth.
As the search becomes more heated (some would say more desperate), scientists are entertaining an ever-increasing number of possible explanations for Martian biology as a no-show. For example, could there be a “cover up” whereby the harsh Martian environment somehow obliterates all biosignatures—all signs of past or present life? Or perhaps life there is just so alien its biosignatures are simply unrecognizable to us, hidden in plain view.
Of course, the perplexing quest to find life on Mars may have a simple solution: It’s not there, and never was. But as the proceedings of this year’s Astrobiology Science Conference held here in April made clear, life-seeking scientists are not giving up yet. Instead, they are getting more creative, proposing new strategies and technologies to shape the next generation of Mars exploration.
A SLUMBERING BIOSPHERE?
Talk about looking for Martians and you inevitably talk about water, the almost-magical liquid that sustains all life on Earth and seems to have served as an indispensable kick-starter for biology in our planet’s deepest past. “It all started out with ‘follow the water;’ not necessarily ‘follow the life’…but ‘follow one of the basic requirements for living systems,’” says Arizona State University geologist Jack Farmer, referring to NASA’s oft-repeated mantra for Martian exploration. “There are many indications of water on Mars in the past, perhaps reservoirs of water in the near subsurface as well,” he says. “But what is the quality of that water? Is it really salty—too salty for life?”
Without liquid water, Farmer points out, one would naively think organisms cannot function. The reality may be more complex: on Earth, some resilient organisms such as tardigrades can enter a profound, almost indefinite state of hibernation when deprived of moisture, preserving their desiccated tissues but neither growing nor reproducing. It is possible, Farmer says, that Martian microbes could spend most of their time as inert spores “waiting for something good to happen,” only springing to life given the right and very rare conditions. Certain varieties of Earthly “extremophiles”—microbes that live at extremes of temperature, pressure, salinity and so on—exhibit similar behavior.
Farmer says there is as yet no general consensus about the best way to go about life detection on the Red Planet. This is due in no small part to the runaway pace of progress in biotechnology, which has led to innovations such as chemistry labs shrunken down to fit on a computer chip. These technologies “have been revolutionizing the medical field, and have now started to enter into concepts for life detection on Mars,” he explains. Things move so fast that today’s best technology for finding Martian biology may be tomorrow’s laughably obsolete dead-end.
But no matter how sophisticated a lab on a chip might be, it won’t deliver results if it is not sent to the right place. Farmer suspects that seriously seeking traces of life requires deep drilling on Mars. “I basically think we’re going to have to gain access to the subsurface and look for the fossil record,” he explains. But discovering a clear, unambiguous fossil biosignature on Mars would also raise a red flag. “We probably would approach the future of Mars exploration—particularly accessing habitable zones of liquid water in the deep subsurface—more cautiously, because life could still be there. So planetary protection would be taken very seriously,” he says. (“Planetary protection” is the term scientists commonly use for precautions to minimize the chance of biological contamination between worlds. Think of it not so much in terms of bug-eyed aliens running rampant on Earth but of billion-dollar robots finding “Martians” that prove to only be hardy bacterial hitchhikers imported from our own world).
THE MARTIAN UNDERGROUND
Like-minded about deep diving on Mars is Penelope Boston, director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the agency’s Ames Research Center. “That’s my bias,” she says. “Given Mars’ current state, with all the challenging surface manifestations of dryness, radiation and little atmosphere, the best hope for life still extant on Mars is subsurface.” The subsurface, she says, might also offer better chances of preserving past life—that is, of fossils, even if only of single-celled organisms.
The planet’s depths hold the potential for harboring liquid water under certain circumstances, Boston thinks. But how far down might that water be? “I suspect it’s pretty far…and how we get to it, that’s a whole other kettle of fish,” she says. Over the years scientists have estimated the average depth of the planet’s possible liquid reservoirs as anywhere between tens of meters to kilometers. Then again, recent observations from orbiters have revealed mysterious dark streaks that seasonally flow down the sunlit sides of some Martian hillsides and craters. These “recurring slope lineae” could conceivably be brines of liquid water fed by aquifers very close to the surface, some researchers say.
Such lingering uncertainties emerge from the indirect and scattered nature of our studies of Mars, and ensure that any argument for life there is based solely on circumstantial information, Boston notes. “Each individual piece of evidence is, on its own merits, weak,” she says. Only by amassing a diverse suite of independent measurements can a well-built case for life on Mars be made, she says: “In my opinion, we can’t make that strong case unless we push to do all of those measurements on exactly the same precise spot. We don’t do that because it’s very difficult, but it’s something to aspire to.” Despite decades of sending costly hardware to Mars, Boston believes that what is still missing is a sense of harmony between instruments, allowing them to work together to support a search for alien life. “I think that the precise requirements of a really robust claim of life at the microscopic scale require us to push on further,” she notes.
Attendees at the astrobiology meeting in Arizona showcased an assortment of high-tech devices for next-generation exploration, ranging from microfluidic “life analyzers” and integrated nucleic acid extractors for studying “Martian metagenomics” to exquisitely sensitive, miniaturized organic chemistry labs for spotting tantalizing carbon compounds and minerals at microscopic scales. Missing from the mix, however, was any solid consensus on how these and other tools could all work together to provide a slam-dunk detection of life on Mars.
WHAT’S THE WEATHER?
Some scientists contend a new kind of focus is sorely needed. Perhaps the pathway to finding any Martians lurking in the planet’s nooks and crannies is to learn where exactly on Mars those potentially life-nurturing niches exist, and how they change over the course of days, months and years rather than over eons of geologic time. That is, to find homes for extant life on Mars today, researchers should probably not just be studying the planet’s long-term climate but also its day-to-day weather.
“Right now we’re sort of shifting gears. Once you’ve found out that a planet is habitable, then the next question is, ‘Was there life?’—so it’s a completely different ball game,” says Nathalie Cabrol, director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute. “On Mars you cannot look for life with the tools that have been looking for habitability of that planet,” she argues. “We should be looking for habitats and not habitable environments. You are dealing on Mars with what I call extremophile extreme environments on steroids,” she says, “and you don’t look for microbial life with telescopes from Mars orbit.”
Cabrol advocates making an unprecedentedly robust, high-resolution study of environmental variability on Mars by peppering its surface with weather stations. Sooner or later telltale signs of the possible whereabouts of extant life may emerge from the resulting torrents of data. “Today’s environment on that planet is a reflection of something in the past,” she says, and planting numbers of automated stations on Mars does not need to be expensive. “This is of interest not only to astrobiology but to human exploration. The first thing you want to know is what the weather is like,” she says, adding, “Right now we’re not equipped to do this and I’m not saying it’s going to be easy to look for extant life. I’m not saying what we’re doing now is wrong. Whatever we put on the ground we are learning. But there is variability on Mars. You go up or down one meter, things change. Habitats at a microscopic level can happen at the scale of a slope. It can happen at the scale of a rock!”
MIGHT WE BE MARTIANS?
“I think Mars offers us the highest chance of finding life” somewhere beyond Earth, says Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a planetary scientist at Washington State University. But, like Boston and others, he maintains confirmation of life will only come from multiple “layers of proof” that have to be consistent with one another. “We really need at least four different kinds of methods,” he says. “My point is that there’s no slam-dunk. We need several instruments. You have to build a case, and right now we can do better…unless the biosignature through a microscope is waving hello.” The trouble, he adds, is that too-stringent planetary protection rules may preclude getting the evidence necessary for that proof. “We have the technology to go to places where there could be life,” he says. “But we can’t go to certain areas on Mars, like recurring slope lineae or…under patches of ice. It seems to be ridiculous.”
Indeed, Schulze-Makuch speculates planetary protection may be a lost cause for Mars—or at least a misguided endeavor. It may even be that any Martian microbes are actually Earth’s long-lost cousins. Or, conversely, Mars rather than Earth is really the sole site of biogenesis in our solar system. Both scenarios are possible, considering that single-celled organisms can likely survive world-shattering impacts and the subsequent interplanetary voyages if embedded in ejected shards of rock that could fall elsewhere as meteorites. Innumerable impacts of this scale battered the solar system billions of years ago, potentially blasting biological material between neighboring worlds. On balance, Schulze-Makuch says, “the chances are higher that we are Martians.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Leonard David
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades.
‘If that scenario is right then there should be life on other planets and so forth’
Dr. John Gizis is a University of Delaware professor and former NASA scientist made a very important discovery back in 1999: a star orbited by seven potentially earth-like planets. These planets were recently found to have a great chance of housing other life forms.
With a team of scientists from UMass and NASA, Gizis was also able to locate a failed star called the Brown Dwarf, which in turn led to the discovery of Trappist 1 – a planet about eight times the mass of Jupiter.
These findings generated what many consider to be the first picture of a planet outside our solar system.
The star Gizis found in 1999 sits about 40 lightyears away. Although this is not that far by star standards, communicating with any planet so far away would be a lengthy process.
Since you cannot travel faster than the speed of light, it would take about 40 years for a radio signal or message to reach the planets that the star orbits. Even with the best spacecraft a scientist or engineer could imagine or produce, it could take up to 400 years to reach Gizis’s star.
Using technologies with gamma rays, scientists are planning to check to see if any other forms of intelligent life could be sending us messages using lasers.
As a dedicated professor to his University of Delaware students since 2001, Gizis agreed to sit down with The Tab and discuss his discoveries, his career, and, of course, aliens.
How did you feel when you found the star?
I was very excited, because on my dissertation we went through a ton of pain and agony to try and find stars, but they were always very far away and not very interesting. So this new technology with the infrared cameras let us find these things [that] were so much better than the stuff I was finding before.
So that part of it was really exciting…because it was really successful we had started knocking these things off whereas before it was all this pain, it was just awful using photographic images that were 50 years old, and it wasn’t nice.
Can you tell me a little bit about your opinions on aliens?
So the idea that scientists have is that life would arise from some sort of chemical process that gets more and more complicated until you somehow develop biology. And so presumably that could happen anywhere in the universe where conditions are right… So if that scenario is right then there should be life on other planets and so forth.
And it is certainly possible that conditions are right on these planets around Trappist 1, that at least one of them are not too hot and not too cold. That it could potentially have oceans and lakes and things where you might imagine life able to live… At least Trappist has planets that are getting the right amount of sunlight from their star that you could imagine that they’re the right temperature… But no really knows, it’s totally open…but I do feel that if it were easy to travel between the stars that someone would have come here a long time ago. So I don’t believe any of the stories of UFOs or that aliens build the pyramids or any of that stuff.
Do you have any thoughts on what forms they could exist in?
I guess the two choices are that it would have to be some sort of life that would not be the same as us, but in some ways might be similar. Presumably they would have to be able to see… They would have to communicate in some way. And I guess the other thing you could imagine is that if they were a first generation of aliens and then they could build robots and computers. So some people think that the most likely aliens to find would be some sort of intelligent computer machine. Because you could imagine that they couldn’t evolve by themselves, but if someone made them and then they could make new versions of themselves, then maybe there could be alien machines out there.
If aliens do exist, what would that mean for humans?
If we could talk to them, they might know a lot more than us in terms of science and things like that. The thing is that the earth is billions of years old, but civilization is only thousands of years old, right? So they could be way, way ahead of us… Would we feel differently about ourselves or them knowing that they’re out there?
As a scientist, would the possibilities of these aliens frighten you?
I think that it would be very frightening if aliens arrived in our solar system and said, “here we are to visit.” We would be worried about what they’re up to, and are we vulnerable? Maybe that just says more about ourselves then them… But if they’re aliens on another star and they’re 40 lightyears away, I don’t think there’s anything they could really do to us… That would be the greatest discovery of all time, maybe.
Is there anything you would like to add about aliens?
I think just that in most of the movies we see, the aliens are there because someone either wants to entertain us or make a statement about human society. So Spock and Chewbacca are not there because that’s what we really think aliens are like, but because it makes a good story.
Sightings of UFOs in the US have more than tripled since 2001, according to the book.
The statistics are compiled in a new book written using the databases of two of the world's biggest organisations dedicated to logging UFO and alien reportings and encounters across the globe.
“UFO Sightings Desk Reference,” written by Cheryl Costa, 65, and wife, Linda Miller Costa, 62, from Syracuse, New York, used 121,036 eyewitness accounts across the states recorded separately by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) between 2001 and 2015 to chart the increase.
The book looks at the timing and location of incidents and types of UFOs seen which include flying circles, spheres, triangles, discs, ovals, and cigars.
According to Cheryl, a former military technician and aerospace analyst, and Linda, a librarian at Le Moyne College and a former librarian at the National Academy of Sciences, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency, MUFON and NUFORC decided most sightings were explainable, but a small amount can still not be explained.
The key findings from the book were that overall numbers of UFO sightings more than tripled by 2015, from their average levels in 2001.
The book shows that US sightings grew from 3,479 reports in 2001 to 11,868 in 2015.
MUFON and NUFORC say just a fraction of all sightings make their way to them - so there are significantly more.
There is a growing "disclosure" movement in the US that believes that intelligent aliens visit Earth, and the government is not only aware of this, but covers it up.
Disclosure activists, such as Steve Bassett, who runs the Paradigm Research Group (PRG) campaign for an end to this so-called truth embargo.
Mr Bassett believes the fact there are so many more sightings now means the truth will soon come out as the White House will no longer be able to keep a lid on it.
He said: "With this compendium, Cheryl and Linda Costa have reminded the public and the media the extraterrestrial phenomenon continues unabated.”
The pair say they have seen UFOs themselves, but draw no firm conclusions from studying the data.
Linda said: "We don’t know, but all these people are seeing these things.”
Sceptics argue that the rise in phone and digital cameras, is responsible for more alleged UFO pictures and videos emerging, and that sharing on social media, makes the subject more well known.
The rise in the use of drones of an array of shapes and sizes, is another explanation offered for the perceived rise in UFO activity.
Space experts believe three UFOs spotted in the sky could be a sign of an invisible alien spaceship moving above us.
Footage shows three orbs of light moving in formation, which experts believe could be the three corners of a triangular-shaped spaceship.
The UFOs in the clip, shared by experts at Secure Team 10 in America, start as small dots but soon become brighter.
The footage was filmed in Kentucky in the USA and sent in for analysis.
The three objects were spotted in a triangle formation
Tyler from Secure Team said: "This was captured on a night vision camera of three distinct objects moving in a perfect triangular formation, orbiting the planet it would seem."
He adds: "This is an amazing sighting, we see that these three objects, and I've watched this entire clip, these things stay locked into their position.
Experts believe there are more UFOs hiding in the sky in plain sight
"If you watch closely there are a couple of other UFOs moving in other directions.
"These UFOs are not able to be seen with the naked eye.
"It is only once you use these specialty devices that can actually detect things in this specific light, we start to realise just how many of these unknown objects are sitting above us in plain sight.
"And you would only know were there if you had some of these night vision goggles or tech."
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Mysterieus ruimtevliegtuig terug op aarde. Dit is waarom het is omgeven met complotten
Mysterieus ruimtevliegtuig terug op aarde. Dit is waarom het is omgeven met complotten
Een experimenteel Amerikaans ruimtevaartuig is zondag na bijna twee jaar geland in Florida. Het toestel ging bij het dalen door de geluidsbarrière, waardoor Florida ’s ochtends werd opgeschrikt door een harde knal.
De onbemande Boeing X-37B bracht ruim 700 dagen door in een baan om de aarde, waar het een geheime missie uitvoerde.
Het vaartuig, dat eruitziet als een kleine versie van een spaceshuttle, landde bij het Kennedy Space Center. De X-37B bracht niet eerder zoveel tijd door in de ruimte.
Spionage
Het ruimtevaartuig van de luchtmacht is met raadsels omgeven. Het leger stelde in een e-mail dat de toestellen onder meer kunnen worden gebruikt om ruimtetechnologie te testen.
De activiteiten van de missie zijn topgeheim. Het mysterieuze karakter van de missie is voer voor complottheoretici.
Volgens sommigen is er sprake van spionage. Zo zou X-37B geavanceerde apparatuur aan boord hebben om gevoelige geopolitieke regio’s zoals het Midden-Oosten in de gaten te houden.
Zwijgt in alle talen
Anderen beweren dat de Verenigde Staten met de X-37B satellieten kunnen uitschakelen. Wat het vaartuig ook uitvoert daar hoog in de lucht, de Amerikaanse luchtmacht zwijgt in alle talen.
De VS beschikt over twee van deze onbemande toestellen, die zijn ondergebracht in hangars die ooit werden gebruikt voor spaceshuttles.
De luchtmacht is van plan later dit jaar weer een X-37B de ruimte in te sturen.
NASA en VS betrokken bij doofpot. Indiase universitair docent doet in dit gesprek een boekje open
NASA en VS betrokken bij doofpot. Indiase universitair docent doet in dit gesprek een boekje open
Rond middernacht werd Sunita Yadav wakker. Boven haar zweefde een alien met een grijze huid en grote zwarte ogen. Haar zoon Hitesh zag hoe het wezen ‘opeens verdween’.
Hitesh (20) is ervan overtuigd dat hij die nacht een buitenaards wezen heeft gezien, schrijft de Hindustan Times.
Het wezen is inmiddels zo vaak waargenomen in Panchkula, een district van de Indiase staat Haryana, dat het een mascotte is geworden.
Hoed
De Indiase wetenschapper Ramkrishan Vaishnav merkt op dat zelfs het Indiase leger UFO-meldingen heeft gedaan.
In maart 2008 hoorde hij van een waarneming in het dorp Banswara, waar acht mensen een onbekend vaartuig in de lucht hadden gezien.
Zes dagen later kwam Vaishnav aan in het dorp. “Volgens de dorpelingen had de UFO de vorm van een hoed,” zei hij, toevoegende dat de onderkant was voorzien van een fel licht.
Groot rood licht
Kumaresan Ramanathan werd in 2012 de eerste Indiase UFO-onderzoeker van MUFON. Hij moest een aantal waarnemingen onderzoeken, waaronder die van een rij rode, gele en groene lichten die enkele minuten bleven hangen en vervolgens verdwenen.
Hij moest ook beelden bestuderen van een object dat bijna een uur boven Bangalore hing en vervolgens opeens verdween.
Op 15 december 1987 zag de toen 6-jarige Kamal Pant uit de stad Dehradun een groot rood licht in de lucht. “Het was geen vliegtuig, helikopter of grap,” zei hij.
Cover-up
“Het bleef enige tijd in de lucht hangen en maakte geen geluid,” voegde hij toe.
Pant, die lesgeeft op een privé-universiteit in Dehradun, stelt dat NASA en de VS betrokken zijn bij een cover-up en dat na de Roswell-crash buitenaardse technologie is buitgemaakt.
Hij claimt ook op telepathische wijze met aliens te kunnen communiceren. “Mijn moeder en vrouw hebben alles gezien en weten dat ik niet lieg,” zei Pant.
Moederschip
De lokale bewoners noemen deze wezens pariyaan (feeën), aldus Pant.
De universitair docent zegt in 2014 een ‘moederschip’ op de maan te hebben gefotografeerd en gefilmd. “Ik stuurde de NASA hier een e-mail over. Een maand later kreeg ik een bericht uit Houston dat ik ‘weg moest blijven’,” zei hij.
Pant claimt dat een dag later was ingebroken op zijn computer en dat een aantal van zijn video’s waren verdwenen.
NASA en VS betrokken bij doofpot. Indiase universitair docent doet in dit gesprek een boekje open
NASA en VS betrokken bij doofpot. Indiase universitair docent doet in dit gesprek een boekje open
Rond middernacht werd Sunita Yadav wakker. Boven haar zweefde een alien met een grijze huid en grote zwarte ogen. Haar zoon Hitesh zag hoe het wezen ‘opeens verdween’.
Hitesh (20) is ervan overtuigd dat hij die nacht een buitenaards wezen heeft gezien, schrijft de Hindustan Times.
Het wezen is inmiddels zo vaak waargenomen in Panchkula, een district van de Indiase staat Haryana, dat het een mascotte is geworden.
Hoed
De Indiase wetenschapper Ramkrishan Vaishnav merkt op dat zelfs het Indiase leger UFO-meldingen heeft gedaan.
In maart 2008 hoorde hij van een waarneming in het dorp Banswara, waar acht mensen een onbekend vaartuig in de lucht hadden gezien.
Zes dagen later kwam Vaishnav aan in het dorp. “Volgens de dorpelingen had de UFO de vorm van een hoed,” zei hij, toevoegende dat de onderkant was voorzien van een fel licht.
Groot rood licht
Kumaresan Ramanathan werd in 2012 de eerste Indiase UFO-onderzoeker van MUFON. Hij moest een aantal waarnemingen onderzoeken, waaronder die van een rij rode, gele en groene lichten die enkele minuten bleven hangen en vervolgens verdwenen.
Hij moest ook beelden bestuderen van een object dat bijna een uur boven Bangalore hing en vervolgens opeens verdween.
Op 15 december 1987 zag de toen 6-jarige Kamal Pant uit de stad Dehradun een groot rood licht in de lucht. “Het was geen vliegtuig, helikopter of grap,” zei hij.
Cover-up
“Het bleef enige tijd in de lucht hangen en maakte geen geluid,” voegde hij toe.
Pant, die lesgeeft op een privé-universiteit in Dehradun, stelt dat NASA en de VS betrokken zijn bij een cover-up en dat na de Roswell-crash buitenaardse technologie is buitgemaakt.
Hij claimt ook op telepathische wijze met aliens te kunnen communiceren. “Mijn moeder en vrouw hebben alles gezien en weten dat ik niet lieg,” zei Pant.
Moederschip
De lokale bewoners noemen deze wezens pariyaan (feeën), aldus Pant.
De universitair docent zegt in 2014 een ‘moederschip’ op de maan te hebben gefotografeerd en gefilmd. “Ik stuurde de NASA hier een e-mail over. Een maand later kreeg ik een bericht uit Houston dat ik ‘weg moest blijven’,” zei hij.
Pant claimt dat een dag later was ingebroken op zijn computer en dat een aantal van zijn video’s waren verdwenen.
ENOCH: THE STORY OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL FALLEN ANGELS
ENOCH: THE STORY OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL FALLEN ANGELS
Angels make frequent appearances in the holy scriptures and continue to play an active role in the popular imagination. While many people believe that these beings are either symbolic or supernatural figures, others believe that angels could be extra-terrestrials. The Book of Enoch gives an intriguing view on this controversial position.
While most people associated angels with the Christian faith, they are actually a mainstay of many ancient cultural traditions. Many of the earliest known civilizations in the Near East, including the ancient Sumerians, the Babylonians, and the Egyptians had their own narratives surrounding angelic beings. These beings tended to manifest themselves as beings with wings which served as the agents of higher gods. The higher gods utilized the angels as messengers and watchers who would visit the Earthly dimension at their behest.
One of the most explicit descriptions of angels serving in this capacity comes from the Book of Enoch in the Old Testament. The Book of Enoch describes a vast number of angels settling on the planet Earth who set out to teach Enoch various disciplines. These include meteorology, astronomy, and metalwork. This is a fairly unusual story, and it appears to chime with a theory known as the Ancient Astronaut theory. Many people believe that the ancients were lent a helping hand in the progression of human civilization on account of the fact that a number of ancient monuments and texts display extraordinary sophistication which is completely unexplained by the cultural and social circumstances of historical record. Could the Book of Enoch be confirmation of this controversial theory?
The Book of Enoch also describes ‘fallen angels’ arriving on Mount Hermon with the intention of living on Earth and assuming power over the planet. These angels are said to have eventually integrated into human society and even interbreeding with human beings to create human-angel hybrids. It was this action that incited the wrath of God.
For many people, this seems to indicate that human beings were unwittingly placed in the center of a power struggle between two distinct alien breeds – the masterful creator gods and their former servants who sought to take their own path with regards to the planet Earth. If this is the case, then it should be of some concern to human beings currently living on this planet. Both the Old and the New Testament make frequent references to a battle which is to come between opposing forces of good and evil. Could it be the case that this battle will involve an almighty struggle between two separate species of powerful alien beings?
NASA TO LAUNCH 'ALIEN HUNTING' WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE IN LATE 2018
NASA TO LAUNCH 'ALIEN HUNTING' WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE IN LATE 2018
A telescope is being tested by NASA in a vacuum that is freezing cold before it is launched into space with the hope of unlocking some of the mysteries of how the universe was formed after the big bang and if planets outside of the solar system have alien life.
NASA said that to make sure that the optics of the telescope will be able to operate in the frigid destination, which is 1 million miles in space; it must first go through some cryogenic temperature tests in a vacuum.
The James Webb Space Telescope made its way carefully and slowly from its location at the Goddard Space Flight Center to the Johnson Space Center in Houston to take part in the tests. The tests are going to take place in the vacuum chamber that the Apollo spacecraft went through before it took the first humans to the moon. NASA said that the test was a critical one as it would verify the performance of the telescope end to end at cold temperatures that are extremely low.
Following the tests at Johnson the telescope, which is a project between NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and European Space Agency, will move to California to be assembled and tested, it will then be launched in the latter half of 2018. The mission of the telescope is to explore some of the oldest galaxies in the universe along with being able to get a much closer look at planetary systems.
The James Webb Space Telescope has been likened to that of a flower blooming; however, it is, in fact, a very tough piece of technology. One of the solar systems the telescope will capture is the TRAPPIST-1 system, made up of seven planets that are orbiting a star around 40 light years away. Astronomers revealed their finding only recently and noted that three of the planets might be in the star's habitable zone. This is a region that is at the correct distance from the source of heat to be able to sustain liquid water. However, all seven of the planets may be habitable as they are so close together and the sun, which orbits closer than the scorched Mercury planet to the sun, something that is possible due to the star being smaller and cooler than that of our own.
A NASA exoplanet scientist said that if the planets have atmospheres, the James Webb Space Telescope should be the key that is needed to unlock the secrets. It is thought that the secrets include the makeup of the atmosphere, for instance, whether they contain oxygen, water, carbon dioxide and other compounds. The Webb telescope may be able to take a look at the LHS 114ob, which is located 40 light years away in a habitable zone of the star. Scientists are excited about the newly discovered planet as it shares a lot of similarities to Earth and it is said to be about the same age, even though it is heavier and bigger.
A Georgia witness at Savannah reported watching two large, triangle-shaped objects hovering over the city at 9:45 p.m. on April 25, 2017, according to testimony in Case 83466 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness described two hovering triangle objects while driving down East Broad Street in Savannah, GA, pictured.
(Credit: Google)
The witness and a roommate were driving back into the city fromTybee Island when the incident occurred.
“I was sitting in the passenger seat, looking out of the window,” the witness stated.“We were headed south on East Broad when I saw two very large, triangular crafts hovering above the city. They were very dark (dark gray to black) in color. They were covered in large, round white lights. The crafts were parallel to each other and perpendicular to the ground. The widest part of the triangle was closest to the ground with the top pointing upward. They stayed stationary. I saw them above the city, fairly low, flying for any sort of air traffic.”
The objects were described as enormous. Pictured: East Broad Street, Savannah, GA.
(Credit: Google)
The witness could not judge the size of the objects.
“I can’t say exactly how large they were, except to describe them as enormous. The car windows were up, so I couldn’t hear anything, but I would expect something of that size to make a sound loud enough to be heard inside a nearby vehicle. I will note that on the way back from the islands, I did notice two or three seemingly stationary aircrafts in the distance. Unlike the triangles, these seemed to be either planes or helicopters, but they were too far away for me to give more details than that. The night was somewhat cloudy and the triangles were far below the clouds.”
The objects were quickly lost due to buildings and trees. Pictured: East Broad Street, Savannah, GA.
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The witness quickly lost sight of the objects due to buildings and trees.
“I lost sight of them for a few seconds, as a building obstructed my view of them. We drove past an alley, at which point I caught sight of them again. When we got to the next cross street, I asked my roommate to turn right. She did, but the street was lined with trees which obstructed the view of the sky. When we turned again, we had a clearer view of the sky, but we could not spot the triangles. Unfortunately, since my roommate was driving, she never saw them.”
Savannah is the oldest city in Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County, population 145,674. Georgia MUFON State Director Ralph Howard is investigating. No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on May 1, 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 message for Earth-visiting UFO aliens (if they're real)
A message for Earth-visiting UFO aliens (if they're real)
Listen up all you UFO-piloting aliens from outer space, this Earth resident has a few reasonable demands.
by Amanda Kooser
A "UFO" as seen from my backyard. Amanda Kooser/CNET
Dear UFO-flying aliens,
You're not as sneaky as you think you are. YouTube is full of shaky and fuzzy videos showing your mysterious lights, orbs and various flying blobs checking out our less-advanced civilization. We're onto you, but I have a few requests that would be a big help for some of us more-skeptical people:
1. Please hold still.
Camera technology has advanced at an incredible rate, but we still can't seem to get a decent video of your high-tech, space-faring, Earth-visiting crafts. Sure, we can photograph a single airplane from the International Space Station, but we can't seem to capture a clear video of one of your UFOs. I would appreciate it if you could come in low over a well-populated area and hover in good lighting for at least a few minutes. Just long enough for someone to get some solid footage is all I ask.
2. Land and say "Hi."
I can understand why you haven't bothered to introduce yourselves yet. Humans are kind of weird and scary. We tend to kill things we don't understand. But we're not all like that. I would suggest landing somewhere in New Mexico where we're used to the idea of space aliens thanks to all the tourism around Roswell and an alleged UFO landing there back in 1947.
I recommend aiming for the 2017 UFO Festival in Roswell this July. We're pretty chill. You will be greeted like an old friend and we'll give you a cool t-shirt and alien-eye-shaped sunglasses. Just imagine the vacation photos you'll get to show your buddies back on your home planet.
Yetis and UFOs and sea monsters, oh my! (pictures)
3. Watch some Star Trek.
You may be hesitant to get in touch with us because you've seen our Earth productions like the "Alien" series and "Independence Day." Admittedly, the aliens don't come off very well. As an antidote, I suggest you binge-watch all of "Star Trek." See? Some of us dream of all getting along some day! We would love to start a real United Federation of Planets with you. And we have really cool conventions. You'll love it and nobody will judge you based on your alien looks.
We also know you've been hanging out on Mars, creating sculptures for whatever artistic or ritualistic endeavors you're into. I don't mean to come off like an art critic, but your efforts on Mars are a little too impressionistic. Please work on expressing yourself with a stronger sense of realism so we don't have to guess if some random stone is a statue or just a weirdly-shaped rock.
It would also help if you would sign your work, release an artist's statement and offer a price tag in case one of our rovers would like to purchase it.
5. Please don't eat us.
If I'm totally off track here and you're hovering above our cities and countrysides while you're working out the best way to cook and serve humans, I have a final request: Don't eat us. Also, please don't raise us on ranches, put us in zoos on other planets or probe us for any reason. Remember, we have Will Smith ready in case you try any hijinks.
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A sign marking the path leading to the supposed UFO crash site outside Roswell, N.M. According to "UFO Sightings Desk Reference," there were 554 compiled reports from Suffolk County from 2001 through 2015.
Is there something strange going on in Suffolk County?
More UFO sightings have been reported in Suffolk than in any other county in New York State, according to data from a new book.
In “UFO Sightings Desk Reference,” authors Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa — a couple based in Syracuse — compile national data from two volunteer organizations, the Mutual UFO Network and the National UFO Reporting Center. Both organizations collect eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings, Cheryl Costa said.
The 371-page tome is a collection of charts and graphs showing sightings by region, sorting incidents chronologically and categorizing the UFOs by shape, Cheryl Costa said.
From 2001 through 2015, there were 554 compiled reports from Suffolk County. That’s 100 more sightings than were reported in Manhattan over the same time frame and more than twice as many as were reported in Queens, according to Costa, who conducted a county-by-county analysis of reports pulled from the national reporting networks.
UFOs have been seen in every part of the country, according to Costa. The most reports filed nationwide were from Los Angeles County, followed by Maricopa County, Arizona.
So how does one compile data on something that is, by definition, unidentified? Reports of sightings are scrutinized by a network of investigators, according to Roger Marsh, a spokesman for the Mutual UFO Network, which purports to be the oldest and largest UFO investigative group in the country. The National UFO Reporting Center, which has received more than 100,000 reports since it was founded in 1974, also attempts to point out “hoaxes,” director Peter Davenport said. The Costas broke down their reports into more than 25 categories of sightings, including blimp, fireball, Saturn-like and starlike.
Even before Costa began working on the book, she singled out Suffolk County as a “hot spot” for sightings. She noticed the trend while writing a column on flying saucers and other UFOs for the Syracuse New Times, she said.
Costa hasn’t analyzed data from Suffolk County on a community level, but said there are a large number of reports that come from Islip, Oakdale and Great River, which she referred to in a 2014 column as the “Great River Triangle.”
Nassau County ranked third in the state with 276 reports, she said. In both counties, the number of sightings has been increasing, with a spike seen in 2012, Costa said.
Costa, who said she saw her first UFO in Savona, New York, when she was 12, said she is focused on data and does not speculate on why there are so many Long Island sightings.
She’s hoping the book, which makes no mention of little green men, will “detoxify” and lessen the stigma around the subject and get more people — like the government — talking about UFOs.
“We don’t talk about who’s driving these things, but somebody should because there sure are a lot of them,” Costa said.
This is a sleek UFO cloaked in this cloud which allows it to move low and slow over the surface of the ground. Notice that the center of the UFO has a hump spot, its really a transparent (glass-like) dome part of the ship for observing. Scott C. Waring
News states: It may have been grounded for more than 13 years but this picture shows the spirit of the Concorde lives on in the sky. This photograph, taken in the Yorkshire Dales, shows a cloud formation that looks eerily like the iconic supersonic jet flying over the Ribblehead Viaduct. It was snapped by Thomas Beresford, a Winter Maintenance operative for North Yorkshire County Council, who spotted the jaw-dropping sight at 5:30am. He said: 'I was took it on the way to work this morning. It was a phantom Concorde flying over Whernside.'
UFO Tentacles Sticking Up Out Of Clouds Over London, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Tentacles Sticking Up Out Of Clouds Over London, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 16, 2017
Location of sighting: Warsaw to London
Source: MUFON #82114 UFOs often hide inside clouds to escape from being seen by humans, so its not too unusual to see some odd tentacles or telescope like objects sticking out of the top of clouds. It obvious that the aliens needed to either absorb the sun for unknown reasons or to get their bering, but one thing I 'm sure they didn't expect was to get caught in someones photos. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Flying from Warsaw to London Heathrow, looking out the window to my left. Out of the corner of my eyes I saw these dark, thin figures in the middle of a cloud. It definitely wasn't a building because we were too high up so I thought they were mini tornadoes There were 4 figures: 2 tall ones and 2 slightly small ones. They were very close together and they weren't moving at all. They were dark, had a thicker upper body and a thinner lower body. One of them looks like they had wings. I was in awe and shocked at how it was all deserted then there were these random weird objects just standing on top of a cloud. I took photos and showed my parents and brother the photo and they couldn't believe their eyes. I was also a little bit excited because I have never seen anything like this before. Flew past the object(s) then it disappeared.
Real search for aliens gets weird signal from a sci-fi world
Real search for aliens gets weird signal from a sci-fi world
An ambitious search for signals from aliens across space hasn't found much yet, but there was an odd blip from a star system popular with science fiction fans.
In the late 22nd century, a terraforming project is underway on the planet Selika, orbiting the star 107 Piscium some 24 light-years from Earth. Plans to bomb and remake the planet in the image of Earth have ignited controversy because they also threaten to destroy all native life there.
Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Green Bank, West Virginia
The Green Bank Telescope is scanning the dial for alien stations.
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
That's part of the plot in award-winning science fiction author Jack McDevitt's 2013 novel "Starhawk." While the storyline is obviously imagined, 107 Piscium is a very real star, and scientists recently picked up intriguing signals when they pointed some of the world's most powerful radio telescopes in its direction.
Late last month, the Stephen Hawking-backed Breakthrough Listen initiative released its first set of alien-hunting data gathered from huge listening devices like the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to target a list of 692 different stars. Sophisticated software scanned billions of radio channels for unique signals that might be coming from a distant alien civilization.
While there were no obvious messages from E.T. in all the petabytes of data, the analysis did surface 11 "events" considered to be significant. I've just finished a little basic analysis of my own, digging into what's significant about those 11 stars. While I'm no astronomer, I can tell you that one of them is especially significant to sci-fi fans. Breakthrough Listen refers to it as HIP7981, but it's also known as 107 Piscium.
To be clear, no one is saying Breakthrough Listen has picked up signals from a civilization on a distant terraformed planet. In fact, the researchers say it's far more likely they're picking up radio interference from our own human technology.
Still, they plan to gather more data and more rigorously analyze the data they've already gathered, including signals from 107 Piscium, which has already been tempting our imaginations for years now.
"Although the search has not yet detected a convincing signal from extraterrestrial intelligence, these are early days," Andrew Siemion from the Breakthrough Listen science team said in a statement.
The data from the project and the software used for the analysis is open source and available for anyone with serious skills to dig into and search for evidence that other franchises might turn out to be a little more science fact than science fiction.
May I suggest starting with the star system from "Babylon 5?" Good luck. The truth is out there, just be sure to report it back to me.
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Planetary Protection: Contamination Debate Still Simmers
Planetary Protection: Contamination Debate Still Simmers
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
Scientists have long debated the best ways to minimize the threat of contaminating other worlds with Earth life — or vice versa — while still pursuing aggressive exploration goals.
Credit: NASA
On Sept. 15, 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a suicide plunge into Saturn to avoid contaminating the ringed planet's potentially habitable moons, Titan and Enceladus.
Cassini's fate is tied to the issue of planetary protection, which refers to the measures scientists and engineers take to minimize that chances that life-forms from Earth make it to other worlds. And with NASA's Mars 2020 rover planning to cache samples to one day return to Earth's labs, planetary protection also means making sure that our own world is safe from contamination by possible alien life.
Planetary protection was the first item on the agenda at the Astrobiology Science Conference, which was held last week in Mesa, Arizona. Chemists, biologists, planetary scientists, astronomers and other researchers all vigorously discussed the issue at the meeting's first session on Monday morning (April 24). [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
"Planetary protection has never been more important to consider," said Andrew Maynard, a researcher at Arizona State University's Risk Innovation Lab, who led the discussion.
Citing Mars sample return, an upcoming mission to Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa and possible future probes that could visit other icy satellites, Maynard engaged the audience of scientists with the stated intent of changing how they think about the process. Maynard, who is not an astrobiologist but a physicist, turned the attention of the room to studies on risk assessment, urging researchers to consider risk not as something to be avoided but rather as "a complex landscape to be moved through to reach goals."
He also said that analyzing the risk of contamination, either of Earth or another world, isn't the exclusive purview of any particular group of scientists — or of scientists in general.
"Everybody has got some stake," Maynard said.
Protecting the Earth
Concern about contamination has been part of exploration since the dawn of the Space Age. The first three sets of astronauts to land on the moon were kept in isolation on their return to Earth to ensure they hadn't brought any pathogens home with them. [NASA's 17 Apollo Moon Missions in Pictures]
Before NASA's Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers were sent to Mars to hunt for life, they were sterilized to minimize the odds that Earth microbes could contaminate their experiments. The robotic explorers that followed were similarly cleansed. And in 1967, the countries of the world agreed that their space missions would work to avoid contaminating Earth or other worlds, making planetary protection an international goal.
The moon rocks returned by Apollo astronauts soon revealed Earth's natural satellite as a barren, inhospitable place unsuitable for life. The comets and asteroids sampled by past and ongoing missions have already polluted Earth's surface, and NASA has deemed these objects unlikely to harbor life.
But Earth has received relatively few samples from Mars in the form of meteorites. While some scientists think that life could have started on the Red Planet and then hitched a ride to Earth, the issue is far from certain. So, when it comes to returning samples from Mars, space agencies will take great care not to infect Earth.
According to NASA procedural requirement NPR 8020.12: "Unless the sample to be returned is subjected to an accepted, approved, sterilization process, the sample container must be sealed after sample acquisition, and a redundant, fail-safe containment with a method for verification of its operation before Earth-return shall be required."
The requirement also states: "The mission and the spacecraft design shall provide a method to 'break the chain of contact' (BTC) with Mars. No uncontained hardware that contacted Mars, directly or indirectly, may be returned to Earth unless sterilized."
But scientists are still debating just what the biggest concerns are. Maynard's presentation, which involved randomly polling audience members and engaging them in debate, revealed that many of the scientists involved in studying how life could evolve beyond Earth disagree on just how much we need to worry about contamination.
Although the Martian surface appears bereft of life, some researchers think microbes might still exist underground. A sample-return mission could therefore theoretically carry living organisms back to Earth along with rocks and dirt. Whether a Martian microbe could survive on our planet remains a subject of heavy debate.
For instance, during the discussion period, Vladimir Airapetian, a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, argued that a living thing that evolved on Mars shouldn't be able to find a place on Earth because all of the planet's biological niches have been filled.
But Benjamin Wolf of Washington University in St. Louis disagreed. "I don't like the argument that we think the niches are taken," he said, citing the success that many invasive species on Earth have had when pushing into previously occupied niches.
"People didn't realize that kudzu would take over the entire South," Wolf said, describing the Japanese vine that has blanketed the southern United States since its 1876 introduction. "We need to understand that sometimes scientists don't know things."
Geochemist Stuart Bartlett, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Earth-Life Science Institute, also expressed concern about potentially bringing home organisms able to survive in the extreme conditions on Mars.
"Backwards contamination seems like a more natural candidate for spreading exponentially and invading," Bartlett said.
But Maynard doesn't think that scientists should be the only participants in the discussion. He encouraged opening a dialogue with the public, who would also be affected if a harmful organism were returned to Earth. With most of the world unversed in the potential hazards, Maynard encouraged scientists to do a better job of communicating potential issues, a process that would allow everyone to work together to make an informed decision.
He pointed to the opening of the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator along the France-Switzerland border whose activation some feared would create a microscopic black hole with the potential to destroy Earth. While this risk was considered marginal, Maynard pointed out that the improbable disaster would have a worldwide effect, and that scientists included society in the discussion in a reasonable fashion. (No black hole destroyed Earth when the accelerator was switched on, of course.)
When it comes to sample-return missions, scientists need to determine just how large the threat of extraterrestrial contamination might loom, Maynard said.
"It seems like we have a huge diversity of opinion whether alien life is able to survive on Earth," he said.
Contaminating Mars
During the April 24 discussion, scientists also debated the threat exploration missions pose to the pristine environment of Mars and other worlds. Red Planet rovers and landers are kept in strict isolation throughout their construction, which takes place in clean rooms around the world. Components are sterilized to the best ability of current technology, but researchers stress that it's impossible to kill every microbe aboard any craft.
The concern with carrying micro-organisms abroad is twofold. One issue involves the possibility of interfering with experiments designed to hunt for life on another world. If a terrestrial microbe hitched a ride, it could be picked up by the mission's tests, causing scientists to wrongly believe they had discovered alien life. [6 Most Likely Places for Alien Life in the Solar System]
Such a mistake, while disappointing in itself, could also affect how people around the world view scientists, participants in the April 24 session said.
"If NASA spent $5 billion on a life-detection mission and discovered life from Earth, then the loss of public trust would really shoot up," said Linda Billings, a researcher at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
A terrestrial organism traveling to another world via spacecraft also has the potential to infect that world, overwhelming or driving out any existing life. Many of the commenters who didn't think Martian microbes would flourish on Earth also seemed to believe that terrestrial life would be unlikely to thrive on the Red Planet, because of the considerable differences between the two worlds' environments.
But that's just speculation. And even if life from one world wouldn't last long on the other, it's important to keep things clean for the sake of understanding science, researchers at the session said.
"We need to save the Mars questions for Mars and the Earth questions for Earth," one person in the room said.
The desire to keep Mars free from Earth-based contamination could have serious implications when it comes to sending people to the Red Planet. Humans don't live in isolation; we carry a fleet of micro-organisms everywhere we go, and these tiny creatures outnumber our own cells about 10 to 1.
"If we send humans anywhere, we contaminate the planet, because we're dead if we're sterile," said one commentator. So, human exploration could lead to a conflict with planetary protection.
Not everyone agrees that humans would automatically contaminate the Red Planet, however. John Rummel, an astrobiologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and former NASA Planetary Protection Officer, told the room that he doesn't think there has to be a conflict.
"I don't think it's an all-or-nothing game," Rummel told Space.com. Human exploration could be incremental, he said, with the first explorers making only the most cautious steps outside of their habitation.
NASA and other government agencies aren't the only organizations that seek to put boots on Mars. For example, last September, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled his company's plan to help establish a million-person city on the Red Planet.
Even if such efforts succeed, they won't necessarily cause native Mars life to be swamped by microbes from Earth, Rummel said — especially if Red Planet organisms exist only underground, where they're shielded from harmful radiation.
"Musk is not going to have tourists interfering with the deep Martian subsurface," Rummel said.
In January 2017, the CIA declassified and shared 930,000 documents on its website. One of these included a document from 1968 detailing six UFO sightings in India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Indian UFO sightings thereafter have been sporadic compared to countries like the US and Russia. But this relative paucity does not deter a small (but determined) community of UFO investigators in India. What does the work of an Indian UFOlogist entail? What drives them? What are the strangest cases they’ve encountered, and how has their search impacted other areas of their lives? These are their stories. (Hindustan Times)
The truth is out there, and Raymond Szymanski is searching for it.
Szymanski is the author of “Fifty Shades of Greys,” a book about his search for evidence of alien encounters. He will be speaking this afternoon at a panel for the Mutual UFO Network of North Carolina at the Courtyard Winston-Salem at Hanes Mall.
The book, published last year, examines several prominent cases in UFO lore, including the belief that “Hangar 18” at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was once used to store evidence of extraterrestrials.
“I worked 38 years and nine months at Wright-Patterson,” said Szymanski, a retired engineer who worked with computer software for weapons systems among other duties at the base, having started there in 1973. He may not have seen definitive proof of aliens during his time there, but he saw and heard enough to spark a lasting interest in the subject.
Several years ago, even before he retired, he began researching various UFO sightings and alleged abduction cases, traveling to sites, interviewing witnesses, and doing first-person field research. “I’ve come up with, I think, some compelling theories based on what I’ve found,” he said.
Lakita Adams, the state director of MUFON-NC, said that she appreciates Szymanski’s approach to his investigations. “This is a subject filled with speculation and disinformation,” she said. “As an investigator who pursues evidence and data, I appreciate Ray’s approach of following the facts.”
His book’s title is a tongue-in-cheek play on “Fifty Shades of Grey” — for the uninitiated, “greys” are a commonly reported type of aliens (think bald heads, grey skin and spindly bodies).
“It’s an accounting of my quest for the truth about extraterrestrial visitation,” Szymanski said, “but I wanted to write it in a manner that might be more open to people.” So he added “a vein of humor,” both to the title and to the book overall, sharing misadventures he had along the way during his research as well as more serious findings.
He speaks about twice a month to groups of UFO enthusiasts, having recently finished a five-city tour. He is about to take a break from tours and interviews to work on two more books. One will focus on the stories people have shared with him at his appearances, and the other — which he describes “my third and final; I think a trilogy will be good” — has more of his field research.
Szymanski says he believes he has “solved the mystery of Hangar 18,” but he is saving that revelation for another day.
“It took a couple of years and divine intervention,” he said, “but I believe I’ve nailed it.”
Video: UFO Crosses Sky Over California Desert on Wednesday Afternoon, May 3, 2017
Video: UFO Crosses Sky Over California Desert on Wednesday Afternoon, May 3, 2017.
"Frank Zappa" films clearest UFO video in years. Are they here because of DPRK's Atomic Program?
The clearest UFO video footage in years coincides with a study that says California is a UFO hotspot
One thing is for sure: This one is no fake. Who could create such a bright light in the sky for 2 minutes? Seeing is believing, and this is the clearest UFO video we have seen in years.
A UFO flying over head in the California Desert at 5:20 p.m. on Wednesday, has been posted to Youtube by a user calling himself Frank Zappa. The famous musician has been dead for ten years, so it seems unlikely that Zappa himself posted it. Though Zappa did name his daughter, the subject of "Valley Girl," Moon Unit. But I digress.
Meanwhile, California is reported to be the site of most UFO sightings. "UFO Sightings Desk Reference," a new book on reported UFO sightings, found that California had the most reports of visual encounters with unidentified objects in the United States. This includes hundreds of reported sightings, CBS San Francisco reports.
The book analyzed more than 120,000 reports of UFOs and found more Californians believed they'd come in contact with extraterrestrial life than anyone else in the country.
Was the appearance connected in anyway with international Star Wars day, May the 4th Be With You, celebrated Thursday? Ok, that one's a stretch. But nuclear weapons testing in North Korea may be connected, actually. After all, 1950's atomic bomb testing in Nevada attracted hundreds of alien spacecraft. The DPRK has accelerated it's program recently, with similar effect. Was the UFO a missile from Vandenberg, or even the DPRK?
"We found that UFOs were sighted in every county in the United States. Every county had at least one sighting sometime in the past 15 years," the book's co-author, Cheryl Costa, explained.
According to Costa, Santa Clara County topped the list in Northern California with 569 reported sightings. Alameda County was second with 518, while San Francisco trailed with 327, reports CBS News
So what happened to the Zappa UFO after it left visual range? Did it crash in the desert and create yet another crater?
Gargantuan craters are seen pockmarking the rest of the solar system other than Earth. Recent studies of such impact craters on the moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars suggested that meteor strikes could trigger volcanic activity.
Film of the Zappa UFO is embedded above and lasts for just over 2 minutes.
However, over the course of millions of years, geological activity has eradicated the vast majority of ancient impact craters on Earth. This has limited research into whether meteor strikes could also set off volcanism on Earth, said study senior author Balz Kamber, a geochemist in Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, and his colleagues.
As for Zappa: In May 1982, Frank Zappa released Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, which featured his biggest selling single ever, the Grammy Award-nominated song "Valley Girl" (topping out at No. 32 on the Billboard charts).
In her improvised lyrics to the song, Zappa's daughter Moon Unit satirized the patois of teenage girls from the San Fernando Valley, which popularized many "Valspeak" expressions such as "gag me with a spoon", "fer sure, fer sure", "grody to the max", and "barf out".
Columnist Cheryl Costa examines the proof she has of her findings
Since I started this column, and since we released our book, UFO Sightings Desk Reference, various people have asked me, “Cheryl, where’s your proof that these sightings are really alien space crafts?”
My answer can only be, “I have none.” Of course this raises the question: Does this diminish the facts of our compiled statistics book of 121,036 reported UFO sightings from 2001-2015? I say, “Not in the least.”
Our objective was simply to report the magnitude of the UFO sighting reports for a 15-year period. Our other objective was to demonstrate that UFO sightings have been on the rise for some time, despite reports that reports have been declining since the 1980s.
I’m simply reporting what 121,036 Americans have stated; I can’t confirm or deny the facts of their sightings. Although, before we start dismissing these reports as bogus or misidentifications, we need to consider the bottom line. During an average month in the past 15 years, people in the United States have reported as little as handfuls to hundreds of UFO sightings.
Experienced investigators will tell you that only a small percentage or sighting reports are hoaxes or delusional people. Some sightings turn out to be natural phenomena, while others might be misidentification of things like experimental military aircrafts.
Then there is the large number of sightings that just can’t be explained. The experts I’ve spoken to say the number of unexplained exotic sightings sits in the 7-20 percent range. “Exotic” means not from Earth or not from our Dimensional Reality. The ultra-conservative investigators say the exotic stuff is about 4 percent of the overall data.
Let’s look at that 4 percent for a minute. We compiled 121,036 sightings from our 15-year reporting sample. If we take 4 percent of 121,036, that equals 4,841 potentially exotic sightings. If we divide 4,841 by 15 years, we get an average of about 323 per year. If we divide 323 of these unique unexplained sightings by 12 months, we get an average of 30 exotic sightings a month. Of course, that number could be a whole lot bigger. The possibility of 30 off-world or other dimensional-reality crafts per month for the past 15 years is something to sit up and take notice of.
Our UFO Sightings Desk Reference was intended to simply quantify the degree of the UFO sighting phenomena in the United States. We had neither the resources nor the expertise to vet every single one of those 121,036 sighting reports. We simply counted them all and reported our findings in the form of charts and tables. In effect, we produced a UFO census for all 50 states and their districts.
But the question, like a broken record, that keeps coming back is the question of “proof,” and that, as they say, is “the rub!” Was it our obligation to provide proof? No! As I said previously, that wasn’t our objective, and proof of alien crafts weren’t within the bounds of our resources or expertise to produce. What we have done is dispel the notion that UFO sightings are on the decline, when in fact, they are on the rise. In addition, we made at least half a dozen previously unknown discoveries supported by the numbers. So as researchers we achieved the objective we set out to answer and then some.
“But, Cheryl, you have no proof!” OK, so whose job is it to research data like ours and take it to the next level, maybe even achieve a level of proof, which some folks are demanding? In the scientific world, to verify the validity of a piece of scientific information, it must be evaluated. The usually accepted scholarly process can be one or all of the following:
Research articles can be published in academic, peer reviewed journals.
Or published in official government agency reports and journals.
Or get validation by some independent scholarly institution, such as various countries’ National Academies of Sciences or various non-profit research organizations.
Lastly, traditional, major and respected newspapers are considered reliable.
It shouldn’t be a declaration, “You have no proof.” It should be a question: “Why haven’t the scholarly and scientific institutions investigated the UFO question since the 1970s?” We have proved it hasn’t gone away.
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. Follow me on Twitter @American_Skies.
As an astrobiologist I spend a lot of my time working in the lab with samples from some of the most extreme places on Earth, investigating how life might survive on other worlds in our solar system and what signs of their existence we could detect. If there is biology beyond the Earth, the vast majority of life in the Galaxy will be microbial—hardy single-celled life forms that tolerate a much greater range of conditions than more complex organisms can. To be honest, my own point of view is pretty pessimistic. Don’t get me wrong—if the Earth received an alien tweet tomorrow, or some other text message beamed at us by radio or laser pulse, then I’d be absolutely thrilled. So far, though, we’ve seen no convincing evidence of other civilizations among the stars in our skies.
But let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that there are one or more star-faring alien civilizations in the Milky Way. We’re all familiar with Hollywood’s darker depictions of what aliens might do when they come to the Earth: zapping the White House, harvesting humanity for food like a herd of cattle, or sucking our oceans dry. These scenarios make great films, but don’t really stand up to rational scrutiny. So let’s run through a thought experiment on what reasons aliens might possibly have to visit the Earth, not because I reckon we need to ready our defenses or assemble a welcoming party, but because I think considering these possibilities is a great way of exploring many of the core themes of the science of astrobiology.
I. AlienscometoEarthtoenslavehumanityorforbreedingpartners
Alien races enslaving each other is a common trope of many science fiction universes. While enslavement of defeated enemies or other vulnerable populations has regrettably been a common feature of our history on Earth, it’s hard to see why a species with the capability of voyaging between the stars, and therefore having already demonstrated the mastery of a highly advanced level of machinery and of marshaling energy resources, would have any need for slaves. Constructing robots, or other forms of automation or mechanization, would be a far more effective solution for labor—people are feeble in comparison, harder to fix, and need to be fed.
Likewise, the idea of an alien species needing humans for breeding doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny. The act of sexual reproduction, on a genetic level, involves the combination of DNA from two individuals. So on the most fundamental level, for an alien race to be compatible with us, they would need not only to use the same polymer, deoxyribonucleic acid, as the storage molecule for their genetic information, but also to use the same four “letters” for their genetic alphabet (and not other purine and pyrimidine bases that exist in chemistry), and the same coding system for translating those sequences of genetic letters into proteins, and the same organizational structure of the DNA strands into chromosomes, and so on. There is a lot of ongoing research on whether extraterrestrial life is likely to use DNA, or what molecular alternatives there might be, but it is a huge stretch to expect alien life to be that similar to human genetics. Humans can’t even interbreed with our closest evolutionary relatives on Earth, the chimpanzees (indeed, this is the basis of the definition for different species—two organisms which are not able to reproduce fertile offspring), and so it is overwhelmingly improbable that an alien life form from a completely different evolutionary lineage would be compatible.
II. Aliens come to Earth to harvest us for food
If aliens wouldn’t be bothered about enslaving or breeding with us, might they simply be coming to Earth for a drive-by meal? The question of whether an alien biochemistry would be able to digest us as food actually comes down to some very fundamental features of the molecules of life. Our cells are made up of various organic molecules: proteins (polymers of amino acids), nucleic acids DNA and RNA (polymers of bases and sugars), and membranes of phospholipids. And so for making more cells for reproduction, growth and repair of our bodies we need a source of these simple building blocks. We eat other animals or plants and our digestive system breaks them down into their component amino acids, sugars, and fatty acids, which we then use as the building blocks for ourselves. So in order to derive any useful nutrition from eating a human, an alien monster would need to be based on very similar biochemistry, and thus have the enzymes needed for processing the molecules we are built from.
A whole variety of amino acids, sugars and fatty molecules are actually found in certain meteorites, having been produced by astrochemistry in outer space, and so maybe extraterrestrial life would be based on the same basic building blocks as us. But there’s another, very interesting subtlety here. Simple organic molecules like amino acids and sugars can exist in two different forms, mirror images of each other (in the same way your two hands are similar shapes but can’t be placed exactly one on top of the other). These two versions are known as enantiomers, and it turns out that all life on Earth uses only left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars, whereas non-living chemistry produces even mixtures of both kinds.
So if we do find traces of amino acids on Mars, one very good way of telling whether these organic molecules are the relics of ancient Martian life or are just the product of astrochemistry would be to check if they are mostly left- or right-handed forms, or just an even mixture. The most exciting discovery would be to detect traces of ancient bacteria on Mars and to find that they employ the opposite forms of organic molecules to us: right-handed amino acids or left-handed sugars, because then we would know for sure that this life was definitely extraterrestrial and not merely contamination from Earth. So here’s a fascinating thought: alien invaders could be based on exactly the same organic molecules (amino acids, sugars, etc.), but they still wouldn’t gain any nutrition from eating us as the origins of life on their own planet settled on the opposite enantiomers. We’d be mirror images of each other, on a molecular level.
III. Aliens come to Earth to suck our oceans dry
If alien marauders would need to have an essentially identical biochemistry to bother culling us for food, maybe they come to Earth to harvest some other vital substance. All life on Earth is water-based; H2O is astonishingly versatile as a solvent and participant in biochemistry and so it seems likely that extraterrestrial life would also be based on this compound. Perhaps, then, aliens may be drawn to the Earth for our wonderfully wet oceans and seas and rivers and lakes—to siphon off our hydrological cycle.
The problem with this supposition is that there are loads of far better sources of water in space. In fact, we think that when Earth first formed from the swirling disc of gas and dust around the proto-Sun it was actually a pretty dry planet; the water to fill our oceans was delivered later by a barrage of comets and asteroids from the colder, outer regions of the solar system. In fact, Europa, one of the moons orbiting Jupiter, contains more liquid water in the global ocean beneath its frozen surface than our entire planet—Europa, and not Earth, is the Waterworld of our solar system. So if you were an alien voyaging between star systems in need of a drink, you’d have access to a far greater amount of water in the icy moons and cometary halo of the outer solar system. You’d also find it much more practical to operate in deep space, rather than trying to suck up the oceans against the gravitational pull of the planet Earth.
IV. Aliens come to Earth for some other raw material
If not water, then maybe there’s some other natural resource that aliens might invade the Earth to exploit. Perhaps they intend to wipe away our cities and begin strip-mining the crust of the planet for ores to extract metals and build more vast spaceships. But in fact, because the Earth formed from a molten state with iron sinking down to the core, our planet’s crust is actually pretty depleted of useful metals like iron, nickel, platinum, tungsten and gold. And as with the water, it’s hard to see why aliens would bother extracting material against the gravity of the Earth when the asteroids are composed of the same basic rocky stuff. In fact, some asteroids are believed to be essentially pure lumps of metal—they were once the cores of protoplanets that were smashed apart again by the colossal collisions in the early history of the solar system. Several companies are already proposing to launch asteroid mining operations to exploit these exceedingly valuable resources.
Perhaps, though, there might be a reason that our hypothetical aliens would come to mine the Earth. While it’s true that the asteroids and Earth, and other terrestrial planets, are made up of essentially the same rocky material, the Earth isn’t simply an inert lump; it’s a very active, dynamic place. In particular, the thin crust of the Earth is fractured into separate shards that are continually sliding around on top of the hot gooey mantle, rubbing alongside each other, crunching head-on, subducting one beneath another, or pulling apart to create fresh crust. This is the churning process of plate tectonics.
So far, astronomers have already found over four and a half thousand extrasolar planets—worlds orbiting other stars—and the expectation now is that there are billions of rocky planets in our Galaxy. But here’s a thought right on the forefront of current planetary science and astrobiology. Perhaps terrestrial planets are common, but terrestrial planets withplatetectonics are rare. Plate tectonics is thought to be vital for keeping the Earth’s climate stable over billions of years to allow complex life like ours to evolve, and it also acts to concentrate certain metals into rich ores. It seems likely that only a small proportion of terrestrial planets undergo plate tectonics (neither Mars nor Venus does). So perhaps an alien civilization would come to the Earth for our exceptional plate tectonics and concentration of particular metals, and the fact that the same tectonics had also enabled a rich biosphere to develop would be merely an inconvenience.
V.Aliens come to Earth looking for a new home
There is a considerable amount of rocky real estate in the galaxy for aliens to consider moving home to, but a terrestrial planet might need to offer more than just a habitable zone locale to be able to support complex life. Communities of hardy microbial cells thriving off inorganic energy deep underground might be able to survive pretty much anywhere, but complex life requires much narrower environmental conditions on the surface. Various features of the Earth beyond our warm oceans are thought to be crucial to maintaining a stable surface environment for geological time periods. These include plate tectonics acting to regulate the climate, a large moon preventing the spin axis of the planet from wobbling too much, and a global magnetic field for deflecting aside the solar wind and preventing the atmosphere being blown away into space. For these reasons, maybe planets like the Earth are something of a rarity, and so present particularly desirable targets for alien colonization.
But while it’s true that such worlds may well be required for complex life to evolve in the first place, once an intelligent species becomes technologically advanced enough to travel between the stars it’s also likely to be able to artificially manage a planet’s environment. For example, many people are already starting to talk seriously about “mega-engineering” or “geoengineering” projects to avoid the worst effects of global warming on Earth, and we’ve worked out, at least in broad terms so far, how further in the future we could “terraform” Mars to create a habitable environment for humans to live on the surface without needing spacesuits. Indeed, the very fact that Earth is already teeming with its own life (most of which is tenacious microbes that affect the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans) may well be a hindrance to an alien species, with its own quirky biochemistry, looking for somewhere to colonize. It may well be easier to find a terrestrial world that hasn’t already developed life of its own, and install its own biosphere on an empty planet.
VI. Aliens come to the Earth for the Earthlings
To my mind, then, the enormous amounts of time and energy that are likely to be necessary for traveling between the stars in a galaxy, and the fact that raw materials can be sought elsewhere more practically, would rule out aliens coming to the Earth simply to take something we have. I think we can safely rest assured that even if intelligent alien species do exist in our galaxy, they are not about to appear in our skies with an invasion fleet to subjugate humanity and begin stripping our world. Perhaps the thing that may attract only extraterrestrials to Earth is us. I suspect that if aliens did come to Earth, it would be as researchers: biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keen to understand the peculiar workings of life on Earth, to meet humanity and learn of our art, music, culture, languages, philosophies and religions.
If aliens do come to pay us a visit, there’s one final way that the movies have probably got it all wrong. The laws of physics (at least as we currently understand them—after all, in 100 years we may have worked out how to build a practical warp drive or stretch stable wormholes through the fabric of space-time) strongly constrain movement across the vast gulfs between stars. To make the journey time from one star system to the next anything less than scores of millennia, you need to accelerate your spaceship to a fair fraction of the speed of light. The greater the mass you need to accelerate, the greater the energy required, so you really want to keep your starships as small and light as possible.
Intelligent life forms like humans are inherently bulky things, particularly when you want to send a team of them along with all the life support machinery and regeneration systems for keeping them alive in space. But a much more plausible alternative presents itself. Perhaps it’s unrealistic to expect ET to go through all the discomfort and bother of actually voyaging in person across the oceans of interstellar space to far-flung worlds, but instead to travel by proxy. To cross the galaxy not by encasing wet, vulnerable biological organisms within complex life-support technology, but as the hardened, durable technology itself. With a more complete understanding of how the human brain works—the neuronal wiring diagram and other interactions that give rise to intelligence and consciousness—it stands to reason that we could not only simulate this perfectly within hardware to construct an AI (artificial intelligence), but also potentially upload the consciousness of a living person into a computer.
Contained within a capsule of miniaturized electronics and systems for self-repair you’d not only be essentially immortal, but also incredibly compact and light and much better suited for inter- stellar travel. In this sense, perhaps most life in the galaxy isn’t carbon-based (organic), but silicon-based. I don’t mean this in the sense of silicoid monsters imagined living inside volcanoes in TheX-Files or Star Trek, but as the hardware supporting complex sentient computer programs. Silicon life would be second generation, existing only because it has been designed and created by a precursor organic species, which itself evolved naturally on a habitable world.
For these reasons, it strikes me that if there is intelligent alien life out there in our galaxy, they almost certainly wouldn’t pay us a visit in person in huge city-sized motherships, but by sending their sentient robots as emissaries. But how would they know we’re here in the first place? Humanity has been leaking (or deliberately transmitting) radio waves out into space for roughly a century,
So an alien civilization running a SETI program with sensitive radio telescopes could detect us. But this radio bubble announcing our technological emergence, centered on the Earth and expanding out into space at light speed, is only around 200 light years across. That is a minuscule region of space in the galaxy as a whole, a disc 100,000 light years in diameter, and so even if the galaxy does contain other intelligent life forms, they would likely still be oblivious to our recent appearance. But although humanity has only been detectably civilized for a century, the Earth itself has been conspicuously alive for many hundreds of millions of years, and this links to one of the hottest topics in current astrobiology. Life on Earth, and specifically photosynthetic life such as plants and cyanobacteria that grow by absorbing the energy of sunlight and splitting water, has been releasing oxygen as a waste gas at such a high rate that it has built up in the atmosphere, first to just a few per cent, and today constituting a fifth of the Earth’s air. Oxygen is a very reactive gas, and the only reason it has been able to accumulate in the atmosphere is that it is constantly being replenished by living organisms. In fact, the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere is thought to be so unusual to the geochemistry of a planet that astrobiologists consider it to be a biosignature of life (specifically if oxygen and a reduced gas like methane are both present).
We are currently on the verge of building space-based telescopes that use spectroscopy to read the composition of the atmospheres of terrestrial exoplanets, and so survey the night sky for signs of life. And we’re only relative newcomers on the galactic scene. There’s nothing special about this exact moment in galactic history, and life on another planet could have evolved intelligence millions of years ago and used their own telescopes to look out for planets displaying the telltale sign of an oxygen-rich atmosphere. But apparently, as far as we can tell the fact that the Earth is obviously sporting biology has not prompted anyone to say hello.
This is a very curious observation, and to my mind could be down to two equally intriguing possibilities. The fact that Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere has apparently attracted no one’s attention may simply be because life is so rare that there is not a single other civilization in the galaxy with us to have their attention drawn. Or perhaps planets with an oxygen-rich atmosphere are so staggeringly common that the Earth just doesn’t stand out among the masses. In the first possibility we are solitary and lonely intelligent beings in the galaxy; in the second, life is absolutely rife in the cosmos. Both, to me, are equally profound realizations. And the most exciting aspect is that within your and my lifetime we will have launched our atmosphere-reading space telescopes and the science of astrobiology will have been able to tell which one is right.
What a time to be an intelligent life form on Earth!
t's been one of the most puzzling phenomena identified in space in recent years, but now scientists have demonstrated how comets can produce oxygen and this could help in the search for life outside of Earth.
In 2015, a team of scientists had been studying the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft. First observed in 1969, this comet belongs to the Jupiter Family comets, as its orbit is controlled by Jupiter's gravity.
This was an unexpected discovery. Indeed, molecular oxygen in space is highly unstable – oxygen molecules tend to pair up with hydrogen to make water, or with carbon to make carbon dioxide. Up to now, molecular oxygen had only been identified twice in space, in star-forming nebulas.
At the time, scientists had attempted to explain the phenomenon by proposing that the molecular oxygen on 67P might have thawed from its surface after having been frozen inside the comet at the time of its formation about 4.6 billion years ago.
But some scientists disagreed with this theory, highlighting that oxygen should nevertheless have reacted with other chemicals over such a long period of time.
Lead study author Konstantinos P Giapis is not an astronomer. He is a professor of chemical engineering at California Institute of Technology, who's primary interest lies in finding out new ways to fabricate microprocessors in computers. In the research, his shows how the work he has been conducting for years can shed new light on comets' oxygen mystery.
"I started to take an interest in space and was looking for places where ions would be accelerated against surfaces," Giapis said. "After looking at measurements made on Rosetta's comet, in particular regarding the energies of the water molecules hitting the comet, it all clicked. What I've been studying for years is happening right here on this comet."
Having studied throughout his career how fast-moving molecules collide with surfaces and create chemical reactions, the scientist has shown experimentally, in his lab, that similar processes might be happening on the comet 67P.
Comet 67PESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
He suggests that water vapour molecules might be streaming off the comet as it is heated by the Sun. These water molecules then become ionised (or charged) by ultraviolet light from the sun before being pushed back towards the comet by solar winds.
The molecules then hit the comet's surface – which contains oxygen bound in materials such as rust and sand – and pick up oxygen atoms from these surfaces, leading to the production of molecular oxygen.
Giapis explained: "This original chemistry mechanism is based on the seldom-considered class of Eley-Rideal reactions, which occur when fast-moving molecules, water in this case, collide with surfaces and extract atoms residing there, forming new molecules. All necessary conditions for such reactions exist on comet 67P."
The study's findings may provide an interesting tool for scientists looking for life outside Earth.Indeed, it is possible that some exoplanets may be producing oxygen in a similar fashion, without having life on their surface. This may influence how researchers search for signs of life on these planets in the future.
I just thought you would like to see these hot lips I found today. This formation of red lips is located in the Carena Constellation about 16,000 light years from Earth. The white star at the center of the red lips ring is a sun called V385 Carinae. Its about 35X the size of our own sun and the red lips were formed from the explosion of that sun. Or in other words, the inside of a sun has now become the outside.
Depending on the level of evolution and age of species, it would be possible for some species to be so high technologically that they could control a sun, or even cause it to explode with a special design like ruby lips.
It doesn't really matter if aliens made it on purpose, or if it was made by nature. Its just awesome knowing that hot lips are a thing in this universe.
What Was the Westall UFO? – A Theory and Some Evidence In Support
What Was the Westall UFO? – A Theory and Some Evidence In Support
Above image: Westall researcher Shane Ryan, from the “Podcast UFO” website.
“This is all an insoluble mystery to me,” said I. “It grows darker instead of clearer.” “On the contrary,” he answered, “it clears every instant. I only require a few missing links to have an entirely connected case.” –Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes, in The Sign of the Four
A few days ago, I felt almost like Holmes. The 50-year-old mystery of the mass UFO sighting over Westall High School, in the Melbourne (Australia) suburb of Clayton, seemed to be clearing every instant. Add “a few missing links,” and one of the most important and instructive sightings in UFO history would yield its secrets.
I posted on Westall four weeks ago, in my review of the 2010 Australian documentary “Westall ’66.” Until I watched the film, I’d never heard of the Westall UFO. It’s indeed flown under the radar–pun more or less intended–as Shane Ryan, the Canberra teacher and investigator featured in the documentary, put it in a 2013 interview. Jerry Clark’s monumental UFO Encyclopedia, the second edition of which was published in 1998 and includes six articles by Bill Chalker on the Australian UFO scene, has not a word to say about Westall.But now the Dr. Watson feeling is creeping over me. As if Westall has depths I’d barely suspected.
In my post, I suggested a theory of what happened at the high school that day in 1966, near the beginning of the Australian school year. Here are my thoughts, in a slightly more developed and explicit form:
Yes, something unusual was seen in the sky late on the morning of April 6, autumn in the southern hemisphere. It may have been a weather balloon or it may have been a “target drogue” used by the Australian military to practice air-to-air firing, as two explanations floated at the time had it. Possibly both were involved.
Whatever the object was, it wasn’t especially dramatic. If you and I had been there, we might not even have noticed it.
The witnesses’ view of the object seems to have been blocked for a time by the tall pines of the area called “the Grange,” just to the south of the school. But no, the UFO was not seen to land among those trees; and the idea that it was responsible for flattened areas of grass in the Grange–which one UFOlogist who investigated the sighting said could have been caused by strong winds over the previous week–was conjecture after the fact.
Yes, there was excitement among the students at Westall High (which included the grades that we’d now think of as middle school), and it seems to have been concentrated among the younger kids. The excitement was apparently enough to call forth a special assembly, at which Westall’s stern headmaster Frank Samberle made sure the boys and girls knew there are no flying saucers, and what they saw was just a weather balloon.
But no, the mass stampede from the school into the Grange, so vividly depicted in “Westall ’66”–“all the students were just running all over the place, hysterical”; “like a whole lot of zebras being terrified by crocodiles,” to quote two of the witnesses–didn’t happen.
But then how to account for the memories of the dozens of intelligent, articulate, obviously sincere–not to mention courageous–men and women who’d been Westall students in the 1960s, whom Shane Ryan interviewed in the course of his investigation from 2005 onward? Several of these people tell their stories in “Westall ’66,” and it’s hard not to come away with the impression of a dramatic, multiply witnessed “close encounter of the second kind,” suppressed by military authorities in collusion with the Westall headmaster.
My hypothesis: these recollections are heavily tinctured with memories or fantasies of forbidden adolescent activities at the Grange—a favored place for “illicit smoking and steamy liaisons,” according to Ryan—for which the UFO and its suppression became a tangible representation.
Or, as I sometimes like to put it: the stimulus, the trigger for the UFO was something in the sky. The UFO came from inside.
The mystery of that UFO is a mystery of the human soul. The twists of human memory–not random, not unmeaningful–are an essential part of that mystery.
It’s a testament to Shane Ryan’s open-mindedness and generosity that, despite our considerable differences of interpretation, he reached out to me and guided me toward rich sources of information. These include the page of the Facebook group Westall Flying Saucer Incident–an excellent resource which I’d encourage all my readers to join–and the treasure trove of data posted to the Project 1947 website by veteran Australian UFOlogist Keith Basterfield. This in turn led me to posts on Basterfield’s “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena – Scientific Research” blog, arguing for the Westall UFO’s having been a high-altitude balloon and insisting on the crucial distinction between 1966 sources on the incident vs. post-2005 recollections of it.
Australian UFOlogist Keith Basterfield.
Thanks to the gracious support of these two researchers, I’ve found much data that “confirms my diagnosis, as you doctors express it” (Holmes to Watson, in The Sign of the Four).
Also some that goes against it. But we’ll get to that presently.
“Pro” item #1: Basterfield’s notes from a tape recording, transferred to CD by the Special Collections of the library of the University of Arizona (Tucson), of Dr. James E. McDonald’s interview with Westall science teacher Andrew Greenwood, 28 June 1967. (Basterfield, Source 15.) This is a precious resource: a near-contemporary account of the incident by an adult observer. Nearly all the testimony in “Westall ’66” is from people who were students at the time, and what they remembered after a 40-year interval. With a few possible exceptions soon to be noted, Greenwood was the only grownup who actually saw the UFO.
“AG said that a girl student raced into class saying ‘Flying saucer outside.’ She left the room, then 5-10 minutes later it was morning recess time, so AG went outside to take a look. … He couldn’t see the object at first due to the lack of contrast (the kids pointed it out to him).” The object was gray against a blue-gray sky; “if it wasn’t pointed out to you, you might not see it.” (This was the explanation Greenwood gave for the Dandenong Journal‘s inability to find anyone in the area who’d noticed it.)
“The object was airborne at all times,” and although “at one stage the object disappeared behind a tall row of pine trees,” there’s no hint that Greenwood saw it land or come anywhere close to doing that. The landed UFO, the “close encounter of the second kind,” belongs to the psychological rather than the physical reality of the episode.
Two other teachers witnessed at least part of the sighting, according to what Greenwood told McDonald: a phys ed teacher named Jeanette Muir, an English teacher named Claude Miller. Significantly, Greenwood made no mention of Barbara Robins, a chemistry teacher who appears in “Westall ’66” as having taken multiple photos of the object, only to have her camera confiscated by Samblebe in the company of two uniformed men from outside the school. (We’ll come back to her in a moment.)
“AG saw students go over the fence while he watched the object.” Yes, a few students must have done that. But if anything like the stampede portrayed in “Westall ’66” had taken place, that surely would have been Greenwood’s most vivid memory of the incident, given that he was among those charged with maintaining order at the school.
Also unmentioned in Greenwood’s testimony to McDonald: the visit paid to his home one week later by two Royal Australian Air Force officers, which he was to describe to Shane Ryan many years later. These officers threatened Greenwood under the Official Secrets Act, threatened to spread rumors he was an alcoholic (“Westall ’66”), threatened him with the loss of his teaching career if he talked about what he’d seen (Ryan in the 2013 interview). More than 40 years after the event, speaking to Ryan, Greenwood remembered that ominous visit. Speaking with McDonald hardly more than a year afterward, he’d evidently forgotten it. Or else he didn’t think it was worth mentioning.
1966 was Greenwood’s first year teaching at Westall. Apparently it was also his last. (In Australia, with its southern-hemisphere seasons, the academic year is nearly the same as the calendar year, running “from late January or early February to early or mid-December.” December-January is summer vacation.) When he spoke with McDonald in June 1967, he was teaching science at a place called Haileybury College.
It’s hard not to think that there were substantial tensions between Greenwood and Samblebe, who was then in his first year as headmaster (Basterfield, Source 24)–under considerable pressure, no doubt, to establish his authority–and that the UFO served as vehicle for these tensions. To which the fledgling teacher soon fell victim.
“Pro” item #2: the chemistry teacher Barbara Robins. On May 9, I posted a query about her on the Westall Flying Saucer Incident Facebook page, and received the following reply from Shane Ryan:
“Several witnesses recall that it was Andrew Greenwood who took the photos, and that the camera was confiscated from him. Andrew says that it was not him. Barbara, unfortunately, is now unwell, and when she was interviewed several years ago by ‘Westall ’66’ director and writer Rosie Jones, she could no longer recall any details of the Westall Incident – only that she had been there that year and that something had happened. So, although there are some witness memories of a camera being taken away, this has not been substantiated.”
To me, it’s completely inconceivable that Barbara Robins would have forgotten so dramatic and outrageous a happening as this, her camera seized by uniformed strangers with her headmaster’s collusion. I have to suppose that the “confiscated camera”–Greenwood’s? Robins’?–is another feature to be assigned to the psychological, not historical, truth of the incident.
(And the other two teachers mentioned by Greenwood, Jeanette Muir and Claude Miller? In his reply to my May 9 query, Ryan wrote that “Jeanette died before she could be interviewed.“ Miller also?)
“Pro” item #3:Basterfield’s “Source 2” is a report form of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, filled out on 7 April 1966 by or on behalf of a Westall student named Joy Tighe. It describes “circular 2 UFOs flying in various directions”at a 45-degree elevation, and speaks of there having been “flattened waist high grass for 10 yds diameter 600 yds from school.” The UFO (singular?) “turned edge & disappeared fast.” Joy Tighe plainly assumed that the flattened grass was caused by one or both of the UFOs.
But if she or any of her schoolmates thought they had seen it come down–wouldn’t her report have made some reference to that?
“Pro” item #4:the mysterious “Tanya.”
She’s remembered by one of the women interviewed in “Westall ’66” as a girl who’d raced after the landed UFO in the Grange, got to it first, saw it landed on the ground. She went back to the school afterward but somehow suffered a breakdown, was taken off in an ambulance. “That was the last time I ever saw her.”
(“I was trying to keep up when suddenly Tanya came racing back towards me, petrified,” runs an even more dramatic version of the story that appeared in April 2016 in the Woman’s Day magazine, the link provided on the Westall Facebook page. “She was screaming and crying, talking gibberish. She ran straight past me like I wasn’t there. … I watched as paramedics tried to get Tanya into the ambulance. She didn’t want to go and put up a fight. I could still hear her screams as it drove away. That was the last time I saw her.”)
A query posted to the Facebook page on April 9 asks “what happened to the girl who ran ahead of her friends and got right up to one of the crafts … fainted, was taken away by ambulance and was never seen again.” There’s a remarkable response from one Lance Brown:
“In that 2 month period I’d been at school Tanya had been quite notorious to say the least. But when she vanished I didn’t relate it to the ufo, more her wild ways.”
Questions posed to this Lance Brown, by Basterfield and by Ryan, seem to have gotten no further responses. My guess is that he figured he’d already said too much, and clammed up. There’s indeed a suppression that operates in UFO matters, but not necessarily of their unearthly, otherworldly aspects. It may be precisely their all-too-earthly aspect, like what the UFO stands for in the fate of this “notorious” young lady–“much faster” than the other girls, as one witness put it–that calls for concealment.
Thus far the evidence that “confirms my diagnosis, as you doctors express it.” It’s a fine diagnosis, don’t you think?
Evidence that suggests that what I’ve assumed to be a legend, gestating through the four decades that elapsed between when the UFO supposedly appeared over Westall High School and when Shane Ryan began his inquiries, was in full-blown existence by the summer–sorry, in Australia it’s the winter–of 1966. At the latest.
This evidence appeared in a school publication called The Clayton Calendar for “Term One,” 1966, reproduced as Basterfield’s “Source 10.” A photograph of the publication’s cover, taken from Wikipedia, is posted below.
I’ll talk about this evidence two weeks from now. And see whether my “beautiful hypothesis” is really slain, or if it might respond to resuscitation.
“The Clayton Calendar,” published in 1966 by 5th and 6th grade students at Brown”s Road State School, in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton. To be discussed in my next post. (Photo thanks to Wikipedia.)
UFO moving at unreal speed caught by Drone at 400 ft over New Port Richey, Florida
UFO moving at unreal speed caught by Drone at 400 ft over New Port Richey, Florida
A drone enthusiast sent his drone up about 400 ft to film the 1000 acres fire burning about 5 miles from his home in New Port Richey, Florida, on May 6, 2017.
Upon reviewing the footage on his big screen TV it just happened that he pause the video to see an unidentified flying object.
Checking the video again, by doing play, pause and rewind he saw the UFO coming into picture from the right side moving within 0.3 seconds to the left before it disappeared.
He was able to take 5 still images of the UFO showing that the object really moved at unreal speed.
The drone enthusiast has uploaded his original video to Mufon reported under case 83554
One very scary phenomenon that has captured the imagination, instilled fear, and generated a large amount of unsettling reports over the years is that of the menacing, extremely creepy Black Eyed Kids, also called simply BEKs, along with their counterparts the Black Eyed Adults. While each and every case is truly bizarre and unnerving, others go even farther, showing that not only are these mysterious entities good at scaring us, but that they on some occasions kill. Scattered amongst the many, many reports of encounters with Black Eyed Kids are those that seem to show a rather malevolent tendency for witnesses to meet with tragic misfortune and death, further casting a wicked shadow over them.
Black Eyed Kids have been reported for decades, and generally follow a certain frightening pattern. The children, usually in pairs but not always, appear mostly in rural or sparsely populated areas. They typically appear as normal children from afar, but a closer inspection will reveal that they have a sickly, pale pallor to them, and that their eyes are completely dark pools of black, without any discernible iris, akin to the eyes of a shark. Although the tales may vary in their details, these mysterious entities are almost always described as exuding an intense wave of dread and panic, and their eyes are said to have a certain disturbing, sinister, and hypnotic quality to them.
Almost every report of BEKs involve the children begging to be let into homes or vehicles. These requests often start out innocent and polite enough, usually innocently asking for a ride or to use a phone, but not surprisingly due to their off-putting black eyes and clinging aura of fear the homeowner or driver will be reluctant to comply. This will cause the strange kids to become increasingly demanding, desperate, and foul-tempered, sometimes even violent, such as banging or scratching on house or car doors. Some witnesses claim that the Black Eyed Kids have the ability to sow confusion and addle the minds of their victims, possibly to make them more suggestible and inclined to bend to their wishes. One commonality to every report is that they cannot force their way in unless specifically invited, and in most cases when the menacing children eventually give up and leave the victim is left exasperated, confused, and with the profound sense that they have just avoided some sort of dire fate.
While this may all seem terrifying enough, the victim is usually left in one piece and none the worse for wear, but this is not always the case, and some more chilling accounts seem to point to these enigmatic creatures having the potential ability to do great harm. For instance, there are reports that seem to answer the question of just what exactly happens if one is to actually give in to their demands and let them in. One such report was apparently e-mailed by a frightened woman in a quiet, rural town in Vermont to the website Week in Weird, in which she claims to have let the kids inside, with disastrous consequences.
The woman claimed that in 2015 she had been sleeping at home with her husband one night when there was a sudden, very loud knock on the front door of the small rural home at approximately 2 a.m. The woman at first thought it was possibly someone who had broken down or gotten stuck on the nearby unpaved road, as there was a snowstorm raging outside at the time. A look outside the window showed that the house’s motion triggered light was on and that there were indeed footprints in the snow, but there was no sign of any car on the road nor even any evidence that any had recently driven by.
The woman woke her husband and they went downstairs to investigate, where they saw that someone was casting a shadow from outside of the front door. Still thinking it was someone in trouble, they warily opened the door to see two young children of around 8 years of age, a boy and a girl, standing in the snow outside. The two children were described as not at all dressed for winter and sporting outdated, odd- looking haircuts, and both were gazing down at the ground. Interestingly, rather than worry for them and offer help, the couple immediately felt deeply unnerved and somewhat repulsed, and rather than letting them in out of the cold merely asked where their parents were, to which the two creepy kids replied “They’ll be here soon.”
Despite the unnerving quality of the kids and their odd demeanor, the woman and her husband nevertheless became convinced that they must have gotten lost in the woods, and considering that they were woefully inappropriately dressed for the increasingly frigid weather, the husband and wife guided them in out of the snowstorm despite a strong nagging instinct at the back of their minds not to do so. Once inside, the kids were prepared something hot to drink and asked about what had happened to them and where they had come from, but every question was responded to with the kids simply saying, “Our parents will be here soon.” The woman began to notice that their voices had a sort of strange melodic quality to them, and also that for such young children they seemed to be not perturbed or nervous in the slightest to be in a stranger’s house, which somehow added to a growing sense of menace and fear she was feeling. There was also the fact that the family’s cats, normally very friendly, were now hiding, and when she went to pet one of them it hissed and growled at her. The witness described what happened next thus:
When I walked back into the living room the kids were sitting on the couch as still as can be but my husband was holding his head in his hands. I asked him what wrong and he just said that he felt very dizzy all of a sudden but that he was fine. I turned back to the children to give them their cocoa, but when they looked at me I gasped. It took everything inside of me not to drop the mugs and run away. When they looked at me their eyes were completely black. They had no whites just giant black pupils.
When they saw that I was scared they stood up and asked if they could use the bathroom. I tried to be as composed as I could be and showed them down the hall. They went into the bathroom together and I hurried back to my husband to ask him if he had seen their eyes. He had seen them too and said that it looked like his brothers badly bruised eyes after a car accident. We were in the middle of talking about whose children they could be when my husbands nose started to bleed. He’d never had nosebleeds as long as I had known him. I just knew inside myself that this had something to do with the kids in the bathroom and I started crying while I ran to get [my husband] some tissues.
At this point the woman claims that the power in the house abruptly cut out left them in darkness, which provoked a short scream from the husband. She then ran back towards the living room and was startled to see the two kids standing motionless in the hallway. After a moment of heavy silence, one of the Black Eyed Children announced “Our parents are here,” after which they went to the front door, opened it, and walked back out into the snowstorm without closing it behind them. Looking outside, the woman could see through the snow a dark car out on the road with two tall men dressed all in black, who stared at the house before getting into their vehicle and driving off. The power would blink back on not long after.
Although this is already quite disturbing, things would only get worse for the couple. In the ensuing months three of their cats went missing without a trace and another was found one day dead in a pool of blood in the middle of the living room floor, apparently killed by some sort of massive internal hemorrhaging. Even worse, the husband became afflicted with constant mysterious nosebleeds and was also diagnosed with a rare form of very aggressive and terminal skin cancer. The woman herself also claimed that she was experiencing frequent nosebleeds that had no discernible cause as well as sudden spells of dizziness, and that her health had dramatically deteriorated since her meeting with the Black Eyed Kids. She ends the mail with a haunting message, saying:
I know that all of this is because I let the Black Eyed Children into my home. We’ve told everyone we could about the strange kids that showed up that night but no one else saw them and some laugh at how scared we were of the “Mennonite kids” but we know what we saw. I wish my husband had never opened the door. Feel free to publish this as a warning to others about the Black Eyed Kids. My advice would be to lock your doors, call the police, and wait for morning. Don’t make the same mistake that I did.
This particular report spurred other people to come in with their own reports of Black Eyed Kids causing physical harm or death. In one of the accounts, it is claimed that a friend had taken a road trip to Arcata, California to visit a friend and along the way he had stopped at a bar to have a drink before retiring to his hotel. While he was there, he allegedly struck up a conversation with an attractive woman working at the bar, who ended up inviting him back to her place at the end of the night. He ended up leaving his car there at the bar and going with the woman to her rather secluded house, which caused him to get a little nervous as he had no idea where he was and the area seemed rather remote and surrounded by wilderness.
Nevertheless, he went through with going into the residence and the two of them had sex. However, at some point during the night the man got up to go to the kitchen for a glass of water and claims that he saw several “small, frightening-looking children” milling about and wandering around aimlessly, and that he had been startled to see that they all had pitch black eyes. In the morning, the woman from the night before kicked the man out and made him walk the whole way back to where he had left his car. In addition to being quite understandably unsettled by the whole bizarre experience, the previously healthy and athletic young man then allegedly was diagnosed with severe bladder cancer and died within 6 months. According to the one who gave the report, the friend had insisted up to the end that the Black Eyed Kids he had seen and that mysterious woman, possibly their caretaker, had been to blame for his condition.
Black Eyed Kids have apparently been responsible for other mysterious deaths as well. In 1998 there was a report by a man named Jon Northwood, who claims that he was on his way to his car in a parking garage after a meeting, when one of the other men who had been at the meeting, named Doug, begged him to drive him around the block a few times. Jon asked Doug why he was so desperate to go drive around the block, to which the visibly shaken man claimed that there was a group of weird looking kids hanging around his own car and he wanted to go away until they left. Apparently they had asked for a ride earlier, but Doug had refused and they had not left since. Despite the oddity of his request, Jon let Doug in and when they approached the car in question there was indeed a group of three decidedly creepy looking kids milling about it dressed in what appeared to be gothic style clothing. There was also an abrupt feeling of stifling panic and irrational fear that overcame them, as if something terrible was about to happen.
Oddly, as they passed Jon claims that he had the sudden, uncontrollable compulsion to stop his car. When he did so, the youngest of the kids, a girl who appeared to be around 10 years old, came right up to the vehicle and said innocently “It’s scary out there all alone, and we just wanted a ride home.” It was at this point that they could see that the kids had eyes that were solid pitch black, which was jarring enough to snap Jon out of his trance. He launched into action, putting the car in reverse and reportedly sending the vehicle squealing back to get away from them as the kids gave chase. They sped through the parking garage and managed to make it to the first floor, where they allegedly found that one of the kids had inexplicably managed to make it there ahead of them. They managed to roar past the boy and go tearing off down the road, after which the strong sense of suffocating dread they had felt subsided.
A short while later, they got up the courage to go back and see if the kids were still there or not, and pleasantly found them to be nowhere to be seen. Doug thanked Jon and got into his car to head home, pulling out to drive off with Jon right behind him. At this point he claimed that the insidious sensation of menace came crashing down upon him once again, and when Doug rushed through a yellow light his car was apparently hit by a speeding truck, killing him. When Jon looked back he said he could see the three Black Eyed Children standing not far away in the shadows, as if watching the whole deadly spectacle.
Sometimes it’s not the Black Eyed Kids, but rather Black Eyed Adults that kill, and another witness claims that these entities killed her boyfriend. The woman, who calls herself Esme, claims that in 2012 she had been living in a rural part of Bristol, England with her boyfriend. One day she claims that they had headed out for work at around 10:30 a.m. and were walking along a secluded path when they came across 4 very odd looking people coming towards them. Three were very pale, with totally black eyes, and skin that “didn’t seem to fit them,” while another was reported as being a very beautiful black woman with normal eyes. One of them, a young man of around 18 years of age, was described as having a “troll-like underbite” with what looked like protruding fangs. Oddly, the strange group was managing to completely avoid stepping in any puddles from a recent heavy rain even without looking down at their feet. Esme would say of the surreal sight:
The troll-like teenager looked dead ahead with a really angry expression on his face, and the girl looked happy but vacant, like she was hypnotized, just staring into space walking in front of him. Their clothes were modern, waterproof coats and walking boots. Apart from the girl who wasn’t wearing walking boots like she’d intended to come to the woods, she was wearing flat pumps which nobody in their right mind would wear on that path in flood season. When they had passed us we looked at each other immediately and said at the same time, “that was so weird!”. We both felt the strangeness emanating off of them, like a total sense of foreboding.
Esme goes on to claim that exactly one year after this strange encounter, her boyfriend died by drowning in a flooded part of the river adjacent to the path they had been on. According to police, apparently the boyfriend had gone in to save a girl he called “Sally,” even though no one else was there. Some locals tried to help him, but he had purportedly refused to be rescued until he rescued the girl. He would eventually drown, and when authorities searched they found only one body and no sign of this “Sally” he had been looking for, concluding that he had probably hallucinated her since he was a known drug user. Was this a vision implanted in his head by those strange entities they had encountered the previous year or merely a drug-induced hallucination? We will probably never know.
What are the Black Eyed Kids and What do they want? There have been many ideas on their nature, such as that they are some sort of demons, aliens, ghosts, or even vampires. Others think they have a connection with the equally enigmatic Men in Black, perhaps even being their children, or that they are something else totally beyond our comprehension. Still others think it is all mere urban legend or spooky lore. No one really knows for sure, but one thing we do know is that creepy reports of encounters with the Black Eyed Kids keep coming in and show no sign of waning. As disturbing and freaky as many of these accounts are, it is interesting to note that sometimes they are even more threatening, leading to disease and death. We may never know just what lies behind the Black Eyed Kids phenomenon, but deadly accounts such as these show that if they are real then they are possibly even more sinister than they already seem.
In 1958, a rather atypical horror film appeared before moviegoing audiences. It featured no vampires, wolf men, or creatures strewn together from the parts of the deceased, brought back to life by mad science.
No, this monster was just a mound of carnivorous jelly from space… and the more it ate, the bigger it got.
The Blob, which features what is still regarded as one of the most unusual movie monsters of all time, tells the tale of an alien gob of jelly from space that begins to feed on the citizens of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, growing larger throughout the film. Originally titled The Molten Meteor, it is said that one of the film’s actresses, Kay Linaker, was overheard referring to the film’s extraterrestrial subject simply as, “the blob”, and apparently the name stuck.
But where, precisely, did the idea for the film come from?
According to Den of Geek, “Accounts seem to vary as to who came up with the idea for The Blob.” One story attributes its conception to Irvine H. Millgate, who according to Kim Newman, wanted to “make a movie monster that is not a guy dressed up in a suit… some kind of a form that’s never been done before.”
Or in the case of “The Molten Meteor”, perhaps something with no definite form whatsoever!
After several days of brainstorming, the idea finally emerged that a mineral that “can absorb your flesh” would be a good idea, and the rest, as they say, is history.
There is, however, an interesting real-life Fortean connection here, which bears remarkable similarity to the story outlined in The Blob and its successive remakes over the years.
In Welsh folklore, there had been an unusual phenomenon known as “pwdre ser” (meaning, essentially, “rot from the stars”). This, according to some accounts, was believed to be the literal star-stuff that fell to Earth after a meteor was seen streaking through the sky, after which a gelatinous slime would occasionally be found in fields amidst grass and undergrowth.
Star Jelly?
Reports of this “star slime” date back to at least the 14th century, and although many descriptions describe it as apparently being an earthly substance, in its various names it nonetheless appears to associate the the mystery jellies with shooting stars; English names used since the Middle Ages include star-falling (also “star-fallen”), star-jelly, star-shot, star-slime, star-slough, star-slubber, and star-slutch.
The unusual, and often sudden appearances of large amounts of “mystery slime” have been the stuff of Fortean fodder for decades, with a number of notable incidents involving strange deposits of slimy material of unknown origin over fairly large areas. Whether this is the same phenomenon as the “pwdre ser” of yore is uncertain, as many of the modern “slime rains” and other anomalous falls are often attributed to industrial activities in the general vicinity of the incidents.
One notable example occurred in 1979 near Frisco, Texas, when Sybil Christian found several purplish colored mounds of jelly on her lawn (interestingly, this discovery was made coinciding with the height of the Perseid meteor showers that year). The explanation behind the blobs on Christian’s lawn, it was believed at the time, lay behind a variety of caustic soda used to clean lead impurities at a battery processing plant nearby; however, some have contested this explanation, asking how mounds of the soda-byproduct would have made their way all the way from the factory outside town, and onto Christian’s lawn.
While even some of the more famous “mystery blob” reports like the Frisco, Texas incident appear to have been connected loosely with meteors, the question remains: did any of these real-life reports of “molten meteors” help inspire the making of The Blob?
According to a 2009 San Francisco Gate article, there is indeed a more definitive connection between the so-called “pwdre ser” and The Blob films:
Gelatinous meteors, also known as the Pwdre Ser phenomenon, are rare but not unknown. On September 26, 1950, Patrolmen John Collins and Joseph Keenan saw one of these things land at the corner of Vare Boulevard and 26th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The light-emitting blob was also observed by Sgt. Joseph Cook and Patrolman James Cooper and was seen oozing its way up a telephone pole. This incident became the basis for Steve McQueen’s 1958 horror movie, The Blob.
Although the article quoted here (featured as part of a regular column called “UFO Round Up”) was taken offline, an archived version can be found here.
If accurate, the incident it describes does seem to confirm what many suspected all along: that one of the weirdest sci-fi monsters of all time has further history in the annals of Ufology and Forteana. With little doubt, old Charles Fort himself probably would have found this little historical footnote rather amusing.
Spotting aliens can be tricky, but heading to the ET hot spots will give someone the best chance of getting a close encounter.
Some people would not want to meet extraterrestrials, but others consider reaching to beings beyond Earth a lifelong dream.
The following are places known for UFO sightings.
Area 51 in Neva, U.S.
Many UFO enthusiasts believe that the remains of a UFO involved in the famous Roswell Incident are hidden inside Area 51, a highly classified Air Force base.
The Nullarbor, Australia
Many travelers in this Australian Outback have claimed UFOs chased them while driving down the remote area’s empty roads.
The Molyobka Triangle in Russia
Also known as the M Triangle, the place is one of the UFO hotspots in the world with locals in the area have claimed to notice strange lights and symbols in the sky as well as seeing translucent beings. The M Triangle is located in the Ural mountains of Russia.
Roswell, New Mexico in the U.S.
UFO spotting has never been exciting than in Roswell for most alien enthusiasts. The site is where an alleged alien spaceship had crashed in 1947. Shady government officials allegedly transported the remains and debris of the incident to Area 51.
Warminster, England
The place boasts the mysterious stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. In the 1960s and 1970s, Warminster got the attention of the world when strange sounds were heard in the area. UFO fanatics from around the world visited the area, which has also become famous recently with unexplained crop circles.
El Enladrillado in Chile
After a flurry of alien sightings had taken place in El Enladrillado, Chile’s tourist board formed the first UFO trail of the country. The 30 km trail passes through the Andes, from where it spotted until it allegedly landed at El Enladrillado.
Wycliffe Well in Australia
Many called the Wycliffe Well as the UFO capital of Australia. Locals have been claiming to have spotted lights in the sky frequently.
Bonnybridge, Scotland
UFO experts have been calling the location of Bonnybridge as The Falkirk Triangle, which is located between Stirling, Fife and the outskirts of Edinburg. More than 300 sightings are reported each year around this area.
The US Military's Secretive X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts
The US Military's Secretive X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts
Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Introduction
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has been zipping around Earth since May 2015 while it performs a number of hush-hush activities. The current mission is the fourth for the robotic X-37B, which is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). The other three OTV flights launched in April 2010, March 2011 and December 2012. Here are a few surprising facts about the military space plane.
Credit: Boeing
1. It's tiny
The X-37B looks a lot like NASA's iconic space shuttle, but the two types of vehicles don't resemble each other in size. The X-37B is just 29 feet (8.8 meters) long, with a wingspan of 15 feet (4.6 m). The now-retired space shuttle orbiters, by contrast, were 122 feet (37 m) long, and measured more than 78 feet (24 m) from wingtip to wingtip. Two X-37Bs could fit inside the shuttle's cavernous payload bay. Indeed, the X-37B's designers originally envisioned the shuttle carrying the smaller space plane to orbit but ultimately decided that launching the X-37B atop a rocket would be more economical. The X-37B currently rides to orbit aboard United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket. Like the space shuttle, the X-37B lands on a runway, plane-style, but does everything autonomously (in contrast to the piloted shuttle, which usually carried a crew of seven astronauts).
Credit: United Launch Alliance/Boeing
2. Its missions are classified
Although the Air Force has disclosed some of the payloads that have flown to orbit on the X-37B, most of the space plane's onboard gear is classified, as are the details of its orbital activities. This secrecy has led to some speculation that the vehicle is some sort of space weapon, perhaps one designed to take out or capture satellites. However, the Air Force has always denied this notion, insisting that the X-37B is just testing out technologies for future spacecraft, and carrying various experiments up to space and back. Some of these technologies being tested may be sensors and other equipment for future spy satellites, outside experts have said.
Credit: Boeing
3. It has NASA roots
The X-37 program started in 1999 with NASA, which initially planned to develop two separate vehicles: an Approach and Landing Test Vehicle (ALTV), and an Orbital Vehicle (OV). But NASA transferred X-37 development to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2004, at which point it became a classified program. In 2006, the Air Force announced it would develop its own X-37 vehicle, which it dubbed the X-37B, or OTV. The design of the space plane was based heavily on the original OV, which was never built. (DARPA did construct and test the ALTV, however.) Boeing has been the primary contractor for the X-37B program dating back to its inception in 1999. To date, the company has apparently built two X-37B space planes for the Air Force. (Two different vehicles have flown the program's four space missions.)
Credit: United Launch Alliance
4. The missions are incredibly long
The Air Force's X-37B fact sheet states that the space plane is designed to spend up to 270 days in orbit at a time. However, the vehicle has already zoomed past that limit multiple times. The first X-37B mission, known as OTV-1, stayed aloft for just 225 days. But OTV-2 and OTV-3 lasted 469 days and 674 days, respectively. OTV-4 circled Earth for a record-shattering 718 days before it landed on May 7, 2017. This longevity may be a key part of the X-37B. After all, engineers testing technologies for future satellites want to see how this gear behaves in the space environment for long periods of time, experts have said.
Credit: Kevin Fetter
5. You can see it from the ground
Though the Air Force doesn't disclose the X-37B's precise orbit, keen-eyed amateur astronomers have managed to track the vehicle from the ground — and so can you, thanks to their efforts. Check out Space.com’s satellite tracker to see where the X-37B is overhead during a mission. The view won't be dramatic; the space plane usually looks like a star of middling brightness moving across the sky.
Credit: AIAA/Grantz/Boeing
6. Future versions might be coming
The current version of the X-37 may not be the last to reach space. In 2011, Boeing representatives announced that they were considering developing a larger variant called the X-37C, which could carry up to six astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). In addition, an engineering team led by former NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has proposed using a modified version of the X-37B as an ISS emergency-evacuation vehicle. But this is just a concept at the moment, and there's no indication that Boeing is investigating this "astronaut ambulance" variant.
Big Milestones for SpaceX, Cassini and Virgin Galactic: The Week's Top Space Stories
Big Milestones for SpaceX, Cassini and Virgin Galactic: The Week's Top Space Stories
By SPACE.com Staff
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-76 spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 1, 2017.
Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX successfully launched its first national-security mission (and landed the rocket to boot), Virgin Galactic's new SpaceShipTwo tested its "feathering" re-entry system for the first time, and NASA's Cassini probe made a surprising discovery at Saturn. Here are the most interesting things that happened in the universe this week.
SpaceX launches first mission for U.S. military
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (May 1) to boost a classified spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. military — the first national-security mission for SpaceX. The rocket's first stage then turned around and touched down at a nearby landing pad. [Full Story: SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite on Secret Mission, Nails Rocket Landing]
New SpaceShipTwo tests out re-entry system for first time
Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo took to the skies over Mojave, California on Monday (May 1) for the first test flight of the craft's atmospheric re-entry system, which was modified after a fatal test flight in 2014 destroyed the original ship. [Full Story: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes 1st Test Flight of Revamped Re-Entry System]
Cassini finds the gap between Saturn and its rings is eerily silent
Researchers monitoring the Cassini spacecraft were surprised to find almost no dust and debris in the previously unexplored zone between Saturn and its rings during the spacecraft's first dramatic dive through the 1,200-mile-wide (2,000 kilometers) gap. You can hear the strange lack of impacts in a new NASA video. [Full Story: Hear Saturn's 'Big Empty' from Cassini, Which Just Made 2nd Ring Dive]
The Breakthrough Starshot project aims to send tiny robotic probes zooming past nearby alien worlds to hunt for signs of life and gather other data. But the scientific return would be even greater if some of the fast-moving 1-gram spacecraft actually slammed into their target worlds, some researchers said. [Full Story: Kamikaze Starshot: Will Some Interstellar Probes Slam into Their Target Planets?]
A long-overdue fiscal year 2017 spending bill unveiled May 1 will provide NASA with $19.65 billion, more than $600 million above the original request for the agency by the previous administration. [Full Story: NASA Receives More Than $19.6 Billion in 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill]
Why 'Star Wars' still has a hold on us 40 years later
A long, long time ago — 40 years ago this month, actually — an initially small group of theatergoers was transported to a galaxy far, far away, heralding the birth of the "Star Wars" universe. [Full Story: Why the Force Is Still Strong with 'Star Wars' Fans]
As Star-Lord and his team head to the big screen this weekend to guard a galaxy in the Marvel universe, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope remind us that there are far more galaxies in our own universe without any superheroes to protect them from villains. [Full Story: Paging Star-Lord! Hubble Spies Hundreds of Galaxies That Need Guarding]
Vorig jaar augustus werd in het Engelse graafschap Wiltshire bij het plaatsje Ansty misschien wel één de mooiste graancirkels ooit ontdekt.
Geeft deze cirkel ons de boodschap dat de wederkomst van Jezus aanstaande is en dat hij zal arriveren met een ruimteschip?
Van de ene op de andere dag verscheen er een complexe cirkel waar tot op de dag van vandaag mensen proberen een uitleg aan te geven.
De cirkel zag er als volgt uit.
Natuurlijk is er nog een deel van de bevolking die gelooft dat dit soort complexe constructies midden in de nacht ongezien worden gemaakt door mensen met plankjes onder de voeten die niets beters te doen hebben.
Anderen zien het als constructies gemaakt door buitenaardsen en dan vooral met een bepaalde bedoeling, namelijk dat ze ons een boodschap willen geven.
De kunst is om die boodschap eruit te halen en wij hebben gevraagd aan onze trouwe lezer en occult specialist Bert wat zijn gedachten waren/zijn bij het zien van deze cirkel.
Hierna volgt wat hij denkt dat de cirkel betekent (dank Bert!):
Wat mij direct opviel was de ogenschijnlijk metatron cube.
Als je er rustig naar kijkt ontvouwt de cubus zich, je ziet dit ook bij de hoge luchtfoto van de graan cirkel. Waar staat de metatron cube voor?
BALANCING ENERGY
The cube is an image of God's energy flowing through Metatron to all the many parts of creation, and Metatron works hard to ensure that the energy flows in the proper balance so that all aspects of nature will be in harmony, believers say.
"Metatron’s Cube helps us realize the harmony and balance of nature," writes VanDen Eynden in "Metatron." "Since it depicts an equilibrium in the six directions represented within it. ... Metatron’s Cube can be used as a visual focal point to connect with the archangel, or it can be used as a concentration tool for meditations that promote peace and balance. Place an image of the cube anywhere you wish to be reminded of the archangel’s loving, balancing presence."
Velen zeggen dat de archangel niemand minder is dan Enoch en dat hij metatron is.
Nu hebben we nog de drie grote en drie kleine bladeren die in feite boven op de metatron cube liggen. Dit kan de representatie zijn van de waarheid, de vorm van de bladeren is in het verlengde van de link zeer interessant, de vorm geeft namelijk aan dat het om groen gekleurde bladeren gaan, duidelijk aangegeven in het verhaal van de link.
We zijn nu aan gekomen bij de twintig "symbolen", sla ik eerst over.
De buitenste ring telt 33 afzonderlijke streepjes, misschien een tijdsaanduiding, 33 jaar. Het kwaad gebruikt de 33 zeer veel, free masons en noem maar op. Dit doen ze omdat Jezus 33 jaar is geworden. Volgens mij hebben jullie er zelfs een artikel over geschreven. In het geval van deze graancirkel neig ik naar het positieve. Op de een of andere manier heb ik bij graancirkels altijd het gevoel dat dit de goeie rikken zijn. Dit is hun enige manier dat ze met ons kunnen en mogen communiceren en dan ook nog op een wijze alsof je een puzzel aan het oplossen bent. In deze context kunnen de 20 symbolen staan voor 20 verschillende namen voor Jezus.
Samenvattend:Ik zie de fig tree in bloei en de metatron cube staat voor een van de twee getuigen, beschreven in de bijbel, die in de laatste generatie terug zal keren naar de aarde. Het is Enoch. De andere getuige is Mozes, zij zijn namelijk de enige mensen die hebben gewandeld met God. De graancirkel geeft aan dat de second comming aanstaande is en ik schrik er niet van dat dit ruimte schepen zullen zijn waar Jezus uit komt. Het nieuw Jeruzalem is niets anders dan een hele grote gouden kubus.
Gek verhaal?! Twee dagen geleden heeft de band Imagine dragons een nieuw nummer gelanceerd, Thunder, Als je de clip ziet valt je bek er weer bij open. De drie lichtstralen brengen de drie "unclean spirits who look like frogs" naar de aarde. Dit is het kwaad wat ons verteld dat de tijd bijna is aangebroken. Het is allemaal een stom spelletje en onze ziel is de inzet.
We vroegen hem vervolgens naar naar de tekentjes (20 stuks) in de buitenring, waarop het volgende kwam.
Loop nog tegen een hele goede clip over the metatron cube. Bij 3.40 komt naar mijn mening ons antwoord op de 20 symbolen, ze vormen tezamen de icosahedron. de 20 cornerstones.
Het draait uiteindelijk om de creatie van alles.
Heeft dat niet met de bladeren in de graancirkel te maken ook denk je? Refererend aan die sequence.
Dat van de fibonacci sequence is heel goed mogelijk en mijn uitleg vloeit vaak voort uit een gedeelte parate kennis en een gedeelte op gevoel in welke richting ik het moet zoeken. Uiteindelijk zie ik natuurlijk iets vanuit mijn perspectief. Een ander kan er misschien wel weer heel andere zaken in zien. Ik begin nu wel steeds meer in te zien dat de spirituele wereld zoveel groter is dan onze zichtbare wereld. Ik schrik er niet van dat het universum een ontwerp is van uit de vijfde dimensie.
Fijne dag en nog bedankt voor de graancirkel, ze zijn voor mij nog een van de weinige dingen die een positieve boodschap brengen en dat zegt ook weer heel veel over onze realiteit. En dan als laatste toevoeging:
In Londen zien we nu een 1 miljard dollar kostende Amerikaanse ambassade en je raad nooit hoe het eruit ziet. Dit is de satanische elite die juist weer misbruik maken van de geheime geometry. Een enorm glazen kubus geplaatst in een cirkel, hetzelfde als de graancirkel van gisteravond.
Last week, we told you about the secret tunnels on the moon. Is it possible that aliens built these structures? Secureteam10, a YouTube channel that discusses UFOs and other alien-related phenomena, seems to think so.
And now this popular conspiracy theorist believes that there are UFOs flying over France. One of his many followers emailed him a video of the sighting.
It appears to be a cigar-shaped spaceship with blinking beams of light. Tyler Glockner, the man who runs the channel, posted a video discussing the sighting. Then Glockner posted a follow-up video to about the similarities between the sightings in France and two other countries.
Watch the video for yourself below (or click here to see it). Do you think it's a hoax or something else?
As Glockner stated, the 2010 incident in China shut down an airport. Some Chinese people believe it was a U.S. missile or some other man-made device. The media picked up the story but the investigations didn't provide conclusive answers. The sighting in Austrailia was a report from 2014 that Glockner posted when he started the channel.
What do you think? You have to admit, the structures that flew over France, China and Austrailia all look very similar. Is this a sporadic hoax that has been going on for the past seven years? Or are these actual sightings of aliens?
This large fish may have been a visiting alien species that wanted to mingle with a species similar to its own, only to get caught and eaten as food. The species has a sign of intelligences...tattoos covering 100% of its body. Normal non intelligent animals do not. I can see fern like designs, and a shield and a strange creature on top. This style of design if more European than the tribal designs of the Philippines. The shield and creature is like a coat of arms, which identifies the honor of the family and what its famous for. Below these coat of arms are usually latin and yes, the writing below does have similarities to ancient lateen (the backwards E). Also note, the creatures head is at the top of the shield, its hind quarters like a lion on the right side of the top of the shield, its two hands and arms...one on each side of the shield...as indicated in the photo directly below.
Sadly, if this was an intelligent alien visiting Earth, its first contact with humans didn't end well. Aqua intelligent species would be very difficult for humanity to communicate with, let alone believe in, but they do exist. Stories of mermaids almost a thousand years old? Stories that last the test of time, always have some truth too them. Scott C. Waring
News states: A fish with strange yet intricate tattoo designs in its body was found by the fishermen in Mindanao. TATTOO – A fish was discovered by the fishermen of Mindanao and found out that there were strange and bizarre tattoos on its body. Accordingly to the post of GMA News on their Facebook page, the fish was caught by the fishermen from Lopez Jaena in Misamis Occidental. The photo of the strange fish went viral and sparked different theories and conclusions from the people of the online community. Whatever may the reason be as to how the fish got the design on its body, nobody knows. But maybe, it is a sign perhaps that something is wrong with our ocean.
Sky Cam Records UFO Over Maryland On May 2, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Sky Cam Records UFO Over Maryland On May 2, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 2, 2017
Location of sighting: White Hall, Maryland, USA
Source: MUFON #83582 This UFO was seen on a sky cam and it was seen for over 5 minutes. Such sky cams are extremely good tools for observing to see if there is a UFO in the frame. I too go through live sky cams, as I did this morning, looking for UFOs. Its fun, its easy, and sometimes you get lucky. Not to mention, you can be in a 100 different places in just a few minutes. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Viewed object in 2 frames spanning a 5 minute period, so it was not a plane. One frame shows that it was reflecting light. This sky cam has been offline since seeing this object.
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.
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 Photographed Hovering Over Statue of Liberty in New York
UFO Photographed Hovering Over Statue of Liberty in New York
Speculation of an alien arrival resembling an Independence Day movie came to life after an image surfaced online showing an alleged UFO hovering above one of the famous landmarks in the world – Statue of Liberty.
The image seemingly shows a glowing disc emitting light.
An unnamed witness who was onboard a boat passing through the Hudson River reportedly taken the picture on Wednesday afternoon.
As the image was taken through a window, experts suggest that the UFO could be just a reflection of light on glass, meaning there was nothing outside the window.
Suspected UFO photographs have often been linked to reflections of lights on glass, especially when the photographer admitted that they saw nothing at the time of taking pictures. The photographers often say they only noticed alien UFOs when reviewing the photos.
In this case, the photographer did not notice the strange object until later that day when he looked back on their pictures.
However, many UFO enthusiasts don’t want to accept the explanation. They believe it was a visit by space alien tourists who wanted to see several American traditions. Others were amazed to know that USAF jets did not intercept the massive object hovering over New York. They suggested it only indicates that most army radars are not designed to detecting the aliens.
VIDEO SHOWS HORROR VISION OF OUR FUTURE DOMINATED BY AN AI MILITARY ARMY
VIDEO SHOWS HORROR VISION OF OUR FUTURE DOMINATED BY AN AI MILITARY ARMY
A video has been released for the Lukas Haas and Michelle Rodriguez movie with the name of 2031. The Movie takes on a militant robot uprising. But as automation technology and AI advance, could this be the harrowing future that Earth is heading towards?
WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT ROBOTS TAKE OVER THE WORLD BY 2031?
This is the age of automation and artificial intelligence and robots have been known to take over the jobs of people and leave them redundant. By 2030 it has been suggested that millions of jobs may be automated, leaving people out of work, but 2031 The Movie highlights other fears, the existence of humans.
The trailers opening scenes reveal that 1 in 50 soldiers in Afghanistan are automated in 2031 and this gives hints about the prevalence of artificial intelligence in society and more to the point, the warfaring capabilities of robots with artificial intelligence.
A FUTURE THAT IS HARROWING MAY BECOME REALITY
In the short film Lukas Haas and Michelle Rodriguez, perhaps better known for her role in the Fast and Furious movie, get together to help to put an end to the eradication of humanity, Rodriguez plays an ex-solider, while Haas plays an engineer. The pair has to work side by side to make use of the information they have to ensure that the world is not taken over by robots.
The video does paint a picture of a future of Earth where artificial intelligence in robots are not just replacing jobs of checkout clerks, lawyers, and business professionals, in the future they are an oppressive mechanical force that is superior to human beings that makes organic humans obsolete. It is a harrowing vision of what Earth might look like in 2031 as technology, and in particular, artificial intelligence is fast improving and getting better.
2031 The Movie shows robots, very similar to those envisioned in The Terminator movies, walking around the streets with guns tackling crime. They are positioned on street corners and walking among the general public when the robots begin behaving strangely, shooting down a helicopter. Once again Rodriguez takes on a tough girl image, being an ex-solider, to take on the artificially intelligent robots, which come in all shapes and sizes, from totally eradicating human beings on planet Earth. It is food for thought, is this how the world will end when humans have designed the technology to give life to the robots, will they wipe out their creators and take over?
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ACTA ASTRONAUTICA: 'WE ARE NOT READY FOR CONTACT WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE'
ACTA ASTRONAUTICA: 'WE ARE NOT READY FOR CONTACT WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE'
Are humans ready to make contact with alien intelligence?
Project scientists at SETI are known for tracking what may be extra-terrestrial signals, but now it looks as though they are thinking about sending messages to aliens and giving them the position of humans of Earth. But are humans ready for making contact with aliens?
RESEARCHER ASKS STUDENTS WHETHER THEY ARE READY TO GREET ALIEN LIFEFORMS
One researcher from the Spain’s University of Cadiz has questioned the idea after gathering results from a survey taken by students at the University, which revealed ignorance in general about the cosmos along with the influence of religion when it comes to dealing with these matters.
The SETI project, Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence was an initiative that started out in the 70s after funding was given from NASA. Today it has evolved to the collaboration of many millions of users on the internet for processing data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, home to the space tracking.
STEPHEN HAWKING WARNS OF RISKS OF SENDING OUT EARTH INVITATION TO ALIENS
The project is controversial. However, members want to go a step further and not only search for possible signs of extra-terrestrial life but send messages out from Earth to try to find possible alien civilizations. Stephen Hawking, astrophysicists, has warned about the risks of making such a search poses for humanity, as it may favor any arrival of aliens with technology that is advanced and dubious intentions.
Gabriel G. De la Torre, a professor at the University of Cadiz, has analyzed the sociological and ethical implications of the proposal to send out a signal telling alien lifeforms where Earth and humans are located. He asked if a decision such as this could be taken on behalf of the planet. He went on to ask what might happen if it was a success and alien life did receive the signal, would the people on Earth be ready for contact.
STUDY REVEALED HUMANS ARE NOT READY FOR CONTACT WITH ALIENS
The professor wrote and sent out a questionnaire to 116 university students of American, Spanish and Italian origin. The survey looked into their knowledge of astronomy along with levels of perception of the physical environment, the opinions of the place that things occupy in the cosmos along with religious questions. One question posed asked whether the students believed that God had in fact created the universe and the likelihood that humans could contract alien lifeforms.
The results, published in the journal ‘Acta Astronautica’, from the study suggested that humans are not ready to contact an extra-terrestrial civilization as they lack knowledge along with being unprepared. Due to this SETI researchers have been recommended to look for different strategies.
“This pilot study demonstrates that the knowledge of the general public of a certain education level about the cosmos and our place within it is still poor. Therefore, a cosmic awareness must be further promoted – where our mind is increasingly conscious of the global reality that surrounds us – using the best tool available to us: education,” De la Torre emphasised. ”In this respect, we need a new Galileo to lead this journey”.
It was said that the pilot study had shown that the general public’s knowledge of a certain education level when it came to the cosmos and the place of humans within it, was poor. Cosmic awareness needs to be promoted further where the human mind is conscious of the global reality that is surrounding us, using the best tool that is available, which is education De la Torre said.
It was found from the questions asked, which are going to be made available for everyone on the internet, that university students along with the rest of society, on the whole, lacks awareness about astronomical aspects, despite the progress of technology and science of today. It was said that many people think about the subjects based on religious beliefs and they may reply on politicians if there was a big crisis on a global scale that needed resolving.
So it does look like the people on Earth are not ready to welcome alien civilizations with open arms, even if SETI were to find them.
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NASA May Have Found Alien Life in Our Own Solar System
NASA May Have Found Alien Life in Our Own Solar System
NASA recently announced there could be alien life in our own solar system. Their space craft Cassini recently gathered data on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s 62 moons, and was able to confirm that its icy oceans contain all the necessary ingredients that allow the formation of life.
Een experimenteel Amerikaans ruimtetoestel is vandaag na bijna twee jaar geland in Florida. De onbemande Boeing X-37B bracht ruim 700 dagen door in een baan om de aarde, waar het een geheime missie uitvoerde.
Het toestel, dat oogt als een kleine versie van een spaceshuttle, landde bij het Kennedy Space Center.
De ongeveer 9 meter lange X-37B bracht niet eerder zoveel tijd door in de ruimte. De langste van drie eerdere missies met zo'n onbemande mini-shuttle duurde 22 maanden.
Het ruimtetoestel van de luchtmacht is met raadsels omgeven. Zo is onduidelijk wat voor prijskaartje aan de X-37B hangt. De luchtmacht stelde zondag in een e-mail dat de toestellen onder meer kunnen worden gebruikt om ruimtevaarttechnologie te testen.
De Verenigde Staten beschikken over twee van de onbemande toestellen, die zijn ondergebracht in hangars die ooit werden gebruikt voor spaceshuttles. De luchtmacht is van plan later dit jaar weer een X-37B de ruimte in te sturen.
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Take a look at pictures from some of India’s most iconic UFO sightings
Take a look at pictures from some of India’s most iconic UFO sightings
Over the Taj Mahal, along a coastal road, in Ladakh - India has a dramatic and much-debated history of Unidentified Flying Objects.
UFO sightings in India are more sporadic than in the US, but we still have iconic images such as this one taken near the Taj Mahal in Agra. “We don’t know who clicked the Taj Mahal photo, but it’s become famous in Indian UFOlogy circles,” says Hitesh Yadav, 21, a BTech student from Gurgaon, an active UFO investigator and editor of UFO Magazine India.
Over the Taj Mahal, along a coastal road, in Ladakh - India has a dramatic and much-debated history of Unidentified Flying Objects. Here’re some eerie examples:
The unidentified object spotted in Banswara, Rajasthan, in 2008. Eight locals reported seeing an unfamiliar craft in the afternoon sky. They described the UFO as a hat-shaped object with a bright underlight.
A photograph taken in Kannur, Kerala, by Divya Sebastian and army officer Major Sebastian Zachariah, while on vacation.
In 1964, Billy Meier – one of the world’s most infamous UFO researchers – travelled to India and shot a series of photographs that allegedly show UFOs over Delhi’s skies. Above are three of them.
Technology is now aiding the search for answers. Some ufologists are using satellite imagery, apps and online tools to zero in on odd phenomena, such as these ‘urban crop circles’ in Tirrupur, Tamil Nadu.
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25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die - PART I
25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die - PART I
Credit: NASA/Getty
INTRO: Space Conspiracies
On the internet, you need to be a skeptical reader these days. Claims of aliens and UFOs, Mars being abnormally big, or the moon turning green are the kinds of things you should check out carefully. Here are some of the biggest space myths that just won't go away.
Credit: NASA
1. The Apollo moon landings were faked.
Twelve NASA astronauts walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has since released new photos of the landing sites. In the decades since Apollo 11 astronauts first set foot on the moon, many theories have been put forward claiming that the whole Apollo program was staged. Why are there no stars in the sky in the moonwalkers' photos? Why are the U.S. flags fluttering on the surface? Why do you see footprints in the pictures, but no marks from the lunar modules that landed there?
The answers to those questions are simpler than you may think. There are no stars in the sky for the same reason you don't see stars during the day on Earth: The bright glow of daylight on the surface washes them out. U.S. flags planted into the lunar soil had metal rods sewn in them to appear as though they were moving. Without these wires, the flag would have hung straight down, making for a pretty lackluster photo prop. And the lunar modules, though heavier, didn't put prominent marks in the surface in some places because their mass was more evenly distributed than the astronauts' weight was in their boots. [Top 10 Apollo Hoax Theories]
Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
2. NASA is a lie.
Some folks actually believe NASA's whole function is not to explore space, but to generate space-related hoaxes. (The Apollo moon landing is a famous example that we'll explore in the next slide.) People who believe this conspiracy, sometimes flagged with the hashtag "#NASAhoax" on social media, will say that amazing space pictures of Mars, Pluto and even Earth are fake, computer-generated imagery (CGI). [Video: NASA Employees 'Welcome' You to the Space Agency]
In reality, NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes," according to the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which then-president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law shortly after the start of the space race against the Soviet Union. Since then, NASA has launched hundreds of satellites into orbit around Earth, the moon and several other worlds. In fact, NASA spacecraft have orbited, flown by or landed on every planet in the solar system. NASA also sends astronauts into orbit, where they conduct research at the International Space Station (ISS).
Not convinced? Try watching a rocket launch for yourself, or see the space station and other satellites with your own eyes with the help of a satellite tracker.
Credit: NOAA/NASA
3. The Earth is flat.
This myth is so popular that there is even a group named after it: the Flat Earth Society. Members of the organization argue that the horizon is always at eye level, which they say would not be possible if the Earth were round. They also say there is no full movie of the Earth rotating from space — which is not true, as NASA has published multiple videos taken from satellites, including a live video of Earth from the ISS, which orbits our planet 16 times per day.
One way of demonstrating to yourself that the Earth is round is to consider how orbits of satellites work. Satellites constantly "fall" around the Earth as they are pulled around by our planet's gravity; they just need to be traveling fast enough at a high enough altitude to not slam into the atmosphere. Or, you can look at the amazing pictures taken by astronauts at the ISS.
In April 2016, the New York Post tweeted, "A newly discovered planet could destroy Earth as soon as this month." The newspaper was referring to Planet Nine, a theoretical planet at the edge of the solar system. An accompanying video also claimed that the new planet would be throwing all sorts of asteroids and comets at Earth, which would supposedly end up pummeling our planet.
Although the planet's existence has not been confirmed, astronomers are actively looking for it to explain motions of some objects in the icy Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy objects beyond Neptune. If the planet is actually found, the California Institute of Technology's Mike Brown (who is one of the original backers of the Planet Nine theory) says the planet will pose no threat to us.
The 1996 movie "Independence Day" is one of the sources of the Area 51 hoax, which claims that aliens and their technology — recovered from crashed flying saucers — are being studied secretly at a classified military base about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas in the Nevada desert. Some people in the area around the base claim that they have seen strange flights out of this area.
While Area 51's true focus is classified, the U.S. government has acknowledged its existence (although the CIA officially calls it "Homey Airport" or "Groom Lake"). A part of Edwards Air Force Base, the area was a known location for high-technology airplane flights in the 1960s and 1970s. It first served as a proving ground for Lockheed U-2 and A-12 OXCART spy planes as early as 1955. UFO sightings reported in the area were indeed unidentified objects, but only because the planes were top-secret — not because they were flown by aliens.
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6. There is a killer planet known as "Nibiru."
Conspiracy theorists say another dangerous planet is Nibiru, which was first mentioned in the 1976 book "The Twelfth Planet," by Zecharia Sitchin. In the book, Sitchin translated ancient Sumerian cuneiform and claimed that the text is proof of a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru that orbits the sun every 3,600 years.
Years later, self-proclaimed psychic Nancy Lieder claimed to have communicated with extraterrestrials who said Nibiru would collide with Earth in 2003. When that didn't happen, the date was moved to 2012 (and linked, of course, with the 2012 doomsday predictions). Of course, the collision never occurred, the world didn't end in 2012 and no astronomer has ever found a planet on a collision course with Earth.
Credit: NASA
7. There is a face on Mars.
In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft took a picture of what appeared to be a face on Mars. Immediately, some people said there must have been aliens on the Red Planet that left that face behind as evidence of their existence. NASA, however, pointed out that the suspected face is really just a pile of rocks casting shadows that resemble face-like features.
NASA followed up with better-resolution pictures taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Mars Global Surveyor in 1998 and 2001, respectively. These new images made it quite clear that the "face on Mars" is nothing more than a trick of light and shadows on a completely normal Martian mound.
Credit: NASA
8. The moon Iapetus is an alien Death Star.
Iapetus is a moon of Saturn that looks somewhat like the infamous Death Star in the "Star Wars" franchise, with a large crater that resembles the fictional weapon's superlaser focus lens. The Death Star is a planet-killing machine that destroys entire worlds with its outrageously powerful laser. It was prominently featured in the 2016 movie "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," as well as in 1977's "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope."
A Daily Mail article published in May 2016 claimed Iapetus is an artificial object crafted by aliens. As "evidence," the article cited a photo taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2004. In the photo, there's a line around the moon's equator that resembles the equatorial trench around the Death Star. But this line isn’t nearly as interesting as the Death Star's trench, which houses the battle station's engines, thrusters and docking bays. That line is nothing more than a mountain ridge, and Iapetus is actually just made up of boring old rock and ice. Cassini has flown by the moon to take pictures several times without being blasted by deadly alien lasers.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University
9. Saturn's hexagon is alien technology.
Saturn's hexagon was first spotted when NASA's Voyager spacecraft flew by the giant, ringed planet in 1980. The bizarre, six-sided structure on the round planet's north pole caused quite the stir, because straight lines and polygons are not so common in nature.
Immediately after the Voyager returned its first images of Saturn's strange feature, even stranger theories arose to explain it, including that it was somehow related to alien technology, or perhaps even was a gateway to hell. The hexagon is not artificial, but rather a weird-looking hurricane at Saturn's pole. NASA has done several flybys of this region with the Cassini spacecraft, studying the haze particles and other features of the storm, to try to learn more about its weird properties.
Credit: Origin Unknown
10. Mars is as big as the moon.
Originating in 2003, the infamous Mars hoax asserts that Mars was closer to Earth than it had been in the 60,000 years prior, and that the planet will appear as large as the full moon. What started out as a misconstrued email turned into a recurring rumor that gets reshared every August and, naturally, has spread to social media as it became more popular. [Quiz: Mars Myths and Misconceptions]
Although Mars is indeed relatively close to Earth in a cosmic sense, it will never be as large as the full moon. It will appear as a red dot in the sky, just as the ancient astronomers saw it. If you'd like to see Mars magnified, take out a telescope or look at one of NASA's spectacular Mars pictures.
Credit: Space.com/Karl Tate
11. The moon will turn green.
In spring 2016, there was a rumor that the moon would turn green because several planets had aligned and caused an eerie glow. This was supposed to happen on April 20 and again on May 29 for the first time since 1596, the rumor alleged.
The moon never actually turned green, although it can appear red during a lunar eclipse, when the moon passes through Earth's shadow. In the same way sunsets often appear red, sunlight is scattered as it passes through Earth's atmosphere, casting a reddish shadow on the moon's surface.
Skywatching columnist Joe Rao debunked this green-moon myth. He pointed out that a full moon actually took place on April 22, 2016, and speculated that the April 20 date of the "green moon" might have to do with "National Weed Day," popularly known as 4/20. Considering that the last green moon supposedly happened 420 years ago as well, this doesn't appear to be a coincidence.
As we all know, Earth did not actually experience that much darkness that year. (The article claimed that the alleged darkness was partly due to a Jupiter-Venus conjunction, which actually took place more than 500 million miles apart.) Darkness occurs when the Earth rotates, causing the sun to "set" on the local horizon. Brief periods of darkness can also happen when the sun is totally obscured during total solar eclipses, which occur rarely in any particular spot on Earth. But even during an eclipse, Earth is never completely in the dark.
Credit: Steve Boxall/Zero-G
13. Zero-gravity day will make you weightless.
If you ever wanted to leap into the sky and soar like Superman, this hoax is for you. In late 2014 and early 2015, a widely shared story claimed that on Jan. 4, 2015, everyone on Earth would experience weightlessness due to a rare alignment of the planets. A doctored image of a purported tweet from NASA's Twitter account that went around on social media fooled a lot of people into believing the hoax.
But, of course, nobody floated off the surface of Earth that day. Earth's gravity is too strong for people to become weightless. The only way to experience weightlessness without going to space is to ride aboard a plane that performs parabolas, with some including a few seconds of weightlessness. This is sometimes nicknamed the Vomit Comet.
14. Alien spacecraft caused a mysterious explosion.
Back in 2004, an expedition of Russian researchers working in Siberia claimed to have discovered "an extraterrestrial device" close to where the mysterious Tunguska explosion occurred. Scientists still aren't sure exactly what it was that blew up in the sky over Siberia that day in 1908, but the leading theory is that it was a large meteorite or an asteroid.
The Tunguska incident flattened hundreds of square miles of forest, and signs of the destruction were visible even decades afterward. At the time, news reports claimed that evidence of aliens was found at the site, but this claim was never substantiated. "The Russian team stupidly stated long before they went to Siberia that the main intention of their expedition was to find the remnants of an alien spaceship," Benny Peiser, a researcher at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K., told Space.com. "And bingo! A week later, that's what they claim to have found."
25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die - PART II
25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die - PART II
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INTRO: Space Conspiracies
On the internet, you need to be a skeptical reader these days. Claims of aliens and UFOs, Mars being abnormally big, or the moon turning green are the kinds of things you should check out carefully. Here are some of the biggest space myths that just won't go away.
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15. UFO was caught "refueling" at the sun.
NASA has a fleet of sun-gazing spacecraft that keep an eye on space weather, especially during solar eruptions. In 2012, telescopic images appeared to show something in the shadows. On YouTube, some viewers said this could be a UFO that was refueling by using the solar plasma.
However, NASA pointed out that the feature is actually something called a "prominence," which has cooler and denser plasma than the outer atmosphere of the sun, or the corona. Scientists are still trying to figure out how solar prominences develop, but they're pretty sure it has nothing to do with aliens.
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16. There is a ______ on Mars!
With NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity rovers regularly taking pictures of the Martian surface, viewers have the chance to check out what they're doing in almost real time. NASA puts the raw images online for the public to see. But over the years, some weird shapes have cropped up. In 2008, for example, the Opportunity rover appeared to photograph a female figure. Other photos have shown things shaped like animals, spoons or other items.
You can imagine that, with all of the rocks available on Mars, some of them would happen to look like familiar objects. In fact, the human brain tends to perceive meaningful images in random patterns — a phenomenon known as pareidolia.
When evaluating the claims, consider that the Martian environment is extremely harsh to life as we know it; the surface is baked with radiation, the "air" is mostly carbon dioxide and there's not much atmospheric pressure.
Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky
17. I just saw a bright UFO!
It's a familiar trope for police stations and astronomy writers. From time to time, somebody will call (or write) in to say they just saw a UFO in the sky. They spotted a bright light around sunset, or saw a light moving around in an unfamiliar way.
While every situation is different, one common explanation for "UFOs" is actually another extraterrestrial object: Venus. Venus can be extremely bright when it's at its closest, because it's relatively near Earth. The planet is also extremely reflective because the sun's light bounces off the clouds. So before calling to say you've spotted a UFO, check your sky charts! [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
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18. NASA can travel faster than light.
If you've seen the "Star Trek" clips that show the Enterprise spaceship warping into another sector, you might have wondered how fast NASA is making progress on being able to move at the speed of light. The EmDrive has created years of speculation, with some breathlessly saying NASA must be on the verge of breaking the famed barrier.
In reality, NASA is downplaying the reports. The engine in question is a prototype that is producing some interesting results, such as appearing to create thrust when there was no reason for this to happen – and thereby violating Newton's Third Law of Motion. That said, NASA has not yet verified the results from these tests, and the engine has not been widely discussed in peer-reviewed research. [Superfast Spacecraft Propulsion Concepts (Images)]
With the advent of high-resolution, miniature cameras, several people have decided to strap these cameras on to high-altitude balloons and take pictures from up high. They've caught glimpses of blackness and, at times, taken interesting tiny passengers along (such as these Lego pieces and a Canadian flag in 2012). So they must be in space, right?
There's no way a balloon can get into space, and simple physics explains why. When a balloon rises into the sky, the air inside will expand in response to the dropping atmospheric pressure and eventually pop. Even Felix Baumgartner's stunning high-altitude balloon jump in 2012 was not actually from space, but from the stratosphere, which extends to roughly 31 miles (50 kilometers) above the Earth's surface. At that altitude the air is thin enough to see the blackness of space, but thick enough to support special high-altitude balloons. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space is about twice as high as the upper limits of the stratosphere. [World View's Near-Space Tourism Balloon Rides in Pictures]
Credit: Tom Ruen, Eugene Antoniadi, Lowell Hess, Roy A. Gallant, HST, NASA
20. There are canals on Mars.
Author Percival Lowell became one of space's first popularizers when he wrote many books for the general public back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In these books and other writings, he said there were canals on Mars built by an intelligent civilization, perhaps to move water into desert-stricken areas. He claimed to have seen the canals in his own telescope, and produced several sketches that are still available on the internet today.
There are no artificial canals on Mars. Several spacecraft have flown by the planet or orbited it, and not one has caught signs of aliens from orbit. What they have seen, however, are smaller channels that were created by nature – likely from water, ice or other processes that cause erosion. [Photos: Water on Mars]
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21. A star is flinging comets at Earth.
A long-standing theory known as Nemesis supposes that there is some sort of "death star" on the outer edge of the solar system, whose orbital motions perturb comets in an icy region of objects known as the Oort Cloud. According to the myth, the star's gravity throws these comets toward the inner solar system, and these comets collide with Earth and cause mass extinctions once every 27 million years.
However, 2011 study concluded that this idea is unlikely, because the comet strikes in recorded history haven't happened with any regularity. The pattern that was recorded in the hoax is actually a statistical artifact, or the result of researchers trying to find patterns in nature where they do not exist, the study's authors found.
Credit: Leonid Ksanfomaliti/ Solar System Research
22. There's life on Venus.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union sent several uncrewed missions to study Venus. Ten of these Venera probes landed on the surface of Venus and were able to transmit data and images for a few minutes before succumbing to the planet's extreme atmosphere. In 2012, the Russian news service RIA Novosti reported that Leonid Ksanfomaliti, a scientist who worked on the Venera missions, suggested that the photographs showed living objects moving around on the planet's surface. (RIA Novosti ceased operations in 2013.) [Photos of Venus, the Mysterious Planet Next Door]
These alleged life-forms on Venus are just an example of "letting your mind see patterns in low-resolution data that simply aren't real," Jonathon Hill, a research technician who processes images taken during NASA's Mars missions, explained to Space.com's sister site, LiveScience, in 2012. According to NASA, the objects that appeared to be moving were actually camera-lens covers that automatically popped off of the cameras after landing LiveScience reports. These half-circle objects were seen in images from Venera-13 and Venera-14, two identical spacecraft that landed about 590 miles (950 km) apart. Both had two identical cameras — one in the front and one in the back — so it makes sense that the covers would appear in different places. Another photograph that Ksanfomaliti said was a scorpion is actually a blur in the image.
Credit: NASA/JPL
23. An asteroid is about to crash into Earth.
This recurring rumor claims that a threatening "doomsday" asteroid is about to slam into our planet. An example from 2015 had an asteroid purported to hit Earth in late September, when it would supposedly wreak devastation from its impact point near Puerto Rico. NASA quickly dismissed the reports — which turned out, as usual, to be false. But that's not to say that asteroids will never hit our planet.
NASA and a network of monitoring telescopes across the world are cataloging all known asteroids wider than 459 feet (140 meters) across in line with a 2005 congressional mandate. (Smaller asteroids, if found, are also cataloged.) Of the space rocks discovered so far, NASA has not found a single asteroid that has a high probability of hitting Earth in the foreseeable future. [Gallery: Potentially Dangerous Asteroids]
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24. Aliens landed in Roswell, New Mexico
On a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico, so the story goes, an alien spacecraft crashed in 1947. While the accounts of exactly what happen vary, the legend claims that a disc or some sort of spacecraft was found on a ranch, and that the government quickly covered up the evidence.
While rumors of aliens circulated, some people speculated that the crash was just a plain old weather balloon that might not have been recognized by the local community. The U.S. military has since acknowledged the "spacecraft" was actually a weather balloon sent aloft as part of Project Mogul, which involved flying microphones on high-altitude balloons to listen for sound waves generated by possible Soviet Union nuclear tests.
Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation
25. Climate change isn't real.
Earth is on an abnormal warming trend. Arctic ice is melting, the sea level is rising and temperatures are going to extremes in many locations around the world. Why is this happening? Anti-climate-change conspirators have many explanations: solar activity, radiation, the Earth's (and sun's) movements around the Milky Way, among other theories.
While there are many components of climate change, the fact that humans have contributed to it is indisputable. Temperature graphs show that the climate has not warmed this much, this quickly in all of Earth's history (as seen in geological records), and that the increase correlates with increased industrialization. [The Reality of Climate Change: 10 Myths Busted]
ALIEN ABDUCTION? THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF BRUNO BORGES
ALIEN ABDUCTION? THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF BRUNO BORGES
Bruno Borges, the son of the local contractor Athos Borges has recently disappeared from his family home in the province of the Brazilian Acres.
According to his parents, the young man has been remarkably intelligent and has always shown a keen interest in what some might call "forbidden knowledge."
Before his disappearance on 27 March, Bruno had retained its house locked during a month. During this period he covered many pages to write cryptic and then covered the walls, floor, ceiling and the furniture in his room with said pages.
He had also worked on 14 Manuscripts, all written in the same figure. His mother has admitted that he once told him the books have the power to change humanity in a positive way.
"It is informed," said the mother of Bruno local press. "At school, he was always differentiated, a born leader, with a high power of persuasion. It is a good boy, who has given of the things of the House and others, such as the T-shirts and trousers. This is not because he is my son, I speak of love Bruno, who sees the soul of the people."
Freedom of Thought also characterized Bruno Borges, which is adorned with alchemical symbols mysterious and spotless has symmetry.
On the inside of the House of Bruno there is evidence not only of esoteric knowledge generally outside the scope of the average Joes but also a foreigner in a short period of time, his case has attracted the interest of the local media and a small part of one of his manuscripts has already been translated into Portuguese.
"For thousands of years the human being has tried to find answers to questions such as "What is the meaning of life"? The philosophy that is all indicates, seems to have been undertaken with stories of Miletus in the middle of 700 before J.-C. It aims to find the remains of questions without answers.
Deep Search of the absolute truth comes from the philosophy, and when we are talking about respect of paths easy or difficult, we are referring to this type of theorem. It is easy to accept what you have been taught since childhood and that which is evil. It is difficult when you are an adult to understand that you have been taught since to wrong you suspect that you have been correct.
In other words, if you adapt to certain stimuli including the one from the Environment has determined a certain behavior for you, making you the store of beliefs already provided and well established in the dogmas and rituals, with a mass of people in it; or allowing you to be compliant, the acceptance of the concept of happiness and meaning of life in the media and society, then it is clear that it is part of the easy access to the research of the absolute truth. Does it fit in the second option, that is to say, that which suspected each set of beliefs that is rooted in him, then he has everything to be a researcher sincere in the things around him, the seizure of a path more complex, where a minority of companies or of the faces of courage …"
This mystery develops. By its own admission, Bruno had stumbled on something that reflects the true meaning of life and that it was determined to follow. In its own words, it is launched in a "path complicated" in search of the truth.
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NIKOLA TESLA - ELECTRICAL INVENTOR AND VISIONARY GENIUS. FULL FEATURE BIOGRAPHY!
NIKOLA TESLA - ELECTRICAL INVENTOR AND VISIONARY GENIUS. FULL FEATURE BIOGRAPHY!
This documentary presents the story of Nikola Tesla, the great scientist, visionary, and inventor who gave the world alternating current electricity, as well as being the father of the radio.
The film tells the story of this man's astonishing genius, his visions, and inventions. Tesla's scientific and autobiographical writings, as well as archival photographs and reenactments, are used to tell the story. A native of Austro-Hungary, Tesla came to America in 1884. Working first with Edison, the two inventors fell out over Edison's insistence on using direct current.
Tesla took his alternating current vision to Westinghouse. His New York address was renowned for the bolts of lightning emanating from it, as Tesla worked to unlock the secrets of energy and electricity. His quest took him to Colorado.
The film follows Tesla's exploits and eccentricities, which made him a darling of the press. Included is the well-known and touching story of his devotion to a certain white pigeon. Largely forgotten today in spite of the great debt the modern world owes him, the film pays tribute to this overlooked genius.
FINAL PROOF? INCREDIBLE FAST UFO FLYING ABOVE AREA 51
FINAL PROOF? INCREDIBLE FAST UFO FLYING ABOVE AREA 51
Early may this incredible footage was shot near area 51. It shows an object that appeared from outer nowhere. It was tracked by team of UFO hunters that camp right outside area 51.
The object that they captured did not make any sound at all, it appeared out of nowhere. It hoovered the area as it was searching for something.
Than all of the sudden the object start speeding untill it disappeared. It did not produce a sonic boom which is odd, because it clearly reaches speeds well above the speed of sound.
After analysing the footage it appears 2 other UFO's could be seen in the video footage. Were these objects originating from the object?
Was this an extraterrestrial object or was it a super secret aircraft that conducted a test flight above area 51? If it was a secret aircraft, why did it not leave a typical sonic boom when it went supersonic?
The truth is out there: Tales from India’s UFO investigators
The truth is out there: Tales from India’s UFO investigators
Lights in the sky, levitating beings, hard science vs conjecture: Meet the guys trying to sift the crazies from the true witnesses in their search for unidentified flying objects.
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world slept, Sunita Yadav awoke to a levitating alien.
She watched, petrified, as it hovered a foot above the ground just behind her home. Standing over 4ft tall, with grey skin and big, black eyes, it proceeded from the Yadavs’ backyard toward their front door before – as her son Hitesh remembers – it “just vanished”.
In the 15 years since, the humanoid has made numerous other appearances around the Western Command Hospital in Panchkula, some 10 km away from Chandigarh.
“It’s now a mascot. Residents in the area believe it’s lucky to spot it,” says Hitesh, 20, now a tech student living in Gurgaon.
In their sketch, the alien looks like a swarthy dwarf. But Hitesh remains convinced that what he saw was an extraterrestrial. And he spends much of his free time trying to prove it.
Hitesh runs the free bi-monthly e-zine UFO Magazine India, is developer of the Ufology App and founder of Disclosure Team India, which investigates UFO sightings and encounters in the country.
“Disclosure has grown to 200 members since it was set up in January 2016, including 22 from the US and UK,” he says. The website has a form where people can report their sightings in detail.
This form has been filled four times. “But our investigators hear many stories from locals on the ground,” he stresses.
“I’m currently researching an alien abductee case in Chhattisgarh,” Hitesh says. “I don’t care what people think, because my parents and sister are accepting. But my relatives don’t know what I do. If they did, they’d surely call me crazy.”
Hitesh Yadav, 20, is a tech student at a Gurgaon college. He believes he saw an alien as a child. In his free time, he runs the free e-zine UFO Magazine India. He is also the founder of Disclosure Team India, which investigates UFO sightings and encounters in the country. They currently have four cases under investigation.
II. Arrival
In the inaugural March issue of UFO Magazine India, columnist Ramkrishan Vaishnav deconstructs the Drake equation proposed by American astrophysicist Frank Drake, a mathematical formula used to estimate the number of detectable extraterrestrials (ETs) in the Milky Way.
“I’m a UFOlogist because I’m a scientist. Even the Indian military has reported sightings,” says the 27-year-old entrepreneur from Nagaur, Rajasthan. “We know little about what lies beyond our own solar system. Why dismiss possibilities altogether?”
In his teens (and with The X-Files etched in his psyche), Vaishnav signed up to help create 3D maps for NASA’s moon missions, analyse asteroid samples for The Planetary Society, and study radio data for the SETI@Home project, the UC Berkeley offshoot of SETI or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute.
But his turning point was March 2008. Just two months after he’d set up TOP (The Other Planet) Research Group to investigate UFO sightings, Vaishnav heard of a sighting in Banswara village, where eight locals reported seeing an unfamiliar craft in the afternoon sky.
Six days later, Vaishnav was there. “The villagers described the UFO as a hat-shaped object with a bright underlight. We also found an odd-shaped stone that looked like nothing else in the radius we scanned. Image evidence of this encounter is the best you’ll find in India,” he says.
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Vaishnav is now founder of ExpeTechnologies and Shakti Innovative Products. He has filed four patents: for a solar satellite plant, non-conventional wireless mobile charging, touchscreen technology, and a next-gen user-interface system.
Tech research is his bread and butter, but ufology remains his Danish pastry.
“I’m intrigued by why many sightings are from Rajasthan and West Bengal. And the Kongka Pass in Ladakh,” he muses. “It’s also a remote military base, so you never know.
III. Signs
On October 26, 2014, at 4.55 am, a man looks out of the window in Thane and sees a horizontal row of red, yellow and green lights that blink but remain stationary for several minutes, then disappear. He records footage on his cellphone.
On November 7, 2014, a fast-moving object is captured hovering over Bengaluru, framed against a full moon. It stays there for nearly an hour, then disappears as suddenly as it appeared.
These cases are among 60 sightings in 2014 that were assigned to Kumaresan Ramanathan after he joined Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Ramanathan is a senior technical engineer with a Chennai-based IT firm who blogs as alienseeker on Wordpress. In 2012, he became India’s first ‘certified UFO investigator’ under MUFON, the largest non-profit investigating UFOs, with 3,000 members worldwide.
Pushkar Vaidya is an astrobiologist and founder of the Indian Astrobiology Research Centre in Mumbai, which studies the origin, forms and future of life in the universe.
“As they say in The X-Files: ‘I wanted to believe, but the tools have been taken away’.” —Pushkar Vaidya
“MUFON employs scientific methods, not conjecture,” says the 36-year-old. “You have to renew your membership and purchase manuals every year, then take an exam and score at least 80% to become a qualified investigator.”
The test is a mix of objective and multiple choice questions, spanning subjects such as how to interact with eyewitnesses and the plan of action if a witness claims to have an encounter. “They present hypothetical situations to gauge if you’d make for a good investigator,” Ramanathan explains. “All tests are examined at the MUFON headquarters in Newport Beach, California. If you make the cut, you’re given an ID and certificate proclaiming you’re licensed.”
But it’s not all love and sunshine. “Of every 100 cases, about 97 end up being fake — optical illusions, doctored images, or everyday objects mistakenly identified as otherwise,” he admits. “This teaches you discernment.”
Now an independent ufologist after working with MUFON for two years, Ramanathan will visit Aniketty, near Coimbatore, to study a spurt of unexplained objects reported since 2011.
“My family always supported me,” he replies, when asked what people make of his ‘other job’. “Some collegians called me Jaadu for devoting so much time to ufology. But who cares about acquaintances?”
At 8.28 p.m. on December 15, 1987, six-year-old Kamal Pant stood on the terrace of his Dehradun home and observed a large, red light soaring directly overhead.
“No, it wasn’t a plane, helicopter, or prank,” he says, before you’ve asked the question. “Whatever it was stayed there a while and made no sound.”
The incident would spur the self-professed ‘sky watcher’ and fan of Star Trek, The X-Files, mythology, and conspiracy theories to scour the internet for all things UFO and ET. Then in 2014, he photographed and filmed what he claims is “a mothership taking off from and landing on the moon.” From thereon, Pant goes full steam ahead.
“I even mailed NASA about it, but didn’t hear from them. Until a month later, when I got an email from someone in Houston asking me to ‘stay away’,” he claims.
“Do you have this email, or a snapshot of it?”
“No. My system got corrupt a day later, and some of my videos vanished. My computer had been tampered with.”
IT engineer Kumaresan Ramanathan says some of his colleagues called him Jaadu, after the alien in the Hindi film Koi... Mil Gaya, but he doesn’t care.
ON THE JOB WITH A UFO INVESTIGATOR
The first thing to do when you receive a report about a UFO sighting is rule out what’s explainable, says Kumaresan Ramanathan, who has served as chief investigator with MUFON (India).
“Phenomena like strange lights are more explainable than not. These can be caused by anything from crackers to iridium flares caused by moving satellites.”
Online tools like FlightRadar and Heavens-Above can help determine if there was a passing craft or astronomical occurrence in the area at the time of the sighting.
Interviews with eyewitnesses are generally conducted via email or over the phone. “Only sightings that are compelling require us to go on site,” Ramanathan says.
What tools does a UFO investigator use? Hitesh Yadav, who is self-trained, lists a film camera, compass, telescope, tape recorder, electromagnetic field or EMF sensor, Geiger counter (for radiation), scintillation counter (for ionising radiation), and Plaster of Paris to make moulds in case impressions are found!
Pant, a computer science lecturer at a private university in Dehradun, is what naysayers would call a tinfoil hatter (conspiracy theorist). He believes NASA and the US are involved in a cover-up, and that alien technology was obtained from the Roswell crash. He also claims to have CE-5 communication with ETs – that is, telepathic communication between himself and aliens.
“My mother and wife have seen everything and know I’m not lying,” Pant says. “Distant relatives call me sanki (madcap), but it doesn’t affect me.”
The 36-year-old father of a toddler, who works with both Disclosure and TOP Research Group, is currently looking into sightings in Ranichauri village, Tehri-Garhwal district. “The events are so common, locals call the beings pariyaan (fairies). They also tell their children not to step out after dark lest they be taken away.”
His colleagues at the university, Pant says, have no qualms with his interests and theories. And even if they did, he wouldn’t break into a sweat.
“Every time I look at the sky, I feel like something, and someone, wants to communicate with me,” he shares. “No one can take that away from me.”
V. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Pushkar Vaidya likes his coffee cold and his feuds hot.
From 2007 to 2015, the astrobiologist was embroiled in a scientific tug of war with astrophysicist and author Jayant Narlikar. The bone of contention: Narlikar’s hypotheses supporting panspermia – the theory that life exists throughout the universe and is distributed through asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. In short: life on earth may have come from external sources.
A truce was eventually called when Vaidya founded the Indian Astrobiology Research Centre (IARC) in Mumbai, for which Narlikar now serves as mentor.
“I’m open to the possibility of ET microbial or intelligent life. I just didn’t think there was enough evidence,” says Vaidya. “If anything, panspermia research is one of IARC’s focus areas.”
Vaidya is no ufologist. The 36-year-old straddles the no-man’s land between belief and scepticism. His bond with Arthur C. Clarke, one of the world’s most prolific sci-fi authors, has much to do with it.
“When I was 16 and studying in Sri Lanka, I wrote In Search of Aliens. Arthur Clarke lived in Colombo and as an ardent fan, I went to his home because I wanted him to pen the foreword to my book,” he laughs. “He didn’t write it, but that kicked off a two-year association.”
Vaidya credits Clarke for bringing wonderment and adventure to science. “Science is now increasingly taking on a tone of finality, especially when it comes to the search for alien life,” he feels.
But he also throws the gauntlet to ufologists.
“The UFO phenomenon is real from a research perspective. The problem is how people go about it. If you look at everything as alien, you’re better calling yourself a flying saucer investigator,” he reasons.
A long discussion touches upon everything from cattle mutilations to the Kardashev Scale, which hypothesises that the most intelligent civilisations can harness energies on a galactic – even cosmic – scale to partake in astral travel.
There’s a lot Pushkar Vaidya believes in. What he’s waiting for is substantiation.
“As they say in The X-Files: ‘I wanted to believe, but the tools have been taken away’,” he smiles.
Want to review the evidence? Here’s a reported UFO sighting from Chennai
Almost every day, new UFO images and videos are posted all over the Internet for everyone to see. Here’s one that, at first glance, may have you believing a fleet of otherworldly orbs were captured on video, maneuvering in wild patterns somewhere near Honolulu, Hawaii.
At least that’s what it looks like in the following video, posted on Oct. 21, 2015, by YouTube channel Earth & Space News. The UFOs — for lack of a better word at the moment — are seen hovering, moving rapidly, darting back and forth, merging with each other, blinking in and out in unison. That’s more than you normally get in a UFO video.
While this may appear to be incredible footage of strange lights in the sky, there are some credibility questions here.
First, the identity of the alleged videographer or the exact date and time of the video are not revealed. No information is offered that could help any research effort to learn more about this incident. But the video itself is riddled with visual problems.
“I would say this is definitely CGI [computer-generated imagery],” according to Ben Hansen, the former lead investigator of Syfy Channel’s “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files.”
Hansen points out several segments of the video that have reliability issues.
“At :26 in, the orb on the far left takes a short jog back and forth that didn’t look like it was intended. This happens throughout the video. It looks like evidence of poor anchoring of the object to a fixed reference point,” Hansen told HuffPost in an email.
“They do an OK job with tracking the animation layer over the background, but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the video was also filmed off a projected screen of some sort to give the impression of zooming in and out with a handheld camera.”
And what about all those moments when the alleged UFOs appear to suddenly blink out and then come right back, sometimes doing it simultaneously?
“The fact that the blinking lights usually all go out at the same time might indicate a laziness in editing,” Hansen, an ex-FBI special agent, suggests. “It’s much easier to turn off a whole animation layer than it is to take the time to individually adjust each light to fade in and out.”
And there were weird interactions between the “orbs” and some clouds.
“They had some problems with clouds and rotoscoping (telling the software what objects to treat as separate layers). At 4:50, an orb is traveling upward through the cloud. It disappears through the edge of it as if it was behind the cloud. Yet, it then travels straight down, and now it’s on top of the cloud. They either forgot it was supposed to travel behind it, or they just got lazy and didn’t think it would be noticed.”
Another visual problem occurs with the clouds. If you watch closely, you’ll notice how (around the 6:20 mark), as the horizon sometimes bounces up and down, from camera movement, the clouds above it stay in the same place. Shouldn’t they bounce as well?
One final issue should at least be mentioned. The following double image shows an identical moment from the video, with one interesting difference: The image on the left was posted by Earth & Space News on Oct. 21 of this year. The right side picture comes from another YouTube channel, FindingUFO, which posted a shortened version of the entire video on March 14, 2013.
EARTH AND SPACE NEWS (LEFT) FINDINGUFO (RIGHT)
While the YouTube channels offered the same video more than two-and-a-half years apart, they both neglected to provide any extra identifying information about its origin.
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IS THIS THE REAL REASON WHY THE ANCIENTS BUILT THOUSANDS OF PYRAMIDS?
IS THIS THE REAL REASON WHY THE ANCIENTS BUILT THOUSANDS OF PYRAMIDS?
An interesting fact about our world are the countless pyramids that we can find among many different countries. One important questions that many researchers have asked is why did the ancient people erect there structures with this particular pyramidal shape.
One scientist may have have found the reason behind the pyramids existence in many cultures. According to his research, the pyamids have beneficial properties to the region around it and the people in contact with it.
It's energy can boost healing capabilities of living beings making the immune system stronger and regeneration better overall. It can even affect moods eliminating violent tendencies and producing good mental energies. Pyramids can also serve as power stations spreading energy across several electronic components. Weather is also affected, as well as the ozone around it and reduction of seismic activity.
What other benefits does it have? How did the ancients knew about the power of the pyramids?
MIND-BLOWING VIDEO OF UFO OVER MEXICAN HIGHWAY GOES VIRAL
MIND-BLOWING VIDEO OF UFO OVER MEXICAN HIGHWAY GOES VIRAL
If this video is real, it’s got to be one of the best ones we’ve seen this year.
One lucky witness was able to capture footage of a slow moving dark disc over a busy highway in Morelia, Mexico. And since he was driving at the same time, we have to commend him for multitasking.
The mysterious craft exhibits almost graceful movements and is completely silent, which is a strong indication that the object is of extraterrestrial origins.
According to the witness, the event took place on March 27 on a highway north of the city of Morelia in the state of Michoacán.
“DUE TO THE TRAFFIC I COULD NOT MAKE A LONGER RECORDING,” SAID CARLOS ARRIOLA, THE MAN WHO FILMED THE UFO
After analyzing the video, I can offer two conclusions: the object seems real and it looks like there’s a booger on the steering wheel.
Egyptian Eye of Horus Sign In Sky Over UK, He Is Watching Us, Video, May 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Egyptian Eye of Horus Sign In Sky Over UK, He Is Watching Us, Video, May 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 2017
Location of sighting: Leeds, UK
This could be a sign that the god Horus is alive and well. If thats true, then he/she is probably just an alien species that came to earth long ago to indulge its own ego, then left when it had its full. Apparently its still got its eye on Earth, but I think people will be less willing today to follow Horus than they were 3,000 years ago.
An amateur photographer was left dumbstruck when he captured a striking eye-shaped cloud creating a rather chilling spectacle in the sky above his home. Father-of-two Graham Telford spotted the unusual meteorological sighting looming over Leeds, Yorkshire, on Wednesday. The 46-year-old said he couldn't help feeling like 'he was being watched' while photographing the peculiar formation. Conspiracy theorists and cloud watchers alike have since claimed the cloud is the 'eye of god' or proof of government surveillance.
Two Glowing UFOs Over Home In New Jersey, May 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Two Glowing UFOs Over Home In New Jersey, May 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 5, 2017 Location of sighting: Shamong, New Jersey, USA Source: MUFON #83551 UFOs can cloak to hide themselves from us, but there in one thing no UFO can hide from...an infrared camera. The camera at night makes its own IR light shooting out of it with IR LEDs and captures everything that passes in front of it. Here the objects are two glowing entities that come down low to investigate the persons yard. Such UFOs are invisible to the naked eye, but infrared cameras and night vision cameras will catch them. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Checking my home camera footage last night, before formatting my storage card, when I came across the attached 4 images. The object set off my camera, so it had to have been within about 45 ft. The camera only fires when an object moves, therefore this thing was hovering and moving for over 40 mins. I don't recall anything about that night, but this did co-inside with my dog acting very strangely that Wed evening (a lot of dog in the neighborhood barking that evening) It wasn't until I pulled my camera images last night (5/5/17) that I put two and two together. My hunting dog is part Coonhound and nothing usually phases her, with the exception of Coyotes! The things I believe: 1. Not the moon - wrong place, wrong phase. 2. Not a plane - no other lights, can't hover. No sound. 3. Not a Drone - 2am, dark and flying through trees, no-one has that skill. 4. Helicopter - would have to be the front light, which meant it was flying backwards, and no other lights, no sound. 5. Close enough to activate the sensor on the camera over a 43 min duration. If you want the camera for inspection, its all yours, but I'll need it back for my gate. The camera time footage stamp is 1 hr off due to DST.
They’re not from the government – they’re from Pleiades, Betelgeuse and Andromeda – but they’re here to help. At least that’s what a British green energy expert claims after first writing a book about alien hybrids and then being introduced to and allegedly talking directly to aliens himself. And by “help,” he means to aid humans to “evolve into higher beings.” Can they hurry up already?
Miguel Mendonça is a Rhodesian-born author now residing in Bristol whose early works were based on his experience and research in renewable energy, especially with the World Future Council. He’s the author of “Feed-in Tariffs: Accelerating the Deployment of Renewable Energy” and co-author of “A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality.”
Miguel Mendonça
In 2015, Mendonça wrote “Meet the Hybrids – The Lives and Missions of ET Ambassadors on Earth,” a collection of interviews with eight people claiming to be alien hybrids which also included information for others who may suspect they have been abducted and possibly carry alien DNA. The hybrids – who claimed their DNA came from various alien species – were all given the same questions to answer. They all professed that the aliens they encountered were here to improve humans, primarily in a spiritual way.
This book was criticized for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the spiritual ‘New Age’ feel. Mendonça interviewed only the hybrids and not their relatives, friends or anyone associated with them. That could have been to protect them from ridicule. However, he also did not use a lie detector and asked none of them to submit to DNA testing or examination for implants. Finally, one of the alleged hybrids revealed that she had met with several of the others prior to the interviews.
That criticism could be why Mendonça wrote his new book, “Being with the Beings: The How and the Why of ET Contact.” In this one, he allegedly goes right to the source – real aliens like members of the Fajan Race from a planet in the Andromeda galaxy. They told him:
We are from a vibrational existence which is similar to what humans call the fifth dimension. Tthe exciting part is that Earth, and all living things on earth, are currently in a stage of wondrous evolution. This is a reason for the immense need for disclosure and willing reconnection with us – your cosmic brothers and sisters.
He also shares his alleged conversations with Sasha, a Pleiadian who tells him her species abducts and works with humans to help them transcend to a higher state of consciousness where there is a lack of ego and the physical body becomes irrelevant.
While this book again seems to promote an alien-New-Age philosophy, the emphasis on disconnecting with the physical body may be more important to Mendonça, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, a crippling disease that some abduction experts believe could be caused by alien encounters. Mendonça says that being around the aliens has made him feel better but has not changed his physical condition.
It would be nice if Miguel Mendonça was bringing real proof that aliens are here to help – governments don’’t seem to be doing too well at this. It would be nice if he found some aliens who could help with green energy, his other interest. It would be nice if he had real evidence of alien influence to make humans into a better species above and beyond just adopting some New Age principles. It would be even nicer if he was working with aliens who could cure multiple sclerosis, a terrible disease.
Since the 1980s, sightings of large, triangular-shaped UFOs have been reported throughout the world. They are usually described as being black in color, making a low humming noise, and very often with rounded – rather than angled – corners. The sheer proliferation of such reports has led some ufological commentators to strongly suspect that the Flying Triangles (as they have come to be known) are prime examples of still-classified aircraft, the development of which was secretly begun in the 1980s by elements of the U.S. Department of Defense. Others take the view that the FTs have extraterrestrial origins.
In March 1993 a series of Flying Triangle encounters occurred in British airspace that went on to have a profound effect on high-ranking sources within both the Royal Air Force and the Ministry of Defense. More importantly, it was that single wave of encounters that ultimately led the Ministry of Defense to liaise with their American counterparts to try and determine, once and for all, what the FTs really are. The story comes from one of those at the forefront of the study into the aforementioned sightings: Nick Pope, who, for three years (1991-1994), investigated UFO incidents for the Ministry of Defense.
While much has been written about the March 1993 cases (which some researchers believe were evidence of a real, unidentified phenomenon and others conclude was nothing more than a storm in a teacup), far less has been written about the U.S.-U.K. liaisons on the issues concerning the FTs. In the wake of the March 1993 FT wave, Nick Pope told me: “We decided that we couldn’t ignore the various rumors that were doing the rounds about a supposed Top Secret aircraft developed by the U.S. Government and called Aurora – or, indeed, any hypersonic and/or prototype aircraft operated by the Americans.
“There had been persistent rumors in the aviation world and among the UFO lobby that the SR71 Blackbird had been replaced by a hypersonic aircraft code-named Aurora and that that was what the Flying Triangles really were. I was well aware that there had been some interesting stories about visual and radar sightings around certain air bases; however, I hadn’t put much store in these rumors – not least because there had been some very definitive denials from the Americans.
“I know there’s a lot of cynicism about government and the military. And although officialdom may refuse to answer a question and may sometimes give a misleading answer, outright lying is incredibly rare. And when it does occur, if it’s uncovered it almost certainly leads to resignation. But with the March 1993 sightings – and in spite of the denials from the Americans that they were responsible for the Flying Triangles – we did contact them to make inquiries. This was because they have the responsibility pertaining to the U.S. presence in Britain. Those inquiries bore absolutely no fruit at all. The Americans said: ‘No. We can shed no light at all on the UFO sightings that have led to your inquiry.’”
Pope was able to disclose, however, that the liaison with the Americans was not without its moment of intrigue. “If anything,” he explained to me, “there was an interesting little hint that the Americans, too, were seeing these Flying Triangles over their territory. As we were making our inquiries, they turned the question around and wanted to know if our Royal Air Force had a triangular-shaped, hypersonic prototype aircraft of some sort. So, presumably, the Americans were having Flying Triangle sightings, too.
“But this was interesting, in light of the fact that the Americans supposedly got out of UFO investigations back in 1969 when the Air Force’s Project Blue Book closed down. Of course, you may not officially be in the UFO game, but you are certainly going to be aware of – and take an interest in – reports of structured craft in your airspace. So, essentially, we drew blanks with the Americans.”
Pope adds: “Bearing in mind that the Americans had inquired – at an official level, no less – if the British Royal Air Force had in its employ something broadly fitting the description of a Flying Triangle, and we had said ‘No,’ I still felt obliged to address the issue of whether or not the rumors about se }cret aircraft being flown by us were true. First, from my own knowledge of prototype aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and so on, the Triangles don’t fit into the typical pattern, and I’ll explain why. Where we do have such pieces of kit, they’re not tested over the heads of ‘Joe Public;’ they’re tested in a small number of clearly defined ranges and danger areas – mostly out at sea such as the Aberporth Range in Cardigan Bay.”
Pope also states on this highly-controversial matter: “You simply do not fly a prototype craft over a military base or wherever, and run the risk that someone will either (a) scramble a [Tornado] F-3 [aircraft] to try and intercept it; or (b) take a photograph of it which will end up on the front page of The Sun or Jane’s Defense Weekly. It’s simply not the way that things are done. We checked domestically anything that might have been flying. But if we’d have been poking our noses into something that didn’t concern us, the investigation would have been quietly switched off. In fact, the opposite happened. We were making big waves throughout the Royal Air Force, the Ministry of Defense and at an international level.”
Pope’s final word on the matter to me: “So, the domestic secret aircraft theory is interesting but it doesn’t hold water.”
There’s more than one way to look for signs of life from the distant past in our solar system.
As science continues to search the cosmos for evidence of intelligent extraterrestrials and, at the very least, for habitable planets that might harbor even non-intelligent life, one scientist is raising another eye-opening question: Was there a time in the far distant past when an advanced civilization actually lived on one of the planets of our solar system, long before earthlings evolved?
Pennsylvania State University astrophysicist Jason T. Wright suggests that ancient aliens may have lived on nearby planets hundreds of millions of years ago, before vanishing without a trace.
In a new scientific paper, “Prior Indigenous Technological Species,” published in Cornell University’s research archive, ArXiv, on April 24, Wright speculates:
One of the primary open questions of astrobiology is whether there is extant or extinct life elsewhere in the solar system. Implicit in much of this work is that we are looking for microbial or, at best, unintelligent life, even though technological artifacts might be much easier to find.
But if a prior technological, perhaps spacefaring, species ever arose in the solar system, it might have produced artifacts or other technosignatures that have survived to present day.
Here, I discuss the origins and possible locations for technosignatures of such a prior indigenous technological species, which might have arisen on ancient Earth or another body, such as a pre-greenhouse Venus or a wet Mars.
HuffPost asked Wright how far back in time he thinks aliens might have lived in our solar system and if some of them may still be lingering out there.
“It seems pretty clear there aren’t any now. That’s become more clear as we’ve explored the solar system robotically. In terms of large, intelligent, technological civilizations, that seems pretty case closed,” he said in an interview Friday.
While Wright pays tribute to the imaginations that created tales of Martians and moon dwellers in his paper, he remained cautiously open-minded about what’s possible in time and space. “While the applications of this idea in science fiction are usually fanciful, it is unclear to what degree the existence of such species in reality is allowed or disallowed by evidence,” he wrote.
In the interview, he said he thinks it’s interesting to wonder if there could have been a previous species on Earth that used technology like we do and if there’s any room in the geological or fossil record for that, or have we completely foreclosed it?
“My guess is that we can rule out big swaths of the Earth’s history. The farther back you go, the harder it is to rule something like that out. If they’re very old, there may not be any traces. Things don’t last long. If you put something in orbit around the sun, it’ll be subject to collisions with asteroids and meteors.
“So, anything, including planetary surfaces in the solar system, just gets constantly hit with these things. When you’re on the surfaces of objects, like asteroids or moons or planets, those surfaces can also completely turn over, given enough time.”
NASA defines astrobiology as “the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. This multidisciplinary field encompasses the search for habitable environments in our solar system and habitable planets outside our solar system.”
Wright told HuffPost of two important ingredients in looking for signs of life somewhere in space.
“In the field of astrobiology, we talk about what are called biosignatures. If you look at a planet or a moon that has life on it, how would you know? What is the signature ― the signal ― that says this is life and not a completely sterile object? So, that’s a biosignature.
“A technosignature is the same idea but not for any life ― it’s for the technology that’s been engineered and constructed and designed by life. For instance, a radio transmitter would be one of our most obvious technosignatures. And we build large structures. The Empire State Building is a technosignature.”
According to Wright, it’s important to keep searching.
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New Super-Earth Discovered 39 Light-Years From Earth In April 2017 researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA announced the discovery of a new super-Earth designated LHS 1140b orbiting the habitable zone of a small red dwarf star LHS 1140 about 39 light-years away Its 42 light-years from our sun to the nearest star Proxima Centauri This is an artist impression of the star LHS 1140 and the possible super-Earth planet which shows early indications of habitability
Geslaagde test met ontsnappingssysteem Orion-capsule
Geslaagde test met ontsnappingssysteem Orion-capsule
Tim Kraaijvanger
Als een toekomstige Space Launch System-raket in de problemen komt, kunnen astronauten in de Orion-capsule ontsnappen dankzij het Launch Abort System. Ingenieurs hebben op 27 april een geslaagde test uitgevoerd met dit nieuwe ontsnappingssysteem.
De Orion-capsule bevindt zich straks boven op de raket. De eerste versie van de SLS-raket is zo’n 97,5 meter hoog. Toekomstige raketten worden nog groter. Het is voor astronauten onmogelijk om snel te ontsnappen als de raket bijvoorbeeld bijna explodeert. Dankzij het Launch Abort System kan de Orion-capsule de raket toch verlaten. De stuwkracht van dit systeem is groter dan de stuwkracht van de Atlas 109-D-raket, die John Glenn in 1962 in een baan om de aarde bracht. Daarbij moet wel gezegd worden dat het Launch Abort System maar korte tijd stuwt.
Belangrijke test Orbital Sciences nam in 2007 de opdracht aan om het Launch Abort System te ontwerpen, produceren en testen. Een belangrijke test vond vorige week plaats in Elkton (Maryland). De ingenieurs laten weten dat het een geslaagde test is. Hoewel het uiteindelijke Launch Abort System is uitgerust met drie motoren, werd vorige week alleen de attitude control motor getest. Deze motor bestaat uit een gasgenerator en acht kleppen. Dit gas kan door bepaalde kleppen gestuurd worden, waardoor de Orion-capsule verschillende richtingen op kan vliegen. Wel zo belangrijk, want als de situatie kritiek is, wil je niet dat de capsule onbestuurbaar rondom de raket dwarrelt.
Benieuwd naar de test? Bekijk hieronder de video!
En nu? De Amerikanen geven momenteel wat meer gas op de ontwikkeling van de Orion-capsule en het Space Launch System. Volgend jaar komen beide projecten samen tijdens de Exploration Mission-1. Tijdens deze missie zou SLS voor het eerst met een lege Orion-capsule gelanceerd worden. Pas drie jaar later – in 2021 – zouden astronauten in de Orion-capsule plaatsnemen en voor het eerst met behulp van SLS het luchtruim kiezen.
In UFO conspiracy theories, Majestic 12 (or MJ-12) is the code name of an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. PresidentHarry S. Trumanto facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft. The concept originated in a series of supposedly leaked secret government documents first circulated by ufologists in 1984. Upon examination, the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) declared the documents to be “completely bogus”, and many ufologists consider them to be an elaborate hoax. Majestic 12 remains popular among some UFO conspiracy theorists and the concept has appeared in popular culture including television, film and literature.
The story of how the original MJ-12 papers came to light is an interesting look into the mindset of some of the leading UFO researchers, and an excellent example of the quality of UFO evidence that is acceptable to some people.
The concept of “Majestic Twelve” emerged during a period in the 1980s when ufologists believed there had been a cover-up of the Roswell UFO incident and speculated some secretive upper tier of the United States government was responsible. Their suppositions appeared to be confirmed in 1984 when ufologist Jaime Shandera received an envelope containing film which, when developed, showed images of eight pages of documents that appeared to be briefing papers describing “Operation Majestic Twelve”.
In December, 1984, Jaime Shandera, a Hollywood movie producer and UFO researcher, received an unusual package through the post. Inside was just one roll of undeveloped 35mm black and white film. There were no accompanying letter or return address, the only clue to where the package came from was by the postmark which was Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Once developed, the film contained negatives of what appeared to be an eight page briefing paper, prepared on 18th November, 1952, for president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower. A warning on the first page read, ‘This is a TOP SECRET – EYES ONLY document containing compartmentalized information essential to the national security of the United States’. On page two was a list of 12 influential US scientists, military leaders and intelligence advisors. It was not until viewing page three that the subject of the papers became clear, ‘the recovery of a crashed flying saucer and alien bodies near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947’.
The final page of the briefing paper was a memorandum, dated 24th September,1947, from President Harry Truman to his secretary of Defence, James Forrestal. In it, Truman instructs Forrestal to proceed with ‘Operation Majestic-12’, but gives no hint at what that might be.
Alone, the Forrestal memo was meaningless. But when read next to the 1952 briefing paper, the story behind them became clear: in July 1947, a ‘flying disc-shaped aircraft’ crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico, and ‘extra-terrestrial biological entities’ (EBEs) are recovered by the military. When President Truman is informed about the crash, he authorizes Defence Secretary Forrestal to set up a committee to investigate and deal with the situation.
In 1952, when Eisenhower becomes President-elect, he is briefed on Operation Majestic-12. The briefing paper lists the 12-man committee and gives details of the saucer crash. The final paragraph stresses the need to ‘avoid public panic at all costs’, confirming that the government is covering up the truth about UFOs.
The Majestic-12 documents consisted of an eight page briefing paper to President Eisenhower detailing a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, another crash at El Indio, Texas in 1950, and listing the members of the government’s special Majestic-12 or “MJ-12” UFO group. It was dated “18 November, 1952”, and it named “Admiral” Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter as the briefing officer. There was also a memo from President Harry S Truman to Secretary of Defense Forrestal that authorized the creation of the MJ-12 group.
However, what is often ignored, glossed over, or has just been lost to obscurity, is the fact that the first mention of MJ-12 was in a document that was alleged by Richard Doty, an ex-special agent for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), to have been created as disinformation. He says he gave the document to UFO researchers while he worked for AFOSI, and was order to do so by his superiors. He says this was only one incident in a campaign that lasted years.
Hesitant to take his word for it, I requested documents related to his claims from AFOSI via the Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA). The documents I received supported some of what he said, but told a different story. They do document the interactions with AFOSI and one UFO researcher, but do not include passing him disinformation. In fact, they say two New Mexico state senators requested information about the nature of their interaction with the UFO researcher, to which AFOSI replied they received his information, but did not engage in any sort of formal investigation.
The documents purported to reveal a secret committee of twelve, supposedly authorized by United States President Harry S. Truman in 1952, and explain how the crash of an alien spacecraft at Roswell in 1947 had been concealed, how the recovered alien technology could be exploited, and how the United States should engage with extraterrestrial life in the future.
Shandera and his ufologist colleagues Stanton T. Friedman and Bill Moore say they later received a series of anonymous messages that led them to find what has been called the “Cutler/Twining memo” in 1985 while searching declassified files in the National Archives. Purporting to be written by General Nathan F. Twining to President Eisenhower’s assistant Robert Cutler and containing a reference to Majestic 12, the memo is widely held to be a forgery, likely planted as part of a hoax. Historian Robert Goldberg wrote that the ufologists came to believe the story despite the documents being “obviously planted to bolster the legitimacy of the briefing papers”.
Moore, Shandera, and Friedman altered the appearance of the MJ-12 documents in their first release of the Focus newsletter to give the appearance of government censorship. They later had to admit that they did it themselves.
At the ON UFO Symposium Proceedings, “MJ-12 and Phil Klass: What are the facts?” by William L. Moore and Stanton T. Friedman: They included a reproduction of the mail packet addressed to Jaime Shandera. The bottoms of the postmarks were blackened out on all three postmarks. This would have shown the state and city that the mail packet was mailed in. In the presentation, Moore and Friedman stated the package “bore no return address”.
In reality, there was a return address. It was Albuquerque, NM! Guess who lived in Albuquerque, NM. Richard Doty- associate of William Moore! If the address had been shown, people might have started checking more on Doty. But Moore and Friedman stated that the package bore no return address.
Aside from the suspicious origins of the Majestic-12 papers, there are several problems with the documents themselves.
The Date: Military documents were formatted using strict guidelines, including the structure of dates. At the time the MJ-12 briefing was alleged to have been written, the format was day month year. No commas, no place-holding zeros. But the date in the MJ-12 document used a day month (comma) year format. This brief was supposedly generated at the very highest level of the military; a level that would not have made such a fundamental error in format.
Hillenkoetter’s Rank: The document refers to “Admiral” Hillenkoetter, when his true rank was REAR Admiral. In casual speech or among civilians this error might occur, but a military man would never make such an error. It was the military that wrote the brief.
Verbiage: Two terms used in the document were not in use during the 50’s. The word “media” to refer to the Press did not appear until the 70’s. Likewise the term “impacted”.
Security: The Cutler-Twining memo is stamped “Top Secret Restricted Information”. There was no such classification in 1954. Not until the Nixon era was this classification used.
Code Word MAJIC: This appears to be the code name assigned to this project. However, this would constitute a major violation of the code naming scheme used by the military for well over a decade.
Secure projects are assigned code names from a one-time use list that is shared by all parts of the military and civilian government bodies. Just prior to WWII, the code name MAGIC was assigned to the effort to break the high security Japanese diplomatic code. The project was still under the wraps of Top Secret in the early 50’s so it could not be “re-used”. Yet, here we have the term MAJIC being applied to the Majestic-12, an assignment that clearly could not happen.
MJ-12 proponents point to the different spelling, but the code list was constructed to avoid phonetic similarities that could cause confusion in oral communications. It would appear that the author(s) of the Majestic briefing papers were conscious of the newly de-classified story of the MAGIC operation when this was concocted.
There are several other points that one might accurately call minor, but when you take all these errors together in one set of documents, the coincidence level redlines.
The most spectacular new MJ-12 document was posted in 1994 to Don Berliner, a longtime UFO investigator and science writer. The anonymous roll of film contained 23 pages of a ‘Majestic-12 Group Special Operations Manual’, dated April, 1954. It was a detailed instruction manual entitled ‘Extra-terrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal’.
Because most of the MJ-12 documents are on film, the original paper or ink cannot be analysed. However there are many factual details that can be checked, such as the background of the 12 members of the committee, the dates of meetings, the style and format of similar documents, and the validity of the signatures. Clearly, MJ-12 had an all-star cast, as well as Secretary of Defence Forrestal, there were the first three Directors of Central Intelligence, an Air Force General, an Army General, the Secretary of the Army and five of the US’s most influential scientists. This was the cream of the US’s military, scientific and intelligence communities. If there was to be a top-secret government group investigating UFOs, this would have been it.
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Will we know alien life when we see it?
Will we know alien life when we see it?
This is the third in a three-part series on the search for extraterrestrial life.
In a 1967 episode of Star Trek, Captain Kirk and his crew investigated the mysterious murders of miners on the planet Janus VI. The killer, it turned out, was a rock monster called the Horta. But the Enterprise’s sensors hadn’t registered any sign of life in the creature. The Horta was a silicon-based life-form. That made it different from any on Earth where everything is carbon-based.
Still, it didn’t take long to determine that the Horta was alive. The first clue was that it skittered about. Spock closed the case with a mind meld. He learned that the creature was the last of its kind, protecting a throng of eggs.
But recognizing life on different worlds isn’t likely to be this simple. It could prove especially hard if the recipe for life elsewhere does not include familiar ingredients. There may even be things alive on Earth that have been overlooked because they don’t fit standard definitions, some scientists suspect. The scientists that look for life outside Earth are called astrobiologists. They need some ground rules — with some built-in wiggle room — to know when they can confidently declare, “It’s alive!”
Among people working out those rules is Christoph Adami. He is a theoretical physicist at Michigan State University in East Lansing. He has watched his own version of silicon-based life grow. That life wasn’t real, though. It was a computer simulation.
“It’s easy when it’s easy,” Adami says. “If you find something walking around and waving at you, it won’t be that hard to figure out that you’ve found life.” But chances are, the first aliens that humans encounter won’t be little green men. They will probably be tiny microbes of one color or another — or perhaps no color at all.
Scientists are trying to figure out how they might recognize those alien microbes. It could be really hard if the microbes are very strange. This has led researchers to propose some basic criteria for distinguishing living from nonliving things.
Many insist that certain features must be present for any type of life, including aliens. These include an active metabolism, reproduction and evolution. Others add the requirement that life must have cells big enough to contain protein-building machines called ribosomes (RY-boh-soams).
Defining “life” isn’t straightforward. A virus, such as this Ebola virus, by most definitions is not alive (although some scientists have argued that it is).
CDC/Wikimedia Commons
But such definitions can be overly strict. Making a list of needed criteria for life may give scientists tunnel vision, says Carol Cleland at the University of Colorado Boulder. That narrow vision could blind them to the diversity of life across the cosmos.
Some scientists, for instance, say viruses aren’t alive because they rely on their host cells to reproduce. But Adami has “no doubt” that viruses live. “They don’t carry with them everything they need to survive,” he acknowledges. “But neither do we.” What’s important, Adami argues, is that viruses transmit genetic information from one generation to another. And at its simplest, he contends, life is just information that reproduces itself.
Evolution should be off the table, too, Cleland says. After all, people would likely never be around long enough to tell whether something is evolving.
Even restrictions on cell sizes may squeeze the tiniest microbes out of consideration as aliens. Yet it shouldn’t, argues Steven Benner. He’s an astrobiologist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Alachua, Fla. A cell too tiny to contain ribosomes may operate another way. Instead of proteins, it might use genetic material known as RNA to carry out biochemical reactions, he speculates.
Cells have been thought necessary because they separate one organism from another. But layers of clay could do that, Adami suggests. Cleland proposes that life might even exist as networks of chemical reactions — ones that don’t require any separation at all.
It’s fantastical thinking. But that may just be what it takes for scientists to recognize unusual types of life, should such aliens turn up.
Up close and personal
In recent years, more than 1,000 planets have been spotted outside our solar system. With their discovery, the odds favoring the existence of alien life are better than ever. But even the most powerful telescopes can’t image distant life, especially if its microscopic. Chances of finding such tiny life improves if scientists can reach out and touch it.
And that means looking within our solar system, says Robert Hazen. He’s a a scientist who studies minerals, working at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.
“You really need a rover down on its hands and knees analyzing chemicals,” he says. Such rovers are now sampling rocks on Mars. The Cassini space probe has bathed in the geysers spewing from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Such robot explorers may one day send back signs of life. But only subtle signs of life — what scientists call “biomarkers.” And it may be very hard to tell true biomarkers apart from just some mineral, he notes, especially at a distance.
“We really need to have life be as obvious as possible,” says Victoria Meadows. By obvious, she partly means Earth-like. She also partly means that this signal must be one that no chemical or geologic process alone could have left behind. Meadows is an astrobiologist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She heads its Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle.
This brick-sized meteorite from Mars is called ALH84001 (top). It contained what looked to some scientists like fossils of bacteria (bottom).
FROM TOP: JSC/NASA; NASA
Some scientists say life is an “I’ll know it when I see it” phenomenon, says Kathie Thomas-Keprta. But life also may be in the eye of the beholder. Thomas-Keprta knows this all too well from studying a Martian meteorite. She is a planetary geologist. She was part of a team at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston that studied a meteorite named ALH84001. (It was discovered in Antarctica’s Allan Hills ice field in 1984.)
The team was led by Thomas-Keprta’s late colleague David McKay. In 1996, the scientists claimed that carbonate globules embedded in the meteorite looked a bit like microscopic life on Earth. The researchers found large organic (carbon-based) molecules. That indicated they formed at the same time. Thomas-Keprta also identified tiny crystals of magnetite overlapping the globules. These iron-based crystals looked much like ones made by certain bacteria on Earth. Such bacteria use chains of the crystals as a compass as they swim in search of nutrients.
In the end, the scientists concluded they were looking at fossils of ancient Martians.
Other scientists disagreed. The globules and crystals might have formed through other processes, critics said — with no life needed.
That initial claim of fossil Martians has now been widely dismissed.
But you may not need to leave our planet to find aliens. There’s the possibility of shadow life on Earth. It could be so strange that it has so far gone unrecognized, posits Cleland at the University of Colorado. Consider, she says, “desert varnish.”
These are the dark stains on the sunny sides of some rocks in super-dry climates. Some scientists think certain bacteria or fungi might be responsible. Odd, communal microbes could be sucking energy out of the rocks. They might use this energy to fuel their creation of that hard outer coat of minerals. Such organisms might produce the varnish by cementing iron and manganese to clay and silicate particles.
Curious, some scientists have tried to re-create desert varnish in the lab. They used fungi and bacteria. And they failed.
In the wild, those varnishes form over millennia. Critics have argued that this is too slow to be something created by microbes. But how do we know, Cleland asks? “We have an assumption that life on Earth has a pace,” she says. Some shadow life may instead grow far more leisurely.
Mineral distortions
Desert varnish tints rocks a burnt orange or black (top, Angel Arch, Canyonlands National Park, Utah). It may be produced by unknown living organisms. Silicates make desert varnish shiny (bottom, central Australia).
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To find life, and classify it correctly, look for the odd thing out, suggests Hazen. He is looking for messages in minerals. Minerals do not occur evenly across the landscape. There are 4,933 recognized minerals on the planet, Hazen says. He and his crew have mapped the locations of 4,831 of them. And 22 percent of these exist in only one site. Close to 12 percent more occur in just two places.
One reason for this skewed distribution is that as life has evolved, it has used local resources, turning them into new minerals. Take for example hazenite. (Yes, it’s named for Hazen.) This phosphate-based mineral is found only in California’s Mono Lake. Microbes living there are its only source. Other species may have led to similarly rare pockets of some mineral, Hazen’s group suspects.
Finding such odd distributions of minerals on other planets or moons might indicate that life exists there, or once did. Hazen has advised NASA on how rovers might identify such mineral clues to life on Mars.
Mars was once wet. It still has occasional running water. That shows it may once have been capable of hosting life. This and other evidence in 2013 led Benner, of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, to suggest that Mars may have seeded the life now on Earth. Whether that idea holds up may depend on finding Martians.
But Benner doesn’t seem worried. “I would be surprised now if they don’t find life on Mars,” he says.
Missions could easily bring astronauts to Mars to confirm a suspected find, says Dirk Schulze-Makuch. He’s an astrobiologist at Washington State University in Pullman. “If someone with a microscope sees a microbe and it “is wiggling and waving back, that’s really hard to refute,” he jokes.
Going for the less obvious
But humans and even probes may have a harder time spotting life on more distant or exotic locales. Prime targets are the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. E.T. hunters are attracted to Europa and Enceladus because their liquid oceans slosh beneath icy crusts.
Liquid water is thought to be necessary for many of the chemical reactions that could support life. But water is actually a terrible solvent for building complex molecules on which life could be based, Schulze-Makuch notes. Instead, he thinks really alien aliens might have spawned at hot spots deep in the hydrocarbon lakes of Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon. “Whether you can get all the way to life, we don’t know,” he says.
Life on Saturn’s moon Titan could exist within nitrogen-containing structures called azotosomes. This is an artist’s representation of what such virus-sized particles might look like, with a piece cut away to see its hollow interior.
James Stevenson
Perhaps the biggest challenge for Titanic life is the extreme cold, says Paulette Clancy. She’s a chemical engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. This moon is so frosty that its methane — a gas on balmy Earth — is a viscous, almost-frozen liquid. And water, she says, “would be like a rock.” Under those conditions, she notes, organisms with Earth-like chemistry wouldn’t stand a chance. For one thing, the membranes that hold in an Earth cell’s guts wouldn’t work on Titan.
But Clancy and her colleagues simulated experiments under Titan-like conditions. And certain short-tailed molecules could spontaneously create stable bubbles, they found. Those bubbles are similar to cell membranes.
Like desert varnish, life on Titan may grow slowly. There is little sunlight or heat. Its frigid temperatures would keep chemical reactions sluggish. So if life were to exist here, Schulze-Makuch imagines it would have lifespans perhaps millions of years long. Organisms might reproduce — or even breathe — just once every thousand years!
With so many options out there, Clancy predicts that there are several planets or moons with life on them. Many other researchers are also optimistic that life is out there to find. In the future, astrobiologists may come face-to-face with E.T. And when they do, they might even recognize it for what it is.
alien A non-native organism. (in astronomy) Life on or from a distant world.
Antarctica A continent mostly covered in ice, which sits in the southernmost part of the world.
arid A description of dry areas of the world, where the climate brings too little rainfall or other precipitation to support much plant growth.
astrobiology The study of life everywhere in the universe, including on Earth and in space.
atom The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up of a dense nucleus that contains positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons. The nucleus is orbited by a cloud of negatively charged electrons.
bias The tendency to hold a particular perspective or preference that favors some thing, some group or some choice.
biochemical (adj.) Referring to something made and used within living things.
biology The study of living things. The scientists who study them are known as biologists.
carbon The chemical element having the atomic number 6. It is the physical basis of all life on Earth. Carbon exists freely as graphite and diamond.
Cassini A space probe sent by NASA to explore the planet Saturn. Cassini was launched from Earth in 1997. It reached Saturn in late 2004. The craft included a variety of instruments meant to study Saturn’s moons, rings, magnetic field and atmosphere.
cell The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism. Typically too small to see with the unaided eye, it consists of watery fluid surrounded by a membrane or wall.
cell membrane A structure that separates the inside of a cell from the outside of it. Some particles are permitted to pass through the membrane.
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.
chemical engineer A researcher who uses chemistry to solve problems related to the production of food, fuel, medicines and many other products.
chemical reaction A process that involves the rearrangement of the molecules or structure of a substance, as opposed to a change in physical form (as from a solid to a gas).
chemistry The field of science that deals with the composition, structure and properties of substances and how they interact with one another. Chemists use this knowledge to study unfamiliar substances, to reproduce large quantities of useful substances or to design and create new and useful substances.
clay Fine-grained particles of soil that stick together and can be molded when wet.
colleague Someone who works with another; a co-worker or team member.
cosmos (adj. cosmic) A term that refers to the universe and everything within it.
criteria (sing. criterion) The standards, rules, traits or other things used to make a judgment or determination about something.
diversity (in biology) A range of different life forms.
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.
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.
Enceladus The sixth largest of Saturn’s more than 50 moons. Enceladus is bright white and covered with a thick shell of ice. Deep beneath that ice sits what appears to be a global ocean of salty liquid water. Enceladus is a round sphere, 500 kilometers (310 miles) across. It is a little less than one-third the width of Earth’s moon.
engineer A person who uses science to solve problems. As a verb, to engineer means to design a device, material or process that will solve some problem or unmet need.
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.
Europa One of the moons of Jupiter and the sixth-closest satellite to the planet. Europa, 1,951 miles across, has a network of dark lines on a bright, icy surface.
evolution (v. to evolve) A process by which species undergo changes over time, usually through genetic variation and natural selection. These changes usually result in a new type of organism better suited for its environment than the earlier type. The newer type is not necessarily more “advanced,” just better adapted to the conditions in which it developed.
fossil Any preserved remains or traces of ancient life. There are many different types of fossils: The bones and other body parts of dinosaurs are called “body fossils.” Things like footprints are called “trace fossils.” Even specimens of dinosaur poop are fossils. The process of forming fossils is called fossilization.
generation A group of individuals born about the same time or that are regarded as a single group. Your parents belong to one generation of your family, for example, and your grandparents to another.
genetic Having to do with chromosomes, DNA and the genes contained within DNA. The field of science dealing with these biological instructions is known as genetics. People who work in this field are geneticists.
geology (adj. geologic) The study of Earth’s physical structure and substance, its history and the processes that act on it. People who work in this field are known as geologists. Planetary geology is the science of studying the same things about other planets.
geyser A vent (opening) in Earth’s surface that intermittently sends up a tall spray of steam or hot water. The sometimes explosive discharge of water and steam is propelled by the geothermal heating of water below ground.
hydrocarbon Any of a range of large molecules created by chemically bound carbon and hydrogen atoms. Crude oil, for example, is a naturally occurring mix of many hydrocarbons.
magnetite A gray-black iron-bearing mineral, the most magnetic known. As shown in its chemical formula, each molecule of magnetite (Fe3O4) consists of three iron (Fe) atoms and four oxygen (O) atoms.
manganese The chemical element of atomic number 25, a hard gray metal of the transition series. Manganese is an important component of special steels.
metabolism The set of life-sustaining chemical reactions that take place inside cells and bigger structures, such as organs. These reactions enable organisms to grow, reproduce, move and otherwise respond to their environments.
methane A hydrocarbon with the chemical formula CH4 (meaning there are four hydrogen atoms bound to one carbon atom). It’s a natural constituent of what’s known as natural gas. It’s also emitted by decomposing plant material in wetlands and is belched out by cows and other ruminant livestock.
microbe Short for microorganism. A living thing that is too small to see with the unaided eye, including bacteria, some fungi and many other organisms such as amoebas. Most consist of a single cell.
microscopic An adjective for things too small to be seen by the unaided eye. It takes a microscope to view such tiny objects, such as bacteria or other one-celled organisms.
mineral The crystal-forming substances, such as quartz, apatite, or various carbonates, that make up rock. Most rocks contain several different minerals mish-mashed together. A mineral usually is solid and stable at room temperatures and has a specific formula, or recipe (with atoms occurring in certain proportions) and a specific crystalline structure (meaning that its atoms are organized in certain regular three-dimensional patterns).
molecule An electrically neutral group of atoms that represents the smallest possible amount of a chemical compound. Molecules can be made of single types of atoms or of different types. For example, the oxygen in the air is made of two oxygen atoms (O2), but water is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (H2O).
moon The natural satellite of any planet.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (or NASA) Created in 1958, this U.S. agency has become a leader in space research and in stimulating public interest in space exploration. It was through NASA that the United States sent people into orbit and ultimately to the moon. It has also sent research craft to study planets and other celestial objects in our solar system.
network A group of interconnected people or things.
organic (in chemistry) An adjective that indicates something is carbon-containing; a term that relates to the chemicals that make up living organisms.
organism Any living thing.
phenomenon Something that is surprising or unusual.
phosphate A chemical containing one atom of phosphorus and four atoms of oxygen. It is a component of bones, hard white tooth enamel, and some minerals such as apatite.
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.
protein Compound made from one or more long chains of amino acids. Proteins are an essential part of all living organisms. They form the basis of living cells, muscle and tissues; they also do the work inside of cells.
RNA A molecule that helps “read” the genetic information contained in DNA. A cell’s molecular machinery reads DNA to create RNA, and then reads RNA to create proteins.
sensor A device that picks up information on physical or chemical conditions — such as temperature, barometric pressure, salinity, humidity, pH, light intensity or radiation — and stores or broadcasts that information. Scientists and engineers often rely on sensors to inform them of conditions that may change over time or that exist far from where a researcher can measure them directly.
silicate A mineral containing silicon atoms and usually oxygen atoms. The majority of Earth’s crust is made of silicate minerals.
silicon A nonmetal, semiconducting element used in making electronic circuits. Pure silicon exists in a shiny, dark-gray crystalline form and as a shapeless powder.
simulation (v. simulate) An analysis, often made using a computer, of some conditions, functions or appearance of a physical system. A computer program would do this by using mathematical operations that can describe the system and how it might vary in response to various situations or over time.
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.
solvent A material (usually a liquid) used to dissolve some other material into a solution.
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.
subtle Some feature that may be important, but can be hard to see or describe. For instance, the first cellular changes that signal the start of a cancer may be visible but subtle — small and hard to distinguish from nearby healthy tissues.
theoretical An adjective for an analysis or assessment of something that based on pre-existing knowledge of how things behave. It is not based on experimental trials. Theoretical research tends to use math — usually performed by computers — to predict how or what will occur for some specified series of conditions.
unique Something that is unlike anything else; the only one of its kind.
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).
viscous The property of being thick, sticky and hard to pour. Molasses and maple syrup are two examples of viscous liquids.
American Indians Have No Fear Of Aliens. Here’s Why
American Indians Have No Fear Of Aliens. Here’s Why
Deeply spiritual cultures remember a time when “people from the stars” freely interacted with members of the human species.
Before intrepid and greedy Europeans ‘discovered’ the Americas, the land was populated by a variety of cultures encompassing millions of souls. Sadly, the near-annihilation of Native Americans has also meant the disappearance of ancient knowledge that we might never win back.
Therefore, it is fortunate that the efforts of the survivors have included the passing down of stories from time immemorial and many of these talk about the “Star People”, a term that groups various beings who came from the sky to share a connection with humans who were worthy of their teachings.
The ancient world was in contact with a multitude of advanced extraterrestrials, as evidenced by the rich collection of stories detailing these interactions. Many cultures separated by thousands of years refer narratives of flying objects and technology so advanced it could have well been magic. These stories are particularly strong within the mythos of the Native American tribes.
“My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago,” Richard Wagamese of the Wabaseemoong First People writes. “The Star people brought spiritual teachings and stories and maps of the cosmos and they offered these freely. They were kind, loving and set a great example. When they left us, my people say there was a loneliness like no other.”
He continues:
“If Star People did come to the Ojibway, where did they go? Where did they come from? Who brought teachings to them? What scientific magic did they own that allowed them to make such an incredible journey – and is it possible for us?”
The peaceful Hopi people believed their ancestors came from the Pleiades and the general demeanor of Pleiadian aliens is reflected in the Hopi lifestyle. Could this mean their genesis stories hold truth in them? It sure seems so
Dakota legends make reference to the same star cluster – Tiyami they called them – as being their ancestor’s primal home.
Similarly, the Cree believed that in a time before history, their ancestors arrived from the stars in spirit form, only to become humans on Earth.
Native legends of the Lakota people speak of mysterious celestial beings that manifested themselves as spheres of light and would often choose particular children to follow them on a journey through space and time.
Native Americans perceive the issue of alien visitation and even abduction in a more spiritual manner, as Plains Cree author Stephane Wuttunee explains in a UFO digest article:
[My people] “give far greater attention to the seeking of the spiritual understanding of things rather than going after “the truth” as people from dominant cultures do. This is part of the reason why we tend to stand back and view or listen at first rather than bare in with questions or take the hard, direct approach.”
Growing up in a tightly-knit community, Wuttunee listened carefully to the stories passed down by the Elders of his tribe. They told of “distant relations and Star People living amongst the stars many times, mainly around campfires and during traditional ceremonies.”
Far from being anything to be feared, Star People was just another term I grew up around,”Wuttunee writes. “I remember listening in awe and fascination at the thought of us having relations that lived off and outside our world, and sometimes spoke to them in my silent moments at night. I wanted to know who they were and what they looked like, if they had families like us etc.[…] It wasn’t until my later teens that I discovered that people from the dominant cultures were talking about the same “people” as my elders did, though each side’s sense of perception of these people seemed radically different from one another.”
Do you suspect these words to be the result of ancient traditions tainted by the recent ancient alien phenomenon? Congrats for being a critical thinker, but Native Americans have been mentioning “flying shields” for a long time.
Black Elk (1863-1950), an Oglala Sioux holy man who toured with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show when he was young described one of his experiences, way before the UFO phenomenon had become bastardized by mass-media:
“So when I went to vision quest, that disk came from above. The scientists call that a…Unidentified Flying Object, but that’s a joke, see? Because they are not trained, they lost contact with the wisdom, power and gift.”
“So that disk landed on top of me. It was concave, and there was another one on top of that. It was silent, but it lit and luminesced like neon lights. Even the sacred robes there were luminesced, and those tobacco ties lying there lit up like little light bulbs.”
“Then these little people came, but each little group spoke a different language. They could read minds, and I could read their minds. I could read them. So there was silent communication. You could read it, like when you read silent symbols in a book. So we were able to communicate…They are human, so I welcomed them. I said, “Welcome, Welcome…”
Here we have the written, unambiguous testimony of pivotal figure in the Sioux culture, a legendary man who was the cousin of Crazy Horse, telling us about his interaction with extraterrestrial beings aboard their luminous UFO.
Without exception, all Native American tribes foster an umbilical connection with Mother Earth. They see themselves as the “original caretakers” of our planet and lament the path to destruction we’re currently on. Many tribal figures see this as the primary reason behind the weakening of the bond between humanity and the Star People.
But at the same time, this implies that a global shift in our attitude towards the place we call home could rekindle this dwindling connection.
So maybe that’s where all the good aliens are: out of sight, waiting for us to come into our senses.
Getting your science fiction fix can be tricky without Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, or that thing called basic cable. After some digging, we found streaming services aren’t the only ones with a plethora of sci-fi films available; YouTube has a selection of free movies for your viewing pleasure.
1. The Mars Underground
Robert Zubrin, aerospace engineer and founder of The Mars Society, had some wild ideas for getting humans to Mars back in 2007, which 10 years later makes much more sense. Once we’ve landed, Zubrin discusses civilization and how humans will use the soil to build tools, plant crops, produce oxygen, and eventually populate the planet with the first true martians.
2. I’ll Follow You Down
Erol, played by Haley Joel Osment (yeah, the kid from The Sixth Sense, Forrest Gump, and Pay It Forward), learns that his father time travelled to 1946 to meet Albert Einstein and never came back. As the title suggests, the son follows his dad through time to bring him home. Thrilling, chilling, and probably more heartwarming than your usual sci-fi film, the story will make you think about what it means to exist in this multidimensional universe we call home.
3. The Machine
Two computer programmers engineer a humanoid machine that may just be “too human.” Of course, the Ministry of Defense steals and weaponizes the technology, setting it off on a killing spree. This part sci-fi, part thriller won a slough of awards, including a few BAFTA awards for Best Film, Best Original Music, Best Costume Design, and Best Makeup and Hair.
4. Battle Beyond the Stars
In this 1980 fantasy, a farmer on a fictional planet called Akir forms an army to fend off Sador, who is basically an evil mutant warlord. The infamous B-movie is a cross between Star Wars and something really bad, but it has gained a cult following in the past decade, mostly for the nostalgia of horrible special effects and cheesy one-liners.
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
Now this is a true classic. The 1951 blockbuster is a futuristic twist on the Cold War era. An alien and a robot visit Earth to tell humans to stop being so destructive, or their planet will be destroyed. The epic film won a Golden Globe in 1952 for Best Film Promoting International Understanding — discontinued by the Academy in 1964 — and continued on to gain a slot at the OFTA Film Hall of Fame.
6. Algorithm
The tagline for this film says it all: “The geeks have inherited the Earth… the rest of you just don’t know it yet.” A hacker stumbles upon a secret government computer program and is incidentally sucked into the revolution. Although the plot seemed genius, the execution was not. The movie got terrible reviews and ratings. It’s a wonder why hackers haven’t gone in to change it yet.
7. The Drift
This one gets credit for being super low budget and for faster-than-light space crystals, which allow humans to travel the stars effortlessly. Eventually a “dark wave” wipes out the power of the crystals, leaving humans drifting (get it?) aimlessly around the universe. 20 years later, a vessel with alive humans arrives at a spaceship graveyard where they find some pretty spooky things. Understanding it was made for only 5000 pounds, you might grow to appreciate it.
8. Lost: Black Earth
This Australian indie flick took five years to make because all of the actors were volunteers and could only work on the weekends. After total destruction by an alien empire, Earth is failing to revive itself via terraforming technology. Then four rebels join forces to take down the alien overlords. In addition to being available on YouTube, this 2004 film’s success also boasts an award for Best Sound at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.
9. Avalon: Beyond the Abyss
If you thought the Mayan calendar was foretelling doomsday in 2012, then this movie is perfect for you. When a remote island blows up and begins leaking a poisonous black algae into the ocean, marine biologists come to the rescue. Melding ancient history and science into one, this sci-fi thriller will have you fearing the apocalypse all over again.
10. The Darwin Conspiracy
In The Darwin Conspiracy, a scientist discovers a frozen humanoid who is unexpectedly advanced and whose DNA could potentially start a super-human race. Despite being written by Glen A. Larson (Battlestar Galactica, Magnum, P.I.), this 1999 film is situated on the better end of the YouTube scale.
11. Attack of the Giant Leeches
In this black-and-white classic, produced in 1959, a doctor and a drunken game hunter discover giant leeches eating humans in a local swamp. It takes rounding up the entire police force before they can do anything about it. The movie is funny nowadays but was a real horror back then.
12. Zombie Night
The whole point of zombie movies is to laugh at how dumb the living are and to look at the great make up/special effects, and this movie has both. There is really no plot but for the characters to survive. Topped off with star-quality screams and a mediocre script, this is the perfect zombie movie for a Friday night in.
13. Alien Uprising
This sci-fi thriller follows a group of friends into the alien apocalypse. Huge spaceships descend onto earth, shutting down power and communication and sending humans into a frenzied panic. The reviews are pretty awful, but special effects and a love of chaos might be all you need to get into this film.
14. Battlespace
This movie was ahead of its time with a female protagonist leading the show. Sure, the acting isn’t great, the cinematography is truly awful, and the sound effects are horrendous, but seeing a lady kick butt and save the human race is pretty cool.
15. Darkening Sky
Boy Meets World’s Rider Strong stars in this sci-fi meets horror movie. Following a dream about an alien abduction, he wakes up to find his girlfriend missing. Oddly enough, he is a grad student studying UFOs and mythology, so he uses ~brain power~ to solve the mystery.
On April 26, NASA’s Cassini space probe took a bold dive toward the surface of Saturn, getting closer than any spacecraft had before. Scientists have already learned a lot from Cassini’s plunge, such as the fact that the gas giant’s ring gap is completely empty. That’s pretty cool, but here’s something even more astounding: You can now watch Cassini’s descent in a video made from the images it took.
That’s right, you can see what it’s like to fly toward the face of Saturn.
The photos were captured over the course of an hour as Cassini moved both toward the planet and southward over it. The first pictures are of Saturn’s whirling north pole vortex; next they show the probe moving over the edge of Saturn’s famous hexagon-shaped cloud pattern (which is wider than the diameter of two Earths, and is formed by a jet stream around the pattern’s perimeter) and further down the planet.
“I was surprised to see so many sharp edges along the hexagon’s outer boundary and the eye-wall of the polar vortex,” said Kunio Sayanagi of the Cassini imaging team in a press release. “Something must be keeping different latitudes from mixing to maintain those edges.”
Now, you may think the pixelation isn’t great, but that’s just because you’re used to footage from cameras that shoot objects at a much closer range. At the start of the video, Cassini is 45,000 miles higher than Saturn’s clouds, and even by the end it’s still 4,200 miles above them. The smallest resolvable features in the shot are 5.4 miles per pixel at the start of the video and 0.5 miles per pixel at the finish.
But Andrew Ingersoll of the Cassini team did note that the camera settings used by the space probe this time were “conservative,” and added, “We plan to make updates to our observations for a similar opportunity on June 28 that we think will result in even better views.”
So, if you thought this video was neat, just wait for the images from Cassini’s next dive through the rings in late June.
'Star Wars' Tech: 8 Sci-Fi Inventions and Their Real-Life Counterparts
'Star Wars' Tech: 8 Sci-Fi Inventions and Their Real-Life Counterparts
By Edd Gent, Live Science Contributor
Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm
INTRO: 'Star Wars' Tech
A long time ago in a studio far, far away, filmmaker George Lucas created one of the seminal works of science fiction: the "Star Wars" movie series.
Nearly 40 years later, the ideas introduced by the films are still staples of the genre, and with new installments of the series set to hit theaters in the coming years, fans will be pleased to see lightsabers, hyperdrives and speeders in abundance.
While the science and technologies behind the franchise are firmly rooted in fantasy, their enduring appeal has served as inspiration for many real-life scientists and engineers. Here are some of the most notable attempts to turn "Star Wars'" science fiction into science fact.
Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm
1. Lightsabers
The most iconic piece of "Star Wars" technology is the lightsaber, but it's also probably the most far-fetched, experts say. The photons that make up light have long been considered massless particles that don't interact with each other, which makes the prospect of clashing beams of light in epic lightsaber duels unlikely.
In 2013, however, researchers from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated that when pairs of photons were fired through a cloud of supercooled atoms, the photons emerged as a single molecule. Talking about the interaction between the particles to the Harvard Gazette, Mikhail Lukin, a professor of physics at Harvard, said, "It's not an inapt analogy to compare this to lightsabers." [Infographic: Secrets of the Jedi Lightsaber]
But Eric Davis, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, in Texas, said re-creating the effect in real life is a whole other ball game. "Lightsabers are purely fictional and will never be developed," he said. "Using the contraptions and cryogenic equipment to produce trapped quantum gases 2 feet [0.6 m] from the end of a lightsaber emitter is impractical."
But all is not lost when it comes to light-based weapons: Scientists are close to developing weapons similar to the blaster guns featured in "Star Wars." In fact, the U.S. Navy has already demonstrated a ship-based laser weapon capable of shooting drones out of the sky and disabling small boats. And this summer, the U.S. Air Force began testing another laser-based weapon that is five times as powerful as the Navy's version, and small enough to be fitted to fighter jets and Humvees.
Credit: LucasFilms
2. Hyperspace
In the films, spaceships like Han Solo's Millennium Falcon are able to jet between solar systems that are light-years apart. According to "Star Wars" canon, these "hyperdrive" propulsion systems let intergalactic travelers jump into a shadow dimension called "hyperspace," which provides shortcuts between points in real space.
While the movies are hazy on the details, the idea of hyperspace and faster-than-light (FTL) travel has a basis in real science, said Davis, who researches the possibility of FTL travel.
While it's impossible to travel faster than light, the curved nature of space-time proposed by Albert Einstein suggests space could be distorted to shorten the distance between two points. One way of doing this would be a warp drive that contracts space in front of a ship and expands it behind the vessel. Another would be to create a wormhole, or a section of space that curves in on itself to create a shortcut between distant locations. Creating these kinds of distortions would require exotic matter with so-called "negative energy," Davis told Live Science, a phenomenon that has been demonstrated in the lab using the Casimir effect, which can be measured as the force of attraction or repulsion between two parallel mirrors that are placed just tiny distances apart in a vacuum. [Warped Physics: 10 Effects of Faster-Than-Light Travel]
Earlier this year, a lab called Eagleworks, based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, claimed to have created a warp drive that appears to exploit this effect to create spatial distortions in a vacuum. But, sadly for sci-fi fans, the lab's unpublished findings have been met with skepticism. And Davis, an FTL optimist, called the claims "bizarre and questionable."
"These remain as speculative theoretical concepts at present because they remain under further theoretical study and also because there is no technology envisioned that can implement them," he said. "It might take between 50 and 300 years to develop the technology that produces traversable wormholes or warp drives."
Credit: Aerofex/Screengrab via YouTube
3. Speeders
A less conceptually troublesome mode of transport featured in "Star Wars" is likely a lot closer to being realized. A number of firms are currently trying to create working versions of "hoverbikes," known as "speeders" in the films.
Aerofex, a California-based startup company, developed the Aero-X vehicle, which is described as "a hovercraft that rides like a motorcycle," and can fly at 45 mph (72 km/h) up to 10 feet (3 meters) off the ground. For speed demons, U.K.-based Malloy Aeronautics' Hoverbike is projected to reach speeds of more than 170 mph (274 km/h) at the same altitude as a helicopter.
Both Aerofex and Malloy Aeronautics' hoverbikes use standard gasoline, but environmentally conscious "Star Wars" fans could soon have futuristic transportation alternatives, too. Bay Zoltan Nonprofit Ltd., a Hungarian state-owned applied research institute, has created an electric battery-powered tricopter called the Flike. Before you get your hopes up, though, all three vehicles are still firmly in the design phase.
"To me, the most important thing about 'Star Wars' is the idea that humans' future is in space,” said British science communicator Mark Brake, who put on a show called "The Science of Star Wars" last year. "Effectively, what it's all about is trade and imperial development in a series of solar systems, and actually now we are beginning to discover these solar systems."
More than 2,000 exoplanets have now been found, and in 2011, NASA's Kepler space telescope discovered the first planet orbiting around two suns, just like Luke Skywalker's fictional home planet Tatooine. The planet, dubbed Kepler-16b, is an uninhabitable gas giant, but in 2012, the telescope was used to discover two more planets in binary star systems that are extremely close to the so-called habitable zone. (This is the region around a star in which liquid water could flow on a planet's surface.)
Credit: Disney/Lucasfilm
5. Droids
Another ever-present feature of the "Star Wars" universe are droids, which are robots that act as personal servants, pilots, technicians and even soldiers. Today, there are a growing number of analogies in the real world, ranging from automated military drones to Google's driverless cars and robotic surgical assistants. [The 6 Strangest Robots Ever Created]
This summer, robots competed in the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge Finals. The humanoid robots tackled complex challenges, including driving a vehicle, opening a door, climbing steps and turning off a valve.
The majority of the bots performed well in the competition, but these machines were only semiautonomous, meaning a human operator was almost constantly in control of the robot. So, while the machinery of modern robotics can match the clunky "Star Wars" droids, there's a long way to go in making real robots as smart, said Jerry Pratt, an expert in algorithms for bipedal walking and co-leader of the Florida-based Institute for Human and Machine Cognition's team, which competed in the Robotics Challenge Finals, winning second place.
"The hard part is the artificial intelligence," Pratt told Live Science. "We're getting to the point where sensory-input devices are nearly as good [as], if not better than human sight. But [having the robots] actually understanding what [they] are looking at is what's difficult. It's small things like being able to look at a cup and understand what a cup is and understand that it's something you put liquid in. Unless it is hand-coded by a human, we are pretty much nowhere at this point, and it's hard to say what needs to happen."
Credit: Lucasfilm
6. Tractor beams
Light could also help replicate another interesting technology from the "Star Wars" franchise: the tractor beam, which is an invisible energy field that can grab, trap and move objects. Since the early 2010s, scientists have been creating lasers with unusual beam-intensity profiles that allow them to attract and repulse tiny particles.
Just last year, researchers from the Australian National University broke the distance record for tractor beams by using a doughnut-shaped laser to drag hollow, glass spheres for up to 7.8 inches (20 centimeters), roughly 100 times further than in previous experiments.
And just a couple months ago, a team from the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, showed that sound could rival light as the source of future tractor beams. The researchers used a precisely timed sequence of sound waves from an array of tiny loudspeakers to create a region of low pressure that effectively counteracts gravity, levitating tiny balls of polystyrene in midair. The balls could then be pulled, pushed and spun using only sound waves.
Credit: Hewlett-Packard
7. Holograms
When you're trapped in the tractor beam of an Imperial Star Destroyer and facing certain doom, there's no better way of sending a mayday message than via hologram. But while specially designed glasses have been used to create the illusion of 3D images for decades, free-standing holographic videos have been hard to reproduce.
In recent years, an old stage trick invented by John Pepper in the 19th century to give the illusion of a ghostlike apparition on stage has been revived, most notably to seemingly resurrect deceased rapper Tupac Shakur at the Coachella music festival in 2012. The method relies on a superthin sheet of foil hung at a 45-degree angle from the stage that is invisible to the naked eye but reflects images from a projector. The trick gives the illusion of a 3D image but only if you are standing in front of it.
Closer to the mark is the Voxiebox "swept surface volumetric display" made by Voxon, the result of a merger between two groups of Australian and American inventors. 3D models are sliced into hundreds of horizontal cross sections before a superfast projector beams them onto a flat screen that rapidly moves up and down. The human eye blends these projections together to create a 3D image that can move and be viewed from any angle, just like during Princess Leia's message to Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope."
Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd.
8. The Force
Binding the entire "Star Wars" universe together is the concept of the Force, which gives Jedi knights their magical powers and provides the backdrop for the battle between good and evil.
Earlier this year, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider announced they had discovered the first unequivocal evidence for the phenomenon, with a certain diminutive green spokesperson remarking, "Very impressive, this result is." Sadly for those aspiring Jedi out there, it was an elaborate April Fools' Day prank.
But, with the Force due to awaken later this month, there may be hope for them yet.
Dark Matter Is the Real Guardian of the Galaxies (Video)
Dark Matter Is the Real Guardian of the Galaxies (Video)
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
Step aside, Star-Lord – there's another superhero in the universe, and it's "guarding" far more galaxies than you can even fathom.
In honor of the release of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" in movie theaters today (May 5), scientists with the Hubble Space Telescope have released gorgeous new images of all the galaxies in our universe. The abundance of galaxies in Hubble's view illustrates that, in the grand scheme of things, the fictional Marvel galaxy is pretty insignificant.
Not only does the real universe have far more galaxies (an estimated 2 trillion of them) but it also has a much bigger, darker and mysterious guardian of those galaxies: Dark matter, according to Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer Dan Coe. Space.com spoke with Coe about all those galaxies in Hubble's latest images, and Coe explained how dark matter is really holding the universe together. [Gallery: Dark Matter Throughout the Universe]
Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI)
"So dark matter is this mysterious stuff that makes up most of the stuff in the universe. It's all around us, but we don't know what it is yet," Coe said. "We can start to map it out and see it with gravitational lensing." (Gravitational lensing is the warping of light around objects in space that have a strong gravitational pull.)
These images from the Hubble Space Telescope's Frontier Fields program features massive galaxy clusters that act as gravitational lenses in space, magnifying and stretching images of distant objects in the background that would otherwise be too small and faint for Hubble to see.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and the HFF team
"If it wasn't for this dark matter – this extra mass that holds [galaxies] together – they would all fly apart. And so you could call dark matter really the guardian of the galaxies," Coe said.
Of course, dark matter won't be able to battle any supervillains with diabolical plans to take over the galaxies Hubble has spotted, but, thankfully, scientists have found no evidence that Thanos, Ronan or any other evil characters could possibly exist in our universe.
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience.
Ancient Meteor Strike Triggered Eruptions Lasting Up to a Million Years
Ancient Meteor Strike Triggered Eruptions Lasting Up to a Million Years
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributorµ
A huge meteor that hit Earth about 2 billion years ago was responsible for explosive and long-lived volcanic eruptions, scientists have found.
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A giant meteor impact on Earth nearly 2 billion years ago triggered more explosive and long-lived volcanic eruptions than previously thought, a new study finds.
This finding sheds light on how meteor bombardment may have dramatically shaped the evolution of the early Earth, researchers in the new study said.
Gargantuan craters are seen pockmarking the rest of the solar system as well. Recent studies of such impact craters on the moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars suggested that meteor strikes could trigger volcanic activity.
However, over the course of millions of years, geological activity has eradicated the vast majority of ancient impact craters on Earth. This has limited research into whether meteor strikes could also set off volcanism on Earth, said study senior author Balz Kamber, a geochemist in Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, and his colleagues.
To see what effects giant impacts might have had on the surface of the Earth, the researchers analyzed one of the oldest meteor craters on the planet, the 1.85-billion-year-old Sudbury basin in Canada. It's also the second-largest and best-preserved crater on Earth, measuring about 93 to 161 miles (150 to 260 km) in diameter. A 2015 study estimated that the crater may have been created by a comet about 9.3 miles (15 km) wide.
From 2013 to 2014, the scientists in the new study collected samples from the 0.93-mile-thick (1.5 km) layer of rock that filled the Sudbury crater. Although the crater is easy for researchers to get to, "there are lots and lots of blackflies in the spring, and later mosquitoes, and in the summer, there are a lot of blueberries, and so a lot of black bears," Kamber said.
The scientists examined 139 samples from 15 locations in the crater. Their analysis suggested that this material not only consisted of rock that had melted from the heat of the impact, but was also peppered with tiny fragments of volcanic rock.
The researchers noted that these volcanic rocks often had very distinctive angular shapes resembling crab claws. These shapes form when gas bubbles expand in molten rock that then catastrophically explodes, a feature of violent eruptions involving water, such as those seen under glaciers in Iceland, the researchers explained. They said these angular Sudbury volcanic rocks likely arose when seawater flooded the crater floor, either gradually or suddenly.
In addition, the scientists found that the composition of these volcanic-rock fragments varied in nature, with some originating from molten crust and others from "a deeper magma source," Kamber said. These findings suggested that the volcanic activity that created these rocks changed over time and was therefore prolonged, he said.
How long might this meteor-triggered volcanism have lasted? "I think 1 million years would have been an upper limit," Kamber said. "Hundreds of thousands of years is a more reasonable estimate."
These findings shed light on how meteors could have influenced the evolution of early Earth, Kamber said.
"About 3.8 billion to 4 billion years ago, we know the inner solar system experienced heavy bombardment from impactors," Kamber said. The oldest rocks on the planet coincide with the last peak of this bombardment, suggesting that "the older rocks on Earth were somehow destroyed by this bombardment," he said. "The bombardment alone would not have done sufficient damage to have caused the comprehensive loss of primordial rocks on Earth, but if that bombardment also triggered additional eruptions, that could have buried the primordial rocks and plowed them back into the mantle."
The scientists said they are now investigating whether the deep magma they detected in the crater came from the deep crust or from the mantle layer just beneath Earth's crust. They detailed their findings April 22 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
Paging Star-Lord! Hubble Spies Hundreds of Galaxies That Need Guarding
Paging Star-Lord! Hubble Spies Hundreds of Galaxies That Need Guarding
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
As Star-Lord and his team head to the big screen this weekend to guard a galaxy in the Marvel universe, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope remind us that there are far more galaxies in our own universe without any superheroes to protect them from evil villains.
"Much like the eclectic group of space rebels in the upcoming film 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2', NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has some amazing superpowers, specifically when it comes to observing innumerable galaxies flung across time and space," NASA officials said in a statement that was published along with some incredible new views of galaxies in deep space.
A gorgeous galaxy cluster named Abell 370 stars in the images, which NASA released on Thursday (May 4). The cluster contains hundreds of galactic neighbors bound together by their own gravitational pull. Abell 370 lies about 4 billion light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the Sea Monster). But you can also see more distant galaxies that lie behind the cluster. [The 10 Must-Read 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Stories]
Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI)
The background galaxies in appear cloudy and distorted due to an effect called gravitational lensing. All that gravity from the hundreds of galaxies inside the cluster bands the light that comes from the other side, causing those distant objects to appear warped.
"These far-flung galaxies are too faint for Hubble to see directly, NASA officials said in the statement. "Instead, the cluster acts as a huge lens in space that magnifies and stretches images of background galaxies like a funhouse mirror." One of these warped galaxies seen in Hubble's new images is nicknamed "the Dragon" for its shape and size.
These images from the Hubble Space Telescope's Frontier Fields program features massive galaxy clusters that act as gravitational lenses in space, magnifying and stretching images of distant objects in the background that would otherwise be too small and faint for Hubble to see.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, and the HFF team
Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble telescope has provided the deepest views of the cosmos we've even seen. Unlike the superpowers of the heroes in the Marvel realm, Hubble's superpower is far from science fiction. So if and when you decide to go see "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" (which hits movie theaters Friday, May 5), maybe you'll take a moment to stop and think about the countless defenseless galaxies in the real universe that Hubble is keeping an eye on.
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience.
Verborgen, extra dimensies in het heelal. Dit is hoe we ze kunnen vinden
Verborgen, extra dimensies in het heelal. Dit is hoe we ze kunnen vinden
Verborgen dimensies in het heelal kunnen rimpelingen teweegbrengen in onze realiteit. Het waarnemen van deze extra dimensies kan enkele van de grootste mysteries in het universum helpen oplossen.
Natuurkundigen vragen zich al lange tijd af waarom de zwaartekracht in vergelijking met andere fundamentele krachten zo zwak is.
Dit komt mogelijk omdat een deel ervan weglekt naar extra dimensies die buiten de drie ruimtelijke dimensies bestaan die wij kunnen zien.
Grote uitdaging
Het waarnemen van extra dimensies is echter een grote uitdaging. Wetenschappers hopen dat ze opduiken tijdens experimenten met de Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Ze hebben hun hoop ook gevestigd op zwaartekrachtgolven, rimpelingen in de ruimtetijd die worden veroorzaakt door de beweging van enorme objecten.
“Als er extra dimensies zijn in het heelal, kunnen zwaartekrachtgolven zich naar iedere dimensie begeven, zelfs de extra dimensies,” zei Gustavo Lucena Gomez van het Max Planck Instituut in Duitsland.
Niet waar te nemen
Hij heeft berekend hoe extra dimensies de zwaartekrachtgolven zouden beïnvloeden. De extra dimensies bleken de ‘normale’ zwaartekrachtgolven te veranderen, waardoor de ruimte op een specifieke manier vervormde.
Lucena Gomez hoopt deze vervormingen op te pikken met behulp van detectoren.
De extra dimensies bleken ook een ‘enorme toren’ van extra zwaartekrachtgolven te genereren, maar met huidige technologieën zijn deze golven niet waar te nemen, aldus Lucena Gomez.
Flitsende UFO gezien in Parijs. Hoe kan het dat deze UFO ook in deze andere verre landen gezien werd?
Flitsende UFO gezien in Parijs. Hoe kan het dat deze UFO ook in deze andere verre landen gezien werd?
UFO-jagers maken melding van oplichtende objecten die in de lucht boven Frankrijk, China en Australië zijn gespot.
Beelden uit de buurt van de Franse hoofdstad Parijs tonen felle lichten in de lucht en een sigaarvormig, knipperend object.
Enkele jaren terug werd een soortgelijke UFO waargenomen, zo blijkt. In 2010 werd een belangrijke luchthaven in China gesloten vanwege een onbekend vliegend object.
Omgeleid
Het platte, sigaarvormige object zweefde een tijdje rond boven een luchthaven in Binnen-Mongolië en verdween uiteindelijk plots.
Een aantal vluchten werd omgeleid omdat de luchtverkeersleiding bang was dat het anders tot een botsing met de UFO zou komen.
Verband
In juli 2010 ging de internationale luchthaven Hangzhou Xiaoshan ook al dicht nadat een vreemd object op de radar was verschenen. Ook vanaf de grond werd het knipperende object waargenomen.
Er zou in 2013 een soortgelijke UFO-waarneming zijn gedaan in Gold Coast in Australië. Is er misschien een verband tussen de waarnemingen?
DE ORANJE EN/OF WITTE BOLLEN ZIJN WEER TERUG ( VIDEO )
DE ORANJE EN/OF WITTE BOLLEN ZIJN WEER TERUG ( VIDEO )
De laatste jaren zijn er door talloze mensen overal ter wereld oranje/witte bollen waargenomen die dikwijls in formaties door de lucht vliegen.
Een kenmerk is altijd dat ze geen geluid maken en hoewel het enige tijd vrij stil is geweest rondom deze objecten, duiken ze nu weer op.
Door de jaren heen hebben wij talloze meldingen ontvangen en ook artikelen geschreven over de mysterieuze oranje of soms witte bollen die mensen in de lucht waarnemen.
Het zijn niet echt de bekende UFO’s, dat wil zeggen een soort platte schijf met een koepel en ook zijn het niet de ook vaak voorkomende sigaarvormige.
Het zijn gewoon mysterieuze bollen die soms alleen worden waargenomen en soms in bepaalde formaties, maar altijd zonder geluid.
Misschien is er een reden dat er het afgelopen jaar relatief weinig meldingen zijn geweest van dit fenomeen, maar ze zijn in ieder geval nu weer terug en enkele dagen geleden waargenomen in Canada.
De getuige heeft het voorval aangemeld bij Mufon onder nummer 83517 en omschrijft de waarneming als volgt:
Op donderdag 27 april 2017 reed ik rond half acht ’s avonds met mijn drie dochters naar huis in West Kelowna in Brits Columbia in Canada.
Opeen zei mijn 6-jarige dochter: “Papa, wat zijn dat voor flikkerende lichten in de lucht?”.
Ik reed in zuidwestelijke richting en ik keek naar links toen ik verschillende (ongeveer zes) flitsende lichten zag die als het ware rond dansten in de lucht. Eerst had ik geen idee wat het was, maar dacht dat het misschien vuurpijlen waren of zelfs militaire vliegtuigen die bezig waren met een oefening.
Maar, omdat ik in de Okanagan vallei woon en er helemaal geen luchtmachtbasis in dat gebied is, wist ik dat we niet te maken hadden met een conventioneel militair toestel.
De objecten die ik waarnam, waren helemaal stil. Foor de manier waarop ze door de lucht bewogen, besefte ik dat wat ik zag niet een normaal of gemakkelijk te verklaren gebeurtenis was en hoogstwaarschijnlijk buitenaards.
Ik stopte snel langs de kant van de weg, greep mijn telefoon en ging naar buiten om de lichten te filmen. Toen merkte ik dat er plotseling een tweede groep (ongeveer vier of vijf) lichten verscheen, onder de eerste groep.
Het leek alsof deze lager vlogen bij het Okanagan meer voordat ze omhoog gingen en zich bij de eerste groep voegden. Deze twee groepen vormden samen twee verschillende formaties en gingen verder in oostelijke richting naar Kelowna.
Ik had mijn camera ingezoomd op beide groepen en bleef filmen toen ze wegvlogen. Of, tenminste, dat dacht ik. Na ongeveer 20 tot 30 seconden van “opnemen”, besefte ik dat ik de opname knop niet had ingedrukt. Ik deed dit alsnog en kon nog inzoomen op de objecten terwijl ze wegvlogen voor nog ongeveer 30 seconden voordat ze uit het zicht verdwenen.
Alhoewel het vroeg in de avond was en de zon aan het ondergaan was, was er nog steeds voldoende daglicht buiten. De objecten waren heel erg fel in de lucht. Ik ben er absoluut zeker van dat het geen vliegtuigen waren of wat voor soort vogels dan ook.
Toen ik de objecten voor het eerst zag, bevonden ze zich onder het wolkendek en lager dan de toppen van de bergen. De tweede groep scheen nog lager te vliegen in de vallei in de buurt van het meer.
Ik zou wat ik zag, willen omschrijven als oranje gloeiende bollen, omdat ik niet duidelijke lijnen kon waarnemen van een metalen object of iets dergelijks. Alleen maar lichten.
De objecten die ik zag maakten geen geluid.
Ook boven ons land zijn dit soort objecten regelmatig waargenomen, maar ook hier is het de laatste tijd relatief rustig geweest, althans wij hebben er weinig van gemerkt in de vorm van meldingen of berichten.
"Omstreeks 23.15-23.30 uur gisteravond, thuis, maandag 8 juli, was ik buiten een luchtje aan het scheppen. Naar de lucht kijkend zag ik een onverklaarbaar verschijnsel. Iets wat ik nog nooit eerder zo heb meegemaakt. Ik heb op het punt gestaan om de buren er bij te halen, maar vond het te laat om ze nog te storen.
Het betrof een serie helder verlichte objecten, constant licht, kleur geel-oranje, die zich met grote snelheid in een baan van Noord naar Zuid bewogen. Ik schat enkele tientallen stuks.
Ze bewogen zich met een constante snelheid in een strak formatieverband, dat onderweg qua verband en snelheid niet waarneembaar veranderde. De onderlinge afstand was naar ik schat een tot een paar honderd meter, de hoogte schat ik op 1 tot 2 km. De formatie was niet in lijn maar zat binnen een baan van enkele honderden meters. De eerste objecten waren al aan de Zuidelijke kant uit zicht verdwenen, terwijl nieuwe nog enige tijd vanaf de Noordkant in zicht kwamen.
Het was donker en een heldere, onbewolkte hemel. Het geheel voltrok zich in absolute stilte. Geen enkel motorgeluid was te horen. Het fenomeen duurde minuten lang.
Ik heb geen foto's genomen omdat de geloofwaardigheid ervan even discutabel is als mijn verhaal. Bovendien hechtte ik meer aan de analyse er naar kijkend dan aan de fotografische opname. Gezien de duisternis was er buiten het lichtverschijnsel eigenlijk niets te zien. De doorsnee van de lichtvlek per object was optisch 2-3 centimeter, wat op die hoogte een object van een aantal meters in doorsnede zou moeten betreffen. Een fenomeen als afgeleide van laserbeams lijkt me onmogelijk.
Ik heb verder verschillende mogelijkheden figuurlijk tegen het licht gehouden, maar kan er geen sluitende verklaring voor vinden. Wat er als optie over blijft is raadselachtig. Intussen heb ik de politie gebeld om te kijken of er andere meldingen waren. Bovendien heb ik het Radarcentrum in Nieuw Millingen van de Luchtmacht, dat in het kader van luchtverdediging 7 dagen per week, 24 uur per dag het NL luchtruim bewaakt, gebeld. In beide gevallen was er geen bevestiging van waarnemingen of meldingen hunnerzijds".
Is het inderdaad stil geworden in het Nederlandse luchtruim voor wat betreft oranje en/of witte bollen? Laat het ons weten.
Alien expert and private investigator D Sims discusses his latest work attempting to track down Men in Black (MIBs). He also attempts to uncover the truth behind abductions, alien implants and DNA.
Sims shared details of an encounter with an alien as well as his own abduction experiences, expounding on how the last event involved negative entities. These beings purportedly find their human subjects via neural imprints and often abduct people from the same family tree, he explained, stating that his son is also an abduction victim.
A witness in London had taken photos of a UFO that seemed to have been tailing a commercial airline.
A British witness at London reported watching and photographing multiple objects that appeared to be following an aircraft, according to testimony in Case 82822 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was in the Fulham section of London walking to a café when the incident occurred.
“I looked up and saw a star-like object about seven aircraft widths to the left of the passenger aircraft,” the witness stated.“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.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness first thought the objects were balloons.
“At first I thought they were balloons reflecting bright sunlight. I’ve seen some rarely. But these 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 seemed 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 vapor trail and I should imagine it was over 15-20,000 feet above me. Aircraft and light were obscured by city housing then.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
MUFON Great Britain is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity.
Here is a great capture of a UFO shooting past the Mars Curiosity Rover. The UFO is long and and well lit up from one of the Mars moons. At least, it looks like a moon, except for the beam of light coming from it. The UFO passes just below it and the sunlight bouncing off the moon hits the UFO. Rovers don't lie, they just record what they see and transmit to Earth. They have no feelings, no emotions, no reservations, just pure tech. Terrific find by Streetcap1.
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Small Dark Disk Appears Over Mexico City During Sunset, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Small Dark Disk Appears Over Mexico City During Sunset, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 5, 2017
Location of sighting: Mexico City, Mexico
This dark disk was seen over Mexico city two months back. The disk is very dark, which could be because the sun on the other side of it. These dark UFOs have been seen before. Once back in 2010 a professor at a university here in Taiwan took a similar photo of a craft, motorcycle size, dark that was holding position near a power line. (Click here to view that post).
This is a awesome capture, but I really wish the person had tried to hold the video more still, but it must have been far away, because the farther the object is, the harder it is to hold it in the view finder without jiggling the camera.
UFO-crash Roswell veranderde de hele wereld zonder dat we het wisten. Wat weet deze expert ons te vertellen?
UFO-crash Roswell veranderde de hele wereld zonder dat we het wisten. Wat weet deze expert ons te vertellen?
Berichten over neergestorte buitenaardse schepen werden na de vreemde gebeurtenissen bij Roswell in 1947 snel onder het tapijt geveegd.
Ingewijden begonnen zich uit te spreken en boden ons een glimp in de schimmige wereld van geheimhouding en doofpotten.
De Amerikaanse onderzoeksjournaliste Linda Moulton Howe kwam erachter dat er in de jaren veertig nog meer UFO’s zijn gecrasht in Amerika.
Drie crashplekken
In het programma Truth Hunter op Gaia vertelt ze dat ze in de jaren zeventig met dit onderwerp in aanraking kwam toen ze onderzoek deed naar gevallen van veeverminking.
Een sheriff en andere politieagenten zeiden tegen haar dat ‘de daders wezens uit de ruimte waren’.
Over het Roswellincident zegt ze: “We weten nu dat er tijdens een onweersbui in de nacht van 3 op 4 juli 1947 drie onbekende objecten op de radar verschenen, waarna drie crashplekken gemeld werden.”
Lichamen
In een rapport uit 1952 van Majestic 12, een geheime commissie samengesteld door president Truman, valt te lezen dat er vijf lichamen zijn geborgen bij de crash.
Twee lichamen werden gevonden in een zwaarbeschadigde ontsnappingscapsule, de resterende drie op enige afstand van de capsule.
Een andere overheidsgroep, de Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, schreef in een rapport dat er ‘andere lichamen waren gevonden die eruitzagen alsof ze waren ontleed als een kikker’.
Resten van dieren
In één van de gecrashte vaartuigen zijn naar verluidt resten van dieren gevonden, aldus de groep.
De schepen crashten bij Roswell, even ten zuiden van Socorro en het derde object kwam neer in het reservaat van de Mescalero.
In zijn boek MO41: The Bombshell Before Roswell schrijft Paul Blake Smith dat al in 1941, zes jaar voor het Roswellincident, een UFO was gecrasht in Amerika, vlak bij Cape Girardeau.
Geheim
Het leger zou toen drie identieke lichamen geborgen hebben ‘van wezens die niet van deze planeet kwamen’.
In een Amerikaans overheidsdocument valt te lezen dat de atoombom is voortgekomen uit de technologie die tijdens die crash is buitgemaakt.
“Dat betekent dat presidenten Roosevelt en Truman al tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, nog vóór de Roswell-crash, wisten van een buitenaardse aanwezigheid,” aldus Howe.
Gigantische cover-up rond ultrageheim ruimteprogramma. Hebben wij andere planeten gekoloniseerd?
Gigantische cover-up rond ultrageheim ruimteprogramma. Hebben wij andere planeten gekoloniseerd?
De Anunnaki kwamen zo’n 430.000 jaar geleden naar de aarde om te zoeken naar goud, zegt de Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijver en politicus Michael Tellinger in het programma Secret Space Program op Gaia.
Deze ‘luchtgoden’ zouden volgens Soemerische teksten de mens hebben gemaakt om te helpen het goud uit de bodem te halen.
Door de jaren heen zijn er vele vreemde schedels opgegraven. Zo deed de Amerikaanse schrijver Lloyd Pye onderzoek naar wat hij de Starchild skull noemde. Hij claimde dat de schedel toebehoorde aan een buitenaardse hybride.
Geheim ruimteprogramma
Veel culturen kennen verhalen over de luchtgoden. Zo denken de Dogon uit Mali dat hun voorouders van Sirius komen. Ook de Aboriginals en Azteken spraken van de ‘goden uit de lucht’.
Experts stellen dat aliens nog altijd hier zijn en dat er een geheim ruimteprogramma is waar de meeste mensen geen weet van hebben.
Laura Eisenhower, de achterkleindochter van president Dwight Eisenhower, claimt dat er al bases op Mars zijn.
De Amerikaanse sergeant Clifford Stone heeft openlijk gezegd dat hij naar locaties werd gestuurd waar onbekende vaartuigen waren neergestort.
Solar Warden
“Wij zagen lichamen van entiteiten die niet op deze planeet waren geboren,” verklaarde Stone, die toevoegde dat hij ook levende aliens heeft gezien.
William Tompkins onthulde dat hij voor vliegtuigbouwer Douglas ruimteschepen voor de Amerikaanse marine moest ontwerpen. Dit project werd Solar Warden genoemd.
De grotere schepen hadden een omvang van één tot zes kilometer, verklaarde Tompkins.
Slot en grendel
Deze ruimteschepen werden volgens hem in de jaren zeventig daadwerkelijk gebouwd in een ondergrondse installatie in Utah.
Al deze technologieën worden achter slot en grendel bewaard zodat de rest van de wereld ze niet kan ontwikkelen, legde schrijver en onderzoeker Richard Dolan uit.
Komt Amerikaanse president met alien disclosure? Deze 3 gebeurtenissen lijken hierop te wijzen
Komt Amerikaanse president met alien disclosure? Deze 3 gebeurtenissen lijken hierop te wijzen
De Amerikaanse overheid staat mogelijk op het punt de wereld te vertellen dat intelligente aliens bestaan en hier op aarde zijn. Dat zegt althans een doorgewinterde Amerikaanse lobbyist.
Steve Bassett probeert de Amerikaanse overheid al 20 jaar lang zo ver te krijgen om de waarheid over buitenaards bezoek naar buiten te brengen.
Hij is in Washington de enige geregistreerde lobbyist die zich met dit onderwerp bezighoudt. In een interview met de Daily Express zegt hij dat disclosure wel eens voor de deur zou kunnen staan.
Drie gebeurtenissen
Complottheoretici stellen dat informatie over aliens al sinds juli 1947, toen een vliegende schotel neerkwam bij Roswell, wordt achtergehouden.
Er zouden in het vaartuig onder meer lichamen van buitenaardsen zijn gevonden, die vervolgens werden overgebracht naar een topgeheime legerbasis.
Volgens Bassett zijn er onlangs drie gebeurtenissen geweest waaruit blijkt dat we warm worden gemaakt voor het buitenaardse.
Pentagon
“Tom DeLonge, de zanger van Blink-182, zei op Coast to Coast AM Radio dat het Pentagon hem had benaderd om hem te helpen informatie naar buiten te brengen,” zei Bassett.
DeLonge zei dat hij een adviescommissie van 10 mensen had samengesteld die hem gingen helpen de benodigde informatie te krijgen.
Later bleek uit gelekte e-mails dat DeLonge hierover contact had met Hillary Clintons campagnemanager John Podesta.
Bereid
De tweede gebeurtenis vond plaats op de dag na Trumps overwinning. “Ik kreeg een anonieme sms, maar ik denk wel te weten wie hem stuurde,” zei Bassett.
“In de sms stond dat er mensen binnen het ministerie van Defensie zijn die bereid zijn mee te werken als iemand hen benadert, als de minister hen benadert,” voegde hij toe.
Tot slot gaf de CIA twee dagen voordat Trump het Witte Huis betrok 13,5 miljoen documenten vrij over paranormale verschijnselen en UFO-waarnemingen.
Opvolger
Bassett zag dit als de laatste poging om het nieuws naar buiten te brengen voor Trumps inauguratie.
Hij denkt echter niet dat Trump de geschikte kandidaat is om het ‘waarheidsembargo’ te doorbreken.
De lobbyist denkt dat president Trump zal worden afgezet en dat zijn opvolger de aankondiging gaat doen.
GROTE LANGWERPIGE UFO MET FELLE LICHTSTRAAL BOVEN VERSCHILLENDE LANDEN ( VIDEO )
GROTE LANGWERPIGE UFO MET FELLE LICHTSTRAAL BOVEN VERSCHILLENDE LANDEN ( VIDEO )
Wanneer er ergens iets gebeurt, dan kan je dat nog altijd aan het toeval toeschrijven of denken dat het misschien wel niet echt is.
Als er echter grote sigaarvormige UFO's te zien zijn met felle lichten die richting aarde schijnen in Frankrijk, China en Australië, dan lijkt het toch iets meer te zijn dan toeval.
Een populair Youtube kanaal zoals de jonge Tyler heeft met zijn Secureteam, krijgt ook automatisch veel tips binnen van kijkers.
Eén van afgelopen week die hij binnenkreeg was van een kijker die een bijzondere filmopname had van een UFO boven Frankrijk.
De korte film lijkt op een scene uit een Hollywood film, waarbij de aliens proberen contact te zoeken met de mensheid.
Meerdere UFO’s die laag boven de grond zweven, waarvan één een cilindervorm heeft en met geregelde tussenpozen een felle lichtstraal op de aarde laat schijnen.
Het ziet er als volgt uit:
Er is verder weinig bekend over waar deze opname is gemaakt en Tyler begon zich al af te vragen of hier misschien sprake was van een vervalsing, tot hij ging spitten in zijn eigen archief.
En daar kwam hij nog een tweetal gevallen tegen, waar vergelijkbare UFO’s werden waargenomen.
Het meest recente voorval van de twee speelde zich af aan de Goldcoast van Australië, waar een aan een huis gemonteerde webcam in november 2013 heel bijzondere beelden maakte van een UFO zoals je in de volgende afbeeldingen kunt zien.
Ook hier een laagvliegende langwerpig type die een felle lichtstraal op de aarde laat schijnen.
De opname is gemaakt door een webcam en dus is het vrij zeker dat deze echt is.
Dan iets verder terug in de tijd naar 7 juli 2010 toen het vliegverkeer op het Chinese vliegveld van Xiaoshan onverwacht werd stil gelegd. Dit naar aanleiding van de bemanning van een vliegtuig dat daar wilde landen die tegen negen uur ’s avonds een object waarnamen en dit meldden aan de verkeersleiding.
Deze handelde onmiddellijk en alle vertrekkende vluchten werden tegengehouden en binnenkomende verwezen naar alternatieve vliegvelden.
Dit duurde alles bij elkaar een uur, maar de reacties waren overweldigend en er brak een levendige discussie los over wat het geweest zou kunnen zijn.
Het was niet alleen de bemanning van een vliegtuig die vreemde objecten waarnam, ook burgers hadden een UFO gefotografeerd.
Ook hier weer sigaarvormige UFO’s die een felle lichtstraal richting aarde sturen, alsof ze willen zien waar ze terechtgekomen zijn.
In de onderstaande video gaat Tyler nog wat dieper in op het verhaal en zijn er ook bewegende beelden van de UFO boven Frankrijk.
UFO sighting? Video purportedly showing massive light over Paris raises questions
UFO sighting? Video purportedly showing massive light over Paris raises questions
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Beam me up, Jean Paul!
A new video has appeared of what was claimed to be a cigar-shaped ship hovering over Paris, France, which UFO watchers say is potentially the same object spotted over China and Australia several years ago.
It is unclear if the object -- which the video shows beaming light down on the ground -- is a hoax. The video was posted to YouTube by Secureteam10, a conspiracy channel that often posts UFO sightings.
Tyler Glockner, who runs Secureteam10, said on the video that he was unable to find the original recording of the video and wondererd aloud whether it could be a hoax.
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SPACE INVADERS Mysterious ‘alien spaceship’ spotted firing beams of light at Earth sparks UFO fears
SPACE INVADERS
Mysterious ‘alien spaceship’ spotted firing beams of light at Earth sparks UFO fears
Eerie lights caught hovering above French capital spark comparisons with other sightings
By Patrick Knox
WEIRD footage has emerged that appears to show a strange flashing “UFO” above Paris.
It apparently captures a bizarre cigar-shaped object radiating beams of light – and experts are linking the sighting to others previously seen over China and Australia.
SECURETEAM10,
The cigar shape object seems to omit a beam intermittently
SECURETEAM10,
Two other balls of light then appear next to it
Mystery surrounds what the object is and until an explanation is given it remains an unidentified flying object (UFO).
The footage was posted on YouTube by Secureteam10, a well-known conspiracy channel that posts supposed UFO sightings.
In the video, Tyler Glockner, who runs Secureteam10 explains he was emailed the footage.
But he said the sender did not have much information on it, except that it was recorded near Paris last week.
Mr Glockner said: “I’ve done a bit of digging since I received it and haven’t been able to find a copy of the original video.
“So I don’t know, it could be a full blown hoax.”
SECURETEAM10
A similar spectacle was allegedly filmed above Xiaoshan Airport in China
SECURETEAM10
The sighting in Australia also involved a similar shaped UFO
Secureteam10 have drawn comparisons between the sighting over Paris and previous sightings in China and Australia.
In 2010, a similar cigar-shaped object was seen near Xiaoshan airport in China that caused the airport to shut down.
Then there was the sighting in the Gold Coast of Australia in early 2014.
Mr Glockner said: “Again we see what looks like a very similar UFO, hovering over the beach, in an eerie display, that truly makes the hairs on my neck stand up.”
Crop Circle With Hidden Message In Wiltshire, UK Found On May 4, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Crop Circle With Hidden Message In Wiltshire, UK Found On May 4, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Wiltshire, UK
Location of discovery: May 4, 2017
Its thought that crop formations have meaning in them, and that if we can decode them, a very important and life changing message would be found. That each formation is a different message and that these messages may build on themselves, meaning each crop circle may be a part of the next crop circle message.
Scott C. Waring
Video states:
New 2017 Crop Circle at Willoughby Hedge, near Mere reported 4th May. Interesting design and there are mounds and a long barrow in the area, but too far away to catch on the camera. There was one last year in the field next to this. Please do not enter formation as it will damage the oil-seed rape.
Glowing UFO Seen Over British Columbia, Canada On April 27, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Seen Over British Columbia, Canada On April 27, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 27, 2017 Location of sighting: British Columbia, Canada Source: MUFON As you can see, these four orbs are not individual craft, but area actually moving together, keeping the space between perfect...as if they were the propulsions engines of the ship. I believe this is just one ship that is cloaked, but the engines are visible due to the climate and the night setting in. Scott C. Waring Video states:
On Thursday April 27, 2017 at approximately 7:30 pm in West Kelowna, British Columbia, I was traveling home with my 3 daughters. My 6-year-old daughter said 'Daddy, what are those flashing lights in the sky?' I was traveling in the southwest direction and I looked up to my left and I noticed several (approximately 6) flashing lights up in the sky that appeared to flashing and what I would describe as dancing in the sky. At first, I wasn't sure what to make of them. I thought they were some sort of flares or even military aircraft doing some sort of exercise. But since I live in the Okanagan valley and there is no Air Force bases in the area, I knew they were not any of conventional military aircraft. The objects that I was observing were absolutely silent. Given the way these objects were moving in the sky, I then realized that what I was witnessing was not a normal or easily explainable occurrence and was most likely Extra-Terrestrial in nature. I quickly pulled off to the side of the road and grabbed my phone got out of my vehicle to start video recording the lights.
Amazing footage: Flashing orbs over West Kelowna, Canada 27-Apr-2017
Amazing footage: Flashing orbs over West Kelowna, Canada 27-Apr-2017
This interesting footage of a multiple objects flying across the sky above West Kelowna in BC, Canada was filmed on 27th April 2017.
Witness report:
On Thursday April 27, 2017 at approximately 7:30 pm in West Kelowna, British Columbia, I was travelling home with my 3 daughters. My 6 year old daughter said “Daddy, what are those flashing lights in the sky?” I was travelling in the southwest direction and I looked up to my left and I noticed several (approximatley 6) flashing lights up in the sky that appeared to flashing and what I would describe as dancing in the sky. At first I wasn’t sure what to make of them. I thought they were some sort of flares or even military aircraft doing some sort of exercise. But since I live in the Okanagan valley and there is no Air Force bases in the area, I knew they were not any of conventional military aircraft. The objects that I was observing were absolutely silent. Given the way these object were moving in the sky, I then realized that what I was witnessing was not a normal or easily explainable occurrence and was most likely Extra Terrestrial in nature.
I quickly pulled off to the side of the road and grabbed my phoned got out of my vehicle to start video recording the lights. Thats when I noticed a second group of (approximatley 4 or 5) that suddenly appeared below the first group. They looked like they were flying closer to Okanagan Lake before the flew upward to join the first group. The two groups formed two separate formations and proceeded to fly eastward towards Kelowna. I had my camera zoomed in and locked on both groups and continued to record them as they were flying away. Or so I thought. After approximately 20-30 seconds of “recording”, I realized that I didn’t actually hit the record button on my phone. I quickly hit the record button and was able to zoom in on the luminous objects as they were flying away. I was able to record the lights, (which were flying in two groups, one approximately 6, the other approximately 4) for about 30 seconds until they essentially were out of sight.
Important points: although it was early evening and the sun was starting to set, there was still plenty of daylight outside. These objects were extremely bright in sky. I am absolutely certain they were neither airplanes of any type or birds. the objects appeared to be well below the clouds when I first noticed them as well as below the tops of the mountains. The second group of lights appeared tore flying lower in the valley near the lake although it did not occur to me at first but what I witnessed I would describe as orange glowing orbs since I did not observe any sort of metallic craft with any visible lines. Only lights the objects that I observed were absolutely silent.
British Witness Spots UFOs Following Passenger Aircraft
British Witness Spots UFOs Following Passenger Aircraft
The witness thought of balloons reflecting bright sunlight for a moment, but the UFOs remained at a constant speed, moved with direction and turned relative to each other while maintaining the same distance from each other. The witness also noticed that the mysterious aerial objects seemed to emit a constant light and not reflect it. They explained that balloons would change intensity upon tilting relative to the observer and the sun.
The witness stated that the aircraft did not land at a London airport. They estimated the plane, which had a vapor trail, to be over 15,000-20,000 feet above the ground. Great Britain MUFON is investigating the case, which is filed under Case 82822 in the witness reporting database.
So-Called Apocalyptic Fireball Caught On Videos From Different Locations
So-Called Apocalyptic Fireball Caught On Videos From Different Locations
The sight of a flaming ball falling from the sky has made some viewers baffled and frightened. Two videos recorded from two separate places caught an apparent the same sight of what seemed like a massive fireball.
Taken in Louisiana on April 29, the first video shows what looks like a falling object from the sky having a huge trail of smoke behind.
The second video, which then uploaded on the same night, was recorded from neighbouring state of Texas. It also shows a large UFO falling to the ground with a bright reddish colour around it and a huge trail behind.
Both videos show a seemingly burning fire falling out of the sky or a bomb coming down to the Earth’s surface.
Some UFO hunters suggest it could be an unusual weather phenomenon or a downed satellite.
Other commenters joked about the two videos saying they show Superman from Krypton coming down to Earth.
Others described the incident as alarming as it involved an apocalyptic fireball streaking across the sky above the two states in the U.S. As of posting time, no official explanation yet as to what caused such thing to happen. One user commented that how come the thing considered apocalyptic as it never made a big headline moments after both videos circulated online.
Ohio witness encounters hovering sphere at tree level
Ohio witness encounters hovering sphere at tree level
An Ohio witness at Sagamore Hills Township reported driving toward an unknown light and discovered a hovering sphere just above the tree line, according to testimony in Case 83449 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first saw an unusual light in the sky and drove toward it along Chaffee Road in Sagamore Hills Township, Ohio.
(Credit: Google)
The witness was driving home from a gym at 9:30 p.m. on April 30, 2017, when the incident began.
“For some reason, I passed up my street, continued down a main road looking for somewhere to turn around, when a light caught my eye,” the witness stated.“I assumed it was a plane, but upon further inspection I realized it wasn’t.”
The witness discovered a sphere hovering at the tree top level. Pictured: Chaffee Road in Sagamore Hills Township, Ohio.
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The witness continued driving toward the light.
“I parked my car in the middle of a side road where either a saucer or possibly a sphere was hovering above the tree line. It stood hovering for a few minutes, silently may I add, and then darted incredibly quickly(as in hundreds of miles per hour) down the tree line, instantaneously changed direction back to its original location and then shot up into the sky and out of sight.”
The witness was amazed.
The object moved away at incredible speed. Pictured: Chaffee Road in Sagamore Hills Township, Ohio.
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“I have tried incredibly hard to think of what else it could have been, but I just can’t disprove what I saw. I then sat in my car, dumbstruck, for minutes until returning home. For those who want to look up a map, the road is called Chaffee Road.”
Ohio MUFON Field Investigator Scott Miller is investigating.
Sagamore Hills Township is one of nine townships in Summit County, Ohio, population 9,340. 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.
Image: NASA; A. Mellinger/Central Michigan University; T. Linden/University of Chicago
Count up all the stuff in a galaxy and you should have a pretty good understanding of how much light is being emitted. But that doesn’t seem to be the case for our own Milky Way. Our galaxy’s got a source of extra gamma rays, the highest-energy light, right in its center. And scientists don’t know where all that energy’s coming from.
We’ve known about the gamma ray excess since 2009, and groups using the Fermi Large Area Telescope, the main instrument on a gamma ray telescope orbiting the Earth, continue to spot it. Could the light be coming from dark matter? Aliens? After some modeling, scientists think they’ve got the answer: Pulsars, incredibly dense, rapidly-spinning cores of ancient stars that shoot beams of radiation out like lighthouses. (And, sorry, I’m not talking about fast radio bursts, as cool and mysterious as they may be.)
To figure out what could be causing the eerie gamma glow, the researchers needed a more accurate model of unresolved portions of the galaxy. So, they made a list of 400 objects in the center of the galaxy that could be contributing to the anomaly, then whittled that list down to 66 pulsar candidates. They put this updated data back into their computer simulation, and it seemed to account for the the excess radiation.
“From our findings, there should be this population of pulsars in the galactic bulge around the galactic center,” study author Mattia di Mauro from the from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at Stanford University told Gizmodo. “These should explain the [excess] energy.”
Artwork: NASA/CXC/University of Massachusetts/D. Wang et al.; Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
This model might seem to be the most accurate interpretation for the unusual gamma ray light, but there are caveats—for one, the paper was posted on the arXiv server as a preprint, meaning other scientists haven’t had a chance to give input yet. Additionally, said di Mauro, the researchers determined which of their 400 sources were actually pulsars using gamma rays. It’s much easier to determine whether a pulsar is really a pulsar with a radio telescope, though, so the team will make those radio measurements next in order to verify their findings.
As for the other theories, the researchers also tested whether or not the excess could have come from long sought-after dark matter particles, a popular prior theory. Dark matter is the mysterious stuff that seems to account for 80 percent of the measured gravity of the universe—but according to the new model, it wasn’t the source of this mysterious light.
“In our paper... we find that if we use dark matter as an interpretation, the distribution of pulsar-like sources is not consistent with what we have in the real sky.”
One researcher who wasn’t involved with the story found the rejection of dark matter exciting. “We all want dark matter to be there but I like that there’s a systematic and careful analysis, asking if there are more astrophysical sources we weren’t good enough at finding before,” Renée Hlo¸ek, Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Toronto told Gizmodo. “I don’t think dark matter’s dead, yet but I’m glad astrophysics is being counted on more to explain these anomalies.”
After all, that’s what science is about, she said. “We keep figuring out what dark matter isn’t until we figure out what it is.”
Coming Soon? Scientists Discuss Potential Breakthroughs in Alien-Life Search
Coming Soon? Scientists Discuss Potential Breakthroughs in Alien-Life Search
By Sheyna Gifford, Astrobiology Magazine
Artist's illustration of the surface of Proxima b, an Earth-sized, potentially habitable world that orbits the nearby M-dwarf star Proxima Centauri.
Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
It was a good week for astrobiology. Within days of NASA’s announcement that the necessary ingredients for life likely exist in the Saturn moon Enceladus' subsurface ocean, scientists gathered at Stanford University to discuss discovering life outside the solar system.
Noting how "the search for life in the universe has been transformed from speculation to a data-driven science," speakers like Stanford physicist Peter Michelson offered detailed plans for finding life on exoplanets.
Over the course of two days on April 20-21, dozens of scientists attending the Breakthrough Discuss conference contemplated options for exploring planets in other star systems. These options include using a new generation of powerful telescopes for long-distance observations, as well as advancing a first-of-its-kind technology to visit other star systems — all within the next generation. [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
What these strategies have in common is a focus on observing habitable-zone planets in our local stellar neighborhood. In this neighborhood alone, within 30 light-years or so of our solar system, astrobiologists have already identified several potentially Earth-like exoplanets and dozens of systems that may harbor Earth-like worlds.
These exoplanets, identified by the effects they have on their parent star, are rocky and roughly the same size and density as Earth. They orbit their stars at a distance that would allow liquid water to exist on the surface, given the right atmospheric conditions. There is, however, at least one major difference between our planet and these potentially-habitable exoplanets: They aren't circling stars like our sun.
The diagram shows how new technology developed at Caltech will help astronomers search for molecular bio-signatures on exoplanets. Coronagraphs block a star's light, making orbiting planets easier to see. High-resolution spectrometers would help further isolate a planet's light, and could reveal molecules in the planet's atmosphere.
Credit: Caltech/IPAC-TMT
On the spectrum of stars, our sun is what's known as a yellow dwarf. It's bright, and not terribly large compared to the largest stars in our galaxy. Yet, even middling stars like our sun aren't all that common. Our local stellar neighborhood — and probably the universe as a whole — is filled with many more low-mass stars. There are 20 yellow dwarf stars like our sun nearby and 250 M-dwarfs, a variety of star so small and dim that, despite their abundance, they can't be seen with the naked eye. Over the last three to four years, every single low-mass star we've studied appears to have at least one planet. Usually, they have more than one.
"How common are planets orbiting low-mass stars? Very common indeed," Courtney Dressing, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, said during a presentation at the conference. "For a typical M-dwarf, there tends to be 2.5 planets. One in four of the stars has a planet the same size and temperature as Earth in the habitable zone."
Dressing's point was that, given the number of M-dwarfs in the local region, there should be at least 60 potentially Earth-like planets in habitable zones within 32 or so light-years from here, and perhaps many more. To date, most of our exoplanet data comes from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which has focused its search for planets on large M-dwarf stars. In the near future, when the small and medium-sized M-dwarfs are studied, we may discover that closer to one in three stars have an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone.
Apart from their abundance, these low-mass stars offer other advantages to researchers who study potentially habitable exoplanets. M-dwarf planets have tight orbits around their stars because the habitable zones are close in, giving scientists opportunities to view their transits every few weeks. It is during these transits, when the exoplanets pass in front of their stars, that we have the best opportunity to study their atmospheres for signs of life. [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Artist's impression of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2018.
Credit: NASA
Many conference attendees, including Mercedes López-Morales from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, explained how we will be surveying the atmospheres of the closest habitable-zone planets for signs of life dwelling on the surface or in an ocean. "We're going to look for oxygen," she said.
Because the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere corresponded with the appearance of life, we frequently use that particular molecule as a marker for the presence of life elsewhere. Also, oxygen likes to interact with other chemicals. If we discover a planet where oxygen is still hanging around in the atmosphere, something, possibly life, is actively making it. So, the search for life will focus on elements and molecules like hydrogen, oxygen, and methane. However, as López-Morales explained, there is a downside to this approach.
"A planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent the size of the planet," she said. "The size of the signal is tiny. You need to collect at least one trillion photons to be very certain that you are truly looking at oxygen."
The good news is that a new generation of telescopes designed for planetary exploration and astrobiology will soon be coming online to help us gather those photons. Around this time next year, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be getting ready for launch. During its two-year mission, TESS will survey 200,000 stars, including the brighter ones in our local systems.
The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Chile, slated to be operational by 2022, will have a resolving power 10 times greater than NASA's famous Hubble Space Telescope. The GMT will feature a device called the G-CLEF spectrograph, which will be able to see molecules like oxygen in far-off planetary atmospheres. Finally, when the ground-based European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) opens in 2024, it will have more light-gathering-power than all of Earth's current 8- to 10-meter telescopes combined. Astrobiologists are counting on these large telescopes coming online between now and 2024 to identify the prime candidates to look for oxygen and life in our stellar neighborhood.
Even as we anticipate a treasure trove of atmospheric data from these missions, scientists are discovering species that live quite happily without oxygen, light, and other features that we used to believe were required for life. These discoveries highlight how atmospheric biosignatures like oxygen are an imperfect, if tantalizing, way to look for life from afar. The question then becomes: Could there be there another way to look for extraterrestrial life beyond studying exoplanet atmospheres?
Ideally, to definitively identify life on other worlds, we would visit nearby planets like Proxima b, only 4 light-years away, either in person or with a spacecraft. This is the goal of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative. Announced a little more than a year ago, Starshot’s goal, according to its founder, is to "literally reach the stars in our lifetimes." The plan to accomplish this feat involves launching a fleet of very small spacecraft. Starshot will then accelerate these craft to about 20 percent the speed of light using powerful ground-based lasers. This strategy should allow scientists and engineers to slash the time, cost, and weight required to gain an up-close look at planets around other stars, project representatives have said.
"The goal is to fly a probe very close to a planet and figure out if it has life," said theorist Avi Loeb, chair of Harvard University's astronomy department. "What is the color of the planet? Is it green? Does it have vegetation? Is it blue, are there oceans? Or is it desert-like?" [Laser-Sailing to Exoplanets: Images of the Breakthrough Starshot Concept]
At the conference, NASA engineer Ruslan Belikov premiered simulations of what an exoplanet might look like from Starshot's point of view. Even if the craft were moving at 90 percent the speed of light, the onboard cameras should still be able to pick up signs of large oceans, clouds and land masses that an exoplanet might have, Belikov said.
The hope is that, someday, by combining laser acceleration of these very small craft with cameras and other sensors, we might finally be able to take a firsthand look at habitable-zone planets circling nearby stars, and, in so doing, perhaps definitively find life elsewhere in the universe. Combining data from our new generation of very large telescopes with atmospheric observations of nearby exoplanets around M-dwarfs may help us choose the best targets for small Starshot craft to fly by.
"We are going to be the generation that is remembered for finding exoplanets. That's a fact," López-Morales said. "Are we going to be also the generation that will be remembered as the first ones who found life on those planets?"
That, indeed, would be the breakthrough of a lifetime.
Stephen Hawking adjusted his doomsday timer for Earth, slashing 900 years from his initial 1,000-year estimate. According to the famous physicist, humanity has a century left to evacuate the planet and become multi-planetary species.
ESCAPING EARTH
Over the past century or so, humanity has accomplished a great deal of innovation. We learned to fly (at least with the help of airplanes), built huge machines, cured diseases, and developed computers, the Internet, and smart devices. At the same time, we’ve caused our fair share of destruction, too: in the form of several wars — two of which were world wars — and, of interest as of late, man-made climate change. Now, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking thinks we have 100 years left before doomsday — and we need to get off Earth long before that comes to pass.
This isn’t the first time Hawking has given a doomsday prediction. In recent years, he’s warned about how super artificial intelligence (AI) would end humankind and how contacting extraterrestrial life would go bonkers for humanity. Then in November of last year, he said we have 1,000 years to leave Earth. Now, he’s cut it down to 100 — leaving us to wonder just how bad the past six months have been. They’d arguably have to have been pretty bad for Hawking to drastically cut our time on Earth by 900 years in one fell swoop.
The details of Hawking’s latest doomsday warning will be featured in a new BBC documentary airing on June 15 called Expedition New Earth, where he suggests that humanity needs to be a multi-planetary species within the next century in order to survive.
OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED
Hawking explains that humankind’s days on Earth are already numbered because of climate change, asteroid strikes, epidemics, and overpopulation. The only way to survive? We need to change planets, and fast. A lot could happen in 100 years, and we’ve proven that we’re capable of discovering and developing many things within a century. But could we really go multi-planetary in that timeframe?
A team out of Beijing, China has developed and built another giant robot that it wants to enter in the upcoming robot battle set for August.
The Monkey King can fight on all fours or standing on two legs while holding a staff.
The upcoming MegaBots battle was just delivered a surprise twist with another giant bot looking to square up in the ring. What was originally a two titan grudge match for the ages now has the potential of becoming a three-way death match rife with black blood and twisted metal.
This new contender hails from Beijing’s Greatmetal and goes by the name of Monkey King. This behemoth sets itself apart from the competition with its ability to fight both on all fours and bipedally. Even more, it can wield a staff while fighting on its hind legs.
The Monkey King could go up against the Mk. III from the U.S. or Japan’s KURATAS. The original plan was for the American and Japanese bots to square off sometime in August. And, while a three-way melee sounds incredible, it might be more likely that the champion from the planned fight in August would earn the right to go toe-to-toe with royalty in a more tournament-style match.
This could be the start of a brand new sports league combining the brains of robotics with all the muscle of pro-sports. Stay tuned for updates on the exact date and time of the first brawl as well as any more hints as to whether or not the Monkey King will be joining the fray.
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If Aliens Visit, Don't Expect a Hollywood Ending, Ridley Scott Warns
If Aliens Visit, Don't Expect a Hollywood Ending, Ridley Scott Warns
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer
Ridley Scott directs a scene from his new film, "Alien: Covenant," opening in the U.S. on May 19.
Credit: 20th Century Fox
Film director Ridley Scott, who delights in terrifying moviegoers with his cinematic blend of horror and science fiction, suggested in a recent interview that the scary prospect of belligerent invading aliens might transcend the realm of sci-fi. According to Scott, hundreds of alien species are "out there" on distant worlds, and Earth's inhabitants should prepare for the worst if they ever decide to visit our planet.
One scientist, though, says that Scott's information about such hostile, and abundant, aliens is off-base and unsupported.
Scott told Agence France-Presse (AFP) about his belief in "superior beings," while fielding questions about his latest movie, "Alien: Covenant," opening in theaters in the U.S. on May 19. He warned that any extraterrestrial travelers who are technologically advanced enough to show up on our doorstep would likely be very intelligent and very hostile. And unlike the scenarios that dominate movies — if we go toe-to-toe with these invaders, we probably won't be the victors, he said.
In the interview, Scott explained that "the experts" estimate there are "between 100 and 200 entities" on other planets, following what could be a similar evolutionary path to ours. And if they get here first, our best bet would be to "run for it," AFP reported.
The possibility of intelligent, technologically adept alien life has intrigued science-fiction writers and readers since the French writer Voltaire published his short story "Micromégas" in 1752, describing two extraterrestrial visitors to Earth — one from the planet Saturn and one from a planet orbiting the star Sirius.
Scott has made his own contributions to the genre, most notably with his string of "Alien" movies, which imagine a highly adaptable and morphologically flexible alien species. The so-called xenomorphs breed quickly and are ruthlessly efficient at overpowering humans, either swiftly dismembering them or cultivating them as hosts for their young — luckily, in isolated locations that are far from our home planet.
But though Scott is a skilled sci-fi yarn-spinner, his assessment of real-world alien threats could use a script doctor, according to Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI Institute, a research institution dedicated to the search for communication signals produced by intelligent extraterrestrial life.
To begin with, Scott's "expert" estimate of 100 to 200 "entities" is entirely unsubstantiated, Shostak told Live Science.
"We have absolutely no data that would tell you what that number might be," he said.
In fact, estimates based on data about known planets and galaxies suggest that the actual number of intelligent extraterrestrial life forms could, in fact, be significantly higher. With approximately 1 trillion planets in our galaxy alone, and about 2 trillion more galaxies, that adds up to…well, it's a lot of planets, Shostak said. [Why Do We Imagine Aliens as 'Little Green Men'?]
To narrow the search a bit, scientists could start by just looking at the trillion planets in our own galaxy, he said. Only a fraction of those planets might be capable of supporting life — perhaps 1 in 10. And maybe only 1 in 1,000 could produce and support life more complex than bacteria, he said.
That gives us about a billion planets in our galaxy that might harbor some type of intelligent life. But over time, life on many of those planets could have already waxed and waned — self-destructed or been wiped out. Perhaps only one planet in a million of those intelligent-life-harboring worlds still support life capable of contacting humans. That adds up to about 1,000 planets that could potentially hold intelligent, extraterrestrial species, Shostak told Live Science.
However, if a planet is more than 70 light-years from Earth, it hasn't yet received any radio signals from us. Its residents, no matter how technologically adept, wouldn't know humans exist yet. Even if long-distance observations of Earth told them we had oxygen in our atmosphere — and thereby some form of life — they'd be very unlikely to travel all this way to look at what might amount to just a lot of bacteria, Shostak added.
Neither would extraterrestrials be likely to invade our solar system merely to steal our resources, he said. If a civilization is advanced enough that they've exhausted all the resources of their entire star system — every planet, moon and asteroid — and are all out of natural materials, they're probably at a stage where they could create what they needed from simpler materials in their own backyard, rather than traveling across the galaxy for a very limited supply, Shostak said.
It's equally unlikely they'd be showing up because they thought humans would make an excellent addition to their diet, he said.
"To do that, they would have to know that we had something interesting within our bodies that they could metabolize, and their body chemistry would probably be very different from ours," Shostak said.
But Scott did get one thing right: If extraterrestrials are capable of building spacecraft that can transport them to our planet, they certainly would be technologically "superior" to people, Shostak said. And if he saw a spaceship suddenly appear, Shostak admitted that he'd probably do as Scott suggested — and just "run for it."
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Spherical Drone Display Looks Like 360-Degree Flying Screen
Spherical Drone Display Looks Like 360-Degree Flying Screen
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
The drone is surrounded by eight curved LED strips that spin rapidly during flight, creating the illusion of a spherical screen.
Credit: NTT DOCOMO
Forget plane-pulled banners ― there may be a new way to advertise in the sky.
The Japanese telecom company NTT DOCOMO recently revealed what it claims is the "world's first spherical drone display." Although it appears to be a solid, globe-shaped screen while in flight, the display is actually an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) inside a spherical frame with curved LED strips. The LEDs spin rapidly during flight, creating the illusion of a spherical screen. The drone display was showcased April 29-30 during the Niconico Chokaigi conference, a festival of Japan's internet culture.
Though the technology is not yet ready for commercial use, the company said it should be available by March 2019. These flying screens could be used for advertisements during a sporting event, or to display information at a concert, according to DOCOMO. [Photos from Above: 8 Cool Camera-Carrying Drones]
"Going forward, the company will explore potential entertainment and messaging solutions for event venues, including stadiums and concert halls," company officials wrote in a statement. Previously, it was challenging to equip a drone with a spherical display because it interfered with the airflow of the drone's propellers, according to DOCOMO. In addition, the display's weight tended to drag down the aircraft. The telecom company solved these issues by using a mostly hollow display, which allows for better airflow and is lightweight.
The spherical frame surrounding the drone has a maximum diameter of about 35 inches (88 centimeters), and the display measures 144 pixels high by 136 pixels wide. The entire device, drone and display, weighs just 7.5 pounds (3.4 kilograms). Since it's relatively small and light, the drone display is highly maneuverable and, according to DOCOMO, could be operated virtually anywhere.
A mysterious new video has emerged which conspiracy theorists believe may show a UFO in the sky over France.
An unusual cigar-shaped object, which radiates beams of light, was spotted near Paris, and experts believe it resembles objects previously seen over China and Australia.
It is unclear what the object is, and the uploader has admitted that it could be a 'full blown hoax.'
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A mysterious new video has emerged which conspiracy theorists believe may show a UFO in the sky over France
SIGHTINGS IN CHINA AND AUSTRALIA
In a follow-up video, Secureteam10 drew comparisons between the sighting over Paris and previous sightings in China and Australia.
In 2010, a similar cigar-shaped object was spotted in the sky over an airport in China that caused the airport to shut down.
A news report by ABC news claimed that the strange sighting caused the Xiaoshan Airport to 'stop operations' on July 7, 2010.
Tyler Glockner, who runs the site, also referred back to a previous UFO sighting over the Gold Coast of Australia in early 2014.
He said: 'Again we see what looks like a very similar UFO, hovering over the beach, in an eerie display, that truly makes the hairs on my neck stand up.'
The footage was posted on YouTube by Secureteam10, a well-known conspiracy channel that regularly posts supposed UFO sightings.
In the video, Tyler Glockner, who runs Secureteam10 explains that the footage was sent to him in an email, and that the sender did not have much information on it, other than the fact that it was recorded near Paris within the last week.
Mr Glockner said: 'I've done a bit of digging since I received it, and haven't been able to find a copy of the original video.
'So I don't know, it could be a full blown hoax.'
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'It is always a danger sign when a video or picture of a UFO is from an anonymous source with little supporting information or eyewitness testimony.
'In this case it is a video from "France", which isn't very helpful.'
The unusual cigar-shaped object, which radiates beams of light, was spotted near Paris, and experts believe it resembles objects previously spotted over China and Australia
In a follow-up video, Secureteam10 drew comparisons between the sighting over Paris and previous sightings in China and Australia.
In 2010, a similar cigar-shaped object was spotted in the sky over an airport in China that caused the airport to shut down.
A news report by ABC news claimed that the strange sighting caused the Xiaoshan Airport to 'stop operations' on July 7, 2010.
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.
Mr Glockner said: 'This looks like the exact same UFO.'
'It's undeniable that this is either the exact same craft, or something similar to it.'
Mr Glockner also referred back to a previous UFO sighting over the Gold Coast of Australia in early 2014.
He said: 'Again we see what looks like a very similar UFO, hovering over the beach, in an eerie display, that truly makes the hairs on my neck stand up.'
While it is unclear what the objects are, Mr Glockner is optimistic that we will soon find out.
He added: 'At least with these two other UFO sightings we are corroborating the Paris sighting much more.
In 2010, a similar cigar-shaped object was spotted in the sky over an airport in China that caused the airport to shut down
A news report by ABC news claimed that the strange sighting caused the Xiaoshan Airport to 'stop operations' on July 7, 2010
'I am definitely starting to lean towards us truly having a bonafide, smoking-gun UFO sighting here.'
But Mr Watson is not so convinced.
He added: 'Secureteam 10 link it to a 2010 UFO story from China, that is one big leap of the imagination for most of us but is very easy for the UFO obsessed Secureteam who have a loose grip on reality.
'To me, the French images look like they were filmed through a window and are reflecting lights inside the room; as they are just lights it is hard to say without further evidence.
'As for the Chinese UFO of 2010, this has a few mundane explanations, some say it was a private aircraft or the launch of a DF-21 missile fired at the Gobi desert.'
The conspiracy theorist also referred back to a previous UFO sighting over the Gold Coast of Australia in early 2014
In the video talking about the previous sightings over Australia, Tyler Glockner from Secureteam10 said: 'Again we see what looks like a very similar UFO, hovering over the beach, in an eerie display, that truly makes the hairs on my neck stand up'
Een planetair stelsel rond de ster Epsilon Eridani, op nauwelijks 10,5 lichtjaar van ons, vertoont gelijkenissen met ons zonnestelsel. Dat heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA kunnen constateren op basis van waarnemingen met de SOFIA-telescoop aan boord van een vliegtuig.
Van de ster was al bekend dat er een (gasvormige) planeet rondcirkelt met ongeveer dezelfde massa als onze Jupiter. De planeet ligt ook op dezelfde afstand van die ster als onze reuzenplaneet ten opzichte van de zon.
De Epsilon Eridani heeft een "puinschijf" van materiaal dat overgebleven is van onderlinge botsingen van kleinere hemellichamen. Ons eigen zonnestelsel kent ook twee dergelijke puingordels: de planetoïdengordel binnen de baan van Jupiter en de Kuipergordel buiten de baan van Neptunus.
Uit de SOFIA-metingen blijkt dat de puinschijf van Epsilon Eridani ook uit twee delen bestaat: één binnen de baan van de Jupiterachtige planeet en één erbuiten. In het gat tussen beide zouden zich dan planeten kunnen bevinden.
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Ander universum ontdekt? Lees hier wat ze met deze studie gevonden hebben
Ander universum ontdekt? Lees hier wat ze met deze studie gevonden hebben
De ‘koude plek’ in de kosmische achtergrondstraling wordt niet veroorzaakt door een groot leeg gebied in het universum, ook wel ‘grote leegte’ genoemd.
Dat stelt een internationaal onderzoeksteam dat wordt geleid door de Durham University in Groot-Brittannië.
Gedacht wordt dat de kosmische achtergrondstraling een overblijfsel is van de oerknal. Deze straling bestrijkt de volledige hemel en heeft een gemiddelde temperatuur van 2,73 graden boven het absolute nulpunt.
Botsing
Er zijn echter ook warmere en koudere plekken. De ‘koude plek’ is een fractie kouder dan zijn omgeving.
Men dacht eerder dat de lagere temperatuur van dit miljoenen lichtjaren grote gebied werd veroorzaakt door een tekort aan sterrenstelsels, maar dat blijkt nu niet het geval.
Het blijft onduidelijk waardoor de koude plek wel wordt veroorzaakt. Een mogelijke exotische verklaring is dat hij het gevolg is van een botsing tussen ons heelal en een ander heelal.
Multiversum
“De meest spannende van deze exotische verklaringen is misschien wel dat de koude plek is veroorzaakt door een botsing tussen ons universum en een ander universum,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Tom Shanks.
“Als uit verdere analyse van de gegevens blijkt dat dit het geval is dan kan de koude plek mogelijk worden gezien als het eerste bewijs voor het multiversum – dat er miljarden andere universa zoals het onze bestaan,” voegde hij toe.
Nu blijkt dat de koude plek niet kan worden verklaard door een grote leegte, denken de onderzoekers meer in de richting van dit soort ongewone verklaringen.
A NASA spacecraft has captured a recording of eerie sounds from a strange ‘void’ between Saturn and its rings.
What’s surprised the scientists is how quiet it is – with the spacecraft detecting barely any dust as it travelled through the gap between Saturn and its rings.
Scientists used the craft’s sensors to measure dust in the area – then converted the data of dust particles hitting the sensors into a crackling, whooshing sound.
‘It was a bit disorienting – we weren’t hearing what we expected to hear,’ said William Kurth, leader of the RPWS team at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
‘I’ve listened to our data from the first dive several times and I can probably count on my hands the number of dust particle impacts I hear.’
Cassini came within about 1,900 miles of Saturn’s cloud tops (where the air pressure is 1 bar – comparable to the atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level) and within about 200 miles of the innermost visible edge of the rings.
The gap between the rings and the top of Saturn’s atmosphere is about 1,500 miles wide – and the spaceship zipped through at 77,000mph relative to the planet.
While mission managers were confident Cassini would pass through the gap successfully, they took extra precautions with this first dive, as the region had never been explored.
‘No spacecraft has ever been this close to Saturn before. We could only rely on predictions, based on our experience with Saturn’s other rings, of what we thought this gap between the rings and Saturn would be like,’ said Cassini Project Manager Earl Maize of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
This robot constructs buildings from moon dust, ice and dirt
This robot constructs buildings from moon dust, ice and dirt
MIT researchers have designed a system that can 3-D print the basic structure of an entire building. The system consists of a tracked vehicle that carries a large industrial robotic arm, which has a smaller, precision-motion robotic arm at its end. Image courtesy Steven Keating, Julian Leland, Levi Cai, and Neri Oxman/Mediated Matter Group.
Image courtesy of Steven Keating
A new robot designed by a research affiliate at MIT can digitally construct buildings out of local materials ranging from ice to dirt to moon dust.
Why it matters: The Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is revolutionizing construction by proving that new technology can source local energy and materials to autonomously manufacture buildings — all while adapting to local conditions. This is particularly helpful in disaster relief situations and hazardous environments.
How it works: DCP is basically a giant, solar-powered, four-ton robotic arm (that you'd typically see on an assembly line) that sits atop tank tracks. It zips around collecting data about its surroundings, like radiation levels and topography, using the sensors in its technology. The arm has a nozzle that can mix various local, viscous materials and spray them to create structures.µ
The timing: Because of the DCP's solar panels, it can operate for eight hours after one charge. It can be powered up and ready to go in just minutes.
The results: The DCP constructed a 50-foot wide dome from stock-insulating foam spray in 13.5 hours.
Who it could replace: This robot could change architects' jobs by replacing contractors who would typically do things like wiring or HVAC before the building construction could begin.
One fun thing: Steven Keating, the DCP's creator, wrote that the technology would aid in "autonomous construction systems" for use in "extraterrestrial exploration," like building things from ice on Mars. "We've shown how we could do [it]," Keating told Fast Company. "And NASA is very excited to use ice for printing on Mars because ice absorbs a lot of cosmic radiation."
Why Real Scientists Think Aliens Would Never Eat Humans
A new book posits that alien encounters would be far more benign than they appear in the movies; Arrival, above, is more realistic than mostCourtesy Paramount Pictures and Hybride Technologies
When the Martians first land on Earth in the 1996 sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks!, for a moment it appears all will be fine. "We come in peace," says their leader, as the music swells and a dove soars overhead. Seconds later the Martian pulls out a laser gun and opens fire on a crowd of human onlookers. Yet another blockbuster alien invasion has begun.
That's Hollywood, of course. But the melodrama underscores one of humanity's most widely held fears: that if and when we do encounter extraterrestrial beings, they will wreak all kinds of havoc, much as they do in the movies.
Or will they? For his new book, Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, quantum physicist Jim Al-Khalili asked a series of experts to explore how humans might actually make contact with aliens. The possibility is not as far-fetched as it once seemed: since NASA launched its Kepler mission in 2009, researchers have discovered thousands of new planets and "revolutionized our concept of how many habitable worlds could exist," writes astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol in one of the book's essays.
But while Hollywood suggests we should expect to battle their inhabitants, science tells a different story. Here, five popular alien myths that Aliens debunks.
MYTH NO. 1: Aliens would eat us
Movies like The Blob and Critters imagine aliens harvesting humans for food, an unpleasant prospect. But it doesn't track with the science of nutrition, writes astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell. In order for aliens to get nourishment from eating us, their bodies would have to be capable of processing our molecules (like amino acids and sugars). And that requires having a similar biochemistry--a long shot for a species that hails from a different world.
MYTH NO. 2: Aliens would breed with us
Both of this summer's extraterrestrial blockbusters, Alien: Covenant and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, involve human-alien hybrids. But given that we can't even reproduce with our nearest evolutionary relative, the chimpanzee, it's "overwhelmingly improbable" we could do so with aliens, according to Dartnell.
MYTH NO. 3: Aliens would look like us
Human evolution depended on so many unique and unpredictable factors, it's near impossible that an extraterrestrial species would have human-like features, like the aliens in The Day the Earth Stood Still and Star Trek. It's far likelier, writes neuroscientist Anil Seth, that they'd be as different as the octopus, "our very own terrestrial alien," which has a high level of intelligence, a decentralized nervous system and an alternative style of consciousness.
MYTH NO. 4: Aliens would be "living" creatures
Even restrained films like Arrival get this one wrong, according to some scientists. Should aliens contact us, cosmologist Martin Rees believes we will hear not from fellow organic creatures, but from the robots they produced, who can, in theory, live forever.
MYTH NO. 5: Aliens would steal our water and metal
The aliens in Independence Day famously arrive to strip Earth of its resources. But again, that logic doesn't add up, writes Dartnell. Most of our metal is in the Earth's core, not its crust; asteroids would be far better targets for mining. And icy moons, like Jupiter's Europa, would be easier places to stock up on water. They're uninhabited, and they don't have Earth's strong gravitational pull.
So if aliens aren't interested in harvesting our lands or our bodies, why would they make co ntact? Dartnell suspects a purer motive: curiosity. "If aliens did come to Earth," he writes, it would probably be "as researchers: biologists, anthropologists, linguists, keen to understand the peculiar workings of life on Earth, to meet humanity and learn of our art, music, culture, languages, philosophies and religions."
Jody Pendarvis at his recently burglarized UFO Welcome Center. He suspects aliens aren't the ones whole stole his flatscreen Tv
BOWMAN -- For over two decades, the UFO Welcome Center hasn’t been burglarized. All of that changed recently and an unidentified earthling may be to blame.
On April 22, someone stole a 32-inch TV from the UFO Welcome Center.
Then on April 29, someone attempted to take a compact window air conditioning unit from the home of Jody Pendarvis, who owns the center. His home is only a few feet from the welcome center, which is located at 4004 Homestead Road.
Pendarvis built the UFO Welcome Center 23 years ago and hasn’t had any problems from earthlings or extraterrestrials.
He has good reason to believe an earthling is responsible for the burglary of the TV: the thief didn’t enter the welcome center from the top, he said.
The entrance into the welcome center is through a ramp door, which Pendarvis designed with two pulley cables on each side. An electric motor powers the ramp door to open and close.
Pendarvis said that someone tampered with the ramp door when it was up, then crawled into the welcome center and stole his 32-inch Emerson flatscreen TV.
Pendarvis reported the theft and attempted theft to the Bowman Police Department
Both of the cases remain active.
The first time Pendarvis saw a UFO was in May 1999 in Orangeburg, he said.
He’d constructed the UFO Welcome Center just five years prior.
“I didn’t believe in UFOs until 1999,” he said.
“I said, 'Oh no, they do exist!' " Pendarvis said of his sighting.
As for whether E.T.’s, space creatures or any unidentified flying objects are visiting the welcome center ... well, Pendarvis said that’s top secret information.
Pendarvis says next time he’s gone, “Maybe I’ll have E.T. watch the place.”
Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?
Will sending selfies to Jupiter moon get the attention of an E.T.?
LOUIS SAHAGUN
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A long camera exposure captures guests staring at twinkling stars and a giant laser beam pointing to Europa, Jupiter's moon.
Emcee Tom O'Key seemed giddy as dozens of guests filed into an outdoor theatre in this Mojave Desert town on a recent Saturday night to learn about an icy moon of Jupiter and take a stab at connecting with whatever - or whomever - may be living there.
"We're sending selfies to Europa here tonight, folks," O'Key told those who had gathered in the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater. "Take a moment to reach out to the cosmos and say, 'We here on Earth care.'"
Sponsored by the Southern California Desert Video Astronomers, the public program featured a documentary, 3-D holographic projections, views through telescopes and what was believed to be the first opportunity to send video selfies to a moon of Jupiter that NASA scientists have identified as one of the likeliest homes of extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
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Zerrin Leckey, 9, sends a selfie message to Europa using a device designed to convert audio and visual images into flashes of laser light aimed at the moon.
Zerrin Leckey, 9, was among the first to take a few deep breaths, smile, then speak into the lens of a video camera connected to a device that converts audio and visual images into flashes of laser aimed at the moon - only 37 minutes away at light speed.
"Hi, Europa!" he said. "This is Zerrin on Earth. I'm turning 10."
Next up was Jean Mueller, 67, a retired telescope operator at the Palomar Observatory who has discovered more than 30 comets.
"I photographed everything in the sky except you, Europa," she said. "Now, I'm talking to you in person, and that's pretty nice."
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Guests line up near the ticket booth to enter the outdoor Astronomy Arts Theater for "Europa is Alive!"
The casual tone of these pioneering attempts at intergalactic communication was fine with O'Key, who didn't hesitate to note the limits of the technology in the astronomy club's "Europa is Alive!" event or "the giggle factor involved in all this."
It was O'Key, 63, a retired technical consultant in personal injury litigation cases, and Leonard Holmberg, 62, a retired developer of optics-based products, who put together the selfie-sender: "An instrument comprised of a video camera, a laptop computer, fiber-optics technology and a yellow laser that cost us about $400," O'Key said.
"We like to think we're bringing extraterrestrial adventure to everyday people," he said.
Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times
Scientists have been searching the skies for signs of alien civilisations for decades, mostly based on the premise that they, like us, would use bursts of radio and laser light.
"Of course, we'd need the power of the sun to generate a coherent beam strong enough to hit Europa," Holmberg said. "But at least some of the photons in the transmissions we're sending are reaching their target. No doubt about it."
The project, Holmberg said, suggests how far technology has advanced since charismatic physicist Carl Sagan popularized the possibility of making contact with extraterrestrial life.
Sagan led a team that developed communications materials that were aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes launched in 1977 to make drive-by visits to planets in this solar system and then continue on to explore space. The packages included images of a nude man and woman and musical samplings, including Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode."
O'Key and Holmberg consider themselves "Saganites," inspired by NASA's recent announcement that Europa and Saturn's moon, Enceladus, harbor all the ingredients needed for life to evolve: heat, organic material and vast oceans of water capped by ice.
"What they're doing is fine with me," said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the nonprofit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute based in Mountain View, Calif. "But it's fair to say we don't know if aliens are friendly, or if they even exist. If they do, will they be cute and cuddly like the one in the movie 'E.T.,' or will they be like the Kardashians?
"In that case," he continued, "we should keep a low profile. You don't want your tombstone to read: I'm responsible for the obliteration of the human race."
Scientists have been searching the skies for signs of alien civilisations for decades, mostly based on the premise that they, like us, would use bursts of radio and laser light we might be able to hear or see.
The SETI Institute runs an array of radio telescopes designed to act as an enormous ear capable of scanning more than a million stars over 10 billion radio frequencies. It still has not detected any signal produced by someone else out there.
The Mars lander Phoenix, launched in 2007, carried recorded greetings. A year later, NASA beamed the Beatles' "Across the Universe" at the North Star, Polaris.
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UFO experts spot 'huge spaceship' in the sky with flashing lights above France, China and Australia
UFO experts spot 'huge spaceship' in the sky with flashing lights above France, China and Australia
Bright lights and a flying "cigar shaped" object captured in the footage have led to theories it could be a UFO
UFO experts believe glowing objects spotted in the sky above France, China and Australia could be a huge spaceship.
Footage recorded in France, possibly near Paris, shows bright lights in the sky and a "cigar shaped" flashing object.
Tyler, speaking on Secureteam10 , a channel reporting sightings and unusual activity in space, claims these "mind[blowing" lights are UFOs.
In the intriguing footage, he said a very similar UFO had been spotted years before.
Unexplained bright lights have been detected above France, China and Australia(Photo: Secureteam10)
A reported UFO sighting back in 2010 over an airport in China, prompted it to temporarily shut down.
A previous ABC news report claimed the strange sighting caused the Xiaoshan Airport to "stop operations" on July 7 that year.
The news report says that outbound flights were grounded after an " unidentified flying object " was detected.
There have been claims of UFOs spotted above France, China and Australia(Photo: Secureteam10)
The incident captured the attention of Chinese media at the time, and people shared photos of flying objects emitting rays of red and white lights.
But what the object was remained a mystery.
Tyler compares high resolution photos to show the similarities between the latest so-called UFO sighting in France with the sightings seven years ago in China.
He also claims a similar UFO sighting was captured over the Gold Coast, Australia.
He said: "I found an old shipwreck off Mexico… this one is huge!
"Its 138 meters across according to Google Ruler. The detail is outstanding.
"Oh, and by the way, it is a treasure - 138 metres of iron is roughly $10 million plus recycled.
"Let alone the other artefacts it must still have on it.
"It's not a freighter because it's thin along its ends, more like an old battle ship. I researched old sunken ships in the area there, but couldn't find any that match."
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Mr waring says he found another smaller ship and a fishing boat.
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It is not the first time Mr Waring has alleged to find mystery objects on Google Earth.
Well today I stumbled upon something thats not a UFO, but is still absolutely amazing due to its size.
Scott C Waring
Mr Waring said he found a second smaller ship of about 61 meters across that he estimated had a wooden hull, to the north west of the larger one.
He said: "It's on the same island as the first ship, but is on opposite side."
And to the south west of the larger one, he believes to have found the remains of a 12-metre long fishing boat.
So has Mr Waring found some undiscovered shipwrecks on Google Earth?
Sceptics would argue it could just be the effects of pareidolia, when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or shapes such as faces or animals in textures or patterns like clouds or rock surfaces.
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I Found Two More Sunken Ships, This One Is 138 Meters, One 60 Meters Across, Mexico, Google Earth Map, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
I Found Two More Sunken Ships, This One Is 138 Meters, One 60 Meters Across, Mexico, Google Earth Map, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: May 4, 2017 Location of discovery: Costa Verde, Mexico Google Coordinates: 19°13'24.25"N 96° 2'57.04"W Google date settings at: 2/25/2013 (most clear view of it at this setting) Update: I also found a second ship that is 61 meters across and had a wooden hull. Its on the same island as the first ship, but is on opposite sides of the island and again, settings must be 2/25/2013 to see it or some times other dates it will not be visible. SCW Ok guys, you know me...always searchings for the hidden mysteries of life. Well today I stumbled upon something thats not a UFO, but is still absolutely amazing due to its size. I found an old shipwreck off Mexico, and you know I have reported others in the past, but this one is huge! Its 138 meters across according to Google Ruler. The detail is outstanding, but know this, if you are seeking it using my coordinates, PLEASE GO TO THE DATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GOOGLE MAP AND CLICK IT, THEN GO TO 2/25/2013. This method will give you the clearest view of the ship and its detail. Oh, and by the way, it is a treasure. 138 meters of iron is roughly 10+ million US dollars recycled. Let alone the other artifacts it must still have on it. Its not a freighter because its thin along its ends, more like an old battle ship. I researched old sunken ships in the area there, but couldn't find any that match. Just thought you guys would like to see it. Scott C. Waring
For decades, radio telescopes have scanned the skies, hoping for a signal from intelligent aliens in another solar system.
But could signs of extraterrestrial life be lurking a little closer to home?
One astronomer believes we should be looking harder for signs of ancient, extinct civilisations in our own solar systems – buried ‘technosignatures’ of aliens from millions of years ago.
Jason Wright told Gizmodo, ‘There is zero evidence for any prior indigenous technological civilizations. My paper asks, have we completely foreclosed the possibility, or is there a chance that there could be some evidence we overlooked?
‘If we have overlooked something and we find it in the future, what are the chances it could have come from a prior indigenous technological species versus an interstellar one?
Wright suggests that the evidence might buried under the surfaces of moons or asteroids in our own solar system.
He says, ‘While all geological records of prior indigenous technological species might be long destroyed, if the species were spacefaring there may be technological artifacts to be found throughout the Solar System.
Ancient aliens?
Soviet-born American writer Zecharia Sitchin wrote a hit 1976 book ‘The 12th Planet’ where he claimed there was an unseen planet in the Solar System – Nibiriu – which was inhabited by a race of ‘ancient aliens’.
The aliens, called the Annunaki, had created the human race.
Sitchin’s work remains in print and has a devoted following around the world.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual says, ‘Zecharia Sitchin claims that Nibiru collided with a planet called Tiamat that was situated between Mars and Jupiter. The result was the creation of the asteroid belt and planet Earth.’
‘Nibiru is populated by the Anunnaki, an advanced humanoid race, who visited Earth thousands of years to mine gold in Africa. As an outcome of needing workers to carry out these mining operations they used genetics to create Homo Sapiens.’
‘The popularity of these type of ideas makes it certain that every new discovery by our spaceships will be be minutely studied for any evidence of Nibiru, or any other similar body that might be populated by extraterrestrials.’
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UFO sightings reported in the area in the 1970s
UFO sightings reported in the area in the 1970s
By Louise Carroll For The Ledger
Submitted photo
Residents living near the old water tower, right, on Wiley Hill reported seeing a UFO in 1973. The tower has since been torn down; the new tower can be seen on the left.
ELLWOOD CITY -- In the early 1970s, Unidentified Flying Objects were being spotted all over the United States, including several in the Ellwood City area.
On Dec. 6, 1973, The Ledger ran a story, "UFO Reports Abound," and interviewed a resident of Wiley Hill in neighboring North Sewickley Township, who refused to let her name be used because she was afraid she might be ridiculed for "seeing things."
The woman said the UFO kept coming closer and closer to the ground as she watched it, and she first knew something unusual was happening when her usually clear television picture became distorted.
Chuck Wehr, 49, of North Sewickley Township, said the woman was his mother, Helen Wehr, who died two years ago.
"After my father died, my mother gave me the yellowed Ledger clippings from 1973 and we talked about it. She asked me if I remembered the UFO and I did. I remember that it sounded loud to me like a freight train and I was terrified," Wehr said. "I remembered that it would be there and then suddenly it would disappear or be silent.
"My mother was always curious about the incident and yet didn't talk about it. She took pictures, but the camera was gone and she did not want to talk about what happened to the camera," he said.
Wehr said at the time of the incident they were living in the house nearest the green water tower on Wiley Hill.
On Dec. 12, 1973, The Ledger reported more sightings in the Wiley Hill area.
James Stoynoff of Ellport saw a red-and-blue flashing UFO shortly after 7 p.m. Dec. 11 in the area above the North Sewickley Presbyterian Church on Mercer Road near the Connoquenessing Country Club in North Sewickley. Stoynoff was driving west on Chapel Drive toward Ellwood City when he and his girlfriend, Patty Kelly, saw the UFO flying toward Christy's Plaza.
A similar sighting was reported by Mrs. Joseph Stabryla of Chewton who was visiting with relatives on Brown Road on Saturday evening. Stabryla said she had been playing cards with friends and saw the object in the area of Constitution Avenue and Treece Avenue on the way home.
Janna Hulick of Brown Road, and a number of Wiley Hill residents, reportedly watched the pulsating red-and-blue lights of the object, but some would not comment for fear of being ridiculed.
All of the reports received by The Ledger indicate that the object seemed to return to an area between the water tower on Wiley Hill and the Limestone Park area, currently Stiefel Park.
Nick Viccari, who lived on Rosanna Street, saw a red-and-blue blinking object hovering above the park area when he looked out his window in that direction, and he heard a sound like a distant train.
There were many other credible witnesses, including Ellwood City police officers Frank Zona and Robert Ramella, who saw the object hovering above the former U.S. Steel Corp. plant in Ellwood City.
One woman traveling with her 15-year-old daughter to Ellwood City reported spotting a "perfect triangle" in the sky along Ellwood-New Castle Road in Wayne Township. The woman described the object as having red-and-green lights flashing very rapidly around the edges and two white lights underneath. It approached rapidly and made a noise that sounded like a motor and then it was gone.
Dom Viccari of Ellwood City recalled that he saw a UFO sometime in the early 1970s when he was driving on Sixth Street heading toward the municipal building. As he approached the railroad tracks, he saw a bright light and wondered what it was.
"I continued up Sixth Street. I was trying to chase it and it headed toward Brighton Road and Stiefel Park and I lost it. I probably went to my job at The Ledger and told people about it," Viccari said.
More than 100 people, including state and Union Township police, reported seeing a UFO hover above the New Castle Airport on Nov. 3, 1973. It was described as a glowing, dome-shaped object. Observers told troopers that the object was different colors and changed from bright to dim and hovered there for an hour before it headed southwest toward Boardman, Ohio.
There were no explanations from government officials as to what the reported UFOs might have been.
Cheryl Costa, a Corning native who now lives in the Syracuse area, recently pored over UFO sighting data reported to two organizations from 2001 to 2015.
Amanda Renko / Staff video
Cheryl Costa’s interest in UFOs first developed in the Steuben County hills.
Now, the Corning native has taken her interest in the flying objects and compiled data from 15 years’ worth of reported sightings, turning her work into a resource for UFO researchers and enthusiasts.
(Photo: Provided photo)
Costa and her wife, Linda Miller Costa, spent nights and weekends for 16 months putting together the UFO Sightings Desk Reference, which breaks down more than 121,000 sightings reported to two UFO reporting organizations between 2001 and 2015 — to the state and county level, by month and even by the shape of the spotted object. UFOs are reported to appear in the form of spheres, lights, fireballs, triangles and cigars, to name a few.
Costa, 65, a retired information security professional from the aerospace industry who now lives in the Syracuse area, says she has no proof of whether the sightings indicate life on other planets. But the sheer volume of reported sightings is proof to her that UFOs, at least, are indisputably real.
“People say, ‘Do you believe in UFOs?’" said Costa, a graduate of Corning East High School. "I just count them. I report what people say they saw.”
The objects have fascinated Costa since she was about 12 years old. She vividly remembers a trip home from visiting family in Savona in the 1960s when she spotted a strange object in the skies overhead — "a round ball, parked out there like a rock," she said.
Her mother pulled the car over and explained the object could simply be a balloon, or it could be "people from another world," she said. "I watched it for about 20 minutes, then we started driving again. I kept my eyes on it. It was like one of those starships in the movies — it just whizzed away and winked out."
Costa and her mother would read books on UFOs at the library. Later, she'd stay for several months at the home of a friend with his own collection of books on the subject. She casually followed online UFO forums.
But it wasn't until she read a 2012 report that sightings of the objects were declining that her interest peaked.
“That didn’t sound right to me,” said Costa, a veteran of the Navy and Air Force.
Initially, Costa looked at data from the Mutual UFO Network, which accepts sighting reports, to confirm her hunch. The number of sightings reported to MUFON, she said, "shoots up like a rocket. My first thought was, what memo didn't the UFOs get? They were supposed to be declining."
She began collecting data from MUFON and a second organization, the National UFO Reporting Center. Her curiosity evolved into a look at New York's data, down to the county level.
In July 2013, she began writing a blog on UFOs for the Syracuse New Times, where she discusses her findings and highlights witness accounts she's received from friends, strangers and families.
Most people she’s talked to about their sightings “are sincere. Most people are very level-headed. You can see it in their eyes," she said. "They’ll often say, 'We were just coming home from a movie; we were just coming home from dinner; I was out walking the dog.'"
The data reveal some interesting patterns, Costa said. New York has the sixth-highest number of reported sightings over the 15-year period, with 5,141 total reports.
Locally, Broome County had 103 reported sightings over the 15-year period. Tompkins had 39, Chemung 31, Steuben 27, Tioga 22 and Schuyler 20.
But those numbers pale in comparison to the counties with the highest sightings, Costa said. With 554 reported sightings over 15 years, Suffolk County, on the eastern tip of Long Island, had the highest figure in the state. Manhattan (New York County) was second at 426 sightings, and Erie, Nassau and Monroe counties round out the top five.
Some have argued that the state's most populated areas have the most sightings, but Costa said population doesn't appear to be the only contributing factor. Sightings appear to be reported more frequently in the counties that border the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence Seaway and Hudson River. Just over half of New York's sightings appear to have occurred around the state's waterways, Costa said.
Reports in New York also tend to skyrocket in July and August, when viewers are most likely to be outside, she said. In southern states, where it's typically warmer, no such spike exists. And more sightings tend to occur on weekends, according to Costa's figures.
Costa, who often speaks at UFO conferences, said the book is gaining traction in the community, particularly among serious researchers. Regardless of whether or not its readers believe in UFOs, Costa said she's hoping the data will start a conversation.
“It’s disclosure at a civilian level. Some people are really crass about it — ‘oh, you have no proof’. We do have data here," she said. “We have thousands and thousands of people reporting them and telling us what they are. Are they extraterrestrial craft? Couldn’t tell you. Interdimensional? Couldn’t tell you. But with high numbers of these things, anything is possible.”
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Witness says deer noticed two hovering objects nearby
Witness says deer noticed two hovering objects nearby
A California witness at Pioneer reported watching two objects the size of a pencil emitting light and hovering near deer just 10 feet off the ground, according to testimony in Case 82988 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Pioneer is about 60 miles southeast of Sacramento.
(Credit: Google)
The witness was in her living room doing housework when she noticed a pulsating light down the hill from her location.
“I looked and then looked again,” the witness stated. “I saw a pencil-like, definitely light-emitting ‘thing’ hovering. Then I noticed a second one, only it was pulsing slower. It was approximately 10 feet off the ground.”
The witness then noticed a wild deer looking up at the object, then grabbing a mouthful of food, then looking back up at the object.
“No rotor, no feet, no noise, definitely larger than a pencil, but pencil-like. The second object was moving around a tree, first one side,and then the other, almost like it was trying to hide.”
The objects were hovering just 10 feet off the ground. Pictured: Pioneer, CA. (Credit: Google)
The witness said that she did not take a picture because there are a lot of trees and the object was small and would not have stood out in any picture.
“It was below me, but I knew if I went outside, it would have left when I opened the door and made noise. At first I thought it was something hanging from the tree, but the longer I watched, the more I realized that I was actually looking at a UFO.”
The witness described the objects.
“The main object (the one not hiding) pulsated light the entire length, but not the whole thing at once. It was like small lights all along the thing pulsing. Same for the other unit. The deer didn’t seem to be bothered much by the item, but it definitely knew it was there as it kept looking at it.”
The deer near the objects seemed to take notice to them, but continued to eat. Pictured: Pioneer,
CA. (Credit: Google)
The witness continued to watch.
“I was standing up, so I went to get a chair, and then watched for an additional 5 to 7 minutes. My phone rang. I went to answer it, and when I came back, both objects were gone. I know what I saw, and even though this might not be a large sighting, I wanted to report it as it was such an odd shape (to me) – one I wasn’t familiar with. I called my family to tell them what I saw, as we have been familiar with UFOs our entire lifetime. I wondered if these things were ‘monitoring’ the deer somehow. I’m sure they did not know I was watching. The rate of the pulse of light on the ‘main’ object varied, first fast, then slower, then fast again.”
Pioneer is in Amador County, California, population 1,094. MUFON California State Section Director Nancy Felipe 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.
UFO Passes Over Active Volcano On Live Cam, April 30, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Passes Over Active Volcano On Live Cam, April 30, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 30, 2017 Location of sighting: Popocatepetl, Mexico Here is another UFO flying over a volcano in Mexico last week. The UFO is flying extremely close to the open mouth of the active volcano, which would rule out any jet. Also the camera would catch the detail of the jets wings if it were a jet. No passenger jet would fly over an active volcano, let alone low and close to one. This object was round and moving slow. Awesome video of a real extraterrestrial craft. Scott C. Waring
Dark UFO Over Brooklyn, New York On May 3, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Dark UFO Over Brooklyn, New York On May 3, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 3, 2017 Location of sighting: Brooklyn, New York, USA Source: MUFON #83501 Here is a UFO report of a rectangle shaped UFO over Brooklyn. Very strange shape to say the least, and the object seems to be studying the buildings below it. This one is semi-transparent, which means its cloak was vulnerable, probably due to the rising sun in early morning. Aliens frequently NY a lot. It was the famous Beetle John Lennon who said he saw a UFO from his balcony in his penthouse apartment back in Aug 23, 1974. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
A very large size, gray color object hover without any noice over Brooklyn. I personally don't know what it could be. I had a good 15 minutes sharp view of the object. I was trying to be rational but find no answer. Unfortunately the video footage doesn't give back the ratio of the object. Much larger than a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter. I have photos captured also and after zooming I saw the object have colors and lights. Date 03-05-17 Brooklyn 8am
'Excess' Gamma-Rays Likely Not Sign of Dark Matter After All
'Excess' Gamma-Rays Likely Not Sign of Dark Matter After All
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
An excess of gamma-rays coming from the center of the Milky Way is likely due to a population of rapidly spinning, very dense and highly magnetized neutron stars, called pulsars, a new study suggests.
Credit: NASA/CXC/University of Massachusetts/D. Wang et al.; Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
A promising lead about the nature of elusive dark matter may have just dried up.
A mysterious abundance of gamma-rays — the highest-energy light in the universe — at the Milky Way's center is likely being produced by fast-spinning stellar corpses called pulsars, rather than bits of dark matter slamming into each other, a new study suggests.
"Our study shows that we don’t need dark matter to understand the gamma-ray emissions of our galaxy,” co-author Mattia Di Mauro, from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) in California, said in a statement. [The Hunt for Dark Matter: Images and Photos]
"Instead, we have identified a population of pulsars in the region around the galactic center, which sheds new light on the formation history of the Milky Way," added Di Mauro, who led the analysis for the Fermi LAT Collaboration. This is a group of researchers who used the Large Area Telescope on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to study the galaxy's gamma-ray glow.
Though dark matter apparently neither emits nor absorbs light (hence the name), astronomers know the stuff exists; they have observed its gravity affecting the "normal" matter we can see and touch. Indeed, such work suggests that dark matter makes up about 85 percent of the material universe.
However, scientists still don't know what the mysterious stuff is. One leading hypothesis holds that dark matter is composed mostly of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Theoretical physicists think that WIMPs generate gamma-rays when they interact with each other, either via direct annihilation or the production of a fast-decaying secondary particle.
So it was exciting when, several years ago, Fermi spotted an "excess" of gamma-rays near the Milky Way's core that astronomers said could not be explained by traditional sources such as pulsars. Process of elimination seemed to indicate that dark matter — in the form of WIMPs — was responsible.
The researchers behind such studies stressed at the time that this interpretation was tentative and in need of backing by other observations.
Pulsars the culprit?
Such confirmation has yet to materialize.
"Two recent studies by teams in the U.S. and the Netherlands have shown that the gamma-ray excess at the galactic center is speckled, not smooth as we would expect for a dark matter signal," KIPAC's Eric Charles, who contributed to the new analysis, said in the same statement.
"Those results suggest the speckles may be due to point sources that we can't see as individual sources with the LAT because the density of gamma-ray sources is very high and the diffuse glow is brightest at the galactic center," Charles added.
The new study further supports this idea, linking the speckled signal to pulsars.
"Considering that about 70 percent of all [gamma-ray] point sources in the Milky Way are pulsars, they were the most likely candidates," Di Mauro said. "But we used one of their physical properties to come to our conclusion. Pulsars have very distinct spectra — that is, their emissions vary in a specific way with the energy of the gamma-rays they emit. Using the shape of these spectra, we were able to model the glow of the galactic center correctly with a population of about 1,000 pulsars and without introducing processes that involve dark matter particles."
There are other reasons to doubt that the gamma-ray excess is being generated by dark matter, study team members said.
"If the signal were due to dark matter, we would expect to see it also at the centers of other galaxies," Seth Digel, head of KIPAC’s Fermi group, said in the same statement. "The signal should be particularly clear in dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. These galaxies have very few stars, typically don’t have pulsars and are held together because they have a lot of dark matter. However, we don't see any significant gamma-ray emissions from them."
The team plans to observe the Milky Way's center with radio telescopes, in an attempt to determine if the point sources there are emitting their light in pulses, as pulsars seem to do. (This is just an illusion, however. Pulsars emit light beams continuously in opposite directions; the light appears to flicker because pulsars spin, and their beams are therefore not always pointing at Earth.)
The new study has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal. You can read it for free at the online preprint site arXiv.org.
NASA Plans to Delay First SLS/Orion Mission to 2019
NASA Plans to Delay First SLS/Orion Mission to 2019
By Jeff Foust, SpaceNews Writer
NASA now expects the first Space Launch System flight, Exploration Mission 1, to slip to some time in 2019 regardless of whether or not it carries a crew.
Credit: NASA
WASHINGTON— NASA now expects the first launch of the Space Launch System to slip to 2019, regardless of any decision to put a crew on that mission, given ongoing issues with development of the launch vehicle and the Orion spacecraft.
Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administration for human exploration and operations, acknowledged the delay in a letter included in a U.S. Government Accountability Office report released April 27 that concluded that Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) would not meet its current November 2018 launch date.
"We agree with the GAO that maintaining a November 2018 launch readiness date is not in the best interest in the program, and we are in the process of establishing a new target in 2019," Gerstenmaier wrote in the letter, dated April 12 and included as an appendix in the GAO report. [Behind the Scenes Look: NASA's Orion Spacecraft (Video)]
Gerstenmaier said, in response to one recommendation in the GAO report, that NASA would develop a new launch readiness date by the end of September. "NASA is assessing the EM-1 schedule in light of a number of ongoing activities," he said, which include the tornado that damaged the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in February, disrupting work on the core stage of the SLS, and the ongoing development of the administration's fiscal year 2018 budget request.
The GAO, in its examination of progress NASA was making on EM-1 requested by Congress in the report accompanying the fiscal year 2016 appropriations bill, had already concluded that the mission would not be ready for launch in late 2018 as planned. "With little to no schedule or cost reserves remaining as the programs finalize production and enter integration and testing activities, the EM-1 launch readiness date is in a precarious position," the report stated.
The GAO noted in the report progress made in the development of SLS, Orion and ground systems, but added that all faced serious challenges with little margin. "The magnitude of the schedule delays that the programs have experienced amid this progress, however, foreshadows a likely schedule slip for the November 2018 EM-1 launch readiness date," the report concluded.
One example is the delivery of the European-built service module for Orion, which is on the critical path for EM-1. Once scheduled for delivery in January, it has been delayed until at least August. Once delivered, the program requires 12 months of work to integrate it with the crew capsule and perform testing before delivering it to the Kennedy Space Center for final launch preparations.
"NASA officials stated that they would not be able to maintain a launch readiness date of November 2018 if Kennedy Space Center receives the Orion spacecraft after July 2018," the report noted. "As a result, the November 2018 launch readiness date is likely unachievable unless NASA identifies further mitigation steps to accommodate delays." The conclusion of the report added that the service module is now expected to be delivered in September, with the possibility of an additional two-month delay.
The report is the second in two weeks to conclude that delays in the SLS/Orion program were all but certain. An April 13 report by NASA's Office of Inspector General concluded that both EM-1 and EM-2, the first launch to carry a crew, faced schedule slips. "NASA's first exploration missions – EM-1 and EM-2 – face multiple technical challenges that will likely delay their launch," that report stated.
Delays in the EM-1 schedule don't take into account the possibility of placing a crew on that flight. NASA announced in February it was studying adding a crew to that mission. That report has been completed and briefed to both NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot and White House officials. The agency has not announced a decision, although one is expected by the time the White House releases its detailed fiscal year 2018 budget proposal, expected by mid-May.
One condition on that study, Gerstenmaier said in February, was that adding crew not delay EM-1 past the end of 2019. "I didn't want to go much beyond 2019," he said in a Feb. 24 briefing. "I felt that if we went much beyond 2019, then we might as well fly EM-2 and actually do the plan we're on."
That study had its origins in expected delays in EM-1. Chris Shank, who led the NASA transition team for the incoming Trump administration, said during a panel session at the Goddard Memorial Symposium March 8 that the study had its origins at a meeting where Gerstenmaier said the delivery of the Orion service module would likely be delayed.
"We asked, if given more time, if there are some additional things that you could do with the mission," he recalled. "This is genuinely a study on how to get the best bang for the buck."
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
Gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen blijkt verrassend schoon te zijn
Gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen blijkt verrassend schoon te zijn
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Wetenschappers staan voor een raadsel: hoe kan het dat dit stukje ruimte vrijwel stofvrij is?
Ruimtesonde Cassini dook vorige week voor het eerst in het 2000 kilometer brede gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen. Onderzoekers hadden verwacht dat de sonde daarbij heel wat stofdeeltjes tegen zou komen. Om te voorkomen dat die deeltjes de ruimtesonde zouden beschadigen, werd de vier meter brede antenne van de sonde als schild gebruikt. Maar dat was niet nodig geweest, zo moet NASA nu concluderen.
Grote leegte “Het gebied tussen de ringen en Saturnus is blijkbaar een grote leegte,” stelt Cassini’s projectmanager Earl Maize. Slechts enkele keren botste een stofdeeltje op Cassini. En de weinige stofdeeltjes die Cassini ontmoette, waren bovendien klein: niet groter dan 1 micron (een duizendste deel van een millimeter).
DE FOTO’S
Bekijk hier de foto’s die Cassini maakte toen deze voor het eerst in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen dook.
Foto: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Een van de vele onbewerkte foto’s die gisteren is gemaakt. De atmosfeer van Saturnus ziet er in ieder geval spannend uit.
Nog een foto van de atmosfeer van Saturnus.
Veilig Blijkbaar is het gebied tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen veel veiliger dan gedacht. En dat is goed nieuws. Want NASA heeft nog 20 duikvluchten in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen gepland staan (exclusief de tweede duikvlucht die vanmorgen heeft plaatsgevonden). Vier van de 20 resterende duikvluchten voeren Cassini mee naar de binnenste randen van Saturnus’ ringen. Tijdens die duikvluchten zal Cassini wel wat stof tegenkomen en wordt de antenne sowieso ingezet om de sonde te beschermen.
Terwijl wetenschappers proberen te achterhalen hoe het kan dat het gebied tussen Saturnus en de stoffige ringen vrijwel stofvrij is, hult Cassini zich – net als tijdens de eerste duikvlucht – in radiostilte. Pas morgen worden de eerste onderzoeksgegevens en beelden die Cassini tijdens de duikvlucht van vanmorgen heeft gemaakt, naar de aarde verstuurd. En wat mogen we daarvan verwachten? Tijdens deze duikvlucht heeft Cassini de ogen gericht op de ringen van Saturnus. Ook bestudeert de sonde Rhea in de hoop meer te weten te komen over de samenstelling en structuur van het oppervlaktemateriaal van de maan.
Nieuw bewijs dat ster Epsilon Eridani meerdere puingordels bezit
Nieuw bewijs dat ster Epsilon Eridani meerdere puingordels bezit
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het bevestigt dat dit stelsel – bestaande uit een ster en één planeet – heel wat overeenkomsten heeft met ons zonnestelsel.
Er is al aardig wat onderzoek gedaan naar Epsilon Eridani, een ster die op zo’n 10,5 lichtjaar afstand staat. Zo weten we inmiddels dat rond de ster zeker één planeet cirkelt: Epsilon Eridani b. Deze planeet heeft een massa die vergelijkbaar is met de massa van Jupiter. Ook weten we dat er veel overeenkomsten zijn tussen hoe onze zon er in haar kinderjaren uitzag en Epsilon Eridani. Dat laatste is ook de reden dat onderzoekers dit stelsel graag bestuderen: het is het dichtstbijzijnde planetaire stelsel rond een ster die lijkt op de jonge zon en dus de ultieme gelegenheid om meer te weten te komen over de wijze waarop planeten rond sterren zoals onze zon ontstaan.
De stofschijf Eerder onderzoek heeft ook aangetoond dat rond Epsilon Eridani een stof- en puinschijf te vinden is. Dit puin kun je zien als bouwmateriaal dat over is gebleven nadat de ‘bouw’ van Epsilon Eridani b voltooid was. Het puin kan de vorm van gas of stof hebben, maar ook bestaan uit kleine rotsachtige en ijzige brokken. Dergelijk puin kan zich verzamelen in één brede stofschijf, maar ook verspreid zijn over meerdere smalle ringen. Onduidelijk was hoe dat precies bij Epsilon Eridani zat.
KOMT HET BEKEND VOOR?
Doet de naam Epsilon Eridani ergens een belletje rinkelen? Maar weet je even niet waarom? Misschien ken je de naam uit de televisieserie Babylon 5. Het gelijknamige ruimtestation dat in deze fictieve serie centraal staat, bevindt zich nabij deze ster.
Twee ringen Maar een nieuw onderzoek schept nu duidelijkheid. Wetenschappers hebben de ster Epsilon Eridani dit keer bestudeerd met behulp van het Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (kortweg SOFIA). En die waarnemingen tonen aan dat er zeker twee stofringen zijn. “We kunnen nu met veel zekerheid zeggen dat er een scheiding is tussen de binnenste en buitenste puingordel,” vertelt onderzoeker Massimo Marengo. “Dat gat is waarschijnlijk gecreëerd door planeten. We hebben die nog niet gedetecteerd, maar ik zou zeer verrast zijn als ze zich daar niet bevinden.” Mogelijk kunnen we deze planeten met de volgende generatie telescopen opsporen.
Veel overeenkomsten Dat Epsilon Eridani niet één brede, maar zeker twee smalle stofringen bezit, betekent dat dit planetaire systeem veel meer met ons zonnestelsel gemeen heeft dan gedacht. Ook ons zonnestelsel heeft immers twee puingordels: de planetoïdengordel en de Kuipergordel. Aan de rand van de binnenste planetoïdengordel vinden we Jupiter. Aan de buitenste rand van de planetoïdengordel van Epsilon Eridani vinden we Epsilon Eridani b (met een massa die vergelijkbaar is met die van Jupiter). Aan de rand van de Kuipergordel vinden we Neptunus. En deze studie wijst er sterk op dat aan de binnenste rand van de kometengordel van Epsilon Eridani ook een planeet te vinden is (zie ook de afbeelding hieronder). “Het is echt indrukwekkend dat Eri (Epsilon Eridani, red.), een veel jongere versie van ons zonnestelsel, net zo in elkaar steekt als het onze,” vindt onderzoeker Kate Su.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Caltech / R. Hurt (SSC).
Door naar Epsilon Eridani te kijken, reizen we eigenlijk terug in de tijd: naar het tijdperk waarin onze eigen zon nog piepjong was. “We zien een glimp van het verleden van de aarde door in het heden een nabijgelegen jonge zon te bestuderen,” stelt Marengo.
Monsterachtige golf ontdekt in het Perseus-cluster
Monsterachtige golf ontdekt in het Perseus-cluster
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De golf is miljarden jaren geleden ontstaan en 200.000 lichtjaar lang, oftewel ongeveer twee keer zo groot als onze Melkweg.
Het Perseus-cluster is een enorme groep sterrenstelsels die door de onderlinge zwaartekracht bij elkaar wordt gehouden. Het cluster is ongeveer 11 miljoen lichtjaar groot en staat op zo’n 240 miljoen lichtjaar afstand. Het grootste deel van de waarneembare materie in het cluster is superheet gas. Dit gas is zo heet dat het röntgenstraling afgeeft.
Golf Wetenschappers hebben het gas in het Perseus-cluster nu bestudeerd met behulp van röntgenobservatorium Chandra. Daarbij ontdekten ze allerlei structuren in het gas, waaronder een reusachtige golf.
Ontmoeting met een ander cluster Grote vraag is natuurlijk: hoe is die golf ontstaan? Om die vraag te kunnen beantwoorden, maakten de onderzoekers gebruik van simulaties. De simulatie die het dichtst bij de werkelijkheid in de buurt kwam, ging uit van een groot cluster met koud gas in het centrum en drie keer warmer gas daaromheen. Wanneer een kleiner cluster op geringe afstand van dit grote cluster langskwam, werd het gas in beweging gebracht. En doordat koud gas een andere snelheid heeft dan warm gas ontstaan golfbewegingen.
Onderzoekers noemen dat ook wel Kelvin-Helmholtz-golven. Dergelijke golven kunnen ontstaan in aardse oceanen, wolken en zelfs op de zon. Het exemplaar dat nu in het Perseus-cluster is ontstaan, is zeer waarschijnlijk echter de grootste Kelvin-Helmholtz-golf die ooit is geïdentificeerd.
De onderzoekers ontdekten verder dat de omvang van deze Kelvin-Helmholtz-golven sterk afhankelijk is van het magnetisch veld van een cluster. Als dat magnetisch veld heel zwak is, worden de golven groter. Is een magnetisch veld heel sterk, dan kunnen de golven helemaal niet ontstaan. Het betekent dat dergelijke golfachtige structuren in het gas van clusters meer kunnen vertellen over de sterkte van het magnetisch veld van deze clusters.
For those familiar with indie space game Stellaris, one of the key moments before encountering ancient intelligent life is finding traces of technology. While the game is a work of science fiction, the concept isn’t outlandish to those behind the real life search for extraterrestrial life (SETI). According to astronomer Jason Wright, discovering traces of advanced technology, termed technosignatures, from alien civilizations is just as important as looking for biosignatures. He outlines his theory in new paper published online, and while he doesn’t claim there’s existing, direct evidence of aliens, he does wonder if we’re just not looking hard enough – or for the right signs.
Contrary to what some have said, Wright’s paper isn’t saying that there’s already evidence pointing to an alien civilization that existed in the solar system before us. Instead, he merely asked whether we’ve exhausted all possible angles in our search for extraterrestrials.
“There is zero evidence for any prior indigenous technological civilizations,” Wright told Gizmodo. “My paper asks, have we completely foreclosed the possibility, or is there a chance that there could be some evidence we overlooked? [And] if we have overlooked something and we find it in the future, what are the chances it could have come from a prior indigenous technological species versus an interstellar one?”
Currently, the hunt for aliens is focused on finding even the smallest signs of life, or mechanisms that could support life (most notably, the presence of water). These are all good, of course, but Wright suggests that we might also start looking for technosignatures from ancient alien civilizations.
“A ‘technosignature’ is evidence of technology,” he said, which potential could have been left behind by some long-gone alien civilization. In his paper, he explained his point further: “We might conjecture that settlements or bases on [rocky moons or asteroids] would have been built beneath the surface for a variety of reasons, and so still be discoverable today.”
Image: NASA, JPL-Caltech
What Are We Really Searching For?
The discovery of a new planet — or even better, a new system in some near or distant galaxy — is always good news for alien hunters. Most recently, the TRAPPIST system presented some possibilities — albeit ones quickly dashed by the intensity of solar flares its planets experience. Another possible candidate is a huge, Earth-like planet dubbed super-Earth LHS 1140b. Inside our own solar system, the planetary satellites of Jupiter and Saturn — particularly Europa and Enceladus — tickle the imagination because of the presence of water. And where there is water, the chance of life is higher.
However, despite the odds seemingly in our favor, we really haven’t found any such example of alien life out there — yet. Fermi Paradox, yes? But, could it be that we’ve been looking at the wrong things? Or are we simply not looking hard enough?
Wright just wants us to explore all possible options: “While all geological records of prior indigenous [extraterrestrial] technological species might be long destroyed, if the species were spacefaring there may be technological artifacts to be found throughout the Solar system.”
What does a void sound like? (Insert the name of your least favorite cable news channel here.) Now that we’ve had our fun, NASA has provided us with the sound of an actual void and you’ll probably find it eerie, yet in most cases preferable to cable news.
On April 26th, the Cassini spacecraft passed between Saturn and its innermost ring and NASA engineers turned on a recording instrument. Believe it or not, they were hoping to capture the sounds of – cue Simon & Garfunkel – silence. Noise would be an indicator that the void isn’t an actual void but a corridor filled with dust or larger particles … and that would not be good for Cassini, which is scheduled to make many more passes through the area prior to its eventual death plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere in September.
While not a deal-breaker – or in this case, a dive-breaker – an abundance of dust would force NASA engineers to turn the craft so that its 13-foot-wide antenna would shield instruments from a particle bombardment, since even tiny ones can wreak havoc on them and there’s no electronics store nor robotic repair person around to fix them.
As you can hear in the audio, the Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument picked up something.
RPWS detected the hits of hundreds of ring particles per second when it crossed the ring plane just outside of Saturn’s main rings, but only detected a few pings on April 26.
Is that good or bad news? William Kurth, RPWS team leader at the University of Iowa, gave the answer.
It was a bit disorienting – we weren’t hearing what we expected to hear. I’ve listened to our data from the first dive several times and I can probably count on my hands the number of dust particle impacts I hear.
In other words, the so-called void is really void of dangerous — at least to Cassini — dust particles. The RPWS detected very few radio and plasma waves to convert into the sounds of pops and cracks that would indicate particles. That means Cassini gets the go-ahead to keep on diving like Greg Louganis going for the gold. Twenty more dives are scheduled, including one on May 2 whose results were not available as of this writing.
Project Manager Earl Maize listening to the sounds from Cassini
While the sounds — or lack of them — from Saturn will probably not inspire any songs, they’ve inspired NASA engineers to keep on analyzing the data to figure out why a planet with so much stuff orbiting it has a such a big circle of nothing inside the innermost ring. As Cassini Project Manager Earl Maize of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a press release:
The region between the rings and Saturn is ‘the big empty,’ apparently. Cassini will stay the course, while the scientists work on the mystery of why the dust level is much lower than expected.
The Big Empty … sounds like the perfect description for cable news.
Max Planck astrophysicist René Heller proposed a novel and innovative way to explore the stars.
Instead of just relying on the actual distance, Heller proposed using the light form a star to propel photon ships faster.
The bright lights could just draw you in
NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STScI), and M. Barstow (University of Leicester)
THE QUICKEST ROUTE
You’ve heard it said that the quickest route from point A to point B is the straightest path. Nowhere more does this apply than in space, where distances are measured by the direction that light travels, which is fairly straight. However, astrophysicist René Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany thinks there’s more to interstellar travel than just a straight path.
Heller and his colleagues, in a recently published article, argued that traveling to a star isn’t just a function of distance, but also of how bright the star is. The concept is called a photogravitational assist. Simply put, the light emitted by a star powers photon or light sails (remember Count Dooku’s ship?) traveling in space.
Their calculations initially surprised Heller, he told New Scientist. However, the math is simple and sound: the time that it takes to travel to the nearest star is a function of distance divided by the square root of a star’s luminosity.
CHANGING OUR STELLAR TRAVEL SCHEDULE
Following these calculations, this means that we could get to Sirius faster than we could to any star in the Alpha Centauri system simply because it’s 18 times brighter, despite being twice as far as Proxima Centauri. We could reach Sirius in just 69 years, compared to the 140 years it would take to reach Proxima Centauri.
To do this, “We need a very light, solid, temperature-resistant, and highly reflective sail material that can span an area of several hundred meters squared,” Heller said. It could be graphene-based and coated by some metamaterial.
A similar effort by Breakthrough StarShot proposes using light sails to travel to Alpha Centauri. According to their calculations, it would take them only 20 years to make the journey. However, they only computed for a flyby mission that would last a couple of seconds, which wouldn’t allow them to observe that much. So, while it would present a unique and incredible opportunity to explore the Universe farther than we ever have before, it wouldn’t allow scientists to collect a lot of data.
In this case, Heller’s unusual route presents an advantage. “If this works out, then humanity can really go interstellar,” he said.
he Phoenix Lights incident 20 years ago is still seen as unexplained by some UFOers.
The National UFO reporting Centre (NUFORC) based in the US has been inundated with witness accounts about a series of UFO sightings on April 25 over parts of Florida.
Peter Davenport, NUFORC director, said: "Approximately a dozen high-quality sighting reports were submitted in rapid sequence by witnesses in multiple locations in Florida.
"Three adult witnesses in Largo reported having had a disc-shaped object descend out of nearby clouds, and hover briefly near their residence in the night sky.
"They report that the object suddenly darted back into the same area of the sky from which it had first come, disappearing again into the clouds."
The first report came from Bradenton at 8.40pm when three orange lights were seen in a triangle formation.
There were 11 further reports of odd airborne activity between 11pm, when at Jupiter, "something travelling in a straight line leaving a trail of fire or sparks" was seen for two to three minutes, and 1.47am, when, in Orlando, "eight spherical balls of light” emerged from the clouds.
The spectacle went on for three to four minutes when they "whipped back and forward across the sky in a straight line, then stopped and formed a circle and began to rotate around each other and form different shapes", according to a witness report.
Eight of the events took place in the 15 minutes between 11.45pm and midnight.
There was another sighting at 12.27am at Pinellas Park, when for 15 seconds, a "plane with a red blinking light seemed to be pulling what looked like a sparkler."
It reportedly went into a cloud and stayed stationary".
NUFORC says it usually receives just a fraction of actual UFO sightings, so expects many more people to have seen something and urges them to come forward.
The infamous Phoenix Lights incident happened on March 13 1997, when 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.
It is considered one of the world's biggest ever mass UFO sightings, but was later blamed by officials as military flares at the time.
Eerder deze week had het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA laten weten dat de ruimte tussen de ringen van Saturnus en de planeet verrassend leeg is, nu is dat ook met geluid gestaafd. Die leegheid is vastgesteld door de Amerikaanse sonde Cassini.
De NASA pakte vandaag uit met twee audiofragmenten. Het eerste dateert van 18 december 2016 toen Cassini zijn 253 baantjes rondom de planeet maakte. Wat men hoort, is te omschrijven als een symfonie van een knetterend kampvuur en een zwaar beschadigde vinylplaat.
Op de video hieronder zijn de audiofragmenten van 18 december 2016 te horen:
Groot is het contrast met een audiofragment van 26 april jongstleden, toen de sonde een eerste duik in de ruimte tussen de ringen en Saturnus maakte. Er is enkel een aanhoudende ruis te horen zoals wanneer het beeld op televisie uitvalt. Het zwelt soms wat aan, er is een zeldzaam piepje en er zijn wat Morse-signaalachtige geluidjes te horen.
Op de video hieronder zijn de audiofragmenten van 26 april 2017 te horen:
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Mysterieus iets gevonden op Google Earth. Onderzoekers staan voor een raadsel. Enig idee wat dit is?
Mysterieus iets gevonden op Google Earth. Onderzoekers staan voor een raadsel. Enig idee wat dit is?
In 2007 zocht een amateurarcheoloog op satellietbeelden naar vindplaatsen toen zijn aandacht werd getrokken door een vreemde figuur in de woestijn.
De foto’s waren gemaakt boven de steppe van Noord-Kazachstan. De geogliefen die werden ontdekt waren zo opvallend dat ze zelfs de aandacht trokken van NASA-wetenschappers.
Met behulp van satellieten onderzochten ze het woestijnachtige gebied. Ze ontdekten al snel meer vreemde symbolen in het landschap.
Indruk
In Kazachstan zijn honderden vreemde geogliefen ontdekt. Ze bestaan uit kruizen, stippen, ringen of lijnen.
“Ze zijn prachtig, enorm en laten zien dat de mens dingen kan doen die zelfs vanuit de ruimte indruk maken,” zei Amanda Marchetti van DigitalGlobe, die de foto’s analyseerde, in het programma What On Earth?
Onontdekt
Onderzoekers die naar het gebied afreisden kwamen tot de ontdekking dat de patronen bestaan uit heuvels van aarde. Ze lijken bovendien veel ouder te zijn dan gedacht.
Door hun enorme omvang zijn ze duizenden jaren onontdekt gebleven. Ze zijn enkel zichtbaar vanuit de lucht. Door en voor wie zijn ze gemaakt?
Artist's illustration of the Epsilon Eridani system showing Epsilon Eridani b
(Credit:NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook)
The number of planetary systems discovered seems to grow on a daily basis, but most of them are wildly different to our own solar system. Now a team of University of Arizona researchers led by Kate Su have used NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) flying observatory to take a closer look at a system 10.5 light years away and discovered it has a familiar general structure.
The star in question is Epsilon Eridani (ε Eri) in the southern hemisphere of the constellation of Eridanus. Its previous claims to fame were as the setting for the sci fi television series Babylon 5 and the disputed location of Star Trek's planet Vulcan. It's also been the subject of several early studies seeking extrasolar planets and was even monitored in the 1960s by Project Ozma as a possible source of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Previously, Epsilon Eridani was found to have a debris disk made of gas, dust, and perhaps asteroids circling it, as well as a planet with about the mass of Jupiter and orbiting the young star at a comparable distance to that which the gas giant orbits the Sun.
None of this is very remarkable by today's standards, but when Su's team examined images from SOFIA, a different story emerged. SOFIA is a 100-in (2.5-m)-diameter telescope mounted inside a Boeing 747SP jetliner that operates out of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center's Hangar 703, in Palmdale, California.
Much of the previous work on Epsilon Eridani involved the Spitzer Space Telescope, but SOFIA is over twice the size of Spitzer, has three times the resolution, and can operate in the infrared at wavelengths between 25 and 40 microns. What this meant was that SOFIA could discern much smaller details, especially from warm materials, than before, which suggested an alternative model to the one provided by Spitzer's data.
What the University of Arizona scientists found was that Epsilon Eridani's inner system is clear of debris with a narrow debris ring just inside the orbit of the Jupiter-like planet. Beyond this is another clear region with another debris ring about where Neptune would be in our solar system. In other words, it's a lot like the inner Solar System, asteroid belt, Jupiter, the outer Solar System and the Kuiper Belt.
"The high spatial resolution of SOFIA combined with the unique wavelength coverage and impressive dynamic range of the FORCAST camera allowed us to resolve the warm emission around eps Eri, confirming the model that located the warm material near the Jovian planet's orbit," says Su. "Furthermore, a planetary mass object is needed to stop the sheet of dust from the outer zone, similar to Neptune's role in our solar system. It really is impressive how eps Eri, a much younger version of our solar system, is put together like ours."
Artist's illustration of the Epsilon Eridani system showing Epsilon Eridani b. In the right foreground, a Jupiter-mass planet is shown orbiting its parent star at the outside edge of an asteroid belt. In the background can be seen another narrow asteroid or comet belt plus an
outermost belt similar in size to our solar system's Kuiper Belt.NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
Man's quest to know more about the vast universe received a shot in its arm after a new planetary system was discovered by NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a flying observatory.
Kate Su, who is an associate astronomer at the University of Arizona and the university's Steward Observatory, is the lead author of this study.
SOFIA is a Boeing 747SP jetliner which has been altered to carry a 100-inch diameter telescope which possesses a diameter of 100 inches (2.5 meters); the diameter is bigger in comparison to the Spitzer space telescope whose diameter is equal to 33.5 inches (0.85 meters). With the help of SOFIA, the researchers could study the details that were three times smaller; this wouldn't have been possible with Spitzer.
The planetary system discovered is located at a distance of 10.5 light years away in constellation Eridanus' southern constellation. A Sun-like star named Epsilon Eridani, aka eps Eri, which is believed to be less than a billion years old, was believed by astronomers as capable to reveal more about our solar system. The location is very apt for the astronomers to research about planet formations around Sun-like stars.
"Additionally, SOFIA's powerful mid-infrared camera called FORCAST, the Faint Object infraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope, allowed the team to study the strongest infrared emission from the warm material around eps Eri, at wavelengths between 25-40 microns, which are undetectable by ground-based observatories," a NASA statement said.
The data collected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was studied by the researchers in 2009 in order to explain about the eps Eri's debris disk which was formed from the remains of the space rock collisions and planet formations. The researchers revealed that this debris disk comprised different belts of asteroids, just like the Kuiper and asteroid belts of our solar system.
This space dust can be in the form of dust, gas and also tiny rocky and icy bodies. Further details revealed that a planet having a mass similar to that of Jupiter orbits the eps Eri star at a similar distance at which the gas giant Jupiter orbits the Sun.
Marengo revealed that the findings are crucial as they confirm epsilon Eridani is a good model of the early days of our solar system and can provide hints at how our solar system evolved.
"This star hosts a planetary system currently undergoing the same cataclysmic processes that happened to the solar system in its youth, at the time in which the moon gained most of its craters, Earth acquired the water in its oceans, and the conditions favourable for life on our planet were set," one of the co-authors Marengo stated in a summary of the project, as reported by Phys.org.
"The high spatial resolution of SOFIA combined with the unique wavelength coverage and impressive dynamic range of the FORCAST camera allowed us to resolve the warm emission around eps Eri, confirming the model that located the warm material near the Jovian planet's orbit," said Su.
"Furthermore, a planetary mass object is needed to stop the sheet of dust from the outer zone, similar to Neptune's role in our solar system. It really is impressive how eps Eri, a much younger version of our solar system, is put together like ours," Su said.
Finding existing extraterrestrial life would undoubtedly be one of the crowning achievements of the human race, but with so much talk of the potential for life on exoplanets many light-years away, one astronomer is asking why we aren’t looking harder for evidence of aliens right here in our own solar system. Penn State astronomy professor Jason Wright has written a paper suggesting that maybe we need to shift our focus from the deep cosmos and simply take a closer look in our own celestial backyard.
In his writings, Wright implores scientists to consider the idea that evidence of extraterrestrial life might be right under our noses. Wright, who doesn’t take a stance on whether or not he believes intelligent life indeed existed in our own solar system or abroad before humanity, says that looking for the leftovers from technological species who resided here might actually be easier to find than biological evidence including microbes.
“Searches for alien artifacts in the Solar System typically presumes that such artifacts would be of extrasolar origin, even though life is known to have existed in the Solar System, on Earth, for eons,” Wright notes. “But if a prior technological, perhaps spacefaring, species ever arose in the Solar System, it might have produced artifacts or other technosignatures that have survived to present day.”
Wright flags Venus and Mars as potential locations where intelligent life might have spawned, developed, and then gone extinct or simply left, and even suggests that Earth might hold secrets of an ancient but advanced civilization that has since been lost to the shifting of continents, plate tectonics, and erosion.
LISTEN TO THE EERIE SOUNDS INSIDE SATURN'S RING RECORDED BY NASA
LISTEN TO THE EERIE SOUNDS INSIDE SATURN'S RING RECORDED BY NASA
Space exploration has unearthed, or "un-saturned" actual sounds recorded during ongoing space voyages by NASA, the national institute of Scientific advancement. New findings show that NASA scientists have procured genuine audio recordings emanating from the massive planet Saturn! What did NASA find in space aboard the exploration vessel known as the Cassini?
The Cassini is a modern marvel of the human species, a spacecraft that NASA is currently using to explore, record, and orbit the behemoth known as Saturn. Not just any planet, Saturn happens to be the second largest gas ball in the solar system. Hovering delicately around this massive formation are awe-inspiring rings, large oval-shaped rings, and tiny delicate groups of ringlets. What sounds did the Cassini record? It was the sound of vastness and echoes displayed by a sensitive gauge- specifically called a Radio and Plasma Wave Science Instrument (RPWS). As the Cassini traveled thru the glorious rings of Saturn, microscopic ring bits were detected and sounds of these nanoparticles bouncing off the RPWS were recorded! Findings reveal the audio evidence, actual photos show the digital print-out of the sounds of Saturn. These images display the density and strength of the waves, similar to the print out of an EKG.
The actual sediment that the gauge picked up on is called “dust particles” and “ring particles” by researchers involved in the Cassini mission. Please be advised- the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument is not a sound recording device. As the name suggests, this tool reads radio and plasma waves- technicians then transcribe the radio and plasma waves into readable sound data.
Finally hearing sounds from a huge, strange planet might sound like headline news. Ponder this…. Sounds from space have been documented before. Almost a year ago to the day, space explorers from NASA were able to record sounds from Jupiter, another gas giant of the solar system. A photo of the Jupiter recording is present in NASA research archives, Juno is the name of the aircraft that participated in that event.
NASA and Cassini have propelled the imagination of civilization to another level, another orbit. Hopefully, the youth of this nation will be inspired, motivated to continue space flight with exploration. And what of the actual space vessel, Cassini? Sadly, Cassini will have just four more months of robotic life. Cassini will be commanded to do a kamikaze death mission to end its project- flying and crashing to its demise on Saturn, spawning instant combustion on impact.
In 2004, a selection of NSA documents was given the all clear for public disclosure. However, in an unexplained move, the security agency chose not to release the documents, collected under the intriguing title of “Key to the Extraterrestrial Messages” for a full seven years afterward.
The NSA were finally pushed into publishing the information on their website following legal intervention, and it can still be viewed today. But what does it actually say?
The documents, which have been described as a veritable ‘treasure trove’ by extraterrestrial enthusiasts, contain an incredibly compelling report which was compiled for the NSA’s internal journal. The documents first appeared in the NSA Technical Journal Vol XIV No 1 with FOIA Case number 41472 and were authored by the esteemed cryptologist Dr. Howard Campaigne. The topic of this fascinating report concerns twenty-nine coded messages intercepted by the Sputnik satellite which is believed to derive from an extra-terrestrial origin.
Dr. Campaigne is one of the most renowned cryptologists in the world who has spent decades of his life working for various governmental agencies such as the Naval Security Group, Army Security Agency, National Security Agency among others. He was selected to examine the exciting messages along with a team of other accomplished NSA cryptologists.
However, the documents suggest that they had limited success in decoded the presumed alien communications. Dr. Campaigne said that some of the words of the messages were able to be translated but that there were many elements of the communications that the team had still not been able to properly comprehend. He also said that while the team had a hazy grasp on the alien grammar that they had been unable to thoroughly understand the vocabulary.
This astonishing report, which was released with no fanfare, raises some interesting implications. It is well known that various intelligence agencies from all over the globe were deeply invested in examining the extraterrestrial phenomenon in the recent past, but the governments of the world have been loath to admit that their agencies are still involved in these activities in the present day.
However, this document reveals that despite their reticence in speaking publicly about belief in extraterrestrials that the American government is still taking intelligent contact from alien beings seriously. This raises questions about what they have discovered about intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and why they are so cagey about releasing this kind of information into the public domain.
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PLAYING GOD: SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO BUILD SYNTHETIC HUMAN DNA
PLAYING GOD: SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO BUILD SYNTHETIC HUMAN DNA
Scientists Plans For Building Synthetic DNA Of Humans Goes Public Leading To Tension Flares.
Manipulating the fundamental building blocks of life is one of science`s biggest ethical debates, and tensions are about to flare up once again as scientists have revealed a controversial and rather ambitious plan to write the human genome from scratch. They want to synthesize DNA and then put it into mammals, with human cells perhaps being only four or five years away.
SCIENTISTS WANT TO WRITE HUMAN GENOME FROM SCRATCH
Almost 200 genetic researchers along with researchers in bioengineering will be heading to New York next week to a meeting that will discuss the stages to follow of what has been called the Genome Project-write, also known as GP-write. This is a venture costing US$100 million to engineer, research and test a living system of model organisms, which are said to include human genome.
THE NEW PROJECT TAKES UP WHERE THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT ENDED
The new project is said to be the follow-up to the Human Genome Project which reached an end in 2003 following research that spanned over 13 years and which mapped out the human genetic code. The new project is said to be the next logical step forward so that scientists can learn how to synthesize animal, plant and human DNA cost-effectively.
The GP-write coordinator Nancy J. Kelly said that HGP had allowed scientists to read the genome, however, at the moment it isn’t completely understood. The scientists involved want to portray the project as being an international collaboration that has been designed so that scientists can further their understanding of genome science. The project brought about a lot of controversy during the first meeting, a year ago, which had been conducted in secret with only a hand-selected group of experts invited to talk behind closed doors.
DETAILS OF THE PROJECT REVEALED IN PAPER
Since that time researchers have become more candid and have announced the details of the new project in a paper along with releasing a white paper which gives the outline of the timeline and goals. Jef Boeke, biochemist, and geneticist is one of the leading scientists on GP-write and he said that the approach has been to consult with the scientific community to steer and frame the research as it develops.
He went on to say that the plan was not to start off with human genome; there is a four to five year period during which there is lots of time to talk about the wisdom of it, if the resources should be put into that direction or if another should be taken. He said that whenever it’s human genome people will have an opinion and they will speak out and want their voice to be heard and the scientists want to know what they have to say about the matter.
Of course, while conversations may be ongoing, the science is continuing to develop. Boeke gave details about a project that is related which he is working on. In the project he is working with hundreds of scientists all working together to try to synthesize artificial yeast genome, this project is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
While there is a big difference between being able to synthesize the DNA of yeast and the creation of human DNA from the drawing board, the overall goal remains the same, to find out how to synthesis comparatively simple genetic code before then moving on to the final goal. Boeke said that in the end, a synthetic genome is just a new engine for allowing learning of new information. GP-write is the parent project encompassing the core area of Human Genome Project-write, with a focus on human genome synthesis, either in whole or in part.
COST OF ENGINEERING GENOMES NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT DOWN
Along with synthesizing animal, plant and human DNA, the project`s goal is to bring down the cost of engineering genomes. At the moment it is said to cost around 10 US cents just to synthesize a base pair of nucleobase molecules making up the DNA. When you take into account that human beings have 3 billion pairs, it is expensive. The scientists hope to bring down the cost by over 1,000-fold in 10 years.
If the costs can be brought down and expenses loved for synthesizing DNA, it may unlock many kinds of potential medical treatments, which may be able to target cancer or genetic diseases, which may help the body in better accepting organ transplants, along with boosting learning about gaining immunity to viruses.
Before this happens, the organizers of GP-write will have to raise around US$100 million in funds, a topic which is going to be discussed in another meeting. It is exciting, but there is sure to be a lot more controversy as the project goes ahead.
This is an awesome shot of a UFO. This UFO is similar to one that was seen over the Statue of Liberty just last week. Australia has had an overwhelming amount of sightings this years. They are increasing their exposure to the public little by little. Scott C. Waring
News states: A local seven-year-old boy has snapped a photograph of an unidentified flying object. The suspicious object was spotted flying over Tarro on Friday evening. Halo Galli is fascinated with the Roswell UFO incident, where a spaceship was said to have crashed in America in 1947. He is convinced his photograph is proof of an alien spaceship closer to home. “He was in the yard with his dad and four-year-old sister when he asked his dad for his iPhone,” mother Tanya Beasley said. “All evening he pestered me to look at his sighting and when he showed me the one and only photo he took of his spaceship, low and behold he actually had captured something.” Halo insisted the photograph be sent in to the newspaper.
Death Valley’s ‘sailing stones’ are able to move thanks to unique environmental conditions.
Have you ever seen a rock move? I mean move independently—not, like, roll after someone kicked it or knocked it over—just sliding across a flat surface of its own accord. With the exception of certain psychedelic experiences, I'm going to guess you haven't. But these rocks exist, and they stumped scientists for decades.
The Racetrack Playa is a wide, flat, desert basin in the middle of Death Valley National Park. It's surrounded by tall, rocky hills and, hundreds of years ago, was filled with water, but these days it's just a dried up lakebed. It's one of the hottest, driest, and lowest places in North America, and it's home to the "sailing stones:" rocks that move along the playa on their own. It took until 2014 for scientists to conclusively uncover how the stones get from one place to another: an unusual, and unique combination of ice, wind, and sun.
For a more detailed story behind the sailing stones, listen to this week's episode of Science Solved It:
It's rare to see the stones in motion, but there's a clear sign that they've been on the move. Behind the rocks are long, sometimes winding trails in the dirt. Scientists have used GPS units to track to stones' movements, and have proven that they're mobile. They were first publicly documented in the early 1900s, but for decades, nobody could explain how they moved, according to Richard Norris, an oceanographer at University of California San Diego, and one of the researchers who finally solved the mystery of the rocks.4
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"The first scientific study was done 1948 and then there was a succession of scientific papers," Norris said. "Every ten years or so somebody published a new paper on the Racetrack, but nobody is basing their scientific career on this kind of work. It's just a really fun sort of mystery."
Norris became aware of the stones when he was just a kid. His uncle, a geomorphologist at UC San Diego, would take class trips out to the playa, and Norris and his cousin would tag along. As adults, and both scientists themselves, Norris and his cousin decided they ought to take a stab at solving how the rocks moved, so they designed an experiment.
Previous research had produced hypotheses about how the rocks moved. Some thought it was exceptionally heavy winds, others believed ice formed around the rocks and caused them to be buoyant. There were also some less scientific theories, such as acoustic levitation—the belief that sound can cause heavy objects to levitate.
To figure it all out, Norris and his cousin attached specially-designed GPS units to the back of rocks they had brought into Death Valley (the National Parks Service wouldn't let them mess with the rocks that were already there). They also installed a weather station, and then...they waited.
It took two years, but finally, the rocks moved. Norris and his cousin, completely by chance, actually got to witness them in action. The researchers discussed their findings in a paper published in PLOS One. They found that when enough rain fell on the playa to pool, and the temperature dropped, the water would freeze into huge, thin sheets of ice around the rocks—which tumble onto the playa from a nearby hillside. As the morning sun began to melt the ice, if a gentle breeze blew, it could move the ice, which dragged the rocks along with it.
"The ice is like the thickness of a window pane," Norris told me. "And although it's very thin, it's a huge, huge sheet of ice. It's sort of being moved sort of inextricably by these breezes and it can shove around really big things—and a lot of rock."
The results shocked Norris and many other scientists, but it's a phenomenon that's since explained similar moving rocks around the globe. Though it wasn't the paranormal explanation that so many people had hoped for, the truth was even more tantalizing.
Researchers discover 11 'strange' signals using telescope
Researchers discover 11 'strange' signals using telescope
However, none of these signals are believed to be extraterrestrial life.
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Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner-backed Breakthrough Listen is an initiative that is dedicated to exploring extraterrestrial signals in the universe in search of life beyond Earth. A team of researchers from Breakthrough Listen have now released its first results after analysing three 5-minute observations of 692 stars.
The researchers found 11 “strange” signals during their study. However, none of these signals are believed to be extraterrestrial life. The team has submitted the analysis paper, which they hope will act as a “launch pad” for future investigations.
Breakthrough Listen has been gathering data with the Green Bank Radio Telescope in West Virginia, Lick Observatory’s Automated Planet Finder on Mt Hamilton in California and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, reported DailyMail.
The project, led by researchers based in California scans billions of radio channels in search for intelligent source outside our solar system.
The latest findings will be discussed at the Breakthrough Discuss conference tomorrow.
“With the submission of this paper, the first scientific results from Breakthrough Listen are now available for the world to review,” said Dr Andrew Siemion of BSRC. “Although the search has not yet detected a convincing signal from extraterrestrial intelligence, these are early days. The work that has been completed so far provides a launch pad for deeper and more comprehensive analysis to come,” he added.
A mean-looking alien on the attack in Ridley Scott’s upcoming prequel “Alien: Covenant.”
In 1979, Ridley Scott presented “Alien,” the first of six films in a seriesthat would continue into 2017. This science-fiction horror franchise has produced nearly 40 years of sequels and prequels, numerous books, toys and video games.
On May 19, the second prequel, “Alien: Covenant,” debuts under Scott’s direction, and not only is he promoting the film, he’s also ― very cleverly ― letting it be known that he thinks aliens really exist and we should fear them.
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Filmmaker Ridley Scott speaks on stage during AFI FEST 2015 on Nov. 11, 2015, in Hollywood, California.
“I believe in superior beings,” Scott, 79, told the international news agency Agence France-Presse. “I think it is certainly likely. An expert I was talking to at NASA said to me, ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it?’ That’s ridiculous.”
“The experts have now put a number on it, having assessed what is out there,” Scott continued. “They say that there are between 100 and 200 entities that could be having a similar evolution to us right now. So when you see a big thing in the sky, run for it!”
Here are some other astronomical numbers that can make your head figuratively explode like Scott’s aliens often explode out of the stomachs of their unfortunate human victims.
According to Space.com, astronomy experts estimate that there’s a range of “between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies” throughout the universe.
And those galactic numbers will most likely go up as newer, more powerful telescopes are built and sent into space to reach out to the cosmos.
Part of the magnitude of these numbers is the fact that typical galaxies have a lot of stars. Our Milky Way is home to about 300 billion stars, reports Sky & Telescope.
Just last week, three planet-hunters were included on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. One of those scientists, Natalie Batalha of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, made a mind-blowing statement that would probably cause Scott’s hair to stand on end.
She said, “You know, we look up in the sky and instead of seeing stars, we see other solar systems, because now we know that every star in the sky has at least one planet.”
Scott’s 1979 movie “Alien,” which started his entire franchise, had the tag line: “In space, no one can hear you scream.”
He told Agence France-Presse that earthlings would probably be better off if we show any aliens a little respect. “Because they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them, you will be taken out in three seconds.”
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From “Alien: Covenant,” an extraterrestrial is about to emerge from its comfortable pod to wreak havoc with the unlucky human visitors to its planet.
Scott certainly has aliens on his mind. He’s also listed as a producer for “Phoenix Forgotten,” a film that debuted in April and uses what are known as found-footage sequences to tell the story of events surrounding the appearance of mysterious lights over Phoenix in 1997.
It’s considered one of the most famous UFO sightings in history, primarily because so many people saw it. Though the military tried to explain it away as flares in the sky during an exercise over the city, there have been lingering doubts, especially from the man who was governor of Arizona at the time, Fife Symington.
One of the interesting things about “Phoenix Forgotten” is how remarkably similar it is on almost every level to another movie, “Phoenix Incident,” that came out a year ago. Both movies tell of groups of young people who vanished forever while trying to investigate the “flares” out in the desert.
Maybe Scott feels more comfortable presenting aliens on another planet.
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Filer’s Files #18 -2017 UFO Shot Down - PART I
Naperville, Illinois a suburb of Chicago on April 24, 2017.
Filer’s Files #18 -2017 UFO Shot Down - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: In special reports, this week’s files cover: French Minister of Defense UFOs Exist, Peru – Crashed UFO Was Likely Shot Down, India – Vimana UFOs Flew in 4,000 B.C., Dr. Bruce Cornet Reports, Mars Tree Stump, China Moves 150k Troops to North Korea Border
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Columbia, India, Philippines, 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.
George A. Filer III
New Jersey State Director
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Robert Galley, French Minister of Defense states, “I must say that if listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports coming in from the government’s airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of which reports are forwarded by us to the National Center for Space Studies, then they would see that it is all pretty disturbing.
I believe that the attitude of spirit that we must have is an open mind to vis-a-vis this phenomenon, that is to say that it doesn’t consist in denying a priori, as our ancestors of previous centuries did deny many things that seem nowadays perfectly elementary.” M. Robert Galley, French Minister of Defense, interviewed on radio by Jean-Claude Bourret, February 21, 1974.
Peru – Crashed UFO Was Likely Shot Down
Marine Corps Lance Corporal John Weygandt, who was part of the Disclosure Project, was sent to Peru in March 1997, to provide perimeter security for a radar installation that he was told tracked drug traffic aircraft in Peru and Bolivia. He states, “About midnight, while I was on guard duty, Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson told me, an aircraft crashed and they need us to go and secure the crash site.” Early that morning we drove six Hummers close to the crash site just when it started to get light. Well, we found the area real easy because there was a huge gash in the land where something had crashed. Everything was burned and it was like something had almost cut warm butter with a knife. It was like something on fire or had some kind of energy like a laser had cut it. It was really strange. I was in the front with Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson and we were ten or twenty meters ahead of everyone else. We were the first ones to see this thing. It had gone up the hill and then off in the side of the ravine and ridge. This was a 200-foot ridge, of solid rock. A huge craft was buried at a 45-degree angle in the side of the cliff there at the ridge.
The craft was dripping a greenish-purple syrup-like liquid. The liquid was everywhere and fluctuated like it was alive and changing to a different shade of greenish purple. The craft was humming like a bass guitar and had a slowly turning light. Most of the craft seemed buried into the cliff but vents, like a fish gill were on the back. The liquid got on my clothes and ate holes in them and burned off some the hair on my arms. There were three holes in the ship that may have been hatches that were not flush with the main body of the craft. There was another hatch the same width and diameter of the top hatch and it was kind of crooked to the side and it was half open. I didn’t see any lights or anything coming out of it but I felt this… presence. It is real strange. I think the creatures calmed me. It was weird and I think they were trying to communicate with me, telepathically. The Corporal estimated the craft was ten meters in width and about 20 meters in length and shaped like something between an egg and a teardrop. The skin of the craft had bumps and notches and appendages on it. It was really organic and almost like art. It looked like something that could be made in a shop. It looked like it could have been handmade but out of what materials I do not know. It was definitely nothing like titanium. It looked like metal but there was no reflection. The sun was shining on it and I could see the different shades of the craft and it didn’t reflect anything. Suddenly the Sergeants were yelling at me to get the hell out of there.
After we climbed back up, the Department of Energy people were there. I was arrested and cuffed, both hands down. I had all my gear taken from me by men in black cammies who threatened me and subdued me and put me on a cot. They had no name tags. At the crash site there were about thirty of these guys wearing hazard suits.
I had been told aircraft were flying in and out of the atmosphere at mach ten plus. When you have objects that reenter the atmosphere and then stop on a dime and then turn around and go exactly the opposite direction – that is kind of strange. Meteors don’t do that. The craft was not from Earth. I knew that when I looked at it. I wondered if those facilities were built for the intent to track UFO’s and their cover was to track drug aircraft. They had laser range finders and all kinds of high tech stuff that I have never seen before. I couldn’t really explain it. They [the laser range finders] that looked like big telescopes and some sort of Command Center manned by a multi –national force. So these craft were tracked from this particular radar and were logged. I’m confident that when I saw the aircraft, it had been hit by something, perhaps by a Patriot Missile System or laser weapons. Something had taken it out.
Editor’s Note: Corporal Weygandt described a craft damaged by enemy action, either ours or an opposing alien force. His testimony on Page 274 of “Disclosure: Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets” by Steven Greer M.D. is excellent and indicates lethal deadly force was being used against alien intruders during the Clinton Administration. We can assume this war continues.
India – Vimana UFOs Flew in 4,000 B.C.
According to Dr. V. Raghavan, retired head of the Sanskrit department of India’s prestigious University of Madras, contends that centuries-old documents in Sanskrit (the classical language of India and Hinduism) prove that aliens from outer space visited his nation. “Fifty years of researching this ancient works convinces me that there are livings beings on other planets, and that they visited earth as far back as 4,000 B.C.” The scholar says. “There is a just a mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science fiction weapons, that can be found in translations of the Vedas scriptures, Indian epics, and other ancient Sanskrit text.”
“In the Mahabharata (writings), there is notion of divine lighting and ray weapons, even a kind of hypnotic weapon. And in the Ramayana writings, there is a description of Vimanas or flying machines that navigated at great heights with the aid of quicksilver and a great propulsive wind. “These were space vehicles similar to the so-called flying saucers reported throughout the world today. The Ramayana even describes a beautiful chariot which ‘arrived shining, a wonderful divine car that sped through the air’. In another passage, there is mention of a chariot being seen ‘sailing overhead like a moon.’
“The references in the Mahabharata are no less astounding: 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 (science of aeronautics), there is a description of a Vimana: “An apparatus which can go by its own force, from one place to place o globe to globe.”
Photo courtesy of Commander Graham Bethune.
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: “But only three of them are known to us today. The rest remain untranslatable.” Thanks to the India Daily.
Contact in the Desert
Moon Disc
As an attempted cure for insomnia I have been photographing Jupiter which is extremely bright in the night sky. It is actually the brightest object next to the moon. Last week while photographing the moon April 17, 2017, I obtained something strange. I usually do three shot bursts (like the military) but in photography it’s called bracketing. #82 contains the object – a small dot in the center. The blow up seems to show a disk like object similar to speculated “space planes”. The color of purple similar to Jupiter’s moons located 480 million miles away. I don’t think this is a bug – we have had very few insects recently during the day and this was at 2:00 AM. Regards Robert M Stiles
Temple of Karnak, Egypt
There is an overwhelming about of evidence that some ancient Egyptian leaders were aliens, and the tomb of Senmut and the astronomical signs are further proof. If we had to build the ancient pyramid today, it would never get built. The blocks were too big, and the seams between them were too perfectly sealed without cement, not to mention even with today’s technology, this would be an almost impossible task. Scott C. Waring
In the tomb of Senmut, the architect of Queen Hatshepsut, a panel of the ceiling represents the celestial sphere, the signs of the zodiac, and the other constellations, with an inverted orientation of the southern part of the firmament (1). Senmut supervised the quarrying, transport, and erection of twin obelisks, at the time the tallest in the world, at the entrance to the Temple of Karnak. Senmut, was a Grand Vizire, architect, and chief of the national and religious calendar, He was the mightiest person in Egypt next to Pharaoh
A characteristic feature of the Senmot ceiling is the astronomically false orientation of the South panel. The center of this panel is occupied by the Orion-Sirius group, in which Orion appears to the west of Sirius, instead of being to the East as it might be seen from a different planet. It appears that at the time the cosmic map was created the stars were positioned in a different perspective. Many believe that it’s because an Earthly catastrophe that happened 12.000 years ago, which caused a change in inclination of the ecliptic plane. The mystery of the cosmic ceiling of the tomb of Senmut! http://www.disclose.tv/news/
Bruce Cornet Reports
Ellen Crystall, three other watchers, and I chased this Boeing 707-shaped craft down country roads at 60 mph, and caught up to it. It stopped, hovered, turned 180 degrees “on a dime,” and then flew back over us. A full Moon behind cloud cover produced a silver-screen effect, and we could make out its shape clearly well below the clouds.
A couple months later, that same airplane-like craft met me on my way home before sunset, and followed me home. It flew below 200 feet above ground at highway speeds.
The crafts occupant’s singled out Cornet for its performance, and allowed Cornet to photograph it so many times, indicates both intent and purpose. The military mindset does not include parading its top secret or new and advanced technologies before the public, let alone before an unsecured camera. Consequently, either this performance was for the purpose of a covert human experiment with a strong psychological objective or it was an overt non-human experiment with a strong awareness objective. The first explanation is easier for skeptics to accept, even if it is not strongly supported by the evidence. Whatever followed Cornet home that evening was not
a standard Boeing 707. The fact that it flashed its headlights and flew in front of Cornet seven times that evening certainly qualifies Cornet as the target of this performance. The energy patterns on its belly and the loops it performed before his camera indicate an exotic form of propulsion and lift. Its slow speed indicates that this AOP did not require wings to fly. Thus, its resemblance to a Boeing aircraft either indicates that this was an experimental aircraft using a new type of propulsion system, or that its resemblance was intended as camouflage or for deception.
: 23 June 1992. Time: 11:12 pm. Place: West Searsville Road next to the Wilde farm, northwest of Montgomery, NY. Witnesses: Bruce Cornet and five other people. On that night they witnessed a cigar-shaped craft possessing multicolored lights rising slowly and silently to the west of their location. This B&W photograph is the first of two taken of this AOP (Anomalistic Observational Phenomena) before it unfolded wings and turned on sound like that of a conventional jet.
Figure 3 the second of two time exposures showing the lights on a cigar-shaped AOP as wings unfolded, they moved apart, and the sound of a conventional jet was heard for the first time. The group of witnesses then jumped into their cars and gave chase down country roads, and caught up to this AOP after it stopped and hovered, apparently waiting for them. As they watched, this object, which now resembled an all black Boeing 707 without engines, swiveled around and flew over them back in the direction it came.
Was this the same AOP that followed Cornet home? These were the only two days Cornet saw this all black AOP that resembled a Boeing 707: Once on 23 June 1992 and again (seven times) on 24 September 1992.
Bruce was the Deputy Administrator of NIDs.
NIDS came out with a report leaning in favor of Black Triangles as being our military hardware. Bruce took reports on the phone of people seeing Black Triangles (BT) taking off from Naval and other military air bases. The Administrator Dr. Colm Kellener had made a map using only the NIDS database, and a statistically high percentage of BT sightings occurred between Air Force Bases. So he concluded that BTs are our technology.
But he needed to test his theory, and convinced Bigelow to purchase the Hatch and MUFON databases. When those data were included, a completely different picture emerged. At the May 2004 SSE Convention in Las Vegas, he gave a talk on his new results. He said the composite map falsified his original theory, and showed that BTs were too widespread to be only military craft. He even suggested we might be witnessing the First Wave of an alien invasion.
If you look at the attached graph, with the addition of the NUFORC database, it shows a rapid increase in BT sightings between 1997 and 2003, while sightings around Pine Bush N.Y. declined.
But since then other types of UFOs have been seen, and Filer’s Files indicate a significant increase in disc-shaped UFOs. So, is the BT threat over? I don’t know. Perhaps if the frequency of BTs during the first four years of the Millennium was part of a military experiment to see how people would react. Then their frequency dropped, because the experiment was over?
A friend at JPL tells me that the Secret Space Program (SSP) is real and has a budget dozens of times larger than that of NASA and JPL combined. He says there has been exponential progress in vehicular technology in the last 20 years. Could this in part explain our burgeoning National debt since 2000?
Question becomes: How much of the exponential rise in BT sightings is due to this technology, and why would black projects be surveying US cities and major highways (populated areas) using these platforms? Couldn’t the Intelligence Community do this the conventional way?
Examine the attached NIDS map and graph showing rapid increase in sightings since the Belgian encounters in 1989-1990.
So, if this is our technology, why was I given so many personal demonstrations between 1992 and 1997? Is the objective to convince people this new technology is not ours? Will our national adversaries buy that concept and deception also?
If this steady and dramatic increase in sightings since 1992 is because of our Visitors, what would be their objective or intent? Dr. Colm Kelleher (Administrator of NIDS) said at the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) convention in May 2004 in Las Vegas that this could be the first wave of an alien invasion. Might you agree? I don’t know what to think, but your contribution to documenting sightings around the country and world is very important. Keep up your efforts. I will help you however I can. Cheers, Bruce Cornet
Mars Tree Stump on Right
: Paranormal Crucible makes a hypothesis that this could be an ancient tree stump on Mars photographed April 2017. It’s a good assumption since NASA themselves said Mars was Earth-like when a solar explosion hit the planet, striping the atmosphere and oceans from its surface. Thanks to Scott C. Waring
Paranormal Crucible states: Intriguing object found by the curiosity rover, this time a possible tree stump. This object definitely looks out of place and in my opinion could be the petrified remnants of a Martian tree. Object is around 3 feet in height, and with numerous discoveries of plant and animal life on mars, it would be logical to assume, that a variety of tree either existed, or still exists on this enigmatic planet. Source NASA photo:
China Moves 150k Troops to North Korea Border
The North Korean propaganda outlet released a video showing a mock attack on the White House, declaring “the enemy to be destroyed is in our sights.” Images of the White House and aircraft carriers marked by cross hairs are shown in the 2½-minute video, released by the Meari, or Echo, website of North Korea.
It is not know how accurate the North Korean nuclear tipped missiles are and their range. Some intelligence indicates they could reach Hawaii or Alaska and hit the US carrier task force. The already precarious political situation surrounding the relationship between North Korea and the United States has once again become escalated, this time by China’s actions of moving 150,000 troops to the North Korean border.
The Chinese have stated that the move is in preparation for ‘unforeseen circumstances’, in other words in case a conflict breaks out between North Korea, and South Korea and the United States.
The question is whose side is China supporting in the possible conflict? Recent actions on both sides seem to suggest that a conflict is becoming inevitable, with China now adopting a new policy of economic sanctions against North Korea. Allegedly North Korean ships were turned back before arriving in China, worsening their isolation and economic problems further. While previous American regimes seemed happy to leave the Hermit nation to its isolation, Donald Trump seems more determined to remove the growing threat Kim Jong Un presents.
North Korean Anti-ship Missiles
This more aggressive and less tolerant stance from American can seemingly only have two conclusions. Either North Korea will have to back down and stop antagonizing the West for the seemingly little gain to themselves, or there will eventually be a conflict of some sort. The troops moving towards the border with China, anti-missile defense systems being transported into South Korea and warships being redeployed closer to the peninsula from the United States are all signs of the latter. North Korea would almost certainly be annihilated if they were ever to start a war with the US and South Korea. In a war artillery aimed at Seoul could cause heavy destruction
The United States and South Korea similarly have nothing to gain from a war with the North. http://www.disclose.tv/news/escalation_china_deploys_150000_troops_to_north_korean_border/138505
David Twichell We Are Not Alone.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, passed away on February 4, 2016. We were fortunate to have had him on this show on October 5, 2016. In honor of Dr. Mitchell, that interview will be re-aired on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 from 1-2 PM. Dr. Mitchell recounts his historic moon walk, family history and we are not alone in the universe. Remember after the broadcast this show is available as a podcast. Go to http://whfr.fm/: click on Talk Shows–Tuesday Forum–(select date).
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Filer’s Files #18 -2017 UFO Shot Down - PART II
Filer’s Files #18 -2017 UFO Shot Down - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arkansas Object
Pine Bluff– I was flying a drone and having difficulty getting it to land the more try to get it to land. It flew higher until the battery died and it crashed. When I reviewed the footage I was recording I noticed a black dot in the sky in front of the sun. I also mounted camera upside down so you’ll see the footage upside down. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Lake Havasu City— Orb appeared in photo as I was taking photo of the saucer shaped cloud. The orb was in one of four pictures taken within 5 seconds on September 12, 2016. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Cylinder
Fowler –, I don’t remember the exact date when I took this photo. It could’ve been either in 2013 or 2014 at 2 pm. I took the photo with my Nikon D50 of very large dark clouds over my home. I did not see the very large transparent object when taking a photo.
Only afterwards looking through my photos that I saw it. I did not hear any sound. I have witnessed more unexplained objects in Fowler than anywhere else. I noticed on the ends of this object are pale green and pink. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Anaheim — I was laying in my yard with my dog on Friday, April 20, 2017 about 3:30 pm and saw a thin contrail; I sensed its aircraft due to my training in the Army as an anti-aircraft gunner. I began to film a unique contrail I had seen once before many years ago. I had read in Popular Mechanics about a contrail left by an unknown aircraft, but most likely a new spy plane. They call the contrails “Donuts on a rope” due to a new propulsion system.
I believe alien technology is used for this plane. It may even fly to space; I was told it sure was high in the air when I saw this. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Delaware Lights
On April 4, 2017, outside I saw blinking drones that changed from three lights to multiple lights.
It looked like the lights were reflected by multiple mirrors (but you can see through it somehow), like gravitational lensing.
It just moved for one minute and then the lights turned off and it was gone. Nothing moved much as it was like in the old Predator movie.
I was Googling a drone show around this place, but nothing.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Cube
Hialeah— Large cube shaped ufo, much larger than a 777 by size comparison. It was hovering at first and fluctuating in various colors. I took footage of it in zoom on February 19, 2017. 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 skyscraper with several windows. I’m attaching the original video and the enlarged image taken from the second video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Objects
Naperville — I was sitting in my car about to go into the office I work at in a suburb of Chicago on April 24, 2017.
When I noticed a bright reflection coming from an object in the sky, I noticed it moving oddly as if it was tumbling end to end. It didn’t seem to be falling, but flying on a relaxed heading.
Didn’t seem to be moving quickly, but it’s hard to tell as I couldn’t determine its size or proximity. I thought it was odd so I quickly pulled out my iPhone 7 and took a photo burst. It then moved out of view behind some foliage. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Chicago — I was working my shift at O’Hare Airport and was recording a plane because it had my name across it on April 17, 2017. Then I noticed something flying above the plane in a hovering manner, so I zoomed in on the flying object. It looked like a dark orb but the way it was flying was abnormal for anything in the vicinity of the airport. I worked there for three years and have taken many videos and pictures of planes and the sky and never have seen anything like it. I would have kept recording but I had to assist a passenger. I was recording through a window but the window was clear so it is not a window smear. It is flying in the sky doing its own thing. I’ve asked allot of pilots for their opinion and they said it looks unexplainable. When I went back to record more it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Flying Object
Kauai—I was filming the valley using my phone.
I observed an object flying from waterfall through line of sight.
I did not notice anything until I viewed video.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Light
Hudson River— I was passing by to see the Statue of Liberty. 2. Later on looking at the picture I noticed a bright light with object on top. 3. Thought it could definitely be a UFO. 4. I can’t describe the object and how it behaved because I notice on the picture. 5. I felt like this is a good opportunity to see I actually snapped a real UFO. 6. I never had sight of it, and didn’t notice until reviewing my pictures.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Disc
Boston— While driving north on Route 93 heading towards Boston just beyond the LNG gas tanks in Dorchester, I looked up at one of the skyscrapers. I noticed a large square/rectangular object hovering off to the left of it. It was 9:30 am, and traffic was moving slowly over Route 93. I had witnessed something similar in 2013, in the same general area. I got a picture of it this time. It appeared to be pewter colored and dull. It seemed to hover for a bit then slowly starts to move towards the east. I eventually lost sight of it when I entered the tip O’Neal tunnel. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Oval Shape
Lakehurst Naval Base — I was coming home from work on a December night in 2014. At the end of this one long hilly road, you come to a four way stop. 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. 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. It was a similar to the Phoenix lights but the oval shape was more pronounced. The ring or halo of lights were almost tilted on and angle. The lights lit up in a row. Slowly around the oval and 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. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Orbs
Asheville — In early February I watched the documentary “Man cursed with Seeing UFOs” starring Christo Roppolo. I could not get it out of my mind how in the movie he used prime number signaling to summon craft and intelligent entities. I thought this was so farfetched yet instinctively knew that there was in fact something to it. Two nights later on February 24, 2017 at around 9:45 pm something or some feeling made me pop up off the couch, grab my phone and head outside to try and signal some UFOs
I used my bright screen to signal two times and two UFO orbs started signaling back to me or so it seemed. What I would describe as two bilateral, white light emitting orb shaped UFOs signaling light sequences and alternating between being stationary and moving across the sky at different speeds and in different random directions. Eventually after filming them for almost 5 minutes and my phone being completely drained, they flew off in separate directions. What I witnessed very much resembled the light emitting UFOs which I have seen others post on Youtube.
The two orbs of light that I saw looked almost like eyeballs looking at me and they communicated with me. I felt this message was sent to me, “We are here and have been for a long time. Everything matters. Do not fear us. Keep learning, have patience, teach others, practice unconditional love.” I have found these same light emitting orbs documented hundreds of times with video on Youtube. I see clearly that our society is moving forward as fast as possible regarding what is revealed to us about extraterrestrial life. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Cylinder
Denton — I have witnessed and reported similar lights before. A dull light shaped sort of like a cigar first caught my attention on April 24, 2017. I wasn’t sure if I was looking at a plane leaving a trail, so I began to photograph it, and after uploading the photos to my computer I could see that there were three lights at first, and they eventually disappeared. It was getting dark, and I didn’t have a tripod, so many of the photos were out of focus. I did manage to get a few decent photos. Power lines were present and I feel that the lights were much further than the power lines, but I can’t be positive about that. A short time later, two other lights appeared. I took video of the two lights and one light was traveling slowly and appeared to go through a power line, but that could have been because I was in full zoom and the camera was shaky and it may have made the light appear to do so. I had my camera set to photograph in RAW which I hoped would have captured good detail, but the lights seemed faraway and the photos were not of the greatest quality. Even still, I believe that you can see that it is not an airplane, and in my opinion the lights didn’t seem close to the power lines, but again I can’t be sure. I contradict myself in saying that in viewing the video, the lights appear to be right at the power lines, but if that is the case the lights are a big as the power line are thick. I have converted the RAW files to jpeg.
West Virginia Light
I already reported this. I wanted to add the photos plus I reported after midnight on my report so I got the date wrong.
It was approx 10:30 on April 21, 2017.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia
Sydney — Just taken these sunset photos while on a ferry home on April 29, 2017. The strange thing is a white object in the sky above the bridge. On my last photo it is no longer there. The moon is off to the top right.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Objects
Grimsby — Object observed in the southeast at an elevation close to 10k-20k feet above ground. Object appeared to be hovering with egg shaped object. I observed the object from my ground floor and then moved upstairs to take photographs. I only took one picture. When I looked at it I phoned Police to ask if they had any objects reported in the area. The object was hovering below the clouds and was flying on jet airways from Hamilton International. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Clearland – 1 was home with my daughter 2. I look at the sky allot 3. I saw a ufo as I am a believer 4. It was having a fun time doing zigzags all over the sky. It was nice to watch if you go on Youtube you can find it on there. ufo Nova Scotia/Sara Hubley. 5. I was amazed at the way it could move around like it did. 6. It just went away on February 3, 2012.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Columbia Orb
Bogata— I was with my wife on the terrace of a building during a nice sunset on March 24, 2017, and so I decided to take a picture with my iPhone 6. When I was ready to take the picture I saw a commercial jet (type Airbus 330 or 340) just taking off from El Dorado airport. Since I love planes I decided to take a sequence hoping to get a nice one of the aircraft. The view was not very clear because of the glare from the sunset and the presence of a huge grey cloud, but between pictures I noticed a bright light moving close to the airplane. I zoomed with my phone and did three more shots before seeing the object disappear towards the sunset and behind the clouds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Philippines Cloud
Pagadian City, Zamboanga — This UFO was recorded by Anne Elle Salikala of Facebook, who personally witnesses the glowing iridescent UFO hovering over a cloud near her home. The colors are scientifically impossible for them to occur in clouds; however for a cloaked UFO it’s very possible. As a matter of fact, I once saw a tiny baseball size UFO just two meters from me with the exact same colors, so I know firsthand. The easiest and most relaxing way a UFO can come close to a human community is by making itself appear as a cloud. This is a magnificent alien craft we are looking at here. Scott C. Waring News source:
Spain
UFO Seen from Passenger Jet
This long dark object was seen poking through a cloud 4,000 feet up in the air in April 2017. It may be a beam or transporter that is sending down supplies into an underwater base and the UFO may be hidden in the clouds above it. These lucky passengers got to see it, even if it’s only for a few seconds. It’s enough to change how you see the world. Not only are we not alone on Earth, we have never been alone on this planet. Aliens have lived here in secluded areas below the surface for over 10,000 years. Scott C. Waring
Video states: If you see some strange things flying in the air while traveling in an airplane, “what questions will arise in your mind? A similar incident has happened recently, in fact, whenever a person travels in air, he sees the beautiful scenes of the sky window, but have you ever thought that, if you were in Hawaii If you see something different from the outside of the ship’s window, how would you feel? In an airplane from Spain to England, a passenger got to see something similar, which he was able to see. In fact, this passenger had seen a pillar blown between the clouds. Due to which she got a little nervous, but only after she was caught, she caught that scene in her camera soon. Many people say that, in fact, this is the warning light from the oil terminal, so some people say that it can be a scratched in the seat window. This passenger says that on seeing from four thousand feet, this hammer looked like a big pillar of iron.
UK/England Sphere
Newton Abbot, Devon — I was sky watching when I spotted a passenger plane approaching on September 21, 2014.. As it flew past I noticed a flying saucer fly up to the back of the passenger plane and make physical contact with the tail section. It then gave the plane a nudge before flying off at an incredible rate of speed at 1:26 PM GMT. The pilot must have felt the nudge and probably thought it was air turbulence. I could not believe what I had just witnessed through the viewfinder of my Sony camera. Luckily I had managed to take two photographs. In the first photograph you can clearly see the flying saucer near the tail section of the plane and in the second photograph you can clearly see that the flying saucer is gone. It definitely looks like a classic flying saucer. I have seen this UFOs get pretty close to commercial aircraft before but never hit an aircraft until I had witnessed this event. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Newton Abbot — It was the early hours of the morning 1:20 AM, on June 26, 2016. I looked out the kitchen window and saw a bright object hanging above a nearby housing estate. I ran and got my Nikon P900 Camera and open the window and looking through the viewfinder I zoomed in and I could see the object clearly. The object was definitely not any type of known aircraft. The large object was glowing bright orange and had a white pulsing light on the top left side. The object hung there silently over the housing. After a while a tube began to extend from the middle of the object and when it was fully extended it glowed with a yellowish tinge. While making my observations I had been taking photographs and managed to capture the strange unknown object. I then felt tired and closed the kitchen window and put the camera on the side and went to bed. In the morning I was confused to why I had gone bed. Why didn’t I take more photographs why did I go to bed? The photograph was taken 26 June 2016, 1:27 AM GMT at Newton Abbot Devon England. Check out the photograph below.
Devon— I have had a lot of sightings at the Teign Estuary lately so I went back to sky watch there again on April 10, 2017.
. Then after hours of sky watching all of a sudden two orange and yellow orbs emerged from the clouds that were right above me.
I quickly took a photograph and managed to capture the two amazing orbs just before they went back into the clouds. I had previously photographed these orange and yellow orbs on April 2nd at 20:39 PM at Newton Abbot. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Exmouth — I spotted a Cigar shaped UFO over Dawlish Warren on April 11, 2017. The cigar shaped UFO was hovering quite low over the beach. I quickly took a Photograph of the cigar shaped UFO before it ascended up into the sky and started to move away.
When the cigar shaped UFO was higher in the sky I took another photograph. The cigar shaped UFO then appeared to bend and flew off at an incredible speed. There were a lot of people about but none of them seemed to see this object. It was very strange. The Photographs were taken on the 11th of April 2015, 3:40 PM GMT at Exmouth Devon England.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The search for life in the Universe takes many paths. There’s SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which is searching for signals from a distant ancient civilization. There’s the exploration of our own Solar System, on Mars, or underneath the subsurface oceans of Europa and Enceladus, to see if life can be anywhere there’s liquid water and a source of energy. And upcoming space telescopes like James Webb will attempt to directly image the atmospheres of distant extrasolar planets, to see if they contain the distinct chemical signatures of life.
But according to Jason Wright, an astronomer at the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds at Penn State University, we could consider searching for evidence of ancient civilizations right here on Earth, or across the Solar System. Don’t get excited, though, so far “there is zero evidence for prior indigenous species in the Solar System.”
Artist’s impression of the terraforming of Mars, from its current state to a livable world.
Credit: Daein Ballard
In a paper, recently submitted to the arXiv electronic preprint archive entitled Prior Indigenous Technological Species, Dr. Wright describes how we might go about searching for the technological artifacts left behind by ancient civilizations that have evolved in the Solar System. Perhaps on an ancient, cooler Venus, or on Mars in a time when it was wetter and had a thicker atmosphere. Those civilizations could have arisen millions or even billions of years ago, destroyed themselves or left the Solar System, and only ancient traces of their culture and technology would still be around.
If a civilization had reached a high level of technology, where did it go? Wright suggests a variety of catastrophes, like a swarm of comets, self destruction, or even a nearby supernova explosion that irradiated the whole Solar System with high energy gamma rays. Even without a specific event, a civilization might have simply just died out, or became permanently non-technological. Of course, these possibilities face our own human civilization. It’s hard to read the paper and not consider the fate of humanity. Will future aliens search for scraps to learn about us?
Where should we look? According to Wright, Earth is the obvious, most habitable place in the Solar System, and it’ll be the easiest to search. Humans have dramatically changed the landscape of Earth. Our open pit mines, for example, are a clear indication that an intelligent species dug out a specific mineral from the ground. These might be obvious for millions of years, but over the course of billions of years, plate tectonics will have recycled those regions, absorbing the evidence back into the ground. Radioactive isotopes from ancient nuclear reactors, or fossils of ancient beings will have about the same lifespan. Beyond a few hundred million years, the Earth itself would have completely obscured any evidence of a technological civilization.
Inhospitable surface of Venus. Credit: Magellan
Venus is inhospitable today, but it might not have always been the case. Billions of years in the past, when the Sun was cooler, it might have had a thinner atmosphere and milder temperatures. It’s worth searching. That said, it appears that Venus has gone through major geological resurfacing events, where the entire planet’s surface turned inside out. Venus could easily hide its secrets.
Scientists are accumulating more and more evidence that Mars was warmer and wetter in the past, with eras when liquid water could exist on the surface for long periods of time. And unlike Earth and Venus, it doesn’t have active plate tectonics. Landscapes on the surface have remained there for billions of years. Well, okay, they’ve been pounded by meteorites, but they’re still there.
What should we be looking for? One idea is technological structures: ancient mining facilities, factories, even cities. On Mars, these structures could get covered by dust or worn down by erosion, so it’s entirely possible our space-based observations could have missed them. Even structures on asteroids and the Moon get eroded by micrometeorites wearing them down. Over the course of millions years, an ancient factory would look very similar to a small rocky outcrop. The real evidence could be hidden underground, safely protected from the surface erosion. We need more rovers and orbiters with ground penetrating radar to see below the surface.
The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment placed on the Moon by the Apollo 14 astronauts.
Credit: NASA
There could be free-floating objects in the Solar System, like ancient space stations. Of course, if they’ve been abandoned long ago, they wouldn’t be functional, and that same micrometeorite erosion would have worn them down over the vast timescales. Furthermore, their orbits might not be stable, and could eventually crash into another world, or get kicked out of the Solar System entirely. Space stations out in the Kuiper Belt would be subject to less erosion, and better preserved over vast timescales. We need better telescopes and deeper surveys to answer this question.
The bottom line is that Dr. Wright doesn’t conclude there’s any evidence for ancient civilizations in the Solar System so far. But the reality is that we’ve only just begun to look. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which contains the most powerful telescope to ever travel away from the Earth has only mapped a few percent of the Martian surface at its highest resolution. Astronomers have only mapped a tiny fraction of the asteroids and comets zipping around the Solar System. And we’ve only had single glimpses at places in the outer Solar System, like Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
There’s so much more searching that needs to be done. But while we’re at it, we should keep an eye out for ancient civilizations. If we did find an old factory, space station, or even the dumping ground of a precursor species, it would be a boon to our knowledge.
And might just give us a warning; advanced knowledge of what the future holds for our own civilization.
Did Intelligent Space Aliens Once Live in Our Solar System?
Did Intelligent Space Aliens Once Live in Our Solar System?
by DAVID FREEMAN
A respected scientist says that if the existence of a home-grown intelligent alien species has never been established, it's never been ruled out either.
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Was our solar system once home to an advanced civilization other than our own — perhaps one that predated humanity by hundreds of millions of years before being wiped out by an asteroid impact or some other cataclysm?
There's no evidence for such a pre-human indigenous technological species, though people have been speculating about one since ancient times. But a respected space scientist points out in a provocative new paper that if the existence of home-grown intelligent space aliens has never been established, it's never been ruled out either.
And if a race of smart and perhaps spacefaring aliens did make their home in our solar system, traces of their lost civilization might still be out there somewhere in the system just waiting for us to find them.
At least that's what the scientist, Penn State astrophysicist Dr. Jason T. Wright, argues in the paper, "Prior Indigenous Technological Species." The paper was posted on the online research archive ArXiv on April 24, 2017.
What sorts of traces does Wright have in mind? He's not saying we might dig up aliens' fossilized bones. Rather, he's talking about "technosignatures." The term encompasses a range of possible artifacts, including archaeological ruins and old mining operations as well as synthetic chemicals or nuclear isotopes that could have been created only by technological processes.
Wright argues that if a prior indigenous technological species did exist in our solar system, it might have arisen on Earth or a "pre-greenhouse" Venus, or on Mars when it still had flowing water.
NASA Discovers Four New Exoplanets That Could Possibly Sustain Life
But we're unlikely to find any artifacts from this species on Earth, he says, because surface erosion and the shifting tectonic plates on our planet would probably have erased them long ago (or changed them so dramatically that we might not recognize them as products of technology).
Similarly, any artifacts left on Venus would probably have been destroyed long ago by the planet's harsh atmosphere or the violent "resurfacing" the planet underwent hundreds of millions of years ago.
If any technosignatures were left on Mars, however, Wright believes they might still exist. But given the red planet's thick dust, he writes that "it is unlikely that artifacts might be obvious from space imagery, or even from the sort of shallow probing performed by the various Martian rovers."
In other words, just because the orbiters and rovers we've sent to Mars haven't turned up any technosignatures doesn't mean they're not there. They might simply be lying deep under the surface.
Other places to look for technosignatures include our moon (again, probably under the surface) and the rocky moons and asteroids of the outer solar system. And as Wright told NBC News MACH in an email, there might even be "large structures free-floating in space" — some sort of space stations left over from this hypothetical civilization.
What do other experts make of Wright's ideas?
Dr. Paul Horowitz, a research professor of physics and electrical engineering at Harvard University and a noted expert on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), praised the paper as "very nice" but cast doubt on the notion that our solar system might have been home to the kind of species Wright discusses.
"If I had to guess, I'd say it's highly unlikely, but not impossible, that an ancient civilization existed — probably even more unlikely we'll ever find evidence," Horowitz told MACH in an email.
In a separate email to MACH, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson called Wright's ideas "intriguing," but added with a measure of understatement that efforts to confirm the existence of another home-grown technological species would "require substantial upticks in our space exploration budgets."
Wright himself isn't actually calling for a massive new effort to look for evidence of the hypothetical species. But he does hope his paper has an impact on the way scientists think about the possibility of ancient intelligent life in our neck of the cosmic woods.
"I'd like people who think about ancient Earth — archaeologists and paleontologists — to consider how we can rule out a prior indigenous technological species," he said. "Before what [geologic] time are we sure that there was no complex life, no technology, on the surface of the Earth? I feel that planetary scientists can tell us how old the surfaces of Venus and Mars are, and how long artifacts should last."
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Why Our Plans to Colonize the Universe Haven't Come to Fruition (Yet)
Experts believe three UFOs spotted in the sky could be a sign of an invisible alien spaceship moving above us.
Footage shows three orbs of light moving in formation, which experts believe could be the three corners of a triangular-shaped spaceship.
The UFOs in the clip, shared by experts at Secure Team 10 in America, start as small dots but soon become brighter.
The footage was filmed in Kentucky in the USA and sent in for analysis.
The three objects were spotted in a triangle formation
Tyler from Secure Team said: "This was captured on a night vision camera of three distinct objects moving in a perfect triangular formation, orbiting the planet it would seem."
He adds: "This is an amazing sighting, we see that these three objects, and I've watched this entire clip, these things stay locked into their position.
Experts believe there are more UFOs hiding in the sky in plain sight
"If you watch closely there are a couple of other UFOs moving in other directions.
"These UFOs are not able to be seen with the naked eye.
"It is only once you use these specialty devices that can actually detect things in this specific light, we start to realise just how many of these unknown objects are sitting above us in plain sight.
"And you would only know were there if you had some of these night vision goggles or tech."
“ The Hammer ” Supercomputer Deep State’s Secret Weapon Exposed
“ The Hammer ” Supercomputer Deep State’s Secret Weapon Exposed
The American Scandal Of The Millennium That Will Not Go Away
WiretapGate’s First Victims:
U.S. Intelligence Community,
the Mainstream Media,
and Democratic Party
The systematic criminal misuse of a heretofore secret supercomputer administered by the “national security state” has revealed several instances of treason in high places and sedition in low ones.
President Trump’s allegation that the Obama Administration was wiretapping him is not only supported by Montgomery’s whistleblower revelations about Brennan’s and Clapper’s computer system THE HAMMER, but also by statements made this week by William Binney, a former NSA Technical Director of the World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group, by former CIA and State Department official Larry Johnson, and by Montgomery’s attorney Larry Klayman.
Computer expert Dennis Montgomery developed software programs that could breach secure computer systems and collect massive amounts of data.
That system, THE HAMMER, according to the audio tapes, accessed the phone calls, emails and bank accounts of millions of ordinary Americans.
The tapes also reveal that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court (FISA), Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, 156 other judges, members of Congress, and Donald J. Trump were targeted by the HAMMER.
One of the audio tapes made public by Federal Judge G. Murray Snow revealed that Brennan and Clapper particularly targeted and wiretapped Donald Trump a “zillion times.”
Truly, it doesn’t get any bigger than WiretapGate. This is the BIG one we’ve all been waiting for.
Yes, Pizzagate is much more radioactive, as is the much larger Pedogate. However, it’s clear that those two ongoing scandals will never break out into the MSM (mainstream media) — AS A SERIOUS NEWS STORY — until WiretapGate first explodes the Global Control Matrix.
The Global Control Matrix is both the overarching superstructure and hidden infrastructure by which the countless agents of Deep State execute their myriad schemes to maintain planetary command and control.
You see, such a multi-millennial conspiratorial plot really all comes down to intel. Especially good intel. Because whoever controls the flow of the intelligence worldwide effectively controls the world. Hence, the 17 intelligence agencies, which make up the U.S. Intelligence Community, always determine who the real king is, as well as who the kingmakers are. Actually, it is those who control the intel chiefs who pick the kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers around the world.
3 Pillars of Deep State
With this critical understanding, it ought to be clear that there is an epic war going on between the Trump Administration and Deep State. Deep State‘s three primary pillars are currently under massive assault by the Trump wrecking crew. The Company, as the C.I.A. is widely known in intelligence circles, as well as the NSA, are right in the crosshairs of Trump’s closest advisors. So are the MSM (Mainstream Media) and the FED (Federal Reserve System).
The sides of this war are not totally black and white. There are surely some white hats operating in the intelligence community, although the majority is likely wearing dark hats. That’s because they have all been ponerized over several decades. Likewise, there are undoubtedly an unknown number of dark hats furtively working inside of Team Trump.
Nevertheless, the general conflict which defines this intensifying “War of the Titans” clearly pits the globalist entity known as Deep State against the nationalistic patriot movement many call the “Trump Movement”. This war is quite global because the seeds of nationalist-driven revolutions have been sprouting across the Earth realm throughout this decade. Brexit and Grexit, Frexit and Nexit are just a few examples of this citizen’s liberation impulse manifesting worldwide, as was the election of Donald Trump.
Trump had no choice but to blow up WiretapGate
Because Deep State has refused to allow Donald Trump to govern as POTUS, much less carry out his several mandates, he was forced to expose WiretapGate. Had he chosen not to, his administration would have suffered death by a thousand cuts…as it is currently with the dramatic crash and burn of Ryancare.
Because there was such justifiable mutual suspicion between the spooks and the Trumpsters, the relationship got off to an extremely rocky start, as it was destined to. After all, the C.I.A. did everything in its power to seal a victory for the career arch-criminal and inveterate globalist Hillary Clinton. She was Deep State’s selected heir to the treasonous Barack Hussein Obama, who was just as certain to give the C.I.A. everything it ever wanted like BHO did.
Key Point:The C.I.A., together with the MSM and the FED, form the very backbone of Deep State. This triad has many functions but its essential task, which is assigned by the World Shadow Government (WSG), is the efficient maintenance of the perpetual war economy. To do that effectively the WSG must exercise strict control over all agents of Deep State, especially those who are in key positions of political power. Hence, the 17 intelligence agencies, working in concert with the major MSM news outlets, keep the politicians, key appointees and other government officials in check. The FED is also used to exert financial pressure as needed to produce specific political and economic outcomes.
“The Hammer” Supercomputer: Tool for CIA/NSA Sedition
As far as the primary intelligence tools are concerned, a top-secret supercomputer known as “The Hammer” is as good as it gets. This exceedingly powerful and unusually capable supercomputer is hidden away deep in the bowels of the Military-Industrial Complex. Until fairly recently no one even knew “The Hammer” existed, just as many other similar advanced IT technologies remain hidden. Because of how it’s routinely utilized by intel heads, there is very good reason why the “Masters of Intelligence” have kept “The Hammer” highly classified.
President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper and his Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Brennan oversaw a secret supercomputer system known as “THE HAMMER,” according to former NSA/CIA contractor-turned whistleblower Dennis Montgomery.
Clapper and Brennan were using the supercomputer system to conduct illegal and unconstitutional government data harvesting and wiretapping. THE HAMMER was installed on federal property in Fort Washington, Maryland at a complex which some speculate is a secret CIA and NSA operation operating at a US Naval facility.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, there’s no putting it back in. Nationalist leaders worldwide are quietly going ballistic at how this “patently unlawful spying and surveillance regime” has been aimed at every perceived enemy of Deep State. They know it’s also being used against their powerful friends and influential collaborators–24/7–and that there’s nothing they can do about it. The whole world now knows that the American Republic has fallen prey to this totalitarian tactic of control of its political class. Hence, the illusion of a constitutional republic in the form of democracy USA has been forever shattered.
There is no question about the existence and illegal use of “The Hammer”, as some in intelligence circles have insinuated otherwise. However, what’s even more curious is how the CIA-controlled MSM has gone out of its way to maintain Washington’s dirty little secret. This conspiratorial behavior by the Fourth Estate is not only highly incriminating, it speaks directly to an organized plot to overthrow the Trump Administration. However, it is the rogue elements within the U.S. Intelligence Community who are most responsible for running this black operation on American soil.
WiretapGate: A soft coup enabled by foreign intelligence services
The only thing that WiretapGate and Watergate have in common is that they both begin with “W”. Outside of that, WiretapGate makes Watergate look like a walk in the park. The fact of the matter is that WiretapGate is so serious because it implicates so many high-level Obama Administration officials and members of the U.S. Intelligence Community in a highly coordinated criminal scheme to sabotage Donald Trump’s candidacy for POTUS.
If that’s not serious enough, this conspiratorial plot also involves the secret services and intelligence agencies of foreign nations. Each entity was specifically chosen in order for the perps to present “plausible deniability” during a potential investigative process–an anticipated eventuality which became a reality. More significantly, foreign assets were employed to basically commit sedition against a sitting POTUS, as they have been enlisted to commit treason in the past.
Hence, it can be said with absolute certainty that the entire US intelligence apparatus made Team Trump the target of unprecedented spying and surveillance. And, that the United Kingdom’s GCHQ was the prime mover and go-to organization for the real sensitive stuff that was done in this regard. The Brits are the absolute best for denying their obvious law-breaking with a perfectly straight face. There is no doubt that much of this black operation was farmed out to GCHQ for the sake of plausible deniability…which is exactly the way it turned out.
In light of these earth-shattering revelations, it’s now incumbent upon President Trump to really begin to drain the Swamp, especially the one inside the Beltway. There simply is no other alternative at this point since the CIA swamp monsters will only retreat from the spotlight “temporarily” to lick their wounds (EXPOSED: CIA – The Swamp Monsters). More dangerous to Team Trump, however, is that the C.I.A. et al. will further consolidate their power, which has been unlawfully arrogated to itself based upon the false pretext of ‘national security’.
This is precisely why the false allegations of a “Russian election hack” with Team Trump collaboration were floated in the first place. The top-tier of leadership within Deep State knew that it would need a very strong justification to ‘wiretap’ Trump. So, they simply fabricated one. That’s why the MSM echo chamber nonsensically makes stuff up about Russia–to keep the fictitious story alive for as long as possible.[1] Only in this way can the intel heads continue to this very day to ‘wiretap’ Trump. And then transmit false data to the MSM which reflexively produces and disseminates the daily fake news about Team Trump.
MAJESTIC-12: A FORBIDDEN STORY ABOUT THE SECRET U.S. UFO COMMITTEE
MAJESTIC-12: A FORBIDDEN STORY ABOUT THE SECRET U.S. UFO COMMITTEE
Majestic 12 (MJ-12) is the nickname given to a secret group (scientists/military/government) of paranormal researchers- widely theorized by popular UFO conspiracy claims. Who was this secret group? Where did this secret group come from? Is this secret group true? What evidence did they find? How much does our government know?
The government must have had an inkling to round a search party. MJ 12 was organized by then President Truman in 1947. Rumors of MJ12 began when the FBI investigated leaked documentation regarding secret alien life capture- and deemed it false. The public did not trust the FBI and displayed their belief that the leaked proof was indeed authentic.
The infamous leaked eight pages are directly linked to the notorious Roswell Incident. At that time there were already whispers of a government cover-up. The eight pages were actually photos of eight pages of documents that were received anonymously by a high ranking UFO Explorer. The first page mentions the three words, Operation Majestic Twelve, hence the formation of the nickname, Majestic 12. The second image was of the names of the twelve members. On page three comes the bombshell, news of the actual possession of a crashed alien Warcraft- and a genuine alien life form.
The papers go on to detail the involvement and ongoing cover-up by government officials. Truman supposedly knew about the alien crash and sent Defense Secretary Forrestal to keep house. The genuine nature of these documents is believed by many because of Truman's orders to keep civil obedience a top priority. Letting fears of civil unrest take precedence over the right of the public to know the truth.
There are several reasons why many people doubt the authenticity of this documentation. Military time is commonly used by the military; these papers were typed with the time in regular/civilian time. Another theory claims misuse of the title admiral when the correct term is "rear admiral." There are also a few words that do not date back to the 40’s- when this document was allegedly written.
On the other hand, the twelve signatures on this classified sworn secret project. Were all verified as authentic. It was an extremely powerful group of people, Majestic 12. CIA, top politicians, and respected scientists. Whoever masterminded the creation of this group knew what they were doing. How much the government knows and does not know will always be up for discussion.
According to information from Russia knows about extraterrestrial civilizations over several decades, so for many it is not surprising that such rumors are circulating for many years. Russia’s first contact with the gray aliens allegedly occurred in 1942. At that time, were planned series of diplomatic visits to discuss issues of mutual interest – by alleged Russian documents and agreements that have been created
According to the document, 072 / E at meeting the 1961 incident occurred that involved three entities for breach of contract officers army base, when they discovered that their arrival was filmed hidden devices without their consent. Based on the agreement were 23/04 confidential meetings and filming or taking pictures was not allowed.
According to the Truth KGB allegedly special unit designed to collect and monitor all kinds of information regarding the mysterious and unexplained phenomena that report back inside, and inside the Soviet Union.
The Siberian taiga is perhaps as unspoiled and unexplored as the Amazon jungle. More than 100,000 square kilometers of western Yakutia are completely uninhabited, devoid of any sort of trails. The human foot treads on this area very rarely. It’s a thick forest growth with uprooted trees and sprawling swamps with swarms of mosquitoes. In short, an ideal birthplace for myths and legends about strange creatures and anomalous zones where bizarre things happen.
The local wild man Chuchuna may not even be anything exceptional; the most attention is given to a peculiar legend about the Valley of Death and its “cauldrons”. Nomadic Evenki, Yakutians and lone hunters who happened to wander into these territories have for long discovered odd houses shaped like red hemispheres protruding from the perpetually frozen ground.
The formations were smooth, with an opening at the top, with a winding stairwell leading to a circular gallery with numerous metal rooms. Despite outdoor temperatures of forty below, it was pleasantly warm inside.
RIDLEY SCOTT : ' ALIENS EXIST AND THEY'RE A LOT SMARTER THAN US. DON'T CHALLENGE THEM! '
RIDLEY SCOTT : ' ALIENS EXIST AND THEY'RE A LOT SMARTER THAN US. DON'T CHALLENGE THEM! '
Ridley Scott is one of the most famous creators of Aliens and he believes that they are really out there and says that one day when they are ready they are going to come. The director spoke up and said that it is ridiculous to think that humans are alone in the universe and he firmly believes that one-day superior beings are going to pay a visit to Earth. The director was talking as he prepares for the release of Alien: Covenant.
"SUPERIOR BEINGS WILL VISIT EARTH, EXPERT AT NASA AGREES"
He made the following comments on extraterrestrial life:
“I believe in superior beings. I think it is certainly likely. An expert I was talking to at NASA said to me, ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it?’ That’s ridiculous.
The experts have now put a number on it having assessed what is out there. They say that there are between 100 and 200 entities that could be having a similar evolution to us right now. So when you see a big thing in the sky, run for it.”
Ridley's “Xenomorph” and “chestburster” alien creatures have terrified his fans for nearly 40 years.
Alien: Covenant is the second in the list of prequel movies and it has a setting during the year of 2104 on a spacecraft that is carrying 2,000 colonists who have been cryogenically frozen while traveling to a distant planet when they come across what they believe is uncharted paradise. However, as you might expect from Ridley Scott, the voyage soon becomes a nightmare full of gore that will have those watching think nothing of the alien bursting out of the chest of the man in the original movie.
"WE SHOULD NOT MESS WITH REAL-LIFE ALIENS"
He explained:
“They are a lot smarter than we are. If you are stupid enough to challenge them, you will be taken out in three seconds.”
Finally, he joked:
“Nothing scares me.I have a 9mm (pistol).
Scott went on to say that he could not believe all the terror that he had managed to create when he saw the reactions of those who had watched the original movies. He said that people were hiding half under their seats by the time the kitchen scene where the alien pushed its way out of the chest of John Hurt. Scott, on the other hand, claims to be un-shockable, he bragged that nothing scared him, he did admit to being nervous though when walking onto the set of a film and there are 600 plus people all looking at you.
Whether the alien life form that Scott believes is going to be making its way to Earth at some point in time will be anything like the aliens Scott created remains to be seen, but it’s hoped they are friendlier.
“ALIEN: COVENANT” WILL OPEN NATIONWIDE IN CINEMAS ON MAY 19.
De ruimte tussen de planeet Saturnus en zijn kenmerkende ringen lijkt "relatief stof-vrij" te zijn, zo heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA gisteren meegedeeld.
De verbazende vondst gaat terug op data die de Amerikaanse Saturnusverkenner Cassini heeft vergaard. Die maakte vorige week de eerste "duik" ooit tussen de planeet en de ringen. Volgens projectmanager Earl Maze is het gebied blijkbaar "de grote leegte".
Dat kan goed nieuws zijn voor de Cassini. Want de onbemande sonde kan dan bij enkele van de 21 volgende duiken zijn schotelvormige antenne gebruiken als schild tegen stofdeeltjes.
De Cassini is in 1997 samen met de Europese sonde Huygens gelanceerd. De aankomst bij Saturnus was in 2004, de Huygens is succesvol geland op de Saturnusmaan Titan, de grootste maan van ons zonnestelsel. De Cassini zal zich in september te pletter gooien op Saturnus.
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NA ITALIË IS BEROEMDE GRONINGSE UFO NU BOVEN INDIA GEZIEN...
NA ITALIË IS BEROEMDE GRONINGSE UFO NU BOVEN INDIA GEZIEN...
Het begint er langzamerhand op te lijken dat een bijzonder soort UFO onze planeet bezoekt.
Nadat deze UFO voor het eerst in Groningen werd waargenomen, volgen er nu meer plaatsen, waaronder Italië en India.
Het begon in de zomer van 2015 toen deze UFO voor het eerst werd waargenomen in Groningen waarvan het beeld vervolgens de wereld rondging.
Daarna werd dezelfde UFO onlangs gezien in Italië en nu komt er bij Mufon een melding binnen van een groepje kampeerders die een bijzondere foto hebben gemaakt.
Ze geven er geen details bij, behalve dat de foto is gemaakt in het Dang District in Gujarat, India.
De waarneming staat bij Mufon geregistreerd onder nummer 83441. Wat we niet weten, is of deze waarneming ook met het blote oog te zien was, waardoor het in theorie een soort lensflare zou kunnen zijn.
Het is een bijzondere foto:
Rechts bovenin de foto zie je iets wat in eerste instantie een vallende ster lijkt, maar niets is minder waar.
Want, wanneer het beeld iets wordt uitvergroot, komt er een bekende vorm tevoorschijn.
Een vorm die we eerder tegenkwamen in Groningen en Italië.
Ter vergelijking, hier een deel uit een eerder artikel en dan zie je dat we hier duidelijk te maken hebben met hetzelfde soort object.
Een object dat voor zover ons bekend voor Groningen niet eerder op onze aarde is waargenomen. Mocht er iemand zijn die denkt dat dit niet zo is en dat er eerder dit soort waarnemingen zijn geweest, dan horen we dat graag.
UFO liefhebbers zullen zich het voorval van enkele jaren geleden nog wel kunnen herinneren, maar voor hen die het niet meer weten, hierbij, uit een eerder artikel, wat er in Groningen gebeurde:
Perton is een Groninger die nogal nuchter blijft onder dit soort dingen en denkt dat de vreemde foto te maken heeft met lichtval of iets dergelijks, wat best zou kunnen.
Echter, ook internationaal is deze foto niet onopgemerkt gebleven en zijn er mensen die zich afvragen of we hier de eerste echte afbeelding hebben van een portaal naar een andere dimensie.
Opeens flitste er iets. Ik dacht eerst mijn toestel, maar de flitskap stond niet omhoog. Ook zat er geen druppel op mijn lens. Ik besloot dat het een bliksem moest zijn geweest. Maar thuis zie ik wat vreemds op een van de foto’s die ik aan het eind van het bomenlaantje maakte.
We zijn nu twee jaar later en iemand maakte op 3 april 2017 een vergelijkbare foto, maar nu in het noorden van Italië.
Perton is geen sterrenkundige, dus heeft hij voor de zekerheid Theo Jurriëns (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) ook nog ingeschakeld. 'Hij belde met het KNMI en die zei dat het een drone was. Maar dat vind ik vreemd. Want wie laat nou zo'n kostbare drone tegen onweer aanvliegen?'
En ongetwijfeld zal het object uit Italië worden geclassificeerd als een nieuw soort drone wolk door onze weerexperts.
ESA’S JUICE SPACECRAFT COULD DETECT WATER PLUMES ERUPTING ON EUROPA
ESA’S JUICE SPACECRAFT COULD DETECT WATER PLUMES ERUPTING ON EUROPA
TOMASZ NOWAKOWSK
Artist’s impression of the JUICE mission.
Image Credit: ESA/AOES
ESA’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission to the Jovian system could easily confirm the presence of water on Europa, a new studyfinds. According to the research, it is feasible to detect water molecules (H2O) and water ions (H2O+) from the moon’s plumes during a flyby mission.
The suspected water vapor plumes erupting on Jupiter’s moon Europa are still baffling scientists in the search for habitable environments in our solar system.
It is assumed that Europa harbors a vast subsurface liquid ocean and these plumes could be an indicator of water erupting from the moon’s interior. Hence, they offer a great opportunity to gather samples originating from under the thick layer of ice, where many mysteries of extraterrestrial life may await to be unraveled.
These composite images show a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The images bolster evidence that the plumes are a real phenomenon, flaring up intermittently in the same region on the satellite.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and W. Sparks (STScI)
Recent observations of Europa with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) show a plume rising about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the surface. Researchers estimate these plumes could rise even 125 miles (200 kilometers) before raining material back down onto the icy surface.
According to a new study conducted by a team of European scientists, these plumes should be thoroughly investigated by a future flyby mission like JUICE in order to confirm the presence of water.
In a recent paper, the researchers studied the feasibility of in-situ measurements of Europa’s plumes, by modeling the trajectories of neutral and ionized plume particles and the respective measurements by neutral and ion mass spectrometers.
“Instead of using ‘photons’ as Hubble does, we will use in-situ particle data,” Yoshifumi Futaana, Co-Investigator of the JUICE/PEP instrument at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics told Astrowatch.net. “This means that we will validate the presence of water independently using the in-situ data. JUICE is the mission that can do this as it will be equipped with the Particle Environment Package (PEP) instrument suitable for this measurement.”
PEP is a plasma package with six sensors to characterize the plasma environment. It will measure density and fluxes of positive and negative ions, exospheric neutral gas, thermal plasma, and energetic neutral atoms.
The package will include the Jovian plasma Dynamics and Composition (JDC) sensor, measuring water ions, and the Neutral gas and Ions Mass spectrometer (NIM) sensor, measuring water molecules.
Futaana and his colleagues are convinced that the particles of the low mass flux plumes (1 kilogram per second) can be detected by PEP with large margins. Furthermore, the results of their study suggest the plume signal is recognizable as a temporal signal enhancement of one order of magnitude in the H2O count rate during six minutes. This means the detection of water plumes during a flyby is indeed feasible.
Jupiter’s moon Europa and its icy surface.
Photo Credit: NASA
“Our paper shows that the plumes can be detected from the JUICE flybys with particle instruments that detect [water] particles in the vicinity of the spacecraft,” Hans Huybrighs of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, one of the co-authors of the paper, told SpaceFlight Insider. “This is the case even if the plume is significantly smaller than what has been observed. With this, we mean that the plumes in our work only release one kilogram of water per second, while the very first plume observation indicated 7,000 kilograms of water is released per second.”
The authors of the study underline that even in the case of relatively very small water plumes, the water atoms dissociating from the molecules, as well as their ions, make significant signals. So far, Hubble observations of the plumes detected only atomic oxygen. Given the amount of oxygen and other considerations it was concluded these oxygen atoms must arise from dissociated water molecules.
“This would also explain the observed spatial features, which were interpreted as a plume,” Peter Wurz of the University of Bern in Switzerland told Astrowatch.net. “Even though it is all very plausible, and is not contested in the scientific community, it is an interpretation. PEP on JUICE will be able to confirm this interpretation and provide a lot of additional data to understand the nature of the plume, its composition, and its relation to the subsurface of Europa’s ice shell, which is mostly water ice.”
The researchers have also shown the geometry of the plume source does not influence the density distributions, therefore it will not affect their detectability when using PEP. They said that it makes no difference whether it is a point source or a several-hundred-mile-long crack.
All in all, JUICE, equipped with the PEP instrument, has the potential to take a peek at Europa’s subsurface ocean without drilling into the moon’s icy shell. This ocean could hold many clues to mysteries of life beyond Earth.
“What is so interesting about this ocean is that it has probably been there for a long time,” Huybrighs said, “and that there could be sources of energy for life in it, like geothermal vents on the bottom of the ocean, making Europa’s ocean a very interesting environment that is possibly habitable for some form of life.”
The JUICE mission is planned to be launched in 2022. The spacecraft will perform two flybys of Europa in early 2031. During these flybys, JUICE is expected to approach Europa up to a height of about 250 miles (400 kilometers).
Ridley Scott is at the helm of a nearly 40-year franchise of films about killer aliens who are smarter and deadlier than us. It’s not a coincidence, since Scott thinks that could happen in real life.
In an interview with Sky News, Scott mentioned that he believes in aliens, or what he called “superior beings.” This isn’t exactly surprising. Not only has Scott spent a large portion of his career creating movies about aliens (the latest being Alien: Covenant, which comes out May 10), but a majority of people agree with him. A YouGov poll from 2015 showed that over half of Americans, Britons, and Germans believe in extraterrestrials, and another poll showed four out of five Canadians do too.
“An expert I was talking to at NASA said to me, ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it?’ That’s ridiculous,” Scott said, adding that he thinks there are at least 100 to 200 similar species out there right now.
However, Scott doesn’t think they’d be waving the white flag of peace right away. While many of us would like to believe there are Vulcans circling the galaxy waiting for Zephran Cochrane to invent warp drive, Scott thinks any aliens we encounter would probably try to blow our brains out— at least if we provoked them. So, it’d definitely be more of an Independence Day-type situation. Let’s hope Will Smith’s character can come back from the dead.
“When you see a big thing in the sky, run for it. Because they are a lot smarter than we are, and if you are stupid enough to challenge them you will be taken out in three seconds,” Scott said.
I’d be curious to see whether Scott believed in aliens first, leading to him making the first Alien film, or whether his work on the series led to his faith in extraterrestrial life. It’s really a chicken or the egg scenario— or, if you want to get technical, face-hugger or the egg.
TRIANGLE UFO SENSATION: Craft built by US government using alien technology says expert
TRIANGLE UFO SENSATION: Craft built by US government using alien technology says expert
EXCLUSIVE: A SPATE of bizarre triangle UFO sightings could be top secret craft built by the US government using technology recovered from crashed flying saucers, an expert has claimed.
Triangle UFOs, like this CGI impression, have been seen all over the USA.
Express.co.uk has been reporting on the phenomena of odd-triangular UFOs which have been spotted across the United states.
The reports are often eerily similar, leading to speculation the bizarre sightings could be REAL alien craft.
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.
Now a top UFO expert has explained how they could be experimental craft built by the US Air Force in top secret locations like Area 51 in the Nevada desert, using technology from allegedly crashed UFOs.
There is a widespread conspiracy theory aliens do exist and visit Earth, and that they have crash landed, like during the alleged flying saucer incident just outside Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947.
The theory claims that the government has secretly tried to recreate the technology so that it can be used to its advantage.
Steve Bassett, of Paradigm Research Group, is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the subject of alien disclosure.
Disclosure activists want to bring about an end to a so-called "truth embargo" and force the government to tell all about alien visitations of Earth.
My theory that there are so many reports of triangular UFOs is that they could be ones that we have developed using reverse engineered alien technology.
Steve Bassett
In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Mr Bassett gave his theory on the spate of triangle UFOs which has continued.
He said: "My theory that there are so many reports of triangular UFOs is that they could be ones that we have developed using reverse engineered alien technology.
"It may be that the USAF has not been able to get the anti-gravity system used in disc-shaped saucers to work in a craft of the same shape, but they can get it to work in a triangular craft so have adapted it.
"This is what I think a lot of the triangle UFOs could be - something built by humans."
But he believes some triangle UFOs could also be extraterrestrial craft.
Donald Trump's hotline for receiving illegal immigrant tip offs got UFO calls instead.
Mr Trump launched an immigration hotline for people to reported suspected 'illegal aliens' in the US.
But, it appears many people got the wrong end of the stick or have been making deliberate hoax calls.
On its opening day, there were mass calls reporting alien and UFO sightings.
Set up amid much controversy, the VOICE hotline launched last week was a bid to tackle and stem illegal immigration.
The new hotline, under the Department of Homeland Security, aims to help "victims and their families who have been impacted by crimes committed by removable criminal aliens".
If any of you need to report space aliens to our government, please call their hotline: 1-855-48-VOICE. Here are some of their Most Wanted.
Steven Santos
Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly said: “Until today, those victimised at the hands of illegal aliens have had no point of contact in our federal government dedicated to this issue and to them.
"Families would call and would send letters all over Washington hoping that someone in some agency would respond.”
But, instead there has been a mass of UFO-related activity.
Twitter users have been trolling the phone number with reports of extraterrestrials.
Steven Santos tweeted: "If any of you need to report space aliens to our government, please call their hotline: 1-855-48-VOICE. Here are some of their Most Wanted."
Jordan said: "The truth IS out there! If you've been probed by illegal extraterrestrial aliens, call 1-855-48-VOICE & let them know."
Anti-Trump activists rallied on social media under the hashtag #AlienDay to encourage others to flood the hotline with UFO calls.
Alexander McCoy tweeted: "Wouldn't it be a shame if millions of people called this hotline to report their encounters with aliens of the UFO-variety."
The real use of the hotline has been strongly criticised by opponents.
Brent Wilkes, head the of League of United Latin American Citizens, said: “This just continues the campaign strategy Donald Trump employed to vilify immigrants and identify them with a small number of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.”
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UFO Caught Near Space Station, Classic Saucer On NASA camera! April 29, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught Near Space Station, Classic Saucer On NASA camera! April 29, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 29, 2017 Location of sighting: Space Station Source: MUFON #83465 This is a classic disk style craft that an anonymous person reported this week. Caught on the live NASA space station cam, UFOs are seen every few hours, and even every few minutes during space walks. NASA has become so paranoid about it that they often cut to blue screen or maintenance screen in an attempt to hide these UFOs, but there are just too many. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
On april 29th at around 21:06 g.m.t for around 10-15 seconds during a live stream of the international space station I observed a faint light which got lighter before appearing as two whitish lights before materialising into what I can only descibe as a "flying saucer" the event (which I was hoping would happen) only lasted 10-15 secs which i managed to screenshot the photos on my iphone I know what this wasnt and would hope somebody else has this footage on video.
Jellyfish UFO Over Angeles City, Philippines On May 1, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Jellyfish UFO Over Angeles City, Philippines On May 1, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 1, 2017 Location of sighting: Angeles City, Philippines Source: MUFON #83456 This jellyfish style UFO was seen over the Philippines this week. The UFO has long tendrils which are probably landing legs, but may be arms. The Philippines is a diverse and old cultural area where aliens may find it unique compared to the rest of the world. The person reported three photos, but only two were semi focused. Extraordinary evidence that aliens are observing the Philippines. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
First I will state that being a U.S. Marine, I'm a trained observer. I had already been well awake by 3am and had coffee and was on the computer, when approximately 5:40am I heard my dogs carrying on outside and went to investigate. At first I thought they had barked at nothing, when I suddenly caught sight of the object, I watched it only for 30 seconds or so before realizing that it wasn't a plane, helicopter, or hot air balloon and ran into the house and grabbed my cell phone as it was the closest camera available. The object first appeared to be about 700 ft high, but as the object had moved into the background of my house it appeared to be gaining altitude and I snapped three photos as it passed beyond the peak of the roof over my bedroom, moving in a South or South East direction towards Manila. The object made no sound at all, and it had no visable lights of any kind, it seemed to be moving about the same speed as a small plane at first and was completely out of sight in about 3 minutes or less, apparently gaining speed. When I first looked at the pics, I though I missed it, as it looked like a speck of dust or dirt, I then downloaded them to my desktop computer and cropped the photos, and then I could see better detail. I was a bit stunned when saw it, as I had never seen any craft like this before, and it clearly had a some type of leg structure for landing. Three pics were taken, and numbered in the order taken, the best being the first pic.
Do aliens exist? Are humans the only sentient species in the universe? Is there extra-terrestrial life? Are we alone?
It's one of humanity's most all-consuming questions, fascinating scientists, governments and pop culture alike.
But now, one US space scientist is claiming that advanced life forms may be a reality - but that they disappeared long ago.
Professor Jason Wright, an astronomy and astrophysics professor at Pennsylvania State University, published a paper in arXiv entitled 'Prior Indigenous Technological Species'.
He claims that ancient 'technological species' may have lived on Earth billions of years before the human race.
Well, either Earth, or a "pre-greenhouse Venus," or "a wet Mars". He's not 100 per cent sure.
However, Wright claims:
Given that it is known to host complex life, the most obvious origin for a prior species of any sort is Earth.
He pulls no punches when he explains that:
Present-day Venus would seem to be a terrible candidate for a technological species, with a surface temperature over 700K, although when it comes to alien life we should keep an open mind about even this.
Wright believes that the ancient species has disappeared, but that in the past we could have found found traces of them underground, called "technosignatures".
However, he claims that most of the physical evidence would now be lost.
On Venus, for example, the global greenhouse arrival may have resulted in a resurfacing of the planet, while on Earth the movement of tectonic plates and subsequent erosion could have erased any lingering traces.
Nevertheless, he writes, it might still be possible to recognise these technosignatures even if the physical evidence is all but destroyed.
He explains:
Structures buried beneath surfaces might survive and be discoverable as long as they do not suffer a collision so severe that their artificial nature is obliterated.
Merely destroying them would render them nonfunctional, but they might still be recognisably technological.
We might conjecture that settlements or bases on these objects would have been built beneath the surface for a variety of reasons, and so still be discoverable today.
Wright proposes that we might find traces on more undisturbed surfaces such as the Moon and Mars.
Of course, the idea that humans are not the only sentient species is nothing new.
Indeed, he writes, "the idea of indigenous Martian civilisations pervades science fiction to the point of cliche".
However, the proposal that the alien species is already extinct is comparatively unexplored in the scientific field.
But why does Wright think they disappeared?
Wright says that "the most obvious answer" is a cataclysm, "whether a natural event such as an extinction-level asteroid impact, or self-inflicted, such as a global climate catastrophe".
However, in the case of a species which had settled in the Solar System, Wright explains:
...Such an event would only permanently extinguish the species if there were many cataclysms across the Solar System closely spaced in time (a swarm of comets, or interplanetary warfare perhaps), or if the settlements were not completely self-sufficient.
Alternatively, an unexpected nearby gamma ray burst or supernova might produce a Solar-System-wide cataclysm.
Even without a cataclysm, the species may have simply died out, or become permanently non-technological at some point, or [...] abandoned the Solar System permanently for some reason.
New research suggests that life could jump from one planet to another in the closely-packed TRAPPIST system in as little as 10 years
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Back in February, NASA announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting the nearby red dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1. With three of those planets orbiting within the star's Habitable Zone (HZ), the system is one of our best bets for finding life beyond Earth, and new research from the University of Chicago suggests that if it is there, life could jump between the tightly-packed planets in a matter of decades.
At a distance of 40 light-years away, the TRAPPIST-1 system's planets aren't our closest possible homes-away-from-home – that honor goes to Proxima b, a galactic stone's throw away at just four light-years. But what makes TRAPPIST-1 such an attractive prospect for extraterrestrial life is the fact that all seven planets are in extremely close proximity to each other, so if life arises on one planet, it could spread to the others relatively quickly.
"Frequent material exchange between adjacent planets in the tightly packed TRAPPIST-1 system appears likely," says Sebastiaan Krijt, lead author of the study. "If any of those materials contained life, it's possible they could inoculate another planet with life."
While Earth is the only planet we know for sure is home to life, it didn't necessarily start here. The seeds of life, in the form of microscopic organisms, may have been brought to our planet by asteroids or comets – a hypothesis known as panspermia. On the other hand there's lithopanspermia, the idea that chunks of rock carrying tiny organisms could be thrown into space by these cosmic collisions, spreading that life to other planets.
But for this to work, a few factors need to be considered. The pieces of rock ejected into space would need to be large enough to protect the organisms from cosmic radiation, and even then, the journey to their new home would need to be relatively short, to keep the space travellers alive. And the speed at which the rocks are flung into space also needs to be just right: too fast and the lifeforms wouldn't survive the trip, too slow and the rocks would fall back to the planet's surface.
Running a series of simulations on these events, the researchers set out to determine how likely the scenario could be in the TRAPPIST system. The team found that rocks large enough to protect any hitchhiking organisms during space travel and re-entry would also tend to leave their home planet at a speed just above the minimum required to break free. Given how close together the system's planets are, the researchers concluded that this process could take place pretty quickly, seeding life from one world to another in as little as 10 years.
"Given that tightly packed planetary systems are being detected more frequently, this research will make us rethink what we expect to find in terms of habitable planets and the transfer of life — not only in the TRAPPIST-1 system, but elsewhere," says Fred Ciesla, co-author of the study. "We should be thinking in terms of systems of planets as a whole, and how they interact, rather than in terms of individual planets."
Columnist Cheryl Costa looks at how UFO sightings vary during different seasons.
People have been asking if my wife and co-author, Linda Miller Costa, and I had made any discoveries when we were researching our book, UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015. We actually made a number of previously unknown discoveries about the observation of UFOs, including a significant one called the “month pattern.”
Since I started writing the New York Skies blog, I have found that New York experiences a high season for UFO sightings, June through September, peaking in July and August. My assumption, and the conjecture from many readers, suggested that this was a fair weather pattern. Nicer weather gave a better opportunity for more observers to be outside for a chance to see a UFO. We also took for granted that the every place would have a pattern like this.
When my wife was laying out the book, she began to notice that there were different monthly patterns in certain states. She also noted that they seemed to be latitude dependent. In Northern states, the observer pattern followed a strong rise during the summer months.
Linda also noted that in mid-Southern states, the monthly pattern with high numbers of summer season sightings began to level out with the year-round baseline of sightings. This is nicely illustrated in our monthly chart for Maryland.We observed this pattern of the mid-South, flattening on states across the country that are at the same general latitude.
Finally, as we moved into the deep Southern states, we discovered that UFO sighting reports leveled out and became a generally flat baseline, as we see in our Arizona monthly chart.
New hypothesis: If the seasonal weather is generally mild, more people are outside and can be observers. Also take into account the weekend phenomena, that most people have weekends off. Our data observation suggests the concept that moderate weather and regularly scheduled leisure time are conducive to outdoors activity and affects the observation of Unidentified Flying Objects.
There are some subtle variations in the pattern. For instance Florida, while it has the general flattened characteristics of other deep Southern states, we see significant sighting spikes in the winter months. We have attributed this to the migration of people to Florida in the winter months. Again, this is all supposing the postulation that temperate weather and leisure time are conducive for sky watching and possible UFO observation.
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British witness photographs sphere UFOs following jet
British witness photographs sphere UFOs following jet
A British witness at London reported watching and photographing multiple objects that appeared to be following an aircraft, according to testimony in Case 82822 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was in the Fulham section of London walking to a café when the incident occurred.
“I looked up and saw a star-like object about seven aircraft widths to the left of the passenger aircraft,” the witness stated.“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.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness first thought the objects were balloons.
“At first I thought they were balloons reflecting bright sunlight. I’ve seen some rarely. But these 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 seemed 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 vapor trail and I should imagine it was over 15-20,000 feet above me. Aircraft and light were obscured by city housing then.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
MUFON Great Britain 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.
WHAT’S THAT STRANGE GLOWING MOLD? ASTRONAUTS WILL SOON BE ABLE TO SEQUENCE UNKNOWN SPACE ORGANISMS
NASA astronaut Kate RubiGrappig of schattigns poses for a picture with the minION device during the first sample initialization run of the Biomolecular Sequencer investigation.
Credits: NASA
WHAT’S THAT STRANGE GLOWING MOLD? ASTRONAUTS WILL SOON BE ABLE TO SEQUENCE UNKNOWN SPACE ORGANISMS
Seeking to understand more about space-born microbes, NASA has initiated a program known as Genes in Space-3 – a collaborative effort that will prepare, sequence and identify unknown organisms, entirely from space. For those who might be thinking that this sounds a lot like the film Life – where astronauts revive an alien organism on the International Space Station and everyone dies! – rest assured, this is not the setup for some horror movie.
In truth, it represents a game-changing development that builds on recent accomplishments, where DNA was first synthesized by NASA astronaut Kate Rubin aboard the International Space Station in 2016. Looking ahead, the Genes in Space-3 program will allow astronauts aboard the ISS to collect samples of microbes and study them in-house, rather than having to send them back to Earth for analysis.
The previous experiments performed by Rubin – which were part of the Biomolecule Sequencer investigation – sought to demonstrate that DNA sequencing is feasible in an orbiting spacecraft. The Genes in Space-3 seeks to build on that by establishing a DNA sample-preparation process that would allow ISS crews to identify microbes, monitor crew health, and assist in the search for DNA-based life elsewhere in the Solar System.
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space and sequenced more than a billion bases during her time aboard the ISS.
Credits: NASA
As Sarah Wallace – a NASA microbiologist and the project’s Principal Investigator (PI) at the Johnson Space Center – said in a recent press release:
“We have had contamination in parts of the station where fungi was seen growing or biomaterial has been pulled out of a clogged waterline, but we have no idea what it is until the sample gets back down to the lab. On the ISS, we can regularly resupply disinfectants, but as we move beyond low-Earth orbit where the ability for resupply is less frequent, knowing what to disinfect or not becomes very important.”
Developed in partnership by NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Boeing (and sponsored by the ISS National Lab), this project brings together two previously spaceflight-tested molecular biology tools. First, there is miniPCR, a device which copies targeted pieces of DNA in a process known as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to create thousands of copies.
This device was developed as part of the student-designed Genes in Space competition, and was successfully tested aboard the ISS during the Genes in Space-1 experiment. Running from September to March of 2016, this experiment sought to test if the alterations to DNA and the weakening of the immune system (both of which happen during spaceflight) are in fact linked.
Student Anna-Sophia Boguraev, winner of the Genes in Space competition, is pictured with the miniPCR device.
Credits: NASA
This test will be followed-up this summer with Genes in Space-2 experiment. Running from April to September, this experiment will measure how spaceflight affects telomeres – the protective caps on our chromosomes that are associated with cardiovascular disease and cancers.
The MinION, meanwhile, is a handheld device developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Capable of analyzing DNA and RNA sequences, this technology allows for rapid analysis that is also portable and scalable. It has already been used here on Earth, and was successfully tested aboard the ISS as part of the Biomolecule Sequencer investigation earlier this year.
Combined with some additional enzymes to demonstrate DNA amplification, the Genes in Space-3 experiment will allow astronauts to bring the lab to the microorganisms, rather than the reverse. This will consist of crew members collecting samples from within the space station and then culturing them aboard the orbiting laboratory. The samples will then be prepared for sequencing using the miniPCR and sequenced and identified using the MinION.
As Sarah Stahl, a microbiologist and project scientist, explained, this will allow crews to combat the spread of infectious diseases and bacteria. “The ISS is very clean,” she said. “We find a lot of human-associated microorganisms – a lot of common bacteria such as Staphylococcus and Bacillus and different types of familiar fungi like Aspergillus and Penicillium.”
In addition to being able to diagnose illnesses and infections in real-time, the experiment will allow for new and exciting research aboard the ISS. This could include identifying DNA-based life on other planets, the samples of which would be returned to the ISS via probe. In addition, if and hen microbes are found floating around in space, they could be returned to the ISS for swift analysis.
Another benefit of the program will come from Earth-based scientists being able to access the experiments going on aboard the ISS in real-time. And scientists here on Earth will also benefit from the tools being employed, which will allow for cheap and effective ways to diagnose viruses, especially in parts of the world where access to a laboratory is not possible.
Once more, the development of systems and tools for use in space – an environment that is not typically conducive to Earth-based technologies – is offering up applications that go far beyond space travel. And in the coming years, ISS-based genetic research could help in the ongoing search for extra-terrestrial life, as well as provide new insights into theories like panspermia (i.e. the cosmos being seeded with life by comets, asteroids and planetoids).
Be sure to enjoy this video titled “Cosmic Carpool”, courtesy of NASA’s Johnson Space Center:
Earth can be shitty. Sometimes, being whisked away by a passing starship sounds like a pretty good idea. However—it completely depends on who’s behind the controls. Hanging with the Arrival heptapods would be pretty chill. Being shanghaied by any of the following kidnap-happy aliens, however, would not.
1) The Predator in Predators
Military badass Adrien Brody is alive at the end of the movie... but for how long? Image: YouTube screen grab
In the earlier movies, Predators came to Earth to conduct their hunting rituals (and/or brawl with the Alien aliens). But in 2010's Predators, we finally learned what it would be like to be spirited away to a far-flung planet, having been deemed vicious enough to become designated prey for Predators-in-training. No surprise, it’s an almost immediate death sentence... unless you are a crafty scavenger played by Laurence Fishburne. Even if you manage to survive, you’re still stuck on a Predator playground that’s constantly being restocked by killer creatures cherry-picked from across the universe, with very, very little chance of escape.
2) The Klowns in Killer Klowns from Outer Space
In this campy horror comedy, aliens who look like Pennywise’s bratty younger brothers beam to Earth in a flying circus tent, wielding guns that spray cotton-candy cocoons and other ghoulish weaponry. Though the Klowns don’t necessarily seem interested in snatching any humans to their homeworld, imagine what a teeth-rottingly terrible journey that would be, full of freaky balloon animals and “pranks” that are actually designed to decapitate you. Developing a debilitating case of coulrophobia would be the least of your worries.
3) The Greys in Communion
In this nightmarish tale, a man teeters on the edge of sanity after becoming convinced that he’s being targeted by alien visitors. Whitley Strieber, who penned the film’s best-selling source material, claimed the tale was based on his own real-life experiences. Christopher Walken’s typically passionate performance as Strieber suggests just how traumatizing spending time with the Greys would be—especially with the side effect of everyone around you assuming you’re a complete wack job.
4) The Sumerian-Speaking Aliens in The Fourth Kind
The Fourth King is mostly remembered for its gimmick of producing fake “archival footage” to make its “dramatizations” (starring Milla Jovovich and others) feel more authentic. Still, its aliens—who make late-night bedside visits to communicate threats in ancient languages, and are fond of snatching children as well as snapping the necks of their adult targets and/or framing them for hideous crimes—are a nasty bunch, to be avoided at all costs.
5) “Them” in The Forgotten
Grieving mother Telly (Julianne Moore) is already mourning the loss of her son in a plane crash when she awakes one day to find that nobody besides her remembers he even existed... and everyone’s acting like she’s completely nuts. Fortunately, her motherly love is enough to set things right in the end—but the aliens who grabbed her child, faked a plane crash, wiped the memories of seemingly everyone in Telly’s orbit, and have various Earthbound government agencies under their control—are definite contenders for cruelest kidnappers in the galaxy.
6) The Grays in Dark Skies
A suburban family attracts the unwholesome interest of extraterrestrials who take sadistic delight in putting them through a series of Horror Movie 101 terrors. After they consult an expert (an excellently-cast J.K. Simmons), the family goes into full anti-alien-abduction mode to protect the young son who appears to be the chosen target—only to see their other kid ripped away right before their eyes. If you were gonna grab the boy, aliens, why not just go ahead and take him without all the sinister build-up? Making matters worse, mom and dad are blamed for their son’s disappearance, along with everything else.
7) The aliens in “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space,’” The X-Files
This third-season entry is a fan favorite for a reason—despite the show’s recurring alien themes, it’s a stand-alone monster-of-the-week episode with plenty of trademark quirkiness (exhibit A: Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek cameo as Men in Black). As is tradition, it’s not entirely clear if the aliens in this particular episode are real or part of a government conspiracy (or both), but many of the people involved in the tale end up dead or just thoroughly confused. No good for them... but great for the scifi author who pens a book about the incident, and excellently fun (if, again, a little confusing) viewing for us.
8) The Scowling Extraterrestrials in Fire in the Sky
Like Communion before it, Fire in the Sky is based on a purportedly true story of alien abduction. Unlike Communion before it, Fire in the Sky contains maybe the single most terrifying close encounter in cinema. The aliens in Communionwere scary, sure, but the creatures in Fire in the Sky are goddamn merciless, and so is this flashback scene.
9) The Martians in Mars Needs Moms
We’ve covered the various unpleasantries of this movie before, but it still stands that being abducted by Martians who want to suck out your “mom-ness” so it can be used by child-rearing robots would be abundantly shitty, if not as terrifying as the other aliens on this list. (Reminder: Mars Needs Moms is not a horror movie, it’s an animated comedy for the kiddies.)
10) The Martians of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Again, these spandex-wearing green men are more obnoxious than scary, but that doesn’t make hanging around them any less unpleasant. In this Mystery Science Theater 3000 classic, the Martians realize their American TV-watching kids are all dead inside, and kidnap Santa to bring them joy and consumer products. Along the way, they reveal themselves to be belligerent, like the sullen anti-happiness Voldar, or deeply annoying, especially “comic relief” Dropo. The good news is that these Martians seemed solely interested in Santa, so unless you put on a fake white beard and work at the mall during the holidays, you’re probably safe.
The science world is all in a tizzy this week about the supposed discovery of an alien megastructure. It’s an intriguing theory, no doubt, but one deserving hefty amounts of skepticism. As we’ve learned before, inexplicable observations are all too often confused for aliens. Here are some classic examples.
A strange star located about 1,500 light-years from here is confounding astronomers. As reported by Ross Andersen in The Atlantic, the star, dubbed KIC 8462852, appears to be surrounded by “a strange mess of objects,” compelling scientists involved in the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence “to get a closer look.”
A likely explanation for the anomaly is a massive and irregular cloud of debris left over from a celestial collision. But Jason Wright, an astronomer who studies exoplanets and astrobiology, suspects it may be a Dyson Sphere—an alien-built megastructure consisting of solar panels placed in orbit around a star.
There’s much more to this story than my summary, so I highly recommend Phil Plait’s post at Slate. As Plait himself admits, this star’s behavior is indeed difficult to explain and it’s “clear something weird is happening there.” To be clear, it’s probably not ET, but the suggestion that aliens may somehow be involved is not completely outrageous. As I’ve said before, the search for alien artifacts—or what’s called Dysonian SETI—may be our best route to finally detecting signs of an extraterrestrial civilization.
This issue brings to mind previous instances in scientific history when a “God is in the gaps” explanation gets invoked for inexplicable phenomenon. There seems to be a tendency—and again, not a completely unwarranted tendency—among some astronomers to attribute extraterrestrial intervention when they observe something unexpected or seemingly outside the bounds of established knowledge. But in virtually every instance, these initial deliberations have been superseded by more reasonable explanations, as these following examples attest.
Canals on Mars
Back at the turn of the 20th century, American astronomer Percival Lowell posited the theory that an advanced alien civilization had irrigated crops on the surface of Mars with water drawn from the Red Planet’s poles via an elaborate canal network.“That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be,” wrote Lowell in 1906.
Since the time of Lowell, however, closer inspection of the surface has shown that Mars does indeed feature a complex and dynamic surface, one carved by the ravages of time rather than an alien civilization.
we did not really believe that we had picked up signals from another civilization, but obviously the idea had crossed our minds and we had no proof that it was an entirely natural radio emission. It is an interesting problem—if one thinks one may have detected life elsewhere in the universe, how does one announce the results responsibly?
Despite their initial skepticism, they named the pulsar LGM-1, which stands for “little green men.”
The Wow! Signal
There’s also the infamous Wow! signal— a 72-second-long radio burst that initially appeared to good to be true. It was.
Patrick J. KIger from National Geographicexplains:
[Jerry] Ehman, a volunteer researcher for Ohio State University’s now-defunct Big Ear radio observatory, perused data from the telescope’s scan of the skies on August 15, a few days earlier. In those days, such information was run through an IBM 1130 mainframe computer and printed on perforated paper, and then laboriously examined by hand. But the tedium was shattered when Ehman spotted something surprising—a vertical column with the alphanumerical sequence “6EQUJ5,” which had occurred at 10:16 p.m. EST. He grabbed a red pen and circled the sequence. In the margin, wrote “Wow!”
Ehman’s excitement over that bit of arcane information stemmed from the Big Ear’s mission at the time, which was searching space for radio signals of the sort that might be emanated by extraterrestrial civilizations, if they were attempting to make contact with intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. To Ehman, this signal, which had come from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, looked an awful lot like it could be such a message. Observatory director John Krauss and his assistant Bob Dixon, who subsequently examined the data, were similarly astonished by it.
The signal, which lasted 72 seconds, was never detected again, even during follow-up studies. Though never fully explained, the signal was likely a natural, continuous signal, or some human-caused artifact.
Perytons
More recently, astronomers at the Parkes Observatory in Australia detected mysterious radio signals known as perytons.
The strange behavior of KIC 8462852 may never be explained. Our inability to posit a more reasonable explanation may be due to our limited technologies, insufficient science, or lack of imagination.
In time we may discover what’s really going on, and it’ll probably be a really fascinating explanation. Until then however, we should seek out the simplest solution, while keeping an open mind to other, more radical possibilities. Failure to do both would be a terrible disservice to the scientific process.
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is the latest target in the perennial excitement around finding extraterrestrial life. Its warm subterranean ocean is thought to contain all the right ingredients to harbor alien microbes, which would arguably be the biggest scientific discovery in human history. While finding microbes—even biosignatures on places like Mars—would be incredible, perhaps we’re overlooking something critical in the search for life in our solar system, specifically intelligent life. Take that, tiny microbes.
A new paper from astronomer Jason Wright, Prior Indigenous Technological Species, poses the question: Have we exhausted our options in searching for signs of extremely old, intelligent life? Contrary to what this outlet or this outlet or this outlet claims, Wright’s paper does not offer any evidence or proof of an ancient alien civilization—instead, it ruminates on whether or not there’s a chance we’re overlooking some critical clue in our hunt.
“There is zero evidence for any prior indigenous technological civilizations,” Wright told Gizmodo. “My paper asks, have we completely foreclosed the possibility, or is there a chance that there could be some evidence we overlooked? [And] if we have overlooked something and we find it in the future, what are the chances it could have come from a prior indigenous technological species versus an interstellar one?”
Wright suggests the idea of looking for “technosignatures” within our solar system—traces left behind from life that hypothetically would have existed millions to billions years ago. While Mars has long been a favorite in the hunt for signs of extinct life, there’s growing evidence that Venus could have been habitable in the very distant past—some models suggest that in the distant past, the planet had liquid water oceans for up to 2 billion years, which is long enough for life to evolve.
Technosignatures, however, are a bit different from the “biosignatures” astronomers will be looking for on places like Mars or eventually, within the TRAPPIST-1 system.
“A ‘biosignature’ is any sort of indication that life exists somewhere,” Wright explained. “Astrobiologists hope to look for biosignatures in the atmospheres of other planets on on Mars or Europa, things like oxygen or other products of biology and metabolism. A ‘technosignature’ is evidence of technology.” An example of a technosignature would be an artificial radio signal from a distant star. In our own solar system, Wright suggests it might be worth looking for signs of alien space mining activity, or even underground settlements. “We might conjecture that settlements or bases on [rocky moons or asteroids] would have been built beneath the surface for a variety of reasons, and so still be discoverable today,” he writes.
Because we’re living in the era of Ancient Aliens, it might seem natural to compare this to the “ancient astronaut” idea the show explores. For those who have not seen a meme in the last five years, the idea is that a group of intelligent extraterrestrials visited Earth thousands of years ago and helped them achieve various feats of science and engineering. But according to Wright, his paper suggests “quite the opposite.”
“‘Ancient’ means something very different to an astronomer than to a historian,” he said. “We think ‘billions of years,’ but in history ‘ancient’ means “thousands of years.” These aliens, if they ever truly existed, would not have influenced humanity at all, since they would have gone extinct long before our ancestors roamed Earth.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
So if technosignatures from intelligent life are somewhere out there in the solar system, where could they be? Unfortunately, searching here on our Pale Blue Dot would be pretty inefficient because, well, people. And plate tectonics.
“The Earth (and humanity) destroys evidence of technology very efficiently in most cases,” Wright explained. “Millions of humans lived and used tools on the Earth for tens of thousands of years but archaeologists can only recover and recognize tiny fraction of their tools. If such a species lived millions of years ago very little of their technology would be detectable today.”
Still, not all hope is lost for finding technosignatures of past alien civilizations on Earth. In his paper, Wright suggests studying the oldest rocks on Earth and looking for unnatural isotope ratios—something that would provide us with even the smallest hint of technologically adept life that existed before humans. And while finding technosignatures on our planet might be tricky, places like the Moon or Mars might offer a more pristine record of the distant past.
“Work on Earth could show that there has never been a prior tree of complex life, that there are no signs of recognizable technology in the geological record (say, evidence of prior fossil fuel burning or nuclear reactions), and that we would have seen such evidence if it existed,” Wright said. “The surfaces of the Moon and Mars are ancient, so if we can show that there is nothing on or just beneath them that would indicate technology that would make it pretty unlikely anything was ever there.”
In short, if we’re going to embark on an alien scavenger hunt, we might as well pursue all our options.
ESA's JUICE spacecraft could detect water from plumes erupting on Europa
ESA's JUICE spacecraft could detect water from plumes erupting on Europa
by Tomasz Nowakowski, Astrowatch.net
ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission to the Jovian system could easily confirm the presence of water on Europa, a new study finds. According to the research, it is feasible to detect water molecules (H2O) and water ions (H2O+) from the moon's plumes during a flyby mission.
The suspected water vapor plumes erupting on Jupiter's moon Europa are still baffling scientists searching for habitable environments in the solar system. It is assumed that Europa harbors a vast subsurface liquid ocean, and these plumes could be an indicator of water erupting from the moon's interior. Hence, they offer a great opportunity to gather samples originating from under the thick layer of ice, where many mysteries of extraterrestrial life may await to be unraveled.
Recent observations of Europa with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) show a plume rising about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the surface. Researchers estimate that these plumes could rise even 125 miles (200 kilometers) before raining material back down onto the icy surface.
According to a new study conducted by a team of European scientists, these plumes should be thoroughly investigated by a future flyby mission like JUICE in order to confirm the presence of water. In a recent paper, the researchers studied the feasibility of in-situ measurements of Europa's plumes by modelling the trajectories of neutral and ionized plume particles and the respective measurements by neutral and ion mass spectrometers.
"Instead of using 'photons' as Hubble does, we will use in-situ particle data. This means that we will validate the presence of water independently using the in situ data. JUICE is the mission that can do this, as it will be equipped with the Particle Environment Package (PEP) instrument suitable for this measurement," Yoshifumi Futaana, co-investigator of the JUICE/PEP instrument at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics told Astrowatch.net.
PEP is a plasma package with six sensors to characterize the plasma environment. It will measure density and fluxes of positive and negative ions, electrons, exospheric neutral gas, thermal plasma and energetic neutral atoms. The package will include the Jovian plasma Dynamics and Composition (JDC) sensor measuring water ions, and the Neutral gas and Ions Mass spectrometer (NIM) sensor measuring water molecules.
Futaana and his colleagues are convinced that the particles of the low mass flux plumes (1 kg/s) can be detected by PEP with large margins. Furthermore, the results of their study suggest the plume signal is recognizable as a temporal signal enhancement of one order of magnitude in the H2O count rate over six minutes. This means that the detection of water plumes during a flyby is, indeed, feasible.
These composite images show a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The images bolster evidence that the plumes are a real phenomenon, flaring up intermittently in the same region on the satellite. Credit: NASA, ESA, and W. Sparks (STScI).
"Our paper shows that the plumes can be detected from the JUICE flybys with particle instruments that detect (water) particles in the vicinity of the spacecraft. This is the case even if the plume is significantly smaller than what has been observed. With this, we mean that the plumes in our work only release one kilogram of water per second, while the very first plume observation indicated 7,000 kilograms of water is released per second," Hans Huybrighs of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, one of the co-authors of the paper, told SpaceFlight Insider.
The authors of the study emphasize that even in case of relatively small water plumes, the water atoms dissociating from the molecules, as well as their ions, create significant signals. However, so far, Hubble observations of the plumes detected only atomic oxygen. Given the amount of oxygen and other considerations, it was concluded that these oxygen atoms must arise from dissociated water molecules.
"This would also explain the observed spatial features, which were interpreted as a plume. Even though it is all very plausible, and is not contested in the scientific community, it is an interpretation. PEP on JUICE will be able to confirm this interpretation and provide a lot of additional data to understand the nature of the plume, its composition, and its relation to the subsurface of Europa's ice shell, which is mostly water ice," Peter Wurz of the University of Bern in Switzerland told Astrowatch.net.
The researchers have also shown that the geometry of the plume source does not influence the density distributions. Therefore, it will not affect their detectability when using PEP. They noted that it makes no difference whether it is a point source or a several hundred miles-long crack.
All in all, JUICE equipped in the PEP instrument has the potential to take a peek at Europa's subsurface ocean without drilling the moon's icy shell. This ocean could hold many clues to mysteries of life beyond Earth.
"What is so interesting about this ocean is that it has probably been there for a long time, and that there could be sources of energy for life in it, like geothermal vents on the bottom of the ocean, making Europa's ocean a very interesting environment that is possibly habitable for some form of life," Huybrighs concluded.
JUICE mission is planned to be launched in 2022. The spacecraft will perform two flybys of Europa in early 2031. During these flybys, JUICE is expected to approach Europa up to a height of about 250 miles (400 kilometers).
What are the politics of U.F.O.s? Hillary Clinton said she believed in giving wider access to government records related to U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial life. Listen to what other presidents had to say about aliens and Area 51.
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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.
Occupying North America
The researchers found these unbroken mastodon ribs and vertebrae, including one vertebra that had a large neural spine, also called a spinous process, at the site in San Diego, California.
Credit: San Diego Natural History Museum
Early humans may have lived on the North American continent 130,000 years ago, more than 100,000 years earlier than scientists previously believed, according to a new study.
The research examined ancient mastodon bones that bore "conclusive" signs of being handled by intelligent beings, the researchers said. [Read more about the new timeline.]
Giving a grade
President Donald Trump will mark 100 days in office on April 29, and though it is still early on in his administration, he has enacted policies or signaled his stance on a variety of science issues, ranging from climate change to space exploration.
A sonar image showing the ill-fated HMS Erebus shipwreck.
Credit: copyright Parks Canada
Scientists have extracted DNA from the skeletal remains of several 19th-century sailors who died during the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, whose goal was to navigate the fabled Northwest Passage.
A proposed eight-bladed drone could soar across Saturn's moon Titan, exploring multiple sites over the course of decades.
Credit: APL/Michael Carroll
A relocatable lander could explore the hazy skies of Saturn's intriguing moon Titan, according a new mission proposal. As the eight-bladed whirlybird travels across the moon, it could investigate some of the most promising potentially habitable sites on the Saturn satellite, where methane and ethane fall from the sky and flow as rivers and lakes.
The lander-size instrument, known as Dragonfly, would take advantage of Titan's low gravity and thick atmosphere to visit multiple sites over several years, moving from one promising site to the next and recharging between the brief flights. [Read more about space-bound drone.]
Higher state
People who use psychedelic drugs have described the experience as feeling as though they have reached a "higher state of consciousness." And now, a brain scan study backs them up.
Previously, researchers knew that normal waking consciousness is a higher state of consciousness when compared with drowsiness and sleep, being under anesthesia or having certain brain injuries or diseases. Evidence of this came from studies in which scientists quantified the state of consciousness by measuring the certain types of activity of neurons. [Read more about the effects of psychedelic drugs.]
Real Death Star
The "super" laser brings together the power of multiple laser beams directed into a single intense output using an ultra-pure diamond crystal at the point of convergence.
Credit: Macquarie University
Though it's not big enough or strong enough to destroy a planet, scientists have developed an amplified laser reminiscent of the Death Star from "Star Wars," according to a new study.
An ultrapure diamond crystal is the key to a new proof-of-concept amplified laser. By placing a diamond at the point of convergence of the different laser beams, the power of each individual beam is transferred into one potent laser beam, the researchers said. [Read more about the laser.]
Caterpillar diet
This piece of plastic is quite holey after wax worm caterpillars (Galleria mellonella) spent 30 minutes on it.
Credit: CSIC Communications Department
A wiggly, ravenous caterpillar — one that doesn't limit its diet to naturally grown objects — can biodegrade plastic bags, a material infamous for the amount of time it takes to decompose, a new study finds.
Now, through a serendipitous discovery, it's clear that G. mellonella can also decompose polyethylene, a thin but tough plastic that is used across various industries, including in shopping bags and food packaging. [Read more about the strange appetite.]
Guts and illness
People with chronic fatigue syndrome may have imbalances in their gut bacteria, a new study suggests.
The researchers then checked to see if these imbalances also characterized the subset of patients in the study who had irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), an intestinal disorder that is common in people with chronic fatigue syndrome. [Read more about the chronic fatigue syndrome.]
Lucy and childbirth
A mask representing an Australopithecus afarensis, a human ancestor that may have given birth in a way that was in-between chimpanzees and humans, scientists have found.
Credit: Marcio Jose Bastos Silva/Shutterstock
How might the ancient relative of humanity dubbed "Lucy" have given birth? In a manner in between that of chimpanzees and humans, with newborns undergoing a bit of tilting in the birth canal as they were born, a new study finds.
These findings could shed light on how modern human childbirth evolved and made way for large brains, scientists added. [Read more about the birthing helper.]
"The Scream"
The tumultuous sky in Edvard Munch's "The Scream" painting may have been inspired by so-called nacreous clouds.
Credit: Oli Scarff/Getty
Could Edvard Munch's "The Scream" have been inspired by a rare cloud formation?
A new hypothesis holds that Munch may have been inspired to paint the masterpiece by "mother-of-pearl clouds" (also called nacreous clouds). These unusual, nearly iridescent, clouds are best seen in wintertime at sunrise or sunset, when they are lit from below. [Read more about the unique image.]
A recent study on a space anomaly that has perplexed scientists for years has some suggesting that it could be explained by a parallel "bubble universe" — although there are other, more standard potential explanations, as well.
TOO COLD
For years, scientists have been baffled by a weird anomaly far away in space: a mysterious “Cold Spot” about 1.8 billion light-years across. It is cooler than its surroundings by around 0.00015 degrees Celsius (0.00027 degrees Fahrenheit), a fact astronomers discovered by measuring background radiation throughout the universe.
Previously, astronomers believed that this space could be cooler simply because it had less matter in it than most sections of space. They dubbed it a massive supervoid and estimated that it had 10,000 galaxies fewer than other comparable sections of space.
But now, in a recently published survey of galaxies, astronomers from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) say they have discovered that this supervoide could not exist. They now believe that the galaxies in the cold spot are just clustered around smaller voids that populate the cold spot like bubbles. These small voids, however, cannot explain the temperature difference observed.
MULTIVERSE?
To link the temperature differences to the smaller voids, the researchers say a non-standard cosmological model would be required. “But our data place powerful constraints on any attempt to do that,” explained researcher Ruari Mackenzie in an RAS press release. While the study had a large margin of error, the simulations suggest there is only a two percent probability that the Cold Spot formed randomly.
Credit: The Royal Astronomical Society
“This means we can’t entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model. But if that isn’t the answer, then there are more exotic explanations,” said researcher Tom Shanks in the press release. “Perhaps the most exciting of these is that the Cold Spot was caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe.”
If more detailed studies support the findings of this research, the Cold Spot might turn out to be the first evidence for the multiverse, though far more evidence would be needed to confirm our universe is indeed one of many.
A team of engineers from MIT have developed a 3D printing robot that could be the future of constructing houses and similar structures on Earth and beyond. The Digital Construction Platform can build any object in any environment.
If you’ve played StarCraft or any similar game, you’ve probably wondered how your units were able to build bases so fast. Well, those Terran SCVs were probably 3D printers, most likely similar to one that MIT recently previewed.
Though not the first to 3D print a house, MIT’s Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is not your ordinary 3D printer. For starters, it’s a fully customizable, free-moving system that can 3D print an object of any size. Plus, the plan is to make the DCP a self-sufficient construction tool, capable of making individualized buildings designed using onsite environmental data.
In short, the DCP is an autonomous robotic system that can work in any environment using whatever materials nature can provide it with. The goal is, according to Steven Keating, “in the future, to have something totally autonomous, that you could send to the moon or Mars or Antarctica, and it would just go out and make these buildings for years.”
In a proof of concept run, published in the journal Science Robotics, the DCP was able to use a combination of foam and concrete to construct a 3.7-meter-high (12 ft) dome in just 14 hours.
“So to me it’s not merely a printer,” said Neri Oxman, “but an entirely new way of thinking about making, that facilitates a paradigm shift in the area of digital fabrication, but also for architectural design. … Our system points to a future vision of digital construction that enables new possibilities on our planet and beyond.”
Webcast Replay: SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite, Lands Falcon 9
Webcast Replay: SpaceX Launches US Spy Satellite, Lands Falcon 9
By SPACE.com Staff
Update for 7:30 am ET:SpaceX has successfully launched the classified satellite NROL-76 for the NRO on Monday, May 1, after a one-day delay due to a rocket sensor issue. Liftoff occurred at7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage making smooth landing at SpaceX's Landing Zone 1 at the nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
"SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver NROL-76 to orbit. SpaceX is targeting launch of NROL-76 from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two hour launch window opens on Sunday, April 30, at 7:00 a.m. EDT, or 11:00 UTC.
"A backup launch window opens on Monday, May 1, at 7:00 a.m. EDT, or 11:00 UTC. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will attempt to land at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
"NROL-76 will launch on Falcon 9, a two-stage rocket designed from the ground up by SpaceX for the reliable and cost-efficient transport of satellites and SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. As the first rocket completely developed in the 21st century, Falcon 9 was designed from the beginning for maximum reliability. Falcon 9’s simple two-stage configuration minimizes the number of separation events – and with nine first stage engines, it can safely complete its mission even in the event of an engine shutdown."
A probe shoots between Saturn and its rings, a NASA astronaut sets a spaceflight record, SpaceX prepares for a top-secret first, and the sun's protective shield is a bubble, not comet — it's Space.com's best news stories of the week.
Mind the gap!
NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot through the gap between Saturn and its rings Wednesday, braving the unknown in the first of its 22 ring dives scheduled before it plunges into the planet's atmosphere Sept. 15. The spacecraft turned to use its antenna as a shield as it passed through the gap, since the quantity of dust and debris was not yet clear. [Full Story: Cassini Saturn Probe Survives 1st 'Grand Finale' Dive]
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson made history — again — by spending more than 534 cumulative days in space over the course of her 3 long-duration flights, breaking the American record for time off-world. Whitson currently commands the International Space Station and is the first woman to command the station twice; she also holds the records for most spacekwalks by a female astronaut and oldest woman to fly in space. [Full Story: Peggy Whitson Breaks US Record for Most Time in Space by an Astronaut]
Marching for science
Thousands of scientists and science enthusiasts joined a march in Washington, DC to highlight the importance of the U.S. government supporting and funding science as well as embracing its findings. Satellite marches occurred in more than 500 cities around the world. [Full Story: In March for Science, Earth and Space Take Center Stage]
Bubbled
New research suggests that the sun's magnetic sphere of influence, extending out past Neptune and Pluto and protecting the solar system from cosmic rays, might be bubble-shaped rather than comet-shaped, as previously thought. The sun carries this shield-like bubble, called the heliosphere, with it as it travels through interstellar space. [Full Story: Sun's Magnetic Shield May Be a Bubble, Not Comet-Shaped]
Special delivery
The robotic Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft docked automatically with China's Tiangong-2 space lab, forming a rigid, combined unit. Two additional spacecraft dockings are planned to help build Tiangong-2 up into a full space station. [Full Story: China's Cargo Craft Docks with Space Lab]
Call for cleanup
At a recent conference on space debris, scientists floated ideas from a tractor beam to nets and tentacles to self-propelling tethers — all to help clean up the dangerous junk that clogs Earth orbit. [Full Story: Meet the Space Custodians: Debris Cleanup Plans Emerge]
Trouble at Ceres
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, exploring the dwarf planet Ceres, has lost the third of four reaction wheels which control the spacecraft's orientation. Fortunately, the mission team had already been using the probe's thrusters rather than the wheels to spin; the failure doesn't threaten the mission, agency officials said. [Full Story: NASA's Dawn Probe at Dwarf Planet Ceres Loses Another Reaction Wheel]
Uncanny twilight
Saturn's moon Titan appears brighter during its twilight than its daylight, according to new research — the only known place in the solar system with that peculiar quality. The moon's hazy atmosphere extends so high up that more light is scattered off the haze onto its surface when the sun is at an oblique angle. [Full Story: On Saturn's Moon Titan, Twilight Outshines Daylight]
Scientists spoke to the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Wednesday about the state of SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence), highlighting improvements in technology that could let researchers search a million star systems for signals over the next 20 years. [Full Story: SETI Scientists Could Survey a Million Star Systems by 2037, Lawmakers Are Told]
First time classified
SpaceX will launch its first classified U.S. spacecraft into orbit Sunday, breaking a 10-year monopoly by United Launch Alliance on classified government and military launches. The company's Falcon 9 rocket will loft a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office into orbit sometime between 7 and 9 a.m. EDT (1100 and 1300 GMT). [Full Story: SpaceX Poised for First Military Launch Sunday]
Meet the megalith of Al-Naslaa—split in half with LASER-LIKE precision
Meet the megalith of Al-Naslaa—split in half with LASER-LIKE precision
Located at the Tamya Oasis in Saudi Arabia is a fascinating megalith called Al-Naslaa. It is perfectly split in half and has curious symbols portrayed on its surface. If that wasn’t enough, the two rocks split in half with laserlike precision have managed to remain standing for centuries, and are somehow perfectly balanced. The stones were split in half with an LASER-LIKE precision.
Imagine walking around in the desert, exploring the unknown and you come across a massive standing stone, split in half by a PERFECT LINE. What would be the first thing that jumps to your mind?
The standing stone(s) of Al-Naslaa truly are a GIANT mystery. Located in Saudi Arabia, the two stones split in half have created confusion among experts ever since their discovery.
Considered as one of the most photogenic petroglyphs on the surface of the planet, the massive rock is split in half with extreme precision. However, according to experts, the laser-like precision cut was NOT created artificially.
According to many, it is one of the greatest mysteries found by man, and this incredible ancient stone structure attracts thousands of tourists each year who come to Al-Naslaa to observe its perfection and balance, which has given rise to countless theories that try to explain its origin.
The rock is in perfect balance, supported by two bases and the strangest thing is that it is perfectly split in half. It all suggests that at some point it must have been worked on by extremely precise tools, some have even ventured out and said laser-like tools.
Look at that precision!
Each part of the split stone has a smaller rock or shock absorber at the bottom, preventing it from touching the ground.
Archaeological discoveries show that in ancient times the region where the rock is located was inhabited. In fact, it is one of the most photogenic petroglyphs in the area.
The megalith was discovered by Charles Huver in 1883, and ever since its discovery, it has been a subject of debate among experts who have divided opinions when it comes to its origin.
In 2010, SCTH – Saudi Commission for Tourism & National Heritage announced the discovery of a rock near Tayma with a hieroglyphic inscription of Pharaoh Ramses III. Based on this discovery, researchers have hypothesized that Tayma was part of an important land route between the Red Sea coast of the Arabian Peninsula and the Nile Valley. Recent archaeological discoveries show that Tayma has been inhabited since the Bronze Age.
As noted by http://saudi-archaeology.com the split between two standing rock and its flat surface is a completely natural occurrence.
UnusualPlaces offers a natural explanation for the enigmatic, laser-like cut…
“…Most likely the ground shifted slightly underneath one of the two supports and the rock split. Could be from a volcanic dike of some weaker mineral that solidified there before everything was exhumed. Or, it could be an old pressure crack (you see a parallel crack just to the right of it) that has been pushed/pulled apart some. Or, it could be an old (minor) fault line, since fault motion often creates a zone of weakened rock that erodes relatively easier than the surrounding rock…”
But that of course is just another theory. The extremely precise cut, dividing the two stones has raised more questions than answers.
If we are to understand its origin, perhaps we should travel back in time.
According to reports, the oldest mention of the oasis city appears as “Tiamat” in Assyrian inscriptions dating as far back as the 8th century BCE. The oasis developed into a prosperous city, rich in water wells and handsome buildings.
Furthermore, archaeologists have discovered Cuneiform inscriptions possibly dating from the 6th century BCE at the oasis city. It is mentioned several times in the Old Testament. The biblical eponym is apparently Tema, one of the sons of Ishmael.
Interestingly, for part of his reign, Babylonian king Nabonidus retired to Tayma for worship and looking for prophecies, entrusting the kingship of Babylon to his son, Belshazzar.
As you can see, besides being an area where numerous archaeological discoveries have been made, the area where the incredible megalith of Al-Naslaa is located is also rich in history.
Taking a look at the stone of Al-Naslaa you cannot help and wonder what its true purpose was. Is the split in the rock really a result of the forces of nature as some experts suggest? Or is it possible that just as there are many other ancient places on Earth—dating back thousands of years—featuring precision cuts, this stone too was crafted by an unknown technology?
Most closely watched area of the world – hiding aliens and their technology?
Most closely watched area of the world – hiding aliens and their technology?
Area 51 is the most secret and most protected area of the world by the US military. What is hidden in the bowels of an inaccessible base?
North of Las Vegas, near the Nevada desert territory is the size of 15,000 km square. It is the most secret and most protected area of the world by the US military – Area 51. This is an area where the first conducted underground tests of nuclear weapons and where was the secret US military exercises. Later, there began research and training flights with the latest types of combat aircraft of the US Air Force. The base circulating different stories and myths, in particular regarding the existence of UFOs. It was built in 1957 as a military research center in drying lake
Base shrouded in mystery
Area 51 is the mysterious territory surrounded on all sides by mountains and reaches deep into the uninhabited wilderness. In any case, it is not open to the public, admission is strictly guarded and enter this object has the option of only US military and researchers. Since 1957 serves as the core base where Air Base Lockheed has innovated lietedlá for the needs of the CIA. The secret military base located at the bottom of dried up lake Groom, across which passes the longest runway in the world. Among the pilots to make this territory called the „Dreamland“ – the land of dreams. It is the area used to strictly secret latest research, which is essential to increase the efficiency of defense forces and national security. The base, however, will always be for verejnosťopradená veil of mystery because the US Air Force admitted and finally confirmed the existence of the object to Area 51 in 1994!
Ruim 300 miljoen jaar geleden zag de aarde er helemaal anders uit dan nu. Terwijl de continenten nu van elkaar zijn weggedreven, waren die in het Paleozoïcum nog samengeklit in één megacontinent, Pangea genaamd. Van de Atlantische Oceaan was bijvoorbeeld nog geen sprake. Een artiest ontwierp een kaart die weergeeft hoe de landsgrenzen er toen zouden hebben uitgezien. Vroeger hadden we een buurland meer en was Amerika helemaal zo ver niet.
175 miljoen jaar geleden begon het megacontinent te breken in verschillende kleinere continenten, het Eurazië, Noord- en Zuid-Amerika, Afrika, India, Antarctica en Australië van nu. Geleidelijk aan dreven de continenten steeds verder van elkaar weg tot waar ze nu liggen.
Artiest Massimo Pietrobon wou wel eens weten hoe de politieke grenzen er in dat grote continent zouden hebben uitgezien. Zijn kaart geeft alle landsgrenzen mooi weer.
België had vroeger met het Verenigd Koninkrijk een buurland extra, want Het Kanaal had zich nog niet gevormd. En een trip naar Amerika was helemaal zover niet zonder de Atlantische Oceaan, even ver als een reis naar pakweg Italië.
Andere vreemde buurlanden in het Paleozoïcum waren de VS en Marokko, Canada en Portugal en Italië en Tunesië.
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UFO & alien disclosure binnenkort afgedwongen? Wat onthult Steven Greer over deze topgeheime WikiLeaks-achtige informatie?
UFO & alien disclosure binnenkort afgedwongen? Wat onthult Steven Greer over deze topgeheime WikiLeaks-achtige informatie?
Komen er binnenkort WikiLeaks-achtige onthullingen over buitenaardse intelligenties? In de nieuwe film Unacknowledged worden mysteries rond UFO’s en geavanceerde aandrijfsystemen ontrafeld.
In de documentaire wordt de waarheid over buitenaardse levensvormen en UFO-geheimen boven water gehaald.
Deze zaken worden onder de pet gehouden door de media en onze overheden, schrijft IBTimes.
Bizarre geheimen
De drijvende kracht achter het project is dr. Steven Greer, die inmiddels al meer dan 500 man militair en overheidspersoneel heeft geïnterviewd over hun ervaringen met betrekking tot UFO’s, aliens en de manier waarop buitenaardse technologie wordt achtergehouden door overheden en ruimteagentschappen.
In 2001 organiseerde hij een persconferentie waar 20 van deze getuigen bizarre geheimen onthulden over buitenaardse levensvormen die onze planeet bezoeken.
Dr. Greer heeft contact gehad met oud-presidenten en vele hooggeplaatste leger- en overheidsfunctionarissen.
Overbodig
De geheime technologieën waar onze overheden over beschikken kunnen onze hele wereld veranderen.
Dankzij de kennis over de werking van UFO’s, die door overheden systematisch verborgen is gehouden, zullen olie en kernenergie namelijk overbodig worden.
En dat is meteen ook de belangrijkste reden waarom regeringen deze informatie nooit naar buiten brengen, aldus de film.
Meerdere malen
Greer werkte eerder mee aan de film Sirius, die onthulde dat onze aarde al meerdere malen is bezocht door buitenaardse wezens, maar dat dit steeds geheim werd gehouden onder druk van een militaire, industriële en financiële elite.
Onder meer getuigenverklaringen van vooraanstaande wetenschappers en officiële documenten die het bestaan van aliens aantonen passeerden de revue.
De film Unacknowledged ging op 24 april in Los Angeles in première. Kijk hieronder de livestream terug:
POSITIE BUITENAARDSE BASIS MEXICO ONTDEKT ( VIDEO )
POSITIE BUITENAARDSE BASIS MEXICO ONTDEKT ( VIDEO )
Al jarenlang berichten wij over de Mexicaanse vulkanen en de vele UFO’s die daar worden gesignaleerd.
Dit buitengewone fenomeen wordt door zo goed als de complete wereld genegeerd, maar voor ons begint er een steeds duidelijker beeld te ontstaan.
De twee meest bekende Mexicaanse vulkanen met betrekking tot UFO’s zijn de Popocatépetl en de Colima.
Bij beiden zijn de afgelopen jaren talloze onbekende vliegende objecten ontdekt en hoewel die in principe van aardse makelij zouden kunnen zijn, is het misschien toch iets aannemelijker dat het hier gaat om buitenaardse entiteiten.
Dit omdat over het algemeen menselijke UFO’s meer worden geassocieerd met locaties zoals Antarctica, Area 51 en Nellis Airforce Base om maar enkelen te noemen. Er zijn voor zover ons bekend geen aantoonbare (aardse) connecties met de Mexicaanse vulkanen.
Honderd procent zekerheid hebben we niet natuurlijk, omdat ook de sigaarvormige UFO veelal wordt waargenomen bij de Mexicaanse vulkanen, hetzelfde type wat ook regelmatig voor komt bij het ISS ruimtestation en op Mars. Deze zouden onderdeel kunnen vormen van de geheime aardse ruimtevloot, maar omdat er geen verdere verbanden bestaan met de vulkanen, lijkt het waarschijnlijker dat het hier buitenaardsen betreft.
De Colima is een vulkaan in Mexico. Anders dan de naam doet vermoeden, ligt hij niet in de deelstaat Colima, maar vlak over de grens in Jalisco. De vulkaan heeft twee toppen. De Nevado de Colima is met 4330 meter de hoogste, maar is inactief. De Volcán de Colima ligt ten zuiden van de vorige, is 3830 meter hoog en erg actief.
Scott Waring van Ufo Sightings Daily deed de afgelopen week een bijzondere ontdekking toen hij door opnames ging die gemaakt zijn door de webcams, eind januari dit jaar. Op de datum van 29 januari zag hij links een UFO arriveren en vervolgens als het ware verdwijnen tussen de twee toppen van de vulkaan zoals te zien op de volgende afbeeldingen.
Je ziet duidelijk het object dat komt aanvliegen en op een gegeven moment een forse koersverandering maakt richting wat ongetwijfeld de thuisbasis is. Scott denkt dat deze zich een aantal kilometer onder de vulkaan bevindt en als dat zo is, dan bevindt de ingang zich waarschijnlijk ergens tussen de twee toppen.
Wanneer wij terugkijken naar wat oude opnames in onze database, dan klopt die positie inderdaad.
Hierna een deel van een artikel van eind vorig jaar, waarbij een vertrekkende UFO is vastgelegd vanaf de Colima vulkaan en dan zie je dat het vertrekpunt aardig overeenkomt met de positie waar bovengenoemde UFO verdwijnt.
Waarmee dan bevestigd zou zijn dat de ingang van de basis zich ergens tussen de twee toppen bevindt.
Mensen die dingen constateren zoals die worden vastgelegd op door overheden geïnstalleerde webcams kun je moeilijk aluhoedjes, zweefkezen of complotdenkers noemen. En toch gebeurt dat vaak wanneer mensen anderen wijzen op vreemde en onverklaarbare zaken.
Toch zijn het gewoon normale mensen die ogen hebben en die op het beeld dingen zien verschijnen die volgens onze gangbare normen niet kunnen of niet bestaan.
Neem Youtubegebruiker Streetcap1, die niets anders doet dan de hele dag officiële webcams bekijken van NASA en overheden en daar soms de meest merkwaardige dingen tegenkomt.
Zo heeft hij nu (wederom) het vertrek van een cilinder- of sigaarvormige UFO uit de Mexicaanse Colima vulkaan weten vast te leggen.
In het verleden deden we al verslag over diverse van dit soort UFO’s die aankomen of vertrekken via de krater, maar dit keer vond er net op het vertrek van de UFO een uitbarsting van de Colimavulkaan plaats.
Wie weet hebben ze een soort zijingang ergens in de wand van de vulkaan of vertrok van een positie achter de Colima, dat zou ook kunnen. Of, wie weet, is er meer dan alleen dat wat wij met onze ogen kunnen waarnemen....
Op de volgende beelden die zijn vastgelegd door de webcam zie je een sigaarvormige UFO vertrekken aan de zijkant van de vulkaan en vervolgens ergens in de ruimte verdwijnen.
NASA's Space Telescope Catches Gamma-ray Flashes from Tropical Storms
NASA's Space Telescope Catches Gamma-ray Flashes from Tropical Storms
About a thousand times a day, thunderstorms fire off fleeting bursts of some of the highest-energy light naturally found on Earth.
These events, called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), last less than a millisecond and produce gamma rays with tens of millions of times the energy of visible light.
Since its launch in 2008, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has recorded more than 4,000 TGFs, which scientists are studying to better understand how the phenomenon relates to lightning activity, storm strength and the life cycle of storms.
Mysterious Glowing Green UFO Appears Over Exeter, UK
Mysterious Glowing Green UFO Appears Over Exeter, UK
Witness report:
On April 4, 2017 I was taking photos of the church in the village of Kenn, near Exeter, UK. It was a very sunny afternoon with little cloud. My car was parked a short distance from the church and returning to it I passed a gate to a field with a single tree on the sky-line.
I thought it could make a good shot even though the light was very harsh and gave it a go anyway. It was not until I got home and downloaded the photos that I noticed a cylindrical object in the shot.
I couldn't help thinking how typical is was that since at least 1969 I have seen numerous things I couldn't explain and didn't have a camera handy, and then capture something like this on camera without even seeing it with my eyes. Mufon case 83438.
The turquoise, light shaped UFO shows remarkable similarity to the glowing green UFO which appeared in the sky over the Netherlands captured by Harry Perton in Groningen in June 2015.
UFO Comes Within 100 Meters Of Space Station, NASA Is Silent On It, April 28, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Comes Within 100 Meters Of Space Station, NASA Is Silent On It, April 28, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 28, 2017
Location of sighting: ISS, Space Station
A glowing multi colored UFO showed up on live space station camera this week and we were fortunate to have Streetcap1 catch it for us. The UFO changes colors and is round, but is so bright its impossible to see any detail on it except its outer edges. The UFO is about 75-100 meters off side of the space station, clearly coming so close it must have been seen by the astronauts through their windows, not to mention the station radar.
I got up early this morning to get the full footage from the 5 hour archive to make sure that the 'live capture' I uploaded last night was legitimate. It was. Here is a link to the live capture video.
Unidentified Transparent Cylinder Captured On Live NASA Feed
Unidentified Transparent Cylinder Captured On Live NASA Feed
A mysterious object appears on NASA’s live video feed flying past the International Space Station (ISS). Many UFO enthusiasts believe it is an alien cylinder.
The item suddenly appears out the window of the ISS and gets closer before it fades away. Some conspiracy theorists believe that the UFO is partially cloaked because it seems to appear transparent. They say that the object in question could have been alien stealth technology.
They explain that alien UFO usually hides in the deep blackness of spaces and blend into the environment to be safer from other alien species that may be hostile.
The object that moves towards the space station appears to be a white oblong shape as it emerges out of the darkness.
Others are not convinced that the footage shows evidence of an alien UFO. They say that nothing past anything because the reason for such thing to appear is the light on the lens.
Some say that to conclude that it is a UFO is nonsense because the cameras on the ISS don’t produce images or videos that are blurred and out of focus.
Australian Witness at Eungella Spots, Photographs and Videotapes Cylinder UFO
Australian Witness at Eungella Spots, Photographs and Videotapes Cylinder UFO
A man in Eungella, Australia recorded on video a cylinder UFO moving about 500 feet in the sky without a noticeable sound. The witness reported the UFO sighting to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which filed as Case 82639 in its witness reporting database.
The strange incident took place when the witness, his wife, and son was outside at 6:50 early in the morning on March 14, 2017.
According to the report, the witness’ son first saw what he thought the moon. When the couple looked up, they were surprised to see a white, cylindrical or rectangular object over the clouds and flying from south to north at incredible speed.
The witness admitted that the wind was blowing in the same direction of the UFO, but the thing did not look like a balloon to the witnesses, as it did appear solid, reflective structure.
The reporting witness quickly went inside their house, grabbed his wife’s tablet, turned its camera, and zoomed in on the object. He managed to take one short video and three photos.
His wife suggested that the bizarre thing could be a glider, but they did not see a person with it, and the shape was not one would expect to see. The witness estimated the object to be at 400-500 feet or even higher. He also believes that the object is possibly 10-20 feet in length or longer.
The place where the event happened is sparsely populated with thick rainforest. To see such thing in the sky is something strange, according to the witness.
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Guess this might be what I would you expect to hear from someone in the model airplane community who isn't thinking critically. Seems Mr. Hanson thinks the best defense is a good offense. I would suggest Mr. Hanson do some serious flying with someone at his local airport, especially in some urban area and explain to the pilot how a 2 or 3 lb "rock" flying towards the windshield is not an issue. A small bird is an issue when it hits a light aircraft...a "drone" is a deadly projectile and not to be taken lightly.
It is happening much more often than he implies. I would suggest that the "vast number" of sightings that we pilots are seeing are not UFO's and in reality more often an RC model than not. What a stupid premise to suggest. What some in the modeling community fail (or just refuse) to recognize is that the "vast" majority of these aircraft are being operated by people without the requisite knowledge to operate in the National Airspace and all that comes with that...and I would suggest that it is quite a bit more than a few bad apples...many people just understand what they are dealing with when they launch one of these things from their back yard.
I grew up as a modeler myself, but learned quite a bit at the local flying field before flying my own airplane...granted, the deal was quite different many years ago in the RC world with limited radio frequencies and such which served to naturally restrict the flying to a small area with line of sight for the most part. Now, you can go down to the local hobby shop and buy an aircraft and in minutes launch it into harm's way using GPS and not even having to fly it...just send wherever it suits your fancy. Mr. Hanson does no one any favors by diminishing the issue by trying to pawn off the problem on pilots reporting flying plastic bags as drones. Please.