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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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Don’t Read These Wikipedia Pages If You Want To Sleep Tonight
Don’t Read These Wikipedia Pages If You Want To Sleep Tonight
By mercediescarlson
In case you haven’t noticed, our world is absolutely terrifying! For those of you that need (more) proof, we have put together a list of Wikipedia pages that will give you the chills.
1. The Original Night Stalker
Sacramento Police Department/Wikipedia
The Original Night Stalker killed 10 people across southern California from the 70s to 80s. He mostly targeted couples, in which he forced the women to tie up their partner before shooting them. He was never caught.
2. The Max Headroom Signal Intrusion
On November 22, 1987, someone dressed in a Max Headroom mask hijacked two TV stations while moaning, laughing, and screaming. They were never caught, but reddit user bpaog claims to know who was behind it.
3. Capgras Delusion
Jim Grantham/Getty Images
The Capgras delusion “is a disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent or other close family member (or pet) has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.” There was even a case of a 74-year-old woman that believed her husband “had been replaced by another unrelated man.” She wouldn’t sleep with him and “asked her son for a gun.”
4. The Murder of the Dupont de Ligonneses
David Vincent/AP Images
Agnes Dupont de Ligonnes and her four children were found murdered in 2011. Investigators believe that they were killed between April 3-4, but neighbors are sure that they saw Agnes days after that. Agnes’ husband, Xavier, is the main suspect in the case, but has yet to be caught.
5. Unit 731
Tsugufumi Matsumoto/AP Images
Unit 731 was a “covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army” which was infamous for doing experiments on humans. Vivisections were performed on humans without anesthesia and prisoners’ limbs were dipped in water and frozen to test treatments for frostbite.
6. List of Unusual Deaths
Maso Finiguerra/Florentine Picture Chronicle
Don’t worry, Wikipedia will help evolve your worst fears. In addition to being worried about getting in a car accident or having a heart attack, you can now know it’s possible to have a turtle drop on your skull and get hit in the face with an airborne fire hydrant.
7. The Cleveland Torso Murderer
gargantuen/Creative Commons/Flickr
In Cleveland in the 1930s, a killer that was never identified murdered 12 men and women. Most of the time, the cause of death was decapitation and dismemberment.
8. Overtoun Bridge
Allan Ogg/Creative Commons/Wikipedia
This bridge is located in West Dunbartonshire in Scotland. Many dogs have leapt off this ledge and died. What is weird, though, is that they were all from the same side of the bridge. A man threw his infant son over the bridge in 1994, believing his son was an incarnation of the devil.
9. Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
Cosmin4000/Getty Images
Seven people at a rural farmhouse in Hopkinsville, Kentucky claimed they were harassed and terrorized by “creatures similar to gremlins” in 1955.
10. The Keddie Murders
The Sacramento Bee/wordpress.com/Wikipedia
Four people rented a cabin in the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1981. They were found tied-up, bludgeoned and stabbed to death. A stake knife was found inside the cabin, and “had been used so forcefully that the blade had bent approximately 25 degrees.” The murderer was never caught.
11. Grey Goo
Wildpixel/Getty Images
The Grey Goo is a hypothetical situation that would cause the end of humanity as we know it. Self-replicating robots would build more and more of themselves, which would consume all of Earth in the process.
12. List of People Who Disappeared Mysteriously
Ryan Mcvay/Getty Images
The number of people that have disappeared and are never heard from again is startling. The list is creepy enough it may keep you in your apartment, forever.
13.Rat Torture
Vitalli Hulal/Getty Images
Torture is awful to begin with, but what if it involved a rat? Well, during the National Reorganization Process in Argentine, rats were inserted into the rectum or vagina using a tube. And during the Dutch Revolt, bowls of rats were placed down on prisoners’ bodies and heated, which caused the rats to chew through people’s flesh in an attempt to escape the heat.
14. The Voynich Manuscript
Creative Commons/Wikipedia
The Voynich Manuscript was written with an unknown system that was carbon-dated back to the early 15th century. Cryptographers have tried to decode it, but have been unsuccessful.
15. Kaz II
ABC/YouTube
This has been referred to as “the ghost yacht.” The three-man crew disappeared, but the shop was found in complete working order with the engine and a laptop running.
16. Cicada 3301
Bejim/Getty Images
This was an organization that set up complicated puzzles to “recruit highly intelligent individuals.” People claimed to have “won” some of the three rounds of recruitment, but no one has provided detailed information to what the organization is exactly doing.
17. List of Unexplained Sounds
Studio Grand Quest/Getty Images
The sound of the Upsweep and the Whistle have yet to be explained, in addition to much more terrifying noises. Many sounds from the ocean are still unidentifiable because the ocean is so dense.
18. Postmortem Photography
Creative Commons/Wikipedia
There was a time when we posed the dead as if they were actually still living. We thought this may remind us of their character when they were alive, but instead, it was very creepy and gave us nightmares.
19. Phantom Time Hypothesis
WaveBreakMedia Ltd/Getty Images
This was allegedly the period between 614 and 911 A.D. when we added in retroactivity. This meant that events that happened during this time occurred at different points in history, or didn’t happen at all. It could be just a conspiracy theory, or is it?
SCIENTISTS TO LAUNCH SPACECRAFT CAPABLE OF DETECTING PARALLEL UNIVERSES
SCIENTISTS TO LAUNCH SPACECRAFT CAPABLE OF DETECTING PARALLEL UNIVERSES
The European Space Agency’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission will be launched in 2034 and will study gravitational waves in more depth. Just last year, astronomers declared they had spotted two gravitational waves – or ripples in space - for the first time, validating Albert Einstein’s 100 year old theory. The consequence of the discovery has been enormous, with it opening up many diverse realms in the world of physics.
Since the first discovery, two more gravitational waves have been found, and researchers are looking to discover more. The LISA mission will let researchers to sense gravitational waves on the edge of the observable universe and ultimately open a world of information that physicists are uncertain of. ESA's director of science, Alvaro Giménez Cañete,told the BBC: "We have no idea what we will discover, but perhaps we can get closer to the line that divides gravity from quantum physics. This may take us there.” LISA consist of three satellites that will be placed in a triangle formation and separated by 1.6 million miles. The trio system of satellites will beam lasers to each other which will help to sense the waves in the fabric of space-time.
Moreover, as gravity is expected to be the only consistent across all 11 theoretical dimensions, gravitational waves could ultimately aid researchers to detect parallel universes. Gustavo Lucena Gomez, who is leading a study into extra dimensions at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, told New Scientist: “If there are extra dimensions in the universe, then gravitational waves can walk along any dimension, even the extra dimensions.” Dr Emilian Dudas, from the Ecole Polytechnique in France, added: “Extra dimensions have been discussed for a long time from different points of view.
“Gravitational waves could be a new twist on looking for extra dimensions.”
Dr. Steven Greer, a former emergency room doctor in the US, who gave it all up to try to expose the truth about aliens and UFOs, made another interview denouncing corrupt world leaders who are sitting on “alien technology” which could provide cost free renewable energy to the world.
He claims the existence of the world-saving technology is suppressed to allow business moguls to cash in on the oil and fossil fuel industries until they run out. However, he is fighting to get thetruth embargo lifted.
He is a leading voice in the disclosure movement worldwide.
He said:
“If along with the disclosure of intelligent life, you’re going to have the most disruptive technology in all of history come out… this becomes a big macro-economic issue and that is what the secrecy is partially rooted in.
“I began to realise that there were people inside government that know about these projects and there are people inside who do not know, and it has nothing to do with your rank, it doesn’t matter if you are the president.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re the CIA director. It only matters if the bureaucracy feels like you are going to go along with the agenda and keeping this secret.”
His theory is that if “alternative energy” produced by aliens is ever utilised, trillions of dollars invested in oil, gas, and other public utilities will be worthless.
He said major energy companies would be wiped out.
It is also suggested the world capitalist system would collapse if people were able to generate power and electricity for free.
Scientists have invented viable technologies to create free energy, including perpetual motion machines and cold fusion generators. Some of them are recruited by the governments, but most of them are assassinated by the secret services:
“Equipment does exist which can extract useable power from unconventional energy reservoirs, such as the quantum vacuum zero point energy, for little or no cost, but that anyone trying to progress the systems has been silenced or even killed before the power sources were launched.”
Other claims are that some free energy systems could also be used as an electromagnetic weapon and the US is terrified of this information getting into the wrong hands.
Gary Vesperman, of another free energy organisation, The Orion Project, said: “Many such new energy technologies, particularly those using this kind of knowledge of advanced electromagnetic principles, are considered ‘dual use’ technologies that are among the 4,000 un-numbered patent
applications confiscated in a vault at the US Patent and Trademark Office because of their military potential and the need to keep that knowledge from America’s enemies.”
Dr Greer says on his website he plans to open the Star LLC New Energy Research Lab, if he can raise $6.3million.
But, so far he has pulled in just $241,000 since 2014.
He says on the website:
“In order to research, develop and bring to the public a practical, working zero point energy system, we need a professionally staffed facility composed of the best engineers, physicists and researchers in the world.
“We estimate that this can be done over a two year period at a nominal cost of $6.3 million for the initial research and development portion of the project.
“In order to provide the security, support and synergism needed to develop the best possible new energy system we need a well-equipped lab and research facility.
“The laboratory cannot be opened until the full amount has been raised.”
So which are the countries who are most likely hiding that free technology from us and killing scientists? Well, here’s a little indication:
UIP Summary:
Nikola Tesla discovered free energy decades ago, first of all his workwas ridiculed, then stolen by the greedy banksters, our planet would be such a better place if these evil individuals didn’t exist. My question is: “Why do the aliens let the elite slowly destroy our planet and its inhabitants”? Are the aliens here on Earth as malevolent as the elite? It would appear so..
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Is The Truth About The Aliens, Going To Come Sooner Than We Think?
Is The Truth About The Aliens, Going To Come Sooner Than We Think?
It appears that the US government could soon crack and admit it has secretly been hiding evidence of alien visitations of Earth for the last 70 years, it has astonishingly been claimed – but at what price will those involved with the build up to disclosure pay?
The build up to disclosure appears to be intensifying, what with evidence now being published by leading scientists and researchers, some of which work for NASA.
The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), which campaigns to bring an end to an alleged “truth embargo” to keep the truth from the globe, believes there will soon be no going back for government insiders.
Dr Steven Greer – Pushing for the TRUTH!
Steve Bassett, executive director of the group is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the issue of alien disclosure. Many believe that he is potentially going to be the man who manages to officially uncover the truth about the ET’s and has potentially been in contact with Alien races what with his CE-5 ‘alien calling’ initiative (please click HERE for more!).
Steve is convinced that the shocking secret has been withheld amid fears of the impact it would have on religion and the rule of law since a flying saucer allegedly crashed in the New Mexico desert outside Roswell in 1947. Lets not forget what happened to the native Americans when their country was first discovered!
Mr Bassett is now seeking $50,000 to help fund the campaign to pressurise the White House to roll over and say “yes, we’ve deceived you for the last 70 years.”
He has launched an End The Truth Embargo fundraising page on gofundme.com.
Mr Bassett says on the page:
“This funding effort is in service to every citizen of every nation now convinced the world should not wait one more day for confirmation we are not alone is this universe.
“For 70 years this truth has been embargoed by your government.
“After 20 years of engagement of the issue, I know this embargo can end soon with your help.”
He believes that the money will be used to set up a permanent office in Washington DC for PRG to “keep the pressure on the media to engage the politics of disclosure throughout 2017.”
Mr Bassett said the cash would also all PRG to:
“Seek professional speaker representation, make contact with officials in European countries, develop video media for use in the disclosure advocacy movement, built up the Exopolitics World Network and United States Network, and consolidate, redesign and update PRG’s many websites and Facebook pages.”
You can see our recent interview with Mr Bassett below:
I’m sure a lot of you guys are aware of Mr Stephen Bassett, and all of the great efforts he has put into discovering the TRUTH and getting Disclosure off those who lie to us and deceive us. Stephen is a very … Continue readingStephen Bassett’s U.I.P Question & Answer Time
PRG was bouyed on May 28 when during an interview on CBS 60 Minutes billionaire space engineer, Robert Bigelow, remarkably revealed he believed there is an “extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.”
Mr Bassett said:
“He spoke truth to power. He stated unequivocally there is an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. When asked if he was concerned what people might think of that statement, he replied, ‘I don’t give a damn.’
“PRG salutes Mr Bigelow and asks, ‘Who will join him?’
“This funding campaign will ensure PRG can adjust to new strategies to ultimately bring the White House and the Pentagon to the table to work out the necessary understanding allowing disclosure.”
The funding campaign is being conducted in conjunction with Coast to Coast AM with George Noory – described as “the most listened to late night talk program in America.” Coast to Coast AM has for the past 25 years provided a platform for researchers, activists, “alien contactees”, and other UFO witnesses – Hopefully soon U.I.P will be doing a live interview with them!
So far Mr Bassett has been pledged $6,123 of his target.
This all comes after fellow disclosure activist Dr Steven Greer claimed US intelligence inside ‘moles’ were trying to break open the truth but were concerned about what will happen to them – lets not forget what has already happened to many others that have potentially tried disclosing the TRUTH:
Another Dead NASA Scientist, ‘SEVENTY FOUR’ Scientists dead in 2 years! Friday January 12th 2015, renowned scientist Alberto Behar crashed his small plane in the streets of L.A. shortly after he had taken off. Alberto worked at NASA’s ‘Jet Propulsion Laboratory’ and … Continue readingAnother Dead NASA Scientist, ‘SEVENTY FOUR’ Scientists dead in 2 years!
U.I.P SUMMARY
Unfortunately, many sceptics and wannabe debunkers, argue that Mr Bassett and Dr Greer are simply conspiracy theorists, who have got it wrong, and no aliens have ever visited Earth.
Astrophysicist elite PUPPET, Neil DeGrasse-Tyson has dismissed the whole UFO/alien truth seeker community as having no credible evidence, even though he has not ONCE sat with anybody who has ever witnessed a UFO or has disclosed inside information!?
People like self-proclaimed ‘top’ astrophysicist Mr DeGrasse-Tyson believe that anyone who donated to the fund would be wasting their hard-earned money, as apparently there is “simply nothing to disclose as no aliens have ever been here” – the question we would like to ask Neil is HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? Also why is it that people like Neil and Professor Brian Cox always appear to mock those that believe in alien life? Is that because they are potentially working under the conditioning of the Elite Cabal!?
An example of yet another so-called ‘Professor’ Brian Cox, denying the fact of the existence of Aliens:
Dr Green And Stephen Bassett appear to be doing a great job of pushing for the truth/disclosure and many will agree that Aliens are a key subject matter at the moment – but could this also be a distraction for what is REALLY going on?
Some believe that President Trump may soon disclose the truth about the ET’s, but I would not hold your breath on that one as he has far too many tweets to prioritise first.
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UFO Files exclusive: Cold War spyplane incident
UFO Files exclusive: Cold War spyplane incident
The release by Britain’s Ministry of Defence of 15 of its last remaining UFO files at the UK’s National Archives has revealed details of a stunning Cold War close encounter witnessed by the entire crew of a US Air Force spy-plane.
A RC-135 Rivet spyplane of the type operated by the USAF during the Cold War (credit: Wikipedia/USAF)
Formerly secret RAF files opened at The National Archives include a detailed account of an incident on 19 October 1982 when a USAF RC-135 plane, monitoring Soviet military activity, was buzzed by ‘a big object’ over the Eastern Mediterranean.
According to the files, British personnel at RAF Troodos, a remote base on the island of Cyprus listened in amazement to the radio calls of the American crew as the encounter unfolded at 35,000 feet above the sea.
The UFO – – described as covered in ‘a multitude of flashing lights 20 at a time’ – was picked up on the spylane’s radar as it approached from the south.
It then circled around the plane, call-sign Beano 73 – and closed in as the navigator appealed for help from the ground.
Two US Navy F-14 fighters were scrambled from an aircraft carrier and a RAF Phantom was diverted from a night flying exercise to intercept the UFO, south of the island of Cyprus.
As the three interceptors approached the USAF crew saw the UFO depart towards the African coast. Nothing was seen by the fighter pilots.
The files reveal how RAF personnel at the Troodos radar station monitored the entire incident for a period of 90 minutes, beginning shortly after 4pm local time.
Radome at 280 Signals Unit base, RAF Troodos, Mt Olympus, Cyprus – one of the most important overseas British installations
(credit: Wikipedia/Ed Weissman)
But nothing was seen by British air defence stations – ‘nor was it seen on any ground or seaborne radar, including at 280 SU [280 Signals Unit – RAF Troodos]’.
Following the encounter a secret investigation was launched by the British authorities. The results were sent to the US Department of Defense in November 1982.
Neither the British or US government have ever released information about this incident before the files were opened this week.
Officially the US Air Force’s UFO Project, Blue Book, was closed in 1969. The British Ministry of Defence closed its own UFO desk in 2009 and its secret space intelligence unit, DI55, said it was no longer interested in ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ (UAP) in 2000.
But the newly-released RAF file reveals that officials ordered a transcript to be made of the tape recording that captured radio transmissions made between the spyplane crew and ground controllers.
Copies of the report were circulated to Assistant Chief Scientist (RAF), DD Ops (GE) RAF, DI55 and DSTI.
Film provided by the RAF Troodos radar station was carefully studied by photographic experts in London and large prints, taken from the radar picture, were prepared for scrutiny by intelligence officers.
The file does not reveal what happened to this evidence. The results of the joint UK/US investigation do not appear in the file.
An extract from the RAF file on the incident
[David Clarke/The National Archives]
But a tentative explanation is offered by a senior RAF official, who wrote: ‘We have a strong suspicion that the “UFO” was a mirage effect from lights on the coast of Israel or Lebanon’.
A signal reporting the sighting sent from RAF Troodos to MoD UK on 20 October describes the UFO as ‘larger than [a] RC-135’.
Boeing RC-135 aircraft are used by the USAF and RAF to support intelligence gathering. They have been used in every armed conflict including Cold War operations around the borders of the former Soviet Union. The aircraft are 136ft (41m) in length with a wingspan of 130ft (nearly 40m).
The RAF signal reporting the encounter says the ‘object’ was first spotted: “…initially about two miles from wing of RC-135…moved position around aircraft and closed…object tailed Beano 73 for 90 mins on its northeast/southwest race track….”.
The signal says the UFO was seen by the ‘whole crew’.
Three RC-135s were purchased by the RAF in 2017 to serve with 51 Squadron based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. The crew includes two pilots, a navigator and up to 25 mission staff.
Elsewhere in the file a RAF Group Captain collated information on UFO reports received by his air defence staff for a thirty year period ending in 1996, in response to a Parliamentary Question from the Labour MP for Don Valley, Martin Redmond.
He asked all radar stations including the Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station at RAF Fylingdales on the North York Moors to submit UFO data to HQ No 11 Group.
His report says he could find “no reports or mention [was] found of UFOs detected by ADGE [Air Defence Ground Environment] units or 11/18 Group aircraft using radar equipment“.
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The Pascagoula UFO Incident: There Were More Witnesses
The Pascagoula UFO Incident: There Were More Witnesses
As Weird as it Gets - Part 4
Serious UFO-related journalism has often been hard to come by via the conventional media, especially in the U.S., but recent events may encourage more credible reporting of the seemingly incredible.
By Robert Barrow robert-barrow.blogspot.com
Mike Cataldo, now long retired from the Navy, served in 1973 as a chief petty officer in Mississippi. Like most of the country, he was familiar with the Hickson-Parker report and never met or spoke with either man, but for all the years that followed he shared with friends and family another side to the story, something of vital significancethat he finally decided to impart publicly late last year. He tried to locate a reporter in Pascagoula who wrote the original UFO story, and eventually was put in touch with Natalie Chambers of the Associated Press.
Chambers' interview with Cataldo appeared in The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal of October 21 last year, but it failed to make the coast-to-coast splash it should have, though even famed radio commentator Paul Harvey realized Cataldo's importance and devoted part of his Saturday, October 27 national broadcast to Natalie Chambers' shocker.
"When Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker told the world in 1973 they were abducted by aliens while fishing on the Pascagoula River, few believed them," her article began. "Now, after 28 years, it appears they weren't alone in their experience on that October 11 night." Indeed, at about the same time and in the same area as the UFO incident, Cataldo and fellow crew mates Ted Peralta and Mack Hanna were driving on U.S. 90, heading to Ocean Springs. Cataldo was in the back seat.
"We saw a very strange object in the horizon going from northeast across Highway 90," Cataldo recalled. "It was going pretty fast. It went down into a wood area and into the marsh. It hovered over the tree line. . .maybe a minute. We actually pulled off the road and watched it. We said, 'My God, what is that?'" Cataldo said the thing looked like a large tambourine with little lights flashing on it. "As quickly as we saw it, it just vanished." Some daylight still remained as dusk approached, so the men got a good look at the object. But Cataldo tells of a second sighting minutes later, this time in St. Andrews, as he neared his home. "It wasn't as high up as we saw the first time. It was real."
Almost hyperventilating when he ran inside to tell his wife, Cataldo knew he had to tell Navy officials. As a member of the pre-commissioning crew of the USS Tunney, under construction at Ingalls Shipyard, he reported for work the next morning and immediately contacted his executive officer to make a statement. After the weekend, he contacted Keesler AFB in Biloxi and left his phone number. However, if Cataldo expected tea and sympathy, he was mistaken. "My executive officer and crew members thought we were just lunatics, just whacked out," he told Chambers. "It never came up again. Keesler never called or did anything."
UFO researcher Kenny Young (Author's April, 2007 notation to this 2002 article: Mr. Young is now deceased) also contacted Cataldo following Natalie Chambers' article, also attempting - so far unsuccessfully -- to locate his two fellow Navy witnesses. Cataldo provided a few more details of the object, perhaps the most intriguing being that it "was less than half a mile away and looked as big as any big American airliner I've ever seen." He also confirmed that other motorists had slowed down to look at the seemingly inexplicable sky object. "We were the only ones on the road to stop and look at it though," he advised.
Importantly, Cataldo admitted, "I never knew of the Hickson-Parker abduction until days later. It happened on Thursday and it was not until the following Sunday that I saw the headline in the morning paper about two men taken aboard a flying saucer, I'm telling you I about died." He emphasizes that he can't be absolutely sure that his UFO and the fishermen's were the same, but the place and time were so close that the relationship must surely be taken seriously.
Alex Jones guest: Children have been kidnapped and sent to a slave colony on Mars
Alex Jones guest: Children have been kidnapped and sent to a slave colony on Mars
Jones: “Well I don’t know about Mars bases, but I know they’ve created massive, thousands of different types of chimeras that are alien lifeforms on this earth now”
From the June 29 edition of Genesis Communications Network’s The Alex Jones Show:
ROBERT DAVID STEELE: This may strike your listeners as way out but we actually believe that there is a colony on Mars that is populated by children who were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20 year ride. So that once they get to Mars they have no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony. There’s all kinds of --
ALEX JONES (HOST): Look, I know that 90 percent of the NASA missions are secret and I’ve been told by high level NASA engineers that you have no idea, there is so much stuff going on. But then it goes off into all that, that’s the kind of thing media jumps on. But I know this: we see a bunch of mechanical wreckage on Mars and people say, “Oh look, it looks like mechanics.” They go, “Oh, you’re a conspiracy theorist.” Clearly they don’t want us looking into what is happening. Every time probes go over they turn them off.
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JONES: Well I don’t know about Mars bases, but I know they’ve created massive, thousands of different types of chimeras that are alien lifeforms on this earth now.
Kinderen worden naar slavenkolonie op Mars gestuurd. Deze ex-CIA-medewerker zorgt voor opschudding met bizarre uitspraak
Kinderen worden naar slavenkolonie op Mars gestuurd. Deze ex-CIA-medewerker zorgt voor opschudding met bizarre uitspraak
Kinderen worden in het geheim ontvoerd en naar Mars gestuurd. Dat zei voormalig CIA-medewerker Robert David Steele tijdens een interview in de Alex Jones Show, melden diverse media.
“Wij denken dat er een kolonie op Mars is die bestaat uit kinderen die ontvoerd zijn en 20 jaar in de ruimte moesten blijven,” zei Steele.
“Op het moment dat ze aankomen op Mars zijn ze in feite slaven in de Marskolonie,” voegde hij toe.
Geheim
Presentator Alex Jones zei vervolgens dat hij weet dat 90 procent van alle NASA-missies geheim is en dat hij van hooggeplaatste medewerkers heeft gehoord dat er veel meer gebeurt dan we denken.
Hij zei ook dat er wrakstukken waren gezien op Mars en dat mensen die daarover beginnen gelijk het stempel ‘complottheoreticus’ krijgen opgeplakt.
“Ze willen duidelijk niet dat we onderzoeken wat er gebeurt,” zei Jones, die pas geleden nog werd geïnterviewd door NBC-presentatrice Megyn Kelly.
Uitgeschakeld
“Sondes die daar naartoe gaan worden elke keer uitgeschakeld,” vervolgde hij.
De NASA liet in een reactie weten dat de ruimtevaartorganisatie niet beschikt over een slavenkolonie op de rode planeet.
“Er zijn geen mensen op Mars,” liet de NASA bij monde van woordvoerder Guy Webster weten. “Er zijn wel rovers op Mars.”
Bewijzen
Eerder deze week zag het ruimteagentschap zich gedwongen te reageren op een virale video waarin werd geclaimd dat de NASA op het punt staat bewijzen van aliens vrij te geven.
De ruimtevaartorganisatie beweerde geen informatie over de ontdekking van aliens achter te houden.
Date: 01 August 2011 Satellite: Herschel Depicts: Detection of molecular oxygen in the Orion Nebula Copyright: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech
Scientists could be watching alien life form in Orion — using one of the most powerful telescopes on Earth, they’ve detected the building blocks of a habitable planet swarming with life in orbit around a star forming in that constellation.
A disk of material around the protostar is shaped like a hamburger, with two bright features like a bun sandwiching a darker cloud of material, the international team reported in the Astrophysical Journal. The whole thing contains complex organic molecules in its atmosphere above and below the disk that would be needed to support life later in the system’s development. The group says it is the first time scientists have made such a discovery so early in a star’s formation and it can tell us how life began on earth.
The complex organic molecules, like methanol, are believed to lead to biomolecules like amino acids and sugars.
The disk of material around a young star, known as an accretion disk, is the material from which the star and planets form to create a solar system. This one in the Orion constellation is about 60 astronomical units deep, the study estimates, with a single one of those units being the equivalent to the distance between Earth and the sun. It could help us understand how planets are formed, specifically habitable planets.
“These molecules play a crucial role in producing the rich organic chemistry needed for life,” according to the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan, which led the research. “The discovery suggests that the building blocks of life are produced in such disks at the very beginning of star formation and that they are available to be incorporated into planets that form in the disk subsequently. It could help us understand how life came to be on Earth.”
An artist’s concept shows an atmosphere of complex organic molecules within a disk of material that is ringed around a young star still forming in constellation Orion.
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The researchers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, also known as ALMA, to find this disk with an atmosphere full of organic molecules. The observatory in Chile uses a telescope and a group of antennas to search the vast expanses of outer space, taking advantage of the high altitude and dry air in the Atacama desert to get clearer views.
It’s not the only Orion project ALMA has recently worked on. Just earlier this week, scientists announced they had used the telescope to get the most detailed ever photo of a star other than the sun. It was Betelgeuse, which makes up one of the shoulders in the constellation of the great hunter.
The protostar, Herbig-Haro 212, is about 1,300 light years away from Earth and is only about 40,000 years old. That age is about 100,000 times younger than the sun, and its mass is only about 20 percent of the sun’s.
Herbig-Haro objects are patches of material that are associated with baby stars, and that is where this protostar gets its name.
Scientists have previously found complex organic molecules necessary to support life in older stars but not one in such an early stage.
“When such molecules were first found in the protoplanetary disk around a star in a later phase of star formation, we wondered if they could have formed earlier,” lead researcher Chin-Fei Lee at ASIAA said in the institute’s statement. “These molecules are the building blocks of life, and they are already there in the disk atmosphere around the baby star in the earliest phase of star formation.”
If you were to look up at the sky early in the morning in Virginia on Thursday, you might’ve seen a cluster of floating green orbs and deduced they must be alien life-forms descending on Earth to wreak havoc. In actuality, it was NASA launching a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Though no one would blame you for thinking otherwise, it was a spectacular sight. The rocket shot 10 soda can-sized canisters filled with colorful vapors into space, which, once released, formed beautiful artificial clouds. Spectators from as far as New York could see the clouds, which scientists used to better understand how particles move through space. (Though I’m sure they enjoyed the view as well.)
Prior to Thursday’s launch, the mission had been delayed several times with the initial launch set to happen earlier in June. Luckily for us, we got a pre-Fourth of July light show of cosmic proportions. According to NASA, the facility received nearly 2,000 messages and photos from people who were up at 4 a.m. to watch the launch. You can check out NASA’s photo from the evening below, but beware, it may ruin whatever fireworks show you had planned for next week.
A NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket was successfully launched at 4:25 a.m., Thursday, June 29. The rocket flew to an altitude of about 118 miles. The mission was a test of a new multi-canister ejection system for deploying vapors in ionosphere or aurora sounding rocket missions. (NASA Photo/J. Adkins)
The Milky Way is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy, and when the two colossal entities meet, they’ll shred each other apart.
What remains less certain, however, is what will happen to each of the galaxies’ black holes — those cryptic places in space where gravity’s pull is so powerful, not even light can escape. Now, for the first time, scientists have observed two “supermassive” black holes orbiting each other in a galaxy unfathomably far away from Earth — 750 million light-years — providing a clue to our own galaxy’s smashing fate. The observations were published this week in The Astrophysical Journal.
Inside this far-off galaxy, University of New Mexico scientists spotted two black holes and have been watching them closely for over a decade. They are huge, with a combined mass of 15 billion times our humble sun, and scientists estimate that it takes 24,000 years for these black masses to orbit one another. This presents a problem, because us Earthlings can’t possibly live long enough to glimpse the curving nature of their orbits.
“The best way to detect orbital motion is to be able to see the curvature, but we would have to live 4,000 years,” the study’s lead author and astrophysicist Karishma Bansal, tells Inverse. “The process itself is slow — maybe after 1,000 years, but I won’t be here so I won’t know.”
A false color image of the two massive black holes, as observed by the Very Large Array radio telescopes. Each black hole is surrounded by discs of orbiting matter, with jets of other matter shooting out atop and below.
Measuring this curvature would be like trying to discern the travels of a snail in another solar system. “If you imagine a snail on the recently-discovered Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri — 4.243 light years away — moving at 1 centimeter per second, that’s the angular motion we’re resolving here,” said Roger W. Romani, a physics professor at Stanford University.
Lacking immortality, Bansal and her team tried another tactic. She pinpointed the locations of both colossal galaxies, using a system of 10 radio telescopes placed across the U.S., collectively called the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), and over a period of 12 years they measured how one galaxy moved in relation to the other. The plotted changes in position suggest that the two black holes, forced together by a convergence of galaxies, are orbiting one another, though the shape of their orbits remains unknown.
Orbiting black holes are certainly intriguing, but scientists like Bansal wonder what happens next. The assumption is that these black holes will one day collide (a recurring theme in our universe), creating the rippling gravitational waves discovered in 2016 by a team of over 1,000 scientists, but there is no observable evidence of this collision occurring.
Finding a more compact binary galaxy system — with two black holes that don’t take 24,000 years to orbit one another — could give researchers a better look into the behaviors of these orbiting mega-masses, perhaps an instance of two black holes orbiting each other, or even fusing together, or absorbing one another in some twisted, cosmic union. “If we manage to find something closer, that would be huge,” says Basnal. “That would tell us what would happen. Their fate – it’s a mystery.”
An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows two galaxies colliding 140 million light-years from Earth.
And this will show us what fate has in store for our galaxy, the Milky Way, as it’s on course for a consequential meeting with the billion-star Andromeda, though in, perhaps, one billion years.
“They will rip one another apart, and the material around each other will merge,” explains Basnal. “Because they are both spiral galaxies, and are both so huge, they will distort the structure of one another.”
As for the black holes, it remains to be known, but scientists are peering into the cosmos to find out. “That’s what’s cool about astronomy,” she says. “You get to see something about our own future.”
Abstract:The radio galaxy 0402+379 is believed to host a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB). The two compact-core sources are separated by a projected distance of 7.3 pc, making it the most (spatially) compact resolved SMBHB known. We present new multi-frequency VLBI observations of 0402+379 at 5, 8, 15, and 22 GHz and combine them with previous observations spanning 12 years. A strong frequency-dependent core shift is evident, which we use to infer magnetic fields near the jet base. After correcting for these shifts we detect significant relative motion of the two cores at at . With some assumptions about the orbit, we use this measurement to constrain the orbital period yr and SMBHB mass . While additional observations are needed to confirm this motion and obtain a precise orbit, this is apparently the first black hole system resolved as a visual binary.
Something unusual was happening in the skies over Scandinavia in the summer of 1946.
The July 12, 1946 edition of the London Daily Telegraph featured a report on this curious new phenomenon, which read as follows:
“For some weeks a fair number of ‘ghost rockets’ going from south-east to north-west have been reported from various parts of the eastern coast of Sweden. Eye witnesses say that they look like glowing balls and are followed by a tail of smoke more or less visible. So many reports cannot be put down to pure imagination in the matter. As there is no definite evidence that the phenomena are of meteoric origin, there is growing suspicion that they are a new kind of radio-controlled V-weapon on which experiments are carried out.”
Of course, it might be assumed that one variety of these unusual aerial objects had already begun to turn up prior to the end of the war. Colorful reports of strange lights that dogged aircraft over parts of Europe would soon be known as “Foo Fighters,” of which at least a majority of reports could have entailed things like lightning sprites observed by pilots.
However, while the “ghost rocket” craze was well underway in Europe and Scandinavia, a very different kind of rocket was being seen in other parts of the world.
One of the most remarkable incidents involving an unidentified flying object, which occurred prior to the subject’s popularity coinciding with Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 sighting, involved Captain Jack Puckett, the assistant chief of flying safety, Tactical Air Command. On the morning of August 1, 1946, Puckett was piloting a twin engine C-47, and had left Langley Field for MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Florida.
Puckett was thirty miles from his destination when what appeared to be a long, brightly illuminated object nearly collided with his C-47. Puckett filed an incident report after he landed, according to which he stated:
“[The aircraft] continued toward us on a collision course, at our exact altitude. At about 1,000 yards, it veered to cross our path. We observed it to be a long, cylindrical shape approximately twice the size of a B-29 bomber, with luminous portholes.”
Puckett and his crew aboard the C-47 watched the object in amazement, until it disappeared over the horizon, traversing an estimated 100 miles over the course of three minutes.
The object Puckett witnessed also produced a strange, sparkling tail, much like a rocket would; this detail would certainly present a lot of confusion among aviation officials at the time, in addition to increasing speculation about new kinds of technologies that might be under development elsewhere in the world. The technical information about rocketry advancements spearheaded in Nazi Germany during World War II, along with many of the leading experts in this field, were acquired by the British, Soviet, and American governments during and immediately following the war. America had previously gained access to V-2 rocket technology the Allies recovered at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp near Nordhausen, where an underground German rocket base known as the Mittelwerk factory, had been located. British forces managed to take away a wealth of information prior to the later Soviet occupation of the area. By late 1945, this information formed the basis of what became Operation Backfire, a program where British V-2 rockets were built and launched for purposes of demonstrating their capabilities.
The significance of Puckett’s encounter goes beyond the mere recollection of a “mystery aircraft” for a number of reasons. For one, as mentioned earlier, this sighting took place well in advance (by almost a year) the sighting of objects over Mount Rainer, Washington, that sparked the eventual “flying saucer craze.” In addition to the sighting taking place prior to the swelling of reports that accompanied Kenneth Arnold’s initial UFO sightings over the northwest, the fact that the assistant chief of flying safety with Tactical Air Command would report an aircraft of this sort, and only months after the conclusion of the Second World War, would likely have been considered to be of sincere concern as far as national security; to have fabricated such a report would have meant severe repercussions for Puckett and his crew.
Additionally, the object in question had initially been considered a meteor by Puckett and his crew, while still at a fair distance from them. “This object continued toward us on a collision course at our exact altitude,” he continued in his incident report. “At about 1000 yards it veered to cross our path. We observed it to be a long, cylindrical shape approximately twice the size of a B-29, with luminous portholes.” It would seem unusual indeed that the pilot and crew would see a meteor, and then mistake the meteor as it traversed their altitude for being a massive aircraft of some kind, adorned with “luminous portholes”.
Finally, the idea that the object had been a misidentification of some variety of natural phenomenon seems unusual, since Puckett and his crew’s description matched a number of similar UFO reports that would follow, most notably the famous 1948 Chiles and Whitted UFO encounter (dramatized in the image above), along with a similar observation that occurred shortly afterward in France.
Granted, by the time the Chiles and Whitted sighting occurred, the “UFO craze” was already well underway. Indeed, Captain Jack Puckett’s unusual observation of a weird, “ghost rocket” over the American Southeast remains one of the most unusual, and perhaps significant observations of unexplained aerial activity in the modern era.
Amerikaanse acteur bezocht door een alien. In dit interview doet hij een boekje open
Amerikaanse acteur bezocht door een alien. In dit interview doet hij een boekje open
De Amerikaanse acteur Chris Colfer, vooral bekend door zijn rol van Kurt Hummel in de serie Glee, was onlangs te gast in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon om zijn nieuwe boek te promoten.
Tijdens het interview beweerde hij dat hij als kind getuige is geweest van een bovennatuurlijk fenomeen.
Colfer vertelde aan presentator Jimmy Fallon dat hij al op jonge leeftijd gefascineerd was door buitenaardsen en zelfs naar Peru afreisde op zoek naar aliens.
Hoestdrank
Hij legde uit dat hij toen hij jonger was eens bezoek heeft gehad van een alien:
“Toen ik nog een kind was, had ik bronchitis en was ik erg ziek,” zei hij. “Ik nam veel hoestdrank, dus misschien was het wel een hallucinatie.”
“Ik werd midden in de nacht wakker en zag dat er aan mijn voeteneinde een kleine alien stond,” vervolgde hij.
Telepathisch
Colfer vertelde vervolgens hoe de alien telepathisch met hem communiceerde:
“Ik was verrast en begon niet te schreeuwen,” zei hij. “Hij was zo schattig, ik kon het gewoon niet. Hij was zo lief en zei: ‘beterschap’.”
Golden Globe
Colfer won vanwege zijn rol in Glee een Golden Globe. Hij stond ook bovenaan de bestsellerslijst van de New York Times en stond in 2011 in de lijst van 100 meest invloedrijke mensen van Time Magazine.
Houston, we have a problem' Apollo 13 mission notes up for auction
Houston, we have a problem' Apollo 13 mission notes up for auction
THE flight plan for the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission which had to be drastically altered following the 'Houston, we have a problem' emergency on board has been unearthed.
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The Apollo 13 mission set off on April 11, 1970
The 352-page document bears the annotations made by all three crew members recording in detail the actions they had to take after an explosion ripped off part of their space ship.
The mission notes include the crucial changes made to the flight plan that ensured the stricken craft defied the odds and returned to Earth rather than float out to space.
It was presented by mission commander Jim Lovell, who was played by Tom Hanks in the 1995 movie Apollo 13, and fellow astronauts Fred Haise and Jack Swigert to the lead flight planner Robert 'Bob' Lindsey following their return.
The front page of the plan carries a touching personal message from the trio, thanking Lindsey for putting together the 'perfect' flight plan.
It reads: "To Bob - a truly perfect flight plan as far as we got. We know it would have led us by the hand the rest of the way also.
"Thanks for this remarkable document which we carried to the moon on Odyssey 11 - 17 April 1970."
The flight plan has remained in the Lindsey family for the last 47 years and they have now decided to put it up for auction with an estimate price of £30,000.
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The flight plan was presented by mission commander Jim Lovell
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The mission notes include the crucial changes made to the flight plan
The Apollo 13 mission which set off on April 11, 1970 was meant to culminate in a third moon landing, with Lovell and Haise voyaging to the lunar surface while Swigert orbited in the command module Odyssey.
But just under 56 hours into the mission, an oxygen tank explosion resulted in a major loss of electrical power to the command and service module, forcing the crew to cancel the lunar landing and move into the Aquarius lunar module.
They used it as a lifeboat in order to survive a four day journey around the moon and return back to Earth.
With NASA experts working around the clock and under tremendous pressure, an alternate flight plan had to be rapidly developed which resulted in the safe return of the crew despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
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Just under 56 hours into the mission, an oxygen tank explosion resulted in a major loss of power
The flight plan, which measures 8.5in by 10in, is divided into seven sections consisting of timelines, consumables and food logs.
The notations in black felt-tip pen were by Lovell, in blue ball-point pen by Swigert and in pencil by Haise.
There is an element of foreshadowing as a problem with the tank gauge is noted nine hours before the oxygen tank exploded.
The pre-ordained flight plan for hours 55 to 56 - the time of the explosion - has been crossed out with annotations made in haste as alternative plans were developed in light of the disastrous event.
The meal log at the back of the flight plan was altered because the loss of power caused by the explosion meant they could not boil water to rehydrate food.
Cassandra Hatton, vice president of the books and manuscripts department of auctioneers Sotheby's, said: "It has really been exciting for me going through the flight plan page by page to see how much of the mission had to be scrapped since they didn't land.
"You can see all the new calculations, the new plans and the new procedures they had to follow to make it back alive.
"When you go through the flight plan you can foreshadow the explosion since there are references to a problem with the oxygen tank in the hours before the explosion.
"When you look at the meal log at the back of the flight plan you can see how big a problem it was when they lost power because they could not boil water to rehydrate their food.
"They had no food, no water, no power. It's incredible that they made it back to the earth with the on the fly procedures.
"Going through the flight plan you realise how well trained and prepared the astronauts and ground control were to survive despite all the obstacles.
"Page by page you live the mission with them. I was very tense reading it.
"This is an incredible primary document of the most dramatic and harrowing mission of the Apollo program.
"The importance of this document can not be overstated." The drama that unfolded during the Apollo 13 mission was re-told in the Hollywood film starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon as Swigert and the late Bill Paxton as Haise.
However, the film is inaccurate when it shows the astronauts ripping off the front cover of the flight plan to clean a filter as the actual flight plan's front cover is still intact.
Instead a lunar module cue card was used to do the job.
Scientists from the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are now able to use brain activation patterns to identify complex thoughts and their roots.
The ‘mind reading’ technology shows that the brain forms complex thoughts through various sub-systems and are not word-based.
The research carried out by CMU’s Marcel Just offers fresh evidence that the basics of concept representation are universal and not specific to language.
Professor Just said: "One of the big advances of the human brain was the ability to combine individual concepts into complex thoughts, to think not just of 'bananas,' but 'I like to eat bananas in evening with my friends’.
"We have finally developed a way to see thoughts of that complexity in the fMRI signal.
“The discovery of this correspondence between thoughts and brain activation patterns tells us what the thoughts are built of.”
The study revealed that the brains coding of complex sentences, such as "The witness shouted during the trial”, uses an alphabet of 42 meaning components and triggers activity in the brain relating to person, setting, size, social interaction and physical action of the items involved in a given sentence.
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"This advance makes it possible for the first time to decode thoughts containing several concepts."
Each bit of information is processed in a different region of the brain which allowed the computer, which used machine learning algorithms, to predict what type of thoughts are being conjured.
The scientists used seven adult participants and asked them to think of 240 pre-agreed sentences.
By monitoring the brains using fMRI scans the machine was able to predict with 89 per cent accuracy what features were being left out of a sentence.
Prof Just added: "Our method overcomes the unfortunate property of fMRI to smear together the signals emanating from brain events that occur close together in time, like the reading of two successive words in a sentence.
"This advance makes it possible for the first time to decode thoughts containing several concepts. That’s what most human thoughts are composed of."
"A next step might be to decode the general type of topic a person is thinking about, such as geology or skateboarding.
“We are on the way to making a map of all the types of knowledge in the brain."
IMPACT of asteroid that will approach Earth in 2029 ‘CANNOT be ruled out’
Astronomers have calculated the Apophis asteroid will speed past Earth on April 13, 2029, at just 18,600 miles away – a hair’s width in astronomical terms. To put that into perspective, the moon is 238,900 miles away.
Due to the close proximity in which the giant space rock will pass, scientists believe the near-miss will alter the asteroid’s orbit, which could lead it to collide with Earth in the future.
If the 27 billion kg asteroid were to hit Earth, scientists calculate that it would leave a crater over a mile wide and a staggering 518 metres deep.
However, most worryingly, the impact would be equivalent to 880 million tons of TNT being detonated – some 65,000 times as powerful as the nuclear bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima.
The next time the asteroid is set to pass Earth after 2029 is 2036.
Alberto Cellino of the Observatory of Turin in Italy, told Astrowatch: “We can rule out a collision at the next closest approach with the Earth, but then the orbit will change in a way that is not fully predictable just now, so we cannot predict the behaviour on a longer timescale.”
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"We cannot predict the behaviour on a longer timescale.”
However, Alan Harris, a former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), says Apophis has a negative “Palermo Scale” – a negative Palermo Scale indicates less of an impact risk with asteroids.
Mr Harris said: "Apophis has a Palermo Scale rating of about minus three, so while we cannot rule out an impact in the future, it is about 1,000 times less likely than a random impact in the same interval of time.
“Due to a close but non-impacting pass by the Earth, there are numerous possible impact trajectories beyond that, but all are of very low probability.”
Wormholes have long been considered to exist only in the realms of science fiction, but some physicists believe the theoretical portals could be real, and there could be one relatively close by.
Wormholes, which were predicted by Einstein in his theory of General Relativity, are areas where space and time are bent to manipulate the distance.
It would take a huge mass to produce the manipulation of spacetime, and no natural examples have ever been found.
However, experts from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, say they are possible, and could be hiding within dark matter inside the Milky Way.
Professor Paulo Salucci, said: "If we combine the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model to explain the universe, and we hypothesise the existence of space-time tunnels, what we get is that our galaxy could really contain one of these tunnels, and that the tunnel could even be the size of the galaxy itself.
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"Our result is very important because it confirms the possible existence of wormholes"
"But there's more. We could even travel through this tunnel, since, based on our calculations, it could be navigable. Just like the one we've all seen in the recent film ‘Interstellar'."
Scientists had believed any wormholes which exist in the universe could simply be the size of a pin prick.
However, the team of astrophysicists say the one in our galaxy could be big enough to fit a spaceship which could traverse the cosmos, as they would likely exist in other spiral galaxies.
Prof Salucci, continued: "Obviously we're not claiming that our galaxy is definitely a wormhole, but simply that, according to theoretical models, this hypothesis is a possibility.”
The paper published in the Annals of Physics, read: "Our result is very important because it confirms the possible existence of wormholes in most of the spiral galaxies.
"Dark matter may supply the fuel for constructing and sustaining a wormhole. Hence, wormholes could be found in nature and our study may encourage scientists to seek observational evidence for wormholes in the galactic halo region."
Wormgaten naar andere sterrenstelsels in de Melkweg. Gaan deze mysterieuze tunnels ons naar verre oorden brengen?
Wormgaten naar andere sterrenstelsels in de Melkweg. Gaan deze mysterieuze tunnels ons naar verre oorden brengen?
In de Melkweg bevindt zich mogelijk een enorme ingang naar een ander sterrenstelsel. Deze poort zou groot genoeg zijn voor ruimteschepen.
Volgens een nieuwe studie kunnen we net als in de film Interstellar door dit soort wormgaten reizen.
Het moet mogelijk zijn om via wormgaten in een oogwenk van de ene plek in het heelal naar de andere te reizen.
Supermassief zwart gat
Wetenschappers schrijven over de vondst in het tijdschrift Annals of Physics.
Volgens Italiaanse onderzoekers kan een supermassief zwart gat in het hart van de Melkweg een wormgat zijn.
De wetenschappers, die hun conclusie hebben gebaseerd op ingewikkelde wiskundige modellen, zeggen dat de poort gemaakt kan zijn van donkere materie, een onzichtbare en mysterieuze substantie waar naar schatting een kwart van het heelal uit bestaat.
Groot genoeg
“Ons sterrenstelsel kan één van deze tunnels bevatten,” zei professor Paulo Salucci van de internationale school voor geavanceerde studies SISSA in Triëst.
“Deze tunnel kan net zo groot zijn als de Melkweg zelf. We kunnen door de tunnel reizen, net als in de film Interstellar,” voegde hij toe.
Het wormgat in de Melkweg is waarschijnlijk groot genoeg voor een ruimteschip, zo denkt het onderzoeksteam.
Drijvende kracht
“We beweren niet dat ons sterrenstelsel een wormgat is, maar op basis van onze modellen behoort deze hypothese zeker tot de mogelijkheden,” aldus Salucci.
Hij vermoedt dat ook andere sterrenstelsels zoals Andromeda wormgaten bevatten.
“Wij zeggen dat spiraalvormige sterrenstelsels mogelijk wormgaten bevatten. Donkere materie kan de drijvende kracht zijn achter de vorming van zo’n wormgat,” aldus het team.
STRANGE DIAMOND SHAPED OBJECT SPOTTED NEAR TORNADO OVER VIRGINIA
STRANGE DIAMOND SHAPED OBJECT SPOTTED NEAR TORNADO OVER VIRGINIA
Garcia Doores was driving along Route 28 in Virginia in the USA on June 23 this year when something strange appeared in the sky causing Doores to stop and pull over. She then took some photographs of what seemed to be a tornado in the sky with an object that was shaped like a diamond next to it.
TORNADO SEEMED TO BE SPAWNED FROM DIAMOND SHAPED OBJECT IN SKY
It would be very unusual for a cloud to take on the perfect shape of a diamond she said. As seen in the photographs it certainly does look like a perfect diamond shape. Other people have said the same thing and they have said that perhaps what she captured on the photo was a man-made object that was perhaps used for manipulating and altering the weather.
Other people have suggested that perhaps it is a weather weapon that has the ability to be able to make, steer and even trigger tornadoes, but why would someone want to do such a thing?
WEST VIRGINIA IS POPULAR PLACE FOR UFO SIGHTINGS
West Virginia seems to be a popular region for UFO reports. In January of this year in Parkersburg, a man was out and about looking at the stars with a new telescope and he took a break after trying to focus in on a different star. He then saw a black object that was diamond shaped which had three yellow lights that were static and the craft was moving slowly over the sky at about 9.30pm. Many more sightings of strange objects in the sky have been reported in the West Virginia region, including in Buckhannon, Saint Albans, Clay County and Bluefield.
THIS RUSSIAN SATELLITE WILL BE THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE SKY, LAUNCH ON JULY 14, 2017
THIS RUSSIAN SATELLITE WILL BE THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE SKY, LAUNCH ON JULY 14, 2017
A Russian satellite with the name of Mayak, which when translated into English means Beacon, will be launched into space in just two weeks’ time and when it does it will be the brightest star up in the sky at night.
SCIENTISTS AND ASTRONOMERS THINK SATELLITE COULD HAVE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES
The goal of Russia is to make the satellite unique and they have done this by using a material that is reflective. However, there are some scientists who have given out warnings that the coating may have some negative consequences.
The Russian satellite is only about the size of the typical loaf of bread and it is a CubeSat. Russia is going to launch the satellite on a Soyuz 2.1v vehicle on 14 July and it will be sent from Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is in Kazakhstan and it will be a secondary payload.
SATELLITE PROJECT RAISED $30,000 ON CROWDSOURCING WEBSITE
The project had been headed by the Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University and they managed to raise over $30,000 on Boomstarter, a crowdfunding website in Russia.
Once the satellite is in orbit, which will be around 600 kilometers, it has been designed to unfurl a huge solar reflector that is a giant pyramid shape. Russia said that the goal of the satellite is for it to shine much brighter than any star currently in the night sky. To ensure that it does they made a reflector out of Mylar and it spans 16 square meters. The Mylar reflector is about 20 times thinner than the hair on the head of a human. The satellite's mission is also going to show off technology, this is a test of how to brake a satellite once it is in orbit and then de-orbiting it.
The leader of the project Alexander Shaenko said that they wanted to be able to show that exploring space is both interesting and exciting; along with the fact that today space exploration is open to anyone who is interested. The sole mission of Mayak is to shine brightly in the night sky and remove satellites from the orbit of Earth that is defunct.
SATELLITE COULD BE AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON
The project is at risk of scientific and environmental group backlash; depending of course just how bright the satellite really is when in orbit. Some have suggested that perhaps it could be as brightly shining as the Moon. If it were to be excessively bright then it may cause trouble for astronomers as they rely on a dark sky to be able to view the universe. One astronomer and former deputy director from the Northumberland Kielder Observatory said that astronomers fight hard for dark skies around the globe. He went on to say that the possibility of it potentially being ruined by ridiculous crowdfunded nonsense turns his heart to despair.
While there may be many who are skeptical about the launch of the satellite, they will not keep it from being launched. The Mayak satellite is going into space on 14 July and for now, the only thing astronomers can do is pray that it will not be too bright.
Image of strange blue orb over Merrimack, New Hampshire confuse witnesses
Image of strange blue orb over Merrimack, New Hampshire confuse witnesses
A photograph that shows a strange blue orb has people questioning what that strange light in the sky over Merrimack in New Hampshire.
Trish Wilson sent in the above photo to NH1 News asking, "What is this?" NH1 meteorologists took a look at the photo and said it looked like some sort of refraction of light from the sun interacting with the clouds.
Along with NH1 News, Wilson also sent the photo over to UFO Sightings Hotspot. They said the object was most likely a lens flare, pointing out that it looks very similar to one captured on a NASA camera on June 11. It can be seen in the video below around the 31 minute mark, reports NH1 News.
Indeed, I have discussed with Trish about this sighting and as NH1 News reported, in my opinion rather than a UFO sighting the blue orb is a typically lens flare, characteristic by the white dots visible especially in these kind of lens flares.
Though it is understandable that there is much confusion about this type of lens flare given the fact that almost every day people submit images of lens flares to the Mufon network wondering if they have photographed a UFO or not.
Above images show the NASA-ISS lens flare as well as similar lens flares captured in Ontario, Canada and Alta, Utah, this year.
Emily was only a few feet away from the beings and believes she was given messages.
One of the most outstanding UFO experiences involving a group of children took place on September 16, 1994. Approximately 60 children between 5 and 12 years old were playing outside their school on the outskirts of the capital of Zimbabwe when they saw a large spaceship and several smaller craft gliding over the scrubland.
The spacecraft landed beside their playground. The children claim that they were approached by beings from the ships and that the whole encounter lasted about 15 minutes.
Emily Trim was one of those children. As a young student at the Ariel primary school near the town of Ruwa in Zimbabwe, the incident was made famous when it was covered by the BBC, who interviewed the children soon after the incident. Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack traveled to the school to interview the children and recorded their extraordinary accounts.
To this day, she says, the incident still affects her. Standing only a few feet away from the beings she believes that she was given messages.
She has been painting and drawing mysterious and beautiful images she feels are a manifestation of the messages she received.
In this video, Emily Trim speaks publicly of the first time at the Alien Cosmic Expo 2015. Her emotional testimony conveys the depth of her personally moving experience as a child who was face to face with an extraterrestrial being.
EMN apologizes for the sound issues. Best heard through headphones or earbuds. Transcription is below.
Here below is the original 1994 BBC video interview by Dr. John Mack of those young children at the Ariel primary school near the town of Ruwa in Zimbabwe.
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“I was a witness from the Ruwa, Zimbabwe event. I was just over 8 years old when this happened. I was born in Canada. I’m from a family of five. I have a brother and a sister. My brother was also at the school during the time of the event. My parents are missionaries for the Salvation Army. That’s why we were down in Ruwa Zimbabwe. We were in Zaire before that, then went to Zim, and we all attended Ariel, which was a lovely school. I’m really thankful for that experience, putting aside the UFO phenomenon. It was a beautiful place to live and to be.
So, on that day … I can only speak about my perspective and where I was. Every child was in a different area of the playground. But it was recess and broad daylight … and we were just doing our normal thing … playing games. There were boundary lines along the property and one of the games my friend and I used to play was hopping on the boundary lines.
Then we heard a high pitch frequency sound, and — out side perspective — we saw a flash and a craft.
And it’s really hard to describe time at this point, so I don’t know how long this all happened. All I can tell you is that two beings were hopping along beside Lisa and I. And … they were curious. They weren’t touching the ground [inaudible] … they were almost like mimicking us.
All of a sudden they were in front of us. I describe them as being about arm’s reach. And we were frozen. Telepathic images started going across my face … communication through the eyes … that’s all I can really describe it as. It was just image after image after image.
One of the other girls standing beside me, she got more communication about the environment, and, for me, mine was more technology uses and [inaudible] uses of technology.
[Moderator speaks clearly, no need for transcription.]
I’ll just … I’ll never forget that day.
Question from the audience: Have you had any other experiences with the same being?
Emily: I don’t know if it’s the exact same being, but what I can say … Yes.
[Emily describing one of her paintings:] So when we were talking about the time (of the event, which) I depicted here. I don’t know when I’m going to realize what I’m drawing. It just comes out. For me, it’s like an energy that’s all around us that’s causing time to stop at that point. [inaudible, including description of the feeling of being frozen.]
Question from the audience: Could you explain what the other beings that have been coming to her, as far as you know, look like.
Emily: You mean when I’m having experiences? [Yes.] I’ll just say that they can alter perception so they can change to make you almost feel a bit more comfortable with what you’ve seen. The last encounter there were grays. A face went back and forth between a being and lion.
[Moderator speaks.]”
*Special thanks to NonDuality Talk for the transcription!
FRENCH VERSION
«Je fus témoin de l’événement Ruwa, au Zimbabwe. J’étais un peu plus de 8 ans, quand cela est arrivé. Je suis née au Canada. Je suis d’une famille de cinq personnes. J’ai un frère et une soeur. Mon frère a également été à l’école pendant le temps de l’événement. Mes parents sont missionnaires pour l’Armée du Salut. Voilà pourquoi nous étions à Ruwa Zimbabwe. Nous étions au Zaïre avant cela, puis nous sommes allés à Zim, et nous avons tous assisté à Ariel, qui était une belle école. Je suis vraiment reconnaissant pour cette expérience, en mettant de côté le phénomène OVNI. Ce fut un bel endroit pour vivre et d’être. Donc, ce jour-là … Je ne peux que parler de mon point de vue et où je me trouvais. Chaque enfant se trouvait dans une autre zone de l’aire de jeux. Mais il était évidement et plein jour … et nous étions juste en train de faire notre truc normal … jouer à des jeux. Il y avait des lignes de démarcation le long de la propriété et l’un des jeux mon ami et moi l’habitude de jouer a été sautillant sur les lignes de démarcation. Ensuite, nous avons entendu une fréquence sonore élevé, et – perspective sur côté – nous avons vu un flash et un métier. Et il est vraiment difficile de décrire le temps à ce moment, donc je ne sais pas combien de temps tout cela est arrivé. Tout ce que je peux vous dire est que deux êtres sautillaient le long côté Lisa et I. Et … ils étaient curieux. Ils ne touchent pas le sol [inaudible] … ils étaient presque comme nous imiter. Tout d’un coup, ils étaient en face de nous. Je les décris comme étant sur la portée de la main. Et nous avons été gelés. images télépathiques commencé à aller sur mon visage … la communication à travers les yeux … qui est tout ce que je peux vraiment le décrire comme. Il était juste image après image après image. L’une des autres filles, debout à côté de moi, elle a obtenu plus de communication sur l’environnement, et, pour moi, le mien était plus d’utilisations de la technologie et [inaudible] utilisations de la technologie. [Modérateur parle clairement, pas besoin de transcription.] Je vais juste … Je ne l’oublierai jamais ce jour-là. Question du public: Avez-vous eu d’autres expériences avec le même être? Emily: Je ne sais pas si c’est le même être exact, mais ce que je peux dire … Oui. [Emily décrivant une de ses peintures:] Ainsi, lorsque nous parlions du temps (de l’événement, qui) je peignais ici. Je ne sais pas quand je vais réaliser ce que je dessine. Il sort juste. Pour moi, il est comme une énergie qui est tout autour de nous qui est la cause de temps pour arrêter à ce moment-là. [Inaudible, y compris la description du sentiment d’être gelé.] Question du public: Pourriez-vous expliquer ce que les autres êtres qui viennent à elle, aussi loin que vous le savez, ressemblent. Emily: Tu veux dire quand je vais avoir des expériences? [Oui.] Je vais juste dire qu’ils peuvent changer la perception afin qu’ils puissent changer pour vous faire presque sentir un peu plus à l’aise avec ce que vous avez vu. La dernière rencontre, il y avait des gris. Un visage allait et venait entre un être et le lion. [Modérateur parle.] “
Was Mars like Earth before it was Nuked? Scientist Says “Yes!”
Was Mars like Earth before it was Nuked? Scientist Says “Yes!”
SCIENTIST: Civilizations on Mars NUKED Into Oblivion! Totally WIPED OUT! Nukes On Mars? Dr. John Brandenburg called a “Pseudoscientist” swears it’s true! Is DR. JOHN BRANDENBURG the king of pseudoscience? Many people think so, but what’s interesting is that DR. JOHN BRANDENBURG has impressive credentials yet he is way out there. He was speaker at the SECRET SPACE PROGRAM CONFERENCE 2015 – a conference that asks: “What’s going on?” That’s a good question! ‘The Martian surface is covered with a thin layer of radioactive substances including uranium, thorium and radioactive potassium – and this pattern radiates from a hot spot on Mars,’ Dr. John Brandenburg told Fox News at the time. And bizarre as it sounds he believes that ancient Martians known as Cydonians and Utopians were massacred in the attack! ‘A nuclear explosion could have sent debris all around the planet.’
He gave a talk at 2014 Annual Fall Meeting of the American Physical Society in Illinois on this very subject. “Scientists used to think it was a naturally occurring explosion, but Brandenburg says that nuclear isotopes in the atmosphere resembling hydrogen bomb tests ‘may present an example of civilization wiped out by a nuclear attack from space.”
Dr. Brandenburg has dedicated his career to problems of space, energy and national defense. He is the author of “Life and Death on Mars: The New Mars Synthesis” in which in the words of one reviewer, “But the drama of Brandenburg’s book is his discussion of the nuclear catastrophe that turned the once ‘earth like’ planet into a wasteland…”
He has studied the ‘high concentration’ of Xenon-129 in the Martian atmosphere, and uranium and thorium on the surface, spotted by Nasa’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft. Scientists have previously pointed about that the appearance of these elements is not surprising, as they are natural elements found everywhere.
John E. Brandenburg is a plasma physicist at Orbital Technologies in Madison Wisconsin, working on space plasma technologies and space propulsion.
On the blog BAD Science entitled “Exposing PseudoAstronomy” Stuart Robbins challenges his credibility : “One of the more unique things about Dr. Brandenburg among pseudoscientists is that one of his major claims of evidence that his ideas are correct is that he claims he presents at scientific conferences, and no one challenges him. I have heard him make that claim multiple times in practically every interview I have heard him give.”
Stuart Robbins has a point. Listen to what Dr Brandenburg said at the conference: ‘The earlier result of a nuclear massacre stands,’ he said. “However, for this conference paper I chose to focus on the most important part of the hypothesis, the enormous nuclear explosions, which is the most extraordinary new evidence of past intelligent activity on Mars. My goal is establish the reality of the explosions to the scientific community, and their non-natural origin, and then focus on their targets. Rest assured the whole hypothesis will be discussed tomorrow. I will be waving around copies of my book: Death on Mars.’
Dr Brandenburg also claims he came up with the hypothesis that Mars was once covered in an ocean, which Nasa recently announced. ‘This is a fine old blood feud on Mars,’ he added about NASA!
From his website here are his credentials:
DR. JOHN BRANDENBURG is a plasma physicist working as a consultant at Morningstar Applied Physics LLC and as a part-time instructor of Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics at Madison College, and other learning institutions in Madison, Wisconsin.
He previously worked at Orbital Technologies on space plasma technologies, nuclear fusion, and advanced space propulsion. He is the principle inventor of the MET (Microwave Electro-Thermal) plasma thruster using water propellant for space propulsion. He has worked on: SDI, the Clementine Mission to the Moon, Rocket Plume-Regolith Interactions on the Moon and Mars, Vortex theory of Rocket engine design and the combined Sakharov-Kaluza-Klein theory of Field Unification for purposes of space propulsion and Mars science.
Dr. Brandenburg has authored the popular science books Life and Death on Mars (2010), Beyond Einstein’s Unified Field (2011) and Dead Mars, Dying Earth (1999) with Monica Paxson. He has written two science fiction novels under the pen name “Victor Norgarde”: Morningstar Pass The Collapse of the UFO Coverup and Asteroid 20-2012 Sepulveda.
From the SECRET SPACE PROGRAM CONFERENCE 2015 website: a conference that asks: “What’s going on?”
Is there a Secret Space Program being developed outside the public eye using funds allocated by congress for purposes of creating a completely separate economic system? Where are the missing budget trillions? What is the UFO phenomenon? Is it a series of military projects using this advanced technology developed in underground bases around the globe or does it represent something completely unknown and alien to human reality? Discover the new evidence and shocking findings that show why, as public space programs like NASA languish in debt, delays and failure, the development of space rages on by an untouchable, elite cabal unhindered by public accountability or congressional oversight.
From his book jacket:
Now the whole truth about Mars can be told: Mars once lived as the Earth now lives, and became the home of a humanoid civilization. Then, apparently, someone else, far more advanced, came and destroyed Mars utterly with a massive nuclear blast, that left a “radiation scar” on Mars, filled the atmosphere with telltale isotopic residues, and irradiated its surface with high energy neutrons. That is the best hypothesis that can be made now. We must go to Mars and find out, in depth, what exactly happened there and how to avoid it happening to our own Earth. Life and Death on Mars is the story of this “great and terrible discovery of the age,” how it was made in the icy depths of the Cold War, its basic evidences, and what this discovery now requires of us.
Yesterday we brought you the rather odd news that hacking group Anonymous thought NASA was going to announce they’d found intelligent alien life.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense hopefully quickly realized there was nothing to this story. And note, it probably wasn't even the “official” Anonymous group, if there is such a thing. But for good measure, NASA has come out and debunked it anyway.
“Contrary to some reports, there’s no pending announcement from NASA regarding extraterrestrial life,” Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said on Twitter.
“Are we alone in the universe? While we do not know yet, we have missions moving forward that may help answer that fundamental question,” he added in another tweet.
Of course, if you’re one to believe alien conspiracy theories, you’re probably not going to believe this statement from Zurbuchen. So take our word for it that this is all just some weird baloney spread by some guy or girl claiming to be part of Anonymous.
Zurbuchen is right, though. Whether we’re alone in the universe is still an open question. But we’re getting closer to answering it. In our own Solar System, we’ve found a few places – oceans under the surface of Europa and Enceladus, for instance – that might be good places for microbial life.
Elsewhere, we’re finding more and more planets that could be habitable. In the coming years, we’re going to be able to study the atmospheres of some of these planets, and hopefully find out if they have any biosignatures.
And there are also several searches underway for intelligent alien life. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been looking for signals for decades. More recently, the Breakthrough Listen project – funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner – has also joined the hunt.
The fact is, though, that we simply haven’t found anything yet. There’s no NASA-funded project looking for intelligent life, so if we did stumble across a signal, it would be one of the two aforementioned private endeavors.
That we haven’t found any life is a bit of a quandary, known as the Fermi Paradox. Planets seem to be pretty abundant in the universe, so why haven’t we found any other life yet? The answer is either we’re alone, or we haven’t looked hard enough yet.
No intelligent aliens are going to be making their way undetected into the Solar System anytime soon, though. If an alien ship does arrive on our doorstop, we’ll probably know about it. For now, we’re alone – and that’s kind of terrifying in its own right.
NASA’s starship could reach Alpha Centauri in just two weeks
NASA’s starship could reach Alpha Centauri in just two weeks
Published on Sep 21, 2016
It took the Voyager 1 spacecraft over three decades to leave the solar system (and scientists still aren’t sure when it did). We need a new method of propulsion that will transport spacecraft faster than ever before. NASA is one of a few agencies developing a new way to sail through space, on the power of the solar wind.
NASA’s starship could reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our sun, in just two weeks!
Former US Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres is convinced he had an encounter with an alien spaceship in the skies over England in the 1950s.
He was warned to keep quiet about the incident, but eventually talked about it 31 years later, the newly-released Ministry of Defence files show.
On the night of May 20 1957, Dr Torres, then aged 25, was on standby at RAF Manston in Kent when he received an urgent order to scramble.
He was told to intercept a UFO with "very unusual flight patterns" over East Anglia that ground radar operators had been tracking for some time.
It was so cloudy he could not see anything, but the object showed up clearly on his radar as similar in size to a B-52 bomber.
He was then ordered to fire a full salvo of 24 rockets at the object - something that came as a sobering shock to him.
American fighter pilot Milton Torres was ordered to shoot down a suspected UFO in 1957 over East Anglia
But before he could carry out this instruction the UFO suddenly darted off and disappeared from his scope in a matter of seconds.
The next day a man claiming to be from the US National Security Agency threatened him with losing his flying status if he told anyone what happened.
Dr Torres, now 77 and living in Miami, Florida, said he was flying at about Mach 0.92, while the UFO was travelling at over Mach 10.
He said: "I think it was an alien spacecraft. It had a propulsion system that was beyond us - either magnetism or anti-gravity."
Until 1967 the MoD had a policy of destroying UFO files every five years because they were considered of "transitory interest".
This means the incident could have vanished without a trace had Dr Torres not been moved to mention it at a USAF veterans reunion in 1988.
The retired civil engineering professor urged people with more information about the strange encounter to come forward.
"There are people who are still alive on Earth who know about this. I'm talking about the RAF, USAF, whatever," he said.
Dr David Clarke, a UFO expert and journalism lecturer, suspects the US military may have been testing a top-secret machine designed to project phantom aircraft on to Soviet radar.
"I think the most likely explanation is that he was basically a pawn in some sort of exercise involving electronic spoofing warfare," he said.
Close encounters: Numerous UFOs have been sighted above the UK skies
But Dr Torres remains convinced what he saw on the radar came from beyond our solar system, insisting: "This is something that's not man-made."
Secret MoD documents released for the first time also show how the captain of Flight AZ 284 had a similar close encounter to Milton Torres.
As the pilot began his descent into Heathrow, he saw something alarming overhead.
Shaped like a missile, the object suddenly veered across the airliner's path causing the pilot to shout 'Look out!' as he attempted to avert a mid-air collision 22,000ft above the Kent countryside.
Travelling at an estimated 120mph, it passed less than 1,000ft from the passenger jet before disappearing from radar screens, leaving the pilot and accident investigators baffled.
Sketch of a UFO: This picture has just been released by the National Archives
The documents reveal that Ministry of Defence staff accept that an Unidentified Flying Object zooming above Lydd caused the near miss.
The incident took place at 7.58pm on April 21, 1991, and was investigated by the Civil Aviation Authority and military experts.
Having ruled out the possibility of it being a missile, weather balloon or space rocket, the MoD was forced to conclude that it was a genuine UFO and close the inquiry.
The unexplained close encounter is one of many recounted in military UFO documents released today by the National Archives.
The Alitalia aircraft was on a routine flight from Milan to Heathrow with 57 people on board when the ten-foot long object, which had no exhaust flame, was spotted by pilot Achille Zaghetti.
He told accident investigators: 'I saw for about 3.4 seconds a flying object, very similar to a missile, light brown coloured.
'At once I said, "Look out, look out" to my co-pilot, who saw what I had seen.
'As soon as the object crossed us I asked the ACC (area control centre) operator if he saw something on his screen and he answered, "I see an unknown target 10nm ( nautical miles) behind you".'
Another sketch of a UFO seen by a member of the public
At 10.25pm that night there was a report to Brentwood police in Essex of a dark flying object in the sky which had no engine noise or lights.
Southern TV also broadcast a story about a 14-year-old boy who reported seeing a missile flying at low level before climbing through the cloud and disappearing on the same evening.
Radar images of the object showed that the UFO was initially labelled 'cruise missile??' but checks on Army firing ranges and U.S. and British naval ships established that it was not a military weapon or 'space related' activity.
On July 2 a secret MoD report concluded: 'These departments have not been able to confirm the identity of the object sighted by the Alitalia crew.
'In the absence of any clear evidence which could be used to identify the object, it is our intention to treat this sighting like that of any other Unidentified Flying Object and therefore we will not be undertaking any further investigation into the sighting.'
Other incidents recorded in military files the same year include a 'wingless projectile' seen on June 17, 1991.
Four passengers on board a Boeing 737 saw it pass beneath the airliner as it climbed from Gatwick Airport headed for Hamburg.
Gatwick air traffic controllers were alerted but said they were 'unaware of anything unusual occurring at that time'.
A weather balloon had been released in the area around this time, but the description and timing did not match the wingless object, according to military files.
On July 15 the crew of a Britannia Airways 737 descending into Gatwick at 14,000ft reported seeing a 'small black lozenge-shaped object' travelling at high speed just 100 yards from the aircraft.
Air traffic control confirmed a 'primary contact' visible on the radar ten nautical miles behind the 737 travelling at 120mph.
Immediately air traffic controllers warned a following aircraft to turn left to avoid the object, although the pilot said he never saw it.
An investigation completed in April 1992 was unable to explain the incident but suggested the unidentified object could have been an escaped balloon.
Something unusual was happening in the skies over Scandinavia in the summer of 1946.
The July 12, 1946 edition of the London Daily Telegraph featured a report on this curious new phenomenon, which read as follows:
“For some weeks a fair number of ‘ghost rockets’ going from south-east to north-west have been reported from various parts of the eastern coast of Sweden. Eye witnesses say that they look like glowing balls and are followed by a tail of smoke more or less visible. So many reports cannot be put down to pure imagination in the matter. As there is no definite evidence that the phenomena are of meteoric origin, there is growing suspicion that they are a new kind of radio-controlled V-weapon on which experiments are carried out.”
Of course, it might be assumed that one variety of these unusual aerial objects had already begun to turn up prior to the end of the war. Colorful reports of strange lights that dogged aircraft over parts of Europe would soon be known as “Foo Fighters,” of which at least a majority of reports could have entailed things like lightning sprites observed by pilots.
However, while the “ghost rocket” craze was well underway in Europe and Scandinavia, a very different kind of rocket was being seen in other parts of the world.
One of the most remarkable incidents involving an unidentified flying object, which occurred prior to the subject’s popularity coinciding with Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 sighting, involved Captain Jack Puckett, the assistant chief of flying safety, Tactical Air Command. On the morning of August 1, 1946, Puckett was piloting a twin engine C-47, and had left Langley Field for MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Florida.
Puckett was thirty miles from his destination when what appeared to be a long, brightly illuminated object nearly collided with his C-47. Puckett filed an incident report after he landed, according to which he stated:
“[The aircraft] continued toward us on a collision course, at our exact altitude. At about 1,000 yards, it veered to cross our path. We observed it to be a long, cylindrical shape approximately twice the size of a B-29 bomber, with luminous portholes.”
Puckett and his crew aboard the C-47 watched the object in amazement, until it disappeared over the horizon, traversing an estimated 100 miles over the course of three minutes.
The object Puckett witnessed also produced a strange, sparkling tail, much like a rocket would; this detail would certainly present a lot of confusion among aviation officials at the time, in addition to increasing speculation about new kinds of technologies that might be under development elsewhere in the world. The technical information about rocketry advancements spearheaded in Nazi Germany during World War II, along with many of the leading experts in this field, were acquired by the British, Soviet, and American governments during and immediately following the war. America had previously gained access to V-2 rocket technology the Allies recovered at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp near Nordhausen, where an underground German rocket base known as the Mittelwerk factory, had been located. British forces managed to take away a wealth of information prior to the later Soviet occupation of the area. By late 1945, this information formed the basis of what became Operation Backfire, a program where British V-2 rockets were built and launched for purposes of demonstrating their capabilities.
The significance of Puckett’s encounter goes beyond the mere recollection of a “mystery aircraft” for a number of reasons. For one, as mentioned earlier, this sighting took place well in advance (by almost a year) the sighting of objects over Mount Rainer, Washington, that sparked the eventual “flying saucer craze.” In addition to the sighting taking place prior to the swelling of reports that accompanied Kenneth Arnold’s initial UFO sightings over the northwest, the fact that the assistant chief of flying safety with Tactical Air Command would report an aircraft of this sort, and only months after the conclusion of the Second World War, would likely have been considered to be of sincere concern as far as national security; to have fabricated such a report would have meant severe repercussions for Puckett and his crew.
Additionally, the object in question had initially been considered a meteor by Puckett and his crew, while still at a fair distance from them. “This object continued toward us on a collision course at our exact altitude,” he continued in his incident report. “At about 1000 yards it veered to cross our path. We observed it to be a long, cylindrical shape approximately twice the size of a B-29, with luminous portholes.” It would seem unusual indeed that the pilot and crew would see a meteor, and then mistake the meteor as it traversed their altitude for being a massive aircraft of some kind, adorned with “luminous portholes”.
Finally, the idea that the object had been a misidentification of some variety of natural phenomenon seems unusual, since Puckett and his crew’s description matched a number of similar UFO reports that would follow, most notably the famous 1948 Chiles and Whitted UFO encounter (dramatized in the image above), along with a similar observation that occurred shortly afterward in France.
Granted, by the time the Chiles and Whitted sighting occurred, the “UFO craze” was already well underway. Indeed, Captain Jack Puckett’s unusual observation of a weird, “ghost rocket” over the American Southeast remains one of the most unusual, and perhaps significant observations of unexplained aerial activity in the modern era.
A hidden world of caves lies underground, providing scientists with plenty of opportunities for exploration.
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The largest crystals on Earth can be found in a cave in Mexico, buried 300 meters (about 1,000 feet) below ground. The biggest of these giants is about as long and wide as a school bus. These crystals crisscross within the cavern. They look like translucent white trees that have fallen in an alien forest. Smaller ones cluster like mineral bushes on the walls and floor.
The crystals within the Cave of Crystals, in Chihuahua, Mexico, host microbes that have been living in extreme circumstances for thousands of years.
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This is the Cave of Crystals, and it might be one of the most beautiful spots on Earth. It’s not the most comfortable, though. Temperatures here soar to 58° Celsius (136° Fahrenheit). Humidity hovers around 90 percent. People who enter the cave risk heatstroke. They must wear protective suits just to avoid suffocating. Thieves have died trying to steal slivers of the crystals.
The dazzling cave might seem like the last place on Earth to look for life. But it doesn’t seem that way to Penelope Boston. She’s a speleologist (SPEE-lee-OL-uh-gizt) — a scientist who studies caves. And her specialty is life existing in extreme environments.
Scientists have found organisms in plenty of hostile places — some of the hottest, coldest, darkest, deepest and most remote sites on Earth. To find such organisms, however, scientists must travel far and venture into unfriendly places. Including caves.
Some caves have been carved by underground streams. Others have formed during earthquakes or from volcanic activity. Now these sites provide windows to the inner workings of our planet. Protected from the surface, they change slowly — if at all. And this preserves a record of the past and represents one of Earth’s last unexplored frontiers. So to speleologists, caves are natural laboratories, full of possibilities.
A tough place to call home
Boston conducts research below ground. But she started by looking in the opposite direction: to outer space. She’s always wanted to know if life exists on other planets. And she's always wanted to go to Mars. In graduate school, she helped found The Mars Society. This organization is dedicated to getting people to the Red Planet — and settling there. She is also a past president of the Association of Mars Explorers, a group of scientists and others who are passionate about exploring “the frontiers of Mars.” That includes thinking about where to look for microscopic life on the planet. (If scientists do find microbes, these germs would be the first known Martians!)
The surface of Mars is cold, dry and bombarded by radiation from the sun. It wouldn’t be a pleasant place to live. Boston thinks a better spot to find life would be beneath the Martian surface. Images from orbiting spacecraft have revealed holes in planet's surface. Scientists suspect these could be natural skylights, leading to underground caverns. Those images from space also show curving troughs on the planet’s surface. These look like collapsed lava tubes, which are underground channels formed by flowing lava.
Traveling to Mars to search for life in these places would be tough. But Earth also has lava tubes and caves. And they are a lot closer than Mars. So scientists like Boston study extremophiles — organisms that live in Earth’s most hostile places — to get an idea of what Martians might resemble, if they exist.
Boston has spent decades looking for microscopic organisms in extreme places. “Over the years, we’ve developed a good eye for [finding] this stuff,” she says. That’s why she went to that hot, humid and spectacular cave in Mexico. She wondered whether anything could be living inside those crystals.
Penelope Boston talks about what it’s like to search for life inside caves.
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All crystals, big or small, develop defects as they grow. These defects are small pockets. Some defects in the Cave of Crystals aren’t empty, though. They contain fluid. Those crystal defects become “little time capsules,” Boston says. She thought their liquids might hold fossils of long-dead bacteria.
To find out, she used a tiny drill to reach the pockets and extract the fluid. When she looked at this liquid under a microscope, she did find fossils. She also found microbes that posed something of a mystery. You see, she couldn't be sure they were actually dead.
As she toiled in the hot cave, Boston knew she might never return. The cave is owned by a mining company, and, she notes, “The mining company was tired of us being around.” She placed the microbes into a heated dish containing microbe food. Then she rushed them back to her lab at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. There she ran a cave-studies program.
To her surprise, the microbes began to grow in the lab. That meant they were alive!
Nine years later, bacteria from 45 of her original 60 samples are still alive.
To figure out the age of these microbes, she had to know the age of the crystals. Luckily, other scientists had been working on this.
A crystal grows by accumulating new mineral on its outside. The innermost parts are the oldest. Scientists have figured out how fast crystals grow, so Boston could estimate the age of the microbes based on how deeply they had been buried in a crystal. Her colonies of microbes likely are between 10,000 and 50,000 years old, she reported earlier this year at a science meeting.
These microbes may not be aliens, but they are definitely strange. They stay alive without sunlight. For food, they rely on minerals or fluids in the crystal. And they don’t mind the heat or humidity of the cave.
Boston and her team are still studying the samples. They haven’t published their data yet because they want to be sure they’re correct. Other scientists need to look at these data, too, to check the findings.
Still, Boston is excited. For the past year, she’s directed NASA’s Astrobiology Institute in Moffett Field, Calif. (NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.) Astrobiology is the study of how life begins and thrives in the universe. Astrobiologists help plan missions to search for life on other planets, such as Mars. Boston’s research will now help guide those missions.
She doesn’t expect to find the same organisms on other planets. Her research, however, shows that life finds a way in the most unexpected places. And if critters can thrive in the Cave of Crystals, then maybe others are thriving on Mars, or even more distant planets and moons.
Climate clues written in stone
Much of Greenland is covered in ice and snow, which makes getting to caves on the island difficult.
For speleologists, getting to work is often the hardest part of the job. They may have to scale cliffs or waterfalls on ropes. They may end up very wet. And their path may be lit only by lamplight. And that’s once they get inside. Just getting to the entrance can be tricky, too. Gina Moseley knows that firsthand.
She’s a speleologist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Moseley studies caves to learn about Earth’s past climate. Climate refers to the weather patterns in a particular area over a long period.
In 2015, Moseley’s research led her to caves in Greenland. This island sits mostly above the Arctic Circle. Because it’s so far north, much of Greenland is covered by ice. The island and its ice are sensitive to changes in temperatures. Scientists study Greenland to better understand how Earth’s climate is currently changing.
No one had ever visited the caves that Moseley's team were headed to before. And for good reason: They’re hard to reach.
The researchers had to hire a small airplane to fly them up Greenland’s East Coast. The plane dropped them off on the edge of a lake. Then they inflated a boat to cross the frigid lake. Once on the other side, they hiked three days to reach the cave. After collecting samples from inside it, they made the long journey back to bring those samples home.
Some samples came from flowstones. These are mineral sheets formed by water dripping from the ceiling. That water is special, Moseley says. It has traveled from the surface and through the soil and rock above the cave. Before that, it fell from the sky as rain. And before that it was in the ocean. In other words, caves are plugged into the water cycle.
Over time, elements and minerals accumulate in the water like souvenirs from its travels. “That water contains a chemical signature of the ocean and the atmosphere and the soil,” Moseley notes. Those chemical souvenirs include a mineral called calcite (KAL-syte). Over tens or hundreds of thousands of years, calcite piles up into stalagmites and flowstones. Stalagmites are rock formations that rise from the floor of a cave like giant candlesticks. These mineral towers trap information about the past climate.
“When you take one and cut it open, you can see the different layers in there — a lot like tree-ring studies,” says Moseley. Scientists can read the layers like a history book of the region’s climate. During warmer eras, thicker calcite layers grow. During cooler eras, thinner layers form. By measuring carbon, an element found in all living things, researchers can tell if plants had been growing during a particular time period.
Moseley says her team’s research helps show what’s happened to Greenland in the past. Combined with other climate research, her studies add to a bigger picture of how that part of the planet has changed.
Scientists already have studied deep ice samples from Greenland dating back 130,000 years. That means they have a record of warming and cooling periods going all the way back to the beginning of the last Ice Age. But Moseley says she and her team will use cave samples to look back even farther in time.
“Caves are another important cog in a much bigger system,” she says.
Islands of time
Francesco Sauro, too, has studied caves the world over. He’s a speleologist at the University of Bologna in Italy. In recent years, he’s been traveling to caves in northern Venezuela. These South American caves are in mountains called tepuis (TEH-pwee), which rise from the jungle below like tabletops. They may look a little familiar — they inspired Paradise Falls in the movie Up.
Nothing is easy for explorers of the tepuis. The entrances to many caves look like cracks on the side of a cliff. To get there, cavers must first hire a helicopter to carry them to the top of the cliff. But the tepuis are often blanketed in clouds. Fast winds can whip around them. On many days, helicopters can’t fly safely. So Sauro and his team may wait weeks for the conditions to become just right.
Once they reach the top, things get even trickier. The cavers must climb or rappel down to the cave’s entrance, carrying all their equipment in tow. After going to that much trouble, Sauro says, they want to stay. So in 2016, he and his team spent 40 days exploring one cave in the tepuis.
Francisco Sauro talks about caves and the hidden worlds within them
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Many caves form in limestone, a type of rock that easily dissolves in water. But caves in the tepuis form from quartzite sandstone. This material also dissolves in water, but much more slowly than limestone does. That means the tepui caves are much older than ones in limestone formations. In fact, caves within the tepuis might be the oldest on Earth.
Like Boston, Sauro is interested in learning how rocks and life intersect. He studies the microbes that live inside these caves. He also studies the tepuis to better understand the processes that shape Earth. And he uses lasers to map the inner passages of the caves that he explores.
Francesco Sauro has studied caves in many places across the planet.
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A tepuis cave is unusual, “different from any other,” Sauro says. Quartzite is pink. That colors the caves’ passages pink, too. Water inside them run red. And the stalagmites and stalactites (which form on cave ceilings) have strange shapes. Some look like marshmallows stuck to the cave’s roof. Others look like fragile bones.
Many of those formations likely host microbes that scientists have not yet identified. Some formations might even owe their creation to microbes, Sauro says.
He has become savvy about finding caves. He knows where to look for clues. To find a cave in the tepuis, he studies satellite maps and looks for sinkholes. He says mountains are a good place to look. If a mountain has no streams or rivers, that means all of its water is going underground. “That is an indication the mass contains some underground network,” he says. In other words: caves.
One of the most interesting things about cave exploration, Sauro says, is that there’s no end in sight. “Not all caves have access to the surface,” he says. That means it’s likely that most of the caves in the world still remain undisturbed. They lie hidden, their secrets awaiting discovery.
alien (in astronomy) Life on or from a distant world.
Arctic Circle The northernmost point at which the sun is visible on the northern winter solstice and the southernmost point at which the midnight sun can be seen on the northern summer solstice.
astrobiology The study of life everywhere in the universe, including on Earth and in space.
calcite A type of extremely white and not terribly hard mineral that serves as the basis of many types of rock. It is the main ingredient in both limestone and marble, for instance. It’s chemical formula is CaCO3.
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. It is an important part of coal, limestone and petroleum, and is capable of self-bonding, chemically, to form an enormous number of chemically, biologically and commercially important molecules.
chemical A substance formed from two or more atoms that unite (bond) 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 used as an adjective to describe properties of materials that are the result of various reactions between different compounds.
climate The weather conditions prevailing in one area, in general, or over a long period.
crystal (adj. crystalline) A solid consisting of a symmetrical, ordered, three-dimensional arrangement of atoms or molecules. It’s the organized structure taken by most minerals. Apatite, for example, forms six-sided crystals. The mineral crystals that make up rock are usually too small to be seen with the unaided eye.
dissolve To turn a solid into a liquid and then disperse it into that starting liquid. For instance, sugar or salt crystals (solids) will dissolve into water. Now the crystals are gone and the solution is a fully dispersed mix of the liquid form of the sugar or salt in water.
extremophile A microorganism that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity or concentrations of chemicals.
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.
graduate school A university program that offers advanced degrees, such as a Master’s or PhD degree. It’s called graduate school because it is started only after someone has already graduated from college (usually with a four-year degree).
Greenland The world’s largest island, Greenland sits between the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic. Although it is technically part of North America (sitting just east of Northern Canada), Greenland has been linked more politically to Europe. Indeed, Vikings arrived in Greenland around the 10th century, and for a time the island was a colony of Denmark. In June 2009, Greenland became an independent nation. Ice covers roughly 80 percent of Greenland. Indeed, the Greenland ice sheet is the world’s largest. If its frozen water were to melt, it could raise sea levels around the world by 6 meters (about 20 feet). Although this is the 12th biggest nation (based on surface area), Greenland averages the fewest people per square kilometer of its surface area.
humidity A measure of the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. (Air with a lot of water vapor in it is known as humid.)
ice age Earth has experienced at least five major ice ages, which are prolonged periods of unusually cold weather experienced by much of the planet. During that time, which can last hundreds to thousands of years, glaciers and ice sheets expand in size and depth. The most recent ice age peaked 21,500 years ago, but continued until about 13,000 years ago.
laser A device that generates an intense beam of coherent light of a single color. Lasers are used in drilling and cutting, alignment and guidance, in data storage and in surgery.
lava Molten rock that comes up from the mantle, through Earth’s crust, and out of a volcano.
limestone A natural rock formed by the accumulation of calcium carbonate over time, then compressed under great pressure. Most of the starting calcium carbonate came from the shells of sea animals after they died. However, that chemical also can settle out of water, especially after carbon dioxide is removed (by plants, for instance).
Mars The fourth planet from the sun, just one planet out from Earth. Like Earth, it has seasons and moisture. But its diameter is only about half as big as Earth’s.
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.
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 temperature 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).
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.
organism Any living thing, from elephants and plants to bacteria and other types of single-celled life.
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.
quartzite A type of metamorphic rock made of quartz. It tends to develop within sandstone. Like its name suggests, sandstone forms from sand — tiny crystals of silica. Quartzite forms when that sandstone undergoes metamorphic changes due to heat, pressure and chemical reactions. These changes alter the sand grains and the mineral that cements them together to form a rock. The interlocking bits of quartz give this mineral incredible strength.
rappel To travel down a cliff by sliding along a rope while periodically kicking off against the surface with your legs.
sandstone A type of sedimentary rock. It formed as sand-size grains of mineral grit became compacted or glued together over time.
satellite A moon orbiting a planet or a vehicle or other manufactured object that orbits some celestial body in space.
savvy The quality of possessing useful and clever knowledge.
sinkhole A body of water that forms when a patch of ground opens up, revealing a rocky cavern below. That rocky structure then accumulates rainwater because there no opening below that allows the water to easily exit. Some sinkholes develop naturally. Others can result from the overpumping of any groundwater that may have collected in the rocky underground cavern. Sinkholes can be as small as a meter across or as large as a big lake.
speleology The study of caves. Someone who studies or explores caves is called a speleologist.
stalactite A mineral formation found in caves that forms in much the same way that icicles do. Liquid water slowly drips down from a surface. But if the water evaporates before the drop falls to the ground, any minerals in the water may solidify to form rock. Over time, the stalactites may grow to a meter or more across and many, many meters long.
stalagmite A mineral feature that can develop in moist caves. Water that drips down from the cave ceiling can very slowly evaporate, leaving behind an upward-growing mound of mineral deposits, or rock. Most of these structures, which resemble upside down icicles,have rounded or flattened tips.
tepui Flat-topped mountains in the highlands of southeastern Venezuela. Then tend to be made of sandstone. Some can rise as much as 1,000 meters (almost 3,300 feet).
translucent The property of letting light through, but not being transparent. Usually, things viewed through a translucent material (such as frosted window glass) appear as hazy shapes with no detail.
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Meeting: P. Boston. The Astrobiological Exploration of Earth and Mars. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2017. February 17, 2017. Boston, Mass.
The "discovery" was made after poring through pictures beamed back from NASA's Curiosity rover.
The rover is currently exploring the rocky surface of the distant planet and makes all its images free to view in the public domain.
But a particular pair of shots has caught the interest of the alien-hunting community after appearing to show decaying bones lying in Mars' red dust.
The images began circulating after they were featured in an online video entitled "Fossilized Bones, Petrified Wood, Fungus & Lichen, Growth & Movement, Life on Mars."
It was the Martian Archaeology channel and immediately seized on by those believing extra terrestrials could have once lived on the planet.
"After years of research and study, I'm convinced now, more then ever, that there much more to Mars then what NASA admits to," posted a user named TJ Devereaux.
"I'm certain life, including water, and intelligent life forms, once occupied the planet, and... big leap here... that both still exist, in much smaller quantities."
As well as just believing the images show bones, alien hunters are convinced that the dark patches are evidence of lichen growing on them.
Although NASA has growing ambitions to visit the red planet in the near future, it is certain there is no longer any intelligent life left on the planet.
These "bones" are far from the first objects allegedly spotted on Mars.
Strange domes and rock outlines resembling human-like items are often picked up on as evidence of pareidolia: when the brain is tricked into seeing familiar sights in strange objects.
There are many more Earth-like planets beyond our solar system than scientists previously realized, and that increases our chances of finding alien life of some kind.
Data from the Kepler Space Telescope, which is on the hunt for exoplanets, suggests rocky ones are fairly common in the Milky Way galaxy, NASA’s Astrobiology Magazine reported. After searching through the Cygnus constellation for planets, Kepler came up with more than 4,000. And of that group, 50 are about the size of Earth and fall within their stars’ habitable zones.
A star’s habitable zone refers to the area where a planet would be orbiting far enough away from the star to avoid getting scorched but close enough that it doesn’t turn into a giant block of ice. Although there could be a currently unknown type of life that can survive on a planet outside the habitable zone, scientists focus on habitable zones based on what we know about the conditions necessary to support life.
The stars in Cygnus range from several light years away to thousands of light years away, so not all planets are within reach. And there is no guarantee any of them harbor extraterrestrial life. But the findings still offer hope that someone else is out there and suggest potentially habitable exoplanets are not as rare as experts once thought.
“Are we alone?” Kepler program scientist Mario Perez asked in the article. “Kepler says we are probably not alone.”
A NASA illustration shows the Kepler Space Telescope, which is on a mission to find habitable exoplanets.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Finding out which exoplanets are likely to hold life will involve learning more about their atmospheres and water content — if they contain air or water at all.
Our current scientific understanding of how life survives and works tells us it needs liquid water — which would be found in the habitable zone — and a source of heat, as well as some sort of protection from space radiation. That could mean a comfortable bubble of atmosphere surrounding a planet, or it could mean life lives underground or underwater.
Whether an atmosphere exists on a rocky planet or not, underwater seems like a solid place to find aliens. A recent analysis of the masses and compositions of seemingly habitable exoplanets suggested the majority are likely covered in ocean — perhaps 90 percent coverage on their surfaces compared to Earth’s 70 percent. Earth has a lot of water but rocky masses we know as land can poke out onto the surface because of the topography of the planet: Some sections of Earth’s rock reaches up high while other sections dip low, creating deep caverns the water can fill. The same scenario may not exist elsewhere.
“A delicate balance must be struck between the volume of water it retains over time, and how much space it has to store it in its oceanic basins,” the report said.
To further explore exoplanets and their properties, NASA is set to launch the James Webb Space Telescope next year. Some of those planets include the ones in the Trappist-1 system, which has at least three of its seven rocky planets in the star’s habitable zone.
We might not find anything.
“There’s a lot we don’t know,” Kepler research scientists Susan Thompson said in Astrobiology Magazine. “I like to remind people that it looks like there are three planets in our habitable zone — Venus, Earth and Mars — and I only want to live on one of them.”
But then again, we may find exactly what we are looking for.
Scientists Debate If We Should Be Sending Messages to Alien Worlds
Scientists Debate If We Should Be Sending Messages to Alien Worlds
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By Jason Devaney
A new look at a message sent into space by astronomers in 1974 asks whether humans should be worried about contacting other civilizations in the universe.
The New York Times examines a new push to beam Earthly messages. The consensus on whether or not to broadcast to the universe is mixed.
Kathryn Denning, who works as an anthropologist at Toronto's York University, told the Times she does not believe astronomers and other scientists should get to decide what we broadcast and how often. She alluded to the possibility of other societies waging an attack on Earth after detecting our location.
"It's inevitable that there will be significant disagreement about the advisability of transmitting, and I don't think this is the sort of thing where a simple majority vote or even supermajority should carry the day," Denning told the Times. "So this keeps bringing us back to the same key question: is it OK for some people to transmit messages at significant power when other people don't want them to?"
When asked directly what her view is on sending messages to outer space, Denning replied, "Why should my opinion matter more than that of a 6-year-old girl in Namibia? We both have exactly the same amount at stake, arguably, she more than I, since the odds of being dead before any consequences of transmission occur are probably a bit higher for me, assuming she has access to clean water and decent health care and isn't killed far too young in war."
The Times also spoke with Frank Drake, who was in charge of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that sent the aforementioned radio signal in 1974. Drank founded the SETI Institute, which strives to detect extraterrestrial life.
Drake said he does not support organized efforts by a group known as METI to beam messages into outer space.
"We send messages all the time, free of charge," Drake said, referring to standard TV, radio, and other types of transmissions. "There's a big shell out there now 80 light years around us. A civilization only a little more advanced than we are can pick those things up."
The Times does note that if another civilization were to detect a signal sent from Earth, that civilization is likely to be be more advanced than humans — which may or may not spell disaster for Earth.
One scientist predicted that humans will detect life on another planet within 10 or 15 years.
Another recent report, meanwhile, claimed that a radio signal detected by a telescope in 1977 may have actually been a signal from another civilization.
Long before Leonardo da Vinci sketched a flying machine or the Wright Brothers took flight at Kitty Hawk, there were reports of aircrafts soaring through the sky. Though some of those stories of Unidentified Flying Objects (or UFOs) may date as far back as Ancient Egypt, they are firmly ensconced in today's pop culture and accounts of their sightings remain fascinating for believers and skeptics alike. Here are 12 of the most intriguing incidents of alleged UFO sightings.
1. EGYPT // MID-1400S BCE
According to the Tulli Papyrus—the reported writings of Thutmose III, who reigned in the 1400s BCE—something unexplainable was spotted. An excerpt from the annals detailing the incident reads:
In the year 22, in the 3rd month of winter, in the sixth hour of the day, the scribes of House of Life noticed a circle of fire that was coming from the sky. From the mouth it emitted a foul breath. It had no head. Its body was one rod long and one rod wide. It had no voice. And from that the hearts of the scribes became confused and they threw themselves down on their bellies, then they reported the thing to the Pharaoh. … It was recorded in the scrolls of the House of Life.
His Majesty was meditating upon what happened. Now after some days had passed, these things became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shone more in the sky than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four supports of the heavens … Powerful was the position of the fire circles. The army of the Pharaoh looked on with him in their midst. It was after supper. Thereupon, these fire circles ascended higher in the sky towards the south … The Pharaoh caused incense to be brought to make peace on the hearth … And what happened was ordered by the Pharaoh to be written in the annals of the House of Life … so that it be remembered for ever.
The validity of these writings remain uncertain. The original papyrus was lost and only copies of copies of it remain.
2. ROME // 218 BCE
One of the earliest reported UFO sightings can be traced back to about 218 BCE. Around 200 years later, Roman historian Livy recorded a number of strange incidents, likely using some lost list of those earlier sightings. One of the historian's writings included “A spectacle of ships (navium) gleamed in the sky” in Rome. In a report on UFOs [PDF], NASA’s Richard Stothers deemed these sightings "trustworthy and accurate," due to the time-consuming and costly nature of investigations into omens during this era.
3. SPAIN // 1433
On January 5, 1433, the entire court of King Juan II of Castile allegedly claimed to have seen a UFO. Fernán Gómez de Cibdarreal, the king’s physician, reportedly detailed the sighting in a letter. While its authenticity is uncertain, here is a excerpt:
I shall not tire your lordship with this narration, since we had just arrived [to Ciudad Rodrigo] when, walking on Wednesday the 5th of this month of January [1433], we suddenly saw a great flame of yellow fire attached to the sky move from one end to the other; it had inside like a black root and all its borders were more whitish than the middle; and it left with a great roar, causing horses and mules to ran in fear, and my own mule didn’t stop until it touched another mule.
4. NUREMBERG, GERMANY // 1561
BY HANS GLASER, 1561. IMAGE CREDIT: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS // PUBLIC DOMAIN
This famous alleged UFO sighting is documented not only in words, but in a woodcut by Hans Glaser. The piece shows the sky full of strange objects and “immense” smoke rising from the earth. Glaser and many others reportedly claimed to have witnessed the occurrence in Nuremberg on April 14, 1561.
The artist included a description with his work as well as a message to skeptics. He wrote: "Although we have seen, shortly one after another, many kinds of signs on the heaven, which are sent to us by the almighty God, to bring us to repentance, we still are, unfortunately, so ungrateful that we despise such high signs and miracles of God. Or we speak of them with ridicule and discard them to the wind, in order that God may send us a frightening punishment on account of our ungratefulness."
5. TEXAS // 1897
"Texas’ most famous UFO crash" occurred in April 1897. On that day, a cigar-shaped object reportedly crashed into a windmill in Aurora, a small town just north of Fort Worth. The legend has conflicting claims. Some say the alien inside the craft survived, while others believe it died and the residents of the town gave it a Christian burial.
At the time of the crash, E.E. Hayden (sometimes reported as S.E. Haydon), a reporter from the Dallas Morning News, wrote that the spaceship “collided with the tower of Judge Proctor's windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden. The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world."
6. MISSOURI // 1941
One 20th-century incident became a hidden family secret. In April 1941, Rev. William Huffman of Red Star Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri was asked to minister at the site of a plane crash. There, Huffman said, he found a saucer with three alien bodies. His granddaughter later recounted the story to local news outlet KFVS, claiming that her grandfather had been sworn to secrecy after the incident.
7. WASHINGTON // 1947
Kenneth Arnold’s reported 1947 sighting is well-known for many reasons, including coining the phrase "flying disc." Just weeks before Roswell—one of the most famous incidents of all time—Arnold was flying his plane near Mount Rainier in Washington state when he said he observed a line of crescent-shaped objects in the sky. He estimated that they were clocking 1700 MPH and described their movements as being like "a saucer if you skip it across water."
Arnold’s sighting was the first in a series, which also includes the famous Roswell UFO report. According to CNN, the Air Force initially claimed to have found remnants of a flying saucer at the site in New Mexico. Later, they claimed the debris were from a weather balloon and then, much later, that it was an apparatus to detect Soviet nuclear tests. Today, the sighting has cult status, inspiring movies and TV, including the show Roswell. Conspiracy theorists consider it to be one of the most famous UFO cover-ups in history.
9. WEST VIRGINIA // 1952
From UFO reporting to urban legend: As the tale goes, on September 12, 1952, a fireball reportedly fell from the sky and a monster with fiery eyes was found at the crash site in Flatwoods, West Virginia. Descriptions of the Flatwoods Monster vary, though it’s believed to be 10 feet tall, with a glowing green body.
10. BRAZIL // 1957
Antonio Vilas (sometimes spelled "Villas") Boas’ report is one of the first recorded abductions in the modern age. On October 16, 1957, Boas, a Brazilian farmer, was working alone in a field when he says a reddish light in the sky zoomed toward him. He ran toward his tractor, but four small figures lifted him off the ground.
He gave a long, detailed description of the encounter, including the way the creatures communicated: "No resemblance whatever to human speech ... I can think of no attempt to describe those sounds, so different were they from anything I have ever heard before ... Those sounds still make me shiver when I think of them! It isn't even possible for me to reproduce them ... my vocal organs are not made for it."
He also claims to have had sexual relations with a naked female in the aircraft, although the two did not kiss. He reportedly was returned to his field about four hours after the abduction and was found to have suffered from radiation poisoning.
11. NEW HAMPSHIRE // 1961
Married couple Barney and Betty Hill also claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Under hypnosis, the pair shared similar accounts of the incident. Betty said, "I was taken on board. Barney was taken into one room and I was taken into another. The one who did the testing we called 'The Examiner.' First, they put me on a stool and they checked my eyes, ears, nose, throat. They put me on a table and said they wanted to check my nervous system. Then, they tried to insert a needle-like instrument in my navel, which caused pain so they stopped doing it. Barney's exam was very much like mine in the beginning except they were interested in his bone structure."
Betty also claims the creatures showed her a star map depicting where they came from. She even redrew it under hypnosis, but at the time, it didn’t correlate with any known area of space. However, years later, statistician David Saunders claimed her drawing resembles the Zeta Reticuli system in the constellation Reticulum, confirming (at least in the eyes of her supporters) some of Hills’ story.
12. KENTUCKY // 1976
On January 6, 1976, three women claimed to have been abducted from a car. In 2010, Mona Stafford, the only living witness, recalled her story to Central Kentucky News. She claimed the three women were driving when they thought they saw a plane crash. Wanting to help, they drove closer, only to find an object in a treetop. The car seemed drawn toward the craft, and hours later the women came to the Hustonville city limits. Their eyes and skin were burning, and the hood of the car had bubbled up.
Separated, the women each detailed identical accounts of the incident. And under hypnosis, they recounted the same tale of being removed from the car and examined.
In the years that followed, Stafford claims she and one of the other women were unable to use the telephone. The women were drawn to high places and often watched the sky, with Stafford explaining, "I still feel like that. Like something’s calling me, and I go out. I’m not a prophet, I’m not predicting nothing, but there’s something in me that says something’s going to happen this time."
VS verbergt al 70 jaar het bewijs dat aliens ons bezoeken. Gaat dit ervoor zorgen dat ze het bedrog eindelijk toegeven?
VS verbergt al 70 jaar het bewijs dat aliens ons bezoeken. Gaat dit ervoor zorgen dat ze het bedrog eindelijk toegeven?
De Paradigm Research Group (PRG) denkt dat bronnen uit de overheidswereld spoedig naar buiten zullen treden met informatie over aliens. Dat schrijft de Daily Express.
Directeur Stephen Bassett is ervan overtuigd dat geheimen hierover worden bewaard uit angst voor de impact die dergelijke informatie zal hebben op religie en de rechtsstaat.
Bassett is een campagne begonnen om het Witte Huis onder druk te zetten en te laten toegeven dat het ons de afgelopen 70 jaar heeft misleid.
Disclosure
Hij is van plan een kantoor te openen in Washington DC, van waaruit de media onder druk worden gezet om dit jaar over disclosure te berichten.
De PRG kreeg eind mei bijval van miljardair en NASA-partner Robert Bigelow, die tijdens een interview met het CBS-programma 60 Minutes stelde dat buitenaardsen al hier op onze planeet zijn.
“Hij zei dat een buitenaardse aanwezigheid in contact staat met de mensheid,” aldus Bassett. “Hij zei ook dat het hem niet uitmaakt wat anderen van hem denken.”
Uitspreken
PRG hoopt dat meer mensen zoals Bigelow zich uitspreken en wil met het Witte Huis en het Pentagon om tafel om te spreken over disclosure.
Bassett organiseert de campagne samen met Coast to Coast AM, een platform voor onderzoekers, activisten en mensen die zeggen contact te hebben gehad met aliens.
Onlangs claimde activist Steven Greer nog dat bepaalde mensen uit de Amerikaanse inlichtingenwereld proberen de waarheid naar buiten te brengen.
What is mutilating cows in the Midwest? FBI probed thousands of reports of cattle killed with 'surgical precision' since the early 1970s - with the deaths blamed on satanic cults, the government and ALIENS
What is mutilating cows in the Midwest? FBI probed thousands of reports of cattle killed with 'surgical precision' since the early 1970s - with the deaths blamed on satanic cults, the government and ALIENS
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Since the early 1970s, thousands of cow murders and mutilations have reportedly taken place in the Midwest
Reports include cattle having ears, lips, eyes, noses, anuses and genitalia removed with 'surgical precision'
Conflicting theories abound - some believe either aliens or the government are responsible for the mutilations, or 'mutes', which have also been reported across the US and abroad
The FBI attempted to investigate the incidents but were largely unsuccessful due to 'lack of jurisdiction'
On a bright, sunny morning in the summer of 1973, Ron and Paula Watson, two farmers in Springfield, Missouri, witnessed something that changed their lives forever.
It was an alien abduction, they say. But not of a human – of cattle.
They said they saw a 'green, cone-shaped craft' – next to which two 'silver little beings' were standing over a large black cow.
'I told Ron, 'My god, they got a cow! What are they doing to it?' Paula said. 'It had its eyes open and its tongue was like, hanging out a little bit. But it just laid there and it didn't move.'
She described in detail how she saw the aliens running their hands over the cow and then inspecting their long fingers before they 'floated' it into their large ship in the distance.
Their neighbors never believed their story, though one did admit to having one black cow left unaccounted for. The Watsons' story sounds like something out of an early science-fiction film – but it became one of many stories of alien and UFO sightings used to explain the thousands of cow mutilations reported across the United States in the 1970s.
Since the 1970s, bizarre murders and mutilations of cattle have been reported across the nation, primarily in the Midwest. In this photo (left) of a cow in Saguache County, Colorado in 1975, a female cow's utters have been removed with surgical precision. In the image on the right, a cow was found with its tongue removed in July 2013 on a farm in Missouri
News reports make up the bulk of the FBI's 32 page report on the subject, which is prefaced by a brief explanation that their investigation was hindered by a lack of jurisdiction in most cases
Within the depths of the FBI's database of unsolved mysteries lies the graphic tale of these cattle murders, which outraged and petrified farmers for decades, and is still continuing today.
Speculation surrounding who – or what – might be responsible for the killing and mutilation of thousands of cows has ranged from satanic worshipers, government agents, and even aliens.
The most curious aspect is not that the cattle have died, but the way in which they did. Since the early 1970s farmers have discovered their treasured (and expensive) animals dead with various organs excised – including eyes, noses, tongues, hearts, livers, anuses, and genitalia removed with laser precision.
Though many theories have been offered it's a phenomenon that no one – not even the FBI – have ever been able to solve.
In 1974, newspapers started to catch wind of these bizarre mutilations, which first took place primarily in extremely rural farmlands in the Midwest. Instances were reported across the nation but were mostly scattered among South Dakota, Colorado, Kansas, and Nevada.
The news reports make up the bulk of the FBI's 32 page report on the subject, which is prefaced by a brief explanation that their investigation was hindered by a lack of jurisdiction in most cases.
The FBI told DailyMail.com that this was due to the fact that at the time there was no federal law declaring animal mutilation a federal crime, which didn't allow the department to continue investigating.
Many residents reported seeing helicopters circling the areas where cattle later turned up dead and sliced up with seemingly surgical accuracy. This prompted concerns that the mutilations, nicknamed 'mutes' by those familiar with the subject, were being propagated and covered up by the government.
in this image on the left, the cow's heart was excised with expert care - and was the third of three cattle mutilated on the same farm in Missouri beginning in 2011. Theories of who, or what, might be responsible have ranged from satanic cults, aliens, and the government. In the image on the right, ranchers found an animal with its sex organs and anus removed
Linda Moulton Howe is a former Miss Idaho turned investigative journalist and regional Emmy-winning filmmaker who has been a primary proponent of the 'alien argument'
This was around the same time of the height of alien paranoia in the United States – when UFOs, or balls or discs of floating light, were being spotted in similarly rural areas, often preceding or following the cow mutilations.
Many who have dedicated their lives to the subject believe, in fact, that aliens are responsible for the mutilations and that the government has been attempting to cover up their crimes (and existence) for years.
One such person is Linda Moulton Howe, the regional Emmy-winning filmmaker who the Watsons shared their story with for her documentary Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms. She has been one of the most steadfast supporters of the alien argument.
Her research conjures the images of what we picture as the stereotypical alien abduction – flying saucers beaming animals up into space with light.
At least two people even reported being abducted by aliens at that time – including one woman named Judy Doraty and her daughter Cindy.
In a 1990 symposium proceeding Howe wrote: '…I found in so many eyewitness accounts of orange glowing objects the size of football fields hovering above pasturelands where mutilated animals were later found. Or beams of light observed shining down from 'silent helicopters' that lighted pastures 'brighter than daylight' and the next day mutilated animals were found. And eyewitness reports of strange craft and/or non-human creatures involved with animals.
'There was Judy Doraty who in 1973 watched a brown and white calf rise in a pale beam of yellow light. Inside the craft, she saw tissue cut from the eye, tongue and testicles by two small grey-skinned creatures. They had four fingers, instead of five, and those long, thin fingers tapered into dark nails. Their eyes had vertical pupils like a cat or a crocodile's.
'Judy's daughter, Cindy, also described in a 1990 hypnosis session seeing a calf rising in a beam of yellow light.'
In a rare winter mutilation, this calf was found in Hooper, Nebraska in 1975 with its jaw completely cut out all the way up to its right eye socket. Eyewitnesses often reported seeing beaming lights or suspicious helicopters near where mutilated cows were later found
US Senator Floyd Haskell from Colorado pleaded with the FBI to become involved with the mutilations in August 1975 after receiving more than 130 cases in the state alone, and farmers had taken to arming themselves out of fear
Supernatural explanations were the only ones that made any sense at the time – given that the technology of the era was not advanced enough to have performed what appeared to be the use of localized lasers.
The areas surrounding the excisions, often around the anus of the murdered animals, had a blackened and burned appearance to them – suggesting the use of a high-powered laser. Other researchers, however, proposed different conclusions.
Christopher O'Brien, an author and investigative journalist on the subject, said that in his 200 cases of dealing with cattle death, about 40 of those were done by 'something with intelligence'.
Christopher O'Brien, an author and who has investigated the subject for decades, said that in his 200 cases of dealing with cattle death, about 40 of those were done by 'something with intelligence'. He is pictured researching left in 1993 and right in 2012
This Hooper, Nebraska calf also had its anus cut in a 10-inch wide diameter and 18-inch deep. O'Brien told DailyMail.com that he didn't believe aliens were responsible - because 'who would fly thousands of light years to collect cow butts?'
He is more skeptical of the alien explanation – saying that Howe's research doesn't incorporate many of the scientific findings that have been made.
He told the DailyMail.com that when a cow decomposes, the vegetable matter contained in one of its four stomachs makes the animal bloat. As the moisture leaves the body it then starts to deflate – causing the exposed edges of the animal to stay hard and darkened.
'To someone who doesn't know what they're looking at – it looks like a burn,' he said.
O'Brien feels that the alien argument is one used to sensationalize the topic and are only looking at a small portion of the total data.
He can't deny, however, how disturbing the number of 'high strange' cases are that he's seen – the ones that involve otherworldly circumstances.
On one occasion which O'Brien calls his 'strangest case' – he was called to the scene of a mutilated calf in Del Norte, Colorado.
'It was really freaky, it wouldn't rot,' he said. 'It was found in a complete pristine, five inch snow field without one drop of blood on the snow. All the blood had been taken from the animal. The heart and liver had been expertly excised and left in the body cavity.
'The chief medical veterinary pathologist said "it wasn't an animal that did this",' he continued.
In O'Brien's book, Stalking the Heard, he writes that the month-old calf was also missing its spine from the hips to the skull and the brain was gone. It's right front leg was also gone, and the vast majority of its ribs, both eyes, ears, intestines, reproductive tract, and lungs had been removed. Its rectum was also mutilated.
Two witnesses also reportedly saw a large beam of light near the house the previous evening before the calf was found.
O'Brien's 'strangest case' was this month-old calf that was missing its spine from the hips to the skull and the brain was gone. It's right front leg was also gone, and the vast majority of its ribs, both eyes, ears, intestines, reproductive tract, and lungs had been removed. Its rectum was also mutilated and its heart and liver were excised but left inside the body cavity
He hits on another popular argument for the cattle deaths – though arguably the least plausible explanation. Many believe that the excisions were being done simply by other animals – scavengers such as vultures or coyotes.
O'Brien is quick to discredit this based off of his own experience.
'The first thing I look for is cut hair follicles,' he said. 'When birds or coyotes rip they rip between the lines of hair they don't cut the hair. If I find a 2-3 inch section of cut hair follicles I know that someone or something with a sharp implement did that. It wasn't done by birds or scavengers.'
These 'high strange' cases are less likely to be reported by ranchers, according to O'Brien.
'The freakier the case the less likely the rancher is to report it – they're so freaked out they won't even tell their family or neighbors. He doesn't want people in the community to think he's been singled out and victimized by some supernatural thing. That's why they're very reluctant to come forward.
'It's only when they see the hundreds and hundreds of helicopters being reported around these sites – mostly military helicopters – it's only when they see that that they feel like they've been targeted or victimized by their government and that pisses them off.'
Though the occurrences in the United States have considerably slowed down since they were at their height in the early 1970s, they certainly haven't stopped. O'Brien notes that they have seen a consistently high number of cases in South America, especially Brazil and Argentina.
O'Brien says that throughout his decades of studying mutilations, he's noticed that there's been a shift to South America, where he believes they've had more than 4,000 cases since 2002. A news report included in an FBI briefing stated that more than 1500 cattle in 22 states were killed and mutilated from 1973 to 1976 in the United States
He claims that since 2002, there have been more than 4,000 cases of cattle mutilation in South America - and are still reporting anywhere from three to a dozen cases a week.
Back in the United States, just before the New Year in 2016, and again a few days afterwards, two cows were mutilated in nearby rural towns in Kansas.
In McPherson County, Carla and John Shearer discovered one of their pregnant cows dead with one eye removed and both her top and bottom eyelids and eyelashes excised.
'We lose animals, but not like this,' Shearer told the Kansas Agland. The couple believes whoever killed their $4,000 cow used a tranquilizer or stun gun to immobilize it before killing it.
'She died in motion – she was walking and she just went straight down,' Shearer added.
Carla and John Shearer on McPherson County, Kansas discovered one of their pregnant cows dead with one eye removed and both her top and bottom eyelids and eyelashes excised in January 2017
The bull found in nearby Harvey County was found dead with its genitals removed – also cut with surgical precision.
It is O'Brien's opinion that the mass mutilations – of which there were thousands reported in the 1970s alone – are a part of a secretive government effort to research animal plagues such as mad cow or prion disease.
'We've seen this many, many times throughout history – where one case will happen and then within a week there will be a dozen. I think they're looking for something – that's the best explanation I can give. And I think they're looking for something within the food chain.
'Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is the most horrendous affliction that you could possibly imagine. It's 100% fatal – it produces large holes in the brain tissue and creates holes like Swiss cheese in the neuron system and the brain synapses start to misfire. You forget to breathe and your autonomic system starts to break down.
'That I think is the basic underpinnings of it – we're dealing with a group that is interested in keeping an eye on the food chain. The beef industry is the largest, most powerful industry that you never hear about. I think we're dealing with something that's being protected by some quasi-governmental group,' he said.
Though tempting to indulge in the possibility of space creatures invading the planet to study our animals, O'Brien finds this explanation a bit too impractical.
'It sounds like bad science fiction,' he said. 'Who would fly hundreds of light years to come and gather cow butts?'
Aliens in Newcastle? UFOs filmed hovering over the North East decades after Roswell mystery first gripped the world
Aliens in Newcastle? UFOs filmed hovering over the North East decades after Roswell mystery first gripped the world
On the 70th anniversary of the Roswell incident, questions still surround the possibility of extraterrestrial life
BY DAVID MORTON, ANDREW COLLEY
For decades the mystery surrounding UFOs has gripped people across the world - but if aliens really do exist, what to do the look like and where would they go?
It appears that the answer to that might be Newcastle.
This year is the 70th anniversary of the infamous Roswell incident , when a balloon crash in New Mexico went on to spark decades of conspiracy theories.
And the Newcastle area, as this amateur video footage shows, has had its fair share of UFOs, Chronicle Live reports.
Newcastle, as amateur video footage shows, has had its fair share of UFOs(Photo: Chronicle Live)
The North East has its very own list of X Files and with dozens of UFO sightings being reported over the years.
In 1977, a Flight Lieutenant based at RAF Boulmer reported seeing “bright objects hanging over the sea” including an object that was “luminous, round and four to five times larger than a helicopter”.
People have been left wondering what the objects could be(Photo: Chronicle Live)
In 2004, a Gateshead vicar photographed a bright object hovering in the night sky.
He said: “It was hovering from left to right, and was extremely smooth. Then the light just turned off as if it was still there, but hidden.”
In 2015 Craig Lowther from Tynemouth managed to film a dome-shaped object with pulsating lights hovering over the North East coast.
Countless other clips have also been collected, including video from North Shields were three bright lights are filmed in a triangle formation above the town.
UFO sightings have occurred across the world for decades(Photo: Chronicle Live)
It comes as rumours swept the internet this week that NASA was about to make an announcement concerning the existence of alien life.
However, NASA science chief Thomas Zurbuchen said in a Twitter post on Tuesday: “Contrary to some reports, there’s no pending announcement from NASA regarding extraterrestrial life.”
JACKSON HOLE, WY – Crop Circles are a fascinating phenomenon. They often stretch more than 800 feet (larger than two NFL football fields) with complex and precise geometric patterns laid down into fields of summer grains. Much of the designs are done in the middle of night, in a few hours or less, with no footprints. “Some of these formations are so immense and complex as to defy reason,” Richard Dolan, historian, academic, author, and one of the world’s leading UFO researchers, once said.
Sometimes people have seen white orbs moving around the crops at the time the grain is swirled and intricately woven into purposeful patterns. Though crop circles occur all over the world, and have for a long time, England’s crop formations have been the most numerous, the most studied and the most elaborate.
Two amazing examples
In summer 2001, there were two extraordinary crop circles which appeared in the same field next to England’s largest interstellar observatory. The first was an enormous rectangular honeycomb of “pixels,” which were indecipherable at ground level. From the air, the design revealed a human face that clearly and eerily looked like the controversial “face” photographed on the surface of Mars.
A few days later, a second crop circle appeared in binary code. Researchers were struck by how similar it was to the 1974 binary code interstellar radio transmission designed by Carl Sagan and beamed by SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) into space. This was transmitted from the observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, toward a star cluster 23,000 light years away from earth.
The transmission sent in the 70s showed the drawing of a man, the double helix of human DNA, symbols for the five basic elements of life on earth (hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorous) and a map of our solar system highlighting earth as the the third planet from the sun.
There were some enticing additions in the crop circle which appeared 30 years after the signals from earth were sent. In the crop circle the DNA has three strands, forming a triple helix. Our message included five key elements in our periodic table, and the crop formation had a sixth element inserted. It was the code for silicon, and alternative life-bearing substance to carbon. You can imagine that scientists and lay people alike have speculated this crop circle might have been an answer to the Arecibo transmission.
Who creates the circles and why?
Theories abound about the creators of the circles, and how they do this. However, the consensus is that these are intentional communications created by friendly non-terrestrial intelligence using advanced technologies.
The intent seems to be three things: a benevolent effort to tell us more about our place in the cosmos; to let us know what shifts may be occurring in the cosmos which are, or will be, affecting us; and to awaken us to higher levels of consciousness.
How could these enormous crop circles accomplish any of these things?People who study and interpret them point to the many levels of symbolic, mathematical and esoteric information/meaning in the patterns, coupled with the longitude and latitude of each circle, and the distinctly accelerated energy frequencies measured in the circles themselves.
Authentic vs. fake
To be sure, there are authentic crop circles and manmade fakes. Scientists have discovered the plants in authentic circles have significant changes in their DNA. Plants involved in the crop formations grow 40 percent larger than the regular grains. Their root systems are also 40 percent stronger, and the grains are markedly healthier. And, though the designs cover hundreds of yards and are intricately laid on acres upon acres of plants to form the woven, complex patterns, the plant stems are bent, but never broken.
Up close and personal
I have walked in some of these crop circles in England and have flown over many of them in a small plane. I can attest to their awe-inspiring patterns and powerful energies. Some breweries in England even make beer and bread using the grains from crop circles.
I leave it to your curious minds to check research at cropcircleconnector.com. There is also a compelling documentary online by Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker William Gazecki, Crop Circles: Quest for Truth.
Indeed, the 2017 crop circle season has already begun. PJH
It remains one of the most intriguing mysteries and it began to unfold in June, 1947...
The ‘Roswell incident’ has captured imaginations the world over for the last 70 years.
The once sleepy New Mexico town became the focal point of the biggest extraterrestrial hunt in history following reports a flying saucer had crashed, complete with aliens, in the American desert.
The alleged events sparked worldwide wonder until the US military claimed the incident was nothing more than a downed surveillance balloon.
In the same year, the term “flying saucer” was coined, based on quotes by witness Kenneth Arnold describing the shape of the objects he saw as like a “saucer”, “disc”, or “pie-plate”.
An artist's impression of a UFO over the Sage, Gateshead(Photo: ugc)
UFO reports flourished in the midst of the 1950s-70s Cold War and, in the decades since, thousands of images of UFOs purported to be of extraterrestrial origin have been captured.
And in recent years, thousands of hours of video footage has been collected by individuals worldwide and much of it posted on YouTube showing strange lights, shapes and craft-like objects in our skies.
The subject has also become a favourite in Hollywood. Film blockbusters like Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, ET, and Independence Day have all imagined what might happen if aliens - both benign and malign - showed up at planet earth.
On the 70th anniversary of the famous Roswell incident, has ET been paying sneak visits to Tyneside and the North East?(Photo: Mirrorpix)
Meanwhile, outlandish theories have emerged.
Is NASA really covering up strange geometric structures and towers that were filmed and photographed on the moon during the Apollo missions?
Is there really a 13,000-year-old alien satellite called the ‘Black Knight’ orbiting the earth?
And did a space ship carrying extraterrestrial beings crash in the US desert at Roswell 70 years ago - and were they captured and taken to a top-secret US defence instalment called Area 51?
The internet and countless books would have us believe so.
Closer to home, even Ant and Dec got in on the act in 2006, with the TV pair releasing the comedy movie Alien Autopsy based on the fabled 1947 incident.
The North East has its very own list of X Files and the Chronicle has reported on dozens of UFO sightings over the years.
In 2015, for example, Craig Lowther from Tynemouth managed to film a dome-shaped object with pulsating lights hovering over the North East coast.
In 1977, a Flight Lieutenant based at RAF Boulmer reported seeing “bright objects hanging over the sea” including an object that was “luminous, round and four to five times larger than a helicopter”.
in 2004, a Gateshead vicar photographed a bright object hovering in the night sky. He said: “It was hovering from left to right, and was extremely smooth. Then the light just turned off as if it was still there, but hidden.”
And back in 1940, Robert Hall, was ‘abducted by aliens’ from a back lane in Bensham, Gateshead. He was “taken onboard the ship by a group of grey, horrible- looking creatures.”
There are many more puzzling stories in the Chronicle archive.
On the 70th anniversary of Roswell, check out our video of UFOs over Tyneside and Durham.
Do the strange lights in the sky have a logical, scientific down-to-earth explanation - or has ET been paying sneak visits to Geordieland in recent decades?
Finally, wild rumours swept the internet this week that NASA was about to make an announcement concerning the existence of alien life.
However, NASA science chief Thomas Zurbuchen said in a Twitter post on Tuesday: “Contrary to some reports, there’s no pending announcement from NASA regarding extraterrestrial life.”
The new book UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Ups by Irena Scott PhD contains an amount of controversial and thought provoking information as the title of the book might suggest. If I were a gambling man I would bet on one piece of information in this book being the most controversial within its pages. With it being the 70th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, an event that many claim was the crash of a space vehicle from an ET origin, the news that an alleged new witness emerging might not be that big a surprise.
The Roswell File and Charles H. Forgus.
In 2012, I was contacted by a gentleman called Scott Ferguson. Scott was part of a production company called White Tiger Films. He explained to me that he had some information on the Roswell Incident that he would like me to take a look at. I had first to sign a non-disclosure agreement which I did. Once this was signed I was sent what Scott called his ‘Roswell File’. He was looking to possibly make a movie based around this file and asked if I could help research the alleged witness. I of course agreed. The ‘Roswell File’ consisted of a transcript of an interview with the alleged witness Charles H. Forgus, a video interview with him and a photo as well. The story of how White Tiger Films obtained this material is I would say quite unique.
The witness to the Roswell crash scene was Deputy Sheriff Charles H Fogus of Howard County, Texas. He was interviewed in 1999 by Los Angeles private investigator Deanna Short. Deanna recorded the interview on video and later had a transcript done of the interview and completed her Agency report to verify facts at that time related to Charles Forgus and Sheriff Jess Slaughter – both of Howard County, Texas.
Deanna Bever and Charles Forgus circa 1999.
Sheriff Jess Slaughter and Deputy Sheriff Charles Fogus were allegedly travelling together in early July, 1947 from Texas to Roswell to pick up a prisoner when they happened on the Roswell crash scene in New Mexico. Both were there and were on an overlook to view the crash scene recovery by the Army. I should note that according to Deanna’s daughter Mackenzie, Charles made a special effort to note to Deanna “not to believe what others will say – he and the Sheriff did witness the Roswell crash scene”.
Deanna is now deceased but her daughter Mackenzie Christian has kept Deanna’s files that include the Roswell case which includes the video interview. Robert Short is Deanna’s son. Both Mackenzie and Robert are themselves experienced investigators having worked along side there mom in years past. Robert has taken up the work to investigate both Sheriff Jess Slaughter and Deputy Sheriff Charles Fogus.
In 1999 Deanna verified the background, including living relatives of both law enforcement individuals that existed at the time and documented that in her agency intelligence report.
I will producer here the transcript of the interview with Charles Forgus which was conducted in 1999. Some words have been redacted but not by me but by Deanna Bever.
THE TRANSCRIPT
C.Fogus Statement
REGARDING
The Roswell Incident – July 1947
D. Bever
Complete Tape Transcript
Charlie Forgus and wife Marlene circa 1986.
Mr. Charles Forgus statement taken on Monday, June 21, 1999 at 11:30 A.M. Transcribed from audio cassette tape on June 22, 1999
LR: What I’m trying to do is pierce together……
CF: I was working for the Sheriff of . I was a Deputy there for Sheriff Slaughter, was back in the 40’s. We went to Roswell to pick up a prisoner. When we got there, the land was covered with soldiers. They were hauling a big, a creature. Hauling him away.
What I seen of him looked just like the one we see on television, with big eyes. 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. So we headed up to get the prisoner in Roswell and back to.
LR: So you were on your way from to Roswell to pick up a prisoner and you happened to be at that place……
CF: It already had crashed. They were taking them out. There were soldiers there….about 3 or 4 hundred of them. They wouldn’t let you get very close. They were keeping all the people away. People were coming out there.
LR: What did the saucer (we’ll call it) look like?
CF: It was a big round thing. Across the middle it was about 100 feet.
LR: Did you see any lights around it?
CF: No, they went out when it banged into the wall in the creek. It was like a mountain on the side of the creek.
Alleged UFO crash site (photo copyright Kevin Randle)
LR: Did you see any creatures: How many did you see?
CF: Yeh, I saw them. I think I seen about four (of them).
LR: were they covered up?
CF: Mostly. I saw the legs and feet on some of them.
LR: What did the feet look like? Do you remember?
CF: They looked like our feet.
LR: Could you figure how tall they were? They were laying flat, Right?
CF: Yeh, There is one thing I do remember. The Great Father didn’t just make this planet…. He made all of them. He put beings on these planets just like he put us on this one. They’re smarter then we are. They can get from there to here, but we can’t get from here to there.
(Note: CF is rather deaf. He wears two hearing aid appliances in this ears, so he answers my questions as follows …)
LR: Why do you think they’re here then?
CF: I don’t know where they hauled them. They might have hauled them to the hospital or somewhere.
LR: How long were you and Sheriff Slaughter at that site after you arrived?
CF: About 30 Minutes?
LR: Did you tell anyone about it?
CF: The Army was there and military soldiers were there.
LR: Did they tell you not to say anything?
CF: No, they didn’t tell me nothing’. They wouldn’t let you get close to ‘em.
LR: Did they actually see you observing what was going on?
CF: Sure, they saw me lookin’ at them.
LR: And they didn’t tell you to not say anything…..
CF: No, They wouldn’t let us get close to them. We were about 10 away.
LR: You were that close?
CF: We might have been further away. I didn’t have glasses then, I could see pretty good.
DB: What was your official capacity then?
CF: I was a Deputy The County Seat was I was riding with the Sheriff when we went to get the prisoner.
He didn’t order nobody except me to go with him. The UFO was already down when we got there. We went and got the prison afterwards. We heard about it on the radio.
LR: What did you hear on the radio?
CF: That the thing had crashed.
LR: But they didn’t know what ‘the thing’ was?
CF: No. But you would think that when people hear something like this, it scares the heck out of them. This came out of the POLICE RADIO. We were on the way through there (to pick up the prisoner) when we heard it on the police radio. It was a big distance from to Roswell…you can look on a map and see it.
LR: So let me ask you this. When you guys were driving down the road and you were listening to the police radio……
CF: Yeh…..
LR: Do you remember what was said on the radio about whatever it was… Do you recall?
C.Fogus Statement
CF: All I remember is they said that a saucer crashed out there in the canyon.
LR: They actually said the word ‘saucer’?
CF: They can call it a saucer if they want to but there ain’t a big enough cup of coffee for that thing.
LR: How long do you think you were at the site? (Note the cookoo clock goes off at noon)
CF: Probably about 20 minutes. We seen them haul them (the bodies) out there, out of the canyon up to the trucks….puttin them on the tow trucks so they could haul them.
Sheriff Jess Slaughter (date unknown).
DB: Did anyone try to get you to leave the scene.
CF: No….they told the Sheriff that we had to go. That was good enough for us….He’s the boss.
LR: When they were taking the beings (we’ll call them), were the beings laying on the ground around the saucer?
CF: Yeh, they were lifting them up with a crane that they had and picking them up and swinging them to put them on the truck. The bodies must have been 5 feet tall.
LR: Did you see the heads?
CF: Yeh….they were covered. They eyes looked like the ones we see on television and the pictures of them.
LR: What color was the skin?
CF: As much as I could tell….the skin was a brownish color…. Like they were in the sun too long.
LR: From the time it crashed until the time you got there, do you know how much time went by? From the time you heard it on the police radio until you got there?
CF: About two hours.
LR: Did you see any writing or engraving on the saucer?
CF: I wasn’t that close to it?
LR: If you were say 12 feet away from the beings, how far were the beings away from the saucer. Were they thrown pretty far?
CF; We couldn’t see that well because of the trees. It was in a riverbank. It slammed into a river bank. I say them lifting one up with the crane.
LR: Did anyone else talk to you about what was going on?
CF: There were some solders, but I don’t think they were from the Air Force.
LR: Where do you think they were from then?
CF: I don’t know. They were wearing uniforms. I didn’t pay no attention cause I just wanted to go with the Sheriff to get the heck out of there before something happened.
LR: When you guys were in the car to go pick the guy up, did you discuss or talk about what you had seen with the Sheriff?
CF: No. I didn’t know what they were and he didn’t either or where they came from or nothin.
DB: Did you see any blood on the bodies?
CF: I don’t know…. I guess they were dead.
LR: You’re 81 years old now. When and where were you born?
C.Fogus Statement
CF: I was born in I don’t know what city.
LR: You have been in the
CF: I sure have, before I became a Deputy Sheriff.
LR: So when this thing at Roswell happened, you were already out of the Army and were a Deputy Sheriff. That happened in 1947. Now it’s 1999. That was 52 years ago, Charlie. And you still remember it clearly?
CF: Yeh, pretty clear.
LR: Has anyone ever talked to you or asked you to talk about what happened…like to the Government, cause there’s a lot of research going on now because of the cover-up.
CF: There was one that came around, and I told him to shut up and not come around. I don’t know who they were. That was when I was Deputy Sheriff.
LR: When you saw the saucer, can you remember in your mind what it looked like. Can you draw it?
CF: No….you draw it?
(Note: Charlie had LR draw because he broke his arm and can’t use it). He directed LP to draw a circle (not an oval). Then he directed LR to draw another circle with the circle. This was a drawing of the top of the saucer. Charlie was standing on top of the opposite side of the bank of the dry creek bed where the saucer had crashed.
LR: Were you standing above it?
CF: I was standing on the back side. The saucer hit the bank on this side of the creek and I was standing on the other side of the bank, at the top of the hill. I was looking down at the site.
LR: So you had a ‘bird’s eye view‘, that’s why you were able to see the top of it?
CF: I didn’t have a ‘bird’s eye, I’ve got my own eyes (he laughs)
LR: LR shows Charlie the drawing. LR says, if this is the top (of the saucer), how much higher were you.
CF: Probably about 20 feet above it.
LR: So, that’s why you saw the top (of the saucer). And you say, that from here to here (across the top of the saucer – diameter) is about 100 feet.
CF: It was evenly round.
LR: So it was absolutely round…. Not oval shaped and you were 20 feet above it, that’s why you saw the top.
LR: did you see the fingers and hands?
CF: No, they were covered up. But I saw the head.
LR: But you said you saw the feet.
CF: Yeh, later on, when they were passing by I saw the feet. I could see them lifting it up with the crane. They wouldn’t let you close enough when they were puttin’ them into the truck. When they were liftin them on the crane you could see them layin’ on that thing.
LR: You said the body was covered. Were the arms layin on the stomach under the cover?
CF: When the wind blew, the cover went back so you could see the face. The same way with the feet.
Nothing has been changed in the above transcript and who LR is I have no idea. No sooner had I started to try and help Scott Ferguson that all communication with him abruptly ceased. No matter how I tried to contact him I had no reply. So that is where I left it. It wasn’t until 2014 that I had an email from Robert Short (Deanna Bevers son) informing me that Scott had died. Any further work on this material was again delayed because of my own serious ill health.
In 2016, I contacted Robert Short and asked him if I could publish this material and try and continue with the investigation into it. Robert agreed and permission was granted. I asked for the assistance of Chris Evers, Irena Scott PhD and the Mutual UFO Network. The investigation into this material is on-going but between us we have managed to establish a few things. For example Sheriff Slaughter was not the Sheriff in 1947. He was in fact Sheriff twice, the first time from 1928 until 1940 and the second was 1953 to 1956. The Sheriff in 1947 was R.L. Wolf (see Sheriff’s log). We have also located his military discharge papers from WWII. On top of that there are a number of local newspapers that mention Charles Forgus.
Sheriffs log.
Charles Forgus military discharge papers.
List of Sheriffs at Big Springs.
News cutting from 1954 mentions Charles Forgus.
On January 31st 2017 the MUFON report on Charles Forgus was sent to me by Chase Kloetzke. We would like to thank Chase, her colleagues and MUFON in general for their assistance with this research into Charles Forgus.
MUFON REPORT
REPORT ON MUFON SAT Case # 17MSAT01ROS-001
January 31, 2017
By SAT
PART ONE-DEPUTY FORGUS’S STORY
OVERVIEW
In 1999 a resident of Big Spring Texas gave a deposition to a private investigator claiming that he was a witness to the Roswell UFO crash in July of 1947.
Charles Forgus Jr. was born on January 28, 1918 and died in 2001. He would have been 29 years old in 1947 when the incident is alleged to have taken place. He called himself a Deputy Sheriff for Howard County.
His co-witness was Sheriff Jess Slaughter. Slaughter was born in 1896 per the 1940 census. His obituary states he was born in 1894 and died in 1972.
So in 1947 Charles Forgus was 29 and his Sheriff Jess Slaughter was 53. Logical ages for their positions.
Charles Forgus related that “in the 1940s” he and Jess Slaughter were travelling between Big Spring Texas and Roswell New Mexico to pick up and return a prisoner to Big Spring which is the Howard County Texas seat. Both Forgus and Slaughter lived in Big Spring.
In the New Mexico portion of the journey travelling west to pick up the prisoner, they came across a crash and debris site in the desert. They observed three to four hundred Army personnel scouring the crash site. They observed a crashed “circular” saucer about 100 feet in diameter. They also saw two dead bodies being loaded onto a truck. The disc was described as circular, metal and had a second circle within it possibly a cupola. They explained their vantage point was over a dry river/creek bed viewable from the highway. The saucer had crashed into the riverbank below. Their vantage point was approximately 20 feet above the embankment presumably from the highway.
They witnessed two corpses being loaded onto a truck. The corpses were covered with sheets but wind allowed the officers to see human type feet, brown skin, large eyes on the head and they approximated the bodies as being 5 feet tall.
It is suggested that they were fairly close to Roswell and actually returned with the prisoner and saw more of the clean-up operation. The operation went on for hours presumably during daylight.
MAIN PROBLEMS
There are three main problems associated with the 1999 interview of Charles Forgus Jr. He was interviewed by Los Angeles private investigator Deanna Short. Deanna recorded the interview on video and later had a transcript done of the interview and completed her Agency report to verify facts at that time. Deanna is now deceased.
First, unbelievably, the interrogator did not ask Mr. Forgus for a date (not even a year) nor did she ask the location of the incident such as what highway it occurred on or the name of a nearby town even! Ms. Short included an introduction to the interview where she states the witnesses encountered the incident in July of 1947 but there is nothing to base this on in the interview. As we shall see, it is more likely the witnesses encountered something in 1953 and not 1947.
Secondly, from the information Mr.Mantle, the person requesting MUFON’s assistance, initially provided to SAT, it appears Mr. Jesse Slaughter was a Sheriff in Howard County, Texas in the 1930s up to 1940. Subsequent follow-up by SAT revealed there is a gap of ten years until he was again elected Sheriff in 1951 (not 1953 as mentioned below).
I contacted the Howard County Texas Public Library and was sent this reply:
From: “Reference” <reference@howardcountytx.com> To: “ROBERT” <robertspearing@comcast.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6:34:10 PM Subject: RE: reference request
Mr. Spearing,
I could find no listings for past sheriffs of Howard County. The attachment is an online search of the Big Spring Herald. What I can determine is that Jess Slaughter was sheriff in the thirties. Then lost the position in 1940 and later won re-election in 1953. Deputy C.H. Forgus became deputy under Sheriff Slaughter in 1953.
You can access the Big Spring Herald online and search the articles like I did. I could find no articles in the 1940’s listing Jess Slaughter as Sheriff. I found one article listing him as the Juvenile Officer. The caption below the picture at the bottom of the attachment provides a great deal of information if you can read it.
Johnny Schafer, Reference Librarian
Howard County Library
Big Spring, TX
This makes it unlikely that this was the Roswell crash of July 1947. 1953 or later is the best timeframe for the incident.
Lastly, while I found numerous direct line members of the Forgus and Slaughter families, all attempts to contact them via Facebook and telephone have been unsuccessful. It is my feeling that they do not wish to respond.
All indications are that they did not happen upon the Roswell Crash Incident. Mr. Forgus became a Deputy in 1953. Mr. Slaughter again became a Sheriff in 1951. Best estimate is affair happened in 1953.
The most important aspect of the story is that while no location is given we know from the transcript that the two men were travelling west inside New Mexico.
We also know that according to Google Maps there are only two principal highways between Big Spring Texas and Roswell New Mexico – a northern and a southern route.
The two routes referenced in the MUFON report.
The Northern Route-
This route leaves Big Spring on a north-western trajectory and then turns due west to Roswell. The north-western leg of the route utilizes highway 87 north to highway 137 north. The turn westward uses Interstate 380 west for the remainder of the trip into Roswell. The important leg of this trek inside New Mexico from the Texas border to Roswell is approximately 85 miles on Route 380 west.
The Southern Route-
We leave Big Spring Texas heading due west on Route 176. At the Texas into New Mexico border route 176 becomes Rt. 234 and there are multiple routes to travel but in one good scenario described later, Route 234 west meets Route 18 North up to Hobbs and again goes west with Route 62 west to Route 529 west to Route 82 west to Route 285 north which brings you into Roswell from the South. It is this route that is the most promising.
The one caveat is that the Interstate Highway System was only under construction in the late 40s and early 50s. There may have been a more rural road in existence prior to the creation of Interstate 380. Therefore, some parameters may have changed such as location of the road and the elimination of certain landmarks such as a small dry creek bed with a 20 foot drop to the embankment by a large group of trees which is crucial to any continuing investigation.
THE SOUTHERN ROUTE SCENARIO
The critical question is what did the two law enforcement officers see?
Possible resolutions are:
Extraterrestrial Craft with non-human pilots
Military Exercise
Plane Crash (military or civilian)
American VTOL disc crash
Depiction of alleged secret USAF circular VTOL experimental craft.
(Credit: OpenMinds.tv/Michael Schratt)
Since we no longer have witnesses to clarify their answers, perhaps the only avenue is to find a newspaper account. The southern route scenario offers a resolution.
In the case of Roswell in 1947, thousands of pages of documentation have been scoured including aircraft crashes. The best course of action in this investigation was to pursue leads in 1953 when Forgus became a Deputy Sheriff.
On August 28, 1953, the Reno Evening Gazette ran a small front page story on a military air crash that reads as follows:
ELEVEN AIRMEN ESCAPE IN CRASH
ROSWELL N.M. AUGUST 28, 1953 (AP)
Eleven airmen escaped unhurt last night when their 4 engined B-50 bomber landed wheels up on gently rolling plains 35 miles southwest of Tatum, N.M. in southeast New Mexico. The plane of the 97th bomber wing at Biggs Air Force Base, El Paso Texas and piloted by Chester A. Walter, was on a routine training flight.
Boeing B-50D-95-BO (97th Bombardment Wing, early 1950s)
(Credit: US Government/Wikimedia Commons)
If one draws a map southwest of Tatum, the closest highway it approaches on Mr. Forgus and Mr. Slaughter’s southern route is Route 62 west about 42 miles west of Hobbs N.M. and about 10 degrees south of Tatum. It is an almost perfect fit as it is approximately 36 miles southwest of Tatum.
This would coincide with their westward trip shortly before they turned north to Roswell.
There are problems with this August 28th story however. First, there were no dead bodies. All crew members survived. Second, the craft was not circular but had a plane’s fuselage. However, the front of the B-50 bomber had a very unique multi-windowed cockpit that seen straight on could have been construed as disc shaped.
Additionally, Forgus reported the object as 100 feet in diameter. The B-50 was 99 feet long. Coincidence? It was also silver metallic.
It is a stretch that the B-50 accident could have been the object seen by the lawmen but it is also quite reasonable given the circumstances given the color, cockpit shape, month and year etc.
One theory is that the B-50 crash story was only a cover story to obfuscate the real story of a crash of a disc shaped object; a crash where pilots (human or non-human perished).
It is also possible that if it was an American made VTOL disc shaped craft it was attempting to land on the highway but fell short due to mechanical difficulties. This would explain its proximity to the highway.
In 1967 evidence was located at McDill Air Force Base that VTOLS as large as 116 feet in diameter had been built by the U.S. Military.
An alien craft is unlikely in that it probably would not have wanted such a strategically unpleasant location to land if it was having difficulties. However, the two non-human pilot bodies, if accurate, pose a dilemma in this scenario.
RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION
RECOMMENDATION
If there is a MUFON Field Investigator living in the vicinity of Roswell, it may be beneficial to have him drive Route 380 between the Texas border and Roswell to see if he can identify the place described in Mr. Forgus’s deposition.
If Route 380 can be ruled out, the roads between Hobbs, N.M AND Roswell N.M. should be travelled specifically Route 62 west to Route 529 west to Route 82 west to Route 285 north into Roswell to locate a small cliff and riverbed.
If a good location candidate can be found, an excursion to the area would be in order to try and retrieve artefacts.
In the event a FI cannot be enlisted, alternatives would include inquiring of the State Police or even tow truck company dispatchers in the Roswell area for the solicitation of information on a possible location.
CONCLUSION
It seems highly unlikely that Mr. Forgus was forging a story from untruths. His timeframe is off but it seems likely that he came across something unusual in the desert along with Mr. Slaughter. At times his story stretches the truth such as the sheet flapping in the wind allowing him to see parts of the two corpses. However, details such as that they were going to return a prisoner from Roswell to Big Spring are superfluous details a liar would not include.
Unfortunately, the 1999 private investigator did not attempt to get an exact year or location thus crippling efforts 18 years later.
It also seems more likely that the event occurred in 1953 when the U.S. Military was experimenting with Vertical Take off Landing (VTOL) disc shaped craft some of which were 100 feet in diameter and probably piloted by one or two airmen.
It would also be a stretch based on the limited evidence we have to suggest the most likely scenario would be the crash of an alien disc.
If the site cannot be found by a MUFON Field Investigator or other means, the case should be closed out as “INSUFFICIENT DATA.”
ROBERT SPEARING
January 31, 2017
— End of MUFON Report —
We wish to make it clear that we are open minded with regards to the veracity of what Charles Forgus has claimed. We have found a discrepancy in his story as Sheriff Slaughter was not the Sheriff in 1947. We would also like say that we found the MUFON report extremely compelling and we agree with their findings.
Sheriff Jess Slaughter ad campaign leaflet.
I dare say many of those that know far more than me about the Roswell Incident will write it off as it does not fit the known Roswell crash scenario. All I will say is that we are working together to try and find any more information and I leave this ‘Roswell File’ open just-in-case.
If anyone reading this has any information concerning the Roswell Incident we urge them to get in touch.
The book UFOs TODAY will be officially launched at the official Roswell Incident conference organised by the Roswell Daily Record from June 30th to July 2nd: http://www.roswellincident.com/
UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Ups by Irena Scott PhD is out now on Amazon.
Editor’s note: OpenMinds.tv’s very own Alejandro Rojas will be presenting at the Roswell Daily Record’s Roswell Incident on Saturday, July 1 in Roswell. Check out RoswellIncident.com for more information.
UFO-jagers doen vreemde vondst op de rode planeet. Zijn dit gefossiliseerde botresten?
UFO-jagers doen vreemde vondst op de rode planeet. Zijn dit gefossiliseerde botresten?
UFO-jagers claimen gefossiliseerde botten te hebben gevonden op Mars. Ze analyseerden foto’s die zijn gemaakt door Marsrover Curiosity, meldt de Daily Mail.
De rover van de NASA rijdt al sinds 2009 rond op de rode planeet en stuurt geregeld foto’s naar de aarde.
De UFO-jagers beweren dat op twee foto’s botten zijn te zien die uit de grond steken. Het zou gaan om een dij- en een heupbeen.
Meer dan ooit
De foto’s zijn te zien in een video die is gemaakt door de groep Martian Archaeology. Volgens de groep wemelt het op Mars van leven.
“Na jarenlang onderzoek ben ik er nu meer dan ooit van overtuigd dat er veel meer is op Mars dan de NASA wil toegeven,” schreef TJ Devereaux in een reactie.
“Ik ben er zeker van dat intelligente levensvormen de planeet ooit bewoonden en daar nog steeds bestaan,” voegde hij toe.
Nodige deining
Eerder deze maand zorgden foto’s van Curiosity ook al voor de nodige deining. Afgelopen week fotografeerde de rover een mysterieuze cirkelvormige rotsformatie op het Marsoppervlak.
UFO-jagers speculeerden dat de formatie was gemaakt door een andere levensvorm of dat het bouwsel onderdeel was van een nog grotere structuur.
Experts stelden dat de vreemde steencirkel waarschijnlijk het gevolg was van een geologisch proces dat ook op aarde wordt waargenomen.
DOOR NASA GEFOTOGRAFEERDE UFO OP MARS GAAT WERELD ROND ( VIDEO )
DOOR NASA GEFOTOGRAFEERDE UFO OP MARS GAAT WERELD ROND ( VIDEO )
De complete wereld is weer eens in de maling genomen door een nepvideo van Anonymous imitators waarin NASA buitenaards leven bekend zou maken.
Echter, NASA heeft waarschijnlijk tegelijkertijd wél iets vergeten weg te poetsen op één van haar Mars foto's en vanuit het oosten van ons land komen fantastische UFO beelden.
Het is het tijdperk van desinformatie, waarbij bepaalde groepen bewust de mensheid een verkeerde kant opsturen en tevens is er een grote groep die overal maling aan heeft zolang het maar de nodige advertentiekliks oplevert.
Zo is in enkele dagen tijd een video viraal gegaan die gemaakt zou zijn door Anonymous waarin wordt gezegd dat NASA buitenaards leven bekend zal maken.
The video, which runs with advertising, has garnered over half a million views.
Diezelfde video is inmiddels meer dan 2 miljoen keer bekeken en dat levert een behoorlijk bedrag aan advertentie-inkomsten op.
Het is natuurlijk een win-win situatie, want niet alleen de videomaker scoort goed met de advertenties, ook de websites die de video plaatsen zonder enig onderzoek en die vol staan met advertenties scoren goed.
NASA heeft inmiddels ook al gereageerd op de nepvideo en iedereen verzekert dat ze zeker niet op het punt staan om buitenaards leven bekend te maken.
Maar, iets waar NASA wat meer moeite mee heeft is een beeld dat op 17 maart 2017 is gemaakt door de Curiosity Rover op Mars.
Een foto die her en der de gemoederen ook aardig bezighoudt en in combinatie met de nep Anonymous video voor heel wat ophef heeft gezorgd.
De foto werd enkele dagen geleden geplaatst op het bekende Reddit forum en het object waar het om gaat ziet er als volgt uit:
Wat het ook moge zijn, duidelijk is dat het hier niet gaat om een natuurlijk gevormd iets in het landschap. Zelfs NASA met al haar fantasie zal dat argument dit keer niet kunnen gebruiken.
Nu is het moeilijk om de grootte van dit object vast te stellen omdat enig referentiepunt ontbreekt. Het is een object in een kaal Mars-landschap.
Op de originele foto bij NASA die een groter beeld geeft, zijn op de voorgrond de sporen te zien van de Curiosity Rover, waardoor we een iets beter idee krijgen. Een onderwezen gok: de grootte van een kleine auto?
Afgezien daarvan bevindt dit object zich klaarblijkelijk in een gebied waar tijdens de landing op Mars wat brokstukken van de landingsmodule terecht zijn gekomen. Dit object zou dan ook een onderdeel kunnen zijn van die oorspronkelijke module.
Echter, er zijn ook een aantal argumenten om aan te nemen dat dit niet zo is en één daarvan is dat het object er onbeschadigd uitziet. Normaal gesproken zijn brokstukken die na een landing op Mars terechtkomen ook écht brokstukken met allerlei beschadigen.
In dit geval lijkt het object zacht terecht te zijn gekomen alsof het normaal is geland en daarnaast heeft het natuurlijk ook wel enigszins het uiterlijk van een soort klein ruimteschip of UFO.
Maar goed, wij hebben slimme lezers en daar zullen er vast wel een paar tussen zitten die een goed idee hebben over wat dit object zou kunnen zijn.
En dan willen we graag jullie aandacht vragen voor een dame uit een landelijk gedeelte van Nederland, aan het accent te horen ergens in het oosten.
Zij maakt geregeld de meest mooie opnames van UFO’s in het Hollandse landschap, alleen haar video’s worden door zo goed als niemand gezien.
Kijk en bewonder de prachtige UFO’s die gewoon verschijnen tussen de dieren die je in de achtergrond hoort. Heel bijzonder en misschien ook wel weer een boodschap, wie weet.
De volgende opname is gemaakt op 21 juni 2017 rond middernacht:
Dit gebeurt allemaal in ons eigen landje. Een dame die de meest fantastische opnames maakt op het platteland en niemand die het ziet. Het zou wat ons betreft mooi zijn als daar verandering in komt.
Weird diamond shaped object appears next to a tornado in the sky over Virginia
Weird diamond shaped object appears next to a tornado in the sky over Virginia
While driving on route 28s in Virginia on June 23, 2017 Garcia Doores saw something strange happening in the sky on which she decided to stop in order to take images of a weird sky phenomenon that looks like a diamond shaped cloud that appeared next to a tornado.
She wrote on her Facebook page the following: This is a real picture taken on route 28s in Virginia. I have never seen cloud shaped like a diamond, observe the tornado next to the diamond shaped cloud, then observe the second picture after the cloud itself spawned a high up tornado, taken Friday.
As it seems unlikely that a cloud can turn into a perfect diamond shape it is quite possible that she has photographed an artificial object used for altering and manipulating the weather?
Is this diamond shaped object a weather weapon that can create, steer and trigger tornadoes?
TR3B SPACECRAFT FILMED IN RUSSIA - DARK GOVERNMENT TEST FLIGHT
TR3B SPACECRAFT FILMED IN RUSSIA - DARK GOVERNMENT TEST FLIGHT
Ever since the Roswell UFO crash in 1947, there have been rumors about alien technology that was reverse engineered to develop a manmade spacecraft that uses anti-gravity technology.
These projects are funded through dark government agencies who operate below the radar and have access to unlimited resources.
Sounds farfetched? People need to realize that back in the 60's, the NSA already had access to computers that run at a clock-speed of roughly 650 megahertz. Only after 35 years, this type of technology was accessible to the general public. Imagine the technology that is currently being developed and will enter everyday live in 35 years...
One of these secret projects has been the TR3B, a spacecraft that is capable of entering space. There is no official confirmation of this project, but during the last 2 decades, numerous UFO sightings could be attributed to this craft.
It started in the late 80's with the Belgium UFO flap. Thousands of witnesses reported seeing a black triangular craft with 3 distinct light. The Belgian General Wilfried de Brouwer stated during a press conference that the movements of this aircraft (radar confirmed) were not feasible for manmade airplanes at the time.
Recently a video from Russia emerged that shows the TR3B spacecraft flying through the sky. The craft is flying at a speed that is impossibly slow for regular airplanes. This might be the best video evidence of the existence of the TRB3 ever recorded.
DID MARTIAN ALIENS THROW ROCKS AT NASA'S MARS ROVER?
DID MARTIAN ALIENS THROW ROCKS AT NASA'S MARS ROVER?
A strange Mars rock was spotted by Opportunity resting in a spot where earlier, there was nothing but soil.
The rock, which scientists now call Pinnacle Island, is in the shape of a doughnut, white on the outside, red in the middle, it appeared after Opportunity had just finished a short drive.
Mars Opportunity rover photo of metallic object has internet in a UFO frenzy
Mars Opportunity rover photo of metallic object has internet in a UFO frenzy
IT’s shiny. It’s sharp. It’s on Mars. It must be aliens! What appears to be a chunk of metal photographed by the Opportunity Rover has UFO buffs in a spin.
Jamie Seidel
Composite image of the Mars Opportunity rover overlooking a canyon on Mars.
Picture: NASA.
IT’s shiny. It’s sharp. It’s on Mars. It must be aliens! What appears to be a chunk of metal photographed by the Opportunity Rover has UFO buffs in a spin.
The high contrast infra-red image, published by the Mars Exploratino Rover Mission (Opportunity: Panoramic Camera: Sol 348) was uploaded by the Opportunity Rover on March 17.
It shows an unusually shiny, and jagged, object sitting neatly on top of the grainy surface of Mars’ Meridiani Planum.
It has internet chat forum Reddit in rapture.
Mars': National Geographic Network's Moonshot
Image of a strange, metallic looking object from the Mars Opportunity rover.
But at least in this case the resolution is reasonably crisp. Not a blurry morass like most UFO ‘evidence’.
“Looks like light glimmering off of a genuine spaceship on an alien planet in outer space,” one commentator noted.
But, for that to be true, there’s the small matter of scale. At that distance from the Opportunity Rover, any inhabitants would probably have to be no larger than ants.
A more down to Earth (though admittedly this is Mars we’re talking about here) suggestion was that it could be a piece of debris from the rover itself, or a heat shield from the craft that delivered it.
Earthly trash is increasingly common on the Red Planet, especially after a string of mission failures in recent decades. Satellites have gone awry. Landers have crashed.
Debris from the Mars Opportunity Rover's lander vehicle litters the Martian landscape.
Picture: NASASource:Supplied
But even successful projects litter the landscape with debris as they plough through the thin atmosphere.
The subject of UFOs presents us with quite an enigma. It deals with ambiguities, in a world where certainties are not just the norm; they are requisite. Otherwise, there is little seriousness to be afforded something that, while seemingly tangible within the context of a body of data purporting to offer good evidence, remains so inescapably odd and downright unreal.
In the past, I have devoted a good bit of time to the assessment of “what a UFO is,” though honestly, there are times where I begin to question whether they can be easily defined at all. To illustrate this, the most common idea about UFOs present today addresses the subject through a lens of unreality, in which strange objects in the skies are taken to be alien spaceships. A host of conspiracy theories (yes, conspiracy theories) exist that offer “evidence” of this: crash landings in the American southwestern deserts, purported extraterrestrial assessment teams like the so-called “MJ-12”, and hosts of reports from proclaimed abductees who discuss their interactions with Star Guests that literally point to where in the universe they hail from.
Who knows. For all you or I may be able to discern, any (or all) of the above may be true. However, there appears to be so little hard evidence to substantiate such claims, despite years and years of collective research by the UFO community, that at times the silence begins to seem damning.
To be clear, my best assessment of the subject is that there is a phenomenon, though it remains ambiguous, and no conclusive data seems to exist that clearly, irrevocably indicates that the sole source is extraterrestrial visitation. My colleague Nick Redfern (who, as I write this, will soon be en route to the location where I’m staying here in Texas, for a coffee and a chat about all this), also wrote about this recently at MU, noting the way his ideas and attitudes have changed over the decades, carrying him along from a once-believer in ET or alien UFOs, to his present position as one who, like the late John Keel, thinks UFOs may be “something masquerading as aliens.”
Interestingly, the UFOs (or their occupants, if they have any) may not be the ones hiding behind the extraterrestrial meme at all. It very well could be that while some kind of phenomenon does exist, our perception of an “alien” origin is our very own creation, rather than something that is intentionally presented to for purpose of misdirection.
I nonetheless think Keel was fairly close with his assessment. It may be that Nick and I would agree on many points, or that we may not, as far as any “final conclusions” go. But I think that it is telling that so many researchers who have looked seriously at this phenomenon over the years begin to move further from the “extraterrestrial hypothesis” (ETH), which at one time had seemed the most likely conclusion.
Back in the mid to late 1980s, UFO researcher Jacques Vallee had begun to express serious doubts about an extraterrestrial component underlying the UFO phenomenon. His five primary arguments against the ETH were as follows:
Unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than required for any physical survey of the earth
the humanoid body structure of the alleged “aliens” is not likely to have originated on another planet and is not biologically adapted to space travel
the reported behavior in thousands of abduction reports contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific experimentation on humans by an advanced race
the extension of the phenomenon throughout recorded human history demonstrates that UFOs are not a contemporary phenomenon
the apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests radically different and richer alternatives
One may, for sake of argument, dispute Vallee’s assessments, just as I have (despite essentially sharing his views). One reason for this is because, if we are to make a scientific argument, we must be careful to check for whether it is falsifiable. While UFO incidents seem to exceed the amount required for an alien survey of our planet, who knows what kinds of scientific motivations, and hence what other requirements, an “alien survey” might call for? Also, with no comparison as far as life on other planets, can we be sure that extraterrestrials would not possess features very similar to humans? We could go on, but the fundamental point remains that virtually any argument presented about UFOs could be debated… while I could continue the exercise of deconstructing Vallee’s analysis here, seemingly lending support to the ETH, I will nonetheless point out again that the ETH can be deconstructed just as simply; we are left with nothing that is truly conclusive about the phenomenon at the end of the day.
For the modern skeptic, this lack of clarity on the subject is roughly equivalent to no subject at all, rather than an apparent phenomenon that remains ambiguous. In likelihood, if there is anything more to UFOs than a cultural belief system and/or a social movement built around the idea, the first step toward understanding what they may be is to start thinking outside the box.
Extraordinary claims do require extraordinary evidence, as is so often said; but maybe it’s time that a bit of ordinary thinking should be applied to the subject, rather than going to such lengths to “prove” something extraordinary, when it may be very different in the end.
Throughout the 1960s, Fortean researcher John Keel, author of The Mothman Prophecies and a number of other decidedly weird, but thoughtful books on the unexplained, was almost equally renowned for his active correspondence with his contemporaries in the field. And, as expected, if the contents of the excellent John Keel blog maintained by Doug Skinner (which can be seen here) is any indication, some of Keel’s exchanges were pretty strange, too.
Like, for instance, the letter where Keel wrote a private correspondence to himself, which he refrained from sending out to anyone specific, but instead used as a sort of test to see whether a group of entities he called the “Androids” were able to read his mind. Keel was very much an open-minded adventurist, both in practice, and in thought, and his troves of letters and personal documents featured at Skinner’s site over the last few years have offered a fascinating inside-look at Keel, his beliefs, and his attitudes on various things.
Keel was often on the receiving end of messages too, a number of which were weird enough that Keel, referring to them as “crank” letters, created an entire subcategory for them in his extensive notes and documentation, dubbing them “anomalous mail.” An all-time favorite example of such unusual mail had been a letter Keel received in the fall of 1967, purporting to have been from a shadowy group of individuals identified only by the name appearing at the letter-head: “The International Bankers.”
The ominously-toned message read as follows:
It continued to say that, “Others have tried, without success, to find out things that do not concern them, such as Dr. Jessup, Al Bender and others who you do not even know about.
“Do not overstep your bounds Mr. Keel, even your own government cannot protect you from our powers.
“Remember Mr. Keel 1968 A.D. will have Black as its symbol.”
Keel noted one especially peculiar aspect of these sorts of “anomalous letters”; the fact that, in Keel’s opinion, they contained various misspellings, which at times appeared to be intentional:
“You will note that the word “comping” is misspelled. Misspellings of simple words are a common factor in mail of this sort. These often seem quite deliberate. (i.e., a witness in West Virginia received a note containing the word “want” instead of the intended “won’t”.) The vague prediction that 1968 would be a “black year” proved disturbingly accurate. 1968 proved to be a year of widespread civil disturbances and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.”
Rather obviously, someone had been pranking Keel with these dark, and at times rather elaborate letters. Commenting on the possible source of the letters, Doug Skinner notes that, “Somebody, though, went to the trouble of printing stationery and sending out crank letters. I suspect that it was Gray Barker, cooking up confusion again; although I suppose it’s unfair to blame all ufological pranks on him.” Whether or not this is indeed the case remains undetermined.
In some ways, one might argue that the tradition of “crank letters” has continued to some extent. With the recent “addenda” to the famous Majestic 12 documents that surfaced last week, we saw a similar, “traditional” pairing of absurdities (an alien purportedly sitting and having a tree-huggerish, “save your planet” moment with USAF officials, for instance) with numerous common misspellings… something my fellow Mysterious Universe blogger Nick Redfern also took issue with.
In fact, in another recent post here at Mysterious Universe, Redfern made a similar connection between the hoax-letters of yesteryear, as well as their perpetrators… some of them had been Keel’s contemporaries. Redfern notes a document that had been carefully altered by ufologists Gray Barker and Jim Moseley, which led to a convincing looking hoax letter that was sent to the alleged contactee George Adamski.
“Moseley and Barker were just having a bit of fun during a late-night drinking session,” Redfern points out. “The idea that the new MJ12 documents are the work of someone in Ufology who is desperate to see Roswell vindicated – as a UFO event, at least – is not out of the question.”
In fact, I spoke with Nick about this on a recent edition of my Gralien Report Podcast, in which the subject was raised by Race Hobbs as to whether there might be legalities concerning the alteration of real government documents, or borrowing letterhead from them in order to make bogus documents look more convincing.
“That’s an interesting sort of concept,” Nick said. “The idea that if you’ve got… let’s say legitimate, DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) headed papers on, I don’t know, North Korea, and you white out certain bits and insert new material in the spaces on Roswell, then you photocopy it, and photocopy it again to make it look a bit older… is it actually a crime to do that?”
Whatever the case, with the new alleged “Majestic 12” documents that have been released, what we’re seeing is by no means anything new… in fact, it seems to be a sort of continuation of a time-honored tradition of ufological hoaxes that have surfaced over the last half century.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back a pair of very curious photos since March that have resurfaced in conspiracy circles as evidence of a “genuine spaceship” and “thigh bones” visible on Mars.
Alien hunters and UFO enthusiasts are celebrating after two photos appear to show distinct signs of life on Mars. The first photo causing jaws to drop in the reddit conspiracy theorist group Martian Archaeology shows what appears to be fossilized bones or petrified wood protruding from the red planet’s surface. The photo dates back to 2014 and NASA responded to the online uproar then by acknowledging -- but dismissing -- that the "alien thigh bone" could be linked to extraterrestrial life. The debris pile from the Curiosity’s photograph already has convinced some wishful-thinking alien enthusiasts of extraterrestrial activity on Mars.
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover found bones?
Photo: NASA
"After years of research and study, I'm convinced now, more than ever, that there is much more to Mars than what NASA admits to," a reddit user named TJ Devereaux remarked. “I'm certain life, including water, and intelligent life forms, once occupied the planet, and ... big leap here ... that both still exist, in much smaller quantities."
Images of the same bone-like object taken 10 days apart show it had grown larger, causing many to speculate it could be a fungus formed on the supposed "alien bone."
The second image from NASA’s robotic Opportunity rover, also known as MER-B or MER-1, appears to show a shiny, metallic object on Mars’ surface that provoked speculation that it is an alien spacecraft. But several commenters in reddit’s “UFO” forum point out that, like most NASA images from the Curiosity and Opportunity, it’s difficult to gauge the actual size or details from the grainy photo.
Mars Curiosity finds "spaceship?"
Photo: NASA
Curiosity Rover's Findings After Five Years On Mars:
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed in Mars’ Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, using a complex and never-before-attempted maneuver involving a giant parachute, a jet-controlled descent vehicle and a bungee-like apparatus labeled a “sky crane.” NASA says Curiosity's mission is “to determine whether the Red Planet ever was, or is, habitable to microbial life.” The rover, which is about the size of a Mini Cooper, is equipped with 17 cameras and a robotic arm that features several specialized laboratory-like tools and instruments to analyze objects on Mars’ surface.
The Curiosity mission has produced more than 4,700 usable images from Mars’ surface, including 26 new images posted Wednesday. An ancient Martian lake and other indications of Earth-like microbes are among the findings revealed by the rover.
But not everyone is convinced the photos show definitive signs of life on Mars.
“The object certainly appears to be artificial. We know that the rover was taking pictures of its own entry debris at that time. There's nothing particularly alien about the object in question — it could easily be entry debris,” Reddit user “Once Returned” suggested.
Others noted that regardless of the shiny object’s significance, it could be labeled an “Unidentified Landed Object.”
“One explanation is that the object is a piece of debris from the Mars rover itself or from its sky crane landing system,” Nigel Watson, author of "The UFO Investigations Manual," told the Daily Mail. “Unless we get more detailed information this is another case of wishful thinking.”
The year is 2030. In a high-security containment lab, scientists gathered around a towering machine, eagerly awaiting the first look at a newly discovered bacterium on Mars.
With a series of beeps, the machine—a digital-to-biological converter, or DBC—signaled that it had successfully received the bacterium’s digitized genomic file. Using a chemical cocktail comprised of the building blocks of DNA, it whirled into action, automatically reconstructing the alien organism’s genes letter-by-letter.
Within a day, scientists had an exact replica of the Martian bacterium.
To Craig Venter, the genetics maverick who created the first synthetic life form in 2016, beaming aliens back to recreate on Earth may sound like science fiction, but is “potentially real.”
Recently, working with Daniel Gibson, vice president of DNA technology at Synthetic Genomics, Venter published a prototype DBC capable of downloading digitized DNA instructions and synthesizing biomolecules from scratch.
Not only did the futuristic machine pump out functional bits of DNA, vaccines, and proteins, it also automatically synthesized viral particles from scratch.
Teleporting alien life to Earth is just one role Venter envisions for the DBC. Working the other way, we may be able to send Earth’s extremophile bacteria to a printer on Mars. If genetically enhanced to pump out oxygen, the bacteria may slowly change the Martian landscape, making it more habitable to humans before we ever set foot on the Red Planet.
More close to home, the DBC could allow instant, on-demand access to life-saving medicine or vaccines during an outbreak or finally enable access to personalized medicine.
“We are excited by the commercial prospects of this revolutionary tool, as we believe the DBC represents a major leap forward in advancing new vaccines and biologics,” says Venter in a press release.
All life is code
At the basis of Venter’s foray into “biological teleportation” is the idea that all life forms—at least on Earth—are essentially DNA software systems. DNA directs and creates the more tangible biological “hardware” made of proteins, cells, and tissues.
Because DNA contains all the necessary information to boot up a life form, by hacking its code and writing our own, we now have the power to create living organisms never before seen on Earth.
Back in 2010, Venter inserted a bacterial genome completely synthesized from chemicals in the lab into a single-cell recipient. The synthetic genome booted up the living bacterium, allowing it to replicate into a large colony of artificial organisms. Six years later, his team ventured even further into the realm of science fiction, creating a new bacteria species with just 437 genes—the absolute known minimum amount of genetic code needed to support life.
These studies and others clearly show we now have a new set of tools that allow scientists to manufacture new living species to join “our planet’s inventory of life.” But why stop there? If life is nothing but code that can be packaged, emailed, downloaded, and copied, why not use the same technology to transmit life?
Digital-to-Biological Converter
The DBC is Venter’s attempt to transfer and manufacture life.
Standing at eight feet long and six feet tall, the machine is a Frankenstein beast of mechanical blocks and wires splayed out across a double-deck table. “We’re working on the portability of the machine using new technologies such as microfluidic chips and microarrays,” explained the authors.
Equipped with an ethernet hub, the DBC downloads DNA files from the internet and prints the code using the four chemical bases of DNA—adenosine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine (A, G, T, C).
“It’s packaging complex biology that each of our tiny cells do remarkably well at a much, much smaller scale,” explains Venter.
While automated DNA printers have already hit the market, the DBC takes it one step further. The machine is capable of building proteins from the genetic code (printing biological hardware, so to speak), bringing it one step closer to building living cells from scratch.
At the heart of the system is Archetype, proprietary software that optimally breaks down the input DNA sequence into more manageable short sequences to synthesize in parallel. This massively increases efficiency and reduces sequencing errors that increase with longer DNA strands.
Once assembled, the machine scans the strands for any errors before “pasting” the bits back into complete DNA assembles. From there, a series of robotic arms transfer the DNA from module to module, automatically adding reagents that turn the synthetic genes into functional proteins.
Synthetic Medicine
In one proof-of-concept study, the machine pumped out green fluorescent protein, an algae protein that often serves as an experimental canary in the lab. Following the DBC run, the resulting product glowed bright green as expected, and subsequent analysis found that over 70 percent of all synthesized molecules were error-free.
While impressive, the team acknowledges that future models need to do better.
“All it takes is one DNA base to be incorrect for a protein not to work, or a therapeutic to not do what it’s supposed to, or for a cell to not be functional,” warns Gibson.
In another experiment, the DBC successfully produced functional flu viral particles, RNA vaccines, and bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria that can be used to combat infections or even cancer.
That’s huge. “If there is a pandemic, everyone around you is dying and you cannot go outdoors, you can download the vaccine in a couple of seconds from the internet,” says Venter. A machine like this in hospitals, homes, and remote areas could revolutionize medicine.
Venter also has his eye on personalized medicine. In the future, if you have an infection you get its genome sequenced in minutes, he says. The doctor could then cross-reference your bug with an online database, download and print the available phage treatments in office and send you on your way.
Space Travel
Venter’s ambition doesn’t stop there. He imagines combining the DBC with technologies from his synthetic organisms to construct a “blank slate” recipient cell capable of producing food, oxygen, and fuel—the perfect workhorse to send around the world or into space.
In theory, the cell would be capable of receiving any synthetic genome designed to produce life-supporting molecules. These cells have to be engineered, says Venter, but stresses that it can be done.
Having a DBC on board means a crew hurtling through space would no longer rely on supply ship rendezvous—and we’ll never have a real life Mark Watney starved and stranded on Mars.
But that’s looking way far ahead.
According to Gibson, before we get too distracted with fanciful thoughts of space, a lot more work still has to be done. For one, the DBC needs to shrink down to a more manageable size. For another, current DNA synthesis technologies are incredibly inefficient and wasteful—“about 99.999 percent of the raw materials go to waste,” he says—a problem further magnified as the team moves on to larger DNA constructs.
These aren’t small challenges, but the DBC shows that biological teleportation for biological materials is feasible. So why not aim high?
“Mine is not a fantasy look at the future,” says Venter. “The goal isn’t to imagine this stuff. We are the scientists actually doing this.”
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IT'S COMING: Shock claim that we are on the brink of being told aliens have visited Earth
IT'S COMING: Shock claim that we are on the brink of being told aliens have visited Earth
THE US Government could soon crack and admit it has secretly been hiding evidence of alien visitations of Earth for the last 70 years, it has astonishingly been claimed.
Steve Bassett is fundraising to try to force the US Government to come clean about aliens.
The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), which campaigns to bring an end to an alleged "truth embargo" to keep the truth from the globe, believes there will soon be no going back for government insiders.
Steve Bassett, executive director of the group is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the issue of alien disclosure.
He is convinced that the shocking secret has been withheld amid fears of the impact it would have on religion and the rule of law since a flying saucer allegedly crashed in the New Mexico desert outside Roswell in 1947.
Mr Bassett is now seeking $50,000 to help fund the campaign to pressurise the White House to roll over and say "yes, we've deceived you for the last 70 years."
He has launched an End The Truth Embargo fundraising page on gofundme.com.
Mr Bassett says on the page: "This funding effort is in service to every citizen of every nation now convinced the world should not wait one more day for confirmation we are not alone is this universe.
"For 70 years this truth has been embargoed by your government.
"After 20 years of engagement of the issue, I know this embargo can end soon with your help."
He says the money will be used to set up a permanent office in Washington DC for PRG to "keep the pressure on the media to engage the politics of disclosure throughout 2017."
Mr Bassett said the cash would also all PRG to: "Seek professional speaker representation, make contact with officials in European countries, develop video media for use in the disclosure advocacy movement, built up the Exopolitics World Network and United States Network, and consolidate, redesign and update PRG's many websites and Facebook pages."
PRG was bouyed on May 28 when during an interview on CBS 60 Minutes billionaire space engineer, Robert Bigelow, remarkably revealed he believed there is an "extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race."
Mr Bassett said: "He spoke truth to power. He stated unequivocally there is an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. When asked if he was concerned what people might think of that statement, he replied, 'I don't give a damn.'
This funding campaign will ensure PRG can adjust to new strategies to ultimately bring the White House and the Pentagon to the table to work out the necessary understanding allowing disclosure.
Steve Bassett
"PRG salutes Mr Bigelow and asks, 'Who will join him?'
"This funding campaign will ensure PRG can adjust to new strategies to ultimately bring the White House and the Pentagon to the table to work out the necessary understanding allowing disclosure."
The funding campaign is being conducted in conjunction with Coast to Coast AM with George Noory - described as "the most listened to late night talk program in America." Coast to Coast AM has for the past 25 years provided a platform for researchers, activists, "alien contactees", and other UFO witnesses.
So far Mr Bassett has been pledged $6,123 of his target.
It comes after fellow disclosure activist Dr Steven Greer claimed US intelligence moles were trying to break open the truth but were concerned about what will happen to them.
However, sceptics argue that Mr Bassett and Dr Greer are simply conspiracy theorists, who have got it wrong, and no aliens have ever visited Earth.
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse-Tyson has dismissed the whole UFO/alien truth seeker community as having no credible evidence.
People like Mr DeGrasse-Tyson believe anyone who donated to the fund would be wasting their cash, as there is simply nothing to disclose as no aliens have ever been here.
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NASA announcement after ‘Anonymous’ claims space agency is about to CONFIRM aliens exist
NASA announcement after ‘Anonymous’ claims space agency is about to CONFIRM aliens exist
NASA has released a statement after a video reportedly produced by hactivist group Anonymous said the US space agency was about to reveal that intelligent aliens exist.
The official comments, however, will upset alien chasers who had hoped there had been a real disclosure made by the hactivists.
Laurie Cantillo, NASA Lead Communications Specialist, said in a statement to Fox News: "While we’re excited about the latest findings from NASA’s Kepler space observatory, there’s no pending announcement regarding extraterrestrial life.
"For years NASA has expressed interest in searching for signs of life beyond Earth.
"We have a number of science missions that are moving forward with the goal of seeking signs of past and present life on Mars and ocean worlds in the outer solar system.
"While we do not yet have answers, we will continue to work to address the fundamental question, ‘are we alone?’”
It was reported yesterday that Anonymous had announced: "NASA says aliens are coming!"
The emergence of the video made headlines across the globe yesterday.
However, worse still, the video was a hoax, and not even a genuine Anonymous video.
The video was made by YouTube channel Anonymous Global, which has made itself look like the YouTube account of the genuine hactivist group, famed for its hacks on official authorities, and its Million Mask Marches across the globe.
Anonymous has previously said there are many other people claiming to be part of the group who are not.
The video based its assertion on a recent meeting of the US Science Space and Technology Committee.
It was there that Professor Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, said the world was "on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented, discoveries in history".
But Mr Zurbuchen's genuine remarks had been publicly made and previously reported.
He was referring to the space agency's expectations of finding simple microorganisms of alien life somewhere in the solar system over the next few decades.
After the discovery of a new “Earth-sized alien world” at the weekend, boffins have been waiting with bated breath for an update on extraterrestrial life.
But now investigators believe that the US government could be about to expose a 70-year secret and reveal that aliens have visited Earth.
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BOMBSHELL: Could the US government confirm alien life?
“For 70 years this truth has been embargoed by your government”
Paradigm Research Group
The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), which campaigns to bring an end to an alleged "truth embargo", believes there will soon be no going back for government insiders.
Steve Bassett, executive director of the group, is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the issue of alien disclosure.
He is convinced that secrets have been withheld amid fears of the impact such an announcement would have on religion and the rule of law.
He is now seeking $50,000 (£38,000) to help fund the campaign to put pressure on the White House with an “End The Truth Embargo” gofundme page.
"This funding effort is in service to every citizen of every nation now convinced the world should not wait one more day for confirmation we are not alone is this universe,” he writes.
“For 70 years this truth has been embargoed by your government.
"After 20 years of engagement of the issue, I know this embargo can end soon with your help."
The funding campaign is being conducted in conjunction with Coast to Coast AM with George Noory – described as "the most listened to late night talk program in America."
Coast to Coast AM has for the past 25 years provided a platform for researchers, activists, "alien contactees" and other UFO witnesses.
Photo: Black Sage TechnologiesSearching the Skies: Black Sage Technologies’ artificial-intelligence system spots flying objects and determines whether they’re a threat.
Is it a bird? A plane? Or is it a remotely operated quadrotor conducting surveillance or preparing to drop a deadly payload? Human observers won’t have to guess—or keep their eyes glued to computer monitors—now that there’s superhuman artificial intelligence capable of distinguishing drones from those other flying objects. Automated watchfulness, thanks to machine learning, has given police and other agencies tasked with maintaining security an important countermeasure to help them keep pace with swarms of new drones taking to the skies.
The security challenge has only grown over the past few years: Millions of people have bought consumer drones and sometimes flown them into offlimits areas where they pose a hazard to crowds on the ground or larger aircraft in the sky. Off-the-shelf drones have also become affordable and dangerous weapons for the Islamic State and other militant groups in war-torn regions such as Iraq and Syria.
The need to track and possibly take down these flying intruders has spawned an antidrone market projected to be worth close to US $2 billion by the mid-2020s. The lion’s share of that haul will likely go to companies that can best leverage the power of machine-learning AI based on neural networks.
But much of the antidrone industry still lags behind the rest of the tech sector in making effective use of machine learning AI, says David Romero, founder and managing partner of Black Sage Technologies, based in Boise, Idaho. “With machine learning, 90 percent of the work is figuring out how to make it so simple so that the customer doesn’t have to know how machine learning works,” says Romero. “Many companies do that well, but not in the defense community.”
He and Ross Lam, his Black Sage cofounder, are poised to take advantage of this opening for the upstarts looking to take on the defense industry’s giants. They initially collaborated on a project that trained machine-learning algorithms to automatically detect deer on highways based on radar and infrared camera data. Eventually, they realized that the same approach could help spot drones and other unidentified flying objects.
Since the self-funded startup’s launch in 2015, it has won multiple contracts from the United States government—including for U.S. military forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan—and from U.S. allies.
Romero says it’s fairly straightforward to apply machine learning to the task of automatically detecting and classifying flying objects. But because the stakes are high—mistakenly shooting down a small passenger plane or failing to take out an explosives-laden drone intruder could be equally disastrous—Black Sage puts its system through a rigorous training phase when it’s installed at a new site. The system’s radar and infrared cameras capture information about each unidentified flying object’s velocity, size, altitude, and so forth. Then a human operator helps train the machine-learning algorithms by positively identifying certain classes of drones (rotor or fixed-wing) as well as other objects such as birds or manned aircraft. For proof that it has learned its lessons well, the AI is tested against 20 percent of the positively identified data set—the part reserved specifically for cross validation.
Another company called Dedrone—originally based in Kassel, Germany, but currently headquartered in San Francisco—is taking a similar approach. When a Dedrone system is being installed at a new site, humans label unfamiliar objects as part of the training process, which also updates the company’s proprietary DroneDNA library. Since its launch in 2014, Dedrone’s machine-learning software has helped safeguard events and locations such as a Clinton-Trump presidential debate, the World Economic Forum, and CitiField, home of the New York Mets baseball team.
“Each time we update DroneDNA, we process over 250 million different images of drones, aircraft, birds, and other objects,” says Michael Dyballa, Dedrone’s director of engineering. “In the past eight months, we’ve annotated 3 million drone images.”
Though Black Sage’s and Dedrone’s automated detection systems are said to be capable of running without human assistance after their respective training phases, the companies’ clients may choose to put humans in the loop for engaging active defenses, such as jammers or lasers, to take down flying intruders. Such caution is critical at sites like airports, where drone detection accuracy greater than 90 percent still means the occasional false alarm or case of mistaken identity. Even so, a human’s interpretive ability can only supplement the ceaseless vigilance that AI systems will need to provide as the number of drones continues to rise.
Former medic Dr Steven Greer, a leading figure in the alien disclosure movement, claims to have contacts on the inside who are trying to work out how to leak the truth without putting themselves in danger.
Alien conspiracy theorists claim that a so-called "truth embargo" has been in place since the 1940s after aliens crash landed on Earth and the evidence was squirrelled away by the US Government amid fears the impact of knowing "we are not alone" would have on religion and the rule of law.
Dr Greer claims the truth is so top-secret that sub groups within government would not even confirm it to the president.
He goes one step further and alleges it is a military-industrialist cabal of semi-public/semi-private interests and has access to technology reverse-engineered from alleged crashed UFOs.
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Dr Steven Greer makes an outlandish claim in his documentary unacknowledged
He told the Toronto Star: "One of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing is that there are people within the intelligence community who don’t know how to get themselves out of that hole and yet they’re very supportive of disclosure, and they’ve told me this.
“If you read between the lines of what I just said, what I’m saying to you — and you’re welcome to print this — is that there are some very powerful interests who realise that they are stuck in this black hole and they don’t know how to get out of it because it would create a scandal thousands of times worse than Watergate or Russia-gate or whatever the latest scandal is that the Washington Post and the New York Times and perhaps your paper are obsessing on.”
So how does Dr Greer justify such outlandish claims?
He added: “Look, we stampeded into Iraq after 9/11 without there being a scintilla of evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 and we know now that that was completely a hoax.
One of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing is that there are people within the intelligence community who don’t know how to get themselves out of that hole and yet they’re very supportive of disclosure, and they’ve told me this.
Dr Steven Greer
“So the question becomes how easy is it for the intelligence community using their mouthpieces in the media to put out a scenario that would scare the hell out of people so that people would give up their liberties and their finances and what have you — their blood and treasure — to stampede into the next big thing, which has been planned for 60 years and that is a conflict between humans and other planetary societies.
“Now, it’s completely nonsensical. It’s as nonsensical as going into Iraq was, but we did go into Iraq and there are hundreds of thousands of people dead as a result and now Syria has blown apart. So there are consequences to this.
“The majority of people already believe there is intelligent life out there and the last poll I saw said that 43 percent of Americans think we’re currently being visited.
"More than half the public all over the world believes that UFOs are real and that governments are hiding something. So that battle has been won, but the larger argument has to still be engaged."
Dr Greer spoke to the paper about his new film Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the Greatest Secret in Human History, ahead of its Toronto premier.
Looking at the alleged cover up over the years, it is directed by Michael Mazzola and narrated by Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito.
Dr Greer got $700,000 (£543,000) through crowd funding to make it happen, and it looks at his work with The Disclosure Project, set up to try to lift an alleged "truth embargo" on the existence of aliens.
He said: "And that’s why we made this film, in part, to expose what the secret agenda has been and the disinformation campaigns.”
On the front of the website, Waring wrote: “My last post. Thanks for the seven years of support.
“We have accomplished a lot together.”
YOUTUBE/UFOVNI DISCLOSURE
An enhanced image of the ‘spaceship’
YOUTUBE / UFOVNI2012
The photo seems to show a crashed flying saucer
Some UFOlogists were worried the site had been shut down by the authorities, with one tweeting: "Did the government or secret groups threaten Scott C. Waring?"
But far from being intimidated by a shadowy government agency, Waring claims he has quit because UFO enthusiasts are not taken seriously.
He added: "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.
NASA
A close-up of a strange object, which UFO believers claim resembles a petrified tree stump
Many of the UFOlogist's discoveries focused on the Red Planet
NASA/SCOTT WARING
This photo allegedly shows a carving of a woman's body on the surface of Mars
"This is serious stuff that has depths that even I can't fathom.
"It deserves serious thought and research, not contempt and ridicule."
But many in the field felt Waring contributed to the problem and cheapened the debate about extraterrestrial life.
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.
"How many people really believe his photographic evidence that everything from massive skyscrapers to squirrels exist on the surface of Mars?"
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Cosmic Coincidence? Solar eclipse falls on anniversary of extraterrestrial sighting
Cosmic Coincidence? Solar eclipse falls on anniversary of extraterrestrial sighting
by Kaylin Searles
PHOTO: A composite image of the 2013 total solar eclipse, viewed from Gabon,
Photo Date: 2013 (Pasachoff / Rusin / Davis / Druckmüller via MGN Online)
KELLY, Ky. (WZTV) — Southern Kentucky will be one of the best spots for the total solar eclipse show.
But the unincorporated community of Kelly, Ky. might just take the once-in-a-lifetime experience a step further.
The community is celebrating a “cosmic coincidence” as this year’s festival marking the anniversary of the sighting of extraterrestrials coincides with the total solar eclipse.
People from across the United States flocked to Kelly, Ky. after the “Little Green Men” or “Hopkinsville Goblins” were spotted there in 1955.
Each year the community has the “Little Green Men” Days Festival to celebrate the occasion – and this year festival-goers are in for a treat as it takes place at the time same of the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21.
The festival is four days, starting the weekend before the total solar eclipse.
Are we alone in the universe? Maybe not. Do we have any evidence of aliens? Definitely not.
At least not yet.
That was NASA’s response after the hacking collective Anonymous released a video claiming that the American organization was on the brink of revealing as-yet undiscovered extraterrestrial life forms.
Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate—who was heavily quoted in the Anonymous video—spoke out on Monday to confirm that NASA isn’t sitting on what is potentially the biggest space discovery ever.
But Zurbuchen’s comments did not rule out the chance of discovering alien life forms in the future, something that NASA is actively working on.
In 2018, it will launch its James Webb Space Telescope, which will be able to observe biosignatures—water, gases and other chemical fingerprints—that could point to life on other planets.
In its video, Anonymous quoted testimony given by Zurbuchen to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology in April, in which he said that the organization was “on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history.”
But Zurbuchen was clear in his written testimony to the same committee that “while we haven’t found definitive signs of life elsewhere just yet, our search is making remarkable progress and astrobiology is a focus of a growing number of NASA missions.”
So though NASA, alongside other experts, such as British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, remain optimistic of finding life on other planets, NASA is not there yet.
File photo. A UFO was spotted over Skegness in 1996 and the RAF were 'told to ignore it'
Mysterious lights were seen in the sky over Skegness for seven hours - but the RAF were ordered to ignore it, files have revealed.
The incident happened over the Skegness coast on October 5, 1996, and lights were reported in the sky for a period of seven hours - both by police and the public.
Now "Britain's X Files" show the object was spotted on a military radar but the RAF were told to ignore it after it was “overruled at the highest level”.
A report by the Sun claimed an unnamed government official criticised the former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo for the military's "absolute shambles" of a reaction.
The letter, which is typed on House of Commons headed paper, said: "I am very concerned about an incident that occurred off the Anglian Coast recently, involving a visual unidentified flying craft sighting which was correlated by various different military radar systems.”
It added that it was "incredible" that "no aircraft were scrambled when an uncorrelated target was picked up so close to the coast” and that “this raises serious issues about the way in which we police the UK’s Air Defence Region”.
The letter also questions why RAF Coningsby was over-ruled when it wanted to scramble aircraft to the scene.
It added: "The RAF is supposed, or so I believed, to be keeping a watchful eye on activity in the UK, but seem to have no idea what is going on.
“Do they have standard procedure for these incidents? They had enough time to think about it, because the object was on our radar for upwards of seven hours!
File photo. A UFO was spotted over the Wash but the RAF were told to ignore it
“While I am interested in finding out what was seen, my primary concern stems from the absolute shambles that such events seem to cause.”
Documents outlining the investigation into the incident concluded that several phenomena were to blame for the red, white and blue flashing lights that were seen above the horizon.
They are also named in the documents as a "celestial source".
The official file on the incident said: "The prolonged sighting of stationary coloured flashing lights reported by the Skegness Police on 5 October 1996 had no significance for the integrity of UK airspace and no associated air vehicle was detected by civil or military radars.”
The documents are part of 15 files that have been published by the National Archives. Three are still yet to be published.
The documents have not been digitised and can only be viewed at the National Archives in Kew, West London.
Columnist Cheryl Costa begins a three-part series of articles on Project Blue Book.
Back on May 25 of this year, a news item in Variety magazine announced that famed director Robert Zemeckis had teamed up with A&E to produce a 10-episode drama series about Project Blue Book for the History Channel. For those unfamiliar with Blue Book, it was an Air Force’s effort from 1952 to 1969, charged with the responsibility to investigate reports of Unidentified Flying Objects. Let’s take brief a look at the convoluted origins of Project Blue Book.
PROJECT SIGN
During World War II numerous bomber crews reported seeing luminous balls and discs in their air space while flying missions. These unknown high performance flying objects became known as “foo fighters.” The Army Air Force’s investigative effort into foo fighters was very first by intelligence officers into the mysterious topic of UFOs.
In 1947, the Air Force separated from the Army and became a branch onto itself. That same year, Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Field received orders to direct the Technical Intelligence Division to conduct a classified inquiry into UFOs. The principle reason was that the Air Force had taken a keen interest in UFOs because they had been frequently observed near various sensitive military facilities in the Southwest. In addition, during June and July of that year, UFO reports came in from over 38 states and were widely reported in the press.
Under pressure to come up with answers, Major General L. C. Craigie, director of Research and Development for the Air Force, directed the establishment of a research group code named Project Sign.
After eight months of interviewing highly credible witnesses, conducting investigations and analyzing the data, it was time to report some findings. The Technical Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in concert with personnel from Project Sign, decided to author the Estimate of the Situation document.
By all accounts the top secret document allegedly concluded that some of the UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin. These conclusions did not sit well with Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, who was reported to have rejected the Estimate of the Situation findings. It is alleged that all copies of the report were subsequently destroyed.
PROJECT GRUDGE
It’s been my observation that military generals who aren’t happy about the performance of a unit or perhaps the results of a project frequently clean house of at least key command personnel, and sometimes there’s a clean sweep within the ranks.
General Vandenberg, being less than happy or confident with the results of Project Sign, ordered a massive change in personnel. The replacement staff had a new set of operating principles; simply that all these UFO reports could be explained in realistic and conventional terms. The new unit was renamed in February of 1949 with a new code name: Project Grudge.
It was the Project Grudge team that established the cultural perspective that UFOs were:
Misinterpretations of various conventional objects.
A mild form of mass-hysteria and war nerves.
Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetuate a hoax or to seek publicity.
Psychopathological persons.
The Project Grudge team also put forth the concern that an enemy could release strange aerial objects, augmented with psychological propaganda. The effect of an enemy action like this, they proposed, could be used to generate mass hysteria. The Pentagon’s Office of Psychological Warfare confirmed this notion of psychological warfare to induce war nerves and mass fear among the civilian population.
As a secret UFO investigation military entity, Project Grudge didn’t do much better than Project Sign in getting to the bottom of the UFO phenomena. The unit only lasted about eight months. In the final report of their UFO investigations, it listed UFO sighting reports totaling 273. Despite Project Grudge’s policy that UFOs are just misidentified conventional objects, hysteria, war nerves, hoaxes and deranged persons, their final report listed 23 percent, or 63 cases, as “unidentified.”
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.
Attention, Central New York residents: Join a monthly MUFON-sponsored speakers presentation and discussion group in Syracuse. Regularly held the last Saturday of the month, it runs from April 29 through October 28, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m, May Memorial, 3800 E. Genesee St. Plenty of off-street parking is available.
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Orlando witness reports object hovering over building
Orlando witness reports object hovering over building
A Florida witness at Orlando reported watching a cylinder-shaped object silently hovering over a nearby building, according to testimony in Case 84126 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was driving along Conway Road near the Judge Road intersection when the object was observed hovering over a nearby building.
(Credit: Google)
The witness was driving along Conway Road in Orlando, heading north from Tradeport Avenue at 9:12 p.m. on June 1, 2017, when the incident began.
“This is a common area that planes are landing in, so seeing lights in the sky approaching us was very normal to see,” the witness stated.“I drive down this street almost daily around the same time, so am used to seeing certain sights along the way.”
While approaching a red light at Judge Road, the witness and a sister noticed planes approaching them when one looked out of place.
“I joked about how it could be a UFO because of how odd the flight pattern and lights were. We both kept steady on it; I watching while trying to pay attention to the cars in front of me. It approached us closer and closer and we both got nervous because it was the size of a plane hovering over the building off to the right side of us, maybe 50feet or less away from where we were.”
The two watched as the object hovered over a building, with lights flashing, with no sound.
“We waited to see if we were seeing things, if it was actually moving and maybe we didn’t see the movement for whatever reason. No movement, still hovering over the building and flashing lights. About 10-15 seconds after we realized it was not a plane and that we were in fact seeing a giant object hovering over a building next to us, it disappeared.”
The witness could hear so sound coming from the object. Pictured: Conway Road near the Judge Road intersection.
(Credit: Google)
The witness pulled off to the side of the road to see if the lights appeared anywhere.
“Nothing. The area was clear, its path had no obstructions, yet it was nowhere to be seen. So where could it have possibly gone? The rest of the way home, 15 minutes total, we talked about what to do next. Tell someone? File a report? Keep it to ourselves? We are definitely sure of what we saw. This was not normal and definitely not a plane.”
Florida MUFON Field Investigator Robert Andrews investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown UAV.
“In speaking with the witness,” Andrews stated in his report,“she said the sky was clear (no low hanging clouds) and she did not observe any smoke or other anomalies in the area. She remains quite certain that she saw ‘something’ that seemed to be hovering over the buildings with white and blue lights, but has no idea of what it may have been.
“I also considered that maybe there were low clouds and the light reflecting from the ground or overhead aircraft caused an optical illusion for the witness. However, I did not find any evidence to support that theory.
“The location of these building in relation to the airport flight path and the very low altitude of planes normal landing approach would seem to rule out the likelihood of any commercial or private aircraft flying through this area except as in a landing approach.
“The only other plausible scenario is that the witness viewed reflections from street lights, landing aircraft and interior lights of her vehicle reflecting unusual images on the windows of her car. I could not duplicate this occurrence, but I believe other MUFON cases contain many instances of this occurring.
The object seemed to disappear and the witness was unable to find it again. Pictured: Conway Road near the Judge Road intersection.
(Credit: Google)
“According to FlightRadar24.com, there were five planes flying over these buildings for landing at 9:04, 9:07, 9:08, 9:09 and 9:21 p.m. This is consistent with the witness estimate of 9:12 p.m. for her sighting.
“Witness said she was fairly certain of the time – plus or minus a few minutes.While I was there, I observed the same landing pattern – planes one to two minutes apart.
“If there had been an aerial obstruction – these planes would have been directed to 17R, which is parallel and about two miles east of runway 18L. While there, I observed planes landing on both runways. Planes landing on the other runway cannot be seen except farther out on their approach because of terrain and distance.”
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.
26 juin 2017 : conférence de Jacques Vallée, Paris, FRANCE
26 juin 2017 : conférence de Jacques Vallée, Paris, FRANCE
Ce lundi 26 juin 2017, Jacques Vallée donnait une conférence à l’espace 104, rue de Vaugirard à l’invitation de l’Institut Métapsychique. Près de 200 personnes étaient présentes à cet événement très attendu.
Après une brève présentation de l’invité par les organisateurs, celui-ci prend la parole et précise d’emblée le sujet de son intervention « What do we know about the material composition of UFO’s ? »("Que savons-nous sur la composition matérielle des Ovnis ? »). Résumé de cette soirée exceptionnelle, en espérant n'avoir pas dénaturé la pensée de Jacques Vallée.
D'emblée, Jacques Vallée s’excuse que les slides de sa présentation soient en anglais, mais les non-anglophones n’ont pas eu de mal à suivre ses propos malgré tout. L’objet de la conférence est en fait une étude en cours sur la composition des ovnis et prolonge un article que Vallée avait publié il y a 19 ans sur ce thème lié à la physique des matériaux.
Le conférencier commence par rappeler que dans le domaine de l’ufologie, il existe trois types de matériaux à étudier :
- les scories de métal en fusion éjectés par les ovnis qui sont comme des éjectas. Comme cela ressemble souvent à du mâchefer, les témoins n’y accordent pas d’importance et ne les ramassent hélas pas. - Les implants : ce sont de petits objets à l’usage inconnu que des témoins disent retrouver dans des parties de leurs corps (sur ce sujet, Jacques Vallée qu’il s’y intéresse davantage qu’autrefois) - des pièces structurelles récupérées sur les sites de crashes, voire des entités biologiques ! L’affaire de Roswell est le cas le plus archétypique de ce genre de récolte, même si les éléments de preuve manquent toujours et qu’un nuage de rumeurs et de faits non établis entoure le récit.
Comme il s’agit de pouvoir ramener quelque chose de tangible en laboratoire, Jacques Vallée a préféré délaisser les histoires pour se tourner vers des objets concrets. Or, les seuls disponibles, ce sont ces « éjectas » récupérés ici et là lors d’observation d’ovnis. Vallée précise qu’on ne se trouve pas dans la culture du secret, au contraire, il veut médiatiser ses recherches.
L'ufologue rappelle un point important : longtemps, on s’est limité aux analyses chimiques, désormais il faut se tourner vers l’étude des isotopes. Pour mémoire, un isotope est un atome qui possède le même nombre d’électrons et de protons (afin de rester neutre) mais un nombre différent de neutrons. Il mentionne l’exemple de l’hydrogène qui a trois isotopes : classique (pas de neutron), deutérium (1 neutron), tritium (2 neutrons). Un autre exemple bien connu : celui de l'uranium qui a 17 isotopes, tous radioactifs. Ils possèdent tous 92 protons mais ils ont entre 125 et 150 neutrons. Seulement trois sont présents naturellement sur Terre (uranium 234, 235 et 238) et surtout l’un d’eux, à plus de 99% : l’uranium 238. L’étude des isotopes sur des échantillons issus de projections d’ovnis pourrait donc permettre d'identifier des éléments qui ne sont pas terrestres.
Jacques Vallée passe en revue rapidement 15 cas connus de rejets de matériaux, depuis Aurora au Texas en 1897 jusqu’à Newark en 1996, un seul cas français : Ratheau. Et parmi ces affaires, seulement 4 donnent accès à des échantillons : Ubatuba (Brésil), Bogota (Colombie), Council Bluffs (USA) et « Sierra » (lieu secret, USA).
Vallée souligne les difficultés à mener des études poussées sur les isotopes : l’équipement coûte cher et comme il est rare, il est peu disponible. Il faut donc faire prendre son mal en patience. Le conférencier propose d’ailleurs de faire des échanges de bons procédés et de partager des échantillons avec les laboratoires français (Pierre et Marie Curie, Orsay, etc.) d’autant que certains laboratoires font déjà des tests d’isotopes sur des météorites. Grâce à la spectrométrie de masse, il est possible de détecter les isotopes. Un faisceau d'électrons de haute énergie est utilisé pour ioniser les atomes et les molécules. Les ions ainsi formés sont ensuite soumis à l’action d’un champ magnétique qui permet de les dévier et de les séparer en fonction de leur rapport masse sur charge, et donc de déterminer les différents isotopes.
Vallée a fait analyser plusieurs échantillons, a priori rien de spécial. Sauf dans le cas d’Ubatuba (Brésil, 7 septembre 1957). Il a déniché deux nouveaux échantillons dans un musée d’ufologie à Victoria en Argentine. Vallée a eu accès à ces deux échantillons, l’un étant au Dr. Olavo Fontes, l’autre ayant été apporté par un marin argentin du nom d’Hercente et témoin de l’apparition de l’OVNI en 1957.
Si le premier morceau présente des ratios isotopiques de magnésium normaux et terrestres, le second en revanche a des ratios très différents ! Non seulement ce ne sont pas des ratios que l’on observe sur Terre, mais pas non plus dans l’espace que l’on connaît. C’est comme si cet échantillon de magnésium avait été décomposé en isotopes puis « recombiné » en suite selon des proportions inédites, c’est totalement inexplicable en l’état actuel des connaissances. Qui était capable de le faire en 1957 ? D’autres analyses, plus poussées, seraient forcément nécessaires car il faut des analyses dans plusieurs laboratoires pour confirmer cette découverte mais cela nécessite des moyens et du temps.
S’en suit une séance de questions/réponses avec le public durant laquelle plusieurs hypothèses sont évoquées sur la physique des matériaux, notamment des propriétés électromagnétiques. Il est fait allusion au personnage de Spielberg joué par François Truffaut et inspiré de Jacques Vallée, mais aussi aux momies péruviennes de Thierry Jamin. Jacques Vallée ne se prononce pas mais rappelle l’affaire de l’humanoïde Ata (désert d’Atacama au Chili), une relique d’un soi-disant « alien » qui était en réalité le squelette d’un enfant de sept ans atteint, cas exceptionnel, de deux maladies génétiques rares. A l’époque, la revue Science y avait consacré un article. Parmi les autres sujets brièvement abordés, la théorie des univers gémellaires de Jean-Pierre Petit, le phénomène des vagues d’observation d’ovnis qui semble répondre à des règles cycliques, ainsi que la participation de Jacques Vallée aux travaux du SRI à Menlo Park en Californie, notamment sur Arpanet (le réseau ancêtre d’Internet) et sur la vision à distance (« remote viewing »). Jacques Vallée précise pour finir qu’on peut trouver des points communs entre le phénomène ovni et la parapsychologie, les témoins d’observations ayant souvent après coup des visions ou des facultés inhabituelles.
Mon commentaire :
- une soirée passionnante, très stimulante pour l'esprit. L'analyse des matériaux retrouvés apparait beaucoup moins spectaculaire que toutes ces news sensationnalistes dont on nous abreuve sur Internet mais il se peut qu'au final, les véritables preuves proviennent de ces analyses fastidieuses et peu "glamour".
Je me suis posé la question : si ces isotopes de magnésium d'Ubatuba ne sont pas terrestres, mais ne correspondent pas non plus à ce que l'on est en droit de s'attendre à trouver ailleurs dans le cosmos, d'où viennent-ils ?
Et en repensant à l'intérêt de Jacques Vallée pour les univers à plusieurs dimensions, j'en suis venu à imaginer (hypothèse purement théorique, cela va de soi) que ces échantillons proviendraient peut-être... d'une autre dimension ? Une autre dimension dont l'existence resterait à prouver, bien entendu, mais dont les lois de la physique seraient peut-être différentes de celles de notre univers... ?
Auquel cas ces échantillons d'apparence très ordinaire seraient porteurs d'une révélation incroyable : les ovnis existent et ils viennent non pas d'un espace lointain mais d'une autre dimension. Je le répète, c'est une hypothèse personnelle et très vraisemblablement le fruit de mon imagination d'auteur ;-)
NASA fotografeert zeer vreemd object op Mars. Wie of wat heeft dit achtergelaten?
NASA fotografeert zeer vreemd object op Mars. Wie of wat heeft dit achtergelaten?
Marsrover Curiosity van de NASA heeft een foto gemaakt van de rode planeet die een UFO lijkt te tonen. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Star.
Op de afbeelding is het rotsachtige landschap van Mars te zien. In het midden van de foto is een onbekend object te zien.
Het lijkt een glad oppervlak en lichten te hebben. In ieder geval lijkt het niet op iets wat is gemaakt door de natuur.
Niet gereageerd
Volgens UFO-jagers is de foto bewijs voor intelligent buitenaards leven. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft nog niet gereageerd op de ontdekking.
Het ruimteagentschap maakte in 2015 wel bekend dat er stromend water op Mars was gevonden en dat er mogelijk leven is.
Hackerscollectief Anonymous claimde deze week dat de NASA op het punt staat bewijzen van buitenaards leven naar buiten te brengen.
Verhullen
Complottheoretici beschuldigen de NASA er vaak van het bestaan van aliens te verhullen. Zij plaatsen geregeld foto’s van de maan of Mars waarop volgens hen aliens zijn te zien.
Meestal blijkt het te gaan om een vreemd gevormde rots, maar deze nieuwe afbeelding is niet zo gemakkelijk te verklaren, aldus de Daily Star.
“Uh, NASA? UFO vastgelegd door de Marsrover? Is dit echt?” schreef Reddit-gebruiker Daxanater bij de foto.
Photoshoppen
Mikeymike 34 zei: “Dit is geweldig!” Crazylegs99 voegde toe: “Tijdens het photoshoppen zijn ze vergeten dit eruit te halen.”
“Lijkt op glinsterend licht van een ruimteschip op een planeet in de ruimte,” schreef EdisonVonneZula.
Landingsvaartuig
Eén gebruiker suggereerde dat het mogelijk gaat om de resten van het landingsvaartuig van Curiosity.
“De rover was op die datum kennelijk in de buurt van die resten en maakte er een foto van,” aldus OnceReturned.
The existence of parallel universes within an unseen dimension has long been one of the universe's biggest 'what ifs'.
Now the European Space Agency (EA) has approved a mission that will hunt for gravitational waves - mysterious space-time disturbances that could finally prove the existence of extra dimensions.
Physicists think that unknown dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying these gravitational waves.
Since gravity is likely to occupy all dimensions that exist, its waves are a promising way to detect unknown dimensions.
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The LISA mission (artist's impression), now scheduled for 2034, will be made up of three identical satellites separated by 2.5 million km (1.5 million miles) in a triangular formation. The craft will follow Earth in its orbit around the sun while firing lasers between one another
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
The universe is made up of a 'fabric of space-time'.
This corresponds to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, published in 1916.
Objects in the universe bend this fabric, and more massive objects bend it more.
Gravitational waves are considered ripples in this fabric.
They can be produced, for instance, when black holes orbit each other or by the merging of galaxies.
Gravitational waves are also thought to have been produced during the Big Bang.
Physicists believe the waves can offer insights into fundamental physics.
For instance, they could shed light on the idea that, at one point, most or all of the forces of nature were combined into a single force.
In search of these waves, ESA has now given its Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission (LISA) the green light for 2034 after decades of development and delays.
'I think there's a mixture of super-excitement and "at last",' Professor Mark McCaughrean, ESA's senior adviser for science & exploration, told New Scientist.
'We're finally over the starting line – it's great.'
LISA will be made up of three identical satellites, separated by 2.5 million km (1.5 million miles) in a triangular formation, that will follow Earth in its orbit around the sun.
The three craft will beam powerful lasers between one another as they search for ripples in space-time caused by gravitational waves.
The LISA satellites will read how these waves warp space by detecting tiny changes in the distances the laser beams travel.
Gravitational waves are often created by by celestial objects with very strong gravity, such as pairs of merging black holes.
The primary targets for LISA's observations will be merging supermassive black holes, Professor McCaughrean said, in a bid to better understand the powerful celestial bodies.
This is not the first time that scientists have delved into the origins of gravitational waves.
Earlier this year, researchers suggested that gravitational waves could also be evidence of an unseen, extra dimension.
The LISA satellites (artist's impression) will read how gravitational waves warp space by detecting tiny changes in the distances the laser beams travel
THE NEW SPACECRAFT
ESA has now given its Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission (LISA) the green light after decades of development and delays.
LISA will be made up of three identical satellites orbiting the sun in a wide triangular formation.
The satellites will beam lasers between one another.
The presence of gravitational waves will cause tiny changes to the distances these lasers travel.
An extra dimension would change the way gravitational waves stretch space.
If these changes can be detected, it could help discover an extra dimension.
While scientists don't yet have the technology to prove this, by 2034 LISA could provide a route to testing ripples in space-time for evidence of parallel universes.
Speaking to New Scientist last month, Gustavo Lucena Gomez, who is leading a study into extra dimensions at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, said: 'If there are extra dimensions in the universe, then gravitational waves can walk along any dimension, even the extra dimensions.'
Gravity is weaker than other fundamental forces, and experts have long wondered whether this is because some of it is escaping into an extra dimension.
The German team set out to calculate how an extra dimension would affect gravitational waves, and found two strange effects – extra waves at high frequencies, and a change in how gravitational waves stretch space.
As gravitational waves move through an extra dimension, the researchers found that they should generate a 'tower' of extra gravitational waves with higher frequencies.
But observatories are currently unable to detect frequencies that high, and instead focus on lower frequency gravitational waves.
Unknown dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying gravitational waves - changes in the space-time fabric. Since gravity is likely to occupy all dimensions that exist, its waves are a promising way to detect unknown dimensions (artist's impression)
Physicists think that unknown dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying gravitational waves - changes in the space-time fabric. These waves can also be triggered by two colliding planets or black holes (artist's impression)
This could make spotting the gravitational wave towers a challenge.
But detecting the change in how gravitational waves stretch space could be easier, according to the researchers.
Dr Lucena Gomez said: 'If extra dimensions are in our universe, this would stretch or shrink space-time in a different way that standard gravitational waves would never do.'
Gravitational waves stretch space as they ripple through the universe a bit like a rubber band – the ellipse gets longer in one direction and shorter in the other, before returning to its original shape.
The targets for LISA's observations will be merging supermassive black holes in a bid to better understand the powerful celestial bodies (artist's impression) but it could eventually be used to test ripples in space time for signs of an extra dimension
The existence of parallel universes within an unseen dimension has long been one of the universe's biggest 'what ifs' (stock image)
But an extra dimension could add another way for gravitational waves to stretch space, called a breathing mode.
In the same way that lungs expand as you breathe, gravitational waves cause space to expand and contract, in addition to stretching.
Dr Lucena Gomez said: 'With more detectors we will be able to see whether this breathing mode is happening.'
Dr Emilian Dudas, from the Ecole Polytechnique in France told New Scientist: 'Extra dimensions have been discussed for a long time from different points of view.
'Gravitational waves could be a new twist on looking for extra dimensions.'
HOW WOULD GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AFFECT AN EXTRA DIMENSION?
Last month, researchers at the Max Planck Institute set out to calculate how extra dimension would affect gravitational waves.
They found two strange effects – extra waves at high frequencies, and a change in how gravitational waves stretch space.
As gravitational waves move through an extra dimension, the researchers found that they should generate a 'tower' of extra gravitational waves with higher frequencies.
But observatories are currently unable to detect frequencies that high, and instead focus on lower frequency gravitational waves.
This could make spotting the gravitational wave towers a challenge.
But detecting the change in how gravitiational waves stretch space could be easier, according to the researchers.
Gravitational waves stretch space as they ripple through the universe a bit like a rubber band – the ellipse gets longer in one direction and shorter in the other, before returning to its original shape.
But an extra dimension could add another way for gravitational waves to stretch space, called a breathing mode.
In the same way that lungs expand as you breathe, gravitational waves cause space to expand and contract, in addition to stretching.
The researchers hope that this breathing space could soon be detected.
ESA's LISA satellite system, now scheduled for 2034, may offer a new way to make the necessary readings.
De jacht op extra dimensies is geopend. Gaat dit ruimteschip parallelle universa vinden?
De jacht op extra dimensies is geopend. Gaat dit ruimteschip parallelle universa vinden?
De Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA heeft groen licht gegeven voor twee projecten: LISA en PLATO.
LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) moet jacht gaan maken op zwaartekrachtgolven. Die zijn de afgelopen jaren voor het eerst ontdekt en kunnen wijzen op het bestaan van extra dimensies en parallelle universa.
PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) gaat zoeken naar de aanwezigheid van planeten bij andere sterren en onderzoek doen naar sterbevingen.
Rimpelingen
Natuurkundigen denken dat onbekende dimensies rimpelingen veroorzaken in de ruimtetijd die we moeten kunnen waarnemen.
Aangezien de zwaartekracht waarschijnlijk van toepassing is op alle bestaande dimensies, kunnen de golven mogelijk worden gebruikt om onbekende dimensies op te sporen.
LISA zal bestaan uit drie identieke satellieten die in een driehoeksformatie rond de aarde gaan draaien.
Ongeziene dimensie
Het ruimteschip gaat onder meer informatie verzamelen over botsingen en versmeltingen van dubbele superzware zwarte gaten.
Eerder dit jaar suggereerden onderzoekers dat zwaartekrachtgolven bewijs kunnen zijn voor een ongeziene dimensie.
Nieuwe wending
“Als er extra dimensies zijn in het heelal, kunnen zwaartekrachtgolven zich naar iedere dimensie verplaatsen, zelfs de extra dimensies,” zei Gustavo Lucena Gomez van het Max Planck Institute.
“Zwaartekrachtgolven kunnen een nieuwe wending geven aan de zoektocht naar extra dimensies,” voegde Emilian Dudas van de Ecole Polytechnique in Frankrijk toe.
Streetcap1 believes he has found strange objects in images NASA's Mars Opportunity rover took in 2005. He wonders whether these objects are extraterrestrial or not.
The first image shows something something what looks like an alien craft, while the second image appears to show a white Martian object in the distance.
As usually there is much discussion on social media on these objects.
The white Martian object could be an alien, a humanoid, while something bigger standing behind the humanoid. Explanations for the object in the first image vary from an alien craft to a Mars vehicle with begs, etc.
Without doubt, many images captured by the Opportunity and the Curiosity have already shown overwhelming evidence of past and present ‘intelligent’ life on Mars but if we take a closer look at the two objects depicted in the 2005 images it’s clear that it has nothing to do with aliens, humanoids or any kind of alien craft or vehicle.
It turns out the kind of alien craft is just a part of the Lander Shell (heat shield) of the Opportunity while the white Martian object is a reflection of sunlight on another part of the Lander Shell.
Above images were taken by the Opportunity in 2005 (SOL 319 to SOL 344) and show besides the heat shield, several other parts of the Lander Shell as well as some mechanical parts reflected by sunlight.
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NASA, PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS FORMATION OF UFOS FROM THE STS-100 MISSION
NASA, PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS FORMATION OF UFOS FROM THE STS-100 MISSION
UFO hunters have experienced a resurgence of interest in one of the most bizarre UFO mysteries of the past few decades. Space watchers and UFO enthusiasts have been putting renewed pressure on the space agency NASA to open up about the photograph they took on the STS-100 mission in 2001 which appears to show a number of UFOs traveling in formation in the vicinity of the International Space Station.
The mysterious image initially appeared on NASA’s online archives of photographs taken in the course of various space travel missions, but it was swiftly deleted from the image bank once individuals began to question what was depicted in it. The space agency has a history of deleting potentially compromising images that appear to show UFOs in this solar system which has led to many people arguing that the space agency is attempting to cover up the existence a highly intelligent alien civilization which operates in close proximity to Earth.
While the image caused quite a storm at the time, most people within the UFO hunter community forgot about it as the years went by. However, there has been renewed interest in the peculiar image owing to the Black Vault, a UFO website, which has reviewed the case recently. Workers for the Black Vault focussed on the claims made by skeptics who suggested that the UFOs in the image were actually nothing more than a photographic anomaly caused by long exposure of moving objects or multiple images laid on top of one another. Researchers at the Black Vault attempted to disprove this explanation by demonstrating how images actually look when space debris is caught on long exposure or when several photographs are laid on top of one another. The images that they produced looked nothing like the mysterious photograph which was taken by NASA cameras of the UFO formation back in 2001.
This is not the first time that NASA has come under pressure, to tell the truth about unusual images captured in the course of their exploration missions. However, if history is a guide, the space agency will maintain a stony silence about these images which they tend to prefer to cover up as much as they can.
THIS IS NASA'S RESPONSE TO ANONYMOUS' ALIEN DISCLOSURE CLAIM
THIS IS NASA'S RESPONSE TO ANONYMOUS' ALIEN DISCLOSURE CLAIM
When the online collectivist group Anonymous released a new video this week claiming that the space agency NASA was imminently about to announce the discovery of extra-terrestrial life in this universe, it generated a huge amount of excitement for space watchers all over the world. Unfortunately, according to the space agency, the claims made by Anonymous in this viral video is simply incorrect.
NASA CLAIMS THAT ANONYMOUS’S ALIEN ANNOUNCEMENT VIDEO IS FALSE
"Contrary to some reports, there's no pending announcement from NASA regarding extraterrestrial life, "said Robert Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science in a tweet published this week, putting an end to the speculation that the space agency was on the cusp of making a major announcement about the discovery of extra-terrestrial life.
The announcement by NASA came as no surprise to many people who deemed the video released by Anonymous to contain false information from the outset. Many observers pointed out that the video actually contained no information about the supposed discovery of extra-terrestrial life and instead relied heavily on Zubuchen’s own comments at a Senate hearing when he claimed that, "We are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history.” However, these claims were taken out of context by Anonymous. Zurbuchen was referring to NASA’s work in the long-term rather than speaking of an imminent discovery.
But even though this information was false, those who are keenly awaiting the announcement that NASA has discovered extra-terrestrial life may not have to wait for too long. Most of the astronomers and scientists working for the space agency believe that they will be able to announce the discovery of alien life in the space of the next ten to thirty years. Scientists working for the agency are particularly excited about the potential of next-generation hardware such as the James Webb Space Telescope which will be fully operational in the course of the next few years. It is hoped that the incredibly powerful telescope will be an essential tool to allow scientists to discover life far away from planet Earth.
ANONYMOUS BELIEVES NASA IS POISED TO ANNOUNCE DISCOVERY OF ALIENS
New Faction Book Touches UFO Sighting Over Wellington, Author Says
New Faction Book Touches UFO Sighting Over Wellington, Author Says
New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten claims he spotted something bizarre in the sky over Wellington. He says he saw about a dozen objects in saucer shape with amber lights on the bottoms flying along State Road 7 from south to north. The objects were going in staggered pairs about a thousand feet in the air and moving whisper quiet, according to Alten.
Alten believes he witnessed a series of UFOs in the night sky in 2013. He has been researching about it ever since, culminating the creation of a fiction book Undisclosed. His extensive research on UFOs and aliens has made him convinced that extraterrestrials exist.
Alten is known for his books centring around the fictitious survival of the giant prehistoric shark called Megalodon. He reveals that his latest novel is based on what he believes are facts, so he prefers to call it as faction instead of fiction. The book cover features flying saucers over a farm with the tagline “We’ve been lied to…”
Alten describes what he witnessed that night. He says that eight to twelve lights were flying in staggered pairs approaching less than a thousand feet above State Road 7 from the south. Alte says that the lights were far too silent and smooth to be helicopters and planes.
When the lights passed overhead, Alten could see the outline of saucer-shaped vessels. Alten who was driving the car with his wife parked the car, stood and watched them. Both of them were left stunned as the lights moved north through a cloudless night sky. The UFOs then quietly faded pair by pair.
Seeing and photographing animals popping out from nowhere is not new to wildlife photographer Ken Rice. However, something unusual suddenly appeared when he was out shooting photos on Saturday. His camera lens captured something he has never seen before. He could not explain the thing that came out of nowhere. Rice is a resident in Oshawa and was at the marsh area close to the General Motors of Canada headquarters situated on Colonel Sam Drive when he noticed the strange object off in the distance at around 7:45 p.m. on 17th June.
Rice said that he was walking back to his car and spotted something that popped out all of a sudden far away in the sky. He first thought that it was a big turkey vulture, so he decided to take a photo of it as it hovered, remained there for a minute and went away.
When Rice got home, he took a closer look at the image. However, he has no idea what could be the object.
The object was faster and too high for a balloon, according to Rice. He called the unknown aerial thing as UFO since he could not identify the object and no one could give an explanation after he posted the photo on Facebook.
Daytime UFO caught on tape over Indian Shores, Florida 17-Jun-2017
Daytime UFO caught on tape over Indian Shores, Florida 17-Jun-2017
This strange object was filmed flying in the sky above Indian Shores in Florida. This was filmed on 17th June 2017.
Witness report:
Bright white sphere appears in self photos, it is in various positions on pics.
I was in Indian Shores, Florida taking pics of myself w/ ocean behind me, it was daytime. I did not see object at that time, only when I saw pics later at home after uploading to pc. The object was very bright white round sphere. I was standing in same spot mostly, but the object in the pics seems to have moved a number of times. It shows up on my right side, my left, and high over my head. I use the Sun as the reference point.
When I zoom in on pic, the light shows a little red and green on opposite sides. So that makes me think its not a planet. And not a star, cause they don’t move like that. Anyway, there are other anomalies around the sun, that could be a photo mess up, I can’t tell exactly why those colors are there. But the video explains what may have caused it, maybe a photo expert can tell what it is or isn’t. I’m sending this just for the record. The white sphere is the reason I’m sending this. Thankx
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. Jonathan 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 to discover we are not alone, the people who’ll find out were very likely here.
NASA Poised to Discover Alien Life –“We are On the Verge of Making One of the Most Profound Discoveries in History”
NASA Poised to Discover Alien Life –“We are On the Verge of Making One of the Most Profound Discoveries in History”
“Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are specifically searching for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented, discoveries in history,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate during the recent congressional hearing of the committee on ‘Advances in the Search for Life,’ on April 29th.
Zurbuchen reported that NASA’s recent advances, such as the discovery of hydrogen in Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the Hubble team’s promising results from the oceans of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, are promising signs that we’re closer than ever to discovering evidence of alien life. Zurbuchen has been involved with several NASA science missions — Ulysses, the MESSENGER spacecraft to Mercury, and the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE).
Here are key excerpts from Zurbuchen’s profound testimony at the April 29 hearimng:
“Now, with NASA missions like the Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, we have discovered more than 3,400 exoplanets,with billions more just waiting to be revealed in our galaxy alone. This February, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope team announced the discovery of seven Earthsizedplanets, the most ever, found around a single star, called TRAPPIST-1. Three of theseplanets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water. This system of seven rocky worlds – all of them with the potential for water, a key to life as we know it – is an exciting discovery in the search for life on other worlds.
“The TRAPPIST-1 system is just 39 light years away and its discovery tells us that there is plenty of planet making material in our little corner of the solar system, indicating that finding Earth-like planets may actually be closer to us than we originally thought. Future study of this planetary system could reveal conditions suitable for life. Since the initial observations, the follow-on findings for TRAPPIST-1 (and exoplanets in general) are occurring almost weekly, but the best is yet to come.
Image credits: On May 2, 2016, scientists announced the discovery of TRAPPIST-1, an alien solar system 40 light-years from Earth with a tiny, ultracool dwarf star and three small exoplanets that just might be habitable. This is NASA artist’s view of the TRAPPIST-1 star system above as seen from near one of the three alien planets circling their dim parent star.
NASA’s Spitzer, Hubble, and Kepler Space Telescopes will continue to help astronomers plan for such follow-up studies using NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, launching in 2018. With much greater sensitivity, Webb will be able to detect the chemical fingerprints of water, methane, oxygen, ozone, and other components of a planet’s atmosphere. Webb also will analyze planets’ temperatures and surface pressures – key factors in assessing their habitability.
“The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission will also launch next year, to survey the entire sky for nearby exoplanets, and the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), launching in the mid-2020s, will directly image exoplanets and study their atmospheric chemistry for the first time using reflected light from their stars.
“NASA is studying mission concepts even beyond these near-term missions for the 2030s that would further explore and characterize the bounty of possible habitable Earth-like planets. These mission concepts include the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission and the Large Ultraviolet/Visible/Infrared Surveyor, which would operate from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared like Hubble and WFIRST, and the Origins Space Telescope, which would operate from the mid-infrared to the far infrared like the James Webb telescope.
“For astrobiology, the key thing to remember is that answering the fundamental question of “is there life out there?” will require scientific breakthroughs from many different science fields, including ones that are not currently engaged in this exciting endeavor. This, however, demonstrates the nature of great research: it’s not just about answering questions that have been asked in the past, it is about finding entirely new questions that will have impact for a long time to come.”
Above is the video of the April 29th hearing. Fast forward to 22:00. The hearing will surveyed recent breakthroughs in a variety of fields that contribute to astrobiology, such as the continued discovery of exoplanets and research efforts to understand life’s origin on Earth and in the lab.
Yesterday we brought you the rather odd news that hacking group Anonymous thought NASA was going to announce they’d found intelligent alien life.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense hopefully quickly realized there was nothing to this story. And note, it probably wasn’t even the “official” Anonymous group, if there is such a thing. But for good measure, NASA has come out and debunked it anyway.
“Contrary to some reports, there’s no pending announcement from NASA regarding extraterrestrial life,” Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said on Twitter.
“Are we alone in the universe? While we do not know yet, we have missions moving forward that may help answer that fundamental question,” he added in another tweet.
Of course, if you’re one to believe alien conspiracy theories, you’re probably not going to believe this statement from Zurbuchen. So take our word for it that this is all just some weird baloney spread by some guy or girl claiming to be part of Anonymous.
Zurbuchen is right, though. Whether we’re alone in the universe is still an open question. But we’re getting closer to answering it. In our own Solar System, we’ve found a few places – oceans under the surface of Europa and Enceladus, for instance – that might be good places for microbial life.
Elsewhere, we’re finding more and more planets that could be habitable. In the coming years, we’re going to be able to study the atmospheres of some of these planets, and hopefully find out if they have any biosignatures.
And there are also several searches underway for intelligent alien life. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been looking for signals for decades. More recently, the Breakthrough Listen project – funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner – has also joined the hunt.
The fact is, though, that we simply haven’t found anything yet. There’s no NASA-funded project looking for intelligent life, so if we did stumble across a signal, it would be one of the two aforementioned private endeavors.
That we haven’t found any life is a bit of a quandary, known as the Fermi Paradox. Planets seem to be pretty abundant in the universe, so why haven’t we found any other life yet? The answer is either we’re alone, or we haven’t looked hard enough yet.
No intelligent aliens are going to be making their way undetected into the Solar System anytime soon, though. If an alien ship does arrive on our doorstop, we’ll probably know about it. For now, we’re alone – and that’s kind of terrifying in its own right.
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Filer’s Files #26 – 2017 Kepler Finds 4,034 Exoplanets - PART I
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk England UK spotted it at 6.am on June 17, 2017.
Filer’s Files #26 – 2017 Kepler Finds 4,034 Exoplanets - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Finds 4,034 Exoplanets, High Speed Space Ship Earth, UFOs and Dr .Claude Poher, ex Gepan Director, Confrontations in the North Atlantic, Star Wars, UFO and Moon Photos, President Reagan’s Diary, Reagan Star Wars Test Site, Fiery Cross Island, and Tiahuanaco Bolivia May Be the Oldest City.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Puerto Rico, Russia, 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.
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NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Finds 4,034 Exoplanets
NASA has unveiled the complete set of data from the first four years of the agency’s Kepler Space Telescope mission, which stared at a single patch of the sky in the search for alien planets. The result: Kepler has discovered 219 new candidates since NASA’s last data unveiling, including 10 near-Earth-size planet candidates in the so-called habitable zone around their stars where the conditions are just right for liquid water to exist on a planet’s surface — a key feature in the search for habitable worlds.
The new discoveries boost Kepler’s total to 4,034 candidate planets during its mission, 2,335 of which were later confirmed by follow-up observations, NASA officials said in a statement. The 10 newfound potentially Earth-size worlds bring Kepler’s total up to 50 of that type of exoplanet, with more than 30 of those being confirmed, NASA officials said during a briefing today (June 19).
Hold onto your chair Earth is a space ship orbiting the Sun at the speed of 108,000 km/h. 69,000 mph. The planet travels 940 million km during one orbit. The Earth completes one orbit every 365.242199 mean solar days (that might help explain the need for a leap year). The planet’s distance from the Sun varies as it orbits. Actually, the Earth is never the same distance from the Sun from day to day. When the Earth is closest to the Sun it is said to be at perihelion. This occurs around January 3rd at a distance of 147,098,074 km. When it is at its furthest distance from the Sun, Earth is said to be at aphelion. That happens around July 4th at a distance of 152,097,701 km.
That’s not all, our wonderful Earth is now moving in six different directions with a combined speed of approximately 574,585 MPH, Moving at 69,361 MPH in Spin and Orbit, and 43,200 MPH towards the Lambda Herculis Constellation. And 15,624 MPH Solar system moving Perpendicular to Galactic Plane shown in the image, plus 446,400 MPH orbiting the Galactic Center for the Galactic Spin Rate. We are moving at 574,585 MPH total speed of Earth within our Galaxy.
These movements suggest an intelligent universe that a supernatural God can provide life everlasting. Did this all happen simply by chance, I doubt it? Thanks to: http://www.thelivingmoon.com/ /02files/Speed_of_Earth.html
UFOs and Dr .Claude Poher, ex Gepan (France equivalent of NASA) Director
“Taking into account the facts that we have gathered from the observers and from the location of their observations, we concluded that there generally can be said to be a material phenomenon behind the observations. In 60% of the cases reported here, the description of this phenomenon is apparently one of a flying machine whose origin, modes of lifting and/or propulsion are totally outside our knowledge. Dr. Claude Poher, Ph.D. in astronomy, founder and first director of GEPAN, the UFO investigative office under the French government’s National Center for Space Sciences which analyzed reports from the Gendarmerie from 1974 through 1978, writing in the GEPAN Report to the Scientific Committee, June, 1978, Vol. 1, Chapter 4.
Confrontations in the North Atlantic
Tony Dodd writes,
At 7.30pm on Monday, 12 February 1996, I received a ship-to-shore telephone call from a fishing vessel in the Denmark Straight, off the West Coast of Iceland. The caller told me that a huge triangular craft had appeared and was hovering low in the sky close to his boat. At that precise moment the transmission was cut off. Approximately fifteen minutes later the caller rang again to say that all electronics on the ship had suddenly failed. He told me that he and the rest of the crew had seen the triangular object move away from the boat then suddenly descend into the sea. The moment it had disappeared all electronic power was restored. At 9.00pm on Sunday, 18 February 1996, a further call was received from the boats at sea. On this occasion the caller told me that the whole crew was terrified because three huge black triangular objects, accompanied by three independent red balls of light, had come out of the sea and were hovering silently in the air close to their boats. I asked if the balls of light were connected to the triangles and he said, “No they are totally separate and independent”. The caller was asked if the triangles were showing on the ships Radar. He replied, “No the Radar is not picking them up, the whole crew is standing on the deck watching them.” Were the objects close to the boat? “Yes, they are hovering near the port bow, we’re all scared”. Asked if he could hear any sound coming from the objects, he replied, “No there’s no sound coming from them”. Were there any lights on the triangles? “Yes there are small lights on different parts of them.” He then said, “The whole crew is out on deck watching them”. Suddenly the transmission was lost and the phone went dead. A short time later the connection was restored and the voice at the other end said, “The objects have now gone, they all descended and went down into the sea”. At 3 am. On Monday, 19th February, 1996 a call was received in the middle of the night, from a fishing boat at sea, off the coast of Iceland. The caller said, “We have just been watching a gigantic sphere, hovering in the air, not very far from our boats. It slowly moved away from us and then descended and disappeared into the sea. We have no idea what it was.” An hour later the telephone was ringing again and once again the message was from the fishing boat.
“There are now large florescent tubes like objects hovering in the air close to our position; they are a blue color and not making a sound. All these strange things are making the crew very frightened, we don’t like all this”. At 10.55pm. On Tuesday, 23rd. April, 1996, a further telephone call was received from a ship which was fishing 200 miles South West of the coast of Iceland. The caller said, “You are not going to believe what we have just seen. We were fishing fairly close to a group of American Warships and suddenly there was a blinding flash of light and one of the warships just disappeared in front of our eyes. I know it sounds crazy, but I can assure you it happened a short time ago. Soon after this an American boat came over to us an ordered us and other fishing boats to leave the area immediately. Our Captain didn’t need any telling, he told us to get our boat out of the area as quickly as possible and to return to our base in Iceland. We are now making our way back. The incident has upset us all, particularly the Captain, he has retired to his cabin with a bottle of whisky”. On Sunday, 19 January 1997, a large number of UFO-related events occurred off the south coast of Iceland. Reports were received of large numbers of UFOs gathering over the sea. I can assure readers that these reports were coming from ships at sea, witnesses on the ground and from airline pilots.
On Monday, 20 January 1997, airliners attempting to land and depart from Keflavik Airport were delayed because UFOs were seen flying in civilian air corridors. Only when the UFOs had departed were things returned to normal. Recent information from our Spanish contacts reveal that their fishermen have also reported seeing huge craft and other objects coming out of the sea off the coast of Iberia.
These are currently being investigated. There is no doubt that these extraordinary events are not something recent or new to the area’s most effected. They have been occurring since the early 1960s and appear to have continued unabated to the present day. Source: UFO Magazine (UK)
Thirty years ago, pilots and other witnesses described amazing speeds and aerial maneuvers and cited their apparent ability to operate equally as well in the oceans. Perhaps they are not visitors from another planet; perhaps they have always existed in the darkest, deepest depths of our oceans. If so, could it be that their increasing appearance is tied to the ecological damage we are inflicting on our planet’s surface, as well as in our Oceans? Speculation I know, but an interesting possibility. On the other hand, what if they are indeed visitors from another planet? Why they here and what are their intentions? They act secretly and come and go like shadows in the night, watching our every move. Why are UFOs seen so often in the vicinity of military bases, nuclear missile sites or in areas of military operations? Is it a case of ‘know the strength of your enemy’ or one of observing a primitive culture working towards their own self- destruction? What do you think?
By Tony Dodd,
Source: UFO Magazine (UK)
Note: Various apparent underwater structures have been located that are likely bases to house these craft/ See craft dive into water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frcxt07J1fI
UFO flies at air show in Goodwood, West Sussex on September 5, 2003 at the annual Goodwood Festival and Revival. Goodwood is located 60 miles from London. All images c.2003-2008 John Lenard Walson.
I’m saving to be able to bring my telescope to a dark area, no atmospheric distractions. I want to give you clear beautiful high quality video, and evidence from a remote location without freezing in the process, and without interference.
Here is an interesting shot of a structure with an opening on the Moon It is thought space ships enter their base at this point.
I found some old emails sent to me explain the space objects I have filmed these note the footage my appear fuzzy , other astronomers do you use software to process the footage to clear it up but I like to show the raw footage this link below is showing that
Department of Astronomy – Harvard University have sent me confirmation that my space footage is real and I am not the only one to film it and they even tell me who the first person in the USA is to film the same space footage as me.
They go into detail that this space footage is the Lacrosse radar satellite operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office. It is known to have a long box-like structure with a big antenna dish hanging off it. The images showing a rectangular object with one big box and a smaller box parallel to it may be a new version of the same satellite with a side-looking radar, the European ENVISAT radar satellite. Lucky Imaging | Institute of Astronomy http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/research/instrumentation.surveys.and.projects/lucky.imaging/lucky.adaptive.optics John needs to go to an area with less light and cleaner atmosphere. You can help obtain even better images by helping him purchase a van to travel to better locations. Go to the gofundme link here. https://www.gofundme.com/2n6cp7w or pay pal https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4LWK2NTG9THNL
Note: John has given Filer’s Files permission to show his excellent images. Below is a possible space ship taken by John that President Reagan refers to.
In The Diary entry for Tuesday, June 11, 1985 (page 334) Reagan wrote:
Lunch with 5 top space scientists. “It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction, except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.”
Note: This would indicate a space ship at least as large as a 747 aircraft that is 250 feet long. It is likely much bigger to accommodate sleeping quarters, kitchen facilities, bathrooms, storage radar and weapons. The now grounded Space Shuttle held a maximum of eight people and even if all five took off fully loaded it would be impossible to put 300 astronauts in orbit. Apparently President Reagan revealed the existence of a highly classified space program that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit?
Reagan Star Wars Test Site
The Reagan Test Site (RTS), as it is known today, is the United States’ premier missile range. Located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific, RTS has played a major role during the past 50 years in intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) testing, missile defense development and testing, space-object tracking and, sensor technology development, and scientific research. MIT Lincoln Laboratory has filled the technical leadership role since 1962 when the first instrumentation radar, Target Resolution and Discrimination Experiment (TRADEX), became operational. The year 2012 marks 50 years of operation of TRADEX and 50 years of continuous presence and service of Lincoln Laboratory at Kwajalein. During those 50 years, the Laboratory has been responsible for keeping the RTS instrumentation at state-of-the-art levels by continuously developing and inserting advanced technology. The Air, Missile, & Maritime Defense Technology mission area develops integrated systems for defense against ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and air vehicles in tactical, strategic, and homeland defense applications. Thanks to MIT.
Fiery Cross Island
A year ago Fiery Cross Island didn’t exist but dozens of ships and dredges have built six islands. China’s militarization of artificial islands in the South China Sea is worsening tensions in an already highly disputed region. The islands expand China’s military bases and are located in an oil rich area.
Paul Stonehill writes The Marianna Trench not too far away contains the deepest known points on Earth…and most likely, intelligent life. This is my research, from the Russian sources, to U.S. Navy’s declassified documents…to observations and secret scientific global research. Mariana Trench East of the Philippines is a mystery, and enigma of the Pacific Ocean waiting to be solved.
Tiahuanaco Bolivia May Be the Oldest City
Nearby the Akapana pyramid is the Kalasasaya compound, a structure whose design and celestial alignment suggests a great antiquity for Tiahuanaco. Arthur Posnansky, a German-Bolivian scholar, exhaustively studied Tiwanakufor almost fifty years. Posnansky conducted precise surveys of all the principal structures of Tiahuanaco, including the Kalasasaya compound, which is delineated by a series of vertical stone pillars. Utilizing his measurements of sight lines along these pillars, the celestial orientation of the Kalasasaya, and its purposely-intended deviations from the cardinal points, Posnansky was able to show the alignment of the structure was based upon an astronomical principle called the obliquity of the ecliptic. His findings strongly suggest that its initial construction was around 15,000 BC, and this date was later confirmed by a team of four astronomers from various universities in Germany. Equally astonishing, the spatial arrangement of Tiahuanaco’s four main structures — relative to one another and to the stars above — indicates that the initial site engineers had an advanced knowledge of astronomy, geomancy and mathematics.
Adding to this mystery are the ancient myths of Tiwanaku which tell of its founding and use in a time before great floods. Scientific research has proved that a cataclysmic flood did indeed occur some 12,000 years ago. Mixed in with the deepest layers of flood alluvia at Tiwanaku are human bones, utensils and tools, showing human use of the site prior to the great flood. There is also the intriguing enigma of the strange carvings of bearded, non-Andean people that are found around the site, replete with sculptural and iconographic details which are unique in the western hemisphere.
All of this evidence seems to indicate that the original Tiwanaku civilization flourished many thousands of years before the period assumed by conventional archaeologists. Rather than rising and falling during the two millennia around the time of Christ, Tiwanaku may have existed during a vastly older period, some 17,000 years ago. The implications of this are truly stunning. Tiwanaku may be, along with Teotihuacan in Mexico, Baalbek in Lebanon, and the Great Pyramid in Egypt, a surviving fragment of a long lost civilization. [Perhaps the oldest city on Earth.
The Bennett Monolith face shown here allegedly came out of the sea, reminds one of the Mesopotamian deity, Oannes, the half-man, half-fish, amphibious being who conveyed special knowledge to ancient mankind. Oannes is often associated with the Andean creator god, Viracocha. Thanks to http://www.labyrinthina.com/puma-punku-tiwanaku-tiahuanaco-tiahuanacu.html
Temperatures Holding
NASA Satellite data measuring temperature for the last 18 years has shown no warming on Earth. Climate always changes and has for millions of years. We are presently coming out of last Ice Age.
May Sightings
May 2017 saw a total of 624 UFO sightings reported to MUFON from around the world.
US 470,
UK 38,
Canada 35,
India 8,
Portugal 7, and
Peru 6.
The National UFO Reporting Center Monthly Report Index for May had 342 reports
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Filer’s Files #26 – 2017 Kepler Finds 4,034 Exoplanets - PART II
Filer’s Files #26 – 2017 Kepler Finds 4,034 Exoplanets - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Sedona— I was taking continuous photos of Courthouse Monument in Big Park, at dusk on June 16, 2017. The red was so beautiful I just kept taking pictures.
Upon looking through my photos, this image appeared. The color of the sky is different around the image. Nothing on photos before or after that was very confusing. Thanks to MUFON CMS I’ve also had a “handshake”, of sorts. I would really like to speak with someone about my experiences in more detail. Dr. Greer’s CE5 protocols seem to be working for me. Also, they have allowed me to introduce my friends to their beautiful presence. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Bakersfield — My fiancé and I were in our backyard and observed numerous fireballs slowly moving across the sky on June 10, 2017. It was close above our neighbor’s house. I told her to grab the phone to record them. This is the second event we have witnessed in the last few months. They moved across the sky similar to hot air balloons but seem to be made entirely of fire. The first time we saw one of these curved black claw type structure carrying a large sack of fire a few months ago up close. In this event that we just recorded you cannot see as much detail. They eventually all disappeared into the atmosphere. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Wings
Montrose — We were on our front deck watching the sunset and sky when my husband saw bright lights coming from the west on June 21, 2017. I ran into the house to get my phone and my husband ran into the house to get his Canon camera we took pictures of the 1st one, I took video with my phone while he took still pictures a second one came from the same direction we have pictures and video, best description as a Phoenix or Angelic form. Body long silver jet type or cylinder, with a possible nose pointing downward. Wings that were curved upward 80 degrees towards atmosphere that were fiery orange very bright and a triangular transparent veil that looked translucent seemingly hanging off left wing with bright orbs, we are not sure if it circled our city twice or there were 2 one following the other. It was cloudy and they both flew northeast into the clouds but not together.
We couldn’t visually see the shape until we downloaded photos. We never have seen a machine that could even look like anything of this world. This is not the 1st time we have seen UFO’s out here, though this one was different. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Light
Indianapolis — My daughter-in-law and I went for dinner at around 7:30 PM and ate on the patio outside. Gorgeous and illuminated clouds moved in front of the sun coming in from the West. I noticed an extremely bright round silvery shining object floating above a few stray clouds to the North. It moved pretty slowly upward and ascended so high that I lost sight of it. Then a second one was ahead of the stray clouds and it moved west and up. This was this not a plane. After a few minutes the one in the clouds reappeared and I asked (S) to look at it. We both watched it quickly change directions from moving upward to moving east as a second one appeared floating upwards. I have no doubt that these were NOT drones. The incoming cloud front changed to look like an alligator so I snapped a few photos with the large neon green disc hovering above a nearby building. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kentucky Lights
Louisville — 1 was standing on my porch filming lightning and just saw flashes of light on June 6, 2015. I reviewed 5-6 short videos I’d taken and this was on one of the clips. I just saw a bright flash and figured it was the lightning. It was silent until it took off and sounded like after burners. Look on the lower right hand side of the video after the lights take off and looks like thrusters of some kind. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Light
Eunice — At 9:15 PM, I took the dog out the back before bed on June 22, 2017. I noticed what I thought to be the full moon coming up with a small point of light at its right side. I noticed three silent bright lights at tree top level. It started to bank but never turned. I called my wife and son to come see this. My wife came as it started to move very slowly across the back yard trees with a smaller trailing light. I could tell the lights were in a triangular pattern, my wife says “LOOK another one is coming up.” Then I see another one coming up following the same path as the first one with the trailing small light. I don’t understand how something so big was moving so slowly without sound. Also my wife took fuzzy pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maryland Strange Cloud
Laurel –My friend was in there car driving saw a mega structure in the clouds on June 20, 2017.
I stopped the car rolled down the window to get a better look and took the picture. I have added as an attachment
Looks to be a mega structure or possible government hologram testing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Orb
Metamora — I was at a Michigan State Park Beach taking pictures on June 17, 2017 and saw an orb in the sky with lights on it in two images. I cropped one so you could see what I am talking about. If you look real close one image has 6 light spots, and one image has only 4. I just wonder what it is just below the cloud cover. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Object
East Orange — I was relaxing in my yard on my back steps looking up at the cloudy sky. As I was laying there looking up I noticed an object moving fast above the white clouds to my left. At first I thought it was a bird soaring in the sky. Then it slowed down the moment I said that is not a bird. The object then stopped and hovered. The object slowly descended toward me with no sound picking up speed. Before I could blink my eyes it was directly in my view. I didn’t know rather to run or not, so I just stood there in amazement but scared at the same time. It came down low enough for me to get a brief description of it. I was only viewing what a side view of the object that was symmetrical in shape with a round globe on top. It was gray/metallic in color. The object did not glow or pulsate. There were no lights or visible signs of propulsion. Then it started picking up speed and continued the same flight path as it entered into the rain clouds. After the object disappeared I told a few of my family members and drew a picture. I will always question why it showed itself to me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Orb
Philadelphia — I was sitting on my porch sound 10:20 pm when I saw two strange lights that were stationary – weren’t moving. I began videotaping then one appeared to move a little.
I decided to move to a clearing down the street and realized there were three of the lights and started filming again. The one furthest to the right appeared to start moving to up and to the right. I managed to get a short video from beneath this object but I sort of fumbled at first and took a picture instead of recording video. Then I went back to the other two lights and they remained stationary for some time. The one to the left began moving to the left in a strange line. Then it flew almost over head and I managed to get a brief video of that also. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Terre Hill— I was driving home from work and saw a beautiful sunrise so I snapped a picture of it on June 19, 2017. The next day as I was posting my picture on Facebook I noticed a small dark spot to the right of the sun so I zoomed in and saw this weird object. I’m not sure if it is a ufo. I just thought I’d let you see what I captured on my phone thank you for your time also there’s something odd by the telephone pole to the left of the sun!!! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Light Star
Bryan— My Mother was in our front yard looking at her Valentine box of candy in 1961. Apparently she did not notice the object hovering over her head. Neither did the person who took this picture. There were actually two similar pictures. I am unable to find the second one. In it, the objects were in a different position. I will look again for it. I realize this is from a long time ago but the picture recently resurfaced and I found it interesting. The pictures were in my Mother’s possession until she passed away. She had stated that she did not know the objects were over her head at the time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Lights
_Richmond— On Saturday, June 17th 2017 at around 10:45 pm as my husband and I sat out on our porch, I noticed what looked like a meteorite shooting across the sky. The lights flew three separate times a few minutes apart from one another. Minutes later I noticed an object with bright red and blue lights rise up from behind my neighbor’s house. I asked my husband, “What in the hell is that!?” My husband looked up and dismissed it as being an airplane, until we both noticed that the object stopped in mid air and began hovering above the house across from us. My husband stayed out with our neighbor to witness the object. I panicked and ran inside but a few seconds I came back and took pictures. The object just sat there silently flashing randomly. After about 5 minutes the object moved southwest. A red orb like object appeared making quick zigzag maneuver before zipping north! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Moving Star
Glen Innes — My mother went to bed on June 22, 2017, and her bed faces a large window that opens out onto farm land. She called me in saying “There is a UFO!” I went into her room and I could see all the stars in our rural area sky but one was a very bright star much lower than the other stars. My mum was saying it was moving and I was laughing and I made her point out exactly where it was. But then I saw it move – it moved very abruptly about 1cm in the sky, then it kind of hovered and then moved again in the same manner. This went on for quite a long time. The star was extremely bright and behaving in this very strange way, I have never seen anything like it. I am not sure if it was a UFO, but I though you should know because it was a very strange thing to see and my mother and I saw the same thing. I tried to film it on my iPhone but it was to far away to focus on. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Sightings
Brossard— My condo is on the 28th floor on the shore of the St. Lawrence River, on Nun’s Island. My passion is to photograph sunrise and moonrise from my balcony facing south. On May 15, 2017, I saw the moon was rising, so I set up a tripod and took a picture towards Brossard’s south shore. I used speed and 1/4 second. I did not check my pictures until a month later. I saw this picture that captured a mass of strange lighted objects in the sky, which were invisible at all to my eyes at that time. Last year, I had photographed them twice. One event happened in February 2016 was rather strange. I saw a mass of very strange cloud formed right above the river in only a small portion of the area. So I took a picture and saw a mass of flying stuff over the Champlain Bridge area. Since it was night shooting, I used long exposure, 10 to 13 seconds. The lighted objects stayed still to me. In Montreal, the city is building a new Champlain Bridge. Construction requires digging into the river. I am thinking: is it possible that there is an ancient civilization site nearby, or something else. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Scarborough, Ontario –Today on Wednesday June 21, 2017 to kick off the first Summer Day I was on afternoon break in I witnessed quite high in the sky thousands of feet high a UFO;
At about quarter mile away just northwest at about 3:17 pm, I spotted a brilliant white glowing roundish UFO. The pictures are on near full zoom – thanks to the surrounding clouds. You see a small dome on the top.
Its movements were quite slow coming across overhead from the northwest I started to film – mostly pictures on a high zoom as it was almost directly above me stationary. It had an intense glow that at times would increase or decrease. After two minutes called a co-worker to come over to see it and confirmed to seeing it His reaction was ‘ what is that a satellite?”We both watched it head into the clouds southeast after five minutes. This would be number 22 for me in 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCwhtvqIRas&feature=youtu.be
Puerto Rico Object
Humacao — I was on my home and decided to go to a hill very close to my home to take pictures to the southeast on June 17, 2017. I noticed the objects right at the same place when reviewing them on my camera. I thought the objects were some kind of flying saucers since I noticed it has shape. One object with unknown shape flew in less than one second from above and below 500 feet in 90 degrees vertical. Another metallic sharp-end at the top and bottom shaped object was below the unknown fast-moving object in less than one second in one of the sequence of photos. I felt this is the first time I got clear-pictures of Unknown Objects moving so fast to be ours. Flying Saucer above cloud and flying around airplane while landing in Humacao. My feeling is that these things are around us all time 24/7 here at the eastern part of Puerto Rico. When I take pictures of the sky a Flying Saucer appears in 2 of 5 photos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Russia Orb
Tyumen — The UFO descended over the city of Tyumen during the rain on June 17, 2017. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thailand Light
Bangkok — I had just arrived back home after spending the evening with some friends on May 6, 3017. I looked out of my balcony and noticed an extremely bright light in the sky, quite low. Initially I had assumed it to be a star which was burning unusually bright. However, on closer inspection, I was convinced that the object wasn’t outside the earth’s atmosphere. It was very low, appearing below the clouds and also hovering at an altitude much lower than aeroplanes. Also, I made a conscious effort to look for other stars and the moon, but this object was the only bright thing in the sky. I could not see any other stars and I could not see the moon. The object was so bright that if you looked at it for more than a few seconds, it would leave a blind spot in my vision. As I observed the object, I noticed tentacles or appendages that seemed to be made from frozen/static electricity. The object seemed to be a mushroom or triangle shape with a base. The object hovered in a fixed position and I observed it for almost 2 hours. It was still visible in the sunlight but slightly harder to see. I became fearful. I had honestly never seen anything like it. I attempted to message a couple friends so that I’d have some additional witnesses, but being 5am, everyone was asleep. Eventually I went to bed (around 7am) and the object was still there, but seemed further away. When I woke up a few hours later, the object had disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK England
London — Unusual object seen in background of BBC News report at Grenfell Tower in London following a tragic fire there
At least 58 people died in the fire.
No vapor trails seen. Looks to quite distant and travelling quite quickly form right to left. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Bury St Edmunds –spotted it at 6.am in uk Suffolk in June 17, 2017. I had a camera handy so I took pictures.
It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen in the sky. I thought I would report it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Scotland Object
Aberdeen – I was out hill walking and saw an interesting sky with the sun shining through the clouds so I took some photos. There were no orbs or objects visible to the naked eye at the time, I only saw them upon viewing the photos later on. If we say the silhouette in the middle is like a dove created by the sun’s rays, my finger in the middle is blocking the lens from over exposing.
IMG 0683 – look above my finger 3/4 ways up to see a cylindrical object. Track to the right hand corner and you see another one.
In the middle, bottom right, lower left you can see objects like in image 0683. Now if you look at let’s call it the doves head, the wing and also when zoomed in you can see more of these small white cylindrical type objects all around the silhouette.
Had an interesting moment some few minutes directly before the photos were taken, an interaction with nature, namely butterflies and a raptor. As I walked off after that moment I noticed a beautiful sky so snapped away. If the photo analysis is intriguing then I would happily expand as the story could go deeper in meaning but I won’t go too far just now as this is an open forum. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Dr. Steven Greer - How the Secret Government Works: The Most Explosive Expose
Dr Steven Greer – a leading figure in the “UFO disclosure” movement – claims the US government has been covering up contact with extraterrestrials since the 1940s.
But spooks are trying to find a way to leak the truth – which is a “thousand times worse the Watergate”.
COVER-UP: Many Americans believe NASA is hiding evidence of alien life
Conspiracy theorists believe aliens crash landed on Earth in the 1940s – but the US Government hushed up the incident.
The so-called “truthers” claim officials were scared the revelation that we are not alone in the universe would smash religion and lead to the breakdown of society.
“They’re very supportive of disclosure”
Dr Steven Greer
A “truth embargo” has been in place ever since – with the reality even being hidden from the president, they believe.
But Dr Greer claims to know insiders who are looking for a way to get the truth out.
NASA
ORIGINAL IMAGE: This is the original image – taken from NASA's own website
He said: “One of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing is that there are people within the intelligence community who don’t know how to get themselves out of that hole and yet they’re very supportive of disclosure – and they’ve told me this.
“If you read between the lines of what I just said, what I’m saying to you – and you’re welcome to print this – is that there are some very powerful interests who realise that they are stuck in this black hole and they don’t know how to get out of it because it would create a scandal thousands of times worse than Watergate.”
Anonymous published a video in which it said NASA scientist Professor Thomas Zurbuchen told the last meeting of the US Science, Space and Technology Committee that “aliens are coming”.
In 1980, U.S. Army personnel stationed near Rendlesham in Suffolk saw a strange, metallic triangle which was ‘dripping molten metal’ – and witnessed a light like a ‘huge red eye’.
Unlike most UFO sightings, it was documented in voice recordings from senior American soldiers, who also drew disturbing pictures of the object they saw.
So far, the files have not been digitised, so UFO fans will have to read them on paper at the National Archive’s reading room in Kew, West London.
The files (of course) don’t contain a ‘smoking gun’ or descriptions of alien autopsies – but conspiracy theorists may well pounce on the fact that three files have been ‘held back’.
Nick Pope, who ran the defence ministry’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994 said: ‘The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the ‘good stuff’ is being held back.
The X-Files
American science fiction drama television series
The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter, which originally aired from September 10, 1993 to May 19, 2002 on Fox. The program spanned nine seasons, included 202 episodes, and a feature film of the same name. Later in 2008, a second film was made and preceded a tenth-season revival, which consisted of six episodes, in 2016.
‘Furthermore, the fact that some files haven’t been digitised, can’t be downloaded, and can only be viewed in person at the National Archives will doubtless also generate conspiracy theories.
‘After this, there are only three more UFO files still to be released, and they should be made public later this year, so there’s still more to come.’
'Britain's mysterious X-Files' disclosed by UK Ministry of Defence but is there a UFO cover-up?
'Britain's mysterious X-Files' disclosed by UK Ministry of Defence but is there a UFO cover-up?
The National Archives has released 15 of the remaining 18 MoD UFO files.
UFOs have been spotted all over the world - and now the MoD has revealed more documents CIA
An official dossier of 15 documents, which has been dubbed "Britain's X-Files", has been released by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and published in paper form by the National Archives – but one expert has suggested three withheld files will lead to accusations of a cover-up.
At the end of last week the National Archive released the files, outlining MoD investigations into mysterious incidents and unidentified flying objects (UFOs). They were not digitised and can currently only be viewed in person or by buying them and waiting for delivery.
UFO watchers and those who closely follow the phenomenon of alien life have been waiting for the files to be released, hoping they will reveal secrets from deep within the British government.
Nick Pope, a former MoD expert on the subject, said withholding files will only fuel conspiracies.
"It seems that The National Archives has released 15 of the remaining 18 Ministry of Defence UFO files, marking the final stages of what's been a nine-year long project to declassify and release the MoD's entire archive of UFO files," Pope told The Sun.
"Unlike all such previous releases of UFO files, I wasn't pre-briefed on the release date.
"The release of these final files has been extensively delayed and at one stage they were sent from the MoD to the National Archives, but then sent back to the MoD."
He continued: "Embarrassment about this delay may explain why - unlike releases of previous batches of MoD UFO files - there hasn't been a proactive media release. Accordingly, I suspect the UFO and conspiracy theory community will say that these files have been 'snuck out'."
What's in the 'X-Files'?
Many sky-watchers hoped the fresh files would shine a light on a long-running mystery that has become known as the Rendlesham Forest incident – or Britain's Roswell. This "sighting" happened in 1980 at a military base near Suffolk, with some reports of a "triangular shaped craft."
But unfortunately for those chasing little green men, Pope told British tabloid press he did not believe the MoD files contained a smoking gun. He said some documents likely reference the Rendlesham Forest case but will probably be duplicates of already-released material.
He told The Express: "The release of these real-life X-Files shows that the UFO mystery lives on and that there's still huge interest in this fascinating topic. These files will give people a revealing insight into this bizarre and intriguing aspect of Ministry of Defence business.
"Sadly, there's no 'smoking gun' in these files that will prove we've been visited by extra-terrestrials, but there are plenty of intriguing UFO reports, as well as policy papers explaining how the MoD handled this subject.
"The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the 'good stuff' is being held back.
"Furthermore, the fact that some files haven't been digitised, can't be downloaded, and can only be viewed in person at the National Archives will doubtless also generate conspiracy theories.
"After this, there are only three more UFO files still to be released."
Pope said these should be made public "later this year."
This week (26 June), The Sun newspaper, which has seemingly sent a reporter to analyse the archived documents, reported they reveal how a UFO was spotted on a military radar for hours over the Skegness coast in 1996 – with a RAF reportedly being told not to investigate further.
Will the MoD files reveal more information about UFOs?iStock
The referenced document, which does not reveal an author's name, contains snippets of news from the time – one story titled "UFOS expose 9-5 defence danger".
It allegedly included eyewitness accounts from police, claiming to have viewed "flashing red, blue and white lights" in the sky.
The news comes after a chief scientist at Nasa was forced to refute claims from Anonymous, the loose collective of hackers, which said the agency was on the cusp of revealing alien life.
"Contrary to some reports, there's no pending announcement from Nasa regarding extra-terrestrial life," wrote Nasa's Thomas Zurbuchen on Twitter.
He added: "Are we alone in the universe? While we do not know yet, we have missions moving forward that may help answer that fundamental question."
Nick Pope has long investigated claims of extra-terrestrials and UFOs, but has consistently denied his own life follows the tropes put forward by science fiction movies.
"How do the MoD's real-life Mulders and Scullys compare to their fictional counterparts? Having done the job myself, from 1991 to 1994, I'm sorry to have to report that it's not quite as glamorous as people might suspect," he wrote in the Guardian back in February 2010.
"There's no running around dark warehouses with guns and torches. It's more a case of asking colleagues in the RAF to check the radar tapes and writing polite letters back to members of the public, stating that most UFOs turn out to be misidentifications of ordinary objects."
It seems that, for now at least, the truth is still out there.
The Missing Link: Where Are Medium-Size Black Holes?
The Missing Link: Where Are Medium-Size Black Holes?
By Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor
While black holes with masses of a few suns and ones with masses of millions of suns exist, scientists have been puzzled to see few with masses in between those two extremes. New work may suggest a reason why.
Credit: Ute Kraus/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
For decades, while astronomers have detected black holes equal in mass either to a few suns or millions of suns, the missing-link black holes in between have eluded discovery. Now, a new study suggests such intermediate-mass black holes may not exist in the modern-day universe because of the rate at which black holes grow.
Scientists think stellar-mass black holes — up to a few times the sun's mass — form when giant stars die and collapse in on themselves. Over the years, astronomers have detected a number of stellar-mass black holes in the nearby universe, and in 2010, researchers detected the first such black hole outside the local cluster of nearby galaxies known as the Local Group.
As big as stellar-mass black holes might seem, they are tiny in comparison to the so-called supermassive black holes that are millions to billions of times the sun's mass, which form the hearts of most, if not all, large galaxies. The oldest supermassive black holes found to date include one found in 2015 — with a mass of about 12 billion solar masses — that existed when the universe was only about 875 million years old. This finding and others suggest that many black holes were born in the dawn of time, back when the universe was smaller and matter was more concentrated, making it easier for them to form and grow. [No Escape: Dive into a Black Hole (Infographic)]
Much remains uncertain about how black holes reach supermassive girth and influence the universe around them. As such, astronomers want to analyze intermediate-mass black holes of about 100 to 10,000 solar masses that they expect would serve as the middle stages between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes.
However, while astronomers have discovered a number of potential intermediate-mass black holes, the evidence remains inconclusive, said astrophysicists Tal Alexander at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and Ben Bar-Or at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Now these researchers suggest the dearth of these missing links may be due to the rate at which black holes may grow. They detailed their findings online June 19 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
In recent years, scientists have discovered a dozen or so instances of black holes devouring stars. If black holes grew solely by consuming stars and dense, compact objects such as white dwarfs and neutrons stars instead of, say, giant clouds of gas or dark matter, the researchers estimated that black holes would still grow at the relatively constant rate of one solar mass per 10,000 years. (If they could eat gas or dark matter, they could grow even faster, but the data regarding such materials in the early universe is more open to question.)
Although one solar mass per 10,000 years may not seem especially quick, it means that even a stellar-mass black hole could grow completely past the intermediate-mass stage after 10 billion years. In comparison, the universe is about 13.8 billion years old.
These findings suggest that the seeds for supermassive black holes "were created quite early on in galaxies, when things were more dense," Bar-Or told Space.com. These seeds already exceeded intermediate-mass stage by about 1.6 billion to 2.2 billion years after the Big Bang — "some or even most of the black holes may have passed the supermassive-black-hole mass threshold even earlier," Alexander told Space.com.
Although the researchers said that intermediate-mass black holes may exist in the present day in dense areas such as globular clusters of stars, they remain difficult to identify because the light produced by objects falling into them is "not spectacular, and there are other objects that can produce it," Alexander said.
Instead, "the ultimate way of finding and identifying intermediate-mass black holes is not by the emission of light, but by the emission of gravitational waves," Alexander said. Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric space and time, and the Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (ELISA) mission currently planned for 2034 could detect gravitational waves generated "when two intermediate-mass black holes coalesce together, Alexander said.
At last, it looks like the future is finally here: the Cold War has officially made its way into space. Over the last few years, the world’s military superpowers have been bolstering their space combat capabilities, mainly centered around so-called “killer” satellites which have the ability to take out or commandeer enemy spacecraft. The threat of some new form of space combat is looming close enough for the U.S. military to create a new space command position, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Space Operations. Not to be outdone by its western rival, Russia just this week launched a mysterious new satellite believed to be part of the growing arms race in space.
The launch was broadcast by Russia state news agencies.
According to RussianSpaceWeb.com, the satellite launched on June 23rd after a series of scrubbed attempts. The launch site was the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia’s icy northwest near its border with Finland. A Soyuz-2-1v rocket carried the satellite over the Arctic and Canada, dropping its boosters into the Barents Sea along the way before entering a tight orbit around the north pole. Put this launch alongside other strange developments in the Arctic recently, and it’s becoming clear that the north pole could be the next big front in the new Cold War that’s brewing.
The launch site and trajectory of the secret satellite.
Russia’s state-owned Tass news agency reported the launchbut kept the satellite’s purpose out of their reporting, noting only that the satellite, named Napryazhenie (“voltage”) is a Russian defense ministry satellite. Aerospace watchdog blogs believe the satellite is likely an instrument used to take geodetic measurements, which are a way of measuring the size and shape of Earth.
Why would Russia’s defense ministry be interested in charting the dimensions of the Earth, you ask? Why, to plot trajectories for intercontinental ballistic missiles, of course. What other purpose does technology serve other than to realize our mutually-assured destruction?
For what is perhaps the most shocking example of the way in which human beings were utilized for radiation-related experiments at the height of the Cold War, we have to focus our attention on something called Project Sunshine. There was nothing bright and sunny about this program, however. The history and activities of Project Sunshine collectively serve as perfect examples (and perhaps far more importantly as officially documented examples) of the way in which human beings and bodies were utilized in Cold War radiation and biological tests. In the 1990s, the U.S. Government’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments looked into a whole range of Department of Energy-related scandals involving the use of human beings in radiation tests from the 1940s to the 1970s. The result: the surfacing of the Sunshine files. Or, at least, the surfacing of some of them.
One particular memorandum, dated June 9, 1995, and prepared by ACHRE’s Advisory Committee Staff, is titled “Documentary Update on Project Sunshine Body Snatching” and states: “As part of Project Sunshine, which sought to measure strontium-90, the AEC [Atomic Energy Commission] engaged in an effort to collect baby bones from domestic and foreign sources…the project involved the use of a cover story (those without clearance being told that the skeleton collection would be used to study naturally occurring radiation, and not that from fallout). Key participants in Project Sunshine at its onset included the AEC’s Division of Biology and Medicine (DBM), its Director John Bugher, Columbia University’s Dr. J. Laurence Kulp, and the University of Chicago’s Dr. Willard Libby (who became an AEC Commissioner).”
The memorandum then refers to Dr. Willard Libby and his work in more detail. A 1955 transcript classified as “Secret” (located in the classified materials at the National Archives and declassified at the Committee’s request), sheds more light on the role of tissue sampling in Project Sunshine. The transcript shows that, from the early to mid-1950s, considerable thought had been devoted to the best ways to establish channels to procure “human samples,” and the impact of secrecy on the effort. AEC Commissioner Willard Libby, who was a primary proponent of Project Sunshine, explained the great value of “body snatching,” and noted that the AEC had even employed an “expensive law firm” to “look up the law of body snatching.”
The meeting was then turned over to Dr. Libby, who was by now an AEC Commissioner. Dr. Libby began by stating that there was no effort more important to the AEC than Sunshine. However, he said that “…there are great gaps in the data.” He elaborated: “By far the most important [gap] is human samples. We have been reduced to essentially zero level on the human samples. I don’t know how to get them but I do say that it is a matter of prime importance to get them and particularly in the young age group.”
The supply of stillborns had evidently been shut off: “We were fortunate, as you know to obtain a large number of stillborns as material. This supply, however, has now been cut off also, and shows no signs, I think, of being rejuvenated.” Therefore, Libby told the audience, expertise in body snatching would be highly valued: “So human samples are of prime importance and if anybody knows how to do a good job of body snatching, they will really be serving their country.”
Some people reading this, no doubt, will scarcely believe that these latter words were said in all seriousness, and soberly recorded, within official files. As noted, Libby recalled that when Project Sunshine was created in 1953, a law firm was hired to study this problem. He added: “I don’t know how to snatch bodies. In the original study on the Sunshine at Rand in the summer of 1953, we hired an expensive law firm to look up the law of body snatching. This compendium is available to you. It is not very encouraging. It shows you how very difficult it is going to be to do legally.”
The conference attendees discussed the need for a wide enough variety of samples to cover age ranges and potential variations among body parts. Dr. Kulp, from Columbia, explained that there were certain “channels” available: “We have the channels in these places where we are getting everything. We have three or four other leads where we could get complete age range samples from different other geographic localities. These three are Vancouver, Houston, and New York. We could easily get them from Puerto Rico and other places. We can get virtually everyone that dies in this range.”
There was also a discussion of the need to acquire what were termed “resources” from other countries. For example, a Colonel Maxwell, of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, suggested the military could provide some help in securing “specimens” from a native hospital in Formosa. In case you’re wondering, or you haven’t deduced, in the files the terms “resources” and “specimens” refer to people.
Many of the Project Sunshine files are missing – or suspected of being destroyed decades ago. But, what we do know is shocking enough on its own…
UPDATEIn een video op een YouTube-account dat wordt toegeschreven aan het hackerscollectief Anonymous wordt beweerd dat het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA op het punt staat bekend te maken dat het buitenaards leven heeft ontdekt. Maar trekken de makers van de video hier niet wat te snel conclusies? NASA heeft inmiddels gemeld dat er geen nieuw bewijs is gevonden van buitenaards leven. Dat stelt althans topman Thomas Zurbuchen, op wiens uitlatingen de video grotendeels is gebaseerd.
In de video wordt NASA-topman Thomas Zurbuchen geciteerd. Die zou al een en ander onthuld hebben tijdens een parlementaire hoorzitting in april over 'De vooruitgang in de zoektocht naar leven'. "We staan op het punt één van de meest diepgaande en ongeziene ontdekkingen in de geschiedenis van de mensheid te doen", zo luidt het. "Gezien alle inspanningen en missies die heel specifiek speuren naar bewijzen van buitenaards leven, staan we op het punt bewijzen van buitenaards leven in de kosmos te ontdekken," aldus Zurbuchen.
"In tegenstelling tot sommige berichten, staat er geen mededeling van NASA over buitenaards leven op stapel", laat Zurbuchen op Twitter weten. "Zijn we alleen in het universum? We weten het niet, maar we hebben missies in ontwikkeling die op deze fundamentele vraag een antwoord kunnen bieden".
De video van Anonymous stelt dat een aantal recente ontdekkingen, waaronder de aanwezigheid van waterstof op de maan van Saturnus en het bestaan van oceanen op één van Jupiters manen, optimisme rechtvaardigen inzake het vinden van buitenaards leven.
Anonymous heeft dus gelijk als het beweert dat NASA waarschijnlijk in de nabije toekomst buitenaards leven zal vinden, maar zeggen dat er al concreet bewijs voor is, is mogelijk toch een brug te ver.
Exoplaneten Vorige week kondigde NASA aan dat het 219 vermoedelijke planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel had ontdekt, waaronder 10 planeten met dezelfde eigenschappen als onze Aarde. Daarmee staat het aantal vermoedelijke exoplaneten die de Kepler ruimtetelescoop ontdekte op 4.034. Daarvan zijn er 50 met een omvang als die van de Aarde die bovendien in een bewoonbare zone liggen.
Anonymous verwijst ook naar de ontdekking van een sterrenstelsel vlakbij het onze dat zeven planeten zoals de Aarde zou kunnen omvatten en 'slechts' 39 lichtjaren verwijderd is.
Politieke overwinning
Hoewel Zurbuchen en zijn collega's bij NASA enthousiast zijn over de kans om buitenaards leven aan te treffen, hebben ze echter nooit beweerd daar ook effectief bewijs voor te hebben.
Als NASA bewijzen zou hebben voor het bestaan van buitenaards leven, is het overigens erg onwaarschijnlijk dat de betrokken instanties het voor zich zouden houden. De ontdekking zou immers een grote politieke overwinning zijn voor de Verenigde Staten, die in een ruimtewedloop met Rusland verwikkeld zijn.
Een Facebookaccount met de naam 'Anonymous Belgium' stelt dat het videobericht vals is.
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UFO hangt uren en uren boven kustplaats. Waarom mocht het leger niets doen?
UFO hangt uren en uren boven kustplaats. Waarom mocht het leger niets doen?
In 1996 is boven de Engelse kustplaats Skegness zeven uur lang een UFO zichtbaar geweest op de radar, zo blijkt uit een document dat is vrijgegeven door het Britse ministerie van Defensie.
De Britse luchtmacht werd ‘vanaf het hoogste niveau’ bevolen om de vreemde felle lichten te negeren, hoewel meerdere getuigen ze hadden gezien.
Uit de UFO-files van het ministerie blijkt dat op de ochtend van 5 oktober 1996 felle lichten werden gemeld, maar dat toenmalig minister van Defensie Michael Portillo niets deed, schrijft The Sun.
The RAF were 'overruled at the highest level' and told to ignore the strange lights - which flashed red, blue and white - despite the fact several witnesses also spotted it (stock image)
Geen idee
Een anonieme overheidsfunctionaris sprak tegenover het ministerie zijn bezorgdheid uit over de waarneming.
“De luchtmacht moet activiteit in Groot-Brittannië in de gaten houden, maar lijkt geen idee te hebben wat er allemaal gebeurt,” schreef de minister.
“Hebben ze hier standaardprocedures voor? Ze hebben genoeg tijd gehad om hierover na te denken, aangezien het object tot wel zeven uur op onze radar was te zien!” voegde hij toe.
Mysterie
De vreemde lichten haalden de voorpagina van veel kranten en waren in diverse tv-programma’s te zien.
Ook wijlen parlementslid Martin Redmond kaartte de kwestie aan bij het ministerie van Defensie.
“Hij meende dat de autoriteiten meer onderzoek hadden moeten doen en er misschien een straaljager op af hadden moeten sturen, zodat het mysterie in enkele minuten opgehelderd had kunnen zijn,” zei Nick Pope, die jarenlang het UFO-project van het ministerie leidde.
Verdwenen
“Volgens Redmond bleek hieruit dat er een fundamentele zwakke plek zat in de Britse luchtdefensie,” vervolgde hij.
Het parlementslid schreef in een brief dat een politievideo van de lichten op mysterieuze wijze was verdwenen.
Het document over de UFO boven Skegness, dat jarenlang geheim is gebleven, is afgelopen week vrijgegeven door de overheid.
Gigantisch grote hiërogliefen gevonden. Archeologen zijn compleet in shock door deze vondst
Gigantisch grote hiërogliefen gevonden. Archeologen zijn compleet in shock door deze vondst
Archeologen hebben in de Oud-Egyptische stad Elkab onbekende rotsinscripties gevonden. Het gaat om de oudste monumentale hiërogliefen die ooit zijn gevonden.
De inscripties zijn tijdens eerdere expedities niet ontdekt en zijn van groot belang, aldus egyptoloog John Coleman Darnell van de Yale-universiteit.
De onderzoekers stuitten ook op rotstekeningen van een kudde olifanten. Eén van de olifanten had een kleine olifant in zich.
Halve meter
Professor Darnell zei dat het team ‘stomverbaasd’ was over de enorme omvang van de inscripties. “Het is voor het eerst dat iemand zulke hiërogliefen op zo’n enorme schaal heeft gezien,” zei hij.
“De individuele hiërogliefen zijn een halve meter hoog,” voegde hij toe. “Eerder gevonden tekens waren niet groter dan één of twee centimeter.”
Het is alsof je eerst kleine lettertjes op je computerscherm leest en vervolgens enorme letters ziet zoals op een reclamebord, aldus Darnell.
Wegennetwerken
Het team stuitte op de rotsinscripties door routes gebaseerd op wegennetwerken in Egypte uit te stippelen.
De meeste rotsinscripties worden gevonden langs belangrijke wegen bij de Nijl of wegen die richting de woestijn lopen.
Compleet geschokt
De archeologen maakten een aantal 3D-beelden van de inscripties op basis van foto’s die op locatie waren gemaakt. Zodoende konden ze in ongekend detail worden bestudeerd.
“Dit was niet wat ik verwachtte toen ik de expeditie begon,” besloot Darnell. “Ik ben compleet geschokt.”
Er komen steeds meer verhalen van mensen die ronde witte of gekleurde lichten waarnemen boven hun woning; lichten die bovendien regelmatig terugkeren.
Een lezer die ook deze lichten boven zijn huis heeft, zegt het volgende "Sorry maar het laat me niet los, er gaat iets gigantisch gebeuren".
Op een bepaalde manier zijn alle zaken met elkaar verbonden en de kunst is om deze verbanden te ontdekken, waardoor ineens hele interessante mogelijkheden ontstaan.
Hierna wat een lezer ons stuurde (dank!):
Sorry maar het laat me niet los ,er gaat iets gigantisch gebeuren.
Staat er ook niet in de bijbel geschreven dat er tekenen in ZON ,maan en sterren te zien zouden zijn als het einde nabij was? Is dit zo'n teken?
Wisten de elite/cabal er al langer van en bouwden ze daarom die ondergrondse steden voor zichzelf?
Waardoor wordt dit veroorzaakt..maar ook wat zijn die 2 zonnen die gezien worden , men spreekt over een nepzon. Waarom zijn er nu zo ontzettend veel ruimteschepen die de aarde aan het bekijken zijn?
Weten ook zij wat er staat te gebeuren ..een vurig gebeuren wellicht?
Ik heb (voorspellende?) dromen gehad van een aarde die verschroeid was maar er waren mensen van tevoren weg gehaald door ruimteschepen waaronder ikzelf.
Ook heb ik al een paar keer vreemde lichten(seinen?) gezien recht boven mijn huis de laatste keer. Een paar dagen geleden omdat ik het vroeg ,soms in gedachten, nu hardop.
Dan was er een kort fel opvlammen van een licht. Ik heb in de loop der jaren wel meer gezien maar juist die lichten vind ik apart.
Wat is er gaande .. Ik ben doorgaans heel nuchter en heb meestal zoiets van we kunnen er toch niets aan veranderen dus gewoon doorgaan met leven en het beste hopen, maar ik voel steeds meer onrust, niet ongerust maar onrustig.
Als donderslag bij heldere hemel komt bij me op.
Er is zoveel gaande op het moment aan de ene kant natuurlijk de false flags en tegelijkertijd de berichten over een CGR Global currency reset met Disclosure over alles wat er tot nu toe onder de pet is gehouden door regeringen , maar ook pedogate etc Net of alles in een snelkookpan zit en het deksel er straks afknalt met als toetje een sunflare?
We leven in super spannende tijden, hier is al lang geleden veel over geschreven en geprofeteerd en we zitten en nu middenin . Aan de ene kant denk ik Oh my God hell is going to break loose... maar aan de andere kant ..wel heel bijzonder dat we dit mogen meemaken we zitten eerste rang
Groetjes en complimenten voor jullie site het is één van de eerste dingen die ik aanzet zodra ik 's ochtends opsta.
Tot zover het bericht van deze lezer.
In het bovenstaande vertelt de lezer over lichten die boven zijn huis verschenen. En dat dat iets is wat eigenlijk door niemand misschien nog bewust is opgemerkt, maar wel de laatste tijd vrij veel voor komt.
Zoals bij het Engelse gezin uit Yorkshire dat zegt dat er een witte UFO is die hen in de gaten houdt en regelmatig terugkeert.
Leven wij in de eindtijd en zijn de vreemde lichten boodschappers die bepaalde mensen waarschuwen om zich voor te bereiden op misschien wel de mooiste reis van hun leven?
Nog even terug naar wat de lezer schrijft:
Ik heb (voorspellende?) dromen gehad van een aarde die verschroeid was maar er waren mensen van tevoren weggehaald door ruimteschepen waaronder ikzelf.
We zullen dit verschijnsel nauwlettend blijven volgen en uiteraard zijn wij heel geïnteresseerd in meldingen van lezers die misschien ook regelmatig vreemde lichten bij of boven hun huis waarnemen.
ER WERKEN ENORME KRACHTEN IN OP ONZE AARDE ( VIDEO )
ER WERKEN ENORME KRACHTEN IN OP ONZE AARDE ( VIDEO )
Nog steeds heeft het grootste deel van de mensheid geen flauw idee wat er om hen heen eigenlijk allemaal gebeurt.
Misschien ook niet zo vreemd, want ze worden permanent afgeleid door “belangrijk nieuws”, terwijl chemtrails de lucht voor ons verborgen houden.
Wanneer de voortekenen ons niet bedriegen en er is inderdaad een mini zonnestelsel dat voor de nodige verstoringen op aarde gaat zorgen, dan is het misschien zaak om de nodige voorbereidingen te treffen.
En dus, wat wij nu krijgen, zijn berichten zoals de volgende waarin ons dit keer wordt verweten dat wij de mensen niet voldoende helpen met voorbereiden op de komende turbulente tijden.
Het zou bv dhr. Poorterman, de redactie van Nibiru, sieren een keer niet eens te herhalen van wat we al weten, maar ons te helpen. Door artikelen te plaatsen die misschien kunnen bijdragen aan het overleven van dit mini zonnestelsel.
De lezer die bovenstaande stuurt is iemand die al 25 jaar de ontwikkelingen van dit zonnestelsel volgt en voor hem zijn de berichten die wij plaatsen misschien voor een deel herhaling.
Voor de meeste lezers die geen doorgewinterde specialisten zijn in deze materie en uiteraard de vele nieuwe lezers is dat zeker niet het geval en zij zijn wel degelijk gebaat bij informatie.
Wij zien als onze primaire taak het brengen van nieuws, waarvan berichten over dit mini stelsel een onderdeel zijn.
Daarnaast hebben wij in de loop der jaren wel degelijk geschreven over mogelijke dingen die mensen wellicht zelf zouden kunnen doen, zoals blijkt uit het volgende uit een eerder artikel:
Masters zegt dat een ondergrondse schuilplaats niet altijd de beste is. De reden is dat dit misschien toch niet zo veilig is vanwege de vele aardbevingen en sinkholes die zich voor zullen doen.
Hij adviseert het bouwen van wat hij een “gelaagde sandwich” noemt. Een schuilplaats aan het oppervlak die bestaat uit een combinatie van modder en basaltblokken die kunnen beschermen tegen straling en EMP. Daarnaast adviseert hij minstens 200 tot 250 kilometer van de dichtstbijzijnde kust verwijderd te zijn en minstens op 200 kilometer afstand van de dichtstbijzijnde kerncentrale.
Masters biedt een gratis E-book aan wat mensen kunnen downloaden met allerlei tips over hoe de komende tijden van rampspoed te overleven.
Mensen die zich bezig willen houden met preppen en gelijksoortige zaken, raden wij aan om ook nog eens een aantal artikelen van Evert Jan Poorterman te lezen op deze website, zoals deze.
Onze mogelijkheden en tijd zijn beperkt, dus zullen wij ons blijven richten op het brengen van nieuws zoals zich dat voor doet.
En dat brengen van nieuws wordt steeds kritischer want er gebeuren nu echt veel dingen op aarde die vaak worden ondergesneeuwd door andere “belangrijke” berichten of misschien wel bewuste afleidingen.
Over afleiding gesproken: De volgende video is enkele dagen geleden genomen uit de cockpit van een Boeing 747 en laat een tegemoetkomend vliegtuig zien.
Dit zijn de chemtrails die in de lucht worden gesproeid en dit is één van de belangrijkste redenen dat mensen nog nauwelijks een heldere lucht te zien krijgen en dus ook geen “vreemde dingen” kunnen ontdekken.
Bijna iedere week komen er wel ergens nieuwe berichten in de mainstream media die wijzen op grote veranderingen op aarde en situaties die tot nu toe eigenlijk niet of nauwelijks voorkwamen.
Zo hebben we nu al vroeg in het jaar in veel gebieden te maken met een record hitte en hittegolven.
Op het vliegveld van Phoenix in de Amerikaanse staat Arizona kunnen door de hitte geen vliegtuigen opstijgen. Zo’n veertig vluchten zijn geannuleerd.
Tot 48 graden kunnen kleinere vliegtuigen opstijgen. Aangezien de temperatuur nog hoger dan dat is, is het niet veilig voor vliegtuigen om te vertrekken.
Dit heeft alles met de weerstand te maken en om veilig te kunnen vliegen, moet er een bepaalde luchtdichtheid zijn die minder wordt naarmate de temperatuur stijgt.
Eveneens op het noordelijk halfrond waar het dus zomer is, valt er sneeuw in de Russische stad Moermansk. De volgende beelden zijn in die stad gemaakt op 20 juni 2017.
Ongeveer een week geleden doet zich een op zich kleine aardbeving van 4.1 op de schaal van Richter voor in Groenland.
De kust van Groenland is getroffen door tsunamigolven. De Deense Seismologische Dienst GEUS meldt dat er een aardbeving was van 4.1. De politie heeft het dorpje Nuugaatsiaq met zo'n 100 inwoners geëvacueerd. Vermoedelijk is de beving een gevolg van het afbreken van een ijsschots.
De volgende video geeft een goed beeld van wat daar gebeurde:
We hebben eerder al geschreven over het NASA vliegtuig dat wordt aangeduid als Sofia en beschikt over een infrarode telescoop. Dit vliegtuig is nu ingezet om het gebied van de beroemde Yellowstone vulkaan te observeren.
Onlangs werden in het Yellowstone gebied maar liefst 296 aardbevingen geregistreerd in een tijdsbestek van zeven dagen. Niet een erg geruststellende gedachte wanneer dit gebeurt bovenop een supervulkaan die wanneer deze uitbarst, voor een soort nieuwe mini ijstijd zou kunnen zorgen op het noordelijk halfrond.
Iets dat heel veel mensen opvalt, is dat de dagen langer schijnen te worden, zelfs gecorrigeerd me zomertijd. Op sommige plekken wordt het helemaal niet meer donker, zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding uit Schotland.
Enorme scheuren in de grond en mensen in Afrika die moeten schuilen voor hagelstenen zo groot als golfballen zijn zo langzamerhand dagelijkse gebeurtenissen geworden.
Onze wereld verandert snel en nog is een heel groot deel van de wereld volkomen onwetend over hoe groot de krachten zijn die nu op onze aarde inwerken.
En dan iets waar we vaker over schrijven en dat is gewone mensen die onderweg in de auto bijvoorbeeld vreemde dingen in de lucht waarnemen.
Voor een aantal van die dingen zal misschien een "logische" verklaring zijn, voor anderen weer niet.
De volgende opname is gemaakt in het Amerikaanse Texas op 17 juni 2017. De beelden spreken voor zich, misschien is het een soort optische illusie, maar als je de beelden ziet, dan zou je denken dat daar een enorme grote rode planeet in de lucht hangt.
Strange spherical shape-like sky phenomenon filmed over Texas
Strange spherical shape-like sky phenomenon filmed over Texas
The following video clip shows a strange phenomenon in the sky over Texas filmed on June 17, 2017.
There is much discussion on what the orange/red spherical shape could be and although the people involved in the clip were convinced it was Niburu, the phenomenon is absolutely not the infamous planet Nibiru or planet X.
It is hard to say what it is but since it is raining in the clip it could be a double rainbow or a sun dog? Or the phenomenon is the end effect of heavily spraying in the skies over Texas?
Check out the video clip so you can decide for yourself if it is a natural sky phenomenon or something else.
THESE 6 UNEXPLAINABLE PHOTOS TAKEN BY NASA WILL FREAK YOU OUT
THESE 6 UNEXPLAINABLE PHOTOS TAKEN BY NASA WILL FREAK YOU OUT
NASA along with other space agencies have taken many photographs of the Moon and captured what are seemingly strange alien structures on the surface to UFOs. The images cannot be explained and ufologists have jumped on them believing that there really is something out there that just cannot be explained.
MOON CONTAINS PROCESSED LUNAR ROCKS
The moon of Earth is simply called the Moon; it has not been given any fancy name, unlike the other moons which are in the solar system. However, it is one of the most mysterious of all and it has been the companion of Earth since time immemorial. All of the other moons which are in the solar system have planets that orbit around the equator, but the moon of Earth does not do this. It also had lunar rocks that contain metals that have been processed and they include Neptunium 237, Brass and Uranium 236.
The majority of what we know about the Moon is thanks to the Apollo missions from NASA. The missions of the Apollo program had been designed to put human beings on the Moon and then bring them back safely to Earth. The Apollo missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 all managed to do this successfully, with 7 and 9 orbiting the Earth for the testing of the Lunar Modules and Command Modules but did not bring back data about the Moon. Apollo missions 8 and 10 were to test components when orbiting around the Moon and they brought back photographs of the lunar surface. Apollo 13 did not land on the surface of the Moon due to a malfunction but it brought back photographs. However, the six successful missions to landing on the Moon did bring back a great deal of data that was scientific along with lunar samples weighing in at 400 kilograms.
NASA TRIPS TO MOON CAPTURED MANY UNEXPLAINED OBJECTS
During the trips to the Moon, many photographs along with a video that cannot be explained have been captured. Skeptics have of course dismissed them and said they could not be of alien origin, but the many NASA images have created something of a stir in ufology.
1. 1972 PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING A HUGE ELECTRIC DISCHARGE
A photograph was captured in 1972 which has been among the most fascinating to come back from the Moon. The photo seems to show a huge and powerful electric discharge coming from close to the Stein Crater, which is on the far side of the Moon.
Some people have said that the electrical discharge happened due to the secret underground bases which was hidden on the far side, but others have pointed out that the discharge on the Moon is similar to lightning sprites that are also seen in the upper atmosphere of Earth when there is a powerful thunderstorm.
2. HUGE FIGURE CAPTURED WALKING ON MOON
One of the photographs that have surprised most people was taken of the surface of the Moon and made available when Google launched software allowing users to search the Moon and explore it. It was not long before some people said they had seen a large figure walking on the Moon’s surface.
No one has really been able to explain just what the figure is but NASA did give out their version and they said that it was nothing more than some dirt that was on the lens of the camera lens of the Lunar Missions.
3. GIANT PIZZA CUT STRUCTURE ON SURFACE OF MOON
A photograph from NASA that has been among the most fascinating is that of a huge structure captured on the surface of the Moon and it looks very much like a pizza cut. UFO hunters have said that the shape of the object seems to be tri-dimensional and it could be a base on the surface or a giant alien spacecraft. What is interesting is that the black and white photograph that was captured by a 70mm camera has been the only one to survive from the Apollo 8 mission that actually shows the object.
4. SOVIET LUNAR EXPLORER COMES ACROSS ALIEN TECHNOLOGY
Photographs that were taken by the Luna Space Probes from the Soviet Union are said to reveal what many think is the ultimate proof that aliens could be on the Moon. The images were shown on the internet and seem to show some objects that are odd looking on the surface. The artifacts do not seem to have been formed naturally and they are not part of the Russian Space Probes.
Just what they are has remained a mystery that is profound, which no one has been able to explain.
5. FLYING SAUCER CAPTURED ON PHOTOGRAPH DURING APOLLO 16 MISSION
A photograph that was taken by astronauts during the ascent from the surface of the Moon in 1972 shows one of the most incredible photos of a UFO to have been captured. Astronauts managed to capture what is said to be a big UFO that is disk shaped.
The UFO is seen for about four seconds and captured on 16mm film in a total of 50 frames. The object was saucer shaped and it had a dome on the top of it, like the UFO that is typical. NASA went on to say that the UFO could have been a flood light that was on the Apollo 16 lander but there are many ufologists that have not been convinced.
6. NASA ALLEGEDLY NUKE MOON BASE
The mission was said to be scientific but a photograph that was seen on a NASA employees desk started to raise suspicion that the rocket had actually been targeting structures that were inside the Cabeus crater. Where the missile hit in the crater artificial structures were seen and many ufologists have said that NASA sent the mission out to destroy an alien base on the Moon.
40 YEARS AGO WE RECEIVED THE WOW SIGNAL - DID ALIENS REACH OUT TO US?
40 YEARS AGO WE RECEIVED THE WOW SIGNAL - DID ALIENS REACH OUT TO US?
On the 15th of August this year, 40 years have passed since the Ohio State University received a strong narrowband radio signal that was picked up by their "Big Ear" radio telescope.
It was astronomer Jerry R. Ehman that made the discovery while he was reviewing the recorded data. In a state of excitement, he wrote WOW on the printout, giving the signal, it's widely used name. After analysis, it was concluded that the signal originated from the Sagittarius constellation and scientists all over the world wanted to get their hands on the alien signal.
The mysterious signal sequence ended after 72 seconds, and it was never detected again.
To this day, scientists are in the dark about the real origin of the signal. Some researchers think that the signal had a natural origin, but they have not been able to a similar signal.
This only fuels the belief of the researchers that claim that this signal was actually a highly advanced alien civilization that reached out to us. If so, let's hope it was a friend request and not a thumbs down.
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Britain’s 15 page X-Files quietly released by the Ministry of Defence
Britain’s 15 page X-Files quietly released by the Ministry of Defence
AN OFFICIAL government UFO dossier of 15 files has been released by the Ministry of Defence and gives details of mysterious incidents in British skies.
Margi Murphy
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The Rendlesham Forest incident is Britain’s most famous UFO sighting.
AN OFFICIAL government UFO dossier that’s referred to as “Britain’s X-Files” has finally been released.
The National Archive has opened up a cache of 15 files from the Ministry of Defence that divulge details of mysterious incidents in British skies, reports The Sun.
They include material relating to an unsolved encounter that’s been likened to the Roswell UFO incident in America.
The incident took place in December 1980, when three military personnel claimed to see flashing bright lights and a triangular shaped object near an RAF base in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk.
A copy of the United States Air Force report on the sighting of a UFO near bases at RAF Woodbridge RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk.
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An investigation was opened but the mystery remains unsolved.
But alien hunters will have to wait a little longer to find out the truth, thanks to the process that’s been put in place to read these newly released files.
They have not been digitised, so enthusiasts must join a queue to inspect the paper records at the National Archive’s reading room in Kew, West London.
Further to this, there are an additional three files which have still not been released, according to Nick Pope, a former civil servant who worked for the MoD.
Mr Pope, who ran the defence ministry’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994 said: “The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the ‘good stuff’ is being held back.
The sighting took place in the Rendlesham forest.
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“Furthermore, the fact that some files haven’t been digitised, can’t be downloaded, and can only be viewed in person at the National Archives will doubtless also generate conspiracy theories.
“After this, there are only three more UFO files still to be released, and they should be made public later this year, so there’s still more to come.
“This is a good day for open government and for freedom of information.”
Last year, an American airman involved in the incident won a legal bid to force military health chiefs to pay for the treatment of injuries he claimed to have sustained at Rendlesham Forest.
“In citing the [MoD radiation documents] and in granting John Burroughs full disability for his injuries in Rendlesham Forest, the US Government has by de facto acknowledged the existence of unidentified aerial phenomena which, in John Burroughs’ case, resulted in physical injury,” his lawyer Pat Frascogna said.
UFO trail sign at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England
Picture: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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BRITAIN’S MOST FAMOUS UFO SIGHTING
The Rendlesham Forest incident took place in December 1980 over several nights.
On December 26, 1980, military personnel at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk saw a strange light in Rendlesham Forest, which lies between the two bases.
Three men were sent out to investigate and two of them encountered a small, triangular-shaped craft.
One man, 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.
“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,” he said.
Despite an MOD investigation, the Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained.
Former medic Dr Steven Greer, a leading figure in the alien disclosure movement, claims to have contacts on the inside who are trying to work out how to leak the truth without putting themselves in danger.
Alien conspiracy theorists claim that a so-called "truth embargo" has been in place since the 1940s after aliens crash landed on Earth and the evidence was squirrelled away by the US Government amid fears the impact of knowing "we are not alone" would have on religion and the rule of law.
Dr Greer claims the truth is so top-secret that sub groups within government would not even confirm it to the president.
He goes one step further and alleges it is a military-industrialist cabal of semi-public/semi-private interests and has access to technology reverse-engineered from alleged crashed UFOs.
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Dr Steven Greer makes an outlandish claim in his documentary unacknowledged
He told the Toronto Star: "One of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing is that there are people within the intelligence community who don’t know how to get themselves out of that hole and yet they’re very supportive of disclosure, and they’ve told me this.
“If you read between the lines of what I just said, what I’m saying to you — and you’re welcome to print this — is that there are some very powerful interests who realise that they are stuck in this black hole and they don’t know how to get out of it because it would create a scandal thousands of times worse than Watergate or Russia-gate or whatever the latest scandal is that the Washington Post and the New York Times and perhaps your paper are obsessing on.”
So how does Dr Greer justify such outlandish claims?
He added: “Look, we stampeded into Iraq after 9/11 without there being a scintilla of evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 and we know now that that was completely a hoax.
One of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing is that there are people within the intelligence community who don’t know how to get themselves out of that hole and yet they’re very supportive of disclosure, and they’ve told me this.
Dr Steven Greer
“So the question becomes how easy is it for the intelligence community using their mouthpieces in the media to put out a scenario that would scare the hell out of people so that people would give up their liberties and their finances and what have you — their blood and treasure — to stampede into the next big thing, which has been planned for 60 years and that is a conflict between humans and other planetary societies.
“Now, it’s completely nonsensical. It’s as nonsensical as going into Iraq was, but we did go into Iraq and there are hundreds of thousands of people dead as a result and now Syria has blown apart. So there are consequences to this.
“The majority of people already believe there is intelligent life out there and the last poll I saw said that 43 percent of Americans think we’re currently being visited.
"More than half the public all over the world believes that UFOs are real and that governments are hiding something. So that battle has been won, but the larger argument has to still be engaged."
Dr Greer spoke to the paper about his new film Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the Greatest Secret in Human History, ahead of its Toronto premier.
Looking at the alleged cover up over the years, it is directed by Michael Mazzola and narrated by Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito.
Dr Greer got $700,000 (£543,000) through crowd funding to make it happen, and it looks at his work with The Disclosure Project, set up to try to lift an alleged "truth embargo" on the existence of aliens.
He said: "And that’s why we made this film, in part, to expose what the secret agenda has been and the disinformation campaigns.”
Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson said he does not think we are alone in the universe.
He appeared on C-SPAN’s In Depth to explain how the chemistry of life means it is very unlikely that life could have only evolved on Earth.
He said, “It is not likely we are alone in the universe. If you look at how common the ingredients of life are.
"Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon - we are made of this stuff, it is the foundation of organic chemistry.
"We are carbon based life - this stuff is everywhere we look in the universe.
"Whatever happened on Earth, it’s not likely to be rare or unique. Because carbon chemistry, on which life is based, is the most fertile kind of chemistry there is. And carbon is abundant across the universe.
"The universe has been around 14 billion years - that is plenty of time to evolve all manner of creatures out there, esp microorganisms."
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Neil DeGrasse-Tyson has talked about the UFO phenomenon.
But, when it comes to aliens visiting Earth in UFOs he is less convinced.
He said: "Have we been visited? That is a different question to ascertaining if life exists
In comments that will shock and anger many in the UFO community, he blasted ufology and said there was not a shred of evidence to support claims of alien visitations.
He said: “What the UFO community puts forth as evidence is weak on a level that, in any scientific circle, would be kicked out of the lab room.”
He said an eye witness testimony of seeing something was not enough, particularly if it was just something unidentified - it was a huge jump to then say it was an alien craft.
He said: "I am not saying didn't see it - I'm simply saying you cannot present that as evidence for something you want all of us to believe. I need better data.
"And as your claim gets more and more extraordinary, the less confidence I have.
"Now you have taken a picture of something you don't understand - it is better than eyes, so what is it - it's unidentified - that is what the U stands for - we don't know what it is, it's a mystery."
He said people were seeing things they didn't understand that were often circular-shaped lenticular or orographic clouds, but wanted to believe they were a "UFO mothership."
He said: "If you are susceptible to wanting this to be true, then that is the mothership."
He even dismissed what, for years ufologists have said to be the smoking gun for alien life - testimonies from military pilots and officials to seeing UFOs.
He said: "I don't care if you are a military pilot, you are still human and no less susceptible.
"I would love to meet some aliens, but have such low confidence in your claims.
"The day you find an alien - ideally, in fact, bring the alien and you are good to go."
Mr deGrasse Tyson also dismissed the claims from a growing number of people who give accounts of being abducted by aliens - with no video footage or other evidence.
He said: "Where are the people on YouTube - the postings of people's footage inside a flying saucer, shaking hands with the aliens?
"If you have been abducted by aliens get some video footage, and get other people to get some video footage.
"Grab something off the shelf - say look what I've stolen - take it to the lab to see if it is alien manufactured - we are still waiting for that to happen."
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NASA snaps something 'artificial' on Mars begging the question who or what put it there
NASA snaps something 'artificial' on Mars begging the question who or what put it there
A CRYSTAL clear image taken on Mars by the NASA Curiosity Rover appears to show something artificially-made on the Red Planet, it has been claimed in a furious online debate.
The high-definition image shows the rocky landscape of Mars, with ripples etched in the surface by the wind.
But right in the middle of the photo is an object that looks completely different.
According to viewers, the object has a smooth, possibly metallic, exterior, with some saying it appears to have lights.
Some UFO enthusiasts have even jumped on the image, claiming it is an alien spacecraft, and possible proof of intelligent alien life, reports the Daily Star.
There have been countless other rover pictures put forward by alien chasers amid claims they show ruins, fossils, or even live creatures on Mars, but most have appeared to be just odd-shaped rocks.
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The object which looks strikingly out of place on Mars.
Looks like light glimmering off of a genuine spaceship on an alien planet in outer space.
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“Love how skeptical the mods are. You could have aliens waving hi through the windshield and it would be flagged as a likely prosaic.”
However, another more level-headed user suggested it could be debris from the Rover’s landing craft.
User OnceReturned said: “Apparently the Rover was near its own entry debris on that date and was photographing it.”
They added: “The object certainly appears to be artificial. We know that the Rover was taking pictures of its own entry debris at that time.
“There's nothing particularly alien about the object in question – it could easily be entry debris, at least in my opinion.
“Sure, it could be the smoking gun, but I think that given the context provided by the timestamped image above, it seems that entry debris would be the most parsimonious explanation.
“It's a great find though. It certainly captured my interest.”
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Voor de zesde keer een meteoriet ontdekt in Nederland
Voor de zesde keer een meteoriet ontdekt in Nederland
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De meteoriet landde in januari op een schuurtje in de buurt van Broek in Waterland.
Dat liep voor het schuurtje in kwestie wat slechter af. Een dakpan en latjes eronder zijn door de meteoriet verbrijzeld. Dat is niet zo gek: de steen is namelijk met de snelheid van een hogesnelheidstrein op het schuurtje neergekomen.
Planetoïdengordel De steenmeteoriet is op 11 januari op aarde geland. De meteoriet is zo’n 500 gram zwaar. Waarschijnlijk is de meteoriet afkomstig uit de planetoïdengordel (te vinden tussen Jupiter en Mars). In dit deel van ons zonnestelsel zweeft veel ruimtepuin dat soms uit zijn baan raakt door een botsing en vervolgens – na wat omzwervingen – op aarde terecht kan komen.
Bijzonder Dat zo’n steen vervolgens in Nederland wordt gevonden, is best bijzonder. De afgelopen 200 jaar zijn – als we deze meteoriet meerekenen – maar zes ruimtestenen teruggevonden. Dat wil niet zeggen dat meteorieten maar zelden in Nederland landen: naar schatting komt er elke 3 tot 4 jaar een meteoriet van deze omvang in ons kikkerlandje terecht. Slechts een fractie daarvan wordt echter ook daadwerkelijk teruggevonden. Het was dan ook – tot dit exemplaar in januari van dit jaar door het dak van een schuurtje stuiterde – alweer 20 jaar geleden dat in Nederland een meteoriet was teruggevonden.
Onderzoekers zijn in hun nopjes met de ontdekking van de meteoriet in Broek in Waterland. “Dit soort meteorieten geeft ons informatie over het begin van het zonnestelsel, 4,5 miljard jaar geleden,” vertelt onderzoeker Leo Kriegsman. “Op aarde bestaan geen stenen van deze ouderdom.”
UK Government Releases Almost All Of Its UFO Files
UK Government Releases Almost All Of Its UFO Files
This photoshopped image is more believable then all the claims about the MOD-files
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Last month, it was reported that the British Government was going to release its last secret UFO files and now 15 out of 18 of them are available for public viewing. They are unfortunately not digitized yet so if you want to inspect them, you’ll have to take a trip to the National Archives at Kew, London.
The lack of digital copies has done nothing but excite conspiracy theorist that have been overblowing the quite lackluster release of documents provided by the Minister of Defence (MoD).
“No UFO sighting reported to [MoD] has ever revealed anything to suggest an extra-terrestrial presence or military threat to the UK,” Carl Mantell of the RAF‟s Air Command stated in a briefing to the Defence Minister in 2009. “There is no defence benefit in [MoD] recording, collating, analysing or investigating UFO sightings.‟
Most files were released in 2013, again through the National Archives, and they can be analyzed here. In 2014, the MoD admitted that it had held back 18 documents because they contained some content that the Ministry might not want to be publically available. The files were expected to be re-examined before they could be released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
The new release happened without fanfare, which of course had the MoD being accused of trying to bury the files, which are available to be consulted by any members of the public. Obviously, if the MoD had made a big deal, it would have been seen as trying to focus the public's attention on files that have no evidence whatsoever of little green people.
“I believe it is fair to say that the release programme itself […] has been a success for the MoD. It has accrued a great deal of national and international press publicity, the majority of which can be considered to be positive or at worst neutral," a brief from the MoD's UFO desk officer stated in 2009. "Naturally, a section of ufologists will never be convinced of that, but frankly, whatever we say, they will choose to believe whatever they believe and we will never convince them otherwise.” And it remains true today.
Among the most interesting reports, there are several UFO sightings from 2008-2009, when the UFO desk got 851 reports. Several people described seeing white, orange, and red lights floating in the sky. Some in formation, some bobbing up and down, some going against the apparent direction of the wind. All these incidents were Chinese lanterns from nearby weddings.
Well, for all you ufologists, the truth is out there (in the National Archives).
Alien hunters regularly post videos or photos online that they claim show alien craft.
They are often very grainy amateur footage – and not very convincing.
But NASA’s Rover is equipped with very powerful lenses, so the image is very clear.
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STAR WARS: Internet users say it looks like Luke Skywalker's land speeder
Conspiracy theorists – who accuse NASA of covering up the existence of aliens – sometimes post images from the surface of the moon or Mars, claiming they show aliens or their artefacts.
Mostly they appear to be just an oddly shaped rock.
But this new image – which dates from March but has only just been discovered – is very difficult to explain away.
User Prosaic Origin, who posted the image on web forum Reddit, said: “Uh NASA? UFO caught on Mars Rover mission?
“Is this real?”
Mikeymike34 said: “This is awesome!”
EdisonVonneZula said: “Looks like light glimmering off of a genuine spaceship on an alien planet in outer space.”
Crazylegs99 said: “They forgot to Photoshop that one out.
“Love how skeptical the mods are. You could have aliens waving hi through the windshield and it would be flagged as a likely prosaic.”
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HERE BOY: NASA's Mars Rover is beaming back pictures from the Red Planet
But one seemingly well-informed user suggested it could be debris from the Rover’s landing craft.
User OnceReturned said: “Apparently the Rover was near its own entry debris on that date and was photographing it.”
They added: “The object certainly appears to be artificial. We know that the Rover was taking pictures of its own entry debris at that time.
“There's nothing particularly alien about the object in question – it could easily be entry debris, at least in my opinion.
“Sure, it could be the smoking gun, but I think that given the context provided by the timestamped image above, it seems that entry debris would be the most parsimonious explanation.
“It's a great find though. It certainly captured my interest.”
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Idaho witness says orb UFOs joined, disappeared
Idaho witness says orb UFOs joined, disappeared
An Idaho witness at Buhi reported watching three orange-red, rectangle-shaped objects that joined together and disappeared in place, according to testimony in Case 83942 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The event occurred at 10:15 p.m. on May 23, 2017.
“Observed three rectangular bars of light that seemed composed of orbs,” the witness stated.“Orange-red in color.”
The witness observed the three rectangles moving.
“The three bars of light moved smoothly in a horizontal fashion.”
All three lights eventually formed a single light.
Cropped portion of the witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
“The lights on the left and right joined or moved to join the center light and then blinked out. There was nothing there, after the sky being brightly lit by big orange/red forms.”
Idaho MUFON Assistant State Director James Millard investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown. The witness included one illustration with the report, which was filed on May 24, 2017. The report indicated the witness thought the object was over 500 feet in altitude, with no cloud cover.
After the group of orbs joined together as one light, the light simply disappeared.
Pictured: Buhi, Idaho. (Credit: Google)
Buhi is a city located on the old Oregon Trail in the western half of Twin Falls County, Idaho, population 4,122. 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.
Recent studies suggest that the ocean that's sloshing beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus, seen here in a photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, may be a potentially habitable environment.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
NASA is not preparing to drop an alien-life bombshell, despite what you may have heard.
Last week, the hacking group Anonymous posted a video on YouTube suggesting that the space agency is about to announce the discovery of life beyond Earth. The video has made a big splash online — so big that NASA science chief Thomas Zurbuchen addressed the rumor today (June 26).
"Contrary to some reports, there's no pending announcement from NASA regarding extraterrestrial life," Zurbuchen said via Twitter, where he posts as @Dr_ThomasZ.
"Are we alone in the universe? While we do not know yet, we have missions moving forward that may help answer that fundamental question," he added in another tweet today.
Anonymous' video focuses not on hacked documents but rather on testimony Zurbuchen gave back in April during a hearing of the House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. (The 12-minute video also touches on some other topics, including the seven Earth-size planets circling the star TRAPPIST-1 and several supposed UFO sightings.)
During the April 26 hearing, which was called "Advances in the Search for Life," Zurbuchen laid out the progress NASA has been making in the hunt for life in the cosmos. He cited, among other things, the thousands of exoplanets spotted by the agency's Kepler space telescope, the recent discovery of hydrogen in the geysers blasting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus, and the possible detection of water-vapor plumes emanating from the Jovian satellite Europa.
"Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are specifically searching for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history," Zurbuchen said during the hearing.
Anonymous: NASA Is About to Announce the Discovery of Intelligent Alien Life
In the recent video, Anonymous takes the second half of this sentence and runs with it.
"NASA: 'Mankind is about to discover extraterrestrial life,'" an Anonymous spokesman wearing the group's famous Guy Fawkes mask intones, with a digitally altered voice, at the beginning of the video.
This interpretation isn't strictly wrong. But "on the verge" is a far cry from "has found evidence," and anyone expecting an Earth-shattering announcement from NASA in the next few weeks or months is bound to be disappointed.
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)]
Is ons universum een reusachtig bewust wezen? Deze natuurkundige komt met een bizarre, spraakmakende theorie
Is ons universum een reusachtig bewust wezen? Deze natuurkundige komt met een bizarre, spraakmakende theorie
Natuurkundige Gregory Matloff van het New York City College of Technology publiceerde onlangs een paper waarin hij stelt dat het universum mogelijk net als mensen een bewust wezen is.
Sterren zijn mogelijk denkende entiteiten die zelf hun pad bepalen. Met andere woorden: de gehele kosmos is wellicht zelfbewust.
Er is zelfs een term voor dit fenomeen: panpsychisme. Het gaat ervan uit dat de kosmos als organisme bezield is.
Nagaan
En er zijn behoorlijk wat wetenschappers die deze theorie aanhangen. Onder hen filosoof David Chalmers van de New York University, neurowetenschapper Christof Koch van het Allen Institute for Brain Science en de Britse natuurkundige Sir Roger Penrose.
Panpsychisme is te belangrijk om te negeren, aldus Matloff. “Het is allemaal heel speculatief, maar wel iets wat we kunnen nagaan en bevestigen of weerleggen.”
Sterren
In 2006 stelde de Duitse natuurkundige Bernard Haisch voor dat de kwantumvelden in de lege ruimte bewustzijn overbrengen.
En niet alleen naar een brein, maar naar iedere fysieke structuur. Gegevens van sterren lijken er volgens Matloff op te wijzen dat het universum zelfbewust is.
Kosmisch brein
“Moeten we dit niet op zijn minst onderzoeken?” vraagt hij. “Misschien kunnen we panpsychisme overplaatsen van de filosofie naar astrofysica.”
Mensen als Matloff worden vaak afgedaan als randwetenschapper, maar wat als straks inderdaad blijkt dat onze menselijke geest een piepklein onderdeel is van een veel groter kosmisch brein?
NASA staat op punt van disclosure. Hackerscollectief Anonymous weet meer en maakte deze video
NASA staat op punt van disclosure. Hackerscollectief Anonymous weet meer en maakte deze video
Hackerscollectief Anonymous heeft een video gemaakt waarin wordt gesteld dat NASA op het punt staat te onthullen dat er sprake is van contact met buitenaards leven.
In het filmpje, dat al bijna een miljoen keer is bekeken, wordt verwezen naar drie artikelen van de website Ancient Code.
Recentelijk zijn veelbelovende ontdekkingen gedaan in ons zonnestelsel. In april kondigden wetenschappers aan dat ruimtesonde Cassini waterstof had ontdekt op Saturnusmaan Enceladus.
Bewoonbare zone
Deze maand nog publiceerde het Ames Research Center van de NASA een lijst van 4034 potentiële planeten in onze Melkweg.
Er zijn meer dan 30 aardachtige planeten ontdekt die zich in de bewoonbare zone bevinden, het gebied rond een ster waarin leven mogelijk wordt geacht.
“Pas in de afgelopen decennia konden we andere werelden ontdekken,” zei voorzitter van de Amerikaanse Senaatscommissie voor wetenschap, ruimte en technologie Lamar Smith tijdens een hoorzitting op 26 april.
Fascineert
“De zoektocht naar bewijs voor buitenaards leven fascineert het Amerikaanse volk,” voegde hij toe.
In de video van Anonymous wordt de tekst voorgelezen van een artikel over die hoorzitting en wordt voorspeld dat de aankondiging over buitenaards leven aanstaande is.
De andere twee artikelen verschenen tussen januari en april dit jaar op Ancient Code, aldus de Daily Mail.
UNITED KINGDOM MOD DECLASSIFIED UFO FILES | BRITISH X-FILES
UNITED KINGDOM MOD DECLASSIFIED UFO FILES | BRITISH X-FILES
The British Government is within the method of declassifying and releasing its entire archive of unidentified flying object files. Nick Pope worked on these files, wrote several of the documents in them, and – through his many media interviews – has been the general public face of the release method. the subsequent Q&A with Nick Pope is drawn from previous interviews. It provides an summary of the release of the files and is additionally designed to be a quotable resource for journalists covering the story.
UFO and alien truth seekers are awaiting the release of eighteen MoD reports into unidentified flying object cases, after a series of hold ups in obtaining them made public via the National Archives.
But, there ar claims the reality still is not out there when 3 of them were still not released, and officials seemed to build it terribly tough for anyone to view the fifteen others.
Instead of being placed on-line as several National Archives documents currently are, the papers will be seen by creating a rendezvous with the govt archive service in London.
Or copies may be ordered for a fee on-line with many days wait before they they arrive.
Nick Pope, who worked within the department of the MoD that investigated UFOs till 2009 and currently speaks at alien-related conferences across the world, aforementioned there would be claims they'd been "snuck out"
But, he said he didn't believe there was a evidence of proof for alien life within the files as had been hoped. Those hoping the files might solve the mystery of the December 1980 Rendlesham unidentified flying object case can also be disappointed, he said.
UFO near miss with Boeing 737, Churchill and Eisenhower cover up
UFO encounter, Calvine UFO Photo Cover – Up, Berwyn Mountain UFO incident are some from the declassified UFO Files.
Whatever the case, over breadcrumbs ar expected to come back out from the most recent release of UFO files. There won’t in all probability be a right away confirmation of intelligent alien life, however a lot of dots can be part of which will provide individuals food for thought for the years to come.
Find out more from the video posted below. For more insight follow the source link below.
FOO FIGHTERS UFOS BUZZED PLANES DURING WORLD WAR II
FOO FIGHTERS UFOS BUZZED PLANES DURING WORLD WAR II
UFOs Known As Foo Fighters Seen In World War II
A long time before pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen a strange craft flying through the air in 1947 people had claimed that they had seen strange objects in the sky. There is no one that is in a better position to have seen a UFO than a pilot and when pilots during World War II reported seeing mysterious lights there was a new phenomenon born, the Foo Fighters.
RED LUMINOUS BALL SPOTTED IN SKIES OVER GERMAN BORDER
A pilot was flying at night close to the border of Germany when without any warning a luminous red ball zoomed close, but it was moving far too fast for the pilot to be able to identify what it was, never mind gives chase to it.
There have been many pilots in World War II that have seen zooming orbs high up in the sky and for a long time they thought that what they were seeing was a new weapon by the Nazis. The strange orbs very rarely varied in appearance; most were multi-colored and round, often fiery red. In mission reports, the sighting of them became close to routine.
One mission report stated that the pilot saw a red light that was brilliant in color and which traveled at about 2000 feet heading to the east at around 200 miles per hour close to Erstein. However, to artificial intelligence failure, it could not be picked up contact but managed to follow it until it went out but not getting close enough to it to be able to identify the object.
Investigations had revealed many sightings that were similar which had been made by pilots in Japan and China. This meant that the allies found themselves relieved to have not had a new weapon to have to deal with. The Foo Fighters were said to not be aggressive and they never threatened to attack and it seemed that they were almost like taunting the pilot's thanks to the superior speed along with being able to maneuver fast which allowed them to dart out of sight.
LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS, PILOTS TOLD TO KEEP QUIET
During World War II there were spies everywhere and soldiers had been told to keep quiet about their missions and plans or there would be consequences that would be dire. One poster that was commonly used at that time had the words Loose Lips Sink Ships.
It, therefore, comes as a big surprise that military censors seemed not to have an issue with the newspapers who reported about the Foo Fighters. Many of the stories said that orbs were transparent or silver in color, instead of them being balls of multi-colored light or red. The newspapers often talked about the Foo Fighters being a new weapon of the Nazis instead of being the mysterious UFOs.
FOO FIGHTERS GET NAME FROM SMOKEY STOVER COMIC
The media propagated the name Foo Fighters, with the name having originally come from inspiration from the comic Smokey Stover. In the comic strip, Smokey was a fireman, and he called fire “foo” and called himself a foo fighter. It is thought that Donald Meiers, a fan of Smokey Stover, was first credited for giving the UFOs the name of Foo Fighters. Of course, this was many years before the term UFO, unidentified flying object and flying saucer were used.
It remains a total mystery just what the Foo Fighters actually were. There has always been a pattern that is the same with sightings of UFOs. First, they are reported and recorded and then the skeptics come up with excuses as to what they are. Following this, the sightings are dismissed, with everyone believing that perhaps it was just a weather balloon. Later on, UFO sightings have been said to be explained as just swamp gas or that people have mistaken the planet, Venus, however, skeptics had other excuses when accounting for the Foo Fighters.
FOO FIGHTERS SAID TO BE ICE CRYSTALS, ST. ELMO`S FIRE AND MORE
Among the many invented explanations was something given the name of St. Elmo`s Fire. This is said to be a phenomenon with weather that usually occurs following a thunderstorm.
It did not matter that the majority of sightings of the so-called Foo Fighters took place when there were no thunderstorms. Skeptics also tried to pawn off the Foo Fighters as being nothing more than reflections from ice crystals. This is an explanation that comes with many issues with ice crystals not being able to go zooming off at 200 miles per hour. There were numerous sightings of Foo Fighters in the South Pacific, and this is a place where the chances of ice crystals forming were remote.
The Foo Fighters would also be seen on the radar on occasion and this is when they would be flying at speeds that were said to be almost impossible. Weather phenomena and ice crystals are two things that do not form on radar screens.
'NATION AT RISK' ‘Britain’s X-Files’ reveal how a UFO was spotted on RAF radar for HOURS but military were told to do nothing about it
'NATION AT RISK'‘Britain’s X-Files’ reveal how a UFO was spotted on RAF radar for HOURS but military were told to do nothing about it
Ministry of Defence UFO files reveal ALL about 1996 UFO sighting that was written off as a 'celestial phenomena'
EXCLUSIVE
By Margi Murphy
“BRITAIN’S X-Files” reveal how a UFO was spotted on military radar for seven hours – but the RAF were “overruled at the highest level” and told to do nothing about it.
An investigation into the phenomenon was only opened after several witnesses spotted a rotating UFO in the sky over the Skegness coast.
It is not clear who sent the letter to the then Defence Secretary as the Ministry of Defence have redacted their name
By then, several radars had detected the object in the early hours of 5 October 1996, over the Wash.
Police statements describing the bright lights, along with several civilian reports, were splashed across newspapers and became the subject of several TV shows at the time.
Secret UFO files reveal how the former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo appears to have been slammed by an unnamed government official over the military’s “absolute shambles” of a reaction, which they suggest could have put the nation at risk.
The Wash area where the UFO was spotted on 5 October 1996
In a letter typed on House of Commons headed paper, the then Tory minister was grilled by a government official for the lax reaction during what became one of Britain’s most mysterious UFO sightings.
It reads: “I am very concerned about an incident that occurred off the Anglian Coast recently, involving a visual unidentified flying craft sighting which was correlated by various different military radar systems.”
They add that it struck them as “incredible” that “no aircraft were scrambled when an uncorrelated target was picked up so close to the coast” and that “this raises serious issues about the way in which we police the UK’s Air Defence Region”.
They ask why RAF Coningsby, just a few miles from the Wash and who wanted to scramble aircraft were “overruled at the highest level” and why a video taken by police had “disappeared into the bowels of your ministry’s main building” – a detail certain sure to be of interest to conspiracy theorists and UFO hunters.
The letter continues: “The RAF is supposed to, or so I believed, to be keeping a watchful eye on activity in the UK, but seem to have no idea what is going on.
“Do they have standard procedure for these incidents? They had enough time to think about it, because the object was on our radar for upwards of seven hours!”
A rotating UFO with blue and red lights was spotted in the early hours of 5 October 1996 from the Skegness coast
Former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo was sent a stern letter regarding the UFO sighting
“While I am interested in finding out what was seen, my primary concern stems from the absolute shambles that such events seem to cause,” they wrote.
The author, whose name has been wiped from the official files, attaches various newspaper reports including one titled: “UFOS expose 9-5 defence danger”.
The dossier includes eyewitness statements from several police officers who claim to have seen flashing red, blue and white lights and also reveals how civil servants were briefed about what caused the mysterious sightings.
It also tells how civil servants were briefed about what caused the mysterious sightings.
Documents following an official probe conclude that several “phenomena” might be to blame.
A drawing following the Wash UFO sighting was stored by the Ministry of Defence
It suggests the lights were observed from “three different locations” high above the horizon and in the same general direction, indicating a “celestial source”.
Radar signals could be explained by a nearby church spire, which was known for distorting communication systems, according to the memo.
Closing the case, the official file states: “The prolonged sighting of stationary coloured flashing lights reported by the Skegness police on 5 October 1996 had no significance for the integrity of UK airspace and no associated air vehicle was detected by civil or military radars.”
This newspaper report appeared to have ruffled feathers among the UK defence bods
One of the newspaper clippings attached to the Wash sighting letter
The documents are just some of many included in the fascinating UFO dossier quietly released last week.
They have not been digitised, so enthusiasts must join a queue to inspect the paper records at the National Archive’s reading room in Kew, West London.
There are an additional three files which are yet to be released, according to Nick Pope, a former civil servant who worked for the MoD.
Pope, who ran the government’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994 said: “The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories and I know that many people believe the ‘good stuff’ is being held back.”
A UFO was visible on military radar for seven hours above the Wash in Skegness in 1996 but officials were ordered to do nothing about it, according to a shocking document from 'Britain's X-Files'.
The RAF was 'overruled at the highest level' and told to ignore the strange bright lights - which flashed red, blue and white - despite the fact several witnesses also spotted it.
The Ministry of Defence was criticised for a shambolic reaction which some believed could have put the nation at serious risk in one of the country's most mysterious UFO sightings.
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The RAF were 'overruled at the highest level' and told to ignore the strange lights - which flashed red, blue and white - despite the fact several witnesses also spotted it
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WHAT ARE 'BRITAIN'S X-FILES'?
The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of sightings of UFOs over almost five decades.
They contain information about a number of high profile incidents that are believed to be related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'
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. No one knows exactly why.
Fifteen have now been published with the remaining three still withheld.
The release marks the final stages of what's been a nine-year long project to declassify and release the MoD's entire archive of UFO files.
Mysteriously, the files have not yet been digitised so enthusiasts must go to the National Archives in Kew, West London if they want to have access to them.
The UFO files have revealed that on the morning of 5 October 1996 bright lights were reported by several civilians but the Defence Secretary at the time, Michael Portillo, did nothing, according to a report from The Sun.
An unnamed government official wrote to the Ministry of Defence voicing concerns.
'The RAF is supposed to, or so I believed, to be keeping a watchful eye on activity in the UK, but seem to have no idea what is going on', the minister wrote.
'Do they have standard procedure for these incidents? They had enough time to think about it, because the object was on our radar for upwards of seven hours!' he said.
'While I am interested in finding out what was seen, my primary concern stems from the absolute shambles that such events seem to cause'.
Reports of the strange lights made front pages and were serialised in various TV shows at the time.
'I remember this well. It was a bizarre case', Nick Pope who was part of the Ministry of Defence's UFO project from 1991 to 1994 told MailOnline.
'The official verdict was that the anomalous radar return might have been caused by a nearby church spire (an effect that can happen in certain meteorological conditions) but, in parallel, there were visual sightings from witnesses including police officers, and these were more difficult to explain.
'Furthermore, the events took place in the middle of a 'UFO flap' where there had been numerous sightings from locals.'
The late Martin Redmond - an MP who had taken a close, personal interest in the UFO phenomenon - raised the question with the MoD Mr Pope explained.
'He was concerned that whatever the cause of the radar return, it seemed the RAF had done nothing, perhaps because of the MoD's notorious defensiveness when it came to the anything to do with UFOs.
'He felt that, at the very least, further enquiries should have been made and maybe a jet scrambled - which would have cleared up the mystery in minutes.
'The bottom line was that Martin Redmond felt these events highlighted a fundamental weakness in the UK's air defence system', he said.
The letter also suggests a police video of the lights mysteriously disappeared.
The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of sightings of UFOs seen all over the country stock image)
'It sounds like an important UFO incident, as it has the relatively rare element of simultaneous visual and radar sightings', Nigel Watson author of the UFO Investigations Manual told MailOnline.
'In the cold light of day the nation was not at risk, but it does show that when people are looking out for UFOs, an innocent star or planet will fill their imaginations', he said.
This document is just one of many that was released last week as part of a series of files that were released by the government having been kept secret for almost 50 years.
The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of UFO sightings seen all over the country.
A UFO was visible on military radar for seven hours above The Wash in Skegness in 1996 but officials were ordered to do nothing about it, according to a shocking document from 'Britain's X-Files'
They contain information about a number of high profile incidents that are believed to be related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'
Mysteriously, the files have not yet been digitised so enthusiasts must go to London's National Archives in Kew if they want to have access to them.
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 files are believed to date from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
The release marks the final stages of what's been a nine-year long project to declassify and release the MoD's entire archive of UFO files.
Three of these documents have still not been released.
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.
Conspiracy theorists are hoping the files may shed light on the notorious Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980, dubbed Britain's Roswell
'I think these files perfectly capture the wonder and fascination of the UFO mystery and show how MoD officials - myself included - struggled to make sense of one of the great mysteries of the modern era', said Nick Pope, who was part of the Ministry of Defence's UFO project from 1991 to 1994.
'Sadly, there's no 'smoking gun' in these files that will prove we've been visited by extraterrestrials, but there are plenty of intriguing UFO reports, as well as policy papers explaining how the MoD handled this subject.'
'The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the 'good stuff' is being held back', he said.
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.
RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT
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.
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.
The disputed sightings, over three nights between December 26-28, occurred when Britain and the West were on high alert during the Cold War.
'What's readily apparent from a detailed study of all this is that the MoD was telling Parliament, the media and the public that the UFO phenomenon was of 'no defence significance' and of limited interest to the MoD', said Mr Pope.
'However, the files show that behind the scenes, the subject was obviously taken more seriously than we let on, with many of the cases self-evidently being of great defence significance – e.g. when UFOs were seen in close proximity to military bases, were encountered by RAF pilots, or were tracked on radar by fighter controllers or air traffic controllers.'
The remaining three files are due to be released later this year.
'This is a good day for open government and for freedom of information', Mr Pope said.
The last batch of files that was released contained some papers relating to anti-gravity and gravity modification research expressed by MoD scientists.
'I wasn't joking when I referred to MoD's UFO project as being 'the real-life X-Files'', said Mr Pope.
The Frome resident thinks the streak of light could have been created by a drone
UFO: A 'craft' was sighted hovering over The Wash near Skegness according to MoD files
Britain's X-files – the declassified government documents covering UFO encounters – reveal the shocking incident just off Skegness.
Ministry of Defence documents detail how a UFO was spotted hovering over the Wash near the Lincolnshire town – but the RAF were told to do nothing about it.
The dossier reveals how an unnamed government official warned the nation could have been put at risk as he slammed the "shambles" of an operation dealing with the craft.
“This raises serious issues about the way in which we police the UK’s Air Defence Region”
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Several radars detected the object off the east coast of Britain in the early hours of October 5, 1996.
Police statements described "bright lights" seen over The Wash National Reserve.
Redacted letters typed on House of Commons headed paper reveal Defence Secretary Michael Portillo was grilled over the handling of the incident, reports The Sun
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The unidentified official questioned why "no aircraft were scrambled when an uncorrelated target was picked up so close to the coast” and that “this raises serious issues about the way in which we police the UK’s Air Defence Region”.
Aircraft at RAF Coningsby wanted to scramble but were "overruled at the highest level", according to the letter.
It also questions why video taken of the UFO "disappeared into the bowels of your ministry’s main building".
The official file on the report claims the UFO was actually a nearby church spire – known for distorting communications.
It also claims the lights spotted by onlookers were of a "celestial" source.
Spooks concluded: "The prolonged sighting of stationary coloured flashing lights reported by the Skegness police on 5 October 1996 had no significance for the integrity of UK airspace and no associated air vehicle was detected by civil or military radars.”
The Skegness incident is just one of many covered in the declassified documents which were finally released last week.
UFO hunters and alien conspiracy theorists accused the Government of trying to cover up the files after a delayed realease.
The cache of 15 files is available for view at The National Archives – but three documents remain sealed, sparking rumours of the alien "smoking gun”.
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Ex-US Air Force Captain Says A UFO Destroyed Ten Nukes
Ex-US Air Force Captain Says A UFO Destroyed Ten Nukes
Conspiracy theorists believe high-profile witnesses were pledging to remain quiet about extraterrestrial-related events. However, a former U.S. Air Force captain has broken that promise. Captain David D Schindele was the Minot Air Force Base missile field’s Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile launch crew commander in North Dakota.
Schindele was at a launch control facility, close to Mohall, North Dakota in December 1966 when a bizarre event took place.
Schindele claimed that a UFO destroyed ten nuclear-tipped missiles in which he was in charge.
UFOs had been reported in the local area, according to the Minot Daily News front page story on December 6, 1966.
Schindele claimed air force officials ordered him to keep quiet about it. However, he has now claimed that he tells the real story of the event in the new book titled “It Never Happened, Volume 1.” Schindele revealed that many of them witnessed unworldly events at Minuteman facilities, but they were all instructed to shut their mouth up about them. He said that they never realised at the time that many others among them were also witnessing incidents.
He explained that he heard some years ago of a similar incident experienced by a missiler named Captain Robert Salas who was connected to Malmstrom AFB in Montana with the same general timeframe as his own incident. Schindele then decided to conduct research on Air Force cover-up to find out the reason why the Air Force told them to keep silent.
Schindele said that he spent six and a half years for the first volume and also realised that a second volume would be necessary to make it complete.
UFO sighting videos usually involve shaky, grainy captures from sensationalist claims and low-resolution cameras. It is the reason many reported alien encounters with such videos as evidence have been debunked or criticised by sceptics.
Interestingly, those negative factors are not present in the seemingly legitimate UFO sighting that was reported on Sunday in New York. The video was shot using a high-resolution device, and the witness has not made any claims about the possible identity of the mysterious craft.
The footage, which was uploaded to YouTube, shows strange lights over the trees in a New York suburb. It was captured at around 4:30 am from a driveway, according to the video description. The uploader of the video has not made any claims that the strange object was of extraterrestrial origin.
The uploader only says that the object appears distinctly like a UFO. After the video was made available online via the video sharing site, it has also been shared on Reddit. It has captured the interest among alien enthusiasts online.
The details of the object in the video could be easily seen. The object looks huge and larger than any consumer drone in the market.
Some online commenters suggest that the possible explanation could be the scheduled NASA lunch in the area. However, NASA’s official web page says that the mission involving a rocket carrying tracer chemicals to be sprayed in the upper atmosphere would be launched on Sunday night while the video was reportedly shot on Sunday morning.
De vliegende auto: het transportmiddel van de toekomst? Nee!
De vliegende auto: het transportmiddel van de toekomst? Nee!
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Mensen zien er al decennia reikhalzend naar uit en dit jaar kun je ‘m pre-orderen: de vliegende auto. Maar waarschijnlijk is ‘ie een stuk onhandiger dan je denkt.
In 1940 voorspelde Henry Ford al dat ‘ie zou gaan komen. En nu – bijna 80 jaar later – lijkt het zover te zijn. Nog dit jaar kun je de vliegende auto pre-orderen. Wie dat wel ziet zitten en zijn auto direct wil inruilen, moet er rekening mee houden dat er – een beetje afhankelijk van de auto die je nu rijdt – nog een beetje geld bij gelegd moet worden. Naar verwachting staat op het prijskaartje van de eerste vliegende auto namelijk een bedrag met vijf nullen. Maar goed: beter duur dan niet te koop, nietwaar?
De vliegende auto spreekt al lang tot de verbeelding. Hier zie je Jess Dixon in zijn zelfgebouwde vliegende auto. Het kiekje werd omstreeks 1940 gemaakt.
Verenigen Dat de vliegende auto zo duur is – en dat we er zo lang op hebben moeten wachten – is goed te verklaren, zo vertelt Hans Heerkens, als luchtvaartspecialist verbonden aan de Universiteit Twente. “Er moeten heel veel dingen ingestopt worden die eigenlijk niet in een auto of vliegtuig passen. Zo moet de auto wielaandrijving hebben, terwijl het vliegtuig weer een propeller of vleugels met een flinke spanwijdte nodig heeft. En terwijl een vliegtuig zo licht mogelijk moet zijn, is het met het oog op de veiligheid weer prettig als de auto wat robuuster en zwaarder is. Ook heb je in een vliegtuig heel andere instrumenten nodig dan in een auto. Daarnaast zijn de veiligheidseisen anders.” Om dat allemaal met elkaar te rijmen en uiteindelijk vliegtuig en auto in één transportmiddel te verenigen: dat valt niet mee en is dus duur.
Waarom zou je? Verschillende fabrikanten hebben er desalniettemin de afgelopen decennia tijd, geld en energie ingestoken. Heerkens snapt daar eerlijk gezegd weinig van. “Waarom zou je met een vliegtuig over de weg willen rijden? Het is toch veel handiger om dan een auto én een vliegtuig te bezitten?” Dat geldt zeker als we kijken naar de vliegende auto’s die niet verticaal op kunnen stijgen en kunnen landen. “Dan kun je niet vanaf huis vliegen en moet je dus met je vliegende auto eerst naar een startbaan rijden. Ik zou dan zeggen: rijd naar die startbaan, parkeer je auto en pak het vliegtuig.” Ook technisch gezien is dat veel praktischer. “Een vliegende auto kun je heel moeilijk optimaliseren,” vertelt Heerkens. Want de eigenschappen van een optimale auto staan vaak haaks op die van een optimaal vliegtuig. Zo is een auto fijn stabiel met vier wielen. Maar diezelfde vier wielen zitten het vliegtuig weer in de weg. “Ze zitten redelijk ver van het zwaartepunt, waardoor je heel veel kracht moet zetten op het roer om de neus van het vliegtuig tijdens het opstijgen omhoog te krijgen.”
“DE VLIEGENDE AUTO KAN EIGENLIJK ALLEEN EEN SUCCES WORDEN ALS ELITE-SPEELTJE”
Elite-speeltje Wie de vliegende auto aanschaft, moet dus niet verwachten dat hij een optimaal presterende auto en optimaal presterend vliegtuig in één koopt. Ook moet je niet verwachten dat je er zomaar eventjes mee naar je werk kunt vliegen. Want aan piloten worden strenge eisen gesteld. Je zult regelmatig medisch gekeurd moeten worden. Je moet je vliegbrevet halen, op jaarbasis voldoende vlieguren maken en zo af en toe in het gezelschap van een instructeur aantonen dat je het allemaal nog in de vingers hebt. Dat kost allemaal tijd en – wederom – geld. Met al die haken en ogen kun je jezelf serieus afvragen of de vliegende auto wel een toekomst heeft. Voor nu ziet Heerkens deze naar eigen zeggen vooral als “een elite-speeltje”. Leuk om tijdens verjaardagen of op de miljonairsfair over op te scheppen en zo af en toe eens met over je landgoed te vliegen.
Autonoom En zelfs als de prijs scherp zou dalen, lijkt de vliegende auto in zijn huidige vorm niet het ideale transportmiddel voor Jan Modaal. “Als iedereen er één heeft, raakt het luchtruim hartstikke vol.” En dan komt de veiligheid weer in het geding. De veiligheid kan in zo’n situatie in de ogen van Heerkens maar op één manier gehandhaafd worden. “Als we de vliegende auto volledig automatiseren.” Daarnaast is het noodzakelijk dat de vliegende auto verticaal kan landen en opstijgen, want anders sta je alsnog in de file bij de start- en landingsbaan. Zodra een vliegende auto echter in staat is om verticaal te landen en op te stijgen, graaft het tweezijdige transportmiddel echter zijn eigen graf. “Want als je verticaal kunt opstijgen en landen heb je toch eigenlijk geen auto meer nodig?” merkt Heerkens fijntjes op. En zo lijkt niet de vliegende auto, maar het autonome vliegtuig dat verticaal kan landen en opstijgen de toekomst te hebben.
De AeroMobil, een vliegende auto die je nog dit jaar kunt pre-orderen. Verkoopprijs is nog onbekend, maar zal zeker een bedrag met vijf nullen zijn.
Afbeelding: Aeromobil.com
Opportunistisch Aangezien de acceptatie van de zelfrijdende auto al wat voeten in de aarde heeft, lijkt het omarmen van de vliegende equivalent daarvan bijna ondenkbaar. “Dat zal inderdaad niet vandaag of morgen gebeuren,” denkt Heerkens. “Tegelijkertijd zijn mensen ook heel opportunistisch.” Als ze op een gegeven moment de voordelen van het autonome vliegtuig inzien, met schrik in de benen instappen en het een paar keer goed gaat, kan hun mening zomaar veranderen. Heerkens heeft dat eerder zien gebeuren. “Lang stak men de Atlantische Oceaan alleen over met vliegtuigen die drie of vier motoren hadden.” Als er dan eentje uitviel, was er geen vuiltje aan de lucht. “Maar op een gegeven moment gingen fabrikanten tweemotorige vliegtuigen ontwikkelen. Je hoorde de deskundigen roepen dat dat veel te gevaarlijk was en dat ze daar nooit in zouden stappen. Inmiddels kijken we alleen nog maar naar wat het goedkoopste ticket is.” En vliegen we dus allemaal met tweemotorige vliegtuigen naar de andere kant van de Atlantische Oceaan. “Je hoort niemand meer over veiligheid.” En zo kan het ook gaan met het autonome vliegtuigje “als mensen inzien dat het goedkoper en gemakkelijker is en zich de eerste paar jaar geen ongelukken voordoen.” Wat dat laatste betreft, is Heerkens optimistisch. “Ik denk dat een autonoom vliegtuigje veiliger kan zijn dan een vliegtuig dat door mensen bestuurd wordt.”
Dubai De vliegende auto lijkt het dus af te leggen tegen het autonome privé-vliegtuig. Maar wanneer kunnen we dat pre-orderen? “Dat kan nog wel dertig tot veertig jaar duren,” denkt Heerkens. Op korte termijn ziet hij meer in onbemande luchttaxi’s, waar momenteel in Dubai (zie het filmpje hieronder) al druk mee geëxperimenteerd wordt. “Dat kan veel sneller gaan. Misschien vliegen ze binnen tien jaar al wel rond.” Dat die luchttaxi’s hun doorbraak sneller kunnen beleven, heeft natuurlijk te maken met de aanschafkosten. Maar weinigen zullen zich een autonoom rondvliegend privé-vliegtuigje kunnen permitteren. “En waarom zou je ook een privé-luchttaxi willen als je zoiets met één appje kunt laten komen wanneer je het nodig hebt?”
Het staat eenieder die nog ergens een bedrag met vijf nullen in een oude sok heeft zitten natuurlijk vrij om later dit jaar de vliegende auto te pre-orderen. Maar wie verstandig is, wacht nog even. Met een beetje geluk word je geduld beloond en stap je over een jaar of tien in een volledig autonome luchttaxi. Heerkens kan niet wachten. “Heerlijk, met een leesboek instappen en het boek pas dichtklappen als je op je bestemming landt. Ik teken ervoor.”
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Maak kennis met Planeet Y: ons zonnestelsel telt misschien tien planeten
Maak kennis met Planeet Y: ons zonnestelsel telt misschien tien planeten
Tim Kraaijvanger
Naast Planeet X schuilt er mogelijk nog een tiende planeet in de Kuipergordel, namelijk Planeet Y. Deze planeet is ongeveer even groot als Mars of de aarde.
In het wetenschappelijke vakblad Astronomical Journal schrijven wetenschappers Kat Volk en Renu Malhotra van de universiteit van Arizona dat er bewijs is gevonden dat er niet acht of negen, maar tien planeten om de zon draaien. De astronomen keken naar de omloopbanen van ruim 600 Kuipergordelobjecten. Deze objecten zijn brokstukken, die overgebleven zijn na de vorming van het zonnestelsel. Inmiddels draaien deze kleine en grote ruimtestenen al zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar om de zon.
Toch merkten de astronomen een afwijking op in de oriëntatie van de banen van de meeste verre Kuipergordelobjecten. Het baanvlak wijkt acht procent af ten opzichte van het gemiddelde baanvlak. “Uit onze berekeningen blijkt dat er maar één logische verklaring is: er zweeft ergens een planeet ter grootte van Mars”, aldus Volk.
Een schematische weergave van de positie van Planeet Y. De onderzoekers hebben de planeet afgebeeld als een soort tweede aarde, maar de kans is extreem klein dat er leven mogelijk is op deze verre, ijskoude planeet.
Je kunt het baanvlak van het zonnestelsel het beste zien als een A4’tje. Vrijwel alle objecten in het zonnestelsel draaien op dit platte vel om de zon. Er zijn afwijkingen – bijvoorbeeld Pluto – maar gemiddeld gezien lijken de meeste planeten, asteroïden en kometen op dit A4’tje te rusten. “Zeker in de Kuipergordel moet het baanvlak nauwelijks afwijken, omdat de banen van deze objecten worden bepaald door de zon en de grotere planeten”, zegt Malhotra. “Toch zien we een afwijking bij Kuipergordelobjecten op 50 AE tot 80 AE van de zon.” In vergelijking: 1 AE is de afstand van de aarde tot de zon. “De kans is kleiner dan twee procent dat het gaat om een statistische afwijking.”
De ijskoude planeet ter grootte van Mars draait op een afstand van ruwweg 60 AE (negen miljard kilometer) om de zon. Dat is ruim twee keer de afstand van de zon naar Neptunus. Op dit moment is Neptunus de laatste planeet van ons zonnestelsel.
En Planeet X dan? Er blijft één vraag over: worden de banen van deze Kuipergordelobjecten niet gewoon beïnvloed door Planeet X? Planeet X bestaat mogelijk echt en is een object op een afstand van 500 tot 700 AE van de zon. Deze planeet is ongeveer tien keer groter dan de aarde.
“Nee, Planeet X is te ver verwijderd om invloed uit te oefenen op deze Kuipergordelobjecten”, zegt Volk. “De afstand tot de zon moet kleiner zijn dan 100 AE om zulke baanafwijkingen te veroorzaken.”
De zoektocht naar Planeet Y Een object ter grootte van Mars zou makkelijk gespot moeten worden, toch? De onderzoekers beweren dat de kans dertig procent is dat het object nog nooit is gevonden omdat we nog niet goed genoeg keken. Als Planeet X en Planeet Y echt bestaan, dan is de kans groot dat we deze objecten de komende jaren gaan vinden. De komende jaren verschijnen er allerlei nieuwe telescopen.
ALS PLANEET X EN PLANEET Y ECHT BESTAAN, DAN IS DE KANS GROOT DAT WE DEZE OBJECTEN DE KOMENDE JAREN GAAN VINDEN
Alternatieve verklaring Als de afwijking van de Kuipergordelobjecten niet is veroorzaakt door Planeet Y, wat is dan de meest waarschijnlijke verklaring voor dit verschijnsel? Wellicht dat de afwijking dan is veroorzaakt door een passerende ster. “Dit zou betekenen dat de ster ergens in de afgelopen tien miljoen jaar rakelings langs het zonnestelsel scheerde”, beweert Malhotra. Als het langer dan tien miljoen jaar geleden is gebeurd, dan zouden de Kuipergordelobjecten langzaam teruggaan naar het oude baanvlak. “Dat lijkt ons een onwaarschijnlijk scenario.”
De landing van Philae op komeet 67P was geen succes. De lander stuiterde op het oppervlak en eindigde ergens in een ravijn. Hadden we niet beter een robotslang kunnen sturen?
Een robotslang. Het klinkt misschien als een absurd idee, maar laat het eens op je inwerken. Zo’n slang heeft een flexibel lichaam en kruipt gemakkelijk over het oppervlak van een komeet, planeet of maan. Een Marsrover valt uit wanneer een wieltje kapot gaat, maar dat geldt niet voor een robotslang. Die heeft immers geen wielen.
Zo’n robotslang kan op plekken komen waar een normale rover niet komt. Er zijn plannen om in de toekomst een maanbasis onder het oppervlak te bouwen, bijvoorbeeld in een lavabuis. Op die manier worden astronauten beschermd tegen kosmische straling en meteorieten. Zulke tunnels moeten echter geïnspecteerd worden of ze geschikt zijn voor mensen om in te wonen en te werken. Perfect werk voor een robotslang, want die kruipt gemakkelijk door de gangen.
Robotslang naar het ISS Leuke toekomstplannen, maar gebeurt er op korte termijn nog iets? Ja, Noorse wetenschappers van SINTEF onderzoeken momenteel of het mogelijk is om een robotslang naar het internationale ruimtestation te sturen. Omdat dit ruimtestation continu in een vrije val verkeert, is er sprake van gewichtloosheid aan boord van het ISS. Dit vraagt om een slimme oplossing, want hoe kruipt een robotslang van de ene kant van het ruimtestation naar de andere kant?
Slimme voortbeweging De SINTEF-onderzoekers hebben wel een idee. Wanneer de robotslang vast zit aan de wand van het ruimtestation, kan hij zichzelf van achteren intrekken. Vervolgens strekt hij zich aan de voorkant uit, waardoor de slang opschuift. Eigenlijk lijkt dit op hoe slangen in het wild bewegen. Op dit moment onderzoeken SINTEF-wetenschappers welke sensoren de robot nodig heeft om zich bewust te zijn van de omgeving.
Artistieke impressie van Astrobee aan boord van het internationale ruimtestation. Drie Astrobee’s worden ergens tussen juli 2017 en juni 2018 gelanceerd.
Astrobee Er wordt reikhalzend uitgekeken naar Astrobee. Astrobee is een robot die binnenkort in het internationale ruimtestation vliegt. Deze drone kan bijvoorbeeld zelfstandig op zoek naar gereedschap, zodat astronauten dit niet zelf hoeven te doen. Even voor jouw beeldvorming: in het internationale ruimtestation liggen tienduizenden verschillende onderdelen. Het juiste gereedschap of het perfecte moertje vinden is dus wel iets lastiger dan op aarde. SINTEF-onderzoekers schrijven dat ze veel hopen te leren van Astrobee, waardoor ze hun eigen robotslang nog beter kunnen maken.
The world of science creates mysteries as fast as it solves them — and sometimes even faster. Here are just a few of those mysteries that are waiting to be solved.
1. The impossible EM drive…works?
Since first hearing rumors about NASA’s physics-breaking propulsion system late last year, a paper describing their device has passed peer-review, and China claims to be testing their own version in space right now.
And yet, no one can explain how this fuel-less drive is able to violate Newton’s Third Law: everything must have an equal and opposite reaction. If we learn anything this year or next, let’s hope we can get to the bottom of this confounding machine.
2. Humpback whales have been forming mysterious “super-groups,”
and we still don’t know why. Back in March, never-before-seen groups of up to 200 whales were appearing off the coast of South Africa, which is weird, because seven is usually the upper limit for these solitary animals.
The behavior could be due to changes in prey availability, or because the species has been making a surprising comeback in recent years, but the jury’s still out on this one.
Findlay et. al. 2017
3. Astronomers have found evidence of ahuge ninth planeton the edge of our Solar System
— but we still can’t find it, even after NASA recruited thousands of people to search for clues.
But earlier this year, we finally got an official candidate for the mysterious presence, so hopefully we don’t have to wait too much longer to discover what’s truly out there.
4. Archaeologists made a stunning discovery inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza
— evidence of a strange void behind the pyramid’s north face, and an unknown cavity high up in its northeastern edge.
It’s suspected that these could represent secret chambers that have eluded researchers and looters alike for thousands of years, and archaeologists are now hoping to non-invasively scan the insides of the giant tomb to figure it out.
5. Can we please figure out the nonsense that is the Tully Monster?
The 300-million-year-old creature had fins like a cuttlefish, eyestalks like a crab, and a rather intimidating “jaw-on-stick,” and this jumble of body parts has seen it compared to everything from molluscs, arthropods, and worms, to more complex vertebrates like lampreys.
Here’s what it might have looked like:
6. We still don’t know what’s causingfast radio bursts — arguably the weirdest phenomena in the known Universe.
They’re some of the most explosive signals ever detected in space, but they’re so confounding, some scientists have even resorted to “Aliens?”
But with the exact location for one of these signals being finally pinned down last month, we might be on the brink of figuring out what’s causing them.
have found signs of a phenomenon that goes beyond the standard model of physics, and together they’ve hit a certainty level of 4 standard deviations, indicating a 99.95 percent chance this isn’t a mistake.
If this result can be supported by further experiments, it would have profound implications for our understanding of particle physics, and force scientists to draw up a whole new branch of physics to explain it.
8. The “Alien Megastructure” star
that just won’t quit. Located 1,500 light-years away, KIC 8462852 (or Tabby’s star), has been experiencing unprecedented dips in brightness — while most stars experience periodic dimming of about 1 percent, this star has clocked dips of a whopping 22 percent.
Tabby’s star is so weird, one astronomer famously suggested aliens could be involved. With the latest bout of strange light patterns giving researchers more data to work with, let’s hope they can finally figure this one out.
Air Force
9. The US Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane
just landed after a record-breaking 718 days in orbit, but we still have no idea what it was doing up there.
As officials remain tight-lipped about what the unmanned drone was doing up there for so long, rumors have been circulating that the military might be testing NASA’s EM Drive in space. Can we solve two mysteries in one?
You’d think its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen everything there is to see on the Martian surface during its 11-year orbit, but a snapshot taken over the planet’s South Pole has revealed something we can’t explain.
At 19.7 inches (50 centimeters) per pixel, we’re looking at a feature hundreds of meters across, so did something punch its way through, or is it the result of a massive collapse? Until we get further evidence, your guess is as good as mine.
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.
Losing protections
Grizzly bear populations are on the rebound in Yellowstone.
Credit: Georgia Evans/Shutterstock
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from the Endangered Species List yesterday (June 22).
Grizzly bears "have long warranted delisting," as they have met or exceeded recovery objectives since 2003, Wyoming governor Matt Mead said in a statement published online by the governor's office. [Read more about the grizzly bears.]
Note about the universe
Hieroglyphics found at El-Khawy in Egypt show two storks, back to back, with an ibis between them (left), as well as a bull's head (right).
Credit: Courtesy of Yale University
Archaeologists have discovered a "billboard" of hieroglyphs carved into the rocks near the Egyptian village of El-Khawy. The symbols, which show a message related to the cosmos, are the earliest monumental (large) hieroglyphs known, dating back around 5,200 years.
Only a few similar scenes are known from Egypt. For example, a vase previously found at the site of Abydos depicts a pregnant hippopotamus, Darnell told Live Science. [Read more about the cosmic message.]
Lizard parts?
Dried monitor lizard penises are being illegally traded as "Hatha Jodi," an Indian plant root used in religious ceremonies and thought to be a good-luck charm.
Credit: World Animal Protection
Poachers have been caught trying to illegally sell dried lizard penises online to unwitting customers looking to purchase a rare Indian root called "Hatha Jodi." The root looks like two praying hands and is thought to bring good luck.
Investigation into the illegal trade determined that along with dried specimens from monitor lizards, plastic molds of the animal's genitalia were also being peddled as Hatha Jodi. [Read more about good-luck root.]
Passing down the genes
People who have insomnia may have been told that their sleeping troubles are "all in their head," but a new study shows that this condition is driven not only by psychological factors, but biological ones as well.
The researchers found that seven genes were more common in people who had insomnia, meaning that these seven genes could indicate that a person has an increased risk for the sleep disorder. [Read more about insomnia and your genes.]
How to look for life
This artist’s impression shows an imagined view from the surface of a planet that was part of a star system found recently using the TRAPPIST telescope at the European Space Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. These worlds' sizes and temperatures are similar to those of Venus and Earth, and are the best targets found so far in the search for life outside our solar system.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
From the lovable, candy-munching E.T. to the deadly Xenomorphs from the "Alien" movies, science-fiction stories are bursting with all kinds of alien encounters. But in reality, we've yet to achieve contact — though not for lack of trying.
Stephen Hawking has a long list of warnings about threats to humanity.
Credit: Flickr/NASA HQ PHOTO.
Humanity should focus its efforts on exploring other worlds that we might inhabit, and to get there, Earthlings may need to ride on a beam of light, famed physicist Stephen Hawking says.
To bring these seeming pipe dreams closer to reality, Hawking, along with physicist and billionaire Yuri Milner, has founded a company called Breakthrough Starshot, which aims to make interstellar travel a reality. [Read more about the strange idea.]
A volcano or a pyramid?
El Volcán in the Nepeña Valley of coastal Peru has archaeologists stumped as to when and why this mound was built, though it may have served as a place for a ceremony related to a total solar eclipse.
Credit: Courtesy of Robert Benfer
From far away, El Volcán in the Nepeña Valley of coastal Peru might look like a natural feature in the landscape.
But this volcano is artificial, a mound or pyramid built by human hands with a crater dug out of the top. And some archaeologists are trying to figure out what it was used for. [Read more about the strange pyramid.]
Wine run
The boozy order found on the back of the pottery shard
Credit: American Friends of Tel Aviv University (AFTAU)
A previously overlooked inky inscription on a pottery shard found in Israel calls for the delivery of more wine, according to a new study, showing that not much has changed in 2,600 years for humanity, at least when it comes to wetting our whistles.
"While its front side has been thoroughly studied, its back was considered blank," study co-principal investigator Arie Shaus, a doctoral student of applied mathematics and archaeology at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel, said in a statement. [Read more about the shopping list.]
Domesticating cats
The Egyptian tomb-chapel of Nebamun, dating to about 1250 B.C., is on display at the British Museum. Notice the cat's stripes, which are reminiscent of a wildcat's markings.
Credit: Copyright Thierry Grange
Modern cat lovers can thank the farmers of ancient Anatolia in the Near East for domesticating their fluffy friends about 10,000 years ago, a new study finds.
However, it wasn't until the Middle Ages, after thousands of years of living alongside humans, that some cats (Felis silvestris) developed fur with patch-like patterns, and not until the 19th century that they were bred to have fancy coats, the researchers found. [Read more about kitty genealogy.]
Hiding multiverse?
Stop the worlds, I want to get off.
Credit: Victor Habbick/Shutterstock
By some estimates, the known universe may contain as many as 2 trillion galaxies, with the average galaxy holding approximately 100 million stars and untold numbers of planets. But could there be multiple copies of the entire universe as we understand it?
Multiple universes might also exist within contained bubbles of space-time, a concept explored in the video game "Bioshock Infinite." By this reckoning, inhabitants of two universes could theoretically interact should their "bubbles" connect to each other directly, according to Macdonald. [Read more about the missing worlds.]
Hacker group Anonymous claims Nasa is on the verge of announcing alien life
Hacker group Anonymous claims Nasa is on the verge of announcing alien life
Hacker collective Anonymous has released a video repeating others' claims that Nasa is on the verge of announcing contact with alien life.
The video, released on an unofficial YouTube channel claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous, repeats the text of three articles from the conspiracy website Ancient-Code.com, according to the Daily Mail.
The video, which runs with advertising, has garnered over half a million views.
Anonymous claims head of Nasa Science Mission Directorate Professor Thomas Zurbuchen said at the meeting: "Our civilisation is on the verge of discovering evidence of alien life in the cosmos.
"Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are searching for alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history."
Recent discoveries in our solar system and beyond have boosted the hopes of those who long for first contact with alien life.
In April, scientists announced that the Cassini space probe had discovered hydrogen on the Saturn moon of Enceladus, the "missing ingredient" that could support microbial life on the seafloor of the icebound moon.
And just this month, scientists at Nasa's Ames Research Centre revealed the "most reliable" catalogue yet of potential planets in our galaxy, bringing the total to 4034.
According to the scientists, more than 2300 planets spotted during the Kepler missions have been confirmed so far, including more than 30 terrestrial-sized planets that lie in the "Goldilocks Zone" of their star considered conducive to life.
The new findings represent an explosion in knowledge about potential havens for alien life on other planets.
"Only in the last few decades have we been able to detect the existence of other worlds," said House Committee on Science Space and Technology chairman Lamar Smithin at an April 26 hearing. "The pursuit of evidence of life beyond our planet fascinates the American people."
Anonymous' video opens by reading the text of an article responding to that Congressional hearing and predicting the imminent announcement of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
That article, and two other read aloud in the video, appeared on the website Ancient Code between January and April of this year, DailyMail.com can confirm.
The articles ran without bylines. The Ancient Code website appears to be registered in Croatia.
Hacker group Anonymous claims Nasa is on the verge of announcing alien life
Hacker group Anonymous claims Nasa is on the verge of announcing alien life
Hacker collective Anonymous has released a video repeating others' claims that Nasa is on the verge of announcing contact with alien life.
The video, released on an unofficial YouTube channel claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous, repeats the text of three articles from the conspiracy website Ancient-Code.com, according to the Daily Mail.
The video, which runs with advertising, has garnered over half a million views.
Anonymous claims head of Nasa Science Mission Directorate Professor Thomas Zurbuchen said at the meeting: "Our civilisation is on the verge of discovering evidence of alien life in the cosmos.
"Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are searching for alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history."
Recent discoveries in our solar system and beyond have boosted the hopes of those who long for first contact with alien life.
In April, scientists announced that the Cassini space probe had discovered hydrogen on the Saturn moon of Enceladus, the "missing ingredient" that could support microbial life on the seafloor of the icebound moon.
And just this month, scientists at Nasa's Ames Research Centre revealed the "most reliable" catalogue yet of potential planets in our galaxy, bringing the total to 4034.
According to the scientists, more than 2300 planets spotted during the Kepler missions have been confirmed so far, including more than 30 terrestrial-sized planets that lie in the "Goldilocks Zone" of their star considered conducive to life.
The new findings represent an explosion in knowledge about potential havens for alien life on other planets.
"Only in the last few decades have we been able to detect the existence of other worlds," said House Committee on Science Space and Technology chairman Lamar Smithin at an April 26 hearing. "The pursuit of evidence of life beyond our planet fascinates the American people."
Anonymous' video opens by reading the text of an article responding to that Congressional hearing and predicting the imminent announcement of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
That article, and two other read aloud in the video, appeared on the website Ancient Code between January and April of this year, DailyMail.com can confirm.
The articles ran without bylines. The Ancient Code website appears to be registered in Croatia.
The hacker collective Anonymous has released a video repeating others' claims that NASA is on the verge of announcing contact with alien life.
The video, released Tuesday on an unofficial YouTube channel claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous, repeats the text of three articles from the conspiracy website Ancient-Code.com.
The video, which runs with advertising, has garnered over half a million views.
Recent discoveries both in our solar system and beyond have in fact boosted the hopes of those who long for first contact with alien life.
Recent discoveries both in our solar system and beyond have in fact boosted the hopes of those who long for first contact with alien life
In April, scientists announced that the Cassini space probe had discovered hydrogen on the Saturn moon of Enceladus, the 'missing ingredient' that could support microbial life on the seafloor of the icebound moon.
And just this month, scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center revealed the 'most reliable' catalog yet of potential planets in our galaxy, bringing the total to 4,034.
According to the scientists, over 2,300 planets spotted during the Kepler missions have been confirmed so far, including over 30 terrestrial-sized planets that lie in the 'Goldilocks Zone' of their star considered conducive to life.
The new findings represent an explosion in knowledge about potential havens for alien life on other planets.
'Only in the last few decades have we been able to detect the existence of other worlds,' said House Committee on Science Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smithin an April 26 hearing. 'The pursuit of evidence of life beyond our planet fascinates the American people.'
Science: Hydrogen gas, discovered in high-powered jets of water during Cassini’s deepest plunge, is now said to be 'a potential source of chemical energy that could support microbes on the seafloor of Enceladus,' researchers revealed during a NASA press conference
Facts: Of the 4,034 exoplanet candidates identified so far, 2,335 have now been verified. Researchers say the findings could ultimately help guide the search for alien life, offering ‘the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date’
The Anonymous video opens by reading the text of an article responding to that Congressional hearing and predicting the imminent announcement of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
That article, and two other read aloud in the video, appeared on the website Ancient Code between January and April of this year, DailyMail.com can confirm.
The articles ran without bylines. The Ancient Code website appears to be registered in Croatia.
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Roswell, New Mexico festival celebrates 70th anniversary of UFO incident
Roswell, New Mexico festival celebrates 70th anniversary of UFO incident
By OLLIE REED JR. | Albuquerque Journal, N.M. (TNS)
ROSWELL, N.M. (Tribune News Service) — Suddenly, the silver saucer that has been suspended, stationary and silent above and behind four sallow-skinned, somber-faced, spaced-out aliens, starts to spin and spew smoke.
Caught by surprise, visitors to the International UFO Museum and Research Center – kids and adults – stand wide-eyed and transfixed, traces of smiles creasing their faces as they watch and wonder what’s next.
Well, actually, that’s about all. This saucer in the museum display does not crash as many people believe – or would like to believe – an actual alien craft did 70 years ago and about 75 miles northwest of here.
The so-called Roswell Incident of 1947 is the reason the city of Roswell started a UFO Festival in 1995 and will host the 2017 festival Thursday, June 29, through Sunday, July 2.
It’s the reason stores along Main Street sell T-shirts embossed with little green men and slogans such as “Roswell – Green since 1947.”
It’s the reason why this museum was opened in 1992. And it’s the reason Dana Lenko, 35, alien-visaged antennae growing out of her long, dark hair, is among the museum visitors delighting in the spinning, smoking saucer.
Lenko is a native of Melbourne, Australia, but she has lived in this country for three years and makes her home in Austin, where she is a fashion designer. Earlier this month, she was traveling with friends in New Mexico.
“I have never been in New Mexico before,” she said. “We want to see Santa Fe and Taos. But I’ve always been very keen on the stars and the vastness of space. My dad was an amateur astronomer. He gave me a love for that and for science fiction and the films. So I wanted to see Roswell for sure. You’ve got the chance to come here where it all started.”
Strange debris
There were reports of Unidentified Flying Objects before whatever happened in New Mexico in the summer of 1947 happened. But the Roswell Incident planted the seed out of which today’s fascination with extraterrestrial visitation sprouted.
A publicity poster for the 2017 Roswell, N.M. UFO festival. UFOFESTIVALROSWELL.COM
It started when W.W. “Mac” Brazel, who was running a sheep operation on a ranch 30 miles southeast of Corona, in Lincoln County, found debris scattered in his pasture in the summer of 1947. It was described as lightweight wood, tinfoil, tape, paper and strips of rubber, which sounds mundane enough. Except that some of it has also been described as impervious to fire, knife and hammer and unnaturally resilient.
When Brazel told neighbors about it during the first week of July, they said he might have found wreckage from one of those flying saucers that had been in newspaper stories recently. So Brazel drove down to Roswell Army Air Field and reported his find.
The Army collected the debris and on July 8 the Roswell air field public relations officer released information saying the Army had recovered a flying disc. It made newspaper headlines, but the story was retracted by the Army almost immediately. The debris was actually from a weather balloon, the Army said. So sorry for the goof up.
That could have been that. Mac Brazel died in 1963 and the years rolled along until 1980, when, in “The Roswell Incident,” Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore wrote that the weather balloon story was a cover-up, that not only was the stuff Brazel found from a flying saucer but that the Army had discovered the crashed saucer itself and the bodies of its alien crew.
It exploded from there. There were more books with varying body counts and crash-site locations. There was a 1999 TV movie; a 1999-2002 TV series; countless TV documentaries, including one in 1995 that claimed to depict an autopsy of an alien crash victims (it wasn’t); and a 1999 episode on “The X-Files” TV series.
Wall-to-wall people
Roswell, a city of 50,000 about 200 miles southeast of Albuquerque, was not about to miss out on the action or the opportunity. Today, the “Welcome to Roswell” sign sports a tilted saucer on one corner. Through 2016, the UFO Museum had attracted 3,569,826 visitors, 13 percent of whom come from other countries. This year’s UFO festival is expected to draw 30,000 people, a boon to hotels, restaurants, service stations and stores with names such as Alien Zone, Alien Invasion, 3RD Rock From the Sun and Roswell Landing.
“The festival is our Black Friday,” said Robert Marshall, 53, a Roswell native and an employee of Roswell Landing, which sells alien-themed merchandise such as T-shirts, coffee cups, shot glasses, key chains, magnets and so on. “We’ve been back stocking a lot of merchandise (for the festival). Upstairs is all T-shirts.”
Jessie Payne, 32, manager of Alien Zone, remembers the 1997 festival, which marked the Roswell Incident’s 50th anniversary, as being the landmark celebration to date.
“That was wall-to-wall people,” she said. “People were walking up and down Main Street for miles. You couldn’t (drive) anywhere for stopping for pedestrians.”
To boost its everyday traffic, Alien Zone features Area 51, a special section where, for a $2 to $3 admission fee, patrons can see displays depicting aliens adapting to earthly avocations such as lounging on couches and drinking beer.
On a recent day, Kevin Childers, 33, a medical doctor from Hendersonville, Tenn., and his wife, Danielle, 30, checked out Area 51. The Childers said their interest in Roswell had been piqued by “Unacknowledged,” a recent documentary about the suppression of alien-encounter incidents, a recurring theme in the UFO books, articles and films.
The Childers said they were having a good time in Roswell.
“We are here purely for the entertainment,” Kevin Childers said. “No tinfoil hats for us.”
Something happened
Roswell Landing’s Marshall said 95 percent of the people who come into the store are from somewhere else. He said those are the people who want alien T-shirts and coffee mugs.
He said it’s different for people, such as himself, who were born in Roswell.
“You hear about it so much you don’t pay attention to it anymore,” he said. “But something happened. When the Army tells the Roswell Record (newspaper) they have found a flying saucer, and then the next day they have to come back and say it was a weather balloon.”
One explanation, and it sounds reasonable, is that the Army was not covering up for a flying saucer find but for Project Mogul, an operation, top secret at the time, aimed at discovering whether or not the Soviet Union was testing atomic bombs. The project employed high-altitude balloons equipped with sensitive microphones that could detect sound waves generated by atomic testing. Maybe it was a Project Mogul balloon that crashed into Brazel’s sheep pasture.
Frank Kimbler, 61, one of the guest speakers at this year’s UFO Festival, thinks the Project Mogul theory is just so much gas.
“A craft of unknown origin crashed in the New Mexico desert and scared the hell out of the American military and out of people (witnesses) to the point they won’t talk about it today,” Kimbler said.
An assistant professor of earth sciences at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, Kimbler will be giving a festival lecture titled “Roswell Crash Site: The Quest for Physical Evidence.” Over the last seven years he has been scouring the Brazel debris field, using metal detectors, remote sensing and radiation-detecting devices to search for pieces of debris overlooked by the Army, artifacts that may shed some light on what happened there in 1947.
“All we have is handed-down stories,” he said. “I need to take some of my science and see if I can find some physical evidence. I’ve found some aluminum-type alloys. For good science, you need to have samples tested at three independent laboratories. But as soon as I start to get an answer, things disappear – in the mail or somehow.”
Nazi UFOs
Guy Malone, 48, of Roswell has organized a series of UFO Festival lectures that challenge the extraterrestrial hypothesis. He himself is doing presentations titled “Are Aliens Demons? Evidences That Suggest ‘Yes'” and “Roswell 1947: What Really Happened?”
Malone’s theory is that the Roswell Incident is about something more devious and sinister than an alien crash and subsequent government cover-up. He thinks it might have involved the crash of an experimental aircraft being developed for the United States by German scientists.
Malone said that following World War II, a secret effort, known as Operation Paperclip, smuggled hundreds of German scientists, engineers and technicians – many of them former members of the Nazi party – into this country.
“Hitler was notorious for developing flying craft of different shapes and propulsion devices,” Malone said. “The U.S. wanted the technology because the Russians were trying to scoop up these (Germans), as well as other countries.” He said some of the Germans were sent to Fort Bliss in Texas and New Mexico and White Sands in New Mexico.
Malone believes the cover-up was an attempt to keep new technology under wraps and conceal from the public the fact that Nazis were working for the U.S. government.
Don Schmitt, 62, the co-author of five books about the Roswell Incident, said he was a skeptic when he started investigating the case in 1989.
“But the moment we started talking to people who actually handled the material (debris found by Brazel), we started thinking ‘What if we are wrong?’,” Schmitt said during a phone interview from his Wisconsin home. He said the first 10 witnesses all said the same thing about the debris, that it was like metal but it wasn’t, it was like plastic but it wasn’t, that it couldn’t be cut or burned or creased. Now, he says, he is 99 percent sure the crash involved something from another world.
Schmitt and his writing partner, Thomas J. Carey, will give several lectures at the UFO festival, one titled “The Misadventures of Two Roswell Investigators.”
“The investigation is still fluid,” he said. “We are planning our sixth archaeological dig (at the Brazel debris field). We may come away with nothing, but we can say we did it.”
Mysterious universe
Back at the UFO Museum, Pamela Cortez, 46, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, is checking out the exhibits. She has come to New Mexico to visit her daughter and two grandkids, all of whom live in Carlsbad.
Cortez’s favorite museum display features statements by persons involved directly or indirectly with the Roswell incident. She thinks an alien spacecraft did slam into a New Mexico pasture 70 years ago.
“I believe it’s true. I believe the government hides a lot of stuff from us.”
Fashion designer Lenko, she of the alien antennae, is more cautious.
“I believe – in a more scientific way – that there might be other inhabitable planets out there,” she said. “It would be a bit arrogant of us to think that in this whole wide universe there is no other life. There’s a big universe out there, a lot of mysteries. It is very exciting.”
Researchers Kat Volk and Renu Malhotra studied the orbits of objects in the Kuiper Belt, the asteroid field where Pluto is located. Objects in the Kuiper Belt orbit at an incline relative to the rest of the solar system. Typically, unusual orbits like these can be explained by the gravitational influence of nearby planets, but there are no existing planets that could have caused this kind of tilt.
Heather Roper/LPL
One explanation, proposed by the researchers, is that there is another planet out there messing with those Kuiper Belt objects. According to the pair's calculations, the undiscovered planet would have to be about the same size as Mars. The researchers predict that the mystery planet is around twice as far away from us as Pluto, at 50 to 55 AU.
But there's good reason to be skeptical that this planet exists at all. A planet as large and close as the researchers claim shouldn't be too difficult to spot, so if it does exist it would be surprising that it was not noticed before now. There are several sky surveys like Pan-STARRS and NEOWISE that should have picked it up.
But just because they haven't seen anything yet doesn't mean that Planet 10 isn't out there. It could be particularly hard to spot, dark and non-reflective, or hiding in a region of the sky where we haven't looked at in detail. If Planet 10 isn't out there, that means something else is causing the strange orbits of all the objects in the Kuiper Belt, which might be an even bigger mystery.
It will probably take a very long time to find out for sure if Planet 10 is really out there, but expect a lot of astronomers and planetary experts to weigh in over the coming weeks and months. If Planet 10 does exist it'll only be a matter of time until we find it.
Questions for a UFO Expert: Bruce Maccabee on the Real X-Files, Roswell and His Own UFO Sighting
Questions for a UFO Expert: Bruce Maccabee on the Real X-Files, Roswell and His Own UFO Sighting
As scientific disciplines go, UFOlogy (pronounced you-FOL-oh-gee)—the study of understanding unidentified flying objects—does not get the level of respect that's accorded to, say, physics. Dr. Bruce Maccabee has a foot in both fields. He was an optical physicist for the U.S. Navy, now retired, and doubles as a dedicated ufologist. PM talked to Maccabee this week about his work.
Bruce Maccabee traces his involvement with UFOlogy to a lecture he attended by an UFO hunting organization called the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. At the time, he was earning his doctorate in physics at American University in Washington, D.C., and soon after the lecture, he signed up to volunteer for the Committee's office. Maccabee has since gone on to investigate dozens of UFO incidents including the Trent Farm incident of 1950, and he has written more than a hundred papers as one of the preeminent voices in the formal science of removing the "un" from "unidentified flying objects."
PM: What is the FBI's "flying-disc file"?
Maccabee: The FBI's flying-disc file began in the summer of 1947 after sightings of what we now call UFOs began in earnest. A sighting in Mount Rainer, Washington, was the first such event to be publicized in national newspapers in the United States. Kenneth Arnold, the witness and an experienced pilot, talked about semicircular craft traveling at great speed and flipping and flashing as they bounced along. He said it was somewhat like skipping a saucer on the water, which led to some clever newsman coining "flying saucers." A barrage of flying saucer sightings followed, including reports from Air Force officers seeing unknown things fly over their bases. On July 10, top Air Force intelligence generals asked the FBI if they would investigate to see if Communist sympathizers were generating spurious, false stories about craft with extreme dynamic capabilities to scare the American people into thinking that the Soviet Union had gotten far ahead of us. That was considered subversive activity, and of course the FBI was hot on subversion at the time. The FBI investigated for two months, interviewing a dozen or so witnesses, and some of the case reports were filed under--believe it or not--"Security Matter X." So we're talking about the real X-Files.
How did you get access to these documents?
I had filed a Freedom of Information Act request in the fall of 1976, so I figured sometime around 2010 I would get a response. So I was very surprised when I got a phone call at my desk in May 1977 from a very surprised FBI investigator saying he'd found 1600 pages of UFO-related stuff.
What is in these X-Files?
Amid the interoffice memoranda and newspaper clippings, I realized there was some pretty hot-potato stuff. For example, it was the first time that there was any public knowledge of the FBI's involvement with UFO investigations. J. Edgar Hoover [the long-time FBI Director] had lied in the 1960s about that. Though the FBI found no evidence of pro-Communist subversion, this arrangement opened a doorway for the Air Force to contact the FBI and send more UFO information. From then on the FBI acted like a black hole--stuff would go in, but nothing would come out. Basically, the Air Force continued telling things about UFOs to the FBI that they did not share with the American public. In 1998, the X-Files were posted on the FBI's website, and you can read more in my book called The UFO/FBI Connection.
What about the Roswell, New Mexico, incident of July 7, 1947, when a flying saucer allegedly crashed in the desert?
I think Roswell was covered up to the extent that people in Air Force intelligence didn't even know about it. The FBI is involved in a piece of it, too--a document notes that telephonic conversation between Air Force people indicated that the crash remains did not fully meet the description of a weather balloon (the official explanation). For those of us on the outside, we have no hard evidence. The case for Roswell actually started in 1979 when Jesse Marcel, the Army Major who played a role in the recovery of the crash debris, started publicly saying how he thought it was an alien spaceship. Until then, Roswell had totally dropped out of UFO history.
It was September 16, 1991, in Gulf Breeze, Florida. In November 1990 they started having nightly reports of this red light thing in the sky that very often would burst into flashes and go out. Sometimes it went from white to red or back. Mostly it was one object, but sometimes there were multiple ones. News crews went down there several times, and from as far away as Japan and Germany. It was thought that these sightings might be gas bag balloons with flares attached--a hoax. But triangulation of an object showed that it moved at 30 miles per hour crosswind, which can only be done if you have a powered device. So if it was a hoax, you'd have to have a blimp or perhaps an unmanned aerial vehicle that carried one or more complex pyrotechnic display devices. It couldn't just be a regular road flare given the color changes and flashing. If this is a hoax, it's a major one. I thought I had better go. So one night we're out there at the south end of the Pensacola Bay Bridge and a lady yelled, "There it is!" I looked up in the sky and saw a spot of lights. Then through my binoculars--the standard necklace for night-watching--I saw the image resolve itself into eight tiny white lights with a yellow tinge. I went ahead and tried to do my measurements. I had brought with me a "big ear," which is a sensitive microphone for listening at a distance. I couldn't hear a thing. The UFO moved somewhat and then disappeared. I didn't call the guys in white coats to take me away because 30 other people saw the same thing. We got a lot of pictures of these sightings, which allowed for analysis. By knowing how big the image is on film, you can calculate its angular size out to a distance of a mile or two or 10. In this instance, it got to the point where it was like turning on a chandelier, tens of feet in diameter, at an altitude of a mile--now how the hell do you do that?
UFO researcher says new documentary exposes ‘what the secret agenda has been’
UFO researcher says new documentary exposes ‘what the secret agenda has been’
Film paired with Steven Greer’s book gets Toronto premiere this weekend at Alien Cosmic Expo UFO symposium.
Steven Greer says release of what government knows about UFOS "would create a scandal thousands of times worse than Watergate or Russia-gate or whatever."
Even within the much-maligned and widely misunderstood field of “UFOlogy,” Steven Greer is a divisive figure.
His affinity for the spotlight and his willingness to dive deep into areas of the subject where other UFO researchers fear to tread have painted him with a broader target for contention than many of his contemporaries. He is at it once again with the recent book-and-film combo Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the Greatest Secret in Human History — the compelling documentary half of which will receive its Toronto premiere coupled with a Q&A with Greer this Saturday. The event is open to non-conference attendees as part of the three-day Alien Cosmic Expo UFO symposium taking place over the weekend at the Airport Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Greer is not easing off. As he puts it, Unacknowledged — the book and the film, the latter directed by first-time documentarian Michael Mazzola — “really take people from zero to 100 quickly.”
The Unacknowledged project basically lays all the cards on the table this former emergency-room physician from Charlotte, N.C., has accumulated during his 24 years advocating for official, institutional “disclosure” of what government, military and the intelligence community really know about unidentified flying objects at the helm of the Disclosure Project.
But these days Greer is pushing it all one step further.
Unacknowledged alleges that a military-industrialist cabal of semi-public/semi-private interests has had access to technology reverse-engineered from crashed UFOs for more than half a century that would render all known terrestrial sources of power and propulsion obsolete, and yet has withheld it from the public due to its defence value and the potential damage its unveiling would pose to the “global macroeconomic order.”
Some, the book and the film contend, would also like to keep this all under wraps because beyond-top-secret terrestrial capabilities to reproduce alien craft could be very useful in psychological warfare — even in staging an entire “false-flag” invasion by imagined alien aggressors from the stars.
“Well, that’s the problem,” says Greer.
“One of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing is that there are people within the intelligence community who don’t know how to get themselves out of that hole and yet they’re very supportive of disclosure, and they’ve told me this.
“If you read between the lines of what I just said, what I’m saying to you — and you’re welcome to print this — is that there are some very powerful interests who realize that they are stuck in this black hole and they don’t know how to get out of it because it would create a scandal thousands of times worse than Watergate or Russia-gate or whatever the latest scandal is that the Washington Post and the New York Times and perhaps your paper are obsessing on.”
Far-fetched, perhaps. But to develop a serious interest in the serious study of UFOs — and there is serious study out there, despite the subject’s persistent reputation as the obsession of conspiracy theorists and tinfoil-hat-wearing nutjobs — requires not only concurrently developing a thick skin against accusations that you are a conspiracy theorist, a tinfoil-hat-wearing nutjob or some combination thereof, but also doing enough research into the matter that you can start to sort the credible stuff from the lunacy.
That’s not always easy. As Greer notes: “There’s so much nonsensical information out there on the subject that it self-ridicules.”
Still, UFO lore is rife with much documentary evidence, and remaining ignorant, as Greer sees it, will only allow those in the know to use whatever hidden knowledge they might have for further hidden purposes. And he’s dead serious about false UFO events being potentially used to manipulate the public.
“Look, we stampeded into Iraq after 9/11 without there being a scintilla of evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 and we know now that that was completely a hoax.
“So the question becomes how easy is it for the intelligence community using their mouthpieces in the media . . . to put out a scenario that would scare the hell out of people so that people would give up their liberties and their finances and what have you — their blood and treasure — to stampede into the next big thing, which has been planned for 60 years and that is a conflict between humans and other planetary societies.
“Now, it’s completely nonsensical. It’s as nonsensical as going into Iraq was, but we did go into Iraq and there are hundreds of thousands of people dead as a result and now Syria has blown apart. So there are consequences to this . . .
“The majority of people already believe there is intelligent life out there and the last poll I saw said that 43 per cent of Americans think we’re currently being visited. More than half the public all over the world believes that UFOs are real and that governments are hiding something. So that battle has been won, but the larger argument has to still be engaged.
“And that’s why we made this film, in part, to expose what the secret agenda has been and the disinformation campaigns.”
Secret Underground Bases and the True Story of Philip Schneider
Secret Underground Bases and the True Story of Philip Schneider
Philip Schneider died on January 17, 1996, shortly after conducting several controversial lectures throughout the US, including Denver where he covered topics such as, Space-Defense, black helicopters, railroad cars built with shackles, extraterrestrials and the secret black budget.
He was reportedly strangled by a catheter found wrapped around his neck – the bizarre death being dismissed by the authorities as suicide.
If the circumstances of his death seem highly controversial, they are matched by the controversy over his public statements uttered shortly before his death.
Philip Schneider was a self-taught geologist and explosives expert. Of the 1,477 underground bases around the world, 129 deep underground facilities of which were located in the United States, he claimed to have worked on 13.
Two of these bases were major, including the much rumored bioengineering facility at Dulce, New Mexico.
At Dulce, Schneider maintained, “gray” humanoid extraterrestrials worked side by side with American technicians. In 1979, a misunderstanding arose. In the ensuing shootout, 66 Secret Service, FBI and Black Berets were killed along with an unspecified number of “grays”.
It was here he received a beam-weapon blast to the chest which caused his later cancer many have confirmed that a large scar indeed existed.
Philip Schneider recounts his encounter with extraterrestrials in the following excerpt:
“I was involved in building an addition to the deep underground military base at Dulce, which is probably the deepest base. 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.”
An fire exchange occurred between gray aliens and secret service personnel.
In the ensuing shootout, 66 Secret Service, FBI and Black Berets were killed along with an unspecified number of “grays”. It was here he received a beam-weapon blast to the chest which caused his later cancer; many have confirmed that a large scar indeed existed.
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.”
Some of Schneider’s more major accusations are worthy of attention:
1) The American government concluded a treaty with “gray” aliens in 1954. This mutual cooperation pact is called the Grenada 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.)
Finally, Phil Schneider lamented that the democracy he loved no longer existed: we had become instead a technocracy ruled by a shadow government 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.
In the following video Philip Schneider talks about his experience and what the government is trying to hide, furthermore, the history of underground bases told by Richard Dolan and Richard Sauder.
The fossil that inspired Alien: 300 million-year-old relic which designer used to create extra-terrestrials in sci-fi classic
The fossil that inspired Alien: 300 million-year-old relic which designer used to create extra-terrestrials in sci-fi classic
Most of us do not believe in aliens but looking at this strange fossil might just make you stop and think.
This relic is in fact the ancient fossil that inspired the extra-terrestrial antagonists in Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi horror, Alien.
The creator of Alien was Swiss surrealist artist, Hans Rudolf Giger, who was sought out by Ridley Scott to design the creatures after he saw Giger’s artwork Necronom IV, one among his many designs that are said to have been based on the fossils.
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Alien abduction: This 300-million-year-old fossil, which inspired the artist who designed the extra-terrestrial antagonist of the Alien films, was stolen and and later returned to a Swiss museum
Mr Giger’s designs – one of which was all too memorably seen bursting out of a character’s chest on screen – went on to win his team an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects on the 1979 film and the franchise that followed.
But the stranger than fiction fossil is actually the remains of an early form of life that existed on our own planet an incredible 300 million years ago.
And the extremely rare fossil captured the public imagination so much when it went on display in Switzerland that it not only attracted plenty of visitors, it also tempted a thief.
Police believe the thief – who broke into the case and stole the Aathal dinosaur museum’s prize exhibit – is a fossil collector.
The iconic scene in Ridley Scott’s film when one of the alien’s wrapped itself around John Hurt’s face
The relic was the inspiration for Ridley Scott’s blockbuster film Alien
Last week police released the photo in a bid to find the exhibit and track down whoever who took it.
And now the priceless piece has been returned after it was put into the museum’s post box tucked inside a padded envelope.
Museum curator Dr. Thomas Bolliger said: ‘It was comparatively undamaged – although one of the arms had broken off.
‘It really is a remarkable fossil and shows two separate species of a spineless animal that lived at the bottom of the sea around 300 million years ago.’
A museum spokesman added: ‘It is a very valuable but also a very unique fossil and it will be very difficult for anybody to sell or indeed to keep secret given the publicity around the theft.’
Inspired: Necronom IV by H.R. Giger is based on the ancient Swiss fossils and is the artwork that got Mr Giger the Academy Award-winning job as head of the Alien design team
The following account, from Terry – of Shingle Springs, California – is without doubt one of the most chilling MIB-themed reports ever to have reached me. And, taking into consideration the large number of reports I get on a regular basis, I don’t state those words lightly. Terry tells a fascinatingly weird and creepy saga of a face-to-face encounter with an old and sinister man in Black forty years ago. In Terry’s own uninterrupted words: “This encounter occurred during the day time thirty five years ago in 1977 at a Winchell’s in Sunnyvale, California, I was just sixteen years of age at the time. My best friend and I had just finished our coffee and were heading for the doorway to leave. As we were passing a man seated at one of the tables, he reached out and firmly grabbed my wrist. In that moment my first reaction was to jerk away from his grip, but looking down at him I realized that he was a very old man and I felt in that moment that he was harmless. He was dressed in black wearing an old fashioned hat and suit, his clothing looked like it was from the 1930’s. He was extremely pale, very thin and appeared to be very old, I guessed in his 80’s or 90’s.
“He told my friend and I that he was a palm reader, a very good one, he claimed and could he please do us a favor by giving us each a reading. My friend and I talked briefly to each other about his offer and agreed to let him. I first sat down across the table from him, then as my friend was starting to sit down along side of me, he stopped her and asked her to please go sit a few tables away out of earshot from us, explaining that the information was going to be direct and personal, we would need some privacy. She complied and moved several tables away.
“Once my friend was seated away from us, I placed my hands on the table in front of him, palms up and looked into the man’s face, it was then that I noticed the old man’s eyes were completely glazed over with cataracts, he was surely blind I thought, as his gaze was unfixed and unfocused in my direction. I asked him how long had he been a psychic? He responded by saying that his ability had nothing to do with being psychic and emphasized that it had everything to do with ‘science.’
“He began by talking about my early childhood experiences along with some very painful incidents that had occurred to me in which he had precise and detailed information that I was sure no one could have known about. Quite suddenly I felt very vulnerable and exposed as he recounted these events, his knowledge unnerved me to my very core. Staring straight ahead he moved along into my present situation, lecturing and chastising me like a father would a child, for some poor choices I had made during that time. All the while he broke a doughnut down into tiny pieces. My mind raced as I tried to figure out how on earth could he know this stuff? It was then in that moment that I would forever change my ideas of ‘secrets kept’ and how I viewed my own identity in the world. Apparently ‘nothing’ could be hidden from myself or anyone else for that matter. I felt naked in the truth.
“He continued this reading now delving into my future and that of upcoming world events, with stories sometimes so harsh and brutal that I clearly remember wondering if I would ever ‘catch a break in life?’ Among other things, he warned me of a time when that by speaking about my UFO experiences I would anger ‘the governmental powers that be’ and he cautioned that I would be dealing with very dangerous people and circumstances. He rambled on often emphasizing again that this all had to do with ‘science.’
“I then asked him if he could see any kind of success coming to me, ever? He responded by telling me, ‘You will not find success in life, you will die of a broken heart. It will be a better stronger woman who will be successful.’ As I listened to his words I began to cry and he sharply asked me, ‘Are you going to lay down and die like a frightened whore, or are you going to be willing to stand up and fight like a worthy warrior?’ I was stunned into silence and then he said, ‘Whether you realize this or not, I have done you a huge favor today and I will be returning to see you in the future, years from now to collect on it.’
“As a side note, I do not recall the exact time he said, but do recall thinking ‘You’ll be long dead by then old man.’ Our reading ended, he asked me to leave the table and he then waived for my friend to come over to sit with him. He spent all of five minutes with her and when she arose from the table she was badly shaken and would only say that she hoped that what he predicted for her was not true.
“As we exited the doughnut shop I tried to press my friend for more information because she was crying, but she was too upset to speak about what he had said to her. Once out on the street the both of us walking together toward home, my friend asked me to tell her about what the old man said to me in my reading with him, she pointed out that the reading he gave went on for an hour and forty five minutes with me. I was lost for words when she spoke up and said, ‘Linda I don’t think he was a person, I think that old man was an alien.’
“Right in that moment as she was speaking we watched as an old black 1930’s or 40’s gangster type car with running boards pull out of the parking lot and pass us on the street, there was no driver at the wheel and the same old man that we had met, was riding in the back seat. Our mouths dropped as we watched the car pass by us and at the same time a whirlwind picked up and swirled around our feet. We watched the car disappear from view making a turn further down the street, I then shook my head and responded to her with ‘No, he was just a creepy old man in black.’
“Over the years during the course of our friendship my friend and I would many times ponder and question our meeting with ‘the old man in black.’ We could not understand who or what he was and neither of us would reveal to the other exactly what his frightening messages to each of us separately were, agreeing only that we felt that he was speaking the truth and that it was frightening for both us. We would part ways and our friendship ended in 1988 when I came out to her about my lifelong UFO experiences and the old man’s messages to me. She mocked and ridiculed me in that moment. It was a very painful ending to our relationship for me. I would struggle with it for years.
“In 1988 when I began to seriously study the UFO phenomena I came across stories about these Men in Black, Master Tricksters and the like. It was then that I began to understand who and what they are and how this ‘old man in black‘ specifically related to me as that young teenager all those years ago and yet, I was still haunted by his promise to return to collect on that favor.
“During Christmas of 2009, alone in my mother’s apartment while she traveled, I found myself slipping into a deep depression and I was filled with despair. During the course of that year I had lost a job that I loved due to the economy, gone through a terrible break up with a man I could no longer love, I found out that my old friend who was with me in 1977 on that day with the ‘old man in black’ in Sunnyvale had died in 2008 from cancer and I had still not gotten over losing my beloved horse Meaghan, who had also died the year before, leaving me filled with a sorrow that I was not able to overcome.
“Starting on Christmas day I fasted and prayed for three days hoping that I could find some peace and comfort. It was then I realized that, I was indeed ‘heartbroken’ over my losses and suddenly the encounter with ‘the old man in black‘ came flooding back into my mind and would not leave me alone. In trying to escape his words and his terrible messages to me, I began drinking heavily at night until I could find some peace in sleep. This would go on into the beginning of 2011 when I finally began to slowly recover from the pain. I finally thought I had come to terms with that old man’s warnings and I successfully quit drinking, my attitude shifted and I was now looking forward to a great new year.
“In April of last year [Nick’s note: 2011] I discovered a lump in my breast and was at first unconcerned about it, I thought that it was probably a just a fibroid cyst that would go away on its own. I put off having it checked out until July when the lump had grown quite large and when the results came back positive for cancer I was shocked. Last month after trying a lot of alternative therapies in the prior months since July, I had a mastectomy. The pathology indicates that I have advanced stage cancer and once again the ‘old man in black’ and his words are haunting me. Oddly I find myself both eager and apprehensive as I await his return, but know that above all, I am no longer afraid.”
There ends Terry’s words. The story, however, is not quite over. There is one final, very strange story to tell. Terry emailed the above account to me on February 28, 2012. In the copy that arrived to me, after the final sentence above that ends “…I am no longer afraid,” were these words: “I will probably have to keep him at bay when he returns.” When I sent Terry’s text back to her, to show her how it would be formatted in the pages of this book, she replied that she did not write those words of ‘I will probably have to keep him at bay when he returns.’ Rather, the last words in the email Terry sent me stated that with respect to the old MIB, she ‘would embrace him warmly.’
In other words, the email she sent me was subtly different to the one which I received. To this day, I have not been able to explain how such an odd, and somewhat unsettling, change should have been made to Terry’s text. The bigger questions, of course, are: (a) who was responsible for making the change? and (b) why?
It’s a UFO. It’s a strange balloon. It’s a propeller-less drone. It’s a flying turtle. It’s an alien dumpling. Whatever it is, it was seen over Oshawa in Ontario last week and has defied identification.
“It came out of no where, this thing, I was walking back to my car and I just saw something pop out of no where, way up high, far away in the sky.”
Wildlife photographer Ken Rice claims he was taking photos in a marsh area near the General Motors of Canada headquarters at about 7:45 p.m. on June 17 when the object suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
“I was walking back to my car and I just saw something pop out of no where, way up high, far away in the sky. I thought it was a big turkey vulture so I just took a picture of it anyway and then it kind of hovered, sat there for a minute and then it took off.”
As is the case with many UFO sightings, Rice says he took a closer look at the photos at home and realized it wasn’t a turkey vulture but a … well, this experienced wildlife photographer couldn’t identify the object as anything he’d seen in nature. Thinking it was the ever-popular weather balloon, he scanned the Internet for balloons that might look like this UFO but claims he found none. That’s when he posted it for the UFO experts on the web to tell him what it is.
If the object is manmade, it doesn’t look like the kind of thing Oshawa would be proud of. This high tech city was once known as the “Automotive Capital of Canada” – the UFO was spotted over the headquarters of GM Canada – and is now the place to go in Canada for jobs in advanced manufacturing, health technology, logistics, energy and IT. The UFO doesn’t look like a promotional balloon or flying vehicle that GM would be using or testing and its shape is not something high tech drone designers would be proud of … even as a hoax.
Speaking of hoax, could Ken Rice be perpetrating one? It’s hard to believe a “wildlife photographer” would mistake that floating spiked pillow for a turkey vulture and the sky doesn’t look dark enough to play tricks on a trained photographer’s eye. If he’s been out in the marshes long enough, he would certainly recognize it if it was a native creature. And, if he truly is an experienced camera guy, he’d know a bug or speck of pollen flying in front of his lens. Also, if he’s handy with photographic software, his CGI would be better, wouldn’t it?
The most common suggestion is that the object is a helium party balloon shaped like the sun or a sunflower. Rice vehemently disagrees with this.
“A balloon wouldn’t go that fast and disappear No. 1, and it was too high. Nobody would be flying a kite there because it’s just railroad tracks and the road and there was nobody around there. I didn’t see anybody, and where did it go?”
Unfortunately, he took photos and not a video.
Balloon? Drone? Tiny spaceship? Organic flying alien from the planet Turtlonia? What do you think?
WAT HAD DIE UFO TE ZOEKEN BIJ DE GRENFELL TOREN IN LONDEN ? ( VIDEO )
WAT HAD DIE UFO TE ZOEKEN BIJ DE GRENFELL TOREN IN LONDEN? (VIDEO)
De werkelijke betekenis van holocaust is een ritueel offer waarbij veel mensen door vuur om het leven komen.
Ze laten altijd een handtekening achter, want ondanks alles willen ze toch dat mensen weten dat zij erachter zitten.
Enkele weken geleden schreven wij enkele artikelen waaruit duidelijk blijkt dat de werkelijke machthebbers op deze aarde beschikken over zeer vergevorderde technologie.
Technologie die waarschijnlijk tot stand is gekomen door reverse engineering aan de hand van gecrashte buitenaardse ruimteschepen zoals in Roswell het geval was.
Dit betekent dat ze de beschikking hebben over wat wij normaal gesproken UFOs noemen. Voor ons onbekende objecten die razendsnel door het luchtruim schieten. Echter, wat wij ontdekten, was dat deze UFO’s onder andere werden gebruikt voor een aanslag tijdens een begrafenis in de Afghaanse hoofdstad Kabul.
Toen we verder zochten, zagen we al vrij snel dat dit ook de manier was waarop ze tijdens 9/11 de Twin Towers in eerste instantie zwaar hebben beschadigd en ze ermee aanvielen.
Nu, iets meer dan tien dagen geleden, een enorme brand in de Grenfell toren in West Londen waarbij tientallen mensen om het leven kwamen.
Met de eerdere UFO aanslagen van in gedachten, lijkt het op bovenstaande beelden dat men deze UFO even heeft langs gestuurd om te kijken of de missie is gelukt.
Er zijn natuurlijk de laatste anderhalve week al talloze geluiden te horen geweest over hoe deze brand misschien wel eens aangestoken zou kunnen zijn.
Terwijl de mainstream-media allemaal braaf het verhaaltje plaatsen van een exploderende koelkast van een merk en type waar nog nooit eerder dit soort problemen mee zijn gemeld, zien doorgewinterde onderzoekers toch wel degelijk tekenen die erop wijzen dat hier opzet in het spel is.
De onroerend goed markt in Londen is net zoals die in New York in handen van leden van de Sekte van het Alziend Oog, ook wel de Sabbateans genoemd. Je komt daar bijvoorbeeld in New York heel prominent de naam van Jared Kushner tegen, de schoonzoon van Donald Trump en de vertegenwoordiger van Tel Aviv in het Witte Huis.
Naast alle politieke overwegingen zat er bijvoorbeeld bij de aanslag van 9/11 ook een heel andere kant aan de zaak en dat had alles te maken met onroerend goed.
Voorafgaand aan 9/11 waren er behoorlijke problemen met de Twin Towers vanwege asbest dat erin voorkwam. Er was door een rechtbank bepaald dat alle asbest verwijderd moest worden, een klus die vele miljoenen dollars, er wordt gesproken zelfs over miljarden, zou hebben gekost. In ieder geval veel meer dan de gebouwen op dat moment waard waren.
Naast de asbestproblemen waren er nog talloze andere, zoals de leegstand in het gebouw, een zwaar verouderde communicatiestructuur binnen de gebouwen en men was ze eigenlijk liever kwijt dan rijk.
En dus schuift de Sekte een “goedwillende burger” naar voren, de crimineel Larry Silverstein die zoals een goede Chazaar betaamd zijn fortuin had verdiend in de seksindustrie. Deze koopt in juli 2001 het gebouw en verdubbelt het bedrag voor terrorisme verzekering.
Dat Larry Silverstein een goede persoonlijke vriend is van de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu berust puur op toeval en daar moet verder niets achter gezocht worden.
Op de dag van de aanslag moest de heer Silverstein helaas zijn gebruikelijke ontbijt op de bovenste verdieping van de noordelijke toren aan zich voorbij laten gaan omdat zijn vrouw hem er gelukkig aan had herinnerd dat hij een afspraak had met de huidarts. Het toeval wil dat zijn dochter een vergelijkbare reden had om die ochtend niet in de toren aanwezig te zijn.
De rest van het verhaal is simpelweg dat Silverstein in totaal zo'n vijf miljard dollar contant ontving in verzekeringsgeld voor een totale investering van 15 miljoen dollar, met daarnaast nog eens het recht om een nieuw gebouw neer te zetten.
Dezelfde soort figuren hebben ook de onroerend goed markt in Londen in handen en natuurlijk willen ze het liefst die arme lui uit deze wijk hebben zodat ze dure appartementen kunnen neerzetten voor het rijkere deel van de bevolking.
Is de gevelbeplating aangebracht om er zo voor te zorgen dat een brand zich niet alleen heel snel verspreid, maar dit ook doet volgens een bepaald patroon?
Hebben we hier een soort herhaling van brandende Twin Towers, waarbij prominent het getal 11 in beeld komt, één van de meest heilige bij satanisten en vrijmetselaars?
De vrijmetselaars die weer onderdeel vormen van de Sabbateans en gek zijn op menselijke offers door middel van vuur (holocaust).
Wij associëren het woord holocaust met de Jodenvervolging, maar de oorspronkelijke betekenis is als volgt:
Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire.
A sacrificial offering that is consumed entirely by flames.
Een brand in de Grenfell toren die rond een uur of één ’s nachts wordt ontdekt, maar waarbij het brandalarm pas om half twee af gaat.
Ondertussen worden meer flats geëvacueerd en zullen deze ongetwijfeld binnen niet al te lange tijd worden afgebroken en vervangen door meer gewenste bebouwing.
Hebben ze hier dezelfde tactiek gevolgd als met de begrafenis in Kabul en is er ’s avonds in het donker een UFO op afgestuurd die het gebouw op een aantal strategische plekken in brand heeft geschoten?
We zullen het misschien nooit zeker weten, maar alle tekenen wijzen weer op dezelfde satanische figuren die verantwoordelijk zijn voor heel veel van de ellende op deze aarde.
These objects are really Venus and Mercury against the backdrop of our Sun?
These objects are really Venus and Mercury against the backdrop of our Sun?
Using the NASA SOHO COR2 satellite tool, on May 6 and May 25, 2017 NASA showed observations of the orbits of the planets Mercury and Venus against the backdrop of our Sun.
As you will see later in the video, these shots could not be produced by the NASA satellite tool, because the satellite was completely elsewhere and could not transmit image data to NASA according to Myunhauzen74.
Myunhauzen74: Also, pay attention to the shape and the intensity of the glow of the planets. It can be concluded that, the planets have a form that does not correspond to scientific data. At all, I’m convinced that based on my analysis, NASA falsifies the (SOHO) observations of the planets, they not show us the real planets!
Astronomers believe they have found signs of a planet with a mass between that of Earth and Mars beyond Neptune.
The movement of objects in the Kuiper Belt – thousands of asteroids, comets and dwarf planets orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune – suggests a planet is hiding among them.
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MARS FUNSIZE: The planet is believed to between the size of Mars (pictured) and Earth
“Something as massive as Mars would be needed”
Kat Volk
Neptune – the eighth planet in our Solar System – is the furthest from the Sun so far proven to exist.
Scientists claimed to have discovered a ninth planet beyond Neptune – dubbed somewhat unimaginatively “Planet Nine”.
So – if it’s existence is confirmed – the new planet would be the tenth world in our Solar System.
Only a heavenly body the size of Mars or bigger would have enough mass to alter the orbits of other objects in the Kuiper Belt, researchers at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory say.
Research fellow Kat Volk, of LPL – whose study will be published in The Astronomical Journal – said: “The most likely explanation for our results is that there is some unseen mass.
“According to our calculations, something as massive as Mars would be needed to cause the warp that we measured."
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ICY GIANT: An artist's impression of Planet 9
The LPL team are sure their calculations point to a new planet – not Planet 9.
Planet 9 – which was also discovered through its effects on objects in the Kuiper Belt – is thought to be four times the size of Earth and 10 times its mass.
It is believed to be about 500 to 700 “astronomical units” from Earth – up to 65 trillion miles away.
Whatever is affecting the Kuiper Belt objects the researchers have spotted is much nearer.
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KUIPER BELT: Two asteroid belts sit between Mars and Jupiter and beyond Neptune
Ms Volk said: “[Planet 9] is too far away to influence these Kuiper Belt objects.
"It certainly has to be much closer than 100 AU to substantially affect the KBOs in that range."
The team hope a new telescope being built in Chile, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, may help them check out more objects in the Kuiper Belt, including the possible Planet 10.
Voyager 2's views of Uranus and Neptune as the probe flew past in the 1980s. New NASA missions could further explore the gas worlds.
Credit: Left: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Right: NASA
New NASA mission ideas would study the gassy environments of Uranus and Neptune, two planets on the edge of the solar system that spacecraft have visited only once.
The agency has several potential mission concepts on the table, including flybys, orbiters and even a spacecraft to dive into Uranus' atmosphere, agency officials said in a statement.
NASA released a study of potential future missions in support of the forthcoming Planetary Science Decadal Survey, a publication of the National Research Council that is used to help determine what missions NASA should pursue. The next survey covers science priorities from 2022 and 2032. [Auroras on Uranus Dazzle in New Hubble Telescope Views]
"This [NASA] study argues the importance of exploring at least one of these planets and its entire environment, which includes surprisingly dynamic icy moons, rings and bizarre magnetic fields," Mark Hofstadter, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in the statement. Hofstadter was one of the two co-chairs of the science team that produced the report.
"We do not know how these planets formed and why they and their moons look the way they do," added fellow co-chair Amy Simon, senior scientist of planetary atmospheres research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. "There are fundamental clues as to how our solar system formed and evolved that can only be found by a detailed study of one, or preferably both of these planets."
Both planets have been visited by a single spacecraft, Voyager 2, which flew by Uranus and Neptune in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Voyager 2 was tasked with viewing the largest planets of the outer solar system and took advantage of a rare planetary alignment to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on the probe's way out of the solar system. (The spacecrat's twin, Voyager 1, studied Jupiter and Saturn and entered interstellar space in 2012.)
Since then, however, telescope technology has improved enough so that scientists can perform some studies of Uranus and Neptune from the ground. Researchers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, for example, have tracked giant storms appearing and disappearing on Uranus in recent years. However, no concentrated long-term program is possible on the ground, because telescope time is competitive and spread among several targets.
Studies suggest that Uranus and Neptune both have liquid oceans beneath their clouds, making up about two-thirds of their mass, NASA officials noted in the statement. It's a different environment from the much bigger Jupiter and Saturn (which are about 85 percent gas by mass) and smaller, rocky planets such as Earth or Mars, which are almost 100 percent rock.
"It's not clear how or where ice giant planets form, why their magnetic fields are strangely oriented, and what drives geologic activity on some of their moons," NASA added in the same statement. "These mysteries make them scientifically important, and this importance is enhanced by the discovery that many planets around other stars appear to be similar to our own ice giants."
Pew Pew Pew! Why Scientists Are Fired Up About Futuristic Space Lasers
Pew Pew Pew! Why Scientists Are Fired Up About Futuristic Space Lasers
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer
This artist's concept shows a representation of NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) and its six-beam scanning pattern.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
WASHINGTON — Pew, pew, pew! Epic laser battles with highly concentrated beams of deadly light punching through starship hulls, slicing off limbs — or instantly vaporizing spacecraft, bodies and even planets — have been a much-loved and time-honored tradition in science fiction for many decades.
But anyone who has gripped a handheld laser pointer to lead a presentation or to tease a cat knows that lower-energy versions of lasers are quite common today. The focused light of lasers can be used for microscopy, to provide targets for weapons, to perform certain types of delicate surgery or to create spectacular visual displays at rock concerts.
And lasers are also frequently used in space — not as weapons, but to help scientists conduct highly precise measurements and observations, a group of NASA engineers and designers explained in a panel on June 16 here at Future Con. [The Most Dangerous Space Weapons Ever]
If you've ever marveled at the highly detailed Martian topography in the geobrowser Google Mars, you have lasers to thank, said Luis Ramos-Izquierdo, an optical systems engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
For four-and-a-half years, the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) used lasers to collect data on Mars' surface elevation, which was used to generate the most detailed global topographic map of any planet in our solar system, according to NASA.
Ice, ice baby
Closer to home, the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI), scheduled to launch in 2019, will use laser technology to create 3D maps of Earth's forests and calculate their biomass, Ramos-Izquierdo said.
Another NASA mission using lasers to peer at Earth is named Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2). Scheduled to launch in 2018, ICESat-2 will use an array of six lasers — three paired beams — to track ice-sheet thickness and changes across Greenland and Antarctica, so that scientists can better estimate the risks posed by melting ice due to climate change, panel member Brooke Medley, a research associate with Earth Sciences Remote Sensing at the Goddard Space Flight Center, told the Future Con audience.
ICESat-2 is continuing the work started by an earlier mission, ICESat-1, which was the first satellite to deploy lasers from space to measure surface elevation in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, according to NASA.
The amount of ice cover in those two regions is enormous: Greenland's area is about three times the size of Texas, while Antarctica is roughly twice the size of the contiguous United States — far too big to accurately measure elevation changes from the ground or by airplane, Medley said. ICESat-2 will conduct multiple passes overhead at an altitude of 299 miles (481 kilometers), and its lasers will gather data that will enable researchers to calculate ice volume and track changes over time.
Kate Ramsayer, Luis Ramos-Izquierdo, Brooke Medley, Erwan Mazarico, Evan Hoffman and Jennifer Sager from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center extoll the many virtues of space lasers, in the Future Con panel "NASA's Space Lasers" on June 16, 2017.
Credit: M. Weisberger/Live Science
Another NASA satellite that resembles a mirror-studded disco ball — the LAser GEOdynamic Satellite (LAGEOS) — has been pinging back laser light beamed from Earth since it launched in 1976, returning data that enabled scientists to create the first models of Earth's gravitational field. Currently, there are two LAGEOS satellites in orbit, and their orbits are so stable that unless a piece of space debris collides with them, they'll be circling the planet for at least 1 million to 2 million years, according to panelist Evan Hoffman, a scientist with the Space Geodesy Project at Goddard.
In the moon's vicinity, the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter used lasers to gather billions of data points from the moon's surface while in orbit, enabling scientists to build the most detailed maps to date of lunar topography, Erwan Mazarico, a research associate with Planetary Studies at Goddard, said at the panel.
Lasers have also helped NASA researchers bring broadband to the moon, Jennifer Sager, lead system engineer and project manager with the Science and Planetary Operations Control Center at Goddard, told the panel audience. The Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration tested a two-way communication system between Earth and the moon using a pulsed laser beam, establishing a data download rate of 622 megabits per second, Sager said.
And researchers are even investigating whether lasers could be used defensively in space — not to battle invading extraterrestrials, but to nudge aside space debris that could damage equipment or threaten astronauts, Hoffman added.
An artist's conception of NASA's moon-bound LADEE spacecraft using lasers to communicate with Earth.
Credit: NASA
Lighting the spark
Appearing at a conference like Future Con — where attendees are particularly enthusiastic about the real-world science behind their favorite sci-fi moments — allowed all of the scientists in the panel to touch upon some of the more interesting aspects of their research, even though the entire presentation was less than an hour, Mazarico told Space.com.
But each of the panelists could happily have spoken about lasers for much longer, Ramos-Izquierdo added.
"In reality, any one of us could talk for hours about our work and what we do — I could have gone on and on and on," Ramos-Izquierdo said.
"But it's good that they get a variety of the things we do at NASA, and maybe how it all comes together — for communication, for mapping the planet, for exploration. We gotta do all that work now, for science fiction to become real," he said.
Talking about space lasers at Future Con also brought NASA science directly to kids, perhaps encouraging the next generation of engineers and scientists, Mazarico told Space.com. And giving children a chance to meet the people behind the lasers might help them see themselves in those roles as adults, Medley added.
"We're just people that you could be passing in the street," she said. "Science isn't out of reach — it's something that is accessible for anyone."
Planet 10? Another Earth-Size World May Lurk in the Outer Solar System
Planet 10? Another Earth-Size World May Lurk in the Outer Solar System
By Hanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer-Producer
A planetary-mass object the size of Mars may be lurking in the outer solar system.
Credit: Heather Roper/LPL
A planet-size object may be orbiting the sun in the icy reaches of the solar system beyond Pluto.
Scientists at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) have determined that an unseen object with a mass somewhere between that of Earth and Mars could be lurking in the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune filled with thousands of icy asteroids, comets and dwarf planets.
In In January 2016, a separate group of scientists predicted the existence of a Neptune-size planet orbiting the sun far, far beyond Pluto — about 25 times farther from the sun than Pluto is. This hypothetical planet was dubbed "Planet Nine," so if both predictions are correct, one of these putative objects could be the solar system's 10th planet.
The so-called "planetary-mass object" described by the scientists from LPL appears to affect the orbits of a population of icy space rocks in the Kuiper Belt. Distant Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) have tilted orbits around the sun. The tilted orbital planes of most KBOs average out to something called the invariable plane of the solar system.
But the orbits of the most distant KBOs tilt away from the invariable plane by an average of 8 degrees, which signals the presence of a more massive object that warps its surroundings with its gravitational field, researchers said in a study due to be published in The Astronomical Journal.
"The most likely explanation for our results is that there is some unseen mass," Kat Volk, a postdoctoral fellow at LPL and the lead author of the study, said in a statement. "According to our calculations, something as massive as Mars would be needed to cause the warp that we measured."
These KBOs act a lot like spinning tops, Renu Malhotra, a professor of planetary sciences at LPL and co-author of the new study, said in the statement.
"Imagine you have lots and lots of fast-spinning tops, and you give each one a slight nudge … If you then take a snapshot of them, you will find that their spin axes will be at different orientations, but on average, they will be pointing to the local gravitational field of Earth," she said. "We expect each of the KBOs' orbital tilt angle to be at a different orientation, but on average, they will be pointing perpendicular to the plane determined by the sun and the big planets."
An artist's impression of the undiscovered, planet-size object in the Kuiper Belt
Credit: Heather Roper/LPL
It may sound a lot like the mysterious Planet Nine, but the researchers say the so-called planetary-mass object is too small, and too close, to be the same thing. Planet Nine lies 500 to 700 astronomical units (AU) from Earth, and its mass is about 10 times that of Earth. (One AU is the average distance at which Earth orbits the sun — 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers. Pluto orbits the sun at a maximum distance of just less than 50 AU.)
"That is too far away to influence these KBOs," Volk said. "It certainly has to be much closer than 100 AU to substantially affect the KBOs in that range."
Though no planet-size objects have been spotted in the Kuiper Belt so far, the researchers are optimistic that the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which is currently under construction in Chile, will help find these hidden worlds. "We expect LSST to bring the number of observed KBOs from currently about 2,000 to 40,000," Malhotra said.
"There are a lot more KBOs out there — we just have not seen them yet," Malhotra added. "Some of them are too far and dim even for LSST to spot, but because the telescope will cover the sky much more comprehensively than current surveys, it should be able to detect this object, if it's out there."
New High-Speed, Sustainable Helicopter Concept Whirls into Air Show
New High-Speed, Sustainable Helicopter Concept Whirls into Air Show
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
A new rotorcraft design was presented by Airbus Helicopters at the Paris Air Show this week, and Airbus claims it can reach a cruising speed of 250 mph (400 km/h) without a deafening roar or trade-off in sustainability.
The copter concept — code-named "Racer," for Rapid and Cost-Effective Rotorcraft — was designed as part of the Clean Sky 2 European research program, which aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and lessen noise levels produced by aircraft.
The helicopter has a main rotor and a "box-wing" design with additional smaller rotors, which offers more efficient aerodynamics by providing lift and forward momentum while the copter cruises, according to Airbus Helicopters officials. [Supersonic! The 11 Fastest Military Airplanes]
"[Racer] aims to bring increased speed and range at the right cost, thanks to a simple, safe and proven aerodynamic formula," Guillaume Faury, Airbus Helicopters CEO, said in a statement.
The new helicopter could reach speeds of nearly 250 mph (400 km/h), thanks to new technology and an advanced aerodynamic design.
An "eco mode" will add to the helicopter's fuel efficiency. The option is still being tested by the engine manufacturer, but according to Airbus Helicopters, it would allow for an electrically powered "start and stop" of one engine in flight to save fuel and increase range. A low-weight body also adds to fuel efficiency and aerodynamics, according to Airbus.
Construction of a demonstration Racer craft is expected to begin in 2019, with initial flight tests planned for the following year.
Another aerospace advancement announced by Airbus this year is the Pop.Up, a "multimodal transportation concept." The futuristic passenger capsule concept could transform into different modes of transit, with attachable wheels for driving, propellers for flying or the ability to join a train-like transit system, such as the high-speed transit concept known as the Hyperloop.
eindelijk vrijgegeven. Waarom is de overheid zo bang als een klein kind in het donker?
Topgeheime X-Files over UFO’s eindelijk vrijgegeven. Waarom is de overheid zo bang als een klein kind in het donker?
De Britse overheid heeft UFO-stukken die 50 jaar lang geheim zijn gehouden eindelijk vrijgegeven. Dat schrijft de Daily Mail.
De documenten, die zijn gepubliceerd door het Britse Nationaal Archief, bevatten details over UFO-waarnemingen die in heel Groot-Brittannië zijn gedaan.
Ze bevatten informatie over incidenten die naar verluidt gerelateerd zijn aan buitenaardsen, waaronder een incident in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dat ook wel het Britse Roswell wordt genoemd.
Achtergehouden
Dat jaar zagen soldaten die waren gestationeerd op vliegbases Bentwaters en Woodbridge vreemde lichten in het bos.
Vreemd genoeg zijn de documenten nog niet gedigitaliseerd, dus als je ze wilt inzien moet je naar het Nationaal Archief in Londen gaan.
De stukken zouden al in 2013 geopenbaard worden, maar 18 specifieke documenten werden om onduidelijke redenen achtergehouden.
Doofpot
In de afgelopen negen jaar heeft het Britse ministerie van Defensie meerdere keren UFO-files vrijgegeven. Drie documenten zijn nog altijd geheim.
Volgens sommigen is er sprake van een doofpot rond het bestaan van buitenaards leven.
“Het ministerie van Defensie vertelde het parlement, de media en het publiek dat er geen defensiebelang mee gemoeid was en dat het beperkt geïnteresseerd was in het UFO-fenomeen,” zei Nick Pope, die tussen 1991 en 1994 het UFO-project van het ministerie leidde.
Achter de schermen
“De stukken laten zien dat we het onderwerp achter de schermen een stuk serieuzer namen dan we deden voorkomen en dat er in veel gevallen wel degelijk een defensiebelang mee gemoeid was,” voegde hij toe.
Zo werden UFO’s gezien vlak bij legerbases, door RAF-piloten en opgepikt door luchtverkeersleiders.
eindelijk vrijgegeven. Waarom is de overheid zo bang als een klein kind in het donker?
Topgeheime X-Files over UFO’s eindelijk vrijgegeven. Waarom is de overheid zo bang als een klein kind in het donker?
De Britse overheid heeft UFO-stukken die 50 jaar lang geheim zijn gehouden eindelijk vrijgegeven. Dat schrijft de Daily Mail.
De documenten, die zijn gepubliceerd door het Britse Nationaal Archief, bevatten details over UFO-waarnemingen die in heel Groot-Brittannië zijn gedaan.
Ze bevatten informatie over incidenten die naar verluidt gerelateerd zijn aan buitenaardsen, waaronder een incident in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dat ook wel het Britse Roswell wordt genoemd.
Achtergehouden
Dat jaar zagen soldaten die waren gestationeerd op vliegbases Bentwaters en Woodbridge vreemde lichten in het bos.
Vreemd genoeg zijn de documenten nog niet gedigitaliseerd, dus als je ze wilt inzien moet je naar het Nationaal Archief in Londen gaan.
De stukken zouden al in 2013 geopenbaard worden, maar 18 specifieke documenten werden om onduidelijke redenen achtergehouden.
Doofpot
In de afgelopen negen jaar heeft het Britse ministerie van Defensie meerdere keren UFO-files vrijgegeven. Drie documenten zijn nog altijd geheim.
Volgens sommigen is er sprake van een doofpot rond het bestaan van buitenaards leven.
“Het ministerie van Defensie vertelde het parlement, de media en het publiek dat er geen defensiebelang mee gemoeid was en dat het beperkt geïnteresseerd was in het UFO-fenomeen,” zei Nick Pope, die tussen 1991 en 1994 het UFO-project van het ministerie leidde.
Achter de schermen
“De stukken laten zien dat we het onderwerp achter de schermen een stuk serieuzer namen dan we deden voorkomen en dat er in veel gevallen wel degelijk een defensiebelang mee gemoeid was,” voegde hij toe.
Zo werden UFO’s gezien vlak bij legerbases, door RAF-piloten en opgepikt door luchtverkeersleiders.
A lot of people think there could be intelligent life out there somewhere
(Photo: Getty)
Hacktivist group Anonymous has released a YouTube video in which it claims NASA could soon announce the discovery of alien life.
Anonymous is known around the world for its work. In the past, it's taken on the likes of Isis, Donald Trump, and Westboro Baptist Church – the small American religious group that campaigns against homosexuality.
In it's latest video, Anonymous states that a NASA spokesperson called Professor Thomas Zurbuchen told a recent US Science, Space, and Technology committee meeting that extraterrestrial life could soon be proven.
What if there are two Donald Trumps?(Photo: Corbis)
"Our civilisation is on the verge of discovering evidence of alien life in the cosmos," Zurbuchen supposedly said.
"Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are searching for alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history."
Anonymous has also written about alien life on its website. It said: "The evidence sure seems to imply that something is going on in the skies above.
"It would cost a lot for spaceships and a continuous flow of taxes and black budget dollars could imply a rational that there is more than meets the eye and or that of public knowledge."
Obviously, this is speculation. At present, there's no evidence – at least none we know of – that proves the existence of alien life. But many think it's a possibility.
Last week, NASA discovered 219 new planets, ten of which are rocky planets possibly not all that dissimilar to Earth. Although these planets are in the solar system's 'Goldilocks Zon'e, which means they're too hot or cold to be habitable.
‘Flying saucers’ became a thing 70 years ago Saturday with sighting near Mount Rainier
‘Flying saucers’ became a thing 70 years ago Saturday with sighting near Mount Rainier
Kenneth Arnold, shown in 1966 with a drawing of a flying saucer, reportedly spent “many long hours of fruitless flying with a camera, trying and failing to find anything like his saucers again.” (AP)
This image from a 1952 issue of Coronet Magazine shows an illustration depicting Kenneth Arnold’s sighting.
(Coronet Magazine)
Seventy years ago, Idaho pilot Kenneth Arnold saw something near Mount Rainier that brought the term “flying saucers” into the lexicon. It was the viral story of its day. What he saw remains a mystery.
Before June 24, 1947, terms such as UFOs and flying saucers had not entered popular vocabulary. Then, on that afternoon 70 years ago, it all changed because of Kenneth Arnold:
“Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted by Idaho Pilot.”
Arnold reported seeing near Mount Rainier nine “circular-type” objects flying in formation at more than twice the speed of sound.
Arnold would pay the price for describing something so fantastic.
In a now-declassified document, the Air Force Materiel Command wrote it off: “The report cannot bear even superficial examination, therefore, must be disregarded.”
Another Air Force document concluded, “It is the Air Force conclusion that the objects of this sighting were due to a mirage.”
For Arnold, it stung.
He didn’t consider himself some kind of kook. He had over 4,000 hours of mountain high-altitude pilot time; he was in the Idaho search and rescue.
“I have been subjected to ridicule, much loss of time and money, newspaper notoriety, magazine stories, reflections on my honesty, my character, my business dealings,” Arnold wrote in his 1952 book, “Coming of the Saucers.”
He died in 1984 at age 68, and in all those years, and with me, he never wavered in his descriptions.
“I made my report because I thought it was my duty. It was the only proper and American thing to do. I saw what I saw,” he said.
You can draw a direct line between what Arnold repeatedly recounted in detail to FBI and military investigators and our collective fascination with the possibility that aliens have visited us.
It’s become so much a part of our culture that even the CIA website has a section titled “Take a Peek Into Our “X-Files” that is chock-full of declassified files.
The CIA helpfully lists “Top 5 CIA Documents Mulder Would Love To Get His Hands On,” and “Top 5 CIA Documents Scully Would Love To Get Her Hands On.”
Arnold was an unlikely candidate to become embroiled in such a controversy.
He lived in Meridian, Idaho, and sold fire-extinguishing equipment. About as unusual as his life got was that he piloted a small airplane to get to his clients around the Northwest.
A month after Arnold was in the news, a now-declassified report made in July 1947 by Army Air Force Counter-Intelligence Corps Officer Frank M. Brown said, “Mr. Arnold is a man of 32 years of age, being married and the father of two children … It is the personal opinion of the interviewer that Mr. Arnold actually saw what he saw … To go further, if Mr. Arnold can write a report of the character that he did while not having seen the objects that he claimed he saw, it is the opinion of the interviewer that Mr. Arnold is in the wrong business, that he should be writing Buck Rogers fiction.”
That was one of the few sympathetic portrayals in government documents of Arnold’s sighting.
The lieutenant wrote that Arnold “seems to be reasonably well balanced, although excitable, and has no apparent ulterior motive … other than to prove he is not ‘nuts.’ ”
The lieutenant wrote that Arnold revealed “an antagonistic attitude toward the Army” by stating, “Well, if the Army doesn’t know what they are, it sure ought to be trying to find out!”
Bright flash lit the sky
Arnold’s sighting of the craft was the 1947 version of a story going viral.
“It was a beautiful day. Just as clear as a bell,” Arnold said. He was flying from Chehalis to Yakima and decided to spend an hour or so searching for a downed C-46 Marine transport that had crashed into the southwest side of Mount Rainier.
There was a $5,000 reward for finding it.
It was at 3 p.m., he remembered, “when a very bright flash lit up the plane and the sky around me.”
At first, Arnold thought it was the sun reflecting off another plane.
“But the flash happened again, and that’s when I saw where it was coming from. It came spasmodically from a chain of nine circular-type aircraft way up from the vicinity of Mount Rainier,” said Arnold.
“… I could not find any tails on these things. They didn’t leave a jet trail behind them. I judged their size to be at least 100 feet in widespan. I thought it was a new type of missile.”
His plane had a big sweep 24-hour clock on the instrument panel. Arnold measured that the craft covered the distance between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams in 1 minute 42 seconds.
“That figured out to something like 1,760 miles an hour, which I could hardly believe. I knew that figure couldn’t be entirely accurate, but I’d say it was within a couple of hundred miles accurate,” he said.
He ended up talking to reporter Bill Bequette, who, in subsequent years, remembered that Arnold “came off as honest, level headed and credible,” said a story in the East Oregonian.
So Bequette wrote a brief story about what Arnold said he witnessed.
But the brief also went out to The Associated Press, got picked up by numerous newspapers, and the furor began. For the first time, a mass-media story and subsequent headlines used the term, “flying saucers.”
There were no reported riches for Arnold because of his notoriety. Instead, he complained to Frank Brown, the Air Force investigator, “that his business had suffered greatly … at every stop in his business routes, large groups of people were waiting to question him …”
Brown concluded his report, “Mr. Arnold stated further that if he, at any time in the future, saw anything in the sky, to quote Mr. Arnold … ‘If I ever saw a ten story building flying through the air I would never say a word about it,’ due to the fact that he has been ridiculed by the press to such an extent that he is practically a moron in the eye of the majority of the population of the United States.”
A mystery to this day
Despite that statement to Brown, in the coming years Arnold was driven to prove he was right.
There were “many long hours of fruitless flying with a camera, trying and failing to find anything like his saucers again,” says Martin Shough, a well-regarded researcher of the UFO phenomena who has written a detailed analysis of Arnold’s account.
In an email, Shough, who lives in the Highlands of Scotland, says, “I am resigned to never knowing what Arnold saw.”
He concludes, “Seventy years on, when so much of the flying saucer mythology that Kenneth Arnold triggered has been explained away, it is somewhat embarrassing that Arnold’s own sighting remains obstinately resistant.
According to Former Canadian Minister of Defense, not only are governments around the globe COVERING up evidence that aliens exist, there are 80 Alien species that have been visited our planet since time immemorial.
Former Canadian Minister of Defense Paul Hellyer stated that media around the globe has avoided touching the UFO/Extraterrestrial subject.
Paul Hellyer is just one of the many ex-officials, including former NASA employees, military officers, or scientists who have come forward in the last years claiming to have seen proof of Alien visitations to Earth.
Paul Hellyer was the Canadian Minister of National Defense in the 1960 and is responsible for combining the Canadian Air Force, Navy, and Army into what is known today as the Canadian Forces.
Interestingly, he is yet another highly ranked government official who has come forward speaking out about Alien visitations on Earth.
Soon after he retired, Mr. Hellyer joined the disclosure movement and began ‘blowing the whistle’ on UFO’s and extraterrestrial beings.
Interestingly, his testimony is BACKED UP by hundreds of different highly ranking military official political leaders around the globe. However, in addition to that, everything Mr. Hellyer has talked about in the past has been backed up by countless declassified documents which detailedly describe aliens and their space vehicles.
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Paul Hellyer and the no-entry signs at Area 51.
During one speech, Mr. Hellyer recalls the following:
” In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back to the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation, and they investigated for three years, and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb. They are very concerned about that and if we will use it again because the whole cosmos is a unity and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos. They’re very much afraid that we might start using atomic weapons again, and this would be dangerous for us, and them also.” – Paul Hellyer
“Many are benign and benevolent, and a few are not. They come from various places, for a long while I only knew about ones that came from different star systems, the Pleiades. There are extraterrestrials that come from Andromeda, and ones that live on one of Saturn’s moons. There is a federation of these people, and they have rules, one of them is that they don’t interfere with our affairs unless they are invited. They have accepted the fact that this is our planet, and we have the right to run it, but they are very concerned, they don’t think that we are good stewards of our planet. We are ruining our planet, we’re doing all sorts of things that we shouldn’t be doing, and they don’t like that. They’ve made it clear, and they have given us a warning.” – Paul Hellyer
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.” – Paul Hellyer
In an interview with CTV, Mr. Hellyer said that:
“Much of the media won’t touch it. “So you just have to keep working away and hope that someday you get a critical mass, and they will say, in one way or another, ‘Mr. President or Mr. Prime Minister, we want the truth, and we want it now because it affects our lives.”
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Paul Hellyer said the dying official confirmed he was shown inside alien technology at Area 51.
Around 80 different species of extraterrestrial beings are visiting our planet. Mr. Hellyer claims that most of the alien visitors are harmless, but some of them have ulterior goals.
They flew him to Area 51 and let him go inside one and observe it and make notes and this sort of thing.
Paul Hellyer
During an interview with Russian television, Mr. Hellyer said that some of the Aliens “look just like us, and they could walk down the street, and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one.”
UFO allegedly crashed into Berwyn Mountains in January, 1974
On January 23, 1974, people reported hearing a huge bang, felt earth tremors and saw a brilliant light in the sky above the Berwyn Mountains. Families in the villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo were settling down to watch TV when an explosion was heard and the ground shook. It measured 3.5 on the Richter scale. As people ran from their homes fearing another tremor, they saw a blaze of light on the mountainside.
A nurse who believed an aircraft had crashed drove to the site and saw a pulsating orange and red glow on the hillside and other lights.
Police converged on the area and emergency services were put on standby. Although searches were undertaken, officially nothing was found – leading to claims of a cover-up.
In the four decades since there has been a huge debate as to what exactly happened that night, with TV documentaries made and books written on the subject.
Some researchers have claimed a UFO crashed, with further claims “bodies” were retrieved and taken away by soldiers. Other theories suggest it was a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and the misperception of poachers on the hillside carrying lamps.
Over the years more information has surfaced which has added to the enigma. In 2008 the Daily Post acquired official documents showing how Gwynedd Police were bombarded with calls and eye witness accounts of the strange event, with some convinced they had seen a UFO. They gave a fascinating insight into what was going on that night.
Did aliens crash into Berwyn Mountains?
Gwynedd Police Constabulary Major Incident Log – explosion – 21.10pm PC receiving 999 calls of UFO.
A witness who saw an object on the hillside said in a statement: “Saw bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire. Could see lights above and to the right and white lights moving to bottom. Light changed colour to yellowish white and back again.”
A message in a police log said: “There’s been a large explosion in the area and there is a large fire in the mountainside. I can see the fire where I am.”
Telex message to chief constable Gwynedd constabulary. 22.00pm approx 23/1/74: Saw bright green lights, object with tail – travelling west. Saw about Bangor direction – dropped down.
At approx 10pm on 23/1/74: Saw a circular light in the sky at an estimated height of 1,500 feet. This object exploded and pieces fell to the ground. Mr ...... estimates the pieces would have fallen into the sea between Rhyl and Liverpool.
In 2010 key witness, retired nurse Pat Evans, insisted she saw something strange on the mountainside. At the time she said: “It (the object) couldn’t have got there any other way apart from being flown there, so it had to be a UFO of some sort. I’m talking about something that could only have got there by flying and landing.”
Ms Evans, who was living in Llandderfel, near Bala, added: “We just saw this huge ball glowing and pulsating on the mountain. Some lights seemed to be scattered around it and I just wish we’d stayed to see what the end result was – whether it would just disappear or fly away.
“We didn’t see anybody on the road even though there were various reports that we were told to go away by armed police and military etc, which was all totally untrue.
“We’d heard an almighty bang and we live at the foot of the mountain. I thought it might have been a plane crash. Me being a nurse and my girls being in St John (Ambulance), I thought we could help.”
She told how the object glowed orange, red and yellow and was “moon like, but without windows or doors”. Mrs Evans added: “I’ve never seen anything like it before or since. I have no idea what it was.”
A document from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency revealed a military operation, codenamed Photoflash, was scheduled for that evening. It involved about 10 military aircraft and a series of powerful flashes across the North Wales coast and Liverpool Bay.
The MCA letter said: “During the late afternoon and early evening of 23rd January 1974 there was an exercise from Jerby Range on the Isle of Man. The exercise was called ‘Photoflash’ and coastguards were advised to expect at least 10 aircraft taking part and at least 80 flashes around the Liverpool Bay area and the North Wales coastline.”
There was no more information from official sources on that specific exercise and if it was connected to Berwyn. A spokesman at the RAF Museum Research Department suggested photoflash operations were used for training exercises to illuminate the ground below.
UFO researcher Russ Kellett
But the mystery still remains. Researcher Russ Kellett still believes the answer is out there: “I have been researching this for years and I am convinced there was more than one UFO involved that night,” he said. “All the evidence that we have uncovered over the years has consistently pointed that way.”
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The world's first hoverbike is officially for sale
The world's first hoverbike is officially for sale
Published on Feb 23, 2017
The Event Is Coming Soon - The World’s First Hoverbike is Ready to Ride
byPaul Seaburn
Start saving your bitcoins (or whatever it is you do to accumulate a sizeable pile of them). If your bucket list includes being the first on your block to own an operational and really cool hoverbike, your wait is over. The Russian startup company Hoversurf announced it has achieved its goal of … Making flying as easy as riding a bike. OK, a really dangerous bike, but that’s why you want one, right? The Scorpion-3 was unveiled this week by Hoversurf in a warehouse at its headquarters in San Francisco. The company – whose motto is “Aim high” (with an implied “Kids, don’t try this at home”) – began as a manufacturer of heavy-lift cargo drones with carrying capacities ranging from 90 to 2,500 kg. (198 to 5511 lbs.). That should be good news for the ‘bigger biker’, right?
Not quite. While based on the same platform as the cargo drones, the Scorpion-3 has a weight limit of 266 pounds of “amateur and professional navigators.” That’s a code phrase for ‘extreme sports enthusiasts’ and other adrenaline addicts who can ride a fast bike AND deal with it being 33 feet (10 meters) off the ground – the current restricted altitude limit.
Well, “fast” is relative – the top speed of the Scorpion-3 is currently restricted to 33 mph (53 kmph) but that undoubtedly seems a lot faster when flying. Hoversurf says its engineers used a standard motorbike design to make it easy for riders with cycle experience to handle the Scorpion-3. For lift and thrust, an electric motor powers the quadcopter propellers taken from the drone platform and can reportedly keep the Scorpion-3 aloft for 27 minutes – more than enough time to generate enough excitement to require a change of pants.
While most people are clinched into a worldwide debate about aliens, discussing UFO sightings in space, on Earth, and the sheer number of whistleblowers who have come forward saying that we aren’t alone in the universe, the FBI has a very interesting document posted on their website.
The declassified document states that not only have we’ve been visited by ET, apparently we’ve been visited by “beings from other dimensions.”
However, it is noteworthy to mention that the document itself DID NOT ORIGINATE within the FBI. The document –which is an extract from a 69-page document called ufo1.pdf— was written by a former university head.
Nevertheless, the document was treated with great importance by the FBI, which is something I find VERY interesting.
A rewritten copy of the report can be found below. (NOTE) some words in the original text are illegible due to the numerous notations and stamps.
The document, which was received on July 8, 1947, states:
This memorandum is respectfully addressed to certain scientists of distinction, to important aeronautical and military authorities, to a number of public officials and to a few publications. The writer has little expectation that anything of import will be accomplished by this gesture. The mere fact that the data here-in were obtained by so-called supernormal means is probably sufficient to ensure its disregard by nearly all the persons addressed: nevertheless it seems a public duty to make it available. (The present writer has several university degrees and was formerly a university department head).
A very serious situation may develop at any time with regard to the “flying saucers”. If one of these should be attacked, the attacking plane will almost certainly be destroyed. In the public mind, this might create near panic and international suspicion. The principal data concerning these craft is now at hand and must be offered, no matter how fantastic and unintelligible it may seem to minds not previously instructed in thinking of this type.
Part of the disks carry crews, others are under remote control.Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane.
These visitors are human-like but much larger in size.
They are not excarnate Earth people but come from their own world.
They do NOT come from a planet as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us.
The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter.
The disks possess a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without a trace.
The region from which they come is not the “astral plane”, but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of esoteric matters will understand these terms.
They probably cannot be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar. if a signal system can be devised for that apparatus.
We give information and warning and can do no more. Let the newcomers be treated with every kindness. Unless the disks are with-(illegible) a (illegible, illegible) with which our culture and science are incapable of dealing. A heavy responsibility rests upon the few in authority who are able to understand this matter.
This incredibly creative ad from Gatorade uses a “liquid printer” and precision-timed strobe photography to create a stop-motion athlete from drops of water. What’s more, it was created entirely in-camera, according to the company.
The video starts off with a human figure being pumped out of a water printer. Okay, that’s pretty cool, but water printers are nothing new. But then the figure jogs over to a box and starts doing box jumps, with water splashing as its feet hit the box.
The figure stands and starts kicking a punching bag, which recoils with each strike. The ad would be pretty impressive on its own, but Gatorade says that the entire thing was created in-camera.
The water printer itself comprises over 20,000 parts, and took over 5,000 man hours to construct. The printer they built had 2,048 individual nozzles, which turned on and off within 2 milliseconds. The strobes were then set to freeze the droplets mid-air. James Medcraft, the project’s director of photography explains:
We’re using the flash to freeze the water droplets at a very precise moment in space, and we’re having to do that with millimetre and microsecond accuracy.
To create the motion, the nozzles were driven by motion capture data of a real athlete who ran, jumped, and kicked while wearing sensors. The water rig would then drop a frame-by-frame animation, which was frozen with each flash.
The result is the very impressive ad, that you can watch in full at the top. The one thing we can’t figure out – how did they create the punching bag scene without CGI?
Gatorade has shared a behind the scenes video, which you can watch below. How do you think they did it?
Google Earth images revealed the presence of what looks like an enormous staircase in Antarctica. Who’s responsible, aliens or giants?
A heated debate is ongoing on many conspiracy forums, fueled by the recent discovery of what many claim is evidence of an ancient and unexplained presence on Earth. Many claim the structure that looks like a giant staircase leading up the side of a massive mountain in Antarctica might be the work of ancient aliens and could be the remnant of a structure that was once used as a landing spot for UFOs
The user credited with discovering the unusual structure said he began looking for clues about ancient civilizations in Antarctica after taking part in a debate about prominent personalities’ recent visits to the frozen continent. Recently, Antarctica was toured by former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and weirdly, Russian Patriarch Kirill.
UFO hunters have claimed that the U.S. Government is aware of the existence of an extensive network of ancient ruins buried under the Antarctic ice, ruins which hold alien technology left behind by alien visitors. As a result, the NASA astronaut was sent to investigate whether the extraterrestrial ships that might still be there were similar in nature to the ones he saw when he was on the Moon.
The same UFO enthusiasts speculated that John Kerry’s mission to Antarctica served the same purpose. Why a Russian religious leader would be delegated on a similar mission remains a mystery.
THIS MORNING, IN THE WORK VAN, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT CONSPIRACIES… SO I PULLED OUT GOOGLE EARTH [AND] CAME ACROSS SOMETHING THAT LOOKED LIKE A GIANT STAIRCASE.”
While some have proposed the alleged staircase is actually the result of a topographic glitch in the satellite imagery, many remain convinced this could be the remains of an ancient marker leading UFOs to a landing spot. They claim that in ancient times, it could have been equipped with some kind of navigational beacon to direct the extraterrestrial flying machines to their destination.
The following comments paint a clear picture about what people think about this recent discovery:
“It’s more likely a landing site than stairs.”
“It does look like stairs – maybe on a pyramid structure?”
“I attribute it to fallen angels and Nephilim… high-tech demonic activity.”
“I’m not an alien believer but I do believe we’ve been all over this planet many times in our past.”
It’s no secret that conspiracy communities have long held the belief that pyramids and step structures served a different role than the one attributed to them by archaeologists and historians. Proponents of alternative history are convinced aliens with advanced technology visited earth in the distant past and oversaw the construction of landing pads and beacons. They imparted their knowledge to the people of ancient Sumer and Egypt, as well as to cultures in South America. Over time, the real purpose of these wrongfully-called monuments has been lost and our connection with the aliens now lies dormant under thick layers of dust or vegetation. But there could be another explanation behind this controversial structure: the equally-controversial builders of many other megalithic structures, the ancient giants.
The sons of the Nephilim possessed great strength, intelligence and they had a pride to match their size. Many ancient structures are credited to these proficient builders and the staircase in Antarctica could be one of them.
The recent discovery of the staircase comes just weeks after another unexplained ruin was found hidden under Antartic Snow
If there are pyramids in Antarctica, it stands to reason that our understanding of Earth’s history is incomplete at best.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the history of mass extinctions, rogue asteroids are not good for the planet. That’s why the latest news from the Kuiper asteroid belt is disconcerting at best, apocalyptically frightening at worst. A group of astronomers has uncovered evidence that a warp in this asteroid belt beyond Neptune is being caused by a mysterious small planet hiding inside it. Is this Planet X? Planet 10? Planet 9? Will we decide on a name before it wipes us out?
“The most likely explanation for our results is that there is some unseen mass. According to our calculations, something as massive as Mars would be needed to cause the warp that we measured.”
According to their new report in the Astronomical Journal, scientists Kat Volk and Renu Malhotra from the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory have discovered a strange warp in the solar system’s plane. While the planets and most other space objects orbiting the sun are predictably planar, things can get unpredictable at 55 astronomical units (55 AU is 55 times the distance of Earth from the sun) in the area filled with Kuiper Belt Objects. Volk and Malhotra say they’ve found a section that has an 8 degree tilt away from where models say it should be. That can mean only one thing.
No, not aliens. The Kuiper Belt is being warped by an object large enough to have a belt-bending gravitational pull. Volk and Malhotra determined that a tilt away from the norm of that magnitude could be caused by an object whose mass is somewhere between that of Mars and Earth, making it a planet. Is it Planet X, Dr, Volk?
“The observed distant KBOs are concentrated in a ring about 30 AU wide and would feel the gravity of such a planetary mass object over time, so hypothesizing one planetary mass to cause the observed warp is not unreasonable across that distance.”
Volk prefers to refer to the warp-inducer as a “planetary mass object” for now and casts doubt on it being the rumored Planet X because it’s too close to the sun – Planet X, if it exists, is predicted to be more like 500 to 700 AU from the center of the solar system. If it’s not Planet X but it’s at least the size of Mars, why hasn’t any telescope picked it up?
“The chance that we have not found such an object of the right brightness and distance simply because of the limitations of the surveys is estimated to be to about 30 percent.”
A Kuiper Belt Object
In other words, it’s possibly in front of a dense cluster of stars whose brightness overwhelms it, causing astronomers using today’s telescopes to simply avoid wasting their time (and burning their retinas) staring at the spot. That could change with new data from the Outer Solar System Origins Survey, which is tracking and recording the thousands of objects beyond Neptune. Or it could be seen by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope which is scheduled to be operational in 2020.
Will that be enough time to protect us from rogue asteroids knocked towards us by this belt-warping new planet with no name?
You know, our catchphrase used to be “people really believe this stuff” and I’m always amazed at how many times one individual can be caught promoting outrageous hoaxes and still keep on doing it with many falling his absurd claims over and over again. They so wish to believe that there was alien (non-human) influence in Latin American history. It’s just bizarre. The latest is an incredibly fake-looking “alien mummy” said to have been found in Peru.
Screen shot of alien from video. No other documentation is currently available.
The “mummy” has the proportions of a human – two arms, two legs – with various strange features including an elongated head with three-fingers on both hands and feet. The body is covered in a white “dust” that the investigators say dried the body but to the more down-to-earth observers, looks like plaster. Gaia released a video featuring “scientists” examining the body with a camera crew. This is the only documentation of the body. The crew includes infamous UFO promoter Jaime Maussan who, without confirmation of this being real or not (and, let’s face it, he is SO EASILY duped), called it “one of the most important discoveries of the 21st century.” Maussan, who is labeled as a “well-respected” journalist has lost all his credibility over his years of promoting ridiculous hoaxes as genuine.
Red flags for this discovery include:
Maussan being involved
The obvious plaster appearance of the mummy
The reveal by Special Report “Unearthing Nazca” by Gaia with no sign of reputable scientific expertise
A closed team of researchers with alternative views that go against the scientific mainstream
No scientific results confirmed or retested because it has not been made available to anyone else
No documentation of location, context, or discovery
Promotion of it being a fantastic discovery that will “change everything”
Not published in a scientific publication
The specimen is said to have been tested to reveal an age of 245-410 AD, not an unreasonable age for an actual mummy. The method of testing is not made available. The specimens are not available for examination. There is no expert in preserved Peruvian mummies on the research team. The three-fingered hand configuration is nowhere to be found in nature but we have seen it on another Peruvian hoaxed item that follows the same non-documented path to promotion. Remember the “alien claw”? It has a similar plaster-like coating. The researchers also link the three fingers to petroglyphs that show three-fingered humanoids. I suspect that this is a stylistic feature and am waiting for actual experts to weigh in (if they even care to comment on such a sloppy, pathetic sensational display).
Cat scan of the body. From screen capture.
Xray of the skull. From screen capture
There have been other hoaxed “mummies” and preserved aliens or creatures revealed as faked. It is easily conceivable that this is a carefully (or not so carefully) crafted, even a manipulated real skeleton or other remains (like many fake mermaids). See the Metabunk post on this for ideas about the three-fingered appendages.
If we’re talking “alien” and “hoax” body or evidence, it’s not surprising that Jaime Maussan is around. The past hoaxes Maussan was involved in promoting include:
Back in 2016, Biblical scholar Dr. Michael Hiser said: “Jaime Maussan should not be trusted. Ever. He is a serial fraud-perpetuator.”
What we have here is a group of folks with an unconventional agenda promoting a questionable artifact that they wish to use to alter public perception of human history. But one artifact that you keep to yourself and that for all intents and purposes screams FAKE will not do that. So far this story has not received mainstream press but give it a few more days. The tabloids will regurgitate this unconfirmed, highly dubious evidence word for unverified word with lots of gusto and zero skepticism.
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Russia’s Concerns Of a New Planet Entering Our Solar System: Confirms US Scientist
Russia’s Concerns Of a New Planet Entering Our Solar System: Confirms US Scientist
A recent new appendix added earlier today to the massive Aerospace Defence Forces (ADF) report relating to the mysterious new planet confirmed to be the outer reaches of our solar system says that an American scientist has confirmed many of its findings and further stated that our Earth is now under direct threat as this celestial body could begin to harm our Earth this month.
As U.I.P had previously reported about (something is caught coming out of a black hole), the ADF has become increasingly “alarmed” at the threat this ‘apparent’ mysterious new planet poses to Earth from the time it was first discovered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 2005 to the final confirmation of its existence by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists in January.
As to where this mysterious new planet comes from (and this is only the 3rd “true planet” ever discovered since ancient times), ADF scientists in this report state, is from the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy—and has been on an orbital path towards us for nearly 5 billion years.
The evidence supporting this ADF claim, this report continues, was confirmed this past November (2015) when NASA “looked” nearly 5 billion years into the past with their telescopes, including the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and observed the impossible, something which had never happened before—a massive object ejecting itself from the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy— having so much energy NASA scientists can only compare it to the total energy that is emitted by the entire galaxy!
Adding to Russia’s fears about this mysterious planet was the secret NASA information about it supplied to Federation authorities by NASA computer expert Lloyd Albright (in 1999) and US astronaut and Navy Captain Lisa Nowak (in 2007) that was so fearful Albright hid himself in cave and Nowak told her Russian interviewers “they won’t tell anyone the truth” and “I’ve never believed the Bible, but now I have to”
The new appendix added recently, this report states that it comes from a Daniel Whitmire, PhD, who is a retired Professor of Physics from the University of Louisiana, who in a scientific paper written for Oxford University’s Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society claims that this mysterious planet, he calls by the ancient Sumerian name of Nibiru, has “all but arrived to our neck of the woods” and that the destruction brought about by its “gravitational trickery” will take place this month, as it’s done numerous times before, every time it passed us by.
Doctor-scientist Whitmire and his colleague, John Matese, first published research on the connection between this mysterious planet and mass extinctions on Earth in the journal Nature in 1985, this report continues, and which, this past January, Caltech researchers estimated its size as being about 10 times the mass of Earth.
Is there SOMETHING Heading towards us!
However, this report notes, though both Doctor-scientist Whitmire and Caltech researchers agree that this mysterious new planet now exists in our solar system, they disagree on its present orbit. It can also not yet be confirmed if any such planet was actually fired from the
ADF scientists in their report though note that the “orbital mechanics” of this mysterious planet are less to be considered then the “electromagnetically caused chaos” it will represent in our solar system—which on Earth, they say, could be manifested in violent and increasing earthquakes, massive volcanic explosions, and weather disasters caused by changes (increase/decrease of sun spots) to our Sun, not to mention the hundreds, if not thousands, of asteroids that could impact Earth.
It is important to note, this report appendix concludes, is that unlike Western scientists who adhere to the non-proven gravitational theory of our universe, Russian scientists ascribe to the electrical theory creating for these two bodies of experts an “incompatible gulf” of knowledge that cannot ever be bridged.
What with the age of Planet Earth being generally accepted to be around 4.54 billion years old, with an error range of up to about 50 million years, this report says, this mysterious object ejected from the center of our galaxy could very well now have not only entered into our solar system, but is more than likely to be the new planet Caltech has recently announced their discovery of.
But not totally to science do ADF scientists make this astonishing supposition, but rather to ancient myths—especially since this mysterious new planet originated from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy in Sagittarius A* near of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius.
Unlike Western scientists who discard the ancient knowledge of our world, Russian scientists examine these ancient myths to find, if any, their connections to modern discoveries—which in this particular case, as this report details, leads them to the oldest such stories of our world regarding Sagittarius—which the Babylonians identified as the god Nergal, a strange centaur-like creature firing an arrow from a bow portrayed in hymns and myths as a god of war and pestilence and the deity who presides over the netherworld and of whom the Hebrew Bible warned about.
And in its rather frightening conclusion, ADF scientists note that in the world’s oldest creation epic, the Babylonian Enûma Eliš (Enuma Elish), that the more familiar Book of Genesis is based on, both the Earth and its “destroyer” (the newly discovered planet believed ejected from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy) were “born” at the same time—but will meet in the last days when the final judgment will come—and as most widely known from the Bible’s Book of Revelation that warns:
“The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters. The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter. The fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way.”
No matter what is said, something huge is lurking out there, and whether all these stories/science facts are a coincidence or not, there is certainly some rather intense conversations being held around the planet now by some of the worlds leading Scientist’s and Astronomers!
JPL, NASA telescope image of mysterious object ejected from the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy
U.I.P SUMMARY
Planet X/Nibiru could very well indeed be a very true story, something which has been mocked for a very long time now. The mysteries of a hidden Planet in our solar system appears to be no longer a myth and something that even NASA has confirmed is true (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2016/01/21/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-of-a-real-ninth-planet). It has even recently been denied by NASA that this supposed ninth planet is NOT interfering with their Cassini space craft, which is currently circling around Planet Saturn!
Perhaps, just perhaps, the Ancient civilisations here on Earth were right about this hidden Planet X.
MWV
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Here’s to you, a story that made me sleepless for couple of days, the answer to all of your questions about your existence, your origins and even the future to come.
As I will walk you trough some of the facts I want to make sure that this doesn’t seem to you another conspiracy theory. All the information provided here are a result of one of the biggest archaeological discoveries of the century and couple of decades spent on translations and linguistic research.
It all started 50 years ago when the archaeologist and author Zecharia Sitchin started translating 20,000 years old Sumerian tablets entitled “Autobiography of Enki”.
Since there weren’t any Sumerian translators at the time, it took him more than 20 years of research to understand the complex Sumerian language.
As Zecharia started understanding the letters and sentences, he found that the tablets he was translating were an autobiography of an extraterrestrial from a planet called Niburu who led a scientific expedition on earth in search for gold before homo sapiens even existed!
The extraterrestrial’s name is Enki and the picture below shows a portrait of him.
In Enki’s autobiography, he explains how he was sent on planet earth along with 20 other astronauts and his wife in search for the only material that could save their planet from global warming; gold! For them, the gold was so valuable because once spread in their atmosphere in a form of dust it protected them from ultraviolet radiation which was making life on Nibiru very difficult.
Finding more gold was the only solution for saving Nibiru but one of the biggest problems they faced was actually excavating and refining the gold since most of the astronauts from Nibiru have never done physical labor before.
After years of work, Enki and his team have managed to excavate a very small amount of gold which wasn’t even closely enough to save Nibiru’s atmosphere. That’s when Enki got the idea to elevate the Homo Erectus species he found on earth by mixing it’s DNA with theirs. Since his wife Ninhursag was a doctor and a scientist he gave her the mission to create what we know today to be an ” intellectual human being”.
What if Humans are the aliens we’ve been looking for all along? According to experts, humans were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth—in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
Tell Al-Uhaymir modern day Iraq, where the ancient Sumerian city of Kish used to be, archaeologists found one of the oldest ancient documents on the planet, the tablet of Kish which is believed to date back to the year 3500 BC.
The Sumerian king list states that Kish was the first city to have kings following the deluge, beginning with Jushur. Jushur’s successor is called Kullassina-bel, but this is actually a sentence in Akkadian meaning “All of them were lord”. Thus, some scholars have suggested that this may have been intended to signify the absence of a central authority in Kish for a time.
This ancient document is believed to precede the cuneiform writing of the Sumerians, and the Egyptian hieroglyphs for almost one hundred years.
Developing the ability to express thoughts through written language is one of the first ways in which man differed from the animal kingdom.
Five thousand years since, humans have developed electricity, divided the atom, developed computers, and led man to the moon. We have achieved things that other species have still not.
No other species on earth can attributure such unique achievements in such a short period of time. Interestingly, compared to other species of the earth, our ‘evolution’ is relatively short.
It has been a short period of time, most likely a few million years since the first hominid walked on Earth. Precisely this is one of the biggest scientific questions of all times: Why have only our species emerged to this truly advanced technological intelligence?
Evidently, there is nothing more advanced than humans on planet Earth.
While there are different ‘intelligent’ species on Earth, none of them makes use of technology like us.
Just imagine for a second, if for some reason, mankind had to return to the jungle, and survive there. Many experts agree that most of them would not survive for a very long period of time.
Many scientists agree that humans, in addition to their intelligence, are not very capable to occupy a wide range of environments. In other words, we are very limited when it comes to our planet.
In addition to our fascinating intelligence, biologists have also noticed contrasts between human physiology and that of other animals on earth. Many scientists agree that compared to other species on earth, humans are rather strange. For example, a baby horse when born, is able to walk and function almost independently, but this a human baby can not do, which makes us quite helpless. In other words, we are born before being neurologically ready for life.
Many researchers agree that there are many vulnerabilities that accompany our intelligence.
Humans on earth eventually became bipeds, which freed up our superior extremities allowing us to manipulate objects, create tools and much more. But for all this, experts believe that our species has paid an expensive price. Lumbar pain a sign that according to many experts could tell us a lot about our species. Curiously, other animals on Earth do NOT have this problem. It’s as if only humans are affected by some of these problems.
So what does all of this mean? According to one expert, it means that we are the aliens we’ve we been looking for all along.
A new theory proposed by Dr. Ellis Silver states that there are several tell-tale signs present in the human race that suggest human beings did not evolve ALONGSIDE other lifeforms on Earth.
The book called ‘Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence’ is basically a resume of theories for and mostly against man’s evolution on Earth. In the book, leading environmentalist and ecologist Dr. Ellis Silver goes through an evaluation of thirteen leading hypothesis and seventeen factors which suggest HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH.
Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more said Dr. Ellis in an interview.
According to Dr. Ellis, humans might suffer from back pain because our species initially evolved on another planet with a lower gravity, adding to the mysteries, Dr. Ellis also indicates that it is strange that newborns have large heads and make it difficult for mothers to give birth, which can result in fatalities for both mother and child.
So where do we come from? According to Dr. Ellis, Neanderthals were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth— in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
According to Dr. Ellis, there are millions of people around the globe who ‘feel’ that they do not belong on Earth.
Dr. Ellis explains: “This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species. One reason for this … is that the Earth might be a prison planet since we seem to be a naturally violent species and we’re here until we learn to behave ourselves.”
Dr. Ellis concludes that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but evolved elsewhere and was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Furthermore, as noted by Robert Sepher, according to modern DNA sequencing, it is demonstrated that humanity as we know it, isn’t just ONE single ‘race’ that descended from the same ancestor in Africa, but a hybridized species, with a far more enigmatic truth behind it all.
Many questions have been raised in the discussion about Rh negative blood. If mankind did, in fact, evolve from a mutual ancient African ancestor, theories state that everyone’s blood would be compatible, but regrettably, this is not the case. This raises numerous questions that science alone has not been able to fully answer. Where did Rh negative blood come from? And why is it that a Rh negative mother carrying Rh positive children tries rejecting her own offspring? Is it possible that this can be explained by a rather controversial theory? A theory which suggests that humanity isn’t in fact one race, but a hybridized species.
The book was written by Robert Sepehr, Species with Amnesia: Our Forbidden History tells us more about the enigmatic blood type Rh-negative. Not only does Species with Amnesia suggest mankind is, in fact, a hybridized species, the author suggests that highly advanced civilizations have been on Earth before us, just to be destroyed by some great global catastrophe, as mysteriously, history tells us.
Sepehr argues that for each race that has died out, another has taken its place, with a selected few holding on to the memories and sacred knowledge of the past race. In our vanity, we think we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology, but we are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. In many ways, we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, yearning to reclaim our forgotten past. –
The Basque people of Spain and France have the highest percentage of Rh negative blood. About 30% have (rr) Rh negative and about 60% carry one (r) negative gene.
Right here in our solar system, three small ocean-containing moons are intriguing researchers, who think they might just harbor the conditions for existence to begin.
Draw a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles, label one “oceans” and the other “planetary moons,” and look at where the two spheres intersect — that’s where our search for alien life is focused right now. Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan, and Jupiter’s moon Europa, extraterrestrial bodies confirmed to contain liquid oceans and referred to as ocean worlds, are three targets of keen interest and of future exploration.
Drawing conclusions from Earth, scientists have settled on a shortlist of the ingredients needed for life as we know it: liquid water; an energy source for metabolism; and a chemical cocktail of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Data from space missions has revealed the likely presence of these components on Enceladus, Titan and Europa — along with other unique elements — which raises the possibility they may have evolved their own ways of sustaining life. Planetary scientist Alexander Hayes, a professor at Cornell University and one of the researchers engaged in the hunt for life, explains why our hopes currently rest on these three moons (TEDxCornellTech Talk: Ocean worlds — life as we know it?).
Why these three moons? Earth’s oceans have led us there.
In 2000, oceanographers probing the depths of the Atlantic Ocean came across masses of hydrothermal vent systems — essentially pools of heated water — in a spot near Ecuador where they’d never expected to discover them. Until then, such systems had been found only above underwater volcanoes. But these vents, known as the Lost City Hydrothermal Field, were different — their heat was created by chemical reactions between seawater and rock rather than from magma. From this process a unique biome had arisen. High amounts of methane and hydrogen gas came out of the vents, and the microbial world in the Lost City fed on it. Just like plants use water and sunlight to grow, the microorganisms relied on this gas. “Life was found literally running off the energy provided by chemical reactions between rock and ocean water,” says Hayes. Scientists wondered if the bottoms of extraterrestrial oceans could support similar biomes.
This graphic illustrates how scientists speculate that water interacts with rock at the bottom of the ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute.
Enceladus: a moon with intriguing jets of ice and water.
Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, with a diameter of roughly 310 kilometers — “it would fit nicely between Los Angeles and San Francisco,” says Hayes. This ocean world has been the subject of several fly-by investigations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. In 2005, Cassini data showed dozens of jets of ice and water particles coming out of Enceladus, breaking through the moon’s icy shell. “Something was generating heat,” Hayes says. “Icy water particles were coming out of more than 100 jets.” A Cassinisample of the particles also revealed they contained organics, Hayes says, “and about a year later, the team found salts in particles from the jets, which meant they must have come from a saline body of water and froze in a process like a sea spray.” An ocean was hiding under the moon’s surface.
The jets provide clues that hint at vents with a striking similarity to those of the Lost City Hydrothermal Field.
In 2015, the Cassini spacecraft took a very fast (speeds reached 19,014 mph) and risky dive into one of the jets, which gave scientists a wealth of new samples to analyze. The team, led by NASA’s J. Hunter Waite, discovered molecular hydrogen in the samples, posing major implications in the hunt for life there. If Enceladus creates its own molecular hydrogen — and hydrogen is what feeds the microorganisms living in the Lost City vents — it’s another reason that life could exist there.
Could an expedition to Enceladus be next?
Hayes’s Cornell University colleague Jonathan Lunine has proposed the Enceladus Life Finder (ELF), a mission to fly a specially designed probe through the jets and collect more samples and data to learn what’s going on. Cassini did sample the jets, but Lunine and his team explain that its instruments are much less advanced than the technology available now (Cassini launched back in October 1997, a lifetime ago in tech terms). “Enceladus is particularly attractive [for a mission] because liquid water from its deep interior is actively erupting into space, making sampling of the interior straightforward,” Lunine and team wrote in their proposal. ELF’s instruments could look at the jets’ solids and gases to search out life-building amino and fatty acids and look for more indications of conditions suitable for life.
Radar images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal many lakes on Titan’s surface, some filled with liquid and some appearing as empty depressions. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/USGS
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, appears most like Earth, with some notable distinctions.
Titan is the only body besides Earth known to have stable bodies of liquid on its surface. It harbors lakes of methane and seas of hydrocarbon, along with an underground ocean of an unknown liquid. It contains mountains and dunes, but the dunes are made of solid hydrocarbons, a plasticlike substance. It also has rain storms and canyons that flood. “Titan has the possibility for life as we know it — and perhaps for life as we don’t know it,” says Hayes. “Whether or not you need liquid water is an interesting question, and you cannot help but ask whether or not some exotic form of life may have developed in these hydrocarbon lakes and seas.”
Ideas to explore Titan: a boat? an orbiter? a balloon-boat orbiter combo?
Eight years ago, an international team designed the Titan Saturn System Mission, a joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) initiative to send a balloon-boat orbiter combo to the ocean world. With goals of taking high-resolution photos of Titan from above and extracting samples from the atmosphere and one of its seas, the mission was floated for a 2020 launch. Since then, the Titan Mare Explorer (a boat mission to Titan’s Ligeia Mare), the Oceanus orbiter, and the Dragonfly drone have been proposed. All these potential ventures share the same essential objective: to uncover more information about Titan and gather samples that could reveal details on its lakes and seas, the currents within them, and the chemical composition of its dunes, rain and atmosphere.
This is an artist’s rendering of a plume of water vapor thought to be ejected off the surface of the Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is located about 500 million miles from the sun. Image credit: NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI
On Europa, a search for hydrothermal vents.
Europa, a moon of Jupiter that’s slightly smaller than our moon, hasbeen found to have a curious, time-varying magnetic field, which scientists say indicates it harbors a salty, underground ocean ten times deeper than the deepest area of Earth’s oceans. Thermal vents like the ones on our planet, which are found up to 1.5 miles underwater, might exist on Europa, too, according to information gathered by the Voyager and Galileo spacecrafts. Images show “the surface [of Europa] is covered by fracture patterns that crisscross all over the surface,” Hayes says. “They’ve been formed as Europa is being pushed and pulled by Jupiter in an eccentric orbit.” This constant pushing and pulling creates heat. And if Europa has a stable source of heat beneath its global ocean — which appears to have three times more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined — it could contain yet-uncovered pockets of life.
On the horizon: the Europa Clipper mission.
This NASA mission is intended to attain a better picture of Europa’s landscape and gather reconnaissance for possible future landings … and maybe even human habitability. Hayes is one of the scientists working to develop the project. “We’re running all of these models right now to say, ‘These are the kind of images we can acquire from this orbital trajectory,’ and then taking the data we think we can acquire based on the position of the spacecraft and doing a tour assessment,” he says.
With so many efforts under way, Hayes is optimistic about what researchers could find. “I think it’s safe to say that we live in truly extraordinary times,” he says. “We have the capability to look for signs of life in the ocean worlds of the outer solar system; all we need is the will to move forward and progress past these recent discoveries and move on to other ones. We live in an era where we could see evidence in our own lifetimes for a second genesis of life in our solar system.”
Where are all the aliens? WIRED explains the Fermi Paradox
“We are now at the first time in human history where we can approach this question scientifically,” said Lynn Rothschild, astrobiologist at Nasa's Ames Research Centre. And the most significant discoveries are coming from research on Earth.
“If there’s an organism that can live under a certain condition here, it doesn’t mean it’s sitting there on Venus or Europa. It just means that it’s possible and so it’s worth looking,” Rothschild explained at the Starmusscience conference in Trondheim, Norway.
As we understand more and more about life living under the most extreme conditions on Earth, we draw closer to understanding the minimum conditions for life in the Universe. “If you’re out hunting for deer or elk you know what they look like, it’s pretty easy: you find one, you shoot it, you bring it home. But if you don’t know what an alien’s like, how are you going to find it? So we have to look at life on Earth to get some idea.”
MARS
IO
The most volcanically-active body in the solar system, temperatures on Jovian moon Io range from freezing to 1,700 degrees C. Because of its low gravity, matter expelled by eruptions can fly more than 250 miles above its surface.
TRES-2B
The darkest known exoplanet, TrES-2b reflects just one percent of any light that hits it. Likely of similar bulk and composition to Jupiter, the planet is less reflective than coal. It isn't yet known why it is so dark, but it has been speculated that TrES-2b's atmosphere is filled with light-absorbing sodium, potassium, or titanium oxide.
TITAN
Larger than Mercury, Titan has one of the most fascinating atmospheres in the solar system. Temperatures stick at around -179 degrees C , but there still are seasons on the Saturnian moon. Lakes of liquid methane create methane rain, and it has even been speculated that rainbows could form in its dense atmosphere.
VENUS
Wind speeds of 224mph keep Venus' thick atmosphere in constant, dizzying motion. While it takes 243 Earth days to complete one rotation on its axis, clouds fly around once every four days. Rain falls as sulphur dioxide and sulphuric acid, with surface temperatures hitting 462 degrees C. There's also lightning on Venus.
NEPTUNE
The winds on Neptune are the fastest of any planet in the Solar System, reaching 1,300mph. It is also one of the coldest -- temperatures fall to -218 degrees C in the outer atmosphere.
COROT-7B Orbiting at one twenty-third the distance from the Sun to Mercury, things get pretty hot on COROT-7b. A year lasts just over 20 hours and temperatures soar to 2,600 degrees C. Its surface is likely coated in molten lava oceans and it might even rain rocks.
WASP-12B
WASP-12b, discovered in 2008, is one of the largest exoplanets ever found. It orbits incredibly close to its sun and a year lasts little over a day. And that close orbit (approximately 2,115,000 miles, a quarter of the Earth's distance to the Sun) is a real killer. WASP-12b is being pulled into an egg shape by the star's tidal forces and is loosing its atmosphere at a rate of about 189 quadrillion tonnes per Earth year.
For astrobiologists, the problem comes from having a limited sample set: one. “We’ve only had one book to read so far and that’s on planet Earth,” said Rothschild. Since she joined Nasa in the 1980s, the number of known exoplanets has gone from zero to 3,496. These distant worlds exist in 2,606 solar systems and some could, potentially, hold life.
“As a biologist, I am in awe of the places that life has managed to live on the Earth,” said Rothschild. Extremophiles exist at the wildest range of temperature, pH, pressure, chemistry, salinity, desiccation, radiation and oxygen. To get an idea of how tough life is, hop in a time machine.
“Oxygen isn’t that great,” jokes Rothschild. “In fact, life on Earth was completely anaerobic for it’s first billion or so years. So when you hear about having to find a planet with oxygen on it, you would not have found that situation on Earth during the first few billion years of life. So, actually, it’s more difficult to live on a planet with oxygen than one without.”
Stephen Hawking warns that if we don't leave this planet soon, we will be annihilated
Within our own Solar System, the signs are promising. Enceladus, Europa, Mars and Titan could all, potentially, be home to life. And then there’s Pluto. “No self-respecting scientist, certainly not an astrobiologist, would’ve talked about Pluto before. But now we know there’s ice there, potentially liquid water.”
As we start to find out more about the conditions both inside our Solar System and on exoplanets, Rothschild and her colleagues are presented with a new problem: what if we find conditions for life that are just outside the extremes studied on Earth? The answer: synthetic biology.
“Eventually we’ll even be able to make life de novo. Our lab and others have been working on this very issue. And so then you could have a completely different building block, a completely different chassis for life. That then opens up many, many more possibilities”
Kenneth Arnold's sighting sparked the flying saucer myth
Less than two weeks before the more famous Roswell incident of July 1947, when it is alleged that a flying saucer crashed in the New Mexico desert, Kenneth Arnold saw nine "UFOs" flying at high speed.
Mr Arnold, 32 at the time, said he was flying from Chehalis to Yakima, both in Washington, at the time and was startled by a strange flash of light.
He said: "I observed a chain of nine peculiar looking aircraft flying from north to south” near Mt Rainier".
The private pilot said he was at about 9,200 feet, and it was about 3pm as he watched the craft for up to three minutes.
He estimated they travelled at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour.
He landed at Yakima, and after telling a friend who did not believe him, details of his encounter got out.
Initially he described them as "pie pans", almost like a crescent or boomerang, but added that they were like "saucers skipping on water".
The media coined the term flying saucers after that.
US Army Air Force officials Lt Frank Brown and Capt William Davidson of Hamilton Field in California, interviewed Mr Arnold on July 12.
He also wrote a report on the encounter.
The military men concluded in a report he was telling the truth, but had seen a mirage.
The report said: "It is the present opinion of the interviewer that Mr Arnold actually saw what he stated he saw.
"It is difficult to believe that a man of his character and apparent integrity would state that he saw objects and write up a report to the extent that he did if he did not see them."
A number of explanations were given including that he saw snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Mountain Range, meteors, spots of water on the window, orographic clouds, which rise up, or even pelicans.
It is difficult to believe that a man of his character and apparent integrity would state that he saw objects and write up a report to the extent that he did if he did not see them.
Military report
In an interview three years later, Mr Arnold claimed to have had three further similar sightings, as had other pilots.
He said: "Being a natural-born American, if it's not made by our science or our army air forces, I am inclined to believe it's of an extraterrestrial origin."
The following month the Roswell case happened when the air force issued a press release about finding a crashed flying saucer before back tracking to say it was a weather balloon.
Behind the scenes the FBI took these cases seriously and investigated.
Project Sign began at the end of 1947, and later evolved into Project Blue Book.
In 1950 Hollywood released the film The Flying Saucer - which was the first time an alien ship was depicted as a flying disc.
In 1951 The Day The Earth Stood Still used a flying saucer to warn humanity about nuclear annihilation.
It was not until 1952 that the USAF came up with the term unidentified flying object (UFO).
The 1950s became the golden era for UFOs with cold war paranoia fuelling sighting after sighting.
Nick Pope, who once investigated UFOs for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: "On 24 June 1947 a pilot, Kenneth Arnold, saw strange objects that the media dubbed 'flying saucers'. "This marked the genesis of the modern UFO mystery.
"Now, almost exactly 70 years later, the UFO mystery lives on and there's still huge interest in this fascinating topic."
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Britain finally releases its top-secret ‘X-Files’
Britain finally releases its top-secret ‘X-Files’
By Margi Murphy, The Sun
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An official government UFO dossier that’s referred to as “Britain’s X-Files” has finally been released.
The National Archive has opened up a cache of 15 files from the Ministry of Defense that divulge details of mysterious incidents in British skies.
They include material relating to an unsolved encounter that’s been likened to the Roswell UFO incident in America.
The incident took place in December 1980, when three military personnel claimed to see flashing bright lights and a triangular object near a Royal Air Force base in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, about 100 miles northeast of London.
An investigation was opened but the mystery remains unsolved.
But alien hunters will have to wait a little longer to find out the truth, thanks to the process that’s been put in place to read these newly released files.
They have not been digitized, so enthusiasts must join a line to inspect the paper records at the National Archive’s reading room in London.
The UK’s most notorious UFO incident happened in the Rendlesham Forest Getty Images
What’s more, there are an additional three files which have still not been released, according to Nick Pope, a former civil servant who worked for the Ministry of Defense.
Pope, who ran the defense ministry’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994, said: “The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the ‘good stuff’ is being held back.”
“Furthermore, the fact that some files haven’t been digitized, can’t be downloaded, and can only be viewed in person at the National Archives will doubtless also generate conspiracy theories.”
“After this, there are only three more UFO files still to be released, and they should be made public later this year, so there’s still more to come.”
“This is a good day for open government and for freedom of information.”
Last year, an American airman involved in the incident won a legal bid to force military health chiefs to pay for the treatment of injuries he claimed to have sustained at Rendlesham Forest.
“In citing the [MoD radiation documents] and in granting John Burroughs full disability for his injuries in Rendlesham Forest, the US Government has by de facto acknowledged the existence of unidentified aerial phenomena which, in John Burroughs’ case, resulted in physical injury,” his lawyer Pat Frascogna said.
The Rendlesham Forest incident: Britain’s most famous UFO sighting
The Rendlesham Forest incident is so famous that there is an official “UFO Trail” in Suffolk, England.Getty Images
The Rendlesham Forest incident took place in December 1980 over several nights.
On Dec. 26, 1980, military personnel at the twin bases of Royal Air Force Bentwaters and Royal Air Force Woodbridge in Suffolk saw a strange light in Rendlesham Forest, which lies between the two bases.
Three men were sent out to investigate and two of them encountered a small, triangular craft.
One man, 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 a deputy base commander, Lt. Col. Charles Halt, and his team encountered the UFO.
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 a Ministry of Defense investigation, the Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained.
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The PAL-V will be the first flying car to hit the consumer market, with aims to reach customers by 2018. In competition with it are AeroMobil are Terrfugia, both of which are launching futuristic aero-vehicles.
FLYING CARS BY 2018
The Personal Air Land Vehicle (PAL-V) Liberty is looking likely to become the first flying car intended for general adoption and real world application — and it could be available soon. While the first model was developed in 2012, the company is aiming to deliver its first car to the first customer by the end of 2018. They hope to produce 50 to 100 models in 2019, and a few hundred by 2020.
The planned price is €299,000 EUR ($333, 340 USD) for the sport version and €499,000 EUR ($556, 310 USD) for the first edition. Of course, cost isn’t the only consideration: customers will need to acquire both a flying and driving license before using the vehicle, and each car will need to undergo 150 hours of flight testing before being approved.
The PAL-V is one of many flying cars in development at the moment. Other bids include Toyota’s plan to bring a flying car to the 2020 Toyko Olympics — although the end goal for this model would be carrying the Olympic torch, rather than being destined for mass production.
At the moment, the PAL-V’s main market competition are companies like AeroMobil, and another called Terrfugia. Both use plane-like propulsion systems, as opposed to the Pal-V’s gyrocopter technology, to take off. Aerombil has already started accepting pre-orders for 2020, while Terrafugia is expected to deliver their first Transition in 2019.
THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORT?
It may well be that flying cars as the future of transport. They would provide a way to decrease traffic congestion, cut out airport flight times, provide alternatives for people living a long way from work, and give a means of transport to countries that lack the infrastructure for consistent large scale flights.
However, not everyone agrees with that assessment: Elon Musk isn’t so sure flying cars are the future of transport, as he told Bloomberg’s Max Chafkin: “Obviously, I like flying things, but it’s difficult to imagine the flying car becoming a scalable solution.”
Among the main criticisms of the technology are the fact that it would need to produce a lot of downforce to stay in the sky — which produces a lot of noise and wind — and that they may well be more dangerous than road cars: should they be involved in an accident, passengers and debris could quite literally end up falling from the sky. The PAL-V has handled the the first issue with its gyrocopte, which keeps speed in check and is a key safety feature.
While a future with flying cars is an exciting one to behold, there are some major obstacles the industry needs to overcome first. And while it’s certainly encouraging that there’s interest, we shouldn’t take the acceptance of pre-orders as being interchangeable with government policy or even approval.
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Verrassend indrukwekkende graancirkel ontdekt. Waar doet dit ons aan denken?
Verrassend indrukwekkende graancirkel ontdekt. Waar doet dit ons aan denken?
Een automobilist met pech ontdekte bij Badbury Rings, een fort uit de ijzertijd in het Engelse Dorset, een graancirkel in de vorm van een levensboom in een weiland.
Pete Coker was op weg naar huis toen er plotseling witte rook onder de motorkap van zijn MG Midget vandaan kwam.
“Terwijl de rook verdween, zag ik iemand zitten in het hoge gras die me vroeg of ik was gekomen om de levensboom te zien,” zei hij.
Aantrekkingskracht
“Ik vertelde hem dat ik panne had, maar hij was ervan overtuigd dat de aantrekkingskracht van de boom hier verantwoordelijk voor was,” vervolgde Coker.
De man zei verder dat hij speciaal was afgereisd uit Wenen om de graancirkel, die enkele dagen daarvoor was verschenen, te aanschouwen.
Onder de indruk
“Ik was onder de indruk van deze graancirkel, des te meer nog toen ik de formatie op het internet zag,” verklaarde Coker.
Het is niet voor het eerst dat er een graancirkel is ontstaan bij het oude monument. In de afgelopen jaren zijn er meerdere keren bijzondere patronen verschenen.
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Night Of UFOs In Brazil Is Considered One Of The Most Legitimate Incidents In Years But No One Talks About It Anymore
Night Of UFOs In Brazil Is Considered One Of The Most Legitimate Incidents In Years But No One Talks About It Anymore
UFO enthusiasts often get the mocking for their extraterrestrial belief these days. Voices of critics often prevail than those who assert the existence of real UFOs. However, some UFO sightings are seemingly impossible to find any rational explanations. One of these is the Night of UFOs in Brazil, which is one of the most famous UFO-related incidents in decades. On the negative note among believers, this major event has mostly been forgotten today despite the national coverage of it.
Popularly known as the Brazil’s Night of UFOs, the incident took place on May 19, 1986. It involved 21 UFOs that were noticed by the Air Force radars in the country. Many witnesses claimed to have spotted the mysterious objects in different areas of the country, including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Interestingly, the Night of UFOs was not just all about the number of unidentified flying objects. The Brazilian government and the military were reportedly taking a serious investigation into the incident. The country’s Air Force was deployed to take a look at those strange aerial things with instruction to engage them if necessary.
The Air Force scrambled Northrop F-5E Tiger II aircraft, Dassault Mirages III fighters and other military aircraft. Despite the capability of Air Force aircraft to fly at high speeds, the UFOs reportedly outran the military fighters as the unusual aerial objects flew as fast as 2500 mph. The entire operation of the Air Force lasted around three hours.
On the day following the bizarre event, Brazilian Air Force Secretary Octávio Julio Moreira Lima held a press conference about it. Government officials and military officers spoke about the Nigh of UFOs. They promised the public full blown investigation into the incident and its findings would be released to the public. However, the full disclosure never happened. Then sceptical explanations about it followed later, such as the sightings being caused by ball lightning, meteor showers, a reflection of the full moon or problem with the radar system. Eventually, interest about it died down.
A Woman Spots and Films UFO Sighting In Tallahassee
A Woman Spots and Films UFO Sighting In Tallahassee
A woman has claimed that she saw a UFO over Tallahassee, Florida and recorded it on video to prove her bizarre sighting. Sharla Daire-Brady is saying that she noticed the glowing unidentified flying object on June 17. The reporting witness reveals that she and her husband got up early that day to go fishing.
Sharla points out that the light got bigger and bigger as she walked closer to it.
She started to freak out but still managed to pull out her phone and start recording. When she recorded it on video, the mysterious light began changing colours and going all over the area while getting closer to her.
Suddenly, the bright light allegedly looked like an enormous green triangle. Sharla states that the flash remained for a few seconds before it flew away.
She then ran to share her husband what she had seen, but he was sceptical saying to her that she was just lack of sleep. However, with her UFO sighting video, he started to believe in her.
She has been showing the video to several friends as well who are also convinced that the unusual flying object does not appear to be any known aircraft or drone.
Sharla believes that she saw a UFO that she describes as too fast and too erratic to be a drone or any kind of aircraft.
A dossier of files kept secret by the UK government for almost 50 years has finally been released for the first time.
The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of UFO sightings seen all over the country.
They contain information about a number of high profile incidents that are believed to be related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'
Mysteriously, the files have not yet been digitised so enthusiasts must go to London's National Archives in Kew if they want to have access to them.
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The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of sightings of UFOs seen all over the country (stock image)
WHAT ARE THESE FILES?
The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of sightings of UFOs over almost five decades.
They contain information about a number of high profile incidents that are believed to be related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'
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 release marks the final stages of what's been a nine-year long project to declassify and release the MoD's entire archive of UFO files.
Mysteriously, the files have not yet been digitised so enthusiasts must go to the National Archives in Kew, West London if they want to have access to them.
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 files are believed to date from 1971-76, 1996-2000 and 2004.
The release marks the final stages of what's been a nine-year long project to declassify and release the MoD's entire archive of UFO files.
Three of these documents have still not been released.
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.
'I think these files perfectly capture the wonder and fascination of the UFO mystery and show how MoD officials - myself included - struggled to make sense of one of the great mysteries of the modern era', said Nick Pope, who was part of the Ministry of Defence's UFO project from 1991 to 1994.
'Sadly, there's no 'smoking gun' in these files that will prove we've been visited by extraterrestrials, but there are plenty of intriguing UFO reports, as well as policy papers explaining how the MoD handled this subject.'
'The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the 'good stuff' is being held back', he said.
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.
Conspiracy theorists are hoping the files may shed light on the notorious Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980, dubbed Britain's Roswell
The disputed sightings, over three nights between December 26-28, occurred when Britain and the West were on high alert during the Cold War.
'What's readily apparent from a detailed study of all this is that the MoD was telling Parliament, the media and the public that the UFO phenomenon was of "no defence significance" and of limited interest to the MoD', said Mr Pope.
'However, the files show that behind the scenes, the subject was obviously taken more seriously than we let on, with many of the cases self-evidently being of great defence significance – e.g. when UFOs were seen in close proximity to military bases, were encountered by RAF pilots, or were tracked on radar by fighter controllers or air traffic controllers.'
The remaining three files are due to be released later this year.
'This is a good day for open government and for freedom of information', Mr Pope said.
The last batch of files that was released contained some papers relating to anti-gravity and gravity modification research expressed by MoD scientists.
'I wasn’t joking when I referred to MoD’s UFO project as being “the real-life X-Files”', said Mr Pope.
RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT
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.
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.
Video shows a bizarre circling object in the skies above Cley Hill, near Warminster, Somerset.
Warminster has been crowned the country's top UFO hotspot since the 1960s when a strange spate of UFO sightings and paranormal incidents led to the legend of the Warminster Thing developing.
People reported eerie thundering noises, lights in the sky, birds being killed, and even cars malfunctioning after balls of light appeared above.
The area still witnesses UFO sightings and many crop circles.
The new video, was filmed by a resident from Frome, and shows the circling shows streaks of light above the hill, which is just two miles from Warminster.
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The circular object sparked claims of a return of the Warminsgter Thing.
The resident said: "I took this video from my house in Frome.
"It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs."
But, they were not convinced it was anything alien, adding: "Probably a drone with a fancy flame effect tail or something. It's been spotted a few times locally."
However, it was picked up by UFO channels and soon went viral, with speculation about an alien origin and the earlier events from Warminster.
"It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs."
Frome resident
Some conspiracy theorists even suggested it could be secret flight tests connected to military activity at nearby Salisbury Plain.
But, it appears the cameraman's hunch was right that there was a sensible explanation.
Scott Brando, who runs hoax-busting website ufoofinterest.org was the first to come forward and suggest it was a kite or acrobatic aircraft with pyrotechnics, providing video clips of both making a similar swirling effect.
Later, AeroSPARX, an aircraft aerobatic team that performs at air shows across Europe, came forward with an explanation.
It appears it was a stunt plane belonging to the team.
Website Sky Watchers, who analyses UFO footage tracked down the culprits, and discovered AeroSPARX had been in the area at the time.
AeroSPARX, says of the particular craft: "The Grob is unique amongst air show types, as it has a special clearance to fly at night.
"Pyrotechnics are quite unique and special in the half-light of twilight, but at night they really come alive and you can truly appreciate their majestic nature."
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Britain’s top secret UFO docs RELEASED: ‘These are the REAL X-Files’
Britain’s top secret UFO docs RELEASED: ‘These are the REAL X-Files’
BRITAIN’S top secret UFO files have been finally released after months of wrangling – but the Government are not making it easy for alien hunters to get their hands of them.
UFO nuts will have to wait-in-line as the government has not digitised the files and posted them online.
Truth-seekers will have to rock up the Nationa Archive in Kew, West London, to inspect the paper versions of the documents.
But alien hunters have been waiting for the release for months – and three of files have not even been released.
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ALIENS: UFO encounters are touched upon by the secret documents
Secret documents declassified are expected to obtain information relating the the Rendlesham Forest incident, which is regarded as Britain’s most infamous UFO encounter.
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.
The notorious incident has been likened to the UK”s Roswell.
Files were repeatedly delayed in their release – with the most recent speed bump being due to the General Election.
However, 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.”
Mr Pope added: "The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the ‘good stuff’ is being held back.
“Furthermore, the fact that some files haven’t been digitised, can’t be downloaded, and can only be viewed in person at the National Archives will doubtless also generate conspiracy theories.
“After this, there are only three more UFO files still to be released, and they should be made public later this year, so there’s still more to come.”
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What are they hiding? MoD finally releases UFO alien X-Files… but mystery three held back
What are they hiding? MoD finally releases UFO alien X-Files… but mystery three held back
THE Ministry of Defence (MoD) has finally released a series of former top-secret files on UFOs - but has prompted claims of a cover up after holding three remaining dossiers back from release.
Three top secret files on UFOs promised for release have been held back.
UFO and alien truth seekers have been eagerly awaiting the release of 18 MoD reports into UFO cases, after a series of hold ups in getting them made public via the National Archives.
But, there are claims the truth still isn't out there after three of them were still not released, and officials appeared to make it very difficult for anyone to view the 15 others.
Instead of being placed online as many National Archives documents now are, the papers can only be seen by making an appointment with the Government archive service in London.
Or copies can be ordered for a fee online with several days wait before they they arrive.
Nick Pope, who worked in the department of the MoD which investigated UFOs until 2009 and now speaks at alien-related conferences across the globe, said there would be claims they had been "snuck out".
He said: "It seems that The National Archives has released 15 of the remaining 18 Ministry of Defence UFO files, marking the final stages of what's been a nine-year long project to declassify and release the MoD's entire archive of UFO files.
"Unlike all such previous releases of UFO files, I wasn't pre-briefed on the release date. The release of these final files has been extensively delayed and at one stage they were sent from the MoD to the National Archives, but then sent back to the MoD.
"Embarrassment about this delay may explain why - unlike releases of previous batches of MoD UFO files - there hasn't been a proactive media release.
"Accordingly, I suspect the UFO and conspiracy theory community will say that these files have been "snuck out'
"I think one has to pay for access, unlike previous batches, which were free for a month."
But, he said he did not believe there was a smoking gun of evidence for alien life in the files as had been hoped.
Those hoping the files could solve the mystery of the December 1980 Rendlesham UFO case may also be disappointed, he said.
The UK alien sighting happened when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26.
I believe there are some documents on the Rendlesham Forest incident, though I'm pretty sure they're duplicates of material that's been released previously.
Nick Pope
The case was later investigated by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), but it concluded there was no evidence of alien visitations or any national security risk, and the sightings were most likely the result of beams of light from a nearby coastal lighthouse.
Truth seekers believe there is more to it and the files might solve the mystery.
Mr Pope said: "I believe there are some documents on the Rendlesham Forest incident, though I'm pretty sure they're duplicates of material that's been released previously.
"The release of these real-life X-Files shows that the UFO mystery lives on and that there's still huge interest in this fascinating topic.
"These files will give people a revealing insight into this bizarre and intriguing aspect of Ministry of Defence business.
"I think these files perfectly capture the wonder and fascination of the UFO mystery and show how MoD officials - myself included - struggled to make sense of one of the great mysteries of the modern era.
"Sadly, there's no 'smoking gun' in these files that will prove we've been visited by extraterrestrials, but there are plenty of intriguing UFO reports, as well as policy papers explaining how the MoD handled this subject.
"The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the 'good stuff' is being held back.
"Furthermore, the fact that some files haven't been digitised, can't be downloaded, and can only be viewed in person at the National Archives will doubtless also generate conspiracy theories.
"After this, there are only three more UFO files still to be released, and they should be made public later this year, so there's still more to come."
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Real life UFO 'X Files' released to the public by the Government
Real life UFO 'X Files' released to the public by the Government
Ex-MoD official gives his take on the 'fascinating' documents - and says their release will fuel further conspiracy theories
BY MIEKA SMILES
A 'UFO' over the countryside
The truth IS out there...
The National Archives has released 15 Ministry of Defence UFO files.
But a press officer for the organisation has confirmed if you want to read them you’ll need to visit its headquarters...
And a top UFO expert says this will fuel further ‘conspiracy theories.’
The National Archives press officer said: “15 files from the MoD on the subject of UFOs have been released.
“We release files on a weekly basis and have already highlighted previous releases on this subject.
Andrew Beattie spotted this UFO over the Whitby coastline
“With this release comprising of a small number of files, it has not been practical to prepare a full press pack.
“However, the files are available for all members of the press and public to view in our on site reading room here at Kew.”
Nick Pope used to work for the MoD and ran its UFO project from 1991 to 1994.
He said: “On June 24 1947 a pilot, Kenneth Arnold, saw strange objects that the media dubbed ‘flying saucers’.
“This marked the genesis of the modern UFO mystery.
“Now, almost exactly 70 years later, the release of these real-life X-Files shows that the UFO mystery lives on and that there’s still huge interest in this fascinating topic.”
Nick says that the release of the files is a victory in freedom of information.
He said: “These files will give people a revealing insight into this bizarre and intriguing aspect of Ministry of Defence business.
“I think these files perfectly capture the wonder and fascination of the UFO mystery and show how MoD officials - myself included - struggled to make sense of one of the great mysteries of the modern era.
“Whether people are believers, sceptics, or somewhere in between, these files should delight and fascinate.
“I hope people find them interesting and entertaining.”
However it seems as though that mystery will continue to surround UFOs.
He said: “Sadly, there’s no ‘smoking gun’ in these files that will prove we’ve been visited by extraterrestrials, but there are plenty of intriguing UFO reports, as well as policy papers explaining how the MoD handled this subject.
“The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the ‘good stuff’ is being held back.
“Furthermore, the fact that some files haven’t been digitised, can’t be downloaded, and can only be viewed in person at the National Archives will doubtless also generate conspiracy theories.”
He added: “After this, there are only three more UFO files still to be released, and they should be made public later this year, so there’s still more to come.
“This is a good day for open government and for freedom of information.”
Here’s a link to the National Archives site to find out more.
Kunstmatige intelligentie maakt Curiosity veel slimmer
Kunstmatige intelligentie maakt Curiosity veel slimmer
Tim Kraaijvanger
Sinds vorig jaar kiest Curiosity zelfstandig wanneer hij zijn ChemCam-laserinstrument gebruikt. In een nieuw paper melden onderzoekers dat dit een slimme zet was.
Tot juli 2016 vuurde de Marsrover al meer dan 350.000 laserpulsen af op stenen. Wanneer een steen wordt geraakt door een puls, verdampt er een klein beetje materiaal van de steen. Hierdoor kan de samenstelling geanalyseerd worden. Curiosity kreeg de scanopdrachten van wetenschappers op aarde. Je begrijpt dat dit een tijdrovende klus is. Voorheen moesten astronomen de foto’s bekijken en vervolgens scanopdrachten doorgeven.
“Om een laserpuls goed af te vuren, moet Curiosity stilstaan, waarna wetenschappers op aarde de parameters finetunen”, zei ingenieur Tara Estlin van NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dat kan natuurlijk sneller. “Dankzij AEGIS (de software, red.) kan Curiosity objecten nu snel identificeren en in een keer goed raken.”
Nu selecteert Curiosity zijn eigen doelwitten voor het ChemCam-instrument. De rover besluit zelfstandig om bepaalde stenen te onderzoeken. Daarvoor gebruikt Curiosity een handig algoritme, dat geprogrammeerd is door wetenschappers. Zo kijkt de rover o.a. naar de grootte en helderheid van stenen. De criteria kunnen worden aangepast wanneer de wetenschappelijke doelstellingen veranderen of wanneer Curiosity een ander gebied bereikt.
En het werkt. De afgelopen 2,5 kilometer scande het ChemCam-instrument veel interessante stenen. 93% van alle gescande objecten voldeed aan de criteria. Zonder het intelligente AEGIS-algoritme zou dit percentage zo’n 24 procent zijn, voorspellen wetenschappers in het paper.
Niet volledig zelfstandig Overigens is het niet zo dat Curiosity vanaf nu alles zelfstandig doet. Wetenschappers kunnen het ChemCam-laserinstrument nog steeds vanaf aarde besturen en de Marsrover opdrachten geven om bepaalde stenen te beschieten.
Vijf jaar op Mars In augustus 2012 landde Curiosity op de rode planeet. Dat is alweer bijna vijf jaar geleden. De rover bestudeert hogergelegen lagen op Mount Sharp, waar Curiosity in 2014 arriveerde. Eind vorig jaar ontdekte Curiosity dat het erop lijkt dat in de Gale-krater langdurig chemische reacties plaatsvonden die op aarde cruciaal zijn gebleken voor leven. Curiosity toonde eerder al aan dat de Gale-krater een meer bevatte dat alle chemische ingrediënten die nodig zijn voor leven – plus de chemische energie die leven vereist – herbergde. Maar of er daadwerkelijk ooit leven was op Mars? Dat weet nog niemand.
Maak kennis met Planeet Y: ons zonnestelsel telt misschien tien planeten
Maak kennis met Planeet Y: ons zonnestelsel telt misschien tien planeten
Tim Kraaijvanger
Naast Planeet X schuilt er mogelijk nog een tiende planeet in de Kuipergordel, namelijk Planeet Y. Deze planeet is ongeveer even groot als Mars of de aarde.
In het wetenschappelijke vakblad Astronomical Journal schrijven wetenschappers Kat Volk en Renu Malhotra van de universiteit van Arizona dat er bewijs is gevonden dat er niet acht of negen, maar tien planeten om de zon draaien. De astronomen keken naar de omloopbanen van ruim 600 Kuipergordelobjecten. Deze objecten zijn brokstukken, die overgebleven zijn na de vorming van het zonnestelsel. Inmiddels draaien deze kleine en grote ruimtestenen al zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar om de zon.
Toch merkten de astronomen een afwijking op in de oriëntatie van de banen van de meeste verre Kuipergordelobjecten. Het baanvlak wijkt acht procent af ten opzichte van het gemiddelde baanvlak. “Uit onze berekeningen blijkt dat er maar één logische verklaring is: er zweeft ergens een planeet ter grootte van Mars”, aldus Volk.
Een schematische weergave van de positie van Planeet Y. De onderzoekers hebben de planeet afgebeeld als een soort tweede aarde, maar de kans is extreem klein dat er leven mogelijk is op deze verre, ijskoude planeet.
Je kunt het baanvlak van het zonnestelsel het beste zien als een A4’tje. Vrijwel alle objecten in het zonnestelsel draaien op dit platte vel om de zon. Er zijn afwijkingen – bijvoorbeeld Pluto – maar gemiddeld gezien lijken de meeste planeten, asteroïden en kometen op dit A4’tje te rusten. “Zeker in de Kuipergordel moet het baanvlak nauwelijks afwijken, omdat de banen van deze objecten worden bepaald door de zon en de grotere planeten”, zegt Malhotra. “Toch zien we een afwijking bij Kuipergordelobjecten op 50 AE tot 80 AE van de zon.” In vergelijking: 1 AE is de afstand van de aarde tot de zon. “De kans is kleiner dan twee procent dat het gaat om een statistische afwijking.”
De ijskoude planeet ter grootte van Mars draait op een afstand van ruwweg 60 AE (negen miljard kilometer) om de zon. Dat is ruim twee keer de afstand van de zon naar Neptunus. Op dit moment is Neptunus de laatste planeet van ons zonnestelsel.
En Planeet X dan? Er blijft één vraag over: worden de banen van deze Kuipergordelobjecten niet gewoon beïnvloed door Planeet X? Planeet X bestaat mogelijk echt en is een object op een afstand van 500 tot 700 AE van de zon. Deze planeet is ongeveer tien keer groter dan de aarde.
“Nee, Planeet X is te ver verwijderd om invloed uit te oefenen op deze Kuipergordelobjecten”, zegt Volk. “De afstand tot de zon moet kleiner zijn dan 100 AE om zulke baanafwijkingen te veroorzaken.”
De zoektocht naar Planeet Y Een object ter grootte van Mars zou makkelijk gespot moeten worden, toch? De onderzoekers beweren dat de kans dertig procent is dat het object nog nooit is gevonden omdat we nog niet goed genoeg keken. Als Planeet X en Planeet Y echt bestaan, dan is de kans groot dat we deze objecten de komende jaren gaan vinden. De komende jaren verschijnen er allerlei nieuwe telescopen.
ALS PLANEET X EN PLANEET Y ECHT BESTAAN, DAN IS DE KANS GROOT DAT WE DEZE OBJECTEN DE KOMENDE JAREN GAAN VINDEN
Alternatieve verklaring Als de afwijking van de Kuipergordelobjecten niet is veroorzaakt door Planeet Y, wat is dan de meest waarschijnlijke verklaring voor dit verschijnsel? Wellicht dat de afwijking dan is veroorzaakt door een passerende ster. “Dit zou betekenen dat de ster ergens in de afgelopen tien miljoen jaar rakelings langs het zonnestelsel scheerde”, beweert Malhotra. Als het langer dan tien miljoen jaar geleden is gebeurd, dan zouden de Kuipergordelobjecten langzaam teruggaan naar het oude baanvlak. “Dat lijkt ons een onwaarschijnlijk scenario.”
'Bezoekje aan ijsreus Neptunus of Uranus is noodzakelijk'
'Bezoekje aan ijsreus Neptunus of Uranus is noodzakelijk'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Als we ons zonnestelsel en andere planetenstelsels willen doorgronden, moeten we één van deze ijsreuzen gewoon met een bezoekje vereren.
Dat schrijven onderzoekers in een 529 pagina’s tellend onderzoek dat dieper ingaat op het belang van een missie naar Uranus of Neptunus en tegelijkertijd beschrijft hoe zo’n missie er dan uit zou moeten zien. “Dit onderzoek beargumenteert het belang van het verkennen van minstens één van deze planeten en omgeving, waarin we onder meer verrassend dynamische ijsmanen, ringen en bizarre magnetische velden aantreffen,” stelt onderzoeker Mark Hofstadter.
OVER IJSREUZEN
IJsreuzen zijn planeten die groter zijn dan rotsachtige planeten zoals de aarde, maar kleiner dan gasreuzen, zoals Saturnus en Jupiter. Hoewel de naam anders doet vermoeden is er in de ijsreuzen waarschijnlijk weinig ijs te vinden. Wel vermoeden wetenschappers dat zich onder het dikke wolkendek dat de planeten omringt een vloeibare oceaan bevindt die zo’n 66% van hun massa zou uitmaken. Dankzij die oceaan onderscheiden ijsreuzen zich duidelijk van rotsachtige planeten (die voor zo’n 100% uit gesteente bestaan) en gasreuzen (die voor 85 procent uit gas bestaat). Hoe ijsreuzen ontstaan, weten we niet. En ook veel processen op de manen van ijsreuzen doorgronden we nog niet. Onderzoekers willen daar dolgraag verandering in brengen. Niet alleen omdat ze zo meer te weten kunnen komen over ons zonnestelsel, maar ook omdat veel exoplaneten (planeten rond andere sterren) veel gemeen lijken te hebben met de ijsreuzen in ons zonnestelsel.
Voyager 2 Tot op heden is er maar één ruimtevaartuig geweest dat Neptunus en Uranus – heel kortstondig – van dichtbij heeft bekeken. En dat is Voyager 2. De sonde vloog in 1986 langs Uranus en scheerde drie jaar later langs Neptunus. Maar daarmee zijn nog lang niet alle vragen omtrent deze ijsreuzen beantwoord. “We weten niet hoe deze planeten gevormd zijn en waarom zij en hun manen er zo uitzien,” vertelt onderzoeker Amy Simon. “Er zijn fundamentele aanwijzingen omtrent hoe ons zonnestelsel is gevormd en geëvolueerd is, die we alleen kunnen vinden door één van deze planeten – of bij voorkeur beide – gedetailleerd te bestuderen.”
Orbiter of scheervlucht? Maar hoe zou zo’n missie naar Uranus en/of Neptunus er dan precies uit moeten zien? In hun paper werken de onderzoekers verschillende concept-missies uit. Zo zouden we middels scheervluchten langs de planeten meer over de ijsreuzen te weten kunnen komen. Maar we kunnen er ook voor kiezen om een ruimtesonde in een baan rond de ijsreuzen te plaatsen. Daarnaast kan het ook interessant zijn om een sonde de atmosfeer van Uranus in te sturen en zo meer te weten te komen over de samenstelling van de ijsreus.
Cruciaal Hoe we de ijsreuzen precies gaan verkennen, maakt in feite niet uit. Als we maar gaan. Want dat is echt noodzakelijk, zo benadrukken de onderzoekers. “Verkenning van minstens één ijsreus-systeem is cruciaal als we een beter begrip willen krijgen van het zonnestelsel, exoplanetaire systemen en de totstandkoming en evolutie van planeten beter willen begrijpen,” zo schrijven de onderzoekers.
Het onderzoek naar het belang van het verkennen van de ijsreuzen is uitgevoerd in opdracht van NASA. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie zal de studie in overweging nemen wanneer deze nadenkt over de ruimtemissies die tussen 2022 en 2032 prioriteit moeten krijgen.
Zimbabwe UFO Child Conactee Speaks Publicly For The 1st Time
Zimbabwe UFO Child Conactee Speaks Publicly For The 1st Time
Emily was only a few feet away from the beings and believes she was given messages.
One of the most outstanding UFO experiences involving a group of children took place on September 16, 1994. Approximately 60 children between 5 and 12 years old were playing outside their school on the outskirts of the capital of Zimbabwe when they saw a large spaceship and several smaller craft gliding over the scrubland.
The spacecraft landed beside their playground. The children claim that they were approached by beings from the ships and that the whole encounter lasted about 15 minutes.
Emily Trim was one of those children. As a young student at the Ariel primary school near the town of Ruwa in Zimbabwe, the incident was made famous when it was covered by the BBC, who interviewed the children soon after the incident. Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack traveled to the school to interview the children and recorded their extraordinary accounts.
To this day, she says, the incident still affects her. Standing only a few feet away from the beings she believes that she was given messages.
She has been painting and drawing mysterious and beautiful images she feels are a manifestation of the messages she received.
In this video, Emily Trim speaks publicly of the first time at the Alien Cosmic Expo 2015. Her emotional testimony conveys the depth of her personally moving experience as a child who was face to face with an extraterrestrial being.
EMN apologizes for the sound issues. Best heard through headphones or earbuds. Transcription is below.
Here below is the original 1994 BBC video interview by Dr. John Mack of those young children at the Ariel primary school near the town of Ruwa in Zimbabwe.
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“I was a witness from the Ruwa, Zimbabwe event. I was just over 8 years old when this happened. I was born in Canada. I’m from a family of five. I have a brother and a sister. My brother was also at the school during the time of the event. My parents are missionaries for the Salvation Army. That’s why we were down in Ruwa Zimbabwe. We were in Zaire before that, then went to Zim, and we all attended Ariel, which was a lovely school. I’m really thankful for that experience, putting aside the UFO phenomenon. It was a beautiful place to live and to be.
So, on that day … I can only speak about my perspective and where I was. Every child was in a different area of the playground. But it was recess and broad daylight … and we were just doing our normal thing … playing games. There were boundary lines along the property and one of the games my friend and I used to play was hopping on the boundary lines.
Then we heard a high pitch frequency sound, and — out side perspective — we saw a flash and a craft.
And it’s really hard to describe time at this point, so I don’t know how long this all happened. All I can tell you is that two beings were hopping along beside Lisa and I. And … they were curious. They weren’t touching the ground [inaudible] … they were almost like mimicking us.
All of a sudden they were in front of us. I describe them as being about arm’s reach. And we were frozen. Telepathic images started going across my face … communication through the eyes … that’s all I can really describe it as. It was just image after image after image.
One of the other girls standing beside me, she got more communication about the environment, and, for me, mine was more technology uses and [inaudible] uses of technology.
[Moderator speaks clearly, no need for transcription.]
I’ll just … I’ll never forget that day.
Question from the audience: Have you had any other experiences with the same being?
Emily: I don’t know if it’s the exact same being, but what I can say … Yes.
[Emily describing one of her paintings:] So when we were talking about the time (of the event, which) I depicted here. I don’t know when I’m going to realize what I’m drawing. It just comes out. For me, it’s like an energy that’s all around us that’s causing time to stop at that point. [inaudible, including description of the feeling of being frozen.]
Question from the audience: Could you explain what the other beings that have been coming to her, as far as you know, look like.
Emily: You mean when I’m having experiences? [Yes.] I’ll just say that they can alter perception so they can change to make you almost feel a bit more comfortable with what you’ve seen. The last encounter there were grays. A face went back and forth between a being and lion.
[Moderator speaks.]”
*Special thanks to NonDuality Talk for the transcription!
FRENCH VERSION
«Je fus témoin de l’événement Ruwa, au Zimbabwe. J’étais un peu plus de 8 ans, quand cela est arrivé. Je suis née au Canada. Je suis d’une famille de cinq personnes. J’ai un frère et une soeur. Mon frère a également été à l’école pendant le temps de l’événement. Mes parents sont missionnaires pour l’Armée du Salut. Voilà pourquoi nous étions à Ruwa Zimbabwe. Nous étions au Zaïre avant cela, puis nous sommes allés à Zim, et nous avons tous assisté à Ariel, qui était une belle école. Je suis vraiment reconnaissant pour cette expérience, en mettant de côté le phénomène OVNI. Ce fut un bel endroit pour vivre et d’être. Donc, ce jour-là … Je ne peux que parler de mon point de vue et où je me trouvais. Chaque enfant se trouvait dans une autre zone de l’aire de jeux. Mais il était évidement et plein jour … et nous étions juste en train de faire notre truc normal … jouer à des jeux. Il y avait des lignes de démarcation le long de la propriété et l’un des jeux mon ami et moi l’habitude de jouer a été sautillant sur les lignes de démarcation. Ensuite, nous avons entendu une fréquence sonore élevé, et – perspective sur côté – nous avons vu un flash et un métier. Et il est vraiment difficile de décrire le temps à ce moment, donc je ne sais pas combien de temps tout cela est arrivé. Tout ce que je peux vous dire est que deux êtres sautillaient le long côté Lisa et I. Et … ils étaient curieux. Ils ne touchent pas le sol [inaudible] … ils étaient presque comme nous imiter. Tout d’un coup, ils étaient en face de nous. Je les décris comme étant sur la portée de la main. Et nous avons été gelés. images télépathiques commencé à aller sur mon visage … la communication à travers les yeux … qui est tout ce que je peux vraiment le décrire comme. Il était juste image après image après image. L’une des autres filles, debout à côté de moi, elle a obtenu plus de communication sur l’environnement, et, pour moi, le mien était plus d’utilisations de la technologie et [inaudible] utilisations de la technologie. [Modérateur parle clairement, pas besoin de transcription.] Je vais juste … Je ne l’oublierai jamais ce jour-là. Question du public: Avez-vous eu d’autres expériences avec le même être? Emily: Je ne sais pas si c’est le même être exact, mais ce que je peux dire … Oui. [Emily décrivant une de ses peintures:] Ainsi, lorsque nous parlions du temps (de l’événement, qui) je peignais ici. Je ne sais pas quand je vais réaliser ce que je dessine. Il sort juste. Pour moi, il est comme une énergie qui est tout autour de nous qui est la cause de temps pour arrêter à ce moment-là. [Inaudible, y compris la description du sentiment d’être gelé.] Question du public: Pourriez-vous expliquer ce que les autres êtres qui viennent à elle, aussi loin que vous le savez, ressemblent. Emily: Tu veux dire quand je vais avoir des expériences? [Oui.] Je vais juste dire qu’ils peuvent changer la perception afin qu’ils puissent changer pour vous faire presque sentir un peu plus à l’aise avec ce que vous avez vu. La dernière rencontre, il y avait des gris. Un visage allait et venait entre un être et le lion. [Modérateur parle.] “
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Fiery Angelic Being Circling over Montrose, Colorado
Fiery Angelic Being Circling over Montrose, Colorado
On June 21, 2017, a couple witnessed a very strange event in the sky over Montrose in Colorado.
Witness states: We were on our front deck watching the sunset and sky when my husband saw bright lights coming from the west I ran into the house to get my phone and my husband ran into the house to get his canon camera we took pictures of the 1st one.
I took video with my phone while he took still pictures a second one came from the same direction we have pictures and video, best description as a phoenix or angelic form.
Body long silver jet type or cylinder, with a possible nose pointing downward. Wings that were curved upward 80 degrees towards atmosphere that were fiery orange very bright and a triangular transparent veil that looked translucent seemingly hanging off left wing with bright orbs, we are not sure if it circled our city twice or there were 2 one following the other.
It was cloudy on June 21, 2017 and they both went northeast from the west into the clouds but not together they were separate in timing, possibly they were separate entities or one that was circling city could not see them circle because of the overcast in the northeast.
We couldn’t visually see the shape until we downloaded photos on the computer. We were excited and nervous and we never have seen a machine that could even look like anything of this world this is not the 1st time we have seen UFO's out here, though this one was different then the last 2 we saw that were together hovering over Burger King about 4 years ago. Mufon case 84548.
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NASA Archive Unveils Transparent UFO next to Apollo 17 Spacecraft
NASA Archive Unveils Transparent UFO next to Apollo 17 Spacecraft
Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program. Launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt.
During their mission to the moon the astronauts captured many images which are stored in NASA’s Apollo 17 Image Library.
While most of the pictures were taken on the lunar surface, the astronauts took also images through the windows of their spacecraft in space.
After viewing many images Michael from The Kepler Telescope Channel found an image showing what appears to be a partially transparent alien spacecraft next to the Apollo spacecraft.
Michael said: I don't normally get interested in these objects, normally they turn out to be ice particles or thermal blankets or something like that, but this NASA release from the 1972 Apollo 17 mission seems to show something otherworldly.
Michael has made a fascinating compilation of Apollo 17 space images, including the image of the alleged alien spacecraft, in the video below.
Monstervulkaan op knappen? Zijn deze honderden aardbevingen een voorloper van een gigantische natuurramp die zijn weerga niet kent?
Monstervulkaan op knappen? Zijn deze honderden aardbevingen een voorloper van een gigantische natuurramp die zijn weerga niet kent?
Rond de supervulkaan in Yellowstone National Park hebben zich sinds 12 juni meer dan 400 aardbevingen voorgedaan. Doemdenkers hebben het er maar druk mee, maar onderzoekers zeggen dat er nog geen reden is tot paniek.
Het gaat om het grootste aanval aardbevingen bij Yellowstone in een enkele week in vijf jaar tijd, aldus wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Utah die de vulkaan in de gaten houden.
Zwermen
Toch ligt het aantal lager dan de zwermen aardbevingen in 2002, 2004, 2008 en 2010, legden de onderzoekers uit.
De zwaarste beving werd gemeten op 15 juni. Toen werd het gebied getroffen door een beving met een kracht van 4,5 op de schaal van Richter.
Tussen 12 en 19 juni zijn er in totaal 464 aardschokken geweest.
Toekomst
Hoewel experts van de Amerikaanse geologische dienst USGS zeggen dat het risico dat de supervulkaan uitbarst vrij laag is, kan hij in de toekomst opnieuw gaan uitbarsten.
In de afgelopen 2,1 miljoen jaar zijn er drie grote uitbarstingen geweest in Yellowstone.
De laatste deed zich 640.000 jaar geleden voor. Sindsdien zijn er een aantal kleinere uitbarstingen geweest.
Zwermen aardbevingen komen geregeld voor in Yellowstone en zijn verantwoordelijk voor ongeveer 50 procent van de seismische activiteit in het gebied, schrijft de Universiteit van Utah in een verklaring.
We schreven enkele dagen geleden een artikel over hoe Disclosure waarschijnlijk is begonnen in Zuid Amerika.
Dit, omdat er in dit land regelmatig opnames opduiken van UFO’s die alleen te omschrijven zijn als “out of this world”, letterlijk.
Er doen zich niet alleen in Zuid Amerika de laatste weken hele bijzondere gebeurtenissen voor, ook elders in de wereld gebeuren vreemde dingen met onbekende objecten in de lucht.
Regelmatig zijn er verhalen van mensen die een UFO waarnemen, meestal een soort orb, die regelmatig terugkeert op dezelfde lokatie, zoals hier het geval is.
Dat schijnt dan weer een heel ander verschijnsel te zijn dan de voorvallen in Zuid Amerika, waar ook vandaag een bijzondere waarneming is.
Enkele dagen geleden zijn een aantal jonge Argentijnse jongens die ’s morgens rond vijf uur voor de kust aan het vissen zijn op zee.
Plots zien ze een vreemd licht verschijnen en één van hen maakt daar een foto van.
Je ziet de maan, de weerspiegeling van de zee en ergens daartussen het vreemde licht.
Deze foto is later verstrekt door de jongens, want bij de video-opname die ze hebben gemaakt, concentreren ze zich volledig op het vreemde licht.
Die opname is werkelijk spectaculair te noemen, want op een gegeven moment verschijnt het volgende diamantvormige ruimteschip.
De door de jongens gemaakt video volgt hierna en je hoort de verbaasde uitroepen wanneer ze dit bijzondere object filmen.
De hier gefilmde UFO is vrijwel identiek aan die die in 2007 werden gefilmd in het Engelse Wiltshire.
De Australische Megan Heazlewild was op bezoek in Wiltshire omdat ze een groot liefhebber is van graancirkels en zij filmde de volgende objecten.
Zij maakte die avond de onderstaande video in de buurt van Silbury Hill. Naast Megan die deze avond filmde, waren er meer mensen getuige van dit voorval.
De objecten die in 2007 bij de graancirkels in Wiltshire verschenen, zijn dezelfde als die nu opduiken voor de kust van Argentinië.
Alhoewel ook aardbewoners beschikken over UFO technologie, lijkt het hier toch echt om buitenaardsen te gaan. Mede vanwege het feit dat exact dezelfde objecten zijn gesignaleerd boven de Engelse graancirkels en we de geheime aardse ruimtevloot niet zo snel boodschappen zien geven aan de mensheid via graancirkels. Aardlingen gebruiken hun technieken meer voor het zaaien van dood en verderf, in tegenstelling tot (sommige) buitenaardsen die ogenschijnlijk vreedzame bedoelingen hebben.
Maar, met deze hele bijzondere opname uit Zuid Amerika is het bewijs toch wel geleverd dat buitenaardsen echt ook hier op aarde zijn.
The UK government has finally released several UFO documents they have been promising to release for years. The UK government claimed to have released all of their UFO files in 2013. However, in 2014, found 18 others they neglected to include in the original bunch. Although the files are available as of today, they cannot be accessed online. They can only be seen by visiting their office in Kew, a few miles outside of London. This means it may be a few days until we know what is in the files.
Map showing the location of the UK National Archives building in Kew.
(Credit: Google Maps)
The news of the release of the files was posted by online radio station KGRA. An email had been sent from the UK National Archives to Kerry McClure in response to an inquiry about the files. McClure forwarded the response, which includes a link to information about the files, to KGRA. KRGA posted the contents of the email earlier today. Although the UK National Archives has claimed they will be releasing 18 files, only 15 files are represented in the link provided to McClure.
The files may never have been discovered, if it were not for the efforts of John Burroughs. He witnessed an amazing UFO event while in the US Air Force stationed at a base in the UK in 1980. He had discovered the existence of several UFO files he wanted to review while investigating his UFO incident. The UK government said they were releasing all of their UFO files and he would have to wait until they were released with the rest of the UFO documents which were being made public in batches.
John Burroughs (right) and his lawyer Pat Frascogna presenting their case at the 2015 International UFO Congress.
(Credit: Carlo Petrick)
Once all of the UFO files were supposedly released, the documents he was looking for where not present. He then asked the UK government to release them, but was not taken seriously. Then, a UK citizen who had read about Burroughs’ efforts made a request for the files as well. He received a response. He was told the files had been overlooked and would be released in about 9 months. That was several years ago. Even a member of the House of Lords made inquiries about why it was taking so long for the files to be released.
Suffice it to say, there has been much anticipation to see these files, but for those who do not live near London, it may be a few more days until we know more about these files.
Photograph of the The National Archives, taken by Nick Cooper 3 February, 2007.
Copy of DEFE 24/2879: UFOs: reports; correspondence; with redactions
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. UFOs: reports; correspondence. Copy of DEFE 24/2879: UFOs: reports; correspondence; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Copy of DEFE 24/2862: UFO reports; with redactions
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. UFO reports. Copy of DEFE 24/2862: UFO reports; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Copy of DEFE 24/3129: UFOs: administration and general; with redactions
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. UFOs: administration and general. Copy of DEFE 24/3129: UFOs: administration and general; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Copy of DEFE 24/3122: Defence policy issues: UFOs; with redactions
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. Defence policy issues: UFOs. Copy of DEFE 24/3122: Defence policy issues: UFOs; with redactions
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Copy of DEFE 24/2822: UFO reports: C3I air traffic control; low flying UFOs; with redactions…
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. UFO reports: C3I air traffic control; low flying UFOs. Copy of DEFE 24/2822: UFO reports: C3I air traffic control; low flying UFOs; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Date: 04 January 1993 – 30 January 1995
Reference: DEFE 24/2822/1
Subjects: Air transport | Armed Forces (General Administration) | UFOs
Copy of DEFE 24/2821: UFO reports: C31 air traffic control; low flying UFOs; with redactions…
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. UFO reports: C3I air traffic control; low flying UFOs. Copy of DEFE 24/2821: UFO reports: C31 air traffic control; low flying UFOs; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Date: 15 March 1991 – 20 December 1992
Reference: DEFE 24/2821/1
Subjects: Air transport | Armed Forces (General Administration) | UFOs
Copy of DEFE 24/2823: UFO reports: C3I air traffic control; low flying UFOs; with redactions…
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. UFO reports: C3I air traffic control; low flying UFOs. Copy of DEFE 24/2823: UFO reports: C3I air traffic control; low flying UFOs; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Date: 06 November 1995 – 21 January 1996
Reference: DEFE 24/2823/1
Subjects: Air transport | Armed Forces (General Administration) | UFOs
Copy of DEFE 24/3128: Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports; with redactions
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports. Copy of DEFE 24/3128: Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Date: 01 September 2001 – 22 October 2002
Reference: DEFE 24/3128/1
Subjects: Air Force | Armed Forces (General Administration) | UFOs
Copy of DEFE 24/3127: Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports; with redactions
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports. Copy of DEFE 24/3127: Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Date: 16 November 1999 – 13 August 2001
Reference: DEFE 24/3127/1
Subjects: Air Force | Armed Forces (General Administration) | UFOs
Copy of DEFE 24/3124: Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports; with redactions
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports. Copy of DEFE 24/3124: Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Date: 06 January 1995 – 21 November 1996
Reference: DEFE 24/3124/1
Subjects: Air Force | Armed Forces (General Administration) | UFOs
Copy of DEFE 24/3126: Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports; with redactions
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports. Copy of DEFE 24/3126: Air Defence Ground Environment: UFO reports; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
Date: 01 October 1997 – 15 November 1999
Reference: DEFE 24/3126/1
Subjects: Air Force | Armed Forces (General Administration) | UFOs
Copy of DEFE 24/2863: Freedom of Information Act 2000: copyright issues concerning internet publication; reports…
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. Freedom of Information Act 2000: copyright issues concerning internet publication; reports of UFO sightings. Copy of DEFE 24/2863: Freedom of Information Act 2000: copyright issues concerning internet publication; reports of UFO sightings; with redactions.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
UFO policy. This is a redacted version, which is the only surviving copy of this…
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. UFO policy. This is a redacted version, which is the only surviving copy of this file.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
UFO policy. This is a redacted version, which is the only surviving copy of this…
Ministry of Defence: Defence Secretariat Branches and their Predecessors: Registered Files. UFO policy. This is a redacted version, which is the only surviving copy of this file.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew – Ministry of Defence
We received an email from Nick Pope, former UK Ministry of Defence UFO investigator. He writes: “The National Archives decided not to go with a proactive media launch this time around, probably because of the previous adverse publicity about the delay in making these files available – especially as there are still three to come, so they can’t even say this concludes the release project. They essentially shifted from seeing this as a potential good news story about open government and freedom of information to regarding it as a potentially bad news story about delay and bureaucracy. Unfortunately, the perception will be that they slipped this out and hoped people wouldn’t notice until some time afterwards, making media coverage less likely, as journalists tend not to like beginning a story by saying that something interesting happened last month.”
Pope suggests that with enough pressure from the media and/or public, perhaps the UK National Archives will release the files online for free as they did with the previous UFO files. Albeit, the files were only free for a limited time. Unlike the U.S., the British government maintains copyright over government documents and charges for them.
For more about Burroughs and the UK UFO files visit these links:
STRANGE ORGANIC UFO PHOTOGRAPHED IN OSHAWA, CANADA
STRANGE ORGANIC UFO PHOTOGRAPHED IN OSHAWA, CANADA
No matter where you are in the world, there sure are different places to visit and see that will be completely different from where one lives or was born at. Canada is no exception. However, there has been another shocking footage released of yet another supernatural entity spotted: UFOs. However, this time, the look and feel of the UFO is completely shell-shocking: It looks like a flying turtle shell!
The weather is getting weirder. Along with what is spotted in our skies. The weird thing is that anything that is spotted "floating" in the sky is classified as a UFO. Is this really a UFO? Many might think so, even though it hardly looks like one. However, most of our imaginations of a UFO is based on illustrations that were thought up, not actually really seen. Ken Rice, the photographer, was out in the Marsh in the Canadian city of Oshawa taking photographs of nature when he accidentally shot these pictures of the rumored "UFO".
It has since been a controversial topic that has many people guessing just exactly what it was he saw in the sky that day. Ken Rice himself is not a believer in extraterrestrials but has admitted that nothing comes to mind if he tries to label the object he saw. At first, he thought it might have been a turkey vulture. However, it was "hovering" in the air for a moment, which is pretty impossible to do. In an interview with Durham Region newspaper, he said that "it kind of hovered, sat there for a minute and then it took off." He then thought it might have been a balloon or kite, but that is not possible either as he was completely sure he was alone in the marsh at that point of time. Thus, he could only conclude that the anomaly was a UFO - Unidentified flying object.
Typically people look for UFOs in the skies; however, in the future UFOs may be found roaming the seas. This is if a boat company from Italy has anything to do with it.
LIVE OFF-GRID IN FLOATING LUXURY WITH POWER OF WATER AND SUN
Jet Capsule boating company has just revealed a design that allows anyone to totally live off-grid and at the same time enjoy a lifestyle of luxury. The UFO object is powered entirely by renewable energy such as with water, the sun and the wind, and this means one can live on and under the sea.
Luca Solla and Pierpaolo Lazzarini from Jet Capsule are the designers and they said that the UFO craft is the perfect answer for anyone who wants to live in a house that floats and which can move slowly around the world. The craft has been designed in a flying saucer shape and is around 322 square feet. It includes a kitchen area and living area and below is a bathroom and bedroom. To take full advantage of the spectacular panoramic views there are large windows both below and above the water.
UFO HOME IS PACKED WITH LATEST IN TECHNOLOGY
The craft has a hydro jet underneath and this takes power from the solar panels which are on the top of the roof and propels the craft anywhere the owner wants to travel. Along with this water and wind turbines offer additional power. A water generator collects rain or seawater and turns it into water that is drinkable. Around the upper part of the craft, above the level of water, there are rings where people can grow their own vegetables. The upper portion also has a deck for sitting and relaxing and taking in the views.
As one might expect, life is slow on the UFO shaped home as the maximum speed is just four miles an hour. However, with its own roof garden and lounging area and with it being packed with comfortable facilities there really is no need to rush around the world. Jet Capsule said that people should not be concerned about inclement weather or choppy seas as the UFO home comes with an elastic anchor system and this ensures that is it stable in even the stormiest of weather.
UFO CRAFT PRICED AT AROUND $200,000 WHEN IT REACHES MARKET
The UFO home is going to be affordable according to the company as they said that when it reaches the market it will be in the price range of around $200,000, which costs less than an average houseboat. At the moment the company is looking for investors so that they can make the first prototype.
The UFO home would essentially be like taking a vacation every day, imagine traveling around the Caribbean, moving at your own speed, anchoring in crystal clear blue waters and traveling slowly from island to island in the comfort of your own home, utter bliss.
The government took the threat of UFOs thus seriously within the Nineteen Fifties that Britain intelligence chiefs met to debate the problem, newly-released files show.
UFO disclosure has been unbroken to a minimum, as several governments believe that the general public isn’t able to be exposed to extraterrestrial (ET) life and unidentified flying object phenomena, however. Government documents typically aren’t created public for many years (if at all), thus plenty of this info gets buried.
The former Prime Minister, Winston S. Churchill, allegedly prohibited reporting of the “bizarre” incident, off the East Coast of England, for half a century amid fears disclosures regarding unidentified flying objects would produce public hysteria.
In the waning days of the Second War, former British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill allegedly ordered the hiding of a detailed encounter between an RAF plane returning to England from the EU dry land and a UFO; apparently, the ordinarily composed “British Bulldog” purportedly feared that ought to the encounter become public knowledge it'd produce mass panic among a war weary population and destroy their belief in faith.
THE CALVINE UFO PHOTO
The saga began on 4 August 1990 once two members of the general public out walking within the neck of the woods of Calvine, close to Pitlochry, in Scotland, quick-sighted a huge, diamond-shaped, aluminum apparition. The unidentified flying object was nearly stationary and hovered mutely for what the witnesses believed was many minutes, before fast away vertically at large speed.Throughout the observation, a military craft, believed to be a Harrier, was seen. However, it had been clear if it was escorting the craft, making an attempt to intercept it, or whether or not the pilot was ever tuned into it in the least.
The men, whose identities are not any longer known, allegedly took the camera to the Scottish Daily Record Newspaper, WHO successively allegedly sent the images and also the negatives to the MoD.
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GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY Hollywood legend Kurt Russell reveals HE was the mystery pilot who first reported the notorious Phoenix Lights UFO sighting in 1997
GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXYHollywood legend Kurt Russell reveals HE was the mystery pilot who first reported the notorious Phoenix Lights UFO sighting in 1997
The sightings in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonara, Mexico, saw thousands of people report seeing a huge array of lights
By Danny Collins
HOLLYWOOD icon Kurt Russell claims HE was the pilot who stumbled upon on a notorious UFO sighting that has had experts baffled for decades.
Guardians of the Galaxy star Kurt made the startling revelation that he witnessed the Phoenix Lights sightings in 1997 on BBC’s The One Show.
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Kurt Russell says he was the mystery pilot who spotted the notorious Phoenix Lights – claimed to be a UFO sighting
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The lights were spotted over Arizona by thousands in 1997
The sightings in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonara, Mexico, were reported by thousands who saw a huge array of lights organised into a triangle.
And 66-year-old Kurt says he was one of the anonymous pilots – flying with stepson Oliver – who offered testimony on the sightings.
He said: “I was the pilot. [I] saw six lights over the airport in absolute uniform in a V-shape.
“I was just looking at them and I was coming in, we were maybe a half mile out.
“I kind of came out of my reverie and I said, ‘I don’t know what they are.’ [Oliver] said, ‘Are we okay here?’
“I said ‘I’m gonna call,’ and I reported it. They said…‘We don’t show anything.’”
It was only several years later when watching TV with wife Goldie Hawn that he released his account had been investigated by UFO sleuths.
The actor continued: “I began feeling like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
“I go, ‘What, why do I know this?’ And it’s not clear to me. And finally they said a general aviation pilot reported it on landing.”
The US Air Force has since claimed that one of the groups of lights was a squadron of A-10 Warthog jets flying in formation.
SPLASH NEWS
Russell says he only realised when his reports to authorities was included on a UFO show he was watching with wife Goldie Hawn
Witnesses described how they moved in a huge V-shaped formation, producing no sound before disappearing and reappearing suddenly.
Many have claimed the bizarre spectacle is proof of extra-terrestrial life.
UFO expert Scott Brando told the Express: “The Phoenix lights were explained with two different events.
“The first was the flight of five planes in V-shape formation. This is what the witness saw in that day.
“The second event was the launch of military flares over Estrella mountains.”
Massachusetts-born Russell is a FAA-licensed private pilot.
Kurt Russell has revealed he was the pilot who reported the “Phoenix Lights” UFO sighting two decades ago.
In a recent interview with the BBC, the 66-year-old “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” star said he’d been flying his longtime partner Goldie Hawn‘s son Oliver Hudson to see his girlfriend when they both witnessed lights in a triangular formation seemingly passing over Phoenix on March 13, 1997. The lights were also witnessed by thousands of people between 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. that night.
“I saw six lights over the airport in an absolute uniform, in a ‘v’ shape, and … I was just looking at them,” Russell said.
Prompted by Hudson, he reported the lights to ground control, which said nothing was showing on radar.
“Well, okay, I’m going to declare it’s unidentified, it’s flying, and it’s six objects,” the actor responded.
Russell and Hudson didn’t mention the sighting again and forgot about it until two years later when the actor found Hawn watching a show about UFOs that featured the Phoenix Lights incident.
“I’d never thought about it since then,” the actor said as he realized, while watching the show, that he’d been the pilot who reported the sighting.
“The fascinating part to me is that it literally just went out of my head … had I not seen that show, I’d have never thought of it again,” he said.
Author Steve Alten, photographed at his home in Wellington Monday, June 19, 2017. His book “Undisclosed” was inspired by what he describes as a UFO sighting in Wellington. “It looked like a saucer-shaped object with amber light on the bottom,” he said. “I saw a dozen coming over in staggered pairs. That was a big inspiration for the novel.”
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Three days before he was supposed to meet with a leading UFO researcher, New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten claims he saw something whirling in the sky above Wellington.
When he examined the odd lights more closely, he says he saw about a dozen saucer-shaped objects with amber lights on the bottoms flying from south to north along State Road 7. They were going in staggered pairs moving “whisper quiet” about 1,000 feet in the air.
Alten is convinced he saw a series of UFOs that night in 2013 and has been researching it ever since, culminating in a recently released fiction book called “Undisclosed.” His research on aliens and UFOs has cemented his the idea that extraterrestrials exist.
“Seeing these things for myself takes the belief to a different level because now there is no question about it,” he said at his home in Stonehaven Estates, across the street from Wellington.
Alten is known for a series of books centered around the fictitious survival of the megalodon, a giant prehistoric shark, inspiring a movie in the works called Meg. He calls his latest novel “faction” instead of “fiction” because it’s based on what he believes are facts. The cover has flying saucers above a farm with the tagline “we’ve been lied to…”
Allen describes what he saw that night:
“There were eight to 12 of them flying in staggered pairs, approaching from the south less than a thousand feet above State Road 7. They were far too silent and smooth to be helicopters and they were definitely not planes. As they came closer and passed almost directly overhead we could see the outline of a… well, their saucer-shaped vessels. By this time I had parked the car (my wife) and I just stood and watched them, the two of us incredulous as they moved north through a cloudless night sky… until, pair by pair, they simply faded into the ether.”
Alten met with Steven Green, a former medical doctor and current “UFOlogist,” who has been working to bring to light what he thinks is a government conspiracy to coverup UFOs and extraterrestrial visits. Alten helped Greer with a recent book called “Unacknowledged” that claims to expose the secrets about aliens.
Alten said he thinks more than a dozen UFOs crashed or landed starting with one of the more famous incidents in Roswell, N.M., 1947. After decades of speculation, the U.S. military claims the incident was a nuclear test surveillance balloon that crashed on a ranch near the town. Many, however, remain skeptical of that report.
Alten said he believes government officials and the fossil fuel industry are covering up details.
“The truth is out there, but first it’s going to really piss you off,” he said.
There have been hundreds of “UFO sightings” over the years including a famous image of a “flying saucer” over the 2012 London Olympic games, which turned out to be a Goodyear blimp.
“It’s very common for things like the moon, space debris, reflection from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or light from Earth to appear as artifacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory,” the statement reads.
Alten is still unflinching in his beliefs, but he is moving onto other projects.
The popular author has lived in the Wellington area for more than 15 years. He wrote his first book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror in 1997, which is set in an alternate world where a giant prehistoric shark, the megalodon, survives. A science fiction horror film called Meg, based on his novel, will be released by Warner Bros. in 2018.
His books start with an idea followed by character development, months to years of research and then finally writing. He has written more than a dozen books, including eight from the Meg series.
“Writing is like a muscle,” he said. “The more you use it, the better you get.”
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Authors Release UFO Sightings Desk Reference for 21st Century
Authors Release UFO Sightings Desk Reference for 21st Century
Authors Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa have compiled a reference book, "The UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015", to document a phenomenon that until now has never had solid published statistics.
This project was an effort to bring some scientific thinking and big data analysis to the UFO sighting issue.
Authors Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa have compiled a reference book, "The UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015", to document a phenomenon that until now has never had solid published statistics. The reference is targeted to a broad range of researchers, as well as UFO enthusiasts and people curious about UFOs. The reference includes sightings from this century only. The book is the first national UFO statistics book ever compiled, with a national summary, state-by-state summaries, data at the county level, and various reported shapes. The authors compiled information on sightings by state and county over time, giving interested parties a single-point reference for statistical analysis of UFO sightings.
Cheryl Costa is a columnist with the Syracuse New Times in Syracuse, NY, retired aerospace industry information security professional, and a combat veteran who served in both the U.S. Air Force and Navy. Linda Miller Costa, M.L.S, worked in scientific research and publishing at The National Academies of Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency. She is currently employed by LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY.
“This project was an effort to bring some scientific thinking and big data analysis to the UFO sighting issue,” said Cheryl Costa. “We utilized the databases of the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). We also supplemented the combined databases with nationwide county information for what we call a “stable” reporting period, 2001-2015, during which reporting has been much more reliable and well-documented.” The Costas have received queries from professionals who seek data to complement their research in fields as diverse as Economics and Financial studies.
National Geographic conducted a national poll several years ago on UFO reporting and public beliefs. 36% were firm believers that UFOs had an explanation as alien phenomena, 42% were undecided, and 17% didn’t care or believe. 70% believe the government is hiding what it knows.
There were more than 121,000 eyewitness accounts during the period studied
California led the nation in reports, at 15,836
Florida, Texas, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York, Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio round out the top 10 states for reported eyewitness sightings
The top 10 counties for sightings in the U.S. are Los Angeles (CA), Maricopa (AZ), Cook (IL), San Diego (CA), King (WA), Orange (CA), Essex (MA), Riverside (CA), Clark (NV), and San Bernardino (CA)
Do the Costas believe these reports are all exotic off-world craft? “No, not by a long shot,” said Costa. “These are simply sincere eyewitness accounts. Most people in the U.S. don’t realize that rather than going down, sightings nationwide have actually gone up significantly, from almost 3,500 in 2001 to nearly 12,000 in 2015. When you see the huge numbers, nationally and regionally, it’s evident that something is going on. Even if only a tiny percentage is genuine off-world craft, then that’s a huge story. We call it ‘The greatest story never told.’”
The Costas hope the source book opens up a wider, objective dialogue about these unexplained phenomena. To find the number of sightings in your area, or for more information, contact Cheryl Costa at author(at)cherylcosta(dot)com or 315-299-8386.
The book, "The UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015" by Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa, is available from Amazon.
A recent Freedom of Information request featured in a UK newspaper states that British police officers responded to eight UFO reports in the last two years.
While no evidence was found by the officers, police were dispatched to emergency calls in Pendle Hill, Burnley, Fleetwood, Lytham St Annes, and several other places in 2015. In March of 2016, officers were also sent to investigate a suspected alien abduction in Accrington, and they were also notified that a UFO landed in Marsden Park, Nelson.
Alleged UFO video still taken over Holmfirth at 8:50 p.m. on October 6, 2016. Image by Gary Heseltine.
Police encountering UFOs while on duty is not a strictly British phenomenon. Many cases in the United States, and across the world, have the fuzz engaging with strange lights in the sky. In August of 2014, police officers were dispatched to a call in Lower Paxton, Pennsylvania, where a witness watched a UFO for 20 minutes. The officers arrived at the scene, contacted the local airport and military base, and made an official report that the object they saw that night was totally out of the ordinary.
In regards to the UK police sightings, while it might seem like a waste of money and resources to send police officers to a UFO sighting, there is some justification to entertain such calls.
A police spokesman stated that officers are only deployed when the emergency call operator feels that the sighting or event may pose any risk, threat or harm to people in the area.
Sometimes these calls are not what they may seem so a potential UFO call could be a suspicious light or suspicious movement that could mean any number of things and we would assess and deploy officers if required, or there could be a concern for the caller’s welfare.
Whether it is fact or fiction, strange lights in the sky seem to be pretty common, but actually having police officers show up to a 911 call concerning a UFO is definitely rare.
FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are back on our television screens.
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A UFO is sighted somewhere in the world every six minutes.
But there could be even more seen, with many sightings and experiences going unreported, according to close encounter therapist Mary Rodwell.
She never strongly believed in extraterrestrial life herself, but when a family experiencing paranormal activity came to her some 20 years ago, they changed her convictions.
Ms Rodwell has now counselled more than 3000 people who claim to have been abducted and said the stories she has been told have many commonalities.
is a UFO on the Gold Coast?
“People experience the same anomalies, they wake in the morning after having a strange night and feel like they were taken somewhere else,” she said.
“Others have strange marks on their body or a bloody nose, with no idea of how they got them.”
Ms Rodwell, Australian Close Encounter Resource Network director, said these experiences had nothing to do with believers.
“It often happens to people who have no interest in UFOs or aliens and my clients are anybody from lawyers, doctors, nurses to pilots, police, housewives and children,” she said.
One of Ms Rodwell’s practises is hypnosis, for people to discover “missing time”.
Missing time is when you move from one point to another, with no recollection of how you got there.
Mary Rodwell, director of Australian Close Encounter Resource Network, believes aliens exist.Source:News Limited
“Clients often find out they have interacted with extraterrestrial life,” she said.
“Children learn things on the craft and they talk about complex things they shouldn’t know about like black holes.”
Ms Rodwell said extraterrestrial life could be confused for ghosts and other paranormal beings.
She believes they aren’t necessarily something to fear and said some were healers.
Ms Rodwell said she treated a Victorian woman in her 60s with chronic back pain.
She was told she would end up wheelchair-bound and only had morphine for relief.
“After she had a levitating experience, her condition was gone, she is no longer on medication,” Ms Rodwell said.
“I did hypnosis and we discovered she went onto a craft and was healed.
“Now she’s almost 70 and has more energy than her children.
“Part of her mission has been to prove to her family and partner that this is real, they find it difficult to believe her.”
Ms Rodwell said many were closed-minded when it came to the possibility of other intelligence and some refused to report their experiences at the risk of sounding “crazy”.
“After people have experiences their whole life is transformed,” she said.
“They are less materialistic and get involved with healing and caring for the planet.”
After 20 years of studying extraterrestrial life, Ms Rodwell said she had come to understand how common experiences are.
“People need to come out of the space closet,” she said.
With FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully re-hitting our television screens in the new series of The X-Files, we divulge some of Australia’s scariest and most unbelievable abduction reports.
Frederick Valentich went missing in 1978 while flying his plane to King Island.
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DISAPPEARANCE OF FREDERICK VALENTICH
“The thing is just orbiting on top of me.”
That was one of the last things 20-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich said before disappearing into thin air, with no trace of oil or metal on land or in sea.
He was flying over the Bass Strait in October 1978, when he called air traffic control to find out more about the aircraft flying just above him.
But air traffic control did not see a blip, except for Valentich, on the radar.
“What type of aircraft is it?” air traffic control asked.
Valentich replied, “I cannot affirm, it is four bright — it seems to me like landing lights”.
The pilot was at 4500 feet and said the “long-shaped” aircraft was playing some sort of a game.
“He’s flying over me two, three times, with speeds I cannot identify,” he told air traffic control.
Valentich then says the aircraft is orbiting above him, and he’s orbiting with it.
“It’s got a green light and sort of metallic,” he said.
Air traffic control attempted to get more details about the aircraft and Valentich cut in on the radio “it is hovering and it is not an aircraft”.
Valentich went silent and 17 seconds later an unidentified, metallic sound seeped through the radio transmission. He was never heard from again.
Almost 40 years on, a scrap of metal from his plane still hasn’t been recovered and it’s as if he disappeared from the face of the earth.
A computer-generated image of what Kelly Cahill claims to have seen on a drive home. Source: YouTubeSource:YouTube
KELLY CAHILL ABDUCTION
The 1993 abduction of Kelly Cahill was actually mentioned on the first new episode of The X-Files.
Ms Cahill was driving home with her husband in Dandenong, Victoria, when a craft flew overhead.
She claims they lost an hour of time and she was rushed to hospital with stomach pains after discovering a small triangle abrasion on her body.
Ms Cahill had no interest in extraterrestrial life and as she drove home with her partner, she thought she saw a bright blimp.
She has recounted her experience in a number of interviews, and said as their vehicle neared closer to the brightness, the lights began to separate into a row of round, orange lights.
“It appeared like there were silhouettes standing in these round, orange circles, like people,” she said in one interview.
The craft then flew away from the field it was sitting in, and Ms Cahill said further down the road they met a bright light, which was like a wall across the road.
Next thing she remembered was driving on the usual dark road, arguing with her husband.
Weeks later, she had recollections of getting out of the car and walking towards the craft.
She said dark beings began to approach her.
“This energy went through me,” she said.
“It was a low level frequency that came in waves, so dense I could physically feel it.
“That absolutely terrified me, I can’t explain the horror I felt and I just began screaming and the minute I did, the eyes on these things lit up and they came charging across the field.”
She said she was lifted off her feet and thrown back and when she sat up, she couldn’t see anything.
She then developed the triangle on her body, and extraterrestrial experts researching Ms Cahill’s case found there were three other people who stopped their cars that night, who describe the same experience as Ms Cahill.
To this day she still doesn’t know what happened to her.
Faye Knowles and her sons Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne, 18, claim to have been terrorised by a UFO as they travelled across the Nullarbor towards the South Australian border in 1988.Source:News Corp Australia
THE KNOWLES FAMILY
Extraterrestrial life experts say the Knowles family case is one of the most significant close encounters in history.
Faye Knowles was heading to Perth along the Nullarbor Plain in January 1998.
She was with her three sons Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne, 18.
The road was deserted at the time and Sean was driving, with his older brother beside him.
Ahead of them was a bright light and Sean decided to chase it.
The light was shaped like an egg and was moving back and forth just above the road.
Sean swerved to miss the object and continued driving.
The egg was now following them and they started to feel the car being lifted off the road.
The mother stuck her arm out the window and felt something soft, rubbery and hot, her arm was then covered in a black dust.
The voices of everybody in the car then became distorted, their talking had slowed and Patrick said after the experience it was as if his brains were being sucked out.
The car then thudded back onto the road and the back tyre burst.
The Adelaide Advertiser reports the family hid in a bush for 30 minutes before heading to the police station.
Ceduna Sergeant Fred Longley said the family was distressed, according to the Adelaide Advertiser.
“They were in a terrible state — even though it was five hours after the incident. Something happened out there. Their car, even after being driven all that way, still had black ash — or dust — over it. Even on the inside,” he said.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter normally loops around the red planet in celestial solitude, but on June 5, its existence became a bit less lonely.
That’s because the craft spotted a NASA comrade, the Curiosity Mars rover. Curiosity was navigating rocky and sandy terrain between Mount Sharp — a peak within the planet’s Gale Crater, which may be a dry lake — and the Vera Rubin Ridge.
Curiosity is heading to the ridge to analyze outcrops upon which the iron oxide hematite has been spotted from orbit. The rover probably couldn’t tell that the orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera was keeping watch over it. Ah, the tragic beauty of outer space.
Here’s an image the orbiter captured of Curiosity. HiRISE takes pictures using only a few colors — red, blue-green, and infrared — in order to expose details on Mars’s surface, so the rover appears bluer than it actually is. Curiosity is about nine feet wide and ten feet long.
That little blue dot is Curiosity.
Here’s an image that Curiosity took as it roamed the area (while being watched from above):
Look up, Curiosity!! Look UP!
A NASA press release notes that the orbiter glimpses Curiosity “about every three months,” and that the images it takes in these instances help scientists “monitor the surrounding features for changes such as dune migration or erosion.” In other words, the photos help the agency ensure that the rover is on an appropriate path.
Does the orbiter look forward to these encounters to get through the long months alone?
Curiosity’s exploration of Mount Sharp may reveal more information about what Mars was like in its early history. The mountain has layers that “record environmental conditions from different times,” says the press release. Curiosity has already found evidence that wet environments once existed in Gale Crater, and it’s possible that these could have hosted microbial life.
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Australia's greatest aviation mystery. Frederick Valentich was a 20 year old pilot who vanished along with his light airplane, somewhere over Bass Strait one Tuesday evening in 1978.
No trace has ever been recovered of pilot or aircraft. But what deepens the mystery is what Valentich reported seeing from his plane, in communications with Melbourne air traffic control just minutes before he disappeared forever.
“With the passage of more than 50 years since my incident in Minot and 70 years since the incident in Roswell, NM, there can be no ethical, moral or critical reason to keep the secret of humanity any longer and my other colleagues agree thereby.”
A Minuteman missile at Malmstrom Air Force Base in the 1960s
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Here’s another one of those old-is-news-again stories that keeps people suspicious of what governments may be hiding about UFOs. On December 6, 1966, the Minot Daily News in Minot, North Dakota, carried a front page story about recent UFO sightings in the area, especially around the Minot Air Force Base, home of a number of nuclear missiles poised to be launched if the Cold War heated up. That story is back on the front page again 50 years later with the release of It Never Happened, Volume 1, a tell-mostly-all-before-I-die memoir of the incident by Captain David D Schindele, a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile launch crew commander at the base on that day. Schindele claims that nothing more was reported about the UFO sightings because the Air Force ordered everyone there to never in their lives speak about what happened next … the unexplained change in status of 10 ICBMs to ‘off-alert’ – meaning that they could not be launched.
“I remember that when we were relieved the next morning and arrived topside, I attempted to query the Flight Security Controller, who told me he could not speak about the incident. It was then that my commander also informed me that he had received word, during my rest break below, that we were to never speak about the incident.”
Schindele kept silent until 2010, when he first revealed his experiences to Robert Hastings, author of UFOs & Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites. Why did Schindele finally disobey that order?
“During that time in Minot, many of us experienced unworldly incidents at Minuteman facilities but we were all individually instructed to keep silent. We never realized at the time that others among us were also experiencing incidents, but now the truth is becoming known. About 35 years after my Minot incident and learning about an identical incident experienced by another missileer (Capt. Robert Salas) connected to Malmstrom AFB in Montana, which was during the same general timeframe as my incident, I then contemplated coming forth with the ‘truth’.”
David D Schindele
These old “missileers” liked to get together to reminisce and commiserate and it seems that Schindele and Salas discovered they had something more than their service time in common. Schindele found additional officers from the base who would admit that they were individually ordered “to keep our ‘lips zipped’” but many took the secret to their graves and more refuse to disobey the order to this day.
This is ‘old news’ in that there have been many reports of UFOs at nuclear missile sights and nuclear plants around the world, ranging from UFO activity at the plant where plutonium was processed for the first atomic bomb to UFO sightings at nuclear plants in France to documents from Russia indicating similar unexplained missile shutdowns in the Soviet Union after UFO sightings.
It’s ‘new news’ that eyewitness David Schindele put his experiences in a book and, as the title indicates, has more to tell. Is he doing it for the money?
“From the beginning, I’ve been conflicted with the goal of bringing truth to as many people as possible, while having no appetite for bringing attention to myself or receiving monetary benefit. But I also realize the fallacy in that.”
Schindele says he will donate proceeds from the book to the Seattle Chapter of the Air Force Association where he still meets with fellow veterans.
Are the claims in the book true? If so, will the government release any supporting documents or will the book suddenly go ‘off-alert’ too?
Bizarre ontdekking in Peru. Waar komt dit mensachtige wezen met drie vingers en groot hoofd vandaan?
Bizarre ontdekking in Peru. Waar komt dit mensachtige wezen met drie vingers en groot hoofd vandaan?
Gaia.com heeft informatie naar buiten gebracht over de ontdekking van een gemummificeerd lichaam in Peru. Het heeft drie vingers aan elke hand en drie tenen aan elke voet.
Gaia werkt samen met een aantal wetenschappers om de herkomst van de mummie te achterhalen.
De Mexicaanse onderzoeksjournalist Jaime Maussan spreekt alvast van ‘één van de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van de 21e eeuw’.
Verbazing
“We hebben een hele belangrijke missie hier in Peru,” zei professor Konstantin Korotkov van de ITMO University in Rusland.
“Ik ben hier naartoe gekomen vanwege deze groep wetenschappers, professionals en journalisten,” voegde hij toe.
Toen het lichaam uit de kist werd gehaald, was iedereen stil van verbazing, aldus dr. Korotkov.
Nazcalijnen
De mummie is ontdekt in de nabijheid van de Nazcalijnen, enorme geogliefen die in de Peruaanse Nazcawoestijn zijn gevonden. De grootste figuren zijn tot wel 370 meter lang.
De tientallen figuren van dieren, honderden geometrische vormen en duizenden lijnen zijn in het woestijnzand lang bewaard gebleven.
Fossielenbestand
Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het te gaan om een soort die niet voorkomt in het fossielenbestand, weet Gaia.
Gaat het om het vervormde lichaam van een primitieve mens of is dit bewijs voor het bestaan van een niet-menselijke soort?
Bekijk hieronder een reportage over de mummie:
Bekijk hieronder een interview dat Collective Evolution had met Jaime Maussan:
Vreemde zwaartekrachtsvelden in zonnestelsel trekken objecten uit hun baan. En dat kan maar één ding betekenen
Vreemde zwaartekrachtsvelden in zonnestelsel trekken objecten uit hun baan. En dat kan maar één ding betekenen
Astronomen zeggen Planeet Tien op het spoor te zijn. Uit onderzoek naar banen van objecten in de Kuipergordel blijkt dat zich daar nog een planeet ter grootte van Mars moet schuilhouden.
Het object staat volgens onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Arizona ongeveer twee keer zo ver van de zon als Neptunus.
De banen van veel objecten in de Kuipergordel maken een hoek van ongeveer acht graden met het hoofdvlak van ons zonnestelsel.
Nieuwe planeet
De wetenschappers hebben dit gelinkt aan de zwaartekrachtsinvloed van een grote planeet in het buitenste deel van ons zonnestelsel.
“Dit is niet wat je verwacht te zien als je alleen de bekende planeten in ons zonnestelsel meetelt,” zei Kathryn Volk van de Universiteit van Arizona over de afwijkende banen.
“Dat betekent dat je er een nieuwe planeet bij moet halen – Planeet Tien, ervan uitgaande dat Planeet Negen bestaat,” voegde ze toe.
Nog verder weg
De planeet moet op ongeveer negen miljard kilometer van onze zon staan. Planeet Negen zou zich op een nog grotere afstand bevinden.
“Alles wijst op [het bestaan van] een extra planeet,” zei Volk.
10 keer groter
Afgelopen jaar voorspelden wetenschappers van het California Institute of Technology het bestaan van een negende planeet die 10 keer groter is dan de aarde en op 700 AE (astronomische eenheden) van de zon staat.
Het onderzoek zal worden gepubliceerd in The Astronomical Journal.
An official government UFO dossier that’s referred to as “Britain’s X-Files” has finally been released.
The National Archive has opened up a cache of 15 files from the Ministry of Defense that divulge details of mysterious incidents in British skies.
They include material relating to an unsolved encounter that’s been likened to the Roswell UFO incident in America.
The incident took place in December 1980, when three military personnel claimed to see flashing bright lights and a triangular object near a Royal Air Force base in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, about 100 miles northeast of London.
An investigation was opened but the mystery remains unsolved.
But alien hunters will have to wait a little longer to find out the truth, thanks to the process that’s been put in place to read these newly released files.
They have not been digitized, so enthusiasts must join a line to inspect the paper records at the National Archive’s reading room in London.
The UK’s most notorious UFO incident happened in the Rendlesham Forest Getty Images
What’s more, there are an additional three files which have still not been released, according to Nick Pope, a former civil servant who worked for the Ministry of Defense.
Pope, who ran the defense ministry’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994, said: “The lack of a smoking gun and the fact that these files seem to have been slipped out without a formal media announcement is bound to start some conspiracy theories, and I know that many people believe the ‘good stuff’ is being held back.”
“Furthermore, the fact that some files haven’t been digitized, can’t be downloaded, and can only be viewed in person at the National Archives will doubtless also generate conspiracy theories.”
“After this, there are only three more UFO files still to be released, and they should be made public later this year, so there’s still more to come.”
“This is a good day for open government and for freedom of information.”
Last year, an American airman involved in the incident won a legal bid to force military health chiefs to pay for the treatment of injuries he claimed to have sustained at Rendlesham Forest.
“In citing the [MoD radiation documents] and in granting John Burroughs full disability for his injuries in Rendlesham Forest, the US Government has by de facto acknowledged the existence of unidentified aerial phenomena which, in John Burroughs’ case, resulted in physical injury,” his lawyer Pat Frascogna said.
The Rendlesham Forest incident: Britain’s most famous UFO sighting
The Rendlesham Forest incident is so famous that there is an official “UFO Trail” in Suffolk, England.Getty Images
The Rendlesham Forest incident took place in December 1980 over several nights.
On Dec. 26, 1980, military personnel at the twin bases of Royal Air Force Bentwaters and Royal Air Force Woodbridge in Suffolk saw a strange light in Rendlesham Forest, which lies between the two bases.
Three men were sent out to investigate and two of them encountered a small, triangular craft.
One man, 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 a deputy base commander, Lt. Col. Charles Halt, and his team encountered the UFO.
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 a Ministry of Defense investigation, the Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained.
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Bij Wim Post aan de Kappellenweg in Lochem, buurtschap Nettelhorst, zijn graancirkels aangetroffen. In een gedeelte van zijn veld met zomertarwe zijn de cirkels te zien.
Wim merkte zelf de cirkels pas maandagochtend op terwijl zijn buren er zondagavond al druk mee waren. Buurman Freek van Asch fietste die avond een rondje toen hij vreemde vormen zag in het gewas.
Hij trommelde wat buren op en die wilden het bijzondere fenomeen van boven filmen. Via een bevriende hovenier regelden ze een hoogwerker en maakten ze foto's en filmpjes die op dit moment veel gedeeld worden op Facebook.
Dan duurt het niet al te lang voordat het mysterie van deze graancirkel is opgelost, want een paar jongelui zouden dit in een dronken bui op hun geweten hebben.
Nu is er op Facebook een filmpje opgedoken waarin buurtbewoner prins Stef wordt geïnterviewd. Hij legt in de video een complete bekentenis af, 'want het liep een beetje uit de hand'.
'We hadden een boog gemaakt voor een bruiloft. Er gingen een paar biertjes in, het werd gezellig....toen waren we aan het ouwehoeren en dachten we: kom, we gaan graancirkels maken,' gaat Stef door het stof.
Naar aanleiding van de bekentenis van Prins Stef ontvingen wij de volgende mail:
Waarom komen die dronken jongeren dan niet in beeld die dat gedaan hebben? Waarom komt er geen nieuwsbericht dat er een groepje jeugd is aangehouden vanwege het beschadigen van een graanakker?
Hoe denkt Niburu.co over dit nieuwsbericht, is het echt of inderdaad mensenwerk?
Laten we eerst even kijken wat boer Post heeft te vertellen over de actie van Prins Stef en vrienden:
Boer Wim Post gelooft er helemaal niks van. 'Ik denk dat het om een grap gaat', laat hij telefonisch weten. Volgens Post zijn er experts bij geweest die geen enkel spoor hebben kunnen vinden. 'Ze kunnen er dus nooit dronken doorheen hebben gelopen, dan zouden we sporen moeten kunnen zien.' Hij beraadt zich nu op vervolgstappen. 'Als ze claimen schade te hebben aangericht mogen ze ook betalen, maar ik geloof het niet', aldus de boer.
Boer Post gebruikt zijn gezonde verstand en komt tot de conclusie dat een aantal dronken jongelui dit echt niet gedaan kunnen hebben zonder sporen achter te laten. En dat alles dan waarschijnlijk ook nog een keer in het donker, hetgeen helemaal onmogelijk is.
De enige conclusie kan dan ook alleen maar zijn dat Prins Stef liegt. Waarom hij dat doet, is niet duidelijk, misschien om aandacht te trekken of misschien omdat hij bang is dat er dingen zijn die hij niet begrijpt.
Bij deze dagen wij Prins Stef dan ook uit om te demonstreren, en dat mag nuchter dit keer, hoe hij dit soort graancirkels maakt. Hij beschikt naar eigen zeggen over een ronde boog, dus dat moet een koud kunstje zijn voor hem om dit artistieke hoogstandje dan nog eens te herhalen.
Als het hem lukt om precies dezelfde graancirkel te maken zonder sporen achter te laten in een veld, dan zullen wij publiekelijk onze excuses aanbieden.
Wij weten ook niet wie of wat deze cirkel heeft gemaakt, maar als er weer iemand bekent, laat deze dan direct even aantonen hoe ze dat precies hebben gedaan.Waar Omroep Gelderland in ieder geval nog de reactie van boer Post plaatst, zo maakt het voor de Telegraaf allemaal niet uit, want die nemen alles klakkeloos aan. Zolang het maar in het mainstream kader past.
Succes met de graancirkel Prins Stef en keep us posted!
Europe approves deep-space ‘PLATO’ project to hunt for alien life
Europe approves deep-space ‘PLATO’ project to hunt for alien life
PARIS – Europe has approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to sniff out habitable planets in other star systems, along with any life forms they may host.
“The PLATO mission will address fundamental questions such as ‘how common are Earth-like planets?’ and ‘is our solar system unusual or even unique?’ ” the University of Warwick, whose scientists will take part in the project, said on Wednesday.
The multimillion-euro undertaking “could eventually even lead to the detection of extraterrestrial life,” it added.
A committee of the European Space Agency (ESA), meeting in Madrid, green-lit the mission on Tuesday, meaning “it can move from a blueprint into construction,” the university said in a statement.
When the candidate project was first announced three years ago, its cost was estimated at some €600 million ($668 million).
With 26 onboard telescopes, PLATO will join NASA’s Kepler observatory in a dedicated search for exoplanets revolving around stars other than our sun.
Kepler has so far found more than 3,400 confirmed exoplanets.
Of these, 30 are less than twice the size of Earth and orbiting within the so-called habitable zone of their star — not so close that water evaporates and not so cold that it freezes.
Liquid water is a key requirement for life as we know it.
This illustration shows Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. The ESA's PLATO space telescope will join NASA's Kepler observatory in a dedicated search for exoplanets revolving around stars other than our sun. | AFP-JIJI
PLATO — whose acronym derives from PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars — will be launched 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) into space, monitoring thousands of stars over a large area of sky.
Telescopes search for slight dips in light when a planet “transits” between the star it orbits and the telescopes watching it.
Planets do not emit their own light. Had they been visible to the naked eye, they would appear as dark dots tracking across their bright stars.
PLATO is due for launch in 2026, the ESA said.
Other projects that have contributed to the exoplanet search, though it was not their exclusive mission, include NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, as well as several dozen ground-based observatories.
The search for a planet capable of hosting life remains a distant pursuit — there is no solar system close enough for mankind to ever reach it, unless we develop time travel.
ESA also gave provisional approval for a project called LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), tasked with observing gravitational waves — created when black holes collide — from space.
Predicted in Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, gravitational waves were first observed with Earth-based instruments last year.
LISA will comprise free-floating detectors on three craft, separated by 2.5 million km in a triangular formation, following Earth in its orbit around the sun.
Launch is expected in 2034. But final approval will depend on the availability of technology and money, the ESA said.
The estimated mission cost is about a billion euros. Warwick University is based in central England.
Could a dedicated mission to Enceladus detect microbial life there?
Could a dedicated mission to Enceladus detect microbial life there?
by Tomasz Nowakowski, Astrowatch.net
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is best known for its numerous geysers ejecting plumes of water and ice. These eruptive fountains perplex researchers searching for signs of microbial life beyond Earth. A dedicated spacecraft designed to study the plume-like features spewing from Enceladus could definitely tell us whether or not they contain alien microorganisms.
"We need a spacecraft to travel to Enceladus, fly through a geyser plume, and analyze the water that is immediately accessible," Geoffrey Marcy, a retired professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, told Astrowatch.net.
Marcy is a renowned exoplanet researcher who discovered many extrasolar worlds. He was one of the co-investigators of NASA's Kepler planet-hunting mission that detected more than 4,000 exoworlds. He was also involved in studies focusing on detecting signals from extraterrestrial civilizations and was the principal investigator of the Breakthrough Listen project. The program, funded by billionaire Yuri Milner, is looking for signs of extraterrestrial civilizations by searching stars and galaxies for radio signals and laser transmissions.
Marcy emphasizes that when it comes to searching for signs of microbial life in our solar system, assistance from billionaires investing in space projects could be helpful.
"The NASA missions, as currently planned, will require at least 20 years before a detection of microbial life will happen, at the earliest. However, a brilliant team of billionaires could work with NASA to fund a spacecraft to Saturn's moon, Enceladus. It could capture the water spurting out the geysers and use conventional microscopes to detect any microbial life there," Marcy said.
While a future mission to Enceladus would address complex questions about the origin of life, the spacecraft itself will be relatively easy to build and operate. According to Marcy, it would only require a dedicated probe equipped with a set of well-suited science instruments, capable of flying through the plumes and able to perform required measurements.
"The remarkable aspect of the search for microbes in the water spurting from geysers is that the spacecraft only needs to fly through the plume, well above the surface of Enceladus. No lander is needed—just a succession of flybys through the plumes as it orbits Enceladus," Marcy said.
He noted that such spacecraft should be fitted with a mass spectrometer to detect organic compounds that could be signs of microbial life. The spectrometer will look for amino acids and the structure of any organic molecules, especially fatty acids such as those composing cell membranes. It could also measure the relative amounts of isotopes of carbon (12 and 14) to detect non-natural anomalies due to biological processes.
Moreover, the mission to Enceladus would measure the properties of the water such as pH, oxidation and temperature, therefore assessing its suitability for organic life.
Marcy added that besides a spectrometer, the proposed spacecraft should also have an optical imaging system capable of capturing microscopic images in order to better examine microorganisms on this icy world.
"The mission should also include a microscope and camera to image directly any organisms in the water that are as small as a few microns in size," Marcy said.
Discovered in 1789 by William Herschel, Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn with a diameter of about 310 miles (500 kilometers). First detailed pictures of this moon were acquired in the early 1980s by NASA's two Voyager probes. Since 2005, Enceladus is continuously studied by NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft, which detected the water plumes erupting from the moon's south polar region.
ET PHONEY HOME Crackpot conspiracy claims ALIEN MUMMY has been found Near Peru’s Nazca Lines
ET PHONEY HOMECrackpot conspiracy claims ALIEN MUMMY has been found Near Peru’s Nazca Lines
The viral footage was posted online by a conspiracy website which pays curious users to view their paranormal content
By Mark Hodge
A CRACKPOT video created by conspiracy theorists purports to show a mummified ALIEN body.
Supposedly filmed in the ancient city of Nazca, Peru, the ridiculous footage has went viral despite users pointing out the “corpse” looks like it is a half-finished cardboard creation.
The ‘mummified alien’ body is inspected in Peru in a viral video which has divided the internet
Many social media users have said the creature looks like it was made out of plaster
The video was posted by website Gaia.com which charges curious users money to view their exclusive paranormal content.
The clip shows a three-fingered creature curled up in a ball.
The site claims the extraterrestrial beast’s body was dug up during an excavation of the mysterious caves.
The Daily Star reports that the “humanoid” has long legs and is around five feet five inches tall.
But many social media users are not convinced.
One viewer commented: “Something seems off. The corpse looks like it was made of plaster,” reports the Daily Star.
While one YouTube viewer writes: “Just grabbed my tin foil hat, now I can properly watch this s**t.”
But some users seem to like the preposterous clip.
One believer wrote: “Looks cool. Waiting for DNA sampling. I want to believe but with that guy at the helm it’s unlikely. Nice video.”
OSHAWA — Wildlife photographer Ken Rice was out shooting photos in Oshawa on June 17 when something unusual suddenly appeared in his camera lens. June 21, 2017. - Ken Rice Photo
OSHAWA — Wildlife photographer Ken Rice was out shooting photos in Oshawa on June 17 when something unusual suddenly appeared in his camera lens. June 21, 2017. - Ken Rice Photo
OSHAWA — Wildlife photographer Ken Rice was out shooting photos on Saturday when something unusual suddenly appeared in his camera lens.
“It came out of no where, this thing,” said the Oshawa resident, who was at the marsh area near the General Motors of Canada headquarters on Colonel Sam Drive at about 7:45 p.m. on June 17 when he noticed the object off in the distance.
“I was walking back to my car and I just saw something pop out of no where, way up high, far away in the sky,” he said.
“I thought it was a big turkey vulture so I just took a picture of it anyway and then it kind of hovered, sat there for a minute and then it took off.”
After returning home, Rice took a closer look at the image and said he has no idea what it could be.
“A balloon wouldn’t go that fast and disappear No. 1, and it was too high. Nobody would be flying a kite there because it’s just railroad tracks and the road and there was nobody around there. I didn’t see anybody, and where did it go?”
He’s shown the photo to several people and even posted it on Facebook but no one has been able to identify it.
“It’s just really odd; I’ve never seen anything like that. I looked on the Internet to (find) weather balloons and that kind of thing and see what it might be but none of them looked anything like this,” he said.
“You hear people all the time with the UFO stuff but a UFO just stands for unidentified flying object — it doesn’t mean aliens — and to me, it’s an unidentified flying object. I don’t know what it is.”
US pilot Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of peculiar flying objects sparked the UFO craze
Pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine UFOs near Mount Ranier, Washington, on June 24, 1947.
US pilot Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of peculiar flying objects sparked the UFO craze
Troy Lennon, History editor, The Daily Telegraph
THE late 1940s through to the ’50s was the golden era of the UFO. It was a time when Cold War paranoia was just kicking in but, instead of fearing Soviet infiltration, people began seeing strange things in the skies. It was also when the terms “flying saucer” and “UFO” were coined and popularised, fuelling the public imagination.
But this alien spaceship craze can be traced largely to an incident that happened 70 years ago tomorrow.
Kenneth Arnold saw something in the skies on June 24, 1947, that caused millions of people to wonder if we were not alone in the universe. Arnold was born in Sebeka, Minnesota, in 1915, but grew up in Montana and North Dakota. He went to the University of Minnesota (although some sources say Iowa) where he showed himself to be a keen sportsman, going out for the university swimming team and contemplating a football career before a knee injury forced him to rethink his options.
After university he got a job with a company that sold fire fighting equipment and in 1940 started his own company, Great Western Fire Control Supply. A lot of his business involved visiting remote areas of the US so he decided that rather than relying on chartering aircraft he would fly his own. He took flying lessons, gained a pilot’s licence and bought a plane.
Gen. Roger M. Ramey with Colonel Thomas J. Dubose from the US air force identify metallic fragments found near Roswell, New Mexico, on August 7, 1947, as a high-altitude sounding device used by the air force and weather bureau.
Arnold had logged thousands of hours of flight time before his alien encounter. It happened in June 1947, while on a business trip in the state of Washington. He had taken off from Chehalis and was helping out with the search for a lost military transport plane. While flying over the Cascade Mountains, near Mt Rainier, he was startled by a flash of light.
“I observed a chain of nine peculiar looking aircraft flying from north to south” near Mt Rainier, he later said. It was about 3pm and Arnold watched the aircraft for two or three minutes.
When he landed at Yakima he told a friend who didn’t believe him.
The story soon got around and Arnold was sought out by reporters who asked for an account of what he saw.
At first he described the aircraft as like a “pie pan” but never mentioned that they were flat discs. In fact his description suggested they were shaped like a crescent or a boomerang. But when he said the aircraft moved “like saucers skipping on water” reporters started calling them flying saucers.
Not long after, in early July, a farmer named Mack Brazel found strange debris from something that dropped out of the sky on his farm about 60km northwest of Roswell in New Mexico. The remains consisted of sticks, metal pieces and a silver foil that, when crumpled, quickly regained its shape.
Brazel got in touch with the Walker Air Force Base at Roswell, thinking it might have been one of their aircraft.
Unidentified flying objects sighted over Yunnan province, in China in April 1981.
The base sent out Major Jesse Marcel who issued a press release on July 8 that they had recovered a flying disc from the farm. Newspapers reported that a “flying saucer” had been found on a ranch near Roswell.
The next day the air force base issued a new press release saying that the disc had been a weather balloon. But now that the “flying disc” story had been released nobody wanted to believe that it was just a weather balloon.
In reality it wasn’t a weather balloon but an experimental high altitude sounding balloon, codenamed Project Mogul, the US military hoped to use to monitor Soviet bomb tests. When one of the balloons crashed and people began talking about flying saucers it provided the perfect cover for the real story.
The Roswell incident fired up the public imagination and the number of sightings of strange aircraft soared.
This was also useful for the military because people were reporting suspicious aircraft or letting the military know when their top secret experimental aircraft were being indiscreet. In 1948 the US air force established Project Sign (later renamed Project Blue Book) to investigate all sightings.
Hollywood soon jumped on the bandwagon. In 1950 it released the film The Flying Saucer, the first time an alien ship was depicted as a flying disc. In 1951 The Day The Earth Stood Still depicted a saucer landing to warn humanity about nuclear annihilation.
In 1952 the USAF coined the term Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO, to describe any aircraft of unknown origin. It was meant to refer to any unidentified aircraft but over the years the acronym UFO has come to be indelibly associated with alien visits.
A Washington witness at Sunnyside reported a slow-moving, triangle-shaped object that followed his vehicle along a rural roadway, according to testimony in Case 83989 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration of the scene.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness had just gotten off work and was driving home at 10:50 p.m. on May 25, 2017, when the incident began.
“I take the back roads home and got on Factory Road outside of Sunnyside, Washington,” the witness stated.“After about three minutes or so traveling down the road, I noticed an orange light near two red lights in a triangular pattern. The orange light was blinking.”
Thewitness immediately thought the object was a Chinook helicopter.
“I found it strange how low it was to the ground and the lack of sound. I also noticed it was traveling a bit fast to be a helicopter. It flew from south to north.”
The witness then thought that the object might be a drone.
“My speed was about 50 mph, though I was slowing down not wanting to get too close to the object. It crossed the road in front of me and then I proceeded to pass it. I found it to strange – it grabbed my curiosity. An oncoming car passed me, and once it did I pulled into a dirt driveway and turned around – doing a U-turn. I quickly drove back and found that it was out in the same area I had left it.”
The witness then slowed down in the middle of the road with no place to pull over.
“I simply stopped in the middle of road – now able to see a mile infront of me and behind me. I was facing west with my back to the east. It seemed to stop flying south and began to fly west.”
Witness illustration of the craft.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness quickly reached for his smartphone and pulled up the camera app.
“I began to record as I drew closer. This was when I noticed a white light, much like a star starting to fly down from above it and near the object. It quickly got my attention as it quickly stopped again and turned 90-degrees and flew south across the road again. Once it had done this, it began to fly west.”
The object was then flying parallel to the road and began to make the witness afraid.
“Though it stopped and then began to fly northwest from its location towards me, I became overwhelmed with fear knowing this wasn’t a plane or a helicopter. Having both my windows down, I would have heard something. I threw my phone in the passenger seat and began to speed off. As I began to pass it, I came as close as I ever was to the object.”
The witness described the object.
“It was a gray triangle, with three orange lights and one red, glowing light in the middle with two small, green lights near the rear. It was hovering. I am now driving back from where I had come from. Heading into Sunnyside on Factory Road. I reached a speed of 97 mph and quickly began to slow down. I felt safer near town, though, now that it was nearly 11 p.m. and no one would be around.”
But that safe feeling quickly dissolved.
“I turned left onto Handford Road, and before getting to Vakima Valley Highway, I turned left onto another road that was near a car dealership and stopped again to see if I could see the object. It was flying west again and was in the same light configuration as when I first saw it – with one blinking, orange light and two red ones. I watched it fly for a short time before it began to fly southwest and I didn’t want it getting too close again. I got back onto Handford Road and onto Yakima Valley Highway driving towards Grandview.”
Cropped piece of witness illustration from the scene.
Credit: MUFON)
But once the witness arrived home and got of his vehicle, he saw the craft again.
“It had followed me approximately six miles and was flying southeast, though, I did not turn and I watched it fly in that direction until it was out of sight. I thought about following it, but didn’t want to push my luck as I began to feel afraid again. When I reviewed the video I recorded, the object was not captured due to it being too dark outside, and had stop recording without me pressing pause as I passed the object.”
Sunnyside is a city in Yakima County, Washington, population 15,858.Washington MUFON State Director James Clarkson investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
“I would point out this case was near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation,” Clarkson stated in his report. “Given the highly unusual shape and lighting configuration, and the lack of sound when the witness had parked his car with all of the windows down, I am classifying this case as a true UAV with a highly credible witness.”
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.
Iowa witness recalls late night UFO close encounter
Iowa witness recalls late night UFO close encounter
An Iowa witness at Millerton recalled a UFO incident from the early 90s where the object moved over his vehicle at one point and beamed light onto the vehicle, according to testimony in Case 83673 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first thought the object was a helicopter. Pictured: Rural area near Millerton, Iowa.
(Credit: Google)
“I can’t remember the exact year and day, but I know that it was between 1990 and 1992,” the witness stated.“It occurred in rural Wayne County, Iowa. I had two young sons at that time. One was around 2 or 3 and the other was 4 or 5 at the time. That’s why I can narrow down the time that it happened. I had been at some friend’s house in the Corydon area that evening. They had two sons the same age as mine and the kids played while we played cards for awhile.”
The hour was late and past the kid’s bedtime, so the witness left to go home.
“The boys fell asleep in the car not far down the road.I was driving eastbound on a county highway east of Millerton. It was between 9-10 p.m. I believe. I noticed a bright flash of light to my left. It was maybe 10 or 15 miles directly north of me hovering low in the night sky. It would flash a bright light every second.”
The witness watched the object instantly jump from one area of the sky to another. Pictured: Rural area near Millerton, Iowa.
(Credit: Google)
The witness first thought the object was a helicopter – possibly life flight on its way to Corydon Hospital.
“I soon realized it wasn’t. I continued to glance over at it as I drove another mile or two. It just seemed to hang in the same spot. And the flashing light was just brilliant. Much brighter than any plane or helicopter.”
The witness decided to pull over on the shoulder to see what this object was.
“I drove a Pontiac Sunbird at that time and had the window rolled down while watching it. I shut off the lights and killed the engine. After a few minutes, I noticed the light was a bit brighter as if it had moved closer, yet I never saw it move. Then after another minute, it changed locations again. It was several miles closer to me. This thing moved so fast. It would hover motionless for a short while and then in the blink of an eye it would change locations. In a matter of minutes, it was approximately a half-mile north of me 50-75 feet above a crop field.”
At this point, the witness could see that the flashing light was actually a beam of light shining downward from the craft at about a 75-degree angle and making a full rotation approximately every second.
“I still couldn’t see the craft itself. Then it was suddenly a hundred yards due north hovering over the field. The brilliant beam of light shined all the way to the ground as it rotated in a wide circle. I’d never seen anything like it. It lit up the ground beneath it like daylight. You could see what looked like little dust particles in the light. It was weird. I thought for a moment that I should try to get out of there. But I was really intrigued with this thing. I still couldn’t make out the craft itself.”
The object eventually moved overhead and shown a beam of light into the witnesses’ vehicle. Pictured: Rural area near Millerton, Iowa.
(Credit: Google)
Then in the next moment, the witness realized the craft was no longer there.
“No more beam of light, nothing. Before I could even think about it, the car filled with a brilliant flash of light for just a moment. It was almost blinding. There was a peculiar feeling in the air like static electricity that seemed to wash over me.”
The witness then craned his head out the window and looked up.
“Above me was a large area of blackness and I knew it was above me. It was silent. The light wasn’t shining from it. Then for just a little bit, the underneath of it lit up with a bunch of smaller, blinking lights.”
At this point the witness was able to make out the shape and size of it.
“It was larger than I thought. Probably 40-50 feet in diameter and hovered about 40-50 feet above me at maybe a 75-degree angle. If it had tilted to a vertical position, I think I could have touched it. It was the shape of a disc. I thought to myself, “My God. I can’t believe I’m seeing this.’
Then in an instant, the craft was a half mile away.
“With the light beam rotating back down at a 75-degree angle as before. And in the same way that it came to me it left. Hovering for short intervals before zipping to another spot miles away, leaving only a faint streak of light between the two points. It was going east and slightly north. At one point, I estimated it as being probably in the Ottumwa area. Eventually it got far enough away that I couldn’t distinguish it from a star. The last time I could see it flashing I would guess it was perhaps in the Fairfield/Mt. Pleasant area headed in the direction of Burlington.”
The witness was upset over the incident.
“I was pretty shaken by this whole thing and watched it go away partly because I wanted to be certain the thing wasn’t going to turn around and come back. It scared the crap out of me to be honest. The boys didn’t wake up, so they never knew it even happened. When I got home, I called my friend whose house I had been to earlier. He didn’t believe me. Then awhile later, he heard that others had seen something too and had called the sheriff and reported it. They were told that it was a helicopter. I explained to him that it wasn’t, and he sternly replied, ‘I don’t know what you saw, but don’t be telling people about it. They’ll think you’re nuts and throw you in a padded room.’ So I haven’t. For the past 25-plus years.”
Millerton is a city in Wayne County, Iowa, population 45. Iowa MUFON Assistant State Director Beverly Trout investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
This week at the Starmus Festival, Stephen Hawking talked about his ongoing work to build a spacecraft capable of true interstellar travel. He explained that this unmanned space probe would be crucial to extending humanity's reach into space.
BETTING HIS CHIPS
Stephen Hawking isn’t content to just warn humanity about its dwindling potential for longterm survival — he’s determined to do something about it. In April 2016, the renowned physicist announced he was developing a spacecraft that could facilitate moving our species to a “second Earth.” This proposed spacecraft, named Star Chip, is part of an initiative called the Breakthrough Starshot.
While speaking at the Starmus Festival in Trondheim, Norway, this week, Hawking explained why his work is more important now than ever. He told the audience that he’s convinced we need to leave the Earth and migrate to a second planetary home. Building a base on the Moon by 2020 to serve as a jumping off point and finishing Star Chip as soon as possible are two important steps to making this happen.
This small space probe would be equipped with a lightsail weighing just a few grams. Powered by an array of Earth-based lasers, Star Chip would travel “on a beam of light,” reaching about a fifth of the speed of light, roughly 160 million k/h (100 million mph), on its journey to the Alpha Centauri solar system.
Such a system could reach Mars in less than an hour, reach Pluto in days, pass Voyager in under a week, and reach Alpha Centauri in just over 20 years. Once there, the nano craft could image any planets discovered in the system, test for magnetic fields and organic molecules, and send the data back to Earth in another laser beam. This tiny signal would be received by the same array of dishes that were used to transit the launch beam.
Since it could reach Alpha Centauri, it could make a fly-by to Proxima b, the exoplanet many consider the most similar to Earth. Star Chip would complete a true interstellar itinerary but without humans on board:
Of course, this would not be human interstellar travel, even if it could be scaled up to a crewed vessel. It would be unable to stop. But it would be the moment when human culture goes interstellar, when we finally reach out into the galaxy. And if Breakthrough Star Shot should send back images of a habitable planet orbiting our closest neighbor, it could be of immense importance to the future of humanity.
This is all very long-term thinking, with Hawking predicting humans wouldn’t be ready for interstellar travel for at least t wo more centuries. However, any knowledge we could glean from Star Chip’s mission could help us understand the nature of space, and perhaps help us find a new home before the “doomsday” Hawking predicts will befall humanity just 100 years from now. It’s worth a shot.
Did Researchers Find a Mummified, Three-fingered Alien in Nazca, Peru?
Did Researchers Find a Mummified, Three-fingered Alien in Nazca, Peru?
The purported discovery is backed by individuals with a history of making false, pseudoscientific claims.
CLAIM
A corpse found in Nazca, Peru, is that of an alien.
RATING
FALSE
ORIGIN
On 20 June 2017, the web site Gaia.com published a video purporting to show the excavation and examination of a mummified body in Nazca, Peru:
In the spring of 2017, Gaia filmmakers joined researchers and scientists just outside of Nazca, Peru to investigate an unearthed mummified body. Independent scientists and universities are currently analyzing findings, with initial examinations suggesting the possibility of material that is unlike anything found in the fossil record.
Could this be a primitive human with an intentional or developmental deformity, or undeniable evidence that a non-human species exists?
Although Gaia.com at least posed the idea that the mummy was an alien as a question, the Disclose.tvweb site definitively reported the headline “New Alien Mummy Discovered in Peru Near Nazca Lines.”
The Nazca Lines are a set of geoglyphs (lines drawn by removing rocks and digging up earth) near Nazca, Peru. Some are drawn in the shape of animals (biomorphs) and are between 50 and 1,200 feet long, according to National Geographic. The absence of a single definitive explanation for their origins has prompted speculation that aliens were somehow involved in their creation.
However, no evidence has ever definitively proved the existence of alien life, and countless “alien” discoveries have later been shown to be hoaxes or to have far more mundane explanations.
In 2015, Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan, who reported the existence of the Nazca mummy to Gaia and is featured in the video, led an event called Be Witness, at which a mummified body — purportedly that of an alien — was unveiled. Later, though, that “alien” discovery was debunked, and the mummified corpse was shown to be that of a human child.
Forensic scientist José de Jésus Zalce Benitez was one of the lead researchers behind the (debunked) 2015 discovery, presenting his findings at the Be Witness event. Benitez also took part in Gaia’s Nazca project and can be seen in the video claiming that the three fingers of the mummy “makes us think that this does not belong to a human species.”
The previous discovery of mummies with elongated skulls in Peru, like that shown in the Gaia video, has prompted similar wild speculation about alien species. But anthropologists have explained that elongated skulls are the result of an ancient practice of artificial cranial deformation, in which young children had their heads bound in cloth, rope, or even wooden boards, possibly as part of a religious ritual.
Dr Konstantin Korotkov, who says with certainty in the Gaia video that the Nazca mummy “belongs to another creature,” also claims to have invented a camera that can photograph the soul and has previously made a host of pseudo-scientific pronouncements about the measurement of “auras,” such as this one:
If we send positive emotions, if we send love to each other, then we increase not only the other person’s energy field, but our own energy field.
Finally, Gaia.com (formerly known as Gaiam) web site has a long history of providing a platform for false and spurious pseudo-science, conspiracy theories, and paranormal claims. The company charges $95.40 per year for unlimited access to videos about remote viewing, contact with angels, alien abduction, crop circles, and the like.
It remains to be established whether the Nazca “mummy” is actually an excavated corpse or simply a hoax, what its origins are, and how its apparent deformities came about. But we are willing to say with certainty that it will not succeed where thousands of previous “discoveries” have failed, and present definitive, scientifically verifiable proof of alien life.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to hunt down habitable planets in other star systems and any alien life forms that may reside there.
An ESA committee approved the PLATO Mission on Tuesday during a meeting in Madrid, according to Warwick University, whose scientists will be taking part in the project.
“This means it can move from a blueprint into construction,” a university statement reads.
The launch, due to take place in 2026, will see PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) and its 26 onboard telescopes launched into the ‘L2’ virtual point in space, located 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) beyond Earth.
Once it has reached its destination in space, PLATO will “monitor thousands of bright stars over a large area of the sky, looking for regular dips in brightness as planets pass by them.”
It will also investigate seismic activity in some of the host stars, determining their masses, sizes, and ages “with unprecedented accuracy."
“The launch of PLATO will give us the opportunity to contribute to some of the biggest discoveries of the next decade answering fundamental questions about our existence, and could eventually lead to the detection of extra-terrestrial life,” PLATO Science Coordinator and Professor of Physics at Warwick University Don Pollacco said.
PLATO’s mission is similar to that of NASA’s Kepler observatory, which has so far confirmed 3,400 exoplanets, only 30 of which are less than twice the size of Earth and orbiting within the ‘habitable’ zone of their star.
Habitable zones are defined by being not so close to the star that water evaporates, and not so cold that it freezes, as water is a requirement for life as we know it.
Meanwhile, the ESA has also given provisional approval for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) on Tuesday, which will be tasked with observing the gravitational waves created when black holes collide. Launch is expected in 2034.
Headquartered in Paris, the ESA is a collaborative agency with 22 member states. Canada also takes part in some projects under a cooperation agreement.
Europe has approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to sniff out habitable planets in other star systems, along with any life forms they may host.
"The PLATO mission will address fundamental questions such as 'how common are Earth-like planets?' and 'is our solar system unusual or even unique?'," the University of Warwick, whose scientists will take part in the project, said on Wednesday.
The multi-million-euro undertaking "could eventually even lead to the detection of extra-terrestrial life," it added.
A committee of the European Space Agency (ESA), meeting in Madrid, green-lit the mission on Tuesday, meaning "it can move from a blueprint into construction," the university said in a statement.
When the candidate project was first announced three years ago, its cost was estimated at some 600 million euros ($668 million).
With 26 onboard telescopes, PLATO will join NASA's Kepler observatory in a dedicated search for exoplanets revolving around stars other than our Sun.
Kepler has so far found more than 3,400 confirmed exoplanets.
Of these, 30 are less than twice the size of Earth and orbiting within the so-called "habitable" zone of their star—not so close that water evaporates and not so cold that it freezes.
Liquid water is a key requirement for life as we know it.
PLATO—PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars)—will be launched 1.5 million kilometres (932,000 miles) into space, monitoring thousands of stars over a large area of sky.
Telescopes search for slight dips in light when a planet "transits" between the star it orbits and the telescopes watching it.
Planets do not emit their own light. Had they been visible to the naked eye, they would appear as dark dots tracking across their bright stars.
PLATO is due for launch in 2026, the ESA said.
Other projects that have contributed to the exoplanet search, though it was not their exclusive mission, include NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, as well as several dozen ground-based observatories.
The search for a planet capable of hosting life remains a distant pursuit—there is no solar system close enough for mankind to ever reach it, unless we develop time travel.
ESA also gave provisional approval for a project called LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), tasked with observing gravitational waves—created when black holes collide—from Space.
Predicted in Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, gravitational waves were first observed with Earth-based instruments last year.
LISA will comprise free-floating detectors on three craft, separated by 2.5 million kilometres in a triangular formation, following Earth in its orbit around the Sun.
Launch is expected in 2034. But final approval will depend on the availability of technology and money, the ESA said.
The estimated mission cost is about a billion euros. Warwick University is based in central England.
Is It Time to Rethink How We Search for Alien Life?
Is It Time to Rethink How We Search for Alien Life?
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer
This artist’s impression shows an imagined view from the surface of a planet that was part of a star system found recently using the TRAPPIST telescope at the European Space Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. These worlds' sizes and temperatures are similar to those of Venus and Earth, and are the best targets found so far in the search for life outside our solar system.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
WASHINGTON — From the lovable, candy-munching E.T. to the deadly Xenomorphs from the "Alien" movies, science-fiction stories are bursting with all kinds of alien encounters. But in reality, we've yet to achieve contact — though not for lack of trying.
Plenty of scientists are looking for signs of extraterrestrial life — intelligent or not — using a variety of methods, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, told an audience here on June 18 during a talk at Future Con, a festival that highlights the intersection between science, technology and science fiction.
But the more our own technology moves forward and the more humans explore the rapidly evolving concept of synthetic intelligence (smart machines), the more experts suspect that intelligent extraterrestrial life could be advanced in ways that would stymie current efforts to find them, Shostak said. [Greetings, Earthlings! 8 Ways Aliens Could Contact Us]
However, perhaps the first question to ask is why people are so fascinated by the idea of alien life — particularly alien invaders, Shostak suggested. This preoccupation with an unseen extraterrestrial threat may be an echo from our distant past, when early humans learned that survival frequently depended on being able to imagine and prepare for attacks from predators or enemies that you couldn't see, he said.
What we now know about the universe suggests that it's very unlikely that humanity is the only form of life in it.
"Work from the last 20 years shows that there are planets all over the place," Shostak said. In fact, NASA announced yesterday (June 19) that the Kepler Space Telescope mission has discovered 219 more exoplanets (planets orbiting stars other than our sun), bringing the total of planets discovered by Kepler to 4,034, Space.com reported.
Most stars — 70 to 80 percent of them, by some estimates — probably host planets, Shostak added. With an estimated 100 billion stars in our galaxy, that gives us around 1 trillion planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Data from Kepler suggests that about one in five of these planets is Earth-like — rocky and capable of supporting liquid water and possibly life, "so now you have 100 billion planets in our galaxy that are sort of like Earth," Shostak said.
And with recent studies hinting that there may be as many as 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, that adds up to a lot of planets that might host some form of life.
When you look at it that way, "saying, 'I don't believe in aliens' is a daring position to take," Shostak said.
Signs of life
There are three methods most commonly used by scientists to search for alien life, according to Shostak. The first is straightforward enough — and is also the one that's most popular with sci-fi writers: "Just go out and find it," he said. This includes missions to send spacecraft to destinations such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, where probes would sample water vapor from surface plumes to see if they hold anything interesting. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens]
SETI astronomer Seth Shostak explains the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life, at the Future Con panel "Are We Looking for the Wrong Aliens?"
Credit: M. Weisberger/Live Science
The final method — and the one practiced by Shostak and his SETI Institute colleagues — is eavesdropping on radio signals that an alien civilization might broadcast.Another method is to image distant planets with very large space telescopes capable of detecting enough detail to provide scientists with data about their atmospheres. Big telescopes — such as the James Webb Space Telescope, expected to launch in October 2018 — could allow astronomers to analyze the spectrum of light surrounding a far-off planet for evidence of atmospheric oxygen or methane, both of which are known to sustain life on Earth.
"That's how you find intelligent life," Shostak said.
Alien A.I.?
All of these parameters offer scientists a reasonable range of variables for discovering life — but only as long as that life is "the soft, squishy kind, like us," Shostak said. However, a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization could theoretically have advanced far beyond that, creating forms of artificial intelligence housed in machinery, which simply don't have the same requirements as organic life.
"Machines live forever, and they can go anywhere — they don't care about oceans and atmospheres," Shostak said.
With that view, many of the factors that are currently thought to be indicators of life on other worlds, such as liquid water and a breathable atmosphere, are rendered irrelevant. As such, researchers would need to identify other signals to pinpoint which planets might harbor aliens, Shostak said.
But Shostak also offered reassurances, telling the Future Con attendees that at least they won't need to worry about scientists or the government concealing the news when alien life finally does appear — the story would be too big for them to hide it for long, he said.
"Will we all start singing 'Kumbaya' and just get along when that happens? I don't think so," Shostak said at Future Con. "But it'll change things. Forever after, you will know — as amazing as you are — that you're not the only miracle, you're not the only kid on the block. And I think that'll be very interesting to learn."
Parkes' search for aliens receives a boost with new high-tech receiver at the Dish
Parkes' search for aliens receives a boost with new high-tech receiver at the Dish
By Gavin Coote
The search for extraterrestrial life in Australia receives a boost, with US scientists installing high-powered receivers at the Parkes Dish.
The search for extraterrestrial life receives a boost with new equipment installed at the Dish.
(Credit: ABC)
Australia's role in the biggest-ever search for alien life is set to dramatically expand, with a new high-powered receiver to ramp up observations in the sky.
The Parkes CSIRO Telescope, known as The Dish, is the only facility in the southern hemisphere taking part in the Breakthrough Listen Initiative.
The $100 million program is the largest scientific research endeavour aimed at finding evidence of civilisations beyond Earth.
It is the stuff of films and space novels but The Dish, which was the star of the 2000 movie of the same name, has been playing a crucial role in the search for other intelligent life.
It has been using a single-pixel receiver to scan the skies since last October, but researchers involved with the Initiative from the United States have arrived to install new equipment to boost the search.
It will include a 13-pixel receiver, giving the Dish an unprecedented capacity to survey the galactic plane, which is where the majority of the Milky Way's disk-shaped mass lies.
University of California Berkeley researcher Daniel Price said they wanted to take advantage of the latest technology to help solve one of life's biggest mysteries.
"It's at the end of the day quite a philosophical question, I mean we're trying to answer one of the oldest questions that humanity has — are we alone in the universe?"
"It's not an easy question to answer and we have to get as much data as we possibly can and as much evidence as we possibly can before we come to a conclusion."
Dish will have unrivalled view of galactic plane
Dr Price said Parkes' widening scope in the project would complement work being done at the Green Bank Telescope in the United States.
"And that is a very powerful telescope, but it doesn't have access to the southern portion of the sky," he said.
"Parkes is great, in that it's in the southern hemisphere, and also this multi-pixel receiver means that we can do a very fast survey of the galactic plane and cover it in a reasonable amount of time."
CSIRO Parkes system scientist Jimi Green said the installation was proceeding smoothly so far.
"This is just the kind of collaboration that we're looking for in CSIRO, so it helps to build a sustainable model that we want to run for the telescope and it also brings in the exciting science that the team from UC Berkeley and Breakthrough are doing," he said.
"At the same time we can run our own equipment, so this is something that we've just been exploring and we hope to run our equipment at the same time as their equipment."
Technology upgrades to have other spin-offs
Mr Green said CSIRO would be able to use the new technology for other important work, such as discovering more fast radio bursts (FRBs).
The mysterious FRBs, which are an energetic radio pulse lasting only a few milliseconds and appear as flashes in the sky, have only been detected 24 times in the last 10 years.
The Parkes Dish discovered the first FRB in 2007, and the CSIRO said the facility had since been responsible for more than half of all detections globally.
Mr Green said the Dish was also at the forefront of the search for aliens.
"We can see a different part of the galaxy from the southern hemisphere than from the northern hemisphere," he said.
"You can see more of the galactic centre, where there's a lot of exciting stuff going on, and you can see right out to the outer galaxy."
The new equipment is expected to be completely installed at the Parkes Dish over the next week.
Dr Price said they would continually upgrade the technology in line with new innovations in astronomy.
"Every two years or so, the computing capacity doubles and because of that, it means that the amount of sensitivity or the amount of bandwidth you can process also increases," he said.
"We are looking at parameters of space that we've never looked at before, we are a lot faster, our surveys are a lot more sensitive, and we are covering large portions of the sky."
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.”
Stephen Hawking pleit voor een nieuwe missie naar de maan tegen 2020. De bekende fysicus pleit ook voor een vaste basis op de maan binnen dertig jaar en een bemande missie naar Mars binnen vijftien jaar. Dat zei hij tijdens een toespraak op het Starmus Festival in Trondheim, Noorwegen. Volgens Hawking is een verdere verkenning van de ruimte nodig om het voortbestaan van de mensheid te garanderen.
Hawking sprak gisteren via een videolink de toeschouwers toe op het Starmus Festival, een kunst- en wetenschapsfestival in het Noorse Trondheim. Zijn speech hield het midden tussen doemdenken en wetenschappelijkoptimisme. Volgens de natuurkundige moeten we ons voorbereiden op een kosmische exodus binnen 200 tot 500 jaar.
"De aarde wordt op zoveel verschillende manieren bedreigd dat ik moeilijk positief kan blijven."
Stephen Hawking
"De aarde wordt op zoveel verschillende manieren bedreigd dat ik moeilijk positief kan blijven," zei Hawking. Hij vermeldde daarbij onder andere een mogelijke inslag van asteroïden, hetgeen "gegarandeerd is volgens de wetten van de fysica en waarschijnlijkheid," het smelten van de poolkappen, de uitroeiing van verscheidene diersoorten en de uitputting van grondstoffen.
"We krijgen een gebrek aan ruimte, en de enige plaats waar we naartoe kunnen, zijn andere werelden. Het is tijd om andere zonnestelsels te verkennen," zei hij. "Ons verspreiden zou het wel eens het enige kunnen zijn dat ons van onszelf kan redden. Ik ben ervan overtuigd dat mensen de aarde moeten verlaten."
"Ik hoop dat het concurrerende landen zal verenigen met één doel: het aangaan van deze gemeenschappelijke uitdaging."
Stephen Hawking
Maar ondanks het horrorbeeld dat hij schetste, bracht de 75-jarige kosmoloog van de universiteit van Cambridge ook een hoopvolle boodschap. "Ons verspreiden in de ruimte zal de toekomst van de mensheid compleet veranderen," aldus Hawking. "Ik hoop dat het concurrerende landen zal verenigen met één doel: het aangaan van deze gemeenschappelijke uitdaging."
Hij pleit voor een menselijke kolonie op de maan binnen dertig jaar. We kunnen Mars bereiken "binnen vijftien jaar" zei hij. Enkele tientallen jaren later moet er dan een vaste basis op Mars volgen.
Jan Wörner, hoofd van het European Space Agency (ESA), wil een maanbasis bouwen ter vervanging van het ISS, dat midden jaren 2020 zal worden gesloten, en werkt met Rusland samen om op zoek te gaan naar een geschikte plek. Ook China wil een astronaut naar de maan sturen. NASA heeft momenteel geen plannen om terug te keren naar de maan, maar wil tegen de jaren 2030 wel een bemande missie naar Mars.
Hawking beklemtoonde ook het belang van de aanpak van problemen op onze planeet. Hij hekelde daarom Trumps terugtrekking uit het Klimaatakkoord van Parijs. "Ik ontken het belang van de bestrijding van de klimaatverandering en global warming niet, in tegenstelling tot Donald Trump, die zopas misschien wel de ergste, meest verkeerde beslissing over klimaatverandering heeft genomen in de wereldgeschiedenis."
Globale aanpak
Reizen naar verafgelegen werelden "verheft de menselijkheid," argumenteerde Hawking. "Telkens wanneer we een grote sprong maken, zoals de maanlandingen, dan brengen we mensen en landen dichter bij elkaar en openen we de deuren voor nieuwe ontdekkingen en nieuwe technologieën."
"De aarde verlaten vraagt een globale georganiseerde aanpak en iedereen zou zijn steentje moeten bijdragen. We moeten het enthousiasme van de vroege dagen van de ruimteverkenning in de jaren zestig doen heropleven."
"Ik hoop op het beste. Ik moet wel. We hebben geen andere keuze."
Stephen Hawking
Volgens Hawking is de kolonisatie van andere planeten geen science fiction meer. Hij verwees daarbij onder andere naar planeet Proxima B in het Alpha Centauri-stelsel, amper 4,37 lichtjaren van ons verwijderd. De planeet ziet er veelbelovend uit, maar helaas is reizen tussen verschillende sterrenstelsels met de huidige technologie "bijzonder onpraktisch", merkte hij op.
Als de mensheid wil blijven voortbestaan, moeten we onze grenzen verleggen, aldus Hawking. "Ik hoop op het beste. Ik moet wel. We hebben geen andere keuze."
One of the most gruesome, sinister, and completely intriguing of phenomena connected to the phenomenon of UFOs is that of the dark world of cattle mutilations. By some accounts, for some reason, it seems that whatever is behind these strange lights in the sky also has a liking for targeting various livestock for some impromptu surgery and mutilation, often ending up with carcasses that show a variety of strange features such as almost selectively missing organs, strangely precise cuts, a lack of deterioration, and no rotting stench pervading the area. This is all quite horrifying enough, but what if it was not a cow, horse, or some other beast of burden, but rather a human being? That would be sinister indeed, wouldn’t it? Well, there have indeed been such cases, where people have been found to vanish under mysterious circumstances only appear later showing all the hallmarks of cattle mutilations, sending them into the annals of unexplained mysteries.
Perhaps one of the most famous cases of an apparent case of mysterious, inexplicable human mutilation occurred in Brazil in 1988. At the the Guarapiranga Reservoir was found the body of a man that was in a very strange state indeed. Although it was determined that the person had been dead for several days, there was no smell when it should have been redolent with the stench of decay, no noticeable decomposition, and there was no sign that the body had been fed upon by scavengers or even insects. Upon his body were found to be numerous smooth round holes, and the man’s lips, eyes, tongue, and ears had been cut away with expert precision, not torn or ragged in any way. Other tissue and organs had been removed as well for reasons unknown, and there were other anomalies in addition to all of this. The coroner tasked with examining the body would later say of it:
Although the victim had been dead for 48 to 72 hours there was no sign of being eaten by animals or starting to rot, as would be expected. There was no smell. Bleeding from the wounds had been minimal. The lips and flesh from the face had been cut away. The eyes, ears, and tongue had been removed. Neat round holes, one to one and a half inches in diameter, had been made on the shoulders, arms, head, stomach, and anus and tissue and muscle had been extracted. The holes had not been made through which extensive digestive organs had been extracted. The scrotum, but not the penis had been removed, and all pubic hair had disappeared. The rectum had been cored out. Despite these devastating mutilations, there was no sign that the victim had been bound or had struggled in any way.
The mysterious body was photographed and the pictures shown to a Dr. Goes Rubens, who concurred that it was all very odd indeed, and seemed inexplicable by normal definitions. It was also pointed out by an associate of Rubens that the mutilations on display with the mysterious body had many of the same hallmarks of the more well-known cattle mutilations, such as a lack of decomposition, organs seemingly selectively removed, precision, almost surgical cuts, and anomalous holes bored into the corpse. It appears that the dead man was never identified and his strange death has from then on had many questions surrounding it. Who or what did this to him? Why was there no decomposition? Why were some organs missing and not others and why had they been removed so cleanly and precisely? Why had those holes been made in the body? Why hadn’t the victim struggled or shown signs of being detained? What happened to him and who was he? We will probably never know.
Perhaps even more bizarre still is the 1956 case of Air Force Sergeant Jonathan Lovette. In March of that year, Lovette and a Major William Cunningham, both of the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, ventured out into the desolate desert scrub to collect fallen debris from a recent missile test at the White Sands Missile Test Range, and at one point Lovette went off behind a dune. A few moments later, Cunningham reportedly heard Lovette scream out in terror, and he ran to investigate. What he saw next would cause him to scream as well.
According to Cunningham, after going over a ridge he was met with the sight of a large, silvery disk-shaped object hovering around 15 or 20 feet in the air, which had a long, snake-like object trailing from it. To his horror, he saw that this appendage was wrapped around the leg of Lovette and in the process of pulling him towards the strange craft. At this point, Cunningham would report that he had been somehow inexplicably paralyzed, wanting to take action but unable to move as he watched his friend get pulled and reeled into the object, after which it sped off at breathtakingly great speed. As soon as it was out of sight, Cunningham found himself released from whatever had kept him frozen there.
White Sands, New Mexico
After radioing Missile Control and telling them what had happened, he was told that they were indeed picking up a radar signature moving rapidly, but that they were not able to tell what it was. Security forces and soldiers immediately descended upon the area, and a massive search began, which would go on for 3 days without finding a single trace of the missing man. In the meantime, it was suspected that Lovette had been the victim of foul play and that Cunningham was responsible, his wild story simply a cover, and he was detained. On the third day of the search, after meticulously scouring 100 square miles of the landscape, Lovette’s body was found around 10 miles from where he had gone missing, and his corpse was in a horrifying state.
Besides being completely drained of every drop of blood, there was no sign of vascular collapse, meaning he had not died of bleeding to death and was very unusual for someone who had been drained of so much blood. An incision had been made in Lovette’s lower jaw, through which his tongue had been removed, a cut which extended from the tip of the chin all the way down to his larynx. His anus and genitalia had been expertly removed “as if from a plug,” and his eyes had been taken out smoothly. The body showed no signs of decomposition, despite being estimated to have been lying out there in the desert heat for one or two days, and most oddly of all there were found to be dead scavengers nearby that had apparently died after trying to feed on the body. None of it made any sense at all, and still doesn’t.
This particular incident has its origins in an alleged report called Grudge/Blue Book Report 13, which is mysterious in many ways in and of itself. The manual in question was supposedly analyzed by an information analyst for the U.S. Air Force and former Green Beret named Bill English, and is allegedly dated 1953-1963. Upon the cover is apparently written the code AFSN 2246-3 and the words “Top Secret Need Yo Know Only, Crypto Clearance 14, or above, Required” stamped on it in red ink. Since it is unknown if this document ever really existed or not, and the information given by Bille English is only preserved in his own notes and his memory of what he read, it is unknown if the report is real or whether the Lovette case ever really happened in any sense at all, and so it remains shrouded in mystery.
Just as creepy is the case of a 56-year-old miner named Zingmund Adamski, who vanished without a trace while out shopping for groceries near his home in Tingley, near Wakefield, England, on June 5, 1980, at around 3:30 PM. On June 11, his dead body turned up atop a 12-foot high pile of coal at around 3:45 PM in the town of Todmorden, around 20 miles away from where he had gone missing. The discovery was odd, since that morning the coal yard reported that there had certainly been no body there and no suspicious activity, so it had basically just appeared out of nowhere. Adamski was purportedly wearing a suit but missing his shirt, watch, and wallet, yet other than that his clothing seemed to be in rather pristine condition, although they seemed to be improperly fastened, as if put on by someone who did not know what they were doing.
Although not as badly mutilated as the other cases, Adamski’s body nevertheless showed some oddities that are hard to explain. An autopsy revealed that the cause of death had been a heart attack, but this was not known for sure, and strangely although he had been missing for 5 days he only had one day of beard growth. He had been well-fed and taken care of, but what was strange was that there were some weird burns marks on his neck and shoulders that were of an unknown origin, with some unidentified gel or lotion spread across them. There was no evidence that he had sought any sort of medical treatment from the area’s hospitals and the cause of the burns and the composition of the gel could not be determined by forensic scientists. James Turnbull, the coroner who dealt with Zigmund’s death, said of the condition of the body, “The question of where he was before he died and what led to his death just could not be answered.”
All of these things posed a variety of questions. First, if he had died of a heart attack, then why had he found himself at the top of that pile of coal? This is even more mysterious considering that there were no signs that anyone had climbed up the pile at all, suggesting that the body had been placed there from above. Also, since he had been taken care of and had died only recently, then where had he been for nearly a week before his dead body was found?
The case was so strange that it attracted the attention of a UFO researcher, strangely named George Adamski, who believed that Zigmund had been in fact abducted by aliens, possibly accidentally, and this theory was further bolstered by claims made in the following days by police officer Alan Godfrey, who had been the officer who had originally found the body and who claimed to have seen a diamond-shaped UFO in the area 6 months later. Godfrey claimed that this UFO had abducted him, leaving him in his patrol car with 30 minutes of lost time. There were also alleged cattle mutilations around the region at the time, which were thought to have been perhaps related to Adamski’s disappearance and subsequent death. Considering that the region has been known for quite sometime as a UFO hotspot, does this mean that Adamski was indeed abducted by a UFO? It is hard to say, but the circumstances of his disappearance, the condition of his body, and the weird clues surrounding it all have made it oft-discussed and debated.
What happened to these people? How can we explain their strange and sinister disappearances and the odd condition of their corpses? Is there a rational explanation to be found here or are we forced to look to, shall we say, more mysterious explanations? Cases such as these serve as a splinter upon the mind, begging to be removed and put into rational explanation, yet they continue to defy such efforts. What is going on here? What is behind such things? Is it sick individuals, the work of scavengers, or forces from beyond our world and understanding? It is hard to say for sure, and such accounts only serve to deepen the mysteries behind the UFO phenomena and this weird, weird world we live in.
A new documentary purports to show President John Kennedy’s “former pilot” saying that the former president had hinted to him that he was aware of the evidence that alien UFOs were visiting Earth.
President Kennedy’s alleged former pilot made the disclosure in the documentary“Unacknowledged”which claims to expose decades of U.S. government cover-up of vital evidence that the Earth is being visited by aliens in UFOs. According to the documentary, JFK saw the alien UFO that crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. He allegedly saw the debris during a visit to a top-secret United States Air Force (USAF) base.
The new film, directed by Michael Mazzola, features Dr. Steven Greer, presenting evidence of alien UFO visitations to Earth and government conspiracy to hide the evidence from citizens.
The documentary also features an alleged former pilot for JFK making the claim that the former president once told him that government has evidence of UFOs and ET phenomena. The former president allegedly saw physical evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life when he visited a secret USAF base where the U.S. government was secretly storing the debris from a UFO spacecraft that allegedly crashed in July of 1947, at a spot near Roswell, New Mexico.
The unidentified man said he once had a conversation with JFK about a newspaper article that discussed UFO phenomena. He said JFK asked for his opinion about extraterrestrials and UFOs, but when he threw the unexpected question back to the president, he responded, “I asked you first.”
He told JFK that he did not think that humans were the only intelligent life in the universe. The president, according to the “former pilot,” then admitted that he was aware of evidence of aliens and UFOs.
“You’re right young man,” the man claimed JFK, “there is considerable knowledge as far as the being of UFOs and the ET phenomenon that we are aware of today.”
JFK purportedly shared the highly classified information with the actress Marilyn Monroe who later threatened to reveal it to the world. Monroe allegedly made the threat because she was upset after JFK and his brother, Robert, ended their relationship with her.
According to Greer, informationobtainedfrom a secret CIA memo created two days before Monroe was found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose, in her Brentwood, Los Angeles home, on August 5, 1962, showed that the CIA was aware of the alleged affair between Monroe and JFK and had been secretly monitoring Monroe’s phone calls due to fears that she could leak classified information she obtained accidentally from Kennedy.
The CIA allegedly learned while monitoring Monroe that Kennedy had told her that he visited a “secret air base” where he saw the physical evidence of aliens and UFOs. The agency murdered Monroe to stop her from disclosing highly classified UFO and ET evidence she obtained from Kennedy.
“We have a number of smoking gun documents, including a wiretap of Marilyn Monroe on the day before she died, which has never been declassified,” Greer said. “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.’”
The “secret air base” that the alleged secret documents mentioned is believed to be the Area 51 facility in Nevada.
U.I.P Summary:
JFK was likely assassinated because he ordered the CIA to release highly classified UFO files to NASA. The CIA arranged to have Kennedy assassinated, and Monroe, before the files could be released. Let’s also not forget the thousands of innocent people that the CIA have murdered in cold blood!
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Britain’s UFO Files
Britain’s UFO Files
Britain’s top secret UFO files are set to be released within months shedding light on alien encounters across the UK, the government have confirmed.
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. We are eagerly waiting for their release!
The UFO Dossier is understood to contain 18 files detailing alleged encounters and experiences involving alien life.
It will contain information relating totheRendlesham 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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Some Ufologists 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 Defense’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 recentelection 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.”
Will we be seeingUK reports like this one:
U.I.P Summary:
There you have it, more files due to be released, but they’re not rushing and it’s only a small amount, imagine what is still hiding in the government’s secret vaults? Are we seeing more drip-feeding here? I guess so..
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Leeft Adolf Hitler nog steeds? Hij bouwde al vliegende schotels, kent hij ook het geheim van ‘eeuwig’ leven?
Leeft Adolf Hitler nog steeds? Hij bouwde al vliegende schotels, kent hij ook het geheim van ‘eeuwig’ leven?
Een naar verluidt 128-jarige man uit de Argentijnse stad Salta heeft geclaimd dat hij de voormalige nazileider Adolf Hitler is en de afgelopen 70 jaar ondergedoken heeft gezeten. Dat schrijft het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
In het land zijn nu net allerlei nazi-voorwerpen gevonden, waaronder een buste van Hitler, boxen met vergrootglazen en messen met swastika’s.
De Argentijnse autoriteiten gaan ervan uit dat de voorwerpen echt zijn en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog zijn meegenomen door gevluchte nazi’s.
In een interview met lokale media zei de Duitse immigrant dat hij in 1945 met een vals paspoort Argentinië is binnengekomen.
Hij is naar eigen zeggen in de openbaarheid getreden omdat de Mossad, de Israëlische geheime dienst, sinds 2016 niet meer op oorlogsmisdadigers jaagt.
“Ik ben beschuldigd van veel misdaden die ik nooit heb gepleegd,” zei de man, die nu door het leven gaat als Herman Guntherberg.
Anders
“Ik ben neergezet als de slechterik omdat we de oorlog hebben verloren,” vervolgde hij. “Als mensen mijn kant van het verhaal horen, zullen ze anders naar me kijken.”
Hoewel de meeste historici van mening zijn dat Hitler op 30 april 1945 zelfmoord heeft gepleegd in Berlijn, stellen sommigen dat de Führer net als veel andere nazi’s is gevlucht naar Zuid-Amerika.
Zo publiceerde Abel Basti in juli 2016 de herziene versie van zijn boek Hitler in Exile, waarin hij stelt dat Hitler naar Argentinië vluchtte en uiteindelijk in Paraguay belandde.
Vreemde piramide doet wetenschappers perplex staan. Hier komen ze met hun pet niet bij
Vreemde piramide doet wetenschappers perplex staan. Hier komen ze met hun pet niet bij
Een bizar bouwwerk dat lange tijd geleden in Peru is neergezet stelt wetenschappers al geruime tijd voor een raadsel.
De prehistorische piramide is gebouwd in de vorm van een vulkaan, terwijl er in het gebied rondom het bouwwerk geen vulkanen voorkomen.
Onderzoekers hebben nu in het bouwwerk een trapgat ontdekt dat naar een pleistervloer leidt. Ook is een haard gevonden die houtskool bevat.
Hoofdbrekens
De vreemde piramide werd in de jaren zestig ontdekt. Hoewel niet precies bekend is wanneer de piramide is gebouwd, denken onderzoekers dat het bouwwerk uit de formatieve periode stamt.
De piramide is bijna 16 meter hoog en bevat aan de bovenzijde een vreemd kraterachtig object. De structuur bezorgt wetenschappers al tientallen jaren hoofdbrekens.
“Vanaf een afstand lijkt de site op een sintelkegel, zoals die in de Andahua-vallei in het zuiden van Peru,” schreven de wetenschappers. “Om die reden hebben we de piramide El Volcán gedoopt.”
Nergens anders
“Er bevinden zich echter geen vulkanen in de buurt van El Volcán en ook zijn nergens anders in Peru of elders structuren in de vorm van een vulkaan ontdekt,” voegden ze toe.
De onderzoekers concluderen dat de structuur waarschijnlijk niet is ontstaan als gevolg van natuurlijke processen.
Zonsverduisteringen
Ze stuitten namelijk op een trapgat, bakstenen en een stuk pleistervloer. Gedacht wordt dat de piramide mogelijk verband houdt met zonsverduisteringen.
Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Antiquity.
Bizarre zeewezens ontdekt voor kust Australië. Je zult versteld staan wat er op de zeebodem leeft
Bizarre zeewezens ontdekt voor kust Australië. Je zult versteld staan wat er op de zeebodem leeft
Voor de kust van Australië is op vier kilometer diepte een bizar wezen ontdekt. Het gaat om een vis zonder gezicht.
Wetenschappers denken een geheel nieuwe soort te hebben ontdekt. Een dergelijke vis werd maar één keer eerder gevonden: in 1873 voor de kust van Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea.
De mond van het wezen bevindt zich aan de achterkant terwijl je aan de voorkant geen mond, neus of ogen ziet, aldus expeditieleider Tim O’Hara.
Meest onontdekte omgeving
Onderzoekers stuitten ook op andere vreemde wezens, waaronder reusachtige zeespinnen, vissen met hengels op hun hoofd, een blobvis en zeevarkens. Een derde van de ontdekte dieren is totaal onbekend voor de wetenschap, verklaarde O’Hara.
“De diepzee is de grootste en diepste habitat ter wereld, maar het blijft de meest onontdekte omgeving op aarde,” zei hij.
“We weten dat de dieren die er leven al minstens 40 miljoen jaar bestaan, maar tot voor kort was er pas een handvol monsters verzameld,” voegde hij toe.
Vier kilometer
Het onderzoek werd uitgevoerd in opdracht van Museums Victoria in samenwerking met CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation).
Het onderzoek is gedaan aan boord van het schip Investigator, dat op 15 mei koers zette vanuit Tasmanië en vorige week aankwam op de eindbestemming in Brisbane.
Tijdens de reis volgde het schip de oostelijke grens van het Australische continent, waar de zee tot wel vier kilometer diep is.
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that it has formally adopted the Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) space observatory. The new phase of the mission means construction of the spacecraft and its science instruments can begin. PLATO will be a satellite platform with 26 mounted telescopes to search large areas of the sky for exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. ESA is aiming to launch PLATO to orbit in 2026.
The number of known planets outside our solar system is steadily increasing. Just yesterday, NASA announced the Kepler space telescope discovered 219 more planet candidates. The new data brings the total number of planets in the Kepler catalogue up to 4,034, and 2,335 of those planets have been confirmed by follow-up observations from other telescopes. Additional missions such as the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) have discovered even more planets beyond our sun's orbit, including seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby red dwarf star.
The PLATO mission, headed up by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin, seeks to expand our knowledge of the tantalizing worlds that lie beyond our little neighborhood in the galaxy. We know of dozens of exoplanets that are roughly Earth-sized, almost certainly rocky, and orbit in the habitable zone where temperatures could be favorable to surface water. Could one of these planets host extraterrestrial life?
"Using observations of stellar vibrations, PLATO will for the first time fully characterize these stars and their planets with regard to mass, radius, and age," says Laurent Gizon, director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and head of the PLATO Data Center, which will analyze the mountain of data from the spacecraft's telescopes. PLATO will operate for a minimum of four years, observing large areas of sky for years at a time to look for planets with similar properties to Earth. It is crucial for PLATO to keep its telescopes pointed at one spot for long periods of time, because if we do find a "twin" of the Earth, it will only pass in front of its host star once a year for observations.
PLATO will pick up where Kepler leaves off, expanding the catalogue of known exoplanets and providing more information about these mysterious worlds than ever before. Once we have pinpointed nearby planets similar to Earth orbiting stars similar to the sun, astronomers will attempt to analyze the elements present in these Earth-like planets' atmospheres with powerful telescopes currently under construction. If the atmospheres contain biosignatures, such as abundant oxygen, we might finally find a true "Earth twin" with flowing extraterrestrial rivers and sprawling alien forests.
This dream might be overly-optimistic, but there is only one way to find out for sure: launch more telescopes. PLATO will carry 26 to space in the year 2026.
OKLAHOMA CITY – With the city of Roswell, New Mexico celebrating the 70th anniversary of the alleged “UFO crash” near that desert city, way back in July 1947, one author willing to follow the path of truth, wherever it takes him, is Nick Redfern.
And just in time for that anniversary, which will likely result in steady business at Roswell’s International UFO Museum and Research Center, Redfern has just released The Roswell UFO Conspiracy: Exposing a Shocking and Sinister Secret, published by Lisa Hagan Books, which Red Dirt Report reviewed here.
This new book is a follow-up and update to his groundbreaking 2005 book, Body Snatchers in the Desert.
Redfern is no stranger to the subject of UFOs and aliens, having written a number of compelling books on the topic over many years now. He’s an expert and well-regarded in the field of Ufology, at least among the intellectually honest folks who really want to know the truth.
And so for those who have spent their lives turning the alleged flying saucer crash at the Foster Ranch near Roswell into a sacred and holy event and one to never be questioned, Redfern’s research poses a challenge for those devoted to the "alien" angle.
Asked if he had originally planned to release the book this summer, to coincide with the 70th anniversary, Redfern, speaking to Red Dirt Report from his home in Texas, said not initially, as it was pretty much written last year. But when he realized 2017 would be a major anniversary, with talk of the “Roswell Incident,” on the lips of many, it made more sense to publish it now.
“You know, after Body Snatchers, I became public enemy number one in many of the chat rooms, particularly one called UFO Update,” he said, adding that since the new book has come out, the past 12 years have been kinder to his findings, as few if any negative comments have come out about The Roswell UFO Conspiracy.
Nevertheless, Redfern admits that much remains unknown, mainly because of documents covering the years 1945-51 are missing, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) efforts made in the 1990’s, after New Mexico’s Republican U.S. Rep. Steven Schiff prompted further investigations into what happened back in ’47.
“All outgoing messages from ’45 to ’51 are gone. They’re still gone. Can’t be found now,” Redfern said.
But why those six years, if the alleged UFO crash only happened in 1947?
“A lot is shrouded in mystery,” Redfern said. “Who go to the site first. What (rancher Mac) Brazel knew, the wreckage, the bodies … we still don’t have a full, clear picture of what happened.”
Despite all that, Redfern upturned tables in the Church of “St. Roswell” by taking the Roswell mystery toward a far more terrestrial direction. Not the military-sanctioned “weather balloon” cover story, but in a far darker place where human beings were likely used in pre-Space Age high altitude experiments that resulted in both Japanese prisoners of war and handicapped and disabled people being essentially used as guinea pigs in these experiments. And they were known to be kept at the notorious Fort Stanton. For Redfern it was all beginning to add up.
KATHY KASTEN
In the new book, Redfern does share information collected by fellow researcher Kathy Kasten, who passed away in 2012. But Redfern was fortunate enough to be given many thousands of pages of research and material in multitudinous files Kasten's family provided to Redfern, per her request before her death.
It was after Body Snatchers in the Desert was published, recalls Redfern, that Kasten connected with him and, after comparing notes, realized that their research – independent of one another – was matching up.
“It was so close to what I had been told, but none of my sources had talked to Kathy,” Redfern said.
Calling her a “funny and feisty character” who “didn’t stand for any nonsense,” Redfern said Kasten had initially been approaching the Roswell event as a possible alien saucer crash, with bodies aboard. But her research and her contacts – including, according to Redfern, the “Silent Partners,” who contacted Kasten psychically, via the Remote Viewing technique – directed her to Fort Stanton, New Mexico, a military facility located “a stone’s throw from Foster Ranch.”
These “Silent Partners,” likely trained Remote Viewers in Washington who wanted the truth to get out about Roswell, did so clandestinely, Redfern said, and led to her to discover that the aforementioned Japanese prisoners of war were made “offers they couldn’t refuse” to participate in these experiments in those murky, post-World War II years, as the Cold War heated up. Experiments giving LSD-25 to troops in Britain or placing handicapped people near atomic test sites in Australia, as the UK reportedly did during those years - if that could happen, and simply be human beings doing horrific things to fellow humans, why not Roswell being a test involving humans as well - perhaps even "enemy aliens" and not the "aliens" we think of today, like the Grays and so forth.
In any event, Redfern says that Kathy Kasten's research made a lot of sense. But some things were just too dangerous to even write down, he suggests.
“It’s intriguing because in Kathy’s notes it clear that things are missing,” he said. “There were things he dared not put down on paper. Whatever it was went with her to the grave.”
“I thin k the important thing to note is that if Roswell was a UFO event, even I can admit that there are a number of UFO events that are legitimately genuine … highly credible reports of craft we were not flying back then,” Redfern said, adding, "I'm honest enough to admit I can't be 100 percent for sure" on the Roswell case. "It's the honest path to take.
Continuing, Redfern said he "believes in Ufology" but that doesn't mean Roswell was an event involving extraterrestrials.
"Roswell has been elevated to number one in Ufology," he said, noting that while it's a "fascinating case," it still has been "inextricably tied" to the study of UFOs and nothing he can see at the moment will change that in the minds of researchers and the public - except to continue to write about and discuss other, more disturbing possibilities - that our government may have used human beings in ghastly experiments that had fatal outcomes for many involved - people who were vulnerable and handicapped in some cases.
Redfern is a prolific writer, writing about not only UFOs but Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster (in his native UK), alien encounters, Men in Black, government conspiracies and more. And while it would seem he is writing 24-7, Redfern assures Red Dirt Report that he keeps normal “business” hours, and has plenty of off time.
His next book, he said, is about “Shape Shifters,” and should be released in the autumn.
Check out Redfern’s work at his Nick Redfern’s World of Whatever at nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com. He is also a regular contributor to Mysterious Universe, which can be found here.
More dubious “MJ-12” documents released from anonymous source
More dubious “MJ-12” documents released from anonymous source
A podcast host claims to have received “Ultra Top Secret” UFO documents outlining a secret government program regarding UFOs. The 47 page documents reviews alleged UFO crashes, the recovery of extraterrestrial spacecraft and alien bodies. One section summarizes a supposed interrogation with an extraterrestrial being.
The documents were posted on the website of the podcast Midnight in the Desert. Midnight in the Desert was created for the return of famous late night paranormal talk show host Art Bell. However, after only a handful of episodes, Bell quit. His producer, Heather Wade, then took the reins.
In the Midnight in the Desert post, it says Wade received the documents “from a trusted source.” The article then states that the documents were sent to UFO researcher Stanton Freidman, known for investigating other alleged MJ-12 documents.
The Midnight in the Desert article says Freidman will look into the documents, but also claims “at this time we can find no evidence of forgery.”
Cover page of alleged documents on ET crashes and alien being recoveries. Click image to see files.
Not everyone agrees. Many have voiced concern. Nick Pope, who investigated UFO for several years for the UK Ministry of Defence told the UK’s Daily Express, “These documents are completely and utterly bogus.”
“The language and the wider feel of these UFO documents is just plain wrong,” Pope continued. “It’s as if someone was playing buzzword bingo with all the words and phrases that excite UFO believers, and throwing in some New Age philosophy for good measure.”
As for the alleged interrogation of an ET, Pope tweeted: “The ‘interview with an alien’ read like a high school student attempting (badly) to write a science fiction short story. Must do better.”
This section does seem to be the most preposterous part of the document. In the beginning of the interview, when asked why they are here, the alien says, in part, it is because they “like trees.” When asked to elaborate, the being responds, “You see, we would hate to see you blow-up such a pretty little planet…”
So why would someone go to the work to fake these documents? Pope says, “As with previous such documents that have surfaced in the US, I suspect they’ve been hoaxed by someone on the fringes of the UFO community, playing an elaborate practical joke to see if they can put one over on the true believers.”
These are not the first “MJ-12” documents to allegedly be leaked by government insiders. The terms MJ-12 and Project Aquarius, an alleged MJ-12 project that is also referenced in the newly released papers, where first mentioned in a document released in the 1980s that where admitted by their author to be fake. Documents continued to be sent to UFO researchers from anonymous sources throughout the 80s and 90s.
The documents have been highly controversial among UFO researchers. Freidman believes he has shown some of them may be legitimate, but admits, most of them are hoaxes. Either way, the information in the documents has been very influential to the modern mythology surrounding alleged UFO conspiracies.
Captain David D Schindele was formerly a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile launch crew commander in the Minot Air Force Base missile field in North Dakota.
In December 1966 he was at a launch control facility, near Mohall, North Dakota, when an unexplained incident occurred.
He claims a UFO destroyed 10 nuclear-tipped missiles he was in charge of, making them unusable.
On December 6, 1966, the Minot Daily News carried a front page story saying UFOs had been reported in the local area.
The headline was: "Minot Launch Control Center ‘Saucer’ Cited As One Indication of Outer Space Visitors."
Mr Schindele claims air force officials ordered him to never to speak about the incident, and effectively erase it from his memory.
But he has now told the "true story of the incident" in the new book “It Never Happened, Volume 1.”
Mr Schindele told the Minot Daily News: "During that time in Minot, many of us experienced unworldly incidents at Minuteman facilities but we were all individually instructed to keep silent.
"We never realised at the time that others among us were also experiencing incidents, but now the truth is becoming known.”
He explained that he decided to write the book after hearing some years ago of a similar incident experienced by another missileer.
He said: “About 35 years after my Minot incident and learning about an identical incident experienced by another missileer, Captain Robert Salas, connected to Malmstrom AFB in Montana, which was during the same general timeframe as my incident, I then contemplated coming forth with the ‘truth'.
“After discovering in 2010 that other missileers with me at Minot also experienced associated incidents, I then decided to conduct extensive research on Air Force cover-up to find out exactly why the Air Force told all of us to keep our ‘lips zipped.’
He added: “With the passing of more than 50 years since my incident at Minot and 70 years since the incident at Roswell, New Mexico, there can be no ethical, moral, or critical reason for keeping the secret from humankind any longer, and my other missileer friends agree with that.
“From the beginning, I’ve been conflicted with the goal of bringing truth to as many people as possible, while having no appetite for bringing attention to myself or receiving monetary benefit. But I also realise the fallacy in that.”
The book is available at Amazon.com.
Proceeds will go to the Seattle Chapter of the Air Force Association.
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Triangle UFO sighting filmed over Warr Acres, Oklahoma 19-Jun-2017
Triangle UFO sighting filmed over Warr Acres, Oklahoma 19-Jun-2017
Triangle-shaped craft was seen and recorded in the sky above Warr Acres in Oklahoma on 19th June 2017.
Witness report:
On June 19th at around 3:30 am we were headed westbound on NW 50th Street in Warr Acres, OK.
I first noticed the object in the distance as 3 lights. I immediately started filming it and as we got closer my phone’s camera stopped working, it wouldn’t focus and wouldn’t let me continue filming.
When we approached the intersection of NW 50th and Grove we noticed that the UFO was triangular in shape, with 3-4 lights, the lights were mostly white with a red blinking light in the center of the triangle. There was no sound from the object whatsoever. It was almost as if the object noticed us, and at that point it took off very quickly southeasterly. We continued to follow it for about a mile when it just vanished entirely.
While strange, this event did not cause me to feel any fear, if anything it was curiosity and shock. My gut instinct is that this was a drone of some sort, but despite doing a lot of research I have been unable to find any example of what we saw.
Teen Captures A UFO On Video In The Night Sky Above New Mexico
Teen Captures A UFO On Video In The Night Sky Above New Mexico
The student and small business owner Manny Ceniceros believes he captured a UFO in the night sky during a recent ride home.
He told her mother to drive and roll down the window to record the weird looking object. It came to Ceniceros’ mind that it was just a bird, but when he got home and uploaded the video, he found out that it was not a bird or an owl or anything like it.
Ceniceros believes that he captured a UFO, as people might call it. He says that he was not expecting to find anything that time as he just wanted to get footage for his promotional video of his screen-printing business.
Ceniceros recorded the video while his mother was driving near Dos Lagos Golf Course on Monday at around 11 pm in Anthony, N.M. A classic saucer-shaped UFO reportedly appeared about 25 seconds in the video and then quickly disappeared.
Manny’s sister Berenice Ceniceros said that she saw a light flash, but did not focus it because she thought it was one of the lights on the roadside. When they got home, they saw that it was different and it was actually a UFO.
Manny said that he was sceptical about UFOs and sightings, but he is now starting to believe that UFOs might exist.
Filer’s Files #25 -2017 Atlantic UFO Confrontations - PART I
Picture taken over Monmouth Junction, New Jersey on June 11, 2017
Filer’s Files #25 -2017 Atlantic UFO Confrontations - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Monsignor Corrado Balducci ET is Here, Confrontations in the North Atlantic, North Atlantic Boomerang, Mothman is Visiting Chicago, Project Silver Bug Was a Plan for the us to Build UFOs, Chester UFO by Ellen Crystall, Did ET Teach us to Pray? and Aid and Comfort to the Enemies of the US.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, 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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Special Projects
Monsignor Corrado Balducci ET is Here
Monsignor Corrado Balducci a close friend of the Pope went on Italian Television five times before he died claiming:
Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its embassies in various countries such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela.
“We can no longer think… is it true? Is it not true? Are they truths or are they lies–if we believe or if we don’t believe–no! There are already numerous considerations which make the existence of these beings [extraterrestrials] into a certainty we cannot doubt.”
Monsignor Corrado Balducci Vatican theologian Interview on Italian television
Confrontations in the North Atlantic
By Tony Dodd, “For decades, NATO forces flexed their muscles against the Warsaw Pact, each nation conducting a dangerous cat and mouse game of testing defenses, both in the air and at sea.In the Cold War Soviet aircraft and ships moved into the North Atlantic knowing they would be tracked by the many NATO radar/listening facilities stretching from Iceland down to Britain via means of ground, sea and airborne means. It was during 1970 and 1971 that the Western Alliance became increasingly concerned at numerous of incidents involving UFOs over the North Atlantic Ocean and Britain. As a result, a highly secret operation was instigated to try to get to the bottom of the mystery once and for all.
Operation Aeneid was a combined operation involving the RAF, the USAF and members of the Royal Observer Corps. It involved the establishment of secret observation centers around Great Britain, including at least four in Lincolnshire. A number of UFO sightings were made, including one in broad daylight off the Lincolnshire coast. The latter involved an appearance by a huge UFO, reportedly 180 feet long and accompanied by numerous ball-shaped objects that had a glass-like appearance. These spent several hours hovering over the RAF bombing range at Donna Nook and was witnessed by at least half-a-dozen airmen. During the course of the operation, UFOs were tracked on many occasions and fighter aircraft were scrambled to intercept. During one incident, two aircraft ordered to intercept a UFO over the North Sea suddenly found themselves surrounded by strange unknown craft.
In a separate incident, a General Electric Lightning fighter was scrambled from RAF Binbrook to intercept a UFO. Ground Radar monitors had both the UFO and fighter on screen when suddenly the two ‘targets’ merged into one before separating again. Although voice transmission was lost and later regained, the aircraft crashed into the sea and the pilot was lost. Wreckage was later recovered at sea by the crew of HMS Kiddleston, but the pilot’s body was never found. What remained of the aircraft was later transported to RAF Binbrook – which was unusual. Normally, all wreckage from air accidents is taken to Farnborough for thorough investigation, but on this occasion the rules were changed. Air accident investigators from Farnborough had to travel to RAF Binbrook to undertake their examination but were allowed only to perform a cursory examination. The following day, members of the team were summoned to the main office at Farnborough and told in no uncertain terms not to discuss any aspect of the crash as it involved National Security.
Since then, UFO activity has continued apace in the North Atlantic and North Sea. In recent times, that activity has been reported off the coasts of Lincolnshire, Scotland, Belgium, Denmark and the south coast of Iceland. ‘Confrontations’ have occurred between elements of the NATO fleet and huge triangular objects seen emerging into and from the sea.
On 20 December 1992, three UFOs were tracked coming down and entering the sea off the east coast of Iceland. The following day, Icelandic fishermen off the north east coast were confronted by very large, very fast, “moving underwater craft” which displayed flashing colored lights. These USOs (Underwater Submarine Objects) appeared to be accompanied by a glowing airborne object travelling south towards the coast of Scotland.
As the USOs moved through the water they came into contact with and damaged fishing nets. The fishermen concerned told me they were used to submarine activity in the area, but said these particular craft were definitely not normal submarines. They moved too fast through the water, had flashing lights, and were far larger than anything they had seen before. The fishermen were so frightened by the events they contacted Icelandic authorities who immediately dispatched Icelandic Coast Guard vessels to act as escorts. On 23 December 1992, an Icelandic Coast Guard vessel and two gunboats were ordered to take up station off Langeness, an area where UFOs had been seen entering the water. The operation was conducted in great secrecy to observe and report.
A short time later, three American warships took up station in the area and were eventually joined by a fleet of NATO warships, including some from Britain. Newspapers described it as a military exercise. Few bothered to appreciate that it was extremely strange and unusual for a massive NATO naval exercise to take place so close to Christmas.
On 24 December 1992, the crews of two British ‘Hunter Killer’ submarines were recalled from Christmas leave. HMS Tireless and HMS Trenchant put to sea to link up with the NATO surface fleet. At the same time, Icelandic Coast Guard vessels and gunboats were ordered to take up station at Alice Fjord off the east coast of Iceland. British newspapers claimed that surface ships had entered the area to track a very large underwater craft. I then received further information from contacts that four UFOs had been seen to descend and enter the same area of sea. Icelandic sources also confirmed that the entire operation was linked to tracking “unknown underwater alien craft“. Around this time, a massive sea search was put into operation to locate a surface vessel which had reportedly gone missing but was not found.
Then, on 12 January 1993, smaller Icelandic vessels had to take shelter at Langeness Fjord because of appalling weather conditions which continued for three weeks. By the 6 February 1993, the weather had improved sufficiently for ships to put back to sea. Icelandic Coast Guard vessels and gunboats were ordered to take up their original positions on picket duty. All was quiet at sea for the next few days, until suddenly all ships in the area received a message from the American Flotilla, comprised of three Destroyers. The message instructed all ships to stand off and not to approach any closer than three nautical miles. While outside the ‘exclusion zone’ ships radar’s suddenly detected sixteen airborne objects which were then visibly seen to approach the American vessels and then hover directly above them. Crews on outlying boat saw the brightly lit amber colored objects remain stationary for a short time before they suddenly sped away in unison at great speed. The watching crews were bemused and knew the objects could not possibly have been helicopters since they were too far from land.
On 15 April 1993, all ships involved in the secret operation were ordered to search for yet another American warship which had gone missing. Only two American Destroyers were now visible to the outlying ships. The names of both the remaining American ships had been removed and the crews were seen wearing full battle dress. Elements of the Russian Navy had now joined the operation and were working in unison with the NATO surface fleet at the mouth of the Barents Sea. On one occasion radio communication between the Russian ships were understood to say: “We are engaging unknown underwater craft.”
On 16 April 1993, British newspapers carried the headline, ‘Joint American and Russian Military Exercises About To Take Place’. They announced: ‘For the first time since World War Two, joint exercises involving elite American and Russian troops are about to take place in Siberia near the Russian Port of Tiski. No further information was forthcoming.
Information about other incidents did continue to reach me however, such as one that took place on 21 April 1993, when the crew of an Icelandic Airlines aircraft, travelling from London to Iceland, became aware that two large balls of white light had joined them as they passed over the coast of Scotland. The bright “glowing balls” took up position on either side of the aircraft towards the tail. The objects maintained this position all the way to Iceland and only when the aircraft began its descent to Keflavik Airport did they depart.
For the many months that followed Icelandic fishermen remained nervous and concerned as they repeatedly witnessed strange aerial phenomenon in the sky close to their fishing grounds. On one occasion, several tubular objects with “glowing blue-like fluorescent lights” hovered over fishing boats that experienced a complete power loss for several minutes. Eventually the objects disappeared and power was restored. Source: UFO Magazine (UK)
North Atlantic – Boomerang
Atlantic Ocean – — I was delivering a sailing yacht to Florida from Boston, via Bermuda, standing the twelve to four deck watch in October 1990. It was a beautiful night, very warm and clear at 1 AM 350 NM east of Northern Florida, when the boomerang object flew directly over us as its approach had been hidden by the very large mainsail of the Schooner. The object was huge, twice the size of Ursa Major, it glowed with a pale luminescent, gold or yellow, with a pale blue triangle at leading edge or apex of the arch, the sharp tips at the trailing edges, also, were blue. It was climbing and following an easterly course. It was totally silent, and left a wake of gold “glitter” behind. Soon it seemed to almost explode into several small bright lights then recon dense into a very bright single light and disappear into space.
I saw the exact same thing three years later in 1993, and once again it seemed to be heading east to climb up over the Atlantic from the Southeast U.S. The second craft came from the SW horizon and I could see its trajectory clearly and also it’s very distinct shape and color. Both sightings occurred in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, 30N 70W. Many mariners have seen these craft, but don’t report them for fear of ridicule.
Whatever this vehicle is, whether extraterrestrial or government; it is astonishingly huge, incredibly fast and absolutely silent. The fact that I’ve seen it twice in a three year period makes me think that this is some kind of routine late night departure to some other planet. I watched the thing punch through the atmosphere twice with my own eyes. Cape Canaveral is located to the several hundred miles west of that position, but I seriously doubt we have anything this wild flying under the stars and stripes. I’ve always felt that if a UFO wanted to hideout where better but under the sea. Noah’s flood has not yet receded: two thirds of the earth is still underwater. The southern edge of the Bermuda Triangle is where the Puerto Rico Trench is, the deepest water in the Atlantic hemisphere, 28,000 feet deep I believe. Thanks to Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research
Mothman is Visiting Chicago
Investigator John Keel warned me that the Mothman exists and called him a devil. A mysterious Mothman like winged-creature continues to lurk in the Chicago area as a dozen sightings have been reported in recent weeks.
The strange saga began last month when three separate people claimed to have seen the creature over the course of the same evening. Since that time, more witnesses have come forward with their own stories of encountering the flying enigma. Dutifully chronicled by fortean researcher Lon Strickler, the most recent sighting occurred last weekend when a woman and her friends first heard an unsettling, high-pitched screech.
When they looked up, the group spotted an enormous bat-like creature circling an adjacent marina and were stunned when it was joined by a second flying oddity of a similar size and shape.
Although the witness conceded that the creature could be a massive bat, she indicated some reluctance to believe that theory as she likened the enigmatic animal to a gargoyle or a human in a wing suit. It connects to the humanoid characteristics that other witnesses have ascribed to it.
Another sighting of the creature happened two weeks earlier and featured a law enforcement officer observing the anomaly while out walking with his young son. According to the witness, the anomaly “had a distinct human figure about 6 feet in height” and sported enormous wings that appeared to be 8 to 10 feet across. The stunned father and son watched the ‘entity’ fly over a nearby tennis court before disappeared behind a field house.
A similar sighting by another father and on duo took place a few days prior to that incident and essentially described the same creature that others have been seeing, although this encounter also featured an unsettling sound akin to the brakes of a train. All told, the number of sightings of the creature in the Chicago area has now reached an astounding seven over the last month or so.
Residents of the windy city or curious readers looking for more information on the cases can check out Strickler’s http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/
Project Silver Bug Was a Plan for the us to Build UFOs
Jack Picket the editor of military news magazines helped me obtain a 30 page foia release on Project Silver Bug that showed the Air Force was developing a disc shaped aircraft in 1955. He had personally seen four of the craft at Mac Dill Air Force Base in 1966, and was asked to release a story concerning these classified aircraft. Later, just prior to publication the article was cut, because a disc was seen flying low over Miami. Jack had personally seen four of the disc shaped aircraft in the Mc Dill disposal area that ranged in size from 25 feet to 125 feet in diameter. The four aircraft were saucer shaped with vertical stabilizers (tails) with of experimental written on the craft. He was told there were numerous similar craft flying, but they were unstable and frequently crashed.
This “saucer” designed aircraft was believed to use two to four j58 engines that were also the propulsion system for the sr-71. The sr-71 could fly faster than mach 3 and was designed in secrecy by a team headed by Clarence l. “Kelly” Johnson, director of Lockheed’s Advanced Development Projects Office better known as the ‘skunk works’. The existence of the aircraft was not officially revealed until February 29, 1964. Skunk work’s engineer Ben Rich is quoted as saying, “Some ufos are ours and some are theirs.”
Project Silver Bug was the research and development project to field jet propelled flying saucers beginning in 1955 that would be dispersed to underground bases to avoid Soviet attack.
The disks were capable of vertical takeoffs and landings, and would be capable of mach 3.48 — faster than the sr-71 Blackbird. In the Project Silver Bug Report, dated Feb. 15, 1955, and declassified on march 29, 1995, He claimed the disk interceptor aircraft would be capable of vertical takeoff and landing; a maximum level speed of 2,300 mph with afterburners; a ceiling of 80,600 feet; and a climb rate of 1.76 minutes to 36,090 feet. The Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation developed the J58 engines that in July 1976, powered an Sr-71 to a world altitude record of 85,069 ft. and another to a world speed record of 2,193 mph.
The report on Project Silver Bug was issued by the Air Technical Intelligence Center along with the wright Air Development Center at Wright-Patterson Afb in Dayton, Ohio. The Silver Bug Report noted that a pair of ongoing u.s. Projects involving the building of flying saucers had already occurred. The book “The Super Spies“, by Andrew Tully, 1969, claimed these discs were being used as “saucers with ears,” that is, for communications intercept missions.
The Silver Bug disc would be capable of vertical takeoff and landing; and performance greater than the sr-71. This performance was far in advance of any aircraft then and is roughly equivalent to the current f- 35 fighter. The 1955 issue of Look Magazine state that, “New air defense problems were setting up requirements for aircraft performance which would apparently be best met by a saucer aircraft.” Runways would not be needed and bases could go underground with tunnels and takeoff shafts set in the ground, complete with maintenance bays, fuel, and crew quarters. Those underground bases, the article said, would be bombproof shelters for a saucer squadron. The shafts would be sealed after takeoff for camouflage and protection.”
It is rather obvious that our technology has greatly improved since the late 1950s, and that faster and higher flying aircraft are available to the Air Force. Modern aircraft should exceed 5,000 mph and 100,000 feet altitudes. Jeff Rense mentioned on his radio show that the us has built ufos. Many disc shaped craft have been seen. In the nevada area indicating some craft are still being developed. Thanks to the US Air Force
Chester UFO by Ellen Crystall
Published on Jun 10, 2017
Bruce Cornet writes — The “Westchester Boomerang” was seen during the 1980s over the Hudson Valley, and again videotaped in 1992 just west of Chester, NY, by the late Dr. Ellen Crystall, with whom I worked. This presentation is the first time her video has been shown on the Internet. Crystall’s book, Silent Invasion, was published just a year before her sighting during an August 6 mini-flap involving the simultaneous appearance of at least three craft over Orange and Sullivan counties, NY. My video of one of them, a Black Triangle, is also published on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDOfS0x5O1o Thanks to Dr. Bruce Cornet
In the nevada area indicating some craft are still being developed. Thanks to the US Air Force
Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemies of the US
Just as Khrushchev predicted 60 years ago the US would be destroyed from within. The Russians couldn’t do as much damage to the US as these anarchists thinly veiled as “progressives” are attempting to do in the media! There are shadow groups who wish to destroy the president – paying demonstrators to cause trouble, threatening sponsors of radio and television.
They did the same thing about the war in Vietnam causing riots against the war and calling the 68,000-troops dying in battle baby killers. The news media notify potential protesters where they have set up their cameras so the riots can take place.
During my twenty years in the Air Force we fought for which ever President was elected and I voted for either party. Once the American people decided who they wanted for president it was time to follow the legally elected government even though you didn’t happen to vote for him.
Most Americans do not realize, have forgotten, or choose not to pay attention to the fact that America is still at war. With the mass media pursuing its own agenda, the sacrifices our troops are making daily have practically disappeared from the front pages of newspapers and the headlines on the nightly news. They are ignoring our troops and their continuing mission to stomp out terrorism where it grows.
By Section 110 of Article III. of the Constitution of the United States, it is declared that:
“Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason.” The nightly TV National News in my opinion gives the enemies of the US aid and comfort. Further it enrages people to conduct riots and armed violence as the recent shooting of Congressmen shows. I am so disgusted by the media… what’s happening here is morally wrong.
Did ET Teach us to Pray?
The Mainstream Media Forgot to Tell You about the Scientifically Proven Benefits of Prayer and Faith. Does prayer really work? The mainstream media tends to avoid the subject altogether.
Does prayer prevent or reverse illness and disease?
Does the practice of worship strengthen your brain and prevent mental decline?
Does asking for spiritual guidance improve your relationships?
Does attending a religious service increase your happiness and success?
Yet a recent poll found that 84% of U.S. adults claim they’d prayed during the week prior to the survey.
With so many people praying on a regular basis, Newsmax Health thought you deserved scientific answers to these and many more questions about prayer, religion, and faith. So today, we’re reporting the results of our exhaustive investigation into how praying impacts your brain, and by extension, your overall health and happiness.
Michael Monahan, publisher of Mind Health Report, the popular monthly Newsmax Health newsletter for people who want to:
Improve their memory and mental function.
Enhance their daily problem-solving ability.
Prevent mental decline, dementia, and Alzheimer’s
Live longer, healthier, and happier lives.
Not long ago, we sent our Mind Health
Report team out to the scientific medical community, to learn the potential benefits of regular prayer practice.
And let me be clear we’re not promoting any specific religion or spiritual practice.
But rather, we wanted to see what neuroscientists have gleaned from their laboratory tests and controlled double-blind medical studies when it comes to these four questions:
Does prayer work? It reduces stress and lowers your blood pressure.
What impact does prayer have on your brain? Prayer boosts your resistance to illness and disease.
What benefits, if any, accrue to your physical, mental, and emotional well-being? It can neutralize harmful negative emotions.
And if prayer activity can be scientifically measured, can you improve the practice to achieve even better results? Not only can prayer be measured as brain activity, but research shows that prayer is scientifically proven to help:
Prayer can: Enhance your memory and mental function, Prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Reduce your suffering from pain. Give you a healthier, longer, and happier life.
Prayer appears to help boost people’s will power, making it easier for them to exercise self-control. Next, Prayer makes people nicer and reduces aggression.
Prayer similarly makes it easier for people to forgive.
In fact, praying does far more than this. It can bring success and happiness to your life/ It never hurts to pray. It has saved me in battle, on tests and even in love. Many religions and ancient scripture teach us to pray. Angels brought messages from Heaven an encouraged prayer. Some religions claim we have our own Guardian Angel. When my base and aircraft were under attack I prayed and lived while some of my friends thought it was nonsense, but they died. To-call-upon-the-angels-for-guidance-and-protection…
All you need to do is say, “Angels, please guide and protect me (or a loved one),” and they will come right away! I encourage you to pray for the country and our world. Nothing is served by terrorism but headlines.
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Filer’s Files #25 -2017 Atlantic UFO Confrontations -PART II
Filer’s Files #25 -2017 Atlantic UFO Confrontations -PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Alaska Sphere
Sterling — On June 15th at 7:18 pm driving home an object appeared in the picture my wife was taking of smoke from a forest fire. This object did not appear in any other pictures in a series of images taken at the same time. Thanks to UFOINFO and Dave Nunley
California Object
Palomar Mountains— My boyfriend and I were hiking/camping at the Palomar Observatory campground and park. We visited the observatory and took some photos of it outside on May 26, 2017. After taken the photos upon looking closer it was told to me there was an unknown object in the photo. I then sent the photo to my mother and she told me to send this to you for investigation. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Gulf Breeze — Around 9:30 PM. at first I just felt like looking up on June 14, 2017, to see if there was anything going on because I heard a soft noise. I looked up to my right and I saw this triangle shaped figure. I tried to tell myself that it was a plane. And I said to myself, “what is that?” out loud and my customer heard me. He tried to see what I was looking at and I told him, and tried to tell myself, that it was just a plane or helicopter. I noticed it though, because I have always been into ufos and conspiracy theories. I could not have gotten my phone to take a photo because it would have been gone. The object had three bright lights. The top was a solid white, the bottom right was a solid blue, and the bottom left was a flashing white light. The object was moving too fast at times to be a plane or a helicopter and also flying way too low to be either as well. So I couldn’t help myself and say it was definitely a ufo. I know what I saw and have seen many before but not this close. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Object
Hephzibah — I was fixing some noodles and I walked out my back door and I saw the ufo. It was really big and kind of Saturn shaped. Kind of like the dome shaped ones if they were mirrored top to bottom. It had red and green lights around the outside of the ship. when I first saw it I was confused then once I realized what it was I was scared and excited at the same time, once it left I and it was clear it wasn’t coming back I stood there about 5 minutes in shock and awe. It flew across the sky and behind some trees. Ran to grab my phone to record it but I was too late. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Boise— I was at home and went utside on a clear and cold day and saw a bright orange/red light. I saw that it was moving too strangely to be a plane on January 7, 2017. It was stopped and then it would move again. No sound at all. I then saw another orange red light and that one headed towards the other one and then they both went the other direction across the sky. Soon there was a third. They were kind of doing a dance. I was so excited. I ran inside and got my Fuji camera to try and get some pictures. So I continue to watch and I am watching this dance and then all of a sudden one after the other these things shoot straight up into the sky and are gone. I had no doubt they were craft. I had seen previously in broad daylight years before these orbs that look like a fleet of balloons doing all kinds of crazy maneuvers. We watched for a half hour and went inside. The same objects were on a Youtube video.
The movement was just too strange. I saw something similar to this in the 70s and also on Christmas Eve a few years ago. Thank you!
Illinois Orb
Rochester— Pamela Stark took this UFO with orb in the pictures on June 10, 2017, at 8:23 PM.
My friends were in the sky as usual. The one was closer to the Earth than ever before and allot brighter. Thanks to Pamela Stark
New Jersey Disc
Monmouth Junction — We were traveling in our car near U.S. 1 at 40.380696, -74.576132. We took a picture of a car near a light as we stopped as we liked the spare car cover on back of the car.
We noticed the UFO like object when we checked the photo after getting back at home. This picture was taken on June/11, 2017, around 6:55 PM. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Disc
Malone— I woke up to go feed the animals about noon or a bit after on June 8, 2017. I was in the front yard when I heard a low humming noise above and in front of me. I looked up and saw a shiny disk in the distance but I’m not entirely sure how big it was or how fast it went. It got louder till it stopped and hovered a few 100 feet behind and above the power lines I was able to snap one photo clearly with my cell phone before it shot away faster than I have ever seen anything fly and disappeared. I think I heard a sonic boom. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina
Lexington– It was moving up and down from side to side.
Then it was moving from the left to right in sky on June 10, 3017.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Disc
Norfolk — In Saturday, June 10th 2017, I Thomas Allen Mcnabb was practicing flying a Quad copter with a camera mounted on the bottom in an empty parking lot at Bay Point Marina where my girlfriend resides at a condominium a block away.
After retrieving my Quad copter from a tree I continued for a second flight. Once again I lost control and had to retrieve my new flying hobby out of a tree and commenced my third flight when I was startled by an approaching helicopter. It was a really sharp looking Bell Jet Ranger with light blue paint scheme. I got scared thinking I may have done something wrong and quickly brought my Quad down as the helicopter made an arcing left hand turn which brought him directly over me. I grabbed my Quad copter and quickly placed it in my truck and drove to my girl’s house. The next day I downloaded the videos from the Quad copter Cam and reviewed the footage and was shocked to find a large solid black sphere hovering over the houses directly behind me. I then realized that that blue Jet Ranger helicopter was heading into Norfolk International Airport. The sphere was
likely picked up on Radar and a helicopter was dispatched to check it out.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Creature
Lennox Head, New South Wales — My partner and I were driving home from work when we seen a bright light descend quickly on May 5, 2017. We were driving as it descended from above us as the bright light turned into a purple light then landed. We both were overwhelmed and scared at the same time. We watched from a distance of 20 meters and the light disappeared and then everything went really dark We stayed still when all of sudden the human like creature was in front of us and spoke to us in English saying, “Have this stone and I will return when the time is right and then onwards.” I lost memory of the creature leaving. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Blue Light in Sky
Edmonton — Charmeine writes, I’ve been seeing a lot of strange lights lately and drones and objects flying by my condo since New Year’s when I noticed how bright Venus was. I can see Venus brightly from my condo on clear nights. I am on a corner lot, facing south and west. I can see the sunset. February 21, 2017
I decided to try and take some photos of Venus because I wasn’t sure if it was Venus. It behaved strangely for a planet. Weird colors were flashing.
On February 2, 2017, I grabbed my camera and just started shooting randomly. I use a P100 Nikon camera. I noticed a blue light in the sky hovering above the condo across the street, from me.
Weird, I thought, so I took a few pictures. It looked as though it was moving slowly. I had just seen a drone in the area, but didn’t put two and two together at the time. And this did not look like any drone I had seen. Plus it was quiet. I forgot about the pictures until the weekend. I had captured some amazing sunsets and wanted to upload them all. What I saw on my computer screen blew me away. You see, I’m a hobby photographer and have been for about six years. So I’ve gotten pretty good at taking pictures, editing and catching odd things in the sky.
I’m sending you what I captured. There are several photos. I’ve tagged them with my screen name. The first is the original. And the rest are blow ups of the blue object. Please let me know what you think. I cropped off the top of the photo which was just lens flare. Thanks to Charmeine
Mexico Orb
Cuernavaca, Morelos— On daily bases I observed the night sky on the highland near Popocatepetl volcano, I am a photographer and amateur astronomer and for the last year I’ve been learning the constellation’s names on the night of June the 12th of 2017, I was preparing myself for the night watch when I saw near Arthur Star a star like light, Its colors were between yellow, orange, and white, brighter than Arthur and it wasn’t supposed to be there, It then started to fly in a north direction.
This has been happening to me for the last two years, at least 10 days a month, so this did not surprise me. I do my best to get evidence and took 6 pictures before it disappeared out of my sight. As usual a nervous feeling hit me after the event. I’ve had more than a hundred sightings that represent unknown forces beyond comprehension. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Peru Flying Object
Lima –This happened days before the most powerful earthquake of Peru that destroyed Lima and a tsunami covered Callao killing all people living there except a few people on October 28th, 1746. A “meteor” can’t last in the sky for more than 15 minutes, it lasts just seconds! The book “A Particular Relation of the Late Earthquake at Lima and Callao”, London, 1748 translated into English, from the original in Spanish written in Lima by order of the Viceroy, Page 101. A meteor which happened the 14th of May about nine at night for more than 15 minutes enlightened the Plains like another Sun,. There appeared to the east of Lima a Globe of Fire of an extraordinary size: which dispersed in an infinite number of little sparks. They descended, to embrace the Earth, and presently disappeared. These people being very superstitious felt the meteor presaged an Earthquake, which in a few days swallowed them all up. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Philippines Object Near the Moon
Tacloban City — The satellite like object appears to revolve around the moon in seconds.
The picture was taken on November 13, 2016. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Africa Object
Cape Town – I took advantage of a break in the storm which hit Cape Town on June 6, 2017, at 1:15 PM. I drove down to the beach road at Blouberg Strand to see what the effect of the storm was having on the sea. I took two pictures in quick succession, trying to catch the wave and the sea foam rushing onto the road. In the second picture I did not see the UFO with my naked eye. When reviewing the picture later, I noticed an unknown object. In this picture, the grey “splotches” in the fore ground are from dirty sea foam kicked up onto my windscreen. If you look at the picture you will notice that the grey splotches fade out, but the object remains clear and solid. There were many people on the beach with cameras who may also gotten a photo if the UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK England Disc
Bath — I was getting ready for bed and turning all the lights on June 14, 2017, off around the flat when I looked out of my back window to discover this object hovering in the sky above the city.
I quickly grabbed my phone and got a pretty decent shot before rushing to my partner and tell them what I witnessed.
When we returned to look out the window, the object was gone.
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Despite the fact that most ufologists have dismissed the new MJ12 documents as garbage (which they are), I’m still getting emails and messages from people who just won’t let things go and who insist they are the real thing. Look, they are not the real thing. But, try telling that to those who prefer conspiracy-filled excitement to commonsense. Let’s try and put things to rest, by looking at a selection of theories for what these documents really are or may be.
1. The documents are real:
Nope, they’re not. How do we know that? Very simply because the documents are filled with glaring errors. At one point in the documents, we’re told that, regarding the Roswell affair, “…The authorities at the Roswell Field Army Air Forces Base were alerted by Mr. Brazel at 09:18 on 07 July, 1947 and two officers of the base were guided to the crash site by the ranch manager.” Wrong. William Brazel, who found the Roswell debris on the Foster Ranch back in 1947 did not contact the military at Roswell at all. He contacted the sheriff’s office and it was they who contacted the people at Roswell. Given that this document was supposedly written by insiders, with access to the most detailed aspects of the Roswell event, you would think they would surely have gotten even the basic facts correct. But, apparently not. As Kevin Randle notes: “The use of ‘Ultra Top Secret’ also raises questions. Ultra was the British code name for their operation to intercept and read high-level, highly-classified Nazi message traffic. This code name seems inappropriate for use by the US government or military.” Kevin also notes: “We are treated to a reference to the base at Flat Rock, Nevada, which, of course, was the scene of much of the action in The Andromeda Strain.” For those who may not know, The Andromeda Strain was a work of fiction from the late Michael Crichton.
2. The documents are disinformation:
Very often, when a collection of controversial papers like this one surfaces – and particularly when it contains errors – the word “disinformation” surfaces. Disinformation is described as follows: “False information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media.” Has disinformation played a role in Ufology – and particularly in the field of crashed UFOs? Yes, it has. Check out (a) the intriguing saga of the Spitsbergen UFO; and (b) the strange affair of Karl Pflock and the Aztec UFO. They are both suggestive of disinformation campaigns that had tales of crashed UFOs at their heart. These newly-surfaced documents, however, come across as bad science-fiction and will not (or should not) impress, manipulate or deceive anyone.
3. The documents are a hoax:
Over the years, the field of Ufology has had more than its fair share of hoaxes – some involving documents. The late Contactee George Adamski got into big trouble with the FBI when, in the early 1950s, he created what amounted to a hoaxed document by carefully altering a real one. Also on the matter of George Adamski, there’s the near-legendary hoaxed document which has become known as the “Straith Letter,” and which was orchestrated by ufologists Gray Barker and Jim Moseley. The list goes on and on. But, it’s important to note that we know for sure these documents were fabricated. Adamski crossed the line as a means to impress his followers. Moseley and Barker were just having a bit of fun during a late-night drinking session. The idea that the new MJ12 documents are the work of someone in Ufology who is desperate to see Roswell vindicated – as a UFO event, at least – is not out of the question. This is the “I want to believe” factor taken to its ultimate level by someone frustrated by the fact that – for the most part – Roswell has hit a brick wall. If a hoax, the creator is probably a fantasist, a socially-challenged adult male virgin with severe halitosis, and a chronic bed-wetter. And, yes, those words are intended to outrage the man behind this and to try and have him make himself known. But, those same words are probably true too.
4. The documents are an experiment:
There are two possibilities with this particular theory. Both possibilities revolve around the time-frame in which the documents surfaced. Let’s not forget that the 70th anniversary of the Roswell affair is just a couple of weeks away. Whatever the motivation for the new MJ12 documents, I’m sure the timing of the surfacing of the documents is not a coincidence. Somewhere, somehow, the date/timing is relevant. Maybe the documents are the creation of someone in Ufology who, tired of the fact that when it comes to Roswell, we have hit that aforementioned brick wall, has decided to take an alternative route to try and get the truth. Perhaps, by faking the documentation, they are hoping that it might force “the government” to respond – and that, in doing so, it may reignite the Roswell controversy and result in the release of something of significance. Not impossible, but highly unlikely. The other angle, which I think may well be the correct one, is that the documentation is the work of a UFO skeptic, someone who is looking to see the major figures in the Roswell field endorse the papers and, as a result, come crashing down. The skeptical creator will then state that his actions amounted to a kind of skewed social experiment, and were designed to see (a) how gullible, (b) how desperate for evidence that aliens crashed at Roswell, and (c) how easily manipulated the Roswell/UFO research community is. In that sense, the faker will claim the documents do not amount to a hoax, but are part of an effort to demonstrate how common-sense and rational, critical thinking can go out of the window when there is a yearning for Roswell to finally be solved. Fortunately, most Roswell researchers are not endorsing the documents, so that’s a good thing.
Maybe, in the near future, we’ll know who faked these documents and why. And, maybe, the answer will be one of those above. Or, perhaps, there are other motivations. Whatever the answer, it won’t take away the fact that the documents are bullshit.
Buitenaardse megastructuren vanaf aarde waarneembaar. Zijn dit tekenen van intelligente aliens?
Buitenaardse megastructuren vanaf aarde waarneembaar. Zijn dit tekenen van intelligente aliens?
Ergens in de verre toekomst is het mogelijk dat onze nakomelingen megastructuren, zogeheten Dysonbollen, rond onze zon gaan bouwen.
Hoogontwikkelde buitenaardse beschavingen hebben dat misschien al gedaan en om die reden zoeken de mensen van SETI naar deze hypothetische objecten.
Uit een nieuwe studie blijkt dat aliens dergelijke megastructuren waarschijnlijk niet rond sterren, maar rond pulsars bouwen.
Buitenaardse intelligentie
Astronoom Zaza Osmanov van de Vrije Universiteit van Tbilisi in Georgië schreef vorig jaar in het International Journal of Astrobiology dat het waarschijnlijker is dat aliens Dysonringen (een light variant van de Dysonbol) zullen bouwen.
In een nieuwe studie, die vorige week is gepubliceerd, stelt Osmanov dat we deze structuren vanaf de aarde kunnen detecteren.
Toen de eerste pulsar in 1967 werd ontdekt, dachten astronomen dat ze op een buitenaardse intelligentie waren gestuit. Het hemellichaam kreeg zelfs de naam LGM (little green men).
Zonnepanelen
Volgens Osmanov is het mogelijk om op een afstand van zo’n 15 miljoen kilometer zonnepanelen rond een pulsar te plaatsen.
De Dysonring zou dan worden blootgesteld aan temperaturen van ongeveer 117 graden Celsius, wat het object zichtbaar zou maken voor waarnemers op aarde.
De astronoom zegt dat we Dysonringen kunnen vinden met bestaande telescopen, zoals de Very Large Telescope (VLT) en de Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) en in de toekomst met de James Webb-ruimtetelescoop.
652 lichtjaar
Osmanov schat dat we Dysonringen tot op een afstand van 652 lichtjaar kunnen waarnemen.
Dus wie weet, misschien wijzen pulsars daadwerkelijk op de aanwezigheid van een buitenaardse intelligentie.
Graancirkels in eigen land. Boer vindt mysterieuze graancirkels in Lochem
Graancirkels in eigen land. Boer vindt mysterieuze graancirkels in Lochem
In Lochem zijn graancirkels verschenen, meldt Omroep Gelderland. De graanformatie is ontstaan in een veld met zomertarwe.
Boer Wim Post ontdekte de graancirkels maandagochtend. Zijn buren merkten de mysterieuze cirkels zondagavond al op.
Geen sporen
Met behulp van een hoogwerker zijn beelden van de formatie gemaakt, die op dit moment op sociale media worden verspreid.
“Er staan een stuk of vier, vijf. Het rare is dat je er geen sporen naartoe ziet lopen,” vertelde Post aan de zender. “Heel raar.”
Niemand
“Ik ben wel benieuwd hoe dit nu komt of wie erachter zit,” vervolgde hij. Post denkt niet dat buitenaardsen er verantwoordelijk voor zijn.
Het is onduidelijk door wie de graancirkels zijn gemaakt. Niemand heeft iets gezien of gehoord. De boer hoopt dat het gewas vanzelf herstelt, al is hij bang dat het ‘naar de haaien is’.
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IS DISCLOSURE AL BEGONNEN IN ZUID-AMERIKA ? ( VIDEO )
IS DISCLOSURE AL BEGONNEN IN ZUID-AMERIKA? ( VIDEO )
UFO nieuwsberichten tonen de laatste tijd keer op keer spectaculaire beelden uit Zuid Amerika.
Zo ook deze week, waar een UFO niet alleen een prachtige lichtshow geeft, maar ons ook laat zien hoe ze zich verstoppen in wolken.
De tijd waarin wij leven is soms bevreemdend en zelfs raar. Soms denk je dat we nog eigenlijk maar een fractie begrijpen van alle dingen die om ons heen gebeuren en de vreemde onbekende objecten in de lucht horen daar zeker bij.
En als er één land is wat er in de loop der jaren echt is uitgesprongen voor wat betreft waarnemingen, dan is dat Zuid Amerika.
Wanneer je verderop de bewegende beelden bekijkt, dan zie je een geweldige voorstelling in slechts een halve minuut.
Ook is zichtbaar waar wij al zolang over schrijven en dat is dat UFO’s wolken gebruiken om zich te vermommen.
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je een kleine donkere wolk in de lucht, waarachter voorzichtig een kleine UFO om de hoek komt kijken.
Dan verdwijnt deze weer en het enige dat je in de lucht ziet is een vreemd zwart wolkje.
Dan komt de UFO weer tevoorschijn, dit keer wat feller.
En verderop komen er op een gegeven moment meerdere tevoorschijn.
Dan, plotsklaps, verandert de kleine zwarte wolk in een fel licht.
Dat dan vervolgens nog enige tijd blijft gloeien.
Hierna volgen de bewegende beelden en deze zijn inderdaad indrukwekkend.
Duizenden mensen hebben deze video inmiddels bekeken en toe nu toe is er niemand geweest die iets merkwaardigs heeft kunnen ontdekken in de zin van dat het nep zou zijn.
Wel staat onder de video een interessant commentaar van een dame die zegt in een andere Braziliaanse plaats precies hetzelfde te hebben waargenomen.
Het zal niet lang duren voordat er onder de video een commentaar wordt geplaatst door onze huistrol, ja precies, diegene die net zijn naam goed kan spellen, dat het hier flares betreft of iets anders wat hij kan verzinnen.
Als we dat even naast ons neerleggen dan lijkt de opname echt en is het één van de vele die de afgelopen weken worden waargenomen in Zuid Amerika, het continent waarover we al eerder berichtten aangaande wolken van waaruit UFO's tevoorschijn kwamen.
IS DISCLOSURE AL BEGONNEN IN ZUID-AMERIKA ? ( VIDEO )
IS DISCLOSURE AL BEGONNEN IN ZUID-AMERIKA? ( VIDEO )
UFO nieuwsberichten tonen de laatste tijd keer op keer spectaculaire beelden uit Zuid Amerika.
Zo ook deze week, waar een UFO niet alleen een prachtige lichtshow geeft, maar ons ook laat zien hoe ze zich verstoppen in wolken.
De tijd waarin wij leven is soms bevreemdend en zelfs raar. Soms denk je dat we nog eigenlijk maar een fractie begrijpen van alle dingen die om ons heen gebeuren en de vreemde onbekende objecten in de lucht horen daar zeker bij.
En als er één land is wat er in de loop der jaren echt is uitgesprongen voor wat betreft waarnemingen, dan is dat Zuid Amerika.
Wanneer je verderop de bewegende beelden bekijkt, dan zie je een geweldige voorstelling in slechts een halve minuut.
Ook is zichtbaar waar wij al zolang over schrijven en dat is dat UFO’s wolken gebruiken om zich te vermommen.
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je een kleine donkere wolk in de lucht, waarachter voorzichtig een kleine UFO om de hoek komt kijken.
Dan verdwijnt deze weer en het enige dat je in de lucht ziet is een vreemd zwart wolkje.
Dan komt de UFO weer tevoorschijn, dit keer wat feller.
En verderop komen er op een gegeven moment meerdere tevoorschijn.
Dan, plotsklaps, verandert de kleine zwarte wolk in een fel licht.
Dat dan vervolgens nog enige tijd blijft gloeien.
Hierna volgen de bewegende beelden en deze zijn inderdaad indrukwekkend.
Duizenden mensen hebben deze video inmiddels bekeken en toe nu toe is er niemand geweest die iets merkwaardigs heeft kunnen ontdekken in de zin van dat het nep zou zijn.
Wel staat onder de video een interessant commentaar van een dame die zegt in een andere Braziliaanse plaats precies hetzelfde te hebben waargenomen.
Het zal niet lang duren voordat er onder de video een commentaar wordt geplaatst door onze huistrol, ja precies, diegene die net zijn naam goed kan spellen, dat het hier flares betreft of iets anders wat hij kan verzinnen.
Als we dat even naast ons neerleggen dan lijkt de opname echt en is het één van de vele die de afgelopen weken worden waargenomen in Zuid Amerika, het continent waarover we al eerder berichtten aangaande wolken van waaruit UFO's tevoorschijn kwamen.
WETENSCHAPRuimtetelescoop Kepler heeft nog eens 219 potentiële planeten in andere stelsels ontdekt. Tien daarvan zijn rotsachtig, net als de aarde, en staan op zo'n afstand van hun ster dat er misschien leven mogelijk is. Ze staan in de "leefbare zone". Waarschijnlijk is er het niet te warm en niet te koud, maar precies goed. Het wordt ook wel het Goudlokje-gebied genoemd.
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft de nieuwe stand vandaag naar buiten gebracht. Buiten ons zonnestelsel, dat acht planeten telt, zijn inmiddels al 2.335 planeten gevonden. Daarnaast zijn er ongeveer evenveel kandidaat-planeten, waarvan het bestaan nog niet onomstotelijk vaststaat. Zeker dertig en mogelijk vijftig planeten lijken op de aarde en zitten in de juiste zone.
De Kepler werd in 2009 gelanceerd. De telescoop meet het licht van ongeveer 100.000 sterren, in een klein stukje van het heelal. Als een planeet voor de ster langs gaat, ziet de Kepler dat het licht iets minder fel wordt.
UNITED KINGDOM UFO FILES | UFO 'HAD NEAR MISS WITH BOEING 737
UNITED KINGDOM UFO FILES | UFO 'HAD NEAR MISS WITH BOEING 737
British UFO files containing almost 50 years of data about UFOs and otherworldly beings are waiting to be released to the public longing for more disclosure.
A ''near miss'' between a Boeing 737 airliner approaching Manchester Airport and a UFO was investigated by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
THE B737 PILOT reports that he was over the Pennines, about 8 or 9 NM SE of Manchester Airport, at 4000ft, while being radar vectored by Manchester radar on 119.4. He was flying at 180-210 kt on a N heading and squeaking 5734 with Mode C selected. Although it was dark, visibility was over 10 km with a fairly strong NW wind (340/30).
While flying just above the tops of some rugged Cu both he and the first officer saw a lighted (see JAS notes) object fly down the RH side of the ac at high speed from the opposite direction. He was able to track the object through the RH windscreen and side window, having it is sight for a total of about 2 seconds. There was no apparent sound or wake. The first officer instinctively 'ducked' as it went by
Whatever the case, more than breadcrumbs are expected to come out from the latest release of UFO files. There won’t probably be a direct confirmation of intelligent alien life, but more dots will join that will offer people food for thought for the years to come. Find out more from the video posted below.
MASSIVE CYLINDERS FLYING OVER THE MOON DURING APOLLO 9 MISSION - OFFICIAL NASA PICTURE
MASSIVE CYLINDERS FLYING OVER THE MOON DURING APOLLO 9 MISSION - OFFICIAL NASA PICTURE
On the 3rd of March 1969, Apollo 9 launched with a crucial mission: to fly the lunar module for the first time. The craft passed Nasa's test procedures during the unmanned Apollo 5 mission. Apollo 9 was the first time a crew would be aboard the spacecraft.
The crew orbited low Earth for 10 days testing the lunar module's engines, docking maneuvers, navigation, as well as backpack life support systems. While the module performed well, the crew had to cancel a spacewalk after one of the astronauts fell ill during the flight.
During their low Earth orbit, the crew took as many pictures as they could, for later research. On the 10th of March, an astronaut took this mysterious picture of the moon. It shows three massive cylinders flying between earth and the moon. These are clear real objects since they are in focus with the moon. The archive number of this NASA photograph is AS09-23-3500.
Since the beginning of time, mankind has been staring at the moon. Maybe there's a good reason...
The woman described seeing a flaming UFO which followed her.
The woman said she and her 10-year-old son encountered an object following them along a rural roadway, near Mexico in Missouri.
She claimed a flaming UFO followed above her car before shooting off and stopping in front of them.
It was at that point she attempted to speak to its alleged crew.
In a report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), based in the US which investigates UFO reports, she said: "As I was driving north, I noticed ahead of me, and to the left of the road, a fiery image about treetop level.
“The fiery image moved from its location left of the road and instantly appeared on the right side of the road.
"I knew then it was a UFO due to how quickly it manoeuvred direction. I was then driving east with the UFO following me to my right – about 100 feet higher than my van – and it stayed maybe two car lengths ahead of me.
"The UFO seemed to be traveling the same speed as I was, which by then I had probably slowed to about 40 mph.
“After about 30-45 seconds of following us, it instantaneously appeared about one-quarter mile ahead and to the left side of the road. It was stopped and hovered above a grove of trees.”
After about four to five minutes of wondering what to do, the witness decided to attempt to communicate with the object.
I said, ‘I know that you can hear me because you all are a lot more intelligent and advanced than we are, so please just go on and leave us alone.
UFO witness
She said: "I said, ‘I know that you can hear me because you all are a lot more intelligent and advanced than we are, so please just go on and leave us alone.’”
After about 10 seconds, the UFO moved away at “lightning speed in an upward and south-easterly direction” and disappeared from view.
She added: "“The entire time of the sighting, I encountered no traffic in either direction. However, as soon as it disappeared, there was traffic again.
"I have since regretted that I didn’t try to make better communication because I would like to communicate with them. Evidently, they were seeking me out, but I just had no idea of their intent.”
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RAW VIDEO: Woman films alleged
RAW VIDEO: Woman films alleged "UFO sighting" in Tallahassee
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - One woman is claiming that she spotted a UFO in Tallahassee and says she has video to prove it.
Sharla Daire-Brady claims that the she spotted the glowing, flying object on June 17 as she and her husband got up early to go fishing.
Around 4:10 a.m., Daire-Brady was sitting on the porch when she noticed a light in the distance. Thinking to herself that it looked odd, she went to check it out, walking around her barn to get a better look.
As she walked, Daire-Brady says the light got bigger and bigger.
At this point, she says that she began to freak out so she pulled out her phone and began recording. She says that once she did, the floating lights started changing colors and going all over the place, all while getting closer and closer.
Suddenly, a bright light flashed, Daire-Brady saying it looked like a giant green triangle. She says the flash lasted for a few seconds before the object flew away.
Daire-Brady then ran to tell her husband what she saw. He was skeptical, saying that she was just seeing things due to a lack of sleep.
But once she showed him the video, Daire-Brady says that he believed her.
She says that she has since then shown the video to several friends who say that the mysterious floating object doesn't appear to be a drone or any other aircraft.
Daire-Brady says that she is convinced that what she saw was a UFO.
"It could be nothing else," Daire-Brady explained. "My husband, brother, and I ruled out a drone. Too fast. Too erratic, not a drone. It was not any kind of aircraft."
Einstein's theory of special relativity sets of the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second (300 million meters per second). But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes.
In 2015, a team of Scottish scientists announced they had found a way to slow the speed of light. By sending photons through a special mask, the researchers altered their shape. In this malformed state, these infinitesimal particles of light traveled slower than normal photons.
The difference in speed was almost imperceptible, but the accomplishment itself was stunning! At 299,792,458 meters per second, the speed of light has stood as an unbreakable, unchangeable speed limit. No longer.
But why would anybody want to slow down the speed of light? After all, it's already slow enough!
As strange as that assertion may seem to humans accustomed to traveling a mere 70 miles per hour on the highway, it makes a lot of sense on a cosmic scale. Consider this: If the observable Universe was reduced to the size of planet Earth, traversing the Milky Way Galaxy would be roughly equivalent to walking three houses down the block to visit your neighbor. And yet, traveling at the cosmic speed limit of our smaller, Earth-size universe, that short jaunt would take 100,000 years!
This example showcases just how tediously slow exploring the galaxy would be for a ship traveling at the speed of light. Such a journey would span more than a hundred human generations!
Even if you don't consider humanity's self-centered wish for interstellar light-speed travel and instead think about photons dashing across our solar system, the speed of light still seems positively sluggish. As astrophysicist Brian Koberlein calculated, it takes 45 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Jupiter, and five hours for it to reach Pluto.
And of course, when gazing at the sky with the naked eye, we're viewing some stars as they were more than 4,000 years in the past -- that's how long it takes their light to reach us!
So now that we've ascertained that light is not fast but rather is excruciatingly slow, we can now turn to a more pressing and difficult matter: Why?
Theoretical physicists can muse and cosmologists can measure, but all their learned tinkering currently leads back to an inescapable answer: Because.
The universe is made such that photons propagate with that velocity, there is no reason why it should be so, but it is just the way it is. Physics does not explain why things are what they are, rather it explains how to make predictions by using proven models.
Okay, so like in much of theoretical physics, the answer is effectively a non-answer, and we're still stuck in a slow universe.
To salvage this situation, let's examine a scenario where light is much faster. What would existence be like if, say, the speed of light was boosted by a factor of 1,000? Steve Jones explored the hypothetical. A light-speed vessel could cross the Milky Way in less than a century! A trip to Alpha Centauri, home to a potentially habitable planet, would take fewer than two days! Computers and networks would run faster thanks to enhanced optical speeds! We might be more likely to receive signals from extraterrestrials!
But – and this is a big but – the Sun would burn a million times hotter. We'd be cooked.
So you better learn to love our finely tuned speed of light, however slothlike it may be. If it were any faster, life on Planet Earth might not exist.
NASA Discovers 10 Potentially Habitable Earth-Like Planets
NASA Discovers 10 Potentially Habitable Earth-Like Planets
This is their largest discovery yet.
NASA has discovered 10 brand-new planets which it believes are Earth-like, within the habitable zone and so could theoretically support alien life.
The announcement came as part of a wider press conference which revealed that researchers had used NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope to find a staggering 219 new planets.
This latest announcement brings the number of planets discovered by Kepler to a whopping 4,034, 50 of which have been confirmed as being Earth-sized and located within the habitable zone.
“The Kepler data set is unique, as it is the only one containing a population of these near Earth-analogs – planets with roughly the same size and orbit as Earth,” said Mario Perez, Kepler program scientist in the Astrophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
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“Understanding their frequency in the galaxy will help inform the design of future NASA missions to directly image another Earth.”
This latest batch of planetary discoveries marks the final step in Kepler’s observation of the Cygnus constellation.
Kepler discovers new planets by observing the minuscule drop in brightness that occurs when a planet passes in front of its star.
“This carefully-measured catalog is the foundation for directly answering one of astronomy’s most compelling questions – how many planets like our Earth are in the galaxy?” said Susan Thompson, Kepler research scientist for the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and lead author of the catalog study.
What makes the discovery all the more astonishing is that not only is the system just 40 light years away from Earth, but that three of the planets discovered are within what we would call the ‘habitable zone’.
Speaking about the discovery Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington said: “Answering the question ‘are we alone’ is a top science priority and finding so many planets like these for the first time in the habitable zone is a remarkable step forward toward that goal.”
Kepler telescope catalogs hundreds of new alien worlds, some potentially habitable
The Kepler telescope has added several hundred new candidate exoplanets to its stable of 4034, including 10 that are near-Earth-size, in orbits that would allow liquid water at the surface.
NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel
Kepler telescope catalogs hundreds of new alien worlds, some potentially habitable
The galaxy is full of worlds like ours. That’s the lesson from Kepler, NASA’s prodigious exoplanet-hunting mission, which has found another 219 potential new exoplanets, bringing its total to 4034, according to a final analysis of its main 4-year search and published in a final catalog released today. Of the new candidates, 10 are near in size to Earth and sit in the habitable zone of their stars—the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on their surfaces. Those new additions bring the total number of potentially habitable planets detected by Kepler to 49.
And that’s just in the corner of the sky that Kepler stared at. This now-complete catalog will help astronomers assess just how common Earth-like planets are in our galaxy overall. “I’m really excited to see what people will do with this catalog,” Susan Mullally, a Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, told a press conference today during the Kepler & K2 Science Conference at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View. One study, also presented at the conference, has discovered a clear dividing line between rocky planets larger than Earth and gassy planets smaller than Neptune.
Between 2009 and 2013, Kepler stared at the same patch of sky in the Cygnus constellation and measured the brightness of some 200,000 stars. If any of them dipped in brightness for a short period, it could be sign of a planet passing in front, blocking some of their light. Of Kepler’s list of more than 4000 likely candidates from those observations, 2335 have been verified as exoplanets with further analysis or other ground-based observations. The mission continues to occasionally discover exoplanets with more limited capabilities in other parts of the sky.
Before Kepler, astronomers only knew of giant Jupiter-sized exoplanets, some in astonishingly tight orbits around their stars. But Kepler has revealed far more variety.
For the final catalog, the team focused on teasing out Earth-sized planets around G-type stars like our sun. Such planets are harder to spot because they might have made only a few transits across their star during Kepler’s 4-year watch. The result is some of the nearest Earth-analogs found so far, including one known as KOI-7711. “It’s the closest to Earth in size and orbit,” said Mullally, “but there is still a lot we don’t know about this planet.”
One of Kepler’s other big surprises was a profusion of planets intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune. Astronomers were at a loss to explain how such planets formed and whether there was a continuum between rocky terrestrial “super-Earths” and gassy “mini-Neptunes.”
A follow-up study, described today by astronomer Benjamin Fulton of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, fine-tuned the size measurements for some 2000 Kepler planets using the Keck telescopes in Hawaii. Far from there being a continuum of planets, the study found two distinct groups: one smaller than 1.5 times the size of Earth, the other bigger than twice Earth’s size, with very few examples in the gap in between. Fulton and his team believe that the smaller group is made up of rocky super-Earths, whereas the larger is comprised of gaseous mini-Neptunes. He likened the discovery to realizing that mammals and reptiles are on separate branches of the evolutionary tree.
“The gap in radius is really interesting and comes from meticulous follow-up of the previously discovered Kepler planets, rather than the ones announced today,” says astronomer David Kipping of Columbia University, who was not involved in the study.
Fulton said at the press conference that the team believes the division is caused by the environment a planet finds itself in at the time of its formation, along with its ability to hold onto volatile gases such as hydrogen. The gravity of a smaller super-Earth may not be strong enough to hold onto hydrogen; if it’s close to its star, the hydrogen may get blasted away. But if a planet starts out with more hydrogen, is larger, or forms further out before moving inwards, it may end up as a mini-Neptune.
In the search for life, Fulton believes it will be better to focus on super-Earths. “This has implications in the search for life,” Fulton said. “It sharpens the dividing line between potentially habitable and not habitable.”
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Finds Hundreds of New Exoplanets, Boosts Total to 4,034
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Finds Hundreds of New Exoplanets, Boosts Total to 4,034
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
This story was updated at 2:45 p.m. EDT.
NASA has unveiled the complete set of data from the first four years of the agency's Kepler Space Telescope mission, which stared at a single patch of the sky in the search for alien planets. The result: Kepler has discovered 219 new candidates since NASA's last data unveiling, including 10 near-Earth-size planet candidates in the so-called habitable zone around their stars where the conditions are just right for liquid water to exist on a planet's surface — a key feature in the search for habitable worlds.
The new discoveries boost Kepler's total to 4,034 candidate planets during its mission, 2,335 of which were later confirmed by follow-up observations, NASA officials said in a statement. The 10 newfound potentially Earth-size worlds bring Kepler's total up to 50 of that type of exoplanet, with more than 30 of those being confirmed, NASA officials said during a briefing today (June 19).
The planets characterized by NASA's Kepler mission (yellow dots) and other surveys split into several different broad planet types. Future exoplanet surveys will reveal small planets orbiting further from their stars in the corner marked "frontier".
Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Natalie Batalha/Wendy Stenzel
"With this catalog we're able to extend [our analysis of planets' demographics] out to the longest periods, those periods that are most similar to our Earth," said Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist for the SETI Institute in California and lead author on the new catalog study.
"As a result, this survey catalog will be the foundation for directly answering one of astronomy's most compelling questions: How many planets like our Earth are actually in the galaxy?"
According to the researchers, Kepler discovered more than 80 percent of all planet candidates and confirmed exoplanets ever found. This catalog is the final release of data from Kepler's four-year primary mission, which examined a narrow patch of sky in the Cygnus constellation. Kepler launched in 2009, and completed its primary mission in 2013. Now, it's in an extended mission known as K2.
To find planets, Kepler uses the transit method: The space telescope tracked stars over a long period of time so scientists could identify when the stars dimmed briefly, which could suggest a planet crossing between the star and Earth.
That process discovered potential planets like the newly found KOI 7711 (short for Kepler object of interest), an exoplanet that appears very much like Earth — just 1.3 times Earth's radius at an orbit that lets the planet feel about as much radiation as Earth gets from the sun. For KOI 7711 and the other planets, the percent the star dimmed let researchers determine its size, and the frequency of the dimming revealed the orbit.
To determine which dimmings of the 200,000 stars observed by Kepler were likely to be planets, the data went through an intensive vetting process. As Thompson described, about 34,000 signals were found — both transiting planets and noise that could have come from the camera or star itself. After vetting, the total came down to about 4,000 candidates, 50 of which were Earth-size and in the habitable zone.
The researchers then put simulated transits into the data and recorded how many were actually picked up by the software — determining how many transits the process might have missed. And they put noise through the process, too, checking how many were marked as transiting planets — so they knew how many planets were likely to be false alarms. [NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Explained (Infographic)]
The eighth Kepler planet catalog includes 10 new planet candidates that are less than twice the sized of Earth in their stars habitable zone. Here, 49 such planets from the full catalogue are graphed.
Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel
During the briefing, researchers also discussed a surprising distinction they found between super-Earths, which are rocky planets with thin atmospheres, up to about 1.75 times Earth's size, and mini-Neptunes that form dense gas balls 2 to 3.5 times the size of Earth.
A research group used the Keck Observatory in Hawaii to gauge the size of 1,300 stars measured by Kepler, which allowed them to more precisely pinpoint the stars' sizes — and therefore the size of their potential planets. They found that while researchers had thought there was a smooth population containing the whole range of sizes between 1 and 4 times that of Earth, there was a much sharper divide.
"This is a major new division in the family tree of exoplanets, somewhat analogous to the discovery that mammals and lizards are separate branches on the tree of life," said Benjamin Fulton, a researcher at the University of Hawaii in Manoa and the California Institute of Technology and lead author on the Keck study.
Researchers combining data from the Keck telescope in Hawaii and the Kepler space telescope found that there's a sharp divide between super-Earths and mini-Neptunes.
Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt
That sharp divide likely comes from the planet formation process, Fulton said: Planets' rocky cores form from smaller pieces, and then the protoplanet's gravity attracts hydrogen and helium gas. A little bit of gas makes the planet much bigger, putting it on the mini-Neptune side of things. Planets in the middle, Fulton said, can suffer a setback that puts them back on the rocky super-Earth side of things: The newfound atmosphere can be baked away if the star is too close by or there's not enough to start with.
While the Kepler data set provides the best-ever glimpse of exoplanet demographics for one slice of the sky, future telescopes — like NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite set to launch in 2018 — will allow researchers to follow up on these Kepler finds to characterize the planets even more. They may someday even take direct images of exoplanets with tools like Hubble Space Telescope's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (also set to launch in 2018). Plus, additional data from Kepler's current K2 mission will give researchers a glimpse into what things look like in other parts of the sky, revealing planets around star clusters of different ages, with different iron contents, and many more low-mass stars than Kepler saw the first time around, the researchers said.
"It feels a bit like the end of an era, but actually I see it as a new beginning," Thompson said. "It's amazing the things that Kepler has found. It has shown us these terrestrial worlds, and we still have all this work to do to really understand how common Earths are in the galaxy."
"I'm really excited to see what people are going to do with this catalog, because this is the first time we have a population that is really well-characterized and we can now do these statistical studies and really start to understand the Earth analogues out there," she added.
Editor's Note: This article was updated at 2:45 p.m. EDT to include more details and background from NASA's press conference.
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)]
Finding exoplanets could help scientists work out whether life exists in other parts of the universeESO/spaceengine.org
Nasa has announced the discovery of 219 new suspected planets outside our solar system.
The figure includes 10 that are “rocky” like Earth and which exist in their solar system's 'Goldilocks zone', neither too close to their star, and therefore too hot, nor too far away and too cold for liquid water to exist.
The presence of water is seen as a key factor for the existence of life.
In a tweet, Nasa said: "Scientists using @NASAKepler have identified 219 potential new worlds!"
The discoveries bring the total number of suspected exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – found by the Kepler space telescope to more than 4,000.
"This carefully measured catalogue is the foundation for directly answering one of astronomy’s most compelling questions – how many planets like our Earth are in the galaxy?” said Susan Thompson, a research scientist at the SETI Institute, which searches for signs of extra-terrestrial life.
And, in a statement, Nasa said: “There are now 4,034 planet candidates identified by Kepler. Of which, 2,335 have been verified as exoplanets. Of roughly 50 near-Earth size habitable zone candidates detected by Kepler, more than 30 have been verified.
“Additionally, results using Kepler data suggest two distinct size groupings of small planets. Both results have significant implications for the search for life.”
Mario Perez, a Kepler programme scientist at Nasa, stressed the importance of the space telescope.
“The Kepler data set is unique, as it is the only one containing a population of these near Earth-analogues – planets with roughly the same size and orbit as Earth,” he said.
“Understanding their frequency in the galaxy will help inform the design of future Nasa missions to directly image another Earth.”
As a kind of follow-up to my previous article on the new and highly dubious Majestic 12 documents and the Roswell affair, I thought I would share with you something that we should all ponder on. It’s a very important issue that few people ever think about when it comes to the crash of the whatever-it-was that came down on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in July 1947. It is, however, an issue that gets right to the very heart of the incident and the matter of what did or did not happen. It goes like this…
If the debris – and possibly bodies and a somewhat intact craft – recovered outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947 had extra-terrestrial origins, then why did the aliens’ comrades fail to attempt to recover the priceless materials before elements of the U.S. military appeared on the scene? Why did they let it fall into our hands? They are questions that certainly should be addressed.
After all, even a cursory study of UFO history reveals that aliens (particularly so in “alien abduction” cases) are supposedly able to walk through walls and doors. They reportedly abduct people against their will and then return them to their homes without being caught in the act. They steal and / or mutilate cattle right under the noses of outraged farmers, and they traverse the universe with ease. They are even said to have snatched military and private aircraft in flight – planes and crews that have never been seen again. The 1953 affair of Karl Hunrath and Wilbur Wilkinson, and the 1978 incident involving Frederick Valentich, are perfect examples.
So, in light of all their incredible and unearthly skills, why weren’t the assumed aliens able to scoop up a few bodies and a bunch of scattered debris from an isolated ranch in New Mexico? After all, it’s hardly as if everything took place in Times Square with thousands of amazed onlookers crowding around. This thought-provoking issue has also been addressed by Canadian film-maker Paul Kimball, who says the following: “…surely they would have moved to recover any crashed excursion module as quickly as possible, a process which, considering the advanced technology that the aliens must possess in order to get ‘here’ from ‘there’ is something that they would have accomplished before Mack Brazel discovered the debris field and then alerted the military, even if that involved simply disintegrating the debris field so as to leave no trace behind of the crash.”
If E.T.s did crash on the Foster Ranch almost 70 years ago, then a number of possibilities spring to mind:
(A) The aliens wanted to introduce themselves to us in the form of a staged-crash, and as vulnerable, mortal beings, to whom we could possibly relate, and without being confronted by an infinitely advanced intelligence that might blow our minds.
(B) The event was the result of a “Trojan Horse”-style scenario – also staged by the other-worldly ones, but for far more sinister purposes, such as perhaps attempting to expose us to deadly alien viruses, but in a seemingly innocent and accidental fashion.
(C) The aliens, far away from home, may not actually have been too far in advance of us – perhaps a century or so – and simply didn’t have the adequate resources and reserves at-hand to engage in a hasty retrieval. Possible, though the evidence suggests the true UFO phenomenon is millennia in front of us – probably more.
There is, of course, another theory. In my view, it a far more probable and likely one. Aliens didn’t try and recover the Roswell wreckage because…what happened at Roswell didn’t involve aliens…
Zombies and aliens may not be a realistic threat to our species. But there’s one stock movie villain we can’t be so sanguine about: sentient robots. If anything, their arrival is probably just a matter of time. But what will a world of conscious machines be like? Will there be a place in it for us?
Artificial intelligence research has been going through a recent revolution. AI systems can now outperform humans at playing chess and Go, recognizing faces, and driving safely. Even so, most researchers say truly conscious machines — ones that don’t just run programs but have feelings and are self-aware — are decades away. First, the reasoning goes, researchers have to build a generalized intelligence, a single machine with the above talents and the capacity to learn more. Only then will AI reach the level of sophistication needed for consciousness.
But some think it won’t take nearly that long.
“People expect that self-awareness is going to be this end game of artificial intelligence when really there are no scientific pursuits where you start at the end,” says Justin Hart, a computer scientist at the University of Texas. He and other researchers are already building machines with rudimentary minds. One robot wriggles like a newborn baby to understand its body. Another robot babbles about what it sees and cries when you hit it. Another sets off to explore its world on its own.
No one claims that robots have a rich inner experience — that they have pride in floors they’ve vacuumed or delight in the taste of 120-volt current. But robots can now exhibit some similar qualities to the human mind, including empathy, adaptability, and gumption.
Beyond it just being cool to create robots, researchers design these cybernetic creatures because they’re trying to fix flaws in machine-learning systems. Though these systems may be powerful, they are opaque. They work by relating input to output, like a test where you match items in column ‘A’ with items in column ‘B’. The AI systems basically memorize these associations. There’s no deeper logic behind the answers they give. And that’s a problem.
Humans can also be hard to read. We spend an inordinate amount of time analyzing ourselves and others, and arguably, that’s the main role of our conscious minds. If machines had minds, they might not be so inscrutable. We could simply ask them why they did what they did.
“If we could capture some of the structure of consciousness, it’s a good bet that we’d be producing some interesting capacity,” says Selmer Bringsjord, an AI researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Although science fiction may have us worried about sentient robots, it’s really the mindless robots we need to be cautious of. Conscious machines may actually be our allies.
Children interact with the programmable humanoid robot “Pepper,” developed by French robotics company Aldebaran Robotics, at the Global Robot Expo in Madrid in 2016. AFP-Getty Images
ROBOT, KNOW THYSELF
Self-driving cars have some of the most advanced AI systems today. They decide where to steer and when to brake by taking constant radar and laser readings and feeding them into algorithms. But much of driving is anticipating other drivers’ maneuvers and responding defensively — functions that are associated with consciousness.
“Self-driving cars will have to read the minds of what other self-driving cars want to do,” says Paul Verschure, a neuroscientist at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
As a demonstration of how that might look, Hod Lipson, an engineering professor at Columbia University and co-author of a recent book on self-driving cars, and Kyung-Joong Kim at Sejong University in Seoul, South Korea built the robotic equivalent of a crazy driver. The small round robot (about the size of a hockey puck) moves on a loopy path according to its own logic. Then a second robot is set with the goal of intercepting the first robot no matter where the first one started, so it couldn’t record a fixed route; it had to divine the moving robot’s logic.
People expect that self-awareness is going to be this end game of AI when really there are no scientific pursuits where you start at the end.
Using a procedure that mimicked Darwinian evolution, Lipson and Kim crafted an interception strategy. “It had basically developed a duplicate of the brain of the actor — not perfect, but good enough that it could anticipate what it’s going to do,” Lipson says.
Lipson’s team also built a robot that can develop an understanding of its body. The four-legged spidery machine is about the size of a large tarantula. When switched on, its internal computer has no prior information about itself. “It doesn’t know how its motors are arranged, what its body plan is,” Lipson says
But it has the capacity to learn. It makes all the actions it is capable of to see what happens: how, for example, turning on a motor bends a leg joint. “Very much like a baby, it babbles,” Lipson says. “It moves its motors in a random way.”
After four days of flailing, it realizes it has four legs and figures out how to coordinate and move them so it can slither across the floor. When Lipson unplugs one of the motors, the robot realizes it now has only three legs and that its actions no longer produce the intended effects.
“I would argue this robot is self-aware in a very primitive way,” Lipson says.
Another humanlike capability that researchers would like to build into AI is initiative. Machines excel at playing the game Go because humans directed the machines to solve it. They can’t define problems on their own, and defining problems is usually the hard part.
In a forthcoming paper for the journal “Trends in Cognitive Science,” Ryota Kanai, a neuroscientist and founder of a Tokyo-based startup Araya discusses how to give machines intrinsic motivation. In a demonstration, he and his colleagues simulated agents driving a car in a virtual landscape that includes a hill too steep for the car to climb unless it gets a running start. If told to climb the hill, the agents figure out how to do so. Until they receive this command, the car sits idle.
Then Kanai’s team endowed these virtual agents with curiosity. They surveyed the landscape, identified the hill as a problem, and figured out how to climb it even without instruction.
“We did not give a goal to the agent,” Kanai says. “The agent just explores the environment to learn what kind of situation it is in by making predictions about the consequence of its own action.”
The trick is to give robots enough intrinsic motivation to make them better problem solvers, and not so much that they quit and walk out of the lab. Machines can prove as stubborn as humans. Joscha Bach, an AI researcher at Harvard, put virtual robots into a “Minecraft”-like world filled with tasty but poisonous mushrooms. He expected them to learn to avoid them. Instead, they stuffed their mouths.
“They discounted future experiences in the same way as people did, so they didn’t care,” Bach says. “These mushrooms were so nice to eat.” He had to instill an innate aversion into the bots. In a sense, they had to be taught values, not just goals.
PAYING ATTENTION
In addition to self-awareness and self-motivation, a key function of consciousness is the capacity to focus your attention. Selective attention has been an important area in AI research lately, not least by Google DeepMind, which developed the Go-playing computer.
“Consciousness is an attention filter,” says Stanley Franklin, a computer science professor at the University of Memphis. In a paper published last year in the journal “Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures,” Franklin and his colleagues reviewed their progress in building an AI system called LIDA that decides what to concentrate on through a competitive process, as suggested by neuroscientist Bernard Baars in the 1980s. The processes watch for interesting stimuli — loud, bright, exotic — and then vie for dominance. The one that prevails determines where the mental spotlight falls and informs a wide range of brain function, including deliberation and movement. The cycle of perception, attention, and action repeats five to 10 times a second.
The first version of LIDA was a job-matching server for the U.S. Navy. It read emails and focused on pertinent information while juggling each job hunter’s interests, the availability of jobs, and the requirements of government bureaucracy.
Since then, Franklin’s team has used the system to model animals’ minds, especially behavioral quirks that result from focusing on one thing at a time. For example, LIDA is just as prone as humans are to a curious psychological phenomenon known as “attentional blink.” When something catches your attention, you become oblivious to anything else for about half a second. This cognitive blind spot depends on many factors and LIDA shows humanlike responses to these same factors.
Pentti Haikonen, a Finnish AI researcher, has built a robot named XCR-1 on similar principles. Whereas other researchers make modest claims — create some quality of consciousness — Haikonen argues that his creation is capable of genuine subjective experience and basic emotions.
The system learns to make associations much like the neurons in our brains do. If Haikonen shows the robot a green ball and speaks the word “green,” the vision and auditory modules respond and become linked. If Haikonen says “green” again, the auditory module will respond and, through the link, so will the vision module. The robot will proceed as if it heard the word and saw the color, even if it’s staring into an empty void.
Conversely, if the robot sees green, the auditory module will respond, even if the word wasn’t uttered. In short, the robot develops a kind of synesthesia.
“If we see a ball, we may say so to ourselves, and at that moment our perception is rather similar to the case when we actually hear that word,” Haikonen says. “The situation in the XCR-1 is the same.”
Things get interesting when the modules clash — if, for example, the vision module sees green while the auditory module hears “blue.” If the auditory module prevails, the system as a whole turns its attention to the word it hears while ignoring the color it sees. The robot has a simple stream of consciousness consisting of the perceptions that dominate it moment by moment: “green,” “ball,” “blue,” and so on. When Haikonen wires the auditory module to a speech engine, the robot will keep a running monolog about everything it sees and feels.
Haikonen also gives vibration a special significance as “pain,” which preempts other sensory inputs and consumes the robot’s attention. In one demonstration, Haikonen taps the robot and it blurts, “Me hurt.”
“Some people get emotionally disturbed by this, for some reason,” Haikonen says. (He and others are unsentimental about the creations. “I’m never like, ‘Poor robot,’” Verschure says.)
A NEW SPECIES
Building on these early efforts, researchers will develop more lifelike machines. We could see a continuum of conscious systems, just as there is in nature, from amoebas to dogs to chimps to humans and beyond. The gradual progress of this technology is good because it gives us time adjust to the idea that, one day, we won’t be the only advanced beings on the planet.
For a long while, our artificial companions will be vulnerable — more pet than threat. How we treat them will hinge on whether we recognize them as conscious and as capable of suffering.
“The reason that we value non-human animals, to the extent that people do, is that we see, based on our own consciousness, the light of consciousness within them as well,” says Susan Schneider, a philosopher at the University of Connecticut who studies the implications of AI. In fact, she thinks we will deliberately hold back from building conscious machines to avoid the moral dilemmas it poses.
“If you’re building conscious systems and having them work for us, that would be akin to slavery,” Schneider says. By the same token, if we don’t give advanced robots the gift of sentience, it worsens the threat they may eventually pose to humanity because they will see no particular reason to identify with us and value us.
Judging by what we’ve seen so far, conscious machines will inherit our human vulnerabilities. If robots have to anticipate what other robots do, they will treat one another as creatures with agency. Like us, they may start attributing agency to inanimate objects: stuffed animals, carved statues, the wind.
Last year, social psychologists Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina and the late Daniel Wegner suggested in their book “The Mind Club” that this instinct was the origin of religion. “I would like to see a movie where the robots develop a religion because we have engineered them to have an intentionality prior so that they can be social,” Verschure says. ”But their intentionality prior runs away.”
These machines will vastly exceed our problem-solving ability, but not everything is a solvable problem. The only response they could have to conscious experience is to revel in it, and with their expanded ranges of sensory perception, they will see things people wouldn’t believe.
“I don’t think a future robotic species is going to be heartless and cold, as we sometimes imagine robots to be,” Lipson says. “They’ll probably have music and poetry that we’ll never understand.”
What the Rise of Sentient Robots Will Mean for Human Beings was originally published by NBC Universal Media, LLC on June 19, 2017 by George Musser. Copyright 2017 NBC Universal Media, LLC. All rights reserved.
Mankind is closer to discovering extraterrestrial life in our solar system
Mankind is closer to discovering extraterrestrial life in our solar system
Extraterrestrial life could be discovered over the next 20 years, but it will not look the way people expect, experts say.
According to astronomer Chris Impey, scientists are on the verge of discovering microbes on other planets, such as the moon of Jupiter, because they contain conditions favorable to the development of life, according to Mail Online.
Although experts have been investigating the sky for decades, they claims that we could detect microbial life for the next 10 or 15 years using the instruments on the James Webb telescope. “I bet everything on the discovery of microbial life in the next 10-15 years, but I cannot guarantee that we will also detect intelligent life forms”, Professor Impey of the University of Arizona said.
The researcher claims that the greatest possibilities for detecting extraterrestrial life are in our solar system. A propitious satellite for such a discovery is Europe, the sixth largest moon of Jupiter, which researchers have recently started studying. The moon has Earth-like features, but it is covered by oceans with frozen salty water because of the distance between the heavenly body and the sun.
NASA and ESA recently announced the launch of a future mission to better understand the celestial bodies covered by water. According to the teacher, studying the atmosphere on these celestial bodies is extremely important for establishing the possibility of alien life.
Josh Gates to crash UFO Festival; Host of Travel Channel show ‘Expedition Unknown’ will take part in 70th anniversary celebration
Josh Gates to crash UFO Festival; Host of Travel Channel show ‘Expedition Unknown’ will take part in 70th anniversary celebration
Gates
If you don’t plan on making an appearance at this year’s UFO Festival, you might want to reconsider. Josh Gates, the host of the hit Travel Channel show “Expedition Unknown,” will be in the Alien City during the 70th anniversary of the world-famous UFO incident. Gates, also an executive producer, and his team will be filming in Roswell as part of a four-part special on extraterrestrials, called “Expedition Unknown: Hunt for Extraterrestrials.” He knew Roswell had to be a part of the special. “There’s no doubt that Roswell is the mother of all UFO stories,” Gates said in an exclusive interview with the Daily Record. “You know, the events of 1947 continue to fascinate people nearly three-quarters of a century later, so we really knew that (Roswell) had to be a part of this story. It’s the most famous case in U.S. History.” Gates, who was filming in Guatemala City at the time of his interview Wednesday, isn’t merely interested in Roswell from a historical perspective. “Look, for me, of course I’m interested in the Roswell incident, but I’m also really interested in it as a cultural event,” Gates said. “There is a real passion and a real steadfast belief that so many people — that there is a conspiracy here, that there was an event here — and so I’m fascinated by that, by the fact that this is so important to so many people. “And that’s an interesting question. Why does Roswell still resonate so many years later? And that’s really what I want to be a part of finding out.” Gates doesn’t want to try and solve the mystery of Roswell, because he’s not sure if it can ever be solved. “I think for us it’s about understanding it, not just as an event, but also as a cultural phenomenon,” Gates said. “And we don’t want to go to Roswell to try to unravel the mystery. I’m not sure it ever will be [auth] fully unraveled at this point. So much time has passed and there’s so much disagreement about the facts of the case.” The Daily Record hasn’t given up hope for the mystery to be solved. With the help of Nick Pope, a former United Kingdom Ministry of Defense UFO investigator, the newspaper has launched a campaign to solve the mystery of Roswell. In a column initially published in the newspaper on Dec. 18, 2016, Pope called for citizens of Roswell to search through their things, to look in a trinket box on a mantelpiece, to clear out a desk drawer and try and solve the mystery once and for all. Gates, who is slated to make an appearance at the Daily Record’s sponsored event, “The Roswell Incident,” which will take place June 30 to July 2, supports the campaign. “I’ve heard about this and I think it’s really exciting,” Gates said. “You know, I think we are at a moment in history where a lot of the key players from the Roswell story have passed and — in not too much time — maybe all the key players will have passed, so I’m really supportive of the idea that there is a call to find any existing evidence or if anyone has any memories or recollections of the event to come forward. I think that’s a terrific endeavor.” While he’s still figuring out who he’s going to interview while in Roswell, Gates knows he wants to take part in the celebration. “We’re still figuring it out, exactly what kind of presence we’re hoping to have there,” he said. “We’re certainly going to be there to participate in the festivities.” However, Gates did mention a few names of individuals he hopes to speak with while in town, including Pope. In addition to filming in Roswell, Gates will travel all over the world for the extraterrestrial special. “We’re going to the deserts of Chile, where we’re working with scientists at one of the world’s most powerful telescopes that are peering into the deepest reaches of the universe,” Gates said. “We’re going to Zimbabwe in Africa to meet with students at a school who had one of the largest reported mass sightings of a UFO in history, and we’re getting them together to hear about their experience.” In 1994, over 60 children reportedly witnessed a UFO land on school property during recess in Ruwa, Zimbabwe. Some children reported the extraterrestrials could silently communicate with them just by looking into their eyes. Gates will also travel to Rendlesham Forest, which he describes as “England’s Roswell,” to meet with some key players of that incident. In December 1980, there were numerous reports of strange lights over a series of nights near Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England. The Rendlesham Forest incident has more evidence than any other UFO case, including testimonies from high-ranking military officers, in addition to other evidence, such as trace and physical evidence. Gates will also visit the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, as well as NASA in Houston for the special. For the special, Gates wants to talk to individuals from both sides. “We’re really trying to cover this from a lot of different angles,” he said. “From a very scientific point of view, and a skeptical point of view, but also from the point of view of being open-minded, to people who claim that they had experiences.” Gates, a resident of Los Angeles, can’t recall when he first heard of the Roswell incident. It’s just something he’s always known about. This will be Gates’ first time in Roswell. In 1947, a U.S. Air Force balloon –– others believe the object was extraterrestrial –– crashed on a farmer’s ranch. Despite the fact the crash was actually closer to Corona, which is a little over 100 miles from the Alien City, Roswell has gained attention from the incident across the world since. This year’s UFO festival celebrates the 70th anniversary of the crash and is scheduled to take place June 29 through July 2. Events slated for the four-day festival include presentations from guest speakers, the Alien Chase 5K and 10K run, a parade and the highly popular costume contest, according to the festival’s official website. Gates is no beginner to the world of extraterrestrials, as he traveled to a mine in Chile that is connected with UFO activity and searched for UFOs in the forests of Kazakhstan for his Scyfy Channel show “Destination Truth.” “UFOs is a fascinating topic to me,” he said. “I certainly don’t believe that we are alone in the universe. I think you have to be kind of cocky in order to say we’re the only thing out here in this vast, truly endless expanded space.” While Gates would love for extraterrestrials to exist, he would need to see some evidence. “I am, I think, an open-minded skeptic in many ways, I would certainly love for that to be true,” he said. “I would love the idea that another intelligent life form has come to this planet — but I don’t know. I’m still going to need to see the evidence.” When asked if he was going to visit anywhere else while in New Mexico, he said he wanted to keep the focus on Roswell. “On this trip, we’re really going to be focused on Roswell and on the 70th anniversary, but the great thing about ‘Expedition Unknown’ is that there are a lot of other destinations and mysteries out there, so I’m sure it won’t be long before we’re back in New Mexico again.” The four-part special will premiere on the Travel Channel this October. For more information on the Roswell Incident, visit roswellincident.com. To learn more about Gates and his adventures, visit his website at joshuagates.com. General assignment reporter Katy Ross can be reached at 575-622-7710, ext. 311, or reporter03@rdrnews.com.
Former Minot crew commander tells of UFO cover-up in book
Former Minot crew commander tells of UFO cover-up in book
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This photo of Capt. David D. Schindele was taken at Minot Air Force Base when he was a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile launch crew commander in the 1960s.
MINOT, ND. -- Capt. David D. Schindele was a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile launch crew commander in the Minot Air Force Base missile field when he experienced a situation in which a flying object took down all 10 of the nuclear-tipped missiles he was responsible for, causing them to be unlaunchable. That was 50 years ago.
Air Force officials instructed Schindele never to speak about the incident and as far as he was concerned, it never happened. Schindele was at a launch control facility near Mohall when the incident occurred.
On Dec. 6, 1966, the front-page headline of the Minot Daily News on Dec. 6, 1966, read: "Minot Launch Control Center 'Saucer' Cited As One Indication of Outer Space Visitors.” The story told about UFO incidents in the Minot area.
"It Never Happened, Volume 1," is the title of Schindele's new book about the Air Force's cover-up of the UFO (unidentified flying objects).
Schindele was stationed at Minot AFB from July 1965 to May 1968.
"During that time in Minot, many of us experienced unworldly incidents at Minuteman facilities but we were all individually instructed to keep silent. We never realized at the time that others among us were also experiencing incidents, but now the truth is becoming known," Schindele told the Minot Daily News.
Schindele said a number of years ago he learned about a similar incident experienced by another missileer and that led him to writing his book.
"About 35 years after my Minot incident and learning about an identical incident experienced by another missileer (Capt. Robert Salas) connected to Malmstrom AFB in Montana, which was during the same general timeframe as my incident, I then contemplated coming forth with the 'truth,' " Schindele said.
Schindele said it took him another five years before he related his experience on his website and began to inform close friends of his experience.
"After discovering in 2010 that other missileers with me at Minot also experienced associated incidents, I then decided to conduct extensive research on Air Force cover-up to find out exactly why the Air Force told all of us to keep our 'lips zipped.' We all had top secret clearances, but that was not enough to allow the Air Force to provide truth to us, or to explain the incidents. We were all kept in the dark and never trained on how to manage such incidents and situations should they reoccur. It was a very disconcerting time for all of us," he said.
It was during his research and documenting information beginning in 2010 that Schindele said he knew he must produce a book on his findings.
"It was a six-and-a-half year effort, but I also realized that a second volume would be needed to make it complete," he said.
Schindele said there's another aspect to this that must be understood.
"There are many Minot missileers who have taken their 'secret' to their grave, while some hold onto the secret to this very day because of very great trepidation involved," he said. "With the passing of more than 50 years since my incident at Minot and 70 years since the incident at Roswell, (N.M.) there can be no ethical, moral, or critical reason for keeping the secret from humankind any longer, and my other missileer friends agree with that. This is further reviewed in Chapter Seven of the book."
Schindele said that mainly he wants to provide the truth.
"From the beginning, I've been conflicted with the goal of bringing truth to as many people as possible, while having no appetite for bringing attention to myself or receiving monetary benefit. But I also realize the fallacy in that," he said.
Schindele and his wife, Diana, reside in Mukilteo, Wash., north of Seattle. They have been married for 20 years and have a combined family of four adult children and eight grandchildren. Schindele grew up in the Seattle area and attended Washington State University. His parents both grew up in North Dakota – his mother at McGregor and his father at Tolna – and attended the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks.
Schindele said he and many others who were missileers during the same time period get together about every year and a half for a reunion, although their ranks are increasingly being depleted. Their next reunion will be in Las Vegas next February.
Schindele's book is available at Amazon.com. Proceeds will go to the Seattle Chapter of the Air Force Association.
WHO IS OUT THERE? NEW STUDY REVEALS THE LIKELIHOOD OF INTELLIGENT ALIENS
WHO IS OUT THERE? NEW STUDY REVEALS THE LIKELIHOOD OF INTELLIGENT ALIENS
Jorge Soriano from the City University in New York has said that aliens who are highly intelligent could exist in our galaxy. This is something that Soriano and his colleagues have been arguing about in one of their recent publications.
TEAM OF SCIENTISTS WANTS TO FIND ANSWER TO FERMI PARADOX
The team of Soriano has been trying to come up with an answer to the Fermi paradox. This is the discrepancy between the chances of there being the chance of the existence of alien life that is intelligent and absence of any proof that is visible.
The calculations of the scientists have revealed that the percentage of extra-terrestrial civilizations that are intelligent among the possible number of aliens is going to be very small. In fact, the scientists have said that this number would be around 0.5%. Scientists have said that this is the main reason why intelligent aliens have not been observed today.
INTELLIGENT CIVILIZATIONS MAY EXISTED 300,000 YEARS AGO
Soriano and the team have also argued that the alien civilizations that are intelligent may well have existed around 300,000 years ago. In theory, they should have established contact with humans on Earth if they knew about the existence of Earth. The scientists believe that the search for tracks is only going to be possible in the future and this will happen when a larger number of the twins of Earth have been discovered by the advanced telescopes that NASA is using.
In February of this year scientists who had been observing the star system TRAPPIST-1 using the Spitzer Space Telescope of NASA revealed that they had discovered seven planets that were Earth-sized and which they thought were rocky, three of which might have been able to support life.
There are some experts in the field who have confidence that the coming forward of intelligent aliens is going to be related closely to rather unique living conditions, which the scientists believe can only be found on Earth. There are other astronomers that think that communicating with aliens is not possible due to galactic civilizations disappearing too quickly to be noticed or that they chose to hide the fact that they are around from humans.
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MARS HENGE: Is 'perfect stone circle' found on Red Planet proof of intelligent aliens?
MARS HENGE: Is 'perfect stone circle' found on Red Planet proof of intelligent aliens?
A “PERFECT stone circle” spotted in official pictures taken on Mars has sparked a debate over whether it was artificially created by intelligent aliens.
A stone circle found on Mars has sent alien chasers into a spin.
The strange ring, which has been branded an eroded rock formation by sceptics, was found in NASA images taken by the Curiosity Rover droid which is exploring the Martian surface taking samples and pictures.
Avid alien seeker Streetcap1, based in Scotland, was responsible for the find, before alerting Express.co.uk and other UFO websites.
His discovery has been picked up by various sites and YouTube channels, sparking the debate.
YouTube channel SecureTeam10 shared the find, saying: “This is a very strange formation of rocks put together in what appears to be a very artificial way.
“What we are seeing looks very different from the craters on Mars and the moon.
“It almost looks as if these rocks were arranged in this circular formation or this could potentially be some sort of ruin that’s part of some larger structure buried beneath the surface.
“I’ve never seen anything like it on Mars. That’s why it’s such a fascinating discovery.
“It looks eerily out of place than the rest of the terrain and surroundings.”
People commented on YouTube with various theories on what it could be.
One said it looked like a well while others said it could be a martian campsite or an alien UFO refuelling site.
It almost looks as if these rocks were arranged in this circular formation or this could potentially be some sort of ruin that’s part of some larger structure buried beneath the surface.
Tyler Glockner, Secureteam10
Many were convinced it proves aliens are living on Mars.
Eric Hansen commented: “That formation is clearly not ‘natural’.”
While Layla Chester added: “Way to many strange formations on the moon & mars, when will people wake up & see what's right in front of them??”
Others refused to believe the rock formation was a sign of alien life, saying it was a natural geological process.
One poster said: “That first rock circle you featured was not a stone circle.
“If you look closely you can see that they all belong together. It actually looks like it at some point in time was one big rock that now only has what you see left of it.”
And another wrote: “This round rock formation is probably a so-called lava bomb, came out of a volcano, landed and broke and later eroded."
The witness said six jets were accompanying the UFO.
The planes were following the "red-orange sphere" at about 600 feet in altitude, it was reported.
The witness was "stargazing" in his back garden with a telescope at 10pm local time when the sighting is said to have happened.
In a report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which investigates and logs such sightings, the witness said: "I first heard low speed jet engines north of me.
“I turned to see what it was. I saw a row of flashing white strobe lights with a reddish-orange ball or sphere in the middle coming toward me moving real slow.”
The witness said six “fighter jets” also flew overhead.
They added: “One jet was approximately 500 feet to the west of the reddish-orange sphere.
"Another jet was approximately 500 feet to the east of the reddish-orange sphere and four more jets were side-by-side following about 1,000 feet behind this reddish-orange sphere.
“What was so strange about it was how low and slow they were all flying and flew directly over the top of me.
“This reddish-orange sphere looked to be about 30 feet in diameter. It was kind of dim with no strobe lights of any kind.
"After they flew over, the jet on the west side of the sphere backed off and turned left and got right behind the sphere.
I turned to see what it was. I saw a row of flashing white strobe lights with a reddish-orange ball or sphere in the middle coming toward me moving real slow.
UFO witness
"After that, I couldn’t see them anymore because of the trees that are around one mile south of me."
The witness drew an illustration of what was seen, also supplied to MUFON.
It happened on February 21, but was not immediately reported.
MUFON, which has branches across the US, is the world's biggest organisation dedicated to UFO research.
Georgia MUFON Field Investigator Brion Trainor and State Section Director Jeremy Haslam investigated the case and closed it as an unknown, meaning there was no normal explanation.
He said in his report: “The evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that this is an unknown other sighting event.
“However, the 30-foot, glowing, reddish-orange orb was being escorted by very recognizable jet planes.
"This begs the questions: 1) Did the jet plane’s pilots know what the orb was that they were escorting; and 2) What was their destination?”
But Roger Marsh, MUFON director of communications, added: "Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made."
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How To Get Abducted By Aliens…Inside Tips From Leading Experts!
How To Get Abducted By Aliens…Inside Tips From Leading Experts!
At the Proof of Aliens website writer Kim Jones has come up with a fabulous list that will dramatically increase your chances of having a “close encounter!” Since the late 1950s, there have literally been millions of claims from people worldwide of being taken by extraterrestrial beings, and they all report some key similarities found in the majority of abductions. These include hours of missing time, gaps in memory, mysterious injuries/scars/implants, disorientation, reproductive issues, and other post-traumatic stress symptoms. And they usually include often onboard a craft and into some kind of operating room where various invasive medical procedures are carried out. The good news is that abductions are said to take place involving men, women, and children regardless of age, culture, or religious backgrounds. Enjoy as they are clever and fun to read!
Here is what Kim Jones wrote:
Here are some tips that will help you get abducted by aliens if at all they are in need to interact with humans.
1.Try taking a house in the states of California, Wisconsin or Florida. These are the states with the highest number of UFO sighting reports. If the residents of these states do not drink too much alcohol, it is to be understood that these states are the favorite spots for aliens to show up and hence your probabilities of getting abducted are higher if you stay here.
2.If the concepts of the ancient alien theorists are to be believed, aliens are everywhere. You should try to draw their attention by speaking high about aliens and displaying your urge to get abducted by them. You never know if the person sitting at the next table is alien in human disguise and he might just choose you to be the one for his next experimental venture.
3.Aliens love dark places for conducting their abductions. You should try to spend as much time as possible in wheat fields, forests, mountains or lonely countryside.
4. You may consider spending a night or two in the fields of Wiltshire in Southern England. Allegedly these fields are the favorites for the extraterrestrial visitors for making crop circles, their messages to the mankind.
5.Try setting up radar in the backyard and transmit signals to the outer space. You need not be a space scientist to do this. By sending such signals, you can easily make the aliens aware that you are interested in establishing contact with them.
6.Next Halloween, choose the costume of an alien. You never know if your costume matches the actual appearance of our extraterrestrial friends and decide to take you for a quick tour of their planet.
7.Read about aliens as much as you can. By a reading a lot about them, you would be able to identify their signals know more about them. An alien would obviously want to interact with knowledgeable humans and hence, your chances of getting abducted would be higher.
8. If you happen to spot any bright light in the sky or in your yard, try to draw their attention by sending SOS signals by means of strong laser torches. Do not try to use too strong beams of light as they might feel disturbed.
9. Be open to being experimented upon. Aliens abduct humans not for friendly chit chat but for a more serious business that involves physical examinations by the use of multiple probes and machines. If you are not okay with these, you may not stand a chance to get abducted. Remember, aliens can read your mind by means of telepathy.
10. Learn how to manifest the feeling of fear on your face. Aliens love to abduct people who are afraid and try to run away from them. If you do not show signs of fear that would mean that you are willing to get abducted, and they might think you to be a spy and reject you from their abduction list.
These tips are probable ways to get noticed and subsequently abducted by the aliens. There is no guarantee that you would still be abducted, as we do not know what is going on in the super-intelligent minds of the more advanced extraterrestrial beings.
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NASA About To Confirm They Have Discovered Alien Life? Or Just More Lies And Waffle?
NASA About To Confirm They Have Discovered Alien Life? Or Just More Lies And Waffle?
NASA is apparently primed to reveal its latest set of major discoveries on Monday after scanning planets outside our solar system for life. But many do believe that this could also be yet just more ‘drip feeding’ of disclosure and no real confirmation of anything – Are NASA playing games with us and the TRUTH?
Many people worldwide are now on the edge of their seats amid hopes the new find could shed light on the search for aliens. Although we are used to disappointment from NASA and being given information which does not really confirm anything.
NASA has been questing to find the first traces of life to prove man is not alone in the universe. Just recently we reported on NASA’s latest find of a solar system similar to ours, where there could be the potential for life – please check out our article below:
The discoveries will come from the team at the Kepler space telescope which looks for habitable worlds outside the Solar System.
The telescope searches for Earth-sized planets in the “habitable zones” of nearby stars – and has found thousands of planets which could harbour life. Speculation is mounting about the announcement by NASA – which is set for 3pm on Monday, June 19.
Infested with life out there – And does NASA know about it?
As mentioned in our previous article above, last year, NASA announced the incredible find of nine planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1. Three of the planets were believed to be in the star’s habitable zone and capable of harbouring life.
Scientists are launching a new satellite – the James Webb Telescopes – to study seven of the new worlds! But yet again NASA has not mentioned anything about Alien Beings potentially living on any of these planets and gave excuses as to why that may not be possible (as always!).
A spokesman for NASA said:
“The latest Kepler catalog of planet candidates was created using the most sophisticated analyses yet, yielding the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date.
“This survey will enable new lines of research in exoplanet study, which looks at planets outside our solar system.”
U.I.P SUMMARY
This is not the first and definitely not the last NASA announcement about their search for habitable planets, but one thing is for sure, these announcements appear to be happening more frequently – The drip feeding of disclosure is intensifying it appears?!
NASA know very well that we are NOT alone in the universe and are also aware that we are being visited by numerous different ET races. Why do they not just tell us this then if that’s that case, I hear you shout?! Well, it appears that the Elite are scared of people like you and I knowing that there are advanced beings visiting us, as they know the kind of opportunities that will arise once the human race has accepted their existence – the Elites false borders and war mongering will be obliterated very very quickly!
The chances of NASA announcing on Monday is incredibly slim, but please ensure that you listen to their every word, as some where in-between the lines is the TRUTH about what they really know!!!
Please check out below a couple of our recent articles on why the Elite do not want us to know the truth about the ET’s and also an article on ‘Tabbys star’ which is thought to have a huge Alien megastructure around it.
UFO researchers are investigating a report by a resident of Ty Ty, southern Georgia, that he sighted a group of United States Air Force (USAF) jets apparently escorting or chasing a red-orange sphere UFO across the sky at an altitude of about 600 feet.
According to the unnamed witness in a testimony filed on March 4, 2017, as Case 82496 in the reporting database of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), he was stargazing with a telescope outside his home at about 10 p.m. on February 21, 2017, in Ty Ty, a town in Tift County, Georgia, about 100 miles east of Columbus, Georgia, when he heard jet engine sounds coming from the north. He looked northwards, in the direction of the jet engine sounds and noticed in the dark sky a row of flashing white strobe lights and a reddish-orange ball or sphere in the middle.
The lights approached gradually at an altitude of about 600 feet until he could see that there were six military “fighter jets” that appeared to be chasing or escorting a mysterious sphere UFO that had a red-orange color, according to Open Minds TV.
“I first heard low speed jet engines north of me,” the witness stated.
“I turned to see what it was. I saw a row of flashing white strobe lights with a reddish-orange ball or sphere in the middle coming toward me moving real slow.”
The witness was stunned but he had the presence of mind to notice several interesting details about the flight. As the military jets and the mysterious sphere UFO flew overhead, he noticed that one of the escorting jets flew about 500 feet to the west of the UFO while the other flew about 500 feet to the east. Four other jets brought up the rear, flying at about 1,000 feet behind the UFO.
He was also struck by the low altitude of the flight and the unusually slow speed of the jets and the UFO.
“What was so strange about it was how low and slow they were all flying and flew directly over the top of me.”
He estimated the diameter of the reddish-orange sphere UFO at about 30 feet. It had no strobe lights.
As the crafts flew directly overhead, the jet flying 500 feet to the west of the UFO did a banking turn to the left until it was positioned behind the sphere UFO. The witness then watched as the formation flew overhead until it disappeared behind a row of trees about a mile away to the south. The witnesrecalled that the UFO and the escorting military jets continued flying southwards in a straight path until they were hidden from sight by the row of trees.
The witness had thought that the crafts were flying towards Moody Air Force Base, but he later realized that they couldn’t have been approaching the air force base because the base was located southeast while the jets and the UFOs had flown “straight south” until they were out of sight.
Military jets spotted chasing red-orange sphere UFO over Georgia [Image By Bruce Rolff/Shutterstock]
“I don’t know of any airport that would have been straight south or me,”
he said.
“Any help on this ordeal would be more than I have now.”
MUFON’s representatives in Georgia investigated the case and concluded that the sighting was clearly an “Unknown Other sighting event.” The investigators observed that although the witness was able to easily recognize six USAF fighter jets, he was unable to identify the 30-foot-diameter sphere UFO. According to the witness, the sphere UFO was unlike any man-made flying craft he had ever seen.
“The evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that this is an Unknown Other sighting event,” the investigators wrote in their report.
“However, the 30-foot, glowing, reddish-orange orb was being escorted by very recognizable jet planes.”
The investigators were also unable to confirm whether the pilots knew what the orb was and whether it was a USAF experimental craft. They were also unable to determine the destination of the crafts.
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BBC and Euro News show UFO flying past burning Grenfell Tower in London, UK
BBC and Euro News show UFO flying past burning Grenfell Tower in London, UK
As firemen fight the devastating fire at the Grenfell Tower a UFO is easily seen in the sky above.
Witness 1:
Whilst watching a report about the Grenfell Tower fire in London on Euronews on TV today, 16, I spotted a rather peculiar white object which seemed to be flying in a straight vector behind two firemen on a ladder.
Witness 2:
While I was keeping up with this tragic event, watching the BBC news channel today I happened to notice this strange object fly past the burned out Grenfell tower block.
I have recorded this footage on my phone from my television set so quality is not at its best, but you can clearly see a UFO in the background during this live interview.
When the fire officers turn on the hose a large white object comes into shot, it is not an aircraft shape and too fast to be a plane.
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Unexplained Ancient Spaceship Artifacts Discoveries - Could ancient man fly?
Unexplained Ancient Spaceship Artifacts Discoveries - Could ancient man fly?
Here are some mysterious out of place spaceship artifacts ever discovered from the ancient world.
Including blueprints for a Medieval multi-stage solid-fuel rocket, instructions for an unexplained flying machine passed on by a 10,000-year-old Indian guru,the unidentified "Toprakkale Space Shuttle" that may have been carved 2,500 years ago, schematics from a mysterious craft encountered by Ezekiel as described in the bible, and the lid from Pakal's Tomb that appears to show the Mayan king as an astronaut.
Last August, China launched, quite literally, one of its most ambitious communications projects ever: a “quantum satellite”, aimed at being able to offer a penultimately secure transfer of data across great distances between Earth and space.
As of Friday, June 17, 2017, it has been announced that China’s quantum satellite successfully relayed communication over a distance of 746 miles, marking a transmission that is 12 times further than any previous similar dispatch on record, Chinese state media agencies reported.
According to Reuters, “The scientists exploited the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, in which a particle can affect a far-off twin instantly, somehow overcoming the long distance separating them, a situation termed ‘spooky action at a distance’ by the Nobel-prize winning physicist Albert Einstein.”
In 1935, Einstein realized that objects can be moved or reoriented at a distance, even without physical contact with other objects. This unusual discovery (noted for its weirdness at the time by Einstein and his colleagues) led to development of the EPR paradox, which Einstein introduced shortly thereafter with Boris Poldolsky and Nathan Rosen.
In 2013, according to research conducted by Professor Juan Yin at China’s University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, quantum entanglement dynamics allows transfer of information at speeds at least 10,000 times faster than the speed of light.
Xinhua reported that the technology currently represents “the only way to establish secure keys between two distant locations on earth without relying on trustful relay,” according to lead scientist Pan Jianwei, of China’s Quantum Experiments at Space Scale, or QUESS.
Earlier in June, the Pentagon acknowledged a statement that China’s quantum satellite represents, “a notable advance in cryptography research.” Borrowing from Neil Armstrong’s famous quote, China’s success with the quantum satellite represents “one small step” for communication, for now at least.
In the future, this innovation may represent the first significant advancement toward global networks of secure, speedy communications occurring at the quantum level.
MYSTERIEUZE ZAKEN ROND DE TEMPELBERG, ISRAEL ( VIDEO )
MYSTERIEUZE ZAKEN ROND DE TEMPELBERG, ISRAEL ( VIDEO )
Eén van de meest spraakmakende en ook ontzagwekkende plekken ter wereld is de Tempelberg in Jeruzalem.
Laat er nu precies op die plek de afgelopen jaren zich een aantal vreemde zaken hebben voorgedaan die verband kunnen houden met CERN of met de buitenaardse Goden.
De Tempelberg of de berg Moria, door joden Har ha-Bayit en door moslims Haram al-Sharif genoemd, is een heuvel in het oostelijk deel van de door Israël bezette en geannexeerde oude stad Jeruzalem (in Oost-Jeruzalem), die voor elk van de drie abrahamitische religies (jodendom, christendom en islam) van groot belang is. De Haram es-Sharif wordt beheerd door een islamitische waqf, een religieuze stichting.
De bovenzijde van de berg is onder Herodes de Grote vlak gemaakt en vormt een plein met een oppervlakte van ongeveer 15 hectare. Midden op dit tempelplein staat de Rotskoepel, en aan de zuidzijde de Al-Aqsamoskee, gebouwd door de Omajjaden. Tevens bevinden zich hier meerdere islamitische bouwwerken, waaronder de Dome of the Chain, de Kettingkoepel.
De Westmuur (ook wel Klaagmuur genoemd) is een gedeelte van de westelijke muur dat het plateau omringt onder het niveau van het tempelplein en vormt mede het fundament waarop de Rotskoepel en de Al-Aqsamoskee staan. Vanaf het plein aan de Westmuur, waar tot 1967 de Marokkaanse wijk lag, loopt nu de houten Mughrabibrug omhoog, vanwaar men via de Mughrabipoort toegang heeft tot het tempelplein. Voor niet-moslims is dit de enige manier om de Tempelberg te bereiken.
Vorig jaar bezocht een vrouw deze Tempelberg en zij zag een paar merkwaardige dingen in de lucht en niet alleen dat, ze kreeg er ook een heel akelig gevoel bij.
Ze maakte een aantal foto’s en zegt dat ze niet alleen een soort vreemde cirkelvormige wolk ontdekte, maar ook drie verschillende zonnen zag.
Van de drie “zonnen” die zij zag lijkt de kleinste op een lensflare, maar naast de zon is inderdaad een tweede lichtbron te zien en ook zie je de contouren van een soort cirkelvormige chemtrail. (Redactie: De dame verklaart in de video dat ze dingen met het blote oog zag maar we zijn er niet zeker van of dat ook met deze 3 zonnen het geval was.)
In de onderstaande video doet de vrouw haar verhaal en vertelt de verslaggever dat zij ervan overtuigd is dat we hier te maken hebben met een fenomeen dat waarschijnlijk is veroorzaakt door CERN omdat zij nu ook beschikken over een soort filiaal in Jordanië, Sesame genaamd.
In het kader van de samenwerking met CERN claimt zij verder dat de koning van Jordanië een enorme generator heeft geïnstalleerd op de Tempelberg, waarvan zij zegt dat deze ook een rol speelt in de totstandkoming van de taferelen in de lucht.
Het is een bizarre situatie rondom die Tempelberg, want de koning van Jordanië zou dit inderdaad kunnen doen.
Net als de andere wijken van de Oude Stad in Oost-Jeruzalem, heeft Israël het gebied van de Tempelberg geannexeerd. Het beheer ervan is gebleven bij de Jordaanse islamitische waqf, een religieuze stichting. In 1988 erkende Israël de bevoegdheid van koning Hoessein van Jordanië om het toezicht op de heiligdommen op de Tempelberg te blijven behouden.
Dat CERN een honderd procent satanisch instituut is dat heel goed in staat zou zijn om bovengenoemde effecten te veroorzaken, staat buiten kijf.
Maar, gezien de bijzondere locatie is er wellicht ook nog een andere mogelijkheid en dat is dat er misschien toch ook een verband bestaat met de Goden uit de oudheid. Deze Goden, de Anunnaki, die nu met de nadering van hun planeet Nibirusteeds dichter in onze buurt komen.
In de video zegt de vrouw op een gegeven moment het volgende:
Lichtstralen die vanuit de Tempelberg lijken te komen en de lucht in schijnen.
Volgens Nancy Lieder waren de piramides navigatiebakens voor de Annunaki en het is dan ook geen toeval dat deze piramides met de komst van Nibiru de afgelopen jaren weer tot leven zijn gekomen.
Op een bijzondere manier, want verschillende keren zijn er de laatste jaren opnames gemaakt van piramides die een felle lichtstraal de hemel insturen zoals de volgende:
Heeft de Tempelberg misschien in een ver verleden ook een rol gespeeld bij de aanwezigheid van de Goden op aarde. Wordt er ook in de Tempelberg iets geactiveerd, net zoals bij de piramides?
In 2011 vond er nog een merkwaardig voorval plaats op de Tempelberg. Een gebeurtenis die door talloze mensen is gezien en vastgelegd en waarvan de mainstream-media niet wisten hoe snel ze dit tot hoax moesten verklaren.
Op 28 januari 2011 daalde ’s avonds een UFO neer boven de Rotskoepel op de berg en schoot even later met een onvoorstelbare snelheid weer de lucht in.
Voor de mainstream wereld zou het hier gaan om een hoax, in elkaar gezet door iemand die met zijn video zoveel mogelijk bezoekers wilde trekken om hiermee geld te verdienen, maar de werkelijkheid ligt ook hier zoals zo vaak wat anders.
Er is namelijk niet één opname van dit fenomeen gemaakt, maar meerdere, door verschillende mensen en vanaf verschillende posities. De kans dat deze opnames echt zijn, is dan ook veel groter dan dat ze allemaal nep zouden zijn.
Bovendien zijn er nog meer merkwaardigheden, zoals te zien in de volgende video:
DISCOVERED: MYSTERIOUS ARTIFACTS DEPICTING AN ANCIENT SPACESHIP
DISCOVERED: MYSTERIOUS ARTIFACTS DEPICTING AN ANCIENT SPACESHIP
There are many mysterious artifacts that have been found around the world which resembles spaceships - but they date back to thousands of years ago. Intriguing, is it not? The first on the list is the most recently discovered, named "Toprakkale Space Shuttle".
It was only recently discovered after 25 years in storage at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, which has caused many scientists and archaeologists to question its authenticity. It is, however, said to be dated back 2,500 years ago. The "spaceship" is a detailed sculpture from the kingdom of Urartu, and it specifically shows four thrusters that surround one large one, and a pilot seat in the front, very much like the modern jets we have today.
TOPRAKKALE'S SPACE SHUTTLE
The second on the list is Ezekiel's Spaceships - NASA engineer Josef Blumrich much was out to disprove the conspiracy that the prophet Ezekiel saw an "alien spaceship" rather than a vision of God. However, he later changed his stance on the issue and believed the very stand he once set out to destroy - that Ezekiel saw an "alien spaceship". He later then published his theory in a book, called "The Spaceships of Ezekiel" in 1974. His engineering background coupled with his analysis of the Bible led him to draw detailed figures of the "alien spaceship", which was also published into the book.
The last alien spaceship on the list is The Sibiu Manuscript. Back in 1961, a professor at the University of Bucharest in Romania rediscovered this ancient manuscript, which was a document that was 450 pages long that was created back in 1570 with encompasses several hundred years of history within the region where it was from. The manuscript, although dating back hundred of years ago, had shockingly detailed steps that described solid-fueled manned-rockets. A description of a successful launch of a giant "flying javelin" was also included in the manuscript.
This is not all that has been found regarding "ancient" spaceships that civilizations before us might have already discovered.
If you are interested to know more and see more illustrations view this video here:
STS 48 - PERHAPS THE MOST COMPELLING 'UFO' FOOTAGE YOU'VE EVER SEEN
STS 48 - PERHAPS THE MOST COMPELLING 'UFO' FOOTAGE YOU'VE EVER SEEN
STS-48 was a Space Shuttle mission that launched on 12 September 1991, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The orbiter was Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary payload was the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. The mission landed on 18 September at 12:38 am at Edwards Air Force Base on runway 22. The mission was completed in 81 revolutions of the Earth and traveled 2.2 million miles. The 5 astronauts carried out a number of experiments and deployed several satellites. The total launch mass was 240,062 pounds (108,890 kg) and the landing mass was 192,780 pounds (87,440 kg).
Roswell conspiracy theory ‘expert’ claims UFO crash did happen and government document proves it
Roswell conspiracy theory ‘expert’ claims UFO crash did happen and government document proves it
A PARANORMAL radio show host insists she has seen a top secret report on Roswell, which proves the alleged incident did occur.
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A ROSWELL conspiracy theory “expert” has claimed to have found proof the supposed UFO crash really did happen.
Heather Wade insists she has got her hands on an “ultra top secret” report confirming the fabled alien encounter in the desert of New Mexico, USA, was real, The Sunreported.
Wade says she got the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) document from an unnamed source, according to The Express.
She claims the dossier details how the UFO came down on July 2 or 3, 1947.
Wade — who hosts a late night online radio show focusing on the paranormal — claims the documents describe how four decomposing alien bodies were found two miles from the crash site a week later.
The radio host said she passed the report on to Stanton Friedman — a nuclear physicist who is also a Roswell believer and investigator.
All four aliens died in the crash.
Source:News Corp Australia
The supposed government report states: “Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded. “These had fallen to earth at least two miles east of the crash site where the wreckage was located.
“All of the four alien crew members were dead and badly decomposed.”
A statement on the website for her radio show, Midnight in the Desert, reads: “Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source.
“She immediately had Stanton Friedman take a look at these documents who said, ‘I have never seen anything like this, this is new MJ12 information.’
“Stanton Friedman is going to continue examining these documents for authenticity, but at this time we can find no evidence of forgery.”
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.
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A UFO Rises Into An Apparent Portal And Disappears
A UFO Rises Into An Apparent Portal And Disappears
A UFO vanishes into a portal looking thing in the sky in an interesting video that has been viewed more than a million online.
The Facebook page “I’m From Denver” posted the video on the popular social networking website claiming that the unidentified flying object appeared over southern Colorado.
The clip shows a strange cluster of lights forming an odd shape. As the lights rise, a seemingly squared portal opens up in the night sky. They then disappear without a trace.
Many believe that the recording is one of the most compelling footages showing proof of UFO activity. However, several others also think that it is likely faked deliberately using CGI technology.
The video does not say exactly where in Southern Colorado the video was recorded, so it is quite difficult to verify the claim with local authorities whether residents noticed something that looked unusual in the sky and caused alarm. Additionally, no local news media picked up the story even after the video made the rounds online.
However, experts say that it is not possible to prove or disprove the video without knowing more on what and where exactly it is taken because the video is blurry.
If Hillary Clinton made to the White House, she would likely reveal aliens exist, according to the man who made a shocking documentary that made the rounds online.
Dr Steven Greer, who has been advocating governments around the world to admit intelligent aliens are visiting Earth, is convinced Mrs Clinton knows more what she already revealed to the public.
The Unacknowledged documentary film debuted on iTunes on May 9 and instantly became the number one digital documentary worldwide.
Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito narrates the documentary under the direction of Michael Mazzola. Dr Greer received $700,000 or around £543,000 through crowd funding to make the film.
Mrs Clinton and her campaign manager Mr John Podesta made references to the issue of UFOs and aliens during her unsuccessful presidential campaign. She even promised to form a task force and send them to Area 51 US Air Force base in Nevada to know what is going on there. Many conspiracy theorists believe that alien remains and UFO debris are stored in the facility.
Dr Greer thinks that Mrs Clinton is aware of the issue, however, hopes that the truth would come out were dashed with the victory of President Donald Trump, who remained silent on the subject.
Watch – A UFO Flying In Circles In The UK Sky Leaves A Trail Of Bright Light
Watch – A UFO Flying In Circles In The UK Sky Leaves A Trail Of Bright Light
An unidentified flying object has been captured on camera circling in the sky above a hill on the Longleat Estate in Wiltshire. A resident in a nearby Frome, Somerset caught the strange event on camera. The video shows an apparent UFO circling over National Trust-owned Cley Hill, creating a trail behind it in a blazing white.
The area near Warminster town has been a UFO hotspot. The local who saw this particular mysterious object noted that it had been seen several times already.
The witness did not discount the probability that it was a drone with an amazing flame effect tail or something. He said that it had been spotted a few times locally.
The clip has caught the attention among UFO enthusiasts online, especially those who study UFO sighting videos from around the world.
The footage was then posted to YouTube by the well-known alien conspiracy YouTube channel. The channel said that they had never seen anything like it before – the unique circular movement and the ravishing light.
Some sceptical viewers of the video suggested it could be an acrobatic aeroplane or a meteor.
Ook al werden er al meer dan een eeuw geleden kristallen schedels ontdekt, er is nog niet veel over bekend. Ze zijn al even mysterieus als glanzend. Zijn het authentieke schedels van de Maya’s of een ander oud volk? Bezitten ze dan magische krachten en kunnen we er de toekomst in zien of onze gezondheid uit aflezen? Of is heel deze hype bedrog en werden alle schedels gefabriceerd door enkele kunstenaars uit de voorbije twee eeuwen? Carl Bries neemt dit mysterie met jou onder de loep.
Oude culturen
Toen de eerste kristallen schedels ontdekt werden, schreef men ze toe aan volkeren uit de precolumbiaanse tijd. Men dacht dat de oude Maya’s ze gebruikten bij hun rituelen; wellicht om de goden gunstig te stemmen bij mensenoffers. Hoe en waarom ze dat precies deden, kon men niet zeggen. Maar volgens deze kenners waren de schedels net oud genoeg om te passen in het tijdskader waarin de Maya’s leefden, dus moesten ze wel een heilig voorwerp zijn voor het volk. Misschien werden ze wel gebruikt om rampen of ziektes te voorspellen. Of misschien bezitten ze een mystieke kracht die de Maya’s tegen hun vijanden gebruikten.
Volgens anderen waren het echter niet de Maya’s, maar leden van een ander volk die de schedels hadden gemaakt. Dat volk werd echter verdreven door de Maya’s en ging verloren in de dichte nevelen der geschiedenis. Deze kenners beweerden dan weer dat de schedels werden gemaakt om de doden te eren, maar ook hiervan zijn er geen bewijzen.
Volgens nog een derde stroming zijn de schedels afkomstig uit Atlantis. Daar zouden ze met extreme nauwkeurigheid zijn gecreëerd door speciaal opgeleide kunstenaars. Ze zouden de geheime krachten van het verloren rijk herbergen. Wat er ook van zij, deze drie theorieën gingen de wereld in als waarheid. De schedels waren een fenomeen voor archeologen, maar zouden pas echt groot nieuws worden bij het publiek na de vondst van de meest legendarische onder hen.
Mitchell-Hedges
In 1923 ondernam de Britse ontdekkingsreiziger Frederick Mitchell-Hedges een tocht naar het Centraal-Amerikaanse land Belize. Vergezeld door zijn dochter Anna ging hij op zoek naar sporen van een oude beschaving. Hij stootte er op enkele ruïnes, die hij met zijn expeditieleden grondig onderzocht. Na een jaar ter plekke te zijn geweest, ging Anna op een ochtend op pad door de ruïnes, wanneer ze plotseling beneden iets vreemds zag liggen. Ze daalde de heuvel af en begon te graven. Enkele ogenblikken later haalde ze een grote kristallen schedel tevoorschijn. De legende van de Mitchell-Hedges-schedel was begonnen.
Volgens Anna Mitchell-Hedges begon ze de kracht van de schedel meteen te voelen toen ze hem oppakte. Hij zou verschillende keren van kleur zijn veranderd en zelfs even gloeiend heet aangevoeld hebben. Dat was volgens Frederick het bewijs dat deze kristallen schedel heel bijzonder was. Of dat ook werkelijk zo was, is altijd onderwerp van discussie gebleven. Er werd van in het begin immers fel getwijfeld aan het hele verhaal. Sceptici, vooral archeologen, hebben er nooit een woord van geloofd. Frederick Mitchell-Hedges werd nooit serieus genomen in de wereld van geleerden, laat staan dat ze dit fantastische verhaal zouden geloven. En dat om de volgende redenen:
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges was geen echte archeoloog, hij was slechts een amateur die nooit zelf opgravingen verrichte. Hij ging in plaats daarvan naar sites die al ontdekt waren om er dan te gaan zoeken naar vergeten schatten. Zoiets doet elke geleerde huiveren en vandaar dat Mitchell-Hedges veeleer als onwaardig wordt beschouwd. Sommigen noemen hem een aasgier, een dromer of een fantast en hij zou ooit zelf gezegd hebben ‘ooit iets te ontdekken wat zonder enige twijfel de geschiedenisboeken zal halen’. Heeft hij dat uiteindelijk zelf in de hand gewerkt door zijn dochter Anna een gefabriceerde schedel te laten ontdekken? Het lijkt in ieder geval wel zo volgens de meeste archeologen.
Hoewel hij geen echte archeoloog was, werd de expeditie naar Belize toch als officieel bestempeld. Daarom moest Mitchell-Hedges elk teamlid opschrijven en doorgeven aan de instanties. Er was echter geen sprake van Anna, wat dus betekent dat zij niet eens aanwezig was op deze tocht.
Recent onderzoek bracht aan het licht dat de schedel wellicht die van een vrouw moet voorstellen. Hij is echter niet gemaakt naar het voorbeeld van een Mayavrouw, maar naar een Europees model. Dat bevestigt de eerdere geruchten dat de schedel dus gewoon in West-Europa moet zijn gemaakt. Eerst dacht men dat Mitchell-Hedges hem had laten maken voor zijn dochter, maar in een oud document van een veilinghuis staat te lezen dat hij er ooit zo’n kristallen schedel had gekocht. Wellicht zal dat de befaamde Mitchell-Hedges-schedel geweest zijn.
Redenen genoeg dus voor sceptici om het hele verhaal rond de beruchte schedel de kop in te drukken. Anna Mitchell-Hedges bleef echter tot aan haar dood volhouden dat het om een authentiek stuk ging, waaraan gigantische krachten moesten worden toegeschreven. Onzin, zo blijkt nu al jaren. En ook haar claim dat de schedel niet nagebootst kan worden, werd inmiddels met de grond gelijk gemaakt. Onderzoekers van National Geographic hebben voor een aflevering omtrent kristallen schedels aan een Chinese kunstenaar gevraagd de Mitchell-Hedges-schedel na te maken en die slaagde daar perfect in. Toch blijft het een leuke legende om eens over te lezen.
Wereldheerschappij!
Hoewel de laatste jaren is aangetoond dat kristallen schedels niet echt over bovenaardse krachten beschikken, blijven de gelovers vasthouden dat er wel degelijk iets mee aan de hand is. Eén legende zegt nog dat er dertien schedels verborgen zijn in de wereld en dat die moeten samengebracht worden in een uniek patroon. Wie daarin slaagt, zal de macht over de wereld krijgen. Helaas (of gelukkig?) is ook hier geen bewijs van te vinden en dus lijkt het bij een spannend verhaal te blijven. Tenzij iemand er in de toekomst toch in slaagt de dertien schedels te vinden en wie weet dan inderdaad de heerschappij van de wereld in zijn handen heeft. Tot dan blijven kristallen schedels vooral mooie voorwerpen om te bestuderen en om er nog mooiere legendes rond te creëren.
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.
POWs and Slaves
Human sacrifice victims buried at the Shang Dynasty Royal Cemetery were kept as slaves before being killed, archaeologists have found.
Credit: beibaoke/Shutterstock
At an ancient site of human sacrifice in China, war captives may have been kept as slaves for years before they were killed, a new study finds.
Archaeologists have previously uncovered evidence of ritual human sacrifice in many ancient societies, including the ancient Greeks, the Vikings, the ancient Maya, and the Aztecs and the Incas, as well as in ancient China. [Read more about the doomed lives.]
Not a Comet
A color scan of the original computer printout of the "Wow!" signal as detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory in 1977.
Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American Astrophysical Observatory (NAAPO)
An astronomer thinks he's pinpointed the source of a mysterious radio signal from space: a passing comet that nobody knew about. But his colleagues said they're still skeptical of the explanation, noting that comets don't emit radio waves in the right way.
Others aren't so sure. "We do not believe the two-comets theory can explain the Wow! signal," Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who discovered the Wow! signal in 1977, told Live Science. [Read more about the 'WOW!' signal.]
Tanning by Pill
A new drug can give human skin a "natural" tan — it activates the same process that causes skin to darken in the sun, without exposure to harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays, according to early research.
Much more research is needed to determine if the drug is safe before it could be used in people, the researchers said. But they are hopeful that the drug might actually protect people against skin cancer, because the presence of melanin in the skin is linked with a lower risk of skin cancer. [Read more about sunless tanning.]
Splitting Protons
A Chinese satellite has split pairs of "entangled photons" and transmitted them to separate ground stations 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) apart, smashing the previous distance record for such a feat and opening new possibilities in quantum communication.
Quantum entanglement has interesting applications for testing the fundamental laws of physics, but also for creating exceptionally secure communication systems, scientists have said. That's because quantum mechanics states that measuring a quantum system inevitably disturbs it, so any attempt to eavesdrop is impossible to hide. [Read more about hack-proof communications.]
Charging on the Go
A new wireless power system could help people avoid the inevitable jumbled mess of tangled cords and offer a more efficient way to charge electric vehicles on the go, according to a new study.
The problem lies in the design of these wireless power systems. They typically consist of a source, which is the charging pad, and a receiver, which could be a phone or an electric car. [Read more about wired roads.]
A Severe Condition
The section of colon that was removed was 30 inches long and weighed nearly 29 lbs.
Credit: Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital
When doctors in China removed 30 inches of a young man's colon, they also removed nearly 29 lbs. (13 kilograms) of his feces.
The remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec wind god Ehécatl were found at a site in Mexico City.
Credit: Héctor Montaño/INAH
An ancient ceremonial ball court and an Aztec temple dedicated to the wind god Ehécatl have been identified in what is now a modern section of Mexico City.
And close by the ball court lay a grisly surprise: sets of neck bones representing about 30 individuals, all infants and children, INAH officials said in the statement. [Read more about the gruesome find.]
Sex in Space
Artist's illustration of colonists on Mars. Scientists don't yet know how babies would develop and grow away from Earth, and this lack of knowledge poses a possible hurdle to establishing sustainable space settlements, experts say.
Credit: Illustration: Pat Rawlings/NASA
If humanity is serious about colonizing Mars, we need to get busy studying how to get busy in space.
Off-Earth reproduction isn't a completely ignored topic, of course. Just last month, for example, a group of researchers in Japan announced that freeze-dried mouse sperm that was stored on the International Space Station for nine months gave rise to healthy pups. [Read more about the final frontier.]
Renaissance Mom
Leonardo da Vinci circa 1510.
Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The identity of Leonardo da Vinci's mother has eluded historians for years, but now one scholar said he's found the woman behind the Renaissance man.
After digging through overlooked records in Italy, Martin Kemp, a leading Leonardo expert, claimed that the artist was born to Caterina di Meo Lippi, a 15-year-old orphan, on April 15, 1452. [Read more about Da Vinci's mom.]
Work and Sexism
The recent case of man in a powerful position making a sexist comment — during a company meeting aimed partly at addressing discrimination against women — raises the question of why gender issues in the workplace are so difficult to quash.
Companies don't talk about things such as masculinity and the role it plays in gender inequality, Pascoe told Live Science. But dominance over women is a "central part of the contemporary understanding of masculinity," and that extends beyond the workplace, she said. [Read more about workplace sexism.]
The briefing will incude a panel of four experts, according to a statement by NASA: Mario Perez, Kepler program scientist in the Astrophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington; Susan Thompson, Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California; Benjamin Fulton, doctoral candidate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the California Institute of Technology; and Courtney Dressing, NASA Sagan Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. A question-and-answer session will follow. [Gallery: A World of Kepler Planets]
Kepler has been hunting for extrasolar planets since its launch in 2009. This latest set of exoplanet candidates will use a more complete data set than ever before, with analysis of greater sophistication. The spacecraft started a new mission, called K2, after the failure of two reaction wheels that stabilized the spacecraft in 2013. The K2 mission was a modified version of the original planet-hunting mandate, seeking worlds around relatively nearby red dwarf stars.
Newfound exoplanets are often listed as candidates because it can take time to verify that they are actually there. Kepler finds planets by observing the light of stars over a period of time, using a process called the transit method. If the light dims, then it's possible a planet passed in front of it. The evidence for an exoplanet is considered stronger if the light dims more than once on a predictable schedule, indicating that something is in orbit around the star.
Kepler was the first mission capable of seeing planets the size of Earth around other stars in the "habitable zone" — the region at a distance from a star where liquid water could exist without freezing or boiling away immediately.
According to NASA, thus far Kepler has found 4,496 exoplanet candidates. Some 2,335 have been confirmed and 21 are Earth-size planets in the habitable zone. Since the mission was renamed K2, an additional 520 exoplanet candidates have been found, with 148 confirmed.
Heather Wade, who hosts a radio show on the paranormal, says she has found proof the UFO really did crash land in New Mexico, US, back in 1947.
She insists she has got her hands on an "ultra top secret" US Defence Intelligence Agency document from an unnamed source.
She claims the dossier details how the UFO crashed on July 2 or 3, 1947.
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MYSTERY: It is claimed there is proof a UFO crashed in New Mexico in 1947
A weird flying disc smashed into a ranch in Roswell.
The US military stated that it was merely a weather balloon but conspiracy theories have flourished ever since.
Wade claims it describes how four decomposing alien bodies were found two miles from the crash site a week later.
This is probably the work of someone in Ufology”
Nick Redfern
The alleged government report says: "Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded.
"These had fallen to earth at least two miles east of the crash site where the wreckage was located.
"All of the four alien crew members were dead and badly decomposed."
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PROOF: Heather Wade believes she has the key to the mystery
A statement on the website for her radio show, Midnight in the Desert, reads: "Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source.
"At this time we can find no evidence of forgery."
But the documents have been dismissed as fake by British UFO investigator Nick Redfern.
He said with the 70th anniversary of the Roswell incident next month the timing was too suspicious.
He said on Facebook: "While I don't know who faked those new MJ12 documents, there's not a chance this is disinformation by a government agency.
"This is probably the work of someone in Ufology, who is just waiting for certain UFO researchers to endorse the documents – and then the hoaxer will come forward and explain how and why he did it."
Some day in the far future, it’s possible our descendants will kick it up a notch and wrap the entire Sun in a massive solar-collecting shell known as a Dyson Sphere. It’s also possible that some advanced alien civilizations have already gone this route, which is why some SETI folks are on the lookout for these hypothetical objects. But a new study proposes that aliens are more likely to build megastructures around pulsars than stars—and importantly, we should be able to detect these objects from Earth using current technology.
When Freeman Dyson came up with his mind-altering idea back in 1959, he wasn’t imagining an energy solution for future humans. Instead, he was thinking about aliens, and the kinds of things we should be looking for to finally prove they actually exist. Today, the search for alien megastructures is referred to as Dysonian SETI, and we haven’t found anything yet (though we’ve had some false signals).
Conceptually, Dyson’s hypothetical sphere makes a lot of sense, particularly for advanced civilizations with a huge appetite for energy. By constructing a thin spherical shell around its sun, a civilization could capture oodles of solar energy that would otherwise bleed uselessly into space.
Graduating to a Type 2 Kardashev civilization sounds all good and well, but constructing—and maintaining—a megastructure of this scale won’t be easy. The shell itself would be located around one AU from the host star (that’s the average distance the Earth orbits the Sun). Consequently, the amount of material required to build a Dyson Sphere would be literally astronomical, and some experts have speculated that, if we were to ever build a Dyson Sphere, we’d have to dismantle Mercury, and possibly even Venus and the Asteroid Belt. Unfortunately, this could disrupt the delicate gravitational balance within the Solar System, leading to downstream consequences like planet-on-planet collisions. Other challenges exist as well, such as maintaining the shape and position of the shell, and repairing the endless damage wrought to the structure by incoming asteroids and comets.
It’s for these and other reasons that Zaza Osmanov, an astronomer from the Free University of Tbilisi, believes that Dyson Spheres aren’t the way to go. In a paper he published last year in the International Journal of Astrobiology, Osmanov said that Dyson Spheres are “unrealistically massive and cannot be considered seriously,” and that aliens (or future humans for that matter) are more likely to build Dyson Rings—a stripped down version of a Dyson Sphere. What’s more, he said aliens weren’t likely to construct these solar-collecting rings around stars, but pulsars instead. Now, in a follow-up study to this first paper, Osmanov is arguing that we should be able to detect these structures from Earth.
Osmanov’s idea is actually kind of awesome. Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars or white dwarfs that emit a concentrated beam of electromagnetic radiation. From our vantage point on Earth, we can only see pulsars if their beams are pointing directly at us. Pulsars have short and highly regular rotational periods, which is why they blink. (Fun fact: When the first pulsar was discovered in 1967, astronomers thought they had stumbled upon an alien intelligence—they even named it LGM, which stands for Little Green Men.)
According to Osmanov, advanced alien civilizations are likely to exploit this high-power celestial phenomenon. Extending Dyson’s concept to pulsars, he says a ring of solar panels could be constructed around a slowly-rotating pulsar (spinning around about once every half second, so not that slow) at a distance of around nine million miles, or roughly one-third of the distance between Mercury and our Sun. He estimates that the Dyson Ring would be exposed to temperatures of around 117 degrees C (242 degrees F), which would make the object visible to observers on Earth in the infrared (IR) band.
Consequently, and assuming these objects actually exist, Osmanov says we could detect these Dyson rings from Earth using existing telescopes, such as the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and in future, the James Webb Space Telescope. “The search of infrared rings is quite promising for distances up to [652 lightyears], where one will be able to monitor potentially 64 [known] pulsars by using the IR instruments,” he writes in the study. “Observation of distant pulsars [up to 3,262 lightyears]... will significantly increase the total number of potential objects to [around] 1,600, but at this moment the UV instruments cannot provide such a level of sensitivity.”
Artist’s impression of a Dyson Ring.
(Image: Wikimedia)
“This is pretty cool,” Milan M. Ćirković, an astronomer and astrobiologist at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, told Gizmodo. “I do agree that they are detectable in principle... and this study is worthy of attention just for that. Whether [the construction of Dyson Rings around pulsars] is likely to happen depends on too many issues, including perhaps the most intriguing one, namely what other [kinds]... of megastructures could we expect from a Type 2 civilization that has capacity and will to build pulsar rings.”
Anders Sandberg, a senior research fellow at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, likes Osmanov’s idea, but he’s still a big believer in good ol’ fashion Dyson spheres.
“For stars, a Dyson swarm [a variation of the Dyson sphere] can pick up most of the energy because the star shines evenly in all directions,” Sandberg told Gizmodo. “For a pulsar there is not much light, but indeed a big electromagnetic field with a lot of directionality one can capture and use using much smaller rings. Osmanov is right in that this requires less material, but it is not clear why this would matter much. One could build a thin yet energy-collecting Dyson swarm out of a few large asteroids in the solar system. If you have self-replicating [robotic] technology, scale is not a problem, and if you lack it you will struggle to build even a Dyson ring.”
Sandberg also says that Dysonian superstructures don’t have to be located in a star system’s habitable zone, and that we should look for alien megastructures in other regions of space as well.
“But it makes sense to look at pulsars to see if there is something there: They are rare enough to stand out—and it has been suggested that SETI should look near them for this very reason—and they might have accessible energy sources useful in ways normal Dyson swarms aren’t,” he said.
So what the hell are we waiting for? Time for someone with access to an IR-scanning telescope to hone in on on this rather small set of candidate objects. Who knows, the celestial phenomena we once thought were signs of alien intelligence may in fact be home to ET—and possibly a glimpse into our very own future.
'ROSWELL PROOF' Is alleged US DIA leak that proves 'alien UFO crashed' fact or fiction?
'ROSWELL PROOF' Is alleged US DIA leak that proves 'alien UFO crashed' fact or fiction?
UFO experts have waded into a debate about a newly released document which purports to be US Government proof that the Roswell UFO crash actually happened.
A page from the document that many in the UFO community believe is a blatant hoax.
This week Express.co.uk revealed that a report had surfaced, allegedly leaked from the US Defense Intelligence Agency(DIA), which confirmed the legendary Roswell UFO crash happened, dead aliens were found, and there was a Government cover up.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since July 1947 when 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 top-secret US military base.
The 47-page dossier, said to be drafted in the 1980s, contains a six-page report on the Roswell incident, detailing how the UFO came down on July 2 or 3 1947, and four decomposing alien bodies were recovered two miles from the crash site a week later.
So far the consensus among UFO experts seems to be that the report is nothing but an elaborate hoax.
Nick Pope, who investigated the UFO phenomena for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) until 2009, described them as "fake with a capital F".
Mr Pope, who now speaks at UFO conferences across the globe, told Express.co.uk: "These documents are completely and utterly bogus.
"As with previous such documents that have surfaced in the US, I suspect they've been hoaxed by someone on the fringes of the UFO community, playing an elaborate practical joke to see if they can put one over on the true believers."
He spent 21 years in the MoD and said he knew how genuine documents were prepared.
He said: "The language and the wider Œfeel¹ of these UFO documents is just plain wrong.
"It¹s as if someone was playing buzzword bingo with all the words and phrases that excite UFO believers, and throwing in some New Age philosophy for good measure.
"Anyone sitting on genuine documents of this nature who really wanted to get the story out, I suspect, would have sent them to the New York Times, the Washington Post, or WikiLeaks, and not to a radio show host in the UFO community.
But there are those who think the US Government was actually behind it.
Tom Livesey, posted on Mr Randle's blog: "I hope Nick Redfern is wrong and that this is disinformation not a hoax.
"With documents such as this I suspect a fishing exercise, whereby people on the other side - who may be as perplexed as we are - put information out to see if the internet can come up with answers through pooled intelligence.
"The documents must be poorly written and obviously fake, or disclosure would actually occur which is not the intent."
Heather Wade, host of US late-night online paranormal radio show Midnight in the Desert, claims to have obtained the document from a known but unnamed military source who sat on them for years.
She wrote on her website it had been passed to nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, who is a long term Roswell believer and Roswell investigator, and so far he had reported nothing to say they were faked.
A statement on the midnightinthedesert.com website said: "Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source.
I suspect they've been hoaxed by someone on the fringes of the UFO community, playing an elaborate practical joke to see if they can put one over on the true believers."
Nick Pope
"She immediately had Stanton Friedman take a look at these documents who said, 'I have never seen anything like this.'
"Stanton Friedman is going to continue examining these documents for authenticity, but at this time we can find no evidence of forgery."
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said previous "majestic 12" documents which surfaced were regarded as fake.
But, he was impressed by the lengths any hoaxer went to if the new report was bogus.
He added: "The amount of documentation and the details in them, including this 'latest'
document, does show a considerable amount of effort and knowledge has been expended to prove the presence of aliens in our midst."
He even floated the conspiracy theory of Government insiders releasing the false documents.
He added: "It could be part of a US government disinformation project or a hoax to try to smoke out the truth from the authorities.
"Certainly they are more fake than fact."
UFO publisher Philip Mantle claimed it was irrefutable they were fake, as they referred to a fictitious location in Nevada.
He posted on Facebook: "The final nail in the coffin is. . . according to these documents, the SECRET MJ-12 HQ is under Flat Rock, Nevada, a fictional town invented for Michael Crichton's "Andromeda Strain" novel!"
British UFO investigator Nick Redfern is convinced they are fake, and not part of a government misinformation conspiracy.
He said on Facebook: "While I don't know who faked those new MJ12 documents, there's not a chance this is disinformation by a government agency.
"This is probably the work of someone in Ufology, who is just waiting for certain UFO researchers to endorse the documents - and then the hoaxer will come forward and explain how and why he did it."
He said with the 70th anniversary of the Roswell incident next month it was perfect timing.
He added: "I am looking forward to seeing certain ufological fence-sitters who will 100 percent refuse to denounce the documents.
"Why won't they denounce them? Because they fear they won't get booked at next year's conference here, or conference there, and are fearful of not being in with the 'in-crowd' of Ufology anymore."
Kevin Randle, a US Ufologist, who worked at length on the Roswell case, said they were fake in a lengthy blog post that tore apart discrepancies in them.
He said: "The writing does not sound as if it came from a government source, and without names, without government agencies, without any way to check things out, this just doesn¹t seem to be authentic."
Mr Randle blogged about Ms Wade¹s source writing: "I did ask Heather Wade about the source, or sources, and she didn¹t give me names, only that they were ex-military and had possessed the documents for a very long time.
"She didn¹t know which government agency had originated them, and there seemed no way to verify them through government sources."
The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), set up to lobby the US Government to end an alleged truth embargo which covers up the existence of aliens on Earth, is sitting on the fence.
It has described the documents as important, but accepts they could be fake.
It released a statement saying: "Over the coming weeks PRG will work closely with leading researchers into the history of the truth embargo and ET related government documents to determine the quality of this evidence."
It gave four possible explanations:
*Government disinformation
*Fully legitimate government documents
*A hoax by a debunker
*A hoax by a believer
It added: "The first two options are the most likely and about equal in probability."
Steve Bassett, PRG founder, later said on Facebook: "Whatever the status of this document - real, hoax or disinformation - PRG's principal concern is that top researchers in
the extraterrestrial phenomena research field be the first to assess this document and to the extent possible run it to ground before the debunkers and trolls do their thing.
"The message is this to either government disinformation entities or knucklehead hoaxers: this is not 1960 or 1970 or 1980 or 1990.
"It is 2017 and disinformation and hoaxes will be engaged immediately and your misguided effort will amount to little."
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UFO sighting? Video purportedly showing massive light over Paris raises questions
UFO sighting? Video purportedly showing massive light over Paris raises questions
Worldwide UFO sightings hit all-time high
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.
NAMED: Secret US team of scientists and military who ‘experimented on aliens and UFOs’
NAMED: Secret US team of scientists and military who ‘experimented on aliens and UFOs’
MEMBERS of an alleged top secret team of scientists and US military bosses who experimented on crashed flying saucers and dead aliens have been "named."
The 12 late scientists and officials who have been named as belonging the alleged Majestic-12 group.
The identities of the late officials are revealed in what conspiracists say is a leaked document from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from the Eighties.
Yesterday, Express.co.uk revealed how the 47-page alleged "above top secret" file had been released and contained claims the 1947 RoswellUFO crash did happen, dead aliens were found and there was a major cover up to hide the truth.
The document is said to have been given to Heather Wade, host of US late-night online paranormal radio show Midnight in the Desert, from a known source who has not been named.
Many UFO experts have branded the document fake, but the release has set the conspiracy theory world on fire, with others convinced it could be genuine.
The document claims a highly secretive team of top scientists, government officials and military leaders - all now dead - was set up in the wake of the Roswell incident to investigate the "captured flying sauce remains" and "four dead aliens" and assess the risk to the planet of "visiting aliens".
The document claims the group was called Majestic 12 and set up on the orders of President Harry S Truman, in the wake of Roswell.
Four decomposed aliens were found 2km from the Roswell crash site
Alleged DIA leaked report
It identifies these people as the original members:
*Lloyd Viel Berkner, an American physicist and engineer, who died in 1967 aged 62, and had investigated the Earth's atmosphere.
*Detlev Wulf Bronk, another US scientist, educator, who died aged 78 in 1975, and was recognised for developing biophysics as an established science.
*Vannevar Bush, an American engineer and inventor and science, who led the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II.
It carried out military research and development. He died aged 84 in 1974.
*Donald Howard Menzel, who died in 1976 aged 75, who was one of the first theoretical astronomers and astrophysicists in the US, and discovered the physical properties of the solar chromosphere, the chemistry of stars, the atmosphere of Mars, and the nature of gaseous nebulae.
*Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, a US Air Force general, its second Chief of Staff, and second Director of Central Intelligence, who died in 1954 aged 54.
*Nathan Farragut Twining, who died in 1982 aged 84, who was Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957, and during the Roswell UFO incident.
*Sidney William Souers, who died in 1973 aged 80, and was a former director of central intelligence, and the executive secretary of the National Security Council, before becoming special consultant to the President on military and foreign affairs from 1950 to 1953.
*Robert Miller Montague, a Lieutenant General in the US Army who was deputy commander of Fort Bliss, Texas and commander of the Sandia Missile Base in New Mexico, who died in 1958 aged 58.
*James Vincent Forrestal, who died in 1949 aged 57, and was the first United States Secretary of Defense.
*Gordon Gray, who died in 1982 aged 73, who was a defense and national security government official.
*Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter, the third director of the post-World War II United States Central Intelligence Group (CIG), who died aged 85 in 1982.
*Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, who died aged 98 in 1984, and was from 1941 to 1956 chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Part of the document, a four page report, said to have been prepared on January 8, 1989, claims to be a preliminary briefing about Majestic 12.
The report says the group had the remains of seven crashed flying saucers and 27 aliens.
Seasoned UFO expert and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman is investigating the authenticity of the document and is said to believe it could be genuine.
The Paridigm Research Group (PRG) which tries to pressure the White House to disclose documents about UFOs believes the report could be genuine, but accepts it could also be fake.
Express.co.uk has contacted the DIA and awaits a response.
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SpaceX's Mars colony plan: How Elon Musk plans to build a million-person Martian city
SpaceX's Mars colony plan: How Elon Musk plans to build a million-person Martian city
By Mike Wall Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of a SpaceX colony ship arriving at Mars. The company aims to help establish a million-person city on the Red Planet.
(SpaceX)
Elon Musk has put his Mars-colonization vision to paper, and you can read it for free.
SpaceX's billionaire founder and CEO just published the plan, which he unveiled at a conference in Mexico in September 2016, in the journal New Space. Musk's commentary, titled "Making Humanity a Multi-Planetary Species," is available for free on New Space's website through July 5.
"In my view, publishing this paper provides not only an opportunity for the spacefaring community to read the SpaceX vision in print with all the charts in context, but also serves as a valuable archival reference for future studies and planning," New Space editor-in-chief (and former NASA "Mars czar") Scott Hubbard wrote in a statement. [ SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport for Mars in Images ]
Musk's Mars vision centers on a reusable rocket-and-spaceship combo that he's dubbed the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS). Both the booster and the spaceship will be powered by SpaceX's Raptor engine, still in development, which Musk said will be about three times stronger than the Merlin engines that power the company's Falcon 9 rocket.
The booster, with its 42 Raptors, will be the most powerful rocket in history, by far. It will be capable of launching 300 metric tons (330 tons) to low Earth orbit (LEO), or 550 metric tons (600 tons) in an expendable variant, Musk said. For comparison, NASA's famous Saturn V moon rocket, the current record holder, could loft "just" 135 metric tons (150 tons).
ITS rockets will launch the spaceships to Earth orbit, then come back down for a pinpoint landing about 20 minutes later. And "pinpoint" is not hyperbole: "With the addition of maneuvering thrusters, we think we can actually put the booster right back on the launch stand," Musk wrote in his New Space paper, citing SpaceX's increasingly precise Falcon 9 first-stage landings .
The ITS boosters will launch many spaceships and fuel tankers (which will top up the spaceships' tanks) to orbit over the course of their operational lives; the rockets will be designed to fly about 1,000 times each, Musk wrote. The spaceships, meanwhile, will hang out in orbit, and then depart en masse when Earth and Mars align favorably. This happens once every 26 months.
Eventually, Musk wrote, he envisions 1,000 or more ITS spaceships, each carrying 100 or more people, leaving Earth orbit during each of these Mars windows. The architecture could conceivably get 1 million people to Mars within the next 50 to 100 years, he has said.
The ships would also fly back from Mars, using their nine Raptor engines and methane-based propellant that was manufactured on the Red Planet. Each ITS ship would probably be able to make 12 to 15 deep-space journeys during its operational life, Musk wrote, and each fuel tanker could likely fly to Earth orbit 100 or so times.
The ITS' reusability is key to making Mars colonization affordable . This reusability — combined with other measures, such as fueling the spaceships in Earth orbit and making propellant on Mars — could bring the price of a Red Planet trip down to $200,000 or so per person, from an estimated $10 billion using conventional spaceflight systems, Musk said.
ITS spaceships could begin flying to Mars about 10 years from now, if everything goes well, Musk added. But he acknowledged that success is far from guaranteed.
"There is a huge amount of risk. It is going to cost a lot," Musk wrote. "There is a good chance we will not succeed, but we are going to do our best and try to make as much progress as possible."
And SpaceX has a history of overcoming long odds. When Musk founded the company in 2002, he wrote, "I thought we had maybe a 10 percent chance of doing anything — of even getting a rocket to orbit, let alone getting beyond that and taking Mars seriously."
You can download a free copy of Musk's Mars paper here:
One of the earliest searches for signals indicative of extraterrestrial intelligence was made in 1960 with this 26-meter antenna at Greenbank Virginia.4( Photo courtesy National Radio Astronomy Observatory / Associated Universities, Inc. / NSF.
One of the more intriguing unsolved modern mysteries is the fast radio burst (FRB) phenomenon. Over the last several years, radio telescopes on Earth have been detecting more and more very brief, very powerful radio signals which originate from deep space. While astronomers have been able to locate the source of several of these signals, the exact mechanisms of their production remain a mystery. Of course, it has been speculated that they might be attempts at communication made by advanced alien races, or even that they might be a form of alien spacecraft propulsion for deep-space travel.
While it would be nice if these signals were indeed being beamed at us by an alien race, there are possible natural explanations.
Whatever these radio bursts happen to be, astronomers believe that similar signals might indeed be used for communication across vast distances of space. While we haven’t determined that any of them might be a collect call from deep space, one astrophysicist has just published a study which sought to determine whether such signals could indeed encrypt information and if our squishy little human brains could decode them. Turns out we can – with the help of social media, naturally. It is the weird future, after all.
And why shouldn’t an entire species communicate directly to another? Because not everyone has access the internet yet, that’s why.
This crowdsourced experiment was conceived by Rene Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, who encrypted seven different pages of information into a simulated alien fast radio burst signal, which can be heard here. The signal’s electromagnetic frequency was set to 452.13 MHz, a figure derived from multiplying pi by the emission frequency of neutral hydrogen atoms. That same frequency was used in Carl Sagan’s Contact, as the values are commonly found throughout the universe. Heller released the message to social media and challenged the public to decrypt it, calling his experiment the “SETI Decrypt Challenge.” The following rules were attached:
Suppose a telescope on Earth receives a series of pulses from a fixed, unresolved source beyond the solar system. The source is a star about 50 light years from Earth. The pulses are in the form of short/long signals and they are received in a very narrow band around an electromagnetic frequency of 452.12919 MHz. A computer algorithm identifies the artificial nature of the pulses. It turns out the pulses carry a message. The pulses signify binary digits. Suppose further that you were, by whatsoever reason, put in charge of decoding this message.
If you successfully decrypted the message, you should be able to answer the following questions: What is the typical body height of our interstellar counterparts? What is their typical lifetime? What is the scale of the devices they used to submit their message? Since when have they been communicating interstellar? What kind of object do they live on? How old is their stellar system?
Within just a month, Heller was greeted with a high number of successful decryptions, particularly after the challenge was posted to Reddit. 300 complete replies were received, out of which 66 contain correct solutions, half of which appeared to be derived independently without help. The majority of the correct responses were submitted from the two coasts of the United States and western Europe. When decrypted, the message consists of a binary code which specifies dimensions of a grid. When the message’s data are plugged into the grid, it creates a picture:
The images are composed of 0s and 1s and explain basic facts about an “alien” race.
The image shows the first 10,000 prime numbers, a grey alien, a sine wave, the exomoon Kepler 22b, and an image of the Square Kilometer Array telescope, chosen to simulate the device used by the “alien civilization” which sent the message. The message is similar to the Arecibo message, a radio signal designed in part by Carl Sagan which was beamed from Earth to a nearby star cluster in 1974. The experiment’s author is hopeful that these results demonstrate the power of social media in decrypting possible future messages from alien civilizations. That is, if governments decide to let this kind of discovery to be made public at all.
In 1977, scientists working on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) recorded an unusually strong radio signal, the origin of which many scientists believe has not been explained. While the most exotic theory is that the signal is a call from ET, a paper published in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences claims the origins of the signal is much more mundane. They think a comet or two caused it. SETI scientists, including the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, Seth Shostak, and the man who discovered the signal, disagree.
Seth Shostak
As Shostak puts it in a recent article, the “Wow! Signal” is in the “A-List” of signals recorded by scientists that may potentially have been generated by an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization. It is an exclusive list. Shostak did not mention how long the list is, but it can be argued the “Wow! Signal” is the only signal on that list.
In August of 1977, a signal was captured by a radio telescope called Big Ear at Ohio State University. Upon discovering the signal while reviewing the logs, astronomer Jerry Ehman circled it on the computer printout and wrote “Wow!” off to the side.
The signal was very strong, and according to Shostak, “It had all the characteristics one would anticipate from a signal produced by a deep space transmitter.”
However, despite efforts to capture the signal a second time, it was never heard again.
“So the WOW signal seemed destined to be an enduring mystery of the universe – maybe it really was ET launching a signal in our direction, a whistle that was either very short or very intermittent,” Shostak wrote. “Then again, perhaps it was something else…”
This is where the new paper in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences comes in. The paper is authored by Antonio Paris and Evan Davies. Interestingly, Paris, an astronomer at St. Petersburg College in Florida, also has an interest in UFOs. In fact, he was been an investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and has lectured on the topic at several UFO conferences.
A scan of a color copy of the original computer printout, taken several years after the 1977 arrival of the “Wow!” signal. It was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while he was working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University. The signal appears to have come from an area of the sky with no stars or planets, northwest of the globular cluster M55. Image Credit: The Ohio State University Radio Observatory and the North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO).
In the paper, the authors argue that the signal likely came from a comet or two that was not catalogued at the time the signal was detected. That would explain why Ehrman and others would not have known suspected the comet(s).
“Neutral hydrogen is well known for generating radio static at a frequency of 1420 MHz, which is indeed the spot on the dial where the Big Ear overheard the signal,” admits Shostak. However, he continues, “The comet hypothesis, in my opinion, doesn’t work. To begin with, there’s the slightly dismaying fact that I’ve never heard of anyone measuring strong hydrogen signals from a comet, and I’ve spent a lot of time on radio telescopes tuned to 1420 MHz.”
Shostak also points out that there were two receivers that examined the area of the sky the signal was received. The second sweep, which was only 70 seconds later.
“But the WOW signal only appeared in one of the feeds,” Shostak continued. “Of course, that could be explained if the signal simply went off the air in the time between observation by the first and second feed. Terrestrial interference could be compatible with this requirement, easy peasy. And a signal from impatient aliens could too.”
Comets, on the other hand, do not turn on and off. They move slowly, and should have been detected in the second feed.
Ehman recently told Live Science in a recent interview that he does not buy the comet theory for the same reasons Shostak presented.
“We should have seen the source come through twice in about 3 minutes: one response lasting 72 seconds and a second response for 72 seconds following within about a minute and a half,” Ehman told Live Science. “We didn’t see the second one.”
Antonio Paris
Paris admits this is an issue. However, he suggested to Live Science that the telescope might not have detected the signal in the second feed due to an error with the telescope itself.
“There is some data out there to suggest the issue is at the telescope end and not the phenomenon itself,”Paris told Live Science.
So the mystery continues. However, Paris has not finished making his case. He plans to continue to observe comets and the reasons behind why they create the signals.
“There have been a handful of studies, but I suspect we are the first to specifically build a 10-meter radio telescope to specifically look at this type of solar system body,” he said.
Cyborgs – hybrid creatures forged from human beings and machines – have gradually been making the transition from science fiction staple into reality in the past decades.
Primarily, the use of robotic technology in human beings is used as a medical tool in the present day but as the technology improves it may be employed for a whole host of different reasons. This has led leading philosophers to suggest that the time has come to discuss the ethical implications of creating cyborg humans in the near future.
Most people do not tend to think of prosthetic limbs as the type of robotics which lead to the creation of cyborg humans. However, the latest technology in this field is far more advanced than the majority of people suspect. Carbon fiber and titanium prosthetic limbs are used as a matter of routine in the modern age and the vast majority of false limbs which are fitted today are fully functional.
Prosthetic limbs have become so adept and dexterous recently that experts are even beginning to discuss whether they are more effective than organic limbs. Researchers have also created phenomenal robotic hands which can be triggered by the brain of the patients. Some of the most recent robotic hands produced even have a sense of touch.
Recently, robotic engineers have progressed beyond artificial limbs and have begun to dabble with the idea of implanting human beings with microchips. In recent months, there has been news that a company in Sweden has begun to implant its employees with microchips so that they can perform tasks such as opening doors with the wave of a hand. Even more ambitiously, the Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in the process of developing a so-called neural lace which will eventually be capable of connecting the human mind to electronic devices such as computers and smartphones.
Humanity is becoming more and more ambitious with its plans to push the boundaries of science and technology, particularly regarding space exploration. For many individuals, developing effective cyborg technology could be an essential step towards achieving these dreams. However, others believe that before cyborg technology goes too far that it is incredibly important to discuss the moral and legal questions posed by this next stage of human history.
Ethical philosophers are already beginning to question various aspects of life with cyborg human beings such as establishing safeguards to ensure that human beings cannot be hacked. There are also concerns that there could be troubling implications for the world’s military forces who might use the new developments in cyborg technology to create humans with exoskeletons.
It is very important to consider these questions now to make sure that this next stage in human development is a success and not a complete disaster
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NASA: MARS AND THE EARTH HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN WE THOUGHT
NASA: MARS AND THE EARTH HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN WE THOUGHT
It looks like Earth and Mars have a lot more in common that what was first thought. This conclusion has been reached after NASA revealed photographs taken of Mars in an exploration that has lasted 12 years. The photographs were taken using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and it shows that Mars actually looks a lot like Earth.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured many thousands of images and sent them back to scientists on Earth. The vibrant photographs have managed to capture everything from mineral hills on Mars to dust storms. The landscapes revealed in the photographs look like canyons or red deserts on Earth, which led to NASA saying that Earth and Mars has a lot in common.
The MRO was used by NASA so that scientists could get a much better understanding of the materials, dust, subsurface water and the weather on Mars. The website of NASA has been providing some stunning photos of Mars, including a mesa of 0.4 kilometers, the surface of Mars covered with materials that are of fine grain and which hide the bedrock and the Saheki Crater, which is 84 kilometers across.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of NASA was first launched on 12 August 2005, and it went on a search to try to find evidence of water and whether or not it has persisted on Mars surface over a long period of time. Other missions to Mars have revealed that water flows over the surface of Mars, but it has been something of a mystery as to whether the water had been around for long enough to have provided a habitat for life on Mars.
It was said that the studies would help scientists to find out if there were deposits of minerals forming in the water over a length of time, along with detecting shorelines from ancient lakes and seas. NASA said that one of the cameras on the Orbiter was the biggest to have ever flown on a mission to a planet.
Watch: Kurt Russell says he saw a UFO flying over him in 1997
Watch: Kurt Russell says he saw a UFO flying over him in 1997
Computer, file this under Reasons Why We Need To Clone Kurt Russell because we've never heard anyone tell a UFO story this convincingly.
In 1997, a UFO was sighted over Phoenix, Arizona that was reportedly seen by close to 20,000 people. The event, known in ufologist circles (they're a thing) as the Phoenix Lights Incident, has been thoroughly investigated and while official explanations have been offered, there is still a huge amount of skepticism surrounding the event and whether or not it was actually a UFO or - as the US Air Force claims - weather balloons.
One of the people who called in the sighting was an unidentified pilot who described seeing six bright lights over Phoenix, Arizona from his aircraft as he was travelling towards the runway. The air-traffic controller replied that he was showing no other aircraft on his radar - which only added to the mystery surrounding the event.
For years, ufologists have wondered who that unidentified pilot was - and it was Kurt Russell. According to Kurt, he never mentioned the word "alien", or "UFO", and merely called it in when his son, Oliver Hudson, pointed out the strange-looking lights.
Here's Kurt Russell telling his side of the story in a recent interview on BBC. Also, keep an eye on Chris Pratt's reaction as well.
Roswell conspiracy theory ‘expert’ claims UFO crash did happen and government document proves it
Roswell conspiracy theory ‘expert’ claims UFO crash did happen and government document proves it
A PARANORMAL radio show host insists she has seen a top secret report on Roswell, which proves the alleged incident did occur.
Tom MichaelThe Sun
A ROSWELL conspiracy theory “expert” has claimed to have found proof the supposed UFO crash really did happen.
Heather Wade insists she has got her hands on an “ultra top secret” report confirming the fabled alien encounter in the desert of New Mexico, USA, was real, The Sun reported.
Wade says she got the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) document from an unnamed source, according to The Express.
She claims the dossier details how the UFO came down on July 2 or 3, 1947.
Chilean Navy releases video of mysterious flying object
Wade — who hosts a late night online radio show focusing on the paranormal — claims the documents describe how four decomposing alien bodies were found two miles from the crash site a week later.
The radio host said she passed the report on to Stanton Friedman — a nuclear physicist who is also a Roswell believer and investigator.
All four aliens died in the crash.
Source:News Corp Australia
The supposed government report states: “Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded. “These had fallen to earth at least two miles east of the crash site where the wreckage was located.
“All of the four alien crew members were dead and badly decomposed.”
A statement on the website for her radio show, Midnight in the Desert, reads: “Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source.
“She immediately had Stanton Friedman take a look at these documents who said, ‘I have never seen anything like this, this is new MJ12 information.’
“Stanton Friedman is going to continue examining these documents for authenticity, but at this time we can find no evidence of forgery.”
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VS verbergt 7 UFO’s en 27 dode aliens. Is dit gelekte rapport de smoking gun?
VS verbergt 7 UFO’s en 27 dode aliens. Is dit gelekte rapport de smoking gun?
De VS heeft zeven gecrashte UFO’s en 27 dode aliens in handen. Dat zou blijken uit een gelekt rapport van de Amerikaanse militaire inlichtingendienst (DIA).
In het 47 pagina’s tellende document staat naar verluidt dat de UFO-crash in 1947 bij Roswell echt gebeurd is en dat het incident in de doofpot is gestopt, schrijft de Britse Daily Express.
In de sectie over Roswell valt verder te lezen dat het Amerikaanse leger buiten Roswell wrakstukken van een vliegende schotel en vier aliens heeft geborgen.
Majestic 12
In het rapport wordt geclaimd dat er nog zes UFO’s en 23 lichamen zijn gevonden, meldt het dagblad.
In het document staat verder: “Geavanceerde buitenaardse wezens en hun schijfvormige vaartuigen worden sinds 7 juli 1947 continu gedetecteerd in het Amerikaanse luchtruim.”
“De wrakstukken van zeven vaartuigen en de lichamen van 27 niet-menselijke wezens worden onderzocht door wetenschappers van Majestic 12.”
Aangepast
Majestic 12 was een ‘topgeheime’ inlichtingengroep die door president Harry Truman werd opgezet om onderzoek te doen naar buitenaards bezoek.
Aangezien er na 1957 geen buitenaardse vaartuigen meer werden gevonden, dacht de groep dat deze wezens hun machines dusdanig hadden aangepast aan de omstandigheden op aarde dat ze niet langer neerstortten.
Het gelekte rapport zou zijn overhandigd aan Heather Wade, presentatrice van het paranormale radioprogramma Midnight in the Desert.
Commentaar
UFO-expert en kerngeleerde Stanton Friedman onderzoekt momenteel of het rapport authentiek is.
De Paradigm Research Group (PRG), die in Washington lobbyt om documenten over UFO’s geopenbaard te krijgen, zei dat het rapport echt zou kunnen zijn.
De Daily Express heeft de DIA om commentaar gevraagd.
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COVER UP: NORAD HAS INTERCEPTED 75 UFOS IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS
COVER UP: NORAD HAS INTERCEPTED 75 UFOS IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS
NORAD have responded to a freedom of information request from a Canadian UFO researcher and have confirmed that the joint American-Canadian RADAR operation has tracked almost 2000 UFOs over the past five years. This means that approximately 400 UFOs are spotted flying in the skies over North America every single year. In addition to that, NORAD has revealed that 75 of these UFOs have been intercepted in the recent past.
Intercepts are when officials from NORAD alert fighter jet companies to scramble and attempt to identify the unknown flying craft that has been caught on the radar. The information suggests that this has happened seventy-five times in the past five years but the military organization refused to release the information about the operations or whether they had identified the UFOs which flagged up on the radar.
The refusal of NORAD to release further details about the operations and what they have discovered flying in the skies over North America has been a source of intense frustration to the Canadian UFO Research Victor Viggiani who filed the freedom of information request. He claims that representatives from NORAD have told him that ‘unknown track reports’ are classified as top secret and cannot be released into the public domain for issues relating to ‘national security’ and espionage.
For Viggiani, the claims that the information cannot be released because of national security is little more than a smokescreen to cover up what the Canadian and the United States militaries have discovered as a result of UFO detection over the continent. While some may claim that the UFO reports may be nothing more than excursions by foreign aircraft, Viggiani is convinced that NORAD officials have discovered proof of extraterrestrial visitors to Earth in the course of their duties. µ
Viggiani claimed that when he received the NORAD documents with regards to the intercepts and sightings, he was threatened with indictment if he ever released the file. However, he chose to ignore the warning to bring the truth to the public. “I dare the US government to charge me, ” he said defiantly.
We have created a world where everything is available to us for the right price – or is it not? From top-secret military bases to exclusive clubs, there are several locations that have been restricted from the general population.
In our current age, with the advances of science and technology, the world is more accessible than ever. With the right amount of money, you can take a plane and travel to destinations on the other side of the planet in less than a day’s time.
Royal Air Force Menwith Hill, UK.
Located near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England Royal Air Force (RAF) Menwith Hill is a vast complex, containing a number interesting and unique structures. This site provides communication and intelligence support to both the United Kingdom and the United States.
It has been described as the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. Included on the site is an extensive satellite ground station, and it acts as a communications intercept and missile warning site.
The Bohemian Grooves
Each summer the Bohemian club invites the most influential people in the world to gather at this location for a two-week camp. It is 2,700-acre rural location located in California, although its exact location is unknown.
This is a male only location, sorry ladies!
If you were to gain access to the guestbook you would find presidents such as Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon among their former guests.
Snake Island
Located off the coast of Brazil, Snake Island is a small island that is inhabited by 4,000 of the deadliest snakes on the planet. The risk is so high that the Brazilian Government decided to ban visitors from any access to the island.
Think they are over-reacting? The venom of these snakes is so powerful it has the ability to melt human flesh!
The Coca-Cola Vault
Coca-Cola has spared no expense in their efforts to keep their secret formula safe from prying eyes! This high-tech vault holds the key to their success – a recipe that only a couple people have ever seen.
While the World of Coca-Cola museum in downtown Atlanta will feature exhibits about the secret formula of Coca-Cola, the full recipe will remain locked up safe and sound.
Fort Knox
The United States Army Post Fort Knox is located in Kentucky, just south of Louisville. This 109,000-acre base is considered one of the most secure places on the planet. Protected by around 30,000 soldiers and a flotilla of attack helicopters, nothing is getting in or out of this base without it being known!
What are they protecting that is so important? The Fort holds the United States Gold Bullion Reserve as well as countless other national treasures.
The Svalbard Seed Vault
Located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen, in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. This secure seed bank was designed to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds that are duplicate samples of those held in gene banks worldwide, to be accessed only in the event of a catastrophic environmental disaster.
Access to the vault is EXTREMELY restricted, not even open to those countries that have provided the seeds stored within. It is managed as agreed upon in a tripartite agreement between the Norwegian government, the Crop Trust and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center.
The Vatican’s Secret Archive
The Vatican Apostolic Library, formally established in 1475, contains on of the most significant collections of historical texts known to man. This secret library includes everything from ancient Maya codices to books that ‘allegedly’ are proof of alien contact.
Only a select few individuals have ever had the right to step foot within its walls, making it one of the largest and most secretive libraries on the planet.
Pine Gap Australia
Located in Central Australia, south-west of Alice Springs, this is the only place within the continent that is designated as a strict no-fly zone. This secret site is a key contributor to the global surveillance network ECHELON.
This location is partly run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. National Security Agency, U.S. National Reconnaissance Office and the Australian Government.
The Lascaux Caves, France
Located near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne, southwestern France, the Lascaux Caves contain over 600 ancient cave paintings, estimated around 17,000 years BP. This location was inducted into the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in 1979.
A strange fugal invasion currently threatens the paintings contained upon these cave walls, with lichens and crystals beginning to appear on the walls in the late 1950’s. Access to the caves was restricted beginning in 1963.
The Mormon Church Secret Vault
Believed to contain over 3 billion pages of information pertaining to genealogy and family history of Americans, the vault is completely off limits save for tours on very rare occasions.
This vault was constructed into the side of a mountain with careful consideration going into the preservation of the documents it would contain. For this reason it is very carefully temperature controlled.
Room 39 North Korea
A secret organization, also often referred to as Bureau 39, Room 39 was established in 1970. The goal of this organization is to find ways to obtain foreign currency for the Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Jong-un.
The data available pertaining to this organization is EXTREMELY limited, however it is believed to have over 20 bank accounts across Switzerland and China for the purposes of money laundering and other illegal operations.
Mezhgorye, Russia
One of the most protected and restricted areas within the boundaries of Russia, Mezhgorye is believed to be a secret nuclear missile site. The limited, and hard to substantiate, information regarding this base claims that it contains automatic ballistic missiles. These missiles are said to have the ability to be remotely activated in the event of a nuclear strike.
The location is permanently guarded by two battalions, ensuring that no one is able to gain access unless they have been permitted.
Disney Club 33
A series of private clubs located in three of the Disney Parks, the existence of this club was initially kept secret. With the original location in the heart of the New Orleans Square in Disneyland, and similar locations in Tokyo Disneyland and Shanghai Disneyland, access to these clubs are extremely restricted. The original location has a 14-year waiting list!
The required initiation fee is $40,000, followed by an annual fee of $27,000. Among its membership are Presidents of the United States, business leaders and actors.
Google Datacenter
Estimated to cost $600 million USD each, and using anywhere from 50 to 103 megawatts of electricity, the Google data center is an extensive set up! Originally built from a set of shipping containers, and used to house some of the Google servers, it has now grown to include the full computer resources that make up the Google platform.
Containing trillions of records of our data, it is one of the most highly guarded locations.
Area 51
Located in Nevada, approximately 80 miles from downtown Las Vegas, Area 51 is one of the most secretive and heavily protected areas on the planet. The purpose of this base is still publicly unknown; however it is thought to be used for the research and development of experimental aircraft and weaponry.
Up until 2013 the United States government completely denied its existence, however it has since been officially acknowledged.
Foxnews reports of UFO. The second video is the 13 minute source.
Video of a strange object in the sky near a military base in Dayton, Ohio, had the internet buzzing Sunday over whether it was a UFO, "Fox & Friends" reported.
“It looks like it’s moving with the clouds,” a woman is heard saying on the video.
The 13-minute YouTube video appears to show an object hovering and disappearing into the clouds near the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which housed an Air Force project that documented alleged UFO and extraterrestrial sightings from 1947 to 1969.
A couple spotted the object as they were watching the sunset from their home, London's Daily Mirror reported Saturday.
They sent the video to Tyler Glockner at Secure Team 10, which describes itself on Twitter as “bringing exposure of the alien phenomenon and those trying to hide it back to the masses,” the pap
OFF THE RECORD Scientists Found That The Soul Doesn’t Die – It Goes Back To The Universe
Scientists Found That The Soul Doesn’t Die – It Goes Back To The Universe
There IS life after DEATH: Scientists reveal shock findings from groundbreaking study.
The mystery of death is not to be told. It is something to be experienced. We all know one thing for sure: we are all going to die one day. And when we do die, we may not get the opportunity to come back and explain our experience.
Many religions believe in life after death. It is said the soul goes out of the body to live a new life in the spiritual realm. A wicked person is sent to hell to be tormented by a blazing fire, while a righteous person is sent to heaven to live an eternal and joyful life.
The study is said to be the largest ever medical study into near-death and out-of-body experiences. The study revealed that some awareness may continue even after the brain has shut down completely. A human being is pronounced clinically dead if the heart stops beating and the brain shuts down. The condition can also be called cardiac arrest.
According to the researchers, they spent four years examining more than 2,000 people who suffered cardiac arrests at 15 hospitals in the United Kingdom, the United States and Austria. They found that nearly 40 percent of people who survived their resuscitation, described some kind of awareness during the time when they were clinically dead.
Of the 2,060 cardiac arrest patients studied, 330 survived and of 140 surveyed, 39 percent said they had experienced some kind of awareness while being resuscitated. Although many of them could not recall specific details, some themes emerged. One in five said they had felt an unusual sense of peacefulness, while nearly one third said time had slowed down or speeded up.
Some recalled seeing a bright light; a golden flash or the Sun shining. Others recounted feelings of fear, drowning or being dragged through deep water, 13 percent said they had felt separated from their bodies, and the same number said their senses had been heightened.
A 57-year-old man from Southampton, who was pronounced dead for three minutes, said he left his body entirely, watching his resuscitation from the corner of the room. He was able to accurately recount the actions of the nursing staff and the sound of the machines used in his resuscitation process.
Lead researcher of the study, Dr Sam Parnia said the study accurately revealed that people experience some awareness after death.
Dr Parnia was quoted as saying: “We know the brain can’t function when the heart has stopped beating. But in this case, conscious awareness appears to have continued for up to three minutes into the period when the heart wasn’t beating, even though the brain typically shuts down within 20-30 seconds after the heart has stopped. The man described everything that had happened in the room, but importantly, he heard two bleeps from a machine that makes a noise at three minute intervals. So we could time how long the experience lasted for. He seemed very credible and everything that he said had happened to him had actually happened.”
Dr Parnia also added that many more people may have experiences when they are close to death, but the drugs or sedatives used in the process of resuscitation may stop them remembering.
“Estimates have suggested that millions of people have had vivid experiences in relation to death but the scientific evidence has been ambiguous at best. Many people have assumed that these were hallucinations or illusions but they do seem to corresponded to actual events. And a higher proportion of people may have vivid death experiences, but do not recall them due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory circuits. These experiences warrant further investigation,” Dr Parnia said.
Commenting on the study, the editor-in-chief of the journal Resuscitation, Dr Jerry Nolan said Dr Parnia and his colleagues are to be congratulated on the completion of a fascinating study that will open the door to more extensive research into what happens when we die.
It turns out Kurt Russell, or maybe his “Escape from New York” alter ego Snake Plissken, is responsible for phoning in one of the leading UFO conspiracies out there.
In a BBC interview alongside “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” costar Chris Pratt, the 66-year-old actor said that in 1997, he was the pilot who first reported the Phoenix Lights incident in Arizona, in which thousands of people allegedly witnessed six lights, in formation, moving in the night sky.
Kurt Russell in "Escape from New York," 1981. In a recent interview, Russell claimed to be the pilot who called in the 1997 Phoenix Lights incident allegedly involving UFOs.
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Here’s how the conversation went down:
“I was the pilot,” Russell said in the interview. “Oliver and I were flying in; I was flying him to go see his girlfriend. And we were on approach. I saw six lights over the airport in absolute uniform in a V-shape... I was just looking at them and I was coming in, we were maybe a half mile out. [His son] Oliver said, ‘Pa, what are those lights?’ Then I kind of came out of my reverie and I said, ‘I don’t know what they are.’ He said, ‘Are we okay here?’ I said ‘I’m gonna call,’ and I reported it. They said...‘We don’t show anything.’
“I said, ‘Well, okay, I’m gonna declare it’s unidentified, it’s flying and it’s six objects.’ We landed, I taxied, dropped him off, took off and went back to L.A.
“I never said a word, he never said a word. I never thought of it. Two years later, [his wife] Goldie [Hawn] is watching a television show when I came home. And the show is on UFOs...And I’m kind of hearing the TV going. And I stopped and I started watching and it was on that event. And that was the most viewed UFO event, over 20,000 people saw that.
“I’m watching this and I’m feeling like Richard Dreyfuss in ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’ I go, ‘What, why do I know this?’ And it’s not clear to me. And finally they said a general aviation pilot reported it on landing.
From left: Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bruce Dern in a scene from the film, "The Hateful Eight." Russell was responsible for calling in the Phoenix Lights incident.
(ANDREW COOPER/AP)
“I never thought of it since then and I said, ‘That was me, that was me! Wait a minute, I’ll go to my logbooks.’ So I went to my logbooks and there was that flight, at that time, and I didn’t mention anything about the UFO.
“The fascinating part of that, to me, was that it just went literally out of my head. And Oliver never mentioned it. Had I not seen the show I never would’ve thought of it again. That, to me, was the weird part.”
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Strange Lights Spotted Hovering Over Toronto, CANADA
Strange Lights Spotted Hovering Over Toronto, CANADA
Conspiracy theorists claim that a massive alien spaceship was recorded on a remarkable video flying over a major city. Filmed in Toronto in Canada, the clip shows four large bright lights in the night sky.
The object to the left, which is the furthest among the four, slowly moves over the skyscrapers and houses. It is thought to be a helicopter, but the three other lights stay in the same position for several minutes.
According to the source of the video said that the strange giant bright lights made no sound and just remained in one place for around five minutes before they disappeared.
The lights did not move or do anything other than hovering over the city. Some think that the three lights were separate entities and others believe it was one large craft.
Sceptics suggest that the three lights can be drones or quadcopter. Others, meanwhile, are convinced extraterrestrials have something to do with it.
Strange Lights Spotted Hovering Over Toronto, CANADA
Strange Lights Spotted Hovering Over Toronto, CANADA
Conspiracy theorists claim that a massive alien spaceship was recorded on a remarkable video flying over a major city. Filmed in Toronto in Canada, the clip shows four large bright lights in the night sky.
The object to the left, which is the furthest among the four, slowly moves over the skyscrapers and houses. It is thought to be a helicopter, but the three other lights stay in the same position for several minutes.
According to the source of the video said that the strange giant bright lights made no sound and just remained in one place for around five minutes before they disappeared.
The lights did not move or do anything other than hovering over the city. Some think that the three lights were separate entities and others believe it was one large craft.
Sceptics suggest that the three lights can be drones or quadcopter. Others, meanwhile, are convinced extraterrestrials have something to do with it.
Here are two new UFO videos that were made in ECETI ranch located at Mount Adams in in Washington. This ranch was formed by alien contactee James Gilliland.
When scientists look for extraterrestrial life, they typically turn their focus upwards, to planets like Mars, moons like Enceladus and exoplanets far beyond our own solar system. But for Laura Rowe, an assistant professor of chemistry at Valparaiso University in Indiana, the search begins in the lab.
In April, a member of Rowe's lab presented work she and her team did in this area of research during the Experimental Biology 2017 meeting in Chicago. Because we couldn't be there to listen, we instead asked Rowe for insight into this fascinating field of inquiry. As part of our One Big Question series we asked: How might we find the building blocks of extraterrestrial life in the lab?
Here's what she had to say:
NASA broadly defines Life as: "A self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution."
In the field of astrobiology the more conservative stance on extraterrestrial life is that it will be carbon based and will have required liquid water to evolve. Living organisms on Earth use a handful of elements to construct larger macromolecules that are fundamental to life as we know it: DNA, RNA, and proteins. All three of these macromolecules are polymeric in nature. This means that they all link together smaller, repeating units (monomers) with different chemical bonds to make large and diverse macromolecules. For DNA and RNA these smaller monomer units are called nucleotides, whereas for proteins these smaller monomeric units are called amino acids.
Therefore, when looking for the building blocks of life in outer space, we would likely be looking for either DNA, RNA, proteins or the smaller building blocks of these large molecules: nucleotides and amino acids.
The "One Big Question" is how might we discover the building blocks of extraterrestrial life in the lab?
If we initially assume (which may or may not be a correct assumption) that extraterrestrial life will have some form of DNA, RNA, or proteins, and thus some form of nucleotides and/or amino acids present, then a first effort in the lab would be to determine if the nucleotides and amino acids that are used for life on our planet would be stable enough to exist in the environmental conditions present on planets and moons that are known to have, or have had, liquid water.
Recently the Curiosity Rover on Mars has provided more evidence than ever before that the Red Planet once had conditions suitable for life
(Credit: NASA)
The surface of Mars, for example, is exposed to very high levels of radiation due to its thin atmosphere, while its soil is known to have a considerable amount of perchlorate present. The high energy of the radiation, and the strong oxidizing nature of perchlorate, has a tendency to break chemical bonds that are found in nucleotides and amino acids. Since the evolution of even simple microbial life is believed to have taken hundreds of millions of years, nucleotides and amino acids must be able to resist rapid degradation in the environment for life to have evolved.
There are a limited number of nucleotides (5) and amino acids (20 or 22) that living organisms on Earth use to build DNA, RNA, and proteins. However, there are many more nucleotides and amino acids in existence. Exposing nucleotides and amino acids to the extreme conditions they may be exposed to extraterrestrially and observing their stability, is a good first step to identifying possible extraterrestrial life building blocks in the lab. If an unusual amino acid, or nucleotide, that is not used in life on Earth is found to be much more stable than the "natural" or "proteinogenic" amino acid or nucleotide under these conditions, then it may be a molecule to be on the look-out for during future space exploration.
NASA's Europa Clipper mission in the 2020s will provide information that will enhance our understanding of the possibility of life on Jupiter's moon Europa
(Credit: NASA)
Expeditions to Mars have given us many specifics of the surface conditions that we can attempt to mimic in the lab to do this; whereas the two other extraterrestrial life hot spots in our Solar System, Europa and Enceladus, have mainly speculative conditions in their subsurface oceans. It is exciting, however, that the Europa Clipper mission has been announced recently, so that we should have much more information about Europa in the next decade.
In order to possibly discover the building blocks of extraterrestrial life in the lab on Earth, we must have some idea of what environmental conditions exist on extraterrestrial bodies with liquid water. If the nucleotides and amino acids that life on Earth use are sufficiently stable when exposed to these conditions, then it is reasonable to assume they may be present in extraterrestrial organisms. If, however, they degrade quickly, then we should look at alternative nucleotide and amino acid structures that may impart a unique stability to the building blocks, or open up the scope of our definition of potential building blocks for extraterrestrial life entirely.
Hot vents warming water sealed under a crust of ice could create the conditions for life on Saturn's moon Enceladus
(Credit: NASA)
On Earth, life has evolved in surprisingly extreme conditions; extremophile organisms thrive in Antarctic ice, sulfuric hot springs, and even radioactive waste sites. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that if liquid water is present on an extraterrestrial body that contains basic elements, then living organisms could have evolved even under very hostile environmental conditions. However, the exact building blocks and structure of that life could be very different then the building blocks and structure of life on Earth.
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NASA's hunt for aliens: James Webb Space Telescope to search for signs of extraterrestrial life on Earth-sized planets
NASA's hunt for aliens: James Webb Space Telescope to search for signs of extraterrestrial life on Earth-sized planets
As NASA’s hunt for aliens continues, the US space agency will deploy its James Webb Space Telescope that will hunt for signs of alien life on Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST planetary system that was discovered recently.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to search for signs of alien life
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As NASA’s hunt for aliens continues, the US space agency will deploy its James Webb Space Telescope that will hunt for signs of alien life on Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST planetary system that was discovered recently. Also, it will search for extraterrestrial life on Jupiter’s moon Europa, NASA said on Friday.
The scientific capabilities of other NASA missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope is complemented and extended by the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.
“From the very first galaxies after the Big Bang, to searching for chemical fingerprints of life on Enceladus, Europa, and exoplanets like TRAPPIST-1e, Webb will be looking at some incredible things in our universe,” said Eric Smith, James Webb Space Telescope Director at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
“With over 2,100 initial observations planned, there is no limit to what we might discover with this incredible telescope,” said Smith.
All of the science areas the telescope is designed to explore, from first light and the assembly of galaxies to the birth of stars and planets will be addressed by the broad spectrum of initial observations.
Targets will range from the solar system’s outer planets such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and icy Kuiper Belt to exoplanets to distant galaxies in the young universe.
“These observations by the teams of people who designed and built the Webb instruments will yield not only amazing science, but will be crucial in putting the observatory through its paces and understanding its many capabilities,” said Ken Sembach, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in the US.
The chance that extraterrestrial bacteria would be deadly to humans is zero. Not just very, very small. Zero.
Pathogenesis requires intimacy. This intimacy is attained through millions of years of co-evolution. The need for intimacy is apparent when you look at how bacteria and viruses cause infections and disease.
Infection requires binding to a cell surface. Bacteria (and viruses) bind to human cells through proteins that recognize human proteins and carbohydrates. The structure of these human proteins and carbohydrates is, to a first approximation, arbitrary. There are an almost infinite number of permutations of them that could exist and work just fine. But only one does exist. The chance that an alien bacteria would have evolved to stick to that protein is infinitesimally small.
Even if this alien bacterium were able to stick to a cell surface, this alone would not establish an infection. Infecting bacteria secrete all kinds of toxins and virulence factors. These toxins and factors bind to specific human proteins. They block or modify their activity in ways that degrade cells and tissues, releasing nutrients that the bacteria can feed upon.
Again, the target proteins have fairly arbitrary structures. They are the result of billions of years of evolutionary history and their precise structure - and even their existence - is not at all predictable. The chance that an alien bacterium would have evolved toxins that precisely target them is infinitesimally small.
Pathogenicity is extremely rare on Earth. There are millions, perhaps billions, of species of bacteria. The number of potential human pathogens among them is very small, no more than a couple hundred. And only a couple dozen are able to infect otherwise healthy humans. These are bacteria that have been with us for millions of years, evolving as we evolve, becoming intimately familiar with our proteins, our cells, our immune systems.
This knowledge is stamped into their genomes; it is a diary of their long association with us. It is not a book that could be written in an alien language. Alien bacteria are no more likely to be human pathogens than intelligent aliens are likely to speak Urdu as their native tongue. It just isn’t possible.
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Eloise Ogden/MDN This photo shows the front page of the Minot Daily News on Dec. 6, 1966, when the newspaper ran a story about unidentified flying objects seen in the local area.
Capt. David D. Schindele was a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile launch crew commander in the Minot Air Force Base missile field when he experienced a situation in which a flying object took down all 10 of the nuclear-tipped missiles he was responsible for, causing them to be unlaunchable. That was 50 years ago.
Air Force officials instructed Schindele never to speak about the incident and as far as he was concerned, it never happened. Schindele was at a launch control facility near Mohall when the incident occurred.
On Dec. 6, 1966, the front page headline of the Minot Daily News on Dec. 6, 1966, read: “Minot Launch Control Center ‘Saucer’ Cited As One Indication of Outer Space Visitors. The story told about UFO incidents in the Minot area.
“It Never Happened, Volume 1,” is the title of Schindele’s new book about the Air Force’s cover-up of the UFO (unidentified flying objects).
Schindele was stationed at Minot AFB from July 1965 to May 1968.
Submitted Photo This photo of Capt. David D. Schindele was taken at Minot Air Force Base when he was a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile launch crew commander in the 1960s.
“During that time in Minot, many of us experienced unworldly incidents at Minuteman facilities but we were all individually instructed to keep silent. We never realized at the time that others among us were also experiencing incidents, but now the truth is becoming known,” Schindele told the Minot Daily News.
Schindele said a number of years ago he learned about a similar incident experienced by another missileer and that led him to writing his book.
“About 35 years after my Minot incident and learning about an identical incident experienced by another missileer (Capt. Robert Salas) connected to Malmstrom AFB in Montana, which was during the same general timeframe as my incident, I then contemplated coming forth with the ‘truth,’ “ Schindele said.
Schindele said it took him another five years before he related his experience on his website and began to inform close friends of his experience.
“After discovering in 2010 that other missileers with me at Minot also experienced associated incidents, I then decided to conduct extensive research on Air Force cover-up to find out exactly why the Air Force told all of us to keep our ‘lips zipped.’ We all had top secret clearances, but that was not enough to allow the Air Force to provide truth to us, or to explain the incidents. We were all kept in the dark and never trained on how to manage such incidents and situations should they reoccur. It was a very disconcerting time for all of us,” he said.
It was during his research and documenting information beginning in 2010 that Schindele said he knew he must produce a book on his findings.
“It was a six-and-a-half year effort, but I also realized that a second volume would be needed to make it complete,” he said.
Schindele said there’s another aspect to this that must be understood.
“There are many Minot missileers who have taken their ‘secret’ to their grave, while some hold onto the secret to this very day because of very great trepidation involved,” he said. “With the passing of more than 50 years since my incident at Minot and 70 years since the incident at Roswell, (N.M.) there can be no ethical, moral, or critical reason for keeping the secret from humankind any longer, and my other missileer friends agree with that. This is further reviewed in Chapter Seven of the book.”
Schindele said that mainly he wants to provide the truth
“From the beginning, I’ve been conflicted with the goal of bringing truth to as many people as possible, while having no appetite for bringing attention to myself or receiving monetary benefit. But I also realize the fallacy in that,” he said.
Schindele and his wife, Diana, reside in Mukilteo, Wash., north of Seattle. They have been married for 20 years and have a combined family of four adult children and eight grandchildren. Schindele grew up in the Seattle area and attended Washington State University. His parents both grew up in North Dakota – his mother at McGregor and his father at Tolna – and attended the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks.
Schindele said he and many others who were missileers during the same time period get together about every year and a half for a reunion, although their ranks are increasingly being depleted. Their next reunion will be in Las Vegas next February.
Schindele’s book is available at Amazon.com. Proceeds will go to the Seattle Chapter of the Air Force Association.
A Georgia witness at TyTy reported watching a group of military jets that appeared to be escorting a red-orange sphere at about 600 feet in altitude, according to testimony in Case 82496 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was outside stargazing in his backyard with a telescope at 10 p.m. on February 21, 2017, when the incident occurred.
“I first heard low speed jet engines north of me,” the witness stated.“I turned to see what it was. I saw a row of flashing white strobe lights with a redish-orange ball or sphere in the middle coming toward me moving real slow.”
The witness watched as six “fighter jets”flew overhead at approximately 500 feet.
“One jet was approximately 500 feet to the west of the redish-orange sphere. Another jet was approximately 500 feet to the east of the redish-orange sphere and four more jets were side-by-side following about 1,000 feet behind this redish-orange sphere.”
The witness was overwhelmed with two aspects of the sighting.
“What was so strange about it was how low and slow they were all flying and flew directly over the top of me.”
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness described the sphere.
“This redish-orange sphere looked to be about 30 feet in diameter. It was kind of dim with no strobe lights of any kind. After they flew over, the jet on the west side of the sphere backed off and turned left and got right behind the redish-orange sphere. After that, I couldn’t see them anymore because of the trees that are around one mile south of me. As far as I could tell, they all kept on flying straight south. Now if they should have been flying southeast, they would have been flying towards Moody Air Force Base. I don’t know of any airport that would have been straight south or me. Any help on this ordeal would be more than I have now. This took place in southern Georgia 60 miles north of the Georgia-Florida state line, and 100 miles east of Columbus, Georgia, and 100 miles west of Waycross, Georgia, and 100 miles south of Macon, Georgia, or 10 miles west of Tifton.
Ty Ty is a city in Tift County, Georgia, population 716. No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on March 4, 2017.
Cropped piece of witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
Georgia MUFON Field Investigator Brion Trainor and State Section Director Jeremy Haslam investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown.
“The evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that this is an Unknown Other sighting event,” the investigators stated in their report.“However, the 30-foot, glowing, reddish-orange orb was being escorted by very recognizable jet planes. This begs the questions: 1) Did the jet plane’s pilots know what the orb was that they were escorting; and 2) What was their destination?”
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 follows is my full introduction to UFOs: Reframing the Debate, a new edited volume of fourteen original essays exploring alternative perspectives on UFOs and how we might more thoughtfully study the phenomenon in the 21st Century, with a Foreword by Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka. I describe the book as “a cold, hard, slap in the face for ufology, delivered with love.” I believe we need to push ourselves outside of our comfort zones on this subject; to expose ourselves to ideas that challenge, agitate, and even infuriate us. Compiling and editing this volume has most certainly pushed me out of my own UFO comfort zone; in this sense, it has been one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. It is my hope that those who have the grit to read the book will find it deeply rewarding also. With that said, here now is my own take on why “ufology” needs reframing, and my individual summaries of each and every essay in the book…
INTRODUCTION
Ufologists speak often of “The Truth.” It’s out there, they insist, and it must doggedly be pursued for the benefit of all mankind. But rarely are ufologists truthful with themselves. There is, of course, no such thing as “ufology,” not in any meaningful sense of the term. If “ology” refers to a branch of knowledge or learning sprung from organized research, then ufology is a broken twig.
The UFO field has produced thousands of dedicated researchers over the years, and reams of literature; but to what end? What can we claim to know conclusively today about the underlying nature of UFO phenomena that we didn’t know in the late-1940s? UFO study has always suffered from major organizational and methodological problems. It has also become dangerously self-referential. Few researchers are prepared to think critically.
Today, as ever, the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) is the most popular ufological theory. It has become so popular that the already-flimsy architecture of the field has morphed into “exopolitics”—a movement born of the Internet and based on a blanket acceptance that UFOs are extraterrestrial vehicles, that the government knows this, and that, in time, “Truth” will break free and a new age of human enlightenment will begin. It is a myth, spun partly by external design, but largely by the UFO community’s profound need to believe that universal truth is tangible, and within arm’s reach. Today’s UFO conferences bear an increasing resemblance to the spectacle of the Megachurch, where the cult of personality attracts thousands of believers, all hopeful their prophets can move them just an inch closer to UFO salvation.
If ufology is a New Age religion, then “Disclosure” is its Holy Grail—that ever-imminent announcement from officialdom that we are not alone in the universe, and, moreover, that “They” are among us. The problem with the Disclosure mindset is that it declares an end to the UFO enigma and discourages us from further study of the phenomenon, and of its cultural and societal effects. Why study when we can simply wait? All we need do is talk about UFOs in online forums and occasionally send a petition to the White House. Eventually, our leaders will see fit to share with us the aliens’ world-changing information and technologies, ushering in a new era of cosmic consciousness. It’s only a matter of time. Disclosure requires little more than our passive spectatorship.
The ultimate irony of the Disclosure movement is that, by imagining all answers to the UFO mystery to be out of public reach, deep in the bowels of the national security state, it places power into the hands of officialdom, while disempowering the individual. Modern “ufology,” therefore, is no longer about asking challenging questions. Rather, it is about fitting predetermined answers into an established quasi-religious belief system.
If ever we are to further our understanding of the UFO enigma, we must fundamentally reframe our debate. We must wipe the board clean and fill it with new ideas, new theories, even new language. We must be willing to start from scratch when the field stagnates. We must be critical, sober, and free from dogma—ready to rinse away the residue of our own beliefs.
With the above in mind, in April 2016, I began approaching a select few individuals in the UFO research community—free-thinkers and iconoclasts—with a proposal for a volume of original essays presenting alternative perspectives on UFOs and the UFO subculture. Just under a year later, I find myself writing this introduction for the near-complete manuscript. It all came together relatively quickly and smoothly, if not without the usual amount of effort and sacrifice that goes into such an endeavor. All those who chose to write for this volume have committed to it wholeheartedly, and I have been inspired daily by their enthusiasm for the project.
I know I speak for all the contributors when I say this book was a challenge to write. I know it was a challenge to edit, and I also know it will be a challenge to read. Whether you’re a “skeptic” or a “believer” (for lack of more nuanced terms), this book will irk you. And that, of course, is the intention. Indeed, it is structured such that it may provoke maximum discomfort in the reader and push cognitive dissonance into overdrive. For the first half of this volume, the essays spar back and forth between pro-and-anti-materialist approaches. Some of our contributors advocate extreme skepticism of any UFO claim, while championing traditional scientific methodologies—the dispassionate pursuit of objectively verifiable evidence—while other contributors see limitations in such an approach, preferring instead a more oblique path of engagement with what they see as a consciously oblique phenomenon. Other contributors explore why modern UFO accounts seem often to overlap with other mysterious phenomena, or how the UFO can be utilized as a looking-glass for profound introspection, one reflective of personal belief, stress, or trauma.
For all the unconventional theories presented herein, none of the contributors would be so bold or naïve as to discount the possibility that some UFOs are representative of extraterrestrial intelligences. We are suggesting, however, that today’s UFO field is sorely lacking in meaningful debate and is close to the point of stagnation in its uncritical thinking and lazy acceptance of what may seem like the most logical theory for inexplicable aerial anomalies, but which, when tested against the full depth of data, falls desperately short as an exclusive hypothesis. To quote SMiles Lewis in this volume: “I advocate for a multi-theory interpretation of the UFO phenomenon. I don’t think there is any one explanation that accounts for all the data. I think there are a number of things going on simultaneously.”
Many of these “things” undoubtedly stem from what Susan Demeter-St. Clair refers to as “the one clearly tangible vehicle central to any UFO story”—the human witness. The role of the witness in UFO events typically is overlooked by UFO investigators, whose focus often is on what the witness has seen, rather than why they have seen it, or how they have interpreted it. The assumption, strangely, is that UFO witnesses are almost always independent of their anomalous experiences. Multiple essayists in this volume urge a fundamental redirection of UFO research, from the external to the internal—by seeking to understand the daunting complexities of human cognition and consciousness itself, we may better understand the UFO, and, perhaps more importantly, better understand ourselves.
If by some slim chance this is the first UFO book you’ve ever picked up, I’m afraid you’ve thrown yourself in at the very deep end of the pool, but that’s all the more reason to push on with it; if you do so, I feel confident in stating that the wider ufological waters will seem clearer and more navigable.
Chris Rutkowski’s opening essay is a trial by fire for any reader who considers themself a UFO experiencer. He pulls no punches in his characterization of a substantial portion of the UFO community as “zealots.” I know for sure that some readers will be inclined to set this book aside after just a few pages of Rutkowski’s essay. Don’t do that. If his perspective does not fall in line with your own, simply accept that from the outset, proceed with an open mind, and then ask yourself if any of his observations are objectively untrue. Rutkowski’s essay is incisive and, to my mind, necessarily harsh. It is not, as some will undoubtedly see it, a piece of debunkery. Rather, it is a product of its author’s frustration at those UFO enthusiasts whose wholesale rejection of all evidence at odds with their own beliefs justifies his view that ufology is more a religion than a science.
I’ve frontloaded this book with pieces on religion because the religious aspects of UFO belief are undeniable (again, this observation should not be interpreted as a dismissal of UFOs as an objectively real phenomenon. No one in this book attempts to make such a case). Make no mistake, ufology is a New Age religion; with this in mind, its followers should take caution, for many if not all strains of religious belief have been exploited throughout the ages by elite power structures for reasons of cultural and societal control—a case made by several authors here.
If UFO “believers” can pass the test of Rutkowski’s essay—if they can override their cognitive dissonance—then they have the resilience and critical thinking to see them through all the essays that follow.
Next up, and in sharp contrast to Rutkowski’s, Mike Clelland’sessay is a deeply personal meditation on the author’s direct experiences with UFOs and what he considers to be some form of non-human intelligence. Those of a traditionally skeptical bent may be inclined to skip Clelland’s essay. Don’t do that. Clelland’s value in this volume is that he is unusually self-aware and self-analytical in the presentation of his experiences. He is certain he has interacted with anomalous phenomena in mysterious ways, but he steadfastly refuses to reach solid conclusions as to the ultimate nature and purpose of these phenomena. Clelland is an “experiencer” who shuns zealotry and who wears with discomfort any ufological labels that might be used to categorize him. He is compelled to share his story, and he wants us to hear it, but he also wants us to know he is incapable of objectivity in this arena. If more experiencers could adopt Clelland’s considered approach, perhaps some bridges could be built between opposing ends of the UFO research camp.
Clelland’s observations are largely subjective, and he places great value on the experience of the individual UFO witness. In contrast, the observations of our next contributor, Jack Brewer, are rooted in rationalism and the scientific method. Brewer seriously questions the value of UFO witness testimony, noting “…personal stories, interesting and entertaining as they may be, are often of very little value to the professional research process.” He goes on to qualify this statement in considerable detail.
Brewer’s essay is broad in scope and among the most constructive in this volume. It highlights numerous problems currently hampering serious UFO research, and then provides possible remedies and solutions. Again, it is the work of a man with a deep interest in the UFO mystery and a deep frustration at the lazy assumptions and shoddy practices of a great many—perhaps the majority—of UFO researchers.
Next in our line-up is Joshua Cutchin. Continuing with our back-and-forth approach, Cutchin’s essay is a bold rejection of traditional materialist solutions to the UFO riddle and a challenge to “nut-and-bolts” researchers to engage with “high-strangeness” aspects of UFO phenomena from unconventional—even esoteric—perspectives. He encourages that we embrace uncertainty, noting: “Moving beyond materialism is about honestly confronting the fact that we know nothing for certain about UFOs, yet choosing to be inspired rather than frustrated by this realization, leading to a type of non-dogmatic gnosticism.”
We’re back to a materialist approach in Micah Hanks’contribution, which champions rigorous scientific methodology and ambitiously seeks to provide an entirely revised classification system for UFO reporting in the hope of more effectively sorting the proverbial wheat from the chaff. Still, Hanks seeks a union between those who operate within the structures of modern skepticism and those who roam beyond its walls, and he warns against scientific dogmatism, noting: “Modern skepticism can, I think, be summarized in many instances as an ideology, around which a social movement has been built—one that, today, also runs tangent with atheism—and as a paradoxically evangelical attitude about the supremacy of science above all other forms of knowledge.”
We tread a middle ground in Lorin Cutts’ essay, which acknowledges what its author considers to be a genuine mystery behind the UFO phenomenon, while advocating extreme skepticism towards almost all aspects of ufology. Cutts propounds similar ideas to those of Diana Walsh Pasulka and Jack Brewer in his discussion of what he refers to as the UFO mythological zone: “the gap between fact and belief, what we see and what we want to see, what we experience and how we interpret it.” Cutts, himself a UFO witness, seeks to highlight what he sees as the major obstacles we must overcome—or at least recognize—if we are ever to come close to understanding the UFO enigma. The biggest obstacle, suggests Cutts, is us—our enthusiastic willingness to believe and to be led. He notes: “Many people are highly malleable and susceptible to new ideas and beliefs within the UFO mythological zone. Charlatans, fraudsters, and hucksters are free to roam and operate at will. Their contribution to the UFO subject should never be underestimated, for the conditions for successful deception are near perfect. Common sense, lateral thinking and balanced questioning are far superseded and outweighed by irrational belief. Contagion of ideas is rife.”
Original illustration for ‘UFOs: Reframing the Debate’, by Red Pill Junkie.
Narrowing our focus in this volume is Curt Collins, whose essay is devoted entirely to documenting the skeptical investigation and successful debunking of the so-called “Roswell Slides,” which were purported to show the image of a deceased alien entity. Collins was one of several members of the Roswell Slides Research Group (RSRG), and his contribution here is the definitive accounting of how the RSRG operated in tackling one of the greatest ufological blunders (or hoaxes, depending on your perspective) of the 21st Century. Collins’ essay is intricate in its detail and reads like a true-life detective story of how a handful of researchers, separated in some cases by thousands of miles but united in cyberspace, took it upon themselves to expose as fraudulent the claims of dubious UFO personalities screaming from the hilltops that they had found the smoking-gun for Roswell, and that UFO Disclosure was now just a step away.
The reader can make up their own mind as to what motivated the Slides’ promoters, but, for me, this was less a conscious hoax, and more a case of blind belief. The promoters wanted so desperately for the “evidence” to fit their firmly-established perspective on Roswell and UFOs more broadly, that they fooled themselves completely, seeing only what they wanted to see. And they fooled a great many UFO enthusiasts and researchers in the process. When the truth was exposed—that the Slides showed not an alien body, but something entirely down to Earth—it felt to many like the final nail in the coffin for popular ufology. Certainly, it can be said that the Slides debacle represents everything that’s wrong with “ufology” today.
Collins presents the RSRG investigation here as a potential model for future UFO research and investigation—an example of how researchers can work together to solve definitively certain cases and prevent the spread of misinformation in the field. Collins reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of his group’s methodology and observes: “Groups can be great tools, but they have their limitations. Each of us must remain objective, seek the best evidence and ask challenging questions, whether as part of a team or as individuals.”
Next up is SMiles Lewis’ adapted transcript of an epic public lecture he delivered, examining “The Fantastic Facts about UFOs, Altered States of Consciousness, and Mind-at-Large.” It’s a wide-ranging and deeply insightful piece covering everything from Gaian consciousness and planetary poltergeists, to the possible use of the UFO for “Covert Folklore Warfare” by government spooks. It also serves as an extensive bibliography of obscure but valuable literature relating to all themes explored throughout this book. For esoteric and conspiratorial bookworms, Lewis’ essay is a treasure-trove.
We then move to MJ Banias. His ambitious contribution examines the limitations of subcultural UFO discourse within the constraints of modern capitalism. He argues that the ideologies of capitalism and UFO discourse are fundamentally at odds, and the result is that “ufology is forever trapped in a marginalized state.”
Banias notes that, in stark contrast to the capitalist citadel under whose shadow it chaotically dances, UFO discourse has “no locus of control, no elites, and no ivory tower that establishes ideological truth. There is no established power in the discourse, therefore power moves openly between constant shifts in ideas.” The UFO discourse, Banias argues, has no mechanism of governance: “it is democratized, with members of the subculture able freely to express their own ideologies, which vary from reasoned logic to utter speculative hokum… It is, in simple terms, a field of study which is completely democratized. It is an example of a living and functioning discourse that counters modern ideological capital—it creates a pseudo-reality that does not require mainstream official ideologies in order to exist; it is in this democratic state where modern ideological capital is impotent, unable to entrench itself and establish ideological order.”
Unfortunately for ufology, it is this same dynamic that prevents even serious and legitimate UFO discourse from ever finding its way into official culture as anything other than a sideshow attraction. The future of ufology is bleak, says Banias, observing that, in the event of some form of official UFO “Disclosure” (if such a thing is even possible), “ufology would die an instant death as the entire subject would quickly become negotiated into the general sciences and, therefore, into capitalist ideological structures. If we assume that the status quo is maintained, and there is no public announcement… ufology will remain where it is. What can only occur then is a grassroots movement which always operates against the current ideological reality.”
Original illustration for ‘UFOs: Reframing the Debate’, by Red Pill Junkie.
Continuing the sociological line of enquiry, our next contributor, Red Pill Junkie (RPJ), refers to the UFO phenomenon as a “disruption.” Expanding on the theories of Jacques Vallée and John Keel, RPJ considers the possibility that UFO events may be the product of a trickster intelligence, gleefully and anarchically prodding us to provoke individual and societal reactions and developments. He notes, “The UFO disruption is not only a threat to the authority of scientific orthodoxy, it fundamentally defies every conceivable paradigm human society is built upon, in almost every sphere one can envision: religion, economics, communication, and state politics, to name but a few.”
Equally, RPJ also considers it possible that certain UFO events are psychically-manifested by-products of collective stress and trauma during times of societal pressure or upheaval. Regardless of its possible stimuli or motivations, says RPJ, the UFO is the ultimate symbol of anarchist subversion in the modern world. Beyond its cultural and sociological musings, RPJ’s essay is also a personal reflection on how its author has utilized the UFO as an instrument to better understand his own worldview in relation to others.
Susan Demeter-St. Clair’s contribution is a focused discussion of how so many UFO experiences appear to overlap with parapsychological phenomena. Like Red Pill Junkie, she also makes a case for certain UFO events—particularly mass sightings—being triggered by the same psychic mechanisms as provoke poltergeist activity; such events, perhaps, being born of personal or social unrest and upheaval. As with others in this volume, Demeter-St. Clair urges UFO researchers to engage more openly and thoughtfully with the high-strangeness aspects of the phenomena. She argues, “UFO reports that include various types of psychic phenomena may be the key to a greater understanding of the UFO enigma, or, at the very least, trigger more meaningful questions in our ongoing efforts to understand it.”
High strangeness and UFOs… Original illustration for ‘UFOs: Reframing the Debate’, by Red Pill Junkie.
Ryan Sprague’s essay draws from the work of theorists and researchers including Carl Jung, Jacques Vallée, Jenny Randles, David Clarke, and Greg Bishop. It considers the enduring appeal of the UFO in modern culture, ufology’s long (and perhaps futile) struggle for legitimacy, and the questionable inclination of so many UFO researchers to label the phenomenon as “extraterrestrial.”
Sprague does not discount the possibility of otherworldly visitation, but he ushers the reader gently down other avenues of enquiry and suggests we may sooner to come to grips with the nature of the UFO phenomenon by seeking to unravel the complexities of human cognition and our own perceptual apparatus.
Similar ideas are explored in great depth by Greg Bishop. His essay applies advanced theories of cognition to the experience of the UFO witness to highlight the foibles of human perception and how what we see is not necessarily an accurate representation of what is there, especially when we’re confronted with phenomena at the extremities of human experience. The convolutions of human memory are also considered, as are the often-hindering approaches of the UFO investigator when eliciting witness testimony. Bishop notes:
“In the act of first experiencing the event, and then, more importantly, in remembering it and telling the story about it to ourselves and others, we are adding many layers of cultural baggage and other input that help us to make sense of the experience. In so doing, we are taking ourselves step-by-step away from our original impressions.”
Like others in this volume, Bishop encourages sharper focus on the role of the witness in the UFO equation. He posits that UFO phenomena may even be “co-created” events between the observer and the observed. This theory allows for the existence of anomalous stimuli or even non-human intelligences, but suggests that whatever the underlying cause of UFO events, it is likely far more complex and participatory than mere extraterrestrial visitation.
“How much do we bring to the dance during a paranormal encounter?” Bishop asks, “How much of the UFO experience is the result of our subconscious minds trying to make sense of unexpected, startling, and/or frightening input, and leaving us with an insane placeholder when it can’t decide on anything else?”
Bishop’s essay builds a compelling case for the power of the human mind to radically distort subjective extraordinary experiences—even in the moment of the experience. It raises serious questions about just how far off the mark popular ufology is in its simplistic conceptualization of this phenomenon.
Grasping for definitive answers to the UFO riddle is perhaps not the most productive approach, says Bishop: “The terms of the search may need to be changed. If we are looking for an ‘answer’ to the enigma, this assumes that there is an easy or understandable one waiting in the wings for just the right researcher who gets lucky or is amazingly smart. Perhaps the process should be referred to as a quest for understanding rather than any search for a specific truth. This may serve to keep the question open, and direct thought processes and models.”
Our final essay, by Robert Brandstetter, again examines the perceptual limitations of the human observer, but it also serves as an impassioned plea for UFO witnesses—who often exhibit signs of real trauma—to be treated with empathy and compassion by those who might otherwise seek to exploit, ridicule, or ignore them. Whatever its root cause, the UFO experience is ultimately a human one, and all that that implies.
Brandstetter observes:
Investigatory approaches towards the UFO witness have been haphazard and, in some cases, quite harmful, leaving the witness as something to both exploit and consume. Yet it is the witness experience that is the primary catalyst for ufology… What started as a story about seeing something strange in the sky has since been manufactured into a mythology… A return to the core component of the narrative is necessary and it must be done with more imagination, ethics and standardization that respect what it means to undergo a traumatic experience. A more compassionate approach to the witness, as well as an appreciation of how the act of seeing works during high-strange experiences, may allow us to gather much more valuable information about how the UFO phenomenon intersects with human perception.
Brandstetter ends his essay, and this volume, with profoundly personal contemplations on what it means to be a UFO witness, and the value of seeking to understand, to know, and to learn from those whose identity is bound-up in the alien Other.
This volume is critical but constructive. It combines ideas both abstract and theoretical, and concrete and practical. Some of these ideas gel and overlap; some of them clash and conflict. The goal is to shift and reframe the debate outside the prison of belief, yet also beyond the razor-wire of scientific dogmatism.
I encourage that you approach this book from the perspective of an anthropologist. Imagine your eyes are fresh to the UFO spectacle. What do you see in these essays? What do they communicate to you, individually and collectively? What do they tell you about their authors? What does your attraction and reaction to this book tell you about you? Pull this book apart. Dissect it. Dissect us. Dissect yourself. Consume every word. Muse on every theme and concept. If you feel riled or uncomfortable at any point, ask yourself why.
I provide no conclusion at the end of this volume because I am reluctant to further stamp myself on the material—I wish for the reader to be as free as possible in their own interpretations—and because I’m not sure there are any meaningful conclusions to be drawn of the phenomenon now beyond the theories and suggestions presented across the spectrum of these essays. Reach a conclusion if you can, but hold it lightly in the acceptance that letting go is no bad thing.
Understanding UFOs and related phenomena is a glacially slow process that is in its fetal stages. The UFO research field would do well to accept and appreciate this. Therein lies the freedom to explore—and to learn.
UFOs: Reframing the Debate is a cold, hard, slap in the face for “ufology,” delivered with love. It is a call to break away from established ideas, approaches, and practices, and to boldly tread a new path in quest of understanding what may very well be the greatest mystery of all.
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NASA 747 SOFIA HEEFT SPECIALE AANDACHT VOOR YELLOWSTONE VULKAAN ( VIDEO )
NASA 747 SOFIA HEEFT SPECIALE AANDACHT VOOR YELLOWSTONE VULKAAN ( VIDEO )
Enkele jaren geleden werd met spoed een Boeing 747 door NASA in samenwerking met een Duitse organisatie omgebouwd tot een enorme vliegende (infrarode) telescoop.
Daarnaast bevindt zich nog allerlei speciale apparatuur aan boord en dit vliegtuig heeft nu niet alleen veel belangstelling voor de zonsondergang, maar óók de Yellowstone supervulkaan.
Ongeveer drie jaar geleden werd er met grote spoed een Boeing 747 in gereedheid gebracht voor speciale missies.
Nu ontvingen wij een lezer (dank!) het volgende bericht:
“Ik volg al sinds 2008 al het nieuws over niburu/planetX. Gister hoorde ik op de John Moore show dat het infrarood observatorium/Nasa met spoed een geheel met infrarood telescopen en electronica omgebouwde boeing 747 onderzoek gaat doen in de stratosfeer boven het zuidelijk halfrond, ze verwachten een close passage of the tenth planet”.
Als we dan op de NASA website kijken, dan klopt dit helemaal. In een op 18 juli vrijgegeven bericht wordt bevestigd dat een als een vliegend observatorium omgebouwde Boeing 747 SP inderdaad een tiental vluchten zal uitvoeren vanuit Christchurch in Nieuw Zeeland.
De naam van dit toestel is SOFIA hetgeen betekent “Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy”.
Toen de oorspronkelijke persconferentie van NASA werd gegeven in 1983 met de mededeling dat er een onbekende planeet was ontdekt, gebruikmakend van een infrarode IRAS telescoop. Ook SOFIA beschikt hierover.
Nu, op dit moment, bevindt datzelfde vliegtuig zich in Amerika en haar bewegingen worden door een aantal mensen gevolgd en die constateren een aantal merkwaardige zaken.
Gedurende de afgelopen weken is Sofia diverse keren opgestegen tegen de tijd dat de zon ondergaat aan de Amerikaanse westkust en heeft daar vanaf grote hoogte 39.000 voet allerlei observaties uitgevoerd.
De mensen die dit vliegtuig volgen ,schijnen te hebben vastgesteld dat het inderdaad om de zon gaat en de vraag is dan ook wat dit met infrarood telescopen uitgeruste vliegtuig moet bestuderen op het moment dat de zon zo ongeveer ondergaat.
Zou het toeval zijn dat er juist rond zonsopgang en -ondergang vaak een tweede planeet in de buurt van de zon wordt waargenomen?
Zo langzamerhand is wel bekend dat deze planeet voor heel wat opschudding kan zorgen en naar onze mening ook verantwoordelijk is voor de heftige vulkaanuitbarstingen waar we de afgelopen jaren mee te maken hebben.
Nadat Sofia zich enkele dagen had beziggehouden met het bestuderen van de zon en/of wat zich daar in de buurt bevond, werd hun vliegroute veranderd.
Zoals je in de volgende video kunt zien, vloog Sofia een bepaalde route waaruit je eigenlijk niets anders kan afleiden dan dat ze Yellowstone Park observeren.
Er wordt in de mainstream media nogal laconiek gedaan over vulkaanuitbarstingen, maar die zijn echt de laatste jaren nogal spectaculair toegenomen.
Hierna volgt een deel uit een artikel van vorig jaar over de toename van vulkaanuitbarstingen en het grote gevaar van de Yellowstone Supervulkaan.
Wat ze niet kunnen verklaren, is de enorme toename de laatste tientallen jaren van zowel aardbevingen als vulkaanuitbarstingen. En het zijn die laatste waar we vandaag wat verder naar gaan kijken.
Dat klinkt veel, maar dat is het niet wanneer je kijkt naar het aantal vulkaanuitbarstingen waar we vandaag de dag mee te maken hebben.
Navolgend een plaatje van iets eerder deze maand, waarop je ziet dat er op dat moment 33 vulkaanuitbarstingen zijn op de wereld. Ongeveer net zoveel als nog niet zo lang geleden in een heel jaar.
Dat zijn geen incidenten, maar is onderdeel van een wereldwijde trend. De afgelopen jaren worden er talloze records gebroken op dit gebied en er is geen enkele aanwijzing dat het afneemt.
Overal ter wereld is er sprake van vulkanen die jaren en soms zelfs honderden of duizenden jaren hebben geslapen en nu opeens wakker worden.
Wanneer we praten over vulkaanuitbarstingen hebben we het over “gewone” vulkanen, niet over de supervulkanen.
De term supervulkaan wordt gebruikt voor vulkanen die in staat worden geacht supererupties voort te brengen, waarbij meer dan 1000 km³ tefra wordt uitgeworpen (VEI=8). Het zijn de zeldzaamste en tegelijk meest verwoestende vulkanische uitbarstingen. De gevolgen zijn mondiaal en catastrofaal: door het stof in de hogere luchtlagen kan de temperatuur op aarde met meerdere graden dalen. Volgens sommige geleerden kan een dergelijke uitbarsting zelfs een nieuwe ijstijd uitlokken.
Wanneer een dergelijk monster zou uitbarsten, zijn de rapen gaat voor wat een groot deel van de wereld betreft.
Eén van de meest bekende supervulkanen bevindt zich onder het bekende Nationale Park in Amerika, Yellowstone.
Want onder dit park bevindt zich een zogenaamde supervulkaan waarvan wetenschappers zeggen dat hij ieder moment tot uitbarsting kan komen. En wanneer dit gebeurt zal geheel Noord Amerika worden begraven onder een metersdikke laag lava.
Tijdens een onlangs gehouden vergadering van de American Geophysical Union claimden wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Utah dat de magmakamer onder Yellowstone Park ongeveer 2,5 keer groter is (250%) dan men altijd heeft gedacht.
Volgens The New York Post is deze ondergrondse magmagrot ongeveer 90 kilometer lang en 35 kilometer breed en bevat deze miljarden kubieke meters gesmolten rots.
Zo vertelde professor Bob Smith van de Universiteit van Utah de BBC: “We hebben daar een lange tijd gewerkt en we dachten altijd al dat het groter zou zijn… maar wat we nu ontdekt hebben is verbazingwekkend”.
Onderzoekers zijn inderdaad al langere tijd bezig om te ontdekken wat er zich precies onder Yellowstone Park bevindt. Het is dankzij een serie kleine aardbevingen dat er vooruitgang is geboekt op dit front. Er is dan nu de bevestiging dat er letterlijk honderden vierkante kilometers van gesmolten magma onder het oppervlak van het park liggen te wachten om uit te barsten.
Alhoewel het al langere tijd bekend is dat er zich vulkanisch magma onder het park bevindt is het pas de afgelopen jaren voor de wetenschappers mogelijk geweest om te bepalen of dit nu wel of niet een onmiddellijke bedreiging vormt. Gebaseerd op het beschikbare bewijs is men van mening dat de Yellowstone supervulkaan ieder moment kan uitbarsten.
Dat dit zo is, heeft men kunnen vaststellen door een analyse van de rotsen en de grondlagen. Uit de genomen monsters blijkt ook dat de laatste keer dat dit gebeurd is, geheel Noord Amerika is bedolven onder een as- en magmalaag. De stromen van gesmolten rots waren honderden kilometers lang en breed.
En heet van de pers komt nu het bericht binnen dat er een toch wel aanzienlijke aardbeving van 4,5 op de schaal van Richter heeft plaats gevonden in Yellowstone Park:
UFO BOMBSHELL: US 'hiding seven flying saucers and 27 alien corpses' says alleged DIA leak
UFO BOMBSHELL: US 'hiding seven flying saucers and 27 alien corpses' says alleged DIA leak
THE United States secretly holds the remains of seven crashed UFOs and 27 dead aliens that were on board them, according to a sensational allegedly leaked report from the country's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
The bombshell claims have sent conspiracy theorists, who believe the document could be genuine, into overdrive.
Today, Express.co.uk revealed how the alleged 47-page document emerged today, including a report that claimed the 1947 Roswell UFO crash actually happened and was covered up.
A six-page section on Roswell said the US military recovered fragments of a destroyed flying saucer outside Roswell and four decomposed aliens.
The full report claims a further six UFOs have been found and 23 more bodies.
The document, which has already been branded an elaborate hoax by some UFO experts, also includes a four-page report on an alleged top-secret group set up by the DIA in the wake of the Roswell incident.
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The document claims 27 alien bodies are secretly kept in storage by the US Government.
Operation Majestic 12 is said to be an "above top-secret" intelligence group set up to investigate "alien visitations of earth" by order of President Harry S Truman in September 1947.
The four page report, said to have been prepared on January 8, 1989, claims to be a preliminary briefing about Majestic 12.
It states: "Advanced beings of non-human nature are continuously being detected along with their flying disc craft in the controlled air space of the US since July 7 1947.
"The remain of seven flying craft and the bodies of 27 non-human beings have been recovered as of this briefing date, and are at present being studied by Majestic-12 scientists.
The remain of seven flying craft and the bodies of 27 non-human beings have been recovered as of this briefing date, and are at present being studied by Majestic-12 scientists.
Alleged DIA report
"Three of the recovered craft are nearly intact and one such machine has maintained some of its power since retrieval in 1948.
"Since 1957, no additional alien craft have been available for study.
"The assessment is that these beings have adapted or perfected these machines to the conditions of our world as to avoid any further such revealing crashes."
The document said six senior military officials and six private sector scientists, all unnamed, made up the group, which was operating at sites across the country, including the NASA Ames Research Centre in California.
The document is said to have been given to Heather Wade, host of US late-night online paranormal radio show Midnight in the Desert., from a known source who has not been named.
Seasoned UFO expert and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman is investigating the authenticity.
The Paridigm Research Group (PRG) which tries to pressure the White House to disclose documents about UFOs believes the report could be genuine, but accepts it could also be fake.
Express.co.uk has contacted the DIA and awaits a response.
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ROSWELL SENSATION: What is said in alleged DIA 'UFO and alien leaked report’?
ROSWELL SENSATION: What is said in alleged DIA 'UFO and alien leaked report’?
A BOMBSHELL allegedly leaked report about the "Roswell UFO crash" in New Mexico nearly 70 years ago says the Roswell UFO was a "reconnaissance craft" and four beings on board "did not come from Earth”.
The allegedly leaked document contains six pages on the Roswell UFO.
Express.co.uk yesterday told how claims of the document emerged in the US.
Heather Wade, host of US late-night online paranormal radio show Midnight in the Desert, claims to have obtained the extensive US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report into a number of alleged alien and UFO incidents including the infamous Roswell mystery.
She claims the document came from a known, but unnamed source, and has been passed to nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, who is a long term Roswell believer and investigator.
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 weather 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 top-secret US military base.
The seemingly undated 47-page ‘leaked’ dossier contains a six-page report on the Roswell incident, detailing how the UFO came down on July 2 or 3, 1947, and four decomposing alien bodies were recovered two miles from the crash site a week later.
It then says the initial press release about a flying saucer being found was sent out without senior or Pentagon approval, before the "weather balloon cover up" was set in motion.
The report states: "The crash near Roswell occurred sometime in the evening of July 2/3 1947.
"At about 8.47 pm at least two dozen persons in the area observed a bright yellow or "sun coloured" disc-shaped object over the area.
"On July 3, in the early afternoon, the widely scattered wreckage was discovered by local ranch manager William Brazel and his son and daughter."
It said the manager reported the incident to officials at the Roswell Field Army Air Forces base, and two men, Major Jesse Marcel, and Captain Lee (Carns or Cerns) were sent to recover evidence.
When they returned to Roswell Fields, the reported to Colonel William Blanchard, who released the press statement about a flying saucer.
The report states: "This was phoned into an Albuquerque, New Mexico, radio station without approval from higher level command in the Army Air Corps.
"Indeed, no one in the Pentagon, or anywhere else was notified or consulted prior to the release of this information."
The report said the crash was 75 miles south west of the air base.
It said: "Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded.
"These had fallen to earth at least two miles east of the crash site where the wreckage was located.
On July 3, in the early afternoon, the widely scattered wreckage was discovered by local ranch manager William Brazel and his son and daughter.
Alleged DIA document
"All of the four alien crew members were dead and badly decomposed."
The report said, on the same day, 327 fragments of the material and bodies were recovered and taken to Wright Patterson Air Force base near Dayton, Ohio.
While they were being taken there a reporter from the radio station rang Wright Patterson to confirm if it was on its way.
General Twining said he had no such knowledge, and the cover up started, the report said.
It said: ”News reporters were given the effective story that a misguided weather balloon was responsible for the sighting.”
The report continued: "A covert analytical effort organised by General Nathan F Twining and Dr Vannevar Bush on the direct orders of President Harry S Truman resulted in a preliminary consensus (September 19 1947) that the disc-shaped craft was most likely a short range reconnaissance ship.
"This conclusion was based for the most part on the craft's size.
"A similar analysis of the four deceased occupants was arranged by Dr Detlev Bronk.
"It was the tentative conclusion (November 30 1947) that although these aliens are generally human-like in appearance, the biological and evolutionary factors responsible for their development has apparently been quite different from those observed in home-sapiens (Earth humans)."
It said the scientists agreed they had not originated from Earth.
In terms of the UFO material, the report said it was largely beams of a diameter of half and inch to two inches thick.
The report said the metal was like a very light "porous metal alloy" made up of aluminium, silicon, zirconium and an unknown substance
Parts of the material contained unknown hieroglyphic and alphabet symbols, it said.
The beams were flexible and not affected by a blow torch.
There have already been doubters who allege the documents must be an elaborate hoax, produced to prolong the Roswell conspiracy theory.
A statement on the midnightinthedesert.com website said: "Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source.
"She immediately had Stanton Friedman take a look at these documents who said, 'I have never seen anything like this.'
"Stanton Friedman is going to continue examining these documents for authenticity, but at this time we can find no evidence of forgery."
Paradigm Research Group (PRG) was set up to lobby the US Government to end an alleged truth embargo which covers up the existence of aliens on Earth.
The group has described the documents as important, but accepts they could be fake.
Paradigm officials released a statement saying: "Over the coming weeks PRG will work closely with leading researchers into the history of the truth embargo and ET related government documents to determine the quality of this evidence."
The Roswell mystery has long been dogged by hoaxes.
Most famously in the 1990s video emerged alleging to show secret autopsies carried out on the "recovered alien bodies".
It was later found to be fake.
In 2015 a picture emerged, alleging to show an alien corpse from the crash.
It was later exposed as being a mummified human child.
Express.co.uk has contacted the DIA to comment and awaits a response.
A well-worn literary device is the ‘evil twin’ – an antagonist who has similar looks but dissimilar morals to a main character. The evil twin is considered to be a nemesis or archenemy to the hero or protagonist. It appears astronomers spend a lot of their daylight hours watching soap operas because a group in California claims that our Sun once had a twin that possibly caused of the extinction of the dinosaurs. That’s pretty evil, right? Moreover, these astronomers claim that EVERY star is born with a twin. How many soap operas do these people watch?
If this story sounds familiar and you’re not a soap opera fanatic, perhaps you’re heard of the Nemesis hypothesis proposed in 1984 by paleontologists David Raup and Jack Sepkoski. They noticed that the 12 known major extinction events on Earth occurred about once every 26 million years. That type of regularity suggest something external that happens on a periodic cycle. Building on their hypothesis, Richard Muller and other astronomers proposed that the Sun had an undetected non-identical twin about 1.5 light years away in a highly elliptical orbit that once every 26 million years knocked a comet from the Oort cloud that hit the Earth in an extinction-causing impact.
“Nonsense!” said everyone who pointed out that no one has ever seen this evil Sun twin. “We are saying, yes, there probably was a Nemesis, a long time ago,” said UC Berkeley research astronomer Steven Stahler in a new study accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
“We ran a series of statistical models to see if we could account for the relative populations of young single stars and binaries of all separations in the Perseus molecular cloud, and the only model that could reproduce the data was one in which all stars form initially as wide binaries. These systems then either shrink or break apart within a million years.”
The molecular cloud is a star nursery filled with recently-born stars (like a maternity ward in Hollywood) and the model shows that all of these sun-like babies have a twin, which either joins it in a sibling union such as a binary (or more, like Alpha Centauri) system or attempts to kill it and its planets like an evil twin and then flees.
Or something like that, says study co-author Sarah Sadavoy, a NASA Hubble fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
“This has not been seen before or tested, and is super interesting. We don’t yet know quite what it means, but it isn’t random and must say something about the way wide binaries form.”
So the model proves that all stars are born binaries or perhaps even in a stellar litter. Plugging the Sun into the model, its twin was probably more than 500 astronomical units away, or 17 times farther from the sun than Neptune. Based on that, it ran away and is hiding somewhere in the Milky Way.
Did this evil twin cause any extinctions before it was written out of the script? It looks like we’ll just have to wait for the next episode of “As The Nemesis Turns.”
Extinction: Meteor strike is thought to have shaken Earth so much it created a surge of volcanic activity
Just like an over-the-hill, bloated rock band that doesn’t know when it’s time to retire and go away forever, the notorious saga of Majestic 12 is hitting the road and touring again. Will this be its final farewell? A tearful goodbye to all of its adoring fans? I sure as hell hope so, but I have grave doubts. For those who don’t know what Majestic 12 is alleged to be, a bit of background information is required. UFO researchers have suggested that when the Roswell wreckage and bodies were recovered by the U.S. military in early July 1947, they soon fell under the control of a hastily-created secret group called Majestic 12, and which is also referred to as Majic 12 and MJ12.
Following the publication of his co-authored 1980 book The Roswell Incident, William Moore was contacted by a number of military and intelligence insiders who claimed that they wished to reveal to Moore – and ultimately to the public, the media and the world – classified data and documents on UFOs that would otherwise never see the light of day. It was as a result of this “Deep Throat”-style contact that Moore and his research partner Jaime Shandera obtained, in December 1984, a series of controversial and official-looking documents that detailed the existence and work of the allegedly Top Secret group known as Majestic 12.
Supposedly established in 1947 by then-President Harry Truman, Majestic 12 was tasked with keeping the lid on the extraterrestrial secret while striving to understand and exploit the science and technology that had literally fallen into the hands of the U.S. Government in the desert of New Mexico. At the heart of these documents was a several-page Top Secret memorandum titled “BRIEFING DOCUMENT: OPERATION MAJESTIC 12 / PREPARED FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: (EYES ONLY) / 18 November, 1952.”
The documents, first published in 1987 by the British author Timothy Good in his book Above Top Secret, revealed that the membership of Majestic 12 included high-ranking military personnel and senior sources within the intelligence community, as well as key scientific personnel in post-Second World War America. Understandably, the documents have been the subject of much controversy and comment, with some researchers believing them to be the real thing, while others cry hoax and/or disinformation. Further MJ12 documents surfaced in the 1990s – from a researcher named Tim Cooper. They were most remarkable for the impressive number of spelling-errors they contained. All of which brings us to the latest MJ12 collection.
The new documents, which run to 24-pages, were recently (very recently) provided to Heather Wade of the Midnight in the Desert show. I have been on Heather’s show several times now and I like her. And when she says that she got the documents from what is described as “a trusted source,” I believe her. But, we don’t know who Heather’s source is. Nor do we know how – and under what circumstances – that same source got the documents. There is no doubt, however, that these are not the real thing.
A few people have already contacted me, suggesting that the documents (which are allegedly Defense Intelligence Agency papers that detail the story of MJ12) were created by disinformation specialists to deflect people away from the highly-controversial “human experiment”/”guinea-pig” angle of Roswell, as detailed in my recently-published book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. Well, it’s a nice theory, but there is a massive flaw in it. Namely, that real disinformation experts would have done a much better job. I’ll highlight for you some of the problems with the documents (which you can download in PDF format here).
First, the papers are littered with grammar-based errors. One document – allegedly written in January 1989 – states that MJ12 is “…a Above Top Secret Research and Development/Intelligence operation.” It should, of course, read “…an Above Top Secret…” You might think I’m nitpicking, but I’m not. As another example, “cannot” appears as “can not.” I could go on. Typically, you don’t see that in government records.
Then, there’s the matter of the controversial, alleged UFO crash at Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948. I’m not here to debate the dubious merits surrounding the Aztec affair, but something else. The new MJ12 documents contain a substantial amount of data on the alleged recovery at Hart Canyon, Aztec of the UFO and its crew. But, here’s the problem: the original MJ12 documents that surfaced publicly for the first time in Tim Good’s book, Above Top Secret specifically state that, after Roswell, “a second object, probably of similar origin,” came down in the “El Indio-Guerrero area area of the Texas-Mexico border” in December 1950. It’s very important to note the December 1950 date and that word, “second.” And here’s why it’s so important:
The alleged 1952 MJ12 briefing for President-Elect Eisenhower states that Roswell was the first crash (in 1947), and that the Texas-Mexico event (in 1950) was the second. Yet, in the new files we’re told that MJ12 had recovered another UFO – the one reportedly found at Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948. In other words, Aztec was sandwiched between Roswell and El Indio-Guerrero. But, there’s no mention of Aztec in the documents published by Tim Good. Are/were the members of MJ12 such numbskulls that they couldn’t even agree on how many UFOs came down, when they came down, and how many they had stored away? This was (so the unlikely tale goes) a briefing for the President-Elect! Not telling Eisenhower about the Aztec event makes no sense when MJ12 had supposedly told him about the 1947 and 1950 events. And if anyone tries to come up with a convoluted reason/justification as to why MJ12 would tell Eisenhower about Roswell but not about Aztec, don’t even bother. You will just be digging an even bigger hole/steaming cesspit for yourself.
Still on the issue of Aztec, within the new material there is a bizarre transcript of what is alleged to be a series of chummy chats (I’m not exaggerating…) between “various interrogators” and an alien entity who survived the Aztec crash. At one point, the interviewer asks the “Extra-Terrestrial Biological Entity” the following question: “…so you have been visiting us for some time. I have no choice to accept that, even though I’d love some proof. But you still didn’t tell me who sent you the message from Earth that b
rought you back?” (It’s a long and tedious story…)
The alien replies to the interviewer: “Funny you should connect those two subjects.” WTF???!!! Can you really imagine sitting opposite a creature from another world and which provides answers in what are so blatantly obviously human terms? On another occasion, the alien says, also in the kinds of words we would use, “Listen now, because this could go on forever.” And, at one point, the ET even refers to his great-grandfather!! In those words! Are we really expected to believe this complete and utter crap?
I don’t doubt that the surfacing of these documents (right at the time that the 70th anniversary of Roswell is almost upon us…) will provoke a great deal of debate among certain ufologists. Or a wank-fest. But, they will – just like all of the other MJ12 files – prove nothing. All they will do is cause Ufology to waste its collective time, which is exactly what happened back in the 1980s and 1990s.
Nemesis bestond dus tóch. Deze astronomen doen belangrijke onthullingen over tweelingbroer zon
Nemesis bestond dus tóch. Deze astronomen doen belangrijke onthullingen over tweelingbroer zon
De zon had in het verleden vrijwel zeker een tweelingbroer en ook alle andere sterren in de Melkweg zijn geboren als dubbelster. Dat stellen astronomen van de Universiteit van Californië – Berkeley in een nieuwe studie.
Zij onderzochten met behulp van radiotelescopen een groot stervormingsgebied op 600 lichtjaar van onze planeet.
De verdeling van pasgeboren sterren in het gebied kan alleen worden verklaard als je veronderstelt dat alle sterren als dubbelster zijn geboren, zeggen de onderzoekers.
Eigen weg
Een aantal van die dubbelsterren is uiteengevallen, maar andere paren zijn juist dichter naar elkaar toe gegroeid.
De wetenschappers denken dat ook onze eigen zon ruim vier miljard jaar geleden als tweeling is geboren.
De tweelingbroer bevond zich in eerste instantie op een afstand van enkele tientallen miljarden kilometers, maar ging uiteindelijk zijn eigen weg.
Nemesis
Het is niet gemakkelijk te achterhalen om welke ster het precies gaat. Het tweelingbroertje bevindt zich nu ergens tussen de andere sterren in de Melkweg.
Astronomen hebben lange tijd gezocht naar een begeleider van de zon, die de naam Nemesis heeft gekregen, maar die werd tot op heden nooit gevonden.
Lang geleden
“Wij zeggen dat er lang geleden waarschijnlijk inderdaad een Nemesis was,” lichtte coauteur Steven Stahler van UC Berkeley toe.
Huge extraterrestrial construction projects should leave detectable traces that astronomers could see
Alien construction project or unknown natural phenomenon? Astronomers still have no solution for mysterious observations from star KIC 8462852. Photograph: JPL-Caltech/NASA
Dr Stuart Clark writes Across the Universe for the Guardian, and is the author of The Search for Earth’s Twin (Quercus)
You remember the alien megastructure. No? Let me refresh your memory. Back in October 2015, the internet nearly broke when astronomers announced they had detected a strange signal that stood a remote chance of being a vast extraterrestrial construction - dubbed the alien megastructure.
It was discovered using Nasa’s Kepler Space Telescope, which was designed to look for the slight drop in light caused when a planet passes in front of its star. In this case, the telescope gave astronomers much more than they bargained for.
The brightness of star KIC 8462852 dropped by 15% in March 2011 then by 20% in February 2013 then returned to normal. Given that a planet dims the light by a mere 1%, whatever was producing this signal was absolutely huge.
Although astronomers talked a lot about natural explanations, such as a cloud of thousands of comets around the star or a disintegrating planet, nothing truly fitted the bill. So they went on to speculate that the signal could be produced by a vast artificial construction that had been placed in orbit to harvest energy from the star’s light.
Such constructions are known as Dyson spheres, after physicist Freeman Dyson, who published on the possibility of their existence in 1960. He himself credited his inspiration as coming from science fiction writer Olaf Stapeldon’s 1937 science fiction novel Starmaker.
Things got exciting again last month, when astronomer Tabetha Boyajian from Louisiana State University, who headed the analysis of the original signals, announced that the star was dimming again. Releasing a world-wide call for other astronomers to turn their telescopes towards the star, she and colleagues began a vigil.
Instead of a nose-dive in brightness, however, the star dropped just 2.5% and then returned to normal after a few days. Nevertheless, the additional data may be enough for them to work out what is going on, or at least whittle down the possibilities.
Sadly, one of the explanations that is looking ever more unlikely is the megastructure. As it absorbs sunlight (causing the dips), so the structure would naturally warm up and give off excessive infrared radiation. This would make the star brighter than normal at infrared wavelengths – but this has not been seen.
Yet, all is not lost for those hoping to find alien megastructures. In the first of a brace of recent papers, astrophysicist Zaza Osmanov, Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia, has pointed out that it would be better to build such a thing around the decaying cinder of a once giant star, rather than a star itselves.
Known as a pulsar, the dead stellar heart is left behind after a star explodes. It still seethes with energy, beaming radio and X-ray emission into the cosmos. Osmanov proposes that migrating to these places to harvest this energy would be a better bet for extraterrestrials than building a Dyson sphere around a normal star.
This is because pulsars emit their energy in narrow beams that sweep through space like a lighthouse. So the resulting megastructure would only need to be a ring around the star, rather than something designed to encapsulate the whole thing.
Turning this from speculation into a testable hypothesis, in his second paper on the subject he calculates that the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) in Chile, and the orbiting Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) could be used to look at nearby pulsars for the infrared signature of megastructures.
Even if there are no such things as aliens and megastructures, such calculations are valid he told me during a Skype conversation, because they have the power to capture our imagination and demonstrate that rational scientific thinking can be applied to even wild ideas.
But just before we rule out the alien megastructure as the answer to the original KIC 8462852 data altogether, it’s worth remembering that the lack of an infrared excess goes against most of the natural explanations as well. Large clouds of comet dust or a disintegrating planet (Death Star test?) should also give off a detectable infrared signal.
As a result, the astronomical smart money is now wondering whether smaller clouds of dust or gas lying along our line of sight to the star, rather than something giant in orbit around it, could provide the answer. But the truth is that at this stage the field remains wide open.
To paraphrase Boyajian from a TED talk on the subject: either this is a natural phenomenon we don’t understand, or it’s an alien construction we don’t understand. Either way, it’s exciting news.
Bill Hoover was working the night shift at the paper mill when he spotted something in the sky. He's never forgotten it. Wochit
(Photo: Mike Argento, York Daily Record
It was sometime around 1970 that Bill Hoover had an experience that changed the way he sees the world, and the universe, and, well, everything.
He was working the night shift at the P.H. Glatfelter paper mill in Spring Grove. His entire family worked at the paper mill, as did a lot of the people he grew up with in the Pigeon Hills, just outside the mill town.
He had worked previously on a fruit farm and had done some other stuff before going to work at the paper mill, an inevitability in those parts, Glatfelter being the primary industry in town, its reason for existing, pretty much.
He was a wastewater treatment plant operator. It takes a lot of water to make paper, and the mill cleansed the water it used in the process in a series of three wastewater plants, consisting of large pools and sludge beds just outside of town.
Part of his job was to periodically drive from the plant – he drove a company Jeep – to the wastewater plant, dip out some water samples and drive them back to the lab for testing. The plant ran three full shifts back then, and even though it was the middle of the night for most people, the plant operated at full steam.
That night, he had driven down to the treatment plant and was scooping water out of one of the sludge beds for testing when he heard something.
It sounded like a vacuum cleaner, a low humming noise. It was coming from above. He thought, "This is not normal."
He looked up and this, well, thing was right above him. It was triangular with three white, translucent globes anchoring the corners. Along one of the sides of the triangle were two bright lights; they looked like headlights. The three globes had bright red points of light in their centers.
He had never seen anything like it. He had no idea what it was.
It hovered overhead for a while. He dropped his sample bottles and gazed at it. It was the strangest thing he had ever seen.
He jumped in his Jeep and drove to his uncle's farm, about a half-mile away. The thing followed him. It seemed as if it were right on top of his Jeep. It scared the bejesus out of him.
As he approached the farm, driving down the dirt farm lane, over a creek, the thing broke off, climbing straight up, Hoover watched as it disappeared into the night sky.
He got to the farm and yelled for his uncle, who was sleeping and either slept through or ignored his pleadings. He never did come out. He was a dairy farmer, and as such, known to sleep deeply when he got the opportunity, having to get up before the sunrise to milk his herd.
He drove back to the plant and stopped at the guardhouse to tell the guard, "Sleepy" Stambaugh, so nicknamed because he looked sleepy, what he had seen. He asked Sleepy – Sleepy was in his 60s then; Hoover was about 28 – whether he had seen anything weird.
Sleepy told him he had seen it and that it was strangest thing he had ever seen. He had never seen anything like it.
He continued on to the lab and told his boss what he had seen. His boss scoffed. He didn't believe him, saying that he was probably hallucinating from inhaling hydrogen sulfide wafting from the sludge beds. His boss told him that he probably just saw a swarm of fluorescent flying ants. Or something like that.
He went home that morning and told his wife, Linda, what he had seen. She believed him. Whatever it was, he told her, it wasn't a jet; it didn't sound like jet engines, and, at least back then, jets didn't hum and hover.
The next few weeks, he and Linda would sit outside their home in the Pigeon Hills looking for the thing, waiting for it to return and take them off to the stars, to Neptune, or wherever. It never returned.
A few days later, there was a story in the York Daily Record about the sighting. A man named Robert Hake who lived outside of Red Lion reported that he was driving home from his job at Campbell Chain in East York at about midnight when he saw something in the sky.
He was at the intersection of Market Street and Haines Road when he saw it, bright lights hovering over the old York County Shopping Center.
He pulled into a parking lot, got out of his car and watched as the thing climbed straight up and then moved toward him, hovering directly overhead. He said it had three bright red lights and two bright headlights on one edge. He told the newspaper that it made "the weirdest sound you ever heard," a loud whirring or hum, like a vacuum cleaner.
It flew east, and "frightened and forlorned," according to the newspaper, he followed it until it disappeared over the old Stony Brook drive-in.
As he drove home through Red Lion, he saw a police car and stopped to talk to the officer, identified as James Tressler. The cop told him he had seen a similar object pass over town at about midnight.
Hoover clipped the newspaper story and stowed it away in an old shoe box. He dug it out recently when he heard about another account of a person reporting spotting an unidentified flying object.
It got him to thinking.
"I'm a Church of the Brethren boy," said Hoover, now 74 and living in Cross Keys. "I believe in God and that God made the heavens and earth. So I don't know, maybe there're other people out there. Who knows? All I know is what I saw it.
"It was not a normal kind of observation. It was strangest thing ever saw."
Reach Mike Argento at 717-771-2046 or at mike@ydr.com.
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FIVE ALIEN SPECIES THAT ARE ALREADY ON OUR PLANET
FIVE ALIEN SPECIES THAT ARE ALREADY ON OUR PLANET
Many species have and still are visiting our planet, many of them want to see us grow. Wether or not you truly believe in aliens, understand that fundamentally everything is made up of the same structure of geometries.
You and I and everything are fundamentally made up of the same geometries of creation. Something like an alien, a conscious being that exists outside of time, a fairy or even a thought, idea or concept are, at their core, a different expression of the same energy.
1.Lyrans
Image: www.starseeds.net
The Lyrans are believed to be our oldest ancestors, with some believing they were the first beings to organize a civilization in our galaxy.
Billy Meier, Swiss author and source of many UFO photographs, was one of the first people to speak about Lyrans, stating that they shared their origins with him.
He says:
“They have described their ancient ancestry, and consequently ours, as originating in a far sun-system in a star group near what we now know as the Ring Nebula of Lyra, for which we have called them Lyrans in the same manner as we refer to human beings from what we call the Pleiades.”
2. Arcturians
Arcturians are believed to have existed for eons and eons, being one of the oldest species in our galaxy. They are referred to by many believers as a fifth dimension civilization.
Their home planet is believed to orbit just 200 light years away from earth – which, while relatively close, is still out of our reach.
But that doesn’t stop the Arcturians from reaching our planet, with their civilization being so much more sophisticated than ours.
Those who have interacted with the Arcturians say they are between 3 and 5 feet tall with black eyes and green skin. Old age and death do not plague their society.
3. Telosians
Telosians are described as tall, blonde figures resembling humans that are believed to be survivors of previous Earth civilizations.
Many believe their largest earth city is located under Mt. Shasta in California.
Their society is also believed to be in contact with many other alien civilizations, including the Arcturians.
Admiral Richard Byrd was the first person to speak of the Telosians in his posthumously published diaries. He wrote of alien species that lived underground but were driven out from hiding by our use of nuclear weapons.
He wrote in his diary:
“Our interests rightly begins just after your race exploded the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. It was at that alarming time we sent our flying machines, the “Flugelrads” to your surface world to investigate what your race had done.“
“You see, we have never interfered before in your race’s wars and barbarity, but now we must, for you have learned to tamper with a certain power that is not for man, namely that of atomic energy.”
4. Alpha Centaurians
Alpha Centaurians are, as the name might suggest, believed to originate from Alpha Centauri. They not only have the power to destroy us but any other alien species as well, thanks to their intelligence and curiosity.
It is believed they have many bases in our oceans and seas and, despite their power, they’re very kind to humans and have an urge to assist us.
5. Pleiadians
Pleiadians are believed to be descendants of Lyrans and one of humans’ most trusted allies in the galaxy.
Their host planet is in the Pleiades star cluster, 400 light years from Earth. Their name comes from the Greek word ‘plein,’ which means ‘to sail.’
Billy Meier is also believed to have been one of their confidants. He says one female Pleiadian told him the following:
“We are neither guardians of Earth nor beings of God-sent angels or similar. Many persons suggest we are watching over Earth and her beings and would control their fates.
This is not true, because we only perform a self-selected mission which has nothing to do with supervising or regulating Earth’s fate. Thus it is wrong to expose us as superterrestrial messengers and guardians.”
China heeft vandaag vanaf de lanceerbasis in Jiuquan in de Gobi-woestijn zijn eerste röntgentelescoop de ruimte ingestuurd. De 2500 kilo zware 'Inzicht' gaat 550 kilometer boven de aarde informatie ver zamelen over zwarte gaten, pulsars en uitbarstingen van gammastraling.
De onderzoekers hopen volgens nationale persbureau Xinhua meer te weten te komen over de evolutie van zwarte gaten en sterke magnetische velden.
China heeft zijn ruimteprogramma de laatste jaren flink uitgebreid. Voor 2020 staat een missie naar Mars gepland en over vijftien tot twintig jaar landt de eerste Chinees op de maan.
Het is zo goed als zeker dat onze zon een tweelingzusje had toen ze geboren werd, 4,5 miljard jaar geleden. Dat zeggen wetenschappers van de universiteiten van Harvard en Californië - Berkley. En hoewel dat tweelingzusje spoorloos verdween, zou ze een serieuze impact gehad hebben op het leven op aarde. Want ze zou een bekende meteoroïde in de baan van de aarde hebben gebracht: de meteoroïde die verantwoordelijk was voor het uitsterven van de dinosaurussen.
Een samenvatting van het onderzoek werd gepubliceerd op de website van UC Berkley en het zal ook verschijnen in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift 'Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society'.
Meteoroïde Nemesis - zoals het tweelingzusje van onze zon wordt genoemd - zou nadat ze de meteoroïde op de aarde afstuurde ontsnapt zijn en samengegaan met andere sterren in onze Melkweg.
Volgens de wetenschappers zou elke zonachtige ster in ons universum een dergelijke compagnon hebben. Ze baseerden zich daarvoor op wat ze zagen in een gigantische moleculaire wolk, gevuld met pas gevormde sterren, in het sterrenbeeld Perseus. En een wiskundig model dat alleen kan verklaren wat daar gebeurt als alle zonachtige sterren geboren worden met een tweelingzusje.
Neptunus "De zusjes zouden minstens 500 astronomische eenheden uit elkaar liggen", aldus astronoom en coauteur Steven Stahler van UC Berkley, "waarbij 1 astronomische eenheid de afstand is tussen de aarde en de zon. In ons zonnestelsel zou Nemesis 17 keer verder van de zon hebben gestaan dan onze verste planeet Neptunus. De systemen zouden dan volgens onze theorie in een tijdspanne van een miljoen jaar samenkomen óf definitief uit elkaar gaan. Bij ons gebeurde dat laatste. Nemesis verdween tussen de andere sterren in onze buurt in de Melkweg."
Het idee dat sterren gevormd worden met een companion, is niet nieuw. Maar direct bewijs - via observaties - was tot nu toe zeldzaam. De onderzoekers gebruikten deze keer echter radiotelescopen, die via radiogolven het heelal bestuderen, om de geboorte van sterren in een wolk te bestuderen. En die geven een veel beter beeld dan optische telescopen. "We hebben op deze manier het sterkste bewijs tot nu toe gevonden voor de theorie", aldus Stahler.
De these zal nu ook getoetst worden in andere wolken en verder verfijnd. Als ze overeind blijft, kan ze een heel nieuw licht werpen op het ontstaan van sterrenstelsels.
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Astronomers Discover That Our Sun Likely Had an “Evil” Twin That Killed the Dinosaurs
Astronomers Discover That Our Sun Likely Had an “Evil” Twin That Killed the Dinosaurs
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IN BRIEF
Scientists believe that most, if not all, sun-like stars are born with a twin. Evidence also suggests that our solar system's sun's twin may be responsible for knocking the comet that killed the dinosaurs toward Earth.
STELLAR DOPPELGANGER
We have long known that the dinosaurs were killed by a catastrophic comet impact with the Earth’s surface but what if there was some foul play afoot? Astronomers have discovered that our sun may have been born with a twin, and an evil one, at that. One hypothesis states that every 27 million years, the evil twin, aptly dubbed Nemesis, returns to wreck havoc on the solar system. They believe that the star lobs a few meteors in our direction as it makes its may through the outer limits of the solar system.
Research has lead scientists to believe that most stars are born with at least one sibling. According to UC Berkeley astronomer Steven Stahler, “We ran a series of statistical models to see if we could account for the relative populations of young single stars and binaries of all separations in the Perseus molecular cloud, and the only model that could reproduce the data was one in which all stars form initially as wide binaries.”
Image Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Muzerolle, STScI
MAKING STARS
These findings could have implications for our understanding of how stars are formed. Looking into how they maintain or break those familial relationships will give us a deeper understanding of how our Universe came to be what it is today. Stahler said, “Our work is a step forward in understanding both how binaries form and also the role that binaries play in early stellar evolution.” Stahler also pointed out that this could even lead to a better understanding of how galaxies are formed.
These findings were made possible by the VLA nascent disk and multiplicity survey (VANDAM) which took a census of a group of baby stars merely a half-million years old. Their findings have been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and can be read pre-publication at arXiv.org.
Radio image of a very young binary star system, less than about 1 million years old, that formed within a dense core (oval outline) in the Perseus molecular cloud. All stars likely form as binaries within dense cores.
FORBIDDEN BOOK OF ENOCH — FALLEN ANGELS, NEPHILIM AND ALIENS
FORBIDDEN BOOK OF ENOCH — FALLEN ANGELS, NEPHILIM AND ALIENS
The Book of Enoch, written during the second century B.C.E., is one of the most important non-canonical apocryphal works, and probably had a huge influence on early Christian, particularly Gnostic, beliefs. Filled with hallucinatory visions of heaven and hell, angels and devils, Enoch introduced concepts such as fallen angels, the appearance of a Messiah, Resurrection, a Final Judgement, and a Heavenly Kingdom on Earth. Interspersed with this material are quasi-scientific digressions on calendrical systems, geography, cosmology, astronomy, and meteorology.
Ever since its translation in 1800 from ancient texts discovered in Ethiopia in 1768, the Book of Enoch has created a stir in academic circles. Enoch has been proven to have existed and was mentioned before the existence of the church. Several copies of it were discovered in 1948 among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some even believe we can trace back stories that have great similarities to Ancient Sumer.
The discovery of the first Dead Sea Scrolls in a remote Judean Desert cave in 1947 is widely considered the greatest archaeological event of the twentieth century.
The Book of Enoch is one of those books that almost made it into the Bible but was then rejected as “apocryphal”, even though Enoch and the book itself are mentioned and referred to several times in the Bible. The only people who accept the book as an official part of their holy scriptures are Ethiopian Jews and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and a few more obscure religious groups around the world. Official sources say the book was written 300 B.C. but since it is ascribed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, some speculate that it was written before the great flood.
The Book of Enoch is divided into five basic parts, but it is the The Book of Parables (37-71) which gives scholars the most trouble for it is primarily concerned with a figure called “the messiah”; “the righteous one”; “the chosen one” and “the son of man.”
Chapter 46:1-2, There I beheld the Ancient of days whose head was like white wool, and with him another, whose countenance resembled that of a man. His countenance was full of grace, like that of one of the holy angels. Then I inquired of one of the angels, who went with me, and who showed me every secret thing, concerning this Son of man; who he was; whence he was; and why he accompanied the Ancient of days. He answered and said to me, This is the Son of man, to whom righteousness belongs; with whom righteousness has dwealt; and who will reveal all the treasures of that which is concealed: for the Lord of spirits has chosen him; and his portion has surpassed all before the Lord of spirits in everlasting uprightness.
The opening verses of the Book of Enoch tell us that the revelations in this book were not meant for Enoch’s generation, rather a remote generation, and of course the book would make more sense to the generations after Christ. We know that the early Church made use of the Book of Enoch, but it was then all but lost, until recent times. Perhaps this book was meant for our generation, as it is widely available today after being concealed for over a millennia.
(Enoch 1:1-3) The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. And he took up his parable and said -Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come.
The first part of the book is about “The Watchers”, a group of “angel”s sent to earth to watch over humans. 200 of those angels committed transgression by having sex with humans, creating a hybrid race called the Nephilim. Of the Nephilim it is said that they were giants and savages that endagered and pillaged humanity. It is said that the “Watchers” taught humans reading, writing, weaponry, cosmetics, sorcery, about the stars, meteorology, and many other arts and that this was problematic because it robbed humans the opportunity to discover the arts by themselves. They “revealed the eternal secrets which were preserved for heaven, which men were striving to learn.” the book says.
In the Book of Enoch, the Watchers (Aramaic עִירִין, iyrin) are angels dispatched to Earth to watch over the humans. They soon begin to lust for human women and, at the prodding of their leader Samyaza, defect en masse to illicitly instruct humanity and procreate among them. The offspring of these unions are the Nephilim, savage giants who pillage the earth and endanger humanity.
Who are the Watchers or fallen angels and why was the early Church and the modern Vatican so concerned about them?
Genesis 6:1-4 says: When men began to multiply on the face of the Earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and took them wives of all which they chose.
Traditionally the Ben Eloha or ‘sons of God’ numbered several hundred and they descended to Earth on Mount Harmon. Significantly this was a sacred place to both the Canaanites and the Hebrews who invaded their land. In later times shrines to the gods Baal, Zeus, Helios and Pan and the goddess Astarte were built on its slopes.
In books like Enoch, Jubilee and the Testimonies of the Twelve Patriarchs, the angel orders are arranged in hierarchies. The Watchers seem to be part of the superior classes of angels (e.g. in 1 Enoch, there are 1. Seraphim, 2. Cherubim, 3. Opannim (‘the Wheels of Ezekiel personified) and 4. the Watchers). These varieties of mega-angels share several roles. They are first of all ministering angels who:
intercede for humans – 1 Enoch 15:2
mediate between God and man – Testimony of Dan 6:2
guide people in the right way of life – and report to God on what they see (good or evil) – Jubilee 4:6
reveal God’s secrets – 1 Enoch 60:11
prepare for the judgment of the righteous and wicked – 1 Enoch 103:2-3
teach men knowledge and crafts – 1 Enoch 7:1; 8:1ff
But the Watchers (or some of them) are also those identified as:
falling from heaven, led astray by the first 2 of 5 Satans – Similitudes of Enoch 69:4; 54:6 – Esp. Satanail entices the Watchers in the 5th heaven to revolt against God. This Satan will also later condemn and torture these same Watchers (54:3, 5).
some of the Watchers who fall are imprisoned in the 2nd heaven and others are cast to earth where they take human women (Enoch 7:3, 18:4) who bear giant offspring (the Nephalim of Genesis 6) – Jubilee 13:17-35; Testament of Reuben 5:6
When the angels descended upon the Earth, they started offering gifts of knowledge to both mortal men and women, thus defying the will of the creator of an unaltered race of humans with a will of their own. In exchange, the angels demanded respect and adoration, but unaware they were of the chaos they had instituted.
And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all coloring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.
The Book of Enoch tells many controversial stories of a time in a way similar to what we experience today, but with some major differences. Before the great deluge, humans had tremendous lifespans, fact attested by the Sumerian King List and the Egyptian Pharaoh’s timeline.
By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: ‘He could not be found, because God had taken him away.’ For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.” – Hebrews 11:5
Although historians still consider this time frame in human history as unproved and fictional, there are numerous accounts speaking of those days when “gods walked among men,” when mythological creatures were not just a figment of imagination, and 100 years of life marked only the beginning of ones journey.
Today, it seems that our remote history is either not allowed to surface because it would turn the instituted order to bits, or because that cycle of human history was never meant to be known, for some really intriguing reason. How much this seclusion is benefiting mankind we can only speculate, but I believe that such insight would offer us relief, and that’s exactly what we need to become at peace with ourselves and the universe of which we’re all part of.
THE FIRST REPORTED ALIEN ABDUCTION IS FINALLY GETTING THE MOVIE IT DESERVES
THE FIRST REPORTED ALIEN ABDUCTION IS FINALLY GETTING THE MOVIE IT DESERVES
On September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill claimed to have been taken aboard a UFO, experimented on, and returned with missing memories. It was the first time an abduction like that had ever been reported, and now the story is becoming a feature film.
Gotham/Principal, one of the companies that produces The Maze Runnerfilms, has just partnered with writers Bryce Zabel and Jackie Zabel to adapt the Hills’ story. It’ll be called Captured, based on a 2007 tell-all of the same name by Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden. Because Betty and Barney Hill were an interracial couple, the film will reportedly “place the events in a context of both Cold War paranoia and the country’s struggle over race relations.”
“Captured is a true story that explores the birth of modern UFO lore through the eyes of the first Americans to report that they were kidnapped by aliens,” said Gotham/Principal producer Eric Robinson in a press release. “This is an exciting story that is as intriguing, timely and ripe for adaptation today as it was 54 years ago when this incident occurred. We look forward to sharing Betty and Barney Hill’s incredible encounter with audiences all around the world.”
As someone who doesn’t really follow “UFO lore,” as Robinson calls it, I think this is the aspect that most interests me. Beyond the mystery of whether or not the Hills were actually abducted, and the story’s social and political context, the angle that hooks me is the framing of this event as the birth of a UFO-obsessed subculture so many of us are familiar with today.
That’s fascinating stuff, on top of all the other interesting angles. If anything, you just wonder how it took half a century for this story to finally make it to the big screen in this manner. (The story was previous turned into a 1975 TV movie called The UFO Incident starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons.)
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ARE CROP CIRCLES OTHERWORDLY SIGNS HOLDING MEANINGFUL MESSAGES?
ARE CROP CIRCLES OTHERWORDLY SIGNS HOLDING MEANINGFUL MESSAGES?
We are the product of an omniscient and omnipotent being, and beneath the intricate model lies a message deeply related to our unknown genesis and why not, the end of our voyage through life. We can and should consider these cosmic symbols as a subtle way of communication between the creator and his creation.
Is this the government’s fling to cover-up the true nature of these agriglyphs? More than reasonable, or else many would rise and ask for explanations, but we don’t deserve them, do we? Various plauzible answers might be found within the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
It is known that in UK, crop circles appear most often than anywhere else on the planet. Also, the United Kingdom is home for the legendary Stonehenge. By simply mentioning of Stonehenge can stir the imagination even amongst the oblivious to the forbidden knowledge hidden in plain sight. As if it weren’t enough of a controversial subject already, Stonehenge is strongly linked to this puzzling phenomenon.
The latest agriglyph appearance is recorded one kilometer away from Stonehenge, more and more having been appearing near the monolithic structure. Rushing for a comfortable false explanation, many dismiss it as man-made, but its level of complexity suggests an accuracy that man is not actually capable of achieving.
Moreover, some crop circles seem to display out-of-the-world technology blueprints or depictions of what could be interpreted as hints to our descendance on Earth.
Other crop circles contain signs that can be easily recognized as esoteric symbols, translated into a powerful message: harmony, emotional, physical and spiritual balance.
At a glance, crop circles seem to be man-made, since they appear near roads in areas of medium to dense population, in the vicinity of other heritage monuments. All clues so far lead to a clever marketing strategy, to build intriguing tourist attractions. But sacred geometry stands out from afar, which can be deciphered into a message, fortifying the serious possibility of a direct communication with humans.
In response to this hypothesis, in 1974, UFO enthusiasts have sent a message to our watchers, in the form of a highly suggestive agriglyph. It is believed that we have received a feedback from outer space in 2001, but NASA has firmly dismissed it (another reason to consider the opposite).
Though it is uncertain the exact period when this phenomenon occurred. The earliest mention of a crop circle dates back in 1647, as illustrated in a woodcut named “Mowing Devil”, where it is clearly depicted a circular design in a field of corn.
Long story short, the legend says that a farmer would rather have the devil himself mowe the crops, than his worker.
Apart from legends and folklore, a more convincing historical mention comes from aerial surveys during the World War II over Britain, revealing what was initially termed as “crop marks”. Similar crop marks have been published in 1880, in the journal Nature, by an amateur scientist named Brandon Meland.
After a series of archaeological investigations, skeptics rejected the idea of extraterrestrial activity, pointing the finger to unrevealed pranksters.
CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD KIND BEGINT WERKELIJKHEID TE WORDEN ( VIDEO )
CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD KIND BEGINT WERKELIJKHEID TE WORDEN ( VIDEO )
Nu met de ontmaskering van de killer elite UFO’s vaststaat dat er een geheime aardse ruimtevloot is, zullen velen zich afvragen of we dan überhaupt nog buitenaardse UFO’s zien.
Dat dit wel degelijk het geval is, blijkt mede uit een foto die wij eerder deze week publiceerden met een soort Close Encounters of the Third Kind in India.
Twee dagen geleden schreven wij over het verhaal van een man die op zijn mobiele telefoon een foto ontdekt die hij niet zelf had genomen. Hierbij nog een klein stukje uit dat artikel:
Op de foto zie je een paar felle lichten in de lucht die doen denken aan de film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Het verhaal wordt nog vreemder, want niet alleen kon de man zich niets herinneren, toen hij keek naar de tijd dat de foto de vorige avond was genomen stond daar 22:51:22. Een tijd dat hij in bed lag te slapen.
Vervolgens heeft een andere gebruiker op Reddit de foto zodanig bewerkt dat de donkere gedeeltes wat meer zichtbaar werden.
En dan wordt het nog veel interessanter want op de foto zien we een man staan die naar het vreemde object in de lucht staart. Wat nog vreemder is, is dat de man op de foto niet de eigenaar van de camera is die het bericht op Reddit heeft geplaatst.
Het enige dat de man bekend voor komt is de bomenrij. Die ziet eruit zoals aan de voorkant van zijn huis.
Op dit artikel kwam de volgende reactie van een lezer (dank!):
Ik heb de belichtte foto goed bekeken. Wat mij op valt is een groot postuur en blond haar. Verder staart hij niet naar de ufo, maar staat er met zijn rug naar toe.
Dat kun je zien aan de gebogen armen links en rechts, vooral rechts. Zijn hoofd is naar voren gebogen alsof hij zich enigszins verschuilt.
Mijn conclusie is dat we hier niet te maken hebben met een mens, maar hoogstwaarschijnlijk een Nordic. Hij loopt recht op de camera toe en ook dat is vreemd. Alsof hij gefotografeerd wilde worden.
Kijk maar eens heel goed naar de foto.
Terwijl wij daar mee bezig waren, stuurt hij nog een bericht:
Ik heb de foto iets anders belicht en bewerkt en het resultaat is wel bijzonder te noemen. Zelfs een contour van de kleding is te zien. Ik dacht meteen aan Star Trek.
Het resultaat ziet er als volgt uit:
Voor zover ons bekend, heeft niemand de afgelopen anderhalf jaar eraan gedacht dat die man wel eens met zijn gezicht naar de camera tóe kon staan in plaats van andersom.
Hebben we hier te maken met een vertegenwoordiger van een buitenaards ras?
Dit geheel heeft een veel vredelievendere uitstraling en zou dan ook heel goed buitenaards kunnen zijn.
Twee dagen geleden zien een aantal mensen een paar vreemde lichten in de lucht vanaf hun veranda in de Indiase plaats Parpatur. Die lichten lijken opmerkelijk veel op die op de foto van de Reddit gebruiker.
Maar, waar de Reddit gebruiker geen weet had over hoe die lichten op zijn camera terechtkwamen, hadden de mensen uit India dat wel en maakten de volgende beelden.
De video schijnt echt te zijn, is geplaatst op een kanaal zonder kijkers, met maar drie andere video’s die niet gerelateerd zijn aan UFO’s. Het zou dan ook totaal zinloos zijn om op dat kanaal een nep video te plaatsen.
Wanneer je de opname ziet en iemand zou je vertellen dat deze beelden afkomstig zijn uit de film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, dan zou je het waarschijnlijk geloven.
'ROSWELL HAPPENED' Roswell conspiracy theory ‘expert’ claims UFO crash DID happen… and says a leaked US government document she’s seen proves it
'ROSWELL HAPPENED'Roswell conspiracy theory ‘expert’ claims UFO crash DID happen… and says a leaked US government document she’s seen proves it
Paranormal radio show host Heather Wade insists she has seen a top secret report on the alleged incident in New Mexico, USA
By Tom Michael
A ROSWELL conspiracy theory “expert” has claimed to have found proof the supposed UFO crash really did happen.
Heather Wade insists she has got her hands on an “ultra top secret” report confirming the fabled alien encounter in the desert of New Mexico, USA, was real.
The Roswell incident is one of the most famous UFO theories around
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Wade claims she has got her hands on an ‘ultra top secret’ government report
Wade says she got the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) document from an unnamed source, according to the Express.
She claims the dossier details how the UFO came down on July 2 or 3, 1947.
Wade – who hosts a late night online radio show focusing on the paranormal – claims the documents describe how four decomposing alien bodies were found two miles from the crash site a week later.
The radio host said she passed the report on to Stanton Friedman – a nuclear physicist who is also a Roswell believer and investigator.
The supposed government report states: “Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded.
“These had fallen to earth at least two miles east of the crash site where the wreckage was located.
“All of the four alien crew members were dead and badly decomposed.”
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Headlines from the original front page of the Roswell Daily Record, reporting on flying-saucer crash near Roswell
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Major Jesse Marcel with debris found 75 miles north west of Roswell, in June 1947
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A statement on the website for her radio show, Midnight in the Desert, reads: “Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source. a
“She immediately had Stanton Friedman take a look at these documents who said, ‘I have never seen anything like this, this is new MJ12 information.’
“Stanton Friedman is going to continue examining these documents for authenticity, but at this time we can find no evidence of forgery.”
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ROSWELL: 15 PIECES OF EVIDENCE THE GOVERNMENT IS HIDING ALIENS - PART I
ROSWELL: 15 PIECES OF EVIDENCE THE GOVERNMENT IS HIDING ALIENS - PART I
It’s been almost 70 years since the infamous Roswell incident. The moment the public started to become clued in to the idea that extraterrestrial being were visiting our planet, or possibly that alien teenagers were joyriding in New Mexico.
This was also the first time really that the people of the world started to sit up and suspect that their government was not being entirely honest with them about alien life. Before Roswell, people were happy just thinking that aliens were the subject of science fiction. Since that night, when a rancher found what he described to the authorities as “one of them flying saucers”, Roswell has been permanently linked to the subject of UFOs and cover-ups, creating a cottage industry that has pulled in tourists and created an awful TV show.
Proving these incidents has been somewhat problematic. If you’re looking for videos of dancing aliens or a discarded extraterrestrial learner’s permit, you’re not going to find it out there. In fact, every piece of physical evidence surrounding Roswell has been proven as fakery – like the infamous autopsy video from 1995, or the recent photos of an alien being that turned out to be an Aztec mummy. Chances are, any evidence of that nature is locked firmly away in a vault along with the Arc of the Covenant, and what little remains of Indiana Jones’ dignity.
The evidence we do have is largely eyewitness accounts, anonymous deathbed confessions, and government documentation. They’re not quite the smoking gun, but they might just lead us down the path to finding one.
Preferably before the aliens enslave us all.
15. GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE ROSWELL CRASH
Via E46 fanatics.com
If we’re to assume that an extraterrestrial vessel crashed somewhere in New Mexico in 1947 – and no-one is for a moment suggesting the aliens were drunk – then you would expect their to be some kind of impact evidence. While debris can be collected and hidden, and beings locked in aircraft hangers, geological evidence is more challenging to cover up.
In 2011, Frank Kimbler – a science teacher at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, decided he wanted to find this physical evidence. He took satellite images of the alleged crash site, enhanced the infra red, and actually discovered an area that seemed to correlate with what witnesses in 1947 described. The disturbed area was about ¾ of a mile long, and a few hundred feet wide – which kind of rules out the shenanigans of drunken farmers.
So while there were no photos of giant-headed beings staring up at Kemmler, this is some pretty interesting evidence pointing toward a large impact with the surface of the earth.
14. METALLIC DEBRIS
Via YouTube.com
Spurred on by his, frankly, unexpected satellite evidence, our friend Frank Kimbler of previous entry-fame decided that he needed to get some boots on the ground. Boots and a metal detector. Yes, taking an approach that somehow always seems to make people look like crazy obsessives, he took to the site with a whirring, beeping device.
Of course, Kimbler was hardly the first person to dig around the area, but he found that previous archaeologists had been sifting through the dirt with screens that had holes large enough for very tiny pieces of evidence to pass through. Amateurs.
A few inches beneath the surface, in an anthill – because ants are notorious hoarders of UFO debris – Kimbler struck gold. Well, some kind of metal. The first pieces were buttons from 1940s-era military fatigues – proving that the military had at least been present in the area. He also found some slivers of a mysterious metal. Which leads us to…
13. MATERIALS NOT OF THIS EARTH
Via YouTube.com
Usually, when someone finds little foil-like slivers of metal, they don’t pick them up and keep them for later examination, cradling them lovingly like Gollum in Lord of the Rings. There’s no evidence that Kimbler was acting in this fashion, of course…but it’s fun to think about.
A surface examination by the completely unbiased-sounding Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center found that the metal was composed of aluminium, manganese, silicon and copper alloy. While not unheard of, this mix is not usually found in foil form.
So, Kimbler hauled the evidence around various labs, hoping for an isotopic analysis that would confirm whether the origin of the evidence was terrestrial. Thing is, some scientists wouldn’t touch it with a 1000 ft barge pole, not wanting to be associated with the Roswell incident. However, when he did find a lab that would take on the work (funded by the UFO Museum…just saying), the results were interesting.
Unless the lab made a mistake, the isotopic ratios of the magnesium suggested the material wasn’t consistent with being from this planet.
12. MILITARY WITNESSES
Via wikimedia.org
It’s admittedly a bit of a leap to find some buttons and claim that they’re evidence of the military being present at the site of a UFO crash. Maury Povich found our DNA evidence inside a baby’s genes, but that doesn’t mean we were necessarily present for the conception.
However, in 2016 an unidentified (always slightly suspicious) soldier came forward and claimed that he and up to 500 other military personnel witnessed UFOs in the New Mexico desert in 1971.
Stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas at the time, the soldier and his unit were ostensibly sent on maneuvers to an area west of Roswell. While there, the soldiers witnessed a double UFO incident in the sky above them, stopping abruptly and making erratic movements for 5 hours.
Is Roswell like a tourist spot for extraterrestrial visitors too? Or maybe they’re still looking for some bits of metal they left behind.
11.TESTIMONY OF HIGH RANKING MILITARY STAFF
Via the editorial.com
We’re not suggesting for a moment that you can’t trust the eyewitness account of an anonymous soldier, or that their anonymity makes it difficult to even ascertain they were even a soldier. We wouldn’t dare. But when there’s a named source, and that source is of significant rank, well you tend to sit up straight and pay attention – mostly because they shouted in your face ordering you to do so.
Brigadier General Thomas DuBose revealed that he was present when the Roswell wreckage was brought into the office of General Roger Ramey at Carswell Air Force Base. While the official military statement was that the debris was from a fallen weather balloon, DuBose maintained that there was some form of cover up, and that the debris – which he handled personally – was from no normal weather balloon.
This doesn’t mean it was aliens. But it’s aliens.
10. CIA FILES
Via Etsy.com
What’s pretty frustrating for anyone attempting to look into evidence that the government are hiding anally-fixated extraterrestrial being, is the fact that people in the know are pretty reticent to reveal anything that could conceivably…you know…get them assassinated (more on that in a bit).
Chase Brandon, a 35 year veteran of the CIA made a confession that is tantalizingly close to some useful information, and yet frustratingly, he won’t say any more.
In 2012, Brandon said that he saw files on the Roswell incident when he walked into the Historical Intelligence Collection at the CIA headquarters in Virginia.
Opening up a box labelled “Roswell”, Brandon said he rummaged around and saw evidence in the form of written material and photographs that made him realize the crash was real.
He said, “It was not a damn weather balloon…it was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don’t doubt for a second that the use of the words ‘remains’ and ‘cadavers’ was exactly what people were talking about.”
Brandon refuses to say any more on the subject because he’s being mindful of “the hat I wear as a former CIA operative”.
9. JFK PROBABLY KNEW ABOUT THE ALIENS
Via YouTube.com
Again, we’re into the slightly murky realm of eyewitness testimony from anonymous military sources. Which has all the credibility of a monkey in a lab coat claiming to be a heart surgeon. Still, it’s worth considering.
In a recent documentary, “Undisclosed”, a man purported by the film makers to be John F Kennedy’s former pilot revealed that the president had significant awareness of the US government’s contact with extraterrestrials.
During a conversation with the president, the pilot claims JFK told him, “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.”
Which, while it reads as though JFK might have been drunk at the time, lends some credence to the rumors that the president was assassinated because he was about to make revelations about aliens to the world. Sort of. Maybe.
8. NASA UFO FEED WAS CUT
Via section51-ufo.com
In today’s super-connected world, we have become used to seeing things happen, at the moment they happen. When some starlet has a nip-slip on the red carpet, you better believe several hundred thousand people witnessed it, and there’s no point denying it happened.
Well, it seems NASA had something of a nip-slip of its own in 2016.
NASA has been kind enough to provide us with live feeds outside the International Space Station constantly since 2014. On that fateful day, audiences were watching the beauty of the earth from space, when an object appeared to slowly descend toward earth…and then the footage cut out.
When questioned about it, NASA claimed the blackout occurred at random, and advised that they’d never witnessed a UFO in the popular sense.
While there are all kinds of plausible explanations for the object, the timing of the feed cut out was kinda…convenient.
7. THE SHIRLEY’S BAY STATION
Via ottowarewind.com
Obviously, it’s not just the US government that are covering up their evidence of alien existence. That’s a given. But we would never have expected the Canadians to be involved in a conspiracy! What the hell, Canada? You’re supposed to be the nice one!
Project Magnet was set up in Shirley’s Bay, Ottawa, with the explicit intention of attracting UFOs, because the Canadian Department of Transport thought UFOs might hold the key to clean transportation.
Sounds like a great idea, right?
However, as soon as the station detected it’s first suspicious event, all records were deemed classified by the Canadian government, and the project was abruptly shut down by officials. However, according to the lead scientist at the base, Wilbert Smith, the incident involved readings that were way off the charts of any normal aircraft, but when the research team ran outside to see what was causing the readings, they were unable to view it due to fog.
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ROSWELL: 15 PIECES OF EVIDENCE THE GOVERNMENT IS HIDING ALIENS - PART II
ROSWELL: 15 PIECES OF EVIDENCE THE GOVERNMENT IS HIDING ALIENS - PART II
6. A NASA ASTRONAUT SPOKE OUT
Via ufoinsight.com
If there’s one person on Earth that you’re likely to accept the testimony of about life on other planets, it’s probably gonna be a guy that’s actually been into space.
Edgar Mitchell, along with being a former space jockey of the highest order, is one of the faces that keeps cropping up when trying to uncover evidence of UFOs.
In a 2008 radio interview, Mitchell revealed that the government had been covering up UFOs for the last 50 years, but that NASA wasn’t involved. Though he declined to give names, he said that he knew several high ranking military and intelligence officials who had personal experience of the cover up. He also said that he spoke to an official at the Pentagon, who confirmed that the instigators of this more than half-century block on information were investigators of the Roswell incident.
Sure, it’s not a video of an autopsy, but it’s very intriguing.
5. ALIEN CRAFT ON THE MOON
Via ufodb.com
One of the great things about working around people who have been up in space, is you’re likely to hear about some of the weird stuff that they see. You know, before you receive a clandestine visit from a shadowy organization that for some unknown reason would hire Will Smith.
A former NASA contract employee, Donna Hare revealed that she had spoken to a man who had been in quarantine with astronauts returning from the moon, and they spoke about what they had seen there.
An alien craft, landing on the surface of the moon.
However, according to Hare’s source, the astronauts were given explicit instructions never to mention this craft to anyone. Probably less because they want to cover up alien life, than they want people to believe the US were the first beings on the moon.
4. THE MILITARY SHOT AN ALIEN
Via YouTube.com
Well, it seems that the government’s approach to alien life is not one of benign co-operation. More like, kill it before it kills you. At least according to former Air Force Major George Filer III.
According to Filer, when he was stationed at the McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, he witnessed an alien craft landing on the runway.
Did the military run up the welcome flag? Throw out a red carpet? Put on a nice buffet?
No.
Filer said that when the alien being got out of it’s craft, a member of the military police shot it dead. He was initially told to brief general staff on the incident, but was soon ordered to hush up about it.
Probably to stop a potential “alien lives matter” movement. The government finds those protests a bit awkward.
3. DEATHBED CONFESSION
Via theunboundspirit.com
The cool thing about making a deathbed confession about evidence of an extraterrestrial cover up, is that the government can’t come after you and kill you. Well, unless they can come after your ghost and kill it…which we can’t really rule out yet.
In 2016, former Canadian Minister of Defence and hero of UFOlogists the world over, Paul Hellyer revealed that a high ranking official made just such a confession.
He didn’t reveal the name of the source, just that he was a former Chief of Emergency Measures…which sort of narrows it down a bit.
According to Hellyer, the chief was taken by the CIA to Area 51, and offered the opportunity to see inside an alien craft. Apparently the official was allowed to wander around, take notes, presumably use an alien toilet. However, before he went in he was made to sign a lifetime non-disclosure agreement.
That tricksy government and their contracts.
2. THE BRITISH ARE HIDING STUFF TOO
Via ufoinsight.com
Yeah, we all knew that there was something suspicious lurking behind that stiff upper lip. And isn’t it a little convenient that they have police boxes littered about the place that can transport people across time and space?
Well, it seems they’re part of the cover up too.
In 1980, a team of Police Security officers spotted a triangular object flying across the sky above Suffolk. A couple of nights later, beams of light were seen by military personnel at nearby RAF Bentwaters, with beams apparently probing weapons stores at the base.
The deputy base commander, Lt Col James Holy wrote a memo detailing the incident, but the Ministry of Defense shut down any further investigations, claiming the incident was “of no defense significance”.
So, basically they covered it up because it was none of their business. Lovely.
1. THE ROSWELL INCIDENT
Via the week.co.uk
Perhaps the best piece of evidence that the government has been covering up the existence of alien life, comes from the Roswell incident itself.
You see, while today we’re used to seeing all kinds of complex conspiracies, and false flag incidents, back in 1947, the government was still pretty new at the whole clandestine shenanigans game.
It would seem that government officials thought that the public were dumb enough just to ignore the fact that they came out and said there was an alien craft crash.
Yup, the night of the Roswell incident, government officials released word to the press that a flying saucer had been recovered in the New Mexico desert. What followed was clearly a moment of panicked flailing, and the next day they printed a retraction which went along the lines of, “oh, wait, no it was a weather balloon”.
No, US government, people are never going to forget that you told them a spacecraft crashed.
An alleged leak of top-secret U.S. government documents from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) appears to confirm that a flying saucer UFO really did crash at a ranch a few miles from Roswell, New Mexico, in July of 1947. The alleged DIA documents also appear to confirm that alien bodies were recovered from the wreckage of the crashed UFO. The documents, according to UFO researchers, could provide vital evidence backing up claims that the U.S. government hushed up an alien UFO crash near Roswell, in an incident that UFO disclosure activists have described as the biggest cover-up in history.
Heather Wade, the host of the late night paranormal radio show Midnight in the Desert, claims to have obtained a 47-page DIA dossier containing an “ultra top secret” report about multiple alien and UFO sighting incidents. The dossier includes a detailed six-page report on the fabled 1947 Roswell incident.
Wade said she obtained the documents from a trusted source that wished to remain anonymous. She immediately passed the documents on to the nuclear physicist and UFO researcher Stanton Friedman.
“Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source,” reads a statement posted to the website of the Midnight in the Desert radio show. “She [Wade] immediately had Stanton Friedman take a look at these documents.”
“I have never seen anything like this, this is new MJ12 information,” Friedman reportedly said.
“Stanton Friedman is going to continue examining these documents for authenticity, but at this time we can find no evidence of forgery.”
'ROSWELL HAPPENED' - alleged US leak confirms 'UFO crash, dead aliens and cover up'
A FLYING saucer did crash in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, and four dead aliens were found, before the world's biggest ever cover up began nearly 70 years ago... according to an allegedly...
The alleged six-page DIA report includes previously unknown details about how a flying saucer UFO crashed on July 2-3, 1947, at a spot in the desert about 75 miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, with the scattered debris covering an area of a few miles.
The report also includes details about how four badly decomposed alien bodies were recovered two weeks later at a site about two miles from the main crash site.
Taken at face value, the documents appear to confirm the initial statement released by the military authorities to media outlets in July of 1947 that a “flying saucer” had crashed at a spot near Roswell. The initial statement that the military authorities had discovered the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert near Roswell made the headlines on local newspapers, including the Roswell Daily Record. However, after the initial statement attracted public attention and interest, the authorities issued a retraction, saying that the crashed object was, in fact, not a “flying disc” but a U.S. Air Force weather balloon.
However, years after the retraction, individuals claiming to be witnesses and whistleblowers began coming forward with astonishing stories that a flying saucer UFO had crashed near Roswell and that the military authorities tried to cover up the truth after recovering the wreckage and transporting it secretly to a USAF base.
“Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded,” the alleged DIA document read. “These had fallen to earth at least two miles east of the crash site where the wreckage was located.”
“All of the four alien crew members were dead and badly decomposed.”
The report went on to say that more than 320 bits and pieces of wreckage were recovered. The pieces and the decomposing alien corpses were then transported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Paradigm Research Group (PRG), a UFO disclosure group that is lobbying the U.S. government to end an alleged “embargo” on information about aliens and UFOs, confirmed in a press release that the documents were new and had not been previously seen by UFO researchers. According to PRG, the documents were likely briefing documents produced by an alleged clandestine group within the U.S. government called the Majestic 12 (MJ-12).
PRG said it was investigating the documents with the help of top researchers in the field to determine their authenticity. Three top UFO researchers, the nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, Richard Dolan, and Col. Kevin Randle, were examining the documents, PRG said.
“Over the coming weeks PRG will work closely with leading researchers… to determine the quality of this evidence.”
PRG listed four possible explanations for the document.
“The first two options are the most likely and about equal in probability.”
Roswell conspiracy theory 'expert' claims UFO crash DID happen… and says a leaked US government document she's ...… http://dlvr.it/PMVsXH
Roswell conspiracy theory ‘expert’ claims UFO crash DID happen
A ROSWELL conspiracy theory “expert” has claimed to have found proof the supposed UFO crash really did happen. Heather Wade insists she has got her hands on an “ultra top secret” report…
“1) Government disinformation ‘leaked’ that contains much truth plus bogus elements obvious to skilled researchers
“2) Fully legitimate government documents.
“3) Disinformation created and dispersed by private citizens who are not connected to or paid by the government and who consider the matter of an extraterrestrial presence to be false and worthy of being thwarted.
“4) False information created and dispersed by a person or persons convinced of an extraterrestrial presence in a misguided attempt to advance the issue.”
However, even as experts said they were examining the documents to determine their authenticity, skeptics said investigators would likely find them to be forgeries.
This is not the first time that documents and images have been presented as proof that a UFO crashed at Roswell and that the authorities recovered dead and living aliens from the wreckage.
Several videos and images have emerged online claiming to show bodies recovered from the Roswell UFO. Most of the images were later shown to be forgeries.
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Grey Aliens: Where are they from?
Grey Aliens: Where are they from?
About the Greys
First, I will stop referring to the grey skinned, short alien as a “Zeta”. The name was derived from the starmap shown to Betty Hill during her abduction which was later believed to show the star system Zeta Reticuli. Betty has vehemently denied that her encounter was with this type of being.
Almost everything that we know about the Greys comes from people who have been abducted by them, or with their help. Some of this information is from hypnosis therapy, but a good deal of it is from actual memories.
Although there have been over 50 different kinds of aliens reported and cataloged in abduction scenarios, the Greys have been the most common since about 1980. Greys have been witnessed working with almost all of the other species. They are usually the beings that do the actual abduction, moving their victims to locations where the other types of aliens perform tests and conduct interviews.
Greys are about 4 to 4 1/2 feet tall, have no hair, unusually large heads (especially the cranium) andpointed jaws. Their mouths are very small and seldom move. Their noses are either extremely small by human comparison or completely missing, with two small holes showing. But perhaps the signature feature of Greys are their two large, almond shaped, black eyes.
People always remark that the body of Greys is extremely thin. They appear to have no striated muscles on their arms or legs. Their necks are so thin that it is often remarked that they shouldn’t support such a large head, yet they do. Their arms are longer than humans, ending below their knees, and they have hands with only four fingers of differing lengths.
The physical descriptions of Greys is always consistent when recalled by abductees. They also report that Greys are capable of limited telepathic communication — mostly reassuring their victims that “Everything will be fine”. They seem able to put humans into a trance by staring at them and it is often reported that “they read my soul”, referring to their ability to scan the mind of their victims.
You will notice that I am using the word “victims” here, since the abductees are most often taken against their will, traumatized by painful examinations and surgical procedures, and left with mental and physical damage. Indeed, their reassurance that everything will be “fine” is the first of many deceptions.
Have YOU been abducted?
You might think this is a foolish question but it’s not. A recent survey conducted by the Roper Organization asked American subjects certain questions designed to reveal abductees. Their results showed that, back in 1998, 1 of every 50 subjects had experienced an alien abduction. Typically, abductions are on-going and often begin in childhood.
According to Dr. Karla Turner, who has worked with over 400 abduction cases and has written the book “Into the Fringe”, the abduction phenomena includes some of the following details:
Aliens, especially Greys, can alter our perceptions of our surroundings. They can create a kind of “virtual reality” in our mind and can appear to us any number of guises and shapes. Perhaps the mental “scanning” is used to select imagery to calm the victims and substitute memories of the abduction. They can be present with us in an invisible state and can make themselves only partially visible by this same ability.
Abductees receive marks on their bodies. Scoops of flesh are mysteriously missing and straight-line scars sometimes appear on victims’ bodies. Other marks include single punctures, multiple punctures, large bruises, three-and four fingered claw marks, and trangles of every possible sort.
Female abductees often suffer serious gynecological problems after their alien encounters, and sometimes these problems lead to cysts, tumors, cancer of the breast and uterus, and to hysterectomies.
Abductees report being scoffed at, jeered at, and threatened by their alien captors. Painful genital and anal probes are performed — even on young children — and unknown fluids are injected into some abductees.
Abductees report being taken to underground facilities where they see grotesque hybrid creatures, nurseries of hybrid humanoid fetuses, and vats of colored liquid filled with parts of bodies. Other abductees report seeing other humans in these facilities being drained of blood, mutilated, flayed, dismembered, and stacked like cords of wood. Some abductees have been threatened that they, too, will end up in this condition if they don’t co-operate with their alien captors.
Aliens have forced their human abductees to have sexual intercourse with aliens and even with other abductees while groups of aliens observe these performances. In such encounters, the aliens have sometimes disguised themselves in order to gain the cooperation of the abductee, appearing in such forms as Jesus, Blessed Mary, the Pope, certain celebrities, and even the dead spouses of the abductees. The Grey’s ability to scan our minds allows them to assess our vulnerabilities and customize the abduction experience.
Aliens make predictions of an imminent period of global chaos and destruction. They say that a certain number of humans will be “rescued” from the planet in order to continue the species, either on another planet or back on earth after the destruction is over. Many abductees report they don’t believe their alien captors and foresee instead a much more sinister use of the “rescued” humans.
Many alien prophesies to contactees of the 50’s and even today have failed to come true or appear to be outright lies. Many contactees and abductees today are again delivering warnings of coming earth changes and disasters along with promises of help from aliens. They feel “chosen” to deliver these messages to mankind. Again the Grey’s know their vulnerable egos can compel their cooperation. The prophesies often create false hope and dependency on their abductors whom they know little about.
“I’ve come away from this experience convinced of one thing: if there aren’t demons out there, there might as well be, because these guys are indistinguishable from demons. Indistinguishable. To see them, to look into their eyes, is to be less — forever…” — Whitley Strieber (MUFON Journal, Sept. 93)
Good and Bad Greys
OK. That’s pretty bad stuff — and very frightening. But it gets worse. So let’s get all the bad stuff out in the open before we explore the good side of Greys. The following is a well known conspiracy theory about a secret base where humans (military) and Greys work together. Apparently the Greys have the upper hand as you will see in this eye-witness account of what happened when their secret underground dwelling was accidentally disturbed.
Theories depicting Greys as evil
Phil Schneider, one of three people to survive the 1979 fire fight between the large Greys, US intelligence and military at the Dulce underground base, was found dead January 1996, due to what appears to be an execution style murder. He was found dead in his apartment with a piano wire wrapped around his neck. According to sources, it appeared that he repeatedly suffered torture before he was finally killed. Seven months prior to his death , Schneider did a lecture on the forces he had discovered at Dulce.Here is his story:
Back in 1954, under the Eisenhower administration, the federal government decided to circumvent the Constitution of the United States and form a treaty with alien entities. It was called the 1954 Grenada Treaty, which basically made the agreement that the aliens involved could take a few cows and test their implanting techniques on a few human beings, but that they had to give details about the people involved. Slowly, the aliens altered the bargain until they decided they wouldn’t abide by it at all. Back in 1979, this was the reality, and the fire-fight at Dulce occurred quite by accident.
“I was involved in building an addition to the deep underground military base at Dulce, which is probably the deepest base. It goes down seven levels and over 2.5 miles deep. At that particular time, we had drilled four distinct holes in the desert, and we were going to link them together and blow out large sections at a time. My job was to go down the holes and check the rock samples, and recommend the explosive to deal with the particular rock. As I was headed down there, we found ourselves amidst a large cavern that was full of outer-space aliens, otherwise known as large Greys. I shot two of them. At that time, there were 30 people down there. About 40 more came down after this started, and all of them got killed. We had surprised a whole underground base of existing aliens. Later, we found out that they had been living on our planet for a long time, perhaps a million years. This could explain a lot of what is behind the theory of ancient astronauts.
“Anyway, I got shot in the chest with one of their weapons, which was a box on their body, that blew a hole in me and gave me a nasty dose of cobalt radiation. I have had cancer because of that.
“I didn’t get really interested in UFO technology until I started work at Area 51, north of Las Vegas. After about two years recuperating after the 1979 incident, I went back to work for Morrison and Knudson, EG&G and other companies. At Area 51, they were testing all kinds of peculiar spacecraft. How many people here are familiar with Bob Lazar’s story? He was a physicist working at Area 51 trying to decipher the propulsion factor in some of these craft.
Dulce Base — under Mt. Archuleta, Dulce, New Mexico. Located close to the Colorado border and situated on the Jicarella Apache Indian Reservation. The town of Dulce is located off U.S. Route 64 population 900-1,700. A small town with one motel and a gas station. The base is located 2.5 miles northwest of Dulce and almost overlooks the town. Joint CIA-Alien base. 95 miles northwest of Los Alamos. Biogenetics Laboratory including but not limited to: Atomic Manipulation, cloning, studies of the human aura, advanced mind control applications, animal/human crossbreeding, visual and audio human chip implantation, abduction and feeding off of humans including children.
The Second Largest Reptilian and Grey Base in North America. The Central Hub.
*1st Level – contains the garage for Street Maintenance.
*2nd Level- contains the garage for trains, shuttles, tunnel-boring machines and UFO maintenance.
*3rd Level – the first 3 levels contain government offices.
*4th Level – Human Aura Research as well as aspects of Dream Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Telepathy. They can lower your heartbeat with Delta Waves and introduce data and programmed reactions into your mind (for those implanted with brain chips). Most people already are, they just don’t know it.
*5th Level – witnesses have described huge vats with amber liquid with parts of human bodies being stirred inside. Rows and rows of cages holding men, women and children — some believe to be used as food. Perhaps thousands.
*6th Level — privately called “Nightmare Hall.” It contains the genetic labs. Here are where the crossbreeding experiments of human/animal are done on fish, seals, birds, and mice that are vastly altered from their original forms. There are multi-armed and multi-legged humans and several cages and vats of humanoid bat-like creatures up to 7 feet tall.
*7th level – Row after row of 1,000s of humans in cold storage including children.
[thanks to http://www.orgoneblasters.com/joint-bases.htm]
We have no way of knowing if the accounts of Grey activity at Dulce, New Mexico are true. Even the local people are a bit paranoid about what lies under the nearby mountains. Strange lights are often seen and some ranchers have reported seeing steam coming from air vents in the valleys. It’s almost sure that something is under the earth — but whatever it is must be very secret.
Harvesting Souls?
Nigel Kerner has written books describing the Greys as a race of biologic robots, created long ago by some superior civilization that they outlived. Although they are self-aware, Greys are like the Tin Man in the Wizzard of Oz — only instad of a heart, Greys need our souls. Kerner describes the abduction phenomenon in terms of a “Harvest” where potential human candidates are examined and nurtured for that moment when they will have their spirit essence transferred to a waiting Grey.
This theory has some interesting support from social scientists who open our eyes to cultural trends that can only be described as pure “evil.” The widespread introduction of materialism, free pornography and secularism seem to have no other reward but to destroy personal integrity and morality. Poverty also enslaves the population and destroys the family structure. All these trends diminish our spiritual strength making our souls vulnerable and ripe for the harvest. And all these cultural shifts could well be the fruit of abductions and implanted ideologies.
As crazy as these theories sound, the abduction phenomenon is itself crazy, but very real. We should not easily dismiss the association of Greys with the underworld, decpetion and evil.“By way of deception thou shall do war.”
Next up… the other side of Greys
Next we’ll take a look at the side of Greys that some people consider beneficial to humans. We’ll see how they interact with some people to reveal future events and help our species. We’ll also see that all Greys are not alike. And some Greys are trying to correct the harm that has been inflicted on humans by their own race.
After the horrific stories of what humans have endured, and continue to endure in abductions, it seems an uphill battle to portray the Greys as benevolent and altruistic. Yet that is what many people believe. Their argument deserves consideration but requires a serious upgrade in our concept of good intentions and wise intervention.
Us and Them
Let’s get off planet Earth for a moment and consider the unimaginable vastness of the universe and its possibilities. Countless inhabited planets have evolved with intelligent life capable of technologies and philosophies that are thousands, millions or even billions of years ahead of what we understand. In this scenario we, humans, are part of the mix. We too are aliens.
While an extrateresstrial species visiting our planet must have the prerequisite understanding of the “big picture”, we don’t yet have this. In fact, we are still debating whether there is life anywhere else. Our experience with other species is limited to our interactions with the human, animal, plant and marine life on Earth, which we have routinely exploited.
Although diverse, the universe appears to have laws and patterns. Undoubtedly, intelligent beings have a pattern of evolution that can be recognized by beings who are familiar with, and have studied, a variety of inhabited worlds. The challenges faced by homo sapiens sapiens are likely not unique and extraterrestrial observers can assess our progress and pitfalls with some objectivity.
One of the “laws” of nature is that progress is the result of trial and error. Error is important — it is the great teacher. Once burnt, twice as shy. And so the concept of the Prime Directive, as introduced by Roddenberry’s Star Trek series, is valid.
This is perhaps the reason Greys do not stop wars, plagues, over population, pollution or famines. Like children, we must learn our lessons the hard way. Their apparent indifference does not justify our perception of evil intent.
But what about the abductions? Can we justify them?
Microcosm and Macrocosm
One of the reasons that the prime directive was instituted was to prevent evolving civilizations from obtaining technologies that outpaced their culture. Giving young children handguns is a recipe for a catastrophe. Our own tribal and warfare culture is experiencing this with the recent discovery of atomic fission.
What is true on Earth is also true in the universe. Unless a civilization has reached some type of peaceful wisdom or moral spirituality, interplanetary travel will bring with it those same unresolved competitive and exploitive traits. We should expect to see these same traits in some of our encounters with extraterrestrial visitors. But again, this pattern should be known and some aliens will likely try to prevent our exploitation.
I guess I am trying to paint a picture of “good” and “bad” encounters that are possible and likely have happened to us in our history. To some aliens we are seen as interesting and potentially good creatures, worthy of respect. To others we are seen as cattle. The nature of the abduction experience can thus be varied.
Greys seem to be both good and bad. This has led some to believe that they are at conflict with themselves. Abductees speak of “service to self” Greys as the bad ones and “service to others” as the good Greys. This apparent split in ideology came about in the 1980s. It is believed that the “service to self” Greys had either threatened or offered technology to the governments and military in return for their unhindered molestation of humanity and that certain “service to others” Greys revolted, forming their own camp.
Zeta Talk
The split in ideologies with Greys happened after Dr. Karla Turner’s documentation of the horrific alien abductions. Her descriptions led one to believe that the Greys were custodians or shepherds of human beings, allowing other malevolent aliens to have their way with us. Indeed Greys do appear to be the stewards of the planet. They have apparently been here a long time and have messed with us continuously.
The “service to others” Greys are a more recent phenomenon. These beings supposedly speak through selected humans, giving messages about peace, the environment and planetary change. Unfortunately, their method of communication with the public is distorted by the messengers and is greatly diluted.
A case in point is Nancy Leider [right] who runs a website called www.zetatalk.comand which claims to publish messages (called “nings”) from the good Greys, who she calls Zetas. According to her biography:
Nancy became aware of her contactee status in 1993, and the potential for being a communicator of the Zeta message, in the midst of a full life with a family and a full time job. As a contactee, Nancy participated in the hybrid program, and met one of her hybrid children. In preparation for her communicator role, Nancy was given life form introductions and introduced to MJ12 at an early age. Nancy expends her retirement time and money on getting the ZetaTalk message out. Requests for interviews take top priority. She quit a professional job in California in 1999 to move to Wisconsin to walk the talk. Born in Wisconsin, Nancy returned to her grandparent’s homestead, where she first met the Zetas in the woods as a young girl. There, she gardens, saves seed, raises chickens, and tries to be an example of how people should prepare for the coming changes. As the ZetaTalk message is threatening to the establishment, who fear the populace will panic, Nancy deals with a lot of flack.
The main theme of the Zetas who communicate with Nancy is that the planet is about to experience a pole shift where the crust of the Earth will slide over the mantle, taking with it the oceans and continents. Initially earthquakes and extreme tsunamis will cull the human population and establish new climates. The Zetas give detailed maps and information on the best places to survive and how to prepare for this imminent change.
The Zetas (Greys) seem intelligent, well versed in science and caring about the human population, but their track record was tarnished when, back in 2003, they had predicted the same events. Many people who followed Nancy’s revelations suffered financially and socially as they charged up their credit cards and made life decisions based on the end of the world as we know it.
Roughly a week before the pole shift, Lieder appeared on KROQ radio in Los Angeles, and advised listeners to euthanize their pets in anticipation of the event. When asked if she had done so, she replied that she had, and that “The puppies are in a happy place.”
After the 2003 date passed without incident, Lieder said that it was merely a “White Lie … to fool the establishment,” and that to disclose the true date would give those in power enough time to declare martial law and trap people in cities during the shift, leading to their deaths.
Are you confused yet? Like 2003, the current ZetaTalk predictions are intimately mixed with the mysterious planet-x, described by Zecharia Sitchin as nibiru which has entered our solar system on its 3600 year orbit. It is the gravitational pull of this rogue planet that will trigger the pole shift. All this is according to the Zetas with whom Nancy converses on a regular basis.
Here is one of Nancy’s videos describing planet-x, courtesy of YouTube:
Zecharia Sitchin denies any connection between his work and Lieder’s claims. In 2007, partly in response to Lieder’s proclamations, Sitchin published a book, The End of Days, which set the time for the last passing of Nibiru by Earth at 556 BC, which would mean, given the object’s supposed 3,600 year orbit, it would return sometime around AD 2900.
Here is another video describing alien visitors to earth:
Recently (December, 2010) the Zetas have been predicting (through Nancy) that the Indonesian tectonic plate is going to slide under the Australian plate, causing a disaster to the entire Pacific rim. Referred to as the “7 of 10 event”, this has been predicted to happen before 2011. People who follow Nancy and the Zeta’s messages are preparing — some making dramatic changes in their lives in preparation for this monumental catastrophe which will begin the “end of days” for planet Earth.
As we near the event I cannot help but wonder what will happen if it doesn’t happen?. So I asked Nancy about this. I really didn’t expect a reply but I got one! So I will give her credit for not hiding from scrutiny, like many false prophets and alleged “contactees.”
Nancy is a regular person. She makes no money from what she does and seems to me, at least, to be sincere in her beliefs that the Zetas (Greys) communicate with her. Anyway, here is her response:
I’ve been involved with the Zetas all my life, and per them was a contactee in past lives too. They and I know each other well. People ask me how I know they are good in their intentions. I respond by asking how they know their mother loves them. There are a thousand ways, but basically, you judge people by their actions. There is more than just words that come across, the message, the concept from the Zetas and my putting English to it. We interact on many fronts, conduct joint missions, negotiate with MJ12 in the past, meet groups of other contactees and plan for the future. I’ve watched the body of ZetaTalk grow over the past 15 years, since 1995 when it started, been ridiculed in 1995 when there was little evidence of Planet X inbound, and know full well the impact of these words on people’s lives.I am chided by people saying that my message is one of fear, that I am scaring people. My standard statement is: would you fail to warn someone that a Mack truck was bearing down on them, on the highway, because it is a scary message? The outcome is squashed people on the highway or getting the message early and moving out of the way. My focus is not on the adults who change their lives, but on the small children who will despite my attempts to warn the world be left alone, because their parents have either died or more likely gone insane or abandoned them. Imagine a toddler standing over the body of his dead mother, broken arm dangling at his side, crying at the dark night around him.
I myself have been personally impacted by heeding the message. I had a perfect marriage to a soul mate for 20 years, our palm prints identical, our biorhythms so close the charts could be overlaid over each other, and he failed to come to Wisconsin with me when I moved off the San Andreas in 1999. Now divorced for a decade, though neither of us dates. It was not incompatibility that ended the marriage, but his reluctance to be in the middle of a battle, as ZetaTalk is a battle. My description is that I have gone to war and am not coming back. I’m in for the duration and the Zetas expect any human working with them to be as serious about the missions as they are. Shoulder to shoulder, against the forces of ignorance and deliberate disinformation thrown at the public. In my view, those who distort the facts and fail to alert the public are putting that toddler and his mother in harms way, and I feel no sympathy with the cover-up.
In 2003, when we had tracked Planet X inbound since observatory sightings in 2001, I fully expected a passage as the Zetas had predicted. It arrived, on schedule and where the Zetas predicted it would be seen in the evening sky, but did not pass. I had run every credit card my income working as a consultant in the San Francisco area would allow me to hold up to the limit. There I was not yet able to collect social security with a crushing debt load. Yes, I realize that their prediction about the ‘7 of 10’ happening before the end of 2010 could go amuck. But as in 2003 when Planet X was being tracked so clearly on the trajectory the Zetas had given, the signs in Indonesia and S American and now Africa that these first three scenarios along the Earth’s equator will occur are so clear. The plates are loosened up, and moving, just as predicted by the Zetas and others in November, 2009.
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I’m not sure what we can make of these kinds of interactions. Wikipedia has a list of over 40 alien contactees who have, over the years, given various predictions and information designed to save humanity. So far, the Greys track record has been abysmal. Yet each contactee apparently was sincere and took up the role of messenger with little financial reward. Many were also subjected to great ridicule, nevertheless, it seems they truly believed in the reality of their their abductions and special status.
We can only wonder why Greys — even good Greys — would treat their human associates with such disdain. Are they reallygood? Or is the whole idea about “service to others” just another deception?
Dr. Karla Turner reminds us that the Greys first claimed the abductions were to regenerate their dying species. Later they were to uplift our human species. Now they are sorry for their callous treatment and want to help us escape planetary disaster. Yet the horrific abductions and deception continues.
For now, the answer to the question of their origin remains a mystery. But their new residence is surely our planet. We can only hope that they intend to share this world with us and that they don’t have a more sinister agenda.
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OFF THE RECORD 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.
ALIEN SPACESHIP CRASHED IN ANTARCTICA, CLAIMS UFO HUNTER WHO BELIEVES HE HAS PROOF…BUT DO YOU BELIEVE HIM?
ALIEN SPACESHIP CRASHED IN ANTARCTICA, CLAIMS UFO HUNTER WHO BELIEVES HE HAS PROOF…BUT DO YOU BELIEVE HIM?
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.
The image was captured on Google Earth and shared by the Russian UFO fanatic on YouTube
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.
A zoomed in shot of the object on Antarctica, which many say is just a rocky outcrop
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DO ALIEN ROBOTS REALLY EXIST?
DO ALIEN ROBOTS REALLY EXIST?
The existence of sentient alien robots doesn’t sound very realistic. However, the possibility cannot be negated either. What if we are living in a post-biological universe? And what if there are extraterrestrials that have exchanged organic brains for artificial ones?
Today, the driving factor is the desire to improve one’s mental capacity. During their evolution process, it is likely that aliens may have exhausted their potential of having biological brains. They may have opted for robotic brains with artificial intelligence. This swap is possible for humans too.
In recent decades, with computer revolution, supercomputers are performing a quadrillion calculation per second. According to a study conducted by Hans Moravec, an artificial intelligence expert at the Carnegie Mellon University, human brain can calculate up to 100 trillion calculations per second. Some scientists believe that an event called technological singularity will take place and machines with computer brains will surpass human intelligence.
Human brain can calculate up to 100 trillion calculations per second
In fact, civilizations with technology light years ahead of us may have already experienced this singularity millions of years ago.
DOES ROBOTIC RACE EXIST?
The question that still looms around is how likely a robotic race exists? With the given limitations of biology, the cultural evolution, and the imperative to improve intelligence, the chances are greater than 50/50. With this in mind, if post-biological beings do exist, they may not be interested in us at all. However, the gulf that exists between their minds and ours can be so much that communication is impossible.
According to Michael Dyer, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, “If an extraterrestrial spaceship ever lands on earth, then what comes out of that ship will be synthetic in nature.”
Scientists affirm that in advanced civilizations, it is likely that the machines could have supplanted their biological creators as far as space travel is concerned because automatons can withstand the hazards to living tissue and the strain imposed on social fabrics during their space journey. Further to this study, non-living beings do not have to worry about environmental conditions of the planet.
Dyer has identified four paths that can eventually lead to the substitution of humans and other biological likes. The first path is through dependence. Increasing reliance on machines to do our work will give way to robots.
Michael Dyer, a professor of computer science at the University of California, suggest the future is not terribly bright for homo sapiens, at least in a flesh-and-blood form.
The second path is the use of Terminators or cybernetic fighting forces by nations. Dyer adds, “Each country builds intelligent and autonomous robots for combat purposes. Enemies lose because they have no control over the robots that are fighting them.”
The third path is that of machine supremacy which is likely to happen when our brain-based consciousness transfers to synthetic media.
Scientists have long projected that technology will eventually reach the point where our brain-based consciousnesses can be transferred to synthetic media
The fourth and the last path is through travel into interstellar space. It will occur when space travel is difficult for natural bodies. On the other hand, robots will find space travel easier as they can stay dormant and can be awakened with the help of a simple timer. Even if some planets are inhospitable for living bodies, the robots will remain unaffected by the planetary conditions. Similarly, space radiation will not affect machines.
No matter how these devices may end up in charge, their expansion into space seems inevitable at this point of time.
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THE WEIRDEST SWANSEA UFO SIGHTINGS THAT DEFY EXPLANATION
THE WEIRDEST SWANSEA UFO SIGHTINGS THAT DEFY EXPLANATION
The truth could be out there in Swansea on Saturday.
Swansea UFO Network (SUFON) is holding it’s summer Conference on Saturday at the New Lodge, Alexandra Road, in Gorseinon, with an invitation to come along and hear about some local mysteries.
There will be three visiting speakers, David Cayton, David Hodrien and Colin Woolford, all of whom are well known in the UFO field, and who will be speaking on a variety of subjects, from UFOs seen over Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, cases involving UFOs and the RAF, how the subject and personal experiences has influenced notable names in the music industry, and the controversial alien autopsy film.
Tickets for the conference, which runs from 11am to 5pm, are £10 each and available on the door.
UFO Researcher Emlyn Williams who is to start a UFO group in Swansea.
Emlyn Williams, a spokesman for SUFON, said there would be plenty of local sightings to discuss.
He said: “This year sees the 40th anniversary of one of the most famous UFO flaps in Britain, that coined the Welsh Triangle, and SUFON organised a conference last February at Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire , site of one of the best known cases during that flap when a group of school children saw a landed craft just outside the school playground.”
HERE ARE SOME OF THE UNEXPLAINED UFO CASES IN SWANSEA:
The Night of the Triangles:
“One case which is being looked at by SUFON is the one which occurred on the evening of January 19, 1983, when dozens of witnesses in the Swansea and Port Talbot area (over 60 recorded so far), saw huge black triangular-shaped craft, some the size of jumbo jets, some the size of a family car, hovering silently just over roof-tops, two of which moved slowly and silently over Swansea Bay, and one possibly causing a power failure in Bishopston.”
“We call it The Night of the Triangles and we are tracking down many of the witnesses, and filming interviews which have been put on SUFON’s YouTube channel. Two witnesses were CID inspectors making a house call in the Trallwn area of Swansea who saw a huge craft ‘about the size of a football pitch’ moving over the valley and heading towards the coast.”
A suspected UFO sighting over Swansea
The refinery incident:
“Another sighting that evening, from a family at home in Skewen , was of a gigantic triangle – which moved from Kilvey Hill to Llandarcy in an instant, and which then hovered over the BP oil refinery. The size was truly huge, covering much of the refinery!”
The vanishing cigar:
“Another large and very strange case was of a massive black cigar-shaped object which hovered silently over the newly-built Singleton Hospital in Swansea, on a November evening in 1965, causing the lights on all the floors to flash on and off. A green line appeared in the middle of the object, which spread right around it, and the whole thing just disappeared in an instant in front of witnesses’ eyes.”
Mr Williams added: “It is safe to say that there have been and still are, very strange things going on in our skies.”
Anyone who can’t make it but has a sighting they wish to share is invited to get in touch with SUFON.
A recent paper claiming that a comet was the source of SETI’s famous Wow! signal in 1977 has generated a barrage of scientific criticism. After writing about the controversy last week, I contacted several people with expertise in that scientific field, and their response was quite clear. Typical was this comment from Robert Dixon, director of Ohio State University’s SETI program: “Nobody in the field that I have heard from believes that comets emit enough hydrogen radiation to explain the Wow! signal. Nobody in the field believes the [Antonio] Paris explanation is correct.”
What does this mean? (1) Science works. Everyone can (and should) advance hypotheses, and once these are put out into the open, usually via publication, they are critically evaluated by peers. If a hypothesis is correct, it will stand the test of time. If not, like most hypotheses, it will be dismissed. The latter seems to be the case for Paris’ hypothesis, but the last word has not been spoken yet. There are many historic examples of hypotheses that were shredded to pieces by critics when they were first advanced, but later turned out to be correct.
(2) If, as it appears, a comet cannot explain the Wow! signal, it does not mean that the signal was a transmission from an alien civilization. There are a number of natural sources that could, in principle, explain the sudden appearance and disappearance of radio signals, such as fast radio bursts. Ohio State’s Big Ear telescope could have picked up the tail end of such an emission.
Another example of science at work—a particularly creative example—is a recent study by René Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, in which he challenged the scientifically inclined community to decipher a mockup alien message containing two million binary digits (0’s and 1’s) that he posted on twitter (and which is also available as an audio file). Heller provided a few clues to help people solve the puzzle, and after one month received 66 correct solutions from more than 300 replies.
Several conclusions can be drawn from this exercise. The Internet played a role in deciphering the mockup message, because people were able to communicate with and help each other, thus increasing the number who were able to find the correct solution. Also, people who were similar in terms of culture and education to the transmitter (in this case René Heller) had a greater likelihood of deciphering the message.
Of course, there would be no cultural similarity, or very little, between an alien civilization and humans. So I still have doubt that we could decipher an extraterrestrial message if we actually receive one. Even if we could, would we be able to figure out what the “words” actually mean? There are many languages of ancient human civilizations we still haven’t figured out! Heller makes a critical point, however: For the message to be decipherable, pictures have to be included in any binary code transmission linking symbols to objects. A picture says so much more than a thousand words!
Worm Grows 2 Heads in Space, Surprising Scientists
Worm Grows 2 Heads in Space, Surprising Scientists
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer
An amputated flatworm fragment sent to space regenerated into a double-headed worm, a rare spontaneous occurrence of double-headedness.
Credit: Junji Morokuma/Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University
The regenerative power of flatworms — which can regrow into complete individuals after they've been cut into pieces — is well-known among scientists. But a group of flatworms that recently visited the International Space Station (ISS) had a few surprises to share when they returned to Earth.
Scientists sent the worms into space to observe how microgravity and fluctuations in the geomagnetic field might affect the worms' unusual ability to regenerate. This was done to better understand how living in space could affect cell activity.
Compared with a group of flatworms that never left Earth, the spacefaring worms showed some unexpected effects from their time off the planet: most notably, the rare sprouting of a second head in an amputated piece of a worm, the researchers documented in a new study. [In Photos: Worm Grows Heads and Brains of Other Species]
Planarian flatworms (Dugesia japonica) are very flat and tiny, measuring about 0.2 to 0.4 inches (0.5 to 1 centimeter) in length, study co-author Michael Levin, a professor of biology at Tufts University in Massachusetts, told Live Science in an email. (Levin is also the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology.)
One flatworm could result in multitudes, under the right conditions. Individuals can perform fission — dividing to form two distinct individuals — and severed flatworms can grow new heads or tails, depending on where the body was cut. To find out how factors such as gravity and Earth's magnetic field affect the worms' ability to regrow themselves, scientists sent sets of whole worms and amputated worms to the ISS for five weeks, the study authors wrote. Researchers sealed the worms inside tubes with varying ratios of air and water, and then observed the animals when they came back, the authors wrote.
Return of the regenerating space worms
After the worms returned, the researchers tracked changes in the animals' bodies and in their microbes, comparing the test worms with flatworms that had never left Earth. And the researchers continued observing the worms over 20 months, to see whether any changes were long-lasting.
The scientists found several significant differences between the flatworms that went to space and the Earth-bound worms. For instance, during the first hour of immersion in containers of fresh spring water, the spacefaring worms appeared to experience "water shock"; they curled up and were "somewhat paralyzed and immobile," the researchers wrote, suggesting that the worms underwent metabolic changes while in space. The space-y flatworms exhibited normal behavior after about 2 hours, but further analysis revealed that their microbial communities had changed, hinting at metabolic shifts caused by the unusual conditions the worms encountered on the ISS, the study authors wrote.
Worms returning from five weeks in space curled up and were immobile when transferred to petri dishes containing fresh spring water. By contrast, stay-at-home control worms moved rapidly and fully extended themselves.
Credit: Junji Morokuma/Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University
Spacefaring worms also demonstrated a change in behavior. When both groups were introduced to illuminated "arenas" in petri dishes, the worms that went to space were less inclined to seek out the dish's darker portion, the scientists found.
But the most dramatic difference was a type of regeneration observed in one of the 15 worm fragments sent to the ISS. That worm returned to the scientists with two heads (one on each end of its body), a type of regeneration so rare as to be practically unheard of — "normal flatworms in water never do this," Levin told Live Science. When the researchers snipped both heads off back on Earth, the middle portion regenerated into a two-headed worm again.
"And these differences persist well over a year after return to Earth!" Levin said. "Those could have been caused by loss of the geomagnetic field, loss of gravity, and the stress of takeoff and landing — all components of any space-travel experience for living systems going to space in the future," he said.
At first glance, these tiny regenerating worms may not appear to share much in common with the human astronauts currently on board the ISS. But the worms offer valuable insights into how living in space can affect cells and microbial communities in organisms, which could help scientists understand the impacts of space travel on human bodies, Levin explained.
"Scientists know a lot about biochemical signals that allow cells to cooperate to build and repair a complex body. However, the physical forces involved in this process are not well-understood," he said.
Studying flatworms could offer insights into how biological systems in living creatures interact with gravity and the geomagnetic field, "which in turn will not only help us optimize future space travel, but will [also] shed light on basic mechanisms that will have implications for regenerative medicine therapies on Earth and in space," Levin added.
The findings were published online today (June 13) in the journal Regeneration.
This massive 780-foot (238 meters) crop circle appeared in 2001 in the remote area of Milk Hill in Wiltshire, England. The elaborate design is composed of 409 circles that form a pattern called a double, or six-sided, triskelion, which is a motif consisting of three interlocking spirals.
Credit: Handy Marks | public domain
Crop circles — strange patterns that appear mysteriously overnight in farmers' fields—provoke puzzlement, delight and intrigue among the press and public alike. The circles are mostly found in the United Kingdom, but have spread to dozens of countries around the world in past decades. The mystery has inspired countless books, blogs, fan groups, researchers (dubbed "cereologists") and even Hollywood films.
Despite having been studied for decades, the question remains: Who — or what — is making them?
Early crop circles
Many people believe that crop circles have been reported for centuries, a claim repeated in many books and websites devoted to the mystery. Their primary piece of evidence is a woodcut from 1678 that appears to show a field of oat stalks laid out in a circle. Some take this to be a first-hand eyewitness account of a crop circle, but a little historical investigation shows otherwise.
A woodcut pamphlet that some claim represents an early crop circle.
The woodcut actually illustrates what in folklore is called a "mowing devil" legend, in which an English farmer told a worker with whom he was feuding that he "would rather pay the Devil himself" to cut his oat field than pay the fee demanded. The source of the harvesting is not unknown or mysterious; it is indeed Satan himself, who — complete with signature horns and a tail — can be seen in the woodcut holding a scythe.
Some claim that the first crop circles (though they were not called that at the time) appeared near the small town of Tully, Australia. In 1966, a farmer said he saw a flying saucer rise up from a swampy area and fly away; when he went to investigate he saw a roughly circular area of debris and apparently flattened reeds and grass, which he assumed had been made by the alien spacecraft (but which police investigators said was likely caused by a natural phenomena such as a dust devil or waterspout). Referred in the press as "flying saucer nests," this story is more a UFO report than a crop circle report.
As in the 1678 mowing devil legend, the case for it being linked to crop circles is especially weak when we consider that the impression or formation was not made in a crop of any kind but instead in ordinary grass. A round impression in a lawn or grassy area is not necessarily mysterious (as anyone with a kiddie pool in the back yard knows). Indeed, mysterious circles have appeared in grass throughout the world that are sometimes attributed to fairies but instead caused by disease.
Modern crop circles
In fact, the first real crop circles didn't appear until the 1970s, when simple circles began appearing in the English countryside. The number and complexity of the circles increased dramatically, reaching a peak in the 1980s and 1990s when increasingly elaborate circles were produced, including those illustrating complex mathematical equations.
In July 1996, one of the world's most complex and spectacular crop circles appeared in England, across a highway from the mysterious and world-famous Stonehenge monument in the Wiltshire countryside. It was astonishing fractal pattern called a Julia Set, and while some simple or rough circles might be explained away as the result of a strange weather phenomenon, this one unmistakably demonstrated intelligence. The only question was whether that intelligence was terrestrial or extra-terrestrial.
Making the design all the more mysterious, it was claimed that the circle appeared in less than an hour and during the daytime — which, if true, would be virtually impossible for hoaxers to accomplish. The circle became one of the most famous and important crop circles in history.
It was later revealed that the circle had in fact been made in about three hours (by three hoaxers) very early that morning. It simply hadn't been noticed until the following afternoon when spotted from an airplane overhead.
People inspect crop circles within a golden wheat field in Switzerland. The photo was taken on July 29, 2007.
Credit: Jabberocky public domain
Theories & explanations
Unlike other mysterious phenomenon such as psychic powers, ghosts, or Bigfoot, there is no doubt that crop circles are "real." The evidence that they exist is clear and overwhelming. The real question is instead what creates them — and there are ways to investigate that question.
We can look at both internal and external evidence to evaluate crop circles. Internal information includes the content and meaning of the designs (is there anything that indicates that any information contained in the "messages" is of extraterrestrial origin?), and external information, including the physical construction of the crop designs themselves (is there anything that indicates that the designs were created by anything other than humans?)
Crop circle enthusiasts have come up with many theories about what create the patterns, ranging from the plausible to the absurd. One explanation in vogue in the early 1980s was that the mysterious circle patterns were accidentally produced by the especially vigorous sexual activity of horny hedgehogs. Some people have suggested that the circles are somehow created by localized and precise wind patterns, or by scientifically undetectable Earth energy fields and meridians called ley lines.
Others, such as molecular biologist Horace Drew, suggest that the answer lies instead in time travel or alien life. He theorizes that the patterns could be made by human time travelers from the distant future to help them navigate our planet. Drew, working on the assumption that the designs are intended as messages, believes he has decoded crop circle symbols and that they contain messages such as "Believe," "There is good out there," "Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises," and "We oppose deception" (all, presumably, in English).
However, these odd, pseudo-biblical messages undermine the credibility of the crop circles, or at least the meaning read into them. Of all the information that an extraterrestrial intelligence might choose to convey to humanity — ranging from how to contact them to engineering secrets of faster-than-light travel — these aliens chose to impart intentionally cryptic messages about false gifts, broken promises, and hope for mankind (along with what seems to be a reference to a popular "The X-Files" slogan).
Many who favor an extraterrestrial explanation claim that aliens physically make the patterns themselves from spaceships; others suggest that they do it using invisible energy beams from space, saving them the trip down here. Still others believe that it is human, not extraterrestrial, thought and intelligence that is behind the patterns — not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of global psychic power that manifests itself in wheat and other crops.
Another triskelion crop circle. The symbol can be used to represent cycles, progress or competition.
Credit: Thomas J. Sutter, Jr. public domain
While there are countless theories, the only known, proven cause of crop circles is humans. Their origin remained a mystery until September 1991, when two men confessed that they had created the patterns for decades as a prank to make people think UFOs had landed (they had been inspired by the 1966 Tully UFO report). They never claimed to have made all the circles — many were copycat pranks done by others — but their hoax launched the crop circle phenomena.
Most crop circle researchers admit that the vast majority of crop circles are created by hoaxers. But, they claim, there's a remaining tiny percentage that they can't explain. The real problem is that (despite unproven claims by a few researchers that stalks found inside "real" crop circles show unusual characteristics), there is no reliable scientific way to distinguish "real" crop circles from man-made ones.
Crop circle features
While there are always a few exceptions, virtually all crop circles share a set of common characteristics.
Circles.Crop circles, as the name implies, almost always involve circles — rarely triangles, rectangles, or squares, though some designs contain straight or curved lines. Perhaps not coincidentally, a circle is the easiest pattern for hoaxers to create.
This design of three flying birds was created on Aug. 3, 2003, in the county of Wiltshire in southern England. The birds, which resemble swallows, have ever-diminishing circles trailing behind their wing tips.
Credit: public domain
Nocturnal creation. Crop circles are formed overnight, often sighted by farmers or passersby the next morning. Though there seems no logical reason for extraterrestrials or earth energies to only create patterns at night, it is obviously a great advantage for hoaxers to create the designs under the cover of darkness; full moon nights are especially popular.
Camera shyness. Crop circles have never been recorded being made (except, of course, for those created by hoaxers). This is a very suspicious trait; after all, if mysterious earthly forces or aliens are at work, there's no reason to think that they wouldn't happen when cameras are recording.
Access to roads. Crop circles usually appear in fields that provide reasonably easy public access, close to roads and highways. They rarely appear in remote, inaccessible areas. Because of this, the patterns are usually noticed within a day or two of their creation by passing motorists.
There are many theories about what creates crop circles, including aliens, mysterious vortices, time travelers and wind patterns, but they all lack one important element: good evidence. The only known cause of crop circles is humans. Perhaps one day a mysterious, unknown source will be discovered for crop circles, but until the perhaps they are best thought of as collective public art.
SCIENTISTS SHOCKED AS WORM GREW 'TWO HEADS' WHILE IN SPACE!
SCIENTISTS SHOCKED AS WORM GREW 'TWO HEADS' WHILE IN SPACE!
Something truly unusual happened in space a while ago, and no it's not about aliens or rough planets. Scientists have been experimenting with all sorts of things in space, and some results of these experiments have been quite fascinating.
One of these experiments was taking flatworms on board a space station to study how their regeneration would react in low gravity. But the most unusual thing happened!
A flatworm was sliced at one end, but the regeneration process went on a little different than expected, as the intact end had a head and then the other regenerated end grew a second head. The two-headed worm shock scientists when it came back to Earth, and it still remains a mystery on how it happened.
“The process of regeneration is normally 100 per cent accurate – they never make two-headed worms in the wild.”
Scientists cut the worms new head off and by their surprise it grew back again, therefore, the effects persisted even after arriving on Earth. What could have caused this? Low gravity? Some sort of cosmic radiation?
“Remarkably, amputating this double-headed worm again, in plain water, resulted again in the double-headed phenotype. Moreover, even when tested 20 months after return to Earth, the space-exposed worms displayed significant quantitative differences in behavior and microbiome composition.”
When the sun was born 4.5 billion years ago it had a twin, but this was not an identical twin. This was the same with every other star in the universe says new analysis from a theoretical physicist from UC Berkeley along with a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard University, radio astronomer.
It seems that many stars do have companions and this includes one of the nearest neighbors to Earth, Alpha Centauri, which is a system with triplets. Astronomers have been trying to find an explanation and have been asking questions such as whether binary and triplet star systems are born that way and whether one star had captured another and even if binary stars split up and turn into single stars.
ASTRONOMERS HAVE SEARCHED FOR COMPANION TO EARTHS SUN
Astronomers have in the past looked for a companion to the sun of Earth, this is a star with the name of Nemesis and it was said to have kicked an asteroid into the orbit of Earth that had collided with our planet and this is what had exterminated the dinosaurs, but it has not been found.
In Our Solar System There is now a new assertion that has been based on a radio survey that a huge molecular cloud that was filled with stars that have recently formed with the name of constellation Perseus. A mathematical model that is able to explain the observations of Perseus only if all stars that are sun-like have been born with a companion.
Steven Stahler, a research astronomer from UC Berkeley said that there probably was a Nemesis a long time ago. He went on to say that they had run a statistical model to try to find out if they could account for relative populations of single young stars along with the binaries of separations in the molecular cloud Perseus. He went on to say that the only model that was able to reproduce the data had been the one where all of the stars formed as wide binaries initially. The systems then either broke apart or shrank in a million years.
Stahler went on to explain that the term wide in the study applied to when two stars became separated by 500 astronomical units or more, or AU, which is one astronomical unit being the average distance between the Earth and the sun, around 93 million miles. He said that a wide binary companion to the sun would need to be more than17 times further away from the sun that Neptune, the most distant planet.
Based on the model the sibling of the sun is more than likely to have escaped and then mixed with other stars in the Milky Way’s region and never seen again.
SCIENTISTS ASK HOW MANY STARS FORM WITH A COMPANION
Sarah Sadavoy, first author and NASA Hubble Fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory said that this is not the first time that the idea that stars form with a companion has been suggested. But one of the biggest questions is how many. She went on to say that based on a simple model they said that almost all stars do form with a companion. The Perseus cloud is thought to be a typical loss-mass star-forming region, but she said that their model would need to be checked in other clouds.
Stahler and Sadavoy posted what they had found in April and a paper is going to be published in the Royal Astronomical Society. Astronomers have been speculating about the binary and multiple star systems origins for hundreds of years and only in more recent years have they created computer simulations of masses of gas that collapse, to help them understand just how they condense under the gravity into stars. A simulation has also been made of young stars that have been freed from gas clouds. Several years ago a computer simulation was made by Pavel Kroupa at the University of Bonn and this led him to reach the conclusion that all of the stars are born as binaries.
However, direct evidence from observations has been scarce and astronomers have looked at stars that are younger and younger and have found a large proportion of binaries, but they have no idea why. Stahler said that the key was that no one had looked in a systematic way at any relation between the young stars and the clouds that they had come from. He went on to say that their work had been a step forward towards understanding how binaries are able to form and the role that they had played during stellar evolution. Stahler said that they were now of the belief that most of the stars, which are similar to the Sun, form as binaries and admitted that they have the strongest evidence yet.
RADIO TELESCOPES CAN BE USED TO PROBE CLOUDS
Astronomers have known for decades that any star that is born in a cocoon that is egg shaped, which is called dense cores, and they are sprinkled through the large clouds of molecular cold hydrogen, which play nursery for the young stars. Using an optical telescope, the clouds do look like they are a hole in the starry sky due to the fact that the dust that accompanies the gas is blocking the light from the stars that form inside and those that form behind. Radio telescopes may be used to probe the clouds as the cold dust grains emit at the same radio wavelengths and the dust does not block the radio waves.
PERSEUS MOLECULAR CLOUD WAS STUDIED 600 LIGHT YEARS FROM EARTH
The Perseus molecular cloud is a stellar nursery and it is around 600 light-years away from the Earth and perhaps 50 light years long. A team of astronomers recently undertook a survey and made use of the Very Large Array, to take a look inside the cloud at the star formations. The survey had the name of VANDAM and it was the first survey to be completed of all of the young stars in the molecular cloud. This is stars that are less than 4 million years old and which include multiple and single stars, right down to separations of 15 astronomical units. It was able to capture multiple stars that had a separation of more than the radius of 19 AU, the orbit of Uranus, in the solar system.
The mathematically modeled scenarios of Stahler and Sadavoy explain the stars distribution, taking into account the typical formation, the breakup and orbital shrinking times. They reached the conclusion that the only way they are able to explain the observations was to assume that all of the masses of the stars around the sun begin as wide Class 0 binaries, in dense egg shaped cores, then some of them, around 60% split over time, with the remainder shrinking to make tight binaries.
Stahler went on to say that while the new data and the model are the first steps, more work has to be done to understand the physics. He also said that studies would come along soon thanks to the new capabilities of the VLA and ALMA telescopes in Chile, which have been upgraded. He also mentioned the SCUBA-2 survey in Hawaii and said that it is giving them the statistics along with data that is needed and it would change how scientists and astronomers understand dense cores and the stars that are embedded in them.
Musk zet stappenplan voor kolonisatie van Mars nu ook op papier
Musk zet stappenplan voor kolonisatie van Mars nu ook op papier
Caroline Kraaijvanger
In een paper – verschenen in het blad New Space – onthult hij nauwgezet hoe we miljoenen mensen op de rode planeet kunnen krijgen.
Het paper heeft de veelzeggende titel ‘Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species‘ gekregen en is tot begin juli gratis te lezen. Musk doet in het paper uit de doeken waarom hij naar Mars wil en wat er allemaal bij komt kijken. Maar wat de multimiljardair vooral duidelijk wil maken, is een boodschap die door het hele paper resoneert: miljoenen mensen naar Mars sturen is mogelijk.
OVER HET PAPER
Musk deed zijn plannen voor een interplanetaire bemande ruimtereis vorig jaar al uit de doeken tijdens een conferentie in Mexico. Het paper – voor iedereen inzichtelijk – kan gezien worden als een gedetailleerde samenvatting van zijn toespraak.
Waarom Mars? “Soms vragen mensen zich af: ‘Er zijn toch nog andere plekken in het zonnestelsel? Waarom Mars?’,” zo schrijft Musk. Simpel: omdat er eigenlijk geen andere opties zijn. Venus is dichtbij, maar allesbehalve prettig om te wonen en werken. “Dan is er nog Mercurius, maar dat is veel te dicht bij de zon. We zouden naar één van de manen van Jupiter of Saturnus kunnen gaan, maar die zijn ver weg, veel verder van de zon, en veel lastiger te bereiken. Dus er blijft eigenlijk maar één optie over als we een multi-planetaire soort willen worden en dat is Mars. We zouden ook naar de maan kunnen gaan en ik heb echt niets tegen de maan, maar ik denk dat het lastig is om een multi-planetaire soort te worden op de maan, omdat deze veel kleiner is dan een planeet. De maan heeft geen atmosfeer. En is niet zo rijk aan grondstoffen als Mars. De dag duurt er 28 dagen, terwijl de Marsdag 24,5 uur duurt. Over het algemeen is Mars veel geschikter om op te schalen naar een zelfvoorzienende beschaving.”
De financiën Dat diverse ruimtevaartorganisaties al uitgebreid onderzoek gedaan hebben naar Mars helpt natuurlijk ook mee. Zo is er reeds onderzoek gedaan naar de atmosfeer van de rode planeet, de locatie van ijs en andere belangrijke grondstoffen, geschikte landingsplaatsen, enzovoort. Die kennis is heel waardevol als we een kolonie op Mars willen stichten, maar het is niet genoeg. Want de grootste hindernis als het gaat om het stichten van een kolonie op Mars is volgens Musk…geld. “Neem het Apollo-programma als voorbeeld: de kosten ervan liggen tussen de 100 en 200 miljard hedendaagse dollars en we stuurden 12 mensen naar het oppervlak van de maan.” Dat betekent dat die tickets een slordige 10 miljard kosten. Dat is niet goedkoop. En een ticket naar Mars zou waarschijnlijk nog iets duurder zijn. Maar weinigen kunnen zich zo’n ticket veroorloven. Dus dan lijkt het stichten van een miljoenen hoofden tellende kolonie al onmogelijk. De grootste uitdaging begint zich af te tekenen: de kosten moeten omlaag. “Als we de kosten van de verhuizing naar Mars grofweg gelijk kunnen maken aan de kosten van een gemiddeld huis in de VS – dat rond de 200.000 dollar kost – dan denk ik dat het heel waarschijnlijk is dat we een zelfvoorzienende samenleving op Mars kunnen stichten.”
“ER ZIJN HEEL VEEL RISICO’S. HET GAAT VEEL GELD KOSTEN”
Lagere kosten Maar ja, hoe breng je die kosten omlaag? “Dat is niet gemakkelijk. Het klinkt onmogelijk, maar dat is het niet.” Musk somt een aantal maatregelen op die genomen moeten worden om Mars toegankelijk te maken voor een groot publiek:
– Hergebruik Alles moet hergebruikt worden: van raketten tot ruimteschepen. Hij illustreert het effect dat dat heeft op de kosten aan de hand van een voorbeeldje. Stel je vliegt van Los Angeles naar Vegas. Dat kost je 43 dollar. Die kosten zijn laag, omdat het vliegtuig nog tal van deze ritjes gaat maken. Zou het vliegtuig na één rit worden gesloopt, dan zou datzelfde ritje je 500.000 dollar kosten. Natuurlijk is het veel gemakkelijker om de kosten van een vliegtuig terug te verdienen dan het is om de kosten van bijvoorbeeld een ruimtevaartuig terug te verdienen. Want een ruimtevaartuig zal, omdat je niet op elk moment naar Mars kunt vliegen, veel minder vaak – hooguit elke 2 jaar – passagiers vervoeren. – Tanken in een baan rond de aarde Hierdoor is het geheel van raket en ruimtevaartuig lichter bij lancering. En daardoor is de lancering goedkoper. – Brandstof produceren op Mars Dan kunnen de ruimtevaartuigen weer terugkeren naar aarde, noodzakelijk als we ze willen hergebruiken. – Een slimme keuze maken als het gaat om de brandstof De opslag en productie van die brandstof moet zo goedkoop mogelijk.
Uiteindelijk zou het met deze maatregelen mogelijk moeten zijn om mensen voor een bedrag lager dan 200.000 dollar te lanceren. En op termijn kan een ticket zelfs rond de 100.000 dollar gaan kosten. “Er is echt een manier om ervoor te zorgen dat iedereen die wil gaan, kan gaan.”
Het ruimteschip In het paper doet Musk verder uit de doeken hoe het interplanetaire ruimteschip en de raket die deze naar Mars moet brengen er ongeveer uit zou moeten zien. Hij verwacht het ruimteschip met een jaar of vier wel gebouwd te hebben. En als het allemaal echt meezit, zou het mogelijk moeten zijn om dat ruimteschip met een jaar of tien op een geschikte raket te plaatsen. “Er zijn heel veel risico’s. Het gaat veel geld kosten. En er is een grote kans dat het ons niet gaat lukken, maar we gaan ons best doen om zoveel mogelijk vooruitgang te boeken,” schrijft Musk.
De tijdlijn die Musk voor ogen heeft.
Wanneer het eerste met mensen gevulde ruimtevaartuig van Musk naar Mars vertrekt, is dus niet helemaal helder. Dat het hoogstwaarschijnlijk wel ergens de komende decennia gaat gebeuren, lijkt als een paal boven water te staan. Uiteindelijk hoopt Musk zeker 1000 ruimtevaartuigen te bouwen die met 100 mensen of meer aan boord elke twee jaar naar Mars vliegen. Het moet zo mogelijk zijn om in een tijdsbestek van 40 tot 100 jaar een zelfvoorzienende kolonie van 1 miljoen mensen of meer op Mars te krijgen.
Ruimtesonde Cassini onthult de twee gezichten van Iapetus in één foto
Ruimtesonde Cassini onthult de twee gezichten van Iapetus in één foto
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Deze maan van Saturnus blijft een heel vreemde snuiter.
Iapetus is met een diameter van 1468 kilometer één van de grotere manen van Saturnus en draait op een afstand van zo’n 3.561.000 kilometer om de gasreus heen. Daarbij is altijd dezelfde zijde van de maan op Saturnus gericht.
Twee gezichten Wat de maan zo bijzonder maakt, is dat deze twee gezichten heeft. De ene helft is heel donker (reflecteert minder dan vijf procent van het inkomende licht) en de andere helft is heel licht. Op een recente foto die ruimtesonde Cassini van de maan gemaakt heeft, zijn beide gezichten goed te zien. Cassini maakte de foto in maart en was op dat moment zo’n 2,6 miljoen kilometer van Iapetus verwijderd.
De twee gezichten van Iapetus.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Duister mysterie Waarom Iapetus aan één kant zo donker is, is tot op de dag van vandaag onduidelijk. Sommige onderzoekers denken dat donker materiaal vanuit het hart van de maan is opgeborreld en het ijzige oppervlak deels heeft bedekt. Anderen denken dat de ene zijde van de maan zo donker is, doordat stofdeeltjes afkomstig van andere manen van Saturnus zich hier verzamelen.
De ene zijde van de maan is heel licht, terwijl de andere kant heel donker is. Hier zie je de lichte zijde, gefotografeerd door Cassini in 2007.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
Overigens zijn de twee gezichten niet het enige mysterieuze aspect dat Iapetus rijk is. Zo bevindt zich op de evenaar van de maan een richel die hier en daar meer dan 10 kilometer boven het omringende landschap uitsteekt. Mogelijk is Iapetus in het verleden in botsing gekomen met een ander object, waardoor een ring van puin rond de maan ontstond. Dat puin is uiteindelijk weer naar beneden komen zetten en vormde het gebergte op de evenaar.
The rocket that blasted into space from New Zealand on May 25 was special. Not only was it the first to launch from a private site, it was also the first to be powered by an engine made almost entirely using 3D printing. This might not make it the "first 3D-printed rocket in space" that some headlines described it as, but it does highlight how seriously this manufacturing technique is being taken by the space industry.
Members of the team behind the Electron rocket at US company Rocket Lab say the engine was printed in 24 hours and provides efficiency and performance benefits over other systems. There's not yet much information out there regarding the exact details of the 3D-printed components. But it's likely many of them have been designed to minimise weight while maintaining their structural performance, while other components may have been optimised to provide efficient fluid flow. These advantages – reducing weight and the potential for complex new designs – are a large part of why 3D printing is expected to find some of its most significant applications in space exploration, with dramatic effect.
One thing the set of technologies known as additive manufacturing or 3D printing does really well is to produce highly complicated shapes. For example, lattice structures produced in exactly the right way so that they weigh less but are just as strong as similar solid components. This creates the opportunity to produce optimised, lightweight parts that were previously impossible to manufacture economically or efficiently with more traditional techniques.
Boeing's microlattice is an example of taking this to the extreme, supposedly producing mechanically sound structures that are 99.9 percent air. Not all 3D printing processes can achieve this, but even weight savings of a few percent in aircraft and spacecraft can lead to major benefits through the use of less fuel.
3D printing tends to work best for the production of relatively small, intricate parts rather than large, simple structures, where the higher material and processing costs would outweigh any advantage. For example, a redesigned nozzle can enhance fuel mixing within an engine, leading to better efficiency. Increasing the surface area of a heat shield by using a patterned rather than a flat surface can mean heat is transferred away more efficiently, reducing the chances of overheating.
The techniques can also reduce the amount of material wasted in manufacturing, important because space components tend to be made from highly expensive and often rare materials. 3D printing can also produce whole systems in one go rather than from lots of assembled parts. For example, NASA used it to reduce the components in one of its rocket injectors from 115 to just two. Plus, 3D printers can easily make small numbers of a part – as the space industry often needs – without first creating expensive manufacturing tools.
In orbit
3D printers are also likely to find a use in space itself, where it's difficult to keep large numbers of spare parts and hard to send out for replacements when you're thousands of kilometres from Earth. There's now a 3D printer on the International Space Station so, if something breaks, engineers can send up a design for a replacement and the astronauts can print it out.
The current printer only deals with plastic so it's more likely to be used for making tools or one-off replacements for low-performance parts such as door handles. But once 3D printers can more easily use other materials, we're likely to see an increase in their uses. One day, people in space could produce their own food items and even biological materials. Recycling facilities could also enable broken parts to be reused to make the replacements.
Astro printing.
Credit: Barry Wilmore/NASA
Looking even further ahead, 3D printers could prove useful in building colonies. Places like the moon don't have much in the way of traditional building materials, but the European Space Agency has proven solar energy can power the production of "bricks" of lunar dust, which would be a good start. Researchers are now looking at how to use 3D printing to take this idea further and develop complete printed buildings on the moon.
To make many of these applications a reality, we'll need to research more advanced materials and processes that can manufacture components to withstand the extremely harsh conditions of space. Engineers also need to work on developing optimised designs and find ways of testing 3D printed parts to prove they're safe. And then there's the irritating issue of gravity, or rather the lack of it. Many current processes use powders or liquids as their raw materials so we're likely to need some clever tricks in order to make these function safely in a low or microgravity environment.
Some of these barriers may even require entirely new materials and techniques. But as research goes on, 3D printing is likely to be used more and more in space, even if a fully printed space vehicle isn't going to launch any time soon. The sky is no longer the limit.
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PHOTO submitted by a Stirling Observer reader which she claims shows a UFO.(Photo: stirling observer)
A Bannockburn woman who spotted a UFO flying over the town says she has been left unable to sleep at night.
The Stirling Observer reported last week that the eagle-eyed stargazer spotted the unfamiliar craft hovering between houses on Thursday, March 16 this year and reported it to UFO authority the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) — an American-based non-profit organization that investigates cases of alleged UFO sightings.
The 42-year old contacted the Observer to detail her jaw-dropping sighting in Hillpark, Bannockburn.
She said: “The size of it was unreal. It was about 20ft away from and I’d say it was about 100ft in diameter.
“I love looking at the sky, I do it all the time.
“For about a week, I could see lights in the sky. I could see that it had windows and had red lights flashing.
“Even if it was a military thing, why was it coming down a quiet street?
“I know it sounds crazy, but I would say it was a spaceship.
“I thought it was an aeroplane at first but when it tilted forwards it was a circular shape.
“I could see writing on the top of it as well, like Egyptian hieroglyphs.
“It has been a few sleepless nights for me since it.
“I was kind of in to UFOs and that sort of thing a bit before.
“When I saw it in between the two houses, I had to run in to the house because I was a bit scared.
“I went back out for another look and it wasn’t moving very fast and there was no noise coming from it.”
Photos submitted by a Stirling Observer reader which she claims shows a UFO.(Photo: stirling observer)
A second man contacted the Observer to say that he too has spotted an unexplained sight in the sky over Stirling.
He says that he spotted a black triangular shaped object in the sky looking north from Stirling.
Another sighting was spotted in Carron near Falkirk in April this year.
The eyewitness told the Observer: “Almost immediately I saw two lights which appeared in a slight ‘puff’ of something. They were quickly joined by another three of the same,and started to fly erratically in a southerly direction. They flew like swallows do at their most agile, ducking and diving, and looked like they were having fun. They did not look like they were here to take over the planet or impose any threat.
“They were squashed horseshoe shaped with a translucence around the horseshoe shape with yellowish light.
“I’d estimate they were about a kilometre away — perhaps above the Kelpies. I watched them for about 12 seconds until they disappeared beyond the range of my vision and may have been joined by a sixth craft from seemingly out of nowhere but by that time it was difficult to tell because they were moving so fast and weaving in and out of each other, then they were gone.
“I picked up the binoculars in case they came back. I waited for a while and then left them on the window ledge to remind me that it wasn’t a dream.”
Life can be found even deep underground. For instance, these Monhystrella parvella worms (blue) were discovered living inside a stalactite almost a mile underground in South Africa’s Beatrix gold mine.
G. BORGONIE
Maggie Lau works in a gold mine. But what she seeks here, more than a kilometer and a half (a mile) below the South African surface, may be more precious than gold. She’s looking for life.
It’s not easy work, lit only by headlamps. At times, it can feel as hot and humid as a sauna. Some spots smell like rotten eggs, due to sulfide gas emanating from holes dug in the rock.
Until about 20 years ago, scientists weren’t even sure if life existed deep below Earth’s surface. Then in 1992, Tullis Onstott and his colleagues discovered bacteria growing on the rocks retrieved from some 3 kilometers underground. Those rocks were more than 200 million years old, at least as old as the earliest dinosaurs. And the bacteria they analyzed may have survived from that time, Onstott now says.
He’s a geomicrobiologist — a scientist who studies how microbes interact with rocks and minerals. He heads the lab at Princeton University, in New Jersey, where Lau is now a graduate student.
Scientists like Lau and Onstott now travel the world over in search of deep life. They go deep underground in mines or caverns. They drill beneath the ocean floor and in oil fields. Some of these places are near-freezing; others are hotter than Death Valley.
“The challenge is in the hunt,” says Onstott. “It’s a fantastic journey.”
And these hunts are turning up a whole zoo of microscopic creatures. Some of the deeply buried critters feed on toxic chemicals such as arsenic and uranium. One day, other scientists might tap them to clean up toxic waste. Other microbes might produce useful substances, such as new types of germ-killing medicines known as antibiotics. And perhaps most intriguing, these organisms could also help biologists learn about life beyond Earth — true extraterrestrials.
This time lapse shows researchers looking for life deep inside a South African gold mine.
GAETAN BORGONIE
Life in the depths
To reach her research site in South Africa, Lau has to drop down a mine shaft in a cage. It descends the nearly mile down in about a minute. That’s so quick that Lau’s ears pop, making it feel like she’s on an amusement park ride.
Next, Lau may walk or even crawl another 1.5 kilometers through narrow corridors. Some are flooded with water, which she’ll have to wade through. Through it all, Lau and her colleagues carry heavy backpacks and wear knee-high boots and overalls. “Some of my friends joke that we look like the Ghostbusters,” she says.
In her search for new life, Lau collects water from bore holes. These are narrow holes drilled deep into the ground, usually to explore for minerals, natural gas or oil. Sometimes these bore holes tap into underground water. That water can be as hot as 54 degrees Celsius (130 degrees Fahrenheit). At some sites, even the rocks can be warm to touch.
Maggie Lau collects borehole water in South Africa’s TauTona gold mine far below the Earth’s surface.
Image courtesy of Francois Vermeulen (Geosciences Manager, AngloGold Ashanti Limited)
As she sits on the hard, rocky ground and collects water in different-sized bottles, Lau can get splashed anywhere and everywhere with the hot water. “As you collect it,” she says, “you get wet, and you feel like you have been through a water fight.” After this tiring work, “You’re physically and mentally exhausted.” Although “intense,” Lau adds that it also is “very rewarding.”
This water once flowed on the planet’s surface. Although the ground looks solid, it’s more like Swiss cheese. Tiny holes all over allow the water to flow through and down, down, down. But this is a very slow process. Water from the surface may take thousands of years to trickle down to where Lau now works. Some of the water she studies is more than 50,000 years old. And on its travels, that water may have collected living creatures.
There’s very little life in this extreme environment. But Lau leaves equipment to filter thousands of liters (gallons) of water over weeks or even months. She needs to filter all that water to collect as many living cells as possible. Each teaspoon of water contains just a few thousand cells. That may be only a millionth as many cells as exist in every pinch of backyard soil.
Researchers have now identified many types of bacteria in underground water. Many of them stick to each other and to rocks in a slimy community called a biofilm. To study these microbes, scientists try to grow them in the lab. But so far, they have been successful with only about one out of every 100 bacterial species from down here.
Scientists also chemically identify the pattern of building blocks — known as sequences — that make up the bacteria’s genetic material. Those chemical sequences have let them identify most of the bacteria, based on their DNA and RNA. (DNA encodes the instructions for building a cell. RNA is a related messenger molecule. It’s needed to carry out those instructions.)
Lau isn’t just identifying the bacteria that live down here, though. She’s also trying to identify their diet. If scientists learn what these bacteria eat, they might be able to feed it to them in the lab, in what’s called a growth, or culture, medium. That would let researchers study these bacteria more closely, learn what makes them tick and see if they might be useful to us. But food is hard to come by deep underground. There is no sunlight and no plants. What’s more, the water that the bacteria live in contains very little oxygen.
At this depth, any microbes must get all of their energy — food — from the rocks and water around them. Reactions between rocks and water can produce different substances, including hydrogen, methane and sulfates. Scientists initially expected that these extremely deep-dwelling bacteria must feed mainly on these three materials.
To her surprise, Lau discovered, many don’t.
Indeed, fewer than half of the bacteria feed on them, she reports. This minority of bacteria produce other chemicals that the rest of the bacteria feed on. “That’s kind of new to us,” says Lau. “We expect to see more of this kind of cooperation, especially in these environments where it is difficult,” she says.
Knowing on what these bacteria dine might also inform the search for alien life. How? Scientists often look for the chemicals that living things feed on when they can’t find the living things themselves. From what they’ve learned about the new deep microbes, researchers know they might have to expand what kinds of menu items to scout for.
A whole lot of worms
Most of the first research on deep life focused on bacteria. But they’re far from the only species down here. Take nematodes.
These tiny worms usually live in the soil and feed on bacteria. When Gaetan Borgonie heard there were bacteria deep underground, he wondered if there were also worms feeding on them. Borgonie is a zoologist at Extreme Life Isyensya in Gentbrugge, Belgium.
Roundworms on a biofilm almost a mile below the surface in South Africa’s Kopanang gold mine.
Gaetan Borgonie
“After 20 years working on worms, you realize these animals are incredibly resistant,” he says. “I wondered if they could actually go very deep down.” To find out, he went looking for worms in the same gold mines Onstott studied. “It’s always an experience,” he says. Down in these mines, “I feel like an astronaut who walks on another planet.”
On Earth’s surface, nematodes are everywhere. “If I take an ordinary coffee cup and I go out and take a soil sample,” Borgonie says, “you will have hundreds of thousands of nematodes.” But deep underground, these worms are quite rare. Borgonie had to look through about 60 bathtubs worth of water to find a single worm. But he succeeded. And by doing so, he became the first to identify any kind of multicellular life deep beneath Earth’s surface. And once he spied nematodes, Borgonie started wondering what else might live at such depths.
So he sampled the underground water for two years. Along the way, “We found this whole zoo of animals,” he says, “much more than I anticipated.” These animals, though, were all too small to be seen with the naked eye. Many looked like little worms or caterpillars. Others were related to crabs and lobsters and resembled tiny shrimp. Some were in 12,000-year-old water from bore holes. Others lived in the stalactites hanging from the mine ceiling.
A Monhystrella parvella worm found inside a stalactite almost a mile underground in South Africa’s Beatrix gold mine.
Gaetan Borgonie
The worms and other creatures deep underground were mostly the same species found atop Earth’s surface, Borgonie showed. Almost all were feeding on the deep-living bacteria. Indeed, he now suspects, living so deep underground might actually be a good thing for these critters. Unlike at the surface, there are no predators down there to gobble them up. “For them, it’s like a summer camp,” quips Borgonie.
He never suspected he’d find such a wide variety of deep life. “This is actually very good news for people searching for life on Mars or [Jupiter’s Moon] Europa,” he says. Conditions deep beneath the surface of those space worlds could be similar to those deep inside the Earth. Maybe we’ll find a similar microscopic zoo beneath these other worlds.
Looking for alien life
Science may not have to wait long to apply the lessons learned from these underground creatures. Over the next several years, space missions will be exploring the solar system searching for signs of life.
Other planets and moons have much harsher conditions on their surface than those on Earth. “This means that if we were to find life elsewhere in the solar system, it’s going to be below the surface,” says Tori Hoehler. He works at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Ames Research Center. As an atrobiologist there, he studies life on Earth and in space.
This artist’s illustration shows what a mission to Europa might look like and the path that the spacecraft might take around Jupiter and its moons.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Life that would die on the surface of other planets or moons might be able to survive deep below. And reactions between underground rocks and water might provide the food needed to sustain them. Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus may host rocks and water. But first scientists need a closer look. NASA will launch a mission to fly by Europa in the next five to 10 years. That could probe whether it might be able to support life.
Onstott also wonders if there might be creatures living deep below the Martian surface. Right now, it’s hard for life to survive on that planet’s surface. After all, it has almost no atmosphere. It’s also really cold and has no liquid water. But a long time ago, water may have flowed across the Martian landscape. And a thick atmosphere might have blanketed the planet. If there was Martian life on the surface then, maybe it trickled underground as critters have on Earth. “Down below they would have been nice and warm with plenty of water and plenty of energy,” says Onstott. That life could still be holed up there, captured in something like a time-capsule, waiting for us to dig it out.
Rovers have been exploring Mars for years. So far, none have ever done more than scrape the surface of the Red Planet. In 2018, though, the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Mission will get a deeper look. It won’t spy anywhere near as far below the surface as Lau and other scientists have searched back home. ExoMars plans to drill only about 2 meters (6.5 feet) down. That’s probably not deep enough to find life. But it might find signs that life once existed.
Onstott can’t wait. He imagines a time when humans might set up a base on Mars. Then we could drill deep below the surface, looking for water and life. Think about it, he says: “It would be an awesome undertaking.”
alien A non-native organism. (in astronomy) Life on or from a distant world.
antibiotic A germ-killing substance, usually prescribed as a medicine (or sometimes as a feed additive to promote the growth of livestock). It does not work against viruses.
arsenic A highly poisonous metallic element. It occurs in three chemically different forms, which also vary by color (yellow, black and gray). The brittle, crystalline (gray) form is the most common. Some manufacturers tap its toxicity by adding it to insecticides.
astronaut Someone trained to travel into space for research and exploration.
atmosphere The envelope of gases surrounding Earth or another planet.
bacterial Having to do with bacteria, single-celled organisms. These dwell nearly everywhere on Earth, from the bottom of the sea to inside animals.
bacterium (plural bacteria) A single-celled organism. These dwell nearly everywhere on Earth, from the bottom of the sea to inside animals.
biofilm A gooey community of different types of microbes that essentially glues itself to some solid surface. Living in a biofilm is one way microbes protect themselves from stressful agents (such as poisons) in their environment.
bore hole A narrow hole drilled deeply into ice or the surface of the Earth, often to sample or extract natural gas, crude oil or other mineral resources.
cell The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism. Typically too small to see with the naked eye, it consists of watery fluid surrounded by a membrane or wall. Animals are made of anywhere from thousands to trillions of cells, depending on their size. Some organisms, such as yeasts, molds, bacteria and some algae, are composed of only one cell.
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 of two hydrogen atoms bonded to one oxygen atom. Its chemical symbol is H2O. Chemical can also be an adjective that describes properties of materials that are the result of various reactions between different compounds.
colleague Someone who works with another; a co-worker or team member.
culture (in biology) The community of cells or tissue that is intentionally grown outside the body (or the wilds) for research purposes, usually in a laboratory. (in social science) The sum total of typical behaviors and social practices of a related group of people (such as a tribe or nation). Their culture includes their beliefs, values, and the symbols that they accept and or use. It’s passed on from generation to generation through learning. Once thought to be exclusive to humans, scientists have recognized signs of culture in several other animal species, such as dolphins and primates.
dinosaur A term that means terrible lizard. These ancient reptiles lived from about 250 million years ago to roughly 65 million years ago. All descended from egg-laying reptiles known as archosaurs. Their descendants eventually split into two lines. They are distinguished by their hips. The lizard-hipped line became saurichians, such as two-footed theropods like T. rex and the lumbering four-footed Apatosaurus (once known as brontosaurus). A second line of so-called bird-hipped, or ornithischian dinosaurs, led to a widely differing group of animals that included the stegosaurs and duckbilled dinosaurs.
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.
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.
encode (adj. encoded) To use some code to mask a message.
environment The sum of all of the things that exist around some organism or the process and the condition those things create for that organism or process. 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.
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.
extraterrestrial Anything of or from regions beyond Earth.
filter (in chemistry and environmental science) A device which allows some materials to pass through but not others, based on their size or some other feature. (in physics) A screen, plate or layer of a substance that absorbs light or other radiation or selectively prevents the transmission of some of its components.
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.
germ Any one-celled microorganism, such as a bacterium, fungal species or virus particle. Some germs cause disease. Others can promote the health of higher-order organisms, including birds and mammals. The health effects of most germs, however, remain unknown.
graduate student Someone working toward an advanced degree by taking classes and performing research. This work is done after the student has already graduated from college (usually with a four-year degree).
hydrogen The lightest element in the universe. As a gas, it is colorless, odorless and highly flammable. It’s an integral part of many fuels, fats and chemicals that make up living tissues.
Jupiter (in astronomy) The solar system’s largest planet, it has the shortest day length (10 hours). A gas giant, its low density indicates that this planet is composed of light elements, such as hydrogen and helium. This planet also releases more heat than it receives from the sun as gravity compresses its mass (and slowly shrinks the planet).
liquid A material that flows freely but keeps a constant volume, like water or oil.
Mars The fourth planet from the sun, just one planet out from Earth. Like Earth, it has seasons and moisture. But its diameter is only about half as big as Earth’s.
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. From a climate perspective, methane is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is in trapping heat in Earth’s atmosphere, making it a very important greenhouse gas.
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). (in physiology) The same chemicals that are needed by the body to make and feed tissues to maintain health.
moon The natural satellite of any planet.
multicellular Having or consisting of many cells. This includes all animals and plants, and many types of fungus.
NASA Short for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 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.
natural gas A mix of gases that developed underground over millions of years (often in association with crude oil). Most natural gas starts out as 50 to 90 percent methane, along with small amounts of heavier hydrocarbons, such as propane and butane.
nematode A type of roundworm, usually found in soil, that can also live within other creatures as a parasite. It is very small, with no eyes, ears or nose.
organism Any living thing, from elephants and plants to bacteria and other types of single-celled life.
oxygen A gas that makes up about 21 percent of the atmosphere. All animals and many microorganisms need oxygen to fuel their metabolism.
planet A celestial object that orbits a star, is big enough for gravity to have squashed it into a roundish ball and it must have cleared other objects out of the way in its orbital neighborhood. To accomplish the third feat, it must be big enough to pull neighboring objects into the planet itself or to sling-shot 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.
predator (adjective: predatory) A creature that preys on other animals for most or all of its food.
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.
Saturn The sixth planet out from the sun in our solar system. One of the four gas giants, this planet takes 10.7 hours to rotate (completing a day) and 29 Earth years to complete one orbit of the sun. It has at least 53 known moons and 9 more candidates awaiting confirmation. But what most distinguishes this planet is the broad and flat plane of seven rings that orbit it.
sequencing Technologies that determine the order of nucleotides or letters in a DNA molecule that spell out an organism’s traits.
solar system The eight major planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids and comets.
solid Firm and stable in shape; not liquid or gaseous.
species A group of similar organisms capable of producing offspring that can survive and reproduce.
sulfate A family of chemical compounds that are related to sulfuric acid (H2SO4). Sulfates occur naturally in drinking water.
toxic Poisonous or able to harm or kill cells, tissues or whole organisms. The measure of risk posed by such a poison is its toxicity.
uranium The heaviest naturally occurring element known. It’s called element 92, which refers to the number of protons in its nucleus. Uranium atoms are radioactive, which means they decay into different atomic nuclei.
waste Any materials that are left over from biological or other systems that have no value, so they can be disposed of as trash or recycled for some new use.
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'ROSWELL HAPPENED' - alleged US leak confirms 'UFO crash, dead aliens and cover-up'
'ROSWELL HAPPENED' - alleged US leak confirms 'UFO crash, dead aliens and cover-up'
A FLYING saucer did crash in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, and four dead aliens were found, before the world's biggest ever cover up began nearly 70 years ago - according to an allegedly leaked US top-secret document.
Heather Wade, host of US late-night online paranormal radio show Midnight in the Desert, claims to have obtained an extensive US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report into a number of alleged alien and UFO incidents including the infamous Roswell mystery.
She claims the document came from a known, but unnamed source, and has been passed to nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, who is a long term Roswell believer and investigator.
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 top-secret US military base.
The seemingly undated 47-page dossier contains a six-page report on the Roswell incident, detailing how the UFO came down on July 2 or 3 1947, and four decomposing alien bodies were recovered two miles from the crash site a week later.
It then confirms that the initial press release about a flying saucer being found was sent out without senior or Pentagon approval, before the "weather balloon cover up" was set in motion.
The report states: "Aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded.
"These had fallen to earth at least two miles east of the crash site where the wreckage was located.
"All of the four alien crew members were dead and badly decomposed."
It said the corpses and 327 individual pieces of UFO wreckage were taken to the Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio.
There have already been doubters who allege the documents must be an elaborate hoax, produced to prolong the Roswell conspiracy theory.
A statement on the midnightinthedesert.com website said: "Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source.
"She immediately had Stanton Friedman take a look at these documents who said, 'I have never seen anything like this.'
All of the four alien crew members were dead and badly decomposed.
Alleged DIA report
"Stanton Friedman is going to continue examining these documents for authenticity, but at this time we can find no evidence of forgery."
Paradigm Research Group (PRG) was set up to lobby the US Government to end an alleged truth embargo which covers up the existence of aliens on Earth.
It has described the documents as important, but accepts they could be fake.
It released a statement saying: "Over the coming weeks PRG will work closely with leading researchers into the history of the truth embargo and ET related government documents to determine the quality of this evidence.
"There are only four possible explanations for the existence of these documents. In order of probability there are:
"1) Government disinformation 'leaked' that contains much truth plus bogus elements obvious to skilled researchers - the purpose being to undermine the included truths and serve the truth embargo.
"2) Fully legitimate government documents.
"3) Disinformation created and dispersed by private citizens who are not connected to or paid by the government and who consider the matter of an extraterrestrial presence to be false and worthy of being thwarted.
"4) False information created and dispersed by a person or persons convinced of an extraterrestrial presence in a misguided attempt to advance the issue.
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Obama’s Final Comment On Aliens – And It’s Importance To Humanity
Obama’s Final Comment On Aliens – And It’s Importance To Humanity
Did you know that in one of Obama’s final ever live public announcements, he made a rather direct comment about ‘the Aliens’. At first it appears that he is just fooling around, but when you look deep into his eyes, the expression on his face and the potential reasons WHY he decided to leave on the word ‘Aliens’ – stating that “he shouldn’t have mentioned the ALIENS”
That final look he gives, wasn’t only a dramatic pause; his mind seized up about one thing, you possibly can see it in his eyes.. even his face looked like it instantly lost all expression, almost like he was somewhere else and not speaking in front of millions of people live on TV.
Perhaps one of his final regrets was never getting round to disclosing the TRUTH about the ET’s and why they are visiting planet earth. Obama has hinted and joked about UFO’s and Aliens far more than any other president has ever done before!
Please check out the intriguing video below which is on Youtube. Look at Obama’s face and tell me that this is not a man with either serious regrets in his head, or serious concerns:
U.I.P Summary
Please remember this was NOT the first time that Obama ever raised the subject matter about the ‘Aliens’ or ‘UFO’s, as stated above in our article, Obama has hinted and been questioned about this subject matter far more than any other president – suggesting that he is very much the man in the know and may even at one stage wanted to be the US president that discloses the TRUTH about the ET’s!
Even Obama’s former adviser stated publicly on Twitter that his biggest regret whist in his position, was not disclosing the truth about the ET’s – please check our previous article below on this subject matter:
And lets not forget Obama’s previous two now famous interviews were he is quizzed on the ET’s (one of them being a child) and how he nervously, yet in some very strange deep reverse psychology way jokes about how he knows more than he makes out about the ET’s.
Please check out below or two previous articles on Obama’s ‘Alien interviews’:
Obama’s ‘confession’ about the Aliens! (U.I.P’s Verdict) When I recently heard that Obama was recorded live on TV discussing about Aliens and the UFO’s in the sky I initially just sighed to myself and had NO great expectations as to what … Continue readingObama’s ‘confession’ about the Aliens! (U.I.P’s Verdict)
It appears that Obama wanted to be the man who informs the world about the ET’s but became too anxious and perhaps too scared about the consequences that he would have to deal with.
They say that in space, no one can hear you scream – but that may not be the case if you’re having sex in a tiny space capsule, right next to other astronauts.
But if we want to get to Mars, we have to get serious – and work out how to bonk where no man has come before.
Sex in space is something that hasn’t actually been studied much – although there have been a fair few zero-gravity pornos filmed on planes doing parabolic flights.
Kris Lehnhardt of The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences says, ‘This is something that we, frankly, have never studied dramatically, because it’s not been relevant to date.
‘But if we want to become a spacefaring species and we want to live in space permanently, this is a crucial issue that we have to address that just has not been fully studied yet.
If we want to get here, we have to learn how to bonk in space Photo credit: Getty
Mouse experiments on the Space Station suggest that conception might be possible – but Lehnhardt says we don’t even know how a human embryo would fare off Earth.
How an embryo would grow on Mars, where the surface gravity is just 38% of Earth’s remains a mystery, Lehnhardt says.
The artist who had sex with a big-boobed alien
Picture David Huggins
A new film opens with artist David Huggins saying, simply, ‘When I was 17 I lost my virginity to a female extraterrestrial.’
It’s a bold claim, explored in a new film ‘Love and Saucers’ – where Huggins shows off his often sexually explicit paintings inspired by a life of unbridled sex with a being from another world.
Huggins is married, by the way.
Huggins claims that sex with Crescent was initially painful – but then they became lovers, and he fathered an alien child with ‘her’.One is simply titled, ‘Virginity lost’ – and many feature explicit scenes with Crescent, who resembles Gene Simmons from Kiss, but with breasts.
David Huggins says he has fathered several half-human, half-alien children – and has shown off a painting with alien women holding up weird hybrid babies he claims are his.
‘I just lay down on the ground and she got on top of me. I have no idea why me. I just don’t know.’
‘I don’t know much, but I do know for sure I lost my virginity to an extra terrestrial woman.’
Huggins has chronicled his often X-rated alien experiences as part of an exhibition of paintings, which depict no-holds-barred alien-on-human sex with merciless realism.
Huggins claims he was first abducted by aliens aged eight, but that his relationship with the sultry alien took off later.
Huggins claims he also met little hairy aliens, grey aliens and insectoid aliens, who he did not have sex with.
Nigel Watson, author of ‘The Haynes UFO Investigations Manual’ says, ‘David’s experiences are very detailed, and his works of art show they have had a powerful influence on him throughout his life. Yet, he is not the only one to claim such experiences, which haunt people from childhood onwards. In his book Communion, Whitley Strieber famously described being abducted by aliens who inserted a 1ft (0.3m)-long anal probe inside him. It seemed to be a living entity, so when it was taken out he was surprised to see it was a mechanical device.’
‘Many of these type of cases came to light in the 1960s but were largely ignored by ufologists, who just wanted to prove that UFOs were robot craft from outer space. Alien encounters and abductions only began being seriously considered and researched in the 1970s.’
‘In this period, the case of Antonio Villas Boas was the most outstanding. As he claimed that he was dragged inside a flying saucer and forced to have sexual intercourse with a beautiful alien woman. When he left, she pointed at her stomach, at him and then at the sky, implying she would have his child somewhere in outer space.’
‘To some ufologists these reports and many other similar cases seem to indicate that the aliens are conducting a hybrid breeding program to create a race of super beings, for what purpose we can only imagine. Sceptics claim these experiences are likely to be the product of sleep paralysis, where people are unable to discern the difference between fantasy and reality during the period between sleeping and waking.’
Een signaal dat in 1977 is opgevangen uit de ruimte is waarschijnlijk veroorzaakt door aliens. Dat zeggen wetenschappers nu, schrijft de Daily Caller.
Dr. Jerry Ehman ontdekte het Wow!-signaal in augustus 1977 met een radiotelescoop. Het signaal was zo bizar dat Ehman het omcirkelde en er ‘Wow!’ bij schreef.
In april publiceerde dr. Antonio Paris van het St. Petersburg College in Florida een studie waarin hij stelde dat het mysterieuze signaal waarschijnlijk afkomstig was van een waterstofwolk rond een komeet.
Extreem sceptisch
Paris claimde het Wow!-signaal te hebben gedebunked, maar SETI-astronomen zeggen nu dat ze extreem sceptisch zijn over zijn uitleg.
“Wij geloven niet dat de kometentheorie het Wow!-signaal kan verklaren,” zei Ehman tegenover nieuwssite Live Science.
Paris kon het oorspronkelijke signaal niet volledig herhalen. “Je zou verwachten dat de bron in drie minuten tijd twee keer doorkomt: een respons die 72 seconden duurt en een tweede respons die na 1,5 minuut volgt,” zei Ehman. “Die tweede hebben we niet gezien.”
Sterkste bewijs
Ehman claimt dat dit alleen kan zijn gebeurd als het signaal werd afgekapt. Een komeet zou zich niet op deze manier gedragen, maar een buitenaardse intelligentie wel.
Wetenschappers zien het Wow!-signaal als het sterkste bewijs voor een hoogontwikkelde buitenaardse beschaving.
Vaak wordt gespeculeerd dat mysterieuze signalen uit de ruimte afkomstig zijn van aliens, maar meestal blijkt de bron een onbekend fenomeen te zijn.
Pulsar
In 1967 ontdekte een student een vreemd radiosignaal dat de naam LGM-1 (little green men) kreeg.
Sommigen dachten een signaal van aliens te hebben opgevangen, maar het bleek uiteindelijk te gaan om de eerste pulsar.
Volgens twee vooraanstaande wetenschappers, is het menselijk brein in feite een ‘biologische computer’ en het ‘bewustzijn van de mens’ een programma van de kwantumcomputer die zich in de hersenen bevindt en die nog blijft bestaan nadat we sterven. ‘Zoals experts het uitleggen; nadat mensen sterven, gaat hun ziel terug naar het universum, en het zal niet sterven ‘.
Het debat over het bestaan van de ziel en of het onsterfelijk is of sterft met de persoon is een eindeloos verhaal dat al eeuwenlang de grote denkers van de universele geschiedenis heeft bezig gehouden. Haar mysterieuze natuur blijft op verschillende gebieden van de wetenschap fascineren, maar nu heeft een groep onderzoekers een nieuwe waarheid over de ziel ontdekt: de “ziel” sterft niet; ze keert terug naar het universum.
Sinds 1996, hebben Dr. Stuart Hameroff, een Amerikaanse fysicus en emeritus in de afdeling Anesthesiologie en psychologie, en Sir Roger Penrose, een wiskundig natuurkundige aan de Universiteit van Oxford, gewerkt aan een Quantum Theory of Consciousness, waarin zij stellen dat de ziel wordt gehandhaafd in microtubuli van de hersencellen.
Hun ‘provocerende’ theorie stelt dat de menselijke ziel wordt opgenomen door de hersencellen in de structuren binnen hen genaamd microtubules.
De twee onderzoekers geloven dat het menselijk brein in feite een ‘biologische computer’ is en het ‘bewustzijn van de mens’ een programma van de kwantumcomputer die zich in de hersenen bevindt en die nog blijft bestaan nadat we sterven. ‘
Bovendien beweren beide wetenschappers dat wat mensen zien als ‘bewustzijn’ in feite het resultaat is van ‘kwantumgravitatie “effecten zich in de zogenaamde microtubuli bevinden. Dit proces wordt door de twee wetenschappers” georchestreerde objectieve reductie “(Orch- OF) genoemd.
De theorie geeft aan dat wanneer men een fase genaamd “klinische dood in gaat, de microtubuli in de hersenen hun kwantumtoestand verliezen, maar de daarin vervatte informatie behouden blijft. Met andere woorden, zoals deskundigen het uitleggen; nadat mensen sterven, keert hun ziel terug naar het heelal, en sterft niet’.
Sprekend met Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole documentary, zei Dr. Hameroff:
“Laten we zeggen dat het hart stopt met kloppen, het bloed stopt met stromen; de microtubules verliezen hun kwantumtoestand. De quantum informatie binnen de microtubuli wordt niet vernietigd, kan niet worden vernietigd, en het wordt gewoon gedistribueert en verdwijnt in het universum in het algemeen. Als de patiënt is gereanimeerd, nieuw leven ingeblazen, kan deze quantum informatie terug gaan in de microtubuli en de patiënt zegt dan: “Ik had een bijna-dood-ervaring.” Als ze niet nieuw leven ingeblazen krijgt, en de patiënt sterft, is het mogelijk dat deze quantum informatie kan bestaan buiten het lichaam, misschien zelfs voor onbepaalde tijd als ziel.”
Volgens deze theorie, zijn de menselijke zielen meer dan alleen ‘interacties’ van neuronen in onze hersenen en zouden al aanwezig kunnen zijn sinds het begin der tijden.
LIFE ON MARS? NASA FINDS EVIDENCE RED PLANET COULD HAVE BEEN TEEMING WITH ALIENS
LIFE ON MARS? NASA FINDS EVIDENCE RED PLANET COULD HAVE BEEN TEEMING WITH ALIENS
NASA has found some of the best evidence yet that Mars probably once had habitable conditions like Earth that could have supported alien life.
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Mars may have once been as habitable as Earth, says new NASA data.
The announcement follows studies on the latest samples taken by the Curiosity rover.
The space rover is a 4WD droid exploring the planet remotely and taking samples of the surface for any sign of alien life.
The rover examined a mudstone outcrop area called “Pahrump Hills” on lower Mount Sharp, in 2014 and 2015.
In a paper published recently in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, scientists in the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston report on the first four samples collected from the lower layers of Mount Sharp.
Elizabeth Rampe, the first author of the study and a NASA exploration mission scientist at Johnson, said: “We went to Gale Crater to investigate these lower layers of Mount Sharp that have these minerals that precipitated from water and suggest different environments.
“These layers were deposited about 3.5 billion years ago, coinciding with a time on Earth when life was beginning to take hold.
“We think early Mars may have been similar to early Earth, and so these environments might have been habitable.”
Curiosity landed near Mount Sharp in Gale Crater in August 2012 and reached the base of the mountain in 2014.
NASA’s stuning images of Mars
Mars in pictures: NASA shares stuning images of red planet.
Layers of rocks at the base of Mount Sharp accumulated as sediment within ancient lakes around 3.5 billion years ago.
Orbital infrared spectroscopy had shown that the mountain’s lowermost layers have variations in minerals that suggest changes in the area have occurred.
The minerals found in the four samples drilled near the base of Mount Sharp suggest several different environments were present in ancient Gale Crater.
There is evidence for waters with different pH and variably oxidising conditions. The minerals also show that there were multiple source regions for the rocks in “Pahrump Hills” and “Marias Pass”.
The paper primarily reports on three samples from the Pahrump Hills region. This is an outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp that contains sedimentary rocks scientists believe formed in the presence of water.
A NASA spokesman said: “Studying such rock layers can yield information about Mars’ past habitability, and determining minerals found in the layers of sedimentary rock yields much data about the environment in which they formed. “Data collected at Mount Sharp with the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument on Curiosity showed a wide diversity of minerals.”
HUGE hole discovered on the surface of Mars
We went to Gale Crater to investigate these lower layers of Mount Sharp that have these minerals that precipitated from water and suggest different environments.
Elizabeth Rampe
At the base are minerals from a primitive magma source; they are rich in iron and magnesium, similar to basalts in Hawaii.
Moving higher in the section, scientists saw more silica-rich minerals.
In the “Telegraph Peak” sample, scientists found minerals similar to quartz. In the “Buckskin” sample, scientists found tridymite.
Tridymite is found on Earth, for example, in rocks that formed from partial melting of Earth’s crust or in the continental crust – a strange finding because Mars never had plate tectonics.
In the “Confidence Hills” and “Mojave 2” samples, scientists found clay minerals, which generally form in the presence of liquid water with a near-neutral pH, and therefore could be good indicators of past environments that were conducive to life.
The other mineral discovered here was jarosite, a salt that forms in acidic solutions.
There are different iron-oxide minerals in the samples as well.
Hematite was found near the base; only magnetite was found at the top. Hematite contains oxidised iron, whereas magnetite contains both oxidised and reduced forms of iron.
The type of iron-oxide mineral present may tell scientists about the oxidation potential of the ancient waters.
The authors discuss two hypotheses to explain this mineralogical diversity. The lake waters themselves at the base were oxidising, so either there was more oxygen in the atmosphere or other factors encouraged oxidation.
Conspiracy theorists believe a ‘martian tree stump’ is on Mars
SIGNS we’re sure there are ALIENS
MIND-BLOWING signs that aliens exist.
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The Crop Circles are often believed to be created by aliens, as there is no proper explanation behind this phenomenon.Another hypothesis – the one put forward in the paper – is that later-stage fluids arose.
After the rock sediments were deposited, some acidic, oxidising groundwater moved into the area, leading to precipitation of the jarosite and hematite.
The spokesman added: “In this scenario, the environmental conditions present in the lake and in later groundwater were quite different, but both offered liquid water and a chemical diversity that could have been exploited by microbial life.”
Ms Rampe said: “We have all this evidence that Mars was once really wet but now is dry and cold.
“Today, much of the water is locked up in the poles and in the ground at high latitudes as ice.
“We think that the rocks Curiosity has studied reveal ancient environmental changes that occurred as Mars started to lose its atmosphere and water was lost to space.”
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The 18 Top Secret UFO files that UK is still hiding
The 18 Top Secret UFO files that UK is still hiding
The UK government told us that the top secret UFO files would be released after June 8… but until now… nothing. The 18 files are kept hidden. Why?
The National Archives have confirmed the UFO document dubbed the “real life X-files” would be released after the General Election on June 8. Until this date, nothing in their site.
The UFO dossier is understood to contain around 18 files detailing alleged encounters and experiences involving alien life.
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 (together with this already released documents: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos/), but a number of the files were withheld for release in March, with no plausible explanation.
But their release has been delayed again due to Prime Minister Theresa May calling an election.
UK Top Secret UFO files
Fake Disclosure
The famous 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.”
“The delay has been a comedy of errors though, I think it’s more bureaucracy than conspiracy.”
The author of one of the most popular books on the planet —Chariot of the Gods— indicates Aliens will return to Earth in the near future –20 years— since we are part of their DNA. The evidence of their return is present all around us, scattered across the globe in ancient texts, monuments, and civilizations.
During the ‘Erich Von Daniken Legacy Night’ which celebrates 50 years of one of his bestseller books, Erich used a number of images, video clips, computer animations and other crucial pieces of evidence in order to back up his claims that thousands of years ago, before written history, Earth was visited by beings, not from Earth. Now, he claims, our ‘makers’ will return since mankind is almost ready to finally meet them.
The E.T.’s know about us because we are part of their DNA. The Bible speaks of the daughters of men having intercourse with these visitors, and many worldwide myths and legends repeat the same story. These stories always say the E.T.s will return to us.
Erich Von Daniken claims that in the distant past, alien beings played an extremely important role in the development of modern civilization. According to the author, there are worldwide myths, legends and ancient texts that are clear indicators of the role ‘the Gods’ played in the development of mankind. All of these stories and tales repeat the same outcome: One day, aliens will return to Earth.
From a safe hiding-place the inhabitants of the planet watch our space travellers, who wear strange hats with rods on their heads (helmets with antennae); they are amazed when the night is made bright as day (searchlights); they are terrified when the strangers rise effortlessly into the air (rocket-belts); they bury their heads in the ground again when weird unknown ‘animals’ soar in the air, droning, buzzing and snorting (helicopters, all-purpose vehicles), and lastly they take flight to the safe refuge of their caves when a frightening boom and rumble resounds from the mountains (a trial explosion). Undoubtedly our astronauts must seem like almighty gods to these primitive people, says Erich von Daniken.
I believe that at the moment we are under observation. This is based on conversations with very intelligent people, who have been told officially that UFOs are reality, and we are being watched, added the author.
During the presentation, where Erich was presented with the Stella Citizen Award by Ancient Aliens TV regular Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, the author said that ancient texts like the Christian Bible, religious texts from India and other make reference to heaven which according to him is in fact nothing other than a reference to outer space. Von Daniken claims that the so-called angels where nothing other that Alien visitors who came from elsewhere in the cosmos.
Now, after thousands of years have passed since the visitors touched down on Earth for the first time, we are approaching the time where society is ready to ‘meet’ our alien cousins.
Furthermore, alien contact has become something that millions around the world are already expecting. Our scientific achievements, social acceptance derived from continuous “bombardment” by Hollywood movies and series on alien life in the universe has allowed us to be prepared–as a race— to finally meet Alien civilizations without causing social unrest.
Von Daniken’s work has been translated into over 32 languages.
Enorm gat op Mars blijft gemoederen bezighouden. Is dit een ingang van een buitenaardse beschaving?
Enorm gat op Mars blijft gemoederen bezighouden. Is dit een ingang van een buitenaardse beschaving?
Een enorm gat op Mars stelt wetenschappers voor een raadsel. Sommige UFO-onderzoekers suggereren dat het mogelijk gaat om het werk van buitenaardsen, schrijft Fox News.
In een video die door SecureTeam 10 op YouTube is geplaatst, is een diep gat te zien in het Marslanschap. Astronomen vragen zich af wat het is.
Tyler Glockner, de eigenaar van SecureTeam 10, zei dat het gat een doorsnee heeft van enkele honderden meters.
Onduidelijk
Het is onduidelijk hoe dit enorme gat in het rotsachtige terrein van Mars, een planeet die net als de aarde ijskappen op de polen heeft, precies is ontstaan, voegde Glockner toe.
De beelden zijn gemaakt door NASA’s Mars Reconaissance Orbiter (MRO), die de rode planeet al een aantal jaren verkent.
Het filmpje is hieronder te bekijken:
NASA heeft verschillende mogelijke verklaringen gegeven voor het gat, waaronder meteorieten, lavabuizen, overstromingen en vulkanen.
Uitgegraven
Maar complottheoretici denken daar anders over. Glockner, die bijna een miljoen abonnees heeft op YouTube, zei dat het lijkt alsof het gat uitgegraven is.
Hij voegde toe dat het mogelijk een ingang is van een ondergrondse beschaving.
PHOENIX — It’s been more than 20 years since the Phoenix Lights phenomenon was spotted in the Arizona sky, but we’ve just now learned the name of the pilot who reported them.
Apparently that pilot was … Hollywood star Kurt Russell?
In the interview, the host described the Phoenix Lights and, briefly, the pilot who reported the event. He ended by saying, “mystery unresolved.”
Or not! That was when Russell, who starred in several space-related movies, took the UFO and ran. He said he spotted the lights while flying his son to Arizona.
“I was flying him to go see his girlfriend, and we’re on approach, and I saw six lights over the airport — absolutely uniform — in a V-shape,” he said.
While we were skeptical at this point, we certainly had our doubts after Russell said he didn’t give the incident another thought. That is until his wife, actress Goldie Hawn, watched a special about the lights on television two years later.
“They said, ‘A general aviation pilot reported it on landing.’ I had never thought of it since then, [and I said], ‘That was me,'” Russell said.
Of course, Russell never mentioned this publicly until this year. If he played such a large part in one of one of the most famous UFO sightings in American history — that certainly made headlines in Los Angeles — you think he’d, you know, phone home about it.
“Had I not seen that show, I would have never thought of it. That, to me, was the weird part,” Russell said, adding that he felt like Richard Dreyfuss from “Close Encounters [of the Third Kind].”
If you can’t tell, we’re doubting Russell’s account. There are just some specific details — like which airport he reported to — that were left out.
We also couldn’t help but notice that his big reveal came just a few days after the release of “Phoenix Forgotten,” a found-footage horror film based around the Phoenix Lights. We couldn’t find any ties between Russell and the film, however, so maybe we’re the conspiracy theorists now.
Whether Russell was telling the truth, playing a joke or helping promote a new movie, his account is just one of many that surround whatever was in the night sky more than 20 years ago.
LAST WEEK, IN THE BLUE Hills Reservation outside Boston, two teens and a 21-year-old set out to look for unidentified flying objects and got hopelessly lost.
They were, it’s safe to say, rather unprepared. One wore slippers—not the right footwear for the rocks and branches and undergrowth of the woods. Their phones weren’t fully charged. And they had no flashlights. After reaching the top of a hill and realizing they did not know where they were, and were surrounded by darkness, they decided to call for help.
The Boston Globeidentified the trio as Ramona DiFrancesco, 18; Travis Stoecklin, 21; and Savannah Winship-Cody, 17. Each was led out of the forest last Thursday night, unharmed, after being located by a police helicopter.
Despite the problems they encountered, DiFrancesco told the Globe that the hike was worth it. Not only was it “beautiful,” the three did, in fact, see some UFOs, including “three bright lights in the formation of a triangle” and some kind of circular thing that was “bigger than the moon,” DiFrancesco said.
New Multiple UFO Sighting Captured on Camera; Astronomers Dismiss It Simply as New Form of Light
New Multiple UFO Sighting Captured on Camera; Astronomers Dismiss It Simply as New Form of Light
By Jacques Strauss,
UFO Update: Alien Invasion? Six Hovering Disc, Witnessed In Arizona; Details Inside
A multiple UFO sightings have been recently reported online. However, this strange object in the sky has been easily dismissed by experts simply as a new form of light or even lens flare.
The peculiar event witnessed by some people in broad daylight gained the attention of various news outlets and UFO dedicated agencies. As described by witnesses and seen on most photos, an "orb light inside a disk-shaped purple haze" appeared out of the blue.
Some news media outlet described the reported sighting and the alleged evidence as that of a "bizarre UFO" or an "eerie snap of a UFO." However, upon scrutiny of experts like astronomer Eamonn Ansbro, he believed that such anomaly in the sky is but a new form of light known as a plasma ball.
"There's a similar ball of light that has been seen in a place called Hessdalen in Norway. I know the people who operate there and they have automated instrumentation that has recorded them, and we've had recordings here as well. It appears to be a new form of light in physics that we don't know about yet, so we're putting the physics to it to see what it's about," Express quoted Eamonn Ansbro of Kingsland Observatory in Boyle, Co Roscommon as saying.
Meanwhile, this latest bizarre UFO sighting is not the first multiple sighting reported online. It can be remembered that in 2016, multiple UFO sightings have also been reported in Turkey.
The said phenomenon gained attention after various social media posts of the said phenomenon proliferated online. A hashtag "#ufoattacktoturkey" even became a trending topic.
Most photographs shared online showcased of a cluster of four or five orbs. The said orbs are usually seen in a triangle or wedge shape, which somehow coincides with the previous reports of UFO.
Watch here below a video record of a sighting in Turkey:
Mysterious flashes in the night sky perplex locals, but the lights may continue over the next few days
An iridium flare captured in a 30-second shot in 2014 with a Canon 5D MkII using a Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens with an ISO1600 setting. Picture: Tony Law
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Mysterious flashes in the night sky perplex locals, but the lights may continue over the next few days
Daniel Zautsen, Macarthur Chronicle Campbelltown
MYSTERIOUS lights crossing the night sky over Camden and Campbelltown this week could be flashes from iridium flares — and they will be visible to anyone in the right place at the right time.
Sightings of flashing lights, some with a greenish tinge, over the weekend have been reported from across the region with some residents speculating they were shooting stars or UFOs.
Camden resident Jason Mack spotted the lights over Ingleburn while driving on the Hume Highway and posted his sighting to a community noticeboard on Facebook.
“It was a strange flash like a meteorite, the kind you’d see in a movie,” he said.
“It was pretty much over in two seconds but it looked like it was falling to earth, it would’ve landed out of my sight line.”
Macarthur Astronomical Society president Tony Law said the lights could be explained by a range of phenomenon including falling space junk, meteors or flashes from iridium flares (a flash of light from the solar panels of iridium satellites in orbit around the Earth).
International website Heaven’s Above, which tracks iridium flares, reports there will be a series of visible flashes over Camden in the coming days.
“There’s so much space junk up there now that it could be anything,” Mr Law said.
“We haven’t had any meteor showers we’ve been keeping an eye on recently but there were some a few weeks ago, we only really look out for the larger ones.
“NASA keeps track of all the space junk out there which is human-made material falling to the Earth, if you look at a map it’s like it covers the earth.
“There’s something falling to Earth all of the time.”
A series of iridium flares (listed above) that will be visible in Camden over the coming days.
Mr Law said iridium flares were commonly seen in the night sky.
“They are very common and happen all the time but you’ve got to be in the right place to see them,” he said
Mr Law took a 30-second photo (pictured) of an iridium flare back in 2014..
“You can very visibly see the tail of the satellite in the 30-second shot,” he said.
ET'S NEW HOME? Bizarre UFO pictured in broad daylight in skies above Co Leitrim as expert explains why area has become sighting hotspot
ET'S NEW HOME?Bizarre UFO pictured in broad daylight in skies above Co Leitrim as expert explains why area has become sighting hotspot
It's another unusual sighting in an area which is fast becoming known for UFO activity
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By Aoife Finneran
THE truth is out there – in the skies above Leitrim.
An eagle-eyed observer captured this eerie snap of an unidentified flying object above their home on May 7.
This unidentified flying object was spotted in the skies above Leitrim
And before you dismiss it as a picture of the moon at night – the image was taken in broad daylight.
The bizarre sighting has now been recorded by Filer’s Research Institute, the US-based National UFO Center.
The unnamed witness described seeing “the small glow above my garden” before quickly reaching for a camera.
They added: “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.”
So have aliens heard about the beauty of lovely Leitrim and its rock-bottom house prices or is it simply a trick of the light?
Whatever the explanation, it’s yet another unusual sighting in an area which has become known as a hotspot for suspected paranormal activity.
Sceptics may dismiss it as a hobby for the tinfoil hat brigade, but the north-west of the country is the focus of major scientific research thanks to astronomer Eamonn Ansbro of Kingsland Observatory in Boyle, Co Roscommon.
He believes the latest sighting in Leitrim could be a plasma ball, which has previously been seen in parts of Boyle.
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Experts believe the latest sighting in Co Leitrim could be a plasma ball
He explained: “There’s a similar ball of light that has been seen in a place called Hessdalen in Norway.
“I know the people who operate there and they have automated instrumentation that has recorded them, and we’ve had recordings here as well.
“It appears to be a new form of light in physics that we don’t know about yet, so we’re putting the physics to it to see what it’s about.”
Mr Ansbro has already investigated more than 130 sightings around Ireland, many of which he believes can be explained by the presence of orbital tracks around the earth.
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Eamonn Ansbro believes the presence of orbital tracks aroundthe earth explains why so many sightings are witnessed in Limerick
And he says that Lough Key in Boyle is one of the points where these tracks intersect, which could explain the unusually high level of unexplained sightings in the area.
He and his research colleagues even managed to work out a pattern of possible cycles of activity at these intersections, and correctly predicted one such sighting.
The strange occurrences have even baffled the most sceptical people in the area, as he recalled: “We received a report six weeks ago from a guy in Boyle who was driving on the N4 towards Sligo.
“He saw two balls of light about 50 metres in front of him, roughly the size of the moon at that distance, so a few inches across.
“They were there for 30 seconds, then they winked out, and he saw them again to his right.
“He reported this to me, and said that while he was completely sceptical, he had gone through all the options and couldn’t find an explanation for it.”
A CENTRAL Coast UFO group has had a close encounter of the confronting current-affairs TV kind when its meeting was gatecrashed earlier this month.
The Express Advocate revealed last month that taxpayers had forked out thousands of dollars for the Tuggerah Lakes UFO group to do its “important”, out-of-this-world work.
Tracking down the group at Wyong RSL Club, A Current Affair reporter Steve Marshall walked into the “open” meeting where a handful of members were in attendance.
A Current Affair reporter Steve Marshall at the Tuggerah Lakes UFO group's meeting on June 4. Picutre: Channel 9
The Channel 9 reporter asked whether he could sit in the meeting, but the group’s head honcho Joann Kanda replied: “It’s a bit imposing, I didn’t give permission.”
But in true ACA style, he stayed on and grilled Ms Kanda about whether it was appropriate for taxpayers to be funding the group’s activities.
“I understand the public’s perception. It’s just that our equipment that we bought with the original funding, it needs repairs,” Ms Kanda said.
“The laptop had extra memory so you could take the photographs (of UFOs) and analyse them. We bought an amplifier, which is acting up a bit.”
Federal Minister for Social Services Christian Porter has called for an urgent review into his department’s decision to approve a grant of $2645 for the UFO group — which has more than 800 Facebook members — after it had received $2994 in 2013.
Federal Social Services Minister Christian Porter has put the temporary stops on funding for a UFO group on the Central Coast.
Asked for her response to the minister’s freeze, Ms Kanda said: “I would have a subjective view on that, wouldn’t I?
“I felt a bit let down. I could have called (the group) something else … you know, basket weaving and no one would have blinked an eye.”
Another member said of the funding: “We only get a small proportion … hardly worth worrying about, really.”
A couple of the group’s members spoke about their “experiences” with UFOs.
Members of a UFO group on the Central Coast believe we are not alone in the universe.
One member said: “What’s there not to believe in … I’ve seen some sort of triangular thing in the sky.”
Another said: “We suddenly saw this white, fuzzy shape.”
Mr Porter questioned whether funding for the group passed the “common sense test”.
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UFOs seem to have been absent from Territory skies in recent times PICTURE: Getty
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Northern Territory in dry spell for UFO sightings
JUDITH AISTHORPE, NT News
AUSTRALIA’S self-proclaimed “UFO capital” Wycliffe Well hasn’t had a single extraterrestrial visitor in a year.
With the Dry Season – historically the prime time for UFO sightings in the NT – upon us, the lack of extra terrestrial visitors is concerning.
Only three UFO encounters have been brought to the NT News’ attention in the past year, the most recent being MLA Gerry Woods’ encounter in February.
Mr Woods said as dawn broke he saw a white light, about the brightness of a star, heading north from Virginia towards Howard Springs.
Wycliffe Well Holiday Park manager Karthik Myana said in the year he’d worked there not one extraterrestrial visitor had shown themselves to him or the parks’ residents.
Australian UFO Research Association spokesman Doug Moffett said in the past six months there had been an increase in reported sightings across the world but could not explain why the Territory was lacking in reports of UFOs.
He suggested people were seeing UFOs but simply not reporting them.
“Once you get out to the NT, the western parts of NSW and country areas you get a much higher percentage of close encounters,” he said.
On the Sydney based group’s website only one Territory encounter in Katherine in July last year has been listed.
Mr Moffett believes we are currently in the initial stage for first contact of ET’s due to the global increase in sightings.
“If we see a spike in the next six or 12 months in close encounter sightings I think that is the lead up to first contact,” he said. “I’m not getting too excited because we’re only at phase one … an increase of sightings.”
Acacia Hills UFO hunter, Alan Ferguson, closed down his legendary website – ufoterritory.com.au – last year citing a “mindset change”.
He said on Twitter he was still involved “behind the scene”.
Local astronomer Geoff Carr doesn’t believe in aliens but cannot say for certain that they do not exist.
He said many sightings could be put down to being aircraft, drones or weather related.
A Missouri witness at Mexico recalled a UFO incident from 1977 when she and her then 10-year-old son encountered an object following them along a rural roadway, according to testimony in Case 83874 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness and her son noticed a ‘fiery image’ just ahead of them that could not be identified. Pictured: Mexico, Missouri.
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The incident occurred during the summer of 1977 – approximately June 17.
“I was returning home after driving to a nearby town 30 miles away to see the movie, “Chariots of the Gods.” It was approximately between 9-10p.m. CST. I was driving on a blacktop road rather than the highway since it was a shorter way to get home. As I was driving north, I noticed ahead of me, and to the left of the road,a fiery image about treetop level and I mentioned to my son that it must be a barn on fire.”
About two minutes later, the witness reached a curve in the road.
“The fiery image moved from its location left of the road and instantly appeared on the right side of the road. I knew then it was a UFO due to how quickly it maneuvered direction. I was then driving east with the UFO following me to my right – about 100 feet higher than my van – and it stayed maybe two car lengths ahead of me. The UFO seemed to be traveling the same speed as I was, which by then I had probably slowed to about 40 mph.”
The object moved just ahead of the car and kept pace with it. Pictured: Mexico, Missouri.
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The witness continued to watch the object.
“After about 30-45 seconds of following us, it instantaneously appeared about one-quarter mile ahead and to the left side of the road. It was stopped and hovered above a grove of trees.”
Since the object had stopped, the witness did not want to keep driving.
“There was a house there, so I pulled into someone’s driveway and thought about going up to their door to let them know of the UFO so people wouldn’t think I was just making it all up. But figured, as sure as I did, it would disappear. My son thought I should keep driving, but I told him I didn’t want to be abducted or have my car engine fail.”
As the object hovered, the witness was able tomake out the shape and a few features.
“It was disc-shaped with a seemingly darker band around the center of it and a lot of fire from the underneath. Either the flames below were so bright that they illuminated the craft or the moonlight was such that I couldn’t get a good view of it (or both).”
After about four to five minutes of wondering what to do, the witness decided to attempt to communicate with the object.
The witness attempted to communicate with the object when it stopped. Pictured: Mexico, Missouri.
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‘I said, ‘I know that you can hear me because you all are a lot more intelligent and advanced than we are, so please just go on and leave us alone.’”
After about 10 seconds, the UFO moved away at “lightning speed in an upward and south-easterly direction” anddisappeared from view.
“The entire time of the sighting, I encountered no traffic in either direction. However, as soon as it disappeared, there was traffic again. The image of the UFO actually looked a lot like the spaceship image on the album cover of the band “Boston’s” first album in 1976. I have since regretted that I didn’t try to make better communication because I would like to communicate with them. Evidently, they were seeking me out, but I just had no idea of their intent.”
Mexico, formerly known as New Mexico, is a city in Audrain County, Missouri, population 11,543. Missouri MUFON State Section Director Charles Frieden 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.
Virginia witness recalls multiple UFOs in night sky
Virginia witness recalls multiple UFOs in night sky
A Virginia witness at Colonial Heights recalled a UFO encounter from the 60s when one large object emitted multiple, smaller objects, according to testimony in Case 84050 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first saw a bright light in the sky. Pictured: Richmond Avenue, a half block east of the Boulevard.
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“I was probably about 15 or 16 years old at the time,” the witness stated.“I don’t remember wearing a heavy winter coat, so I believe this happened during a fair-weather month. Probably autumn. I lived on Richmond Avenue in Colonial Heights, about half a block east of the Boulevard. When I saw the object in the sky, I called two neighbor kids out to watch it with me.”
The sighting was in early evening around 7 or 8 o’clock – not long after dark.
“The entire time period of the sighting lasted for about 20 to 30 minutes. The object appeared to be a very bright star, approximately east-northeast of the intersection of Richmond Avenue and the Boulevard. At the time, I believed the bright light to be over the Fort Lee Airstrip. However, there was no way of knowing just how far or near the object was. Also, there was no sound.”
The witness watched as many, smaller objects moved out of the larger object. Pictured: Richmond Avenue, a half block east of the Boulevard.
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The witness described the sighting.
“There was a very bright light that looked exactly like a star in the sky. As time passed, a small light slowly left the bright light and appeared to come forward and to the right side of the main light. After a minute or two, another small light slowly left the object and came forward and to the left side of the main object. This continued until there were about 11 objects in the sky.”
The main object’s brightness seemed to change during the event.
“When each light left the main light, the main light lost some of its brightness. At the point where all the small lights were in the sky, the main light was no brighter than the smaller objects. After a minute or two, the small lights slowly went back and joined the main object. It was almost as if they went back exactly in reverse of how they came away from the main object. Eventually all the small lights rejoined the main light and as each one rejoined the main light, the main light became brighter until it was very bright again. Then the object moved away in an Easterly direction until it became so dim that it disappeared from sight.”
Colonial Heights is about 23 miles south of Richmond, VA.
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The witness wondered if there was a simple solution to what was seen.
“The only way I can imagine anyone duplicating what we saw would be if they lined up 11 helicopters in a line east to west. Then turned on their searchlights. Then kept the front of each helicopter facing west. Then left the line one at a time and moved away from the line. Then hovered for about a minute after all the other helicopters moved out to take similar positions. Then moved back into formation without turning around. Then backed away until they went out of sight. Likely? I think not. Was this a UFO? I don’t know, but I cannot explain what we saw in any logical way. As far as I’m concerned, it was a UFO and because of it I find it easy to believe others when they say they have seen a UFO.”
Colonial Heights is an independent city in Virginia, population 17,411. Virginia MUFON Chief Investigator Ben Moss closed this case as Information Only. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Three UFO hunters got lost in the Blue Hills near Boston last week, but it appeared they also got what they wanted.
State police had to rescue Ramona DiFrancesco and her friends when they were lost for several hours on Thursday night.
DiFrancesco, 18, of Plymouth claimed that she and friends saw UFOs they had never encountered before on that night.
She said that they spotted two ships with bright spotlights and then a mysterious orb that looked like a spotlight appeared.
They caught the mysterious object in a photo that had been taken with a Nikon camera.
The Boston Globe reported that the group of UFO hunters got lost on Buck Hill.
DiFrancesco revealed that their phones were dying and did not have any flashlights. She admitted that they were quite unprepared.
Fortunately, a state police helicopter spotted them, and officers guide them down a trail on foot. All of the UFO hunters were in good condition, and no one was hurt.
UFO sightings have been reported over the skies of Warminster since the 1960’s, giving rise to the legend of “The Warminster Thing.” As such, this England town has become one of the world’s most popular alien hot spots, with many strange incidents being reported there on a regular basis.
For decades, people have reported strange thundering noises, cars malfunctioning, and birds being killed not long after having witnessed mysterious balls of light in the skies of Warminster. And in the last few years, reports of UFO sightings and crop circles have continued to come out of the woodwork.
A resident from From recently released new footage of another UFO sighting near Warminster, showing a streak of light circling above Cley Hill, which is just a couple of miles from the UFO hot spot town.
“I took this video from my house in Frome,” said the resident.
“It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs.”
While there have been many UFO sightings over and near Warminster that can’t be explained over the years, this recent incident is not one of them.
Steve Wills, a UFO researcher and investigator based in Warminster, told Somerset Live that the strange light was created by a stunt plane that belongs to acrobatics group AeroSparx.
“I think there is an explanation for this. It’s a local stunt pilot called Tim Dews who flies over the Longleat area and other parts of Warminster using pyrotechnics while doing loop the loops and barrel rolls,” he explained.
“It looks very odd to the uninitiated. The truth is out there just not this time.”
While Wills concedes that this particular incident had nothing to do with aliens, he is not altogether dismissing the possibility that alien spacecraft have been visiting the UFO hot spot for decades. In fact, he explains, there have been “too many UFO sightings over Cley Hill and in From that can be explained.”
“I have investigated UFO sightings previously within that area and have uncovered a number of cases and sightings that don’t have a rational explanation.”
As reported by Express UK, AeroSparx confirmed that they were the ones responsible for the strange object in the video, explaining that the object in question was an aircraft called The Grob.
“The Grob is unique amongst air show types, as it has a special clearance to fly at night,” said AeroSparx.
“Pyrotechnics are quite unique and special in the half-light of twilight, but at night they really come alive and you can truly appreciate their majestic nature.”
On March 17, 1977, a large red “disc” was spotted in the skies of Frome, just five miles northwest of Warminster, at 9:57 p.m. Reports involving an object that had the same description as the red disc was also reported from Tetbury and Gunnersbury.
On October 30, 1965, student Alan Ward of Manor Gardens reported having seen a strange-looking object in the sky, between Norridge Wood and Cley Hill.
“It turned and flew back again through the sky. It was like a fried egg – a white disc with a golden dome.”
On June 17, 1972, a large orange light was spotted in the sky above Cley Hill, with witnesses saying that it dropped down and rose upwards three times, giving the impression that it was attempting to land.
In 1975, UFO researcher Gary Lanham went with friends to Cley Hill, Warminster to investigate the UFO phenomenon in the area.
“By about 10.30pm the temperature had dropped, so we prepared some soup while looking out over the Wiltshire landscape, towards Frome, still partially illuminated by the rays of the setting sun.”
“As darkness settled, I watched the occasional aircraft moving overhead and in the distance the eerie intermittent light flashes from a distant train. On an impulse I turned around, facing east, and saw a large blue coloured light that appeared to ‘blink on’ just hanging in the sky.”
“I shouted out to the others and we watched as it shot off across the sky, disappearing from our view behind a hill. Within seconds or so, the same or identical light ‘blinked on’ again, exactly in the same area of sky where we had first seen it.”
“This sequence of actions was repeated at five second intervals, before it performed an amazing maneuver.”
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A “UFO” IS TRACKED ON MILITARY RADAR
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A “UFO” IS TRACKED ON MILITARY RADAR
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are grabbing the attention of more people everyday, and for good reason. Obviously, if there are unknown objects in the sky, military/defence organizations will see them on radar, along with other organizations that monitor air traffic, like the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This happens on a regular basis, objects of unknown origin are constantly tracked on radar, along with visual confirmation by pilots, performing maneuvers that defy our understanding of physics as well as traveling at unattainable speeds.
When the FAA tracks them on radar, a protocol is followed. When a UFO is sighted and tracked on radar, they report it to data collection centers, one of them being the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. (1) But evidence suggests that it’s not so simple as just following protocol. Retired FAA Senior Division Chief, John Callahan, shared his experience with regards to a specific UFO incident, you can read more about that here. Representatives from the FBI and CIA showed up to find out more about the incident, and to obtain all documentation and video footage. Bigelow Aerospace Director, Mike Gold, recently expressed that he is glad somebody is taking the reports, because it is a “serious issue,” but he also said that he could not comment on what they do with them.
“If one thing is glaringly obvious, it is that the UFO phenomenon is global and has included many military encounters.” – Richard Dolan, Author, Historian, UFO Researcher.(0)
So, what happens when UFOs are tracked on military/defence agency radar? Well, the first thing that happens is that it is recorded and documented. Documents regarding UFOs and the tracking of them on radar have been declassified within the past few years, there are countless examples from multiple agencies, like the NSA. (2)
If something is violating your airspace, and performing maneuvers that defy our understanding of physics, maneuvers that no known aircraft can perform, you’re going to want to take a closer look. As former UK Ministry of Defence personnel Nick Pope puts it, “UFOs present a number of defence, national security and air safety issues.”
In the case of UFOs, military jets are scrambled to intercept the objects, and what happens after that might shock you. Again, I’d like to mention that these encounters have constantly occurred throughout history, they are well documented.
“We, or at least some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.” – Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Defense Minister. (source)
One case in particular I’d like to start out with is the incident over Tehran, Iran. This incident occurred on the night of September 18th, 1976. A four page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA report describes the encounter in detail. (3)(4) Furthermore, both of the pilots involved discussed the event years later.(0)
What happened on this night is an example of what has happened multiple times with regards to military encounters with UFOs. Residents of the city noticed a big bright object in the sky. The airport traffic controller also noticed, “it was an intensely bright object that was not supposed to be there.”(0)The Iranian Air Force was contacted (at the time they were a close ally of the United States, under the rule of the Shah), and they dispatched two F-4 fighter jets to check out the object. The United States took this encounter very seriously, a report of what happened was sent to multiple national security officials AND U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, CIA Director George Bush, and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, among others.(0) (3)(4)
Both of the F-4 interceptor pilots reported seeing the object visually, it was also tracked on their airborne radar. Both planes experienced critical instrumentation and electronics go offline at a distance of twenty-five miles from the object. Here is an excerpt from the report:
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. ” (3)(4) (0)
The report also described how a smaller object detached from the bigger object, turned inside the arc of the F-4 itself, and then regained the original object. This incident lasted for several hours. I decided to use this example because it has a number of declassified supporting national security documents, which goes to show how serious this event was taken.
“The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be possible to release the news to the world” – General Carlos Castro Cavero, Spanish Air Force General (0)
Another significant event occurred over NATO’s Aviano Air Base in Italy, on July 1, 1977. During this event, several U.S. Air Force personnel saw a UFO hovering outside of the base perimeter. While the object was there, the facility lost electrical power.(5)
“Governments believe that if they told the truth, which is that there are objects in our atmosphere, which are technically miles in advance of anything that we can deploy, we have no means of stopping them from coming here, and that we have no defense against them should they be hostile, that I believe is the governments fear if it did disclose those facts. I however, do not believe people would panic. There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing by tabloid newspapers.” – Lord Admiral Hill Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff (UK), 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.(source)
From November 9th through December 18th in 1978, several major UFO events occurred over the oilfields of Kuwait. They also appeared to disrupt major electrical equipment in this case. This event received major attention from the Kuwaiti government, as well as the U.S. government and Embassy.(6)(0)
According to Richard Dolan, one of the world’s leading UFO researchers, perhaps the most dramatic of all were two encounters that year on December 16th by the Chilean Air Force:
“Two pilots on a training mission, each flying an F5 fighter aircraft, tracked the object on their airborne radar. It gave a return equal to ten or more aircraft carriers-except this object was in the air, not floating on the water. Each pilot assumed his radar equipment was faulty, until he learned that the other pilot was also getting the same return. Not only this, but ground radar from a nearby airport also picked up the object and confirmed its huge size. The pilots also saw the object with their own eyes. One pilot later said that at a distance of twenty miles, it looked “like a plantain banana swathed in smoke.” The pilots were frightened, having no missiles or weapons. As they approached the massive object, which had been motionless all this while, it took off at an unimaginable speed. All at once, it vanished from the three radar screens.”(7)(0)
The very next morning the Chilean Air Force scrambled some F5 fighter jets to intercept another very large UFO. The pilots described this one as very bright, and very large. The Chilean Air Force has officially acknowledged these events, but could not explain what had occurred. (7)(0)
On May 19, 1986, there was a large portion of Brazilian airspace that was constantly occupied by UFOs. The Brazilian air-force constantly scrambled their jets to get a closer look at what they were picking up on radar. Here is a quote from the Brazilian Minister of Aeronautics, Brigadier General Otavio Moreira Lima:
“At least 20 objects were detected by Brazilian radars. They saturated the radars and interrupted traffic in the area. Each time that radar detected unidentified objects, fighters took off for intercept. Radar detects only solid metallic bodies and heavy (mass) clouds. There were no clouds nor conventional aircraft in the region. The sky was clear. Radar doesn’t have optical illusions. We can only give technical explanations and we don’t have them. It would be very difficult for us to talk about the hypothesis of an electronic war. It’s very remote and it’s not the case here in Brazil. It’s fantastic. The signals on the radar were quite clear.” (8)(0)
I’d also like to point out that UFOs have been seen and coincide with the deactivation of nuclear missiles and nuclear missile facilities all over the world. This has been well documented, and you can read more about that here.
The list goes on and on, UFOs tracked on radar and military jets scrambled to check them out is nothing new. I hope I’ve given you a good amount of info to further your research if interested. Dozens and dozens of governments have recently released their UFO files, admitting to the phenomenon being real. You can access the United Kingdom’s latest batch that was released in June 2013 here.
Commercial airline pilots also constantly report UFOs. There have been many cases, the most recent I am aware of was an A320 Airbus Captain who reported a near miss with a UFO over Heathrow Airport.
From all of these encounters one thing is evidently clear, even when incidents’ occur in other countries, the United States is highly interested. This gives more validity to UFO researcher Timothy Goods’ belief, that the United States Air Force Space Command (USAFSC) is in charge.
According to U.S. defense records, an interesting sighting of a UFO was reported by the Ghana Air Force on July 27, 1987. It was a large, silent object which the pilot described as two or three times large than a Boeing 747. He said that the “object dropped altitude, then gained altitude, then was replaced by small bluish lights arranged in a circular formation.” (9)(0)
It’s hard to do justice to the topic of UFOs tracked on radar, and military jets scrambled to intercept them when there are what seems to be hundreds upon hundreds of documented cases. What is very intriguing is the level of interest these events garnish by military and intelligence agencies worldwide. There are thousands upon thousands of documents that prove this, some of which I have put links to in the article. Since there are so many, this is a great little video to demonstrate a tidbit of documentation that’s been released into the public domain.
So What?
The UFO phenomenon is a serious one, and raises many other questions. What are they? Where are they coming from? What type of propulsion systems are they using (clearly not the known propulsion systems we use today). Are they secret military aircraft? Are they extraterrestrial aircraft? The list of questions goes on and on, one thing for certain is that the UFO phenomenon is real, and continues to increase as we move through 2014 and beyond. More and more people are becoming aware of this phenomenon, and maybe one day soon we will know what exactly is going on in our skies.
If they are extraterrestrial in origin, how long have the been here? What are they doing? What do they want? There are a myriad of questions to be asked if this is indeed the case.
Many prominent people have expressed that these are indeed extraterrestrial craft.
“In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb. They are very concerned about that and if we will use it again, because the whole cosmos is in unity and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos. They’re very much afraid that we might start using atomic weapons again and this would be very bad for us, and them also.” –Paul Hellyer
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any kind of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon” – Dr Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor
The list of quotes goes on and on, there are hundreds of high ranking military, political and other personnel who have made some shocking statements, I’ve provided just two.
Along with these statements we have the documentation, which makes it clear that something is definitely going on here. Personally, I believe many of these objects are classified military projects, that come from the Black Budget world. I also believe that many of them are indeed extraterrestrial and that there is a lot of evidence to point to that.
Furthermore, we have reported contact encounters with millions of human beings across the planet. Many of these stories coincide with each other and might provide some insight as to why (if extraterrestrial) they are here. But that’s a completely different topic all together.
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(0) Dolan, Richard. UFOs For the 21st Century Mind: New York: Richard Dolan Press, 2014
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ROSWELL: 15 PIECES OF EVIDENCE THE GOVERNMENT IS HIDING ALIENS
ROSWELL: 15 PIECES OF EVIDENCE THE GOVERNMENT IS HIDING ALIENS
It’s been almost 70 years since the infamous Roswell incident. The moment the public started to become clued in to the idea that extraterrestrial being were visiting our planet, or possibly that alien teenagers were joyriding in New Mexico.
This was also the first time really that the people of the world started to sit up and suspect that their government was not being entirely honest with them about alien life. Before Roswell, people were happy just thinking that aliens were the subject of science fiction. Since that night, when a rancher found what he described to the authorities as “one of them flying saucers”, Roswell has been permanently linked to the subject of UFOs and cover-ups, creating a cottage industry that has pulled in tourists and created an awful TV show.
Proving these incidents has been somewhat problematic. If you’re looking for videos of dancing aliens or a discarded extraterrestrial learner’s permit, you’re not going to find it out there. In fact, every piece of physical evidence surrounding Roswell has been proven as fakery – like the infamous autopsy video from 1995, or the recent photos of an alien being that turned out to be an Aztec mummy. Chances are, any evidence of that nature is locked firmly away in a vault along with the Arc of the Covenant, and what little remains of Indiana Jones’ dignity.
The evidence we do have is largely eyewitness accounts, anonymous deathbed confessions, and government documentation. They’re not quite the smoking gun, but they might just lead us down the path to finding one.
Preferably before the aliens enslave us all.
15.GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF THE ROSWELL CRASH
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If we’re to assume that an extraterrestrial vessel crashed somewhere in New Mexico in 1947 – and no-one is for a moment suggesting the aliens were drunk – then you would expect their to be some kind of impact evidence. While debris can be collected and hidden, and beings locked in aircraft hangers, geological evidence is more challenging to cover up.
In 2011, Frank Kimbler – a science teacher at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, decided he wanted to find this physical evidence. He took satellite images of the alleged crash site, enhanced the infra red, and actually discovered an area that seemed to correlate with what witnesses in 1947 described. The disturbed area was about ¾ of a mile long, and a few hundred feet wide – which kind of rules out the shenanigans of drunken farmers.
So while there were no photos of giant-headed beings staring up at Kemmler, this is some pretty interesting evidence pointing toward a large impact with the surface of the earth.
14.METALLIC DEBRIS
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Spurred on by his, frankly, unexpected satellite evidence, our friend Frank Kimbler of previous entry-fame decided that he needed to get some boots on the ground. Boots and a metal detector. Yes, taking an approach that somehow always seems to make people look like crazy obsessives, he took to the site with a whirring, beeping device.
Of course, Kimbler was hardly the first person to dig around the area, but he found that previous archaeologists had been sifting through the dirt with screens that had holes large enough for very tiny pieces of evidence to pass through. Amateurs.
A few inches beneath the surface, in an anthill – because ants are notorious hoarders of UFO debris – Kimbler struck gold. Well, some kind of metal. The first pieces were buttons from 1940s-era military fatigues – proving that the military had at least been present in the area. He also found some slivers of a mysterious metal. Which leads us to…
13.MATERIALS NOT OF THIS EARTH
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Usually, when someone finds little foil-like slivers of metal, they don’t pick them up and keep them for later examination, cradling them lovingly like Gollum in Lord of the Rings. There’s no evidence that Kimbler was acting in this fashion, of course…but it’s fun to think about.
A surface examination by the completely unbiased-sounding Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center found that the metal was composed of aluminium, manganese, silicon and copper alloy. While not unheard of, this mix is not usually found in foil form.
So, Kimbler hauled the evidence around various labs, hoping for an isotopic analysis that would confirm whether the origin of the evidence was terrestrial. Thing is, some scientists wouldn’t touch it with a 1000 ft barge pole, not wanting to be associated with the Roswell incident. However, when he did find a lab that would take on the work (funded by the UFO Museum…just saying), the results were interesting.
Unless the lab made a mistake, the isotopic ratios of the magnesium suggested the material wasn’t consistent with being from this planet.
12.MILITARY WITNESSES
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It’s admittedly a bit of a leap to find some buttons and claim that they’re evidence of the military being present at the site of a UFO crash. Maury Povich found our DNA evidence inside a baby’s genes, but that doesn’t mean we were necessarily present for the conception.
However, in 2016 an unidentified (always slightly suspicious) soldier came forward and claimed that he and up to 500 other military personnel witnessed UFOs in the New Mexico desert in 1971.
Stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas at the time, the soldier and his unit were ostensibly sent on maneuvers to an area west of Roswell. While there, the soldiers witnessed a double UFO incident in the sky above them, stopping abruptly and making erratic movements for 5 hours.
Is Roswell like a tourist spot for extraterrestrial visitors too? Or maybe they’re still looking for some bits of metal they left behind.
11.TESTIMONY OF HIGH RANKING MILITARY STAFF
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We’re not suggesting for a moment that you can’t trust the eyewitness account of an anonymous soldier, or that their anonymity makes it difficult to even ascertain they were even a soldier. We wouldn’t dare. But when there’s a named source, and that source is of significant rank, well you tend to sit up straight and pay attention – mostly because they shouted in your face ordering you to do so.
Brigadier General Thomas DuBose revealed that he was present when the Roswell wreckage was brought into the office of General Roger Ramey at Carswell Air Force Base. While the official military statement was that the debris was from a fallen weather balloon, DuBose maintained that there was some form of cover up, and that the debris – which he handled personally – was from no normal weather balloon.
This doesn’t mean it was aliens. But it’s aliens.
10.CIA FILES
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What’s pretty frustrating for anyone attempting to look into evidence that the government are hiding anally-fixated extraterrestrial being, is the fact that people in the know are pretty reticent to reveal anything that could conceivably…you know…get them assassinated (more on that in a bit).
Chase Brandon, a 35 year veteran of the CIA made a confession that is tantalizingly close to some useful information, and yet frustratingly, he won’t say any more.
In 2012, Brandon said that he saw files on the Roswell incident when he walked into the Historical Intelligence Collection at the CIA headquarters in Virginia.
Opening up a box labelled “Roswell”, Brandon said he rummaged around and saw evidence in the form of written material and photographs that made him realize the crash was real.
He said, “It was not a damn weather balloon…it was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don’t doubt for a second that the use of the words ‘remains’ and ‘cadavers’ was exactly what people were talking about.”
Brandon refuses to say any more on the subject because he’s being mindful of “the hat I wear as a former CIA operative”.
9.JFK PROBABLY KNEW ABOUT THE ALIENS
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Again, we’re into the slightly murky realm of eyewitness testimony from anonymous military sources. Which has all the credibility of a monkey in a lab coat claiming to be a heart surgeon. Still, it’s worth considering.
In a recent documentary, “Undisclosed”, a man purported by the film makers to be John F Kennedy’s former pilot revealed that the president had significant awareness of the US government’s contact with extraterrestrials.
During a conversation with the president, the pilot claims JFK told him, “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.”
Which, while it reads as though JFK might have been drunk at the time, lends some credence to the rumors that the president was assassinated because he was about to make revelations about aliens to the world. Sort of. Maybe.
8. NASA UFO FEED WAS CUT
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In today’s super-connected world, we have become used to seeing things happen, at the moment they happen. When some starlet has a nip-slip on the red carpet, you better believe several hundred thousand people witnessed it, and there’s no point denying it happened.
Well, it seems NASA had something of a nip-slip of its own in 2016.
NASA has been kind enough to provide us with live feeds outside the International Space Station constantly since 2014. On that fateful day, audiences were watching the beauty of the earth from space, when an object appeared to slowly descend toward earth…and then the footage cut out.
When questioned about it, NASA claimed the blackout occurred at random, and advised that they’d never witnessed a UFO in the popular sense.
While there are all kinds of plausible explanations for the object, the timing of the feed cut out was kinda…convenient.
7.THE SHIRLEY’S BAY STATION
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Obviously, it’s not just the US government that are covering up their evidence of alien existence. That’s a given. But we would never have expected the Canadians to be involved in a conspiracy! What the hell, Canada? You’re supposed to be the nice one!
Project Magnet was set up in Shirley’s Bay, Ottawa, with the explicit intention of attracting UFOs, because the Canadian Department of Transport thought UFOs might hold the key to clean transportation.
Sounds like a great idea, right?
However, as soon as the station detected it’s first suspicious event, all records were deemed classified by the Canadian government, and the project was abruptly shut down by officials. However, according to the lead scientist at the base, Wilbert Smith, the incident involved readings that were way off the charts of any normal aircraft, but when the research team ran outside to see what was causing the readings, they were unable to view it due to fog.
6.A NASA ASTRONAUT SPOKE OUT
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If there’s one person on Earth that you’re likely to accept the testimony of about life on other planets, it’s probably gonna be a guy that’s actually been into space.
Edgar Mitchell, along with being a former space jockey of the highest order, is one of the faces that keeps cropping up when trying to uncover evidence of UFOs.
In a 2008 radio interview, Mitchell revealed that the government had been covering up UFOs for the last 50 years, but that NASA wasn’t involved. Though he declined to give names, he said that he knew several high ranking military and intelligence officials who had personal experience of the cover up. He also said that he spoke to an official at the Pentagon, who confirmed that the instigators of this more than half-century block on information were investigators of the Roswell incident.
Sure, it’s not a video of an autopsy, but it’s very intriguing.
5.ALIEN CRAFT ON THE MOON
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One of the great things about working around people who have been up in space, is you’re likely to hear about some of the weird stuff that they see. You know, before you receive a clandestine visit from a shadowy organization that for some unknown reason would hire Will Smith.
A former NASA contract employee, Donna Hare revealed that she had spoken to a man who had been in quarantine with astronauts returning from the moon, and they spoke about what they had seen there.
An alien craft, landing on the surface of the moon.
However, according to Hare’s source, the astronauts were given explicit instructions never to mention this craft to anyone. Probably less because they want to cover up alien life, than they want people to believe the US were the first beings on the moon.
4.THE MILITARY SHOT AN ALIEN
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Well, it seems that the government’s approach to alien life is not one of benign co-operation. More like, kill it before it kills you. At least according to former Air Force Major George Filer III.
According to Filer, when he was stationed at the McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, he witnessed an alien craft landing on the runway.
Did the military run up the welcome flag? Throw out a red carpet? Put on a nice buffet?
No.
Filer said that when the alien being got out of it’s craft, a member of the military police shot it dead. He was initially told to brief general staff on the incident, but was soon ordered to hush up about it.
Probably to stop a potential “alien lives matter” movement. The government finds those protests a bit awkward.
3. DEATHBED CONFESSION
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Aliens could still explain the 'Wow signal,' scientists say
Aliens could still explain the 'Wow signal,' scientists say
This month an astronomer claimed to have debunked a mysterious 1977 radio signal from deep space, but other scientists aren't buying his theory.
Is this aliens letting the phone ring just once?
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A story circulating this month suggests the 40-year-old mystery of the so-called Wow! signal from space has been solved, but a number of scientists aren't convinced.
The Wow signal was a one-time blip picked up by Ohio State University's "Big Ear" radio telescope in 1977 that appeared to be of extraterrestrial origin -- so much so that astronomer Jerry R. Ehman wrote "Wow!" on a printout of the data. Others have tried to pick up the signal again over the ensuing decades without luck, allowing the mystery to endure.
A number of possible explanations, including a star or even aliens, have been proposed over the years without eliciting much consensus among scientists. The latest comes from Antonio Paris, an adjunct professor at Florida's St. Petersburg College, who proposes in a new paper that the Wow signal came not from aliens, but from comets.
Paris' basic proposal is that the clouds of hydrogen emitted by two comets that were in the neighborhood "are strong candidates for the source of the 1977 'Wow' signal." You can dig deeper into the research by checking out the full paper (PDF link).
This hypothesis doesn't sit well with a number of scientists, however.
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Yvette Cendes, a radio astronomer and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto, confirmed to me that she's not at all convinced by Paris' paper and cometary explanation for the odd signal. She wrote a detailed takedown of the comet hypothesis on Reddit that's now beginning to work its way around the internet as well.
Cendes raises a tentative eyebrow at Paris' credentials and the obscure journal that published his paper, the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, before moving on to the study itself.
"This paper was also just really, really, really short on details that a radio astronomer would want, to the point where it likely wouldn't have passed a referee at a 'regular' journal," she writes, before going on to suggest the signal Paris picked up may have actually come from our sun rather than comets.
"The comet hypothesis, in my opinion, doesn't work," Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute concurred in a blog post. Shostak cites the comments of Robert Dixon, who was director of the Ohio State observatory back in 1977. "Dixon (says) the comets were nowhere near the telescope's sight lines when the signal was found."
Oxford physics professor Chris Lintott was so put off by the comet hypothesis that he compiled a list of questions for Paris about his work. Paris responded that he plans to review them and respond as soon as he's done with a current round of traveling.
Meanwhile, the search for a second occurence of the Wow signal anomaly continues. Shostak says the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array keeps listening.
"So yes, it's possible (but unproven) that the Wow signal was the result of aliens sending a short ping. If so, we may someday pick up their transmissions again. But it wasn't a comet … which should be the end of that tale."
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Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash: 40 years on, it’s still a mystery
Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash: 40 years on, it’s still a mystery
On January 23, 1974, people reported hearing a huge bang, felt earth tremors and saw a brilliant light in the sky above the Berwyn Mountains. Families in the villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo were settling down to watch TV when an explosion was heard and the ground shook. It measured 3.5 on the Richter scale. As people ran from their homes fearing another tremor, they saw a blaze of light on the mountainside.
A nurse who believed an aircraft had crashed drove to the site and saw a pulsating orange and red glow on the hillside and other lights.
Police converged on the area and emergency services were put on standby. Although searches were undertaken, officially nothing was found – leading to claims of a cover-up.
In the four decades since there has been a huge debate as to what exactly happened that night, with TV documentaries made and books written on the subject.
Some researchers have claimed a UFO crashed, with further claims “bodies” were retrieved and taken away by soldiers. Other theories suggest it was a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and the misperception of poachers on the hillside carrying lamps.
Over the years more information has surfaced which has added to the enigma. In 2008 the Daily Post acquired official documents showing how Gwynedd Police were bombarded with calls and eye witness accounts of the strange event, with some convinced they had seen a UFO. They gave a fascinating insight into what was going on that night.
Gwynedd Police Constabulary Major Incident Log – explosion – 21.10pm PC receiving 999 calls of UFO.
A witness who saw an object on the hillside said in a statement: “Saw bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire. Could see lights above and to the right and white lights moving to bottom. Light changed colour to yellowish white and back again.”
A message in a police log said: “There’s been a large explosion in the area and there is a large fire in the mountainside. I can see the fire where I am.”
Telex message to chief constable Gwynedd constabulary. 22.00pm approx 23/1/74: Saw bright green lights, object with tail – travelling west. Saw about Bangor direction – dropped down.
At approx 10pm on 23/1/74: Saw a circular light in the sky at an estimated height of 1,500 feet. This object exploded and pieces fell to the ground. Mr …… estimates the pieces would have fallen into the sea between Rhyl and Liverpool.
In 2010 key witness, retired nurse Pat Evans, insisted she saw something strange on the mountainside. At the time she said: “It (the object) couldn’t have got there any other way apart from being flown there, so it had to be a UFO of some sort. I’m talking about something that could only have got there by flying and landing.”
Ms Evans, who was living in Llandderfel, near Bala, added: “We just saw this huge ball glowing and pulsating on the mountain. Some lights seemed to be scattered around it and I just wish we’d stayed to see what the end result was – whether it would just disappear or fly away.
“We didn’t see anybody on the road even though there were various reports that we were told to go away by armed police and military etc, which was all totally untrue.
“We’d heard an almighty bang and we live at the foot of the mountain. I thought it might have been a plane crash. Me being a nurse and my girls being in St John (Ambulance), I thought we could help.”
She told how the object glowed orange, red and yellow and was “moon like, but without windows or doors”. Mrs Evans added: “I’ve never seen anything like it before or since. I have no idea what it was.”
A document from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency revealed a military operation, codenamed Photoflash, was scheduled for that evening. It involved about 10 military aircraft and a series of powerful flashes across the North Wales coast and Liverpool Bay.
The MCA letter said: “During the late afternoon and early evening of 23rd January 1974 there was an exercise from Jerby Range on the Isle of Man. The exercise was called ‘Photoflash’ and coastguards were advised to expect at least 10 aircraft taking part and at least 80 flashes around the Liverpool Bay area and the North Wales coastline.”
There was no more information from official sources on that specific exercise and if it was connected to Berwyn. A spokesman at the RAF Museum Research Department suggested photoflash operations were used for training exercises to illuminate the ground below.
But the mystery still remains. Researcher Russ Kellett still believes the answer is out there: “I have been researching this for years and I am convinced there was more than one UFO involved that night,” he said. “All the evidence that we have uncovered over the years has consistently pointed that way.”
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THE INEVITABLE IS ALMOST HERE: WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD FINDS OUT?
THE INEVITABLE IS ALMOST HERE: WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD FINDS OUT?
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been a topic of interest for decades, and with the recent release of thousands of previously classified government documents, we now know without question that government, military, and other defence agencies have had a high level of interest in this topic for a very long time.
These files indicate that objects are commonly tracked on both air and ground radar, as well as visually confirmed by the pilots who are sent out to intercept them.
Everything is in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. – General Carlos Castro Cavero (1979). From UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2, written by Richard Dolan.
For instance, here is an excellent example of a defence intelligence agency report detailing what commonly happens when a UFO is tracked on radar, and pilots attempt to intercept it (one of thousands). Apart from traveling at tremendous speeds and performing impossible maneuvers that no known aircraft can perform, when military jets enter the object’s vicinity, they usually experience critical instrumentation failure.
When President Truman made the statement that they discuss this issue at every conference that the government has held with the military, many people took notice. Peter Andrew Sturrock, a British scientist and an Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, reminded us decades ago that we need to move forward with UFO research; this was in the 1960s. He stated that:
If it does indeed turn out that there is relevant physical evidence, if this evidence is carefully collected and analyzed, and if this analysis leads to the identification of several facts concerning the UFO phenomenon, then will be the time for scientists to step back and ask, What are these facts trying to tell us? (source)
After that, we had scientists like Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information centre for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, publishing work in peer-reviewed scientific journals. For example, a study published in Scientific Exploration titled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Aeriel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” Apart from performing impossible maneuvers, the files also indicate some sort of electromagnetic effect when craft enter the vicinity of some of these UFOs. Critical weapons and electronic systems completely shut down. You can read about a classic example of that from two Canadian military pilots here.
To read about more examples, you can read this article we published on the topic a few years back. These are truly astonishing cases.
Above is just a tidbit of information regarding the UFO phenomenon. This field is littered with information ranging from declassified documents, from video footage, to statements from some of the ‘highest-ranking’ military and political people in the world.
So, ask yourself, why has it taken so long to accustom people to the fact that these objects are real, do exist, and have possibly existed well before the existence of modern day humans? Former head of the CIA, Roscoe Hillenoketter told the NY times in 1960 that:
Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.
Here is an excellent video summarizing the UFO problem up in 10 minutes, give by UFO researcher Richard Dolan, given at the citizens hearing on disclosure organized by Steven Basset. It was a conference that gathered academicians, high ranking military and political personnel from around the world. I’ve used it multiple times in my articles so forgive me if you’ve already seen it.
Do UFOs = Extraterrestrial Craft?
Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, ETs, etc. . . . They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wishful thinking. – Theodore C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
UFO doesn’t necessarily mean extraterrestrial, but, as with all of the evidence that presented itself prior to the disclosure of their existence, we have similar evidence and a great deal of information to believe that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is a possible explanation for some of these UFOs. A few years ago, you were branded a ‘conspiracy theorist’ for believing that UFOs are real. Today, more than half of the American population believes in their existence, and this was before dozens of governments decided to disclose their existence. A simple google search of the latest polls will show you this statistic.
This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified. – Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (source)
Both NASA astronauts and high-ranking military personnel have told us that we are not alone, and that governments are aware of several different extraterrestrial races. It wasn’t long ago when Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Defence Minister stated that the government knows of at least four, or the Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon told us that he has been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we are not alone, and that ‘they’ have been visiting us for years. (source)
There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.– Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)
Perhaps it’s stories like the one that came out of Zimbabwe decades ago, where Harvard professor John Mack, heavily sponsored by Lawrence Rockefeller, uncovered a case of more than 60 school children witnessing a large craft landing with alien beings emerging from it. Perhaps it’s the fact that hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people have reported supposed encounters with extraterrestrial beings, either forced, friendly, or ‘unfriendly,’ or perhaps it’s the implant phenomenon.
The list as to why the extraterrestrial hypothesis is plausible is a very long one, just as with the UFO phenomenon and the validity of it before it became mainstream, the reality of the extraterrestrial hypothesis is also very plausible, and based on my 10 + years of research, 100% definite. As former NASA astronaut and Princeton Physics professor Brian O’leary told the world, “there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.” (source)
It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries. -Herman Oberth, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics (source)
Even in the mainstream, scientists have told the world that we are not alone, that the probability for that possibility is next to zero, and that extraterrestrial life will most likely be discovered within the next couple of years.
Here is another video that I’ve used dozens of times, but I just want to get the point across that there is strong evidence for the extraterrestrial hypothesis, despite the fact that some believe it is weak.
What Will Happen When The World Finds Out We Are Not Alone?
The question is not if, it’s when.
We’ve been bombarded with alien propaganda for decades, and now, the topic is being taken more seriously by the mainstream, and people within the public eye. Hilary Clinton is a great example, as she is getting mainstream coverageregarding her willingness to ‘find out the truth.’ Even the head of her current presidential campaign, Jon Podesta, is a big advocate for UFO disclosure.
But this is confusing, given the fact that a number of government and military officials worldwide have been telling us the truth for decades. Why is truth only truth when mainstream media, or a person of extreme popularity within the public eye brings it up? This is a problem. When a big event happens, like 9/11, or, let’s say, an official announcement about the extraterrestrial presence, the worldwide population will be glued to the TV screen awaiting an explanation, without questioning it. I would be cautious of any information we receive from western governments that comes in the form of a major announcement.
We’ve seen deception on a number of different topics, from the ‘war on drugs’ to the ‘war on terror,’ so don’t expect something like this to be any different. Mainstream media like sot take real events and twist our perception regarding what’s going on behind them.
That being said, when we do find out, en masse, that we are not alone, there are so many questions to ask. The mere existence of these UFOs without the alien hypothesis even being contemplated brings up questions of science. How are they moving the way they do? They perform maneuvers that no known aircraft can. They tend to stop on a dime and hover, what type of propulsion systems are they using?
It’s certainly not the burning of fossil fuels. Who are they? Where do they come from? What else do they know? How do they get here? What about religion? What about panic? What about all of the years of secrecy and the questions that have been asked and answered by those keeping secrets? As you can imagine, there will be multiple questions, and you can bet that the world will come to a standstill in search of answers to their questions. It’s a topic that will touch all aspects of humanity, and humanity would be changed forever.
There is another way, whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way. – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of physics, University of Nebraska. (source)
Perhaps the realization that we are not alone, and eventual open contact with extraterrestrials can help us answer questions about ourselves. Of course, contact is already happening, just not on a massive scale.
Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off. – John Mack (source)
It seems to me that we are beyond the ‘panic’ point. I personally believe that we’ve been visited for a very long time, and if anything like that was to ever happen, it would have already taken place.
To really learn more about this topic, one has to be interested in it. To find out the why, whats, and the where, one can do the research and come up with educated guesses without ever being sure. It’s a deep topic that has branched into so many other areas of our existence: to faith, to health, and technology, all the way to our socio-economic structure and the way we decide to do things here on our planet.
The main point here is that people are going to have questions, and we are going to need teachers other than those who have been using mainstream media to dish out lies to the masses in order to fulfill some sort of agenda.
It will no doubt be interesting to see, in fact, it’s already taking place on an individual level. Slowly but surely.
Some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial (ET) vehicles. Some of those extraterrestrial vehicles actually have ET crews, and some of those ET crews catch and release humans. — Dr. Don Donderi, a retired McGill University Professor of 40 years in the Department of Psychology(source)
There are certain UFO-themed cases that – for me, at least – really stand out when it comes to the matter of demonstrating the reality of the phenomenon. The following is a perfect example. The genesis of the story dates back to 1949; to say that it’s a saga of incredible proportions is right on the money. On October 26, 1991, the late J.R. Oliver wrote to UFO author/investigator Tim Good and related an amazing story. At the time, I was working on my first book, A Covert Agenda, and, on December 4, 1991, Tim sent me a copy of Oliver’s letter – thinking that I would find it interesting, which I most certainly did. Unfortunately, by the time that I wrote to Oliver, he had passed away. His wife, however, very generously gave me permission to use the account of her late husband, and which makes for fascinating reading. Oliver began…
“In August 1949, in order to test the updated air defences of England against attack, Operation Bulldog was launched. Operation Bulldog’s attacking forces consisted of aircraft of the Benelux countries supported by U.S. air squadrons based on the continent. Flying from various airfields in Holland, France, Belgium and Germany, their objective was to attack London and other prime targets in southern and midland England, without being officially ‘downed’ by fighter aircraft brought into action by the defensive network of Fighter Command.
“The radar defense chain extended from Land’s End, along the south coast and up to the north of Scotland, overlapping at all heights from sea level to about 100,000 feet. Even so long ago, it was almost impossible to fly a glider across the Channel without it being plotted. The exercise ran for fifteen days and was structured in such a way that the technical resources and personnel of the defensive screen were stretched to the limit.”
Oliver continued as follows: “I was, at the time, a radar operator AC1, stationed at RAF Sandwich in Kent, a Ground Control Interception station, used to verbally direct fighter aircraft onto target aircraft by means of radar guidance and radio transmission. In conjunction with neighbouring radar stations, our function, especially during Bulldog, was a busy one. As can be appreciated, air and sea traffic in the vicinity of the Channel tended to be heavier than in other areas of the UK and this reflected in the general high performance of radar stations in that area. All personnel at RAF Sandwich were fully skilled and right on top of their job. Two watches were kept, A and B, on alternate twelve-hour shifts for the duration of Bulldog. About a week into the exercise, after a few hours of being busy, we were stood down, about midnight. Things had gone slack and ‘Group’ had advised is that we could take a break. This was in the normal run of things during the exercise and except for one radar operator to keep general watch and one other to man the PBX, there was a general move into the small canteen across the corridor.”
It wasn’t long at all before something very weird occurred (and that’s putting it mildly, to say the least…) as Oliver noted in his letter: “Within about fifteen minutes, the PBX operator came in, approached the Duty Controller and advised him that Bethe first to see the contact and my plot was the first to go on the plot board. As other operators took their positions, more plots were called out concerning position of the object and its height. The object was flying roughly parallel with the south coast, from west to east. Reaching a point out to see off the ‘heel’ of Kent, it abruptly turned north and as it approached the Thames estuary we passed it on to Martlesham radar, with whom we had been in contact via the PBX link, and whose radar area impinged on our own. Shortly after, we lost contact with it, due to the limit of our own radar range.”
The Happidrome at Sandwich, Type 14 radar base to the left of the two huts.
Oliver then noted something even more incredible: “It was a simple matter to assess the speed of the object from the times and distances between plots and its height was directly read from our Type 13 radar, designed specifically to read the height of any aircraft within its range. Flying at close to 50,000 feet, the air speed of the object we had observed and plotted in accordance with RAF standard procedures was assessed at very nearly 3,000 miles per hour [italics mine].”
What was the true nature of the object tracked by multiple military installations back in 1949? Could it have been a brazen penetration of British airspace by the Russians? A glitch on numerous radar screens? Or something even stranger? In part-2 of this article – “The Mother Of All UFOs?” – you will see how and why the “something even stranger” angle is almost certainly the correct one…
Part-1 of this article introduced you to the incredible story of the late J.R. Oliver. He was a man who, in 1949, was involved in a sensational UFO encounter at the height of a U.K. military exercise code-named Operation Bulldog. In a letter sent to UFO researcher Tim Good in 1991 (and which Tim copied to me, and that Oliver’s widow generously let me publish), Oliver revealed that at the height of the operation a definitive UFO was tracked on radar by the staff of multiple military installations in the U.,K. It was a UFO that was estimated to have been flying close to 3,000 miles per hour. With that said, let’s now continue with what else Oliver had to say about the UFO encounter and the UFO itself:
“The general consensus regarding its size, among the very experienced radar personnel engaged in the operations, was that the object offered an echo similar to that of a large passenger or freighter surface vessel, something in the region of 15,000 or 20,00 tons [italics mine]. Word filtered down that on approaching Bempton radar in Yorkshire, the object suddenly increased speed and headed directly upwards, vanished off-screen at about 100,000 feet.” That was hardly the end of the story, however. In fact, there was more to come. Much more.
Back to Oliver: “Naturally, there was quite a bit of a buzz about this, especially as at that time speeds in excess of the speed of sound were just not on. Neither were aircraft the size of liners. The airspeed record at that time stood at 606.36 mph and the largest aircraft in general use was probably the USAAF Superfortress, which lumbered along at about 350 mph. At our usual relief time ‘B’ Watch stood down and went to breakfast and bed at the domestic site at Stonar House. We were awakened from our watch slumbers by Sergeant Platt and assembled in front of Stonar House, with our Sergeant Belcher, Sergeant Hatter, and various minor NCOs [Non-Commissioned Officers] in attendance, for an address by Squadron Leader Mundy.”
Oliver went on to reveal what, exactly, Squadron Leader Mundy had to say about this extraordinary situation: “He reminded us of our duties as serving members of the RAF and the requirements of the OSA [Official Secrets Act] and to forget especially the odd circumstances of the past night and not to mention same to anyone not connected to the RAF. Going on watch that evening we found that the Duty Watch Book, normally only replaced when completely full, which recorded every air engagement, every PBX message, every official order by the watch-keeping officer, made during every official part of previous watches, including the previous night’s activities, as an official Watch Book is required to do…had gone [italics mine]. Replaced by a brand new shining Duty Watch Book. I wonder why? Removing a half empty Watch Book was unheard of, during exercises such as Bulldog especially.”
Oliver continued with his account: “The rest of the exercise took its natural course and about a month later my service with the RAF ended. Whether there were any further developments regarding this incident I do not know but it seems likely that evidence of its happening must be on file somewhere. This incident was observed by such a large and highly trained audience, its progress so well documented and meticulously recorded and, no doubt, the technical aspects so well scrutinized by top-ranking experts that the official documentation of its occurrence would settle the UFO controversy permanently.”
Oliver’s final words: “All aspects of Operation Bulldog were due to be analysed in great depth in order to bring our defence against possible nuclear attack to the highest level. There is no doubt that the incident I have described, totally beyond the expectations of the organizing authorities as it must have been, would receive the closest scrutiny and that many opinions must have been placed on record. In addition to the personnel directly involved in the tracking of the object, it is highly likely that a good many people must have gained knowledge of this occurrence and thereof proof of it happening may not be too far in hiding.”
Despite Mr. Oliver’s hope that records on the affair were preserved and might one day surface, such a thing has not happened. At least, not yet it hasn’t. Back in 1995, I spent a few days at the U.K.’s National Archives, and, while I did find some records on Operation Bulldog – some declassified and others withheld – the records on that massive craft that penetrated British airspace and prompted a hasty cover-up of the evidence were nowhere to be found. Perhaps, now – in light of all the data provided in parts 1 and 2 of this article – it’s time for someone else to try and dig out the truth (and the files) of the Operation Bulldog-UFO affair of 1949. Just maybe they will finally surface and we may gain more insight into the early years of the UFO phenomenon.
IN RUSSIA A MAN REPORTS TO THE POLICE A HUGE SPACESHIP LANDED WITH 7 METERS HIGH ALIENS
IN RUSSIA A MAN REPORTS TO THE POLICE A HUGE SPACESHIP LANDED WITH 7 METERS HIGH ALIENS
Resident of Vodniki village situated on the outskirts of Krasnodar, went to the police and reported the landing of an alien landing. The police officer said that the terms of current police legislation have to make a report. They went to the scene and found no trace of beings in the local.
"We are required to respond to all calls coming from residents of Krasnodar Yes, I was there, but the details can not disclose before the end of the test." - quoted a divisional commissioner portal Alexei Grechishkina senior "Kuban news". Meanwhile, the journalists edition managed to read the text of the service report that was directed to the head of the district of Prikubansky County police department Ivan Bondarev. The newspaper reported that a resident of the village Vodniki was on the road in the district of Krasnodar Vitaminkombinata about 4:00 on June 2 and in the forest belt near the spacecraft where he made an alien landing- "7 beings in silver with height of about 7 meters. "
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MYSTERIOUS: ‘WOW! SIGNAL’ CASE BACK OPEN AS SCIENTISTS RULE OUT COMET THEORY!
MYSTERIOUS: ‘WOW! SIGNAL’ CASE BACK OPEN AS SCIENTISTS RULE OUT COMET THEORY!
The universe is filled with mysteries and as the curious humans that we are, we must seek answers about the nature of our vast cosmos, which will eventually tell us who we really are and why do we even exist.
One mystery that is raising countless questions among space enthusiasts is the famous Wow! signal. The signal was picked up on August 15 1977, by astronomer Jerry R Ehman using SETI’s Big Ear radio telescope.
This Wow! signal mystery was said to have been solved recently as scientists checked the high possibility of it having originated from the collision of two comets, the 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2.
But the other half isn't to convinced of that claim, even the author of this find suspects that it's something else entirely ruling out the Comet theory.
What triggered the mysterious Wow! signal? Was is the work of extraterrestrial entities?
UFO RECORDED AT BASEBALL GAME SPLITS INTO SIX UFOS AND HOVERS
UFO RECORDED AT BASEBALL GAME SPLITS INTO SIX UFOS AND HOVERS
The background chatter sells me, the people are clearly reacting to what's apparently being shown on camera. What a trip! Those can't be flares, they move up at some points? Wild video. What do you think? What kind of object is that?
A New 3D Printed Bionic Hand Could Help Two Million Worldwide
A New 3D Printed Bionic Hand Could Help Two Million Worldwide
Daniel Omar, now 14, was fitted with a 3D-printed prosthetic arm after losing both arms during an aerial attack in Sudan. Photograph: Not Impossible/Project Daniel
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Open Bionics have produced a 3D printed bionic hand that could benefit thousands with its modifiability, low turnaround time, and cost-effectiveness. If the clinical trial proves that the hand is safe and effective, it could radically change prosthetic care.
A new, affordable, 3D printed bionic hand that could transform the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) has begun its first clinical trial in England. BBC’s coverage focuses on a girl called Tilly Lockey who is one of the 10 children taking part in the trial.
The arm is built by Open Bionics, based near Bristol, with the goal to create “low-cost bionic hands” to help the estimated two million hand amputees worldwide. Their hands can be created in just over 42 hours and cost around £3,000 ($3,360).
The hands can also be modified to the wearer’s preference. Most endearingly, the company has shown child-specific styles, which them look like Star Wars or Iron Man hands. As Tilly says in the video, when people see it “They’re like ‘oh my gosh that’s a cool hand!'”
These cheap, functional, and quick-to-produce bionic arms have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of those missing arms in Britain. If the clinical trial is successful, they will be rolled out as part of the free NHS service, improving thousands of lives.
The future of bionics looks bright as we see more limb replacements that are miles ahead of the crude hooks of the past. At the most advanced end of the spectrum, there are even arms that can translate thoughts into prosthetic movements, and prosthetics that come equipped with a full technological arsenal — including a drone, interactive screen, and USB port.
Orthopaedic technician Moses Kaweesa assembles a 3D-printed artificial leg at CoRSU hospital in Uganda.
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Researchers advocate statistical approach to search for Earth-like planets
Researchers advocate statistical approach to search for Earth-like planets
A team of astronomers at the University of Chicago and Grinnell College seeks to change the way scientists approach the search for Earth-like planets orbiting stars other than the sun. They favor taking a statistical comparative approach in seeking habitable planets and life beyond the solar system.
The lighter green indicates optimistic regions of the habitable zone and the darker green denotes more conservative limits.
Credit: University of Oklahoma
"The nature of proof should not be: 'Can we point at a planet and say, yes or no, that's the planet hosting alien life," said Jacob Bean, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UChicago. "It's a statisical exercise. What can we say for an ensemble of planets about the frequency of the existence of habitable environments, or the frequency of the existence of life on those planets?"
The standard approach of researching exoplanets, or planets that orbit distant stars, has entailed studying small numbers of objects to determine if they have the right gases in the appropriate quantities and ratios to indicate the existence of life. But in a recent paper with co-authors Dorian Abbot and Eliza Kempton in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Bean describes the need "to think about the techniques and approaches of astronomy in this game—not as planetary scientists studying exoplanets."
"Nature has provided us with huge numbers of planetary systems," said Kempton, an assistant professor of physics at Grinnell College in Iowa. "If we survey a large number of planets with less detailed measurements, we can still get a statistical sense for how prevalent habitable environments are in our galaxy. This would give us a basis for future, more detailed surveys."
Kempton and Bean attest to the challenges of making detailed observations of a potentially Earth-like planet. Together they have previously studied the super-Earth known as GJ 1214b, an exoplanet with a mass greater than Earth's but less than gas giants such as Neptune and Uranus. GJ 1214b turned out to be quite cloudy, which prevented them from determining the composition of its atmosphere.
"A large statistical study will allow us to look at many planets," Kempton said. "If any single object proves to be particularly challenging to observe, like GJ 1214b, that won't be a major loss to the observing program on the whole."
Kepler observatory a game-changer
The inspiration for the paper stemmed from Bean's membership on the Science and Technology Definition Team that is assessing the potential for a new space telescope, NASA's proposed Large UV/Optical/Infrared Survey (LUVOIR).
One of LUVOIR's scientific priorities is the search for Earth-like planets. During one team meeting, Bean and his colleagues listed all the properties of a potentially habitable exoplanet that they need to measure and how they would go about obtaining the data. Given the current state of technology, Bean concluded that it's unlikely scientists will be able to confirm an individual exoplanet as suitable for life or whether life is actually there.
Nevertheless, astronomers have gathered an impressive haul of exoplanetary data from NASA's Kepler space observatory, which has operated since 2009.
"Kepler completely changed the game," Bean said. "Instead of talking about a few planets or a few tens of planets, all of a sudden we had a few thousand planet candidates. They were planet candidates because Kepler couldn't definitely prove that the signal it was seeing was due to planets."
The standard approach has been to take additional observations for each candidate to rule out possible false positive scenarios, or to detect the planet with a second technique.
"That's very slow going. One planet at a time, a lot of different observations," Bean noted. But an alternative is to make statistical calculations for the probability of false positives among these thousands of exoplanet candidates. That new approach led directly to a good understanding of the frequency of exoplanets of different sizes. For example, scientists now can say that the frequency of super-Earth-type planets is 15 percent, plus or minus 5 percent.
Role of spectroscopy
Spectroscopic studies play a key role in characterizing exoplanets. This involves determining the composition of a planetary atmosphere by measuring its spectra, the distinctive radiation that gases absorb at their own particular wavelengths. Bean and his co-authors suggest focusing on what can be learned from measuring the spectra of a large ensemble of terrestrial exoplanets.
Spectroscopy may, for example, help exoplanetary researchers verify a phenomenon called the silicate weathering feedback, which acts as a planetary thermostat. Through silicate weathering, the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide varies according to geologic processes. Volcanoes emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but rain and chemical reactions that occur in rocks and sediments also remove the gas from the atmosphere.
Rising temperatures would put more water vapor into the atmosphere, which then rains out, increasing the amount of dissolved carbon dioxide that chemically interacts with the rocks. This loss of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has a cooling effect. But as a planet begins to cool, rock weathering slows and the amount of carbon dioxide gradually builds from its volcanic sources, which causes rising temperatures.
Global-scale observations suggest that Earth has experienced silicate-weathering feedback. But attempts to verify that the process is operating today on the scale of individual river basins has proven difficult.
"The results are very noisy. There's no clear signal," Abbot said. "It would be great to have another independent confirmation from exoplanets."
All three co-authors are interested in fleshing out the details of experiments they proposed in their paper. Abbot plans to calculate how much carbon dioxide would be necessary to keep a planet habitable at a range of stellar radiation intensities while changing various planetary parameters. He also will assess how well a future instrument would be able to measure the gas.
"Then we will put this together to see how many planets we would need to observe to detect the trend indicating a silicate-weathering feedback," Abbot explained.
Bean and Kempton, meanwhile, are interested in detailing what a statistical census of biologically significant gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide and ozone could reveal about planetary habitability.
"I'd like to get a better understanding of how some of the next-generation telescopes will be able to distinguish statistical trends that indicate habitable—or inhabited—planets," Kempton said.
More information: Jacob L. Bean et al. A Statistical Comparative Planetology Approach to the Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets and Life Beyond the Solar System, The Astrophysical Journal (2017). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa738a
An alleged photo of a flying saucer landing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is genuine, according to William Tompkins, a retired aerospace engineer who had a four decade career with leading U.S. corporations up until 1984.
Tompkins career began with service as a Naval Intelligence operative, from 1942 to 1946, where he provided intelligence briefings to select U.S. aerospace corporations about antigravity spacecraft being secretly developed in Nazi Germany.He has supplied several documentssupporting his claims that he was assigned such a covert mission and operated out of Naval Air Station, San Diego.
Tompkins discussed the photo in a radio interview on May 4, and claimed that it was taken from one of what were regular incidents on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers – landings by friendly “Nordic extraterrestrial UFOs”:
It’s one of quite a number of Nordic extraterrestrial UFOs that have landed on US Navy aircraft carriers. And what you’re looking at . . . You’re looking at it from the bottom of the bridge of the carrier because those older ones were much further forward than the photographs you’ve got later on.
Tompkins explains how the extraterrestrial craft would land, and transport the admiral of the naval battle group up to the mothership in space to hold discussions with commanders of a “Nordic Space Navy”.
It’s a long story. They came from one of their starships. So they came down to talk to the admiral that’s the commander on that particular battle group. And they did their other program and their meetings and our admiral left with the captain taking over the ship and some other people and they took off in that vehicle and they went back out to the mothership. And, of course, they brought them back later.
Tompkins emphasized the regularity of such landings due to the small chance they could be witnessed while the ships were at sea:
Like I’m just saying, there’s a whole story of all of these . . . because . . . The UFOs landed on our aircraft carriers many times. Okay? It’s nice because nobody can see them doing it.
On the right side of the photo are the words “Official U.S. Navy Photo” suggesting that someone linked to the Navy had arranged for its release into the public arena.
Another one of the May 4 radio guests, Frank Chille, described how he got first got a copy of the photo, and what he knew about it belonging to the U.S. Navy:
There’s a little bit of a side story on the disk that landed on the aircraft carrier. Believe it or not, that original photograph was shown to me by Graham Bethune more than 15 years ago… And I held it in my hands. He allowed me to make a copy of it. It was on very think paper and on the flip side it said, “U.S. Navy, top-secret, eyes only, 1955”.
Graham Bethune was a U.S. Navy Commander, now deceased, who had after his retirement, released some of the most famous photographs in UFOlogy. His photographs from the 1989 Nashville, Tennessee sighting, for example, are among the best ever released of actual flying saucer craft.
Bethune gained access to many Navy photographs during his distinguished military career which included 12 years as “VIP Transport Plane Commander” and six years with the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics.
He subsequently worked for years to help disclose UFO related information, and there is no reason to believe he would fabricate the photo of a UFO landing on an aircraft carrier.
Chille described the circumstances under which Bethune allowed him to make a copy 15 years ago, and what happened when he first shared it with Tompkins in May 2016:
And Graham always had some incredible photographs, but he let me make a photograph of that, but he never told me the background on it. When I told Bill [Tompkins] about it, he said, “Frank.” He says, “can you get the photograph to me?” He says, “I think I know the story behind it.” And he got the photograph today and he said this dovetails right into his book, starting on page two.
On pages two to three of his book, Selected by Extraterrestrials, which was published in December 2015, Tompkins describes an incident very similar to that depicted in the photo.
A large flying saucer hovered over the aircraft carrier group led by the USS Coral Sea. 5000 Navy personnel saw the hovering flying saucer according to Tompkins. He next described telepathic communications being established between the commanding officers of the aircraft carrier battle group and the hovering flying saucer, before ending his story.
In the May 4 radio interview, Tompkins confirmed that the photo was of the USS Coral Sea (CV-43), similar to what he had described in Selected by Extraterrestrials, prior to him seeing Bethune’s photo:
Actually, the aircraft you’re seeing there on the flight deck, those are A-6s, which are an attack-type of aircraft… And that ship is the USS Coral Sea.
The Grumman A-6 Intruder fighter aircraft came into Naval service in 1963, which suggests the photo was taken on or after 1963. The 1955 date Chille recalled on the back of the photo, as an astute reader pointed out in a comment to an earlier version of this article, “would not refer to the date of the photo, but would refer to the date of the classification guide which established the level of the document being stamped.”
Tompkins confirmation that the photo released by Commander Bethune to Chille is genuine is highly significant. It reveals that the U.S. Navy was actively cooperating with a Nordic extraterrestrial race as early as 1963.
Furthermore, Tompkins claims that during his work from 1951 to 1963 at a secretive think tank at Douglas Aircraft Company called Advanced Design, he was being assisted by two Nordic female extraterrestrials who were posing as ordinary secretaries. They were covertly assisting him in designing kilometer long space craft that would be later built for the Solar Warden space program in the 1980’s.
Consequently, during the decades it took for the design and construction of secret space battle groups, it appears that the U.S. Navy was working closely in gathering intelligence on the operations and missions of Nordic extraterrestrial space battle groups.
Tompkins also says that the Nordics were in locked in a galaxy wide conflict with Reptilian extraterrestrials, who had allied themselves with Nazi Germany during World War II, and assisted the Germans in building a secret space program in Antarctica.
The photo of a flying saucer landing on an aircraft carrier, if based on a genuine incident, would be hard evidence that the U.S. Navy has since the 1960’s, been actively cooperating with a group of friendly “Nordic” extraterrestrials which had identified the Navy as allies in a wider galactic conflict.
[Update 5/1916 – Further research has shown the flying saucer landing on aircraft carrier photo is a doctored version of an April 1975 photo of the USS Roosevelt. While the photo is doctored, it may be based on a genuine incident. More details here. Article has been revised accordingly.]
[Update 5/13/16 – A reader has provided a comment that answers the apparent discrepancy between the date on the back of the photo (1955) and the naval service of the A-6 aircraft (1963-1997). The date refers to the Navy classification guide used to classify the photo, not when the photo was taken. Article has been revised accordingly.]
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Filers Files by George Filer
Filers Files by George Filer
Published on Jun 21, 2015
Filer’s Files. These weekly intelligence digests of UFO sightings around the world and space that his sent to out with 11,000 + email readers each week.
The Drake Equation, a mathematical formula for the probability of finding life or advanced civilizations in the universe. Credit: University of Rochester
Is there life out there in the Universe? That is a question that has plagued humanity long before we knew just how vast the Universe was – i.e. before the advent of modern astronomy. Within the 20th century – thanks to the development of modern telescopes, radio astronomy, and space observatories – multiple efforts have been made in the hopes of finding extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI).
And yet, humanity is still only aware of one intelligent civilization in the Universe – our own. And until we actually discover an alien civilization, the best we can do is conjecture about the likelihood of their existence. That’s where the famous Drake Equation – named after astronomer Dr. Frank Drake – comes into play. Developed in the 1960s, this equation estimates the number of possible civilizations out there based on a number of factors.
Background:
During the 1950s, the concept of using radio astronomy to search for signals that were extra-terrestrial in origin was becoming widely-accepted within the scientific community. The idea of listening for extra-terrestrial radio communications had been suggested as far back as the late 19th century (by Nikolai Tesla), but these efforts were concerned with looking for signs of life on Mars.
Frank Drake standing before his famous equation on a white board. Credit: SETI.org
Then, in September of 1959, Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison (who were both physics professors at Cornell University at the time) published an article in the journal Nature with the title “Searching for Interstellar Communications.” In it, they argued that radio telescopes had become sensitive enough that they could pick up transmissions being broadcast from other star systems.
Specifically, they argued that these messages might be transmitted at a wavelength of 21 cm (1420.4 MHz), the same wavelength of radio emissions by neutral hydrogen. As the most common element in the universe, they argued that extra-terrestrial civilizations would see this as a logical frequency at which to make radio broadcasts that could be picked up by other civilizations.
Seven months later, Frank Drake made the first systematic SETI survey at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Known as Project Ozma, this survey relied on the observatory’s 25-meter dish to monitor Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti – two nearby Sun-like stars – at frequencies close to 21 cm for six hours a day, between April and July of 1960.
Though unsuccessful, the survey piqued the interest of the scientific and SETI communities. It was followed shortly thereafter by a meeting at the Green Bank facility in 1961, where the subjects of SETI and searching for radio signals of extra-terrestrial origin were discussed. In preparation for this meeting, Drake prepared the equation that would come to bear his name. As he said of the equation’s creation:
“As I planned the meeting, I realized a few day[s] ahead of time we needed an agenda. And so I wrote down all the things you needed to know to predict how hard it’s going to be to detect extraterrestrial life. And looking at them it became pretty evident that if you multiplied all these together, you got a number, N, which is the number of detectable civilizations in our galaxy. This was aimed at the radio search, and not to search for primordial or primitive life forms.”
The meeting, which included such luminaries as Carl Sagan, was commemorated with a commemorative plaque that is still in the hall of the Green Bank Observatory today.
The 85-foot (26 m) Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope at NRAO used in Project Ozma. Credit: Z22/WIkipedia Commons
The Formula:
The formula for the Drake Equation is as follows:
N = R* x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L
Whereas N is the number of civilizations in our galaxy that we might able to communicate with, R* is the average rate of star formation in our galaxy, fp is the fraction of those stars which have planets, neis the number of planets that can actually support life, fl is the number of planets that will develop life, fiis the number of planets that develop intelligent life, fc is the number civilizations that would develop transmission technologies, and L is the length of time that these civilizations would have to transmit their signals into space.
Limits and Criticism:
Naturally, the Drake Equation has been subject to some criticism over the years, largely because a lot of the values it contains are assumed. Granted, some of the values it takes into account are easy enough to calculate, like the rate of star formation in the Milky Way. There are an estimated 200 – 400 billion stars within our Milky Way, and modern estimates say that there between 1.65 ± 0.19 and 3 new star form every year.
Assuming that our galaxy represents the average, and given that that there are as many as 2 trillion galaxies in the observable Universe (current estimates based on Hubble data), that means that there are as many as 1.5 to 6 trillion new stars being added to the Universe with every passing year! However, some of the other values are subject to a great deal of guess work.
For example, estimates on how many stars will have a system of planets has changed over time. Currently, it is estimated that the Milky Way contains 100 billion planets, which works out to about 50% of its stars having a planet of their own. Furthermore, those stars that have multiple planets will likely have one or two that lies within their habitable zone (aka. “Goldilocks Zone”) – where liquid water can exist on their surfaces.
Now let’s assume that 100% of planets located within a habitable zone will be able develop life in some form, that at least 1% of those life-supporting planets will be able to give rise to intelligent species, that 1% of these will be able to communicate, and that they will able to do so for a period of about 10,000 years. If we run those numbers through the Drake Equation, we end up with a value of 10.
In other words, there are possibly 10 civilizations in the Milky Way at any time capable of sending out signals that we could detect. But of course, the values used for four parameters there – fl, fi, fcand L – were entirely assumed. Without any real data to go by, there’s no real way to know how many alien civilizations could really be out there. There could just be 1 in the entire Universe (us), or millions in every galaxy!
The Fermi Paradox:
Beyond the issue of assumed values, the most pointed criticism of the Drake Equation tend to emphasize the argument put forth by physicist Enrico Fermi, known as the Fermi Paradox. This argument arose in 1950 as a result of conversation between Fermi and some colleagues while he was working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. When the subject of UFOs and ETI came up, Fermi famously asked, “Where is everybody?”
This simple question summarized the conflict that existed between arguments that emphasized scale and the high probability of life emerging in the Universe with the complete lack of evidence that any such life exists. While Fermi was not the first scientists to ask the question, his name came to be associated with it due to his many writings on the subject.
In short, the Fermi Paradox states that, given the sheer number of stars in the Universe (many of which are billions of years older than our own), the high-probability that even a small fraction would have planets capable of giving rise to intelligent species, the likelihood that some of them would develop interstellar travel, and the time it would take to travel from one side of our galaxy to other (even allowing for sub-luminous speeds), humanity should have found some evidence of intelligent civilizations by now.
Naturally, this has given rise to many hypotheses as to how advanced civilizations could exist within our Universe but remain undetected. They include the possibility that intelligent life is extremely rare, that humanity is an early arrival to the Universe, that they do not exist (aka. the Hart-Tipler Conjecture), that they are in a state of slumber, or that we are simply looking in the wrong places.
The “Great Filter” Hypothesis:
But perhaps the best known explanation for why no signs of intelligence life have been found yet is the “Great Filter” hypothesis. This states that since that no extraterrestrial civilizations have been so far, despite the vast number of stars, then some step in the process – between life emerging and becomes technologically advanced – must be acting as a filter to reduce the final value.
According to this view, either it is very hard for intelligent life to arise, the lifetime of such civilizations is short, or the time they have to reveal their existence is short. Here too, various explanations have been offered to explain what the form the filter could take, which include Extinction Level Events (ELEs), the inability of life to create a stable environment in time, environmental destruction. and/or technology running amok (some of which we fear might happen to us!)
Alas, the Drake Equation has endured for decades for the very same reason that if often comes under fire. Until such time that humanity can find evidence of intelligent life in the Universe, or has ruled out the possibility based on countless surveys that actually inspect other star systems up close, we won’t be able to answer the question, “Where is everybody?”
As with many other cosmological mysteries, we’ll be forced to guess about what we don’t know based on what we do (or think we do). As astronomers study stars and planets with newer instruments, they might eventually be able to work out just how accurate the Drake Equation really is. And if our recent cosmological and exoplanet-hunting efforts have shown us anything, it is that we are just beginning to scratch the surface of the Universe at large!
In the coming years and decades, our efforts to learn more about extra-solar planets will expand to include research of their atmospheres – which will rely on next-generation instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope and the European Extremely-Large Telescope array. These will go a long way towards refining our estimates on how common potentially habitable worlds are.
In the meantime, all we can do is look, listen, wait and see…
“This survey will enable new lines of research in exoplanet study, which looks at planets outside our solar system.”
NASA
The discoveries will come from the team at the Kepler space telescope which looks for habitable worlds outside the Solar System.
The telescope searches for Earth-sized planets in the “habitable zones” of nearby stars – and has found thousands of planets which could harbour life.
Speculation is mounting about the announcement by NASA – which is set for 3pm on Monday, June 19.
NASA
NASA: The Kepler space telescope is constantly searching for alien life
GETTY
LIFE: Alien planets outside our solar system could be teaming with life
Last year, NASA announced the incredible find of nine planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1.
Three of the planets were believed to be in the star’s habitable zone and capable of harbouring life.
Scientists are launching a new satellite – the James Webb Telescopes – to study seven of the new worlds.
A spokesman for NASA said: "The latest Kepler catalog of planet candidates was created using the most sophisticated analyses yet, yielding the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date.
"This survey will enable new lines of research in exoplanet study, which looks at planets outside our solar system.”
Searches for alien life in our solar system have been focused on Mars, Venus and the moons of Saturn and Jupiter.
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UFO emerges from strange looking cloud over Colorado
UFO emerges from strange looking cloud over Colorado
A UFO arrived via a portal from a parallel universe? Or there is an explanation for the event happened in the sky over Colorado when out of a clear sky suddenly a UFO appears leaving a strange looking cloud.
Witness states: I went outside to relax and saw a strange cloud shape in the sky. It was unusual so I took a couple of quick pictures with my camera phone.
I do not recall hearing a sonic boom however, it is possible that is why I was drawn to look up. It would not be unreasonable to think this was a plane breaking the sound barrier.
Later when looking at one of the photos I noticed a brown looking object above the cloud. It was either the object that made the cloud or it kinda looks like something may have flown through the cloud in pursuit of what ever made the cloud.
Insect, bird, UFO? I can't tell what it is. Maybe you all can make something of it. Let me know. Mufon case 84360.
Flightradar24 shows NASA’s SOFIA monitoring Yellowstone Super Volcano!
Flightradar24 shows NASA’s SOFIA monitoring Yellowstone Super Volcano!
Currently NASA put’s their SOFIA every day in the air. SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) is built into a converted Boeing 747SP.
SOFIA’s 2.5-meter (8.2-foot)-diameter infrared telescope will make it the world’s largest and most sensitive airborne observatory. Flying at 39,000 to 45,000 feet, it will enable scientific observations that are impossible for even the largest and highest of Earth-based telescopes.
Already four days during sunrise/sunset NASA is monitoring the sun but yesterday, June 12, 2017 flightradar24 shows that they monitoring Yellowstone National Park too.
Remember the Massive Lake of Molten Carbon the size of Mexico recently found under Yellowstone?
The molten carbonate sits beneath Yellowstone National Park, which in and of itself is a super volcano with the power of a massive eruption. The last major eruption was 640,000 years ago at Yellowstone, however if the super volcano did erupt it could cause the US to go into a volcanic winter.
If NASA puts its SOFIA in the air it's important. This Bird of Prey doesn't go 'hunting' unless there is something TO hunt, they watching something, bet on it!
Astronomen breken zich het hoofd over mysterieus ruimtesignaal. Is het dan tóch veroorzaakt door aliens?
Astronomen breken zich het hoofd over mysterieus ruimtesignaal. Is het dan tóch veroorzaakt door aliens?
Een signaal dat in 1977 is opgevangen uit de ruimte is waarschijnlijk veroorzaakt door aliens. Dat zeggen wetenschappers nu, schrijft de Daily Caller.
Dr. Jerry Ehman ontdekte het Wow!-signaal in augustus 1977 met een radiotelescoop. Het signaal was zo bizar dat Ehman het omcirkelde en er ‘Wow!’ bij schreef.
In april publiceerde dr. Antonio Paris van het St. Petersburg College in Florida een studie waarin hij stelde dat het mysterieuze signaal waarschijnlijk afkomstig was van een waterstofwolk rond een komeet.
Extreem sceptisch
Paris claimde het Wow!-signaal te hebben gedebunked, maar SETI-astronomen zeggen nu dat ze extreem sceptisch zijn over zijn uitleg.
“Wij geloven niet dat de kometentheorie het Wow!-signaal kan verklaren,” zei Ehman tegenover nieuwssite Live Science.
Paris kon het oorspronkelijke signaal niet volledig herhalen. “Je zou verwachten dat de bron in drie minuten tijd twee keer doorkomt: een respons die 72 seconden duurt en een tweede respons die na 1,5 minuut volgt,” zei Ehman. “Die tweede hebben we niet gezien.”
Sterkste bewijs
Ehman claimt dat dit alleen kan zijn gebeurd als het signaal werd afgekapt. Een komeet zou zich niet op deze manier gedragen, maar een buitenaardse intelligentie wel.
Wetenschappers zien het Wow!-signaal als het sterkste bewijs voor een hoogontwikkelde buitenaardse beschaving.
Vaak wordt gespeculeerd dat mysterieuze signalen uit de ruimte afkomstig zijn van aliens, maar meestal blijkt de bron een onbekend fenomeen te zijn.
Pulsar
In 1967 ontdekte een student een vreemd radiosignaal dat de naam LGM-1 (little green men) kreeg.
Sommigen dachten een signaal van aliens te hebben opgevangen, maar het bleek uiteindelijk te gaan om de eerste pulsar.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a constant source of conspiracy theories and UFO conjectures. NASA operates a live feed of cameras aboard the ISS, and it seems like a new video appears on YouTube every week purporting to show proof UFOs or a NASA coverup. While most of these turn out to be baseless conjectures or doctored footage, the ISS seems to be the source of some recent somewhat verifiable strangeness. NASA recently detected unknown microbial colonies growing on the walls of the ISS. While some level of biological contamination should be expected on the inside where astronauts’ disgusting human bodies float around stinkin’ up the joint, finding possible life on the outside of the space station is much more unexpected – yet that’s exactly what Russia’s state space agency, Roscosmos, is reporting.
“Definitive proof of alien contact!” says every YouTube UFO channel any time orbital debris or lens flares are seen on ISS live streams.
In 2014, Roscosmos cosmonauts collected cosmic dust samples from the outside of the ISS and analyzed them for any signs of extraterrestrial life. According to Russian state-owned news agency Tass, Roscosmos scientists now believe the samples may contain “biomaterial” that is not of this planet:
The micrometeorites and comet dust that settle on the ISS surface may contain biogenic substance of extra-terrestrial origin in its natural form,. The ISS surface is possibly a unique and easily available collector and keeper of comet substance and, possibly, of biomaterial of extra-terrestrial origin.
Tass explains that the ISS spends much of its time orbiting in the wake of dust streams and other “substance flows” trailing off of the backs of comets, which have been claimed to spread organic and biological material throughout the universe. NASA has yet to issue a comment on the reports. Most likely, any microbial life on the exterior of the space station could be terrestrial in origin and could have come into contact with the space station through incidental means. Still, it’s worth looking into – if Roscosmos actually has found organic material on the exterior of the ISS, that is. Strangely though, another development this week hints that something odd might indeed be going on at the International Space Station.
The ISS had a close encounter this week.
On May 1st this year, commercial aerospace firm SpaceX launched a mysterious spy satellite into orbit on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office. The exact nature and purpose of satellite NROL-76 is unknown, and SpaceX cut the live feed of the satellite’s launch just as the rocket entered its second stage. Sure, spy satellites and commercial rockets launches are relatively commonplace today, but it’s the satellite’s behavior that has skywatchers befuddled.
Looks like SpaceX got itself a cushy defense contract.
According to satellite tracking blog SatTrackCam, the NROL-76 passed within just a few kilometers of the ISS on June 3rd, just outside of its collision avoidance zone. The satellite then circled the ISS before entering its own orbit.
Satellites rarely pass this close to other objects or craft in orbit – especially so soon after their launch.
SatTrackCam’s Marco Langbroek claims that this type of activity is an anomaly, and should certainly attract some suspicion in the international aerospace community:
I am struggling to understand why the NRO allowed this close approach to happen, if it was not intentional. This event was bound to attract attention and that harms the classified character of the mission. It is also an extremely sloppy thing to do because this close an approach to a high profile object like ISS is politically risky. As the ISS is an international cooperation which includes two parties (the United States and the Russian Federation) that are currently geopolitically on an uneasy footing, sending your military payload so close to the ISS as one party is eyebrow raising.
On another satellite tracking site, SatObs.org, Ted Molczan writes that “I am inclined to believe that the close conjunctions between USA 276 and ISS are intentional, but this remains unproven.” The announcement by Roscosmos of possible alien life on the outside of the ISS is unusual given the timing of this satellite fly-by. Could the two be related? Who knows. But put this mysterious development alongside the unexplained nuclear activity being detected in the Arctic and the anomalous “killer” satellite activity seen in Russian satellites, and it’s possible that Cold War 2.0 is already getting interesting.
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On April 11, 2017 a UFO sighting was reported in York County. It is under investigation by the Mutual UFO Network. Sean Heisey, York Daily Record
The universe is a big place.
It is vast beyond our imagination – at least if your imagination is somewhat less active than that wheelchair guy – and it is ever expanding, creating new space for new planets and solar systems and galaxies and strip malls, a kind of cosmic sprawl.
It would be solipsistic of us to believe that we are the only beings in the universe who have built great cities, tamed and then destroyed our environment and domesticated the dog to the point where we exist as a support system for canines. (If aliens ever visit, they will immediately try to talk to our dogs to learn about our culture. The dogs are clearly in charge. I mean, we follow them around and pick up their poop.)
There has to be intelligent life out there somewhere because, as Monty Python once opined, "there's bugger all down here on Earth."
These are notions to ponder as we delve into the news, kind of, of a close encounter of some kind that may have occurred somewhere around here.
According to a report received by the Mutual UFO Network, called MUFON, for short, the person who witnessed it was inside watching TV when the person, who was not identified, saw two bright lights in the distance.
At first, the witness believed it was a new cell tower, but it wasn't. The witness reported to MUFON that the lights did not move for a while, and after a few moments, a smaller light detached from the larger one and hovered below it.
The witness then reported that the larger of two objects, described as a large craft, moved toward the witness and passed, low, over the witness's house. "It was diamond shaped and had a rectangular light underneath it," the witness was quoted as saying. "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."
It hovered and then both things began to move, the witness reported. "When it took off, the small thing that came out of it went straight up," the report continued. "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 reported, "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 for 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 a commercial airplane like I see all the time going toward Harrisburg airport. So the big UFO was really, really big."
So, aliens? Little green men? Are they the kind of docile, kind aliens of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"? Or are they huge tentacled insects bent on world domination and killing off the human race as in "Independence Day"? Or are they the really tall mutes who want to eat us, as featured on "The Twilight Zone"?
Or are these craft part of a fleet of intergalactic airliners that took a wrong turn around Albuquerque?
Who knows?
Well, Bill Weber might know.
Bill Weber is MUFON's chief investigator for Pennsylvania and Delaware, and as such, the report from York was funneled to him. Weber declined to release either the name of the witness or the location of the sighting, saying the organization maintains confidentiality with those who report things like this. The closest city was York was all he would say about it.
He said he has assigned an investigator and will await the results of whatever he comes up with.
Typically, he said, the investigators interview the witness, search the area for corroborating witnesses, review any photographs or video, stuff like that. In some cases, they file Freedom of Information Act requests with the Federal Aviation Administration for radar data and analyze that.
In many cases, he said, there is an explanation for whatever witnesses think they saw. It could be a terrestrial aircraft – as opposed to an extraterrestrial aircraft – or it could be birds or bats, or it could be something else entirely, maybe a drone or something. Some reports are hoaxes and MUFON's investigators can easily debunk them, he said.
Weber estimates that between 80 and 85 percent of the cases the organization investigates conclude with a logical explanation. "It's only about 15 percent that we tend to classify as unknown," he said. That doesn't mean it's an alien craft, only that "we can't figure out what it is."
Among those reports investigators apparently figured out was another from Pennsylvania, reported in 1997 and published on MUFON's website.
It reads: "It was like a spinning top but the bottom was not pointed, lots of multicolored lights, lots of see-through window at top. At least 15 or 20 aliens unlike the standard look, they were half human and half standard look, full bodies, beautiful looking creatures all moving about and communicating whatever. All had the same colored outfits and all the lights constantly moving. All windows seem to be moving or turning separately from the bottom. The bottom then had a long yellow light dropping to the ground and a small stepside Ford or Chevy pickup lowered slowly to the ground and disappeared over the hill ahead and then the UFO disappeared. I followed to find it and could not find it, but at the bottom of the hill daylight stunned me and it was 6:30 a.m. I don’t know where the night went."
Aliens in a pickup truck? Were these some kind of interstellar migrant workers? Are we going to have to build a bigger wall? And what's "standard look"?
Well, we may never know.
Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us? is a rarely seen 1999 documentary on the UFO phenomena.
Reach Mike Argento at 717-771-2046 or at mike@ydr.com.
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UFO Disappears Into Portal Above Colorado?
UFO Disappears Into Portal Above Colorado?
A video that has been viewed millions of times on social media appears to be fake.
CLAIM
A UFO was seen disappearing into a portal over Colorado.
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UNPROVEN
ORIGIN
On 17 April 2017, a video was posted to the Facebook page “I’m From Denver”, showing what appears to be an unidentified flying object. The video, which came with a claim that it was spotted over southern Colorado, was shared more millions of times:
Because the page doesn’t say exactly where in southern Colorado the video was allegedly filmed, we can’t check with local authorities to verify whether residents actually saw something that looked extraterrestrial in the night sky and caused alarm. However because the video shows something rather outlandish happening, one would expect it to have been covered by the local news media — and there are no reports in Colorado matching the description of such a sighting (although the southern Colorado region known as San Luis Valley is an apparent hotspot for UFO sightings).
This video, in fact, didn’t originate in Colorado, but was initially reported in March 2017 with people claiming they had seen it somewhere over Sonora, a Mexican state that touches the United States border:
Humans have no known contact with extraterrestrials; however, we aren’t sure whether the video was computer generated or the result of a light trick. There are tabloid media reports out of Mexico that claim residents saw the object and were frightened by it, but they don’t quote any sources. Meanwhile the use of drones using LEDs to createlightshows (or troll the credulous) is a well-known pastime.
Gabe Hash, a Spanish-language YouTube personality who delves into unexplained phenomena, claimed he could explain the video with the help of two computer-savvy volunteers who were able to recreate the effect in less than a day using a program called Adobe After Effects:
In the video, Hash casts doubt on the idea that the lights seen in the video were real as opposed to computer generated. He says (in Spanish):
The post says that the object was seen by residents. But that’s not true, since there is no other proof besides this video and no official mention of the event. Secondly, the video is only 30 seconds long and nobody is talking while the person is recording it, meaning that it meets all the characteristics of an animation. Most of the video is blurry and as I’ve said below, this is done to camouflage the animation… In conclusion, in our opinion the video is fake and just an animation rendered via computer. Judge for yourselves.
However, since this video is impossible to prove or disprove without knowing more about what and where it is supposed to be, we can only rate it as Unproven.
An artist’s conception of TRAPPIST-1. (Credit: ESO)
If we detect alien life on a planet in the TRAPPIST solar system, there’s a chance they’ve already spread to one or more of the other six planets orbiting this ultra-cool, ultra-tiny star some 40 light-years away.
In May 2016, scientists made headlines when they discovered three, Earth-size, rocky planets (in February scientists announced they found four more) orbiting a red dwarf star that’s roughly the size of Jupiter. Planets in this system huddle around their home star in tightly packed orbits—TRAPPIST-1b circles its star once per day. And since red dwarfs are cooler than our sun, it’s thought that several of these planets could be habitable, despite close proximity to their star.
This tightly packed solar system begs a tantalizing question: Are these planets exchanging life via space rocks? There are theories that life on Earth may have come from Martian rocks. And if that’s the case, Harvard University researchers Mansavi Ligam and Abraham Loeb argue that the odds of the same thing occurring in the TRAPPIST-1 system are magnitudes higher.
Sowing Seeds
The panspermia hypothesis, credited to Big Bang skeptic Fred Hoyle, underlies all of this life-exchanging talk. Basically, it states that asteroids, comets and meteorites laden with microbes crash into virgin planets, and the surviving microbes sow new life. A few years ago, scientist Steven Benner threw out a provocative idea during a geochemistry conference: Perhaps life on Earth began with organisms clinging to rocks from Mars.
Billions of years ago, conditions on Earth were far too hellish for life to take root. But perhaps a major impact sent Martian rocks flying into space on a course toward Earth. The rest, as they say, is history. It’s still a theory, but there are organisms that can survive the ravages of space—ahem, tardigrades.
In a study published Tuesday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ligam and Loeb built a mathematical model, borrowing from theoretical ecology, to see how the panspermia hypothesis might play out in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Based on their analysis, if Mars could send life to Earth, it’s far more likely that the same thing would happen at TRAPPIST-1.
If you boil down the math, their results are intuitive: The distance between two planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system is tens of times less than the distance between Earth and Mars, which increases the efficiency of material exchanges. Thus, there’s a higher chance TRAPPIST planets are throwing life-seeds back and forth.
An Exciting Theory, But a Theory Nonetheless
Of course, there’s no telling what kind of organisms, if any, would be hitching a ride on TRAPPIST-1 rocks, so it isn’t possible to know if TRAPPIST organisms would survive the trip. Their model is also very simplified, because we just don’t know much about TRAPPIST-1. When did the planets settle into their orbits? Are there a sufficient number of meteorites slamming into planets to launch life-seeding rocks through space (a.k.a. cause spallation)? These are just a few Ligam and Loeb raise in their work.
Looking forward, we first need to determine if life indeed exists in TRAPPIST-1. Telescopes that will be launched in the coming years will be able to probe planets’ atmospheres in the system to detect biosignatures associated with life as we know it on Earth. Scientists could also search for “red edge” spectral signals that hint at the presence of vegetation.
If life exists, researchers could then theoretically verify the panspermia hypothesis, as well. If “red edge” signals are the same on various TRAPPIST-1 planets, that would indicate life sprung forth from a singular source.
Life as we know it relies on “left-handed” amino acids and right-handed sugars, for example. If organisms on TRAPPIST-1 planets all adhere to the same chirality rules, that’s a good sign that life hopped from planet to planet. But if the rules were different on each planet, it would be an indication that life evolved in isolation.
Extraterrestrial life will always capture even the most casual stargazer’s imagination, and these theories about TRAPPIST-1 are certainly titillating. Unfortunately, patience will be the mantra for years to come, as we’ll need to wait for new, technologically advanced telescopes to come online before putting hypotheses to the test.
1977 'Wow!' Signal Was Not a Comet, Could Have Been Aliens
1977 'Wow!' Signal Was Not a Comet, Could Have Been Aliens
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A mysterious radio signal detected in deep space 40 years ago was not from a comet and might have been from alien life, according to a new theory.
Dubbed the "Wow! signal because of a note scribbled on a printout of the signal by the man who detected it, the cosmic sound lasted 72 seconds and has puzzled astronomers for years. A new paper claims it was from a comet, but that insistence is being debunked by another expert.
Senior astronomer Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute told Live Science the frequency of the transmission detected by astronomer Dr. Jerry Ehman is telling.
"I don't think anyone ever found such emission from comets," Shostak told Live Science.
What the signal might have been, according to experts, was some sort of transmission from an extraterrestrial life form.
Ehman also disputes the claim that a comet was the source of the transmission, telling Live Science, "We should have seen the source come through twice in about 3 minutes: one response lasting 72 seconds and a second response for 72 seconds following within about a minute and a half. We didn't see the second one."
Astronomers have not seen the same radio transmission since it was detected in 1977.
In 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman discovered a mysterious signal when working with Ohio State’s “Big Ear” telescope in Delaware. When Ehman first saw the signal on a printout, it was so large and unusual that he circled it and wrote “Wow!”, thus giving the signal its name. It’s also been passed around as possibly the best evidence in support of those who believe alien life is out there.
The Wow! Signal was 30 times stronger than usual background radiation and was broadcast at the same frequency with which hydrogen glows. Some astronomers believe this is the best frequency to look for alien signals, leading conspiracy theorists to claim that the Wow! Signal is in fact a message from extraterrestrials.
Astronomers at the time knew the signal could not have come from Earth, and they believed the signal had come from a region of space near the constellation Sagittarius.
Since the signal’s discovery in 1977, scientists have attempted and subsequently failed to explain its origins, however, recent evidence from Antonio Paris, an astronomy professor at St. Petersburg College, suggests the signal was due to passing comets — not life beyond our planet.
The Center for Planetary Science, which Paris helps run, previously suggested a passing comet and its cloud could be the origin of the Wow! Signal. A comet known as 266/P Christensen was, in fact, in the sky in 1977 when the signal was recorded, however, this was unknown to astronomers at the time.
Using a 10-meter radio telescope, Paris and his team observed the comet as it was passing. The team found that both comet 266/P Christensen and comet P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) were passing through the particular region of the sky Ehman was observing in 1977. These comets were not known to scientists until 2006. When the radio telescope was moved even 1 degree from the comet in 200 trials by Paris and his team, the signal faded.
Paris admits that it is not entirely proven whether these comets in particular were responsible for the signal, but his team has acknowledged the 1977 Wow! Signal was indeed a natural phenomenon generated by a comet.
An unusual picture taken in daylight somewhere in Leitrim has been recorded by Filer's research Institute, the US based National UFO Center. The image which looks like the moon was reported in Leitrim (exact location not recorded) on May 7 this year by an anonymous observer.
The person who reported the UFO said “There was no movement or sound. I turned to call my wife and it was gone at 2.15pm. It was weird and a tad spooked in truth.” The sighting could be a plasma ball or it could just be the moon!
While Leitrim is not a well known location for unusual objects in the sky, we are located close to a “hotspot” for UFOs. The area around Lough Key and Boyle is believed to be located where an orbital track intersects. Boyle has been the focus of UFO sightings in Ireland with Dr Eamonn Ansboro astronmer conducting research from his Kingsland Observatory for 20 years.
According to reports the most recent UFO sighting was just over a month ago from a man in Boyle who was driving on the N4 to Sligo. He saw two balls of light about 50 meters in front of him.
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UFO FOTO OP TELEFOON , GENOMEN OP MOMENT DAT MAN LAG TE SLAPEN
UFO FOTO OP TELEFOON , GENOMEN OP MOMENT DAT MAN LAG TE SLAPEN
Nog steeds hebben wij eigenlijk geen flauw benul over wat er allemaal bij ons de lucht rondvliegt en wat de gevolgen zijn voor sommige mensen.
Het enige dat we zeker weten, is dat er vreemde verhalen de ronde doen, waarbij mensen zich verbijsterd afvragen hoe zoiets mogelijk is.
Begin jaren zestig zijn er voor het eerst verhalen van mensen die door buitenaardsen zouden zijn ontvoerd en meegenomen naar ruimteschepen.
De eerste keer dat de wereld eigenlijk kennismaakte met dit fenomeen was in 1961 met de ontvoering van Barney en Betty Hill in 1961.
Dit getrouwde stel was op 19 september van dat jaar onderweg van Canada naar huis in New Hampshire toen ze ’s avonds rond een uur of tien een vreemd licht door de lucht zagen bewegen. Ze werden duizelig en bleken later compleet de tijd kwijt te zijn en konden zich niets meer herinneren. Later bleek uit uitgebreide hypnose sessies dat ze waren ontvoerd en meegenomen naar een buitenaards ruimteschip. Wie dit fascinerende verhaal wil lezen, kan dat hier doen.
Op dit moment doet een ander interessant verhaal de ronde dat onder andere door Secureteam wordt gebracht alsof het iets is dat gisteren gebeurd is en dat is het verhaal van een vreemde foto, waarbij de eigenaar van de camera zich niet kan herinneren dat hij die bepaalde foto heeft genomen.
Het verhaal is wel echt, maar het gebeurde al in 2015 en speelde zich af op het bekende forum Reddit.
Een man plaatste daar een foto met de boodschap dat hij deze had gevonden op zijn telefoon en geen flauw benul had wie deze had genomen want hij was het zelf niet geweest.
Op de foto zie je een paar felle lichten in de lucht die doen denken aan de film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Het verhaal wordt nog vreemder, want niet alleen kon de man zich niets herinneren, toen hij keek naar de tijd dat de foto de vorige avond was genomen stond daar 22:51:22. Een tijd dat hij in bed lag te slapen.
Vervolgens heeft een andere gebruiker op Reddit de foto zodanig bewerkt dat de donkere gedeeltes wat meer zichtbaar werden.
En dan wordt het nog veel interessanter want op de foto zien we een man staan die naar het vreemde object in de lucht staart. Wat nog vreemder is, is dat de man op de foto niet de eigenaar van de camera is die het bericht op Reddit heeft geplaatst.
Het enige dat de man bekend voor komt is de bomenrij. Die ziet eruit zoals aan de voorkant van zijn huis.
Talloze theorieën werden naar voren gebracht zoals dat hij zou hebben geslaapwandeld of de lichten zouden een reflectie zijn van de flits van de camera, maar ook dat hij misschien ontvoerd zou zijn geweest in het ruimteschip op de foto en dat ze daarna zijn geheugen hebben gewist.
De bekende Dr. Steven Greer heeft gezegd dat alle ontvoeringen die tot nu hebben plaatsgevonden op aarde door “buitenaardsen” feitelijk zijn uitgevoerd door het Amerikaanse leger.
Kortom, verwarring alom en niemand die het er fijne van weet. Daarom zouden wij graag vernemen of er mensen zijn die een vergelijkbaar iets hebben meegemaakt als hierboven omschreven of die weten dat ze zijn ontvoerd en meegenomen.
‘Bizarre UFO clearly rising into portal in sky' seen by one million in shock video
‘Bizarre UFO clearly rising into portal in sky' seen by one million in shock video
A SENSATIONAL video that shows what appears to be a bizarre-looking UFO disappear into a "portal in the sky" has been viewed by more than one million people.
The video, which was posted on the Facebook page “I’m From Denver”, claimed the flying object was spotted over southern Colorado.
It shows an odd shaped cluster of lights rising before a square portal opens in the night sky and disappears.
If a true recording, the video would be one of the most compelling pieces of video evidence of UFO activity.
However, it has now been exposed as likely to be a fake made using CGI technology.
Fact checking website Snopes.com investigated the release.
In an article branding it fake, it said: "Because the page doesn’t say exactly where in southern Colorado the video was allegedly filmed, we can’t check with local authorities to verify whether residents actually saw something that looked extraterrestrial in the night sky and caused alarm.
"However because the video shows something rather outlandish happening, one would expect it to have been covered by the local news media — and there are no reports in Colorado matching the description of such a sighting (although the southern Colorado region known as San Luis Valley is an apparent hotspot for UFO sightings.”
Snopes went onto say that the video did not even originate from Colorado, and was first reported in March this year as being Sonora, a Mexican state on the US border.
They did find Mexican tabloid media reports about some residents witnessing it.
However, Gabe Hash, a Spanish YouTuber said it had been possible to recreate the video using a program called Adobe After Effects.
He said two tech volunteers took less than a day to recreate the film.
We can’t check with local authorities to verify whether residents actually saw something that looked extraterrestrial in the night sky and caused alarm.
Snopes.com
Translated from Spanish, he said there were no official accounts of the sighting.
He added that at just 30 seconds long, with no-one talking, it had the hallmarks of CGI animation.
He said: "Most of the video is blurry and as I’ve said below, this is done to camouflage the animation… In conclusion, in our opinion the video is fake and just an animation rendered via computer."
Snopes.com concluded the case was unproven, adding: "Since this video is impossible to prove or disprove without knowing more about what and where it is supposed to be, we can only rate it as unproven."
The same phenomenon has been recorded on cameras across the globe.
The strange phenomena, described as an orb of light inside a disk-shaped purple haze, continues to make headlines worldwide after being captured on camera.
In the latest case, The Irish Sun reported that a "bizarre UFO" was pictured in daylight above County Leitrim, which it said was a UFO hotspot.
The newspaper website described it as an "eerie snap of a UFO," and said it had been recorded as a sighting by the Filer’s Research Institute, the US-based National UFO Center, run by Major George A. Filer, who spent 20 years in the Air Force working as an intelligence officer, and is now convinced aliens exist.
The Irish Sun warded of sceptics, saying: "Before you dismiss it as a picture of the moon at night – the image was taken in broad daylight."
It called on astronomer Eamonn Ansbro of Kingsland Observatory in Boyle, Co Roscommon, for his view.
He said he thought the latest sighting could be a new form of light known as a plasma ball.
He said: "There’s a similar ball of light that has been seen in a place called Hessdalen in Norway.
“I know the people who operate there and they have automated instrumentation that has recorded them, and we’ve had recordings here as well.
“It appears to be a new form of light in physics that we don’t know about yet, so we’re putting the physics to it to see what it’s about.”
But, Express.co.uk can reveal that the object in question is actually a common form of lens flare - meaning there was nothing outside the camera when the snap was taken.
Lens flares occur when a camera is pointed towards strong sunlight or artificial lights.
It causes light to refract inside the camera before the anomaly in question then appears on the final image.
Despite this countless pictures showing the lens flare are sent to UFO investigation databases across the globe, and few ever appear to get removed or confirmed as lens flares.
Witnesses usually say in their report that they saw nothing at the time, but spotted the object when reviewing the images later.
This is because there was nothing in the sky at the time.
In the latest case the anonymous photographer in County Leitrim said: "The purple haze was not there or visible to the eye. I’m confused in truth.”
The US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) holds the worlds largest database of UFO sightings.
I think MUFON should have a section with typical FAQs to help people to identify correctly their alleged UFO sightings.
Scott Brando
It is regularly sent images showing the same lens flare, but it rarely updates its website to say they have been dismissed as such.
MUFON usually receives 20 plus reports, often including photographs or video, from people around the world each day.
We found scores of alleged UFO pictures sent in by members of the public to MUFON that were clearly or likely to be just lens flares.
In most of these cases the person filing the report said they saw nothing at the time, but spotted the "object" after later reviewing the picture.
In many situations the lens flare only appeared in one or two of a series of images.
In one case the photographer, a man from Los Gatos California, said: "As soon as we looked at the pictures, to our amazement, we had captured a strange orb with layers of colour around it in a couple of the shots."
MUFON
Similar lens flares that have been reported to the MUFON database.
Despite the high volume of red-herring reports with the potential to be easily solved, MUFON lists the majority of them as still unresolved.
Although there is reference to lens flares on the MUFON website, there is no specific article highlighting the different types which people could refer to before sending in images.
We showed the County Leitrim "UFO" to Scott Brando, a forensic UFO investigator behind the website ufoofinterest.org which exposes hoaxes and false UFO sightings.
He said: "Well, this picture cropped shows just a lens flare."
He provided examples of the same lens flare produced by cameras pointed at the sun."
He said: "I think MUFON should have a section with typical FAQs to help people to identify correctly their alleged UFO sightings.
"Of course this means people will learn to identify a 'flying object' before sending a report to MUFON."
Jupiter is de oudste planeet van ons zonnestelsel. Dat hebben planeetwetenschappers van de Universiteit van Münster in het jongste nummer van het vakblad Proceedings van de Amerikaanse Academie voor Wetenschappen (PNAS) bericht.
De onderzoekers zeggen erin geslaagd te zijn de ouderdom van de grootste planeet van ons stelsel te benoemen. Eerder waren er enkel schattingen.
Volgens de wetenschappers had de gasreus een miljoen jaar na het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel, ongeveer 4,6 miljard jaar geleden, al twintig keer de massa van onze Aarde. Jupiter had nog eens drie miljoen jaar nodig om "volwassen" te worden.
Onze planeet heeft ongeveer 100 miljoen jaar nodig gehad voor haar ontstaan.
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Wetenschappers staan op het punt buitenaards leven te ontdekken. Deze expert onthult waar
Wetenschappers staan op het punt buitenaards leven te ontdekken. Deze expert onthult waar
We gaan binnen 10 tot 15 jaar buitenaards leven ontdekken. Dat zegt astronoom Chris Impey van de Universiteit van Arizona in gesprek met Futurism.
Volgens hem staan wetenschappers op het punt microben te ontdekken op een andere planeet. Vooral Jupitermaan Europa is een goede kandidaat.
Experts zeggen dat we in de komende twee decennia buitenaards leven gaan ontdekken, vooral aangezien nieuwe instrumenten zoals de James Webb-telescoop onze kansen verbeteren.
Meeste kans
“Ik denk dat we binnen 10 tot 15 jaar microbieel leven gaan vinden,” zei Impey. Hij voegde toe dat we in ons eigen zonnestelsel de meeste kans maken om buitenaards leven te vinden.
Als er leven op Mars is, bevindt het zich waarschijnlijk onder de grond, waardoor het lastig te vinden is.
Op de rode planeet zijn mogelijk nog wel sporen van oeroude organismen te vinden op plekken die makkelijker te bereiken zijn, vertelde hij aan Futurism.
Vrijwel alle ingrediënten
Impey verwees ook naar de maan Europa, waar wetenschappers onlangs hun vizier op hebben gericht. Die maan heeft een kern van ijzer en een oceaan met zout water.
NASA en ESA hebben onlangs aangekondigd de mysterieuze waterwereld nader te zullen bestuderen.
Eerder dit jaar onthulden wetenschappers dat Saturnusmaan Enceladus beschikt over vrijwel alle ingrediënten die nodig zijn om leven mogelijk te maken.
Superaardes
Ook zijn er verschillende superaardes ontdekt in de buurt van ons zonnestelsel waar mogelijk leven is.
Zo draaien er rond Trappist-1, een ster op 39 lichtjaar van de aarde, tenminste zeven aardachtige planeten, waarvan drie bewoonbaar kunnen zijn.
When you call yourself ‘The UFO Capital of Australia’ because of the hundreds of sightings there since World War II but you’ve had none in the past year, you tend to get worried. When there’s nothing else in your town to attract tourists besides a single restaurant, a park and a roadhouse selling gas, beer and souvenirs, you begin to wonder what you did to offend the aliens. That’s the situation right now in Wycliffe Well, Northern Territory, considered to be – until last year – one of the top five UFO hotspots in the world. What happened?
Scientists say the sky is full of Ley Lines, which act like highways for the UFO’s to travel along. But these energy lines must meet somewhere and one of those crossroads or intersections lies directly above the middle of Australia. That’s why we see so many here.
Lou Farkus is the owner of the Wycliffe Well Holiday Park and depends on that alleged Ley Lines intersection about 400 km north of Alice Springs for his survival. Wycliffe Well popped up as a watering point along the stocking route for the 3200 km Overland Telegraph Line which connected Darwin with Port Augusta in South Australia in 1872. It was a market center for troops during World War II, but after the war only two soldiers remained to keep the market open for stores in Alice Springs … and UFOs.
UFO sightings are so common, that if you stayed up all night looking, you would be considered unlucky not to see anything, rather than lucky to see something.
A binder containing descriptions and records of the sightings has been kept at the park since it opened, but the original was stolen and the current version only dates back to the 1990s. The walls of the restaurant are covered with newspaper clippings for those wishing more details.
Why Wycliffe Well? One reason might be because it’s location is completely flat and there’s no city lights to distort the 360-degree view of the nighttime sky. Another reason might be the Woomera Prohibited Area – a.k.a. Australia’s Area 51 or Area 52 – which is south of Wycliffe Well on the Stuart Highway. The 122,000 sq km (47,000 sq mile) weapons testing range – the world’s largest — has been in operation since … you guessed it …. World War II, for testing of secret aircraft and rocketry for the Royal Australian Air Force.
Are all of the UFO sightings actually secret RAAF aircraft? “Of course not!” say the people whose lives depend on UFO tourism, like Lou Farkus.
Sure the RAAF do flyovers from time to time, but once you seen their Jets going at Mach-1, There’s no comparison with the speed that these other things travel at. Sometimes the UFO’s travel so fast you’d literally blink to miss it. I’ve only heard of one case of someone seeing an Alien form, it was from an Aboriginal woman who said she saw a flashing object descend into the trees and then sighted three beings.
Whether they believe it’s UFOs or secret aircraft, everyone is puzzled by the sudden disappearance of bright unidentified objects in the Wycliffe Well night sky, especially when UFO sightings are on the rise elsewhere in the world. The RAAF doesn’t appear to be talking and neither are the aliens.
Columinst Cheryl Costa looks at the UFO sighting numbers for 2016.
I had a request from a magazine editor who contacted me last Friday. She was seeking the national UFO sighting numbers for 2016. Alas, I’ve been so focused on the release of our book, UFO Sightings Desk Reference, which focused on 2001-2015, that I hadn’t bothered to compile the 2016 numbers, nor my home state’s UFO sighting numbers.
Nationally, the UFO sighting trend is up 9.2 percent from 2015 but down from 2012, 2013, and 2014.
To be honest I really thought that 2012 and 2014 spikes were flukes. I felt that the UFO sighting trend was due for its six- to seven-year hump cycle and would be taking a downward trend (shown in red). Then the 2016 numbers were tallied, and the classic downward trend seems to be taking a more gradual slope (shown in green).
A third possibility is that 2010-2015 (shown in red) is the six year hump and 2016 is the first indication of the next upward cycle. The truth is we won’t know for sure until the 2017 UFO sighting numbers are tallied.
On the home front here in New York state, the numbers offered a unique surprise in terms of sighting totals. In 2016 the state’s UFO sightings of 414 had dropped 23.5 percent from 542 in 2015. The 414 statistic is clearly at a six-year low for New York state.
The other big surprise in New York state was a significant change in the monthly season pattern.
Typically northern states of similar latitude to New York state have a monthly pattern while the peak UFO sightings are in the warmer months of summer.
2016 was really strange! Note the unusually high number of sightings in January, February and March, despite the uncharacteristic downward trend. It’s been suggested that it was a warmer winter in the first quarter of 2016. Perhaps it was something else. Perhaps there was a disturbance in the force or a glitch in the matrix. After all, the Chicago Cubs won the series. Who knows?
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.
Attention, Central New York residents: Join a monthly MUFON-sponsored speakers presentation and discussion group in Syracuse. Regularly held the last Saturday of the month, it runs from April 29 through October 28, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m, May Memorial, 3800 E. Genesee St. Plenty of off-street parking is available.
A Louisiana witness at Lafayette County reported watching two, disc-shaped objects with binoculars that disappeared into a dark cloud, according to testimony in Case 84059 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was outside looking at clouds at 5 p.m. on May 27, 2017, at a 45-degree angle to the north using binoculars.
Still image from the witness animation video.
(Credit: MUFON)
“And as soon as I got the focus, there they were – two UFOs,” the witness stated. “One on top the other and in close proximity to each other. The one underneath the other was moving left to right from side-to-side in a straight pattern, while the other one hovered above it.”
The witness had a feeling the objects were trying to communicate.
“I kind of got the feeling the bottom one was using the craft to wave at me, as to say, ‘Hey, here we are!’ As it was moving side-to-side as in someone would move their hand to wave.”
Still image from the witness animation video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness described the objects.
“These were both saucer-shaped and were a black or dark gray color and both had lights in the front that pulsated back and forth like the Knight Rider car, but only much slower. The color of the lights from my perspective was red on the left, blue in the middle and either yellow or white on the right. I couldn’t make out the size because I couldn’t see them with the naked eye, only through the binoculars. I was using a Redfield brand that was 10 x 50. But they were clear as day to see the shape, color and what they were doing.”
Watch the animated video the witness produced to depict the sighting.
The witness put the binoculars down to see if he could see them with his eyes, but they were too far away.
Still image from the witness animation video.
(Credit: MUFON)
“But as soon as I looked back in the binoculars, I could see them again. I was hoping to get video footage, as I kept watching for about 30 seconds, a dark cloud was moving toward that area where they were. That’s when I told my wife to go inside and hurry to grab my phone. I was going to try and film it through the binoculars, but by the time the dark cloud got to where they were, I couldn’t see them anymore. The cloud seemed to stay there for a while, which I found strange and maybe even thought something was behind the cloud like a mother ship using a cloud cloaking device, because after it finally cleared up in that area, I couldn’t see the other craft again. I stayed out all that day and hooked up my phone to record through the binoculars, but didn’t see them again.”
Lafayette County is a parish in Louisiana, population 221,578. Louisiana MUFON is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
UFO Hunter films UFO flying towards the moon at high speed
UFO Hunter films UFO flying towards the moon at high speed
On June 6, 2017 at 11.31 pm Limee Watcher from U.K. films the moon from his back garden when he notices an unknown object flying towards the moon at incredible speed before it disappears behind the moon.
He wonders whether it a celestial object, space junk or, if watching the angle when the object comes in towards the moon, a UFO.
UFO hunter Limee Watcher: “I thought I slow down it just to see what this object is, well I am stumped.”
The Kill-Shot will be triggered by a Super Solar Flare or a Nuclear EMP attack?
The Kill-Shot will be triggered by a Super Solar Flare or a Nuclear EMP attack?
Analysts who have researched the affects of a powerful earth-directed Solar Flare believe that a direct hit by an extreme CME could cause widespread power blackouts, disabling everything that plugs into a wall socket. Most people wouldn't even be able to flush their toilet because urban water supplies largely rely on electric pumps.
It has happened before and soon or later it will happen again. In 2016 Major Ed Dames has warned us already for the impending “kill-shot” which will pose a direct threat to all forms of high-technology.
It begins with an explosion--a "solar flare"—in the magnetic canopy of a sunspot.
X-rays and extreme UV radiation reach Earth at light speed, ionizing the upper layers of our atmosphere; side-effects of this "solar EMP" include radio blackouts and GPS navigation errors.
Minutes to hours later, the energetic particles arrive. Moving only slightly slower than light itself, electrons and protons accelerated by the blast can electrify satellites and damage their electronics.
Then come the CMEs, billion-ton clouds of magnetized plasma that take a day or more to cross the Sun-Earth divide.
Remember the solar storm of 1859, the March 1989 geomagnetic storm and the Solar Superstorm of July 2012 that just missed the Earth!
Solar storm of 1859.
The Solar storm of 1859—known as the Carrington Event was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm during solar cycle 10 (1855–1867). A solar coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetosphere and induced one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, September 1–2, 1859. The associated "white light flare" in the solar photosphere was observed and recorded by English astronomers Richard C. Carrington (1826–1875) and Richard Hodgson (1804–1872).
Studies have shown that a solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would likely cause more widespread problems for a modern and technology-dependent society.
The solar storm of 2012 was of similar magnitude, but it passed Earth's orbit without striking the planet. March 1989 geomagnetic storm.
A severe geomagnetic storm struck Earth on March 13, 1989.
It occurred during solar cycle 22 and caused a nine-hour outage of Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system.
The geomagnetic storm causing this event was itself the result of a coronal mass ejection on March 9, 1989. A few days before, on March 6, a very large X15-class solar flare also occurred.
Three and a half days later, at 2 44 am EST on March 13, a severe geomagnetic storm struck Earth. The storm began on Earth with extremely intense auroras at the poles. The aurora could be seen as far south as Texas and Florida.
The Halloween solar storms were a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections that occurred from mid-October to early November 2003, peaking around October 28–29. ... One of the solar storms was compared by some scientists in its intensity to the Carrington Event of 1859.
The Solar Superstorm of July 2012.
Carrington-class CME Narrowly Misses Earth. The solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large and strong coronal mass ejection (CME) event that occurred on July 23 that year. It missed the Earth with a margin of approximately nine days, as the Sun rotates around its own axis with a period of about 25 days.
The region that produced the outburst was thus not pointed directly towards the Earth at that time. The strength of the eruption was comparable to the 1859 Carrington event that caused damage to electric equipment worldwide, which at that time consisted mostly of telegraph stations.
And if it is not a Solar Flare than it is quite possible that the danger of a “kill-shot” will come of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated by the detonation of a high-altitude nuclear weapon.
This is not mere theory!
In 1962 the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear warhead over the South Pacific, 900 miles southwest of Hawaii. Designated “Starfish Prime,” the blast destroyed hundreds of street lights in Honolulu, caused electrical surges on airplanes in the area, and damaged at least six satellites..
A North Korean EMP attack on the U.S or other countries may be far-fetched?
No! North Korea could make an EMP attack against the United States by launching a short-range missile off a freighter or submarine or by lofting a warhead to 30 kilometers burst height by balloon,” wrote Mr. Graham earlier this month on the security blog 38 North. Learn more: Zerohedge.com
Even a balloon-lofted warhead detonated at 30 kilometers altitude could blackout the Eastern Grid that supports most of the population and generates 75 percent of US electricity. Moreover, an EMP attack could be made by a North Korean satellite. Two North Korean satellites currently orbit the earth on trajectories that take them over the U.S.
Was it a dry run for an EMP attack?
Yesterday, June 11, 2017 a massive blackout occurred in Seoul's Southwestern Areas, Satellite Cities reports Yonhapnews.co.kr.
A power substation malfunctioned Sunday, causing a massive blackout in some southwestern districts in Seoul and regions just south of the capital, South Korea's state-run electricity monopoly said.
Yeongseo Substation, located in Gwangmyeong, near Seoul, suffered a partial breakdown around 12:53 p.m. causing a disruption in the electrical power supply, according to the Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) and the city government.
An investigation team is still under way to determine the exact cause of black out.
Britain’s UFO files to be RELEASED confirms Government: ‘These are the REAL-life X-Files’
Britain’s UFO files to be RELEASED confirms Government: ‘These are the REAL-life X-Files’
BRITAIN’S top secret UFO files are set to be released within months shedding lighting on alien encounters across the UK, the government have confirmed.
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
NATIONAL ARCHIVES: The UFO files have been under lock and key for 50 years
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.
ET'S NEW HOME? - Bizarre UFO pictured in broad daylight in skies above Co Leitrim as expert explains why area has become sighting hotspot
ET'S NEW HOME?- Bizarre UFO pictured in broad daylight in skies above Co Leitrim as expert explains why area has become sighting hotspot
It's another unusual sighting in an area which is fast becoming known for UFO activity
By Aoife Finneran
THE truth is out there – in the skies above Leitrim.
An eagle-eyed observer captured this eerie snap of an unidentified flying object above their home on May 7.
This unidentified flying object was spotted in the skies above Leitrim
And before you dismiss it as a picture of the moon at night – the image was taken in broad daylight.
The bizarre sighting has now been recorded by Filer’s Research Institute, the US-based National UFO Center.
The unnamed witness described seeing “the small glow above my garden” before quickly reaching for a camera.
They added: “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.”
So have aliens heard about the beauty of lovely Leitrim and its rock-bottom house prices or is it simply a trick of the light?
Whatever the explanation, it’s yet another unusual sighting in an area which has become known as a hotspot for suspected paranormal activity.
Sceptics may dismiss it as a hobby for the tinfoil hat brigade, but the north-west of the country is the focus of major scientific research thanks to astronomer Eamonn Ansbro of Kingsland Observatory in Boyle, Co Roscommon.
He believes the latest sighting in Leitrim could be a plasma ball, which has previously been seen in parts of Boyle.
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Experts believe the latest sighting in Co Leitrim could be a plasma ball
He explained: “There’s a similar ball of light that has been seen in a place called Hessdalen in Norway.
“I know the people who operate there and they have automated instrumentation that has recorded them, and we’ve had recordings here as well.
“It appears to be a new form of light in physics that we don’t know about yet, so we’re putting the physics to it to see what it’s about.”
Mr Ansbro has already investigated more than 130 sightings around Ireland, many of which he believes can be explained by the presence of orbital tracks around the earth.
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Eamonn Ansbro believes the presence of orbital tracks around the earth explains why so many sightings are witnessed in Limerick
And he says that Lough Key in Boyle is one of the points where these tracks intersect, which could explain the unusually high level of unexplained sightings in the area.
He and his research colleagues even managed to work out a pattern of possible cycles of activity at these intersections, and correctly predicted one such sighting.
The strange occurrences have even baffled the most sceptical people in the area, as he recalled: “We received a report six weeks ago from a guy in Boyle who was driving on the N4 towards Sligo.
“He saw two balls of light about 50 metres in front of him, roughly the size of the moon at that distance, so a few inches across.
“They were there for 30 seconds, then they winked out, and he saw them again to his right.
“He reported this to me, and said that while he was completely sceptical, he had gone through all the options and couldn’t find an explanation for it.”
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Filer’s Files #24 – 2017 The UFO Codebook - PART I
Filer’s Files #24 – 2017 The UFO Codebook - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Hungary Minister of Defense – Newspapers Reject the UFO Reports, Wendelle C. Stevens Information About the Pleiadians, The UFO Codebook, Space Objects Photographed, Cost of I SS, Oregon Mothman Returns, and Media Coup Against Trump”
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, and Texas
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Iran, England in the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The 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
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SPECIAL REPORTS
Minister of Defense Hungary says Newspapers Everywhere, Reject the UFO Reports
George Keleti, the Minister of Defense in Hungary states, “Around Szolnok many UFO reports have been received from the Ministry of Defense, which obviously and logically means that they [UFOs] know very well where they have to land and what they have to do. It is remarkable indeed that the Hungarian newspapers, in general newspapers worldwide everywhere, reject the reports of the authorities. George Keleti, Minister of Defense, Hungary, in article by Attila Lenart entitled “Ask a Question to the Minister of Defense: George Keleti, Are You Afraid of a UFO Invasion?” Nepszava, Budapest, August 18, 1994.
Wendelle C. Stevens Information About the Pleiadians
Lieutenant Colonel Wendelle C. Stevens USAF (ret) survey of the Pleiadians at the 7th Great UFO / ET Alien and Abduction Congress in Bordentown, New Jersey conducted a lengthy investigation of Pleiadian contact with Earth humans, Wendelle made the following observations and comparisons based on information derived from seven different contact groups. The Pleiadians are closely related to the Karadonians.
1) All who claimed to come from the Pleiades (that’s our name for them) look as much like we do, were about our same size, stature, and build, and skin color, and look just like us. They could put on Earth street clothes and sit next to you and there may even be some in here and you’d never know the difference.
2) All articulated fluently in the language of the contactee, speaking intelligently on our sciences, history, and culture in the contactee’s language.
3) Earth humanity was descended from their own ancient ancestors from whom we had inherited our unusual aggressiveness.
4) All of them said that their ancestors had been here many times before over the ages, coming and going as conditions changed on this planet.
5) They all claimed that they had participated in some of the great events of our religious works and our native mythologies, sometimes being adored and worshipped as gods, and sometimes not, which they said they were not. They said they were humans just like us.
6) They refer to themselves as IHWH or Yahweh, just as we refer to ourselves as Human. It is interesting to note that the European Space Agency captured this open pit mining on Mars that has a Yahweh sign on it.
7) They all without exception deplore our misuse of our sciences, saying that our mind has outrun our spiritual development and that we have already prepared the end of our planet and our species as we know it, and that we have done this before over and over, and still have not learned this important lesson – one reason why we are back here now. For this we are a valuable laboratory study, and many ETs from far and wide come here to observe us. That’s scary!
8) They all travel faster than the speed of light as we know it in their interstellar ships.
9) There was no conclusive evidence that any of the groups mentioned here were in direct contact with any of the other groups mentioned. Each of these contact cases seems to be developing separate and apart from all of the others. I was the go-between for them all, and I didn’t mention one case to another. I tried to keep them as far apart as I could.
10) They all mentioned other inhabited planets in what we call the Pleiades.
11) They all mentioned other extraterrestrial beings from elsewhere in the Universe coming here to study and observe Earth. Three of them mentioned actual contact and willing cooperation with other ETs of other race types from other systems. Three of them used robatoid – part mechanical and part organic- creatures, beings of their own manufacture in limited operational functions aboard their motherships.
12) They all used organic computers that can be controlled telepathically, and many had control systems aboard the ships that could be controlled telepathically. They could get out of the ships, send them away telepathically, and call them back when they wanted, and go back aboard.
13) They all saw great changes in our planet in the near future, and I think we’re talking about cataclysmic changes here.
14) None of them had money as we know it, and none of them had religion as we know it or a competitive political system as we know it.
15) Three of them had active bases operating on the surface of our planet, and they shared these bases with other extraterrestrial agencies and intelligences who desired to work with them.
16) They were all capable of under ocean operations, and used our oceans to great advantage. I guess water is no more hostile than deep space.
17) They all used a variety of different space craft. They weren’t limited to only one type. They used a variety of different space craft in their operations. They all had distinctive styles of ships and equipment and yet there were many similarities in many respects.
18) Three groups that we know of use very large carrier type motherships in deep space near our system, but not in our solar system. And they [the motherships] were here while they were here.
19) In each case to the group of individuals who formed around the contactee new contacts and information was so mind boggling and so profound and so far exceeded their knowledge of what was going on elsewhere in the world that they carefully guarded their secret within their small group and immediate circle of friends for a number of years, and then only confided in the very trusted friends. So this is why it wasn’t getting out. It was too big and too profound to let it out. Most of them felt a kind of religious awe in what was happening and thought it was kind of profane to share it with the public at large. Thanks to Bruce Cornet
The UFO Codebook by Stephen Clementson
At a glance “The UFO Codebook” seems like a rather curious title. But, with respect to what I’ve observed, “The UFO Codebook” is a perfectly apt title, fitting flawlessly with the bizarre world it describes. It was developed as a response to a large number of questions, regarding the character of the paranormal. This work doesn’t deliberately set-out to explain how these things are done, but it does venture to explain the motivation. In my quest to explain that motivation, however, it becomes quite obvious that the driving source behind these bizarre anomalies is rather less magical than it seems.
And what exactly is the UFO Codebook? Well, it’s the bible itself! How I came to this conclusion is a case of seemingly endless inspection, and re-inspection, of phenomena reports. Of course, such a lengthy enquiry had been inspired by personal experiences. A comparison between these personal reports, and those of others, revealed a sturdy continuity. As a matter of fact, that continuity is so incredibly sturdy that I have found it impossible to determine any end to it. It’s like a distress beacon, flashing and beeping an endlessly repeated S-O-S message. For this reason I have listed a number of examples, but I cannot supply that archetypal full stop.
So, the first part of that analysis involved a re-evaluation of diverse types of phenomena. What I found, and the principle reason for that re-evaluation, was that there was no logical partition between these phenomena groups. Indeed, after experiencing ghosts, crop circles, and UFOs, at exactly the same location, and in exactly the same time frame, it seemed exceedingly irrational to conclude that there was any separation at all. Whilst cultural preconceptions might place strict boundaries on such things, the reality seemed to be screaming-out for a different approach.
That “sturdy continuity”, for instance, lay in the manner by which things only happened when certain conditions were met. This was a constant, even down to the dateline and time of the occurrence. All of these bizarre anomalies rigidly adhered to this pattern. This was not only a case where it was logical to presume that different phenomena were related, but it was also a case wherein all phenomena groups behaved the same way. These events were being served-up like clues. There was no spontaneity in these events whatsoever. There was no knee-jerk reaction to be found-not good, and not evil; just logical planning, in strict accordance with a book of rules.
It wasn’t until 1998 (some time after first embarking upon this quest) that I found out what that rule-book was. I had spotted it, whilst summarizing my observations. I hadn’t been looking for a book of instructions prior to that point, but the clues to their connection to the bible were indelibly printed all over these phenomena.
This biblical connection had actually been a chief feature. And, when combined with my previous work on phenomena integration, it was pretty obvious why these phenomena had been so diverse. These things had to reflect the diversity of the bible, and, at the very same time, they had to reflect the connection to extraterrestrials. Inversely, I noted that the bible contained deliberately scripted paragraphs, intended to reflect its connection to extraterrestrials.
Job
Job 38: “God’s answer to Job” is a classic, Old Testament, example of this deliberate incorporation of data to connect the bible to advanced extraterrestrial knowledge and technology written about 1000 B.C..
New International Version
The Lord Speaks explaining how he formed the Earth and the stars.
1Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’? “Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken. “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness? Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. “What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
21Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years! Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle? What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert, to satisfy a desolate waste land and make it sprout with grass? Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew? From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?
30 when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen? Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth? 33
Remember these words were written three thousand years ago. NASA claims the recipe for creating a habitable planet turns out to be surprisingly simple: Just add water—and atmospheric gases.
Rule over the earth; now what would that mean? Were they referring to the motional synchronization of constellations to the seasons, or were they referring to something else? As a matter of fact, I noted that the repetitious biblical use of numbers 3, 6, 7, and 13, had a purposeful relationship to those very same stellar groups.
The Pleiades, for instance, is most certainly connected to the numbers 6, and 7. After all, the stars of the Pleiades were formally known as the “Seven Sisters”. The Pleiadesian numerical anomaly is a curious talking point. Back in the days before telescopes, when the Seven Sisters was so-named, only six of its stars had sufficient brightness to qualify for naked eye astronomy. Following-on from that, my theory is that the number 13 was merely the product of 6+7.
There are also a great number of references to the number three in the bible, and one source would appear to be the three bright stars in Orion’s Belt.
Belt of Orion
Like the Pleiades, Orion is also mentioned in Job 38:31. Likewise, seven bright stars in Ursa Major (“The Big Dipper”/”The Plough”: part of the Great Bear) are, in effect, mentioned in Job 38:31.
To see these things deliberately portrayed in paranormal events was quite a shock. Yet, in case-after-case, the deliberately implanted biblical connections, together with the cross-links to those stellar references, were revealed. To put it bluntly, all the assistance that I could want was there. But that assistance had been discreetly implanted within paranormal experiences, and had required someone to put the effort into deciphering them.
I found that, in effect; people were being used, manipulated to various degrees, in order to pass this information on. But why should this be? Was this part of something that other researchers had missed? As far as I am concerned, it seems likely to be the case that they simply haven’t understood the situation. And, given this manipulation process, how many of them had gone to the trouble of logically deducing the inference, or even the reality, of a combined phenomena condition?
Although it looks rather like a grand cosmological chess game, with us as the pawns, there is another, somewhat less sinister, possibility. If this was a chess game, then why let the pawns in on what is going on? The chess game scenario does not accommodate the concept of deliberate clue implantation. The answer seems to be that it actually isn’t a chess game, but, more likely, a method of overcoming a blockage in communication. Looking back over the last couple of millennia, the methods used do not appear to have changed very much. It’s as though a non-earthly agency is struggling to bypass some strictly imposed communication restrictions, and has to resort to implanting clues.
Let me propose that there is an agreement between different extraterrestrial civilizations not to directly interfere with lesser civilizations. This would certainly explain the unemotional manner by which they have operated here. Firstly, they would have to use individuals in a clue-implanting process. Secondly, they would have to ensure that there was no undeniable evidence left behind; this would result in directly affecting the afore-said “lesser civilization”.
In a previous epoch, exactly the same process had been employed to install religions. This, I propose, was done by extraterrestrials, in order to civilize humanity. My hypothesis is that humanity was, in their opinion, not in a fit state. Humans needed guidance, even if that meant camouflaging the truth, twisting history, and faking a few concepts along the way. To be continued. Thanks to Stephen Clementson
Space Objects Photographed
Objects photographed in space several hundred miles above Earth are not the ISS and are likely either human space craft such as Solar Warden or extraterrestrial. This is an alleged top secret aircraft or “space vehicle” which has some quite incredible abilities. The source of the information is from an Area 51 employee who started making public disclosures in 1998 after retiring from his job as an avionics engineer. Object photographed in space above the Earth by astronomer John Lenard Walson
So far his claims and disclosures have not been given the coverage which they undoubtedly deserve. He has hundreds of official USAF documents to back up his claims. If he is correct, as the evidence suggests, then the U.S. does have a secret space fleet consisting probably of dozens of 600 feet wide flying triangles, which can go to and from space with ease, travel at Mac 9 in any direction, traverse the solar system and even land on neighboring planets.
Multi Billions in Payments to Russia During the last Eight Years.
International Space Station Cost
The ISS, launched in 1998, is the most expensive thing ever built—$150 billion and counting. The U.S. has provided more than $100 billion of that cost. Increasing our cost is that US Space Shuttle program formally ended on August 31, 2011, as directed by President Obama. At the time the space shuttle program ended, the three remaining shuttles had flown 25, 33, and 39 times respectively. They were designed for a lifetime of 100 flights each.
It would have been possible to continue to adapt and fly the shuttles for many more years to resupply the ISS and Solar Warden Craft out to their design lifetime.
President Clinton urged U.S. aerospace executives to look to the Russian rocket business partnerships rather than developing US made rockets. Now we’re dependent on the Russian Rocket Engine know as RD-180, which has flown 55 + times on U.S. missions with 100 percent success. And to a lesser extent, we’re dependent on the Russian NK33/AJ26 engine, which we’ve used six times with 100 percent success. The cost is about $10,000,000 each or another 500 to 600 million for the Russian RD-180 rocket engines.
US launch rockets are not considered safe enough to launch our astronauts so we must pay the Russians to get our astronauts up to the ISS that we paid for. The chart below factors in the price of a seat and the number of astronauts that NASA plans to launch (about six per year), to show how much NASA has paid Russia and could end up paying.
The total cost over 12 years is more than $3.36 billion. The US hoped the private company SpaceX could launch our astronauts. On September 1, 2016, their Falcon 9 explosion showed the US was far behind the Russians for safe human spaceflight. Unfortunately our German scientists that got us to the moon have retired or died. If we do have the TR-3B craft that will carry astronauts to Solar Warden Space Craft the Russians, Chinese, and India certainly knows it.
A Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft launched an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts into orbit October 19, 2016, beginning a two-day journey to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The second upgraded Soyuz spacecraft to carry new crewmembers to the space station. The new arrivals joined NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, who have been alone on the station since September. Thanks to Space.com.
Correction:Last week’s files presented the TR-3B Patent. This patent number is in error and is likely not the actual patent and is a clever counterfeit, but does provide interesting data.
Oregon Mothman Returns
Jenny Jacobs writes, “My teenage children and I were outside painting our house. We lived on a wooded acreage about 4 miles from Newberg, Oregon on the 2-lane Wilsonville Road. I kept hearing what sounded like a very large chimpanzee in the trees behind us. Both kids have seen this black hooded figure off and on over the years. I didn’t want to quit my work but the sounds grew louder and finally there included shaking of high branches. I told the kids to take a break and we walked out to the sounds. As we were looking up, trying to see what in the heck it could be (it was very large like a man but not clearly defined shape because it kept moving) we heard the squeal of tires behind us up on the road. We could not have seen this from the house but, here, we had a clear view of a new cranberry red Mustang convertible swerving around the turn on 2 wheels. The driver overcorrected and we watched it flip 3 times across the field, landing upright.
I sprinted inside and called 911 and ran down to the road. Everything was weirdly silent…The chimpanzee was no longer there.
I ran across the road, climbed the fence and ran up to the vehicle. Both people looked in perfect condition except their heads were resting far back on the headrests. The beautiful red-headed young woman was watching me stand there. She said nothing, just followed me with her eyes. Finally, she stopped eye movements, dying. The handsome Hispanic young man was mumbling something over and over sitting with his head back, too. After a few moments, he simply stopped and stared at the sky. They both died in front of me.
If we had not been enticed to come out into the small clearing, we could not have seen this horrific accident. But it has always occurred to me “What was the point?” I could not do anything but pray for them. I couldn’t save them. We could only be an observer of a terrible moment in time. Thanks to Jenny Jacobs
Triangle and Diamond Video
Dr Bruce Cornet who received his PhD from Penn State University in 1977 in geology sends this revealing video of three different near Montgomery, New York on January 24, 1999.
The lighting on the unidentified aircraft does not match normal commercial aircraft or known military aircraft such as the C-5 known to fly in the area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFS-87utLfg
This Is Nothing Less Than a Coup Against Trump”
Urgent Message from Michael Reagan eldest son of former President Ronald Reagan,
Dear Friend:
I am watching the cable news channels and I am just stunned. This is a brazen attempt to oust Donald Trump as president. This is nothing short of a coup attempt against the duly elected president. David Horowitz predicted all of this in his bestseller “Big Agenda: President Trump’s Plan to Save America.”
If you watch CNN and MSNBC, they are now salivating about the “impeachment” of President Trump. The truth is they have been talking about this from the day he took the oath of office. Now they are claiming a “smoking gun.”What is it? A memo by then-FBI Director Comey – who the president just fired, claims the president tried to close down his investigation into General Flynn. Who did Comey write the memo to? Well, himself! Did he inform the attorney general, the Congress or the public about this shocking claim the president tried to obstruct justice? No, he didn’t. Sorry folks. I am not buying this! You see, when Horowitz wrote “Big Agenda” – before Trump was even elected – Horowitz gave Trump a game plan, a road map to turn back Obama’s progressive agenda. It’s clear to me the president and his team have read, digested and implemented this secret plan in “Big Agenda.” But Horowitz also warned in “Big Agenda” that the big media, Democrats and even Republicans would do everything to stop Trump. They would throw the proverbial “kitchen sink” at him – and even try impeachment! Well, “Big Agenda” has become a prophecy book! Trump has been president for just over three months and the establishment wants him removed! And the media ignores parts of the story that don’t work for them. Take, for example, Democrats like Chuck Schumer who called for Comey to be fired months ago. (I call this hypocrisy!) Comey himself admitted he probably interfered with the 2016 election and he totally mishandled Hillary Clinton’s sordid email fiasco and Benghazi.
Make no mistake about it: They want Trump stopped. Finished, Removed from office. Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Lou Dobbs are working to keep people informed. Despite this, the big media like CNN and NBC. We are at war with the news media and the left. We are witnessing the worst nightmare of the American left. A Republican titan of industry has left the business world to become the chief executive of the U.S. He was put in power by everyday Americans sick of the status quo. Trump has made clear his interests are those of the American people.
There’s a feeling of fear about the full extent of the death blow that is being dealt to the left by Donald Trump. The left has lost control of Congress, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the Executive Branch. In fact over the past 8 years, Democrats have lost more than 1,000 elected offices! That is generating a feeling that the Democratic Party as we know it may not be able to rebound from this downward spiral that they have embarked upon. . . especially if Trump’s agenda is successful. Trump’s agenda is no secret, and now he’s calling shots. They hate this. They are furious. They will do ANYTHING to stop him. Every patriotic American needs to help President Trump. In “Big Agenda” Horowitz revealed 21 major moves President Trump was going to take — and already 12 have come true! But 9 more are soon to happen. In “Big Agenda” you’ll find out it’s not only President Trump’s road map for making America again, but a war plan in how to PERMANENTLY defeat the left. It even explains how you can help President Trump.
My dad used to ask these two questions: “If not us, who? If not now, when?” I am asking you today those same questions. I ask you to take a stand today. Get informed. Share. Support. Act!
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Filer’s Files #24 – 2017 The UFO Codebook - PART II
Filer’s Files #24 – 2017 The UFO Codebook - PART II
Sightings of UFOs in the United States
Alabama Light
Shkoder— I was at my home and I was watching a movie with my cousin and my room window is behind the computer monitor and a red light showed in a second in the sky on November 20, 2016. We go outside to see what it was and took a video of it. The object was like a fire ball but I don’t know how to explain it very well but it was really strange.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arizona Disc
Phoenix — A friend sent me these photos. Taken in Arizona while driving on the freeway on May 29, 2017.
Did not see object in question until later when looking at the photos at home. Was initially taking picture of the storm clouds. This is all I know. I am sharing because I believe these photos to be real.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arkansas Object
My coworker Michelle took pictures at Lake Ouachita right before sunset and looked at the pictures during the photos and could see the object total of 6 military jets flew by two at a time during these sightings. The strange object is at the bottom of the picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Orbs
Mount Lassen National Forest — I was hiking on May 30, 2017, near the southwest entrance and photographed some trees with interesting moss patterns with my Nikon D810 camera. I did not notice the objects until I was editing my photos the next day. At the time, the forest was very quiet there were no aircraft in the area and no extraneous noise. I have no idea what these objects are. As I said above, I did not notice them at the time of the photographs. I took 6 photos of the trees within one minute.
The objects appear in two frames of the 4-5 frames a second, means the objects were in the two frames for only fractions of a second. The size of the objects is hard to determine.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Cylinder and Lights
Copper Mountain — I was a front-seat passenger riding on Highway 70, a few miles northeast from Copper Mountain, on June 1, 2017. As we approached Black Lake on the service road, I began snapping photos of the lake at 6:25pm. The four passengers exit the vehicle and take additional photos. Once I began to view all of my photos, I had captured a UFO. We did not hear any sound. In the photo, you can see that all trees, snow, are clean, crisp, and good resolution and a moving object across the sky, since it has a slightly blurred image. You can clearly see the sun light on the top the UFO and a shadow below the UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Three hours into the flight from Baltimore to Los Angles I noticed 3 very hovering bright lights.
I cap it with iPhone camera on November 10, 2016,
I was overwhelmed with and very excited to see such an amazing event, bright lights visible from 30,000 feet up mid flight;
Thanks to MUFON
Idaho Object
Keuterville — I was with two friends on a back road on May 29, 2017, taking pictures of the beautiful scenery and was unaware of the object in the sky. When checking my photos 5-10 minutes later, I saw a dark image on the picture. When I zoomed in on the object, I noticed a shape I have never seen before. It is this image that I am suspicious about. Once I saw the picture, I looked back to the area and did not see anything. I showed the picture to my friends and they had never seen it either. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Pumpkin
Indianapolis — I’ve been in this object numerous times since I was 17. It only happens to me when I’m sleeping alone in my room.
I sleep on the couch to avoid this. What they’ve done to me, I’m not proud of how anything human or not could do the things they did to me is beyond my comprehension.
Since my grandson is typing this for me, I’m not going to blurt it out. Use your imagination. It was never up the stairs, it was always on the bottom floor on a table. I’ll be glad when they start leaving me alone, I’m almost 65.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montana Object
Billings — After playing noon basketball at 1:30 pm , a reflection caught my attention in the sky on June 2, 2017. The object was in the general direction of the airport and high in the sky 60 to 70 degrees. At first I thought it might be a group of bright metallic balloons filled with helium, but the object was rotating in a regular manner with asymmetrical protrusions appearing in a cyclic manner. This made it unlikely that the object was a drone in my opinion. It was also not an airplane or a helicopter – and because of the bright shiny reflections not a bird or other object I could think of. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey 4 Bright Round Objects
Monmouth — Driving south on Route 9 south May 12, 2017, the objects became apparent in my line of sight while driving. 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, “what am I looking at right now!?”
There were four objects with three in a straight line 200 feet apart with the fourth further east and behind. It was the shade and brightness of red. As I continued driving I could see an orange/yellow glowing ball underneath the red. There was no sound and another witness claimed to see a huge triangle 300 feet wide and 400 feet long flying low over the town. I could see the shape of this object so clearly, I couldn’t believe what my eyes were really seeing.” Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Lights
Yonkers — Before closing the sliding door to my back porch I noticed a cluster of 5 orange lights in the sky on June 4, 1017. I watched them go through the sky for several minutes, when I noticed more clusters behind them, I ran inside to grab my phone to take some pictures. The lights moved across the sky and I realized there was a continuous flow of lights that were moving across the sky, I woke up my wife and she was amazed as well and we both took additional pictures and videos.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Green Orb
Cleveland– On May 31, 2017, a woman and her neighbor were star gazing and noticed a strange object in the sky. The woman began to record the object with her Android cell phone. The object appeared to change shape and colors. Two minutes and 40 seconds of video footage was captured.
The above clip shows a few seconds of the recording, but properly depicts the behavior of the object. Skies were clear at the time of the sighting.
Apparently the object disappeared after about 3 minutes. It appears from the video that the object was stationary. The apparent movement is likely due to movement of the camera.
Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http:/www.UFOsnw.com
Texas Triangle
Texas — A friend from Texas sent me a video of a Ufo spotted and filmed after seeing a white flash on May 24, 2017.
After analysis I found a lot more video showing a large ufo observing a thunder lighting storm.
Then something shoots or returns. It is amazing proof.
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Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Orbs
Perth — I was taking my children to school on June 5, 2017, and looked up and saw a Chemtrail. I stopped my car and took two photos and took the kids to school. I went to the shops and upon my return home I saw a second chemtrail so I took a photo of that one too. Once inside I had a look at the photos I took as it’s not often you see a full moon, a chemtrail and the sun in one photo. When I was looking at the second photo I saw the green circle at the top of the photo a wider ring with what appears to be smaller rings within. I then took a much closer look at first photo (flash on) I can see a white sort of circle with smaller circles within. I hope MUFON can help. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Image
Markham— I was heading north on Donald Cousins Parkway when I first noticed the silent object to the east of me heading southwest at 11:05 pm, on June 9, 2017. I noticed it because it was long and flat and it unusually bright like led auto lights across the front of the object. It was moving at slightly above average helicopter speed at their average height. I got out and snapped a couple pictures. It looks like I got the bottom of the object, where you can clearly see three lights in a triangular formation. The object flew a little faster as it continued southwest. I followed it until I couldn’t see if anymore. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
China Bat
Panyu— I clicked these images (attached herewith) while staring at sky from my iphone 7 Plus on June 8, 2017..I clicked them on way from Panyu to Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China). The object vanished quickly when I was changing phone setting to video mode. Earlier there were aeroplanes flying in same direction. So, I am very confident that this is neither an aeroplane nor a drone. Advise me what this is as I am curious to know if it’s a UFO.
P.S.; Image 7362 is with 10X digital zoom.
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Czech Republic Orb
Prague –: When I walked in the prefab apartment on the third floor balcony, it was April 9, 2017 around 20.15 pm. The moon shone beautifully and I was intrigued by the body that hovered a few hundred meters over the housing estate with many flashing red lights. At first I thought it was a helicopter, but the red light was very bright, and there were more than 10 and constantly flickering lights. The body was moving very slowly with no sound. The body flew very slowly towards Vítkov. I took some photos and two videos with my Canon camera. I took 20×60 binoculars and examined the entire body that was covered with flashing green and blue lights around a small pyramid or, triangle. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Iran Orbs
Marvdasht— 1. I was at home and was watching the sky 2. I saw an abnormal shining light on March 23, 2017 3. It wasn’t a normal object like an airplane. 4. It was a floating .abnormal shining light with strange movements 5. It wasn’t strange to me I had seen them before 6. It faded slowly.
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UK/England Objects
Glenrothes — I viewed live feed weather cams, evidence by the official web site stationary cams on June 4, 2017
It had weird sun behavior patterns going on behind the chemtrails
‘The chemtrails were expanding like I just passed an exam. 4. It was remote time lapse viewing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Crewe – My friend and I were walking our dogs at 6 pm, on April 14, 2017. We live in a small town in Cheshire and were walking on our local George Playing Field. My friend was taking pictures of interesting types of clouds, when he spotted a worm contrail from a crazy pilot. When we zoomed in on a picture I realized that it could not be a contrail. There were many planes in the sky, and their contrails were dissipated quickly by the wind. This ribbon shaped worm was un-changed for over ten minutes before it disappeared! I typed “sky snake” into Google, and immediately found identical anomalies. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Venezuela Object
Carupano— I was talking with a friend by video call, and we were chatting, then he went outside and I was watching him.
Then the sun was on the top and I saw a little shadow.
I asked him to direct the cam to the sun again and we saw the shadow and I took the awesome pictures,
Note: Looks like some sort of post decoration. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Best Space Stories of The Week!
Best Space Stories of The Week!
By SPACE.com Staff
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)]
Here Is The UFO Sighting Video Near Brainerd, Minnesota
Here Is The UFO Sighting Video Near Brainerd, Minnesota
For those who have not yet visited Highways 210 and 371, do it if you have a chance. They come together in Brainerd, a town in a north-central Minnesota with roughly 13,000 residents.
Brainerd is known as the setting for some major events in the movie Fargo. And now the town is put into the spotlight once again after a video, which is said to have been recorded at the Highway 210/371 junction, was posted online showing several bright objects.
YouTube username SuspectSky uploaded the five-minute clip that initially shows a single bright object before several others appear. Cars zooming can be heard in the background continuously, but not enough to drown out the music that SuspeckSky has piped in to give the video an added effect.
From one light, it became two, then three, and then four. In the middle of the event, the car system announces “GPS signal lost.”
UFO Hunter Claims This Incident Is Stranger Than Roswell
UFO Hunter Claims This Incident Is Stranger Than Roswell
A UFO hunter has shared an incident in which he referred as even stranger than Roswell in a new online video. In 1947, an unidentified flying object crash landed in the desert close to the town of Roswell, New Mexico in the U.S. The military, however, insisted that the mysterious object was not that strange at all as it was just a downed weather balloon. Despite the statement, many did not believe the official version of the incident. Many have claimed that the object was an extra-terrestrial craft.
After over 50 years, the event is still a mystery to many as they believe the government has been covering the first alien visitation.
Now, UFO researcher Tyler Glockner claims to have discovered the similarly disturbing event that took place just a month before the Roswell Incident.
Glockner made a video claiming that the crash has the same mystery and strangeness as Roswell. The video recalls the story of Maury Island Incident wherein Fred Crisman, and Harold Dahl claimed to have seen falling black debris from the skies over Maury Island in Puget Sound in Washington.
It was reported that the event involved one or more UFOs that had either crashed and disintegrated or dropped something. Crisman’s boat allegedly got damaged by the fragments, even killing a dog and according to some versions, they also hurt someone.
Accounts of the alleged extraterrestrial incident remain controversial until today. Some say that Crisman and Dahl are telling the truth, but others believe the story is a hoax.
Comet Likely Didn't Cause Bizarre 'Wow!' Signal (But Aliens Might Have)
Comet Likely Didn't Cause Bizarre 'Wow!' Signal (But Aliens Might Have)
By Jesse Emspak, Live Science Contributor
A color scan of the original computer printout of the "Wow!" signal as detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory in 1977.
Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American Astrophysical Observatory (NAAPO)
An astronomer thinks he's pinpointed the source of a mysterious radio signal from space: a passing comet that nobody knew about. But his colleagues said they're still skeptical of the explanation, noting that comets don't emit radio waves in the right way.
Antonio Paris, an astronomer at St. Petersburg College in Florida, recently published a paper in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences saying the mysterious "Wow! signal," a truly bizarre radio signal detected almost 40 years ago, seems to match up with the location of a comet called 266P/Christensen that hadn't been cataloged at the time. (The comet was discovered more recently, in 2006. Originally, Paris' hypothesis was that a second comet might also be the culprit, one called P/2008 Y Gibbs.) Explanations for the Wow! signal have ranged from intermittent natural phenomena, to secret spy satellites, to, yes, aliens.
Others aren't so sure. "We do not believe the two-comets theory can explain the Wow! signal," Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who discovered the Wow! signal in 1977, told Live Science. [5 Times We Thought We Found Aliens]
Wow! signal
The Wow! signal's name comes from just how striking and strange it was. The radio signal appeared on the night of Aug. 15, 1977, when it was picked up by the Big Ear radio telescope at The Ohio State University. It lasted 72 seconds. It was "loud" — more intense than anything in the background sky that night. It was also a narrow-bandwidth signal; the range of frequencies it covered was small, similar to those of artificial signals. AM radio, for example, has channels that are only 10,000 cycles above or below the designated frequency on the dial. Further, the signal was at a frequency of about 1,420 megahertz (MHz), also called the 21-centimter line. That's the same frequency as radio waves emitted by neutral hydrogen gas in space. It's a region that is relatively free of noise from other objects, and one researchers involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence have been interested in for a long time because it could be used for interstellar transmissions.
The signal did not repeat, and subsequent attempts to find it proved fruitless. Ehman marked "Wow!" in red pen on a printout that shows the numbers representing the signal.
Back in 1977, the now-dismantled Big Ear telescope was looking for alien signals, in an early iteration of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. But no one expected to see anything like the Wow! signal, and the Big Ear telescope heard nothing like it again.
Without a repeat signal, it was impossible to tell what it was; even getting a precise location wasn't easy because the signal was short-lived. Ehman, now retired, told Live Science that, beyond a certain distance, it's hard to tell how far away a radio signal is coming from.
Comet signature
In his paper, Paris wrote that comets will, under certain conditions, emit radio waves from the gases that surround them as they zoom closer to the sun. According to the study, Comet 266P/Christensen was in about the right position on the right day in 1977. Paris first floated the idea in early 2016, and proposed a program of using radio telescopes to listen for the emission of such radio waves. [Face on a Comet: Ghostly Faces in Space]
The comet project had three phases. "The first phase was the hypothesis, which led to the second phase: Do comets emit 1,420 [MHz signals]? It appears yes, they do," Paris told Live Science.
In the third phase, set for 2018, Paris plans to explore the mechanisms of the emissions —why comets should generate radio waves at that particular wavelength. Paris said little research has been done on the topic.
"There have been a handful of studies, but I suspect we are the first to specifically build a 10-meter radio telescope to specifically look at this type of solar system body," he said.
To see if a signal could have come from comets, Paris first used a radio telescope to look at the sky in the region of the Wow! signal. With this step, he wanted to see what the background looked like at the relevant frequency. He also checked two other comets to be sure that they did, in fact, emit radio signals at the 1,420-MHz frequency, and found that they did.
Then, in January, Paris directed the radio telescope to point at Comet 266P/Christensen as it passed through the region of the sky where the Wow! signal was seen. (Comet 266P/Christensen has an orbital period of about 6.65 years, and its apparent location in the sky will vary depending on where Earth is in its own orbit around the sun. The comet passed near, but not exactly, where the Wow! signal was — about 2 degrees north of the Wow! signal location.
Skepticism abounds
Yet several astronomers, including Ehman, think Paris is wrong about the comet. Ehman looked at Paris' study with Robert Dixon, who directs the radio observatory at The Ohio State University (Big Ear was destroyed in 1997). Two big issues are that the signal didn't repeat, and it appeared for such a short time. Ehman noted that the Big Ear telescope had two "feed horns," each of which provides a slightly different field of view for a radio telescope. [5 Huge Misconceptions about Aliens]
"We should have seen the source come through twice in about 3 minutes: one response lasting 72 seconds and a second response for 72 seconds following within about a minute and a half," Ehman told Live Science. "We didn't see the second one."
The only way that can happen, he said, is if the signal was cut off abruptly. A comet wouldn't produce that kind of signal, because the gases that surround them cover large, diffuse areas. Nor would the comet have escaped from the radio telescope's field of view that fast.
But Ehman isn't convinced it's aliens, either. There are many phenomena that show sudden appearances and disappearances of radio signals, including fast radio bursts (FRBs), which are mysterious radio bursts with hotly-debated astrophysical origins that generate irregular signals that last only milliseconds. If the the Big Ear picked up only the tail end of such an emission, the data could look similar to the Wow! signal, Ehman speculated.
"The issue with the feed horns is something no one can explain, including me," Paris said. "There is some data out there to suggest the issue is at the telescope end and not the phenomenon itself." So it's possible that the signal could have been caused by a glitch in the Big Ear telescope.
The other issue is the frequency of transmission. Paris said he has shown that comets can emit in that range, but Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, is skeptical. Shostak used to study emissions from neutral hydrogen in the 1,420-MHz range, and is less sure the emission would look right. Comets may not generate enough hydrogen to make a bright enough signal like Wow!.
"I don't think anyone ever found such emission from comets," Shostak told Live Science.
Nasa's new James Web space telescope to detect biomarkers, such as oxygen and methane, in the atmospheres of Earth-like planets may in turn further the search for life beyond Earth. iStock
The hunt for alien life has long been of interest to numerous astronomers and space enthusiasts. Current space missions involve searching for habitable planets, with the hope of also stumbling onto microbial forms of life. Although we are yet to find any substantial evidence to point towards the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth, some experts still believe that we could be closer to discovering alien life than we may think.
According to Chris Impey, deputy head of the department of astronomy at the University of Arizona, the search for life beyond Earth may yield results within the next decade. However, Impey cautioned that finding intelligent life could take much longer than that.
"I put my money on detecting microbial life in 10 to 15 years, but not at all detecting intelligent life," Impey told Futurism.
Although the astronomer is sceptical about the search for intelligent life beyond Earth yielding results anytime soon, he indicated that such life-forms may be in existence within our very own solar system. Impey also suggested that Europa, one of Jupiter's water-rich moons, could potentially hold life.
Impey added that he hasn't ruled out the possibility of life till existing on Mars, although he believes that such life-forms may likely exist below the surface and as a result, may be much harder to detect. He said scientists currently have a better shot at discovering evidence of life that used to once exist on the Red Planet.
"If we actually get Mars rocks back here to Earth from a place that we think could have been habitable in the past, then we might find evidence of prior life," Impey said.
According to the astronomer, in the coming years, thanks to technological advancements, scientists will be able to use Nasa's new James Web space telescope to detect biomarkers, such as oxygen and methane, in the atmospheres of Earth-like planets. This may in turn further the search for life beyond Earth.
"This biomarker experiment... could find evidence of microbial life indirectly," Impey added. The research, according to him, could also help scientists locate planets that are "the closest to Earth as possible, not in distance, but in character".
Although we could still be several decades away from discovering the existence of intelligent alien life, the possibility of finding microbial life on Mars, Europa or the many exoplanets recently discovered, could help scientists determine how life-forms survive in far away planets and different atmospheres. This in turn, can also further our search for life beyond Earth and eventually even help humanity become a multi-planetary species.
Regardless of how close we are to discovering life outside Earth, the hunt for extraterrestrial life is likely to continue despite failures. "The first SETI experiment was in 1959, so obviously it has been going on for over half a century without any success. The people who do it don't seem put off by failure," Impey said.
The astronomer added that technological advancements have ensured that we now have a better chance at detecting extraterrestrial life. "Every new SETI experiment done now is about as good as the sum of all previous SETI experiments put together," Impey added.
UFO group hopes government 'reconsiders' pulling their taxpayer funding
UFO group hopes government 'reconsiders' pulling their taxpayer funding
By A Current Affair
Social Services Minister Christian Porter has ordered a review into why a NSW Central Coast UFO enthusiast group has pocketed nearly $6000 in taxpayer funds since 2013.
When A Current Affair attempted to attend a meeting of the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group at Wyong RSL Club, group coordinator Joann Kanda was reluctant to talk on camera.
"Some things have happened that I don't want to go public about at the moment," Ms Kanda said of her belief in extra-terrestrials.
Despite the group having more than 1,000 Facebook followers, less than a handful of people showed up to the meeting
One of the presentations given at the meeting
Despite her desire to keep her reasons for believing private, Ms Kanda has managed to persuade the government to give her group nearly $6000 from the public purse.
Ms Kanda is "in two minds" about the review into taxpayer funding ordered by Mr Porter and would like the government to "reconsider".
"I also understand the public's perception and, you know, it's just that all the equipment we bought with our original funding, it needs repairs," she said.
Group coordinator Joann Kanda believes the funding should be kept
Wyong RSL Club, where the group host their meetings
"The laptop had extra memory so you could take photographs and analyse them.
"We bought an amplifier, which is acting up a bit, and it's got a tripod and the wireless gadget that goes with it."
Ms Kanda believes that had she named the group something else, the public purse strings would not be closing.
"I felt a bit let down. Like, I could have called it something else, you know ... basket-weaving, you know. No one would have blinked an eye," she said.
Social Services Minister Christian Porter does not believe the group deserved the taxpayer funding they have received since 2013
But Mr Porter is unlikely to reconsider his opposition to the group receiving any further funding.
"I'm sure they're all very good people, I'm sure they're all volunteering in a way that's constructive for them. But I'm just not entirely sure this meets the common sense test," Mr Porter said.
Extraterrestrials (ET’s) have been visiting us for a long time, and government officials and witness testimonies have consistently reiterated this to the public. Mainstream media has sort of made ET/UFO phenomena into a joke through heavy propaganda, which is strange given the fact that there’s so much evidence in support of it.
In reality, we are only a small fraction within a multiverse, so even if you do question the official government documents and other evidence in support of ETs, it still wouldn’t really make sense for Earth to be the only planet that houses life.
A video testimony of Air Force Intelligence Major George A. Filer III featured on Sirius Disclosure revealed details of a high-ranking military ET cover-up. In the interview, Major Filer explained that a military officer shot and killed an extraterrestrial after a UFO landed.
I’m not saying that this man’s story is 100% true, but I am suggesting that you watch his testimony and keep an open mind. This is not the first time a government/military official has come forward to discuss ETs, and I doubt it will be the last.
UFO/ET information was classified for quite some time, and still is; but, only in recent years has the government shed more light on this thanks to the declassification of several UFO documents.
For example, Mike Gravel, a former Democratic Senator, explained, “Something is monitoring the planet, and they are monitoring it very cautiously, because we are a very warlike planet.”
One of the most revealing testimonies was provided by Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Defence Minister:
In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The Supreme Allied Commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb. They are very concerned about that and if we will use it again, because the whole cosmos is in unity and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos. They’re very much afraid that we might start using atomic weapons again and this would be very bad for us, and them also.(source)
Even the infamous Doctor Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon, spoke out about ETs, saying, “Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. . . . We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time. . . . I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.” (source)(source)(source)
What Happened to the Alleged “Alien” at Fort Dix
In the 1970s, Major George Filer was privy to some extremely sensitive information from the military. While at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, Filer found out that an extraterrestrial being had been shot at Fort Dix and died on the tarmac.
The UFO landed, or possibly crashed, and then a military policeman came across an “alien,” and so he pulled out a gun and shot the being. Even Major Filer was skeptical when he heard the term “alien,” but he was reassured that the being in question was in fact “from outerspace.” The body was then captured by the military and taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
His testimony seemed fairly vague when it comes to how the UFO came to be on the ground, which begs the question: Could the military have shot it down? In many cases, they are ordered to do so, so this wouldn’t be surprising.
Major Filey was originally told he would have to brief a room of his colleagues on what happened, but then he was told to change the story and cover up the entire thing.
Filey explained, “He essentially saw a small body that could’ve been like a child and seemed to have a larger than normal head.”
“Many of the key personnel on the base at that time who had a connection to this were quickly transferred… If you knew something, they tended to split you up, so to speak, so you couldn’t talk about it.”
Here’s the full video testimony:
Final Thoughts
Can you imagine if you were a whistleblower who finally decided to come forward after decades of working for the military? We need to have compassion for these people and understand that they very well could be telling the truth, instead of just assuming they’re lying.
In addition, an important question to ask ourselves is: Why do we always resort to violence when it comes to ETs? Many of the ET/UFO encounters the military has had involved violence, whether they shot them down or poked and prodded at these beings in the name of science. However, we could ask this same question in regards to our human interactions and international relations, as we often resort to hostility and violence amongst our own race.
ETs and UFOs should no longer be a “taboo” topic. There is hard evidence and government documents proving their existence. If you’d like to learn more, check out the Exopolitics section of our website!
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Buitenaards wezen doodgeschoten. Inlichtingenofficier doet in deze video een boekje open
Buitenaards wezen doodgeschoten. Inlichtingenofficier doet in deze video een boekje open
We schrijven 18 januari 1978. De politie van de Amerikaanse staat New Jersey wil toegang tot de McGuire Air Force Base.
Boven die basis en boven de nabijgelegen basis Fort Dix zijn eerder op de avond UFO’s waargenomen. Maar de politie was niet alleen op zoek naar vreemde lichten in de lucht.
De politieagenten lieten weten dat een militaire politieagent die op Fort Dix was gestationeerd een onbekend object over zijn auto had zien vliegen.
Schieten
Hij trapte in paniek op de rem, waarna er voor zijn auto een klein wezen met een groot hoofd, zwarte ogen en een dun lichaam opdoemde.
De agent stapte uit en richtte zijn wapen op het wezen. Hij gaf het de opdracht op de grond te gaan liggen en toen het niet reageerde, begon hij te schieten.
Het gewonde wezen vluchtte en rende naar McGuire, waar het op een landingsbaan op de grond in elkaar zakte en stierf.
Blauwe baretten
De soldaat die op wacht stond, sergeant Jeff Morse (waarschijnlijk een pseudoniem), liet de politie toe op de basis om naar het wezen te zoeken.
Ze troffen al snel het levenloze lichaam van het wezen aan. Het gebied werd afgesloten, waarna plotseling een groep legerofficieren arriveerde.
Op een afstandje keek Morse toe hoe de groep blauwe baretten, die hij nog nooit eerder had gezien, de leiding nam.
Grijsbruine kleur
UFO-onderzoeker Leonard Springfield interviewde Morse, die niet dicht genoeg bij het wezen stond om gezichtskenmerken of handen en voeten te kunnen onderscheiden.
Hij herinnerde zich wel dat de huid van het wezen nat en glimmend was en een grijsbruine kleur had. Het deed hem denken aan de huid van een slang.
Morse keek toe hoe de blauwe baretten de alien besprenkelden met een vloeistof en afdekten met een wit laken. Het werd vervolgens in een grote metalen container met blauwe letters geplaatst.
Verhoord
Vervolgens werd het wezen in een C-141 vrachtvliegtuig geladen en naar Wright-Patterson Air Force Base overgebracht.
Morse en de politieagenten kregen te horen dat ze gelijk zouden worden ontslagen als ze ooit over het incident zouden spreken.
Twee dagen later werden Morse en enkele andere getuigen overgevlogen naar Wright Patterson waar ze werden verhoord.
Zwijgplicht
“Ze zeiden dat ik mijn mond moest houden,” verklaarde Morse jaren later. “Ik ondertekende een formulier waarna ik de rest van mijn leven zwijgplicht had.”
Toen Morse toch met de andere getuigen begon te praten, werden ze overgeplaatst naar het buitenland. Zo kwam Morse terecht in Okinawa.
Tot op de dag van vandaag wordt hij naar eigen zeggen constant bedreigd. Het leger is heel ver gegaan om hem de mond te snoeren.
Stil
Morse kreeg bijval van majoor George Filer, die destijds als inlichtingenofficier was gestationeerd op McGuire.
Hoewel hij die bewuste avond niet getuige was van het incident, hoorde hij er de volgende ochtend over.
In een interview met Katelynn Raymer en David Ruppe van ABC News zei Filer: “Onze veiligheidspolitie trof de alien aan het einde van de landingsbaan dood aan. Ze vroegen mij om de generale staf in te lichten.”
Filer merkte op dat de twee bases er alles aan deden om iedereen stil te houden.
Doofpot
Hoewel hij niet kon bewijzen dat het ging om een alien, was iedereen ervan overtuigd dat er sprake was van een UFO-landing en dat één van de bemanningsleden was gestorven.
De doofpot rond dit en andere incidenten is zo diep dat de betrokkenen bang waren hun baan te verliezen of zelfs vreesden voor hun leven.
Schoot een militaire politieagent die avond een alien neer? Waarschijnlijk zullen we het antwoord op die vraag nooit te weten komen.
The U.S. military is developing a new class of weapons which can deliver kinetic projectiles made of large rods of solid heavy metals. Even more worrisome: they’re testing how to deliver them from space – essentially making them man-made meteorites. According to a report published by military and veteran news site Task and Purpose, leading U.S. Army officers gave a presentation at a recent defense industry conference touting the destructive potential of these weapons, some of which are already being tested in battlefield conditions.
So-called “Rod of God” kinetic bombardments have been discussed for years.
Major General William Hix, Director of Strategy, Plans & Policy for the U.S. Army, presented the status of the Army’s development of such weapons at the 2017 Booz Allen Hamilton Directed Energy Summit, a conference devoted to “developing and fielding new directed energy capabilities.” A prettier way of saying “blowing stuff the hell up.” Booz Allen Hamilton is an ambiguously-titled “management consulting firm” in Washington D.C. which has shadowy links to American defense and intelligence organizations. Anonymous accused Booz Allen Hamilton of manipulating public opinion through social media in 2011, and Edward Snowden was a Booz Allen Hamilton employee when he leaked the details of U.S. classified mass surveillance and data collection programs to The Guardian in 2013. If anyone is ever involved with secretive behind-the-scenes military industrial complex intrigue, it’s Booz Allen Hamilton.
DARPA has been developing hypersonic kinetic weapons for some time.
At their conference, Major General Hix told attendees that already, the ship-mounted railgun versions of these new weapons are capable of a new level of battlefield violence:
Think of it as a big shotgun shell. Not much can survive it. If you’re in a main battle tank, if you’re a crew member, you might survive but the vehicle will be non-mission capable, and everything below that level of protection will be dead. That’s what I am talking about.
DARPA is already testing orbital weapons which can deliver kinetic payloads at hypersonic speeds – and so are China and Russia, of course. With all the strange satellite activity, secretive spacecraft testing, NASA playing asteroid strike war games, and even the White House paying public lip service to the threat of deadly near-Earth objects, it makes you wonder: could it be possible for a use of these weapons to be blamed on a meteorite strike? Conspiracy theories of a similar nature surrounded the apocalyptic 2015 explosions in Tianjin, China, as some rather imaginative sources accused the U.S. of testing kinetic space weapons on the Tianjin industrial site.
Even just a few grams of aluminum can inflict great damage when dropped from a high altitude.
I suppose like most things, it is possible, but perhaps not probable. Very few members of the public have access to primary sources of data about asteroid and meteor orbits, though. Furthermore, unseen asteroids pass dangerously close to the Earth all the time, sometimes with just a few days’ warning. A random act of the universe would be the perfect alibi for dropping a continent-ruining mass of molten tungsten onto your enemies from space. But naaaah, that stuff doesn’t actually happen. There’s no way our overlords could be that malevolent. Right?
While everyone else was looking for hints on what’s been going on between the Trump administration and Russia, the UFO community was excited about something former FBI director James Comey said during his Senate testimony that had nothing to do with politics.
… I have had many conversations with humans over the years …
That’s right, the former FBI director gave Senator John McCain that strange answer to a question about a conversation he had with the president. Ears perked up across the country on anyone with a conspiracy gear in their brain. Why did Comey add those two words … ‘with humans’? Has he had other conversations with non-humans? Was he leaking (again?) that some U.S. or world leaders he’s had conversations with were aliens … possibly reptilians? If David Icke was playing a drinking game involving doing shots every time someone hinted at the existence of reptilians, he probably ordered a triple for that one.
OK, you say, maybe Comey was making a little joke. Really? Does he look like the kind of guy who jokes around? He majored in chemistry and religion before getting his law degree and at one time helped prosecute the Gambino mafia family.
All right, he’s not a joker. Has he ever indicated an interest in UFOs, aliens or X-files? Well, there’s that period from 2005 to 2010 when Comey the General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Lockheed Martin. Yes, THAT Lockheed Martin. The one with the Skunk Works and the secret manufacturing and testing at Area 51. Why didn’t Senator McCain, or any other senator for that matter, ask him about THAT? To his credit, McCain did bring up Hillary Clinton in the next question. Was he bringing up emails or was he doing his own sly hinting at her and John Podesta’s own promises to release classified UFO documents if elected?
Are those dots too far apart to connect? Here’s one that’s even farther out. Some people speculate that the 6-foot-8 Comey, who seemed to tower over everyone in pictures of the hearing and his meetings at the White House, may actually be a tall white alien in disguise. Remember the story from 2014 from the Iranian news agency FARS that a document leaked by Edward Snowden indicated that tall white space aliens have taken over the United States? Is Comey one of them? If he’s not, maybe all of those others are so short because they‘re small grey aliens in disguise. OK, that dot may be WAY too far out.
Or is it? In 2016, the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said this in an interview:
I have gathered and listened to several leaders from other planets.
Was this really a mistranslation as some have suggested or another security slip? Is he someone else who has to remember to differentiate between conversations with humans and aliens?
Is this another cover-up that’s slowly crumbling under scrutiny? Will this drive Trump to be the first president to open the UFO files?
Dots farther apart than these have already been connected. Stranger things have already happened. Is disclosure next?
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Northern Territory in dry spell for UFO sightings
UFOs seem to have been absent from Territory skies in recent times PICTURE: Getty
Northern Territory
Northern Territory in dry spell for UFO sightings
JUDITH AISTHORPE, NT News
AUSTRALIA’S self-proclaimed “UFO capital” Wycliffe Well hasn’t had a single extraterrestrial visitor in a year.
With the Dry Season – historically the prime time for UFO sightings in the NT – upon us, the lack of extra terrestrial visitors is concerning.
Only three UFO encounters have been brought to the NT News’ attention in the past year, the most recent being MLA Gerry Woods’ encounter in February.
Mr Woods said as dawn broke he saw a white light, about the brightness of a star, heading north from Virginia towards Howard Springs.
Wycliffe Well Holiday Park manager Karthik Myana said in the year he’d worked there not one extraterrestrial visitor had shown themselves to him or the parks’ residents.
Australian UFO Research Association spokesman Doug Moffett said in the past six months there had been an increase in reported sightings across the world but could not explain why the Territory was lacking in reports of UFOs.
He suggested people were seeing UFOs but simply not reporting them.
“Once you get out to the NT, the western parts of NSW and country areas you get a much higher percentage of close encounters,” he said.
On the Sydney based group’s website only one Territory encounter in Katherine in July last year has been listed.
Mr Moffett believes we are currently in the initial stage for first contact of ET’s due to the global increase in sightings.
“If we see a spike in the next six or 12 months in close encounter sightings I think that is the lead up to first contact,” he said. “I’m not getting too excited because we’re only at phase one … an increase of sightings.”
Acacia Hills UFO hunter, Alan Ferguson, closed down his legendary website – ufoterritory.com.au – last year citing a “mindset change”.
He said on Twitter he was still involved “behind the scene”.
Local astronomer Geoff Carr doesn’t believe in aliens but cannot say for certain that they do not exist.
He said many sightings could be put down to being aircraft, drones or weather related.
An image taken by the witness of one of the alleged six UFOs.
Traveling by train through Apache County in the Arizona desert, the witness allegedly saw "six hovering, two-story objects beaming light to the ground level".
A child of the woman who reported the astonishing sight filed the account to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's biggest organisation dedicated to alien research and investigation.
The report said: "My mother was traveling through the Arizona desert via train, on her way to Texas.
“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.
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.
MUFON report
“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.”
The woman attempted to photograph what she was seeing.
The report added: “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 sceptic until she saw for herself.
TWITTER
An image showing a similar "UFO" that has already been confirmed as a lensflare.
"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.”
Three images were included with the MUFON report about the April 2017 incident.
Roger Marsh, MUFON director of communications, said: "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.
"Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made."
MUFON Arizona Field Investigator Kristine Wulf is looking into the claims.
Scott Brando, a separate UFO investigator, who runs the debunking website ufoofinterest.org, believes the object in the picture was just a lensflare.
This is when lights refracts inside the camera and then gets projected onto the image - so nothing is actually there.
He provided a picture to Express.co.uk of an almost identical "UFO" which he says has been confirmed as being caused by a lensflare caused by light from a street lamp.
DiFrancesco, 18, of Plymouth, told the station she and her friends spotted UFOs they had never seen before Thursday night.
“Well, we saw these two ships that had these like bright spotlights and then we saw this like weird orb that was like a spotlight, sort of,” she told the station.
She showed a WHDH reporter a photo of the mysterious object she said had been taken with a Nikon camera.
A controversial claim that the famous ‘Wow!’ signal was produced by comets and not extraterrestrial intelligence has been met with scepticism by radio astronomers and comet experts, sparking a fresh debate about the nature of this mysterious signal.
Could a comet have been to blame for the mysterious Wow! signal? Image: NASA.
The saga of the Wow! signal dates back to 1977, when a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) survey being conducted at the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University Radio Observatory detected a powerful but unexplained burst of radio waves coming from the general direction of the constellation Sagittarius. The signal was at 1420MHz, which is the frequency of the 21cm wavelength radio waves emitted by neutral hydrogen in space. So the logic goes, any intelligent life out there transmitting signals for us to hear would know that our astronomers will be studying galactic hydrogen at 21cm and therefore be guaranteed to detect their signal. Hence, the Big Ear’s survey was conducted at 1420MHz/21cm.
The print-out from the Big Ear telescope that shows the Wow! signal. The numbers and letters refer to the intensity of the radio signal. Intensities above 9 are given by a letter. The signal reached a peak intensity (denoted by ‘U’) that was thirty times stronger than the background noise. Astronomer Jerry Ehman scribbled ‘Wow!’ in the margin upon seeing the signal and the name and the signal entered folklore. Image: Big Ear Radio Observatory/NAAPO.
Now Antonio Paris of St Petersburg College in Florida and the Center for Planetary Science, which is a non-profit research organisation based in the United States, has published new results which he argues proves that the Wow! signal was actually produced by a comet that was in the vicinity at the time. Paris followed up on this comet, 266/P Christensen, and performed radio observations with a dedicated ten-metre radio telescope to test his theory. Writing in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, he confirms that his experiment did indeed detect a signal of 1420MHz from the comet.
However, not everyone is convinced. Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast who specialises in studying comets, dismisses Paris’ conclusion as “rubbish.” Aside from the fact that 1420MHz emission has never been detected from a comet before, Fitzsimmons points out that 266/P Christensen is a fairly quiet comet even at perihelion (its closest point to the Sun, which in Christensen’s case is over twice as far from the Sun as Earth, or 2.3 astronomical units).
“[Paris] has targeted a comet that has little activity when at perihelion,” Fitzsimmons tells Astronomy Now. “When he observed the comet it was over four astronomical units from the Sun, which means it would have been effectively inactive. There would have been no hydrogen coma to detect and therefore he could not have seen the comet.”
Seth Shostak, who is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, agrees with Fitzsimmons. “I don’t know of any detection of the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen from a comet, and as I used to study galaxies in the neutral hydrogen line, I probably would have heard of that,” he says.
Paris is not troubled by this. “Astronomers have not detected hydrogen emission from comets because there has not been much research specifically on this subject,” he says. “While there has been a handful of studies, I suspect we are the first to build a ten-metre telescope to specifically look at this type of Solar System body.”
Another problem with the comet theory is that on 15 August 1977, the day that the Wow! signal was detected, the comet was in the wrong place. Bob Dixon, who was Director of the Ohio State University Radio Observatory at the time the Wow! signal was detected, points out that 266/P Christensen’s location was RA 18h 32m 15s, Declination –27º 22’, whereas the Wow! signal was either located at RA 19h 25m 31s, Declination –26º 57’, or RA 19h 28m 22s. Either way, 266/P Christensen would have been visible to the Big Ear 55 minutes earlier instead.
A signal that switched off
The uncertainty in the right ascension coordinates comes from the peculiarities of the Big Ear telescope. Rather than a traditional dish-like telescope, the Big Ear was composed of two reflectors stood on their sides, one flat and tilting, the other paraboloidal, either side of an aluminium plane on the ground that was larger than three football fields. The sky would rotate overhead in right ascension and radio waves would bounce off the reflectors and into two ‘feed horns’ that were the telescope’s detectors. Because the two feed horns were separated by 40 arcminutes in angular distance, a radio source passing overhead in the sky would appear in one horn, then disappear for 70 seconds of time, before reappearing in the second horn.
The Big Ear radio telescope. Unfortunately the telescope was demolished in 1998. Image: Big Ear Radio Observatory/NAAPO.
Curiously, the Wow! signal was only detected by one of the feed horns and, because of the way the data was collected and analysed, it was impossible to tell which feed horn that was. This means that the signal either switched itself on or off during those 70 seconds that it was between horns. Either it was a transient signal from some unknown astrophysical phenomenon, or the aliens turned their transmitter on or off during that 70 seconds gap.
Paris admits that this comet theory cannot explain why the signal was only seen in one feed horn. Although comets are constantly moving through the sky, unlike fixed objects such as stars, they do not move fast enough to have moved out of the line of sight of the Big Ear in just 70 seconds.
“The issue with the feed horns is something no one can explain, including me,” says Paris. “There is some data out there to suggest the issue is at the telescope end and not the phenomenon itself.”
Bob Dixon strongly disputes the idea that there was a technical fault. “Our telescope was working perfectly normally at the time and other radio astronomical objects on the same day were observed in both beams [into both horns],” he tells Astronomy Now.
Fact versus folklore
Despite the triple whammy of comets not being known to emit at 1420MHz, the unexplained detection by only one feed horn and the fact that 266/P Christensen was not in the correct location for the Wow! signal, Paris is nevertheless pushing ahead with his theory. He describes his work as a three-stage project. The first stage was the development of his hypothesis, the second stage was his radio observations that he has now published, and his third stage, which he hopes to publish in 2018, is an explanation of a mechanism describing why we would detect such strong neutral hydrogen emission from a comet, particularly one as inactive as 266/P Christensen.
Regarding the criticisms of his theory, the unflappable Paris is not concerned. “I suspect that SETI, who have used the Wow! signal as a source of revenue, are nervous,” he says. However, this is disputed by the fact that Shostak and his fellow scientists in the SETI community have frequently talked down the importance of the Wow! signal, pointing out that their experiments find signals like the Wow! signal, in that they are transient and never seen to repeat, all the time.
This August will see the fortieth anniversary of the Wow! signal, a milestone that will bring this mysterious signal, which has entered SETI folklore, into the media spotlight once again. Part of its enduring allure is the possibility that we will never really find out what it was, whether it was extraterrestrial intelligence or an unknown astrophysical phenomenon.
For now, Paris has work to do to convince other scientists like Seth Shostak that his theory is correct. Says Shostak, “I don’t think the idea that the Wow! signal was due to comets makes much sense.”
A controversial claim that the famous ‘Wow!’ signal was produced by comets and not extraterrestrial intelligence has been met with scepticism by radio astronomers and comet experts, sparking a fresh debate about the nature of this mysterious signal.
Could a comet have been to blame for the mysterious Wow! signal? Image: NASA.
The saga of the Wow! signal dates back to 1977, when a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) survey being conducted at the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University Radio Observatory detected a powerful but unexplained burst of radio waves coming from the general direction of the constellation Sagittarius. The signal was at 1420MHz, which is the frequency of the 21cm wavelength radio waves emitted by neutral hydrogen in space. So the logic goes, any intelligent life out there transmitting signals for us to hear would know that our astronomers will be studying galactic hydrogen at 21cm and therefore be guaranteed to detect their signal. Hence, the Big Ear’s survey was conducted at 1420MHz/21cm.
The print-out from the Big Ear telescope that shows the Wow! signal. The numbers and letters refer to the intensity of the radio signal. Intensities above 9 are given by a letter. The signal reached a peak intensity (denoted by ‘U’) that was thirty times stronger than the background noise. Astronomer Jerry Ehman scribbled ‘Wow!’ in the margin upon seeing the signal and the name and the signal entered folklore. Image: Big Ear Radio Observatory/NAAPO.
Now Antonio Paris of St Petersburg College in Florida and the Center for Planetary Science, which is a non-profit research organisation based in the United States, has published new results which he argues proves that the Wow! signal was actually produced by a comet that was in the vicinity at the time. Paris followed up on this comet, 266/P Christensen, and performed radio observations with a dedicated ten-metre radio telescope to test his theory. Writing in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, he confirms that his experiment did indeed detect a signal of 1420MHz from the comet.
However, not everyone is convinced. Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast who specialises in studying comets, dismisses Paris’ conclusion as “rubbish.” Aside from the fact that 1420MHz emission has never been detected from a comet before, Fitzsimmons points out that 266/P Christensen is a fairly quiet comet even at perihelion (its closest point to the Sun, which in Christensen’s case is over twice as far from the Sun as Earth, or 2.3 astronomical units).
“[Paris] has targeted a comet that has little activity when at perihelion,” Fitzsimmons tells Astronomy Now. “When he observed the comet it was over four astronomical units from the Sun, which means it would have been effectively inactive. There would have been no hydrogen coma to detect and therefore he could not have seen the comet.”
Seth Shostak, who is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, agrees with Fitzsimmons. “I don’t know of any detection of the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen from a comet, and as I used to study galaxies in the neutral hydrogen line, I probably would have heard of that,” he says.
Paris is not troubled by this. “Astronomers have not detected hydrogen emission from comets because there has not been much research specifically on this subject,” he says. “While there has been a handful of studies, I suspect we are the first to build a ten-metre telescope to specifically look at this type of Solar System body.”
Another problem with the comet theory is that on 15 August 1977, the day that the Wow! signal was detected, the comet was in the wrong place. Bob Dixon, who was Director of the Ohio State University Radio Observatory at the time the Wow! signal was detected, points out that 266/P Christensen’s location was RA 18h 32m 15s, Declination –27º 22’, whereas the Wow! signal was either located at RA 19h 25m 31s, Declination –26º 57’, or RA 19h 28m 22s. Either way, 266/P Christensen would have been visible to the Big Ear 55 minutes earlier instead.
A signal that switched off
The uncertainty in the right ascension coordinates comes from the peculiarities of the Big Ear telescope. Rather than a traditional dish-like telescope, the Big Ear was composed of two reflectors stood on their sides, one flat and tilting, the other paraboloidal, either side of an aluminium plane on the ground that was larger than three football fields. The sky would rotate overhead in right ascension and radio waves would bounce off the reflectors and into two ‘feed horns’ that were the telescope’s detectors. Because the two feed horns were separated by 40 arcminutes in angular distance, a radio source passing overhead in the sky would appear in one horn, then disappear for 70 seconds of time, before reappearing in the second horn.
The Big Ear radio telescope. Unfortunately the telescope was demolished in 1998. Image: Big Ear Radio Observatory/NAAPO.
Curiously, the Wow! signal was only detected by one of the feed horns and, because of the way the data was collected and analysed, it was impossible to tell which feed horn that was. This means that the signal either switched itself on or off during those 70 seconds that it was between horns. Either it was a transient signal from some unknown astrophysical phenomenon, or the aliens turned their transmitter on or off during that 70 seconds gap.
Paris admits that this comet theory cannot explain why the signal was only seen in one feed horn. Although comets are constantly moving through the sky, unlike fixed objects such as stars, they do not move fast enough to have moved out of the line of sight of the Big Ear in just 70 seconds.
“The issue with the feed horns is something no one can explain, including me,” says Paris. “There is some data out there to suggest the issue is at the telescope end and not the phenomenon itself.”
Bob Dixon strongly disputes the idea that there was a technical fault. “Our telescope was working perfectly normally at the time and other radio astronomical objects on the same day were observed in both beams [into both horns],” he tells Astronomy Now.
Fact versus folklore
Despite the triple whammy of comets not being known to emit at 1420MHz, the unexplained detection by only one feed horn and the fact that 266/P Christensen was not in the correct location for the Wow! signal, Paris is nevertheless pushing ahead with his theory. He describes his work as a three-stage project. The first stage was the development of his hypothesis, the second stage was his radio observations that he has now published, and his third stage, which he hopes to publish in 2018, is an explanation of a mechanism describing why we would detect such strong neutral hydrogen emission from a comet, particularly one as inactive as 266/P Christensen.
Regarding the criticisms of his theory, the unflappable Paris is not concerned. “I suspect that SETI, who have used the Wow! signal as a source of revenue, are nervous,” he says. However, this is disputed by the fact that Shostak and his fellow scientists in the SETI community have frequently talked down the importance of the Wow! signal, pointing out that their experiments find signals like the Wow! signal, in that they are transient and never seen to repeat, all the time.
This August will see the fortieth anniversary of the Wow! signal, a milestone that will bring this mysterious signal, which has entered SETI folklore, into the media spotlight once again. Part of its enduring allure is the possibility that we will never really find out what it was, whether it was extraterrestrial intelligence or an unknown astrophysical phenomenon.
For now, Paris has work to do to convince other scientists like Seth Shostak that his theory is correct. Says Shostak, “I don’t think the idea that the Wow! signal was due to comets makes much sense.”
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.
Before Stonehenge
An aerial view of the site where two massive wooden palisades once stood of the landscape. Arcaheological excavations have revealed that around 3300 B.C., anicent people built huge wooden enclosures, then burnt them down to the ground, near what is now Avebury, England.
Credit: Historic England
A massive, wooden, eyeglass-shaped monument in Avebury, England, that was set alight in ancient ceremonies may be 800 years older than it was thought to be, new research suggests.
Workers in ancient times likely constructed the site first by digging large ditches and then placing oak posts into sockets in the earth, Whittle told Live Science. Then, they used the dug-out earth to backfill and cover the base of the posts and create a huge palisade. [Read more about the strange site.]
Sequencing a Mummy
Scientists sequenced DNA from mummies from the settlement of Abusir el-Meleq, south of Cairo, and were buried between 1380 B.C. and A.D. 425.
Credit: bpk/Aegyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, SMB/Sandra Steiss
For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the DNA from Egyptian mummies. The findings reveal that these ancient people were more genetically similar to populations living in the eastern Mediterranean — a region that today includes Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and Iraq — than people living in modern-day Egypt.
Worldwide, the remains of thousands of mummies from ancient Egypt have been excavated, but obtaining intact, undamaged DNA from the bodies has proved challenging. [Read more about the mummy DNA.]
Measuring a Star's Mass
This image shows an Einstein ring (middle right), which occurs when a massive object acts like a lens for light coming toward the observer from a background object. This phenomenon is known as gravitational lensing, and recently used for the first time to measure the mass of an individual star.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
The mass of Stein 2051 B, a white dwarf star located about 18 light-years from Earth, has been a subject of some controversy for over a century. Now, a group of astronomers has finally made a precise measurement of the star's mass and settled a 100-year-old debate, using a cosmic phenomenon first predicted by Albert Einstein.
Einstein's theory of general relativity hypothesized that space is flexible rather than fixed, and that massive objects (like stars) create curves in space, sort of like a bowling ball creating a curve on the surface of a mattress. The degree to which an object warps space-time depends on how massive that object is (similarly, a heavier bowling ball puts a deeper imprint on a mattress). [Read more about the experiment in relativity.]
'Thinking' Flora
Plant seeds have miniature "brains" that help them decide when to germinate. Two different regions in the root tip of the embryo release opposing hormones. When the "go" hormone levels outcompete the "stop" hormone levels, the seed germinates.
Credit: George Bassel and Matthew Jackson
Plant seeds may use miniature "brains" to help them decide whether to sprout or stay dormant, new research suggests.
The idea that plants can feel, hear or see is not new; researchers have shown that seedlings arc toward sounds of certain frequencies or hasten their growth when a competing species is planted nearby. And plants can communicate with each other when danger is nearby, according to a 2007 study in the journal Oecologia. [Read more about the plant's brain.]
Older Than We Know
The oldest bones of Homo sapiens were found at the archaeological site of Jebel Irhoud. Here, a view of the site showing the remaining deposits and people excavating them (center). Some 300,000 years ago, this site, which would have been a cave, was occupied by early hominins.
Credit: Shannon McPherron/MPI EVA Leipzig
The oldest known bones of our species, dating back around 300,000 years, have been discovered in a cave in Morocco.
Archaeologists uncovered the human fossils, including a partial skull and a lower jaw, during excavations at the archaeological site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco that began in 2004. But the site has a much earlier excavation history: Scientists first found some of the remains of these same individuals, along with stone tools, in the 1960s during mining operations. [Read more about the oldest fossils.]
Hunting Snakes
Researchers found that cave-dwelling Cuban boas will oordinate their hunts to increase their chances of catching prey.
Credit: Vladimir Dinets/University of Tennessee
When cave-dwelling Cuban boas fancy a meal, they band together to hunt for bats by concealing themselves along the cave entrance and forming a wall of deadly snakes before launching their coordinated strikes, according to a new study on the rare occurrence of snakes hunting in packs.
And coordination among snakes to catch prey has never been proved, said study author Vladimir Dinets, a professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, who specializes in animal behavior. [Read more about the snake packs.]
Lost Mind of St. John Bosco
Parts of the brain of St. John Bosco are kept in glass behind the altar at the basilica of Castelnuovo, near Turin, Italy.
Credit: Andrea Cherchi
When pilgrims lined up in a church in northern Italy to pray before the relic of St. John Bosco, the revered founder of the Salesian religious order, on Saturday (June 3), they encountered a sign with an unexpected message: "Closed. Under construction."
As pressure mounted over the puzzling sign, the church revealed a shocking truth: Someone had stolen preserved brain bits of a saint. [Read more about the missing aircraft.]
Herbs and Mental Risks
A man in Italy who had developed psychosis — meaning he lost touch with reality — did so after consuming an herbal tea made with St. John's wort, according to a recent report of this case.
The case in Italy involved a 25-year-old man who was admitted to the hospital after two of his friends, who accompanied him to the hospital, told the doctors that he had been acting strangely in the past few days. The man behaved as if he were under the influence of an illegal drug, the friends said. [Read more about the unusual case.]
Instinct vs. Problem Solving
For more than a millennium, scholars have noticed a curious correlation: Atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people.
But why does this association exist? Dutton set out to find answer, thinking that perhaps it was because nonreligious people were more rational than their religious brethren, and thus better able to reason that there was no God, he wrote. [Read more about differences.]
Novel Approach to Addiction
As heroin-related deaths soar in the United States, a group of researchers said they may be one step closer to developing a vaccine that could block the drug's addictive high.
Heroin produces a high by activating the opioid receptors in the nervous system, triggering feelings of euphoria. The danger is that the drug can also cause the body's systems to become too relaxed, causing a slowdown in breathing. A common cause of death among people who overdose on heroin is respiratory arrest. That is, the person stops breathing and dies. [Read more about the vaccine.]
Photographer accidentally captures large UFO over Copper Mountain, Colorado
Photographer accidentally captures large UFO over Copper Mountain, Colorado
I was a front-seat passenger riding on HWY 70, a few miles North East from Copper Mountain, Colorado on June 1, 2017
We exited onto exit 190, near the Vail Pass Rest Area to take photos of the snow and the semi-frozen lake (Black Lake).
As we approached Black Lake on the service road, I began snapping photos of the lake. 4 passengers in our vehicle proceeded to exit the vehicle and take additional photos of the snow in the area and also Black Lake.
Once we were on our way back onto Hwy 70, I began to view all of my photos, and to my surprise, I had captured a UFO.
After much review of the photo, I have ruled out that the object captured in my photo could be a smashed bug on the windshield, a light from inside/outside the vehicle, an airplane, or any other reasonable object. We did not hear a sound before, during, or after the photo.
At this time of day (6:25pm) the sun was to my East (left in the photo) and you can clearly see the sun light on the top the UFO and a shadow below the UFO.
While I was snapping the photo, I was only looking at my phone screen and at the Black Lake to ensure I was centered on the lake. The driver was not looking in the direction of the UFO to notice it, and the 2 passengers were looking at their respective phones at the time that I snapped this photo.
So, there was no one that saw the UFO at the moment the photo was taken. The photo was simply taken at the exact moment this UFO was passing over the tree tops and across Black Lake. Mufon case 84246.
Earth Faces an Increased Risk of Being Hit by an Asteroid, Astronomers Warn
Earth Faces an Increased Risk of Being Hit by an Asteroid, Astronomers Warn
By Elizabeth Howell, Seeker
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Earth may be threatened by a newly discovered branch of a stream of meteoroids, increasing the risk that the planet will be struck by a meteoroid or asteroid. A team of astronomers from the Czech Academy of Sciences announced the findings on Tuesday after studying the Taurid meteoroid stream. The stream produces a meteor shower that usually has a long period of activity in October and November and produces a low number of meteors. The meteors — light phenomena that are seen when a meteoroid enters the planet’s atmosphere and vaporizes, also referred to as “shooting stars” — occur when Earth’s orbit plows into the stream of debris left behind by Comet Encke. Most of these particles are quite tiny and pose no threat whatsoever, but the Czech astronomers have tracked a new branch of the stream from which particles are intersecting with the planet. The branch includes two asteroids with diameters of between 200 and 300 meters (roughly 650-1000 feet). These asteroids are not themselves on a collision course with Earth, but their identification suggests that there may be other asteroids of this size or larger lurking undiscovered within this stream. As such, the astronomers are urging a concentrated search for more Taurid asteroids, to see if any potentially threatening ones exist. “Since asteroids of sizes of tens to hundreds meters pose a threat to the ground even if they are intrinsically weak, impact hazard increases significantly when the Earth encounters the Taurid new branch every few years,” they write in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. “Further studies leading to [a] better description of this real source of potentially hazardous objects, which can be large enough to cause significant regional or even continental damage on the Earth, are therefore extremely important.” It’s worth noting, however, that no threatening objects have yet been discovered.Though the prospect of continental damage and regional catastrophe coming from space is alarming, more observations will be needed before drawing conclusions based on the Czech team’s research.
NASA is regularly working to anticipate the possible collision of a massive cosmic particle with Earth and assess any potential impact risks. It operates a collision monitoring system called Sentry that routinely scans for asteroids and determines the likelihood of impact over the next 100 years. It also freely catalogs these rocky bodies at the JPL Small-Body Database Browser. The debris stream from Comet Encke is influenced in part by the gravity of Jupiter, a massive gas giant planet that is known to influence the orbits of comets and asteroids in that region of the solar system. As such, from time Jupiter’s gravity can redirect the debris so that more particles hit the Earth.
A bright Taurid fireball is recorded at the NASA All Sky Fireball Network station in Tullahoma, Tennessee, in 2014.
Credit: NASADuring one of these “enhanced” Taurid meteor showers in 2015 caused by Encke’s redirection, the astronomers from the Czech Academy of Sciences analyzed 144 Taurid fireballs — meteors that produce a large flash when they hit the atmosphere. Observations were taken from the European Fireball Network. Of the analyzed fireballs, about 113 of them have common characteristics, including sharing approximately the same orbit. The astronomers concluded, based on previous showers, that these fireballs come from a new branch of the Taurid stream being redirected by Jupiter’s gravity.
Next, the astronomers analyzed the orbital paths of asteroids 2015 TX24 and 2005 UR. Due to their similarities to the newly discovered path of the Taurid fireballs, the astronomers in turn argued that these two asteroids — each about 200-300 meters in diameter — are also members of the new branch. Analysis of the fireballs suggests that the large asteroids are weak in structure, although at larger sizes they would not break up easily in the Earth’s atmosphere. A few years ago, NASA created a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to bring together the observations of all US networks looking for near-Earth asteroids, and to help come up with plans in the unlikely chance that the Earth is under threat. You can read more about the office’s work at its website. Other countries, such as the European Union, have similar asteroid observation networks in place.
The fireball was said to be so big it was visible in skies above Maryland, Washing DC and Virginia, US.
In the clip, filmed on a driver’s dashboard camera, the mysterious sphere lights up the night sky as it rockets past.
Two people inside the car simultaneously gasp and say “wow” as the glowing orb emerges.
It quickly loses its glow, with the sky descending back into darkness.
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BIZARRE: There were more than 100 reported UFO sightings in Maryland
The bizarre burst of light was thought to be a shooting star but was later determined to be a meteor.
It appears bright because it is burning up as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere.
This fireball or meteor was reported to the American Meteor Society 28 times.
If a fireball or meteor were to reach Earth's surface, it would be called a meteorite.
Small meteors pass through our atmosphere almost every day, but most go undetected.
But UFO hunters believe this isn’t the first time the sky above Maryland has been visited by an unknown object.
There were actually six UFO sightings reported in Maryland in December alone last year, with four more in January 2017 alone.
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There were more than 100 UFO sightings clocked over the last year according to the National UFO Reporting Centre.
One of the most widely reported, over picturesque Chesapeake Bay on the US East Coast, was said to be bright burning lights speeding through the sky in a triangular shape.
“It was very bright, pulsating and moving at incredible speed, not an aircraft,” one witness reported.
In terms of revelations, it's not the most explosive. No aliens, secret NSA bases or stranded Matt Damons just yet. But slowly, with the aid of our remote robotic friend, our understanding of the Mars environment and how it came to be is getting clearer.
Since arriving on the red planet back in 2012, the rover has been drilling, analysing and collecting data on the ground it covers. This include its landing area, dubbed "Mount Sharp", as well as "Pahrump Hills" and "Confidence Hills", among others.
The minerals found in the four samples drilled near the base of Mount Sharp suggest several different environments were present in ancient Gale Crater. There is evidence for waters with different pH and variably oxidizing conditions. The minerals also show that there were multiple source regions for the rocks in "Pahrump Hills" and "Marias Pass."
It goes on to mention the Mount Sharp samples point to a "primitive magma source ... rich in iron and magnesium, similar to basalts in Hawaii", while those take higher contained "silica-rich minerals ... [and] minerals similar to quartz".
Curiosity even found a mineral called "tridymite", which was somewhat perplexing:
Tridymite is found on Earth, for example, in rocks that formed from partial melting of Earth's crust or in the continental crust — a strange finding because Mars never had plate tectonics.
And that's not all. Clay minerals appeared at Confidence Hills and Mojave 2, along with jarosite, which "indicates that there were acidic fluids at some point in time in this region".
In addition, the presence of hematite and magnetite has provided scientists information about water on Mars:
Hematite contains oxidized iron, whereas magnetite contains both oxidized and reduced forms of iron. The type of iron-oxide mineral present may tell scientists about the oxidation potential of the ancient waters.
When considered together, NASA has a more solid picture of a Mars that was "once really wet, but now is dry and cold", according to mission scientist Elizabeth Rampe. It might be a while before we have a definitive history of Mars' ancient waterways, but coming up to its fifth anniversary on the planet, Curiosity continues to do good work.
VIDEO:Aliens visiting us from time immemorial? In Egypt, they found evidence!
VIDEO: Aliens visiting us from time immemorial? In Egypt, they found evidence!
According to various theories planet Earth extraterrestrial beings visiting for a very long time. And even before the first reported cases of UFO sightings in modern history.
Egyptian hieroglyphics are fascinating, and not without reason called the Cosmic Gods Word, which gave Thoth.
I took the liberty to translate the hieroglyphic writing interesting text: “In the twenty second decade reign, the third month of winter and the sixth day. When studying in the House of Life was seen as an odd fiery disc arrives from the sky and the smell of his bowels. Disk size was equal in length and in width. Making no sound.
Then also he appeared at the house of His Majesty. Our hearts were confused, and we fell on the belly to the ground. Some of us went Majesty to report this event. Our Lord commanded, it is necessary to consult this event scrolls, which are located in the House of Life. His Majesty meditated on all these events that are happening now
After several days, the disks have become more numerous in the sky than ever. They shone in the sky over the brightness of the sun, and spread to all four sides of heaven and remained motionless in the air state.
Our army watched with His Majesty in their midst. It was after the evening when disks rise still higher in the sky towards the south. Fish and a variety of birds raining from the sky. A phenomenon never before known since the foundation of the country. His Majesty meditate incense to be lulled heart of Amun-Re, the God of both countries. It happened that the incident was recorded by His Majesty to the Archives of the House of Life, there to remain registered forever. “
Thus is the translation of the text of the old Egyptian empire that brought Alberto Tulli from Cairo 1933. Tulliho papyrusTulli was head of the Egyptian section of the Vatican Museum. In 1933 he arrived in Cairo, where he had previously stayed many times. Walking street bazaars and antique shops, where they can be appear genuine rarities, which is getting rid of robbers tombs. In one such shop he noticed Tulli papyrus, which was a special text. Certainly he did not understand as we do today. Then the talk about UFOs. Svitek he was impressed and encouraged dealers to trade. However, the vendor demanded an exorbitant sum, therefore, at least Tulli copied the text with hieroglyphs.
VIDEO: In 1989 Bob Lazar revealed to the public that he studied an Alien propulsion system for the U.S. Military at a secret base near the infamous Area 51. Experience a glimpse into the personas surrounding the most infamous UFO case of all time.
Jeremy Corbell, for a discussion on his various film projects which cover topics such as ufological icons John Lear and Bob Lazar, alien implants, and a scientist working with advanced nanotechnology. Corbell traced his interest in Lear back to a fascination with the aviator’s controversial and revelatory statements about UFOs in the 1980’s.
When flying saucers visit Earth they are immediately blasted out of the sky by all the military resources we can throw at it – Well, that’s the Hollywood way of dealing with things.
In reality, how would we deal with the prospect of alien visitations? It’s a question that has taunted us for decades, and a range of scenarios run from the plausible to the outright incredible.
On the possibility of direct attack, Professor Stephen Hawking claims ET contact is dangerous, because they ‘may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria’.
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Theoretical physicist, Michio Kaku warns:
If they are hostile, it would be like Bambi meeting Godzilla if we ever had to fight them…we would present no military challenge to such an advanced civilisation…We would be a pushover for them. Forget all the Hollywood movies.
Ryan Sprague, the author of Somewhere in the Skies notes that so far UFOs don’t seem to represent an alien threat to humanity:
It would appear that we’ve been so aggressively conditioned to believe an invasion would be catastrophic and benevolent beyond comprehension, that any advanced civilisation would come to our planet with an agenda of taking over and using our resources to it’s advantage.
While I can understand this pessimistic view, the decades and decades of possible alien visitation here on the planet already, and the countless UFO sightings throughout the world, would indicate that if they were to do such a thing, they would have done it already.
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UFO sceptic Robert Sheaffer isn’t too concerned about the threat of an alien invasion either, he says:
Well, I would worry about an alien invasion about as much as I would worry about a Zombie Apocalypse. Both are equally implausible.
First, any supposed alien invaders would have to find us. Given that they would be at least several light years away in some other solar system, and probably much farther than that, finding us and learning what earth is like is not so easy.
Second, they need to somehow get here, which is very difficult, even if we assume they have advanced technology, because fundamental physics tells us that they would need insanely large amounts of energy to accelerate space ships to relativistic speeds – and then to decelerate them when they arrive.
Even nuclear fusion power is woefully inefficient compared to what would be needed. If they are bringing along scary armaments and supplies, that’s just more mass to add to their armada.
Protection And The Lack Thereof
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Whatever the facts of UFOs as alien invaders, what should we do to protect ourselves other than to have a tin foil hat at the ready?
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and their Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (CUPUOS) is not geared for such possibilities.
UNOOSA director Simonetta Di Pippo tells us:
UNOOSA and COPUOS Member States consider a range of space science and space exploration topics, fields in which the topic of astrobiology sits. However, the Office for Outer Space Affairs has been given no mandate by Member States to consider the question of potential advanced or intelligent extraterrestrial life.
For this reason there is no protocol or process for any contact by extraterrestrial life.
The Threat Of Artificial Intelligence
Michael Michaud author of ‘Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials’ (2007) says we shouldn’t be concerned because as he observes in his book, ‘UFO advocates have not yet proven their thesis that some UFOs are visitors from other worlds. I also said that aliens stepping out of a spacecraft on the Earth may be the least likely form of contact.’
He goes on to wonder, ‘Why would extraterrestrials make such a long journey? If they are capable of interstellar flight, they won't need the Earth's territory or resources.’
Michael thinks, ‘A more likely scenario is a visit by an unmanned interstellar probe equipped with artificial intelligence. Intelligent machines don't need the massive spacecraft required to transport biological beings over vast distances, and they are patient.'
Invisible Defence In The War Of The Worlds
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‘Assuming they do somehow get here,’ says Robert Sheaffer ‘presumably it is because they believe that they can live on our Earth, if they can only get rid of us. H.G. Wells was onto something when he had his fictional Martian invaders killed off by earthly microbes. Our bodies consist of not just 'us,' but an entire biome of separate organisms: the bacteria in our gut, microbes and mites living on our skin, etc.
Sheaffer adds:
It is doubtful that our bodies could survive in an entirely alien biosphere with different parasites, different foods, etc. The same problem would apply to any alien beings who might come here.
Sprague agrees that, ‘we simply can't even begin to comprehend their genetic make-up, whether or not they posses any type of progressive knowledge, or even if they harbour emotions, empathy, ethics, or morals.’
A Technological Gamble
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Malcolm Robinson founder of Strange Phenomena Investigations (SPI) observes that situations of contact between human civilisations set a disturbing precedent:
We have learned that when any technological superior race gets involved with an inferior race the inferior race usually comes off worse (as the history of this planet has shown). We can only hope that when that day comes, when another technological race meets mankind it will not prove to be disastrous and to our disadvantage.
That is a good reason for not trying to send signals out to alien civilisations in our galaxy, but has the horse already bolted as our planet has already beamed radio messages out to celestial targets since 1962?
Michael Michaud says we shouldn’t worry:
The vast majority of those signals are too weak to reach the distance of the nearest star. As Frank Drake has pointed out, we actually are becoming less detectable because of changes in the way we use radio technology. The powerful one-time message he sent from Arecibo in 1974 was aimed at a distant star cluster, not at nearby stars.
A United Front
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Philip Mantle, Veteran UFO researcher, author and publisher at FLYING DISK PRESS , doesn’t think UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin, but says if we were invaded we would cope with the situation and ‘Mankind would hope to pull together as one to stand up to any such invasion.’
Sprague, is equally optimistic:
I believe that factions of the world would unite...and others would separate. Science and religion would be shattered overnight, but would continue.
Our hope would be to benefit and expand our own sciences and core beliefs by finding some way to communicate with this advanced civilisation.
What If We Don't Know We've Been Invaded?
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Neuro-psychologist, Gabriel G. De la Torre, professor at the University of Cádiz thinks there is a distinct possibility of aliens visiting, but says:
I am not sure we will be fully conscious about it. The main problem in this topic is it has been approached in a very simplistic way.
I don't think we can be a real problem for Cosmos in any way. It is more probable we may be researched rather than destroyed.
Stealth is a possible approach, however I can not imagine an equal to equal agreement with people of Earth....I don't think we could even understand their strategy.
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As to whether they might secretly manipulate humanity, Gabriel says:
I think this could actually happen even without humans noticing...
If they conform to another consciousness state of mind they could try to operate in our belief systems and consciousness in a subtle way until a more physical approach is convenient for both sides of the communication process. This could be a gradual process.
Even in the radio message approach, this may happen. I don't believe they will exchange codes, numbers and pictures in the same way we are trying to do. These messages if they happen anytime will have a deeply rooted message direct to our own consciousness.
Reasons To Be Cheerful
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If there is ever any kind of alien contact Malcolm Robinson, hopes it could be positive:
It will be both enlightening and wonderful which may change not just our technology but medicine and the way we look at ourselves in the cosmos. As a researcher into the UFO enigma I look forward with anticipation to that day which I hope will be in my lifetime.
So with bacteria, unity, perhaps a little humility, the prospect of an alien invasion needn't necessarily strike fear into our hearts. It could be the driving force behind bigger and better things.
Strange mysteries seem to gravitate to some places, and oddness and enigmas gather about them like flies to a rotting corpse. Here in these realms of the strange we can find a mish-mash of legends, myths, and real cases of the unexplained, perhaps all of it congealing together into some vague idea of what the truth may be. One place that has proved to be ground zero for some truly bizarre stories is a mountain that lies in one of the most beautiful spots in Europe, and which perhaps cloaks its real, sinister nature in a veneer of natural magnificence.
Located amongst the Berchtesgaden Alps, which straddle the border between Berchtesgaden, Germany and Salzburg, Austria and looming over the Salzburg Basin and Salzach Valley a table-top mountain, technically a massif, known as the Untersberg, which directly translates to “under-mountain.” Most famous for its lopsided shape and for being featured in the beloved musical film The Sound of Music, and rising around 1,973 meters (6,473 feet) over its surrounding vistas, the mountain has a commanding presence, and is a popular destination for tourists from nearby Salzburg, Austria, who come here to see the stunning natural splendor on display and enjoy a myriad of outdoor activities.
The Untersberg
This majestic formation, with its vast natural beauty, also has a range of strange legends associated with it, such as that it is the resting place of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (1122 – 1190), who is said to slumber there awaiting a resurrection that will herald the end of the world, and another well-known legend saying that the great king Charlemagne lives on or within the bowels of the mountain surrounded by dwarf-like creatures called Untersberger Mandln. Indeed the mountain has long been said to be inhabited by various demons, spirits, strange beasts, lost civilizations, and dwarf-like beings. It was legends such as these that allegedly drew the attention of Hitler, who by some accounts became absolutely obsessed with the mysterious mountain, building a house on the nearby Mt. Berghof, on the Austrian border, from which he purportedly fanatically watched the Untersberg with special high powered telescopes. It is said that he believed the mountain held supernatural energies and entities that he hoped to harness and tame for his own nefarious purposes.
Whether the mountain truly holds such paranormal secrets or not is unknown, but there certainly are various tales of high strangeness from here, often inextricably mixed in with the legends and lore, and the Untersberg has become known as a place very steeped in the world of the weird. One persistently reported phenomenon from here is that of missing time and suddenly finding oneself in a different area without any explanation, as if one has been spontaneously teleported. Hikers have reported losing consciousness and then waking up in an unfamiliar part of the mountain with minutes or hours missing and unaccounted for. In some of these odd reports the person has inexplicably travelled many miles away within the span of just a few minutes, and such tales have stirred up speculation including that the mountain holds vortices of some sort that have the power to teleport people, time warps, or that these are victims of alien abductions, which would be somewhat fitting considering the Untersberg is a hotspot for UFO sightings as well.
One of the weirdest stories concerning the anomalies of missing time and teleportation at Untersberg was described by the Austrian author calling himself Stan Wolf, his pen name, in a 2011 book titled Gems of Dominion: Mysterious Mount Untersberg, which would end up expanding to encompass a full 6 volumes. Wolf claimed that he actually went to the mountain with a friend and actively searched for these time slips, actually finding some locations where their watches would diverge by seconds or minutes. After exploring more of the area, Wolf says that they came across a group of men living in one of the many caves of the mountain, and that these people claimed to be SS soldiers from World War II, still young and under the command of the notorious SS general Hans Kammler. Bizarrely, the alleged soldiers appeared to have had no idea that so many years had passed, and seemed to truly believe that the war had ended only months before. Wolf then ascertains that the cave they had been hiding out in displays a major temporal anomaly, with time passing by at a much slower pace within its confines.
Wolf’s explanation for the time anomalies is every bit as far-out as the phenomena itself. He claims that in 1220, a group of the Knights Templar returning from a Crusade was in the wilds of Mesopotamia when they suddenly encountered an apparition in the form of the goddess Isais, who instructed them to build a dwelling upon the faraway Untersberg. The goddess then supposedly gave them strange black gems called “Gems of Dominion” to take with them. The knights did as they were told and constructed a temple for Isais within a cavern in the mountain, after which she would appear again with a series of prophecies and information concerning a variety of secret knowledge, such as the location of the Holy Grail. It is these Gems of Dominion that are said to have the power to slow down time, among various other abilities. It is important to note that while the books are presented as straight fiction, they are also advertised as based on true events, and the author himself cryptically suggests that they are the truth merely masquerading as fiction, saying:
Many things are too unfathomable to write them down like that. Perhaps they even should stay hidden, for the human mind accepts only what is familiar with. Therefore I am writing this book in the disguise of a novel. It is up to each reader to decide what he will acknowledge as true.
Is any of this book true, is it just a bunch of made-up nonsense, or a mixture of both? Who knows? Another idea is that these cases of purported temporal or spacial displacement might be due to numerous portals scattered about the mountain that supposedly lead to other realms or dimensions. The Germans apparently believed that such portals could be found in the mountain’s extensive cave networks, and indeed at the end of the war many of Hitler’s men are said to have retreated into these caves in order to escape to other dimensions, never to be seen again. Others have reported passing towns or villages that were not there when they returned, possibly glimpses into some other dimension.
Whatever is the cause of these phenomena, it could be linked to one of the biggest mysteries of the Untersberg, which is that of persistent vanishings that have supposedly occurred here, with hundreds of people allegedly having disappeared here to never be seen again. This apparently happens so often that newspapers of the region regularly carry stories of people who have gone missing on the mountain, such as the 2001 vanishing of 39-year-old Max Brandl, who on October 19 of that year parked his car along a hiking trail, set off on a walk, and never returned. An extensive, 7-month search combed the entire area and found not a single trace of the missing man. There is also the case of a young couple who vanished here in 2008, but could not be located despite intensive land and air searches. And on and on it goes, with the area considered to have a disproportional number of such disappearances. One idea is that these people have just fallen down into one of the many caves and caverns in the area, but others point to more mysterious forces at work.
Even more bizarre are the cases of missing people on the Untersberg who have vanished only to reappear later under strange and mysterious circumstances. One such account is that of a hunter named Michael Hulzogger, who in 1738 vanished into thin air on the mountain. Exactly one year later, the missing man came wandering up to his own memorial service in a dazed state. He apparently refused to tell anyone where he had been or what he had been through, finally agreeing to tell only the Archbishop Firman of Salzberg, who was so upset by what he heard that he reportedly resigned from his position and never spoke of it again.
An even stranger account is said to have taken place in 1858, when an entire wedding procession claimed that as they walked a mountain path on their way to the wedding reception, a rock wall opened up from which emerged an elderly, gray haired man who invited them to follow him. When the group went through the mysterious passage, they found themselves in a vast city under the mountain with a plenitude of gold, jewels, and luxurious surroundings. The party was treated to an opulent buffet of food and drink and then supposedly fell asleep. When they woke, they found themselves in different surroundings amongst people who spoke strangely and wore odd clothing. They made it back to the church where the wedding had taken place, but even this place seemed different and the priest was also a different person. When they told the priest what had happened and asked where the rest of the wedding was, but he had no idea of what they were talking about. The priest decided to look into it and found that a wedding procession had vanished in the area, but the most bizarre detail of all was that they had disappeared over a hundred years before.
One of the more recent and most well-known of these weird cases concerns a group of three tourists from Munich, including a married couple, disappeared while exploring on the mountain in 1987. The only trace of them found was their abandoned car, and supposedly no other sign of them was turned up despite a massive search. The missing people were considered to be just more victims of the mountain, but a full 3 months later relatives of the vanished group received a phone call from them explaining that they were on a ship in the Red Sea headed for Alexandria, Egypt. When asked where they had been during the previous 3 months, none of them seemed to have any idea of where they had been or why they were on that ship, and indeed they seemed to not even be aware that so much time had passed.
As much as it is a place of beauty and enchanting vistas, the Untersberg is also one of strange mysteries and unexplained phenomena. It is a place of myth, legend, and weirdness that may perhaps always be beyond our capability to comprehend. Whatever the answers to these various enigmas may be, this is a place still steeped in a mixture of legend, myth, and unexplained phenomena, a place as bizarre as it is beautiful.
A video making the rounds in the web last week shows the statement of a woman who claims she witnessed “strange signs” above Temple Mount in Jerusalem that she believes are holograms created by a machine placed on the mountain by the king of Jordan on behalf of CERN, the Large Hadron Collider. While there are plenty of holes in her testimony, the mention of Temple Mount and CERN gets a lot of attention. Is this the big one, Project Blue Beam, a hoax or something else?
The unidentified woman says her observation occurred a year ago on a visit to Temple Mount and she’s been researching it ever since to determine what she saw and, now that she believes she’s found the answer, to warn the world. The first image she shares is what looks like a common ring cloud that she claims was over the Temple Mount for a few hours. She claimed the second image showed three suns, but the blue dot next to the sun looked like a lens flare and the third sun seems to be a hole in a cloud creating a rainbow. She also shows what she claims are beams of light going up from the Temple Mount to the sky.
At this point, she brings CERN into the picture. She claims that her concern about what she saw moved her to research similar unusual sightings. That’s where she connected Jordan’s King Abdullah II to CERN, a legitimate link since CERN indeed has a particle accelerator lab in Jordan called … get ready … SESAME, which stands for The Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, which coincidentally just opened in May 2017. As she mentions, CERN is also opening labs in other countries. At that point, she makes references to “God’s Atom,” conspiracies, chemtrails and holograms, some of which seemed to be hinted at by the person interviewing her and reinforced by images added later.
That brings us to the source of the video. ‘Round SaturnsEye’ or R$E is a YouTube channel run by David Bass. Bass is a British TV Presenter, writer, satirist and filmmaker based in London. The first dichotomy here is that someone in the TV and film business runs a website which professes that all of “the media, the celebrity culture, and the movies” is a “false projection” of a false god. R$E videos are frequently about the end times or the anti-christ and seem to tie everything wrong in the world to … you guessed it … CERN. R$E tries to depict itself as some sort of ministry and the videos are meant to lead viewers to the “truth.”
CERN doesn’t need any help in scaring people but this video by R$E doesn’t present much of case that a ring cloud and rainbow are CERN-generated holograms beamed as a test or warning of anything. It seems more likely that it was created to fulfill David Bass’ and R$E’s main purpose, which is $.
VIDEOAstronomen hebben gewaarschuwd voor een onverklaarbare verhoogde komeetactiviteit in de buurt van onze planeet. In een geanimeerde video die deze week gelanceerd werd, toont Nasa hoe 10 potentieel gevaarlijke asteroïden de aarde bedreigen.
De beelden komen van Neowise, het ruimteagentschap van NASA dat verantwoordelijk is voor het opsporen van asteroïden. Wetenschappers hebben het afgelopen jaar 10 nieuwe potentieel gevaarlijke asteroïden ontdekt, samen met 96 andere kometen. De experts die de gegevens analyseerden spreken van een onverklaarde toename in komeetactiviteit. "Het risico stijgt dat de aarde zal botsen met een asteroïde van de meteorietenregen Taurids", aldus Tsjechische astronomen.
Zij ontdekten een nieuwe tak van Taurids met minstens twee asteroïden van ongeveer 200 tot 300 meter diameter. De Tsjechische Academie voor Wetenschappen meldt in een persbericht: "Heel waarschijnlijk schuilen in deze tak verschillende asteroïden met een diameter van tientallen meters die we nu niet kunnen zien. Het gevaar op een crash met een asteroïde groeit elke keer dat de planeet aarde deze stroom tegenkomt. Deze nieuwe tak van Taurids beweegt rond de zon en de aarde kruist deze om de paar jaar gedurende een periode van ongeveer drie weken. Tijdens deze periode neemt de kans op een botsing met een groter object aanzienlijk toe."
NASA geeft toe dat deze asteroïden erg kwetsbaar zijn, maar wanneer ze zo groot als deze exemplaren zijn, kunnen ze diep in de atmosfeer binnendringen. Dan wordt de kans op een crash met de aarde reëel.
'Near Earth Object' (NEO) of 'Aardscheerder' is een komeet of asteroïde die uit koers raakt door de aantrekkingskracht van de planeten in ons zonnesysteem, hierdoor komen ze in de buurt van de aarde. Sinds de oprichting van Neowise in december 2013 werden 693 NEO's gevonden, 114 van hen zijn nieuw. Zo werden al verschillende asteroïden ontdekt die een risico vormen voor onze planeet, dit hangt voornamelijk af van hun grootte en hun baan. Een voorbeeld: de 2015 BN509 die in februari rakelings langs de aarde scheerde. Dat kende toen een goede afloop, maar wetenschappers waarschuwen dat de asteroïde kan terugkomen.
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CIA-agent die in Area 51 was doet op sterfbed onthutsende uitspraak. Lees hier zijn schokkende verklaring
CIA-agent die in Area 51 was doet op sterfbed onthutsende uitspraak. Lees hier zijn schokkende verklaring
De Amerikaanse president Eisenhower wilde tijdens zijn regeerperiode informatie inwinnen over het geheime genootschap Majestic 12 en buitenaardse projecten in de omgeving van Area 51.
Dat stelde een vermeende ex-CIA-agent die anoniem wilde blijven. De agent werd naar eigen zeggen samen met zijn chef naar de basis gestuurd om een boodschap over te brengen.
De boodschap luidde dat de president Area 51 en de nabijgelegen basis S-4 onder militair toezicht zou stellen als zijn verzoek niet zou worden ingewilligd.
Graf
Deze uitspraken werden gedaan tijdens een interview waarin de 77-jarige man duidelijk in beeld was, maar niet bij naam werd genoemd.
Het interview is opgenomen in 2013, maar op verschillende UFO-fora wordt er momenteel over gediscussieerd. Het is niet duidelijk of de man nog leeft.
Schrijver Richard Dolan interviewde de man, die zei dat hij last had van nierproblemen en mogelijk nog maar enkele maanden te leven had. Hij wilde zijn geheimen ‘niet meenemen in zijn graf’.
Opgeroepen
Hij vertelde hoe hij in 1958 door de CIA in Langley werd gerekruteerd om zich te verdiepen in het onderwerp buitenaards leven.
Het was zijn taak om documenten van een vliegbasis in Fort Belvoir over UFO’s en buitenaardsen te onderzoeken.
De man zei dat hij in 1958 samen met zijn baas werd opgeroepen door president Eisenhower.
Roswell
De president, die op dat moment werd vergezeld door vicepresident Nixon, vertelde het tweetal dat hij informatie probeerde op te diepen over buitenaards leven en bepaalde technologieën.
Volgens Eisenhower ‘zou Majestic 12 dat uitzoeken, maar werd hij niet op de hoogte gehouden’.
In Area 51 en S-4 zou de CIA-agent verschillende hangars hebben gezien met buitenaardse toestellen, waaronder de UFO die bij Roswell was neergekomen.
Grey
In S-4 zou hij bovendien levende buitenaardsen hebben gezien, waaronder een Grey die door zijn baas werd geïnterviewd.
Eenmaal terug in het Witte Huis, waar ook FBI-directeur J. Edgar Hoover was aangeschoven, vertelden de twee wat ze hadden gezien.
De man zei dat Eisenhower geschokt reageerde. Bekijk het interview hieronder terug:
Monsterlijk grote graancirkel verschenen in één nacht. Dit is onmogelijk door mensenhanden gemaakt
Monsterlijk grote graancirkel verschenen in één nacht. Dit is onmogelijk door mensenhanden gemaakt
In de nacht van 1 op 2 juni is een reusachtige graancirkel ontstaan in Frankrijk. De formatie, die zich bevindt nabij Sancerre, bestaat uit een aantal cirkels waarvan de grootste een doorsnee heeft van ongeveer een halve kilometer.
De graancirkel, net buiten Crézancy-en-Sancerre, trok veel bekijks. Eén van de bezoekers was Didier Chaumien, die besloot met zijn gezin de formatie te bewonderen.
“We hebben nog nooit zoiets gezien in de regio,” vertelde hij aan zender France 3. “Je vraagt je af hoe zoiets wordt gedaan. Nergens zijn sporen achtergelaten. Waanzinnig dit!”
Aangifte
Boer Jean-Paul Millet, de eigenaar van het weiland waarin de graancirkel is verschenen, was minder onder de indruk. Hij heeft aangifte gedaan.
“Het gaat hier om een gebied van één hectare, oftewel een oogst van zes ton,” zei hij tegen Le Journal du Centre.
Eerder
Hij schat dat de cirkels hem een schadepost van ongeveer 1000 euro zullen opleveren. “Ik zie hier het nut niet van in,” aldus de boze boer.
In Frankrijk zijn eerder graancirkels verschenen. In 2012 werden er formaties gevonden in de departementen Nièvre en Loiret en in 2009 werd er één gemeld nabij de stad Bourges.
ENORME UFO VERSCHIJNT UIT DIMENSIEPORTAAL ( VIDEO )
ENORME UFO VERSCHIJNT UIT DIMENSIEPORTAAL ( VIDEO )
Wij denken dat er simpelweg een onweerswolk in de lucht hangt, waar dreigende bliksemflitsen in heen en weer dansen.
Echter, soms is dit niet zomaar een onweerswolk, maar één die wordt gebruikt als dimensieportaal voor UFO’s om zo naar verre oorden in ons universum te kunnen reizen.
Wanneer je belangstelling hebt voor UFO's, dan heb je dat waarschijnlijk ook voor de mogelijke manieren waarop deze zich razendsnel kunnen verplaatsen en er bestaan dan ook verschillende theorieën.
Eén van de geopperde mogelijkheden is dat deze ruimteschepen interdimensionaal reizen en daarbij gebruikmaken van een soort dimensiepoorten.
Op dit moment gaan er opnames de wereld rond, waarin precies dat fenomeen te zien is.
Het gaat om een enorme UFO die tevoorschijn komt vanuit een dreigende onweerswolk.
Het is een grote onweerswolk en door de niet aflatende bliksem is de UFO heel goed zichtbaar.
Het is jammer genoeg niet duidelijk waar dit voorval zich heeft voorgedaan of wanneer, maar desalniettemin is het indrukwekkend.
De afgelopen jaren schreven we regelmatig over vreemde wolken die af en toe aan de hemel verschijnen en waar met de regelmaat van de klok UFO’s in en uit vliegen.
Wanneer je dan beelden ziet zoals wij die regelmatig laten zien, waarbij onbekende vliegende objecten met enorme snelheid verdwijnen in een soort onweerswolk om er vervolgens niet meer uit te komen, dan is het niet zo vreemd om te veronderstellen dat we hier te maken hebben met een dimensieportaal.
Een toegangspoort die door buitenaardsen wordt gebruikt om met hun UFO’s op aarde aan te komen en/of te vertrekken, waardoor ze via die poorten de normale beperkingen van tijd en ruimte omzeilen en zo in "no time" andere delen van ons universum kunnen bereiken.
Een wormgat, ook bekend als een Einstein-Rosen brug, is een hypothetische mogelijkheid om binnen de ruimtetijd sneller dan het licht te reizen. In de normale ruimte kan men tussen twee punten niet sneller reizen dan het licht, maar volgens de theorie van een wormgat bestaat er een "korte weg" in het universum. Langs deze korte weg is het dan mogelijk om sneller naar een ander punt in de ruimte te reizen dan wanneer je zou "omreizen" over de normale weg, ook al zou je dat doen met de snelheid van het licht.
De term wormgat werd bedacht door de Amerikaanse theoretisch natuurkundige John Wheeler in 1957, maar het idee van wormgaten was al getheoretiseerd in 1921 door de Duitse wiskundige Hermann Weyl in verband met zijn analyse van de massa in termen van het elektromagnetisch veld.
De naam wormgat komt van de analogie die vroeger gebruikt werd om dit uit te leggen: beeld je in dat het universum de schil van een appel is, en een worm van de éne zijde van de appel naar de andere zijde wil geraken. Als de worm op de schil van de appel blijft is de kortste afstand de helft van de omtrek van de appel. Maar als de worm in plaats van rond te gaan, een gat (wormgat) graaft recht door de appel, is de afstand merkbaar minder, namelijk de diameter van de appel.
Dit zou dan ook verklaren hoe het kan dat buitenaardsen in een oogwenk naar andere planeten kunnen reizen.
Naast de vele voorbeelden die we hebben gezien met vreemde wolken, zijn er ook aanwijzingen dat ze dergelijke wormgaten gebruiken net buiten de atmosfeer in de ruimte rondom onze planeet.
Er komen regelmatig verhalen van mensen die bepaalde flitsen waarnemen aan de hemel. Het duurt maar kort en ze bestrijken ook maar een klein deel van de hemel. Omdat het zo snel gaat, is dit fenomeen ook heel moeilijk vast te leggen.
Degene die dat wel is gelukt, of die het gelukt is dit fenomeen op NASA beelden te vinden, is de bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1.
Het zijn allemaal geen geïsoleerde incidenten. Ook in februari dit jaar schreven wij over een dergelijk voorval in Argentinië.
De opname is enkele dagen geleden gemaakt bij de Zárate-Brazo Largo brug die aan de rand van de Argentijnse stad Buenos Aires ligt.
Al jaren schrijven wij nu over vreemde wolken die niet thuis horen in een bepaald landschap. Onderstaand een dergelijke wolk. Wat ook iedere keer weer kenmerkend is, zijn de bliksemflitsen in de wolk. Alsof je een grote onweerswolk hebt, maar dat eigenlijk niet is.
In de korte video zie je diverse UFO’s ronddartelen waarvan er een aantal met enorme snelheid verdwijnen in de wolk.
Na ongeveer zes seconden zie je er zo één linksboven in beeld verschijnen zoals ook te zien is op de volgende afbeelding.
En wanneer zo’n UFO de wolk in vliegt, ontstaat er op diezelfde plek een bliksemschicht. Wanneer je goed kijkt, dan zie je dat diverse keren gebeuren in die korte video.
De volgende opname is uniek, omdat het ook een bevestiging is van wat verschillende getuigen hebben gezien en van eerder gemaakte en vergelijkbare beelden.
"I was tracking a Fokker Friendship flying from Adelaide to Kingscote on Kangaroo Island," he said.
As the radar slowly turned, Mr Potter said it also pinged a large object near Port Lincoln.
He said this second craft appeared much larger than anything he had seen at that time.
"As the Fokker tracked towards Kangaroo Island, a smaller echo, much smaller than the Fokker, appeared to leave the large echo and fly in a line directly towards the [plane]."
He watched the two signals meet over the skies of Rapid Bay, south of Adelaide, and then saw the smaller object return to the larger one.
Each radar rotation took five seconds to complete.
"With one rotation of the radar antennae, that large echo had moved 70 nautical miles to the north-east," Mr Potter recalled.
"In the next pass it had disappeared off the screen completely."
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Reflective UFO moves fast and erratic in Quintana Roo, Mexico 18-May-2017
Reflective UFO moves fast and erratic in Quintana Roo, Mexico 18-May-2017
Here’s one new footage of a bright orb that was flying across the sky above Quintana Roo in Mexico last month.
Witness report:
I was recently in Quintana Roo Mexico and on 5/18/7 observed what appeared to be a metal object 3 to 5 miles off the coast moving in an erratic manner and not like any known aircraft I’d seen. A vivid reflection is what made me notice the tiny object. I watched the object for roughly 60 to 90 seconds before filming the attached video. I immediately knew it was odd and called to my wife to come and look. Before I could turn the recorder back on it moved upwards and disappeared. I’m usually not out looking for videos to post but wanted others to see what I’d seen and judge for themselves.
Former Arizona Governor Says Aliens Came To His State During Phoenix Lights
Former Arizona Governor Says Aliens Came To His State During Phoenix Lights
The Phoenix Lights is undoubtedly one of the most controversial mass UFO sightings in the world that took place 20 years ago. Many witnesses came forward speaking about the Phoenix Lights with credible backgrounds, including the former Governor of Arizona Fife Symington, 71, who was in service from 1990 to 1998.
Mr Symington revealed in a never before seen footage that he was a witness to the one of the biggest ever mass UFO sightings in the world, and he believed it was extra-terrestrial.
The incident remains one of the most puzzling UFO sightings with thousands of witnesses on record. The strange event happened on March 13, 1997, when many had seen large triangular UFOs drifting over Arizona and Phoenix with sizes that varied from a Boeing 747 to multiple football fields.
Mr Symington made the revelation in 2006 in an interview with UFO investigator James Fox, who just released the never before seen footage from the interview to coincide the 20th anniversary of the unusual mass event.
In the recently released footage, Mr Symington states he believes the UFO sighting went all the way up to the Pentagon. He says that they called the Pentagon and thought the latter knew there had been sightings but not talking about it.
According to official Air Force explanation, the UFOs were just flares, which Mr Symington described as a total bunk. Mr Symington notes that he has seen high-altitude flares and there is no way those lights were flares.
Creepy Stories and Theories About the Black Knight Satellite - PART I
Creepy Stories and Theories About the Black Knight Satellite - PART I
Black Knight satellite conspiracy theories are so juicy you wanna believe them. From ancient civilizations to alien technology, the source material is too good to be denied. Nikola Tesla is even involved. Everything connected to Tesla is too good to be true, including David Bowie’s portrayal of him in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. Wait, and didn’t Nolan also direct The Dark Knight? Doesn’t that sound a lot like Black Knight? There’s another conspiracy for you right there.
This list takes you through Black Knight satellite theories one by one, connecting missing pieces. Is the Black Knight satellite real? Read through the facts to find out.
In 1901, Tesla published an article in Collier’s Weekly detailing his experiments with electrical currents. He claims he experienced unexplained disturbances in electrical signals, and concludes that the source may have been extraterrestrials trying to communicate.
He wrote, “It was some time afterward when the thought flashed upon my mind that the disturbances I had observed might be due to an intelligent control. Although I could not decipher their meaning, it was impossible for me to think of them as having been entirely accidental. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.”
A Norwegian Engineer Heard Its Signal Transmissions
In 1927, amateur Norwegian radio operator Jørgen Hals discovered long delayed echoes (LDEs), which are echoes of short-wave transmissions. He couldn’t figure out what was causing the LDEs, and neither could anyone else; scientists still don’t know what causes them. One theory is that these echoes were the same signals Tesla heard—and they were coming from intelligent beings in space.
Tesla and Hals both heard radio signals they attributed to intelligent beings from space, but in 1960, Ronald Bracewell took things a step further by publishing a theory on how other life forms might try to communicate with us. According to Bracewell, they would fill a probe or satellite with all the information they wanted to communicate and launch it into space. The probe would then seek civilizations capable of interpreting its messages.
Such a probe is necessary because it can travel great distances, and would need to get close to whichever planet it was trying to communicate with in order to transmit its messages. Were the transmissions Tesla and Hals heard coming from such a satellite?
In 1954, reports emerged that Dr. Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico spotted two satellites orbiting the Earth. LaPaz denied the claims, but it’s possible the government was trying to cover up the sighting.
Clyde Tombaugh, famed astronomer who discovered Pluto, was at UNM with Lincoln LaPaz during the supposed Black Satellite sighting. Tombaugh and LaPaz were doing secret research for the military on the existence of alien satellites and the origins of other unexplained phenomena. Tombaugh also denied the satellite reports, but in a much more cryptic manner than his colleague.
A Famed UFOlogist Backed the “Two Satellites” Theory
DAYTON, Ohio — Sputnik I exhibit in the Missile & Space Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)Photo: U.S. Air Force/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons
The first satellite released into space, Sputnik 1, was launched by Russia in October 1957. In 1954, three years before Sputnik, retired Marine Corps Major Donald Keyhoe claimed that two satellites were orbiting Earth, and that Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott had personally seen one of them. Talbott denied the claims. Keyhoe was a UFO expert who wrote several nonfiction books on the subject and was taken quite seriously as a journalist.
In February 1960, several magazines and newspapers reported on a mysterious satellite detected by the US military. No one knew where it came from. In March 1960, Time magazine claimed that the object was a retrorocket from a Discoverer satellite. See, when a satellite returns to Earth, it fires a retrorocket to slow its descent; the retrorocket has a parachute, and is supposed to be picked up by scout planes as it falls.
According to Time, when this particular Discoverer launched its retrorocket in August 1959, it disappeared, and no one noticed it orbiting for five months, even though the Department of Defense (DOD) employed people whose sole responsibility was monitoring objects in space. These DOD employees used a radar detector dubbed “Dark Fence” to help alert them to objects orbiting over the US. Here’s how Time explained the blunder:
“Instead of slowing the recovery capsule and bringing it down, the rocket’s thrust had increased the capsule’s speed and put it in a different and higher orbit, where it circled for five months before the still-inexperienced Dark Fence watchers noticed it. With this experience behind them. the space watchers could be expected to do better the next time a silent, unknown satellite starts criss-crossing the sky.”
With that stellar explanation, it’s no wonder some people believe Time’s story was a cover-up.
Some claim that, in 1963, astronaut Gordon Cooper saw a UFO cut across the sky while on the Mercury 9 space flight over Perth, Australia. Reports indicate the object was also seen on the radar at Muchea Tracking Station, outside Perth. Cooper has explicitly denied these claims, but others are convinced he was coerced into silence.
In 1974, Scottish astronomy writer Duncan Lunan purported to have decoded the LDEs Jørgen Hals heard in the ’20s. Lunan claimed they were a map of star system Epsilon Boötis. Could the message have come from aliens on a planet in the Epsilon Boötis system?
It’s More Than 13,000 Years Old
Photo: Public Domain/
There’s only one problem with Duncan Lunan’s decoded map theory: Arcturus, a bright star from the Boötes constellation, where the Epsilon Boötis system is located, was in the wrong place when checked against star charts. Lunan did some research and discovered that Arcturus had once been located where the map claimed it was—13,000 years ago. This means the probe must have been launched more than 13,000 years ago, when Arcturus was still in that position.
On a 1998 mission, the Endeavor space shuttle captured a picture of something floating outside the craft. NASA wrote it off as a lost thermal blanket, but others contend it seems too rigid to be a blanket.
It Has Visited Earth
In August 2015, footage emerged from Jacksonville, FL showing a mysterious object hovering in the sky. It looked suspiciously like the object in the photo from the Endeavor, and some claim that it’s the Black Knight satellite.
Pepsi Made a Movie Blaming the Government for Covering Up Knowledge of the Black Knight (WTF?)
In 2015, Pepsi released a short film entitled Black Knight Decoded. The story follows characters played by David Oyelowo and Freida Pinto as they decode transmissions from the Black Knight satellite and release them to the world. Throughout the short, the government tries desperately to shut the operation down.
Does the government actually know something about the Black Knight? Maybe, but take this evidence with a grain of salt: it was written and produced by noted liar James Frey. Also, it’s basically just an extended music video for an Usher song. And was made by Pepsi.
It Was Spotted Near the International Space Station
In January 2016, footage from the International Space Station (ISS) showed an object that looks suspiciously like the Black Knight satellite floating nearby. NASA provided no explanation for the mystery object. Is is Sandra Bullock? Did they leave her up there after shooting Gravity? Or could it be the Black Knight satellite
Philip K Dick, author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was adapted into Blade Runner, kept a journal, in which he documented his experiences with an extraterrestrial being. Parts of this journal were published in a collection called The Exegesis, which included detailed passages about recurring hallucinations Dick experienced. These visions involved an entity he called the Vast Active Living Intelligence System (VALIS). Dick claimed VALIS was a satellite, the sole purpose of which was to act as a communication tool between humans and extraterrestrial beings. Sound familiar?
No one has been able to pinpoint when these sighting and stories started to coalesce into the Black Knight satellite theory; similarly, no one knows where the name “Black Knight” came from. Some speculate it was taken from a British rocket, but it’s never been proven.
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Met een luchtballon naar Titan: waarom niet?
Met een luchtballon naar Titan: waarom niet?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Titan verdient een tweede bezoekje van de mensheid. Maar wat is nu het ideale transportmiddel op Titan? Een luchtballon? Of een boot?
We vinden Titan in de nabijheid van gasreus Saturnus. De maan is met een diameter van 5175 kilometer groter dan onze maan en zelfs groter dan de kleinste planeet in ons zonnestelsel: Mercurius. Maar het is niet de omvang die deze maan zo bijzonder maakt. Nee: de maan trekt de aandacht met zijn atmosfeer. Titan is de enige maan in het zonnestelsel met een dikke atmosfeer die tot zo’n 600 kilometer ver de ruimte in reikt. Die atmosfeer bestaat voornamelijk uit stikstof en methaan. Hoog in de atmosfeer worden de methaan- en stikstofmoleculen opgesplitst door het ultraviolette licht van de zon en daarbij ontstaan organische moleculen. Dat zijn moleculen die koolstof en waterstof bevatten, maar vaak ook stikstof, zuurstof en andere elementen die belangrijk zijn voor het leven zoals wij dat kennen. Met het oog op die bouwblokken van leven vermoeden onderzoekers dat de omstandigheden die nu op Titan een rol spelen, vergelijkbaar zijn met de omstandigheden op aarde, miljoenen jaren voordat het leven op aarde ontstond.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Univ. Arizona / Univ. Idaho.
Valleien, duinen en cryovulkanen Terwijl in de atmosfeer van alles gebeurt, is ook het oppervlak van de maan allesbehalve saai. Er bevinden zich rivieren en meren die gevuld zijn met vloeibaar methaan en ethaan. Ook zijn er duintjes te vinden. Deze bestaan niet uit zand, maar uit koolwaterstoffen. Daarnaast lijkt de maan ook cryovulkanen te herbergen. Deze vulkanen spuwen geen lava, maar water. En alsof dat nog niet genoeg is, lijkt het er sterk op dat op de maan ook sprake is van tektonische activiteit.
Leven? Er gebeurt dus een hoop op Titan. Maar ontstaan zo ook omstandigheden die gunstig zijn voor leven? Wetenschappers zijn verdeeld. Titan is koud: het is er zo’n -178 graden Celsius. Hierdoor gaan de chemische reacties die nodig zijn voor leven zoals wij dat kennen, langzaam. En ook vloeibaar water is er op Titan dus niet – of hooguit kortstondig, bijvoorbeeld in smeltwatermeren die ontstaan na een inslag – te vinden. En water is cruciaal voor het leven zoals wij dat kennen. Dergelijke levensvormen lijken op Titan dus geen kans te hebben. Anders is het wellicht voor wat onderzoekers ‘exotische levensvormen’ noemen: levensvormen die andere elementen gebruiken dan het leven op aarde.
HET EERSTE BEZOEKJE
De mensheid is al eens op Titan geweest. Begin 2005 landde Huygens op het oppervlak van de maan. Het levert spectaculaire beelden op. Maar de lander is maar kort actief: na 72 minuten is de batterij leeg.
Laten we naar Titan gaan Al met al valt er dus nog genoeg te ontdekken op Titan. Maar dat betekent wel dat we ernaar toe moeten gaan. De dikke atmosfeer van de maan onttrekt het oppervlak aan het zicht, waardoor observaties vanuit een baan rond de maan of Saturnus hun beperkingen hebben. We moeten echt het oppervlak van de maan op gaan zoeken om meer over Titan te weten te komen. Maar hoe kunnen we dat nu het beste doen. Wetenschappers hebben daar al lang en breed over nagedacht en zijn in het verleden met de volgende voorstellen gekomen:
Afbeelding: Planetary Science Vision 2050.
Met de luchtballon
Dankzij Huygens (zie kader) weten we dat de atmosfeer van Titan helder genoeg is om vanuit de lucht foto’s van het oppervlak te maken. Dus het is helemaal niet zo’n gek idee om Titan vanuit de lucht in kaart te brengen. Een ander voordeel van een luchtballon is dat deze naar allerlei delen van Titan kan vliegen en dus een groot deel van de maan kan bestuderen. Iets wat met behulp van een lander onmogelijk is. De ballon zou bovendien – zonder al te veel energie te verbruiken – meerdere jaren in de atmosfeer van Titan actief kunnen blijven.
Met de onderzeeër
De onderzeeër zou een kijkje kunnen nemen in het grootste meer dat Titan rijk is: Kraken Mare. Dit meer is zo’n 1000 kilometer lang en naar schatting zo’n 300 meter diep. De onderzeeër zou onder meer uit kunnen zoeken hoe het meer in elkaar steekt en wat er op de bodem van het meer allemaal te vinden is.
Met een drone
Een quadcopter zou heel geschikt zijn om delen van Titan in kaart te brengen. De drone zou rond kunnen vliegen, maar ook zo af en toe kunnen landen om bepaalde oppervlaktekenmerken van dichtbij te bekijken of materiaal van het oppervlak te verzamelen. Dat materiaal zou deze terug kunnen brengen naar een lander die het nader analyseert.
Afbeelding: NASA.
Met een boot
De boot zou mooi rondjes kunnen varen op één van de meren die Titan rijk is. Gedacht werd bijvoorbeeld aan Ligeia Mare, één van de grootste meren van Titan. De boot zou uit kunnen zoeken hoe diep het meer is, hoe de atmosfeer boven het meer in elkaar steekt, hoe de kustlijn eruit ziet, de chemie van het meer en het weer boven het meer in kaart kunnen brengen.
Terughoudend
De hierboven genoemde voorstellen zijn natuurlijk ook bij NASA en ESA ingediend. En aanvankelijk vonden ze wel gehoor. Verschillende van deze concept-missies zijn verder uitgezocht. Maar geen van de voorstellen is – tot op heden – werkelijkheid geworden. Dat is waarschijnlijk te verklaren middels de reden waarom veel wetenschappers deze missies zo graag werkelijkheid zien worden: Titan is uniek. Nog niet eerder hebben we een luchtballon ingezet om een ander hemellichaam dan de aarde te verkennen. En nog niet eerder hebben we op buitenaardse zeeën gevaren of een duik genomen in buitenaardse meren. Alles is dus nieuw. En dat betekent tevens dat de risico’s groot zijn. Want in theorie kan een luchtballon misschien prima in de lucht blijven, maar de praktijk kan anders zijn. Hetzelfde geldt natuurlijk voor de andere voorstellen. En dus zijn ruimtevaartorganisaties wat terughoudend. Zo werd door NASA uiteindelijk ten koste van de Titan-boot gekozen voor Marslander Insight. En zetten NASA en ESA plannen voor een Titan-lander en -luchtballon in de ijskast om een missie naar Jupiter op poten te kunnen zetten.
Is een missie naar Titan dan echt ondenkbaar? Op korte termijn zeer zeker. Maar de fascinatie en dus ook het verlangen om deze maan opnieuw eens van dichterbij te bekijken, blijft. En misschien wordt dat verlangen op korte termijn wel aangewakkerd door de kamikazeduik die Cassini – de enige ruimtesonde die op dit moment Saturnus en zijn manen in de gaten houdt en menig geheim van Titan blootlegde – binnenkort in Saturnus’ atmosfeer maakt. Vanaf dat moment raakt de mysterieuze maan buiten ons gezichtsveld en lijken de antwoorden op de vele vragen die er nog zijn, verder weg dan ooit. En misschien gaat dat wel zodanig aan de mensheid knagen dat het bouwen van een 425 miljoen doller kostend bootje opeens aantrekkelijk wordt. Laten we het stiekem hopen!
We have been trying to communicate and receive messages from aliens for around 50 years. From radio waves to lasers, from strange signals to hydrogen speaking across the universe: what progress have we made?
THE COSMIC CHORUS
The Universe is full of noises — and Earth now also contributes to the cacophony. The first time we called out to the stars was on November 19, 1962 with The Morse Message. This message was sent in Morse code from the Evpatoria Planetary Radar to Venus. What did we say? “MIR” — the Russian word for both world and peace. This was followed a few days later on November 24 by “LENIN” and “SSSR” (Russia’s leader and the abbreviation for the Soviet Union, respectively). Later, in 1999, a team headed by Alexander Zaitsev, a rogue Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) member, beamed Cosmic Call 1 to four nearby suns from the Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope in Crimea. He called his system Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI).
He argued that his decision was due to the SETI Paradox, which he characterized as “This paradoxical disparity of effort, a passionate desire to receive and no corresponding attempt to give.” He also stated that he did “not want to live in a cocoon, in a ‘one-man island.'”
Similar messages were subsequently sent out in 2001 (Teen Age Message), 2003 (Cosmic Call 2), and 2008 (A Message From Earth). These messages caused fierce debate within the scientific coommunity, prompting multiple meetings by the Royal Society in 2010 on the topic of “Towards a Scientific and Societal Agenda on Extraterrestrial Life.”
SETI has sent authorized messages into the cosmos, including the Lone Signal in 2013 and A Simple Response to an Elemental Message in 2016. Other messages not related to or verified by SETI have also been sent, such as the the Hello From Earth message in 2009.
In response, we have heard very little back, causing some to dub the universe “The Great Silence” — David Brin told Phys.org that the most obvious possibilities have now been ruled out, “including gaudy tutorial beacons that advanced ETCs would supposedly erect.”
A particularly exciting narrowband radio signal from space was detected by the Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope in 1977, which many have since dubbed the Wow! Signal, although it has now been shown to probably be caused by comets. A less notable example is Radio source SHGb02+14a, which was detected in 2003. The radio source was 1420 MHz and lasted for a minute each time it was observed, although the signal was extremely weak.
HOW DO WE SPEAK TO ALIENS?
There are two aspects of our communication with aliens: how we send it, and what we say. There has been vigorous discussion about both facets of inter-galaxy communication.
The main means we currently have of broadcasting ourselves across the universe is through radio signals. Frequency modulated radio waves were used when we projected a message from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 1974: it contained, in binary, pictorial representations of humanity, formulas for the elements and compounds that make up DNA, as well as representations of the Solar System. Other systems have been more manual: for example, the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes bolting ‘Pioneer Plaques’ to their doors.
Future efforts will try to update this system, using either the more sophisticated radio signals we possess today, or turning to lasers to beam ourselves to other planets. METI will begin their search by beaming to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our sun.
Douglas Vakoch, the former director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute and president of METI, said to Forbes, “It’s too late to conceal ourselves in the universe, so we should decide how we want to represent ourselves.” But how can we know how what we choose to represent is what will be received when we have no comprehension of the technology aliens may be using, or of their specific culture?
The central debate over what we send to aliens stems from what they would think if they received a signal. Opinion is split among scientific heavyweights over whether aliens would be benevolent or malevolent. Carl Sagan believes that any contact would be benign because, as he stated in his novel Contact, written in 1985, “In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always.” On the other hand, Stephen Hawking believes that “if aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”
Other specialists such as Seth Shostak, an astronomer at SETI, think that if we truly believed in a threat, we would be more careful about all radio use; he told phys.org, “We cannot pretend that our present level of activity with respect to broadcasting or radar usage is ‘safe.’ If danger exists, we’re already vulnerable.”
An encounter with aliens is a real possibility, and one that would have earth-changing consequences. When we will meet them is anyone’s guess — it may be in ten years, it may be never — but it is important to have discussion surrounding how to deal with an encounter to prepare for every possible outcome.
The strangest object...a sphere...with alien like properties is found in the backyard of the Betz's family house.
A family stumbles upon a mysterious seemingly otherworldly sphere in the middle of the woods with strange behaviors…
Terry Betz was just a 21 year old pre-med student when he discovered the mysterious gleaming artifact, on his parent's burnt woodland acreage, on historic Fort George Island, on Florida's Bermuda coast.
It was a shiny, metal sphere, about the size of a volleyball. It was highly polished and perfectly smooth with only one exception: A tiny triangular symbol etched onto it's surface, which seemed to be magnetic.
It seemed the only direction the strange sphere could have come from, was up. Perhaps it was some sort of satellite that had dropped from orbit, but it showed no signs of scorch marks from re-entry. The recent forest fire that exposed it did not seem to leave any burn marks either.
When they got the sphere home they were shocked to see it start vibrating as though a small motor were inside, and it rolled on it's own power as if exploring it's new surroundings, checking out the entire room for several minutes, before returning to it's starting point. When placed on a table top, it would roll right up to the edge and then change direction to avoid falling off, even rolling upwards when the table was tilted forward.
It also reacted to Terry's guitar playing by vibrating like a tuning fork, which disturbed the family dog so much she would whimper and cringe, covering her ears with her paws. The family soon started noticing the ghostly sound of organ music playing throughout the house, and doors slamming for no apparent reason.
The US Navy was invited to analyze the sphere, who concluded, “They knew it wasn't theirs, but there’s certainly something odd about it.” Their most powerful x-rays were unable to penetrate two inner cores of unusual density inside the thick, stainless steel shell. They'd have to cut it open to examine it.
Other scientific researchers, including Project Blue Book advisor Dr. Allen Hynek, also examined the sphere and discovered it was emitting radio waves, and was emitting an impossible magnetic field that defied modern physics by fluctuating from multiple poles.
They also calculated that the inner core must contain an element far heavier than the most radioactive element on Earth, and that if the sphere was ever pierced, “perhaps the masses would go critical’ and explode like an atomic bomb.” Shortly after this announcement, the Betz family and the sphere disappeared, never to be heard from again.
NASA heeft een nieuw concept onthuld voor een voertuig dat op een dag mensen moet kunnen vervoeren op de rode planeet. Het ruimtevaartagentschap onthulde het prototype deze week in het kader van de 'Summer of Mars'-tentoonstelling in het Kennedy Space Center in Florida. De Batmobiel is er niets tegen.
Het nieuwste model bestaat volledig uit aluminium en koolstofvezel, is 8,5 meter lang, 4,3 meter breed en 3,3 meter hoog, heeft zes gigantische wielen en weegt 2,7 ton. Het voertuig kan tot vier astronauten vervoeren en heeft een mobiel laboratorium dat kan losgekoppeld worden. De rover heeft een elektrische motor die wordt aangedreven door zonnepanelen en een batterij van 700 Volt.
Ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA bestelde het futuristische design bij Parker Brothers Concepts, een bedrijf in Florida, maar het ontwerp is gebaseerd "op wetenschap van NASA" met input van experts van het agentschap, aldus NASA. "Het heeft beademingssystemen, navigatie- en communicatiesystemen en een ontwerp en materialen die aansluiten bij de condities en bronnen op Mars," laat NASA weten in een persbericht.
Volgens ontwerper Marc Parker kan de rover een topsnelheid van 110 kilometer per uur behalen, maar hij is gebouwd om de rotsachtige omgeving van Mars te trotseren, dus zal vermoedelijk gemiddeld zo'n 24 kilometer per uur rijden. "Wat we eigenlijk bedacht hebben is een voertuig met een dubbel doel. Het bestaat uit twee delen," aldus Parker. "Het achterste deel is een volwaardig laboratorium, het voorste gedeelte is de cockpit om ermee op uit te trekken en op verkenning te gaan. Het labogedeelte kan losgekoppeld en achtergelaten worden om autonoom onderzoek te verrichten."
Twee andere rovers, Spirit en Opportunity, landden in 2004 op Mars. Spirit werd buiten dienst gesteld in 2010, maar Opportunity is nog steeds actief. De twee toestellen hebben al honderdduizenden foto's en datastromen geproduceerd.
De rover Curiosity arriveerde in 2012 op Mars en heeft de meest geavanceerde uitrusting tot nu toe. Hij kan videobeelden maken en rots-, bodem- en luchtstalen nemen die hij ter plaatse analyseert.
Marsmissie
NASA is van plan om tegen 2020 weer een rover naar Mars te sturen, die op zoek moet gaan "naar tekenen van vroeger microbieel leven en kernstalen verzamelen voor een mogelijke terugkeer naar de aarde," aldus het ruimtevaartagentschap. De organisatie hoopt in de loop van de jaren 2030 mensen naar Mars te sturen en is bijgevolg op zoek naar transportmogelijkheden.
De nieuwste rover maakt deel uit van een educatief programma dat het publiek moet inspireren en informeren over ruimtevaart. "Alhoewel deze rover niet verwacht wordt te opereren op Mars, zullen een of meerdere elementen wel terug te vinden kunnen zijn in een rover die astronauten zullen besturen op de rode planeet," aldus een NASA-woordvoerder.
Aside from all the neato deep space exploration NASA conducts, one of the space agency’s responsibilities includes keeping track of all the potentially dangerous objects hurtling around our own neck of the space woods. NASA tracks over 15,000 so-called near-Earth objects (NEOs), many of which have been passing uncomfortably close to Earth lately. The threat of these NEOs is so great that NASA and FEMA have recently teamed up for asteroid strike preparedness drills and the White House itself drafted its first “National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy” earlier this year. Worried yet? Keep reading.
We’re surrounded.
A team of astronomers from the Czech Academy of Sciences just released new data which show that Earth faces a larger threat from asteroid strikes than we realize. To make that claim, the researchers studied the Taurid meteor shower, an annual autumnal encounter with the comet Encke which creates bright fireballs as small chunks of rock and ice burn up in our atmosphere.
A Taurid meteor seen over Poland in 2015.
Using observatory data of Taurid fireballs seen in the sky throughout 2015, the astronomers believe they have discovered a new branch of the Taurid meteor shower with a clear orbital structure which puts it on a collision course with Earth every few years. Their results have been published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Taurid meteorites are sometimes called “Halloween Fireballs” for their timing each year.
According to an accompanying press release, the Czech astronomers believe that some of the asteroids in this new branch of the Taurid meteor shower could be hundreds of meters across, making the annual shower more dangerous than we realize:
During that time, the chance of impact of a sizeable asteroid (tens of meters) is significantly enhanced. Even if intrinsically weak, bodies of such size can penetrate deep in the atmosphere and pose a hazard to the ground. Further studies leading to better description of this real source of potentially hazardous objects, which can be large enough to cause significant regional or even continental damage, are therefore extremely important.
Let that sink in: continental damage. Oh, and did I mention NASA also recently discovered 28 new near Earth objects, ten of which are classified as potentially dangerous? Yep, it’s one of those days. If you need me, I’ll be out back digging my bunker. Remember: low-acid canned goods can last up to five years. After that, well, hopefully you can learn to hunt – if any animals remain alive after the shockwave hits. The more we learn about the dangers of space and the histories of our planet and our galactic neighbors, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that it’s not a question of if but of when and how bad. Just hope you’re one of the lucky millions to be vaporized instantly. Some fates are much, much worse than death.
What would you think if you saw an intense, glowing blue light making a strange humming noise moving behind some trees across the street from your house? Your answer may depend on whether you believe in space aliens, conspiracy theories like Project Blue Beam, inter- dimensional portals, ball lightning or physics. Whatever you thought it was, what it turns out to be can’t be good. That was the case this week in Dayton, Ohio, when a man who was quick with his cell phone took a video of an eerie blue light passing behind some trees in his neighborhood during a severe storm. What did HE think it was?
The incident occurred on June 5th in Dayton, Ohio – home of Wright Patterson Air Force Base and another potential answer to the question – and the witness was Chip Beale. The intensity of the storm and winds is obvious in the video, which appears to have been taken outside but under a covering. Beale passed the video on to his brother Scott Beale who posted it on the Laughing Squid website – the company he founded – giving it a tremendous amount of Internet exposure. Most would agree that the intense blue color, the strange humming sound and the slow movement make the light pretty eerie.
Should Chris Beale have turned and run for the hills … or at least an alien-safe bunker at Wright Patterson? Yes and no. The bright flash prior to the light and hum give a hint at what the probable cause was – an electrical ‘arc flash’ triggered by something in the storm, though not necessarily a lightning strike. According to General Electric, it may have been a branch touching a wire that sparked the flash which then traveled along the wire until it reached a transformer or a pole that stopped it.
A similar arc flash in Montreal in 2013
The spark caused the wet and electrically charged air to ionize into the arc. That blue light was intense for a reason – the temperature of the arc flash could have been as high as 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat is hot enough to vaporize steel while the light is intense enough to cause blindness.
Fortunately, Chris Beale was not injured, burned or blinded and got 15 minutes of fame with his video of something that wasn’t alien or part of a secret government program. However, it was still a bad sign and a warning of potential worse things happening. Arc flashes are not rare — only catching them on video is. Electrical grids are built with protections to prevent arc flashes, but the deteriorating infrastructure of the nation’s electrical system means those protections are rusting, corroding, losing insulation, breaking down and short-circuiting to the point where they’re just one small incident away (think squirrel) from creating eerie blue lights all over the place.
Sometimes, explainable phenomena are more frightening that the unexplained.
NEW TELESCOPE DETECTS ALIENS AND OTHER INVISIBLE ENTITIES LIVING ON EARTH
NEW TELESCOPE DETECTS ALIENS AND OTHER INVISIBLE ENTITIES LIVING ON EARTH
Thunder Energies Corp revealed their Santilli telescope that can spot entities with bodies or objects made out of antimatter.
The lenses from their telescope are very different to the ones available in the research laboratories. There are many reports regarding the mass production of eyeglasses that can spot ghosts,demons,and even aliens.
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EYEWITNESS SHOCKED BY 'SKY ANOMALY' ABOVE TEMPLE MOUNT
EYEWITNESS SHOCKED BY 'SKY ANOMALY' ABOVE TEMPLE MOUNT
An eyewitness has given a description of her bizarre experience while climbing Temple Mount, a holy site in the city of Jerusalem. She described numerous inexplicable events occurring in the heavens over the site which has spawned a great deal of controversy and numerous theories online as people have struggled to make sense of the unusual event.
WHAT CAUSED THE BIZARRE LIGHT SHOW AT TEMPLE MOUNT?
he eyewitness claimed that she was walking up Temple Mount with the intention of partaking in silent prayer when she realized that the skies were littered with rainbow lights. She became aware of a circle of cloud and light which appeared to be highly energetic wrapping itself around the old temple site. She began to take pictures of what she could see and realized that glowing orbs of light had also started to appear in the air. Shortly after she took the first photographs of her vision of the skies, she noticed that the scene was changing in a dramatic and disturbing way. While there had only been one sun in the sky at the beginning of her encounter, she could now see three suns in the sky.
She also claimed to witness blasts of light, beams of energy and rainbows flying through the sky. Initially, she wondered if she was having a religious experience as this occurred at a holy site which she had visited to make communion with her faith. However, she doubted this as she withdrew from the scene as she did not experience a sense of calm or peace. On the contrary, she felt highly disturbed and agitated by the experience. After researching the topic and speaking with friends, she suggested that the event could have been caused by the activities at CERN in Switzerland. It has long been suspected that the atom splitting experiments at CERN have been responsible for opening temporary pathways into alternative dimensions and it is possible that she witnessed one of these events.
Not everyone is convinced by the theory that CERN is responsible for this bizarre event and others like it. For some years there have been some disturbing stories from various places in the world regarding apparent holographic images appearing in the sky including entire floating holographic cities over China and Nigeria. These incidents are all believed to be connected to a covert multi-governmental program called Operation Blue Beam which is designed to use holographic technology to frighten the world’s population into submission. Could it be possible that this was another test of this sinister technology?
A further theory has also emerged surrounding the strange appearance of the clouds in the images submitted by the eye witness. It has been suggested that these cloudy stripes could be chemtrails which had an effect on the atmosphere where they were deployed.
At this time, none of these theories have been completely proven, but one thing is for sure – something very strange is going on.
Summary of Events: In 1976 on the Spanish Canary Island an extremely intensive wave of UFO sightings began. The case file is filled with multiple witness sightings, agreeing in great detail as to what was seen over the island. This highly unusual event actually began on the night of June, 22. Residents of Tenerife, La Palma, and La Gomera began reporting unusual lights in the sky almost simultaneously. The Canary Island investigation would also include a rarity-the credibility of testimony of eyewitnesses was based on social status: that is, a report by an engineer would be of more value than that of a laborer.
Yellow-Blue Lights: An armed Navy escort ship, the "Atrevida" would make the very first report of unusual activity in the skies. The ship was three and one-half miles off the coast of Fuerteventura Island. At 9:27 PM, the crew observed an extremely intense yellow-blue light which was coming from the shore of the island out to sea. The captain of the vessel made a detailed report of the sighting in the ship's log. The UFO was also seen and reported by residents of the island, with three villages-Galdar, Las Rosas, and Agaete making the heaviest reports.
Detailed Investigation: An Investigator Adjutant would do a thorough search through military and civilian air logs, and state that there were not any aerial flights, or exercises which might account for the reports. The Spanish Air Force would conduct an extremely detailed account of all of the sightings. Their report listed fourteen different, "highly credible" witness statements. The glowing object was also photographed by several different witnesses, from different locations and angles.
Most Dramatic Account: The most dramatic account of the Canary Island sightings comes from a physician, Doctor Francisco Padron Leon, who was traveling in a cab at the time, making a house call, arriving at the patient's house, he and the cab driver saw an incredible sight, a large, glowing sphere of blue. The doctor watched the sphere long enough to make a very detailed report on the anomalous object. He described the sphere as having a radius of 100 feet, with the lower part of the inside of the orb having a platform made of an aluminum-like material.
Descriptions of the Aliens: Two tall alien beings, 8-10 feet in height, manned the platform, or control center for the sphere, one on one side, one on the other. The aliens were wearing clothes of a red color, and they always looked directly at each other while performing their duties. The beings were humanoid shaped, with heads disproportionately large for the rest of their bodies. They wore a helmet. The doctor was able to glean such a good description of the beings and platform because the sphere was totally transparent. He could see stars through the sphere.
The Orb Moves Away: As he watched the enigmatic sphere, it began to grow larger and larger as it began to move away from the island toward the town of Tenerfie. After reaching its ultimate size, it then dissolved into a small size before disappearing. A neighbor who lived near the doctor's patient, was watching television at the time, when the screen went blank, and her dogs began to bark loudly outside her home. She ran to a window to check on what the dogs were barking at, and saw the doctor's cab, and the alien sphere. She reported seeing two figures in the sphere.
Conclusions: Throughout the remainder of the year, various and sundry reports were made of similar objects over Canary. An official governmental report would be released, but it was ambiguous at best. They accepted the reports of the UFOs as valid, but would not accept the alien presence. This was done to allow the possibility that the UFOs could be an unknown Air Force exercise. Giving credence to the reports of alien beings would necessitate accepting an extraterrestrial explanation for the entire event. The Canary Island alien sphere event is considered legitimate by many investigators.
One of the more intriguing UFO cases on record – one which still remains pretty much unknown and under-investigated – came from the late English UFO researcher Ernie Sears. It’s a story that Ernie – who was quite a character – shared with me back in the summer of 1995. Sears joined the Royal Air Force during World War Two and left the service in 1947. In 1960, he was involved in a UFO incident that had a life-changing effect on him and caused him to take the subject seriously. In short, he was witness to an encounter involving a pair of Royal Air Force planes whose crews, seemingly, were ordered to pursue a UFO in the skies over England. Something unidentified had penetrated British airspace.
Ernie Sears
Of particular interest is the setting of Sears encounter: the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment, Portsmouth, England. The U.K’s National Archives states of the ASWE: “The Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment originated in an Experimental Department set up in 1917 at HM Signal School, Portsmouth, to coordinate research work undertaken since 1896 on the Torpedo School ships HMS Defiance and HMS Vernon. In 1941 the Experimental Department became the Admiralty Signal Establishment which, like its predecessors, was largely concerned with communications. However, technological advances during the Second World War necessitated an increase in related fields of research, and in 1948 these were brought under one body, the Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment at Portsmouth. In 1959 it was decided that missile technology justified an extension of its scope, and on being amalgamated with the Admiralty Gunnery Establishment (AGE) it received the title of Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment (ASWE).”
A type of cigar UFO
While walking through the streets of the nearby town of Gosport, Sears noticed a “glowing cigar” in the sky which appeared to be hovering over the ASWE facility. Sears told me: “I thought, well, it must be an aircraft struggling against the wind, and the sun is shining off it making it glow.” As the minutes went by, though, Sears realized that his initial thought was very wide of the mark. The skies were suddenly filled with the noise of a couple of military aircraft, which were heading in the direction of the ASWE. Sears further told me:
“I ran to a vantage point where I could see where those aircraft were coming from. They were two Meteor jets, very low over the rooftops [and] very noisy. They were climbing up to where, half an hour later, to my amazement, there was this ‘cigar’ still hanging in the sky. I immediately knew that it wasn’t an aircraft. It hadn’t moved an inch; it was just hanging there. These two jets climbed up towards it, and as they got near it, it turned on end and it was like somebody switching a light bulb out; it disappeared.
“I ran to a phone box and I found the number of Thorney Island aerodrome. I got the control tower and said, ‘Can you just tell me what that object was over Portsdown Hill that those two Meteor jets were chasing?’ He said, ‘You didn’t see any object, neither did you see any jets.’
Meteor jet
“The odd thing was,” said Sears, “my brother-in-law at the time used to work at the ASWE and he happened to come over the next night, just for a social visit. He walked in and my wife went out into the kitchen to make him a cup of tea, and I just said to him: ‘You had some excitement over your place yesterday morning, didn’t you?’ He looked at me, and his face went grey, then it went white and his mouth set in a grim line. I said, ‘Okay, don’t worry; forget I said it.'”
It was the end of a strange and baffling affair. But, it was event which led Ernie Sears to devote much of his life to investigating the UFO phenomenon.
Lockheed Martin has just revealed some details about the SR-72, the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft. The SR-72 hypersonic plane will be a strike and reconnaissance aircraft that tops Mach 6.
NEW DETAILS ON SR-72
On June 7, Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), also known as Skunk Works, revealed new information about their hypersonic technologies. Specifically, they discussed the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft: the SR-72, a strike and reconnaissance aircraft. The SR-72 tops Mach 6, and is currently in development within the advanced aircraft-development division. According to Lockheed Martin’s statements to Aviation Week, hypersonic technologies, including a combined cycle propulsion system that blends a rocket engine and a supersonic jet engine, are sufficiently advanced to allow the planned SR-72 project to begin.
A hypersonic successor to the SR-71 has been the ultimate goal for DARPA and the Air Force (USAF) since the early 2000s. In 2013, the USAF, at last, announced that it had begun to design a scaled SR-72 demonstrator. Since that time, however, details about the program have been scarce, if the information was released at all. Here’s what we know now.
In 2006, Lockheed sought out Aerojet Rocketdyne for a partnership; it was this alliance that led to the creation of the combined cycle engine, modified from an off-the-shelf turbine. Ground tests on a combined cycle engine built with elements of both a rocket engine and a scramjet were conducted between 2013 to 2017.
Image Credit: Lockheed[/caption]
HYPERSONICS ARE THE FUTURE
The advanced aircraft division is also close to launching the full-scale development of a flight research vehicle (FRV) for either piloted or remote use. This FRV should be similar to an F-22 in size and have a backup full combined cycle propulsion system. Lockheed believes they’ll be flying an FRV in the early 2020s, while the SR-72 will probably be airborne by 2030. As more details and information about the first flights are revealed, we should see more of the fascinating details of the SR-72.
“We’ve been saying hypersonics [are] two years away for the last 20 years, but all I can say is the technology is mature and we, along with DARPA and the services, are working hard to get that capability into the hands of our warfighters as soon as possible,” Lockheed Martin executive vice president and Skunk Works general manager Rob Weiss told Aviation Week.
Hypersonic planes can travel at speeds of up to 4,800 km/hour (3,000 mph), making them the ideal transportation option for long-distance travel and global emergency response efforts. In fact, after an exciting beginning with the 1967 flight of the X-15, American hypersonic research has basically stagnated. But, now that NASA has brought its X-Planes program back and both military and civilian entities are more interested in the technology along with the dynamic outer space race that has been building, it seems obvious that the coming years will reveal a renaissance of research and development into hypersonic vehicles.
SpaceX will be launching one of the U.S. Air Force's must secretive space drone on August aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Military and private contracts are helping SpaceX continue its rocket research as it prepares for a trip around the Moon and to Mars.
File photo of an X-37B spaceplane being encapsulated inside the nose cone of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket before its first test flight in April 2010. Credit. U.S. Air Force
Things are definitely looking up for SpaceX, as the company has recently enjoyed a series of achievements and accomplishments that are helping to prepare it for its planned 2030 Mars mission. SpaceX is currently busy with a number of other missions, however, the most popular of which being the private Moon mission.
But it looks like SpaceX is involved in a secret mission from the U.S. Air Force as well. This activity was revealed by Secretary Heather Wilson on Tuesday. “SpaceX will be sending the next Air Force payload up into space in August,” she said during a webcast testimony to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.
This payload is the Air Force’s highly secretive space drone, the X-37B. It’ll be launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which first received certification from the Air Force to launch sensitive and costly payloads from the military back in 2015.
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Airforce's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4 after landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., May 7, 2017. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 3 space plane is shown after landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California October 17, 2014 in this handout photograph provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base. REUTERS/Boeing/Vandenberg Air Force Base/Handout via Reuters/File Photo
“We are excited about this new partnership on creating flexible and responsive launch options and are confident in SpaceX’s ability to provide safe and assured access to space for the X-37B program,” said Randy Walden, director of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.
Securing private and government contracts works well for SpaceX. It provides the company with the funding needed to continue their rocket research. This capacity to further test and develop their reusable rockets will also allow SpaceX to reduce the cost of space travel.
Aside from its NASA and Air Force contracts, SpaceX’s logs list a number of private commissions, ranging from telco satellite launches to even contracts with Airbus and Bigelow Aerospace. Hopefully, this bountiful cooperation will yield widespread advancements in space exploration and travel.
An X-37B spaceplane is towed to a hangar near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following a landing May 7. Credit: U.S. Air Force
Scientists Have Found the Oldest Known Human Fossils
Scientists Have Found the Oldest Known Human Fossils
Ed Yong
The 300,000-year-old bones and stone tools were discovered in a surprising place—and could revise the history of our species.
A view looking south of the Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco.
Shannon McPherron, MPI EVA Leipzig
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, around 62 miles west of what would eventually become Marrakesh, a group of people lived in a cave overlooking a lush Moroccan landscape. They rested there, building fires to keep themselves warm. They hunted there, sharpening stone tools to bring down animals. And they died there, leaving their bones behind in the dirt. At the time, there would have been nothing particularly notable about these cave-dwellers. They were yet more Homo sapiens, members of a nascent ape species that had spread across Africa. But in their death, they have become singularly important.
It’s not just when these people died that matters, but where. Their presence in north Africa complicates what was once a tidy picture of humanity arising in the east of the continent. “What people, including myself, used to think was that there was a cradle of humankind in East Africa about 200,000 years ago, and all modern humans descend from that population,” says Philipp Gunz from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who was involved in the new excavation. “The new finds indicate that Homo sapiens is much older and had already spread across all of Africa by 300,000 years ago. They really show that the African story of our species was more complex than what we used to think.”
“Humans had already migrated across the African landscape, and were evolving at a continental scale.”
Jebel Irhoud rose to prominence in 1961, when miners turned the site into a quarry. They were looking for barite minerals, but to their surprise, they found a fossilized skull. Soon, they disinterred more bones: another skull, a child’s jaw, and fragments of arm bones and hips. From the start, these specimens were controversial. Their exact location was never recorded, which makes it very hard to work out their age. Scientists initially thought that they were the 40,000-year-old remains of Neanderthals—and were wrong on both counts. They’re much older, and they’re more likely to be Homo sapiens.
After those discoveries, Jebel Irhoud was neglected. But in 2004, Jean-Jacques Hublin from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology led a team back to the site, clearing away decades’ worth of accumulated debris in a search for more fossils. And after a few seasons of digging, they found some—a partial skull, fragments of facial bones, a nearly complete adult jawbone, and other bits and pieces from at least five individuals.
These people had very similar faces to today’s humans, albeit with slightly more prominent brows. But the backs of their heads were very different. Our skulls are rounded globes, but theirs were lower on the top and longer at the back. If you saw them face on, they could pass for a modern human. But they turned around, you’d be looking at a skull that’s closer to extinct hominids like Homo erectus. “Today, you wouldn’t be able to find anyone with a braincase that shape,” says Gunz.
Comparison of the skulls of a Jebel Irhoud human (lleft) and a modern human (right) (NHM London)
Their brains, though already as large as ours, must also have been shaped differently. It seems that the size of the human brain had already been finalized 300,000 years ago, but its structure—and perhaps its abilities—were fine-tuned over the subsequent millennia of evolution.
At Jebel Irhoud, the team also found several stone tools—small pieces of flint with sharp edges. Several of these had clearly been heated in the distant past, but not because their makers were deliberately burning the implements. More likely, “you can imagine that people were dropping stones on the ground, and later starting fires on top,” explains Shannon McPherron, an expert on stone tools who was involved in the new study.
The team exploited this incidental heating to date the tools. Over time, flint gradually builds up a small charge as it reacts to natural sources of radiation around it. That charge dissipates whenever it’s heated, before growing again. By testing the stones back in their lab, McPherron’s team could work out how much charge they had accumulated since they were last heated—which must have been when they were dropped in the caves. This technique, known as thermoluminescence, told them that the tools were roughly 280,000 and 350,000 years old.
Some of the Middle Stone Age stone tools from Jebel Irhoud
(Mohammed Kamal / MPI EVA Leipzig)
The team checked those dates by estimating the ages of the fossils. They first did that a decade ago, using the fossils collected in the 1960s, and they arrived at an age of 160,000 years. But that was based on imperfect guesses about the sediments in which the bones had been buried. This time, after taking careful readings from the site itself, the team could more accurately re-do their calculations. They got a much older date of 286,000 years, which matches well to the estimated age of the tools. “I think it’s a pretty tight picture,” says McPherron.
The new dates radically change the position of the Jebel Irhoud residents in the family tree of our species. Based on the earlier age estimates, scientists had always viewed these people as a primitive group of humans who were clinging on in North Africa while their more modern cousins were sweeping out of the East. “People thought that North Africa had nothing to do with modern human evolution, and that this was a relict population,” says Gunz. “Now we know that they’re close to the root of the Homo sapiens lineage.”
The new specimens cast fossils from other parts of Africa in a new light. For example, the so-called Florisbad skull, which was discovered in South Africa in 1932, is around 260,000 years old. Based on that old age, “people had a hard time accepting this as a member of Homo sapiens, but I think our work brings the Florisbad skull back into the discussion,” says Gunz. If the skull really did belong to a member of our species, it means that around 300,000 years ago, humans had already “migrated across the African landscape, and were evolving at a continental scale,” says Gunz.
The team have done a good job, says Erella Hovers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but “whether this is a breakthrough in our understanding of human evolution, I’m not sure.” Others had already suggested that the origin of our species was tied to the dawn of the Middle Stone Age—a period between 250,000 and 300,000 years ago, when people went from making large stone hand-axes to smaller, lighter tools like awls and spear tips. Those lighter tools had already been found in other parts of Africa, so the Jebel Irhoud finds “support a hypothesis that has been around for a while,” Hovers says.
That’s true, says McPherron, but until now, the bones and stones were telling different tales. The stones were all over Africa by 300,000 years ago, and the fossils were apparently no older than 195,000. Were the tools even made by Homo sapiens or some other hominid? “We had a disjuncture,” he says. “We had a major transition in behavior but no biological transition to go with it. Jebel Irhoud fills that gap nicely.”
It’s possible that people spread all over Africa, aided by their new stone technology, which allowed them to kill large animals from a distance. Certainly the Sahara would have permitted their passage: At the time, it was a lush, green savannah and not the impassable desert of today. Alternatively, humans may have already spread throughout the continent, and regional innovators developed Middle Stone Age tools independently.
Regardless, the new finds are “a very important discovery,” says Zeray Alemseged from the University of Chicago. “They’re placed at a critical time period when the earliest members of our species could have evolved, and they’re critical for better understanding the patterns of physical and behavioral evolution [among humans] across the African continent. They confirm the pan-African nature of human ancestry.”
When Flying Discs Invaded Our Skies For The First Time | 70th Anniversary of The Beginning of a New Epoch - PART I
When Flying Discs Invaded Our Skies For The First Time | 70th Anniversary of The Beginning of a New Epoch - PART I
ANNIVERSARY ISSUE – 70 YEARS AFTER ARNOLD
This month is the 70th anniversary of the beginning of a new epoch, when the flying discs invaded our skies for the first time…officially. For some, it began in 1946 with the “ghost rockets” in Sweden, or in the IIWW theatre with the “foo fighters”, or with the “phantom airplanes” of 1912-1913, whilst others would go back to the “airships” of the late XIX century, or to ancient times. But, we all know that it was since the US press attached the “flying saucer” tag to this subject that a large-magnitude phenomenon emerged. One that has had a heavy impact on the general population all over the world.
The way I wish to commemorate this ephemeris is by writing down my present vision about the UFO phenomenon, after 50 years of personal study, centering on the nature of the supposed evidence that has been collected in all these 70 years of UFO phenomenology. These are the views of a sincere investigator of a mystery that seems to play with us, until we realize that we have simply allowed ourselves to be led astray by a number of surrounding circumstances and influences. What seems at first sight absurd, really is illogical, irrational, incoherent ... finally inadmissible.
I have prepared an essay on the foundation of what can only be a portent or a chimera: the true level of certainty, proof and conviction, that is, the evidence. And I have asked Indiana University emeritus professor Thomas Bullard to accompany me in this global evaluation of the UFO problem with his own thoughts. We agree for the most part but we also have a degree of disagreement. But we both recognize that advancement and progress in this study will only happen when ideas are confronted in a framework of respect and tolerance.
For bibliography quotation purposes, the formal reference to this article will be as follows:
It is exactly 70 years since the society of the United States was thrilled and shaken by the first report of “flying saucers”. This was the early sighting by Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947. It also started a phenomenon ufologists would later call “wave”, a huge avalanche of reports throughout all the nation’s newspapers. It was short-lived and profiled as a sharp Gaussian curve developed over only three weeks: following the initial sighting’s press coverage, news interest ignited, peaked, reached a saturation point and quickly declined. This aftermath triggered two important developments: (1) the stories were disseminated all over the globe, taking on a life of their own in every country, and (2) the Army Air Force (later, USAF) jumped on the matter, beginning to investigate the visions of flying saucers (later, unidentified flying objects or UFOs).
Seven decades of UFO history have provided countless facts and histories, actions and reactions, military and civilian initiatives, Congress and Parliamentary hearings, symposia, scientists and laypersons declarations, and countless UFO-related portrayals in media, cinema, television, publishing and advertisement, daily bombarding and influencing the citizens. Not to mention the millions of supposed UFO reports that emerged from the public and the feedback they yielded. Not to neglect the important effect produced by thousands of UFO proponents all over the globe, people that James Carrion, ex-CEO of MUFON, the top UFO organization in the world, characterized as “self-proclaimed investigators or investigation journalists, whose modus operandi is to perpetuate the mystery, not to solve it”. Seen from a European perspective, this diagnostics is right on target.
In the past people regarded strange phenomena in the sky as signs, portents, and wonders, understood in religious or folkloric terms. Only on rare occasions were such sights reported and recorded—in the Middle Ages by a learned monk, later by a naturalist or scientist, today by the media.
Since the XIX century, literature and press, and more modernly, cinema and television, have helped to create fictional expectativas ns in the minds of people. This science-fiction scenario had a disastrous effect on the eyewitnesses, reducing their critical judgment and matter-of-factly obstructing a rational self-evaluation of the event observed. This problem infects even elite observers like pilots, military personnel or scientists, whose reports ‒as experience demonstrates‒ ultimately are explained in mundane, conventional terms at the same rate as those by laymen.
Close review of UFO sighting reports, especially those of higher strangeness or image recording examples, reveals that every instance is individualistic (unique and exclusive). There are not two occurrences equal, in the same way that there are no two UFO photographs perfectly equal. Except for a general resemblance due to known symbols from the collective imaginary, every craft’s shape, dimension and kinetics, or every occupant’s biometry and behavior is dissimilar. It is like a theater of the absurd. It rather looks like the result of everyone’s own creative imagination.
Case after case, when duly documented and analyzed, is demolished or downgraded. Every day that goes by, we hear of another classic UFO case long considered uncanny and insoluble, now probed and found to have an ordinary, conventional cause. Here is one of the most recent discoveries: for years, Western ufologists have praised the 1979 dossier by Gindilis, Men’kov & Petrovskaya (USSR Academy of Sciences) reviewing a collection of apparently unsolvable UFO sightings in Russia, mainly centered on a 1967 wave. UFOs were not an American construction after all! Yet investigations by Dr. Yulii Platov first and, recently, work by Jim Oberg, completely trashed the reliability of the Soviet research, showing that most of 1967 cases corresponded to Russian military space activities (the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System or FOBS). Another piece of “scientific” evidence that failed.
Advanced imaging systems aboard military aircraft are available today in such numbers that one could expect that UFO images would be recorded frequently, if UFOs appeared in the atmosphere with the regularity some reports suggest. The bare truth is that the evidence of anything exceptional or singular recorded with such powerful means is extremely poor or non-existent: for example, the recent most important cases of airborne infrared video technology captures (2004, Campeche in Mexico; 2013, Aguadilla in Puerto Rico; and 2014, Navidad in Chile) were explained as something as earthly and trivial as oil wells flames, a likely balloon, and an airplane aerodynamic contrail, respectively.
In the 1950s charismatic UFO organizations were established, only to close down decades later without having achieved their main objective, to prove that flying saucers exist. Nothing extraordinary or persuasive was transmitted, only thousands of “UFO journals” pages filled with stories and lots of cabinets with innumerable cases files destined to yellow with the passage of time. Nowadays, private centers devoted to the “study” of UFOs can be counted on one hand’s fingers. The healthiest-funded one, set up in Sweden, is mainly dedicated to preserve UFO archives, well aware of the increasing number of retiring ufologists, abandoned files, and shut down organizations.
In the United States, a scientific-oriented organization was founded in the year 2000 under the logical premise that if UFOs intrude in the atmosphere, their activity might result in a hazard to aviation safety. In his January 2017 resignation letter, the scientific director stated that no such major problem had been detected. This conclusion is to be expected if no physical UFOs share the air space with our aircraft.
No specialist in any scientific discipline will understand why, if evidence exists on the reality of actual visits from outer space, it has not been formally presented to the world. Neither articles in UFO journals nor documentaries in TV channels will serve. They say that mainstream science will never accept it. False. Science is always avid for new findings. In this case, the argument is even more fallacious because the relevance to society‒if UFOs were true‒is far greater than the discovery of the Higgs boson or the latest tribe in Amazonia, for example. Objects heavier than the air will not fly, humans wouldn’t travel to the Moon, stones cannot fall from the sky, are some of the many widely-held beliefs proved wrong by scientific and technological advancements or by empirical evidence. The self-correcting mechanism is something inherent to science. If there was real evidence of UFOs pointing to an extraterrestrial origin, it would be perfectly acceptable. Contrary to what has been often repeated, the public is prepared for this scenario.
But UFO data is consumed only by ufologists. Analyses that appear to confirm discoveries (anomalous images, biological effects on the ground or on vegetal tissue, electromagnetic interferences to equipment, you name it) are almost always performed by believers, and often irrespective of whether they have appropriate experience or hold advanced degrees. Apparently amazing findings are not delivered to peer-review mainstream science journals, and the rare exceptions do not generate any positive feedback. Only a continuing research in the future will reveal how much wrong and bad science was signed by established physicists, engineers, and other pro-UFO scientists.
On the other hand, what it is easier to find in academic journals are articles showing models to explain classes of extreme UFO experiences, like the abductions, postulated as instances of psychological confusion like sleep paralysis, fantasy proneness, or disorders. In this particular segment of reports, clearly induced by published books and TV programs, we find the grievous paradox that the maximum promoter of the physical reality of extraterrestrial kidnapping was a Harvard psychiatrist! This is one of the multiple extravagances one can meet in the study of UFOs. It is a tested fact that deeply-rooted, extremist beliefs take root in all minds. Unfortunately, we find it also in science, not only in politics or religion.
Ufology not only fails to advance, it is a vicious circle. Today we see UFO news publicized on the internet with the same old images of lens flares or aircraft contrails that seemed strange in the 1950s. Because there are no academic or authoritative criteria universally accepted, and no hard evidence that exists as a certainty, past mistakes recur over and over. Ufology is immersed in a loop that never ends. Lately, I have read about IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) signals picked up from unknown traffic during the 1950s and 1960s and now offered as examples of hard evidence. In my view, if a “UFO” responded to IFF interrogation even in apparent encrypted mode, it is more logical to suspect that radar triggered an aircraft’s transponder than to attribute the response to an extraterrestrial spacecraft equipped with earthly IFF systems.
The ETT
The theory that flying saucers are space visitors was adopted immediately, especially by book writers looking for sensation. It was not a supposition that needed half a century to evolve after large amounts of reliable, substantiated evidence was collected. Not indeed. Marketed books in 1950 definitely linked flying saucers to outer space. We should look back and consider the quality and magnitude of the “proof” that existed between 1947 and 1949 to back up such assertions, because it formed the foundation of the case for extraterrestrial UFOs.
Let us take the best-authenticated, most detailed, and strangest reports collected during the first three years of the flying saucer phenomenon and examine them in a neutral and objective manner. The result will be no support for the claim that UFOs come from another planet. But by then beliefs and impressions derived from those reports had launched a vivid and influential idea of extraterrestrial visitation. Lack of probative evidence posed no obstacle to the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), or should I say ETT, because for believers the idea did not serve as a working hypothesis but as an established theory and taken for granted by all leading ufologists at that time. The theory settled in as accepted fact even prior to the landings and creature encounters, the photographs and footage, and many of the military and pilot incidents that have shaped the imagery of the UFO phenomenon as we know it. The ETT preceded most of the events now cited as proof that the ETT is true (e.g., the landings of 1954 in France, the worldwide surge of 1965, the humanoid wave in USA in 1973, and more). These subsequent occurrences or episodes might really sustain an alien origin for UFO reports IF they were true. But this all happened many years after the ETT was in force.
So we are facing here an interesting situation: an idea based largely on poorly-investigated incidents and shaped by the fertile imagination of writers fond of sensationalism finally created a “real” phenomenon that both housed and draws its observational substance from those previous, weak tales. How is that possible? This has been possible by the conjunction of a continuing flow of new UFO stories, increasingly weird and absurd, and the fuel contributed by magazines and books, motion pictures, television films and documentaries. Once the belief is established, sightings never cease to pour into the system, and a newborn mythology grows and matures.
The myth evolved differently in various countries according to their particular cultural idiosyncrasies. One of the nations where the impact of the UFO phenomenon has been greater and more aberrant is Brazil. The number of UFO touch down reports is incredibly high, the accounts of humanoid beings associated to those landings (with the richest possible variety of morphologies, from dwarfs to giants, including one-eyed monsters) are innumerable. In 2009, the Brazilian historian Rodolpho Gauthier published his bachelor thesis which credited “a combination of sensationalist journalism, fear of an atomic conflict and fascination with space exploration” for the emergence of the idea that extraterrestrial were visiting the Earth aboard flying saucers.
I am convinced that similar work in other countries will expose the trends, influences and motivating factors that solidified the belief in flying saucers as vehicles from other worlds. We will realize that, in many countries, this media-triggered belief predated the local UFO waves to come, ones that afterwards were exhibited as examples of UFO displays.
Similarly, US historians must deeply delve into the influence and weight that personages like Ray Palmer or Kenneth Arnold himself, the science fiction tabloids of the epoch and magazines like FATE, had on the invention and the willingness to accept the close association of flying saucers and UFOs to the ETT.
The bottom line here is that the idea of interplanetary UFOs precedes the myth. Though debatable whether Kenneth Arnold’s foundational sighting remains an authentic mystery or just a formation of pelicans, as proposed, it is certain that the publicity associated with the observation sparked the craze. And people started reporting “disks” by the hundreds, as soon as the popular name “flying saucer” was coined in this context, though it is not sure that this shape accurately reflects what Arnold saw.
The popular, widely acclaimed extraterrestrial theory is opposed by the realistic “all can be explained in conventional terms” position of the skeptics. Yet other odd theories have been proposed such as time travelers, evil forces, or UFOs operating as a control system. These are purely undemonstrated and indemonstrable speculations that range from the lunatic to the very well rhetorically-crafted and breathtakingly imaginative. But in my humble opinion, they are no more than literature after all.
There is also a flagrant contradiction between the alleged non-contact-policy of aliens, postulated by some UFO theorists, with their marked exhibitionist character when they flaunt their presence at night with all their lights turned on! Unless what is seen is simply astronomical bodies, fireballs, aircraft, high-altitude balloons, reentries, missile launches, and the like, objects better observable during evening and night, as statistics show.
Attitudes
Between skeptical researchers and radical believers there is an ample gradation of investigators who hold positions ranging from mild skepticism to a firm nuts and bolts conviction. The first usually endure derogatory names like pelikanists, debunkers, deceivers, and worse; the last have an educated tendency to gullibility and credulity. But all of them agree in public that most sighting reports are misperceptions and phenomenological garbage. Typically, however, the latter strive to maintain that the cases they have investigated or cataloged qualify as UFOs: if over 90% of events are IFOs, this percent drastically drops when it comes to their own favorite cases. Somehow a Mark Twain’s phrase is applicable here: “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
You can wrap yourself in ufological academicism and state that you do not look for extraterrestrials in your research but a new atmospheric phenomenon, an optical anomaly, etc., but in reality what you are supporting are those traditional photographs showing flying discs, the old-fashioned landing reports or the lunacy of abductions. To some audiences you hide your true beliefs to appear scientific (even you may be a scientist yourself!) and abhor the term UFO and use UAP (or any variants), but underlying these dodges is a conviction that UFOs are nothing less than visitors from outer space. It explains the harsh attacks you receive after solving a prominent UFO case. Your standing within ufology collapses. And it hurts. There is nothing more frustrating than realizing that you have wasted your life in the pursuit of a mirage or a delusion.
Time and again a seemingly water-tight UFO incident springs a leak and skinks. Even case histories that acquired fame and that required books to be told meet inglorious finales. It is realized how even the most impressive accounts end up beyond belief, simply implausible. But the believer soon exchanges the previous disappointment for a shiny-new, surely insoluble “unknown”. And so the merry-go-round continues. The believer never quits.
The Government
In the USA, the USAF has declassified some 15,000 UFO cases, amounting to some 150,000 pages and the US Government through the departments of Defense, State and Army, plus CIA, DIA, NSA, and FBI agencies has disclosed circa 12,000 additional pages of documents related to UFOs. Nevertheless, neither the Air Force, the Government, the intelligences services, nor the University have been able to sort out, learn or draw lessons from thousands of UFO reports. Nothing close to “reverse engineering” to help improving space research or the weapon industry. Incompetence? No-one guessed that they were handling a gold mine with remarkable potential to advance science and technology? They all knowingly dismissed this opportunity?
In view of such huge release, the speculative proposition that there is hidden information in secret vaults of the US Administration seems quite questionable. After all “evidential resources” proved nothing but unimpressive stuff, some resort to believe that the Holy Grail of UFO evidence is treasured in the still unreleased reports, when such documents ‒if in existence‒ are probably on hold due to issues affecting national security, not to withheld alien secrets.
Many other countries had their own shares of UFO reports and their Air Forces were involved in the evaluation of cases reported to the military. Most of Governments have declassified or released their UFO archives: England, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Brazil, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Finland (and the list does not end here) have placed in the public domain circa 100,000 pages of UFO documents, concerning over 25,000 UFO reports. Governments with an in-house, official unit to study this problem, like UK, closed down the shop in recent years. All coincided to make public their archives, asserting at the time that the reports did not represent a risk to homeland safety or air security and that no scientific information was gained in their scrutiny.
The situation in the old USSR and present Russia and Ukraine is less official but it is equally important: in the last years, a team of researchers formed chiefly by M. Gershtein, I. Kalytyuk, S. Petrov and A. Bilyk has had access to 3,000+ UFO reports from the Academy of Sciences and other Government institutions. Another 2,500 cases are scheduled to be released in the coming two years.
In Europe, only France maintains a UFO program started in 1977 and conducted under the French space agency CNES. Since 2007, GEIPAN has disclosed online over 2,500 sighting reports (~50,000 pages). The reason why France remains in the UFO business (sorry, unidentified aerospace phenomena, PAN in the French acronym) has much to do with the traditional interest in the matter by high-rank officials and established scientists, probably influenced by thinkers of the stature of Aimé Michel. However, GEIPAN affirms that only 2% of the collected cases in the last 10 years is unidentified, but there are no signs of any current or foreseeable theoretical or technological exploitation of UFO reports data.
A few Latin-American countries (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Uruguay) maintain low-budget, modest UFO studies, basically to monitor observations reported by official channels. In most cases this is a political response to people’s demand for higher transparency, and I have plainly noted that in some instances the will-to-believe or a too credulous approach is evident within the military environment, when the UFO question is tackled.
The notion held by some ufologists and writers that the US Government conceals revolutionary secrets (either information or hardware) on the origin of UFOs is practically contemporary to the commencement of Project Blue Book or its predecessors. However, decades and various political administrations have passed, each with distinctive agendas, yet none have admitted or even hinted at holding such secrets. On the reverse, repeated official declarations have stated (for example, The White House, November 6, 2011) that “the US Government has no evidence that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye”. No doubt the United States is a big power in the concert of nations, but thinking that it is the only repository of the knowledge of a technology arriving on our planet is nationalistic delusion.
Epistemological issues
From the viewpoint of philosophy of science, ufology is a freak subject, beginning with the object of study which is a negative, i.e. it gathers what we cannot identify. It means that there are infinite objects of study. For the lack of a positive definition and other reasons there is no possibility of replicating experiments. Statistics, which is a key medium to replicate experiments is useless here as the content of the samples is different according to the collectors. Anomalies in science are important, for example the anomalous precession of Mercury’s perihelion, which helped to establish the theory of relativity. But this requires finding constants in the data and UFO phenomena are devoid of constants. Scientific theories are predictive, but what does the UFO theory predict? What experiments can we do to refute or validate the theory? A hypothesis must be falsifiable. The ETT cannot be falsifiable…unless a flying saucer lands in the White House lawn.
We all know “experiences” not satisfactorily explained. Like the extremes of a Normal curve, there will always be a residue of seeming anomalies: they show the limits of visual perception, the ceiling of our skills, some room for evaluation errors, the shortcoming of data, even our own biases. But in no way these tailing events give shape to a congruent phenomenon that constitutes a new class of physical entities in defiance of present-day science. Much less do they suggest a manifestation of an intelligence aboard machines that have crossed the universe.
My best guess for the small remnant of bona fide unsolvable cases is that their solution lies with disciplines like eyewitness psychology or atmospherics physics. And I feel that when the solutions come these will not produce even a tremor in the international scientific world.
Without accurate data no real assessment can be done. It is essential that visual input has not been corrupted, but this is often difficult to achieve. I am convinced that many unknowns result from this sort of corruption. It probably produces most of the residuum typically invoked as the unexplainable core of the “authentic” UFO phenomenon. But verily the statistical “properties” of supposedly genuine UFOs are inseparable from the properties described in IFO reports, and this same dilemma haunts supposed similarities in the narrative structure of close encounters, landings and humanoid tales. Even alleged psychological or physiological effects, and mechanical or electrical effects are similar when we compare “true” UFOs and solved IFOs. This indistinguishability between anomalous and conventional events (the indiscernibility concept) suggests that both have the same origin: UFOs come from inner space.
Over decades of inquiring into UFO testimonies and solving them, I came to the realization that even the best, apparently irreducible cases, on which the ETT for the UFO enigma is founded, are like mirages lending appearance but no substance to sustain this claim. Yes, there are apparent idiopathic reports but they are not unassailable ones. Practically every major UFO case defended as unaccountable by believers has a plausible counter-explanation among skeptics.
It is an unattainable goal to solve 100% of all circulating reports. There will always be unexplained events but it does not mean they are unexplainable. We will always have bad input data. There will always exist people willing to deceive us. There will always be wrong analysis or biased interpretation on such observations. What do unexplained cases account for? You cannot erect a hypothesis proposing a defined nature of something on the basis of unknowns and events you cannot explain (i.e., which have an undefined nature). Only the detection of a coherent, well-assessed, multi-witnessed set of physical observations can be the foundation of a hypothesis. A signal, even weak, within the random noise. Never a myriad of ephemeral, heterogeneous, visual or instrumental observations, which is all the residual true UFO reports in hand amount to. And even less than nothing if you wish to uphold the ETT, which is the bottom line for UFO promoters since the phenomenon was born.
Can you calculate the millions of work hours devoted to UFO research in the world in the last seven decades? Never has so much work accomplished so little in any field of investigation (parapsychology and ghost-hunting apart). The corollary is: what if there is not a real UFO phenomenon? At last, not as a unique, common phenomenon but a host of different phenomena that have been mistakenly tied up together. The irony is that this is precisely what the critics have argued ever since the early days of the UFO mystery.
So where is the substantial evidence? Does it look homogenous? There circulate various lists of the 10 best, irresolvable-looking cases. Well-documented incidents witnessed by several observers, displaying features far from current knowledge on science and technology? Scientists will be eager to analyze them. The scientific journals in atmosphere physics, aeronautics or space research are certainly willing to publish revolutionary discoveries.
However, the remaining set of queer-looking unknowns are old and no matter how much you sort those out you cannot build a credible breakthrough. Many tried to find Scientiain the UFO phenomenon only to come upon unmanageable gobbledygook, much to our regret. I more than anyone wishes to be proved wrong, but all indications are that in the future flying saucers and unidentified flying objects will be categorized as a mass sociological phenomenon. Today ufologists still have the opportunity to do science, but only by studying UFO raw data and demonstrating how a vision that puzzled the observer has a rational explanation. We have the chance to be didactic in the process by teaching others how to use the scientific method on claims that appear weird at first glance and even after a certain inquiry.
For long time we have been searching for constants, patterns, invariants or clusters in the body of UFO data that would suggest intelligence or any recurrent law that would prove consistency. No model has been formulated from this data pool. Nothing. In place of salient features we find only gibberish. On the other hand, sociological mechanisms have been found in the topography and timing of sightings. These facts pose more than just a minor inconvenience to any theory that postulates significant metadata within the mass of reports. What these facts point to is a chaotic collection of oddities having as many origins and natures as the people who report them; a jumble of individualistic observations sharing little in common and calling for separate explanations on a case-by-case basis.
In order to recognize the existence of a new phenomenon, you would require events totally original, unambiguous, highly-strange, necessitating a novel physical framework to be understood, objective in recording, observed by scientists, and reported in mainstream scientific journals. UFO phenomena do not adhere to these standards.
Every researcher whose position has evolved from proponent to agnostic, acquires spontaneously a sort of “cross-border perspective”. This viewpoint liberates the mind from narrow habits of belief that turn every puzzling aerial object into a UFO unknown. Once free to think outside of the UFO “box,” you investigate natural and man-made sources for alternative solutions in a more efficient manner. For example, if a reliable source reports seeing an oval object flying slower than a plane or helicopter but faster than a weather balloon through the afternoon sky, you can trust that an object of that description really flew in the area at that time. And you look for it and you research any mundane possibilities, to finally find out that a blimp fits the reported characteristics. If one was in the area, schedules and flight paths will confirm or refute your hypothesis, but if you cling to the position of the UFO proponent, your assumptions fence you in. Your desire to confirm that the object was a UFO closes your eyes to other and likelier possibilities.
Epilogue
Let me be perfectly clear: the UFO phenomenon holds transcendent significance only insofar as it results from extraterrestrial life visiting the Earth. It is this possibility that made the ETT popular and compelling from the start. But I fear that 70 years of air incidents, close encounters, radar returns, photos and videos and other seemingly astonishing experiences do not sum up to proof that such visits have taken place. This evidence is inadequate as proof. To be realistic, however, people will not give up the flying saucer myth. Its impact on popular belief and society at large has been profound and universal, having permeated all levels of education and social class. In some form this mythology will last forever. After all, the down-to-earth solutions are dull by comparison and interest no one aside from a handful of academics.
In a reasonable prognosis for the future, the present social situation around UFO phenomena is not expected to change at the popular level. Active UFO propagandists will continue defending the ETT hell or high water through books, radio, TV and websites because this business has a market. They are discouragement-proof and turn a deaf ear to information from all quarters about the increasing number of reports written off after analysis exposes their conventional nature. They will respond to skeptical challenges with name-calling, recycling old stories, and adulterating the scene with unsubstantiated claims and conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, the ranks of serious and objective researchers still supporting the reality of a distinct UFO phenomenon will decline, as time and lack of proof play against keeping the mere faith, the hope of a contact, or the regularly-predicted (and miserably failed) expectation of recognition by the powers that be. On the other hand, it is not difficult to foretell that UFO phenomena’s cultural outlook will be increasingly treated by university scholars as a topic worthy of study, but for reasons other than those proposed by believers.
Not the last word has been uttered on this subject. There is pending research on a number of puzzling UFO observations, where the application of physical sciences is of paramount importance. Documentalist work is required in the area of bibliographies and resource indices. History, Folklore, Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, Epistemology, Biography are amongst the many academic outlets that can provide valuable insight into the characteristics of this phenomenon. And we encourage present and future investigators to deal with it. As an example of what has already being accomplished, early this year, the Italian specialist Paolo Toselli released a database with 283 university theses and dissertations dealing with UFOs worldwide.
After 70 years of recurrent reporting, the evidence at hand should be sufficient to demonstrate the material existence of extraordinary machines that cruise our skies, interact with our environment and communicate with our fellow earthlings. Not at all. Lo and behold what was baptized by imaginative writers as visits from space has not been substantiated by cogent, palpable proof. We have collected records of ambiguous phenomena, diverse in appearance and behavior. Most cases that seem intriguing happened years ago, while none of the thousands of so-called landing events have yielded any remarkable evidence. As they recede further into the past, the cases that once seemed convincing will look more and more like anecdotes and tales, less and less like credible evidence that we have been visited by aliens.
Let me finish this synthesis of thoughts that condense five decades of a personal, investigative journey over the UFO subject, with a 1988 quote by a distinguished British writer and acknowledged UFO researcher, Hilary Evans:
If we are to benefit from this splendid myth we have created, we must never lose sight of the fact that it is – only a myth.
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank Dr. Felix Ares de Blas, Manuel Borraz Aymerich, and Dr. Thomas E. Bullard for valuable comments.
When Flying Discs Invaded Our Skies For The First Time | 70th Anniversary of The Beginning of a New Epoch - PART II
When Flying Discs Invaded Our Skies For The First Time | 70th Anniversary of The Beginning of a New Epoch - PART II
Part II
Thomas E. Bullard
Seventy years have passed since Kenneth Arnold reported the first “flying saucer,” the biblical threescore-and-ten that comprises the years of a natural lifespan. Perhaps this anniversary more than any other marks a symbolic moment in the history of the subject, a time to evaluate what we have learned, to look ahead, and to ask hard questions.
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos is a legendary name in ufology. He has a sterling reputation for research and thought, a long and deep familiarity with the field in all its aspects. When he speaks, the wise pause to listen, and his reflections in “The Nature of UFO Evidence” carry a special weight.
His thoughts in this article express not the usual pep talk to the faithful, or a statement of progress made, or of plans for future research. His topic is heavier, his tone somber and mournful. He wonders, has the subject of UFOs run its course? Has the time come to admit that its life has reached an end?
He recalls that he took up UFO study with the same youthful enthusiasm that so many of us remember, drawn by the hope that beings from other planets were visiting the earth and a desire to be on the cutting edge in solving the greatest mystery of all time. He has shared the disappointment that many of us have felt when the years passed and the desired solution continued to elude us.
Unlike some proponents, Ballester Olmos has not closed his eyes to the shortcomings of ufology, or committed himself to defend the phenomenon in spite of all reason. On the contrary, he has confronted the evidence with clear-eyed scientific judgment, and concludes that despite enormous time and effort invested in UFO research, no convincing evidence has resulted to indicate that extraterrestrial spacecraft have visited the earth.
The thoughts our colleague has written for this occasion do not call us to redouble our efforts and soldier onward; rather they serve as an obituary for a failed quest. I do not want to hear that we have tilted at windmills for decades, but sadly, I have to agree with most of what he says.
Ballester Olmos argues that UFOs constitute a mythic belief rather than a phenomenon accessible to science. The basis of the belief rests on genuine sightings but the sightings themselves reduce to conventional phenomena, reshaped into something strange by ideas of what UFOs are, how they should look, and what they do. The operational term here is ideas rather than an objective truth that corresponds to them. The extraterrestrial theory quickly took control of the popular understanding of UFOs. Ufologists accepted this proposition, the news and entertainment media promoted it, and witnesses conformed their reports to the expectations it sowed. Reports multiplied and grew stranger as both witnesses and ufologists made emotional commitments to their beliefs. The story expanded, its supporters rationalized and defended it, and in the end they enclosed themselves in their bubble of belief, a mythic narrative self-confirming and impervious to challenge that had taken on the semblance of truth.
Although ufologists seek to portray their efforts as science, the evidence they gather does not meet scientific standards. It is voluminous but largely anecdotal and subject to the shortcomings of human observation, the illusions, misperceptions, and preconceptions that can turn Venus into a shining spaceship about to land. With UFO evidence no replication is possible, no controlled experiments, no predictions, no falsification. Photographs are abundant but almost invariably questionable either as conventional phenomena or as hoaxes. No convincing physical trace, no alien technology, has ever fallen into human hands except as rumors. Consistencies in UFO data are few and mostly of the broad stereotypical type that could be borrowed from popular expectations, and the properties reported for UFOs are indistinguishable from properties reported for IFOs. The subject has undergone scientific investigation and been debated in more than one official forum but no reason to credit a genuine unknown phenomenon has emerged. A complaint that science ignores the UFO evidence is really a complaint that UFOs have not produced any evidence worthy to attract scientific attention.
There are certainly anomalous UFO cases. They lend a sense of mystery, but any great mass of evidence based on human observation will have a residue of unexplained cases. Their unknown status is more likely due to human factors, like a tendency to combine unrelated observations and ascribe a desired meaning to them, than to a distinctive unknown phenomenon. No standout recurrences distinguish the body of unknowns as coherent and unique. Even the best cases diminish in number under close skeptical investigation, suggesting with ever-growing likelihood that UFOs are not objective phenomena but products of human imagination, error, expectation, and desire. UFOs come from inner space, from the human imagination and myth-making capability. They provide subject matter for sociologists, psychologists, folklorists, and the like, but in the end Condon was right: The study of UFOs contributes nothing to physical scientific knowledge, much less proof of alien visitation.
This reckoning is hard but fair. It exposes ufology as so barren in its results that anyone who doubts that this is the last word pretty much convicts him- or herself as a committed true believer. For my part I agree with the reasoning of the argument, yet I still cannot accept the absoluteness of the conclusion. I still find some substance among UFO reports and see a path, albeit narrow, that may lead to a true anomalous phenomenon, and without detours into the “alternative facts” of UFO mythology.
Both Ballester Olmos and I agree that UFOs are mythic in character. I think we also agree that the appropriate sense of “myth” here is not the mere false belief of popular usage, or the slightly more sophisticated sense of a way of understanding experiences that is not acknowledged by authoritative consensus. UFOs are mythic because a complex system of facts, alleged facts, understandings, arguments, and speculations have grown up around them. Many people accept all or part of this system and view some aspects of the world as if UFOs were factual truths, even though both the evidence and the interpretations attributed to UFOs remain in question. UFO ideas shape entertainment and imagination. They become part of informal education and inform expectations of things to see in the sky. The myth influences—or contaminates—perception, conception, memory, verbal formulation, communication, argumentation, in other words every aspect of the UFO narrative and discussions about it. We do not hear of, speak of, or even observe a pure phenomenon. Our relationships with UFOs are always mediated by the myth.
UFOs as we know them are indisputably human products serving human purposes, but the myth is not necessarily everything. People still see something. Often the object of observation is conventional but rendered strange by the distorting influences of the myth. Sometimes, perhaps, the object observed is strange in itself and rendered into suitable “UFO” form by the force of expectation and the need to assign an unknown to an understandable category. The myth distorts both ways.
A toxic entanglement between observation and comprehension is the common lot of humankind. The situation grows worse in the case of UFOs since official understandings seem inadequate or unsatisfying and unofficial versions take over. Ufology presents vivid examples of extreme distortion, like the case of a satellite reentry in 1968 where several people reported windows and hull plating on an object at treetop level, when the actual stimulus was half a dozen flaming fragments a hundred miles overhead in the upper atmosphere. Yet the appearance of anomalous sights does not automatically spell the end of objectivity. Many more observers of this reentry described it accurately whether or not they identified it for what it was. Considerable evidence confirms that people deserve more credit than they receive as observers of strange sights in the sky. For example a 12th-century monk, John of Worcester, entered a detailed account in his chronicle that we now recognize as a fine example of a large and brilliant meteor. He limited himself to a clear description of a phenomenon unknown to him without any effort to force the sighting into a medieval interpretive scheme.
Are UFOs mythic? Of course they are, and our human bias will always threaten to muddle observations, our human efforts to give meaning to experiences will intrude on the facticity of the objects we wish to understand. These complications are inescapable but not necessarily fatal. A disease can be explained as the result of germs, humors, or witchcraft, but while the interpretations differ, the disease remains the same and all too real. UFOs can be both mythic and phenomenal at the same time. This duality complicates the job of understanding, but we can live with it and work around it by learning to separate the human contributions from the objective basis.
The fundamental unit in any argument for UFOs is the individual sighting. At least one UFO report must describe a genuine unknown phenomenon or the case in favor of UFOs collapses as empty. We know what we want—a landing on the White House lawn, a piece of unmistakably unearthly technology, indisputable instrumental records. We do not have these Holy Grails. What we have are vast numbers of witness reports describing lights in the night or fleeting objects in the distance, claims of close encounters and occupants without firm evidence to back them up, indefinite landing traces and ambiguous radar contacts and photos that may be fakes. The great majority of these reports have conventional answers or lie in a broad “gray area” where nothing can be proved either way. No wonder Ballester Olmos has grown cynical. Anyone who has confronted these mountains of disappointment feels the pangs of despair
At the same time, ufology does have a collection of unsolved cases that is significant in size and meaningful in evidential value. These cases describe unknowns not just in the trivial sense of insufficient information or nobody has really tried to solve them, but in a robust sense of cases rich in description, provocative in strangeness, and impervious to conventional solution even though skeptics have attempted time and again to explain them. Astronomer Lincoln La Paz and others saw a white rounded object maneuver during daylight in 1947. He was able to triangulate it and calculate its speed. Its actions distinguished it from either a balloon or an aircraft. In 1968 the crew of a B-52 approached Minot AFB when a very large object appeared on radar, heading toward the plane and turning away just before a collision. At the behest of ground control the plane circled the area and observed a large glowing object on the earth below. These highly trained personnel confirmed the presence of an unknown object also detected from the ground by radar and visual witnesses. Multiple persons at O’Hare Airport in 2006 saw a disk-shaped object just below the cloud deck. The object rose and punched a “cookie-cutter” hole in the clouds, a process that would require a great deal of heat energy. Cases such as these offer multiple quality witnesses and instrumental support or the chance to “do some science” with results that suggest an unusual phenomenon. Here is the foundation for a genuine and puzzling UFO phenomenon.
Ballester Olmos readily admits that ufology has its unknowns. His concern is that they do not remain unknowns forever and yield sooner or later to conventional solution. This course has certainly become familiar. The Yukon “giant mother ship” UFO of 1996 and the Phoenix Lights of 1997 attracted a great deal of attention among ufologists. These cases seemed strong until skeptics provided convincing explanations of a satellite reentry for one and a flight of military aircraft for the other. Yet the skeptics are not always the safe bet. The Exeter case of 1965 has had numerous solutions, some that actually addressed the sighting and some that were laughable, but the skeptics took their best shot when they attributed the UFO to a refueling aircraft. This was an intelligent proposal but it fell apart under close analysis; so have all the others. About one-fourth of the cases investigated by the Condon Committee emerged as unknowns. Some cases, among them the best in the files, do seem to be “ironclads” defensible against conventional solutions. Conversely, some explanations such as Blue Book personnel used to clear their docket of difficult reports, amount to no more than slipshod excuses that explain nothing. A number of explanations succeed only as reminders that the rationalizing of skeptics can distort the truth as grievously as the credulousness of UFO enthusiasts.
In this light a readiness to give up on UFOs seems premature. New cases continue to enter the “unknowns” pool—for recent examples consider the Southern Illinois police chase case of 2000, the O’Hare sighting, and MUFON’s “phone receiver” object of 2013. Since a high standard ought to apply to explanations as well as to unknowns, older cases explained in dubious terms deserve to be thrown back into the pool. We may not have the full story from the Government files, either. I have never favored conspiracy theories, but I have noticed the abundance of quality unknowns from military and civilian pilots in 1947. After 1952 military reports became scarce in Blue Book files and unknowns of any sort diminished to a trickle. This change follows JANAP 146 and AFR 200-2, regulations that barred both military and civilian pilots from revealing UFO sightings to the press, and the Robertson Panel, which created a policy of defusing public interest in UFOs. A sudden end to pilots seeing UFOs seems unlikely. Perhaps rumors of a dual system—Blue Book that was a public relations front, and a hidden system that secluded reports of the highest quality—have substance after all. And if so, significant files comprising a “ufologica irredenta” may yet await the light of day deep in the bowels of Government secrecy.
A healthy body of unknowns even now underlies the UFO mystery. These cases hint that the apparent downward spiral of unknowns toward zero, or to a minimal residue of intractable rather than truly anomalous events, may be an historical illusion rather than an inevitability after all. Perhaps some consistent level of unknowns persists throughout UFO history. The level of occurrence may be a low one, but a stream of “ironclads” duly recognized might emerge as a clear signal in the noise. Shouldn’t we at least consider this hypothesis before we surrender the phenomenon altogether?
Nothing stings ufologists so painfully as the rejection of their subject by official science. They regard their enterprise as scientific and crave approval, only to find themselves like small children closed out of the game by the big kids at the gate. Complaints that scientists do not listen or ignore the facts overlook the nature of UFO evidence. It is sloppy in the extreme, overwhelmingly anecdotal and intangible. UFOs offer little or nothing to carry into the laboratory for analysis or experiment. The rare exceptions have proved inconclusive or at least not compelling. This empty-handedness along with a reputation as pseudoscience assure that ufology will continue to get the brush-off from laboratory scientists.
Field science offers an alternative approach that is more congenial to the nature of UFO events. When scientists cannot control their object of study, they must approach it on its own terms, in its native environment, and gather observational data for indirect analysis. This model sounds like a good match for UFO reports, though with the added complications that the observers are numerous and widely-scattered individuals with differing temperaments, abilities, and expectations, who witness rare and ephemeral sights in the sky, most of which turn out to be false alarms. The witnesses most likely to report probably have preconceived notions and biases. No standardization in the observational process and little in the descriptions of sightings is possible. Face-to-face meetings between investigator and witness are rare. The resulting data is raw in the worst sense—heterogeneous, inconsistent, and suitable only for crude analysis. UFOs make unruly subjects even for field techniques.
If individual reports of unknowns comprise the foundation of a case for UFOs, patterns of consistency in these reports add the next essential layer. Each separate unknown may be impressive in itself but only multiple cases with significant similarities build evidence for a recurrent phenomenon. Without this support the unknowns remain random oddities and may have no further significance. With a consistent pattern to unify them, these oddities begin to acquire an identity. Unknowns and their patterns provide mutual support and the case in favor of UFOs grows at once in strength—if, of course, we find such patterns.
The typical studies applied to mass UFO data are statistical comparisons, either content analysis for consistent descriptions of appearances and activities or frequency searches for patterns in the time and place of UFO events. These efforts have led to limited results. A finding like more UFOs are seen in early evening than at any other time may be consistent but not surprising, while discovering that UFO reports are more frequent on one weekday than on any other comes as a surprise but carries no apparent meaning. Searches for a recurrence pattern in UFO waves have led to predictive successes but they did not hold true for very long and might have been artefactual after all. Content analyses that show most UFOs are round and most occupants are short humanoids enjoy an unmistakable robustness, but as Ballester Olmos warns, such findings hold equally true for IFO cases and reflect popular images.
This sort of analysis offers ufology its best option to make a case for UFOs with the data in hand. Rather than waiting for a piece of spaceship to fall into our laps, or for the Government to show us the bodies, all those intriguing cases we have accumulated transform from dusty files into tools for actual scientific work. But have we tried and failed at this enterprise already? I don’t think so. From my own experience, a comparison between abduction reports with high reliability and those of low reliability revealed that consistency in sequence of events and descriptive content was much higher in the high-reliability cases. In the low-reliability cases where presumably more of the stories were hoaxes or fantasies, plots and content varied far more. A comparison of two samples of UFO occupant cases found stronger preferences for certain descriptive options among the high reliability reports than in the general run.
The reason behind these consistencies might be cultural influence or investigator bias, but actual observation in contrast to imagination might also be the cause. At least the possibility is worth exploring. So many IFO reports in the sample, so many human errors and shortcomings in descriptions plague the record that they threaten to smother the signal from the very much smaller body of UFOs. In the past good minds have had to work with bad data limited in both quantity and quality, and the disappointing results come as no surprise. Today we have much larger samples and data of better quality to escape the garbage in-garbage out problem that dogged earlier efforts. I see reason to believe that some distinctive consistencies in the phenomenon may yet be forthcoming, and that reliance on quality cases as the database will reveal those consistencies in sharper relief. At least the effort should be made before we give up the spaceship.
Vicente-Juan invited me to collaborate in a dialogue of views on UFOs for this 70th anniversary event. He may not have expected quite so much difference in conclusions, but in fact we disagree on very little. His criticisms of ufology are on target and his exposure of its failures as a scientific enterprise are as necessary as they are painful. We differ only in the conclusions we draw. He is ready to drive nails in the coffin and lower ufology into the grave; I still see sparks of life and wish to avoid a premature burial. A very much alive Mark Twain once quipped that reports of his demise were greatly exaggerated. A similar pronouncement for UFOs may not stretch the truth quite so much, but even this 70th anniversary need not be the end of the line. Maybe I grasp at straws like a true believer still holding out, but I still perceive a mystery amid the clutter and avenues, or at least alleyways of research not yet explored, or not adequately followed up. Until that happens I will continue to see a future for ufology.
Valencia (Spain) and Bloomington (USA), June 24, 2017.
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos worked 30 years for Ford Motor Co. in Spain as Analyst and Department Manager (Finance). An active investigator of the UFO phenomenon since 1966, he has authored 10 books and over 480 publications (see his bibliography athttp://cdufo.info/bib/bibliog1.pdf). He has delivered lectures in Europe and America and has been a staff member or consultant of the major UFO organizations in Spain as well as in foreign countries. A specialist in UFO “landing” reports in the Iberian Peninsula and in military-sourced UFO reports in Spain, he played a remarkable role in the declassification process of the Spanish Air Force UFO archives, 1992-1999. Since year 2000, Ballester Olmos manages the FOTOCAT Project, a database of reported UFO and IFO sightings where pictures, films, videos or digital images have been recorded, occurred up to December 31, 2005 (with over 12,200 entries). Married, father of two daughters and one son, he is an avid reader and a great fan of country music. FOTOCAT Project: Apartado de Correos 12140, 46080 Valencia, Spain Email address: ballesterolmos@yahoo.es
Thomas Eddie Bullard took an interest in UFOs as early as 1957 when he was eight years old. The interest persisted and he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the subject while a graduate student in folklore at Indiana University. He published studies of UFO abductions for the Fund for UFO Research and the Journal of UFO Studies, as well as The Myth and Mystery of UFOsfor the University Press of Kansas in 2010, a book comparing UFO accounts and beliefs with extranormal encounters in myth, religion, and folklore. He has served as a board member for both the Fund for UFO Research and the Center for UFO Studies. Recently retired, he continues to write on UFO phenomenology and pre-1947 anomalous aerial objects from his home in Bloomington, Indiana. E-mail address: tbullard@indiana.edu
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Our sun, being the closest star to planet Earth, has long served as key to helping us understand the universe and its mechanics. While ancient civilizations worshipped it for it’s life-bringing light and heat, modern scientists study it to try to unlock secrets of the universe, learning things that might be applied to celestial bodies elsewhere in the cosmos.
It was recently announced that NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (previously called the Solar Probe Plus) will be sent skyward on a course for our star, and “swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun’s surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.” The Parker Solar Probe will be launched in 2018, and will “provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth.”
We know a lot about the sun already, and of course, with the new information gained from the Parker Solar Probe’s mission, we can expect to learn even more in the coming years. But perhaps there are still some solar phenomena observed here on Earth from time to time that remain unexplained.
For example, is it possible that there could be atmospheric conditions that would cause the sun to appear to flash, producing an odd-looking “blinking” effect?
Admittedly, this sounds a pretty unlikely (if not a bit crazy), although a number of videos appearing on sites like YouTube these days purport to show this occurring, such as this one:
In most cases, it seems that the “phenomenon” in these videos appears to be related with the camera, rather than the sun itself, and what may be the device’s auto focus and exposure settings attempting to adjust when pointed directly at the sun while filming. Another, perhaps more likely explanation, is that when a camera focuses on the sun, what are often called “blown highlights” can occur, resulting from light being captured in a dynamic range that exceeds the range of the camera in question.
In the video below, one of the commenters makes a similar suggestion, noting that this footage which purports to show the sun “flashing” again might have resulted from someone adjusting the ISO settings on the camera, rather than an atmospheric strobing effect:
Apart from the “blown highlight” theory we’ve proposed, there is very little in the way of scientific information that describes flickering or flashing sunlight, nor anything that suggests what might cause something like this to happen, atmospheric or otherwise.
Despite the lack of scientific data, there are at least one or two articles and blogs that seem to reference this so-called “blinking sun” phenomenon. One interesting post, dated February 1, 2009, appeared at the blog of physicist Gordon Watts, appropriately titled, “The Sun Should Not Flicker!“. As Watts recounts, while flying from Seattle to Geneva he described his observation of a mild “flickering”, which had been visible on a portion of the aircraft for a short period. He also managed to film this mild strobing effect, which can be seen here, where the flickering appears on the aircraft itself, rather than as a result of focusing his camera on the sun.
“We were in very smooth air at the time,” Watts wrote, “so it couldn’t have been the bouncing of the plane. The only thing I could think of was there were some clouds on the horizon that were blowing by and obscuring the sun briefly. Unfortunately, without opening the plane door, I couldn’t check! Is that it?”
“Whatever it was – it was very spooky,” Watts concluded. “The sun is supposed to be rock solid!”
Commenters on Watt’s post claimed to have observed similar things in the past. In a reply dated August 17, 2011, a commenter named “Bob” responded saying, “I have sungazed (sic) for years and noticed how the solar disc appears to not only flicker, but also gyrates. It is no optical illusion as I have seen it through reflections and between tree branches. No one has been able to confirm what I see much less why it does this.”
The description of flickering observed “between tree branches” sounds a bit suspect. However, another comment, dated April 17, 2017, was shared by a Tennessee resident named George Walker, who described a group of people that claimed to witness this “flickering” around sunset.
“Saw it flickering and pulsating at sunset in Tn. on Easter Sunday April 2017,” Walker wrote. “There was a smaller, reddish sun or planet, about half in size, directly below our Sun. Everything was clearly visible and witnessed by many in the neighborhood.”
As for the “smaller, reddish sun or planet” Walker described seeing directly below the sun, who knows precisely what this was in reference to. Granted, a variety of atmospheric conditions can lead to similar, unusual looking manifestations, such as the “green flash”, where prismatic effects in the atmosphere cause sudden “flashes” and changes of color just as the sun sets over the horizon.
We’d be interested in hearing from any readers that have observed this sort of “flashing”, particularly if it was observed with the naked eye, rather than merely on camera (since the videos alleging to show this phenomena make it difficult to discern whether this is a lighting adjustment with the device, or the “blown highlights” we discussed earlier). Feel free to use the comments section below, or you can also send us an email with your report here.
The December 1980 events in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England are seen by many UFO researchers as prime evidence for the existence of extraterrestrials in our midst. Far less attention, however, is paid to other seldom discussed cases which occurred in the direct vicinity of the forest. Two such cases – also from the 1980s – are worth noting. It was in the autumn of 1983 – specifically late October – when the people of the verynearby village of Hollesley collectively found themselves in an extremely strange situation.
Witnesses in the village described seeing – late at night – a large, dark-colored, silent, triangular-shaped aircraft which hovered over Hollesley for around a quarter of an hour. Three powerful lights were seen below the UFO, all of which lit up the ground in spectacular fashion. Of the many and various people who saw the strange craft, one was Ron Macro. He told the media, who were soon onto the story: “We froze. The lights were in a triangle and remained perfectly still. Whatever was in the sky flew over us. The lights beamed down and we heard a high-pitched whine.”
Other witnesses came forward, including Pauline Osborne and Debbie Foreman. They were driving by Hollesley at the time the UFO put in its appearance and were lucky enough to see it at fairly close quarters. It was as they got closer to the object that something very strange happened: the engine of Debbie’s car began to splutter and malfunction. The headlights dimmed and, finally, the engine briefly cut out completely. Debbie said: “Until then the car had behaved quite normally. But everything seemed to go wrong.” Those familiar with the history of Ufology will know that so-called “vehicle interference” cases are not uncommon within the subject.
Not surprisingly, the people of Hollesley insisted that a spokesperson from the close by Royal Air Force Woodbridge base give them an explanation. One of those who wanted an answer was John Button. He gave his views to the media: “If they are experimenting then we ought to be told. And if there’s something flying around here which comes from outer space, we ought to be told about that too.”
A noticeably brief reply came from Captain Kathleen McCollom, who would only say: “Nothing was seen on radar. I cannot say more than that.”
Ten months later, there occurred yet another encounter, this time over Rendlesham Forest itself. The crew of a Britten-Norman Trislander freight aircraft had a collision with…well…with something. Luckily, the damage was not too severe. But, it was certainly bad enough. The U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority quickly looked into the matter. A document that has surfaced from the CAA states the following:
“24 August 84 Ipswich – UK Reportable Accident: A/C [Aircraft] struck object in cruise. Propeller, fuselage, cowling and control runs damaged. The A/C was flying in slight turbulence when a bump was felt. Just before descent the right hand engine control was found to be seized so an asymmetric approach & landing was executed. On inspection it was apparent that the left propeller had struck an unidentified object, propelling it through the cabin roof, with a piece exiting through a window. There were several holes in the fuselage & damage to the engine, aileron & rudder trim cables. Three pieces of foreign metallic object were found, including a small cylindrical magnet. The UFO has not been identified. No information received concerning nature or origin of UFO.”
Of course, it’s important to note that for the Civil Aviation Authority the term “UFO” did not mean “alien spacecraft.” The CAA meant an unidentified flying object in literal terms, and nothing else. But, it is intriguing that of all the places the curious collision could have occurred it was over Rendlesham Forest!
PENTAGON'S NEWEST WEAPON PROJECT IS BASICALLY A WEAPONIZED METEOR STRIKE
PENTAGON'S NEWEST WEAPON PROJECT IS BASICALLY A WEAPONIZED METEOR STRIKE
Back in the 1950s, Jerry Pournelle imagined what would be the equivalent of the extinction of dinosaurs for the military and today the kinetic energy projectile weapon of the Pentagon is more along the lines of a weaponized meteor strike.
The United States Army veteran was a Boeing operations researcher in 1949 after the Manhattan Project and the first lightning nuclear test of the Soviet Union. He imagined a weapon system that did not have chemical explosive or munitions, but instead huge rods that had been forged from heavy metal that would be dropped from heights that were sub-orbital. The New York Times called them tungsten bolts and said that they would be able to impact the strongholds of the enemies and obliterate fortified targets, without any mess from nuclear fallout.
The weapon imagined by Pournelle was given the name of Project Thor, while others named it the Rods From Gods. However, when it comes to reality the weapons researchers call it kinetic energy projectile, a very fast and super dense projectile that is able to operate without complex systems or volatile chemicals and it can destroy everything that falls into its path.
The idea of kinetic weapons being able to fall down on enemies with a velocity that is deadly is not a concept that is novel. Airmen deployed Lazy Dog bombs after World War II, which were inert and which traveled at terminal velocity to the battlefields in Vietnam and Korea.
KEPS HAVE BEEN USED BY MILITARY FOR DECADES
Gravity has not always be needed, as for many decades the military has used kinetic energy penetrators that were ultra-dense, with the name of KEPs, which were shells in an outer shell specially designed to be fired at high velocity instead of being dropped out of the sky.
It does not matter if they are fired out of a cannon or dropped from the sky as they have the same idea behind them; hit the enemy with something that is dense, moving fast and very hard. The kinetic energy projectile may arrive as a staple in modern warfare far sooner than anyone thinks.
KINETIC ENERGY PROJECTILE WAS TESTED IN 2013
The U.S Air Force 846th Test Squadron along with civilian researchers in 2013 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, managed to test fire a kinetic energy projectile which was a shell rich in tungsten that traveled at around 3,500 feet per second, which is three times the speed of sound. The Pentagon have more recently tested out electromagnetic rain guns of the Navy with hypervelocity projectiles and the Navy is hoping that a completed cannon is going to be able to launch shells six times the speed of sound at 4,500mph.
Matt Weingart, a weapons program development manager at Lawrence Livermore said that explosives are dazzling when it comes to being destructive; however, there is elegance to the kinetic energy projectile.
He went on to say that the classic way of hurting a target has always been to pack plenty of chemical explosives into a container. The violence happens due to the chemical explosive that is inside the bomb and which sends off a blast wave, which is then followed by the fragment of the case of the bomb. The biggest difference with kinetic energy projectiles is the warhead arrives at the given target, and it is moving extremely fast. The energy propels the fragments and there is no need for chemical explosives to accelerate them. In short, the bigger the mass, the more violence it will cause.
Military researchers have been continuing to look into the applications on the battlefield that are able to take full advantage of high terminal speeds so that they can deliver more energy to the target than the chemical explosives they carried would be able to deliver on their own, said Army Major General William Hix.
Hix said that it should be considered as a big shotgun shell and there would not be much that would be able to survive it. He went on to say that anyone inside the main battle tank might be able to survive, but it would render the vehicle non-operational and everything not inside the tank would be dead.
There is more to the KEP than just being elegant along with being cost-effective. The hyper-sonic shell was designed to be able to defeat any armor of the enemy and totally obliterate structures along with equipment, whether it is fired from the ground or deployed by aerial means. Hix has the vision of being able to rain down violence over a large area without there being risk to hardware and military personnel.
KINETIC ENERGY PROJECTILE COULD COUNTER RUSSIA TACTICAL NUCLEAR STOCKPILE
There is another main purpose for the kinetic energy projectiles that just being able to rain down violence. Planners at the Pentagon may think of it as being a counter to the tactical nuclear stockpile of Russia. Hix said that warheads might be seen on battlefields of the future along with weapons that are more conventional thanks to miniaturization efforts that are ongoing.
The applications of it are theoretical for the time being and more than likely the floating Thors hammer circling around the planet is some decades away. However, if kinetic energy projectiles make their way into warfare and they are found to be efficient, they could come across new delivery systems for destruction in the battlefield, with effects that could be devastating and which might beat the MOAB as being the Pentagons most violent non-nuclear weapon.
ROSWELL UFO CASE UPDATE - DEPUTY SHERIFF: 'THEY WERE HAULING A BIG CREATURE'
ROSWELL UFO CASE UPDATE - DEPUTY SHERIFF: 'THEY WERE HAULING A BIG CREATURE'
“They were hauling a big creature” claims a Deputy Sheriff who was there during the most remarkable UFO crash in the history. Deputy Sheriff Charles Fogus says in a new testimony he saw a crashed flying saucer and extraterrestrials who looked like the ones we know see on Television - the Grey aliens.
UFOs will be on the horizon at a conference in Swansea
The truth could be out there in Swansea on Saturday.
Swansea UFO Network (SUFON) is holding it’s summer Conference on Saturday at the New Lodge, Alexandra Road, in Gorseinon, with an invitation to come along and hear about some local mysteries.
There will be three visiting speakers, David Cayton, David Hodrien and Colin Woolford, all of whom are well known in the UFO field, and who will be speaking on a variety of subjects, from UFOs seen over Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, cases involving UFOs and the RAF, how the subject and personal experiences has influenced notable names in the music industry, and the controversial alien autopsy film.
Tickets for the conference, which runs from 11am to 5pm, are £10 each and available on the door.
Emlyn Williams, a spokesman for SUFON, said there would be plenty of local sightings to discuss.
He said: “This year sees the 40th anniversary of one of the most famous UFO flaps in Britain, that coined the Welsh Triangle, and SUFON organised a conference last February at Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire , site of one of the best known cases during that flap when a group of school children saw a landed craft just outside the school playground.”
Here are some of the unexplained UFO cases in Swansea:
The Night of the Triangles:
“One case which is being looked at by SUFON is the one which occurred on the evening of January 19, 1983, when dozens of witnesses in the Swansea and Port Talbot area (over 60 recorded so far), saw huge black triangular-shaped craft, some the size of jumbo jets, some the size of a family car, hovering silently just over roof-tops, two of which moved slowly and silently over Swansea Bay, and one possibly causing a power failure in Bishopston.”
“We call it The Night of the Triangles and we are tracking down many of the witnesses, and filming interviews which have been put on SUFON’s YouTube channel. Two witnesses were CID inspectors making a house call in the Trallwn area of Swansea who saw a huge craft ‘about the size of a football pitch’ moving over the valley and heading towards the coast.”
A suspected UFO sighting over Swansea
The refinery incident:
“Another sighting that evening, from a family at home in Skewen , was of a gigantic triangle - which moved from Kilvey Hill to Llandarcy in an instant, and which then hovered over the BP oil refinery. The size was truly huge, covering much of the refinery!”
The vanishing cigar:
“Another large and very strange case was of a massive black cigar-shaped object which hovered silently over the newly-built Singleton Hospital in Swansea, on a November evening in 1965, causing the lights on all the floors to flash on and off. A green line appeared in the middle of the object, which spread right around it, and the whole thing just disappeared in an instant in front of witnesses’ eyes.”
Mr Williams added: “It is safe to say that there have been and still are, very strange things going on in our skies.”
Anyone who can’t make it but has a sighting they wish to share is invited to get in touch with SUFON.
“Anyone with experiences of their own, please get in touch, identities will be kept confidential if requested. Call 07954 806402 or 07399990985, or email swanseaufonet@yahoo.com. SUFON also has a Facebook page - Swansea UFO Network.”
Do you think there are otherworldly beings among us? Have they perhaps penetrated our atmosphere simply to check us out?
I recently searched youtube for videos of UFO sightings over Connecticut and found dozens, but not one of them made me a believer. I confess that I’ve never seen or had an encounter with a UFO or any type of alien being. I’ve never been beamed up by a spaceship, where I was poked and prodded or had my prostate checked, and then dropped off in an empty field in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
Let’s take a look at five YouTube videos that claim they witnessed a UFO over Connecticut. This first video was taken in New Milford on October 6, 2011:
After viewing this video, I suspect that the individual filming this was holding an expensive kaleidoscope in front of the camera lens or got his hands on some Maui Waui weed, which is known to cause the user to see colors.
This next video was taken on December 29, 2014 in Old Saybrook during daylight hours. You will notice that the two dudes in the car describing this UFO are talking about a cloud that is in the shape of a UFO. Can you say, “wake and bake”?
This next UFO video was shot at night over New Britain in the month of August of 2012. Honestly, I don’t know what to make of what they saw, but the conversation between these two guys proves they’ve mastered the placement of the F-bomb in a sentence.
Video number 3 was taken in February of 2014 in Danbury. You will see a wobbling white light that might just be an alien spacecraft, but I really don’t think so. I’ve read somewhere that drinking a case of Natty Ice on an empty stomach is the catalyst for making a so-called spaceship video.
This next supposed UFO video was shot in June of 2016, and is the most realistic of the five because it shows a crowd of water lovers at a Connecticut beach gawking at what they suspect is the real deal. Who’s to say on this one?
Why would beings from another galaxy or solar system waste their time putting on a show for a bunch of weekend beach-goers? I suspect it was someone with an expensive state of the art drone attempting to scare the shit out of as many people as possible.
I’m curious to know your thoughts on these possible UFO sightings. Have you ever seen an unidentified flying object? Were you sober or trashed when you saw this flying saucer? Please comment at your earliest convenience. Thank you, or in Klingon, “qatlho!”
Artist's concept of a swarm of comets surrounding a star. The comet swarm was once one of the leading explanations behind the unusual dimming of Tabby's Star, but astronomers haven't turned up any corroborating evidence of such a swarm yet.
IMAGE COURTESY NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Tabby's Star is arguably the most mysterious – and controversial – star in our galaxy.
Observed by NASA's Kepler space telescope, the star shot to fame when citizen scientists studying the mission's data noticed the star dim and flicker dramatically between 2011 and 2013. Hypotheses about this weird behavior abound, but not a single one seems to fully explain what's going on. The lack of an obvious answer has fueled speculation that an advanced alien civilization is building a "megastructure" around the star that we call Tabby's Star.
Now, the star has mysteriously dipped in brightness again, raising hopes that the world's astronomers have caught the star in the act and that a clear explanation of the star's true nature may be coming soon.
Kepler's Mysterious Star
Kepler's mission is to search for extrasolar planets – or "exoplanets" – that orbit other stars, and it does this by detecting the very slight dimming of stars as exoplanets pass in front (events known as "transits"). Thousands of alien worlds have been detected during this profound mission, revealing the incredible bounty of planets that exist in our galaxy. In fact, there aren't enough scientists to properly analyze the huge quantities of data that the mission is producing. Enter citizen scientists.
The Planet Hunters crowdsourcing project makes Kepler observations available to hundreds of thousands of participants and significant exoplanet discoveries are being made.
For example, during Kepler's primary mission, one of the targets was KIC 8462852, an average F-type main-sequence star located 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. But the Planet Hunters found this star to be very special; it became clear that the brightness variations that KIC 846285 was exhibiting were not your run-of-the-mill exoplanet transit signals – this was an entirely different beast.
The so-called "light-curve" of the star (basically the intensity of starlight that Kepler was detecting over time) was a mess. From 2011 to 2013, there were extreme dips and periods of interference, suggesting that there were many objects in orbit around the star. And some of these objects had to be very large to explain how much starlight they were blocking from view. One dip dimmed the star by an incredible 22 percent. Considering the most massive gas giant exoplanets will dim a star's brightness by a meager 1 percent, this hinted at the extreme nature of the object(s) in orbit about the star.
A paper detailing these results was made available on the arXiv pre-print service in October 2015 (and later accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society). The star was nicknamed "Tabby's Star" (or "Boyajian's Star") after astronomer Tabetha S. Boyajian who led the research.
To explain this strange transit signal, astronomers assumed there must be a vast cloud of dust around the star. But this didn't make a whole lot of sense; KIC 8462852 isn't a young star. Dusty rings of debris are usually found around very young stars that are in the process of creating planets.
Artist's concept of a young star with material coalescing around it. Such a cloud of material could conceivably account for a star's dimming, but Tabby's star doesn't exactly fit the profile as it's not a young star.
ESO/L. CALÇADA
Researchers then investigated the possibility that the dust might be caused by a chance planetary collision. A collision of this nature, however, would produce a specific heat signature, generating an excess of infrared radiation – but no such signature was discernible by follow-up observations.
What if a huge "swarm" of comets was gravitationally knocked into orbit about KIC 8462852 by a passing star? Might that be enough to cause sufficient dimming? Although this is one of the leading hypotheses that might explain this mystery, other observations of the star have failed to find corroborative evidence that such a swarm is even there.
Lacking an obvious answer, astronomers have been thinking a little more out of the box in hopes of explaining the KIC 8462852 light-curve. After the original Kepler result was announced, Boyajian hinted that "other scenarios" were being investigated and, in a now infamous interviewwith The Atlantic on Oct. 15, 2015, Penn State astronomer Jason Wright went into some detail about what one of these "other scenarios" could be.
"Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build," Wright said. Before this interview, Tabby's Star was a scientific curiosity. Now, Tabby's Star is a media sensation and is nicknamed the "Alien Megastructure Star."
Although it is more likely that KIC 8462852's weirdness likely has a natural explanation that has so far been overlooked by the astronomical community and aliens is the least likely explanation, this hypothesis doesn't seem to be going away.
An artist's impression of a collision between a planet and a proto-planet. Astronomers suggested that a smash-up like this could cause the dimming of Tabby's star.
NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Dyson Spheres
But what kind of alien civilization could build something so big that it blots out the light from an entire star? And why would they want to do such a thing?
In 1964, Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev created the hypothetical "Kardashev scale" that describes the advancement of a civilization as their energy needs increase from a cosmic perspective.
It's hard not to be a little disappointed that a comet seems to have been behind the Wow! signal.
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It looks like one of the most famous signals in the history of searches for intelligent extraterrestrials wasn't triggered by chatty aliens after all – it was likely caused by a mischievous comet that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
On Aug. 15, 1977, Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope was fixed on three star systems called Chi Sagittarii in the constellation of Sagittarius as part of a SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) project when it detected something weird.
For 72 seconds, a powerful burst of radio waves erupted from deep space. On reviewing the computer printout from that observing session a few days later, astronomer Jerry Ehman noticed the strange clump of letters and numbers. To the untrained eye, the digits are nothing more than a random computer burp. But to Ehman, the message was clear: An unprecedented narrowband radio signal had been received from deep space, and it looked artificial. Excited by the find, Ehman circled the cluster of letters and numbers, writing an exuberant "Wow!" on the printout.
"I mean, without thinking, I wrote "Wow!"" Ehman recalled during a 1994 interview. "It was the most significant thing we had seen."
As time went on, Ehman became skeptical that Big Ear had detected an alien transmission, saying: "Even if it were intelligent beings sending a signal, they'd do it far more than once." After dozens of investigations into that same region, he had settled on the idea that the signal was more likely a radio signal bouncing off space debris, like a defunct satellite, than anything SETI related.
Astronomers exhaustively continued to seek out natural explanations, but the popular view of the signal always tended toward the improbable (yet possible). Nearly four decades later, the "Wow!" signal has remained the most captivating pieces of evidence that alien life – an intelligent, transmitting alien civilization, no less – might exist in our galaxy.
But over the years, SETI astronomers have been frustrated by the lack of replication. Science is a stickler for replicating results, so while the Wow! signal was certainly interesting, until more Wow! signals are found, the 1977 detection was nothing more than an anomaly and a mysterious addition to the SETI annals.
Last year, however, Antonio Paris, an adjunct professor at Florida's St. Petersburg College and a former analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, had an idea that would assess the Wow! signal's cause and, from November 2016 to February 2017, he tested his hypothesis.
Paris had been trying to find alternatives to the "alien explanation" of the Wow! radio burst, and he realized that the explanation might be a little closer to home.
Big Ear was tuned to a very specific radio frequency for good reason. The universe is filled with neutral hydrogen and, in this natural state, radiates radio waves at a frequency of 1420 megahertz. Any self-respecting alien astronomer would know this. By SETI logic, if we know 1420 megahertz is the most abundant radio emission in the known universe and they also know it, perhaps it is the perfect frequency to transmit on as there is some guarantee that other intelligent beings are observing at that frequency. There's an entire electromagnetic spectrum to transmit from, why not narrow down the odds from the get-go?
However, Paris pondered another possible emitter of 1420 megahertz radiation: comets. Comets contain large quantities of water ice and therefore release neutral hydrogen gas into space as they orbit the sun. At the time of the Big Ear observation, there were no known comets in the Chi Sagittarii observing region. But many comets have been discovered since then – might an undiscovered comet have "photobombed" the Big Ear 1977 observations?
Paris identified two cometary candidates, comets 266P/Christensen and 335P/Gibbs, which were discovered in 2006 and 2008 respectively that, after historic orbital analysis, would have placed them in the general vicinity of Chi Sagittarii on Aug. 15, 1977. And it just so happened that 266P/Christensen was soon making a return visit to the same patch of sky. So, between November 2016 and February 2017 an exhaustive observing campaign was carried out. This time, the detection was replicated, and it appears that aliens had nothing to do with the infamous Wow! signal.
"The investigation discovered that comet 266/P Christensen emitted a radio signal at 1420.25MHz," Paris writes in a study published in the Journal for the Washington Academy of Science. "All radio emissions detected were within 1° (60 arcminutes) of the known celestial coordinates of the comet as it transited the neighborhood of the "Wow!" Signal."
As part of the study, Paris also studied the emissions from a random selection of three other comets – P/2013 EW90 (Tenagra), P/2016 J1-A (PANSTARRS), and 237P/LINEAR – and found that, yes, they also produced a strong 1420 megahertz radio signal.
In short, this could be the last nail in the coffin for the alien explanation of the Wow! signal.
"The results of this investigation, therefore, conclude that cometary spectra are detectable at 1420 MHz and, more importantly, that the 1977 "Wow!" Signal was a natural phenomenon from a solar system body," Paris concludes, bluntly.
Zes planeten rondom TRAPPIST-1 hebben een aardachtige samenstelling
Zes planeten rondom TRAPPIST-1 hebben een aardachtige samenstelling
Tim Kraaijvanger
Zes van de zeven planeten in het planetaire systeem van TRAPPIST-1 hebben een aardachtige samenstelling. Dit concluderen wetenschappers op basis van duizenden simulaties van de planetenbanen.
TRAPPIST-1f is de enige planeet die anders is dan de rest. Deze exoplaneet bestaat voor 25 procent uit water. Dit is bijzonder, omdat de planeet ongeveer even groot is als de aarde, maar wel iets lichter is dan onze wereld. Omdat TRAPPIST-1f zo groot is, zorgt de luchtdruk ervoor dat water in stoom verandert. Vandaar dat het waarschijnlijk te warm is voor leven zoals we dat op aarde kennen.
“Het doel van de zoektocht naar exoplaneten is om planeten te vinden die lijken op de aarde en wellicht leefbaar zijn”, zegt onderzoeker Billy Quarles van de universiteit van Oklahoma. “Al duizenden jaren zoeken astronomen naar buitenaardse werelden waar leven mogelijk is.”
TRAPPIST-1 is een interessant systeem op zo’n veertig lichtjaar van de aarde. Het bestaat uit een moederster en zeven planeten die qua grootte vergelijkbaar zijn met de aarde. Zeker drie van deze planeten bevinden zich in de leefbare zone (en kunnen in theorie dus vloeibaar water herbergen).
De simulaties van Quarles laten zien dat zes van de zeven exoplaneten wel aardachtig zijn. Dit betekent dat ze grotendeels uit steen bestaan, net als onze planeet. De beste kandidaat voor leven is TRAPPIST-1e. En omdat de planeten zo dicht bij elkaar staan, kunnen eventuele levensvormen zich in theorie gemakkelijk van de ene naar de andere planeet begeven.
Het xenon in de xenonlamp van jouw auto heeft een buitenaardse oorsprong. Het edelgas is namelijk door kometen naar de aarde gebracht.
Xenon is in 1898 ontdekt, toen het edelgas als residu achterbleef tijdens het verdampen van vloeibare lucht. Het wordt gebruikt in bacteriële lampen, elektronenflitsers en in verschillende xenonlampen. In de atmosfeer van de aarde komt een klein beetje xenon voor: 0,05 ppm (deeltjes per miljoen). Dit betekent dat 0,000008% van de atmosfeer uit xenon bestaat. In vergelijking: onze atmosfeer bestaat voor ruim 78% uit stikstof en voor bijna 21% uit zuurstof.
Het zwaarste stabiele edelgas heeft negen verschillende isotopen. Maar waar komen die vandaan? Wetenschappers hebben daarvoor ESA’s Rosetta-ruimtesonde gebruikt. Dit ruimtevaartuig vloog de afgelopen jaren om de komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. De wetenschappers zagen hoe deze komeet xenon lekte, omdat de komeet de zon naderde en dus opwarmde. Het edelgas zat blijkbaar opgeslagen in het miljarden jaren oude komeetijs.
De onderzoekers hebben de samenstelling van xenon op 67P geanalyseerd en beweren in een nieuw paper dat het xenongas de ‘missing link’ is waar lang naar werd gezocht. De samenstelling van xenongas op aarde komt overeen met de signatuur van xenon op de komeet. De wetenschappers concluderen dat 22% van al het aardse xenon een kometaire oorsprong heeft.
When a number of UFOs violated Washington airspace in 1952, the entire country went on alert and the news spread nationwide. Shortly after the incident, President Harry Truman was forced to hold a press conference to address the event. After that conference, as well as the big UFO wave proceeding the atomic bomb, the subject was engulfed in secrecy.
Similar to the recent leaks revealing the extent of the NSA surveillance programs, the UFO subject went into the category of unacknowledged and waived Special Access Programs. According to a 1997 U.S. Senate report, these programs are “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.”
Former head of the CIA Roscoe Hilenkoetter put it best in 1960 when he told the nation that “behind the scenes, high ranking air force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” (source)
Today, it’s a different story. A number of governments and government agencies, as well as thousands of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, have all released previously classified files confirming the existence of UFOs. To compliment these, hundreds (if not thousands) of high-ranking whistleblowers have also shared their stories.
The topic is currently leaving the realm of the fringe and entering into the mainstream at a rapid pace. Just as there was evidence for UFOs, there is also evidence that some of them are indeed extraterrestrial in origin.
This is all becoming normalized, and more and more people are starting to open their mind to the possibility, and evidence, that the government (and those who puppet it) is withholding information about intelligent extraterrestrial visitation to our planet.
The Document
The declassified document comes as part of the batch of thousands that were recently released by the CIA. These documents deal with a number of subjects, ranging from CIA parapsychology experiments to information about UFOs.
One of the documents, written by a “Fred A. Kirsch,” reads as a “sanitized copy approved for released.” In other words, it’s been cleared of (what they deem as) information too sensitive for public access. It reads as follows:
“This is a reply to the letter criticizing Dr. Carl Jung for his belief in flying saucers and his charges that the Air Force has been covering up the truth about these objects. I would like to point out that Dr. Jung is not the first person of integrity and reputation who has made such charges. He is merely the latest.”
The document goes on to name other people as well, including Hillenkoetter:
Exactly the same charge has been made by Admiral Delmar Fahrney, former director of the naval guided missile research program, and by R.M., Hillenkoetter, former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency. . . .
If Jung were the only responsible person to make such charges, we could brush the whole thing off as nonsense. However, when a number of pilots, radar operators and other trained observers agree that UFOs are real, a serious reappraisal of the situation is in order.
It’s not anywhere near as significant as all of the other documentation and information that’s out there pertaining to the UFO subject, but nevertheless stands as another great example of how the CIA has been keeping tabs on the phenomenon.
To learn more about other aspects of this phenomenon, you can sift through the exopolitics section of our website.
This document clearly states, and further validates the many who have also argued, that Jung really believed in this phenomenon and supported the extraterrestrial hypothesis as a possible explanation for the existence of UFOs.
He even wrote a book about the subject titled Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in theSkywhere he speculates about their nature, approaching the subject from a psychological rather than personal standpoint.
According to The Guardian, Jung had studied UFOs for more than a decade and stated that he “cannot even say whether they exist or not,” and that he was risking his “hard-won reputation for truthfulness, reliability and capacity for scientific judgement.”
He has also been quoted as saying, “In the course of years, I have gathered together a considerable mass of observations, included in which are reports by two eyewitnesses known to me personally (I have never seen anything!). I have also read on the question. However, I can only say for certain: these things are not a mere rumour: something has been seen.”
He then goes on to discuss what the above CIA document mentions:
What astonishes me the most is that the American Air Force, despite all the information in its possession and its so-called fear of creating panic, seems o work systematically to do that very thing (witness the Orson Welles radio play at New Jersey) since it has never yet published an authentic and certain account of the facts, only occasionally allowing information to be dragged out of it by journalists.
It’s quite amazing to see just how many ‘credible’ people have been speaking up about this topic after examining the evidence, for decades, and now we know that this long list includes Carl Jung.
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.
A MUFON field investigators and witnesses we are exposed to pssoble military aircraft, sometimes secret aircraft not yet declssified. Recently Florida MUFON went through a UFO Flap involving large triangle craft gliding silantly over the Greater Tampa Bay area. Here are just a few of the collection of witness testimonies.
Case 60636
I was at home and went outside around 10:30pm to make a call and as always, I look up at the sky. I caught something out of the corner of my eye and turned to face it. I thought it was an aircraft at first since Im airline crew.
As, I continued to study the aircraft, I realized it wasnt making any sound, had no lights. It appeared to by gliding about 500 feet up and was reflecting the orange glow of the street lights.
I became anxious and excited as I watched the object disappear behind the trees. I wanted to see more.
Case 60634
"I live in a condo on the first floor overlooking a small lake. I usually sit on my screened-in porch every night to watch planes. I live fairly close to two airports and I've enjoyed watching planes since I was a child. The sighting
of this object actually took me by surprise a little because there was no sound. If I hadn't been watching for planes I never would have seen it. When I saw it my immediate reaction was UFO because it was like nothing I had ever seen before. The whole sighting lasted no more than about 4 seconds. There were no running lights, no sound and the shape unlike any plane. It was very large, a boomerang-type shape but with more rounded edges, (I think 5) very white but dim lights on the underside which seemed to illuminate the craft. Without the lights I would not have been able to see it because it was the same color as the night sky and was very camouflaged, almost transparent-looking. It made no sound at all and looked like it was gliding more than flying through the air. It flew from left to right heading in a southeasterly direction, moving parallel to my porch. I lost sight of it when it went behind the trees on our property. For a while I remained on the porch looking for it, hoping it would come back. It did cross my mind at one point that perhaps it was an experimental aircraft headed towards MacDill Air Force Base which is in the direction it was flying. It certainly seemed to have stealth-like technology and almost appeared as if it was cloaked. The longer I stayed on my porch watching the skies the more apprehensive I became and decided to come in the house. My heart was pounding, I was shaking and it took me a while to calm myself down."
Both of these cases were considered Identified flying Objects with the possibility of being the B2 steaalth bombers on apprach to MicDill Air Force Base. This is certainly a possibility but as the years have go by we have recieved numerus reports of these strange, very large "Boomarang" stype craft. Witnesses often never get a very close look at one but when they do, it really is hard to catigorize as a B2 and the flight characterisitics often go way beyond that of the known capabilities of the B2.
STERRENKUNDENASA doopte het terrein op Mars het "Zwitserse kaas-gebied". Het landschap op de recente foto hierboven van de 'Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter' - al elf jaar aan de slag op de rode planeet - vertoont inderdaad een zekere gelijkenis met de gaten in een kaas. Maar wat vooral opvalt, is de merkwaardige veel grotere en diepere kuil in de bodem van de rode planeet. Wetenschappers krabben zich in de haren: wat is dit?
Het 'Zwitserse kaas-gebied' is gelokaliseerd in de zuidelijke hemisfeer van Mars. Het bevroren kooldioxideterrein telt verscheidene ondiepe putten, 'kaasgaten' veroorzaakt door sublimatie die bepaalde stukken droogijs gasvormig maakt. Heel Mars bulkt van de kraters en depressies, onder meer door meer dan een half miljoen meteorietinslagen en door vulkaanuitbarstingen. Maar dit gat gaat veel dieper, dwars door het ijs en het stof heen.
Wetenschappers vragen zich af of die onverklaarbare put het gevolg is van een zware inslag op Mars dan wel of de bodem er is ingezakt met een bijna perfecte cirkel als resultaat. De diameter van de kuil wordt geschat op enkele honderden meters.
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AMAZING! PROOF OF 'ALIEN LIFE' REVEALED AS SAMPLES FROM ISS SURFACE!
AMAZING! PROOF OF 'ALIEN LIFE' REVEALED AS SAMPLES FROM ISS SURFACE!
The search for extraterrestrial lifeforms goes ever so forward as science gives long leaps of progress, enabling humanity to explore the far reaches of the cosmos.
One remarkable discovery regarding alien lifeforms was made recently as microbial life from cosmic dust, and comet debris was found scattered on the surface of the International Space Stations (ISS).
The astonishing claims are set to rock the world of space science and have been hailed as one, if not the “most significant scientific development of the century”.
Samples taken from the surface of the ISS windows are thought to contain living creatures related to plankton or algae, Russian scientists have confirmed in the past few days.
We are closer than ever to acknowledge the existence of life outside our planet.
This could also prove that life on Earth could have evolved from organisms that came from the far reaches of the universe. Watch the following video to know more!
NEW STRANGE LIGHTS OVER POPOCATEPETL VOLCANO, 2017
NEW STRANGE LIGHTS OVER POPOCATEPETL VOLCANO, 2017
Volcanoes have been a favorite site for alien hunters over the years. Now a strange series of lights above the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico have got conspiracy theorists excited once again. The sightings, they say, suggest aliens are studying Earth's geothermal activity so that they can understand how it works.
The active Popocatepetl Volcano is located 60 km southeast of the Mexican capital, Ciudad de Mexico; it is situated on the borders of the Mexican states of Morelos, Puebla, and Mexico, is located about 60 km southeast of Mexico City.
Were the volcanoes portals for extraterrestrial bases? This question haunts most ufologists since it is even common to see UFOs coming in and out of their mouths. The most recent sighting occurred on the volcano Popocatepetl located in Mexico.
The volcano is a constant target of this type of phenomenon, and there are hundreds of images to confirm this. The most famous were what was filmed by the television network Televisa, where a UFO of kilometer proportions was recorded entering the active volcano.
But in fact, this radical vehicle was designed to scour Mars in search for alien life.
The radical concept has been unveiled by NASA at the at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, and could be the inspiration for future rovers for the first manned missions to the red planet.
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A full-sized Nasa Mars rover has been in development since late 2016, and it looks a lot like the Batmobile. The angular concept vehicle has six wheels, is made entirely of carbon fibre and aluminium, and is battery-powered
Rear area is a detachable lab, while the front area is a cockpit for scouting
Made entirely of carbon fibre and aluminium
Six wheels that measure 50 inches (1.3m) tall, 30 inches (75cm) wide
Battery powered using solar panels
Top speed of 60-70 miles per hour (95-110kph)
The full-sized Nasa Mars rover has been in development since late 2016, and it looks a lot like the Batmobile.
The angular concept vehicle has six wheels, is made entirely of carbon fibre and aluminium, and is solar-powered.
It was designed to accommodate four astronauts and has its own detachable laboratory.
'While this exact rover is not expected to operate on Mars, one or more of its elements could make its way into a rover astronauts will drive on the Red Planet.' NASA says.
The builders of the scientifically-themed Mars rover concept vehicle, Parker Brothers Concepts of Port Canaveral, Florida, incorporated input into its design from NASA subject matter experts.
It rover operates on an electric motor, powered by solar panels and a 700-volt battery.
The rover separates in the middle with the front area designed for scouting and equipped with a radio and navigation provided by the Global Positioning System.
The back section serves as a laboratory which can disconnect for autonomous research.
Following several weeks on display at Kennedy's visitor complex, the Mars rover concept vehicle will be displayed at several locations.
From July through August, it will be displayed at several locations during a tour along the East Coast.
The Mars rover concept vehicle will then return to the visitor complex to be part of the new Astronaut Training Experience attraction opening in the fall of this year.
According to Rebecca Shireman, assistant manager of public relations for the Kennedy visitor complex, the 'Summer of Mars' program will provide a survey of NASA's studies of the Red Planet.
'It's an all-encompassing effort to review the history of our efforts to explore Mars and look ahead to what is being planned,' she said.
'We hope this will encourage young people to want to learn more about being a part of the effort to go to Mars.'
Its six wheels are 50 inches (1.3m) tall, 30 inches (75cm) wide, and are specially designed with air ducts to let the coarse red sands of Mars slip through, Business Insider reports.
The 28 feet (8.5m) long, 13 feet (4m) wide, and 11 feet (3.4m) tall vehicle has not been officially weighed, but its developers estimate it reaches 5,000 pounds (2,250kg).
The rover looks similar to the Batmobile from Batman Begins
Marc Parker, a designer and builder of the new rover, told Business Insider that the buggy is a six-wheeled, all-electric vehicle that was created 'with every intention' of overcoming rocky obstacles on Mars.
He said that the rover could hit top speeds of 60-70 miles per hour (95-110kph), but would not disclose its cost.
'What we actually came up with was a dual-purpose vehicle. It actually separates in the middle,' he said.
'The rear section is a full lab, the front area is a cockpit for going out and doing scouting.
'The lab section can actually disconnect ... and be left on its own to do autonomous research.
The rover separates in the middle with the front area designed for scouting and equipped with a radio and navigation provided by the Global Positioning System.
The rover was designed to accommodate four astronauts to explore the surface of Mars and acts as a portable laboratory. Its six wheels are 50 inches (1.3m) tall, 30 inches (75cm) wide, and are specially designed with ducts to let the coarse red sands of Mars slip through
'That way the scout vehicle can go out to do its thing without the fuel consumption and extra weight, then come back later.'
Unfortunately, the sci-fi concept will never touch down on the red planet.
Nasa is taking it on a cross-country tour of the US for the agency's upcoming 'Summer of Mars' event, Mr Parker said.
The educational programme is designed to inspire the public about space exploration.
Mr Parker and his brother Shanon started work on the rover in November after Nasa approached them with the idea.
Their company, Parker Brothers Concepts, normally builds 'outlandish' vehicles for movie and TV productions.
But Nasa did not fund the rover, Mr Parker said, which instead relied on financing from a private company involved in the project.
'We're also filming for a reality television series that's going to be coming out about this build,' Mr Parker said.
It took the Parker brothers around five months to construct the vehicle from late November 2016 through to earlyApril 2017.
The back section serves as a laboratory which can disconnect for autonomous research.
The builders of the scientifically-themed Mars rover concept vehicle, Parker Brothers Concepts of Port Canaveral, Florida, incorporated input into its design from NASA subject matter experts.
The small team consisted of the company's two owners plus a few of their employees, as well as a number of suppliers they deal with.
'Me and the guys, we averaged about 80 to 100 hours a week, each,' Mr Parker said.
'We worked 10-, 12-, 14-hour days, seven days a week since late last year.
'If I thought about how many hours we put into this thing, I'd probably cry. It's way too many.'
From highly trained scientists toiling away at research institutes to amateur enthusiasts gazing upward from their backyards, humanity boasts no shortage of people looking for life beyond Earth. Add to that the massive size of the universe — estimates range in the trillions of galaxies — and probability dictates that we should have already encountered another species by now.
And yet, we still have no evidence that we aren’t alone in the universe.
However, according to astronomy researcher Chris Impey, this hunt for life beyond Earth may soon yield results. In an interview with Futurism, he revealed that he believes that we are less than two decades away from finding extraterrestrial life…but it may not be the kind of life we were hoping for: “I put my money on detecting microbial life in 10 to 15 years, but not at all detecting intelligent life.”
Hide and Seek on a Cosmic Level
While Impey is skeptical that intelligent life is within our sights, he does have a couple of suggestions as to where we should focus our search for extraterrestrial lifeforms, intelligent or not. The first is our own backyard, or, more accurately, our own solar system.
While Impey tells Futurism he doesn’t rule out the possibility that life still exists on Mars, he says that those lifeforms are likely below the surface and are, therefore, much harder to detect. As such, he asserts that we have a better chance of finding evidence of life that used to exist on the Red Planet: “If we actually get Mars rocks back here to Earth from a place that we think could have been habitable in the past, then we might find evidence of prior life.”
Other bodies in our solar system could potentially host life as well, according to Impey, including the water world Europa (one of Jupiter’s several moons). He thinks future missions targeting the satellite could yield helpful—if not entirely conclusive—results, asserting that they should at least give us “some better idea if that ocean could have life in it.”
Of course, our solar system is just one very small corner of a very massive universe, so we’d be remiss if we didn’t look beyond it for signs of life. To narrow down the scope of our search, Impey suggests targeting the many exo-Earths we’ve already uncovered. Instead of focusing on the planets’ surfaces, though, we should research their atmospheres.
In the next few years, we’ll be able to use the James Web Space Telescope and other detection devices to look for biomarkers such as oxygen and methane in the atmospheres of these Earth-like planets, says Impey. “This biomarker experiment…could find evidence of microbial life indirectly,” he explains. The research should help us pinpoint the planets that are “the closest to Earth as possible, not in distance, but in character,” he adds, and since Earth is the only place we know life exists, finding the most Earth-like planets is our best bet for finding life.
Any Life Is Better Than No Life
Even if Impey is right, and humanity is still decades away from finding intelligent alien life, the discovery of microbial life on Mars, Europa, or one of the thousands of exoplanets we’ve identified would still be a huge development. It would mean Earth isn’t unique, that something else living is out there.
We could use the knowledge we glean from studying this microbial life to narrow down our hunt for other, more complex organisms. By providing valuable insights into how other living beings are able to survive on worlds far different from our own, this microbial life could help in our quest to become a multi-planetary species. Even the discovery of past microbial life would be helpful, as it could serve as something of a cautionary tale, providing us with the opportunity to learn and ensure we don’t meet the same fate.
As Impey notes, thanks to dramatic advances in technology, we’ve never been better equipped to discover life beyond Earth than we are right now: “Every new SETI experiment done now is about as good as the sum of all previous SETI experiments put together.”
However, even if all of the currently planned experiments and missions came up short, Impey doesn’t envision humanity giving up the hunt for extraterrestrial life any time soon: “The first SETI experiment was in 1959, so obviously it has been going on for over half a century without any success. The people who do it don’t seem put off by failure.”
This interview has been slightly edited for clarity and brevity.
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IETS MEER DUIDELIJK IN HET RAADSEL VAN DE KLEINE WITTE VLIEGENDE BOLLEN ? ( VIDEO )
IETS MEER DUIDELIJK IN HET RAADSEL VAN DE KLEINE WITTE VLIEGENDE BOLLEN ? ( VIDEO )
Niet alleen in ons land, maar overal ter wereld zien mensen kleine witte bollen door de lucht vliegen.
Formeel zijn het UFO’s, maar tot nu toe heeft nog niemand echt nog een antwoord op wat voor dingen dat nu eigenlijk zijn.
Misschien komt het omdat het zomer is en er meer blauwe luchten zijn, maar de laatste weken is er een soort permanente stroom van waarnemingen overal ter wereld van vliegende ronde witte bollen ook wel orbs genoemd.
Zoals de volgende in Iran die wij al eerder lieten zien.
Maar, ook in Nederland komen deze voor, zoals onlangs in Heerde:
Zo zijn er talloze opnames te vinden van overal ter wereld, maar nog nooit was er iemand in geslaagd om deze bollen in wat meer detail vast te leggen.
Hij is er in geslaagd om een dergelijke witte bol te filmen, maar ook om deze dichterbij te halen zodat we wat meer informatie krijgen.
En dichterbij ziet zo’n witte bol er als volgt uit:
Dan wordt duidelijk dat het wel degelijk om een solide object gaat wat voor het grootste deel schijnt te bestaan uit een soort groot licht.
Vooral het onderste gedeelte van het object verandert nog wel eens van kleur zoals te zien op het volgende plaatje waarbij het onderste deel er nu roodachtig uit ziet.
Het object zonder in te zoomen, ziet er zo uit:
Hier volgen de bewegende beelden zoals ze enkele dagen geleden zijn opgenomen.
Wanneer we wat rondkijken op het Youtubekanaal van deze man, dan zien we dat hij meerdere keren dit soort objecten heeft weten vast te leggen. Niet alleen in Antalya, maar ook enkele keren in Istanboel.
De eerste keer dat hij een dergelijke opname maakte, was in december 2013 en die zag er zo uit:
De video’s hebben alle kenmerken van een echte opname, maar helemaal zeker weet je het niet. Bovendien kunnen we ook het commentaar van de man wat hij af en toe in de video geeft, niet verstaan.
Maar, als we er vanuit gaan dat deze opname echt is, dan is het toch wel heel bijzonder dat hij ze zo kan filmen en ook dat hij dat inmiddels meerdere keren heeft kunnen doen.
Het blijkt keer op keer dat sommige mensen altijd UFO’s zien en andere mensen nooit.
This August 21, 2017, a rare total eclipse of the sun will be visible across much of the United States. Already being dubbed as “The Great American Total Solar Eclipse,” it is expected to be seen across the country in a line crossing roughly between Oregon and South Carolina, as the sun disappears behind the moon, resulting in a sudden drop in temperature and the temporary onset of twilight.
Throughout history, a variety of mythological interpretations existed about what caused solar eclipses. For instance, in ancient China, it was often professed that a massive dragon had eaten the sun; hence why the ancient Chinese word for eclipse– chih–also means “to eat.”
Eclipse photographed by the crew of Apollo 12.
Apart from traditional beliefs about eclipses, there are a number of different unusual phenomena that have been observed during eclipses as well. For instance, the so-called “eclipse shadow-band anomalies” that occur as the sun passes behind the moon have been recorded by astronomers over the years. Researcher J.L. Codona described them thusly in a 1991 article in Sky and Telescope:
“[The bands resemble] mysterious gray ripples are sometimes seen flitting over the ground within a minute or two of totality. The bands are initially faint and jumbled; but as totality approaches, they become more organized, their spacing decreases to a few centimeters, and their visibility improves. After totality ends the bands can reappear and become progressively fainter and more disorganized until they disappear. Shadow bands seem to move perpendicularly to their length, but this is only an illusion. It stems from a lack of features that allow the eye to track motion along the length of the bands.”
It was suggested by Codona that this particular anomaly may likely result from a “twinkling effect” resulting from the appearance of the solar crescent that appears very thinly just prior to, and immediately after, the total coverage of the sun by the passing moon. Codona said the focal source of the light anomaly was likely atmospheric “turbulence” as little as a few hundred feet above ground.
Another unique phenomenon associated with eclipses is the “Allais effect“, in which minor changes in the behavior of a Foucault pendulum occur as the sun passes behind the moon. In 1954, economist Maurice Allais was experimenting with pendulums over the course of a 30-day period, during which he observed and recorded their movements.
Allais at work with his pendulums.
During this time, an eclipse of the sun occurred, under which conditions Allais noticed that the movement of the pendulum appeared to quicken; although the effect was very minor, it was nonetheless noticeable, and has allegedly been reproduced several times over the years, despite there being controversy over what, precisely, causes the so-called Allais effect.
Going back to ancient times, on at least one occasion in history an eclipse was even believed to have brought an end to a war. In his Histories, Herodotus wrote of a prediction made by Greek philosopher Thales, who lived between 624-547 BCE, that a solar eclipse would occur on the date of May 28, 585 BC.
According to Herodotus, “day was all of sudden changed into night. This event had been foretold by Thales, the Milesian, who forewarned the Ionians of it, fixing for it the very year in which it took place. The Medes and the Lydians when they observed the change, ceased fighting, and were alike anxious to have terms of peace agreed on.”
Though the celestial event brought an end to the conflict between the Lydians and the Medes, it is well known that the ancient Greeks studied solar eclipses and other celestial phenomenon, and were adept at predicting them.
Obviously, while people in the ancient world were fascinated–and often frightened–by solar solar eclipses, these rare celestial phenomena are still very intriguing to us today, and even manage to boast a few unanswered questions. For more information about the upcoming 2017 solar eclipse, and where it can be seen, check out Space.com’s full rundown about it here.
When Joshua P. Warren talks, the paranormal world listens. So, when this ghost researcher, author, museum owner, Bermuda Triangle expert and all-around guru of the unusual issued a press release on June 6th, it received massive attention. The title, “New Form of UFO Filmed in Bermuda Triangle,” was only a teaser.
A new type of UFO has been discovered, and filmed multiple times, in Puerto Rico. One researcher, Joshua P. Warren, thinks it may be a living organism, so he calls it an “Organic UFO,” or “OUFO.”
If that’s not enough to get you excited, the next four words should:
Leaked Homeland Security footage …
The ‘footage’ is a video from 2013 of a saucer-shaped object flying at up to 120 mph both above and below the water near the Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. The video was analyzed extensively by the Scientific Coalition of Scientists for UFOlogy (SCU) – a think tank of scientists and researchers dedicated to exploring unknown anomalous phenomena – which released a 162-page report in 2015 confirming that the video was authentic. But what was it a video of?
In his capacity as Director of the Bermuda Triangle Research (where does he find time to do all that he does?), Joshua Warren has seen many more videos of objects that resemble the one in the thermal video and he has an idea.
But we’ve got many other recordings of these anomalies, and I believe they may have even been documented in sculptures by the ancient Taino Indians in Puerto Rico.
The Taino Indians were mostly wiped out in Puerto Rico and on the other Caribbean Islands just 50 years after the arrival of Columbus. In the video that accompanies the press release, Warren refers to cemís – icons made from wood, stone or clay that symbolized the spirit of the god Yucahú. Warren points out that the sculptures closely resemble the UFOs in the videos. Were these icons products of the imagination or drug-induced hallucinations of the Taino Indians or were they accurate depictions of something they actually saw in the sky?
Warren thinks it’s the latter. Not only that, he thinks the ill-formed, blobbish shapes of the UFOs comes from not being solid ships but living organisms. For the Taino Indians, this implies that the ‘spirits’ may have been real space aliens that communicated with them directly or in the same spiritual or psychological way as hallucinations did. Since their religion was replaced by Christianity, their culture and language mostly destroyed and their descendants either killed, wiped out by diseases or integrated thought intermarriage, there’s no way to tell.
Joshua Warren is making the rounds promoting his new theory of Organic UFOs and adding that this could be an explanation for those who claim they can summon UFOs. If it were anyone else, these conjectures might be met with raised eyebrows, but Joshua Warren is a respected researcher.
After you’ve watched the video, does Warren convince you that the Bermuda Triangle may by home to Organic UFOs?
Nearly six years ago, NASA launched the Lockheed Martin-built Juno spacecraft on a trajectory to Jupiter. Juno entered orbit around the gas giant last year, and the data from the first round of Juno’s observations have begun to come in. What those data reveal are a surprising new look into a mysterious planet full of otherworldly phenomena. “What we’ve learned so far is Earth-shattering. Or should I say, Jupiter-shattering,” Juno’s principal investigator Scott Bolton stated in a press release. Don’t quit your day job, Scott. Leave the humor writing to the experts.
Juno has revealed that Jupiter has many more secrets to reveal.
The Juno data show that Jupiter is surrounded by a massive and dynamic magnetic field up to ten times stronger than Earth’s. The strange characteristics of Jupiter’s magnetic field indicate that it may extend far close to the planet’s surface than is typically observed in other planets’ magnetospheres, and NASA scientists aren’t sure why.
Jupiter’s mighty magnetic field makes for some strange atmospheric phenomena.
The Juno data show Jupiter to be a chaotic, violent world wracked by planet-sized storms that rage for thousands of miles through the thick Jovian atmosphere. NASA scientists poring over the Juno data also discovered a giant band of ammonia that cuts across Jupiter’s equator and extends all the way down through the gas giant’s atmosphere to Jupiter’s core. That ammonia band separates Jupiter’s two hemispheres, the poles of which differ greatly.
Thick clouds of pure ammonia swirl around Jupiter’s equator.
Jupiter’s north pole is wracked by strange and mysterious auroras which seem to be composed of entirely different energetic particles than the auroras on Earth. These auroras are far more powerful than Earth’s and seem to be constant.
At Jupiter’s south pole, Earth-sized cyclones spinning dangerously together in tight formations which curiously remain clustered around the pole.
Storms seem to congregate around Jupiters south pole, and NASA astrometeorologists aren’t sure why.
Juno lead researcher Scott Bolton says in a NASA press release that the polar storm clusters suggest that we might not know as much about the gas giant as we thought:
We’re puzzled as to how they could be formed, how stable the configuration is, and why Jupiter’s north pole doesn’t look like the south pole. We knew, going in, that Jupiter would throw us some curves. But now that we are here we are finding that Jupiter can throw the heat, as well as knuckleballs and sliders. There is so much going on here that we didn’t expect that we have had to take a step back and begin to rethink of this as a whole new Jupiter.
Juno’s observations show that Jupiter is about as far from habitable as a planet could be (except for that newly discovered one that’s nearly as hot as the Sun, that is). As our orbital spacecraft and instruments improve, we are beginning to see that we know so, so little about our closest galactic neighbors. Soon after the Juno data came in, two tiny new Jovian moons (technically moonlets) were discovered. Sure, moonlets, intense magnetic storms, and cyclone clusters might not be little green men and women, but each new discovery puts us one step closer to understanding more of our mysterious universe.
IRAS 16293-2422 is een drievoudig stersysteem op 400 lichtjaar van de aarde. Het bestaat uit twee sterren die 47 astronomische eenheden (AE) van elkaar verwijderd zijn. In vergelijking: 1 AE is de afstand van de aarde naar de zon, oftewel ruwweg 150 miljoen kilometer. Een derde ster bevindt zich op een afstand van 750 AE. De drie sterren zijn ongeveer even zwaar als de zon, alleen wel veel jonger.
Cadeautjes “Dit stersysteem blijft maar cadeautjes geven! Eerst hebben we hier suikers ontdekt, en nu methylisocyanaat,” vertellen Niels Ligterink (Sterrewacht Leiden) en Audrey Coutens (University College London). “Deze familie van organische moleculen is betrokken bij de synthese van peptiden en aminozuren, die – in de vorm van eiwitten – aan de basis staan van leven zoals wij dat kennen.”
GIFTIG
Methylisocyanaat bevat koolstof-, waterstof-, stikstof- en zuurstofatomen. Het is een zeer giftige verbinding en de belangrijkste doodsoorzaak na de industriële giframp in Bhopal in 1984. Direct na de ramp kwamen meer dan tweeduizend mensen om het leven.
ALMA Twee teams van astronomen hebben de Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chili ingezet om het prebiotische complexe organische molecuul methylisocyanaat te ontdekken. ALMA is het grootste astronomische project op aarde. Het bestaat uit 66 antenneschotels en is ontwikkeld om het licht van de koudste objecten in het heelal te bestuderen. Dit licht heeft een golflengte van ongeveer een millimeter en bevindt zich daarmee tussen infrarood licht en radiogolven.
De onderzoekers vonden de chemische vingerafdrukken van methylisocyanaat in de warme, dichte binnengebieden van de cocons van stof en gas rond de drie sterren.
Hoe is leven ontstaan? “We zijn heel enthousiast over dit resultaat. Deze protosterren vertonen sterke overeenkomsten met de zon in haar jonge jaren, onder omstandigheden die heel geschikt zijn voor de vorming van aardachtige planeten,” reageren hoofdauteurs Rafael Martín-Doménech en Víctor M. Rivilla van een van de twee papers over de ontdekking van methylisocyanaat. “Hoe is het leven op onze planeet ontstaan? Door prebiotische moleculen op te sporen, zijn we misschien weer een stapje dichterbij een antwoord op deze vraag gekomen.”
Niet uniek Gelukkig is methylisocyanaat ook niet zo uniek en dat is goed nieuws voor de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven. “Onze laboratoriumexperimenten laten zien dat methylisocyanaat inderdaad op ijsdeeltjes kan worden gevormd, onder omstandigheden die vergelijkbaar zijn met die in de interstellaire ruimte,” zegt onderzoeker Niels Ligterink. “Dit impliceert dat dit molecuul – en daarmee ook de aanzet tot peptide-verbindingen – waarschijnlijk rond de meeste jonge zonachtige sterren aanwezig zal zijn.”
Blijkbaar loopt onze soort al 100.000 jaar langer op aarde rond dan gedacht.
Wetenschappers ontdekten de fossiele resten op de archeologische vindplaats Jebel Irhoud in Marokko. Al in de jaren zestig van de vorige eeuw werden hier fossiele resten van moderne mensen teruggevonden. Lang bleef echter onduidelijk hoe oud ze precies waren. Dit nieuwe onderzoeksproject – dat al in 2004 begon – resulteerde in de ontdekking van nieuwe fossiele resten. In totaal werden er zo’n 16 nieuwe fossiele resten aangetroffen. En tevens zijn onderzoekers erin geslaagd om die pas ontdekte resten te dateren. De resten die al in 1960 werden teruggevonden – aangeduid als Irhoud 1 tot en met 6 – zijn eveneens gedateerd. “Irhoud 3 is de oudste Homo sapiens die nauwgezet is gedateerd: het is de eerste van onze soort,” benadrukt onderzoeker Renaud Joannes-Boyau.
Jebel Irhoud.
Foto: Shannon McPherron / MPI EVA Leipzig.
300.000 jaar oud De resten van de moderne mensen die in Marokko zijn teruggevonden, blijken zo’n 300.000 jaar oud te zijn. Daarmee komt de oorsprong van onze soort in één klap zo’n 100.000 jaar verder terug in de geschiedenis te liggen.
Een deel van een kaak die recent in Marokko is teruggevonden.
Enkele stenen gereedschappen die in Marokko zijn teruggevonden.
Foto: Mohammed Kamal / MPI EVA Leipzig.
Afrika En dat zet onze kijk op de evolutionaire geschiedenis van onze eigen soort op zijn kop. Zowel genetische informatie als fossiele resten wijzen erop dat onze soort in Afrika ontstond. De oudste resten die ons tot voor kort van moderne mensen bekend waren, waren zo’n 195.000 jaar oud en werden aangetroffen in Ethiopië. “Het feit dat er 100.000 jaar eerder al Homo sapiens waren en dat ze in Marokko voorkwamen, verandert ons begrip en de hypothese omtrent de verspreiding van onze soort door Afrika,” vertelt Joannes Boyau. Onderzoeker Jean-Jacques Hublin voegt toe: “We dachten altijd dat de wieg van de mens 200.000 jaar geleden in Oost-Afrika stond, maar onze nieuwe gegevens onthullen dat Homo sapiens zich rond 300.000 jaar geleden over het hele Afrikaanse continent verspreidde. Lang voor Homo sapiens Afrika verliet, verspreidde deze zich binnen Afrika.”
De evolutie van de moderne mens is nog altijd in nevelen gehuld. Dat is te wijten aan het feit dat er maar relatief weinig oude fossiele resten van moderne mensen zijn teruggevonden. Daarnaast is het best lastig gebleken om die weinige fossiele resten accuraat te dateren. Daarom zijn deze nieuwe ontdekkingen ook zo waardevol. Ze onthullen heel veel over onze soort: een soort die blijkbaar al veel langer op aarde rondloopt dan gedacht.
Bronmateriaal:
Nature -> The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age - doi:10.1038/nature22335 Nature -> New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens - doi:10.1038/nature22336
How Social Media Users Decoded a Simulated Message from Extraterrestrials
How Social Media Users Decoded a Simulated Message from Extraterrestrials
Humanity won’t share a language with an alien civilization, so how can we decode a message from ET if we receive one? One astrophysicist says: crowdsource it.
In 1961, a small group of scientists met at the Green Bank radio astronomy observatory in West Virginia to discuss the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. One of the organizers was Frank Drake, who used the conference to present his now famous Drake equation describing the likelihood of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. But Drake also used the occasion to carry out a less-well-known experiment.
The question he addressed was the following. If humanity received a message from the stars, how could we decode it given that it we have no language in common? Similarly, if we want to send a message, how should we compose it?
To explore this issue, Drake created a message of his own and challenged the participants at the conference to decode it. He received a single reply written in the same code, clearly indicating that the message had been understood. Afterward, an amateur electronics magazine published the message, and about a year later, Drake received a letter with the correct solution from a reader of this magazine.
That points to an interesting idea. If we ever receive a message from the stars, one option would be to release it via social media and exploit the world’s combined brain power to decode it.
Last year, one researcher tested this idea by doing exactly that. Rene Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany created a simulated message from an alien civilization and released it on Twitter and Facebook for the world to decode. “On Tuesday, 26 April 2016, I submitted a fake SETI message to the social media Twitter and Facebook and called it the SETI Decrypt Challenge,” say Heller.
Today, he publishes the results of this experiment, showing how people joined forces to crack the seemingly alien code.
The challenge that Heller set is to imagine that Earth has received a message in the form of series of radio pulses from a fixed, unresolved source about 50 light years from Earth. These pulses have been received in a narrow band around an electromagnetic frequency of 452.13 MHz, a frequency that is pi times the emission frequency of neutral hydrogen atoms.
Heller has placed an audio version of the message here. And the question he asks: what does this message say?
Heller constructed the message using some techniques that have already been used in messaging extraterrestrial intelligences. The message consists of a number of pictures that can be constructed by arranging the data in an array of particular dimensions.
These dimensions are 359 by 757 pixels (both prime numbers) and are defined at the beginning of the message by sequences 757 0s and 359 1s. This encodes the first page of the message, which is otherwise blank. In total, the message contains seven pages (another prime number).
The next page is a list of numbers from 0 to 756 which uses a standard system of data encoding called little endian which defines things like the data being written from left to right and so on.
The third page lists the first 757 prime numbers in the same way. “Pages two (simple counting) and three (prime numbers) were meant to establish that we are talking binary and that we use numbers to describe and interpret the images,” says Heller.
The fourth page starts by defining two more numbers. The first is the wavelength used to transmit the message in units of the modified Planck Length. This number is 1.6368 x 1034 and acts as a kind of spatial yardstick.
The second number is 1.1677 x 1052. This is a temporal yardstick that, with some careful thought and simple mathematics, leads to the number 50—the distance of the transmitting civilization in light years. “As we know that the message comes from a star 50 light years away, our alien friends are telling us that they know their distance to us as well,” says Heller.
The rest of page four displays a sine wave, or more precisely the function—sin(x).
The first two lines of page five encode the numbers 6.048 × 1034 and 4.2038 × 1052. These represent the distance 2.45 meters in units of the modified Planck constant and a time of 180 years in units of the temporal yardstick. The rest of this page displays an image of an alien specimen with the clear implication that it is 2.45 meters tall with a life span of 180 years.
The sixth page shows an image of the device used to send the transmission; actually a picture of an Earthbound radio telescope called the Square Kilometer Array.
The final page encodes two numbers equivalent to a distance about 100 times larger than the Earth-moon distance and six billion years. It also displays an image of four astronomical objects, one of which is next to an image of an alien. The implication here is that this depicts ET’s home planet, which is a billion years older than ours.
Heller released this message on social media on April 26, 2016, and it didn’t take long for the world to respond. Heller received the first correct solution by e-mail the following day, and the number of responses increased as news of the challenge spread.
On May 6, Heller received the largest number responses after the Daily Mail and the Huffington Post reported the challenge. At this, a group on Reddit posted the answer, which probably distorted the result Heller got after this. In total he received, 66 correct solutions, two of which were from high school students.
That’s interesting work that has clear implications for the way humanity should deal with a message from the stars. The astronomical community is already committed to publicly releasing any message it receives from extraterrestrials.
But Heller’s work shows that this is not just lip service to the people who pay for astronomy. It shows that the global community is capable of decoding such a message and should be given the chance. “Distribution in the social media would not only offer an efficient means of decryption but also offer an unprecedented opportunity to unite humans all over the globe in a common scientific and cultural effort,” he concludes.
The participants of the first SETI meeting at Green Bank in 1961 would surely agree.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1706.00653: Decryption of Messages from Extraterrestrial Intelligence Using the Power of Social Media—The SETI Decrypt Challenge
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LOCKHEED MARTIN'S 'KILL VEHICLE' (1999) - I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT THEY ARE TESTING NOW
LOCKHEED MARTIN'S 'KILL VEHICLE' (1999) - I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT THEY ARE TESTING NOW
Wow! I have never seen this before. That is crazy.
One of the most fascinating things in the world for me is hidden technologies. It's just overwhelming to think about the kind of things they probably have now. I literally think that they had star wars technology when the first movie came out.
DID THE US GOVERNMENT FORGED A PACT WITH AN ALIEN CIVILIZATION?
DID THE US GOVERNMENT FORGED A PACT WITH AN ALIEN CIVILIZATION?
During the history of the United States of America, multiple events provide proof of an pact forged between the US Government and an alien civilisation? What is the ultimate goal of this pact and why should we care? Is disclosure a part of the deal?
Ohio State University’s Big Ear Observatory caught one of the most promising SETI signals ever back in 1977. Astronomers are still debating if it came from aliens, or something closer to home.
(Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF)
In 1977, Ohio State University math professor Jerry Ehman walked into the Big Ear Observatory and looked over the past few nights’ observations. At the time, the radio telescope was the only observatory exclusively devoted to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
It also was underfunded and had no full-time staff. That means no one was listening for aliens the night SETI had its closest call with the big one. On the night of Aug. 15, 1977, a 72-second signal arrived from deep space just at the right frequency astronomers believe aliens would use. Since no staff members were around, no one could alert other telescopes to listen in.
Without tying the radio signal to an object in the night sky, they couldn’t tell how far away it originated, Ehman told me last fall.
All Ehman could do was scribble “Wow!” on the data printout and hope the signal from Sagittarius would repeat.
It never did. But Antonio Paris, an astronomy professor at St. Petersburg College in Florida, thinks he has the solution. Two comets passed by that region of the sky in 1977, according to his hypothesis. And this year, those comets passed by again. That created a chance to test his theory. His research was accepted for publication in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. (A preprint is available on Paris’ site.)
The comet 266/P Christensen is the one in question. Its orbit roughly aligns with Jupiter at its farthest distance and Mars at its closest to the Sun. According to Paris’ research, the comet “transmitted” at the 1420.25 MHz radio band. That’s near where the Wow! signal came from.
“We did everything we could to try to debunk our results but we kept getting a signal from the comet,” Paris told Discover. “That was when we said, ‘Eureka!’ ”
Paris, who along with his teaching duties runs the Center for Planetary Science and the UFO-hunting Aerial Phenomena Institute, proposed the hypothesis last year. Ehman scrutinized that original proposal, and didn’t believe it was likely to be comets.
“I received a copy of their article from the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences and I studied it carefully,” Ehman said in an interview at the time. “I have concluded that neither of the two comets could explain the Wow! signal, and colleagues of mine at the observatory have also concluded the same thing.”
Indeed, peer reviewers on Paris’ paper remarked on the need to coordinate with Ohio State and others on the research, seeing that as one of the flaws in the paper.
“The only response from the peer review that we were concerned about was that no one, including Ohio State University, had previous research on detecting a signal from a comet,” Paris says. “We had to explain to the peer reviewers that we were the first to do so … thus no previous data was available.”
Chris Lintott, a professor of astrophysics at Oxford University, isn’t buying any of the explanation.
“If real, this comet is detectable in the radio,” Lintott says. “But the signal isn’t bright enough or rapid enough to be a good fit to the Wow! signal.”
The methodology itself is flawed, according to Lintott. While staring at this region of the sky, he says there should have been about five minutes’ worth of signals if it were comets, but it only comes in intermittent bursts. And if it were comets, Lintott says we could expect to see Wow! signals all the time, rather than once in 1977 and once in 2017. Then there’s the choice of journal — in his words, “it’s not somewhere astronomers publish.”
Lintott has another problem with Paris’ research: He crowdfunded it.
“Bad papers get written and published all the time,” he says. “But this author asked people for money to fund his research, and if you do that you should hold yourself to the highest standards.”
Lintott isn’t sure what it is. But comets it ain’t.
“I don’t know what the Wow! signal was — it’s very hard to study something you’ve only seen once,” he says. Lintott suggests the study authors submit their research to one of the larger astronomy journals so they can get constructive feedback.
“This is just science by press release, and it’s depressing it’s picked up (by the press),” Lintott says.
Paris is aware of the criticism he’s receiving and believes his paper still stands up to scrutiny.
“I see one or two astronomers are skeptical. They emailed me, too,” he says. “But they can’t answer my question: Show me the evidence to refute my data. They might need to do some soul searching.”
For his part, Ehman remains (relatively) agnostic on the original signal, while wanting to believe the extraterrestrial cause. He acknowledges that limited equipment of the time led to a sort of dead end to the mystery.
“It’s an intriguing possibility that it’s a signal from extraterrestrial intelligence, but it’s also one that I’ve had to declare that I can’t prove that it is, or prove that it isn’t,” Ehman says.
So I guess that makes two things now that some people think are aliens and others think are comets. There’s now a possibly plausible explanation for the Wow! signal, but that won’t stop SETI researchers from continuing to look for something just like it, hoping for that needle in the haystack that proves we’re not alone.
On February 6th, 1971, Alan Shepherd, pulled out a 6-iron, lined up his approach, and let fly—an occurrence that wouldn't be worth noting if weren't for the fact that it HAPPENED ON THE GOD DAMN MOON. 46 years later, Shepherd's (literal) moon shot remains the only instance of a human playing golf anywhere other than earth, but as NASA's Martian explorations intensify, it's time to set our sights on the dry, windswept links of Red Planet CC.
To that end (and, you know, science's too), on Thursday morning NASA unveiled their 2020 Mars Rover, a 6-wheeled research behemoth intergalactic golf machine, replete with on-course GPS, shot-tracker technology (on the premium model), and a mobile laboratory that can hold a couple sets of clubs when you're not using it to collect rare protein samples that might hold the key to extraterrestrial life.
Oh, and as if that's not enough, the Mars Rover concept—NASA says this bad boy will look A LOT different by the time it hits the first tee/Mars—also comes with an emergency life support system, which is sure to come in handy when that three putt on 18 looses the inevitable, golf-induced aneurism you've been holding back for years.
Thus far, NASA has landed a total of four rovers on Mars, and while the conversation surrounding sending humans to the red planet is a hot topic, there are no concrete plans to actually make the journey happen. When it does happen, however, the brave folks who make the trip are going to need something to drive on the planet’s surface if they hope to actually do any exploring. With that in mind, NASA has revealed a concept vehicle that has no business being sent to Mars, but the agency is pretty excited about it anyway.
The vehicle, which has been named simply “Mars rover,” looks like a cross between a Halo warthog, the Mako from Mass Effect, and the Batmobile. It’s a futuristic, manned exploration vehicle that looks like it would be more at home in the next Alien flick than actually being driven by astronauts. It’s packed with displays and controls that are straight up sci-fi, and it looks both rugged and incredibly intimidating.
That being said, this isn’t a NASA product. Despite being shown off at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and wearing NASA’s own badge right on its nose, the vehicle was actually crafted by a team of custom car builders who were clearly aiming for a specific look at the expense of all else. Still, the rover is a pretty capable machine, and is capable of speeds as high as 70 mph (around 15 mph on Mars) via its electric drivetrain. You definitely won’t see NASA sending one of these into space any time soon, but it sure is pretty to look at.
If a signal once believed to have come from an alien civilization is proven to be something else, can it still be called “Wow!”? Wikipedia and many annals of space and ET phenomenon may have to do some editing after an astronomer proved that a strange and powerful radio signal from space detected in 1977 which elicited a written “Wow!” exclamation on the printout should not have caused a gasp because it was just a gas.
The now famous Wow! signal was discovered by Jerry Ehman while working on a SETI project on The Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope located at Ohio Wesleyan University’s Perkins Observatory in Delaware, Ohio. He noted the 72-second blast, which was 30 times stronger than the background radiation, with a big red “Wow!” on the printout and the debate on whether it was a transmission from an intelligent civilization or something else began.
The Big Ear radio telescope
“It’s aliens!” was leading in the polls until last year, when Professor Antonio Paris, an astronomer at St. Petersburg College in Florida, proposed that the signal had actually been produced by comets passing by the Earth on their seven-year orbits around the Sun. The comets — 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) which were discovered in 2006 – are surrounded by large hydrogen clouds which are known to produce a signal in the same frequency as Wow!. Scoffers scoffed and demanded that Paris prove their beloved signal was not a call from ET.
That he did. Paris knew that the comets would be in the same position (northwest of the globular cluster M55 in the constellation Sagittarius) in early 2017 as the Wow! signal’s source was on August 15, 1977. He used a GoFundMe page to raise the money to install a dedicated radio telescope at the Center for Planetary Science pointed at the Wow! sweet spot and then waited.
According to his paper published in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Comet 266P took the wow out of Wow! when its signals matched the Wow! signal. In anticipation of objections, Paris also looked at other comets similar to 266P and found that their hydrogen clouds produced the same frequency signal, so if it wasn’t 266P, Wow! was produced by another gassy comet.
Blame a comet
What now, Wow! fans? Science wins again. One of the most famous and solid pieces of evidence of alien communications has been proven to be just gas. What’s next? Will Roswell turn out to be something other than aliens as well?
Check out this interesting footage of a bright lights that were filmed from a plane over California. This was filmed on 1st October 2016 and it was just submitted to MUFON.
Witness report:
bright lights visable from 30,000 feet up – midflight . approx 3 hours into the flight from BALT to LA I noticed 3 very bright lights hovering and I cap it with iphone camera , I was overwheled with and very excited to see such an amazing event.
Mysterious Lights Appear In The Sky During A Massive Blackout In Northern Uruguay
Mysterious Lights Appear In The Sky During A Massive Blackout In Northern Uruguay
Several residents in Northern Uruguay had experienced a massive outage, including Salto, Constitución, Belén and some parts of Bella Unión as well as Paysandú. However, they were disrupted not just because of the inconvenience of the blackout but also to the presence of several lights in the skies.
Strange lights were seen forming a triangle formation and holding their position longer than an aircraft or a helicopter would do. Adding to the mystery, the lights were dazzling and separated from each other by a vast distance, according to eyewitness’ accounts.
The Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) created a UFO research commission 32 years ago, the first in Latin America. Confirming a UFO needs several factors to be discounted.
The FAU formed an office devoted to investigating UFO phenomenon called the Comisión Receptora e Investigadora de Denuncias de Objetos Voladores No Identificados (CRIDOVNI). The Air Force decided to form such commission after a series of UFO sighting reports during the 1970s.
Wat krijg je te zien als je inzoomt op de ringen van Saturnus? Nog meer kleinere ringen!
Ontelbaar veel ringen in beeld. Ze lijken te golven.
De bovenstaande foto is gemaakt op 4 juni door de Cassini-ruimtesonde. NASA deelde de foto onlangs via Twitter. Het is een onbewerkte foto. Hierdoor is er nog wat ruis zichtbaar.
Helaas is er verder geen informatie bekend over deze foto. Zo is de afstand tot de ringen onbekend. Deze vraag hebben we neergelegd bij NASA, dus hopelijk krijgen we snel antwoord. Aangezien NASA deze onbewerkte foto heeft gedeeld via Twitter, zal er over enkele dagen ongetwijfeld een bewerkte versie verschijnen met meer details over de getoonde ringen.
Eerder dit jaar maakte Cassini een foto van propellers. Propellers zijn verstoringen die ontstaan door piepkleine maantjes. Alleen in de A-ring van Saturnus bevinden zich naar schatting duizenden propellers.
Cassini’s einde De brandstof van Cassini is bijna op. Om te voorkomen dat de sonde straks zonder brandstof rond gaat dolen en op één van de potentieel leefbare manen van Saturnus neerstort en eventuele aardse microben die nog op de sonde huizen aldaar afzet, is besloten de sonde te vernietigen. Dat doet NASA door deze in september opdracht te geven zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. Daarmee komt er een eind aan een spraakmakende en baanbrekende missie.
Wat krijg je te zien als je inzoomt op de ringen van Saturnus? Nog meer kleinere ringen!
Ontelbaar veel ringen in beeld. Ze lijken te golven.
De bovenstaande foto is gemaakt op 4 juni door de Cassini-ruimtesonde. NASA deelde de foto onlangs via Twitter. Het is een onbewerkte foto. Hierdoor is er nog wat ruis zichtbaar.
Helaas is er verder geen informatie bekend over deze foto. Zo is de afstand tot de ringen onbekend. Deze vraag hebben we neergelegd bij NASA, dus hopelijk krijgen we snel antwoord. Aangezien NASA deze onbewerkte foto heeft gedeeld via Twitter, zal er over enkele dagen ongetwijfeld een bewerkte versie verschijnen met meer details over de getoonde ringen.
Eerder dit jaar maakte Cassini een foto van propellers. Propellers zijn verstoringen die ontstaan door piepkleine maantjes. Alleen in de A-ring van Saturnus bevinden zich naar schatting duizenden propellers.
Cassini’s einde De brandstof van Cassini is bijna op. Om te voorkomen dat de sonde straks zonder brandstof rond gaat dolen en op één van de potentieel leefbare manen van Saturnus neerstort en eventuele aardse microben die nog op de sonde huizen aldaar afzet, is besloten de sonde te vernietigen. Dat doet NASA door deze in september opdracht te geven zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus te boren. Daarmee komt er een eind aan een spraakmakende en baanbrekende missie.
Om Jupiter draaien niet alleen grote, maar ook tientallen piepkleine maantjes. Astronomen hebben er weer twee ontdekt.
De ontdekking van S2016 J1.
Met de twee nieuwe manen S/2016 J1 en S/2017 J1 komt het totaal aantal joviaanse manen op 69. “We zijn momenteel op zoek naar objecten in het buitengebied van het zonnestelsel, zoals planeet X, en toevallig kwam Jupiter ook voorbij”, vertelt astronoom Scott Sheppard. Hierdoor zijn de twee nieuwe maantjes gespot.
S/2016 J1 en S/2017 J1 zijn slechts een tot twee kilometer breed. Het zijn dus echt minimaantjes, die maar net te zien zijn door de beste telescopen ter wereld. Zo is S/2016 J1 op 8 maart 2016 ontdekt met de 6,5 meter telescoop van het Las Campanas observatorium in Chili. De maan is 20,6 miljoen kilometer van de grootste planeet van het zonnestelsel verwijderd en doet 1,65 jaar over een rondje om de planeet. De maan is voor het eerst gespot door Sheppard.
De ontdekking van S2017 J1.
S/2016 J1 is op 23 maart 2017 gevonden met de Chileense Victor Blanco reflector. Deze maan is nog verder verwijderd van Jupiter, namelijk 23,5 miljoen kilometer. De maan heeft net iets meer dan twee jaar nodig om rond Jupiter te draaien.
Beide objecten hebben een retrograde baan, wat betekent dat ze in de tegengestelde richting om Jupiter draaien. Dit vertelt iets over de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de twee maantjes. Waarschijnlijk zijn ze ergens anders in het zonnestelsel ontstaan en pas op latere leeftijd door Jupiter gevangen.
"Mars was ooit vijf keer zo nat als de hedendaagse aarde" 6 juni 2017Tim Kraaijvanger8 Wetenschappers hebben berekend hoeveel water er nodig was om de valleien op Mars te vormen. In een nieuw paper melden zij dat de rode planeet natter was dan gedacht.
"Mars was ooit vijf keer zo nat als de hedendaagse aarde"
Tim Kraaijvanger
Wetenschappers hebben berekend hoeveel water er nodig was om de valleien op Mars te vormen. In een nieuw paper melden zij dat de rode planeet natter was dan gedacht.
Zo blauw zag Mars er vier miljard jaar geleden mogelijk uit.
Onderzoeker Wei Luo en zijn collega’s beweren in een paper in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature Communications dat Mars een warm klimaat had en dat er sprake was van een actieve hydrologische cyclus. Zij geloven dus dat water uit de oceanen verdampte en dat het ooit regende op de rode planeet. De wetenschappers hebben computeralgoritmes ontwikkeld om de hoeveelheid water op Mars te berekenen. Ze keken daarbij naar de diepten van alle Martiaanse valleien.
“Onze meest voorzichtige schattingen laten zien dat er tien keer meer water nodig was om de valleien te eroderen dan voorheen gedacht”, aldus Luo. In het paper spreken de auteurs over een minimale watermassa van 6.860.000.000.000.000.000 kubieke meter, oftewel 6,86 triljoen m3. Dat betekent dat Mars waterrijker was dan de hedendaagse aarde. Op aarde ligt momenteel namelijk zo’n 1,4 triljoen kubieke meter water, volgens het USGS.
“Water werd gerecycled op Mars en stroomde regelmatig door de valleien”, vervolgt Luo. “Omdat de rode planeet een grote oceaan had, was er een waterkringloop mogelijk.”
Toch zijn er nog steeds vragen. Als Mars veel vloeibaar water op zijn oppervlak had, dan was de kleine planeet lekker warm. “Maar Mars is verder verwijderd van de zon dan de aarde”, zegt Luo. “Toen de zon jonger was, was de ster minder fel. Kortom, er is meer bewijs nodig om onze theorie te ondersteunen.”
Een ander onderzoeksteam beweerde in januari dat Mars vier miljard jaar geleden warm werd gehouden door een uit de hand gelopen broeikaseffect. Interacties tussen methaan, koolstofdioxide en waterstof zorgden voor warmere perioden, waardoor het water vloeibaar op het Martiaanse oppervlak bleef liggen. Hoewel Mars in relatief korte tijd afkoelde en opdroogde, stroomde er zeer recent nog vloeibaar water op Mars. In 2014 vonden wetenschappers sporen in een krater, die erop wijzen dat hier 200.000 jaar geleden water stroomde.
Twee precies dezelfde exoplaneten hebben toch andere atmosferen
Twee precies dezelfde exoplaneten hebben toch andere atmosferen
Tim Kraaijvanger
Wetenschappers hebben met de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop ontdekt dat dezelfde exoplaneten toch heel anders kunnen zijn.
Het gaat om de exoplaneten WASP-67 b en HAT-P-38 b. Deze Hete Jupiters draaien om vrijwel dezelfde sterren. Daarnaast is de afstand tot de moederster, de grootte van de planeet en de temperatuur nagenoeg identiek. Toch verschillen de atmosferen.
“Als we naar de twee atmosferen kijken, dan zijn ze juist niet gelijk”, concludeert hoofdonderzoeker Giovanni Bruno van het Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “Exoplaneet WASP-67 b is namelijk bewolkter dan HAT-P-38 b. Dit ahdden we niet verwacht. We gaan nu uitzoeken waarom de atmosferen zo verschillen.”
Het onderzoeksteam gebruikte het Wide Field Camera 3-instrument om de chemische samenstelling van de planeten vast te stellen. “Wolken hebben invloed op de spectrale signatuur van water, waardoor we de hoeveelheid wolken in de atmosfeer kunnen bepalen”, zegt Bruno. “Het feit dat WAS-67 b meer wolken heeft, zegt iets over het verleden van de planeten. Er is iets in het verleden gebeurd, waardoor de atmosferen niet op elkaar lijken.”
Vandaag de dag draaien de twee exoplaneten iedere 4,5 dagen om hun gele dwergsterren, maar vroeger was dit mogelijk anders. Het kan zijn dat een exoplaneet verder van zijn moederster is geboren en later naar het centrum is gemigreerd. Hierdoor is het mogelijk dat de ene planeet anders is ontstaan dan het andere object. Bruno: “Je kunt zeggen dat hier sprake is van nature versus nurture.” De exoplaneten lijken dan wel ‘genetisch’ op elkaar, maar zijn door hun ‘opvoeding’ beïnvloed.
Nieuwe Jupiterachtige planeet is warmer dan de meeste sterren
Nieuwe Jupiterachtige planeet is warmer dan de meeste sterren
Tim Kraaijvanger
Met een oppervlaktetemperatuur van circa 4.300 graden Celsius is de exoplaneet KELT-9b warmer dan de meeste sterren. De dagzijde van de planeet is slechts 1.200 graden kouder dan het oppervlak van onze zon.
Wetenschappers hebben deze week een paper gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Nature, waarin de ontdekking van KELT-9b wordt genoemd. Het gaat om een gasplaneet die 2,8 keer zwaarder is dan Jupiter, maar die tevens veel minder compact is. Dit heeft ermee te maken dat de exoplaneet is opgezwollen door de straling van de moederster. Hierdoor zet de atmosfeer uit als een ballon.
HOE IS KELT-9B ONTDEKT?
In 2014 gebruikten astronomen de KELT-North-telescoop van het Winer observatorium in Arizona. Ze zagen het licht van een ster iedere anderhalve dag ongeveer een half procent dimmen. Latere observaties bevestigden het bestaan van een zogenoemde Hete Jupiter, oftewel een Jupiterachtige planeet die dicht om zijn moederster draait. Er zijn inmiddels al veel Hete Jupiters bekend, hoewel het voor ons altijd exotische objecten blijven. In ons eigen zonnestelsel hebben we namelijk geen Hete Jupiter.
Eén kant van KELT-9b is altijd naar de moederster gericht. Dit betekent dat het op de ene kant van de planeet altijd dag is, terwijl er eeuwige duisternis is op de andere zijde. Astronomen noemen dit verschijnsel synchrone rotatie. We zien het ook in ons eigen zonnestelsel. Zo zien we vanaf de aarde altijd dezelfde kant van de maan. Dit betekent dat de omlooptijd van de maan om de aarde gelijk is aan de rotatieperiode van de maan om zijn eigen as. Dit geldt dus ook voor KELT-9b.
Toekomst van KELT-9b KELT-9b doet slechts anderhalve dag over een rondje om zijn moederster. In vergelijking: de aarde draait in 365 dagen om de zon. Dit betekent dat de afstand tussen KELT-9b en de ster enorm klein is. Daarnaast is de ster KELT-9 twee keer zo groot en twee keer zo heet als onze zon. “KELT-9 straalt zoveel ultraviolette straling uit, dat de exoplaneet uiteindelijk volledig verdampt,” reageert professor Keivan Stassun van de Vanderbilt universiteit. “Als de gasplaneet een rotsachtige kern heeft, dan blijft er uiteindelijk een droge planeet over, zoals Mercurius.”
Komeetachtige staart Er is ook een kans dat KELT-9 zijn gasplaneet verorbert. “KELT-9 zwelt de komende miljard jaar op en wordt een rode gasreus”, vervolgt Stassun. “Op lange termijn ziet het er voor KELT-9b niet goed uit.” De astronomen vermoeden dat KELT-9b misschien wel een komeetachtige staart heeft of krijgt, omdat de planeet – volgens modellen – veel gas verliest.
Geen teken van leven Wetenschappers hoeven sowieso niet te zoeken naar sporen van leven op KELT-9b. Op de dagzijde van de planeet is het zo heet dat moleculen als water, koolstofdioxide en methaan zich daar niet kunnen vormen. Het is mogelijk dat deze moleculen zich wel kunnen vormen op de nachtzijde, maar in dat geval zijn ze er maar heel kort.
V. V. Krapiva, a researcher and writer who resides in Odessa, Ukraine, years ago had attended numerous lectures presented by veteran officers of Soviet nuclear powered submarines. They had served in the Soviet North, aboard secret naval installations and bases. The lectures sometimes veered off from the planned presentations, and many spellbinding tales were told as a result. For instance, episodes when Soviet sonar operators were hearing strange targets present at great depths. Soviet Navy submarines were actually being chased by other submarines.
The pursuers changed their speed at will, speeds that were much greater than any other similar vessel in the world could produce at that time. Lieutenant Commander Oleg Sokolov confidentially informed the students that while on duty during his submarine’s navigation, he had observed through a periscope an ascent of some strange object in the water. He was not able to identify it, because he viewed it through the optical system of the periscope. This underwater takeoff took place in the early 1960s.
An interesting observation of a UFO was recorded by a crew of a Soviet nuclear submarine in 1965. This case is on file in the Colonel Kolchin archives. All those who had observed the UFO were ordered to report the details and provide drawings to the Special Department. The submarine was to rendezvous with a ship in the Atlantic Ocean. They arrived at the meeting place an hour and a half before the time of the rendezvous, and the captain allowed the crew to come to the outside deck. No ships were in the area, and the sky was starry and cloudless. Then the watchman observed a cigar shaped object moving noiselessly through the sky. Although the submarine was in international waters at the time, the Soviets assumed the unidentified object was American, and decided to dive immediately. But their onboard radar did not record anything, and the captain decided to stay put, above water. Suddenly three rays shot out from the UFO, and the Soviet submariners noticed something very unusual about the object.
The UFO had no gondolas, and no horizontal or vertical rudders. The object was about 750' long, and Soviet submariners were not familiar with such dirigibles, for those used by American Air Force were much smaller. Then something strange took place, the UFO slowly descended to the surface of the ocean, its searchlights still on, about half a mile from the submarine, and dove underwater. The submarine’s sonar had registered a strange and very intensive hissing sound, as the UFO submerged, but the sound was of a very short duration.
A well known Soviet UFO researcher and author A.S. Kuzovkin had been engaged in UFO research ever since he observed one such object in 1964. He was a physicist and researched ecology of anomalous phenomena for Vokrug Sveta, a very popular Soviet magazine. Kuzovkin mentioned in his writings that while visiting Sevastopol, a port city in Ukraine, he met with local marine scientists who had descended into the depths of the Black Sea in deep water bathyscaphes. They observed, among other things, an object that resembled a wheel as large as a ten story building, standing vertically underwater. The scientists saw and later described to Kuzovkin the wheel that would remain immobile for a while, and then move into a horizontal position, rotate, and depart.
Another well known Russian researcher of the paranormal, author Aleksandr Petukhov, mentioned an incident from 1951. It took place in the territorial waters of the USSR. A Soviet submarine encountered a strange underwater object of gigantic size. It did not react to the submarine communication to identify itself, and continued an unhurried movement towards the nation’s shores. The captain of the submarine ordered depth bombs to be dropped into the site where USO was located. The unidentified object did not react to the attack, and continued its course, at the same speed. After a while it unexpectedly and abruptly ascended to the surface of the sea. At the depth of 160', it stopped its ascent, changed the course, and departed.
In July of 1978, there was a UFO sighting in the Mediterranean. The captain of the Soviet motor ship Yargora immediately sent a radiogram about it to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The coordinates of the sighting were 37° northern latitude and 3° degrees 40' of eastern longitude. The time was between 7:30 a.m. and 8:40 a.m.. The object observed by Soviet seamen was shaped like a flattened out sphere, its color that of a white pearl. There were three protruding constructions in the bottom portion of the UFO which resembled antennae. The object moved from east to west. No reply to the radiogram ever came from the Academy. This sighting was mentioned in the 2001 article written by Valentin Psalomschikov, and published in NLO magazine. An unnamed Russian source mentioned that Yargora’s Captain Cherepanov sent a telegram from the ship to Moscow, Soviet Academy of Sciences, regarding the sighting.
On December 26, 2002, the Russian newspaper Zhizn published an article about Soviet observations of UFOs. The chairman of the Anomalous Phenomena Commission of the Russian Geographical Society in Saint Petersburg made a presentation at the society’s monthly meeting. The society, founded in 1980, had studied tens of thousands of cases UFO sightings, and had reached the conclusion that UFOs are real. America should follow suit. The chairman at the time, Yevgeny Litvinov, recalled that his experience with the UFOs had begun when he was a Soviet Navy officer and did not take seriously any published UFO related information. Then came the winter of 1979-80, and several incidents had rocked the Northern Fleet, forcing the Soviet general staff to take UFOs seriously. UFOs had visited a Soviet submarine base at the Western Dvina every week during a six month period.
The craft were shaped like disks, and hovered over the armaments preparation sites. The UFOs also flew above the top secret Soviet military town. While the military personnel below freely observed the flying saucers, the anti-aircraft radars did not register anything. Captain Beregovoy, head of the Naval Intelligence for the Northern Fleet, ordered that photographs of the UFOs be taken, but to no avail, the film turned out to be accidentally exposed each time.
The Soviets were busy trying to find out the nature of UFOs flying over their heads. Initially they suspected NATO, but then it was explained to them that potential adversaries do not possess such technology. To prevent panic, those in command told their military personnel that the UFOs above were actually Soviet-made craft, and that tests were underway. Of course, high-ranking officers knew better, and felt terrified by the uncertainty.
Rather serious incidents took place during that winter. The crew of a Soviet Project 671 submarine, Victor class sub, per NATO classification) encountered a UFO. The sub’s commander was Aleksey Korzhev. The sub was coming to the base, sometimes it surfaced, sometimes it would descend to 650'. They wanted to be undetected by spy satellites. Then they received a report that up and straight ahead was an airplane. The commander was surprised, for the weather was absolutely not conducive for aircraft flights. But fifty meters from the sub a silvery disc was hovering, slowly moving with the sub, staying a bit ahead of it. The crew looked at it, feeling mesmerized. Then the UFO emitted a ray of light, and this pillar of bright white light did not immediately reach the surface of the water, but contrary to the laws of physics, it slowly descended. Korzhev immediately ordered a change of the ship’s course. The disc slowly ascended and disappeared in the clouds. Litvinov said that the Soviets speculated that the UFO wanted to scan the submarine that actually happened to carry new weapons aboard.
Mikhail Soroka, a paranormal phenomena researcher from Kiyiv, Ukraine, also described the same incident in more detail in an interview he gave to FAKTY newspaper (December 2007). Soroka mentioned fascinating details of the USO encounter when a nuclear submarine was accompanying a surface vessel. The submarine surfaced, and a large object appeared in the sky. Its shape was that of mushroom with its cap turned down. Its bottom part shone white light, the part above shone yellow light, the next part shone reddish light, and the uppermost part shone bright red light. The object not only approached the ships, but also directed toward one of them a ray from its searchlight. Then the object unexpectedly disappeared. He also mentioned that Soviet Navy’s intelligence believed that UFOs generally appeared over military vessels and coastal installations.
Later, when Litvinov was with the special commission of the Soviet Navy’s main staff, he was able to read dozens of UFO reports that came from the intelligence channels. One report described a UFO landing in Motovsky Bay in the Barents Sea. Years later, a leakage of liquid radioactive waste from a spent fuel storage facility took place in the Motovsky Bay and Litsa Fjord.
Zapadnaya Litsa is the largest and most important Russian naval base for nuclear powered submarines. The base is located on the Litsa Fjord at the westernmost point of the Kola Peninsula, about 50 miles from the Norwegian border. The Litsa Fjord heads into the Kola Peninsula interior from the Motovsky Fjord, just across from the southeastern coast of the Rybachky Peninsula. Few people in the West know exactly what was going on there during the Soviet rule. No radar station in the vicinity registered the UFOs. Soviet experts assumed that an ionized cloud enveloped the UFOs.
Another incident, mentioned by Litvinov to Zhizn, comes from the archives of the Russia’s Geographic Society. It took place in the Mediterranean, in November 1976. Soviet diesel submarine Project 641 Foxtrot, per NATO classification, navigated through the Gibraltar, and surfaced. It was at 2:00 a.m., and the sea was absolutely still. The captain, the watch officer, and signalman came to the submarine deck to verify the vessel’s coordinates. They noticed a radiant silvery sphere to the left, over the horizon. The sphere ascended rapidly, and they saw right in front of the sub, on the water, a radiant map of the Mediterranean. It appeared at precisely the moment when the navigator was to determine the sub’s location measuring the position of stars. The impression was that someone aboard the sphere read the Russia navigator’s thoughts. Moreover, the radiant map also indicated the sub’s position. The sphere flew away, and the map disappeared.
Yevgeny Litvinov revealed in the interview that he is convinced that UFOs exist. But he puts aside his convictions when he is asked to determine the veracity of reports. He has developed a complex method for systematic selection, as is done by intelligence officers. His scale of credible authenticity is based on 350 criteria.
Litvinov has concluded that out of all data, about 70% result from technogenic reasons, natural phenomena, or mystification. But the other 30% are real observations of UFOs. There are too many of them to simply wave them away. His database contains 10,000 observations and incidents. Litvinov stated that most often UFOs are observed over military installations, areas of ecological disasters, and geological faults.
In the 1970s, reports issued by Admiral V.A. Domislovsky, chief of the Pacific Fleet’s intelligence department, described an unknown, gigantic cylindrical object sighted by Soviet Navy in faraway regions of Pacific Ocean. The object was 2800' long. When it hovered over the ocean, smaller objects exited from one of its ends, like bees from a beehive, and descended into the waters. Some time later they reentered the gigantic UFO. After the smaller objects entered, the UFO would fly away and disappear over the horizon. This information was revealed in Vladimir Ajaja’s interviews to Russian media.
According to MosNews.com (July 16, 2009), former Rear Admiral and nuclear submarine commander Yury Beketov was quoted describing events that occurred in the Bermuda Triangle. We repeatedly observed that the instruments detected the movements of material objects at unimaginable speed, around 250 mph.
It’s hard to reach that speed on the surface, only in the air is it readily possible. The beings that created those material objects significantly exceed us in development.
Russian Naval intelligence expert and Captain First Rank Igor Barklay noted that the unidentified objects were most often spotted in deep water near where military forces are concentrated off the Bahamas, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the east coast of the United States. The February issue of the remarkable Belarus newspaper Sekretniye Issledovaniya, contained an article written by Valeriya Peresilkina. Titled Zagadki glubin, Secrets of the depths, it lists cases of USOs observed by the Russian Navy in various seas of our planet. The author mentions Captain First Rank, retired, Yuri Vinogradov who had served in the Soviet Navy from 1975 to 2000. A top expert in his field, he had been involved in a number of submarine search and recovery operations, a veteran of high risk units, and a participant in four long range missions. He had been to the Devil’s Sea, also know as the Dragon Triangle it is located between Japan, Guam, and northern Philippines. Some call this area the Pacific Bermuda Triangle. In the 1980s, Vinogradov had participated in the search and rescue operations of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, submarines and surface vessels had been involved. Twice he and other officers had observed, on the sonar screen, a USO that had moved at great speed, and disappeared in the depths.
If you close your eyes and imagine a planet far from our own, chances are there’s already a well-formed picture waiting in your mind – is it barren, with cracks cutting through the surface, or is it covered in sprawling oceans?
In many ways, our visions of alien worlds are shaped by the artists who breathe life into troves of scientific data, piecing together the most plausible depiction of their landscapes.
A pair of artists known for their breathtaking concept images of exoplanets, including the recently discovered Trappist-1 system, have revealed a bit of insight on the extensive process of creating visualizations that both captivate the public and satisfy scientists’ stipulations.
As the experts explain, the job comes with ‘a lot of responsibility’ as they transform numbers and ‘squiggles on charts’ into believable representations of real planets.
Visualization scientist Robert Hurt of Caltech’s IPAC center, and multimedia producer Tim Pyle have together created some of NASA’s most memorable images based on data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and other observatories.
‘Our artist’s concepts are going to be the public face for some of these objects,’ Pyle explained in a recent video from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, acknowledging at the significance of the task.
The breathtaking image reveals what weather might look like on a 'brown dwarf' - a cool, star-like object that lack the mass to sustain nuclear fusion at their cores
The images can’t just be pretty – they also have to show the planet’s environmental conditions as accurately as possible.
Take Trappist-1, for example.
‘The properties that we come away with from this kind of observation include the diameters of the planet, its orbital period,’ Hurt explained.
‘Whether it’s likely to be tidally locked,’ Pyle added, ‘which will say something about what the planet probably looks like.’
‘If it’s less dense than the Earth, it might have more volatiles, like water on it, which is why two of the Trappist planets were shown as water worlds,’ Hurt said.
‘If it has a higher density than Earth, then it’s probably a little more rocky.’
In the case of Trappist-1d, for example, the artists explain their depiction was initially turned down for its inaccurate portrayal of liquid water on the ‘dayside’ of the planet.
According to the scientists, the water is more likely to be found on the dark side instead.
Situations such as this often lead to compromise, Hurt explained.
In the end, they created an image that better represented the data, but also included more water on the scientists would expect.
Not only do artist concept images help the public get a better understanding of what the conditions could be like on faraway worlds, but the experts say they also act as a ‘visual history’ of the evolution of science.
‘If you go back and you look at the whole history of space art and science based illustration, reaching back many, many decades, you have a visual history, a visual record of our evolving understanding,’ Hurt said.
‘The art is as much a historical record of our changing understanding of the universe as the textbook that we write.’
Source: NASA
Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
Artist Lynette Cook painted this representation of Epsilon Eridani b and moons, from the book Infinite Worlds.
For those who have followed the story since the discovery of the nearby Trappist-1 system, which is known to contain seven Earth-sized planets, and three which even fall within the habitable zone, the handful of concept photos have become embedded in our minds when imagining what they might look like.
One, in particular, shows a breathtaking look at the jagged protrusions and liquid water that could exist at the surface of Trappist-1f.
The artists work with scientists to ensure that their concept images are headed in the right direction.
And, if something isn’t right, scientists will reject that version.
Imagine standing on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. This artist's concept is one interpretation of what it could look like
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a new exoplanet discovery: the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.
The discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. All of these seven planets could have liquid water–key to life as we know it–under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone.
“This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “Answering the question ‘are we alone’ is a top science priority and finding so many planets like these for the first time in the habitable zone is a remarkable step forward toward that goal.”
At about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth, the system of planets is relatively close to us, in the constellation Aquarius. Because they are located outside of our solar system, these planets are scientifically known as exoplanets.
This artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets’ diameters, masses and distances from the host star.
Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech
This exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1, named for The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile. In May 2016, researchers using TRAPPIST announced they had discovered three planets in the system. Assisted by several ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, Spitzer confirmed the existence of two of these planets and discovered five additional ones, increasing the number of known planets in the system to seven.
The new results were published Wednesday in the journal Nature, and announced at a news briefing at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
Using Spitzer data, the team precisely measured the sizes of the seven planets and developed first estimates of the masses of six of them, allowing their density to be estimated.
Based on their densities, all of the TRAPPIST-1 planets are likely to be rocky. Further observations will not only help determine whether they are rich in water, but also possibly reveal whether any could have liquid water on their surfaces. The mass of the seventh and farthest exoplanet has not yet been estimated–scientists believe it could be an icy, "snowball-like" world, but further observations are needed.
"The seven wonders of TRAPPIST-1 are the first Earth-size planets that have been found orbiting this kind of star," said Michael Gillon, lead author of the paper and the principal investigator of the TRAPPIST exoplanet survey at the University of Liege, Belgium. "It is also the best target yet for studying the atmospheres of potentially habitable, Earth-size worlds."
In contrast to our sun, the TRAPPIST-1 star–classified as an ultra-cool dwarf–is so cool that liquid water could survive on planets orbiting very close to it, closer than is possible on planets in our solar system. All seven of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary orbits are closer to their host star than Mercury is to our sun. The planets also are very close to each other. If a person were standing on one of the planet’s surface, they could gaze up and potentially see geological features or clouds of neighboring worlds, which would sometimes appear larger than the moon in Earth's sky.
The planets may also be tidally locked to their star, which means the same side of the planet is always facing the star, therefore each side is either perpetual day or night. This could mean they have weather patterns totally unlike those on Earth, such as strong winds blowing from the day side to the night side, and extreme temperature changes.
Spitzer, an infrared telescope that trails Earth as it orbits the sun, was well-suited for studying TRAPPIST-1 because the star glows brightest in infrared light, whose wavelengths are longer than the eye can see. In the fall of 2016, Spitzer observed TRAPPIST-1 nearly continuously for 500 hours. Spitzer is uniquely positioned in its orbit to observe enough crossing–transits–of the planets in front of the host star to reveal the complex architecture of the system. Engineers optimized Spitzer’s ability to observe transiting planets during Spitzer’s “warm mission,” which began after the spacecraft’s coolant ran out as planned after the first five years of operations.
"This is the most exciting result I have seen in the 14 years of Spitzer operations," said Sean Carey, manager of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California. "Spitzer will follow up in the fall to further refine our understanding of these planets so that the James Webb Space Telescope can follow up. More observations of the system are sure to reveal more secrets.”
Following up on the Spitzer discovery, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has initiated the screening of four of the planets, including the three inside the habitable zone. These observations aim at assessing the presence of puffy, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres, typical for gaseous worlds like Neptune, around these planets.
In May 2016, the Hubble team observed the two innermost planets, and found no evidence for such puffy atmospheres. This strengthened the case that the planets closest to the star are rocky in nature.
"The TRAPPIST-1 system provides one of the best opportunities in the next decade to study the atmospheres around Earth-size planets," said Nikole Lewis, co-leader of the Hubble study and astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope also is studying the TRAPPIST-1 system, making measurements of the star's minuscule changes in brightness due to transiting planets. Operating as the K2 mission, the spacecraft's observations will allow astronomers to refine the properties of the known planets, as well as search for additional planets in the system. The K2 observations conclude in early March and will be made available on the public archive.
Spitzer, Hubble, and Kepler will help astronomers plan for follow-up studies using NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, launching in 2018. With much greater sensitivity, Webb will be able to detect the chemical fingerprints of water, methane, oxygen, ozone, and other components of a planet's atmosphere. Webb also will analyze planets' temperatures and surface pressures–key factors in assessing their habitability.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center, at Caltech, Pasadena, California. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at Caltech/IPAC. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
The images are not intended to imply that what’s shown is exactly what those planets are like, Pyle explained.
But, they do aim to ‘illustrate almost the whole breadth of what would be plausible.’
‘For the public, the value of this is not just giving them a picture of something somebody made up,’ said Douglas Hudgins, a program scientist for the Exoplanet Exploration program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
‘These are real, educated guesses of how something might look to human beings.
Scientists have all kinds of reasons why aliens won’t try to fly to Earth and enslave humanity. Even so, the US Military has a backup plan, just in case. Two Air Force teams, the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron (26th SAS) and the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron (527th SAS), are tasked with protecting assets in space, developing strategies to secure US space-based interests, and plans that involve deflecting extraterrestrial invaders. Both are based in Colorado.
The hostile invasion scenario may not be their topmost concern. Space is big, after all. We’ll probably see any shifty aliens coming from far off, and have time to prepare for their arrival. Instead, protecting our satellite infrastructure is their utmost priority. The US, more than any other country, has come to rely on a system of satellites. Consider driving somewhere you’ve never been before without GPS. Scary, I know.
The GPS system contains a network of 31 satellites, which are owned by the US government and run by the US Air Force. Take one out and navigation goes bye-bye. It isn’t just civilians who rely on it, but the US military itself. Without GPS, US forces lose their battlefield advantage, having to revert to older forms of communication and navigation.
GPS Satellite Constellation. National Air and Space Museum, The Smithsonian Institute.
It isn’t just that but civilian life is set back decades. Bank transactions, stock prices, weather reports, air traffic control, and in some cases, even traffic lights are reliant on satellite infrastructure. Executive director of the Office of Space Commerce, Ed Morris, recently authored a disturbing report, outlining the repercussions of an attack on our satellite system. He wrote, “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.”
Because of this, Defense Department advisor, Peter Singer, contends that the next war will begin in space. North Korea or a non-state actor getting their hands on a rocket is one scenario. However, the immediate threats are Russia and China. Tensions with these countries have ramped up lately.
Both have assets that can take out US satellites. China has the "Shiyan.” Using its robotic arm, it can grab a satellite, and fling it out of orbit. The Middle Kingdom is also developing lasers, electro-magnetic rail guns, and high-powered microwaves to disrupt satellite systems. Russia meanwhile has the "Kosmos 2499." This device can approach a satellite and disable or destroy it. In light of these developments, US officials are beginning to take space-based warfare seriously.
In 1982 the US Air Force Space Command was created. Today, it has 134 locations globally, employs 38,000, and has an annual operating budget of nearly $8.9 billion. The Pentagon’s space budget in total is $22 billion. Those in the 50th space wing, a group of over 8,000 men and women, are in charge of monitoring the skies. They have no actionable capabilities, for now.
Tech. Sgt. Steven St. John, 527th Space Aggressor Squadron. U.S. Air Force.
In 2015, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work recognized the growing threat to the country’s assets in orbit. He said that the US had to become "ready to do space operations in a conflict that extends into space." The aggressor force was born.
Captain Christopher Barnes is the chief of training for 26th SAS. He told 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.”
One tactic they’re trained in is “brute force jamming.” Here, satellite networks send signals that make transmitted messages garbled to those who may be listening in. SAS also runs simulations on how to respond to land-based and space-based threats. Right now, their weapons systems are in the conceptual stage. Plans are being made to allow for defensive and even offensive capabilities.
These include utilizing the US Navy’s Laser Weapons System (LAWs). One is already aboard the USS Ponce, stationed in the Persian Gulf. LAWs can shoot down projectiles, light aircraft, and drones, as well as jam enemy communications and monitoring systems.
Another possible candidate is the X-37b—a secretive space drone. Some military watchers consider it capable of espionage, and it’s possibly equipped with defensive or even offensive capabilities. In addition to these efforts, the US is also collaborating with allies, through the Multinational Space Collaboration effort, to build up mutual defense systems.
To learn more about the US Air Force’s Space Command, click here:
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Wow! — Messages From Space
In 1977, the sound of extraterrestrials was heard by human ears for the first time — or so people at the time thought. The Wow! Signal was detected by astronomer Jerry Ehman using Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope. It is a radio signal detector that, at the time, was pointed at a group of stars called Chi Sagittarii in the constellation Sagittarius.
When scanning the skies around the stars, Ehman captured a 72 second burst of radio waves: He circled the reading and wrote “Wow!: next to it, hence the signal’s name. Over the last 40 years, the signal has been cited as evidence that we are not alone in the galaxy. Experts and laypeople alike believed that, finally, we had evidence of alien life.
Image Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO).
However, Professor Antonio Paris, of St Petersburg College, has now discovered the explanation: A pair of comets. The work was published in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.
These comets, known as 266P/Christensen and 335P/Gibbs, have clouds of hydrogen gas millions of kilometers in diameter surrounding them. The Wow! Signal was detected at 1420MHz, which is the radio frequency hydrogen naturally emits. Notably, the team has verified that the comets were within the vicinity at the time, and they report that the radio signals from 266/P Christensen matched those from the Wow! signal.
Other Extraterrestrial Communications
While this discovery is a disappointment to alien enthusiasts everywhere, as the Wow! Signal is the strongest signal we have ever received from space, it is a testament to our ability to accurately interpret signals and sounds from the cosmos. This gives us hope in our attempt to decode the hundreds of “strange, alien” signals coming from other stars that have been observed recently.
We have several weapons in our cosmic detection arsenal, most of which are used by the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI). Their main means of detection is using radio-telescopes, and their most ambitious project to date has been ‘Project Phoenix’; the “world’s most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence.”
The Wow! signal was detected as coming from a region of space close to the M55 galaxy cluster close to the constellation Sagittarius (illustrated), but new research suggests the signal may have been produced by two comets, undiscovered at the time, passing through our own solar system in front of the region
New research has traced the path of two comets - 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) - and found they were in the right region of the sky at the time the signal was received. Astronomers claim the large hydrogen clouds enveloping the comets could have produced the radio waves
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Astronomers are hoping to build a 10ft (3m) radio telescope (pictured) to search the area of the sky where the Wow! signal came from as two comets pass close to the Earth to prove if they were the source of the signal
For this project, they used three of world’s biggest radio telescopes: the Parkes radio telescope in Australia (210 feet in diameter), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia (140 feet in diameter), and Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico (the world’s largest at 1,000 feet in diameter). They have also built The Allen Telescope Array with financial backing from Paul Allen.
While the technology for detecting alien messages is remaining relatively static, ideas for communicating better with our own satellites is advancing rapidly, with possibilities including communicating by a laser beam and establishing a space satellite network.
After 40 Years Of Study, Scientists Know Origin Of A Mysterious Space Signal
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After 40 Years Of Study, Scientists Know Origin Of A Mysterious Space Signal
ANDREW FOLLETT
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A scientist claims to have debunked what’s considered the best evidence of intelligent alien life, presenting findings that an undiscovered comet produced a 1977 deep space radio signal.
An April study published by Dr. Antonio Paris from St. Petersburg College in Florida found that the mysterious signal likely came from a hydrogen cloud surrounding a comet.
Dr. Jerry Ehman first detected the 72-second “WOW!” signal through a radio telescope in August 1977. The signal was so bizarre and potentially alien that Ehman circled the signal on a readout and scribbled “Wow!” next to it because it matched no known celestial object.
Paris noted that the two comets “P/2008 Y2(Gibbs)” and “266P Christensen” had been in the same part of the sky as the “WOW!” signal. Paris discovered a similar radio signal when the comets reappeared in the night sky from November 2016 through February 2017.
The comets’ movements likely explains why scientists were unable to detect the “WOW!” signal in previous years. Paris points out the comets had only been discovered in 2006, and therefore were not accounted for during most searches for the “WOW!” signal.
Scientists previously thought the “WOW!” signal was some of the strongest evidence of a technologically-advanced alien civilization.
The signal was transmitted at a frequency that happens to be the same frequency as hydrogen. Scientists with the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) long suspected an alien civilization would use that frequency to transmit its location since hydrogen is the most common element in the universe.
Scientists often speculate that mysterious signals from deep space could be from aliens, but the source is often found to be some unknown stellar phenomenon.
In 1967, for example, a graduate student in astronomy found an usual pulsing radio signal predictable enough to be a sign of intelligent life. Astronomers nicknamed the signal LGM-1, for “little green men.”
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There have been several UFO sightings over Cley Hill without a rational explanation, an expert has said.
Steve Wills, a UFO researcher and investigator from Warminster, has seen anomalies in the skies around Cley Hill that he cannot explain.
Mr Wills contacted Somerset Live after watching a video we obtained, purporting to show a strange streak of light circling over the National Trust owned hill.
The light has since been revealed to have been created by a stunt plane belonging to nearby acrobatics group AeroSparx.
Speaking about the video, he said: “I think there is an explanation for this. It’s a local stunt pilot called Tim Dews who flies over the Longleat area and other parts of Warminster using pyrotechnics while doing loop the loops and barrel rolls.
“It looks very odd to the uninitiated. The truth is out there just not this time.”
Steve Wills is a UFO researcher and investigator from Warminster
Although he can explain this particular video, Mr Wills believes there have been numerous sightings over Cley Hill and even in Frome that he thinks cannot be rationally explained.
He said: “I have investigated UFO sightings previously within that area and have uncovered a number of cases and sightings that don’t have a rational explanation."
Mr Wills is a contributor to the recently released book Haunted Skies Wiltshire which covers a large number of sightings in and around Cley Hill including Frome.
He shared some of these sightings with Somerset Live. The following is credited to Haunted Skies Wiltshire.
1887: Red ‘disc’ seen over Frome
On March 17, 1977 at Frome (five miles north-west of Warminster) a large red ‘disc’ was seen in the sky, at 9.57pm. The same phenomena was also reported from Tetbury and Gunnersbury.
1965: UFO seen over Norridge Wood
At 6.35pm on October 30, schoolboy Alan Ward from Manor Gardens told of having seen an object in the sky, between Norridge Wood and Cley Hill.
“It turned and flew back again through the sky. It was like a fried egg – a white disc with a golden dome.”
1972: Orange light seen in the sky
On June 17, during the evening a large orange light was observed in the sky above Cley Hill, which was seen to drop down and rise upwards three times, creating an impression it was going to land.
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1975: UFO over Cley Hill
Gary Lanham – a UFO researcher from Birmingham, with a wealth of information decided to visit Cley Hill, Warminster in 1975. He went with a group of friends, hoping to see something himself, rather than relying on what had been published in the press.
“By about 10.30pm the temperature had dropped, so we prepared some soup while looking out over the Wiltshire landscape, towards Frome, still partially illuminated by the rays of the setting sun.
"As darkness settled, I watched the occasional aircraft moving overhead and in the distance the eerie intermittent light flashes from a distant train. On an impulse I turned around, facing east, and saw a large blue coloured light that appeared to ‘blink on’ just hanging in the sky.
"I shouted out to the others and we watched as it shot off across the sky, disappearing from our view behind a hill. Within seconds or so, the same or identical light ‘blinked on’ again, exactly in the same area of sky where we had first seen it.
"This sequence of actions was repeated at five second intervals, before it performed an amazing manoeuvre.”
1976: UFO display over Warminster
David Kingston, a former RAF serviceman – whom we spoke to over the years – told seeing something highly unusual, while ‘sky watching’ for UFOs on Cley Hill, Warminster, during the summer of 1976.
“I saw three separate orbs (approximately six feet in diameter) of coloured light, weaving around and above us for some three hours, on the top of Cley Hill. On occasion, they would merge into a single globe and then separate again.”
Suddenly one of the orbs descended to some thirty feet above us, and then flew down into a field at the base of Cley Hill.
This crop circle was spotted near Cley Hill recently
1980: UFO over Frome
At 10.35pm Steven Dayman-Johns and his wife, Julie, were travelling back home to Frome in a 1973 Datsun Cherry car, along Ridgway Lane when Julie brought her husband’s attention to a white object that she saw moving through one quarter of the car’s windscreen, before coming to a halt in the sky.
Steven stopped the car and, after switching off the headlights, stood on the sill of the car and sighted the object in the sky – which had no definite outline but appeared to have a darker ring running around its top.
After a few minutes, he got back into the car and continued his journey, keeping the object under observation – until it suddenly moved away at phenomenal speed, towards Wanstrow, emitting a faint light from its front and rear.
Steve decided to make his way to higher ground, and drove to the end of Ridgway Lane to the T-junction, being overtaken by a motorcycle, who sounded his horn several times at them. They turned left at the junction and pulled into a lay-by, about 150 yards from the junction.
After getting out they looked across the sky but couldn’t see the object, although they noticed a whitish glow on the horizon in the shape of an upturned letter ‘U’.
Their curiosity now aroused even further, they got back into the car and drove to where they had originally seen the object – along Ridgway Lane.
More detail on this account can be found in Haunted Skies Wiltshire.
2015: UFO sighted over Frome – Was it under escort or attack?
We (Haunted Skies Wiltshire) were contacted by Mr Duncan McDine – owner of a shop situated in Trowbridge. He told us of an incident while on the way home with his brother, one early evening, near Frome.
They found the road blocked by police and, looking upwards, saw an object resembling a full moon, but ten times larger, with something apparently hanging from it. At this point an army helicopter was seen moving through the sky with its sides open and soldiers carrying machine guns.
“One of the most memorable things for me was the way that it moved. It seemed to play tricks on your eyes. It is quite hard to explain. I don’t think I have ever seen anything like it before. It then headed away towards the direction of Warminster.”
Following the sighting, Duncan made some enquiries with the media but nothing had been reported.
Have you ever seen UFOs in Somerset or Wiltshire? Get in touch using james.wood@westgaz.co.uk
When it comes to the Roswell affair of July 1947, there are numerous issues, theories and ideas for what happened. Or, for what didn’t happen. One of the issues that very often surfaces – in relation to the nature of the recovered debris – is that which concerns the so-called “memory metal” reportedly found at the site. Those who are of the opinion that aliens met their deaths on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico on that fateful and fatal day suggest that the memory metal can only have been extraterrestrial in nature. But, is that really the truth? Well, it very much depends on who you ask and who you believe.
Major Jesse Marcel, who everyone – believers and doubters – acknowledges was at the crash site, said decades later: “I saw a lot of wreckage but no complete machine. It had disintegrated before it hit the ground. The wreckage was scattered over an area about three quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide. I was pretty well acquainted with most everything that was in the air at that time, both ours and foreign. I was also acquainted with virtually every type of weather-balloon or radar-tracking device being used by either the civilians or the military. What it was we didn’t know. We just picked up the fragments…it certainly wasn’t anything built by us.” You can find Marcel’s statement in the Bill Moore-Charles Berlitz book of 1980, The Roswell Incident.
1960s-era polyethylene hot air balloon
Mack Brazel was the rancher who found the wreckage. Some say he found far more than that. Maybe a body or two. Possibly several. Brazel’s son, Bill, would later say that the debris found on the Foster Ranch was “…something on the order of tinfoil except that [it] wouldn’t tear…You could wrinkle it and lay it back down and it immediately resumed its original shape. Quite pliable, but you couldn’t crease or bend it like ordinary metal. Almost like a plastic, but definitely metallic in nature.” It’s a quote that appears in Bill Moore’s 1981 report, The Roswell Investigation: New Evidence, New Conclusions, which was published in the July-August 1981 edition of Frontiers of Science. For many, it is statements like those of Major Marcel and Bill Brazel that are among the most important of all – and particularly so when it comes to the issue of what really came down on the ranch. But, there are other possibilities.
The U.S. Air Force has offered the following words on the matter of the memory metal: “As early as May 1948, polythene balloons coated or laminated with aluminum were flown from Holloman AFB and the surrounding area. Beginning in August 1955, large numbers of these balloons were flown as targets in the development of radar guided air-to-air missiles. Various accounts of the ‘Roswell Incident’ often described thin, metal-like materials that when wadded into a ball, returned to their original shape. These accounts are consistent with the properties of polythene balloons laminated with aluminum. These balloons were typically launched from points west of the White Sands Proving Ground, floated over the range as targets, and descended in the areas northeast of White Sands Proving Ground where the ‘strange’ materials were allegedly found.”
Mylar
Of course, if there had been secret, pre-1948 flights (maybe one in the summer of 1947, in New Mexico…) then that might well have led people who were unacquainted with the new polythene balloons coated or laminated with aluminum to assume they were seeing something extraordinary. On a similar path, back in 2004, a well-respected Australian researcher, Keith Basterfield, was given a fascinating account which suggested that what came down on the Foster Ranch was a device of the military and not the product of aliens. Keith revealed that, according to his source, “…gigantic balloons were being flown in the stratosphere to drop craft fitted with retrorockets and a drogue chute.”
Keith added that when just such a craft came down on the ranch, “The authorities were very concerned that the rancher had hidden souvenirs from the wreckage. The balloons were of chrome plated cellophane to reflect the heat. The experiments were conducted at night so balloons would not explode in the daylight.” Not only that, according to Keith’s informant, the experiment in question had people on-board. Guinea-pigs would be an accurate term – which echoes the theories presented in my books Body Snatchers in the Desert and the newly-published The Roswell UFO Conspiracy.
Of course, none of this proves that aliens didn’t crash outside of Roswell in forty-seven. On the other hand, however, the idea that the memory metal was extraterrestrial needs further evidence before such a claim can be considered fact.
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Giant hole on Mars could be work of aliens, researchers say
Giant hole on Mars could be work of aliens, researchers say
Credit: Securyteam 10, Youtube
A giant hole on Mars has scientists baffled and some UFO researchers are theorizing it could be the work of extraterrestrials.
In a video obtained by conspiracy theorist Youtube channel SecureTeam 10, a deep depression in the surface of Mars has astronomers questioning what it is.
Tyler Glockner, who runs SecureTeam 10, said the hole is estimated to be hundreds of feet across. The rocky terrain of Mars -- which like Earth, has polar ice caps -- does not account for what the depression is, Glockner added.
The images come courtesy of NASA's Mars reconassiance orbiter, which has been exploring the planet.
Below is the video in its entirety:
NASA has given several possibilities of what could have caused the hole, including meteorites, lava tubes, ancient floods and volcanoes. But conspiracy theorists have other ideas.
Glockner said the hole shows artificial characteristics, noting that it looks as if it has been hollowed out. Glockner added that the hole could also be an entrance of an underground civilization.
SecureTeam 10, which has nearly 900,000 YouTube subscribers, often runs conspiracy theory-based videos. The organization describes itself as the "source for reporting the best in new UFO sighting news, info on the space cover-up, and the strange activity happening on and off of our planet."
Een Chinese sonde wordt het eerste ruimtetuig in meer dan veertig jaar dat stalen van de Maan naar onze planeet zal brengen, zo heeft het officiële persbureau Xinhua gemeld van op een conferentie in Peking.
Nog dit jaar moet de onbemande Chang'e-5 landen op de natuurlijke satelliet van de Aarde. Dat zal gebeuren in het gebied van de Mons Rumker, genoemd naar de Duitse astronoom Karl Rumker, aldus Liu Jizhong, een directeur van het Chinese ruimtevaartbureau. De lancering is voorlopig voor november gepland. Het ruimteschip moet met monsters van de Maan naar onze planeet terugkeren, een primeur voor de Chinese ruimtevaart.
Apollo De Sovjetrussische Loena-24 was in 1976 het laatste ruimtetuig dat Maanstalen naar de Aarde bracht. Er is toen slechts 170 gram ingezameld. Het bemande Amerikaanse Apollo-programma leverde tussen 1969 en 1972 meer dan 360 kilo aan Maanstenen op.
Achterkant Volgend jaar zal China ook proberen om als eerste ooit een sonde te laten landen op de achterzijde van de Maan. Dat zal het werk zijn van de Chang'e-4. Die was reserve voor de Chang'e-3 die in 2013 de eerste Chinese - onbemande - Maanlanding heeft uitgevoerd.
Peking plant ook een bemande Maanlanding, binnen vijftien tot twintig jaar. Volgens de eerste Chinese astronaut en vicedirecteur van het bemande ruimtevaartprogramma Yang Liwei zal het "niet lang duren" eer daarvoor toestemming en financiering is.
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HUGE UFO COMING OUT OF AWESOME LIGHTNING STORM
HUGE UFO COMING OUT OF AWESOME LIGHTNING STORM
Just Breathtaking uploaded to his Facebook account a footage taken from an unknown location, which shows awesome lightning strikes in a thunder storm. Could it be debris? Maybe, but while other objects flying in and around the clouds… the black object moves along a straight path while leaving the cloud formation.
Although the possibility of alien life is restricted to planets a light-years away from Earth, the huge frequency of witnesses involving sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs / UFOs) around the world raises two Hypotheses: or et's are already here, or millions of videos, photos and reports of the phenomenon are deceptions practiced by mentally disturbed individuals.
If the second option is true, then it stands to reason that more than half of the 7 billion human beings are totally crazy, influential or liars.
However, based on the notion that aliens are watching us, as is believed by influential individuals in the space and technology industry, such as the owner of Space X, Elon Musk, or astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step on the moon, it is reasonable to accept certain photos And films of the phenomenon as true.
A COMPLETELY NEW TYPE OF UFO HAS BEEN CAPTURED IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
A COMPLETELY NEW TYPE OF UFO HAS BEEN CAPTURED IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
A type of UFO that has never been seen before has been found and captured on film numerous times in Puerto Rico. Joshua P. Warren, the lead researcher said that he believes it to be a living organism and he has given it the name of Organic UFO or OUFO.
UNKNOWN FLYING OBJECT CAPTURED FLYING AROUND AIRPORT AT 120MPH
Homeland Security footage has been leaked online after it was filmed in 2013 and it shows what seem to be flying objects that are very strange and are slightly saucer shaped. The objects were seen around the Rafael Hernandez Airport, where they were flying at speeds of around 120mph.
The object was seen for around three minutes and it dipped down into the Atlantic Ocean and was seen traveling just under the surface of the water at a speed of about 95mph. Mainstream scientists have analysed the video and deemed it authentic. The forage along with the results has been published on the internet in an independent and very detailed 162 page report.
Warren said that he thinks they are living organisms as they are not too well structured like a machine would be and they seem to interact with human beings in a new way and they seem to appear when requested to do so.
Part of the detailed report says that on 25 April 2013 around 9.20pm local time an object that was unknown flew across the runway of the airport in Puerto Rico at low altitude and this caused the delay of a commercial aircraft. It was said that there was no transponder signal alerting the tower and no communication had been made with the tower. It was only picked up on an infrared video by the US Customs and Border Protection aircraft. The thermal video has since been verified to be authentic.
The analysis from the video revealed an object that was not like any natural or man-made object and careful evaluation was made of it. The movement, properties and even the possibility of a hoax were ruled out.
REPORT CONCLUDES OBJECT IS OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
The object was said to be around three to five feet in length and it traveled between 40mph and 120mph with a median speed said to be around 80mph. One of the characteristics that were found to be significant was the fact that the object was able to travel at fast speed through the water and that speed did not vary when it impacted the water. On average it traveled at 82.8mph under the surface but did reach up to 95mph. After entering the ocean it did split into two separate parts for a brief time and then re-emerged, both of the parts kept the same speed when moving in water and air. The conclusion of the report was that the object is of unknown origin and no explanation can be given for there being an object that is capable of traveling at 90mph under the surface of the water with minimal impact on entering the water, be capable of separating into two objects and then merge or of flying without navigational lights in a residential area. The full PDF report of the unknown flying object can be found below and it does make interesting reading for ufologis
Video shows a bizarre circling object in the skies above Cley Hill, near Warminster, Somerset.
Warminster has been crowned the country's top UFO hotspot since the 1960s when a strange spate of UFO sightings and paranormal incidents led to the legend of the Warminster Thing developing.
People reported eerie thundering noises, lights in the sky, birds being killed, and even cars malfunctioning after balls of light appeared above.
The area still witnesses UFO sightings and many crop circles.
The new video, was filmed by a resident from Frome, and shows the circling shows streaks of light above the hill, which is just two miles from Warminster.
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The circular object sparked claims of a return of the Warminsgter Thing.
The resident said: "I took this video from my house in Frome.
"It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs."
But, they were not convinced it was anything alien, adding: "Probably a drone with a fancy flame effect tail or something. It's been spotted a few times locally."
However, it was picked up by UFO channels and soon went viral, with speculation about an alien origin and the earlier events from Warminster.
"It was over the Cley Hill area I think, which is always a hotspot for UFOs."
Frome resident
Some conspiracy theorists even suggested it could be secret flight tests connected to military activity at nearby Salisbury Plain.
But, it appears the cameraman's hunch was right that there was a sensible explanation.
Scott Brando, who runs hoax-busting website ufoofinterest.org was the first to come forward and suggest it was a kite or acrobatic aircraft with pyrotechnics, providing video clips of both making a similar swirling effect.
Later, AeroSPARX, an aircraft aerobatic team that performs at air shows across Europe, came forward with an explanation.
It appears it was a stunt plane belonging to the team.
Website Sky Watchers, who analyses UFO footage tracked down the culprits, and discovered AeroSPARX had been in the area at the time.
AeroSPARX, says of the particular craft: "The Grob is unique amongst air show types, as it has a special clearance to fly at night.
"Pyrotechnics are quite unique and special in the half-light of twilight, but at night they really come alive and you can truly appreciate their majestic nature."
On August 15, 1977, Dr. Jerry Ehman spotted a mysterious signal while searching for aliens. The radio blast was so strange that he quickly scribbled “Wow” on his printout of the event. 40 years later the “wow” signal has finally been explained – and its comet gas that gets the credit, not extra-terrestrials.
When scientists detected the original anomaly four decades ago they were unable to attribute it to any specific celestial bodies. The signal became a mystery and a lynchpin in the argument for intelligent life in space.
Professor Antonio Paris an astronomer from St. Petersburg College in Florida challenged that assumption in 2016 when he proposed his hypothesis: the radio blast was nothing more than gas from the tails of two comets.
The comets in question weren’t discovered until 2006
Although there’s no data to suggest that the specific comets Paris mentions in his paper are the exact comets that caused the 1977 event the Professor proved that the radio frequency that Dr. Ehman detected was a naturally occurring event from all comets.
He conducted over 200 observations in radio spectrum and comets over a 1 year period. The research revealed that the ‘Wow’ frequency, 1420.25 MHz, was present in the comets he believed to responsible. He then confirmed his data by following three other comets selected randomly for observation, and the signal was present in gas that followed those comets as well.
The research may not pinpoint exactly which comets were to blame – but it explains the “wow” signal wasn’t aliens trying to contact us it was just comet gas.
I was hoping for confirmation of intelligent life – but I’ll settle for knowing that a 40-year-old mystery has been put to rest thanks to the work of a curious astronomer in Florida.
Aliens came to planet earth and decided to visit Brainerd, maybe.
Highways 210 and 371 come together in Brainerd, a north-central Minnesota town, population roughly 13,000.
For those who haven't visited -- do; it's nice! -- Brainerd is perhaps best known recently as the setting for some of the major events in the movie Fargo. And boy oh boy, chief Maggie Gunderson would've had herself a heckova time gettin' her head around this video that showed up on Youtube last week.
The five-minute clip was uploaded by SuspectSky, which claims to feature "the best sightings, analysis, and thought-provoking research" on unidentified flying objects (UFOs). SuspectSky's bio adds it is "Always critical, always vigilant," so, pretty much like your mom.
This particular video is said to have been shot at the Highway 210/371 junction, and cars zoom right on through the shot continuously. That leads to lots of ambient noise, though not enough to drown out the eerie music SuspectSky has piped in to give our UFO video the full effect.
"This single bright object soon becomes several," reads a white script that shows up on the screen. In fact, it does: Two lights, then three, then four. When our videographer/driver's car system announces, "GPS signal lost," the caption reads, "GPS Signal Lost." This is some of that "best analysis" they'd promised.
That GPS signal is one of several plot twists in this UFO sighting. Note when SuspectSky says the triangle shaped pattern in the sky "appears to try to make a diamond." As if the attempt failed. As in, aliens traveled through light years of space to reach earth -- Brainerd, Minnesota, specifically -- and then couldn't figure out how to turn on their headlights.
Do not skip the comments under this video. "they are here...just watching us...����������," reads one. "They always have been," reads another. "They are doing more than just watching us - I assure you," reads a third. "To me it looks like military flares as when one disappears then another one will appear at a higher level and come down"-- hey, who let that guy in here? That is clearly not the "best" analysis we demand on real UFO videos. Like this one.
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A RARE GLIMPSE INTO NIKOLA TESLA’S COMMUNICATION WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS
A RARE GLIMPSE INTO NIKOLA TESLA’S COMMUNICATION WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS
Few people know that in 1899, while working at his Colorado Springs laboratory, he announced that he had received extraterrestrial radio signals. The scientific community thought he was nuts, and in fact, cosmic radio signals didn’t even exist at the time. One can easily imagine how alone and misunderstood Tesla must have felt.
The Black Knight Satellite
It’s known as the “Black Knight Satellite,” and although it wasn’t confirmed by scientists until 1932, Tesla discovered it in 1899 while in his Colorado Springs laboratory, hearing strange rhythmic sounds on his radio receiver. The confirmation in 1932 gave birth to the field of radio astronomy, which is now used to decode and detect messages from distant stars and other mysterious celestial sources. Tesla writes:
I can never forget the first sensations I experienced when it dawned upon me that I had observed something possibly of incalculable consequences to mankind. I felt as though I were present at the birth of a new knowledge or the revelation of a great truth. Even now, at times, I can vividly recall the incident, and see my apparatus as though it were actually before me. My first observations positively terrified me, as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night; but at that time the idea of these disturbances being intelligently controlled signals did not yet present itself to me.
The changes I noted were taking place periodically, and with such a clear suggestion of number and order that they were not traceable to any cause then known to me. I was familiar, of course, with such electrical disturbances as are produced by the sun, Aurora Borealis and earth currents, and I was as sure as I could be of any fact that these variations were due to none of these causes. The nature of my experiments precluded the possibility of the changes being produced by atmospheric disturbances, as has been rashly asserted by some. It was some time afterward when the thought flashed upon my mind that the disturbances I had observed might be due to an intelligent control. Although I could not decipher their meaning, it was impossible for me to think of them as having been entirely accidental. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another. . . . I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth. (source)(source)
Tesla believed that the signals he was picking up on were from Mars. Here’s another statement he gave on what he found:
Others may scoff at this suggestion…[of] communicat[ing] with one of our heavenly neighbors, as Mars…or treat it as a practical joke, but I have been in deep earnest about it every since I made my first observations in Colorado Springs… At the time, there existed no wireless plant other than mine that could produce a disturbance perceptible in a radius of more than a few miles. Furthermore, the conditions under which I operated were ideal, and I was well trained for the work. The character of the disturbances recorded precluded the possibility of their being of terrestrial origin, and I also eliminated the influence of the sun, moon, and Venus. As I then announced, the signals consisted in a regular repetition of numbers, and subsequent study convinced me that they must have emanated from Mars, the planet having just then been close to the earth. (source)
According to theAmerican Physical Society Physics, Tesla concluded that these signals, or this strange unnatural object they originate from, was indeed extraterrestrial, or an effort to “communicate with Earth by alien beings.”
This was one of multiple incidents in which Telsa intercepted what he thought were intelligent signals from space. He states that even the simplest form of communication (such as the interchange of numbers) could represent a form of intelligible transmission from extraterrestrials.
Today, we know for sure that these signals are of extraterrestrial origin, but it’s assumed that they are radio waves from planets, comets, stars, or galaxies — not ‘ET.’
More than 30 years after the confirmation in 1932, a graduate student by the name of Jocelyn Bell noticed some strange data coming from her telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO). After a few weeks, she noticed that the signal being produced could not have originated from any known natural source, and she (and her team) ruled out every conceivable explanation, such as multiple sources of human interference, other radio astronomers, radar reflected off the moon, orbiting satellites, television signals, and more. Nothing could explain these strange signals.
She eventually published a paper in the scientific journal Nature, despite the fact that the source of the sound, though they knew it to be artificial, had not been determined.
These announcements caused quite a commotion at the time, and today it is common for strange signals, determined to be coming from ‘non-natural’ sources, to be detected. But who knows what they are?
Just last year, strange radio wave flashes from far outside of our Milky Way galaxy (or in it) had scientists completely confused; you can read more about that here.
I just want to make it clear that this type of stuff is always going on.
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NEXT STORY IS THIS EXTRATERRESTRIAL? EARTH RECEIVES STRANGE “RADIO BURSTS” FROM SPACE
NEXT STORY IS THIS EXTRATERRESTRIAL? EARTH RECEIVES STRANGE “RADIO BURSTS” FROM SPACE
Strange radio wave flashes from far outside of our Milky Way galaxy (or in it) have scientists completely confused. Since 2001, telescopes have been picking up on what are referred to as fast radio bursts (FRBs). Only a total of ten have ever been detected, with the most recent one occurring just a few months ago. The bursts last just a few milliseconds and then explode with just as much energy as our Sun releases in a month, which is extremely huge, and again, very confusing and mysterious.
The burst of 2014 was the first one in history that was caught in action by the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia. The others were found by examining data after the bursts had already arrived on Earth. Again, these bursts have astronomers very confused, as no one knows what causes them. What scientists do know is that their source most likely has to be small, because they occur in such a short span of time. They are also only approximately a few hundred kilometers across, so that rules out any stars as being the culprit.
It’s not only the fact that astronomers are completely clueless, but as a new scientist points out:
“The weird part is that they all fit a pattern that doesn’t match what we know about cosmic physics.”
Michael Hippke at the Institute for Data Analysis In Neukrichen-Vluyn, Germany, and John Learned at the Univeristy of Hawaii in Manoa, have not ruled out the possibility that these bursts come from somewhere within our galaxy. They determined this by calculating how far the bursts have travelled, a technique known as “the dispersion measure.”
“Each burst covers a range of radio frequencies, as if the whole FM band were playing the same song. But electrons in space scatter and delay the radiation, so that higher frequency waves make it across space faster than lower frequency waves. The more space the signal crosses, the bigger the difference, or dispersion measure, between the arrival time of high and low frequencies – and the further the signal has travelled.” (source)
(You can view the paper that was published on the most recent burst, in the list of sources at the end of the article)
As a result of their calculations, they believe that the source is much closer to home, from a group of objects within our Milky Way galaxy that are emitting shorter-frequency radio waves after higher-frequency radio waves.
It’s also interesting to note that all 10 of the detected bursts since 2001 have dispersion measures that are multiples of 187.5. This is both fascinating and unexplainable, and they are suggesting that this line-up of the dispersion implies five sources for the bursts that are all at regularly spaced distances from Earth.
According to their research, there is a 5 in 10,000 probability that this type of line-up is a coincidence, and that it is “very, very hard to explain.”
What could the sources of these signals heading towards Earth be? Are they some unidentified cosmic objects? Is it human, manmade technology? Or is the question not what, but who? If the natural explanations don’t seem to fit, the researchers have concluded in their paper that “an artificial source (human or non-human) must be considered.”
“These have been intriguing as an engineered signal, or evidence of extraterrestrial technology, since the first was discovered,” -Jill Tarter, former director of the SETI Institute in California. “I’m intrigued. Stay tuned.”
The search for extraterrestrial life continues to be a very hot topic, and the questions concerning “ET” are continuing to grow with the discovery of microbial life in space, as well as water – don’t forget about the discovery of many potential Earth-like planets. On top of that, we have a lot of evidence supporting the idea that intelligent extraterrestrial life has been visiting our planet for a very long time.
Calvin Parker tells his story of Pascagoula's famous UFO incident 40 years later
Calvin Parker tells his story of Pascagoula's famous UFO incident 40 years later
Charles Hickson of Gautier, Miss., famous for a claimed UFO abduction in 1973, has died in Ocean Springs at the age of 80. In this file photograph, Hickson is seen posing with a drawing depicting a UFO.
(Pat Sullivan)
PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- Charles Hickson never regretted the notoriety that came his way after he told authorities he encountered an unidentified flying object and its occupants 40 years ago on the banks of the Pascagoula River. Until his death in 2011, Hickson told his story to anyone who would listen.
But Calvin Parker Jr., the other man present for one of the most high-profile UFO cases in American history, has never come to terms with what he still says was a visit with gray, crab-clawed creatures from somewhere else. He says the encounter on Oct. 11, 1973, turned his life upside down.
"This is something I really didn't want to happen," Parker told The Associated Press as the 40th anniversary of the encounter approached.
Parker was unnerved by initial crush of unwelcome attention, with newsmen and UFO enthusiasts overrunning Walker Shipyard, where he and Hickson worked. He tried to dodge the spotlight for decades, moving frequently before returning to Mississippi's Gulf Coast in recent years.
The incident made headlines, sparked a wave of UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined cases on record. Skeptics ranged from the deputies who first interviewed the men to an author who sought to poke holes in the story, and Parker himself has had conflicting thoughts about whether he was visited by aliens or demons.
See the Mississippi Press' 1973 coverage of the incident:
Parker, now 58, was 18 when he went fishing with Hickson on a tranquil Thursday night after work.
As they dangled their lines without much luck, the two said a UFO with blue lights swooped down. They told of a zipping noise made by the object.
Hickson, then 42, said three creatures with leathery gray skin and crab-like claws -- he thought they were robots -- took them by the forearms and levitated them aboard the craft. He said something that looked like a large floating eye appeared to examine him.
Parker says he was conscious but paralyzed.
"They gave a thorough, I mean a thorough, examination to me just like any doctor would," he said.
And then they were back on the shore, where it all began. The UFO was gone and Parker said they tried to collect themselves. Hickson needed three shots of liquor from a bottle in his car to calm his nerves before deciding to report what happened.
At the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, deputies initially suspected both men were drunk. Then-Capt. Glenn Ryder, who still works for the sheriff's office, said he laughed at the report, but met with the men. Parker and Hickson stuck to their story.
After the formal interview, deputies left Hickson and Parker together in a room with a hidden tape recorder, hoping to catch them in a lie.
"Me and the other investigator got up and left to let them talk, to see if they were going to say, 'Well, we got them fooled,' but they didn't," Ryder said. "They were really concerned."
On the tape, Hickson tells Parker, "It scared me to death too, son. You can't get over it in a lifetime. Jesus Christ have mercy."
"I don't know what happened to them," Ryder said. "I wasn't there with them, but I know you don't fake fear, and they were fearful. They were fearful."
The next afternoon, the story was splashed across the front pages of newspapers in Pascagoula and Gulfport. Overnight, Pascagoula became a magnet for news reporters and UFO investigators.
Widespread interest in UFOs began in the 1940s with an incident at Roswell N.M., in which UFO enthusiasts believe the government got its hands on a crashed UFO and alien bodies. The government spent decades denying it.
In the 1960s, interest flared anew with a series of reports, including the purported alien abduction of New Hampshire couple Betty and Barney Hill in 1961. The widespread attention to the Pascagoula encounter set off a new round of reports.
In south Mississippi, hundreds of reports overwhelmed authorities in the two weeks after the Hickson-Parker encounter.
There were hoaxes and humor too. A Long Beach, Miss., taxi driver told police a being with pincers tapped on his window, a story he admitted days later was fake.
A Mobile, Ala., television station said it would record a UFO appearance predicted by a psychic between Mobile and nearby Pascagoula. Roughly 1,000 cars converged on the spot, where nothing happened.
An Ocean Springs alderman proposed an ordinance making it illegal to operate a UFO at more than twice the speed of light on U.S. 90, the coast's main drag. Mayor Tom Stennis voted against the ordinance, joking he didn't want to discourage tourism.
UFO skeptic Philip Klass believed Hickson and Parker's report was a hoax. In his book "UFOs Explained," he noted Hickson changed some details of his story and claimed a polygraph operator whose test Hickson passed wasn't up to the task. Parker later passed a lie detector test himself.
Hickson would go on to appear on talk shows, give lectures and interviews, and self-publish a book in 1983 titled "UFO Contact at Pascagoula." He reported three more encounters in 1974, and said the aliens communicated to him that they were peaceful.
"The only thing he wanted to do was let everybody know we were not alone," said Eddie Hickson, his son. "He didn't care if you believed him or not. If you wanted to listen, by gum, he'd tell you."
"He could never understand why he was chosen," the younger Hickson added. "But he never once told me that he wished it had never happened. Never."
Parker said the intrusions by curiosity seekers have become less frequent over the years, but have never really let up. "You don't never have no privacy," he said.
Parker married later in 1973 and eventually took oil industry and out-of-state construction jobs to escape the attention.
"By the time you get somewhere and they figure out who you were, I'd just go," he said. "I'd just go find another job somewhere."
Parker attended some UFO conventions, and was once hypnotized by Budd Hopkins, a noted UFO investigator. He briefly tried to capitalize on his story in 1993 by starting a Louisiana company called UFO Investigations where he and partners would produce television segments on the subject.
Parker moved to Moss Point in 2006 and in 2010 suffered a stroke that limited him physically. He's on disability aid now, but sometimes boats by the site of the encounter when he goes fishing. He said that just recently he met a woman at a gas station who already knew who he was.
"I'm always recognized," he said.
There's no historical marker on the river bank noting the encounter, and stores don't sell UFO souvenirs. But local people remember -- though often with skepticism and jokes.
For his part, Parker said he's had conflicting thoughts over the years about that night in 1973. At one point, he wasn't even sure the creatures were aliens. They might have been demons, he said.
"I'm a firm believer in God and where there's good, there's bad," Parker said.
In this Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 photo, Calvin Parker, Jr., stands in the area where he and fellow Mississippian Charles Hickson were allegedly abducted by aliens on Oct. 11,1973, on the banks of the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula Miss. The incident made headlines, sparked UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined cases on record. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
In this Oct. 11, 1998 file photograph, Charles Hickson, of Pascagoula, Miss., stands where he and fellow Mississippian Calvin Parker, Jr. were allegedly abducted by aliens on Oct. 11,1973, on the banks of the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula Miss. The incident made headlines, sparked UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined cases on record. Hickson co-wrote a book about the experience and spoke openly to reporters about the abduction, while Parker kept a low profile over the years. (AP Photo/Mississippi Press, William Colgin, File)
In this 1973 file photograph, Charles Hickson of Pascagoula, Miss., stands on the west bank of the Pascagoula River, close to the site where he claims he and Calvin Parker Jr. were abducted by aliens. (AP Photo/Mississippi Press, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2001, file photo, Charles Hickson reads a page from a book he co-wrote about UFOs in Gautier, Miss. When Hickson and Calvin Parker told the world in 1973 they were abducted by aliens while fishing on the Pascagoula River, few people believed them. Hickson, 80, died in Sept. 2011. (AP Photo/The Mississippi Press,
FILE - In this Oct. 18, 1973 file photograph taken in Gautier, Miss., Charles Hickson, left, and Calvin Parker Jr., of Pascagoula, Miss., recount the experience of their alleged abduction by aliens from the banks of the Pascagoula River where they were fishing. (AP Photo/Mississippi Press, Gary Holland, File)
In this Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 photo, Calvin Parker, Jr., poses for a photograph at his home in Moss Point, Miss. Parker and fellow Mississippian Charles Hickson were allegedly abducted by aliens on Oct. 11,1973, on the banks of the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula Miss. The incident made headlines, sparked UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined cases on record. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Calvin Parker, Jr., stands in the area where he allegedly was abducted by a UFO along with fellow Mississippian Charles Hickson, on the banks of the Pascagoula River Oct. 11,1973, making international headlines, in Pascagoula Miss., Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
When you consider that age of the Universe – 13.8 billion years by our most recent counts – and that which is “observable” to us measures about 27.6 billion light years in diameter, you begin to wonder why we haven’t found signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI) beyond our Solar System. To paraphrase Enrico Fermi, the 20th century physicists who advanced the famous Fermi Paradox – “where the heck are all the aliens?”
Naturally, Fermi’s Paradox has attracted a lot of theoretical explanations over the years – which include ETI being very rare, humanity being early to the Universe, and the aliens being extinct! But a new study by a team of scientists from the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) offers a different take on this age-old paradox. According to their study, the key to answering this question is to consider the possibility that the aliens are engaged in “aestivation”.
Essentially, aestivation is a prolonged state of torpor that organisms enter into during a particularly hot or dry period. Similar to what hibernating animals do during the winter, this state is designed to keep creatures alive until more favorable conditions emerge. And when applied to the cosmos, this concept could explain why one of the key things astronomers have been looking for – i.e. activity – has been lacking.
This is not the first time Sandberg has addressed questions arising out of the Fermi Paradox. In a previous study, he and Stuart Armstrong (also a research associate with the EHI and one of the co-authors on this study) extended the Fermi Paradox to look beyond our own galaxy, addressing how more advanced civilizations would feasibly be able to launch colonization projects with relative ease (and even travel between galaxies without difficulty).
In the end, they concluded that civilizations from millions of galaxies should have been able to reach us by now, which only serves to bring the Fermi Paradox into greater focus. If these early civilizations are around, why are they not visible to us? The reason for this, they claim in this new study, has to do with the thermodynamics of computation.
According to this basic rule, the cost of a certain amount of computation is proportional to the temperature it generates. For some time, astronomers and cosmologists have been aware that the Universe is steadily cooling down over the time. Not only is star formation in galaxies slowly dying out over the course of billions of years, but even the cosmic background radiation is becoming colder.
Artist’s conception of city lights on an alien planet. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
As such, it makes sense that ancient and advanced civilizations would want to wait for cooler conditions to prevail. Sandberg explained to Universe Today via email:
“The core idea is that if advanced civilizations mainly or solely care about computation, then it is rational for them to wait until the Universe is much older than now. The reason is that the energy cost (which will eventually limit how much computation you can do) is proportional to temperature, and this means that the far future is vastly more hospitable than the hot present. If this were true, we have a nice explanation for the apparent absence of big old civilizations. It would also lead to observable consequences: a reduction in processes that waste resources they would want in the late eras.”
Timing is a key feature to this hypothesis. Much like the theory that humanity may have arrived early to the Universe, this theory states that the lack of detection has to do with species being in different places in their biological/technological evolution. In this case, the aestivation period of early civilizations has coincided with the subsequent rise of humanity as an space-faring and technologically-adept species.
Herein lies another reason why ancient civilizations might want to take a cosmic nap. Given how long life needs in order to emerge – humanity took roughly 4.5 billion years to get to where it is today – then it stands to reason that ancient civilizations might want to skip ahead a few eons in order to let new races emerge.
Ever since it was first announced in 2015, there has been speculation as to what could account for the dimming of KIC 8462852.
Credit: SentientDevelopments.com
“There is an entropy cost to irreversible logical operations, including error correction,” said Sanders. “So unless there is some magical energy source or entropy sink, if you want to do as much computation as possible you should wait until the cosmic background radiation levels off. In addition, civilizations may want to go to the future if they want to meet other, independently evolved civilizations. If intelligence is rare in time and space but aestivates to the far future, then it will meet there.”
Of course, the aestiation hypothesis (much like the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox) is based on a few assumptions about what ETI would be capable of. These include:
There are civilizations that mature much earlier than humanity.
These civilizations can expand over sizeable volumes, gaining power over their contents.
These civilizations have solved their coordination problems.
A civilization can retain control over its volume against other civilizations.
The fraction of mature civilizations that aestivate is non-zero
Aestivation is largely invisible.
In other words, the hypothesis assumes the existence of civilizations that are more advanced than humanity which is based on the notion that they have had billions of years to develop elsewhere in the Universe. These civilizations would be higher on the Kardashev Scale (between Level II and III) by now, meaning that they had evolved to the point where they could harness the energy of entire star systems and perhaps even galaxies.
Also, it assumes that these civilizations would have become space-faring races that had expanded to occupy parts of the cosmos that lie well beyond their own star systems. Ultimately, those civilizations that have chosen to become dormant would therefore be invisible to us since they are not currently traveling between stars and galaxies, smashing up planets to create megastructures, or consuming entire stars for fuel.
You know, the kind of stuff we think mega-civilizations would do. Which naturally raises the question, how might we be able to detect such civilizations at rest? To this, Sandberg has a few possible suggestions, ones which ETI-hunters may want to heed:
“Look for galaxies that either move out of the way of galaxy collisions or towards big clusters by ejecting mass or energy in one direction, or have an unusually low number of heavy blue-white stars, or otherwise avoid losing gas to interstellar space. Or, try launching a self-replicating space probe to pave the universe and see if somebody stops you.”
As with all things having to do with aliens and ETI, a measure of guess-work is required here. And some would naturally argue that it is also possible that advanced civilizations are not subject to the same limitations we humans are, which would limit our ability to speculate here. In the end, we humans are required to theorize about what we don’t know based on what we do – aka. the “low-hanging fruit” approach.
The findings reported in the study were also the subject of a talk that took place at the second annual meeting of the UK SETI Research Network (UKSRN), which took place on September 11th and 12th, 2014, at Birkbeck College in London.
Ball lightning has been blamed for more UFO sightings than weather balloons and for more ghost sightings than reflections. Part of the problem is that, like UFOs and ghosts, no one can really explain ball lightning either. That may change with a new theory from a Chinese scientist that could explain how these sometimes tiny luminous balls form and how they can seemingly pass through walls to float inside houses and even airplanes.
While called “lightning” because it generally appears during thunderstorms, ball lightning doesn’t act like conventional lightning. It’s spherical, often small and is visible longer than a lightning bolt. Photographs of it are rare, attempts to recreate it in a lab are futile and stories about sightings can border on the unbelievable.
An ‘amazing’ recreation of ball lightning appearing in a room
Enter H.C. Wu, a researcher at the Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation (IFTS) and Department of Physics at China’s Zhejiang University. In his paper published recently in Scientific Reports, he claims to successfully explain many of the reported but unsubstantiated characteristics of ball lightning.
Wu’s theorizes that ball lightning begins when a bolt of conventional lightning hits the ground or an object and accelerates electrons, causing them to release microwave radiation. This radiation then charges the air around it, forming a “spherical plasma bubble” that envelops and traps the radiation. That spherical plasma bubble is ball lightning.
Ball lightning or UFO?
This may explain outdoor ball lighting, but what about the luminescent floating orbs reportedly seen indoors and in airplane cabins? Wu claims that the electrons are moving at nearly the speed of light, which allows them to pass through walls and the metal skin of planes. Really?
He also postulates that the microwave radiation produces chemicals that cause ball lightning’s reportedly foul smell (plausible) and they give it the explosive powers often reported just prior to the smell (like an egg in a microwave?).
Ball lightning, orb or something else?
Wu’s study proposes a number of ways ball lightning might be created in a lab but – in case any kids with access to electricity and microwaves read Scientific Reports – warns that ball lightning is “an alarm signal of the existence of ultrastrong microwaves and abundantly hazardous electrons near the ground or aircraft.”
Is this a sufficient explanation for ball lightning? Does it clear up any UFO, glowing orb or ghost sightings for you?
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…
If there was one group of people who you’d think would have a good idea if space aliens existed or not, it would be astronauts. You’d probably think that most of them believe in aliens and you’d probably be right, even if they don’t admit it publicly. The list of out-of-the-NASA-closet alien believers just grew by one after former astronaut Leroy Chiao spoke this week to students at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, and had this to say:
I think there’s all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven’t found each other is because of vast distances.
Dr. Leroy Chiao on the ISS
Dr. Chiao has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and became an astronaut in July 1991. He’s spent a total of 230 days in space on four separate missions, including his last one in 2004-5 as commander of Expedition 10 on the International Space Station. While he believes there’s life on planets other than Earth, he showed where his heart is on that mission by becoming the first person to vote in a US presidential election while in space. What political party do you think an astronaut who believes in ETs belongs to?
I don’t think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about. For me, I was surprised how much more beautiful it is than what the pictures show. It looks very peaceful and nice, and intellectually I knew there was war, famine and conflict down there and that dichotomy was hard to reconcile. It makes you stop and think, and it gave me that perspective of what’s important in life.
That didn’t help much. This comment may be a little more revealing:
I believe that at some point, life on Earth will die out, either from natural causes, or from our own doing.
Those who follow ufology know that the late astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person on the moon, believed not only in UFOs and aliens but in government cover-ups of information about them. Gordon Cooper, an original Mercury astronaut, claimed he witnessed UFOs in 1951 over Germany and saw flying saucers at a secret air base. Deke Slayton, an astronaut and director of flight crew operations, says he also saw a “saucer” UFO in 1951 and Alan Bean, another of the 12 moonwalkers, believes aliens are out there but we haven’t been contacted yet due to the great travel distances required.
Deke Slayton
With all of those high-level supporters in the astronaut field of the existence of alien life somewhere in the universe, does this exclusive group have any non-believers? Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space and a commander of the ISS like Dr. Chiao, ansered that question in an interview:
I don’t know of any astronauts who think we’re alone in the universe.
Well, that settles it. Now, who do you think Dr. Chiao voted for in the 2004 presidential election?
If its first quarter is anything to go by, 2016 may be shaping up historically as the 1491 of space discovery. The month preceding Valentine's Day alone provided what would once have been a year's worth of cosmic news. Blue Origin, the aerospace company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, took one giant leap toward a new Age of Discovery by relaunching and landing a rocket that had already made a round-trip journey through the stratosphere – a revolutionary moment in private space exploration. A pair of researchers kicked off a frenzied planet hunt by demonstrating that a massive, heretofore undetected planet could be lurking on the outer edge of our solar system. Cosmologist Stephen Hawking suggested that unforeseen effects of rapid scientific progress might, paradoxically, cause the extinction of life on Earth in the next thousand years or so, adding, "By that time, we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so a disaster on Earth would not mean the end of the human race." And scientists announced they'd detected gravitational waves, evidence of a billion-year-old collision between black holes, thus confirming the final and most obscure principle of Einstein's theory of relativity – and opening a window that may soon offer a glimpse of the universe's very creation.
Meanwhile, in a restricted swath of Appalachia where cell service and Wi-Fi are prohibited to minimize radio interference, a team of astrophysicists and programmers from UC-Berkeley inaugurated a new interstellar exploration at the Robert C. Byrd telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia. Titled Breakthrough Listen, this 10-year, $100 million project will comprise what Andrew Siemion, director of Berkeley's SETI Research Center, called "the most sensitive, comprehensive and advanced search for advanced intelligent life on other worlds ever performed." (SETI stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.) The goal is to detect some evidence of distant technology, such as radio communication or a concentrated burst of energy. If it succeeds, Breakthrough Listen will answer an existential and philosophical question that humankind has pondered for millennia: Are we alone in the universe?
Self-deprecation is an essential job requirement for those who work in a field of scientific inquiry frequently associated with flying saucers and requests to be taken to one's leader; SETI folks tend to use the terms "E.T." and "little green men" to describe the hypothetical advanced life-forms that might be capable of sending an identifiable signal through space. "I get into a lot of conversations at parties about Ancient Aliens and the pyramids," Siemion says with resignation. He is 35, young for a SETI field that previously peaked in the era between Carl Sagan's Cosmos and the mothballing of NASA's own SETI program due to budget cuts in 1993. Arriving for lunch at a meticulously rustic Berkeley locavore restaurant in a full-zip fleece with a backpack over one shoulder, Siemion could pass for an undergraduate on the nearby campus were it not for his clean-shaven head.
What separates the quest to find extraterrestrial intelligence from X-Files conspiracy theories is statistics, specifically the law of large numbers. Scientists now estimate that there are at least 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and perhaps 100 billion galaxies in the universe. Fifty billion planets in our galaxy alone may be situated in what astrophysicists call the "Goldilocks zone," a region neither too hot nor too cold to host life, and thus potentially habitable. Last year, astronomers found evidence of briny water on Mars and located a distant exoplanet – dubbed Kepler 452b – so similar to Earth that some say the two could be cousins. "The latest estimates are that roughly one in 10 stars has a planet on which biology could survive," says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the nonprofit SETI Institute. "Even if only one in a million worlds is good enough to develop intelligent life, there are a trillion planets in the galaxy. Which would mean a million worlds with intelligent life."
Breakthrough Listen is funded by soft-spoken Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner (named after Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space). Like many SETI fanatics, Milner read Sagan's Intelligent Life in the Universe as a boy. After pursuing a Ph.D. in physics, Milner later made a fortune investing in companies such as Facebook. As middle-aged rich guys tend to do, Milner, 54, is considering his legacy; along with fellow Silicon Valley entrepreneurs including Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, he founded the Breakthrough Prizes, which bestow seven-figure awards on leading scientists and mathematicians. Breakthrough Listen is a quest to achieve what Milner has called a "low-probability but high-impact event." A scientific unicorn.
"Either way, the answer is interesting," says Dan Werthimer, who as Berkeley SETI's chief scientist complements Siemion's youthful confidence with an optimism undimmed by 40 years of fruitless alien-hunting. (A third member of the Berkeley SETI team, noted exoplanet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, resigned from the university and Breakthrough Listen in October following a sexual-harassment scandal. Breakthrough Prize chairman Pete Worden says they are now "in touch and getting his scientific opinions.") "If we find E.T. it means the universe is teeming with life," Werthimer says. "But if we find we're alone, then we'd really better take care of the precious life on this planet."
The new Space Race is being driven largely by billionaires like Milner who grew up staring at the stars before building terrestrial-tech fortunes. Cost-efficient travel to the stratosphere and beyond, which just a generation ago was the failed dream of the $200 billion Space Shuttle program, is now a reality thanks to fierce competition among companies like Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX. (SpaceX, which builds rockets much more powerful than its rival's, stuck the landing of a reusable vehicle in December.) Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and its less-flashy rival XCOR are taking reservations on their first suborbital tourism flights. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen – who prior to Milner was SETI's best-known benefactor – hopes to build the world's largest airplane, a mothership designed to launch rockets from 30,000 feet.
Every space nerd's dream destination, of course, is Mars. NASA hopes to get a team there in the 2030s. Musk, a vocal Mars obsessive whose SpaceX has partnered with NASA on various projects, has vowed not to take his company public until it lands a craft on the Red Planet. The controversial Mars One project, headquartered in the Netherlands, has claimed that more than 200,000 hopefuls applied for its permanent, one-way trip, with touchdown projected for 2027.
"Governments tend not to do speculative stuff, and long-term space commitments are expensive," says Worden, former head of NASA's Ames Research Center, who announced he was stepping down last February, saying he wanted "to pursue some long-held dreams in the private sector." Shortly thereafter, Milner introduced him as the new chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which oversees Breakthrough Listen. Shaking the ice in his plastic cup at the Tee Minus One Bar & Grill on the Moffett Field air base near Mountain View, California, dressed in an old blue NASA work shirt, Worden explains why he thinks venture capitalists will lead future exploration in space. "People always ask why Silicon Valley is different," he says. "The best answer I've heard is that this is a place where it's all right to fail. Not only is it right, it's expected."
Worden is both a former astronomy professor and a retired Air Force general. He says there are two sides to the question of life in the universe, one academic and one strategic. First, what else is out there? "What is life, how did it originate, where else is it and what's its future?" he asks. "What's the origin and structure of the universe? How did it begin? These have been the fundamental questions since the Scientific Revolution began 500, 600 years ago."
The less-philosophical side of the question is when Earthlings will launch their offensive into space. "Whether it's going to happen in 2030 or 2050 or 2080, I don't know," Worden says. "But this is the century when humanity moves into the galaxy."
That exodus may end up recalling old issues of Omni magazine more than it does the original Apollo missions. NASA's current estimate is that the voyage to Mars could take up to a year, each way, requiring many times the food, water and fuel used for three-day trips to the moon. Twenty-five years ago, the tab for a Mars mission was estimated at $400 billion. If the payloads can be drastically reduced, however, costs will also shrink.
One technology Worden sees as having the potential to take us to the stars – "'us' being what we become," he says – is artificial intelligence. "You send some sort of essence of yourself, like an avatar," he says. "It would be settling the solar system and beyond with machines." Another popular scenario among futurists imagines the creation of von Neumann probes: self-replicating machines that travel to distant worlds, locate the ingredients needed to create more advanced copies of themselves, and repeat the process as they continue deeper into space. Worden sees promise in synthetic biology, transforming the raw materials of distant worlds into physical necessities that would otherwise need to be transported to support a crew, such as food and shelter. "Then all I need to transmit between worlds is information, and information travels at the speed of light," he says.
Like deep-space travel, SETI work has until now been largely speculative; one certainty is that no one has ever found any concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life. Like the universe itself, the list of potential glitches is infinite. Assuming that distant civilizations exist, they could have a head start of millions of years, in which case an interstellar missive may have gone undetected by Neanderthals. E.T. might already be here, operating under a Prime Directive, as the crew of the Enterprise did, observing us but forbidden to interfere. Whistle-blower Edward Snowden has suggested that aliens could even be using advanced encryption that disguises their signals, rendering them "indistinguishable to us from cosmic microwave background radiation."
Echoing Hawking's warning, Musk sees a potential dark side in this cosmic silence. "If you look at our own current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilizations, and I mean strange in a bad way," Musk said in a recent interview with Aeon. There may be a troubling reason why in the 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang, no aliens have contacted us: The same technological leaps that will allow human beings to explore the galaxy, such as self-upgrading AI, are the genie that betrays its master once released from the bottle. "It could be there are a lot of dead, one-planet civilizations," Musk added.
Worden has a more optimistic explanation. "The most likely answer is that we haven't looked very hard," he says.
Milner's Breakthrough Listen money will be spent on three things: leasing dedicated observation time at radio telescopes in West Virginia and Australia, as well as at an optical telescope at the University of California's Lick Observatory; hiring the sorts of smart young scientists who until very recently would have been scared off from SETI because the field's lack of funding equaled academic career suicide; and, perhaps most important, on building new technology to process the tsunami of new data that will be rolling in.
That responsibility will fall largely to Berkeley's Werthimer. At 61, he is the sort of academic whom eager incoming freshmen expect to find on campus but rarely do: neatly bearded, wildly enthusiastic, respected in his field, gifted at explaining complicated ideas. He proudly wears his sci-fi nerdiness not only on his sleeve but also under it; the hands of his live long and prosper wristwatch rotate around the face of Mr. Spock. His role in the SETI world, transposed to the James Bond canon, would be roughly one part M and three parts Q. "I try to figure out if there's some interesting problem in astronomy that I can solve by building some new gadget, because I know how to build gadgets," Werthimer says. His team's workshop inside Campbell Hall, Berkeley's astronomy building, looks like the repair shop of a high-end home-theater retailer; wood shelves are lined with stacks of memory boards and other electronic components.
For years, Werthimer has run the SETI@home project, a peer-to-peer network that dates back to the Napster era. Raw observational data collected in the background during other astronomers' stargazing is sent to the home computers of millions of volunteers, where it is processed when those machines go into sleep mode, and then sent back to Berkeley. The trade-off for hitchhiking a free ride during others' searches is that Werthimer and his team rarely had a say in deciding where to point the telescope. Breakthrough Listen puts them in the driver's seat with 10 years' worth of gas money.
About 60 years ago, scientists realized that since the laws of physics seemed to apply throughout the universe, the varieties of concentrated electromagnetic radiation that humans have found to be excellent modes of communication – such as waves used for AM/FM transmission – would also work to send messages across the galaxy. Any intelligent life-form would, presumably, learn to take advantage of the many practical uses of this radiation. Powerful radio telescopes might be able to eavesdrop on what physicists call "leakage," a distant civilization's technological artifacts, akin to our radar and broadcast-TV waves that have escaped into space. "Earth sends off all these radio signals omnidirectionally, by accident," Werthimer says. By now, "I Love Lucy has gone past thousands of stars."
A more tantalizing possibility is that some faraway entity has sent a deliberate signal to initiate contact with Earth. "We've had [breathable] oxygen in our atmosphere for 500 million years," Werthimer says. "Maybe they've seen that and figured there might be life on this planet." Some in the SETI field believe that the closest any researcher has come to discovering such a transmission was a powerful 72-second signal, detected at an Ohio State observatory in 1977, that appeared to be coming from the constellation Sagittarius. Despite numerous attempts, no one has been able to observe it again. An intergalactic "friend request" beamed through the cosmos could still be out there, just waiting to be accepted.
Breakthrough listen will be gathering as much SETI data in a day as was previously possible to collect in a year, using its expanded telescope access to scan at least five times more of the radio spectrum a hundred times faster than before and sucking in the equivalent of 75 Blu-ray movies per second.
"What we do with radio SETI is a little like those shows about panning for gold on the Discovery Channel," Siemion says. "We build this gigantic thing that sucks in data, and we sift it and sift it and sift it." The optical telescope at Lick Observatory works in a similar manner, breaking down the light it collects from afar to search for evidence of an artificial compressed energy source such as a laser. If E.T. had illuminated a 100-watt bulb on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, 25 trillion miles away, the optical telescope is capable of spotting it and funneling that information into Breakthrough Listen's giant Big Data sieve.
Should an interesting nugget turn up from far away, a blip on a screen or a spike in a curve will trigger an alert on someone's computer in Berkeley – hey, take a look at this. Any such phenomenon will be examined "very, very, very closely," Siemion says – and then rechecked, Werthimer adds, to make sure there isn't a bug in the software or a grad student pulling a prank. (When astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the metronomic spinning stars now known as pulsars in 1967, the first signal was briefly nicknamed LGM-1, in case its source was a Little Green Man.) Astronomers at other telescopes will be asked to train their equipment on the coordinates to determine that the anomaly cannot be explained as a natural phenomenon. By the end of 2016, that group might include the Chinese, who are currently completing a telescope that will dwarf anything now in use by Breakthrough Listen.
As Werthimer fired up the system in West Virginia for the first time, in January, they even had a suspect to investigate. Last year, researchers noticed that the light from a distant star, KIC 8462852, seemed to be dimming according to an irregular pattern. The source is probably something natural – a comet is one likely possibility – but there's a slim chance it could be evidence of far-off technology. Some have hypothesized the randomness is caused by a massive framework built by aliens to harness solar power. says Breakthrough's observations of the abnormality thus far have been inconclusive. "But if I had to guess," he says, "I'd say it was a swarm of dust clouds."
When Christopher Columbus sailed for India in 1492, he brought along an interpreter whose skills were a poor match for the Taino natives they unexpectedly encountered in the Caribbean. The Breakthrough Listen scientists like to compare themselves to the Columbus expedition and its implied outcome – a well-financed team of explorers sets off on a journey that rewrites history – but they plan to be better prepared. In tandem with Breakthrough Listen, Milner has set aside $1 million in prize money to formulate digital messages that might be sent to a newly discovered civilization.
The problem of communicating may be largely academic, due to the distances involved; a transmission beamed to KIC 8462852, for example, would take almost 1,500 years to arrive. A more hopeful scenario is that Breakthrough Listen discovers a signal targeted at Earth that shows potential to be deciphered. Since the sender may not possess any of the five senses humans use to perceive the world – may not even be carbon-based, as all life on Earth is – the decryption process would almost certainly require some conceptual thinking.
Douglas Vakoch, a clinical psychologist who is president of METI International (the M stands for "messaging"), says that, ideally, any signal we receive would contain information that might be universal across civilizations, such as basic mathematics. (A string of prime numbers is the Golden Fleece of hypothetical alien transmissions.) From there, we might gain an understanding of "their scientific description of the world" and even perhaps their culture. Somewhat less exciting would be an experience familiar to archaeologists, who by compiling fragmentary evidence "are able to piece some things together but aren't able to reconstruct the full world of this civilization," Vakoch says. Most likely, we'll have to settle for "some vague understanding of what some part of their message refers to."
Even such a vague understanding is a long shot. Just before announcing the project amid several eminences of astrophysics – including Hawking – in London last summer, Milner polled his team. Their educated guess was that Breakthrough Listen had a one percent chance of success. Facing such odds, wouldn't it make more sense to wait until humans have built telescopes on Mars and are sending cyborg probes into the far depths of the Milky Way?
"You could've told Christopher Columbus, 'You'll probably make it to India, just wait 500 years for airplanes,'" Werthimer says, fiddling with his Star Trek wristwatch. "We're never going to answer these questions with paper and pencil. The only way to figure it out is to look.
But now Professor Antonio Paris from the St Petersburg College in Florida believes he's solved the mystery.
"I have always been fascinated with astronomy, space and - more importantly - whether there is life in the universe," he told the Sunday Times .
"After 40 years, the Wow signal was a cold case I wanted to reopen.
"Here we have a crime scene with a date and time, and a little description of the subject."
(Photo: Getty)
According to Professor Paris, the signal came from the hydrogen cloud created by two comets as they passed by Earth.
Using celestial records, he found that these two comets were passing by our planet on August 15, 1977 - the day the "Wow!" signal was recorded. Of course, at the time, there was no knowledge that these comets even existed.
To make absolutely sure, Professor Paris waited until the comets were due to pass again then pointed some radio telescopes in their direction. He recorded the same results as Ehman did and has had his research accepted into the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.
It'll now be up to other astronomers to disprove his theory.
And Professor Paris is almost hoping they do so.
"There's still a bit inside of me that hopes it was aliens," he said.
For various reasons, UFO sightings often occur in sprees or clusters. Whether that reason is an actual increase of anomalous aerial activity, the work of copycat hoaxers, or psychological suggestion is often up for debate. Over the last several weeks in Idaho, a string of similar-sounding UFO sightings were reported to NUFORC, the National UFO Reporting Center. All of the eyewitnesses in each case reported seeing odd lights in the sky, sometimes moving strangely. After receiving numerous calls about unexplained lights, southern Idaho news station KMVT now reports that these lights are likely the work of Google. Well, sort of Google.
Google is testing new balloon technology above Idaho.
According to a recent news statement, the lights are balloons being tested as part of Project Loon, the initiative which aspires to offer “balloon powered internet for everyone” by flying wi-fi-beaming balloons into rural or undeveloped areas. Loon is currently led by X, a branch of Google’s secretive R&D wing formerly known as Google X.
A Loon craft being tested in simulated high-altitude conditions.
Loon has been testing their balloons in Idaho since last year, about the same time NUFORC began receiving large numbers of reports of lights above Idaho. The Loon balloons currently being tested in Idaho can be tracked on flight radar here and here.Compare the images of their balloons with this alleged UFO sighting filmed last year:
In Loon’s promotional images, the craft do appear quite otherworldly. Each Loon balloon has a bulbous, illuminated orb with a long, wispy tail trailing underneath it containing solar panels, antennae, and a host of electronics.
Google wants Loon to be a “network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to extend Internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas worldwide.”
One of the NUFORC reports, in particular, seems to describe one of the same jellyfish-like vehicles Google Loon is testing as it reacts to shifting winds:
Saw a bright light going really fast from the west to the east. The craft stopped abruptly and started coming back from west to east. It then stopped again and was zig zagging all over. The lights would get really bright then dim. We could almost see a tail of some sort coming from behind or around it.
Some of the details of the NUFORC reports don’t seem to match up to images or descriptions of Google Loon balloons, however, although there are plenty of reasons why eyewitness reports can become tainted with misperceptions or why illuminated wi-fi balloons could appear from the ground to be something quite different entirely.
July 2 of this year will mark the 20th anniversary of the release of the movie Men in Black, which starred Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, and Rip Torn. It was an incredibly successful movie that pulled in close to $600 Million in box-office takings. Men in Black II surfaced in 2002 and made a more than respectable profit, and the third movie in the series – Men in Black 3 – did even better, with box-office figures reaching more than $620 Million. Based on Lowell Cunningham’s comic book series, Men in Black, the movies most definitely brought the MIB of UFO lore to the attention of millions of people – and all around the world. The movies did something else, too: they cemented in the minds of most people the image that the MIB are the operatives of a highly secret agency which is buried deep within the heart of the U.S. Government. The reality, however, is very different.
Of course, the three Men in Black movies are meant purely as entertainment for the whole family – which they certainly are. But, when it comes to the real Men in Black, matters are much darker. In fact, way darker. And, I’m not talking about the color of the suits. It’s ironic that the movies portrayed the Men in Black as what we might term “ufological 007’s,” as the “secret agent” angle is actually the most unlikely explanation for the MIB.
As a quick aside, I well remember that when the first Men in Black movie hit the cinemas, certain pompous ufologists complained and moaned that Hollywood’s MIB were far different from the Men in Black of the real world. Give me a break and lighten up. Develop a sense of humor and don’t be so defensive: the movies are fiction and fun. And that’s all they are meant to be. And, there is nothing wrong with that. With that said, let’s now get back to the MIB of fact, rather than of fiction.
“Men” is probably not the best or most accurate way to describe the strange creatures that are known as the MIB. Imagine a pale-faced or “olive”-faced character whose skin looks like plastic-meets-Botox. On top of that, there are the odd, dark wigs that the Men in Black are described as so often wearing. Bulging, staring eyes are often reported. Mumbled words, near-robotic tones, and an almost “programmed”-like nature are typical of the gruesome MIB, too. In some cases, the Men in Black are short in the extreme – often around only about five-feet in height. In contrast, however, there are those MIB who are reported to be in excess of six-and-a-half feet in height.
An ability to control the minds of their victims is something that pops up a lot in MIB cases. No, we’re not talking about the “Neuralyzers” of the MIB movies. It’s more akin to a strange form of hypnosis. And, don’t get too close to the MIB. In fact, stay away from them whenever and wherever possible. Why? Because the history of MIB encounters reveals more than a few cases in which the Men in Black appear to have “supernaturally infected” those they targeted. As weird and menacing as it may sound, accounts of people falling sick, feeling ill, and developing serious diseases in the aftermath of encountering the MIB are not at all uncommon.
Then, there are the paranormal overtones to the mystery, such as witnesses experiencing strange odors in the home after the MIB have left for pastures and victims new. Sulfur, brimstone, and “rotten eggs,” are typically the odors reported. Users of Ouija-boards talk about encounters with the MIB, typically of the “Shadow Person”/“Hat Man” variety. And let’s not forget the cars of the MIB. In the movies, they are high-tech vehicles that can outperform just about anything and everything else on the road. And, of course, they are black in color. In our world, the “Cars in Black” are no less strange. For example, they are eternally and paradoxically old, but also look brand new. 1950s-era Cadillac cars are a favorite of the MIB. Eyewitnesses describe the cars vanishing before their eyes – becoming invisible, winking out of existence, and even taking to the skies!
Unlike the characters portrayed by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, the real MIB have far more than just UFOs on their minds. Seen Bigfoot? Maybe a lake-monster? If you have, chances are that you just might, one day, incur the wrath of the Men in Black. Pennsylvania-based researcher/author Stan Gordon has uncovered a number of Bigfoot-MIB cases. There are several reports of MIB roaming around Loch Ness, Scotland. And, I don’t have to tell you what lurks in its darkened depths.
As all of the above collectively shows – and although we certainly have the three movies to thank for elevating the MIB phenomenon to stratospheric levels – there are big differences between Hollywood’s Men in Black and those who have plunged more than a few people into states of terror and paranoia. No doubt, when the 20th anniversary of the release of Men in Black arrives in just a few weeks from now, we’ll see and hear much more about the MIB…
A strange-shaped light hovering over a hill in Somerset is the latest bizarre sighting that sparked UFO theories.
The strange event took place near Britain’s UFO capital that has been the popular area on UFO sightings for more than 40 years. The streak of light adds to the list of shimmering sightings and crop circles that residents have seen over the past few decades.
A resident from Frome recorded the video showing streaks of light above nearby Cley Hill, which is just 2 miles from UFO town Warminster. A strange light appears to move in circular motions in the night sky. The resident who took the video did not discount the possibility that it was a drone with a unique flame effect tail or something. The witness also revealed that the mysterious light had been spotted a few times locally.
The nearby town of Warminster has been described as Britain’s UFO capital after strange phenomena first encountered in the mid-1960s. A detonation noise rocked houses on August 17, 1965, followed by a large orange flame crackling and hissing in the sky.
Strange noises were heard in the town, and the strange shimmering light was seen in the vicinity. The phenomena were eventually called the Warminster Thing, which later followed by reports of inexplicable things in the sky decades later.
Alien Hunter In Houston Claims To Have Physical Evidence Of Aliens In The Universe
Alien Hunter In Houston Claims To Have Physical Evidence Of Aliens In The Universe
Houston is nicknamed the Space City as NASA is right in their backyard. However, a man in the town seemingly wants to bring the moniker to another level. Darrell Sims calls himself the Alien Hunter as he showed some amazing stuff that he claimed from the outer space.
Private investigator Sims said he was once a G-Man and used the skills to understand profoundly alien abductions. He claimed to have come from an intelligence background with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in secret operations.
Sims revealed that he has proof of the existence of aliens in the Cosmos.
He claimed that they have 1950 cases worldwide. He pointed out one instance wherein a lady came back with an implant that fell out of her eye at her desk in front of her boss. The boss of the woman made sure that Sims got the implant, which he has with him today, according to Sims.
Sims stated that he got into alien research after an alien visited him as a child and continued until he was seventeen years old. However, he admitted that most recollections of alien and UFO sightings are theoretical. For this reason, he collects and examines physical evidence from people who claim to have had a genuine alien encounter.
He noted that if aliens were taking these people physically, then ET physical traces could be found on those people using infrared technology. He detects temperature level on the skin and a residue that comes from the other planets.
Sims said that alien entity sometimes left scars, bumps, lumps, cuts on abducted people. He further explained that their recovered physical evidence suggests that aliens may be biological and have a metallic level in their biology.
Sims showed a set of spheres that he claimed from a young girl who sneezed them out after an alien visited her room and sprayed something in her nose. Whether it is a space fact or fiction, Sims does not care as for him, the only thing that matters is the one they can prove.
In 1977, an astronomer looking for alien life in the nigh sky above Ohio spotted a powerful radio signal so strong that he excitedly wrote 'Wow!' next to his data.
The 72-second blast, spotted by Dr Jerry Ehman through a radio telescope, came from Sagittarius but matched no known celestial object.
Conspiracy theorists have since claimed that the 'Wow! signal', which was 30 times stronger than background radiation, was a message from intelligent extraterrestrials.
But a researcher has now found that the signal, which has perplexed scientists for 40 years, was in fact just the trace of two comets as they shot past Earth.
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The Wow! signal was detected by a radio telescope in Ohio in 1977 as a 72 second-long burst of powerful radio waves during a project searching for alien signals. It earned its name after astronomer Dr Jerry Ehman circled the signal data and wrote' Wow!' in the margin (pictured)
THE STORY OF THE 'WOW!' SIGNAL
The Wow! signal was detected on 15 August 1977 with a radio telescope known as Big Ears at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory in Delaware.
Dr Ehman, who had been working on a project for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, noticed the surprisingly strong signal in a column of alphanumerical data.
With a red pen he scrawled the word 'Wow!' in the margin and circled the sequence.
Astronomers ruled out that the signal came from Earth and could find nothing in our solar system to have produced it.
It is thought to have come from a region of space to the northwest of the globular galaxy cluster M55 in the constellation Sagittarius.
Although Dr Ehman himself has remained sceptical, the signal has led to claims that it may have been a radio beacon or broadcast coming from far beyond our own solar system.
Professor Antonio Paris, an astronomer at St Petersburg College in Florida, has spent the past year investigating the bizarre signal.
Using celestial records he found that two comets, unknown to scientists at the time, were passing by Earth on August 15, 1977 - the night the Wow! signal was detected.
Those comets were discovered in 2006, and last year Professor Paris suggested that a cloud of hydrogen gas in the wake of the celestial objects triggered the signal.
But the scientist had to wait until this year, when the comets flew past Earth again as part of their synonymous six-year orbits around the sun, to prove his theory.
In a paper published in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, he has now proven once and for all that the signals were not caused by aliens.
When the comets passed by this year, the signal they produced was exactly the same as that seen in 1977.
Speaking about the theory before its confirmation, Professor Paris admitted that he had wanted to be wrong.
'There's still a bit inside of me that hopes it was aliens,' he said.
When he first published the theory last year, Professor Paris said the comets produced a cloud of hydrogen gas in their wake which released radiation.
The frequency of the signal spotted by Dr Ehman in 1977 matches the emissions produced by hydrogen atoms, he said.
The clouds of hydrogen that surrounds them as sunlight breaks up the frozen water on their surface extends millions of miles around the comets, meaning they could produce a powerful signal.
Previous research has found that two comets were in the right region of the sky at the time the signal was received. A study of the comets as they passed Earth this year has revealed that the comets gave similar radio signals to those detected in 1977 (stock image)
THEORIES FOR WHAT CAUSED THE 'WOW!' SIGNAL
There have been many theories over the years for what could have been the source for the short-lived, narrow band radio signal that became known as the Wow! signal.
At the time, it was seen has having all the traits of having come from a distant planet, but the inability to pick it up again has frustrated astronomers.
While some have taken it to be a radio message broadcast by an alien beacon into space, others have looked for other astronomical sources.
Theories have included collisions between asteroids and stars, flares from stars, merging white dwarfs and colliding neutron stars.
'Several investigations into the "Wow!" signal have ruled out the source as terrestrial in origin or other objects such as satellites, planets and asteroids,' Professor Paris said at the time.
'From 1977 July 27 to 1977 August 15, comets 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) were transiting in the neighborhood of the Chi Sagittarii star group.
'Ephemerides for both comets during this orbital period placed them at the vicinity of the "Wow!" signal.
'These two comets were not detected until after 2006, therefore, the comets and their hydrogen clouds were not accounted for during the signal emission.'
The Wow! signal was detected on 15 August 1977 with a radio telescope known as Big Ears at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory in Delaware.
The Wow! signal was detected as coming from a region of space close to the M55 galaxy cluster close to the constellation Sagittarius (illustrated), but new research suggests the signal may have been produced by two comets, undiscovered at the time
THE COMETS BEHIND THE WOW! SIGNAL
Comet 266P/Christensen was first discovered in 2006.
It orbits the sun every 6.79 years.
The closest it passes to Earth is 125 million miles.
P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) was first discovered in 2008.
It passes much closer to Earth, at a distance of 61 million miles and orbits the sun every 6.8 years.
Dr Ehman, who had been working on a project for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, noticed the surprisingly strong signal in a column of alphanumerical data.
With a red pen he scrawled the word 'Wow!' in the margin and circled the sequence.
Astronomers ruled out that the signal came from Earth and could find nothing in our solar system to have produced it.
It is thought to have come from a region of space to the northwest of the globular galaxy cluster M55 in the constellation Sagittarius.
Although Dr Ehman himself has remained sceptical, the signal has led to claims that it may have been a radio beacon or broadcast coming from far beyond our own solar system.
By training radio telescopes (Very Large Array pictured) onto the part of the sky where the signal was detected, the comet theory was confirmed as the two celestial objects passed by Earth in January 2017
Some have taken it as evidence of alien life as the frequency is widely thought to be one that could be used by extraterrestrials to communicate.
The mystery surrounding the signal has only been compounded by the inability to pick up the signal again, despite repeated attempts by increasingly more powerful radio telescopes.
However, at the time, researchers did not know of the existence of comets of 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs). The pair was only discovered after 2006.
Comet 266P/Christensen orbits the sun every seven and a half years and is more than 125 million miles from Earth.
Former International Space Station commander and NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao visited Wollongong yesterday to share his experiences in zero gravity, discuss whether aliens exist, and show how the Illawarra is helping protect astronauts from radiation damage in space.
Dr Chiao is the kind of person you could spend an entire day talking to and still not have all your fascinating questions about space answered.
Thankfully, the American astronaut is happy to patiently and enthusiastically talk about life in orbit.
A day on the space station
As commander of the International Space Station (ISS), Dr Chiao orbited the Earth every 90 minutes while travelling more than 28,000 kilometres an hour.
That brings around a sunset or sunrise every 45 minutes.
"Your schedule is set for you down to the minute," he said.
"You check off what you accomplish each day and then you sleep and wake up and your schedule has been created for you — it's there on the computer, so you're kept busy.
"Even if you've got a great view of the Earth, you can feel a bit cooped up, and the ISS is big but it's not that big."
Dr Chiao said the launch into space took about nine minutes before you felt the weightlessness of zero gravity, and completing a spacewalk was a "fantastic feeling".
"You're very well trained for the spacewalk, so when you go outside it's not like the movies," he said.
Dr Chiao said recent discoveries of water on one of Saturn's moons, and amino acids on comets, left him in no doubt about extra-terrestrial life.
"To find this kind of evidence of life in our own backyard means to me the idea there's other life in the universe is pretty much a given," he said.
"I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances."
Dr Chiao said given how big the universe was and how another planet could be millions of light years away, it was not a surprise we had not found extra-terrestrial life.
How Wollongong research benefits astronauts
Dr Chiao visited to speak at the University of Wollongong about his experiences in space, where NASA is headed, and how research at the university into radiation directly benefits astronauts.
"The biggest technical challenge in flying people longer and further from the Earth is biomedical," he said.
"A lot of things happen, including radiation, and when we venture beyond the Earth's magnetosphere, we're no longer protected from radiation from the sun.
"That's why the university's work here is so important — we need to understand the radiation environment and have effective detectors that can tell us what we're being exposed to and how to counteract what we're being exposed to."
The detectors used on board aircraft such as the ISS have a practical application in treating cancer patients.
"Space provides a unique kind of environment that's almost impossible to create on Earth," University of Wollongong researcher Stuart George said.
"The techniques we develop with these particle detectors are directly applicable to the measurements you'd do for ion therapy here on Earth.
"We've had these in a proton therapy centre and done measurements that are medically relevant.
"They will be used by treatment planners and physicists to better understand how to control their beams and control where they're putting their radiation inside people and their tumours."
WATCH: Deputy sheriff describes seeing 'dead aliens in flying saucer at Roswell UFO crash
WATCH: Deputy sheriff describes seeing 'dead aliens in flying saucer at Roswell UFO crash
A VIDEO showing a former deputy sheriff claim to have seen a "flying saucer" and "dead aliens" at an alleged UFO crash site in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, has been released.
Last month Express.co.uk exclusively revealed how the testimony of the late Charles H Forgus, former deputy sheriff of Big Springs in Howard County, Texas, was the latest person to claim to have witnessed the legendary UFO crash in the desert around the town nearly 70 years ago.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since July 1947 after 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 the military retracted the statement, claiming 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.
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The interview was carried out in the 1990s, but has only now been made public.
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.
Mr Forgus' account is published for the first time in the new book UFOs Today: 70 Years of Lies, Disinformation and Government Cover-Up by Dr Irena Scott, which was published by Flying Disk Press on June 1.
Now the original video of his interview, aged 81, in 1999, has been released to accompany the book.
The account appears to have remained 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 from Texas to Roswell to pick up a prisoner on the night of the alleged crash, 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 that reportedly crashed into a canyon, after it appeared to have hit a "side wall".
Dr Scott wrote: "He thought there are about four beings, around five feet tall with large eyes and feet like ours.
"Their skin was brownish and he didn’t see any blood. Their bodies were being picked up by a lift attached to a crane and swung into a truck.
"He said there were about three or four hundred military people there; he didn’t know from which branch but said they were not Air Force.
"He and the sheriff watched for a while and the military people saw them.
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.
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"Later they were told to leave.
"He said that a government person came around to talk to him later, but he told him to shut up and go away."
The book has been written using portions of a rough transcript of the video tape of the interview.
Mr Forgus said: "What I seen of him looked just like the one we see on television, with big eyes.
"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 been 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.
"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."
There’s a spectacular bubble of gas forming around a massive star about 7,000 light-years from Earth.
Called the Bubble Nebula, the cosmic spectacle is powered by a star that’s 45 times more massive than our sun and thousands of times hotter. That heat pushes stellar winds of ionized gas outward, forming the bubble and the larger nest of clouds surrounding it.
Discovered in 1787, it can be seen like never before in this video based on composite imagery from the Hubble Telescope (with oxygen colored blue, hydrogen colored green, and nitrogen colored red).
Emission nebula like the Bubble, are often referred to as a “stellar nurseries” because the heat, ionized gas, and cosmic dust work together to form new stars in the region. This makes structures like the Bubble an important area of study for scientists, as learning how young stars form can help us understand how our sun formed and, ultimately, our entire solar system.
SpaceX made history on Monday when it successfully reused a Dragon pressure vessel for the first time. Mission CRS-11, the second Dragon launch of the year, was captured by the International Space Station at 8.52 a.m. Central time, ahead of schedule. The success of the mission is a major step toward the company’s main goals of reducing flight costs and preparing for a manned mission to Mars.
“These people have supplied us with a vast amount of science and supplies, really fuel for the engine of innovation we get to call home, the International Space Station,” Jack Fisher, a NASA astronaut serving on Expedition 52, said during the live webcast.
The vessel successfully lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday evening, taking off from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, the 100th launch from the pad. The launch sent the vessel on a 41-hour voyage to the space station. Initially, the launch was scheduled to take place on Thursday, but unforeseen lightning meant the crew pulled the plug just 25 minutes before liftoff.
CRS-11, named because it’s the eleventh commercial resupply services mission, is an important milestone in the company’s history. Reusing a vessel is not as simple as strapping it back to a rocket and sending it up again: SpaceX has faced several hurdles on this journey, including working out how to stop salty seawater from ruining the capsule when it returns to Earth and lands in the ocean.
The mission’s success demonstrates SpaceX’s ability to reuse capsules, and bodes well for the ongoing development of the upcoming Dragon 2 craft. This future vessel will transport humans to and from the space station, and will represent the next step toward CEO Elon Musk’s ultimate goal of manned flights to Mars and the establishment of a human colony.
The capsule was first used on the CRS-4 mission back in September 2014. That mission brought the first 3D printer into space, and was just the fourth time SpaceX was contracted onto a resupply mission with NASA.
This time around, the Dragon is carrying nearly 6,000 pounds of scientific equipment, supplies and hardware. The equipment will be used by both Expedition 52 and 53 Among the cargo is NASA’s NICER, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer. This is a finely-tuned spectrometer capable of reading both the thermal and non-thermal emissions sent out from neutron stars.
Astronomers are baffled by the discovery of an extremely hot exoplanet that in many ways isn’t like a planet at all. The 300 million-year-old “KELT-9b” is young in space terms, but may not be around for long.
At 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit, KELT-9b is hotter than any known planet and most stars. But that’s nothing compared to the 17,900-degree heat of its host star, which is so hot that scientists are pretty sure it’s evaporating KELT-9b.
It “radiates so much ultraviolet radiation that it may completely evaporate the planet,” Keivan Stassun, director of a study on KELT-9b published in Nature on Monday, told NASA.
KELT-9b may escape that fate, but only because the star — which is growing, and will eventually become a red giant — will probably engulf it first. “The long-term prospects for life, or real estate for that matter, on KELT-9b are not looking good,” Stassun says.
That’s too bad, because KELT-9b is pretty amazing; in addition to its star-like heat, it may trail evaporating planetary material behind it like a comet. KELT-9b does meet the qualifications for being a planet, but it’s an oddity.
KELT-9b also has an unusually large radius for its mass, probably because radiation from the host star has caused its atmosphere to balloon outward. Unlike any planet in our solar system, its orbit runs perpendicular to the star’s rotation.
An artist imagines KELT-9b orbiting its star.
KELT-9b is tidally locked to its star, meaning that it only ever faces the star on one side, like how we only see one side of the moon from Earth. This makes for an uneven heat distribution: The orange dayside is so hot that the hydrogen and helium atoms can’t even bond together to form molecules, while the dark red nightside (which experiences constant darkness) may allow molecules to at least temporarily form. “The transition from the dayside to the nightside might be very interesting,” the study’s coauthor Scott Gaudi tells Inverse, “with molecules reforming as gas moves from the hotter dayside to the cooler nightside.”
The planet is way too hot to be habitable by humans, even if it weren’t doomed. Still, it’s an important discovery; Gaudi told CNN that a discussion about colonizing other planets “should take place in the context of understanding how planetary systems form,” and scientists don’t yet understand how this incredibly hot system was created.
KELT-9b “demonstrates that giant planets can indeed form around very massive stars, and that these planets can migrate to very close in orbits relatively early in the life of those stars,” Gaudi tells Inverse.
Hopefully they’ll soon gain more insight into KELT-9b’s quirks. Until then, this exoplanet weirdo will be whirling up there on the road less traveled by, like a darn individual.
Experts are generally optimistic about the potential of A.I. but also aware of major risks, according to a big new survey.
Precisely 352 experts (who recently published at A.I. conferences) were asked to predict the future, in a paper from researchers at Yale, Oxford, and the Future of Life Institute. While estimates varied greatly, the median result points to a 50 percent likelihood of “high-level machine intelligence,” where unaided machines will accomplish every task better and more cheaply than human workers, by 2061.
As for what effect HLMI will have on humanity, researchers said on average there was a 20 percent chance it could be extremely good; 25 percent it would be on-balance good; 20 percent it would be neutral; 10 percent it would be bad; and — here’s the scary part — 5 percent it would be extremely bad (e.g., human extinction).
Facing this risk, 48 percent of respondents said society should devote more resources to research on minimizing the risks of A.I. (only 12 percent said we should deprioritize this research).
Whatever happens, it will likely happen fast: 65 percent of respondents said progress was happening faster in the second half of their careers than the first.
Elon Musk and others warn that military drones could lead to an autonomous arms race.
While the respondents didn’t explain how A.I. could go horribly wrong, we can look to warnings from the likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking. One worry those two cited was an arms race in autonomous weapons, which “require no costly or hard-to-obtain raw materials [and so would] become ubiquitous and cheap for all significant military powers to produce … [and would inevitably] appear on the black market and in the hands of terrorists, dictators looking to better control their populace, warlords wishing to perpetrate ethnic cleansing, etc.”
Musk offered A.I. risk as a major reason to boost human intelligence through neural links: “A.I. that is much smarter than the smartest human on Earth — I think that is a dangerous situation.”
But, hey, don’t forget about all the cool things A.I. will do in the coming years. And remember, there’s a 20% chance this will all turn out extremely well.
In the run up to World War II, German secret societies and the Nazi SS were guided to three large caverns in Antarctica by Reptilian extraterrestrials, according to former U.S. Navy intelligence operative William Tompkins. In his latest ExoNews TV interview, released today, Tompkins describes how the Reptilians helped the Germans/Nazis build underground bases in remote Antarctic caverns, which were located next to even larger caverns controlled by the Reptilians.
According to Tompkins, the U.S. Navy learned of the existence of these secret Antarctic bases from their spies embedded in Nazi Germany, who found that the Nazis/Germans used these remote bases to launch space missions to the Moon, other planets in our solar system, and, most remarkably, to distant interstellar locations.
Tompkins says that the Germans began moving equipment and supplies to Antarctica as early as 1913, which coincides historically with the Second German Antarctic Expedition from 1911-1913. This period also coincides with the increasing role of German secret societies in exploring remote global locations for occult knowledge.
The movement of equipment accelerated in the lead up to World War II. In his interview, Tompkins cites 1934 as the beginning of this acceleration, even though historical records point to 1938 as the launch of the Third German Antarctic Expedition:
The move from Germany to Antarctica was in operation from 1934 way before the war started. In fact some of the stuff went down in 1913.
In last week’s ExoNews TV episode, Tompkins revealed that secret agreements had been reached between Hitler’s regime and Draconian Reptilians. In this week’s episode he discussed one of the major elements of this agreement:
Large portions of equipment were sent down there. But right next to them were three tremendous size caverns which the Reptilians had. Not Grays, but Reptilians. Germany got two more, about a tenth the size of the big Reptilians [cavern]. They were able to … [go] down, usually by submarine. They built these flat submarines, these regular class, so they could ship all this stuff down.
Tompkins remarkable information is consistent with Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz who referred on three occasions to an impregnable fortress being built for Hitler in a remote location using Germany’s advanced submarine fleet. In 1943, Donitz is reported to have stated:
… the German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Führer, in another part of the world, a Shangri-La on land, an impregnable fortress.
The second occasion was in 1944, when he revealed how plans were in place to relocate Hitler so he could launch a new effort for his thousand-year Reich:
The German Navy will have to accomplish a great task in the future. The German Navy knows all hiding places in the oceans and therefore it will be very easy to bring the Führer to a safe place should the necessity arise and in which he will have the opportunity to work out his final plans.
Finally, Dönitz’s remarks at his Nuremberg war crime trial clearly suggest that it was Antarctica where Germany’s most advanced technologies had been secretly relocated by his submarine fleet. At the trial he boasted of “an invulnerable fortress, a paradise-like oasis in the middle of eternal ice.”
Donitz’s remarks were made plausible in 1966 by cartographer and artist Heinrich C. Berann for the National Geographic Society. In Berann’s depiction of an ice-free Antarctica, he shows underwater passageways that run throughout the Antarctic continent. This provided a plausible way in which submarines could travel under the ice for considerable distances to Nazi Germany’s “invulnerable fortress”.
Ice Free Antarctica
Donitz’s claims are further supported by documents provided by an alleged German submarine crewman after the war, which described the instructions for U-Boat Captains to reach the Antarctica bases through the hidden passage ways. Below is an image of the document with the translated instructions.
In today’s interview, Tompkins describes simultaneous flying saucer programs that had been developed by the Nazis. One was in Germany, while the second was in Antarctica. In his response to a question about where Germany’s antigravity craft were being built, he said:
They built the prototypes in Germany. They built pre-protype, something which is ready for production, in Antarctica. They put this stuff in production in the countries all over Germany [Occupied Europe], and they continued to build similar vehicles in Antarctica.
Tompkins then shares one of the most astonishing secrets gained by the Navy spies embedded in Germany. With the help of the Reptilians, the Nazi’s Antarctica program had successfully launched manned missions to the Moon, planets, and even other star systems.
Now the question was asked whether did we ever get to the Moon? You see it was in some way, it was well known that the Germans had a number of vehicles that flew out and came back. One of the first ones, they got into trouble, they crashed and the whole group died. But that was almost all coming from Antarctica. Way before, four years before, the war ended, they were always moving all of this stuff out. And so the flights, almost everything came from Antarctica with the same people. … I don’t know if it was true or not, but it was stated by some of those fellows [Navy spies] that they had gone to other stars and come back.
Tompkins remarkable claims corroborate the testimony of secret space program whistleblower, Corey Goode, who claims that from 1987 to 2007, he had access to smart glass pads, which described the successful Nazi space program that operated out of Antarctica.
Goode said the Antarctica program was controlled by German secret societies rather than the Nazi SS:
As explained, the Nazi remnants that were made up mostly of Secret Societies that created a “Break Away Civilization,” kept the most advanced technology secret from even their highest Military and Political leaders, setup enclaves in South America and Antarctica. The locations in Antarctica were some ancient civilization ruins that had remained occupied by certain groups in thermal area’s that cause area’s similar to lava tubes and domes under the glaciers.
Goode goes on to corroborate Tompkins claim that the Nazi bases were built adjacent to caverns controlled by another advanced civilization, the Reptilians:
There was an underground and under glacier city complex that was already occupied and setup in a couple of locations and the NAZI’s renovated an area that was mostly crushed above the surface but had plenty of room under the domed ice, thermal underground energy and caverns (accessible via U-boat under the ice flows and openings that made it ideal for a hidden multipurpose base) that were perfect for them to secretly build out during the entire Second World War
What makes Tompkins claims difficult to dismiss are documents he has published in his book,Selected by Extraterrestrials, supporting his main claim that he participated in a covert Navy Intelligence program that disseminated Germany’s advanced aerospace secrets to selected U.S. aerospace companies, think tanks and universities.
Furthermore, documents, and statements by Admiral Donitz, support Tompkins claims that Nazi Germany had succeeded in locating and building underground facilities under the Antarctic continent. The long route under the Antarctic ice sheets, which the German submarine fleet allegedly took to reach these hidden caverns, gives credence to Tompkins claims that Reptilian extraterrestrials had provided the Nazis with the information necessary to locate the hidden Antarctic caverns, and the under-ice passage ways to reach them.
In the next episode of ExoNews TV, we will hear from William Tompkins how the Nazis used slave labor in their hidden Antarctic bases, and that the Italian government had also developed a flying saucer program headed by the famous inventor, Gugliemo Marconi that was secretly operating out of hidden South American locations.
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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:
In 1947, a mysterious object crashed into the desert near the town of Roswell, New Mexico, US.
Military chiefs from a nearby airbase insisted the UFO was simply a downed weather balloon – but many doubted the official version of events, claiming it to be an extra-terrestrial spacecraft.
More than 50 years later, the incident remains a mystery to many despite an official US military report claiming the object was linked to a top-secret atomic espionage project called Project Mogul.
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STRANGER THINGS: An alien spacecraft reportedly appeared over Maury Island, Washington
Some sceptics believe the crash and resulting military furore covered up Earth’s first visitation by a species from outer space.
And now, UFO enthusiast Tyler Glockner claims to have lifted the lid on a similarly disturbing incident that happened just a month prior to Roswell that has left viewers shocked.
“[The crash] has been just as hotly-debated and surrounded in strangeness [as Roswell],” Glockner explains in the short YouTube clip.
His video goes on to recall the story of the so-called “Maury Island incident”, in which two men – Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl – reported falling black debris from the skies above Maury Island in Puget Sound, Washington, US.
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MYSTERY: Two witnesses claimed the object disintegrated in the Earth's atmosphere
Glockner continued: “It was said that the incident involved one or more UFOs that had either dropped something or had crashed and disintegrated.
“The fragments of which damaged Crisman’s boat, killing a dog and – according to some versions – hurt someone.”
Accounts of the bizarre incident remain highly controversial, however, after the pair were said to have admitted the story was a hoax to a local journalist some years later.
It’s always Florida, isn’t it? Over the weekend, a mysterious ball of ice reportedly fell from a completely clear sky in Cape Coral, Florida, landing in a field in a suburban neighborhood. While that in itself isn’t particularly surprising in the age of ubiquitous air travel, the ice does not appear to have fallen from any aircraft and instead is speculated to be a case of a rare and mysterious weather phenomenon.
The ice conveniently fell in a field as opposed to through someone’s windshield.
According to local news affiliate NBC 2, a Florida man heard the meteorite before seeing it. In a video aired by NBC 2, the man can be heard saying the object buzzing like a drone as it passed overhead. Looking up, he then saw the icy projectile crash to Earth somewhere in his neighborhood. He grabbed his wife, identified as Tiffany Laymance and ran to find the fallen ice lying in a small crater. Laymance, who discovered the icy meteorite, says the ice appeared to be clear, ruling out frozen airplane sewage:
We smelled it. And there was no smell whatsoever to it so we’re like okay, so we started Googling about it to try and figure out what it could be. I don’t do the aliens or anything like that so… just crazy ice.
It just so turns out that this particular kind of “crazy ice” likely has a bizarre meteorological explanation, and it doesn’t involve ‘the aliens’ for once.
Lets get one thing clear: Tiffany Laymance doesn’t “do the aliens or anything like that.”
Under certain atmospheric conditions, large clusters of ice similar to hailstones can form at high altitudes. When they fall to Earth, they are known as megacryometeors or atmospheric ice conglomerations. It is still not well known what causes them to form, and they often fall from cloudless skies.
A Spanish megacryometeor from 2007.
Of course, the ice could have also condensed on the side of an aircraft passing overhead, but megacryometeor sounds a lot cooler. Also, while airplane waste is often cited as a theory, these mysterious chunks of ice have been reported since before the dawn of aviation and do not have the tell-tale blue color which disinfectant creates in airplane waste. Thus, these icy mystery meteorites can join the ranks of animal rains and the star jelly, another unexplained seemingly natural substance which appears to fall spontaneously from the skies.
What Scientists Just Found Deep In The Ocean Is Seriously Unbelievable. I’m Still In Shock!
What Scientists Just Found Deep In The Ocean Is Seriously Unbelievable. I’m Still In Shock!
Off the coast of Egypt divers have discovered something that was thought to be lost a long time ago.
It was said that the ancient city of Heracleion was lost under the sea for good.
Well 1200 years later, off the bay of Aboukir, this ancient city has finally been discovered.
The city dates back to the 6th century B.C. and holds some of the most beautiful artifacts you could imagine.
Things like grand statues of gods and goddesses standing well over 15 feet tall and carved out of red granite, treasures of gold and rare stones, elaborate temples and enormous tablets.
This find is enormous in the historical preservation community and has been commissioned by museums around the world.
Take a look at this incredible city found underwater.
This is diver Franck Goddio examining the enormous hand carved statue of a pharaoh. This statue stands roughly 16 feet tall and was found near a large temple under the sea.
Here is the head of a statue carved out of red granite depicting the god Hapi. Hapi is known as the god of the flooding of the Nile. Hapi is a symbol of abundance and fertility and has never been discovered at such a large scale before.
The divers and their team of researchers carefully lift the statue to the surface in order to preserve and protect this piece of history. It will reside safely in a museum.
Here the pharaoh, the queen and the god Hapi are laid on the barge next to a temple stele. The stele dates back to the 2nd century B.C.. It was found broken into 17 pieces however all were found and placed back together.
This gold plaque was found in the southern sector of the city. The text is written in Greek and acts as a signature for foundation deposits in the name of the king responsible for building this area. King Ptolemy III (246-222 B.C.)
In the reflection of this divers mask we see a bronze statue of the god Osiris. The crown is the typical insignia of power and this statue has eyes adorned with gold sheets.
Every single detail of this site in Aboukir Bay has been meticulously documented. Here a diver measures a red granite statues feet below the surface of the ocean.
A bronze oil lamp in excellent condition. This dates back to the 2nd century B.C.
Diver Franck Goddio showing off the size of this inscribed stele. This was ordered to be built by Nectanebo I sometime between 378 and 362 B.C.
The divers carefully lift the enormous stele out of the water where it has been for well over 1200 years.
Here the divers carefully inspect a stone full of gold fragments that date back to the 6th century B.C. I’m amazed that these are still in tact.
This is a shallow gold saucer that was used for drinking and serving.
This is an absolutely stunning statue found under the bay of a Ptolemiac queen. Most likely Cleopatra II or Cleopatra III dressed as the goddess Isis.
This red granite statue was also found near the big temple of Heracleion and weighs a massive 4 tons.
Here is a beautiful artifact, a Graeco-Egyptian statue of a queen carved out of dark stone.
This is the head of a pharaoh statue being raised to the surface. The statue measures over 5 meters and was carved out of red granite.
A bronze small figure of the pharaoh of the 26th dynasty found at a smaller temple in the underwater city of Heracleion.
This is an absolutely epic underwater find that has researchers scrambling to this part of the globe to learn about this incredibly beautiful Egyptian city.
The fact that this city found underwater has been left untouched underwater for so many years is an amazing factor on its own let alone being a find as big as it truly is. These statues and artifacts are massive and nearly perfectly preserved.
The attention to detail in these pieces is truly beautiful and I’m happy to see it being preserved with great care.
INDIA will be the first country to explain to the world about ALIENS CONTACTS?
INDIA will be the first country to explain to the world about ALIENS CONTACTS?
New Delhi is in the middle of a big secret internal debate. On one side the largest democracy of the world is eager to explain to its citizens and to the world about the ongoing contacts with the UFOs and extraterrestrials. On the other hand there are invisible untold international protocols that prohibit doing anything that may cause worldwide fear and panic.
It is well accepted between the UFO and extra-terrestrial experts that all the five nuclear powers are in contact with the beings from other stars for quite some time. Recently India has seen enormous news on UFO contacts and secret UFO bases in Himalayas near the Chinese bases. In Ladak, for example the locals clearly point out the everyday phenomenon of large triangular spacecrafts coming out below the ground and Indian security forces protecting them.
Military officials and politicians have confessed the fact that India has been contacted. India has been told the rules of the Universe.
The current debate is on whether to keep it secret like other countries are doing or in tradition of a total transparent society come out and tell the truth. India is so open and democratic; it is very difficult to keep a secret for long. The biggest concern of the Government today is that unlike in other countries, it will be very difficult to keep it secret for long. If the information comes out through unofficial channels first and then the authorities are pressed against the wall to confess, two bad things can happen. First, it can really cause a panic in the country as well as the world. Second, the way the Indian politics is run, the ruling party will be thrown out of power in no time i it is ever found that the Government withheld such information from the public.
The recent rush of world leaders to India is remarkable. Starting from Russian President Putin to major Senators from America have visited or are planning to visit India. European Union is in deep discussion with India on cooperation. All sanctions against India’s nuclear programs and Indian Space Research Organization are in the process of being lifted. India is cooperating with Europeans and the Americans in space explorations and technology research program. India is also part of World Trade Organization. India is receiving major outsourcing contracts in IT and call-center service work from America and Europe. India’s Forex reserve is at a level never imagined before because of international direct investments from Western nations, Japan, Korea and others. Interestingly, China the arc rival of India changed its posture in the last few years to make India’s friendship and trade a priority. India is slowly getting to the point when it is accepted as a permanent member of the Security Council. All the five Security Council members China, America, Russia, France and UK support India’s inclusion.
When all these factors are added together and analyzed, it seems like India is being told by the world to abide by the hidden protocols and in exchange be recognized as a major emerging superpower.
The debate the country is facing internally is whether to abide by the laws of the world and the Universe to be recognized as a superpower or be truthful to its citizens and the world.
According to sources close to the Government, the UFO contacts is known by quite a few politicians in the opposition and of course by those who are in power.
The military has legitimate concern of not letting the secrets out either.
Mars was probably habitable for longer than we thought
Mars was probably habitable for longer than we thought
In ancient times, Gale Crater rippled with the fresh, blue water of a large lake. Now it’s a 90-mile-wide hole in the red Martian surface. Its water is gone, but the sediments it left behind contain clues about when and where the planet might once have been hospitable to life.
The Curiosity rover has been searching for those clues since 2012. Rambling around Gale Crater and inching up the 3-mile-high Mount Sharp at its center, Curiosity is studying the layers of rock that the lake laid down over time.
Today, a new analysis of the rover’s findings reveals the red planet had the physical, chemical, and energetic ingredients to support life between 3.8 and 3.1 billion years ago. That’s right around the time that life got started on Earth, and it’s a larger window than scientists previously assumed.
A window into the past
Geochemist Joel Hurowitz from Stony Brook University led a large team that scrutinized the chemical contents in 100 meters of rock layers in Gale Crater. The chemicals within the rocks indicate what sorts of conditions they formed under.
It doesn’t look like much now, but Gale Crater used to be home to a large freshwater lake. A new analysis of the rocks deposited in the lake suggest that Mars was warm and wet for longer than previously thought.
To reconstruct the red planet’s past climate, Hurowitz and his team measured how much aluminum each layer contained, versus minerals like sodium and calcium which easily leach out of the rock.
During warm conditions, water is better at dissolving and chemically modifying rocks. So if a rock layer has a lot of aluminum but not much sodium or calcium, that indicates it formed under warm conditions. Cold water isn’t as chemically active, so a rock layer with a higher abundance of sodium and calcium suggests the layer formed under warm conditions.
The rocks suggest that Mars was initially cool, and then became warm and wet. Eventually it dried out due to a cataclysmic loss of its atmosphere, but the new results indicate that Mars’ mild climate was longer-lived than scientists expected.
A rendering of Gale Crater, with Mount Sharp at its center. The Curiosity rover is currently exploring this area.
Plus, the upper layers of the lake were awash in oxidizing agents, while deeper layers contained reducing agents; together, these two types of molecules provide food that hypothetical Martian organisms could have used to get energy.
The lake also provided a variety of ecological niches that microbes on Earth would have thrived in. There were shallow parts with lots of dissolved oxygen, deeper parts deprived of oxygen, and everything in between.
“This lake presented a menu of options for microbial life, if it was present,” says Hurowitz.
As to whether life ever did evolve on Mars, that’s not a question Curiosity is equipped to answer. The rover is identifying where and when Mars might have been capable of supporting life, which will help NASA’s Mars 2020 rover look for actual evidence of life on the red planet in a few years. “We’re learning a lot from Curiosity about how to go to that next level,” says Hurowitz.
Although the study’s findings make a lot of sense, Hurowitz says he’s still surprised. “I don’t think we expected that we would be able to understand this much detail about the chemical conditions in the lake that existed 3.5 billion years ago. This was actually a very Earth-like environment.”
It’s still a mystery as to how Mars warmed up, but scientists think it may have something to do with volcanoes, impacts from outer space, or the planet’s tilt. But the extreme shift from balmy temperatures to the cold, dry desolation that Mars is today appears to have been driven by the planet’s atmosphere leaking into space.
As Curiosity continues its trek up Mount Sharp, it will have the chance to study more layers of the ancient lake, and provide more clues about the planet’s history.
One of the most interesting theories regarding the origin of mankind was proposed by paranormal author Zecharia Sitchin and revolves around the Anunnaki (Sumerian: “those who came down from the heavens”). The Anunnaki correspond to the old Hebrew Anakeim and Elohim and the Egyptian Neter.
According to Sitchin, the Anunnaki came from Nibiru, the mysterious yet unconfirmed tenth planet in our solar system. They landed in the Persian Gulf area some 430,000 years ago and colonized our planet with the intention of mining monoatomic gold, which was scarce on Nibiru yet abundant on Earth.
Their mining operations went without a hitch for 200,000 years until their miners rebelled and the Anunnaki were left without their working force. Documents Sitchin claims to have translated tell of the efforts the Anunnaki undertook in search for new miners, efforts which ultimately led to the rise of Homo sapiens.
After unsuccessful attempts to splice animal and Homo erectus DNA, the Anunnaki chief scientists Enkiand Ninhursag incorporated their own genetic material into H. erectus, fathering modern humans. Their success was shadowed by the fact that their new human slaves were sterile clones and as the demand for workforce increased, they genetically engineered mankind in order to be able to reproduce.
This ability led to overpopulation and many humans were banished from the safety of their cities, giving rise to the expulsion from paradise myth that so many cultures still recall.
Thousands of centuries later, the human species had evolved into stability and again caught the attention of the Anunnaki. They wanted to take advantage of the new genetic stock and some of them were chosen as sexual partners. The children resulted from these forbidden unions were called the Nephilim, “the giants of old”. This protocol breach also resulted in wiping out the resulting populace, save for a few chosen individuals who were protected by Enki, who still harbored sympathy for his creation. These events are present as the cultural heritage of many civilizations.
After hundreds of thousands of years of enslaving their creation to serve their obscure interests, the Anunnaki decided to leave Earth. Their influence reached every corner of the world, from Mesopotamia to India to South America.
According to Sitchin, the Anunnaki exodus happened around 6,000 years ago. Before they left, they decided to give humanity one more boost, which can be summed up as the Sumerian civilization, which was inexplicably advanced for its time. Indeed, they made a ‘sudden’ appearance as a mature and highly organized culture. The Anunnaki taught the Sumerians their way of life and established kingship. The king would act as their emissary on Earth and rule the people under their guidance. Their select bloodline was genetically enhanced with Anunnaki genes and they were taught astronomy, mathematics, technology and medicine.
Despite the skepticism with which this theory has been met, Sitchin cites several documents and discoveries in support of his claim.
The Babylonian epic of creation called Enuma Elish represents a history of the forming of our solar system. According to it, the Earth had not yet formed when a wandering planet called Nibiru was caught by our sun’s gravitational pull. It disturbed many of the planets’ moons and tilted Uranus’ orbit. It then collided with Tiamat, a planet that once orbited between Mars and Jupiter.
Earth was born out of this collision and Tiamat’s moon became our own. What was left of Nibiru settled into a 3,600 year elliptical retrograde (it spins opposite to all the other planets) orbit around the sun. Interestingly enough, computer simulations indicate such an event as the origin of our planet. It would certainly explain a lot of inconsistencies in our current theory about the Moon, which seems older than Earth itself.
Sitchin also believes that the existence of out of place artifacts such as the Baghdad Batteries or the Saqqara Bird can be attributed to an ancient yet highly advanced civilization. He also mentions the suppressed discovery of an Anunnaki gold processing plant on Mount Horeb by Sir Flinders Petrie in 1889.
Archaeological digs at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Niniveh uncovered 400 intact clay tablets in the library of Assurbanipal. These tablets contain continuous historical records fully encompassing the activities of the Anunnaki. The records place the location of the Anunnaki genetic laboratories in East Central Africa, which, interestingly enough is in the exact same area as our modern searches have placed ‘mitochondrial Eve’ and in the same time period. Even more interesting is that 100,000 year-old gold mines have been found in the area.
Sitchin believes that our evolution has been sped up beyond a doubt. He and others claim that our radical and anomalous differences should be evidence enough for this theory.
They also say the Anunnaki are not done ruling Earth.
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MAGIC CIRCLE Moment UFO is ‘spotted flying in circles in the UK sky leaving a bizarre trail of bright white light in its wake’
MAGIC CIRCLEMoment UFO is ‘spotted flying in circles in the UK sky leaving a bizarre trail of bright white light in its wake’
The UFO was spotted above the Longleat Estate in Wiltshire
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By Sara Kamouni
A UFO has been caught on camera in the sky over a hill on the Longleat Estate in Wiltshire.
The clip, taken by a resident of nearby Frome, Somerset, shows the UFO circling above National Trust-owned Cley Hill, leaving a trail of blazing white light behind it.
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The UFO can be seen swirling in the sky in a circular motion
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So-called ‘sky watchers’ have been left confused by its distinctive trail of light
Somerset Live reports the area, near the town of Warminster, has a reputation as a UFO hotspot – and the local who spotted this particular object said it has been seen numerous times.
He told Somerset Live: “[It’s] probably a drone with a fancy flame effect tail or something. It’s been spotted a few times locally.”
The clip has caught the attention of so-called ‘sky watchers’ online – a community which studies clips of UFOs from around the world.
The well-known alien conspiracy YouTube channel SecureTeam10 posted the clip to YouTube and said the unique circular movement and bright light was like nothing they’d seen before – while others suggested it could be a meteor or acrobatic aeroplane.
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The area in Wiltshire has become known for UFO sightings
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Filer’s Files #23 – 2017 TR-3B Patent Released - PART I
TR-3 Manta Patent Released
Filer’s Files #23 – 2017 TR-3B Patent Released - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Robert Bigelow says ET is Here, Chile Navy Releases Film of a UFO, Interview with John Lear, Letter from a Ufologist, TR -3B Manta Spacecraft Patent, and Suicide Bomber in Manchester Funded Attack with Student Loans.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, France, India, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Puerto Rico, 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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Robert Bigelow says ET is Here
On 60 Minutes Bigelow Aerospace president Robert Bigelow said “there has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence” on or around Earth. “I’m absolutely convinced. That’s all there is to it,” Bigelow told Lara Logan.
Bigelow, whose company has partnered with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test their immense, expandable spaceship habitats, inflated in orbit, has been a believer in UFOs as extraterrestrial phenomena since his grandparents reported encountering a craft that “sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car.”
But Bigelow’s belief in extraterrestrials visiting Earth go far beyond conclusions reached from family anecdote and the public record, or so he implies. “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.”
Bigelow noted during the interview that his grandparents spotted a UFO on a canyon road outside Las Vegas: “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 “60 Minutes” reporter Lara Logan.
. When Logan asked if he’s risking anything by taking a public stance that UFOs are visiting Earth, Bigelow said, “I don’t give a damn. I don’t care.”“It’s not going to make a difference. It’s not going to change reality of what I know,” he said. “You don’t have to anywhere… it’s just like right under people’s noses.”
If whatever Bigelow has found is so compelling, perhaps it’s time he share. Instead, Bigelow repeatedly hints at big secrets, sufficient for absolute certainty, that he’s simply not telling. The absence of evidence would be sufficient to dismiss most other UFO boasts of this nature. But in Bigelow’s case it’s not simply a naked claim, but one backed by an aerospace billionaire who has spent years privatizing vast troves of UFO evidence.
Shostak, however, takes Phil Klass’s place as the UFO skeptic.
“He’s not the only Silicon Valley type, entrepreneur in the tech industry, that thinks we’re
being visited,” Shostak said.
Even so, the solid evidence of these visitors is nonexistent. If there were some reason for modern-day alien visitors, Shostak said, someone would have strong evidence by now.
Dr. Bruce Cornet who worked for Bigelow ztates, “But Seth:There is overwhelming evidence of a UFO phenomenon. Ask astronomers to prove that stars exist, and the only thing they can give you is anecdotal evidence, instrument data, and photographs – the same things UFO witnesses give us. Are we to believe there is no SOLID evidence for the existence of stars, even though their sunlight reaches Earth like the UFO phenomenon, and UFOs can be detected like sunlight?”
But Seth: There are many examples of our ancestors in Italy, Greece, and Egypt reporting UFO like objects in the sky (even painting them there on canvasses), and describing them, such as Saint Anthony who reported that a silver-colored disc landed in the path he was taking to his cave in the desert, blocking his path. What about the Bible accounts of angels (aliens) and machines coming down to Earth from heaven (space). You should watch the History Channel programs: Ancient Aliens, to bring you up to speed. Thanks to Bruce Cornet. Link
Note: Of course the news media ignored Bigelow’s testimony, they’re too busy trying to destroy our elected government.
Chile Navy Releases Film of a UFO
Chile Navy releases film of a UFO captured by two experienced Navy officers from a helicopter on November 11, 2014. The Navy Captain stated that the object was a “flat, elongated structure” with “two thermal spotlights like discharges that did not coincide with the axel of motion.” The technician described it as as “white with a semi-oval shape on the horizontal axis.” He was testing a Wescam Forward looking FLIR infra red camera.
The exceptional nine-minute Navy video includes an UFO displaying highly unusual characteristics. Chilian and French scientists examined the video for several years with at least eight contentious meetings with s of the baffled Chilean FAA CEFAA scientific committee, which included the active Air Force General who directs the DGAC. According to CEFAA international affairs director Jose Lay, the general tone of the meetings was astonishment: No agreement could be reached to explain the video. An infrared camera was used that detects infrared energy (heat) and which is then processed to produce a thermal black image on a video monitor. Without the camera, it would have been difficult to see the white object against the sky and impossible to capture this remarkable footage. It makes one wonder what kind of activities may take place within clouds that are unknown to us. YouTube
Interview with John Lear
David Wilcock and Corey Goode, and in this episode bring you none other than John Lear, the son of the inventor of the Learjet. I bring you John Lear. John Lear states, “I know that my father was the prime contractor for anti-gravity in 1952. And I’ve got the papers on that. Unfortunately for him, he couldn’t keep his mouth shut.”
And he went down to Bogota in 1953 and started talking about UFOs. So as close as he was, they kicked him out of the program, but Lear, Incorporated, still kept with that antigrav stuff.
And I think that was totally complete by 1956, which means we had saucers then – you know, the whole enchilada by then.
UFOLogy needs to listen to ancient ‘myth’ and stop thinking “nuts and bolts.” Ancient myth gives us many of the answers, if we’d listen. Problem is, we’ve bastardized it all.
And, of course, what they were doing is . . . and what tipped me off is one of the videos they had when the shuttle got there, they opened the door, and it’s only half full. So what they were doing is taking as much stuff that they could for the astronauts that were doing all the secret stuff, and, of course, the things they had to have like fruit and perishables and stuff. And that had to go up and be unloaded. And then the Russians would always launch the same day that the shuttle launched. And that stuff that they had in their rocket would be transferred to the shuttle, and when it came back down, the reason it took them two days is they were going to all the different space stations and dropping all the stuff off that the Russians had given. Which brings me to the Cold War. I think that was all bullshit. There was never any Cold War. We’ve always been allied with the Russians.
Kwajalein is where all the secret stuff goes. All those launches are out in the South Pacific.
And Kwajalein Island, the Ronald Reagan, they launch probably every other day. There’s probably 1,000 astronauts currently qualified that go up all the time. So I was working ATS, Above Top Secret, or wherever it was, and we were talking about the discrepancies with the shuttle going up and taking 48 hours to get to the ISS, when it only took the Russians an hour. And then the same thing, when they disengaged from the ISS, why did it take them over 48 hours to come back?
John Lear is describing how his father with his aeronautics company apparently was put in charge of developing anti-gravity, or at least was one of the groups tasked with that.
Corey: Right. David: And he was essentially excised from the anti-gravity research, even though his own company was still involved in it. And therefore, he believes that by 1956 that we actually had working flying saucers. So let’s just start with that little piece of data, and what does your experience and background suggest is the truth behind what he just said about this? Corey: Well, the way you stated it was accurate, because they were . . . like Tompkins was doing. They were seeding this information to many different engineers and companies. I mean, if you have five different groups with five different engineering teams, they all do not come up with the same concept.
Then you have five different or a few different concepts that are being worked on by different teams that are not cross-pollinating or polluting each other.
David: Now, the next thing that he got into was the times, you know, 1952 and 1956, where he thinks we had working prototypes. That sounds pretty close to some of what you said on the show.
David: Now, you’d mentioned before that the U.S. had gotten to a certain point in its own research, but it essentially hit a brick wall, and that, therefore, the Nazi breakaway faction over flights of Washington, D.C., in 1952 that kind of forced a truce to be made, that the U.S. wanted to do that in part because they needed intel from the Germans to be able to perfect their own antigravity. Is that still true?
Corey: Yes. David: So what do you think was going on with Lear Aeronautics at this point? Was it only the German influence that then actually got them to perfect that technology by, as he said, 1956? Corey: From far behind the scenes, this German breakaway group had infiltrated the military industrial complex. Right after Paperclip, the infiltration had started. And then after the overflights, and we made the agreement with the Nazi group, then, yes, they infiltrated like crazy after that.
David: So how do those numbers fit with what you’ve heard about the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) program? Not a whole lot of specifics on the numbers, but there were a number of islands that they were launching these multistage rockets, like old rockets.
Corey: And they were servicing . This is also how they created some of these space stations. Some of these MIC space stations are made out of different stages of rockets that, once they were used to leave orbit, they then ferried these pieces together, sort of welded them together in almost a circle, but more of like a flattened circle. Like an octagon. And they would have like two or three layers of those, and in the middle, they have more of those types, like fuselage or stages of rockets. And then the station spins, creating like a third gravity or something like that. And the shuttles would come and dock at the top of the spoke of the wheel. they used the space shuttle, tonventional rockets, and later on when they started developing these larger, triangular shuttles They had plenty of room to bring all of the food and stuff up, and back.
Note: The MIC SSP allegedly is entirely separate to a more advanced Navy Space Program known as “Solar Warden”, which Goode says he served in during a “twenty year and back” tour of duty from 1987 to 2007.
Contracts were issued for development and construction in 2014, and the Space Fence is expected to be operational in 2019.[1] The budget is US$1.594 billion (FY15).[2]
Paul Murad writes, I remember trying to solve a fluid dynamic stability problem. The conventional wisdom was to extend an exponential solution and see what would happen. Great scientists failed.
I looked at the similar boundary-layer equation and using Lyapunov’s approach, suction tends to generate stability while blowing unstable. This could be used to look at transient flow problems. Anyway, My paper was published in an AIAA paper.
What is the lesson for this? If you have a problem, the AI search would look into existing methodologies to find solutions. Here is the benefit but, could AI create an original thought? This is the 64,000 dollar question. It could only use what was previously created. Creativity leaves AI in the dust.
.Now, why am I concerned? I finished my UFO course out of OLLI/GMU I did this several years ago and found that I needed to add additional ‘new’ information, especially about skinny Mike and Bill.
ome amigos in Brazil, during the course, I was able to identify that many crashes occurred especially after Roswell. The earliest on was in Nazi Germany in 1937 as well as finding part of a vehicle in the Kiev, Soviet Union region. The Germans used this technology while the xenophobic Russians hid their treasure moving it to Moscow.
The Nazis attacked in the Eurasia region. Findings in these aliens suddenly jumped occurred especially after the Trinity nuclear bomb explosion.
Crashes were also found strictly from Brazil while the former picture is sometimes referred to as a Russian activity and possibly incorrectly informed as Roswell. At Roswell, the methodology claims one dead, one was wounded and soon died, while the third lived for some time of period before dying. I doubt is there were two bodies together out of Roswell…
What commonalities occurred with all of these bodies assuming they came from the same species? Although they had ribs, no expansion or expulsion in the lungs seemed to appear. All of these guys did not have a helmet so they could live in our environment. This is in contrast to ancient historical artifacts which imply aliens used helmets. They do not have a mouth nor do they appear to eat. Sex is not of sufficient size for females to allow propagation. Their missions appear to gain some human DNA for some yet to be established reason. Their basic body is slim and their long arms are extended usually with three large fingers.
Now the question is that these crashes have crashed in several different nations to go as far as a situation in Saudi Arabia. One may argue they literally fall out of the sky/In Russia they are shot down. There appears to be a war with these aliens and the Russians, since most of their cities have a sophisticated air-defense systems.
Russian Su-27 on afterburner for pursuing a saucer.
The point is that saucers are literally falling out of the sky all over the world.
Admittedly they are from several different species and these devices were not only saucers, but triangles as well as stranger vehicles.
Some saucers and something that looks like antennae or else in China.
This loss of saucers and personnel represent significant assets. Why is there no response about these vehicles falling out of the sky that we are aware of? Why do these creatures appear to be so focused? If their owners do not care, my view is that these are not the specific species itself, but to look at these as nothing more than biological robots. The behavior appears to be robotic; however, they have clear biological capabilities. They represent advances in AI which appear to be limited with knowledge possibly to go back into the past or in one case, being intellectual at the equivalent of two Ph.Ds.
This leaves us with a different perspective. Several sources claim being involved with aliens and would like for us to believe that these aliens care about us and although they are focused on atomic weapon locations or missiles, they care about humanity going over the top with a nuclear war. I do not accept this premise at all. I feel this is nonsense.
Let me explain why. Dr. Brandenburg implies that based on the Mars Rover and Spectrometer on a satellite in orbit about Mars has found unusual isotopes. The typical NASA geologist would generally ignore these elements. However, if you possess knowledge and expertise building nuclear weapons, these isotopes are basically the consequences of nuclear fission/fusion explosions. Mars appears to demonstrate a civilization that once existed. What occurred?
We would like to provide a hypothesis. The sun is large and billions of years ago, there was a planet named by the Russians as Phaeton. This planet was between Mars and Jupiter. As the Sun’s mass is converted into energy, the gravitational mass decreases and the orbits of these planets move further away. Phaeton enters the Goldilocks’ zone and develops biology to create some sorts of being. In time, with more loss of mass in the Sun, Mars also enters the Goldilocks’ zone possibly billions of years later and develops their own civilization.
Apparently, Mars and Phaeton did not get along. Mars won in terms of the Phaeton planet being disintegrated resulting in an asteroid belt. However, in a nuclear war, no one really wins, The Martians are contaminated and if they exist, any civilizations are below the surface. The point is that if these events occurred, why did not aliens come to save them? It did not happen. They were truly only watchers.
Others claim aliens claim that humanity is too violent because we killed each other. This is trash. All biological forms on the Earth, from insects to birds, lions, and fish are violent. If this occurs in our planet, why would these lesser beings operate in a different fashion in their so-called advanced world?
Anyway, some of these possibilities are really questionable. Moreover, regarding AI, it will show some limitations and that they can only act as a means of data selection, although important, creativity is absence with AI. Hence, mankind will still survive despite such a threat…Thanks to Paul Murad
TR-3B Manta Spacecraft Patent US 20060145019 A1
ABSTRACT
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.
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Referring to FIG. 1, the spacecraft has a hull in the shape of an equilateral triangle. A parabolic antenna (E) is centrally located in the bottom of the hull. An array of horizontal slot antennas is located along the side of the hull (A). Each back corner (F,G) has a corner conducting plate which is charged to a positive voltage +V. The forward corner (C) has a conducting plate charged to a negative voltage −V. A motion control hemisphere FIG. 1. Perspective view of triangular spacecraft.
FIG. 2. Drawing of the intersection of two charged plates in order to calculate the charge density in the corner.
FIG. 3. Perspective view of the corner angle β for the equilateral triangle.
(D) is located on the bottom surface in each of the three corners.
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A spacecraft comprised of the following components:
(a) a triangular hull in the form of an equilateral triangle;
(b) two copper plates attached on opposite vertical sides at each of the three corners of the hull (1 a) such that a sharp vertical edge is formed where they come together;
(c) an electrostatic generator used to charge the back two copper-cladded corners (1 b) to a high positive voltage, and the third forward copper-cladded corner to a high negative voltage;
(d) a horizontal slot antenna array mounted-on the sides of the hull; and
(e) a frequency generator, antenna and coaxial cables to drive the antenna array (1 d).
2. To create, by claims (1a, 1b, 1 c), an intense vertical line charge at the corners (1 b) and a horizontal electric field that that is parallel to the sides of the hull (1 a);
3. To create, by claims (1d,1e), an electromagnetic wave with a vertically polarized electric field traveling outward from the side of the hull (1 a); and
4. To create, by claims (2,3), an interaction of the electrostatic field (2) with the electromagnetic wave (3) such that a combined spacetime curvature pressure is generated on the hull in the upward and forward direction to produce lift and propulsion respectively.
DESCRIPTION -BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention is a spacecraft having a triangular hull with vertical electrostatic line charges on each corner. The line charges create a horizontal electric field that, together with a plane wave emitted by antennas on the side of the hull, generates a force per volume providing a unique combination of both lift and propulsion.
Referring to FIG. 6, these three stresses are plotted together as a 3D vector field animated over time in nine frames. The graphs show that there is a lift force as depicted.
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by the vertical arrows as well as a force of propulsion as shown by the interspersed horizontal arrows. With the passage of time, these vectors exchange places with each other so that the lift becomes the propulsion and vice versa, creating a wavy stress-energy field around the hull.
FIG. 4. Left Planar 2D graph showing the electric field produced by three line charges on the corners of the triangular hull.
FIG. 5. Center Perspective view of electric field produced by the linear charge interacting with the traveling electromagnetic wave produced by the slot antenna.
FIG. 6. Right 3D vector animation of the lift and thrust force generated by the fields.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention is a spacecraft with a triangular hull having charged flat plates on the vertical corners of the three sides. The two rear corners are charged to a potential V. The forward corner is charged to a potential −V. The 60° angle on the corner creates a line charge density singularity that produces a huge horizontal electric field pointing from the back to the front of the craft which is also parallel to the sides of the triangle. An array of horizontal slot antennas located on the sides of the triangular hull produce an electromagnetic wave with the electric field polarized in the vertical direction. This combination of fields produces a spacetime force in both the vertical and horizontal directions such that the spacecraft receives a lift force and a force of propulsion.
The A parabolic antenna (E) is centrally located in the bottom of the hull.antenna (A) is made out of sheet copper in which a rectangular horizontal slot (B) has been notched out using a die press and sheet metal fixture. A coaxial cable from the amplifier and frequency generator is attached across the slot by soldering the outer cable (D) to one side of the slot and the inner cable (E) to the other side of the slot. This creates the positive and negative charges across the gap which forms the vertical electric field (F) which radiates out perpendicularly to the copper sheet. Details at: Patent Link
How Suicide Bomber in Manchester Funded Attack with Student
The terrorist Salman Abedi is understood to have received thousands of pounds in government funding in the run up to Monday’s atrocity even while he was overseas receiving bomb-making training. Police are investigating Abebi’s finances, including how he paid for frequent trips to Libya where he is thought to have been taught to make bombs at a jihadist training camp. Abedi’s finances are a major ‘theme’ of the police inquiry amid growing alarm over the ease with which jihadists are able to manipulate Britain’s welfare and student loans system to secure financing. One former detective said, “Jihadists were enrolling on university courses to collect the student loans “often with no intention of turning up”. Abedi was given at least £7,000 ($9,000) from the taxpayer-funded Student Loans after beginning a business administration degree at Salford University in October 2015. Thanks to the Telegraph
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CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In March 2017 there were 478 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries; US -328, Canada -33, UK-24, Australia-13, Brazil-6, and India-6. The National UFO Reporting Center had 323 reports in March.
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Filer’s Files #23 – 2017 TR-3B Patent Released - PART II
Filer’s Files #23 – 2017 TR-3B Patent Released - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Chandler — I spotted this in the sky on May 27, 2017, at 3:50 PM. I was in the backyard and I was looking through my binoculars and I spotted this shiny object and I started to record it. The object was a pretty weird looking thing. It just sitting in the sky and it came from the sun area and it was there for 5 to 10 minutes. Then it just disappeared.
Note: The video reveals that the object moved between the photographer and the tree in the background. The distance of the tree is not known. The witness took a video by fitting his cell phone to his binoculars. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
California Object
San Ramo — I was notified via email by nest of something in my front yard on May 23, 2017. I had already left for work and was curious what was in my front yard. I proceeded to look at the video and observed the above described thing? This appears to be what some call a Sky fish. Photo is available upon request. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Orb
LoveJoy— On my way home from work on May 27, 2017, I noticed a light in the sky. It was too late in the morning for there to be any stars still out about 8 am. It started small as I was driving and I noticed that it wasn’t moving and was getting bigger so I pulled over and took a picture.
I had to leave but kept watching and it started getting smaller until it finally vanished about 15 minutes later. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Light
Edinburg— Pamela Stark reports photographing a visitor on June 1st, 2017,
She states,”Their Back”!! Thanks to Pamela Stark
Ohio Cylinder
Wapakoneta— I was walking with a group of friends in Ohio on May 29, 2017. I like to look in the sky when I walk because it’s something I have always done and it helps me think. I know what a plane looks like and I know what the flying lanterns look like, but what I saw that wasn’t either. I saw it around 9:40 Pm along with my friends. It was a single yellow orb way higher than I have seen a plane or anything in general. It continued in a straight line for a few seconds before it flew higher and higher until it was gone. I know it wasn’t a balloon because it was glowing. I was able to get pictures before it disappeared. I have turned to this community to help me out. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Disc
Bartlesville— My wife, son and I went to eat dinner on May 19, 2017, and when we left the restaurant the sky was a bright orange.
A storm just passed through and my wife and son both took pictures of the sunset. About a week later my son (11) was going through his pictures at lunch and noticed the object in the sky. I asked my wife about her pictures and the object is in her picture also.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Object
Merlin — Driving south from Hugo on I-5 to Grants Pass on November 18, 2016, I was taking pictures of blue sky. It had been raining continuously and I caught this UFO on film. This is the last picture in a series of four taken 30 seconds apart. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Disc
San Marcos— We were driving and taking pictures of the beautiful scene and noticed the strange objects there on May 14, 2017.
We were all watching and taking photos just milliseconds apart when it disappeared into thin air. I noticed that the shape of this strange object was a round but flat object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Object
Rocky Mount — I was in the back yard of my ranch-style duplex and took a photo of a flying s Image with my DX-4 Quadcopter Drone. Playback of the video that the drone captured shows possibly Sun distorting pixels of a very dark object. Upon closer inspection, I observed an object to right and left, equidistant and height in relation to dark the object. Again, it could be an illusion of light and clouds. Throughout the last 30 seconds of video, the drone pans up three times. During each pan-up, all three objects move and change shape in different ways. When the drone returned, I didn’t know I had captured something interested until it was too late. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Arlington – The second day I witnessed a pulsating object at near the same time and at the same area of sky as the previous day. The object the second day was moving in a straight line instead of hovering.
The object stayed on path until it vanished over the horizon. Wind was southwest at 1-5 knots. The second day I witnessed a pulsating object at near the same time and at the same area of sky as previous day. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Image
Oshawa, Ontario — I thought to share another strange image taken on May 13, 2017.
While outside my house in Oshawa, Ontario I thought to experiment and took ten photos on May 13, 2017. Examining all the photos we found something interesting in one of the pictures taken at 4:34 pm, It 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. Enjoy another Memorial Day my friend. Paul Shishis
France Lights
Chateau-Thierry— I tell what I saw Saturday night May 20, /2017, at 22:37. I did not have the reflex to take a picture just to call my husband, who only saw the last luminous sphere. To show you, I took a day photo that I worked on Paint to give you an idea of the size of these luminous spheres. The spheres moved from right to left, west / east. They were almost aligned, when the middle one stood out like a triangle. there a sphere was again visible, very small, which lets me assume that it was very far, it was heading south east, straight in my field of vision. It lasted more between 1.5 to 2 minutes (which seems to me enormous). I felt that they were moving slowly, Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Sphere
New Delhi — It was almost diamond shaped with dark sides reflecting sunlight moving slowly from west towards south east on March 24, 2017.
I was actually observing aircraft coming in to land at Delhi Airport from my balcony. Aircrafts pass at a distance of 3 kilometers away at an altitude of 2,500 feet when I observed this strange object moving slowly around 4,000 feet. It gained altitude slowly and disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Orb
Mareno Di Piave — I was smoking a cigarette in the garden with my partner on May 25, 2017, looking at the sky. It was the brightest thing you saw in the heavens as the object was very strange doing kind of zigzag.
I was lucky enough to have an areo who spent at least that view near a strong light, and I could at least measure the two speeds of the areo and the alleged light was much faster. From the west at great distance comes an aircraft that I filmed for one minute. After 50 seconds this aircraft is located to the east and vanishes into thin air. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Korea Missile Launch
The attached video is a screen capture on my TV while watching FOX news about the Korean missile launch. You should be able to retrieve the same video from most local news channels. As the missile was launching you can see a black long object flies from the launching missile swerving in a smooth back and forth motion towards the camera and out of view I thought it was strange, but it didn’t look like a bird and was too small to be an aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Orb
Quintana Roo — I recently observed what appeared to be a metal object 3 to 5 miles off the coast on May 18, 2017. It was moving in an erratic manner and not like any known aircraft I’d seen. A vivid reflection is what made me notice the tiny object for roughly 60 to 90 seconds before filming the attached video.
I immediately knew it was odd and called to my wife to come and look. Before I could turn the recorder back on it moved upwards and disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Orbs
Santo Tirso — I was with a friend walking back to our houses around 11 PM, so we looked up to see fireworks at the time. But when I looked up I saw lots of distanced lights flashing and I’m 100% sure it wasn’t the fireworks since there was no explosions. The amount of flashes in that particular area didn’t feel normal. After a while I saw them moving slowly like flocks of birds. I counted around 10-15 “star-like” objects flashing very quickly. When my friend who witnessed the event went home the lights were still there, moving and blinking. The lights made a cross… The “lights” flew away and dissipated. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Puerto Rico Objects
Barrio Daguao, Naguabo — I was heading to a restaurant on a hill with my parents on May 27, 2017, and took photos toward the coast. I saw the objects when reviewing them on my computer. They were not close to an airplane or birds since they looked aligned in formation.
In one photo, there is a boomerang form and an egg-like object on top of it. I felt surprised when looking because a casual trip photo can turn into amazing evidence. They were static or moved very fast. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Light and Rectangles
I was looking out my window at about 10 pm on February 7, 2017, when I saw a circle shaped object in the sky with no trail of smoke. It wasn’t a plane, but it wasn’t flashing lights. I could just see one small light in the sky, so I took a picture and zoomed in on it.
Then I got a screenshot of a close up view and I saw like little black things walking. At that moment I thought it was a UFO because I think there aliens in the strange shaped object. I was watching it for about four minutes then it just disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Devon England — John Mooner Ufologist and chief investigator for worldufophotos.org and an investigator for B.E.A.M.S. reports
“I was at the Teign Estuary taking photographs of passing planes when I spotted what at first I thought was a passenger plane.” I started to zoom in with my Nikon P900 only to be shocked by what I saw on 24 May 2017, at 5:15 PM. This object is very unconventional with two white connected rectangular sections with two protruding transparent square flaps. There was one flap on the top and one flap on the bottom. There were also two separate contrails that where left by this strange object. This is totally bizarre and I photographed the same bizarre object over the Teign Estuary back on the 10th of April 2017, leaving a long contrail.
Note: According to NASA, “Contrails are human-induced clouds that usually form at very high altitudes (usually above 8 km – about 26,000 feet) where the air is extremely cold (less than -40ºC). Because of this, contrails form not when an airplane is taking off or landing, but while it is at cruise altitude.” The plume ejected from the object must have been some kind of gas or energy, and was not something tangible like water.
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The massive 16 Psyche asteroid is not only an interesting piece of rock, but the minerals she’s made up of are literally worth quadrillions of dollars. Being wildly fascinating and extremely rich does have its perks, and NASA is definitely courting her.
Earlier this year, NASA confirmed a mission to 16 Psyche. About a month ago, they bumped up their timeline, and now the mission seems to be ahead of schedule. The launch of the Psyche robotic spacecraft will occur in 2022. Employing a fancy sling shot maneuver using the gravity of Earth and Mars, the spacecraft will reach the asteroid by 2026.
The reason for NASA’s interest in this asteroid is that it is comprised totally of nickel and iron, the same metals which make up the Earth’s core. The working theory is that 16 Psyche is actually the core of a long dead planet, which was roughly the same size as Mars, but was ripped apart due to massive collisions billions of years ago. While NASA views this as an opportunity to view a planetary core, similar to that of our own ‘terra firma‘, the niggling reality of a corpse planet serves as a cold reminder to an unfriendly cosmos.
The current theory as to how 16 Psyche may have been formed.
(Image: Arizona State University)
Only slightly less interesting is that the asteroid has an estimated value of $10,000 quadrillion American dollars. The nickel and iron content of 16 Pysche is enough to crash the Earth’s entire economic system. The current gross world product (GWP) is only about $74 trillion, so humanity can only hope 16 Psyche gives change.
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the lead scientist on the NASA mission and the director of Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, stated in an interview that,
Even if we could grab a big metal piece and drag it back here … what would you do? Could you kind of sit on it and hide it and control the global resource — kind of like diamonds are controlled corporately — and protect your market? What if you decided you were going to bring it back and you were just going to solve the metal resource problems of humankind for all time? This is wild speculation obviously.
The technology required to drag a 200 kilometre wide metal asteroid from its current orbit, and bring it back to Earth, is still quite a ways away. The Psyche mission is purely to observe the asteroid, and not to begin mining operations. The spacecraft will send data back to Earth which should help scientists here better understand how planets form, as well as how and why planets, such as Earth, separate into layers that make up the core, mantle and crust.
In addition to learning more about Earth, the NASA team also believes that asteroids such as 16 Psyche could provide possible life lines in space. New research suggests that this asteroid could be full of water. As humans endeavour deeper into space, similar asteroids could be used as sources of water. Elkins-Tanton notes,
That water can be used to make rocket fuel or be drunk by people, so then we’d have a resource stop that has metal and water.
While this is all still speculative, by 2026, NASA will get a close up view of 16 Psyche. Perhaps the intimate knowledge of a dead planet will remind humanity that its current squabbling over politics, religions, and resources are meaningless to the cosmos.
Exoplanet HD 131399 Ab turns out to be a background star, new study finds
Exoplanet HD 131399 Ab turns out to be a background star, new study finds
by Tomasz Nowakowski
cADI PSF-subtracted images of HD 131399 Ab obtained with GPI in 2017 in J (top left), H (top right and bottom left), and K1 (bottom right) bands. A two-pixel lowpass filter was applied on the images to suppress shot noise. Intensity scales are linear, different in each image, and chosen to saturate the PSF of HD 131399 Ab. The central star is masked numerically, and its position is marked by the white cross. Credit: Nielsen et al., 2017.
(Phys.org)—A new study conducted by an international team of astronomers suggests that a recently discovered alien world, designated HD 131399 Ab, may not be a planet at all, but rather a background star. The researchers presented evidence supporting their hypothesis in a paper published online May 19 on the arXiv pre-print repository.
HD 131399 Ab was discovered in July 2016 using the SPHERE imager of the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. Located some 316 light years away from the Earth, the object was initially classified as an exoplanet orbiting its parent star HD 131399 A every 550 years at a distance of about 80 AU from the host. The star is part of the triple system HD 131399 in the constellation Centaurus.
A reanalysis of the available data from SPHERE, as well as new photometric and spectroscopic observations carried out with the use of two other instruments, has led the researchers to call into question our current knowledge about HD 131399 Ab. The team led by Eric Nielsen of the SETI Institute, reinvestigated this object using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) installed on the Gemini South Telescope in Chile, the NIRC2 near-infrared imager mounted on the Keck II telescope in Hawaii and also the SPHERE instrument to derive colors, spectra, and astrometry for HD 131399 Ab.
"The analysis of the data reveals unexpected spectroscopic and astrometric results that motivated the reanalysis of some of the already published data obtained with VLT/SPHERE," the astronomers wrote in the paper.
After its detection, HD 131399 Ab was classified as a young and massive planet. The astronomers discovered that HD 131399 Ab is about 16 million years old and has the mass of approximately four Jupiter masses. The new study, based on the data collected in 2017, presents the hypothesis that the object is a K or M dwarf star.
By analyzing the escape velocity of HD 131399 Ab, the researchers ruled out the possibility that the object is a bound planet. According to the authors of the paper, the probability that HD 131399 Ab is a background object is about 43,000 times greater than the probability that it is a bound planet.
The team also excluded other hypotheses such as the possibility that HD 131399 Ab is a planet or a planetary-mass object in the process of ejection from the system.
"We note this is very unlikely a priori, since the chance of observing a 16 Myr star just as it is ejecting its planet is very low," the researchers wrote.
According to the team, the most plausible hypothesis is that HD 131399 Ab is a background star. They found that spectra and magnitudes of the object obtained by GPI and the revised data from SPHERE are mostly consistent with a K or a M dwarf, the most probable candidates for a background object.
"When compared to predicted background objects drawn from a galactic model, we find this proper motion to be high, but consistent with the top 4 percent fastest-moving background stars. From our analysis, we conclude that HD 131399 Ab is a background K or M dwarf," the authors concluded.
Evidence that the Directly-Imaged Planet HD 131399 Ab is a Background Star, arXiv:1705.06851 [astro-ph.EP] arxiv.org/abs/1705.06851
Abstract We present evidence that the recently discovered, directly-imaged planet HD 131399 Ab is a background star with non-zero proper motion. From new JHK1L' photometry and spectroscopy obtained with the Gemini Planet Imager, VLT/SPHERE, and Keck/NIRC2, and a reanalysis of the discovery data obtained with VLT/SPHERE, we derive colors, spectra, and astrometry for HD 131399 Ab. The broader wavelength coverage and higher data quality allow us to re-investigate its status. Its near-infrared spectral energy distribution excludes spectral types later than L0 and is consistent with a K or M dwarf, which are the most likely candidates for a background object in this direction at the apparent magnitude observed. If it were a physically associated object, the projected velocity of HD 131399 Ab would exceed escape velocity given the mass and distance to HD 131399 A. We show that HD 131399 Ab is also not following the expected track for a stationary background star at infinite distance. Solving for the proper motion and parallax required to explain the relative motion of HD 131399 Ab, we find a proper motion of 12.3 mas/yr. When compared to predicted background objects drawn from a galactic model, we find this proper motion to be high, but consistent with the top 4% fastest-moving background stars. From our analysis we conclude that HD 131399 Ab is a background K or M dwarf.
Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, land on opposite sides of Mars and begin exploring the planet. Since their landing, the rovers have sent more than 100,000 high-resolution, full-color images of the planet's surface.
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The new manned version of Mars rovers has been revealed and is likely to be launched by NASA in 2020. Hollywood movies like Tron inspired the researchers to make this new generation of rovers.
The duo, Shanon and Marc Parker, created these rovers in a span of less than five months. The new type of manned Mars rovers will be around 11-feet tall, 13-feet wide and 24-feet long, and will six wheels and an alien design, a report by Pulse Headlines revealed.
The new rovers were built by the Parker brothers from scratch. It is like an SUV which consists of a mock lab where the astronauts can conduct their experiments. The new design of the manned rovers will be revealed soon by NASA.
The inSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission is scheduled to be launched on May 5, 2018. It will arrive on the Red Planet on November 28, 2018, and transmit the newly-collected data regarding the emergence of Mars and how it developed over time, to Earth.
Astronauts would be sent to deep space farther than Earth's orbit by 2019 with the help of NASA's Space Launch System.
Also, Earth's conditions and disturbing natural calamities taking place in its ecosystem, like earthquake, would be analysed by the researchers using NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar.
Apart from this, other missions are lined up which the space agency will be carrying out in the future like the NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission, which is scheduled to take place in 2021 when a sample will be collected from an asteroid.
The agency also plans to carry out the Psyche mission by 2022, in which the unique, metallic asteroid -- Psyche -- which orbits Sun between Mars and Jupiter will be examined. Researchers believe that this would provide them with more data about how planets are formed, Science World Report revealed.
Fermi's Paradox has produced a myriad of research, endless debates, and some very creative solutions for why we haven't encountered aliens yet. The latest argues that aliens could be hibernating in order to maximize their computational capabilities.
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MISSING, OR SLEEPING?
During a lunchtime conversation in 1950, Enrico Fermi, the “architect of the nuclear age” who built the world’s first nuclear reactor, posed a question that has resulted in decades of research and hundreds of published papers: “Where is everybody?”
This is the crystallization of the paradox he perceived (now known as the Fermi Paradox) which questions, “If the universe is large enough to have more than sufficient opportunity to create more life than what we see on earth, why haven’t we met that alien life yet?” Scientists, like Anders Sandberg, an Oxford neuroscientist, and Milan Ćirković, part of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, have used this as a jumping-off point in their attempts to debunk — or defend — the possibility of extraterrestrial civilizations.
Sandberg and Ćirković teamed up with Stuart Armstrong, an AI expert at the Future of Humanity institute, to author a new paper arguing that alien life is hibernating. Their “aestivation hypothesis” rests on two premises: advanced societies have transitioned to machine-based life, and machines compute faster in cooler conditions. Therefore, they argue, aliens are hibernating until the universe cools so they can develop at a faster rate.
Sandberg and Ćirković explain on their blog that “as the Universe expands, this background temperature will decline exponentially” and “in principle, running processing becomes 10 times more efficient if your computer is 10 times colder (measured in Kelvins).” Because of this aliens are hibernating and waiting for the universe to cool.
They came up with the possible solution while discussing how to maximize the lifespan of a civilization. The theory developed as part of “eschatology considerations of what the best possible outcome for a civilization would be, not directly an urge to solve the Fermi question. However, it does seem to provide one new possible answer to the question.”
OTHER POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
Solutions to the Fermi Paradox fall into three categories:
First, that we are alone and there is no alien life. This could either be because aliens never developed or because they have now died off. Aditya Chopra, from the Australian National University, provided a causal explanation for extinction called the “The Gaian Bottleneck.” He believes that while other life has developed, it was too fragile, and humanity is the only species that has proven persistent enough to survive through The Great Filter (the challenges life faces as it develops, codified by Robin Hanson).
Second, that aliens exist but not here, due to limitations in our methods of communication, our technology, or our comprehension. Michio Kaku details this answer in an interview with The Daily Grail using the analogy of an ant and a highway:
Let’s say we have an anthill in the middle of the forest. And right next to the anthill, they’re building a ten-lane super-highway. And the question is “Would the ants be able to understand what a ten-lane super-highway is?
Third, that there are aliens here, but they are not interacting in an obvious manner. Rather than blaming us primitive humans, this solution suggests the extraterrestrials themselves are being ambiguous. This category holds the hibernation hypothesis and could also be the explanation behind the baffling light fluctuations of the star KIC 8462852, which some have argued could be due to alien interference.
Whatever the explanation — if there even is one — it is a fascinating question to try to answer. But perhaps the next question, and one also worth thinking about, is “what happens when we do meet aliens?”
'I saw aliens and Roswell UFO' CIA agent in shock deathbed confession on Area 51
'I saw aliens and Roswell UFO' CIA agent in shock deathbed confession on Area 51
AN ALLEGED former CIA agent and military officer gave a shocking deathbed "confession" in which he claimed to have seen living extraterrestrials and alien space craft secretly stored in the mysterious Area 51 US Air Force base.
His most shocking claim was to have been taken inside Area 51 to see a variety of UFOs allegedly recovered by the US military.
These were said to include a flying saucer said to have crash landed at Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947.
Area 51 is a heavily guarded US Air Force base deep in the Nevada desert, where tests are carried out on new air craft technology.
But, it is at the centre of many alien conspiracy theories which allege that recovered alien craft that have visited Earth are stored and tested there.
There were alien craft, including the Roswell UFO and live aliens
Alleged former CIA officer
The conspiracy theories were compounded by the fact that the US Government did not acknowledge the base existed until 2013.
Other theories suggest aliens, from the crashed UFOs are secretly kept there as well.
The man says in the video that President Dwight Eisenhower had warned of a threat of Earth being invaded, so he and his superior at the CIA were allowed inside Area 51 to report back to the president.
He claimed the pair were also taken to the alleged S-4 facility southwest of Area 51 where they observed "live extraterrestrials".
Author and UFO researcher Peter Robbins, said of the account: “In my opinion, if it can be confirmed by any relevant supporting documentation, this moving and fascinating account does qualify as an authentic ‘death bed’ testimony from an individual who convincingly claims to have been a CIA officer deeply involved in the matter or crashed and/or recovered craft, and at one time a liaison between the agency and the President (Truman).”
The interview was filmed in 2013, but only released on the Open Minds UFO website, but is being discussed after being shared on other UFO forums.
It is not clear if the man did die soon after the recording.
It comes after a video interview of a new witness to the Roswell crash emerged, as revealed by Express.co.uk.
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Best Space Stories of The Week!
Best Space Stories of The Week!
By SPACE.com Staff
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)]
En entrant les coordonnées 27°34’26.35″ N 19°36’4.75″ W dans l’application Google Moon, vous tomberez sur ce qui semble être une silhouette debout sur la Lune.
Bien que la NASA n’ait pas encore répondu aux questions quant à ce dont il pourrait bien s’agir, des chercheurs d’OVNIs ont suggéré (comme vous pouvez vous y attendre) que la silhouette puisse être celle d’une créature extraterrestre.
Wowforreel a dit s’être penché sur l’affaire après avoir reçu un message de la part d’un internaute du nom de Jakenso.
« Cette ombre à la forme irrégulière qu’il a découverte sur Google Moon ressemble à celle d’un objet, ou d’une créature, se tenant debout, a-t-il expliqué à UFO Sighting Daily.
J’ai d’abord pensé que quelque chose avait été griffonné sur l’image, mais après avoir moi-même visité Google Moon, j’ai pu découvrir que l’ombre est bel et bien là. »
La silhouette ressemble à une ombre projetée par les formations géologiques à la surface de la Lune.
Mais la blogosphère préfère croire en la présence d’extraterrestres voire même d’une statue de la Grèce antique sur la Lune. The Examiner a même demandé à ses lecteurs d’abandonner toute logique avant d’observer la mystérieuse silhouette.
Bien entendu, cette ombre peut s’expliquer de diverses manières, et notamment par un jeu de lumière.
Mais en laissant de côté ces explications, de quoi pourrait-il bien s’agir ? Il semblerait en effet que l’objet en question se tienne debout et surplombe de quelque distance la surface de la Lune.
Et ce n’est pas là la seule image qui existe d’une présence mystérieuse sur la Lune. Des chercheurs ont découvert toutes sortes d’objets sur le satellite naturel de la Terre, et le suivant pourrait faire froncer bien des sourcils, parce qu’il pourrait potentiellement s’agir d’une base lunaire ou d’un vaisseau non-identifié.
En voici l’image :
« Est-ce simplement un cratère à la forme étrange ? Ou s’agit-il d’autre chose ?, a-t-il demandé.
Si l’objet est bel et bien là, alors je n’ai aucune idée de ce dont il s’agit. Je n’ai rien trouvé de semblable sur les images d’autres cratères. »
Selon le site web Tech and Gadget News : « Cette gigantesque forme semble être le côté d’un vaisseau spatial triangulaire, similaire à un avion furtif, bien qu’il soit bien plus gros que n’importe quel avion jamais construit sur Terre.
Les formes régulières et circulaires visibles sur le triangle parfait semblent intelligemment conçues. »
Plus intéressant encore, la structure ressemble de très près au phénomène des Lumières de Phoenix observé par des milliers de personnes le 13 mars 1997 :
Et au Texas en 2008 :
La silhouette de la première image pourrait-elle être celle d’un habitant du vaisseau des Lumières de Phoenix ?
Ou ne s’agit-il que d’un simple rocher qui a été photographié au bon moment et se trouve ressembler à un humanoïde ?
Est-il possible qu’il ne s’agisse ni d’un extraterrestre ni d’un rocher, mais d’un programme spatial secret dans le cadre duquel des vaisseaux et des opérateurs humains ont été déployés sur la Lune ?
Il pourrait s’agir de quelque chose. Ou de rien du tout. A vous d’en juger.
BUITENAARDSE INVASIE ENGELSE WESTKUST LIJKT WERKELIJK BEGONNEN? ( VIDEO )
BUITENAARDSE INVASIE ENGELSE WESTKUST LIJKT WERKELIJK BEGONNEN? ( VIDEO )
Enkele weken geleden schreven wij in een artikel over de mogelijke makers van de graancirkels in Engeland en dat een grote krant zich afvroeg of de buitenaardse invasie in zuidwest Engeland was begonnen.
Misschien zitten ze daar op een bepaalde manier helemaal niet zo gek ver naast, want sinds dat bericht zijn de bizarre toestanden in dat gebied alleen maar toegenomen.
Het gaat dan over de zuidwesthoek van Engeland en waar we iedere keer de bekende namen tegenkomen zoals het graafschap Wiltshire, maar waar de absolute hotspot in dat gebied de stad Bristol is.
Ongeveer een week geleden werd er door de Engelse Daily Mail veel aandacht besteed aan een opname die was gemaakt door Mike Westlake uit Bristol.
Boven de huizen is duidelijk een formatie te zien van wat lijkt op drie UFO’s. Het gaat hierbij om de volgende opname.
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Als gevolg hiervan wordt er natuurlijk weer druk gespeculeerd en de Thaise ballonnen en andere varianten zijn dan ook niet van de lucht. Het mainstream publiek in Engeland doet haar uiterste best om een "rationele verklaring" voor deze lichten te vinden.
De opname op zich is echt, daarover bestaat geen twijfel, maar wel over wat die lichten nu precies zijn.
Dan, net als iedereen weer net een beetje in slaap is gesukkeld, duiken er via een Amerikaanse website nieuwe beelden op van wat dezelfde UFO’s lijken.
De bovenstaande opname is gemaakt op 23 mei 2017 in Bristol rond half tien in de avond. Het is echter niet helemaal duidelijk wanneer de andere opname van Mike Westlake is gemaakt. In ieder geval ergens rond dezelfde datum en ook daar lijkt het op een tijdstip te zijn dat het begint te schemeren.
Pal daarop komt ook de Bristol Post met een derde, hele korte video, waarop waarschijnlijk dezelfde formatie te zien is.
Al met al drie verschillende video's en de beelden die teveel op elkaar lijken om toeval te kunnen zijn en bovendien zijn alle opnames gemaakt in dezelfde stad rond dezelfde tijd.
Eind september vorig jaar schreven wij kort over een Engelse politiehelikopter die een UFO filmde vlak bij diezelfde stad Bristol.
Een Engelse politiehelikopter vliegt enkele dagen geleden boven het Bristol Channel wanneer hun infraroodcamera een rond object waarneemt.
Het voorval vond plaats afgelopen zaterdagavond rond half tien en het object vloog op een hoogte van ongeveer 300 meter (heel laag dus).
Ze dachten in eerste instantie te maken te hebben met een soort Thaise lampion, maar bedachten later dat dit niet mogelijk was omdat het object tegen de wind in bewoog.
De bemanning heeft geen enkel idee waar ze mee te maken hadden en hebben het object 7 minuten lang kunnen volgen. Ze hebben geprobeerd over te schakelen naar een daglicht-camera, maar daar was niets op te zien.
Het object was er wel degelijk omdat het hitte afgaf en daardoor werd geregistreerd door de infraroodcamera.
Wie het uitgebreidere verhaal van deze waarneming wil lezen, kan dat hier doen en er zijn inmiddels ook bewegende beelden van de politiecamera in de helikopter.
Begin dit jaar begonnen al de eerste beschuldigingen te verschijnen in de Engelse pers over een mogelijke cover-up van dit incident en eisten UFO onderzoekers dat er eindelijk openheid van zaken wordt gegeven.
Wanneer je al het bovenstaande bekijkt en je bedenkt daarbij ook nog eens dat dit allemaal toevallig gebeurt in een gebied waar ieder jaar heel veel graancirkels verschijnen, dan zou een logisch denkend mens zeggen dat er eindelijk een verklaring is voor wie die graancirkels maken.
Nu alleen er nog achter komen wie of wat die UFO’s onder controle heeft.
NIKOLA TESLA'S TIME TRAVEL EXPERIENCE: 'I COULD SEE THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ALL AT THE SAME TIME'
NIKOLA TESLA'S TIME TRAVEL EXPERIENCE: 'I COULD SEE THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ALL AT THE SAME TIME'
Nikola Tesla was conducting research in 1895 and this was when he got the first indication that space and time might be influenced by using a highly magnetic field.
TESLA MADE DISCOVERIES BEFORE TOP-SECRET MILITARY PROGRAMS
A part of the admission had come from Tesla experimenting with radio frequencies along with power transmission through the Earth’s atmosphere. The discovery would many years later lead to the Philadelphia experiment along with time travel programs. However, a long time before the top-secret military programs were even thought about Tesla had already made some discoveries that were fascinating in regards to nature of time and the possibilities of being able to travel through time.
The experiments of Tesla in high voltage electricity along with magnetic fields led to him discovering that time and space may be deformed to essentially create a door that may lead to another time. With the discovery, Tesla then went on to discover, through his own personal experiences, that traveling through time came with some real dangers.
TESLA WAS SAID TO BE HIT BY 3.5 MILLION VOLTS OF ELECTRICITY
The very first experience that Tesla had with traveling in time occurred in March 1895. A New York Herald reporter wrote that he found the inventor sitting in a café after he had just been hit by 3.5 million volts of electricity. The reporter said that Tesla had told him that he would not be very pleasant company to be around due to the fact that he had almost died. He went on to say that a three-foot spark had jumped into the air and hit him on the shoulder. Tesla went on to tell the reporter that if it had not been for his assistant turning the power off straight away he would have been killed.
Tesla went on to tell the reporter that when he was in contact with the resonance from the electromagnetic charge he had found that he went out of his space and time window. He said that he had been able to see the past, the present and the future at the very same time. He admitted that he had been paralyzed in the electromagnetic field and so he had been unable to help himself. Thankfully his assistant had been beside him and had been able to turn off the power before any severe and permanent damage had been done.
INCIDENT SAID TO BE REPEATED IN PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT BY US NAVY
Many years later the repetition of the exact same incident occurred during the Philadelphia Experiment. However, this led to sailors being left outside of the window space reference for a long time and this, of course, had results that were disastrous.
The Philadelphia Experiment was the alleged military experiment which was said to have been carried out by the US Navy in 1943. It was said that the escort the USS Eldridge had become invisible to enemies. However, the US Navy has always said that no such experiment happened and the claims of the ship becoming invisible did not conform to physical laws.
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CLAIMS TO HAVE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF INTELLIGENT EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CLAIMS TO HAVE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF INTELLIGENT EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS
With NASA almost being in the backyard of Houston it is no surprise that it has earned the nickname of Space City. Now a man is taking that name to higher levels as Derrel Sims, known as the Alien Hunter, says that he has physical evidence that comes from outer space.
Sims is a private investigator and claims to have been a G-Man who used his skills for understanding alien abductions. He said that he comes from an intelligence background and has worked for the CIA during secret operations.
Sims claims there are 1,950 cases around the globe and said that there was one instance where a lady came back after being abducted with an implant in her eye and that implant fell out of her eye and onto a desk in front of her boss. The woman’s boss collected the implant and gave it to Sims, who still has it today.
SIMS CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN VISITED BY ALIENS REGULARLY
Sims interest in aliens began when an alien supposedly visited him when he was a child and continued to do so up to Sims reaching the age of 17. He did say that the majority of recollections of aliens along with UFO sightings are theoretical and due to this he collects physical evidence and then examines it, from those who claim that they have had a genuine alien encounter.
He said that if the people were being abducted by aliens there would be ET traces found on the people through infrared technology. Sims said that he detects the temperature on the skin and there is a residue that comes from other planets that is also detectable.
UNEXPLAINED BUMPS, CUTS AND SCARS MAY BE SIGNS OF ALIEN TRANSPLANTS
Sims went on to say that an alien entity often leave bumps, lumps, scars and cuts on those who have been abducted and he went on to say that physical evidence that has been recovered often suggests that aliens could be biological and they may have a level of metallic in their biology.
He then showed some spheres which he claims to have come from a young girl who, when she sneezed, blew them out, following an alien visiting her and spraying something up her nostrils.
While you might have laughed at the antics of the crew in Ghostbusters, hunting down ghosts and capturing them, Sims seem to be the real life Ghostbuster, but this time it’s not ghosts but aliens that he is hunting down and capturing proof of.
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NASA'S MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER SPOTTED A STRANGE GIGANTIC HOLE ON MARS
NASA'S MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER SPOTTED A STRANGE GIGANTIC HOLE ON MARS
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of NASA has been scanning the surface of Mars for 11 years and it might have been a good assumption in thinking that it would have seen everything there is to see. However, a photograph that was taken recently over the South Pole of the planet has revealed something that even NASA cannot explain.
HUGE PIT SEEN ON TERRAIN OF MARS
The whole surface of Mars has many craters and depressions but a huge pit has been seen nestling amongst the terrain that looks like Swiss cheese, of frozen carbon dioxide that is melting and which seems to be deeper than the average hole, which has left astronomers trying to work out what it is.
There may be many things that might make holes in the rocky terrain of Mars. Craters have been caused by half a million meteorite impacts; deep pits have come from lava tubes that have collapsed, while giant chasms have been created from the surface by ancient floods and funnels left when volcanic activity has melted ice.
ANTARCTICA & ATLANTIS : THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE OF THE CATACLYSM AND THE SURVIVORS OF ATLANTIS
ANTARCTICA & ATLANTIS : THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE OF THE CATACLYSM AND THE SURVIVORS OF ATLANTIS
The latest discoveries on the great pyramid of Khufu, which made it possible to confirm in an extraordinary way the authenticity of the message conveyed by the builders, that the Antarctic continent was the famous Atlantis and was about 12000 years more in the North, close to the African continent, and after a great cataclysm, the continent slip towards the south pole.
This testimony corresponds exactly to the theory of Charles Hapgood and supported by Albert Einstein, who succeeded in giving Charles Hapgood a scientific explanation for this very violent phenomenon.
Even if some geological evidence and the discovery of old navigation maps come to confirm this theory, this one met a strong opposition of the scientific since according to them the Antarctic is covered with ice for several millions of years.
Hundreds of comments explaining that our theory is extraordinary but that, unfortunately, it is scientifically impossible since no plant life and still less a civilization can survive on a continent covered with ice for millions of years. A little tired of hearing the same objection, we decided to carry out research to find out how deep these traces of vegetation were discovered and how they estimated their date because they contradict the message of the Batisseurs, We are certain of its authenticity.
What we found was amazing and exceeded all expectations. They definitively erase the false ideas we have been invariably and continually broadcast on the Antarctic and its climate.
Thanks to authentic documents and excerpts from scientific team videos that have worked in Antarctica, we will show you the scientific evidence that this continent has been the victim of an extraordinary catastrophe which has decimated all its vegetation and probably, as we Suppose, the civilization that inhabited it ...
A FAMOUS ASTRONOMER SPOTS 2 UFOS IN THE SKY THAT LEFT HIM BAFFLED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS
A FAMOUS ASTRONOMER SPOTS 2 UFOS IN THE SKY THAT LEFT HIM BAFFLED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS
Roberto Antezana is a level headed and famous astrophysicist in Chile, and generally, he is able to explain everything that he sees. However, he has now talked about something that he saw on May 31, 2017, which has baffled him and this was two mysterious spots that appeared in his telescope flying discontinuously.
Roberto lives in Santiago de Chile, and he makes some amazing photos of phenomena that he has captured in the sky, which he has taken from the tops of the mountains which surround his city.
SIGHTING LEAVES ASTROPHYSICIST BAFFLED
On May 31, 2017, he revealed his first experience of a strange phenomenon that he saw in the sky. Roberto has seen many thousands of phenomena during his 40 years in observing deserts, mountains, and observatories all around the globe. On May 31 he saw the only thing that he has not been able to explain and which has left him totally baffled.
He said that he saw a mysterious object that was moving West to East and it was moving at speeds that differed. He said that it would accelerate and then slow down and it did this at least twice while he was watching. Roberto went on to say that at zenith it has stopped for five minutes and then it began accelerating to the East once again. Roberto said that he watched the strange object for around 35 minutes in total.
ROBERTO DOES NOT THINK IT WAS THE QZS-2 SATELLITE FROM JAPAN
Roberto said that he had seen two of the bright spots inside a nebula that was misty, which had been created by the weird artifact. Some people suggested that what he had witnessed was the launch of the QZS-2 satellite from Japan that was released at 00: 17 UTC. To this Roberto asks if a rocket would be able to cover half of the planet in only 43 minutes. He also questioned the fact that satellites would not be able to accelerate and then stop and then produce two queues similar to comets.
Roberto does not think that it was the satellite that he saw as it would not move at speeds that differed, accelerate and then slow down, twice, while he was watching and even stop dead in the sky hovering for around five minutes before then heading to the East again accelerating. It also would not have been there in front of him to observe for about 35 minutes. But if not the satellite, then what was it? This is something that Roberto has not been able to work out.
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TOP SECRET: HAS THE ROSWELL MYSTERY FINALLY BEEN "SOLVED"?
TOP SECRET: HAS THE ROSWELL MYSTERY FINALLY BEEN "SOLVED"?
According to shock claims, the famous Roswell incident is not as we thought it was. Was the crashed UFO of extraterrestrial origin? Were the dead bodies that of alien beings? The answer could be no.
According to the new book by British UFO hunter Nick Redfern, in an interview that he had with an elderly woman working in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She said that after World War 2 the US military began experimenting with new technology brought from both Japan and Germany.
They used human guinea pigs to experiment out a new kind of aircraft to test the rigors of high altitude exposure. These human test subjects were Japanese, handicapped people and other prisoners.
The strange symbols found in some of the debris that UFO researchers thought to be Alien hieroglyphics could have been simply Japanese characters.
µCould this mean that the bodies retrieved from the wreckage were human and not extraterrestrial?
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Former Governor of Arizona: 'Aliens came to my state in UFO during Phoenix Lights’
Former Governor of Arizona: 'Aliens came to my state in UFO during Phoenix Lights’
A FORMER Governor of Arizona has spoken out about the night of the Phoenix Lights Incident 20 years after the mass UFO sighting, claiming he too saw aliens.
Never before seen footage of Fife Symington, 71, who was governor of Arizona from 1990 to 1998, reveals he was a witness to one of the world's biggest ever mass UFO sightings, and he believes it was extraterrestrial.
The Phoenix Lights incident remains one of the world's most perplexing mass UFO sightings on record, and still causes intrigue among the alien research community, even though many sceptics claim to have debunked the case.
It became a phenomenon in March 13 1997 when thousands of people reported seeing huge triangular UFOs drifting over Arizona and the city of Phoenix.
The size of them varied from a Boeing 747 to multiple football fields.
Mr Symignton made the confession during an interview with UFO investigator James Fox in 2006.
But now Mr Fox has released never before seen footage from the interview to coincide with it being the twentieth anniversary year.
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The former governor believes the lights were of alien origins.
"The second event was the launch of military flares over Estrella mountains."
Referring to triangle UFOs generally, he added: “About other similar sightings I'd like to see some reports by MUFON, however many formation of sky lanterns or the launch of skydivers.
"Golden Knights were often mistaken for UFOs.”
Last month Hollywood legend Kurt Russell revealed on the BBC One Show that he had seen the Phoenix Lights as he landed at an airport on the night of the incident.
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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Just Shattered What We Knew About Jupiter
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Just Shattered What We Knew About Jupiter
The gas giant is getting really weird.
GEMMA CONROY
Just when we thought we had Jupiter all figured out, NASA's Juno spacecraft reveals new results that challenge almost every assumption we've made about the gas giant.
The discoveries were made when the basketball court-sized spacecraft swooped within 5,000 kilometres (3,106 miles) of the cloud tops, and drifted over the planet's poles.
"What we've learned so far is Earth-shattering. Or should I say, Jupiter-shattering," said Juno's principal investigator at the South Research Institute, Scott Bolton. "Discoveries about its composition, magnetosphere, and poles are as stunning as the photographs the mission is generating."
After its arduous five-year journey from Earth, Juno finally locked into Jupiter's orbit in July 2016 to catch a closer glimpse at what lies within the planet's swirling clouds.
The probe captured some mind-blowing first images of Jupiter's giant oval-shaped storms around the north and south poles. It also recorded some eerie sounds when it careened into the planet's enormous magnetosphere, which contracts and expands according to solar wind movements.
But the spacecraft didn't travel 2.8 billion kilometres into space to take pretty picturesand record weird noises. Juno's real mission has been to create a detailed map of the gas giant, which will help scientists learn more about how our Solar System's planets, including Earth, formed around 4.5 billion years ago.
The probe also collected data on Jupiter's inner structure, atmosphere and magnetic field with its eight instruments.
The first study, led by Bolton, describes the massive storms and cyclones clustered around Jupiter's previously unseen poles. The images revealed chaotic oval-shaped features that are completely different from Saturn's polar regions.
When the researchers created a time-lapse of the images, they discovered that these swirling ovals were gigantic cyclones.
Some of these mammoth cyclones reached up to 1,400 kilometres (900 miles) wide - 10 times larger than Earth's biggest cyclones. The storms also reached close to 100 kilometres high - up out of Jupiter's atmosphere.
But the real surprise came from beneath the clouds, when Juno measured the thermal structure of the Jovian atmosphere.
When the probe beamed microwaves into the deep atmosphere, the data showed signs of strange ammonia plumes welling up from the equator, forming giant weather systems that extend well beneath the cloud tops.
"It resembles a deeper, wider version of the air currents that rise from Earth's equator and generate the trade winds," said Bolton.
Things got even weirder in the second study, when Juno took a closer look at Jupiter's magnetic field - the largest object in the Solar System.
While researchers were well aware of the power and enormity of Jupiter's magnetic field, they were surprised to find that it was twice as strong as the models predicted.
Measuring at 7.766 Gauss, the region the spacecraft examined was 10 times more powerful than Earth's magnetic field, which sits at a mere 0.66 Gauss at the South Pole.
The magnetic field is also more dynamic than previously thought, with an uneven, patchy distribution.
Speaking to ScienceAlert, Juno's deputy lead investigator, Jack Connerney, said that the planet's lumpy magnetic field indicates that it may originate from processes close to the planet's surface.
This is vastly different to Earth's magnetic field, which is stemmed from the hot liquid iron core deep below the crust.
"The magnetic field appears to have a much richer spatial variation than what we were expecting based on what previous spacecraft had found," Connerney, who led the second study, told ScienceAlert.
"The most exciting thing about studying Jupiter is that, compared to Earth, we get a more detailed view of how magnetic fields work."
Taking a closer look at the magnetosphere - the space around a planet that is controlled by the magnetic field - revealed yet another surprise.
When Juno passed through the magnetosphere in June 2016, it encountered the planet's bow shock - a shock wave that occurs when the magnetic field begins redirecting the solar winds away.
But the probe only passed through one bow shock compared to the many it encountered on other orbits. Connerney said that this is because Jupiter's magnetosphere was expanding at the time of Juno's approach.
"The bow shock varies in its distance from Jupiter, expanding when the solar wind is weak or slow, and contracting when the solar wind is strong," said Connerney.
Stranger still were Jupiter's stunning violet-blue aurorae, which were detected by Juno when it hovered over the poles.
J.E.P. Connerney et al., Science (2017)
On Earth, the Northern and Southern lights occur when charged particles from the solar wind are funnelled down through the magnetosphere into the polar regions.
Connerney and his colleagues thought Jupiter's light-show was due to a similar downward flow of electrons pouring into the Jovian atmosphere.
But Juno's instruments revealed a whole other story. The Jovian aurorae are powered by the electrons being sucked out of the planet's polar region, which basically means that Jupiter powers its light-show all on its own.
"It's a 180-degree reversal of what we were originally assuming," Connerney told ScienceAlert. "We never expected to see such strong auroral emissions caused by electrons being channelled out of the polar region."
And all of this is just the beginning. Juno has completed 5 out of 33 flyby investigations on its mission to map the giant of the Solar System.
Its next flyby will take a look at the iconic Great Red Spot on July 11, where it will unravel more of the planet's weird wonders.
The two studies were published today in a special edition of Science. You can find them here and here.
Only a little more than 10 light-years away is a glimpse into the past of our solar system. The nearby star system resembles an approximation of what our solar system may have looked like in its early development.
Astronomers are understandably fascinated with the Epsilon Eridani system. For one, this star system is in close proximity to our own, at a distance of about 10.5 light-years from the Solar System. Second, it has been known for some time that it contains two asteroid belts and a large debris disk. And third, astronomers have suspected for many years that this star may also have a system of planets.
On top of all that, a new study by a team of astronomers has indicated that Epsilon Eridani may be what our own Solar System was like during its younger days. Relying on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft, the team conducted a detailed analysis of the system that showed how it has an architecture remarkably similar to what astronomer believe the Solar System once looked like.
Led by Kate Su – an Associate Astronomer with the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona – the team includes researchers and astronomers from the Department of Physics & Astronomy of Iowa State University, the Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory at the University of Jena (Germany), and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Ames Research Center.
Artist’s diagram showing the similar structure of the Epsilon Eridani to the Solar System. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
For the sake of their study – the results of which were published in The Astronomical Journal under the title “The Inner 25 AU Debris Distribution in the Epsilon Eri System” – the team relied on data obtained by a flight of SOFIA in January 2015. Combined with detailed computer modeling and research that went on for years, they were able to make new determinations about the structure of the debris disk.
As already noted, previous studies of Epsilon Eridani indicated that the system is surrounded by rings made up of materials that are basically leftovers from the process of planetary formation. Such rings consist of gas and dust, and are believed to contain many small rocky and icy bodies as well — like the Solar System’s own Kuiper Belt, which orbits our Sun beyond Neptune.
Careful measurements of the disk’s motion has also indicated that a planet with nearly the same mass as Jupiter circles the star at a distance comparable to Jupiter’s distance from the Sun. However, based on prior data obtained by the NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists were unable to determine the position of warm material within the disk — i.e. the dust and gas — which gave rise to two models.
In one, warm material is concentrated into two narrow rings of debris that orbit the star at distances corresponding respectively to the Main Asteroid Belt and Uranus in our Solar System. According to this model, the largest planet in the system would likely be associated with an adjacent debris belt. In the other, warm material is in a broad disk, is not concentrated into asteroid belt-like rings, and is not associated with any planets in the inner region.
NASA’s SOFIA aircraft before a 2015 flight to observe a nearby star. Credit: Massimo Marengo.
Using the new SOFIA images, Su and her team were able to determine that the warm material around Epsilon Eridani is arranged like the first model suggests. In essence, it is in at least one narrow belt, rather than in a broad continuous disk. As Su explained in a NASA press release:
“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. 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.”
These observations were made possible thanks to SOFIA’s on-board telescopes, which have a greater diameter than Spitzer – 2.5 meters (100 inches) compared to Spitzer’s 0.85 m (33.5 inches). This allowed for far greater resolution, which the team used to discern details within the Epsilon Eridani system that were three times smaller than what had been observed using the Spitzer data.
In addition, the team made use of SOFIA’s powerful mid-infrared camera – the Faint Object infraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST). This instrument allowed the team to study the strongest infrared emissions coming from the warm material around the star which are otherwise undetectable by ground-based observatories – at wavelengths between 25-40 microns.
This artist’s conception of the Epsilon Eridani system, the closest star system who’s structure resembles a young Solar System. Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech
These observations further indicate that the Epsilon Eridani system is much like our own, albeit in younger form. In addition to having asteroid belts and a debris disk that is similar to our Main Belt and Kuiper Belt, it appears that it likely has more planets waiting to be found within the spaces between. As such, the study of this system could help astronomers to learn things about the history of our own Solar System.
Massimo Marengo, one of he co-authors of the study, is an Associate Professor with the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Iowa State University. As he explained in a University of Iowa press release:
“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 favorable for life on our planet were set.”
At the moment, more studies will need to be conducted on this neighboring stars system in order to learn more about its structure and confirm the existence of more planets. And it is expected that the deployment of next-generation instruments – like the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in October of 2018 – will be extremely helpful in that regard.
“The prize at the end of this road is to understand the true structure of Epsilon Eridani’s out-of-this-world disk, and its interactions with the cohort of planets likely inhabiting its system,” Marengo wrote in a newsletter about the project. “SOFIA, by its unique ability of capturing infrared light in the dry stratospheric sky, is the closest we have to a time machine, revealing a glimpse of Earth’s ancient past by observing the present of a nearby young sun.”
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.
Parting with Paris
Withdrawing from the Paris deal could put at least 1.4 extra gigatons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere each year by 2025.
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President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement could deal a staggering blow to the nascent international cooperation on climate change.
The consequences of the decision aren't fully mapped. But here are five ways that the June 1 choice will likely affect both the climate and the United States' global standing. [Read more about the likely effects.]
Unseen Guests?
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and Robert Bigelow, founder of Bigelow Aerospace, talk while standing next to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module on Jan. 16, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Aliens are among us. That's the gist of comments made by billionaire space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday. Could intelligent alien life really exist on Earth and we wouldn't know about it?
When asked if he expects to see forms of intelligent life as humans explore the universe, Bigelow replied, "You don't have to go anywhere. … It's just, like, right under people's noses." [Read more about the possible visitors.]
Riches and Drugs
Teens who attend high-achieving schools in well-to-do communities may be more vulnerable to drug and alcohol problems than their less well-off peers, a new study from the Northeast U.S. suggests.
Many people perceive addiction as a problem that affects mostly those in poorer neighborhoods, Luthar said. But this study shows there is a significant risk for substance abuse at the other end of the socioeconomic spectrum, among kids who grow up in wealthy, white collar families, Luthar told Live Science. [Read more about the wealth-addiction connection.]
Surprise Passenger
A great white shark jumped into a boat off the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, on May 27, 2017.
Credit: Lance Fountain/Marine Rescue Evans Head
An Australian man got the surprise of a lifetime when a 9-foot (2.7 meters) great white shark weighing 440 lbs. (200 kilograms) jumped into his boat.
On Nov. 16, 1632, the Protestant Swedish army and Catholic Holy Roman Empire's imperial army clashed during the Battle of Lützen in Germany.
Credit: J. Lipták, O. Schröder
In November of 1632, the townspeople of Lützen, Germany, were stuck with a grim task: They had to bury some 9,000 soldiers who were left dead on a battlefield after a bloody fight during the Thirty Years' War.
Archaeologists located the site of the Battle of Lützen in 2006 after a metal-detector survey turned up about 3,000 projectiles, ammunitions and other objects from the fight. A trench excavated in 2011 then revealed a mass grave. To prevent the burial site from being looted by treasure hunters and eroded by bad weather, the scientists didn't excavate the skeletons on the site. Instead, they lifted the remains out of the ground in a 55-ton block of soil, split into two. [Read more about the mass grave.]
Stratolaunch Aircraft
The Stratolaunch aircraft, which weighs about 500,000 pounds (227,000 kilograms) moved out of the hangar to conduct aircraft fueling tests on May 31, 2017.
Credit: Stratolaunch Systems Corp.
A bizarre, double-bodied airplane with the largest wingspan of any aircraft in the world just rolled out of its hangar for the first time.
The strange dual fuselages of the craft each have a role. The right fuselage is for the flight crew, according to the company, and the left fuselage houses flight data systems. The payload will be carried underneath the conjoined center wing. Six 747 engines will lift the craft off the ground, and 28 wheels will allow for runway-style takeoffs and landings. [Read more about the odd aircraft.]
Gum-chewing for Digestive Health
Among the difficult things a woman has to do after having a C-section — from tending to her stitches to learning to breastfeed — now there's a recommendation that's a little easier: chew gum.
Up to one in five women develop a condition called "postoperative ileus" after a C-section, according to the meta-analysis, published online May 14 in The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine. Enter gum chewing. [Read more about strange new advice.]
Gothic Graveyard Find
Archaeologists discovered this ovarian teratoma, or a tumor that had started sprouting teeth, in a burial outside the Church and Convent of Carmo in Lisbon.
Archaeologists excavating a gothic church graveyard in Lisbon, Portugal, made a discovery for the annals of medical history: an ovarian tumor that had started forming teeth.
A teratoma, which essentially translates as "monstrous swelling" from Greek, can occur when cells that should become eggs start multiplying abnormally and form mature tissues like hair, teeth and bones. [Read more about toothy tumor.]
Multi-Purpose Meds
A 1926 bottle of suramin, a medicine once known as "Bayer 205."
Credit: Science Museum of London
A 101-year-old drug that is often used to treat people in Africa with parasitic infections may help ease some of the symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children, a new study finds.
The study was well designed, but the findings don't necessarily suggest that suramin works to treat autism, said Dr. Jay Gargus, a director of the Center for Autism Research and Translation at the University of California, Irvine, who was not involved in the study. [Read more about the old drug.]
UFO sightings: Files explain why MoD closed down special desk
UFO sightings: Files explain why MoD closed down special desk
An official MoD statement from the time said the department had “no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial life”.
It went on: “In order to make best use of defence resources, we have decided that from December 1 2009 the dedicated UFO hotline answer-phone service and email address will be withdrawn. [The] MoD will no longer respond to reported UFO sightings or investigate them.”
‘Living with an alien’
Among the 4,400 pages of documents released are:
A letter from a school child in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, to the MoD, dated January 2009, asking if aliens exist after she had seen some strange lights, and including a drawing of an alien in a UFO waving
A report received via the UFO hotline by someone who had been “living with an alien” in Carlisle for some time
A report from a man from Cardiff who claimed a UFO abducted his dog, and took his car and tent, while he was camping with friends in 2007
“Green, red and white lights” reportedly seen over the Houses of Parliament in London in February 2008
“Discoid” shapes in photographs of Stonehenge, in an email dated in January 2009
Photographs taken at Blackpool Pier which show an aircraft that had not been seen at the time the picture was taken in October 2008
The files show the number of UFO sightings reported to the MoD trebled in the year the desk was closed.
The letter from a school child was sent after she saw strange lights
According to a briefing in the files, during the years 2000-07 the ministry received an average of 150 reports per year.
But by November 2009, it had already received 520 reports that year, as well as 97 Freedom of Information requests on UFOs.
Possible reasons for the increase included the rising popularity for releasing Chinese lanterns during celebrations.
Dr David Clarke, author of the book The UFO Files, said the “last pieces of the puzzle” had been revealed with the insight into the final days of the UFO desk.
“The last files from the UFO desk are now all in the public domain. People at home can read them and draw their own conclusions about whether ‘the truth’ is in these files or still out there,” he said.
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The 44 Most Astonishing Archaeological Finds In History - PART I
The 44 Most Astonishing Archaeological Finds In History - PART I
The dream of every archaeologist is to make a find that changes the way we think about history. Something ancient, unexpected and marvelous. While most archaeology isn’t as exciting as it’s portrayed in movies, some of it is. These archaeological discoveries were all truly incredible. Many of them pose mysteries that remain unsolved.
For starters, this claw, found in 1986 in a cave on New Zealand’s Mount Owen, was puzzling to people. Was it the discarded claw of some unknown monster? No, it turned out to be a very well-preserved Upland Moa claw. The Upland Moa was an enormous prehistoric bird.
HOBBITS
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2003 was one of the most earth-shaking years in the history of anthropology and archaeology. It was the year scientists discovered the remains of a small hominid species that has been colloquially named “Hobbit” on the island of Flores in the Philippines. The Hobbit’s proper name is Homo floresiensis. They stood about three and a half feet tall and, perhaps most remarkably of all, only went extinct 12,000 years ago. Some people speculate that the region’s “Orang Pendek” sightings, the South Asian version of Bigfoot, may indicate relic populations of Hobbits still living today.
Chichen Itza was a large Mayan city that was built well before the arrival of Columbus. The city was built in what is now Yucatán State in Mexico. It boasts a magnificent pyramid, and is one of Mexico’s most-visited tourism sites. Its architecture is surprisingly diverse, probably a reflection of the city boasting the most culturally heterogenous population of the pre-Columbian world.
The Piri Reis Map is a remarkably accurate map of Europe and Northern Africa that was named after the cartographer who assembled it. Reis drew the map using fragments of many other maps as reference. It was drawn sometime in the early part of the 16th century.
DEAD SEA SCROLLS
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are the most important religious discovery of the 20th Century. The scrolls were written between 408 BC and 318 AD. There are 981 of them, which add a great deal of apocrypha to the Biblical canon.
ROMAN BATHHOUSES
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Archaeologists made a shocking discovery underneath bathhouses of Roman antiquity. They found collections of baby bones in the sewers built beneath them. Killing babies that were seen as unfit was a common practice in Sparta, but not in Rome. The find suggests that the Romans took a grisly note from their Spartan neighbors.
SACSAYHUAMAN
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The Sacsayhuaman is a walled complex that was built by the Incans outisde of Cusco, Peru. The walls are an engineering marvel. They are constructed from slabs of stone that were so precisely cut that there is zero gap between them.
THE BAGHDAD BATTERY
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Like something out of an X-Files episode, archaeologists discovered an artifact of what they believe to be an ancient battery. The so-called “Baghdad Battery” actually probably worked. The vessels were able to produce a low-level electric charge. If enough of them were used together, they could have powered something. But power what?
POMPEII
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The Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed in 79 AD by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The volcano’s ash blanketed the city, trapping and preserving its residents in the postures they held when they died. A Spanish military engineer named Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre found the remains of the nearby city Herculaneum. Ten years later, Pompeii was found by Giuseppe Fiorelli.
ALTAMARIA
Art Discovery
When you think of cave paintings, you probably picture crude pictograms of stick figures throwing spears at animals that look like they were drawn by someone in kindergarten. But cave paintings found in Altamaria by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola prove that ancient humans were capable of great works of art. The figures were so sophisticated that many scientists refused to believe that they actually dated to the Paleolithic era. Carbon dating proved them wrong.
KNOSSOS
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Knossos is best known as the location of the Minotaur’s Labyrinth. The city was discovered in 1878 by Arthur Evans and Minos Kalokairinos. Buildings at the city’s entrance bore images of a bull, leading researchers to believe that Knossos is the location where the Minotaur legend originated.
THE PILATE STONE
The Pilate Stone
This find seems to corroborate the story of Pontius Pilate as a real, living person. The Pilate Stone was discovered in Judea, in the Caesarea region. The stone, which was likely used as a staircase in an Ancient Roman theater, bears an inscription that roughly translates as“To the Divine Augusti [this] Tiberieum … Pontius Pilate … prefect of Judea … has dedicated [this].”
THE OLDUVAI GORGE
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Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge is one of the largest archaeological sites on the planet. The gorge runs for about thirty miles through deep ravines, which bear the markings and artifacts of ancient hominid occupants. The gorge has produced multiple animal bones with hominid tooth marks on them, as well as multiple samples of rock art.
HAGAR QIM
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The Hagar Qim is a group of freestanding structures that was built about a thousand years before the Egyptian pyramids. They also predate Stonehenge. Hagar Qim was found in the early 1800’s.
ROMAN DODECAHEDRONS
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The Romans were fond of metal “dodecahedron” sculptures, and nobody knows why. The sculptures, all twelve sided and hexagonal, are found throughout the ancient Roman empire. It is totally unclear what their purpose was. Some think they were used to measure distance, others think they were candle holders or simply decorative.
AFRICAN SPEARHEADS
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Finding spearheads isn’t anything particularly remarkable in the world of archaeology. But these spearheads, found in South Africa, were. They date to around 200,000 years ago, and prove that humans used tools much earlier in our history than previously supposed.
GALILEE BOAT
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This boat was found in the Sea of Galilee by two brothers, Moshe and Yuval Lufan, during a drought that dropped water levels. The boat was dated back to the first century AD, and would have been typical of the kind of boat used during the time of Jesus.
The boat was 27 feet long and 7.5 feet long. Researchers kept it in a chemical bath for seven years to mitigate any further decomposition. It’s now displayed at the Yigal Allon Museum in Kibbutz Ginosar.
MARCAHUASI
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Marcahuasi is a controversial archaeological find. Depending on who you ask, it’s either a series of stone carvings meant to look like human faces, or it’s a series of rocks that have eroded naturally and our brains interpret incorrectly as artifice. The figures were discovered in 1952 by Daniel Ruzo, who made various specious claims about how the site was selected by ancient peoples as a place to preserve human knowledge through cycles of extinction.
ANDREWSARCHUS
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During an archaeological excursion into Mongolia in 1923 and 1924, the naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews discovered an enormous skull of a previously unknown animal. The animal would be later named Adrewsarchus, in his honor. It was a large prehistoric mammal, that probably weighed between two and four thousand pounds. It is believed to have had the strongest jaws of any mammal in history, but not much is known about its habits.
Workers on a railroad in Dorset discovered this mass grave of ancient Viking warriors. The Vikings were all beheaded. Researchers at first thought that the grave was the result of a raid, but the beheadings were too clean to have been weathered in combat, and were done from the front, which was atypical. We still don’t know what happened.
Isla del Caño in Costa Rica is the site of an alien-seeming architectural mystery. In the Diquís Delta, there is a collection of large, perfectly spherical volcanic stones. Nobody has any idea how or why they were made. Some speculate that the Chibchan people may have used them to adorn the homes of chieftains. The stones were designated a World Heritage Site in 2014.
This puzzling artifact was found in 1901, by a team of archaeologists who recovered it from a Greek shipwreck. The Mechanism is roughly two thousand years old, and features elaborate gearworks that bear strange inscriptions. Researchers believe it may have been used as an astrological timepiece. It was an extraordinarily sophisticated piece of engineering for the time period when it was made.
THE TERRACOTTA ARMY
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The terracotta army of China was discovered completely by accident. Farmers in the Shaanxi province just happened to stumble upon the archaeological marvel. The army’s soldiers are life sized, meant to guard the emperor after his death.
Stonehenge is one of the most famous archaeological sites on the planet. Aided, perhaps, by its association with Spinal Tap. The henge was constructed by Druids on a Wiltshire, England moor. Radiocarbon dating has determined the henge to have been constructed sometime around 3,000 BC.
STONE ANIMAL TRAPS
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If you saw this from the air, it would be easy to leap to the conclusion that it was made by aliens. Well, maybe not easy, but the thought would certainly cross your mind. Rock formations like this one are found across deserts in the Middle East, especially in Jordan, Egypt and Israel. They were constructed by ancient peoples to trap large game animals.
THE NAZCA LINES
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Long claimed as evidence for Earthside visitations from aliens, the Nazca lines are, regardless of their origins, beautiful. They are found in southern Peru, and depict animals, people and plants. The area’s red topsoil, when stripped away, reveals a lighter sediment below. Their intended purpose is unknown, but may have had something to do with cross-tribal communication.
THE PYRAMIDS
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While pyramids have been built by ancient peoples in multiple parts of the world, the Egyptian pyramids are by far the most famous. There are 138 pyramids in Egypt, but the ones most familiar to us are in Cairo. They are also the largest. The pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs, and have inspired a long history of myth that often overshadows the structures themselves.
THE SHROUD OF TURIN
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The Shroud of Turin is a piece of cloth that appears to bear the likeness of Jesus Christ. Many people believe it to have been Christ’s burial garment. Radiocarbon dating conducted on the shroud in the 1980’s placed its creation to sometime during the Middle Ages, well after an historical Christ would have lived. The Shroud continues to be controversial – the Catholic Church has neither endorsed nor condemned it as a genuine religious artifact.
Gobekli Tepe is a temple found in Turkey’s Southern Anatolia region. It was found, incredibly, in 1996, by a team of German archaeologists. They originally thought that it was a collection of neolithic sanctuaries, but nobody has offered a conclusive theory about what its original purpose was. The site is 11,000 years old, making the architecture on display remarkably advanced.
THE COPPER SCROLL
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Of all the Dead Sea Scrolls uncovered, the copper scroll is perhaps the most impressive. It is also like an artifact out of a kids’ action-adventure movie. The scroll describes a huge stockpile of gold and silver, but doesn’t give any clues as to where it can be found. Archaeologists generally agree that the scroll was made around 70 AD.
KING TUT
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King Tut’s tomb was found by a British archaeologist in 1922. It was a huge story at the time, which captivated the attention of people across the world. The tomb was full of riches, as well as Tut himself, sealed in an ornate sarcophagus. Amazingly, forensic examination of Tut’s remains show that at some point, his body was on fire. Researchers speculate that his embalming may not have gone entirely according to plan.
The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most bizarre books ever authored. It was written sometime in the early 15th Century, possibly in northern Italy during the Renaissance. It is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book vendor who purchased it in 1912. The Manuscript’s 240 surviving pages display fantastical illustrations and text written in a totally unknown, totally indecipherable (as of yet) language. Cryptographers have been banging their heads against it for over a hundred years now and nobody has ever decoded it.
THE ROSETTA STONE
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The Rosetta Stone was one of the most important archaeological finds ever made. A French soldier came across it in Egypt in 1799. The stone tablet displayed three blocks of text, a decree of King Ptolmey V issued around 200 BC, translated into Egyptian hieroglyphics, Ancient Greek and Demotic Script. It was the key that allowed us to decipher hieroglyphics.
The 44 Most Astonishing Archaeological Finds In History - PART II
The 44 Most Astonishing Archaeological Finds In History - PART II
The dream of every archaeologist is to make a find that changes the way we think about history. Something ancient, unexpected and marvelous. While most archaeology isn’t as exciting as it’s portrayed in movies, some of it is. These archaeological discoveries were all truly incredible. Many of them pose mysteries that remain unsolved.
For starters, this claw, found in 1986 in a cave on New Zealand’s Mount Owen, was puzzling to people. Was it the discarded claw of some unknown monster? No, it turned out to be a very well-preserved Upland Moa claw. The Upland Moa was an enormous prehistoric bird.
SANXINGDUI
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Around the world, there are certain archaeological sites that yield a disproportionately large amount of finds for their size. The ancient city of Sanxingdui in Sichuan, China is one such place. The city was occupied around the 12th Century BC, and contains a huge amount of Bronze Age artifacts. It was first discovered in 1929. It was shaped like a trapezoid and was surrounded by broad canals that doubled as both irrigation and defense.
The Easter Islands are best known for the enormous human stone figures that decorate them. It is still unknown how the island’s residents could have constructed such enormous statues, or why.
KHATT SHEBIB
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Khatt Shebib is an ancient wall that was built in Jordan. When it was first constructed, the wall was only 3 feet and change high. People are still speculating about what purpose the wall could possibly have served. It is now in very poor condition. Pottery found at the wall dates back to 312 BC.
MYSTERIOUS STONE CIRCLES
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Unlike the stone arrangements that were built to trap game animals, researchers are still in the dark over what these stone circles in Jordan and Syria were meant for. There are eleven circles in total, averaging about 1,300 feet in diameter.
Glasgow, Scotland is home to an archaeological oddity called the Cochno Stone. The Stone is 43 feet by 26 feet, and is about 5,000 years old. Its surface was marked with swirls, called ‘cups and ring marks,’ that have been found at various archaeological sites around the world. The Cochno Stone was discovered in 1887.
STONE PITS
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In 2015, during a radar sweep of the area surrounding Stonehenge, scientists made a remarkable discovery. They found deep pits that likely once held up huge wooden posts. The posts may have formed an arena.
UNDERWATER MOUND IN THE SEA OF GALILEE
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In a truly puzzling find, researchers discovered a huge stone structure underneath the Sea of Galilee in 2003. The structure, 32 feet high and 230 feet across, is most likely composed of stacked rocks.
THE ROMAN JAR
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This somewhat inauspicious-looking jar, found in a Museum of Ontario storage facility, is actually quite remarkable. The jar, which dates to Roman times, was probably used as a lamp, or as a cage for a small animal. It is totally unique in the archaeological record – there are no other jars like it from ancient Rome.
ORICHALCUM INGOTS
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The ancient Greeks claimed that Atlanteans used a rare metal called orichalcum. Which made a 1988 shipwreck find of orichalcum ingots exciting. The ingots were found off the coast of Sicily. Orichalcum is a brass alloy.
MYSTERIOUS SWORD
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This medieval sword was fished out of the River Witham in 1825. It bears a mysterious inscription that has, to this day, defied decryption. The British Library has appealed to the public for help in solving the mystery. The sword would have been used by a knight, and was likely made in Germany.
RUSSIAN MYSTERY DISCS
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Russia’s Volgograd region has produced a truly weird find. Enormous discs, over twelve of them, have been found there, and nobody knows where they came from or what they were made for.
Don’t Panic, but Physicists in Australia Just Proved Reality Doesn’t Exist
Don’t Panic, but Physicists in Australia Just Proved Reality Doesn’t Exist
Get ready to have your mind blown. According to an experiment led by two physicists in Australia, reality doesn’t exist. Turn on, tune in, and drop out man, because the world as you know it is all kinds of weird, at least on a quantum level.
Andrew Truscott and Roman Khakimov of The Australian National University used atoms to put a John Wheeler delayed-choice thought experiment to practical use. The Wheeler thought experiments ask, in theory, at what point does an object decide to act like one thing or another.
Truscott and Khakimov’s team used what is assumed to be extremely expensive and complex scientific equipment to trap a single helium atom and then drop it through a pair of laser beams that formed a scattered grating pattern.
Another set of lasers was then added at random intervals to recombine the beams, which, on a quantum level, made it seem like the single atom had traveled two different paths along the beams. When the second set of lasers was taken away, the atom seemed as if it only chose to go on one beam.
Are you still with us? Does your head hurt? Quantum physics is known to do that.
According to Truscott, “If one chooses to believe that the atom really did take a particular path or paths, then one has to accept that a future measurement is affecting the atom’s past. The atoms did not travel from A to B. It was only when they were measured at the end of the journey that their wave-like or particle-like behavior was brought into existence.”
Instead of the common sense argument that the atom either went down one path or the other regardless of where it ended up, the quantum physics explanation says otherwise.
Whether you observed the atom going down one path or two only depends on how it was measured at the end of its micro-sized and kind of improbable journey, which in a sense means reality itself doesn’t exist unless you’re observing it.
If it makes you feel any better, this particular experiment is only feasible at the quantum level, and would be nearly impossible to apply to everyday life. But it also shows that fabric of space/time is absolutely nuts and hardly makes any sense. But don’t worry, reality doesn’t exist anyway.
NASA forced to respond after footage of ‘several UFOs’ behind astronaut on ISS emerges
NASA forced to respond after footage of ‘several UFOs’ behind astronaut on ISS emerges
US SPACE agency NASA has been forced from its usually tight-lipped stance on alien visitations after video allegedly showing several UFOs passing a window behind an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) emerged.
UFO hunters claimed the footage caught by cameras on board the ISS and released online by NASA was conclusive proof aliens exits.The video, uploaded to several UFO websites, shows Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, demonstrating how to operate window shutters at the ISS.But as she talks to the camera, several white objects appear to come shooting into view.Tyler Glockner posted the footage, uploaded on March 18, 2017, to his UFO sightings YouTube channel Secure Team.He described one of the unknown objects seen hurtling past the ISS as a “smoking gun UFO”.Secureteam10 describes itself as an “underground” research team that exposes the truth about extraterrestrial and UFO coverups.
It has been criticised by debunkers for knowing misrepresenting anomalies in videos, something it denies.
The UFOs (circled) which passed during the NASA ISS video.It is the latest in a string of claims by alien chasers that UFOs have been caught in the background of the ISS livestream cameras, but there is a major cover-up by NASA underway, with it often cutting off the cameras once one come into view.NASA, which says it has found no evidence yet of alien life during any of its missions, usually does not respond to such claims. This is possibly because so many are made.But, following the latest claims, the agency issued a statement.It said: “No unidentified objects in the popular sense have been seen from the International Space Station.“Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artifacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.”Last year veteran American astronaut Tom Jones also dispelled the myth.There were claims last year that an astronaut tried to block out a passing UFO with his hand.
He said: “Astronauts have not seen any evidence of alien life.
“Reports of unidentified flying objects in images returned from the shuttle or [space] station have turned out to be ice crystals, drifting orbital debris, lightning flashes, or meteors streaking through the dark atmosphere below.
“So far, our search for extraterrestrial life ― and other civilizations in space ― has turned up no proof of alien civilizations.”
Conspiracy theorists like Scott C Waring, who runs website ufosightingsdaily.com, claim that NASA and Mr Jones are just part of the “cover-up” and he dismisses their explanations, convinced that every bright light or blurred object seen on camera in the distance from the ISS is an alien space craft.
But, Scott Brando, who forenisically examines alleged UFO pictures and videos, before releasing debunking articles on his website ufoofinterest.org is more level headed.
He told Express.co.uk that the UFOs caught on camera were either lens reflections or ice particles.
In the case of the latest footage, he said they were ice particles.
He tweeted: “According to SecureTeam10 this object is a #UFO outside #ISS window.
“Watch how many small ice debris cross the camera in other videos.”
Footage appears to capture two UFO’s meeting below NASA’s ISS
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, Live Science 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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NASA Don't Know What This Hole On Mars Is
NASA Don't Know What This Hole On Mars Is
A SOUTH POLAR PIT OR AN IMPACT CRATER?
NASA / JPL-CALLTECH / UNIVERS. OF ARIZONA
Is this an entrance to a Sarlacc pit? Most likely not. Nevertheless, this image of the Martian surface reveals some fascinating things about the geology and topography of Mars.
The newly released image was taken by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter above the southern hemisphere of Mars. This region of Mars is an icy terrain, caked in carbon dioxide ice that's marked with these pits and craters, known as Swiss cheese features, that can be over 100 meters (330 feet) wide.
The image was captured during Mars’ late summer, when the Sun is low in the sky and there is good lighting to capture images of this kind of topography. The defining feature of the image – the gaping hole near the top right – is causing scientists at NASA to scratch their heads.
“We see many shallow pits in the bright residual cap of carbon dioxide ice (also called "Swiss cheese terrain"). There is also a deeper, circular formation that penetrates through the ice and dust,” NASA explain. “This might be an impact crater or it could be a collapse pit.”
Hibernating Aliens May Explain Why We Haven't Found Any Other Life Yet
Hibernating Aliens May Explain Why We Haven't Found Any Other Life Yet
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Scientists have proposed a rather interesting reason for why we haven’t found aliens yet, a problem known as the Fermi Paradox (if life is so abundant, where is everyone?). They propose intelligent aliens could be in a state of hibernation, waiting for the universe to get colder so they can be more productive.
This idea was proposed in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, with a pre-print available on arXiv. The paper was written by Anders Sandberg, Stuart Armstrong, and Milan Cirkovic of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, and picked up recently by Gizmodo.
Some people think that a civilization much more advanced than our own might become a digital race. That is to say, they’ll live as artificial intelligence inside computers, doing away with more limiting fleshy bodies. Experts including Elon Musk have suggested this is a logical progression in the far future.
If we are not alone in the universe (which we have no evidence for yet), one could therefore further propose that an advanced alien race might have gone down this route. But in order to make the most of their new digital bodies, they might not like the universe at the moment.
The temperature of the universe right now is 3 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero. That’s rather chilly, but that temperature will continue to drop as the universe expands. Sandberg and his colleagues argue that the temperature in the future could allow for 1030 more computational processes than are currently possible.
“We hence suggest the 'aestivation hypothesis',” the researchers write in their paper, adding that “the reason we are not observing manifestations of alien civilizations is that they are currently (mostly) inactive, patiently waiting for future cosmic eras.” Aestivation is basically hibernation to avoid hotter temperatures, not cooler ones.
Our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
An advanced digital alien race might get to the point where they have fully explored a section of the universe. Finding no need to continue existence with a relatively limited processing power (processing becomes 10 times more efficient if your computer is 10 times colder), they may therefore choose to wait for a cooler age in the universe.
The authors do not necessarily think this theory is correct, not least because we have no evidence we are not alone yet. But they argue that if it turns out there is other life out there, then the theory is at least a possibility.
“[We] personally think the likeliest reason we are not seeing aliens is not that they are aestivating, but just that they do not exist or are very far away,” Sandberg wrote in a blog post. “If that hypothesis [life is rare] is not true, then aestivation is a pretty plausible answer in my personal opinion.”
What’s more, they propose a way to find aestivating aliens. If we can see unusual phenomena in the universe, such as stars failing to collapse into black holes, this might be evidence of aliens using up the energy. And if there are aliens monitoring our particular corner of the universe, then any attempts by us to travel outwards may be met with hostile resistance.
This theory will not be without its detractors. Science fiction author David Brin, for one, suggested to Gizmodo that it made little sense for a race to go into hibernation and waste processing time. The authors countered that any race would want to make the most of available energy, and thus wait for optimal conditions.
There’s no shortage of speculation these days about the Fermi Paradox, and the possibility of alien life. The fact remains though that – to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke – we are either alone or not, and both answers are equally terrifying. Maybe, if we’re not, then there just might be sleeping aliens waiting for things to get a bit cooler.
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Marsmeer bestond uit verschillende zuurstoflagen
Marsmeer bestond uit verschillende zuurstoflagen
Tim Kraaijvanger
Meer dan drie miljard jaar geleden stond er water in de Gale-krater op Mars. Wetenschappers beweren dat het meer verschillende leefmilieus kende.
Uit een analyse van NASA’s Curiosity-rover blijkt dat het ondiepe water rijker was aan oxidanten dan het diepere water. “Op bepaalde momenten was een deel van het water zuurstofrijker dan op andere momenten”, zegt wetenschapper Roger Wiens, co-auteur van het paper in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Science. “Dit is belangrijk, want het bepaalt welke mineralen er zijn afgezet op de bodem en omdat zuurstof nodig is voor leven. Toch is het goed om te weten dat toen er meren op Mars waren, dat fotosynthese nog niet was ‘uitgevonden’ op aarde, dus er werd nog weinig met zuurstof gedaan.”
“Er waren allerlei verschillende leefmilieus in hetzelfde Martiaanse meer”, vertelt onderzoeker Joel Hurowitz van de Stony Brook universiteit. “Dit zien we ook in meren op aarde. Diversiteit is belangrijk, want hierdoor zijn er meerdere mogelijkheden voor verschillende microben om te overleven.” Zo leven in aardse meren microben die beter gedijen in een oxidantenrijke omgeving, terwijl andere micro-organismen liever kiezen voor een oxidantenarme omgeving.
Het is onbekend of er ooit leven was op Mars. Het is daarom belangrijk dat wetenschappers eerst reconstrueren hoe de situatie miljarden jaren geleden op de rode planeet was. Wat was de samenstelling van meren en oceanen? Hoe zag de atmosfeer er precies uit? Zo kan – op basis van een model – uiteindelijk bepaald worden hoe groot de kans is dat er ooit leven was op Mars en waar we wellicht sporen van leven kunnen terugvinden. Als er überhaupt nog sporen zijn, natuurlijk.
Als de Atlantische warmtepomp stokt: komt er een ijstijd aan?
Als de Atlantische warmtepomp stokt: komt er een ijstijd aan?
Niels Waarlo
Een warme zeestroom die in elkaar stort, met als gevolg een nieuwe ijstijd. Het idee spreekt tot de verbeelding. Maar of het kan?
Kan Nederland afkoelen door opwarming van de aarde? Ja. Sterker nog, waarschijnlijk zou het niet de eerste keer zijn. Het is mogelijk als de warmtepomp van de Atlantische Oceaan vertraagt of zelfs stilvalt, een veelbesproken scenario dat vooral bekend werd dankzij de film The Day After Tomorrow. Het mag duidelijk zijn dat die film, waarin binnen een aantal dagen een ijstijd invalt, pure fictie is. Maar toch: moeten we extra truien aanschaffen of op termijn beducht zijn voor een nieuwe ijstijd?
Lopende band van zeewater Wie dat wil begrijpen, moet weten hoe de Atlantische Oceaan de temperatuur in West-Europa beïnvloedt. Aan de oppervlakte van de Atlantische Oceaan stroomt warm water van de evenaar naar het noorden. Dit water koelt onderweg af. Daarnaast verdampt meer water dan dat zoet water wordt toegevoegd, waardoor het water richting het noorden steeds zouter wordt. Hoe zouter en kouder het water, hoe hoger de dichtheid ervan. Om die reden zinkt het in het hoge noorden naar de diepte, waarna het terug naar het zuiden vloeit. Doordat dit systeem wordt aangedreven door temperaturen en zout, heet het ‘thermohaliene circulatie’, waarbij thermo refereert aan temperatuur en halien aan zout. Hierdoor ontstaat een lopende band van zeewater die warmte naar het noorden transporteert en ons klimaat verwarmt. Die lopende band heet de ‘Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation’, afgekort AMOC.
Een versimpeld overzicht van de wereldwijde thermohaliene circulatie. De AMOC bevindt zich in de Atlantische Oceaan.
Bron: naar Talley (2013).
Smeltende ijskappen Om deze lopende band aan de gang te houden, is het belangrijk dat de dichtheid van water in het noorden hoog genoeg is om naar de bodem te zakken. Maar als de oceaan minder afkoelt door een warmere atmosfeer, neemt de dichtheid van het water af. Als daarnaast de ijskappen rond de Noordpool afsmelten en de hoeveelheid regen door klimaatverandering toeneemt, wordt de noordelijke oceaan zoeter. Zoet water heeft een lagere dichtheid dan zout water, waardoor het water nog langzamer zinkt. Door dit alles vertraagt de lopende band en vermindert het warmtetransport naar het noorden.
“BIJ DE LAATSTE IPCC-MODELLEN TONEN ALLE MODELLEN EEN VERZWAKKING VAN DE AMOC. DAT IS TAMELIJK ROBUUST, WE ZIJN 95 TOT 99 PROCENT ZEKER”
Klimaatmodellen Een mooi verhaal, maar gaat dit ook gebeuren? Vermoedelijk wel. Het Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), de VN-organisatie die onze wetenschappelijke klimaatkennis evalueert, noemt het ‘erg waarschijnlijk’ dat de AMOC deze eeuw verzwakt. Daarbij baseert het IPCC zich vooral op computermodellen. Er zitten verschillen in hun exacte voorspellingen, maar over algemeen tonen deze modellen een duidelijke vertraging van de oceaanstroming. Prof. Dr. Sybren Drijfhout, fysisch oceanograaf aan de Universiteit Utrecht, werkt aan computermodellen van oceaan en klimaat. Hij vertelt ons over de krachten en zwaktes ervan. “Bij de laatste IPCC-modellen tonen alle modellen een verzwakking van de AMOC. Dat is tamelijk robuust, we zijn 95 tot 99 procent zeker. Bovendien komt het overeen met ons fundamentele begrip van natuurkunde.”
EN DE GOLFSTROOM DAN?
Veel mensen noemen de ons verwarmende zeestroming die stil kan vallen de ‘Golfstroom’. Dat is niet helemaal correct. De Golfstroom begint in de Golf van Mexico en stroomt langs de oostkust van Noord-Amerika. Hij is weliswaar onderdeel van de thermohaliene circulatie, maar wordt daarnaast aangedreven door winden en de draaiing van de aarde. Hierdoor zal hij niet stilvallen. Het grootschalige Atlantische circulatiesysteem waarvan de Golfstroom een onderdeel is, heet de Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, kortweg AMOC. Hierover gaat dit artikel. De Noord-Atlantische drift is het noordelijke onderdeel van de AMOC dat daadwerkelijk warmte naar Europa transporteert.
Het theoretische ‘tipping point’ Vertragen is één ding, maar kan deze oceaanstroom ook abrupt stilvallen, zoals in The Day After Tomorrow op overdreven wijze gebeurt? Het is in elk geval mogelijk. In theorie zijn er twee ‘modussen’ waarin de AMOC zich kan bevinden: een modus met een snelle stroming en een modus met een zeer trage stroming. Op dit moment bevindt de AMOC zich in de snelle modus. Als de temperatuur en de hoeveelheid neerslag op de polen hoog genoeg worden, is deze modus niet meer stabiel en schiet de AMOC abrupt van de ene in de andere modus. We overschrijden dan een ‘tipping point’. De cruciale vraag is of we dit tipping point door klimaatverandering gaan bereiken.
Hebben de modellen een afwijking? In het verleden vond zo’n stop vaker plaats, denken wetenschappers. Bijvoorbeeld tijdens het invallen van de koude Jonge Dryas in West-Europa, zo’n 13.000 jaar geleden. Desondanks noemt de IPCC het ‘erg onwaarschijnlijk’ dat de AMOC deze eeuw abrupt stilvalt. Dat baseert de organisatie wederom op de huidige klimaat- en oceaanmodellen. Maar daar heeft Drijfhout wel een kanttekening bij. “Men denkt dat het in deze eeuw niet waarschijnlijk is. Maar, en hier is discussie over, dat is gebaseerd op klimaatmodellen. En die hebben een afwijking. We weten dat de AMOC in de modellen stabieler is dan in werkelijkheid.”
De zoutbalans Een belangrijke factor voor die afwijking is het zouttransport, vertelt Drijfhout. Als het oppervlaktewater dat naar het noorden stroomt zouter is dan het diepere water dat naar het zuiden stroomt, importeert de AMOC zout naar het noorden. Hij brengt immers meer zout naar het noorden dan hij er weghaalt. In de omgekeerde situatie exporteert de stroming juist zout. Het is van belang om te weten welke van deze situaties de juiste is. “Stel, het systeem raakt verstoord door extra smeltwater. Dan verzwakt de stroming. Als die stroming zout importeert, vertraagt deze import ook en wordt het water nog minder zout. Hierdoor verzwakt de stroming nog verder: een positieve terugkoppeling. Maar als de stroming zout exporteert, is het andersom. Dan is de AMOC juist stabieler.” Uit waarnemingen blijkt dat de stroming netto zout naar het noorden transporteert, maar veel modellen tonen het omgekeerde. Het gevolg is dat modellen een stabielere AMOC aangeven dan in werkelijkheid het geval is. Het lijkt erop dat modellen de balans tussen zouter water uit de Indische Oceaan en zoeter Antarctisch water niet goed weergeven. Dat komt weer doordat modellen de enorme resolutie missen die nodig is om alle processen tot in detail weer te geven.
Stroomsnelheden aan de oceaanoppervlakte zoals berekend door een oceaanmodel. Hoe lichter de kleur, hoe hoger de snelheid. Bron: Andrew Coward
(National Oceanography Centre Southampton).
Wat zijn de gevolgen? Het is al met al ingewikkeld om de toekomst van de oceaanstromingen te voorspellen, om het voorzichtig uit te drukken. Dat er íets staat te gebeuren met de AMOC en dus de Noord-Atlantische stroom lijkt echter zeker. En dan gaat het bij ons afkoelen. Toch? “Ja en nee,” nuanceert Drijfhout. “Dat geldt alleen als de stroming vertraagt zonder dat de aarde verder opwarmt. Hij moet echt behoorlijk snel ineen storten wil het afkoelingseffect sterker zijn dan de opwarming van de aarde.” Waarschijnlijk heeft een vertraging van de Noord-Atlantische stroom bij ons dus vooral een dempend effect op de opwarming. “Dat zien we nu al. Als je de opwarming van de afgelopen 150 jaar van verschillende locaties afzet tegen het gemiddelde op aarde, zie je wat ik het ‘warming hole’ noem. Ten oosten van Engeland is die opwarming heel zwak.”
Niet desastreus De gevolgen zijn waarschijnlijk dus niet desastreus voor Europa. Alleen in het meest extreme geval koelt het voor een periode van tientallen jaren af, wordt het droger en nemen de stormen toe. Daarna stijgt de temperatuur weer. Het Arctische zee-ijs verdwijnt hierdoor minder snel en “dat kun je gunstig noemen,” zegt Drijfhout. Maar er zullen ook gevolgen buiten Europa zijn. De warmte die niet meer naar ons komt, blijft hangen in het zuiden. “Daar vindt een versterking van de opwarming plaats. Afhankelijk van allerlei details kan dat betekenen dat de Antarctische ijskap sneller afsmelt, waardoor de zeespiegel harder stijgt. Maar de modellen zijn nog niet goed genoeg om daar harde uitspraken over te doen.”
De AMOC toont nog maar eens aan waarom het lastig is om exacte voorspellingen te doen over het klimaat. Terugkoppelingen die we niet helemaal begrijpen kunnen processen versnellen of juist afremmen. Dat de stroming op zijn minst vertraagt, lijkt echter zeker. Mogelijk smelten de ijskappen van Antarctica daardoor sneller af, met als gevolg een sterkere zeespiegelstijging. Maar of jij binnenkort extra truien moet aanschaffen? Dat waarschijnlijk niet. En die nieuwe ijstijd? Die laat nog even op zich wachten.
Niels Waarlo (1994) is masterstudent Aardwetenschappen aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Daar houdt hij zich bezig met klimaatreconstructie en sedimentaire geologie. Daarnaast is hij actief in de wetenschapscommunicatie en –educatie. Op dit moment loopt hij stage bij de wetenschapsredactie van de Volkskrant. Eerder werkte hij bij de afdeling educatieve ontwikkeling van Naturalis en schreef hij voor verschillende websites als muziekjournalist.
Will truth about aliens soon be known? UFO sightings TRIPLE in just 16 years
Will truth about aliens soon be known? UFO sightings TRIPLE in just 16 years
THE number of reported UFO sightings across the United States has more than tripled since 2001, it has emerged.
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.”
Cheryl said the pair write the book because: “We wanted to do our bit for disclosure
“It’s something the government should have been doing.
“We’re doing scientific research. What’s crazy is not being willing to look at research.”
Their research found July is the busiest month for UFO sightings, but possibly because more people are outside.
There was a strange spike in sightings in Texas in 2008, and another in New Mexico in September 2015.
So what are their conclusions?
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.
Could Vladimir Putin reveal aliens exist? Kremlin chief asked to lift ‘truth embargo’
Could Vladimir Putin reveal aliens exist? Kremlin chief asked to lift ‘truth embargo’
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin could be the man to make world history by announcing intelligent aliens exist and have visited Earth, a “truth” campaigner believes.
US citizen, Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Paridigm Research Group International (PRG), has spent a week in Russia trying to convince Mr Putin of the importance of lifting an alleged “truth embargo” that stops world leaders telling the public the truth about aliens.
Mr Bassett, who is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the subject of alien disclosure, believes a conspiracy theory that the truth of aliens has been withheld due to the fear of the impact on religion and the rule of law if we all knew.
He believes the conspiracy has been in place since at least 1947 when a flying saucer allegedly crash landed at Roswell, New Mexico.
Mr Bassett was interviewed for a Russian documentary during his visit.
A PRG statement said: “During the interview, which will be broadcast in Russian in August, Bassett discussed various considerations that might prompt Russian President Vladimir Putin to make the first formal acknowledgment by a head of state regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.
“PRG believes this may be the first time anyone has made this argument on Russian media inside or outside Russia.”
He also met former Soviet and Russian military and agency officials, who are now involved in the disclosure movement.
Mr Basset said: “Since 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia have spent in excess of $40trillion contesting over political and economic ideologies, fighting proxy wars around the world and building the most dangerous threat to the human race ever conceived.
“The Cold War has never really ended with gaming, brinksmanship and destructive policies continuing from both sides.
“While humans have continued to destroy each other and the biosphere in which they live, there is a galaxy full of life waiting to be engaged.
“The extraterrestrial reality transcends politics, religion, race, and war. The embargo on this truth has accomplished nothing but delay the advancement of human civilisation.
“Any number of heads of state could end this embargo at any time, and it can’t come soon enough.
“What the keepers of the truth embargo either fail or refuse to realise is a post-disclosure world could be the bridge between the US, China and Russia that would permit the necessary geopolitical realignments setting a new course away from the seemingly permanent war economies wasting vital resources and keeping the world always on the brink.”
Have you ever dreamt about seeing a UFO or being aboard one? What do these types of dreams mean?
Many people will live their entire lives without ever seeing a UFO. My first UFO sighting occurred in 1978. A group of friends and I decided to have a keg party “On Top of the World”, which is a mountaintop in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. It was early evening and we were waiting for the person to arrive who had the tap for the keg, so all of us were sober. At that point, a group of 3 UFO’s flew over the adjacent hill, Franklin Mountain… hovered for a few seconds, then flew away at a speed unfathomable. At the time, there was probably 6 or 7 of us there to witness it, but that was my first of many UFO sightings.
My late sister, Lola, had an abduction scenario where she was with her boyfriend and another friend, Patty F.. They were driving toward East Sidney Dam when the next thing they knew, their car was on the side of the road and it was 4 hours later.
Since buying a pair of ATN Night Vision Goggles, I have seen more UFO’s than ever. You can’t go 10 minutes without seeing one!
Many of us have experienced UFO sightings in real life, but what do they mean when we see them in our dreams?
To see a spaceship in your dream symbolizes your creative mind. It denotes a spiritual journey into the unknown and signals self-development and self-awareness. Alternatively, the dream suggests that you need to take on a different perspective, no matter how bizarre or unusual it may be.
Suggests a change in yourself, or personal growth; becoming aware of something new, or some new aspect of yourself, one that you are not familiar with, and so seems strange or alien. For instance a change might be occurring in the way you relate to people or events.
Our mind has the ability to view our experience as a whole, rather than in parts. What we sense unconsciously in this way is presented to the conscious mind as images such as UFO’s or circles of light. Another way of explaining this is to realize that our conscious self is only a tiny part of the whole process of life active in us. There are amazing potentials in each of us that might only be glimpsed in stress situations. Occasionally this more powerful or bigger side of ourselves breaks through and is experienced as an alien, or great being. Because of the hallucinatory aspect of the dream process, and the fact that in dreaming we see exterior imagery as real, when this breaks through while we are awake, it is difficult to accept the source of it as our own unconscious. See: altered states of consciousness; space; spaceship.
A few weeks ago, I had a dream where I was “back home” with my daughter. I was looking out of my parent’s bay window when I saw dozens of UFOs in the sky along with a huge mothership which came down to my parent’s house, hovering about 30 above the ground. It was so close, I could see the beings inside, who looked like regular people. I called for my daughter while taking out my smartphone to get a video of everything. As I looked through my cellphone, my screen was showing me everything that was beyond the 3rd dimension. It was exciting and exhilarating. I felt no fear.
In another dream, I was once again “back home” at the college, which was about 2 blocks from my parent’s home. There were many spaceships in the air but one had landed at the college. There were many people there who were boarding the ship. I was one of them waiting to go aboard. I woke up before I actually boarded the craft.
In the previous article, Do You Dream About Flying Or Going Home?, I mentioned a dream where I was aboard a huge spaceship:
I was in a very large round room and there were small groups of people all around me. We all looked like we were in our 20’s or so. I was in a group of about 8-10 people and our thoughts were instantly interactive through telepathy. Each group was creating and manifesting something, but I don’t specifically remember what it was. What I do remember is that is was a group manifestation and we were all on the same page. For example, someone would think of a contribution to the group and another would add to it. Each additional thought made the manifestation even more amazing. If someone joined the group, they would instantly know everything we manifested before they joined us and would immediately be able to interact with the group. If you wanted to take a break, you could leave any time. I chose to leave and went “back home”. I was in my old neighborhood, playing guitar on a futuristic amplifier that was no bigger than a pack of cigarettes and did not require electricity. In this dream, I knew every possible scale on guitar and could play amazingly well. Two friends joined me… one to listen and another to play along. I knew at any time, I could go back to the ship.
What this dream showed me is that if we somehow go into a dimensional shift would want to blow up the world with their thoughts. It’s not even a remote possibility. It’s as if you are one cell in a body and you’re harmoniously interacting with all of the cells around you, instantaneously. Your soul is completely transparent and there is nothing in your past to be embarrassed or ashamed about.
Your dreams and the removal of fear
Your dreams are metaphors being played out from events that occurred earlier in that particular day. If you had a disturbing dream, then look back at what might have triggered those particular metaphors or symbols and try to resolve that issue.
Once you remove any fear from your mind, you’ll find that your dreams become more futuristic and prophetic. I’d be willing to guess that many people who have done their inner work within this genre have either seen UFOs in real life and/or have experienced UFO dreams.
Have you dreamt about UFOs or going aboard a UFO? If so, comment below!
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STRANGE WEATHER ANOMALIES ARE SWEEPING ACROSS THE WORLD
STRANGE WEATHER ANOMALIES ARE SWEEPING ACROSS THE WORLD
In the last week, there have been reports of an increase in extreme weather conditions such as tidal waves, sandstorms, incredible winds and storms and tornadoes in various locations across the world. They have been swift and intense, often endangering lives
The go-to explanation for these weather events is climate change due to global warming. Others may deem the changing climate to be a result of the polar axis shift, an occurrence that is neither unusual or unprecedented. Earth's history is marked with many differing climatic changes without the aid of global warming or human presence.
According to a Harvard University report in July 2013, climate scientists admitted that when the focus of the public is on the weather, regardless of whether or not there is any connection between events, there is a call for more research.
It referenced a recent hurricane that may not have anything to do with climate change, but many were still making that connection themselves. One scientist, Daniel Schrag, Harvard University Center for Environment director, declared amazement at what he called public's ability to determine the angle scientific research will take.
However as the public are influenced by official government channels, the real "steering" is performed by the agenda of these agencies. The climate scientists described earth as a "complex system" and difficult to predict, with much more research needing to be done on how and why these weather events occur.
Brian Farrell, professor of meteorology, made a point that climate scientists prefer not be vocal about particular occurrences as there isn't enough evidence to determine a specific cause. Schrag goes on to remark that hardly any research has been done on tornadoes and climate change. Thunderstorms are also lacking in study in regards to the same.
While official channels are quick to blame global warming for extreme weather events, the truth remains that climate scientists themselves admit to limited connections.
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Finding space alien life would be undoubtedly one of the greatest achievements in human history. Scientists have been concentrating on the possibility of alien life existence on exoplanets many light years away from Earth. However, one astronomer suggests looking harder for evidence of extraterrestrial life closer to home. Penn State astronomy professor Jason Wright writes in his paper that proof of aliens might be right here in our celestial backyard. For this reason, he suggests shifting our focus from the dark cosmos to our solar system.
Wright urges scientists to consider the theory that extraterrestrial life evidence might be right under our noses. The astronomer explains that leftovers from technological species might be easier to discover than biological evidence, such as microbes. Artifacts or other techno signatures from prior technological species in the Solar System may have survived to present day.
Wright points out Mars and Venus as possible places where intelligent life might have spawned and developed before it had gone extinct or simply left. He goes on to suggest that Earth may be holding secrets of an ancient alien civilization but has since been lost to erosion, plate tectonics, and shifting continents.
Soviet-born American writer Zecharia Sitchin introduced the theory on the existence of ancient aliens in Nibiru, an unseen planet in the Solar System, in his 1976 hit book ‘The 12th Planet.’ The theory states that Annunaki alien race had created the human race. Sitchin claims that Nibiru collided with Tiamat planet that was located between Mars and Jupiter. The collision resulted in the creation of asteroid belt and Earth.
Sitchin believes Annunaki aliens visited Earth to mine gold in Africa thousands of years ago. These advanced aliens needed workers for their mining operations, so they used genetics to create Homo Sapiens.
AMAZING: Military jet cases 2 linked UFOs immediately following sighting of amber diamond shape craft
AMAZING: Military jet cases 2 linked UFOs immediately following sighting of amber diamond shape craft
Check out this really interesting footage of a UFO activity that was seen and filmed above Californian sky ( Landers and Yucca Valley) on 21st May 2017.
Witness report:
Incredible video footage of a military jet chasing a UFO (yeah, that’s right, chasing one) right over our heads while out at the infamous Giant Rock in Landers while at this year’s Contact in the Desert (CITD) conference in Joshua Tree Calif. I, Melinda Leslie, was leading my Sunday night, May 21st, Sky Watch with Night Vision Goggle Intensive out at Giant Rock on the 3rd night of viewing events for CITD. Luckily one of my participants, Graham Slater, caught this and many of our other sightings (from all 3 nights no less), with his black and white night vision video camera. His additional footage of some of the other incrdible sightings will be posted at a future date once they are compiled. Here’s a description of the jet chase sighting: At just before 10:00 p.m. (did not note exact time) some of my participants and I saw a large amber colored light low to the horizon just behind Giant Rock from where my whole group of about 50 plus people were gathered and using 15 pair of night vision goggles. A contigenecy of about 20 of us ran to get a better view of it. To the naked eye it appeared to be a large orangish (amber) light, that quoting some of the 20 people; “flew like a bumble bee”. One guest, [name removed/CMS/jpg], came running with a pair of the goggles in hand and got a good look at it. She said that through the goggles it looked like “a large diamond shaped UFO.” She drew a picture of it attached here. This object then flew behind a small hill right behind the entire Sky Watch larger group. As those of us who ran off walked back to join the others, 3 military jets flew over in the direction of the object now gone from sight behind the hill. Some of us commented that “if” “they” were following it, meaning the jets, they were a few minutes too late. Just then we heard the sound of a low flying jet from behind the hill, and suddenly clearing the top of the hill and right over our heads, came a very fast military jet chasing a faster large red glowing light. The military jet had both red and white blinking strobe lights and glowing afterburners and was VERY loud as it flew directly above our heads. The large red light had NO blinking lights and NO sound at all! It became clear to all 50 plus witnesses, this was NO jet!!! Those folks present who looked with the aid of the goggles said they were seeing either 2 lights, or one object with 2 light sources on it. After extensive review of the footage, I am nearly certain it shows 2 UFOs (fast moving lights), flying in perfect locked tandem with one another. It appears you can see stars between them in the background suggesting that these are 2 seperate objects. As is usually the case, this footage while incredible, does not do the sighting justice. The video is in black and white night vision, not full-color naked-eye vision, and does not have any sound, so you are unable to hear the palatable excitement of 50 plus witnesses screaming and cheering.
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Due to advances in technology, scientists have been keeping an eye out for signs of alien megastructures. One scientist hypothesizes that, if such a megastructure exists, it would be around a pulsar instead of a star.
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. Image 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. Image 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. Image Credit: Eburacum45/SentientDevelopments.com
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. Image 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.
Astronomers Have a New Explanation For The 'Alien Megastructure' Star
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Astronomers Have a New Explanation For The 'Alien Megastructure' Star
Sorry, ET fans.
DAVID NIELD
Strange dips in the light from Tabby's Star have been puzzling scientists since 2015, with some hopefuls refusing to rule out the chance that some kind of "alien megastructure" could be blocking the way.
Experts have now come up with another explanation that doesn't involve extraterrestrial technology, but rather a massive ringed planet some five times the size of Jupiter.
Astronomers from the University of Valencia and the University of Cantabria in Spain ran a giant planet model and found it could account for some of the light fluctuations if the planet's rings were tilted.
Other dips in light that scientists have recorded since could be caused by trailing asteroids, the team says.
If the hypothesis is right, then we're going to see another dip in light in 2021 thanks to a second cloud of asteroids, as these swarms usually travel in pairs – so we need to keep our telescopes trained at the stars.
"We aim at offering a relatively natural solution, invoking only phenomena that have been previously observed, although perhaps in larger or more massive versions," the astronomers write in their paper.
Tabby's Star, technically known as KIC 8462852, is more massive and hotter than our Sun, and can be found almost 1,500 light-years away between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations of the Milky Way.
We've known about it since 2009, but a couple of years ago the star became something of a stellar celebrity after astronomers noted dips in light that were far more frequent and irregular than they should be.
Since then, more variations in the emitted light have been spotted, with the most recent just last month. That particular dip could be caused by the giant planet passing behind Tabby's Star, say the researchers responsible for the new hypothesis.
That would dim the total amount of light coming from the system, as there would be no visible reflection off the planet as it passed behind the star.
If we're not dealing with alien spaceships or a huge planet the size of five Jupiters, space junk could also be responsible, according to a 2016 study.
That study put forward the idea that a different star along our line of sight, together with an unidentified form of space clutter, could be causing the dimming.
For now, the idea of planetary rings and asteroids is just a hypothesis, and it hasn't yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal. The astronomers behind it have put their study online at arXiv.org to get feedback from the wider scientific community.
Not everyone is convinced, however: David Kipping from Columbia University says that the biggest issue is the way the model scales.
"It's great that we're getting creative and maybe some parts of this theory might comprise the final answer, but I'm fairly sceptical this is the solution," Kipping told Shannon Hall at New Scientist.
The study authors aren't too deterred though: they say that although there are problems with how the idea scales, large parts of the hypothesis fit the data we've got.
"Whatever the solution to the riddle, it's going to be exciting," one of the researchers, Alberto Fernández-Soto, told New Scientist.
In 2021, we might get chance to see if Fernández-Soto and his colleagues are right.
You can see the paper for yourself at the pre-print website arXiv.org.
Aliens May Be Trying To Communicate With Us Using Neutrino Beams
Aliens May Be Trying To Communicate With Us Using Neutrino Beams
ANDREW FOLLETT
Energy and Science Reporter
Alien civilizations could be attempting to communicate with us using extremely advanced neutrino-based communication systems and we may be unable to detect it, according to a Thursday Universe Today article.
Scientists think that an advanced alien civilization may have moved beyond radio waves in favor of using neutrinos or other exotic particles as forms of communication. If true, this means that humanity has been searching for aliens using the wrong techniques.
Previous Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) radio astronomy surveys used radio waves because they were the only practical means of locating aliens. However, scientists now suspect that an alien civilization would likely use a more exotic means of communication.
“We are not really sure of how extraterrestrials would communicate with us,” Dr. Morris Jones, a SETI analyst, told Universe Today. “Would they use radio waves, lasers, or something more exotic? Perhaps the universe is awash in extraterrestrial signals that we cannot even receive.”
One of the best potentials methods for an extraterrestrial civilization to communicate is neutrinos, a type of subatomic particle that is produced by the decay of radioactive elements and interacts with matter very weakly. This allows them to pass through solid matter, but makes them detectable only with extremely specialized equipment that SETI hasn’t used to search for aliens yet.
“Is it possible to transmit with something better than we already have?” Jones said. “Until we know a lot more physics, we just won’t know. Humanity in the twenty-first century could be like an isolated tribe in the Amazon jungle a century ago, unaware that the air around them was filled with radio signals.”
Neutrino based communication offers a potential solution to the Fermi Paradox, the question of why scientists haven’t yet detected aliens. The universe is vast enough that if intelligent alien life was common, logically scientists should have detected it by now. Since many previous SETI searches for advanced aliens looked for radio emissions, not neutrinos, this may offer a solution to the paradox.
“SETI practitioners spend a lot of time wondering how a message would be encoded in terms of language and content,” Jones said. “It’s also important to consider the medium of transmission.”
Human being have already developed the technology to use lasers for communication, but SETI telescopes haven’t searched for lasers nearly as much as radio waves.
However, alien civilizations still could use radio bursts to communicate. Scientists still can’t explain mysterious signals from deep space called fast radio bursts (FRB) — millisecond long pulses of radio light originating from extremely deep space. These FRBs could be evidence of advanced alien technology as they are roughly one billion times more luminous than anything ever detected in our own Milky Way galaxy.
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Is it time to call Mulder and Scully? After the spotting of a mysterious flying object in the skies over Frome, it might come as a bit of surprise that this is just one of nearly 200 reported sightings in Somerset, in the past decade, according to www.uk-ufo.co.uk .
It would seem that aliens are choosing the West Country for a weekend break but there are still plenty of doubters as to whether there is extraterrestrial life out there.
Here are ten of the most convincing sightings. Let us know in the comments below whether you believe the witness statements. The truth is out there.
Yeovil – 20 May 2013 – 23:15
Darren was just winding down after a particularly intense part of his Open University course, when he spotted something strange in the cloudy sky. He recalls: “It was moving very quickly through the sky and if it wasn’t for the moon reflecting off its silver surface, I would not have seen the triangular fronted object that whizzed on through the air in front of me.
“I really did see some kind of object going silently and very fast across the skyline at around 200-400ft. I would estimate the object to be about twice as wide as a passenger jumbo jet but it didn’t seem to be as long. It had a triangular front to its shape and reminded me of the black stealth aircraft that you see on television.
“This all happened in the space of two seconds.”
UFO probability rating: 6/10
Taunton Racecourse – 3 July 2011 – 22:00
Chris has been enjoying a music festival at the racecourse when something caught his eye in the sky. He remembers: “In a perfectly clear sky, no other stars in sight, a white orb of light appeared and seemed to get brighter and brighter, and then quickly faded out, or shot up in to the sky. It was if it had been spotted. I was in a completely sober state at the time of this sighting and was completely lost for words.”
UFO probability rating: 2/10
Yeovil – 1 January 2010 – 00:15
Vanessa was celebrating the new year by letting the dogs out to do their business before bedtime, when something caught her eye. She said: “I noticed an orange light in the sky, above a house approximately 300 metres from our house. It was an orange glow, at least 1000 metres high and moved steadily towards our house. It was travelling as fast as a plane, but there was no noise. It wasn’t a plane or helicopter and was travelling too fast to be a Chinese lantern.
“The glow passed over our house and then carried on travelling until it was out of sight. There were approximately seven other lights moving on the same trajectory at the same speed over the next five minutes.
“My husband also saw the lights – he has been in the RAF and confirmed that it wasn’t any aircraft that he was familiar with.”
UFO probability rating: 6/10
Frome – 24 November 2011 – 18:20
Tom was enjoying a crisp November night when he saw a satellite in the sky. The problem was, it wasn’t behaving how he would expect it to. He recalls: “I noticed that it was in fact slowly changing direction and not continuing in a straight direction as one would expect.
“At this point I could also see another satellite in a different location in the night sky. The first object started to change its direction more drastically before a large flash appeared to the right of where it was travelling. a few moments later a second flash appeared from the same static location fading back to a singular point of light and then entirely. Each flash lasted for no more than 4 seconds.”
UFO probability rating: 3/10
Glastonbury – 7 August 2011 – 21:45
Kevin and Lorraine had spotted various bright lights in the sky on previous occasions but this time there was something otherworldly about them. Lorraine said about the incident: “It appeared much lower, bigger and brighter. A bright orange oval shape, moving fairly fast and silently.
“It appeared suddenly and disappeared just as suddenly. Myself, my husband and also a third person with us have seen this by chance over a least the last two years.”
UFO probability rating: 4/10
'Alien' spotted at Yeovil bus stop
Bridgwater – 25 November 2011 – 20:00
Andy was taken aback when he saw an object resembling an Egyptian pyramid, hovering just a couple hundred feet above his house. He explains: “It was a fairly clear, very dark, starry night. I looked up to see a dark shape moving almost directly above me, heading from the north to the south. It passed by in about two seconds, covering the distance of a mile.
“As it passed over, it appeared to be a very dark diamond shape (rhombus), upright and appeared to be completely flat. It appeared darker than the surrounding near-black night sky and had a very dim ‘light’ at each point on the back. I estimate it passed overhead at an altitude of a couple of hundred feet and must have been approx. 50 feet across.”
UFO probability rating: 6/10
Minehead – 2 June 2014 – 23:00
Gavin was playing computer games with friends when a strange, low humming noise caught his ear. On looking out of the window, he was shocked by what he saw. He recalled: “I saw a huge black triangle, which appeared to have two white lights and one red light on the bottom of it.
“The craft can only have been 120 to 150 feet off the ground and was moving extremely slowly across the sky.”
This is not the first sighting of this UFO, as it seems to be a regular in the neighbourhood. Gavin continues: “I have seen this same craft four times now and it is usually heading in the same direction and it’s always a clear night when I see it.”
UFO probability rating: 2/10
Weston-Super-Mare – 12 August 2010 – 21:30
During a meteor shower, Ken spotted something that resembled a fried egg performing strangely in the sky. He explains what he thought he saw: “This light dropped rapidly before rapidly ascending almost vertically. It then began moving very fast in circles and darting up and down.
“It had no real lights, more a haze of white and grey and after about 30 seconds, it disappeared from my view.”
It hadn’t finished there though and the UFO was soon back to torment Ken. He continued: “I saw this again but now it went extremely fast from the west towards the east. It had a yellowish glow with three brighter yellowy glows within it.”
UFO probability rating: 3/10
Bath – 24 August 2010 – 04:00
In the middle of the night, Bradleigh was driving home from hospital when he saw a UFO covered in Egyptian style writing hovering just 15 metres off the ground. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to get photographic evidence but he did say: “I was really shocked of what I witnessed. It was a grey disc and had a multi-coloured aura underneath the craft. It had a semi-circular window on the top that I could not see through. I stared at it for about 30 seconds before it started to rotate whilst hovering very strangely. All of a sudden, it then shoots towards Cley Hill area.
“It left a trail of smoke or steam and a second later, the smoke or steam pulsated and followed the UFO. I have done some research on UFO sightings in the area and found that Cley Hill is a hotspot for some reason.”
UFO probability rating: 5/10
Milverton – 27 September 2014 – 02:00
Mrs. Quarmby and her husband had been enjoying watching fire jugglers at a party, when their attention was taken by a spectacular shooting star. What happened next though has stumped her for an explanation, though she does try: “What I thought was a shooting star transformed into three lights, which formed a perfect triangle pointing towards the earth.
Each corner was lit very brightly and I know it wasn’t a plane or helicopter. The lights were much brighter than the stars and much bigger. It looked like it was hovering, then vanished.”
UFO probability rating: 3/10
Have you seen an UFO over Somerset, of have had an unexplained otherworldly experience whilst completely sober, then we would love to know about it in the comments below.
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The Roswell UFO crash really happened, 'witness' claims
The Roswell UFO crash really happened, 'witness' claims
Dan Satherley
The army says it was a top-secret weapons-detecting balloon - or was it? Photo credit: Getty
The infamous Roswell UFO crash really happened, a Texas cop claims in a newly surfaced interview.
Sheriff Jess Slaughter and his deputy, Charles Fogus, heard police radio reports of a crashed aircraft in early July 1947 and decided to investigate, reports UK paper The Mirror.
When they came across the site the pair saw alien bodies being loaded onto trucks, Mr Fogus says in a 1999 interview that's never been made public before.
"The bodies must have been five-feet tall," he explains. "I saw the legs and feet on some of them. They looked like our feet. The skin was a brownish colour, like they were in the sun too long. There were soldiers there, about 300 or 400 of them."
The newly surfaced interview was recorded and conducted by private investigator Deanna Short in 1999, and is revealed in new book UFOs Today - 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up, written by Dr Irena Scott.
"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 Scott said in a statement.
"This gentleman's unique testimony will be published here for the first time."
Front page of the local paper Photo credit: Roswell Daily Record
Though media initially reported a "flying saucer" had crashed, the Army quickly swooped in to clarify it was just a weather balloon. That killed the story, until the late 1970s when UFO researchers began claiming publicly the US government had covered up an encounter with extra-terrestrials.
In the 1990s the Army revealed the debris was actually a top-secret balloon designed to detect atomic weapons tests by the Soviet Union, and the alien bodies witnesses claim to have seen were just test dummies.
"The Great Father didn't just make this planet, he made all of them," he said in the interview.
"He put beings on these planets just like he put us on this one. They're smarter than we are. They can get from there to here, but we can't get from here to there."
The Roswell incident is perhaps the most famous UFO conspiracy of the 20th century, and has inspired numerous movies and TV series.
Nick Redfern claims to have solved the Roswell UFO mystery.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since July 1947 when 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 top-secret military base.
It has remained the most infamous UFO conspiracy theory ever since.
But now a new book has put forward a theory that is claimed could solve the world's biggest ever UFO mystery once and for all.
Nick Redfern
The theory has not gone down well with UFO believers who see Roswell as their holy grail.
British UFO and paranormal investigator Nick Redfern suggests that the object that crashed may have been a top-secret experimental craft with human guinea pigs on it who perished.
In the book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy - Exposing A Shocking And Sinister Secret, he claims the UFO myth was pedalled by the US Government to cover up the real horrific truth.
Refern's theory comes from an interview he conducted in 2001 while investigating Roswell.
He met with an elderly woman, who claimed to have worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
She claimed that shortly after the Second World War, she saw "human guinea pigs" including the Japanese, handicapped people, and prisoners.
She told of them being involved in experiments with new aircraft.
Through her testimony, and other witnesses he's spoken with in the ensuing years, Redfern has pieced together that the so-called aliens found in the Roswell crash, were likely these humans deemed expendable by the government, who were used to test out the
George Noory
Redfern discussed the theory on Coast to Coast radio in the US.
Host George Noory said: "Through her testimony, and other witnesses he's spoken with in the ensuing years, Redfern has pieced together that the so-called aliens found in the Roswell crash, were likely these humans deemed expendable by the government, who were used to test out the rigours of high altitude exposure."
According to the book, the experiments reportedly used technologies brought over from Japan and Germany using gigantic balloons with attached gondolas that contained the test victims.
Mr Noory added: "The cause of the night flight disaster in July, 1947 may have been that the balloon collided with the craft that was accompanying it, which led to the balloon exploding and raining down a large amount of tin foil-like debris over Mac Brazel's ranch."
Mr Brazel had previously said he saw two balloons come down on his ranch.
People have said that hieroglyphics were seen on some parts of the wreckage, and Redfern says it may just have been Japanese writing.
Alejandro Rojas, host of Open Minds Radio, who also interviewed Mr Redfern, said: "This theory is highly controversial among UFO researchers."
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Aliens Have Visited Earth, Space Entrepreneur Robert Bigelow Believes
Aliens Have Visited Earth, Space Entrepreneur Robert Bigelow Believes
By Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and Robert Bigelow, founder of Bigelow Aerospace, talk while standing next to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module on Jan. 16, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images
Aliens are among us. That's the gist of comments made by billionaire space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday. Could intelligent alien life really exist on Earth and we wouldn't know about it?
Not likely, according to Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, who said, "Obviously, I think that aliens are out there. The conditions for life seem to be very widespread. All the requirements for life are everywhere, that doesn't prove life is everywhere."
"Could they come here and be buzzing the skies and occasionally entertaining Bob Bigelow by visiting him? It doesn't violate physics, but is it likely?" Shostak told Live Science. (Not really, because if it were, humans would have better evidence by now for their Earthly invasion, he said.) [13 Famous People Who Believe in Aliens]
Bigelow noted during the interview May 28 that his grandparents spotted a UFO on a canyon road outside Las Vegas: "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 "60 Minutes" reporter Lara Logan.
"Do you believe in aliens?" Logan asked. "I'm absolutely convinced and that's all there is to it," said Bigelow, founder and CEO of the commercial space company Bigelow Aerospace. "There has been and there is an existing presence, an E.T. presence."
When asked if he expects to see forms of intelligent life as humans explore the universe, Bigelow replied, "You don't have to go anywhere. … It's just, like, right under people's noses."
No proof of Earthly aliens
More than half of Americans (54 percent) believe intelligent life capable of communication exists among the stars, according to a 2015 survey by marketing research firm YouGov. Plenty of money and big minds have been put to the task of finding signs of E.T., with an entire institute called SETI devoted to just that.
"He's not the only Silicon Valley type, entrepreneur in the tech industry, that thinks we're being visited," Shostak said.
Even so, the solid evidence of these visitors is nonexistent.
"Interstellar travel is very difficult; it's an energy problem," Shostak explained. Adding to that, why would aliens come visit humans now and not 2,000 years ago? (There are no records of the ancient Romans worrying about UFOs.)
If there were some reason for modern-day alien visitors, Shostak said, someone would have strong evidence by now.
"Well, if you really do think they're here, then why is it that the evidence is so poor; if the evidence was so good, we wouldn't be arguing about it, we'd be investigating it," Shostak said. "We have satellites monitoring the Earth all the time. And they don't see these guys, and yet they're apparently so visible that a random guy like Bob Bigelow can see them."
Hostile aliens
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking believes not only that aliens are out there (though he doesn't think we'll find them anytime soon), but that they could destroy humanity. Another believer in hostile aliens is film director Ridley Scott, who recently told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that extraterrestrial beings exist, and if they decide to visit planet Earth, humans should watch out. "If you are stupid enough to challenge them you will be taken out in three seconds," Scott told AFP.
Even Winston Churchill believed: "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 an essay on the search for alien life that was recently uncovered at the Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri.
Right here in the solar system, NASA and private companies have spent billions on getting to know the Red Planet, with high hopes of finding signs of Martian life (though not intelligent beings), Leonard David reported in an article in Scientific American.
"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," reported David, author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," in a 2016 National Geographic article.
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World's Largest (and Oddest-Looking) Aircraft Rolled Out for Tests
World's Largest (and Oddest-Looking) Aircraft Rolled Out for Tests
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor
The Stratolaunch aircraft, which weighs about 500,000 pounds (227,000 kilograms) moved out of the hangar to conduct aircraft fueling tests on May 31, 2017.
Credit: Stratolaunch Systems Corp.
A bizarre, double-bodied airplane with the largest wingspan of any aircraft in the world just rolled out of its hangar for the first time.
The Stratolaunch aircraft is designed to carry satellites into low-Earth orbit. The aircraft will carry satellites and their launch vehicles to a cruising altitude of 36,000 feet (11,000 meters) or so, according to Paul G. Allen, the founder of Stratolaunch. From there, the aircraft becomes something like a mobile launch pad, releasing the satellites and their launchers into orbit before returning to the runway. The advantage, according to Allen, is that getting satellites into orbit would become easier and faster. No longer would scientists or governments have to wait for a rocket launch from the ground; the Stratolaunch plane could take off from many runways and fly for hundreds of miles to find good weather conditions.
The strange dual fuselages of the craft each have a role. The right fuselage is for the flight crew, according to the company, and the left fuselage houses flight data systems. The payload will be carried underneath the conjoined center wing. Six 747 engines will lift the craft off the ground, and 28 wheels will allow for runway-style takeoffs and landings.
Now, construction of this mobile satellite launcher has advanced enough to move the Stratolaunch craft out of the hangar for its first round of testing. Today (May 31) marks the first time the plane has left the hangar, and also the first time the aircraft has held its own weight, according to a company statement — Until now, the aircraft has been partially supported by scaffolding and other infrastructure used for constructing the giant plane.
Six 747 engines will lift the Stratolaunch off the ground.
Credit: Stratolaunch Systems Corp.
The craft's wingspan measures 386 feet (118 m) across, 26 feet (8 m) longer than a professional football field. That makes the Stratolaunch plane the largest in the world by wingspan. From nose to tail, the plane is 238 feet (76 m) long. It's taller than a four-story building from the ground to the tallest point of its tail, which towers 50 feet (15 m) high. The Airlander 10, a helium-filled airship, is considered the world's longest aircraft currently flying, extending 302 feet (92 m) long. [In Photos: Building the World's Largest Airship (Airlander 10)]
The craft weighs in at 500,000 pounds (nearly 227,000 kilograms) and is designed to carry payloads of another 550,000 lbs. (nearly 250,000 kg). The first planned launch will be a single Orbital ATK Pegasus XL vehicle, a pre-existing rocket that can launch from carrier aircrafts. The company hopes to demonstrate such a launch in early 2019.
For now, the Stratolaunch team is conducting fueling tests, after which the craft will go through engine runs, ground testing and taxi testing before the first flight test.
A Minuteman missile is lowered into its silo at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., 30 miles from its control center outside Belt, Monday, June 27, 1966.
AP PHOTO/U.S. AIR FORCE
Whatever the mysterious lights in the sky were, they seemed to have an interest in our nukes.
One of the more out-of-the-ordinary press conferences held in Washington this week consisted of former Air Force personnel testifying to the existence of UFOs and their ability to neutralize American and Russian nuclear missiles.
UFO researcher Robert Hastings of Albuquerque, N.M., who organized the National Press Club briefing, said more than 120 former service members had told him they'd seen unidentified flying objects near nuclear weapon storage and testing grounds.
Star & Stripes quoted former Air Force Capt. Robert Salas, who was at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in 1967 when 10 ICMs he was overseeing suddenly became inoperative - at the same time base security informed him of a mysterious red glowing object in the sky.
Robert Jamison, a retired USAF nuclear missile targeting officer, told of several occasions having to go out and "re-start" missiles that had been deactivated, after UFOs were sighted nearby.
Similar sightings at nuclear sites in the former Soviet Union and in Britain were related.
CBS Affiliate KSWT describes "Britain's Roswell," a case of unidentified phenomena in December 1980 incident near two Royal Air Force Bases in Suffolk, England.
Several U.S. Air Force personnel reported seeing a strange metallic object hovering in Rendlesham Forest near RAF Woodbridge, and found three depressions in the ground.
Speaking at Monday's press briefing, retired USAF Col. Charles Halt said that in December 1980, when he was deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters, strange lights in the forest were investigated by three patrolmen.
Halt said they reported approaching a triangular craft, "approximately three meters on a side, dark metallic in appearance with strange markings. They were observing it for a period of time, and then it very quickly and silently vanished at high speed."
Two nights later, Halt investigated another sighting near the base when he was told by the base commander, "It's back."
Halt found indentations in the ground, broken branches, and low-level background radiation. He and his team also witnessed various lights moving silently in the sky, of one which was "shedding something like molten metal." Another shined a beam of light down towards them.
The incidents were never officially explained.
Several of the ex-servicemembers speaking Monday said when they'd brought their concern of such appearances to superiors, they'd been told it was "top secret" or that it "didn't happen."
Hastings suggested the presence of such phenomena meant that aliens were monitoring our weapons, and perhaps warning us - "a sign to Washington and Moscow that we are playing with fire," as he was quoted in the Telegraph.
Hastings predicted a "paradigm shift" in the mindset of humanity owing to the existence of alien life.
"Traditional institutions such as religions, governments, other social institutions may be threatened by what is coming. That is just the logical consequence of what is about to occur."
The U.S. Air Force ended its 22-year-long "Project Blue Book" investigation of UFO sightings after investigating 12,618 sightings; all but 701 were explained, and the reminder categorized as "unidentified" due to sketchy reports, a Pentagon spokesman said in 1997.
"We cannot substantiate the existence of UFOs, and we are not harboring the remains of UFOs," said Pentagon spokesperson Kenneth Bacon in 1997. "I can't be more clear about it than that."
PRESIDENT KENNEDY SAW EVIDENCE OF ALIENS AND UFOS? – VIDEO
PRESIDENT KENNEDY SAW EVIDENCE OF ALIENS AND UFOS? – VIDEO
The documentary claims JFK admitted knowing about aliens and interviews in a talk with his ‘pilot’.
A “FORMER pilot” for John F Kennedy has been filmed saying the assassinated president had seen government evidence of aliens and UFOs. The man, who … is seen speaking to camera about a conversation with the president.
He described the pair discussing a newspaper article that mentioned UFOs.
The man, who is not named in the clip … says the president asked him what he thought, so he threw the question back at JFK.
He said: “JFK responded, ‘well I asked you first’.”
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. […]
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‘EXTRAORDINARILY BRIGHT’ MYSTERY OBJECT SPOTTED IN GALAXY CYGNUS A
‘EXTRAORDINARILY BRIGHT’ MYSTERY OBJECT SPOTTED IN GALAXY CYGNUS A
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.
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.
he 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.
‘HALOS’ DISCOVERED ON MARS WIDEN TIME FRAME FOR POTENTIAL LIFE
‘HALOS’ DISCOVERED ON MARS WIDEN TIME FRAME FOR POTENTIAL LIFE
A mosaic of images from the navigation cameras on the NASA Curiosity rover shows ‘halos’ of lighter-toned bedrock around fractures. These halos comprise high concentrations of silica and indicate that liquid groundwater flowed through the …more
Lighter-toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica—called “halos”—has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed. The new finding is reported in a paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
“The concentration of silica is very high at the centerlines of these halos,” said Jens Frydenvang, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Copenhagen and lead author of the paper. “What we’re seeing is that silica appears to have migrated between very old sedimentary bedrock and into younger overlying rocks. The goal of NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has been to find out if Mars was ever habitable, and it has been very successful in showing that Gale crater once held a lake with water that we would even have been able to drink, but we still don’t know how long this habitable environment endured. What this finding tells us is that, even when the lake eventually evaporated, substantial amounts of groundwater were present for much longer than we previously thought—thus further expanding the window for when life might have existed on Mars.”
Whether this groundwater could have sustained life remains to be seen. But this new study buttresses recent findings by another Los Alamos scientist who found boron on Mars for the first time, which also indicates the potential for long-term habitable groundwater in the planet’s past.
The halos were analyzed by the rover’s science payload, including the laser-shooting Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument, developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in conjunction with the French space agency. Los Alamos’ work on discovery-driven instruments like ChemCam stems from the Laboratory’s experience building and operating more than 500 spacecraft instruments for national security.
Curiosity has traveled more than 16 km over more than 1,700 sols (martian days) as it has traveled from the bottom of Gale crater part way up Mount Sharp in the center of the crater. Scientists are using all the data collected by ChemCam to put together a more complete picture of the geological history of Mars.
The elevated silica in halos was found over approximately 20 to 30 meters in elevation near a rock-layer of ancient lake sediments that had a high silica content. “This tells us that the silica found in halos in younger rocks close by was likely remobilized from the old sedimentary rocks by water flowing through the fractures,” said Frydenvang. Specifically, some of the rocks containing the halos were deposited by wind, likely as dunes. Such dunes would only exist after the lake had dried up. The presence of halos in rocks formed long after the lake dried out indicates that groundwater was still flowing within the rocks more recently than previously known.
Humanity’s interest in the topic of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) continues to increase. The subject has received some well deserved attention as of late, and continues to pick up momentum in a time where the truth about UFOs and possible extraterrestrials (already visiting our planet) is hitting the mainstream world.
This “truth” includes the fact that dozens of foreign governments have released thousands of pages of UFO related documents –here is an example of the latest batch released from the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense in June 2013. Other country’s governments who have done the same include Mexico, France, Argentina, Russia and Belgium, just to name a few. The fact that governments have released and documented information that detail UFO encounters with the military, as well as supposed extraterrestrial encounters with people, tells us that they’ve had and do have a high level of interest when it comes to the topic of UFOs and extraterrestrials. Had this information remained classified, nobody would officially be able to say that governments have allocated resources to investigate this phenomenon, and it would have remained in the “conspiracy” realm. At the same time, it’s important to remember that this issue goes far beyond and well above government control.
“It is ironic that the U.S. should be fighting monstrously expensive wars allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects which both congress and the commander in chief know nothing about.” – Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defense Minister (source)
“Everything is in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data.” – General Carlos Castro Cavero (1979). From “UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2″, Written by Richard Dolan
“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former head of CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source)
Just last year at the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, a United States congresswoman voiced her opinion that the US government should disclose this existence, pointing to the fact that a number of foreign governments have already done so -you can read more about that story here.
Apart from government documents, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has allowed researchers to petition and receive thousands of pages of UFO related documents from various agencies. Here is a defense intelligence agency document outlining an encounter that took place in Iran in 1976. It details a military encounter with a UFO. You can read more about what happens when the military encounters a UFO and tracks it on radar here, it’s quite common.
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
Documents also indicate various incursions at nuclear missile sites.
The UFO issue is one that has a tremendous amount of evidence behind it. As of today, nobody can really tell you that UFOs aren’t real. Objects have been tracked on radar and visually confirmed, performing maneuvers that defy our understanding of physics and traveling at unattainable speeds. For more detailed information (documents, statements from high ranking individuals) on the subject of UFOs, and why some of them (UFOs) might be extraterrestrial you can check out the article below and/or visit our exopolitics section of the website by clicking HERE.
UFOS AT NUCLEAR MISSILE SITES
Many people who are aware, or who are becoming aware of the UFO phenomenon are not aware of the fact that UFOs have been visiting and interacting with nuclear missile sites across the globe for decades. This is a well documented fact that dates back all the way to December of 1948.
“Significantly, the UFO activity occasionally transcends mere surveillance and involves direct and unambiguous interference with our strategic weapons systems. Numerous cases include reports of mysterious malfunctions of large numbers of nuclear missiles just as one or more UFOs hovered nearby.” (Declassified Soviet Ministry of Defense documents confirm that such incidents also occurred in the former USSR.)
The above quote is from UFO researcher Robert Hastings, who has been researching the UFO phenomenon and its relation to nuclear missile sites for a a long time. Here is a clip of Robert speaking at the National Press Club in 2010.
THE ENCOUNTER AT MINOT AIR FORCE BASE
Minot Air Force base is located in North Dakota. In the 1960’s it was a major Strategic Air Command base, responsible for housing ICBMs (nuclear missiles). On August 25th, 1966 a team at the base was ordered to investigate a very high multi-colored light that was positioned well above the base. The team confirmed the object, as well as a second object, the object was also tracked on radar. It rose and descended several times, and eventually descended to ground level about 15 miles away from the base. According to the official report:
“When the team was about ten miles from the landing site, static disrupted radio contact with them. Five to eight mintues later, the glow diminished, and the UFO took off.” (1)
This incident lasted approximately four hours, and was confirmed by three different nuclear missile sites.
THE ENCOUNTER AT MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE
The UFO incursion at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana is one of the most remarkable events in this history of UFO encounters with the military. This occurred in March of 1967 at a base that was responsible for a large amount of nuclear weapons. Here’s what happened:
An excerpt taken from the book UFOs For The 21st Century Mind. Written By Richard Dolan.
“An airman with the Oscar Flight Launch Control Center (LCC) saw a star-like object zigzagging high above him. Soon, a larger and closer light also appeared and acted in a similar way. The airman called his non-commissioned officer, and the two men watched the lights streak through the sky, maneuvering in impossible ways. The NCO phoned his commander, Lieutenant Robert Salas, who was not impressed. He ordered the NCO to keep watching the display and report back if the objects got any closer. Minutes later that is precisely what happened. Shouting into the phone, the NCO told Salas that a red, glowing UFO was hovering outside the front gate.
Salas woke his commander, Lieutenant Fred Meiwald. As he briefed Meiwald, an alarm went off in the small capsule, and both men saw a “No-Go” light turn on for one of the missiles. Within seconds, about ten of the missiles went down in succession. Twenty miles away, at the Echo Launch Control Center, the same scenario took place.
Strike teams were sent to the two launch facilities, where maintenance crews were at work and had been watching UFOs hover over each of their sites. The missiles were down for most of the day. Neither the Air Force invesigation, nor Boeing’s tests found any cause for the shutdown.”
Over the past few years, several Air Force personnel have come forward to confirm that something did happen, and in 2010 Salas was part of a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., that included these personnel. You can watch that full conference below:
Here is another video of Professor Robert Jacobs describing UFOs shutting down and disabling nuclear weapons that have already been launched.
Above are two of several instances that have occurred throughout the years and have been officially documented.
WHY ARE UFOS DEACTIVATING OUR NUCLEAR MISSILES?
In my opinion, atomic weapons are something Earth and those who reside upon it don’t need. Perhaps the deactivations are a message to us that we are playing with something we don’t need to play with? Many UFOs started appearing when we were testing atomic weapons. Is it possible that some extraterrestrial beings might be concerned for the planet and the well being of the human race? Perhaps they are telling us we are playing with fire? Something we don’t need or shouldn’t have?
At the same time, we don’t need beings from another world to come tell us that harboring nuclear weapons that are capable of destroying the planet aren’t needed.
Perhaps the damage caused by the detonation of nuclear weapons reaches and affects worlds beyond our own?
Perhaps this is advanced technology from another country? Spying on our weaponry. Perhaps (if extraterrestrials) they are showing their superiority?
Based on my research into the topic of UFOs and extraterrestrials, I personally believe this is being done by benevolent extraterrestrials, and that it is a clear message to stop playing around with nuclear weapons and to take care of our planet.
What are your thoughts? Why do you think these incursions happened? Why do you think they are happening? Feel free to share in the comment section below.
I’d like to leave you with a video I’ve used several times before. But the statement is powerful, and true. The evidence supporting this phenomenon is overwhelming, and it’s one of the (if not the) most important story in human history that branches into so many different topics, and has so many implications. Again, browse through our exopolitics section for more articles on this subject, we have many.
Sources: All sources not listed here are highlighted throughout the article.
(0) Dolan, Richard. UFOs For the 21st Century Mind: New York: Richard Dolan Press, 2014
(0) (1) Report, Department of the Air Force, Headquarters 862nd Combat Support Group (SAC), Minot AFB, North Dakota. Subject: UFO Report, to: AFSC (FTD) Wright-Petters
Nooit eerder vertoond interview over Roswell-crash. Wat zag deze hulpsheriff op de plek waar de UFO neerstortte?
Nooit eerder vertoond interview over Roswell-crash. Wat zag deze hulpsheriff op de plek waar de UFO neerstortte?
In juli 1947 waren sheriff Jess Slaughter en hulpsheriff Charles Fogus onderweg naar Roswell om een gevangene op te halen, toen ze op de politieradio hoorden dat er een vliegtuig was gecrasht.
De twee mannen besloten op onderzoek uit te gaan en een bezoek te brengen aan de plek waar zich één van de meest beroemde UFO-incidenten in de geschiedenis heeft voorgedaan.
Hoewel het Amerikaanse leger claimt dat het gecrashte object een weerballon was, menen complottheoretici dat er op de plek tenminste één buitenaards vaartuig is neergekomen.
Gezien
In het nieuwe boek UFOs Today – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up wordt onthuld dat Fogus de gecrashte vliegende schotel persoonlijk heeft gezien.
Hij zegt ook te hebben gezien hoe militairen op de crashplek een aantal lichamen van buitenaardsen hebben geborgen.
Het is voor het eerst dat Fogus zich openlijk heeft uitgesproken over de Roswell-crash.
‘Ze vervoerden een wezen’
In een interview zegt hij dat hij aan de rand van een rivierbedding een vliegende schotel zag met een doorsnee van ruim 30 meter.
“Toen we aankwamen wemelde het er van de soldaten,” zei hij. “Ze vervoerden een wezen. De lichamen waren 1,5 meter lang.”
Verlaten
“Ik zag de benen en voeten van sommige van de wezens,” voegde hij toe. “Die zagen eruit als onze voeten.”
“Ze waren bruin van kleur, alsof ze te lang in de zon hadden gelegen,” zei Fogus. “Er waren ongeveer 300 tot 400 soldaten.”
Na een minuut of 20 kregen ze te horen dat ze de plek moesten verlaten.
Slimmer
Volgens de hulpsheriff waren deze wezens slimmer dan wij en kunnen ze van hun planeet naar de onze reizen, maar kunnen wij niet naar hun planeet reizen.
De Britse Daily Mirror heeft de hand weten te leggen op het transcript van het interview tussen hulpsheriff Fogus en privédetective Deanna Short in 1999, dat hier te vinden is.
Des crops circles, mystérieux dessins au milieu des champs, sont apparus dans la nuit du jeudi 1er au vendredi 2 juin, dans le Sancerrois.
Situés sur la route de Bourges, au lieu-dit le Briou à Crézancy-en-Sancerre, ils ont été repérés par de nombreux passants qui ont immortalisé la scène.
Le propriétaire du terrain a déposé une plainte à la gendarmerie du Sancerrois, car si contrairement à ce que certains pensent, ce n'est pas un phénomène extraterrestre, ça nuit à la récolte.
Le dernier phénomène recensé dans le Cher remonte à 2009, près de Bourges, mais des cas similaires ont été observés dans la Nièvre et le Loiret en 2012.
Well, my three recent articles on questionable documents (one on Marilyn Monroe, the second on the Rendlesham Forest affair, and the third on weird goings-on in 1940s-1950s Chicago) provoked a handful of emails in response. But, they weren’t quite the responses I was anticipating. With hindsight, though, maybe I should have expected them. Of the eleven people who contacted me, not a single one took the view that the documents were nothing but hoaxes perpetrated by people within the field of Ufology (which, in my view, is the most likely of all the explanations, even though I’m slightly open-minded on the Marilyn document, but as for the other two: pure garbage). Rather, all eleven only served to complicate things even further by suggesting that the hoaxes just had to be the work of – as one person worded it – “government agents.” Not sad figures with too much time on their hands and a lack of what is known as a social-life, after all?
Terms like “disinformation,” “counterintelligence” and “psychological warfare” were tossed around, as a means to explain to me and justify why these were not just time-wasting hoaxes. So, in a roundabout way, by highlighting the three questionable documents referred to above, I inadvertently added to – or, at the very lest, encouraged – the conspiracy theories, rather than laying them to rest.
The U.S. Government describes psychological warfare as, “The planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions having the primary purpose of influencing the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way as to support the achievement of national objectives.” Then, there is the matter of disinformation – a word which pops up regularly in the UFO field. English Oxford Living Dictionaries says of disinformation that it is, “False information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media.”
And there is this from Wikipedia: “Historically the word ‘disinformation’ has been reserved for a body of false information propagated at the state and state secret services level but in recent times it has a looser meaning in English relating to propaganda, fake news or a body of lies by any organization and possibly any individual.” As for counterintelligence, Merriam-Webster states that it amounts to the “…organized activity of an intelligence service designed to block an enemy’s sources of information, to deceive the enemy, to prevent sabotage, and to gather political and military information.”
Now, it’s important to note that counterintelligence, disinformation, and psychological warfare certainly have played significant roles in the domain of Ufology. Take, for example, the saga of Paul Bennewitz, whose life was ruined when he got too close to something that certain figures in the world of government were determined to keep him away from. The same might be said when it comes to the multiple explanations put forward to explain the Roswell affair of July 1947.
So, in light of all this, yes, the three documents referred to above could have been the work of people in government; people who were skilled in the arts of disinformation and counterintelligence. But, what intrigued me most, from reading the emails, was the clear yearning for the documents to be more than merely someone’s obscure prank. The wording of several of the people who emailed me made it abundantly obvious that they wanted the documents to be more than just the results of a bit of cut-and-pasting and photocopying in mommy’s basement. Why? The excitement factor, I suppose. If that’s the kind of thing that excites you, of course.
Ufologists have achieved great things over the years and decades. But, sometimes – in fact, I would say, more than often – Ufologists have been guilty of over-thinking a situation when, in reality, the most likely and down-to-earth explanation is the correct one.
WHAT WAS THE BIG EYED MONSTER? Roswell UFO conspiracy deepens as cop reveals he saw soldiers ‘hauling away creature’ from crash site in never-before-seen interview
WHAT WAS THE BIG EYED MONSTER?
Roswell UFO conspiracy deepens as cop reveals he saw soldiers ‘hauling away creature’ from crash site in never-before-seen interview
Bombshell interview could lift the lid on what allegedly happened that July night in 1947
Former US Deputy Sheriff Charlie Forgus described seeing soldiers “hauling a big creature”.
The bodies must have been 5 feet tall,” he said.
In a new book, UFOs TODAY: 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up, officer Forgus reveals he saw what he calls a flying saucer and military personnel removing a number of alien bodies from the scene.
Speculation over alien visitation was rife over claims a flying disc had crash landed.
GETTY
COVER-UP: Many believed the Roswell crash was an alien cover-up by the USA government
“The land was covered with soldiers. They were hauling a big creature”
Deputy Sheriff Charlie Forgus
Bizarre images of so-called extraterrestrials have emerged online years later that authorities claim are fake.
US military officials confirmed a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul had crashed in the 1990s.
Yet ufologists are convinced an alien crash landing was covered-up by the US military.
In July 1947, Forgus and his sheriff Jess Slaughter were travelling together to pick up a prisoner when they heard reports of a crashed aircraft.
The two men decided to investigate and stumbled across the now infamous scene.
“When we got there, the land was covered with soldiers. They were hauling a big creature,” Forgus said.
“The bodies must have been 5ft tall.
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PROOF: A rock that supposedly split open in the UFO crash and evidence taken from the site
“I saw the legs and feet on some of them. They looked like our feet.
“The skin was a brownish color like they were in the sun too long. There were soldiers there about 300 or 400 of them.”
A transcript of the interview between Forgus and private investigator Deanna Short – obtained by the Mirror – was published by Philip Mantle, a former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association.
“It is rare that anyone new adds anything to the Roswell event from an eye witness point of view,” Mantle said.
“If you treat the Roswell UFO crash as a ‘cold case’ investigation then new testimony like this can be invaluable.”
That footage, recorded on a mobile phone by Mike Westlake, sparked discussion among Post readers who said they’d seen similar ‘unidentified’ lights in the sky.
Jessica Lewis said: “I saw this on Sunday night. About 6 orbs zooming across the sky then just disappeared into thin air. I couldn't catch them on camera and couldn't figure out why they wouldn't photograph. Moving very fast.”
Hayley Jayne also said she saw ‘three lights, no object swiftly moving through the fog on a Bristol evening’.
The latest collection of footage is the latest in a string of supposedsightings to fuel the conspiracy that Bristol is a hotbed for extra-terrestrial activity.
The above video shows a similar triangle of lights filmed over Hanham
But reader Jeff Baldwin, who responded to a video of the triangle of lights, was less than convinced of alien activity.
“I'm pleased your [sic] enjoying yourselves Bristol,” he wrote.
“Possible reasons might include: aircraft, low sun, planets, secret government projects, alien spacecraft. All are possible, but they're not all equally likely.”
Marsrover Curiosity ontdekt dat Mars langdurig vloeibaar water herbergde
Marsrover Curiosity ontdekt dat Mars langdurig vloeibaar water herbergde
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het suggereert dat het tijdvak waarin leven op de rode planeet kon ontstaan en standhouden langer duurde dan gedacht.
Marsrover Curiosity rijdt momenteel rond in de Gale-krater. En daar heeft de rover nu iets opmerkelijks ontdekt. Rond breuken in het gesteente bevindt zich gesteente dat lichter van kleur en rijk aan silica is. De onderzoekers duiden het lichte gesteente aan met de naam ‘halo’. En wat deze halo’s suggereren, is dat er zelfs lang nadat het meer in de Gale-krater verdampt was, nog grondwater stroomde.
Hier zie je de ‘halo’s: lichter gekleurd gesteente rond breuken in de Gale-krater.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Grondwater Curiosity trof de halo’s aan in afzettingen die ontstonden in de gloriedagen van het kratermeer. Maar ook in veel jonger gesteente dat waarschijnlijk door de wind in de Gale-krater is afgezet, nadat het kratermeer reeds was opgedroogd. In het hart van de halo’s is de concentratie silica hoog. De onderzoekers denken dat silica hier is afgezet toen grondwater door de breuken stroomde. En blijkbaar vloeide dat grondwater dus zelfs nadat het meer was opgedroogd nog rijkelijk.
Grondwater “Wat we zien is dat silica blijkbaar van heel oud sedimentair gesteente naar jongere gesteenten die daar bovenop zijn beland, is gereisd,” vertelt onderzoeker Jens Frydenvang. “Het doel van de missie van NASA’s Curiosity-rover was vaststellen of Mars ooit leefbaar was. En de rover heeft dat met succes gedaan, door aan te tonen dat de Gale-krater ooit een meer bevatte met water dat we zelfs zouden kunnen drinken. Maar we weten nog altijd niet hoelang dit leefbare gebied standhield. Wat deze vondst ons vertelt is dat zelfs toen het meer verdampte nog veel langer dan gedacht substantiële hoeveelheden grondwater aanwezig waren.”
En daarmee lijkt ook het tijdvak waarin leven zoals wij dat kennen – en dat niet zonder water kan – op Mars kon ontstaan en standhouden, omvangrijker dan gedacht. Of het grondwater dat zelfs na het verdampen van het meer in de Gale-krater door eventuele levensvormen gebruikt kon worden, is overigens nog niet bewezen.
Houden aliens momenteel een langdurige winterslaap?
Houden aliens momenteel een langdurige winterslaap?
Tim Kraaijvanger
Volgens de Fermiparadox zijn er miljarden aardachtige exoplaneten in ons sterrenstelsel. Maar waarom is er dan nog geen contact geweest met geavanceerde buitenaardse beschavingen? Wetenschappers vermoeden dat aliens wellicht een langdurige winterslaap houden.
In een nieuw paper opperen drie wetenschappers dat aliens zichzelf in een soort slaapmodus kunnen zetten. Misschien heb je de film Passengers gezien, waarin kolonisten naar een verre aardachtige planeet reizen en zich tijdens de honderd jaar durende reis in diepe slaap bevinden. Zoiets doen buitenaardse beschavingen dus ook, alleen gaat het dan om een winterslaap van vele miljarden of biljarden jaren. Maar waarom willen aliens dit?
Onderzoekers Anders Sandberg, Stuart Armstrong en Milan Ćirković vermoeden dat geavanceerde buitenaardse beschavingen een groot deel van het universum al hebben verkend. Toch weten ze dat er een betere, koele tijd aankomt. “Op dit moment is vrijwel iedere plek in het universum drie graden Celsius warmer dan het absolute nulpunt”, schrijven Sandberg en Ćirković in een blogpost. “Dit komt door de kosmische achtergrondstraling. Wanneer het heelal verder uitzet, daalt de temperatuur.” De kosmische achtergrondstraling is de warmtestraling die is uitgezonden tijdens de oerknal.
Steeds meer wetenschappers zijn ervan overtuigd dat geavanceerde buitenaardse beschavingen wellicht niet uit vlees en bloed bestaan, maar dat het computers zijn, die gebruik maken van kunstmatige intelligentie. Het is aannemelijk dat aliens hun brein uploaden naar een computer en hun inefficiënte biologische lichamen dumpen. Alles draait dan om rekenkracht.
In de film Passengers houden toekomstige kolonisten een langdurige winterslaap. Daarvoor maken zij gebruik van slaapcapsules.
Koel = cool En daarom is een lage temperatuur van groot belang. Een computer kan tien keer zo snel rekenen als het tien keer kouder is (in Kelvin). Als het heelal de komende miljarden jaren verder afkoelt, wordt het dus een steeds betere plek voor buitenaardse beschavingen. Het is daarom een mogelijkheid dat ze zichzelf momenteel hebben uitgeschakeld.
Tien quintiljoen keer meer doen “In een koudere toekomst kunnen zij tien quintiljoen keer zoveel doen,” zeggen de onderzoekers. Voor een alien is het dus verstandiger om een lang dutje te doen. Er zijn alternatieve mogelijkheden om koele plekken te vinden. Zo kunnen aliens een zwart gat gebruiken om warmte af te voeren. De temperatuur van zwarte gaten is kouder dan die van achtergrondstraling. Helaas werkt dit ‘slechts’ een paar honderd miljard jaar, daarna is de achtergrondstraling koeler.
Sparen voor later “Stel je voor dat je een portemonnee hebt met een paar biljetten (energie) en je wil graag taart kopen,” vertelt astrofysicus David Brin aan Gizmodo. “De taart wordt in de toekomst goedkoper. Je kunt dan beter je bankbiljetten sparen tot de minimumprijs is bereikt, anders krijg je minder taart voor je geld.”
We zullen voorlopig niet weten of de hypothese van Sandberg, Armstrong en Ćirković klopt, maar het zorgt in ieder geval voor wat mooie discussies.
University of Cambridge researchers have developed an AI algorithm that can assess how much pain a sheep is in by reading its facial expressions. This system can facilitate the early detection of painful conditions in livestock, and eventually, it could be used as the basis for AIs that read emotions on human faces.
READING SHEEP
One of today’s more popular artificially intelligent (AI) androids comes from the TV series “MARVEL’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Those of you who followed the latest season’s story — no spoilers here! — probably love or hate ADA by now. One of the most interesting things about this fictional AI character is that it can read people’s emotions. Thanks to researchers from the University of Cambridge, this AI ability might soon make the jump from sci-fi to reality.
The first step in creating such a system is training an algorithm on simpler facial expressions and just one specific emotion or feeling. To that end, the Cambridge team focused on using a machine learning algorithm to figure out if a sheep is in pain, and this week, they presented their research at the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition in Washington, D.C.
Image credit: Robinson, et al./University of Cambridge
The system they developed, the Sheep Pain Facial Expression Scale (SPFES), was trained using a dataset of 500 sheep photographs to learn how to identify five distinct features of a sheep’s face when the animal is in pain. The algorithm then ranks the features on a scale of 1 to 10 to determine the severity of the pain. Early tests showed that the SPFES could estimate pain levels with an 80 percent accuracy.
HUMANE AND HUMAN
SPFES was a departure for Peter Robinson, the Cambridge professor leading the research, as he typically focuses on systems designed to read human facial expressions. “There’s been much more study over the years with people,” Robinson explained in a press release.“But a lot of the earlier work on the faces of animals was actually done by Darwin, who argued that all humans and many animals show emotion through remarkably similar behaviors, so we thought there would likely be crossover between animals and our work in human faces.”
As co-author Marwa Mahmoud explained, “The interesting part is that you can see a clear analogy between these actions in the sheep’s faces and similar facial actions in humans when they are in pain – there is a similarity in terms of the muscles in their faces and in our faces.”
Next, the team hopes to teach SPFES how to read sheep facial expressions from moving images, as well as train the system to work when a sheep isn’t looking directly at a camera. Even as is, though, the algorithm could improve the quality of life of livestock like sheep by facilitating the early detection of painful conditions that require quick treatment, adding it to the growing list of practical and humane applications for AI.
Additional developments could lead to systems that are able to accurately recognize and react to human emotions, further blurring the line between natural and artificial intelligences.
First it was Hillary Clinton and John Podesta talking about releasing the government files on UFOs if she became president. This week, it was revealed that Russian government official met with American UFO lobbyist Steve Bassett to discuss appealing to President Vladimir Putin to release that country’s secret UFO files. Putin himself made a strange reference to ‘men in black’ duing an interview with a French newspaper. Now we have the appearance of a mysterious video of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani discussing a UFO encounter he had as a young boy. Is this a trend? Is UFO and alien disclosure coming sooner than we imagined or even hoped for?
The video was uploaded on June 1 by YouTube user Behzad GH and has no indications of when it was recorded or where. President Rouhani says the UFO encounter occurred when he was in elementary school, grade 3, when he was 7 or 8 years old. Since he was born in 1948, that would make the year 1955 or 1956. The location was most likely Sorkheh in Semnan Province where he grew up. Rouhani says it was at the dawn of a Ramadan month, so that would put his sighting somewhere around April 24, 1955, or April 12, 1956, according to the Islamic calendar for those years. He describes it as “cuboid” up to 3 meters per side and shining a bright light over a mosque.
The president says the UFO landed and he thought it looked like a “howdah” – those carriages put on the backs of elephants by the wealthy as a method of transportation. He claims he saw someone inside it but could not identify them before the UFO lifted back into space. Rouhani claimed to follow it for 200-300 meters until it descended onto another mosque, but remained there only briefly before ascending again and disappearing. He admits not knowing what it was but assures it was not a hallucination or a dream and says it was a “special moment” in his life.
A howdah
What was the cuboid UFO President Hassan Rouhani saw in Iran in his youth? There aren’t many records of UFO sightings in Iran in those years. The most famous Iranian UFO sighting was the 1976 Tehran UFO Incident when two F-4 fighter jets chased a UFO before suffering mechanical failures, an incident that was well documented in a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report and has never been adequately explained. That UFO was much larger than the one Rouhani described. The 2004 Iran UFO sighting was a mass sighting most investigators believe was a surveillance plane or Venus. There was no landing as in the case of Rouhani’s UFO.
A more recent incident reported in mid January 2017 allegedly involved the Iranian military firing at glowing orbs over Tehran before fighter planes arrived to find nothing … or at least that’s the ‘official’ report.
President Rouhani is a lawyer, academic and cleric. It’s unlikely he would lie about seeing a UFO. Is the video a hoax? It’s possible. Is Rouhani joining the ranks of world leaders who seem to be heading towards UFO and alien disclosure? That’s possible too, although one mysterious video isn’t much evidence. An interview on the subject would be nice.
Anyone interested in heading to Tehran to convince the president to talk UFOs?
Has Russian President Vladimir Putin joined the ranks of conspiracy theorists who believe that many world leaders – excluding himself and his Russian counterparts – are aliens working with the Men in Black? In a wide-ranging interview this week with the French newspaper Le Figaro, Putin may have let something slip out unintentionally:
I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.
Is Putin implying that U.S. presidents – at least the last three – know about the existence of UFOs and alien or are aliens themselves being kept in line by the same government agents dressed in black who have allegedly been seen by many UFO witnesses after speaking openly about their sightings? He said “wearing dark suits just like mine.” Photos of the interview show that Putin was wearing a black suit. He also said that when they show up, “everything changes.” Those might seem to be two small dots that may just be coincidental and not enough to draw a picture of Putin revealing the existence of Men in Black. Except …
On December 7, 2012, then Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was answering questions after a television interview. When he believed the microphone was off, he gave the following answer when he was asked if “the president is handed secret files on aliens when he receives the briefcase needed to activate Russia’s nuclear arsenal”:
Along with the briefcase with nuclear codes, the president of the country is given a special ‘top secret’ folder. This folder in its entirety contains information about aliens who visited our planet… Along with this, you are given a report of the absolutely secret special service that exercises control over aliens on the territory of our country… More detailed information on this topic you can get from a well-known movie called Men In Black… I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic.
Dmitry Medvedev
Medvedev was referring to a controversial Russian documentary film titled Men in Black that was translated into English and released on Youtube. While some witnesses said the prime minister appeared to be serious, the Russian government showed it can spin as well and as fast as its counterparts by saying that the true meaning of his comment was lost in translation and that he was just joking. Except …
Earlier this week, Stephen Bassett, the executive director of the Paradigm Research Group International (PRG) and the first ET and UFO disclosure lobbyist in the U.S., revealed that he met in May with former Soviet and Russian military and agency officials who are now involved in that country’s UFO and alien disclosure movement in an attempt to convince Vladimir Putin to become the first world leader to acknowledge the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
Does this add more and bigger dots to the picture? Is Vladimir Putin (and earlier, Dmitry Medvedev) being taken out of context or is he slowly and slyly preparing the world for a big revelation?
Will the Men in Black stop him or are they too busy in Washington?
That’s the question asked by Enrico Fermi after pondering why Earth hasn’t been visited by aliens (in his estimation) despite the fact that there are billions of stars with a high probability that some have Earthlike planets that could develop life forms capable of space travel … the Fermi paradox.
Maybe we are not seeing alien civilizations because they are all rationally “sleeping” in the current early cosmological era, waiting for a remote future when it is more favourable to exploit the resources of the universe.
That’s the “Aestivation hypothesis” proposed by Anders Sandberg, Stuart Armstrong, and Milan Ćirković from the University of Oxford in their new paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. Aesti-what?
Aestivation is a state of dormancy similar to hibernation but brought on not by winter but by summer and its high temperatures and arid conditions. Creatures that enter states of aestivation include land snails, lady beetles (ladybugs), land crabs, desert tortoises, crocodiles and salamanders. But aliens? While a state of hibernation or suspended animation would obviously help survive long space flights, why would they need to aestivate otherwise?
In his personal blog, Anders Sandberg explains that it’s all about energy. The more a species needs to process information to accomplish big things like building spaceships and exploring the galaxies, the more energy they consume. Energy produces heat and too much energy causes things – both living and mechanical — to overheat, break down, malfunction or die. Like computers, running cooler means running longer and more efficiently.
Can’t space travelers figure out how to build better air conditioners? Probably, but their dealing with more than planetary or spaceship heat. According to Sandberg, the cosmic background radiation in the universe makes everything in it hotter than 3 Kelvin – not scorching (-269C or -452F) but hot enough to cause problems. Fortunately, cosmic background radiation is going down as the universe expands. So all an advanced alien civilization needs to do is wait till things cool down. The best way for living things like reptiles and reptilians to ride out the heat is by aestivation. As long as they leave some lights on and some low-level energy to keep their data stored and their equipment in shape, things should be fine for a few million years.
Lizards in aestivation
Does this solve the Fermi Paradox?
If this is correct, there might be old and powerful civilizations around that are hard to observe, not because they are deliberately hiding but because they are inactive for the time being.
Sandberg thinks this is not an answer but a new possibility worth investigating. That could be difficult since a civilization in aestivation is not generating any energy so it’s nearly invisible. One option Sandberg proposes is to send out self-replicating von Neumann probes. Aliens in aestivation would need to set up some sort of protection and a probe breaching it would probably generate visible energy as it was destroyed. Not elegant and it depends on technology not yet developed, but it’s a possibility nonetheless.
What would Fermi think of the Aestivation hypothesis? What do you think?
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Kremlinbaas gevraagd om embargo op informatie over aliens op te heffen. Kunnen we van Poetin binnenkort disclosure verwachten?
Kremlinbaas gevraagd om embargo op informatie over aliens op te heffen. Kunnen we van Poetin binnenkort disclosure verwachten?
De Russische president Vladimir Poetin kan geschiedenis schrijven door aan te kondigen dat aliens bestaan en de aarde al hebben bezocht. Dat stelt een Amerikaanse lobbyist.
Stephen Bassett van de Paradigm Research Group verbleef een week lang in Rusland om Poetin ervan te overtuigen het ‘waarheidsembargo’ op informatie over aliens op te heffen.
Bassett, die al jarenlang lobbyt in Washington voor alien disclosure, meent dat de waarheid over aliens wordt achtergehouden uit angst voor de impact ervan op religie en de samenleving.
Formele aankondiging
Hij werd tijdens zijn bezoek aan Rusland geïnterviewd voor een Russische documentaire over dit onderwerp.
Tijdens het interview, dat in augustus wordt uitgezonden, stipte Bassett verschillende punten aan die Poetin er mogelijk toe zullen zetten om als eerste staatshoofd een formele aankondiging te doen over buitenaards leven.
Hij ontmoette in Rusland ook verschillende militaire en inlichtingenfunctionarissen die betrokken zijn bij alien disclosure.
Vertraagt
“Terwijl mensen elkaar en de biosfeer waarin ze leven maar blijven vernietigen, wacht daarbuiten een heel sterrenstelsel vol leven dat we kunnen gaan verkennen,” zei Bassett.
“Het bestaan van buitenaards leven overstijgt politiek, religie, ras en oorlog,” vervolgde hij. “Dit embargo vertraagt enkel de ontwikkeling van onze beschaving.”
Paniek
In 2012 zei de toenmalige Russische premier Medvedev tegen journalisten dat iedere Russische president een dossier krijgt met de activiteiten van buitenaardsen en de speciale Russische eenheden die zich hiermee bezighouden.
“Ik vertel jullie niet hoeveel buitenaardsen er onder ons zijn, want dat zou paniek kunnen veroorzaken,” aldus Medvedev.
ONBEKENDE ENERGIEBRON OP ANTARCTICA ONTDEKT, AFKOMSTIG UIT PIRAMIDES ( VIDEO )
ONBEKENDE ENERGIEBRON OP ANTARCTICA ONTDEKT, AFKOMSTIG UIT PIRAMIDES ( VIDEO )
Een samenwerkingsverband van meteorologen die gebruikmaken van satellietbeelden (CIMSS) hebben voor de derde keer op rij een vreemde ontdekking gedaan.
Vanuit het gebied waarover men zegt dat er zich op Antarctica piramides bevinden, komt een sterke mysterieuze microgolf die zich langs de Zuid Amerikaanse kust verplaatst.
En nu, voor de derde keer in korte tijd, ontdekte men een derde mysterieuze (energie)golf op 26 mei 2017.
Niet alleen neemt de frequentie tussen de golven toe, ze volgen elkaar sneller op, maar ook iedere keer schijnt het afkomstig te zijn uit hetzelfde gebied op Antarctica.
Wanneer je een lijn trekt, dan loopt deze langs het Princess Elisabeth Station naar het gebied waar eind vorig jaar een aantal piramides werden ontdekt.
De vreemde golf komt ergens vanuit dat gebied en dat zou het Elisabeth Station kunnen zijn, maar als dat zo was, dan was het ook geen mysterie geweest. En als het daar niet vandaan komt, dan moet er een andere bron niet ver daar vandaan zijn.
Iets dat door de mainstream wetenschap nooit zal worden geaccepteerd of toegegeven, is dat piramides een hele andere functie hebben dan het begraven van een Egyptische farao.
Dat het navigatiebakens waren van onze verre voorouders, de Anunnaki, die nu samen met hun planeet Nibiru op de terugweg zijn.
Overal ter wereld zien we het verschijnsel dat piramides worden geactiveerd en lichtsignalen de ruimte in sturen, zoals weeerder schreven.
Wij leven, ondanks alle ellende op de wereld, in opwindende tijden die je allesbehalve saai kunt noemen.
De eerste is een opname vanaf de Bosnische piramide van de Zon.
De volgende is een opname van 24 juni 2009 toen iemand een foto nam van ChiChen Itza piramide, eveneens in Mexico. Deze straal was niet zichtbaar toen de foto werd genomen, maar werd pas later waargenomen toen de afdruk werd bekeken.
De volgende en laatste opname is al wat ouder en genomen in 2000. Ook hier een merkwaardige energie/lichtstraal afkomstig van de Piramide van de Maan, wederom in Mexico.
STEEDS MEER MOEDERSCHEPEN BOVEN NEDERLAND ( VIDEO )
STEEDS MEER MOEDERSCHEPEN BOVEN NEDERLAND ( VIDEO )
Zelfs een mainstream kanaal als de NOS weet te melden dat er een piek is in het aantal UFO meldingen in Nederland.
Alhoewel ze heel erg hun best doen om dingen zoveel mogelijk “logisch" te verklaren, lukt dat niet zo erg en onze lezers zien ondertussen opmerkelijke zaken in de lucht.
Zoals we gisteren schreven, is het opmerkelijk dat mainstream kanalen zoals de BBC aandacht besteden aan het UFO fenomeen zonder het direct belachelijk te maken, iets dat in het verleden vaste prik was.
Nu hebben we in Nederland de NOS die er zelfs een serieus artikel aan waagt. Dit weliswaar met de insteek dat er voor de meeste waarnemingen een rationele verklaring is, maar toch.
Dat het aantal mensen dat UFO’s ziet vliegen in ons land toeneemt, geloven we wel, want er verschijnen de laatste wekeninteressante waarnemingen.
Zoals een bijzondere boven Almelo enkele dagen geleden. In het begin lijkt de video wat saai, maar blijf kijken, want het wordt steeds spannender.
Er is op dit moment wereldwijd een ware stortvloed van meldingen van kleine ronde witte, oranje of zelfs blauwe UFO’s. Deze komen ergens vandaan, ze worden aangestuurd en hebben ergens een basis.
Zoals bijvoorbeeld de volgende, enkele dagen geleden gemaakt in Iran.
Iets dat steeds meer mensen, ook in ons land, begint op te vallen, zijn de vreemde wolkenformaties. Wolken die dikwijls lijken op grote verborgen (het zogenaamde cloaken) moederschepen.
Zo ontvingen wij bijvoorbeeld de volgende twee foto’s die zijn genomen in het westen van het land tussen Beverwijk en Nauerna.
De lezer (dank!) schrijft:
Gisteren reed ik in de auto richting huis,mijn vriendin zegt plotseling kijk wat een vreemde wolken. Dus ik dacht ze zal het wel over de chemtrails hebben. Ik kijk in de lucht en zie tot mijn verbazing een hoop chemtrails en deze vreemde wolken. Hebben we hier te maken met vermomde (cloaking) ufo's?
Een andere lezer (dank!) stuurde iets vergelijkbaars, dit keer uit Amsterdam Oost.
Daarnaast nog meldingen van andere mensen die het ook hebben gezien, maar geen foto’s hebben kunnen maken.
Overal dus talloze kleine UFO’s, maar ook verdachte wolken die heel goed vermomde moederschepen kunnen zijn. Nu zal men dit bij de NOS niet zo snel als een mogelijkheid aanvaarden, maar misschien moeten ze dan toch even naar het volgende kijken:
Gelukkig bezitten we al enkele jaren bewijs van grote wolken zoals in bovenstaande afbeeldingen, van waaruit kleine UFO’s tevoorschijn komen.
Het antwoord lijkt te zien in de volgende video die is gemaakt in de Atacama woestijn in de buurt van de Chileense stad Calama.
Twee mijnarbeiders rijden in een auto en zien vreemde wolkformaties in de lucht. Eén van hen pakt zijn mobiele telefoon en begint te filmen.
Dan plotseling komt er uit deze wolk of wellicht moederschip een bij ons welbekende oranje-achtige bol tevoorschijn.
In de onderstaande video kun je duidelijk zien hoe deze bol tevoorschijn komt uit de wolk en vervolgens wegvliegt.
Hebben we hier te maken met een zogenaamd cloaked moederschip dat zich verborgen houdt in deze kunstmatig aandoende wolken en die de bollen als een soort verkenners op pad stuurt?
Het heeft er alle schijn van en daarmee is deze opname misschien wel het eerste stukje bewijs dat we in handen hebben wat laat zien waar deze oranje bollen vandaan komen.
Uiteraard ontstaan er dan altijd weer discussies of deze opname wel of niet echt is. Tot nu is er, voor zover ons bekend, geen informatie over dat de opname niet echt zou zijn.
Daarnaast hebben we getuigenverklaringen van mensen zoals de volgende van een dame uit Friesland, van enkele jaren geleden.
"Het is dinsdagavond 7 oktober en om 20.30 stap ik op de fiets vanuit Lytse Geast,(een dorpje een kleine tien kilometer ten zuid-oosten van Leeuwarden).
Mijn weg voert door de weilanden over een afgelegen pad en als het even kan zorg ik er voor dat ik niet in mijn eentje in het donker nog op pad ben. Vandaag ben ik al te laat en de laatste schemering gaat al over in duister.
Ik ben nog maar net buiten, of het begint te regenen en hard te waaien. Schuin voor me zie ik een paar flitsen, en het rommelt in de verte, precies tussen mij en Leeuwarden, waar ik naar op weg ben. Onweer dus, ook dat nog.
Voor me is een brede, langgerekte, vrij laag hangende wolk. Dat is waar ik de hemel op zie lichten. Er komen witte bollen uit de wolk. Twee gaan naar links en twee gaan naar rechts. De afstand van de ene bol tot de andere blijft steeds gelijk, alsof ze met een touwtje aan elkaar vast zitten. Ze bewegen langzaam.
Ik weet niet, wat het is, dat ik zie... zijn dit vliegtuigen? van de basis? En waarom zijn die geïnteresseerd in een onweerswolk? Ja, het zijn vast vliegtuigen. Het licht pulseert ook, zoals bij een vliegtuig. Flits aan, flits uit. Ja maar, bij een vliegtuig zie je dan altijd ook een rood licht aan en uit flitsen. dat is hier niet. Alleen wit. Melkwit.
De twee bollen rechts zijn verdwenen, die van links zijn opeens weer terug boven de wolk. Verbeeld ik me nu dat ze sneller pulseren dan zo net? Nee, dat verbeeld ik me niet. Het lijken wel sterren en het licht is niet meer zozeer wit, als wel koud. Zoals bij sterretjes voor kleine kinderen. Het zijn nu dus geen witte bollen meer, maar steeds sneller aan- en uit flitsende 'sterren'.
Dan zijn ze weg. Een paar minuten is er niks meer te zien en dan opeens zijn er wel twintig. Allemaal onder, boven, naast of uit de wolk. En allemaal flitsen ze aan en uit, nu in een heel hoog tempo. In een ijzig wit licht dat zo fel is dat het mij verblindt. Je zou zeggen dat ze er plezier aan beleven, zoals ze om en door de wolk heen duiken. Er in, er uit, om de wolk heen, achter elkaar aan... Net zo plotseling als ze verschenen zijn ze nu weer weg.
En komen niet meer terug. En ik ben bijna bij de eerste huizen van de stad. Het regent niet meer en de wind gaat ook liggen. Hoe lang dit al met al geduurd heeft? Twintig minuten à hooguit een half uur. Ik kan me niet voorstellen, dat er niet meer mensen geweest zijn die dit gezien hebben. Er was echt een hele lichtshow in de lucht.
Wat me achteraf ook nog wel frappeert, is dat er eigenlijk alleen die ene enorm grote wolk was, verder was er vrijwel geen bewolking.
Kan iemand mij vertellen wat ik gezien heb?"
Mainstream media, nu jullie toch bezig zijn met het min of meer serieus schrijven over het UFO fenomeen, help mee om er eindelijk achter te komen wat er boven onze hoofden vliegt. Ook ónze lezers zullen jullie dankbaar zijn.
THE BIBLICAL DELUGE ISN'T A FAIRY TALE - IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!
THE BIBLICAL DELUGE ISN'T A FAIRY TALE - IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!
According to an expert in glaciology, the so-called ‘Great Deluge’ which is documented in the story of Noah in the Old Testament of the Bible and various folkloric tales from all corners of the world is not just a story.
“I don’t think the biblical deluge is just a fairy tale, ” says Terence J Hughes, a retired glaciologist who once worked at the University of Maine and is now based in South Dakota. “I think some major flood happened all over the world, and it left an indelible imprint on the collective memory of mankind that got preserved in these stories.”
Disturbingly, not only does Hughes believe that the Great Deluge was a real event, but he also thinks that it is very likely that it could happen again shortly.
It is believed that the origin of a potential second Great Deluge could lie in Antarctica where there appears to be an escalating and highly dangerous process of glacial erosion and melting at this current time. Observers who have traveled to the icy continent to observe the damage themselves have described terrifying scenes where ice sheets flow downhill, and new, enormous floating ice shelves are forming at a never before seen rate. Scientists who are permanently based in Antarctica have reported numerous problems with their bases because of the escalating process of melting and erosion of the existing ice shelf.
Scientists and environmentalists have been warning for years that a collapse of the vast but delicate portions of Antarctica’s ice sheets could raise the sea level for the entire world in a fairly drastic way. This could threaten the existence of a large number of low-lying islands scattered all over the world as well as posing an existential threat to the world’s large and populous coastal cities such as Miami, New York, and Shanghai.
Hillary Clinton 'KNOWS aliens exist' and 'would have outed truth if she became President'
Hillary Clinton 'KNOWS aliens exist' and 'would have outed truth if she became President'
HILLARY Clinton would likely have revealed aliens exist if she made it into the White House, according to the man behind a shocking documentary that has taken the internet by storm.
Hillary Clinton knows aliens have visited Earth, says Dr Steven Greer.
Dr Steven Greer, whose work to "get world governments to admit intelligent aliens are visiting Earth," is the focus of the film is convinced Mrs Clinton knows more than she is letting on about the subject.
The film, Unacknowledged, debuted on iTunes and other digital platforms on May 9, and shot straight to the number one digital documentary slot worldwide.
It is directed by Michael Mazzola and narrated by Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito.
Dr Greer got $700,000 (£543,000) through crowd funding to make it happen, and it looks at his work with The Disclosure Project, set up to try to lift an alleged "truth embargo" on the existence of aliens.
Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta made several references to the issue of aliens and UFOs during her unsuccessful campaign, and she even vowed to send in a task force to the mysterious Area 51 US Air Force base in Nevada to see what is happening there.
According to conspiracy theorists the remains of crashed UFOs and dead aliens are stored there.
Dr Greer said: "There's no question in my mind that Hillary Clinton is aware of the issue.
“Her campaign chairperson John Podesta came out in favour of disclosure and said that the government should come forward with this information.
There's no question in my mind that Hillary Clinton is aware of the issue.
Dr Steven Greer
"And he remained a disclosure advocate all the way through the campaign."
Disclosure activists had hoped "the truth would come out is she won," but their hopes were dashed with the victory of Donald Trump who has remained silent on the often ridiculed subject.
Last year Express.co.uk told how both Hillary and Bill Clinton were involved in the so-called Rockefeller initiative with tycoon Laurance Rockefeller to try to get the Government to release all classified files about UFOs and aliens.
Dr Greer, a former emergency room doctor, was also involved in the unsuccessful project in the mid 1990s.
A bizarre sighting of a strange-shaped light floating above a hill in Somerset has sparked theories it could be a UFO.
The streak of light was caught on camera near 'Britain's UFO capital' which has been subject to extra-terrestrial sightings for more than 40 years.
This new sighting adds to the list of shimmering lights and crop circles that have been reported by baffled residents over the past few decades.
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This odd stream of light adds to the list of sightings of extra-terrestrial activity that has been reported in the area since the 1960s
'WARMINSTER THING'
The town of Warminster has seen dozens of UFO sightings since the 1960s.
On 17 August 1965 a 'detonation noise' rocked houses before a 'monstrous orange flame was seen in the sky, crackling and hissing'.
The phenomena was known as the 'Warminster Thing' and in the decades after residents reported seeing lots of inexplicable things in the sky.
Included were the following sightings -
In 1965 a couple said they saw two spheres of light overhead.
In 1967 a man driving past Cley Hill heard a loud-pitched noise above and a glowing white disc in the sky.
In 1975 a man reported his car malfunctioning after seeing a bright red light above.
In 2010 there was an unexplained 200ft (61 metre) wide design in a field of wheat.
The video, taken by a resident from Frome, shows streaks of light over nearby Cley hill which is 2 miles from UFO town Warminster.
The footage, which lasts a few minutes, shows the peculiar light moving in circular directions in the night sky.
'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', the resident who took the video told Somerset Live.
'Probably a drone with a fancy flame effect tail or something. It's been spotted a few times locally', the resident said.
Nigel Viel, a local rambler added: '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.'
On 17 August 1965 a 'detonation noise' rocked houses before a 'monstrous orange flame was seen in the sky, crackling and hissing.'
'Strange noises were heard in the skies above the town, and an equally strange shimmering light was observed in the vicinity', said Mr Viel.
The streak of light was caught on camera two miles from 'Britain's UFO capital' Warminster which has been subject to extra-terrestrial sightings for more than 40 years
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT WARMINSTER?
Some believe the area's proximity to the prehistoric stone circles at Stonehenge and Avebury is the reason for the strange goings-on.
Others say it is because it lies on the confluence of two so-called leylines, which link spots said to have 'mystical energy'.
At the top of Cley hill there are remains of a Bronze Age hillfort.
Conspiracy theorists put them down to the proximity of Salisbury Plain, home of secret military work.
The phenomena was known as the 'Warminster Thing' and in the decades after, residents reported seeing lots of inexplicable things in the sky.
'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', Mr Viel said.
'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', he said.
In 2010 there was an unexplained 200ft (61 metre) wide design in a field of wheat at Cley Hill.
The video taken by a resident from Frome shows strange streaks of light over nearby Cley hill and adds to the list of repeated sightings of shimmering lights that have baffled residents
Some believe the area's proximity to the prehistoric stone circles at Stonehenge and Avebury is the reason for the strange goings-on.
Others say it is because it lies on the confluence of two so-called leylines, which link spots said to have 'mystical energy'.
At the top of Cley hill there are remains of a Bronze Age hillfort.
Some believe the area's proximity to the prehistoric stone circles at Stonehenge and Avebury is the reason for the strange goings-on
Conspiracy theorists put them down to the proximity of Salisbury Plain, home of secret military work.
'At the risk of people saying I'm still secretly working for the government, debunking UFO sightings, I'm going to suggest this is a light aircraft - or perhaps a drone - carrying out some sort of spectacular, acrobatic flying display', Nick Pope, former UFO investigator to the Ministry of Defence, told MailOnline.
'The location of this sighting is particularly striking, because Cley Hill has long been a UFO hotspot, right back to the Sixties, when UFO sightings and other strange events around the nearby town of Warminster made international news', he said.
In 2010 there was an unexplained 200ft (61 metre) wide design in a field of wheat at Cley Hill. Some believe the area's proximity to the prehistoric stone circles at Stonehenge and Avebury is the reason for the strange goings-on
The video, taken by a resident from Frome, shows streaks of light over nearby Cley hill which is two miles from UFO town Warminster
In July 1947 Sheriff Jess Slaughter and Deputy Sheriff Charles Fogus were travelling together to pick up a prisoner when they heard on their police radio reports of a crashed aircraft.
The two men, who were travelling to Roswell, New Mexico, decided to investigate and stumbled across the scene of one of the most famous UFO incidents in history.
While the US military have long claimed the crashed object was merely a weather balloon, conspiracy theorists believe the site was the scene of at least one alien aircraft crash and the recovery of extraterrestrials.
In a new book, UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up, law enforcement officer Fogus reveals he saw a downed flying saucer and military personnel removing a number of alien bodies from the scene.
It is the first time his statement has been published.
Deputy Sheriff Charles H Fogus of Howard County has striking testimony(Photo: Irena Scott)
In the interview he says he say a flying saucer crashed into the side of a river bed which was "100ft across".
Describing the scene he said: "When we got there, the land was covered with soldiers. They were hauling a big, a creature.
"The bodies must have been 5 feet tall.
"I saw the legs and feet on some of them. They looked like our feet.
"The skin was a brownish color…. Like they were in the sun too long.
"There were soldiers there….about 3 or 4 hundred of them.
"We seen them haul them (the bodies) out there, out of the canyon up to the trucks….puttin them on the tow trucks so they could haul them."
Charles Forgus said he saw alien bodies at the Roswell site(Photo: Irena Scott)
He says after about 20 minutes they were told to leave the scene and so continued on their journey to collect the prisoner.
Deputy Sheriff Charles H Fogus of Howard County along with his colleague Jeff Slaughter saw the crash site at Roswell(Photo: Irena Scott)
Asked what he thought of what he saw, he said: "The Great Father didn’t just make this planet…. He made all of them. He put beings on these planets just like he put us on this one. They’re smarter then we are.
"They can get from there to here, but we can’t get from here to there."
The Daily Mirror has been passed a transcript of an interview between Deputy Sheriff Fogus of Howard County, Texas, and Los Angeles private investigator Deanna Short by the book publisher Philip Mantle, a former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association.
He said: "Deanna recorded the interview on video and later had a transcript done of the interview and completed her Agency report to verify facts at that time related to Charles Forgus and Sheriff Jess Slaughter - both of Howard County, Texas.
Scene of the Roswell incident as described by the former deputy(Photo: Irena Scott)
"Both were there and were on an overlook to view the crash scene recovery by the Army.
"I should note that according to Deanna's daughter Mackenzie, Charles made a special effort to note to Deanna "not to believe what others will say - he and the Sheriff did witness the Roswell crash scene". They had heard about the crash on the police radio which enabled them to find the location.
"It is rare that anyone new adds anything to the Roswell event from an eye witness point of view.
"If you treat the Roswell UFO crash as a 'cold case' investigation then new testimony like this can be invaluable.
"It could confirm what other witnesses have previously said or it could be another potential witness that has been eliminated from the enquiry.
"So either way it is an invaluable piece of information. To have it on video as well is a real luxury. I remain open minded on this gentleman's testimony but we hope that by making it public that others might be able to assist us in our investigations.
"I dare say many of those that know far more than me about the Roswell Incident will write it off as it does not fit the known Roswell crash scenario.
"All I will say is that I am working to try and find any more information and I leave this ‘Roswell File’ open. If anyone reading this has any information concerning the Roswell Incident we urge them to get in touch."
The Roswell incident has captured the imaginations of UFO experts for years(Photo: Irena Scott)
The full transcript:
Questioner: What I’m trying to do is pierce together……
CF: I was working for the Sheriff of. I was a Deputy there for Sheriff Slaughter, was back in the 40s. We went to Roswell to pick up a prisoner. When we got there, the land was covered with soldiers. They were hauling a big, a creature. Hauling him away.
What I seen of him looked just like the one we see on television, with big eyes. 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. So we headed up to get the prisoner in Roswell and back to.
Q: So you were on your way from to Roswell to pick up a prisoner and you happened to be at that place……
CF: It already had crashed. They were taking them out. There were soldiers there….about 3 or 4 hundred of them. They wouldn’t let you get very close. They were keeping all the people away. People were coming out there.
Q: What did the saucer (we’ll call it) look like?
CF: It was a big round thing. Across the middle it was about 100 feet.
Q: Did you see any lights around it?
A local newspaper report detailing the Roswell incident in 1947(Photo: Sipa)
CF: No, they went out when it banged into the wall in the creek. It was like a mountain on the side of the creek.
Q: Did you see any creatures: How many did you see?
CF: Yeh, I saw them. I think I seen about four (of them).
Q: Were they covered up?
CF: Mostly. I saw the legs and feet on some of them.
Q: What did the feet look like? Do you remember?
CF: They looked like our feet.
Q: Could you figure how tall they were? They were laying flat, Right?
CF: Yeh, There is one thing I do remember. The Great Father didn’t just make this planet…. He made all of them. He put beings on these planets just like he put us on this one. They’re smarter then we are. They can get from there to here, but we can’t get from here to there.
(Note: CF is rather deaf. He wears two hearing aid appliances in this ears, so he answers my questions as follows :)
Q: Why do you think they’re here then?
CF: I don’t know where they hauled them. They might have hauled them to the hospital or somewhere.
Q: How long were you and Sheriff Slaughter at that site after you arrived?
CF: About 30 Minutes?
Q: Did you tell anyone about it?
CF: The Army was there and military soldiers were there.
Major Jesse Marcel from the Roswell Army Air Field with debris found 75 miles north west of Roswell, NM, in June 1947.(Photo: AFP)
Q: Did they tell you not to say anything?
CF: No, they didn’t tell me nothing’. They wouldn’t let you get close to ‘em.
Q: Did they actually see you observing what was going on?
CF: Sure, they saw me lookin’ at them.
Q: And they didn’t tell you to not say anything…..
CF: No, They wouldn’t let us get close to them. We were about 10 away.
Q: You were that close?
CF: We might have been further away. I didn’t have glasses then, I could see pretty good.
Q: What was your official capacity then?
CF: I was a Deputy The County Seat was I was riding with the Sheriff when we went to get the prisoner.
He didn’t order nobody except me to go with him. The UFO was already down when we got there. We went and got the prisoner afterwards. We heard about it on the radio.
Q: What did you hear on the radio?
CF: That the thing had crashed.
Q: But they didn’t know what ‘the thing’ was?
CF: No. But you would think that when people hear something like this, it scares the heck out of them. This came out of the police radio. We were on the way through there (to pick up the prisoner) when we heard it on the police radio. It was a big distance from to Roswell...you can look on a map and see it.
Q: So let me ask you this. When you guys were driving down the road and you were listening to the police radio……
CF: Yeh.....
A sign marking the spot where the sighting happened(Photo: Photonica)
Q: Do you remember what was said on the radio about whatever it was... Do you recall?
CF: All I remember is they said that a saucer crashed out there in the canyon.
Q: They actually said the word ‘saucer’?
CF: They can call it a saucer if they want to but there ain’t a big enough cup of coffee for that thing.
Q: How long do you think you were at the site?
CF: Probably about 20 minutes. We seen them haul them (the bodies) out there, out of the canyon up to the trucks….puttin them on the tow trucks so they could haul them.
Q: Did anyone try to get you to leave the scene.
CF: No….they told the Sheriff that we had to go. That was good enough for us….He’s the boss.
Q: When they were taking the beings, we'll call them beings, were the beings laying on the ground around the saucer?
There are questions about the suspected alien crash at Roswell(Photo: Getty)
CF: Yeh, they were lifting them up with a crane that they had and picking them up and swinging them to put them on the truck. The bodies must have been 5 feet tall.
Q: Did you see the heads?
CF: Yeh….they were covered. They eyes looked like the ones we see on television and the pictures of them.
Q: What color was the skin?
CF: As much as I could tell….the skin was a brownish color…. Like they were in the sun too long.
Q: From the time it crashed until the time you got there, do you know how much time went by? From the time you heard it on the police radio until you got there?
CF: About two hours.
Q: Did you see any writing or engraving on the saucer?
CF: I wasn’t that close to it?
Deputy Sheriff Charles H Fogus pictured when he was still working(Photo: Irena Scott)
Q: If you were say 12 feet away from the beings, how far were the beings away from the saucer. Were they thrown pretty far?
CF; We couldn’t see that well because of the trees. It was in a riverbank. It slammed into a river bank. I say them lifting one up with the crane.
Q: Did anyone else talk to you about what was going on?
CF: There were some solders, but I don’t think they were from the Air Force.
Q: Where do you think they were from then?
CF: I don’t know. They were wearing uniforms. I didn’t pay no attention cause I just wanted to go with the Sheriff to get the heck out of there before something happened.
Q: When you guys were in the car to go pick the guy up, did you discuss or talk about what you had seen with the Sheriff?
An image of an "alien" from a TV show about Roswell(Photo: Image net)
CF: No. I didn’t know what they were and he didn’t either or where they came from or nothin.
Q: Did you see any blood on the bodies?
CF: I don’t know…. I guess they were dead.
Q: You’re 81 years old now. When and where were you born?
CF: I was born in I don’t know what city.
Q: You have been in the army?
CF: I sure have, before I became a Deputy Sheriff.
Q: So when this thing at Roswell happened, you were already out of the Army and were a Deputy Sheriff. That happened in 1947. Now it’s 1999. That was 52 years ago, Charlie. And you still remember it clearly?
The Deputy Sheriff gave his interview before he died(Photo: Irena Scott)
CF: Yeh, pretty clear.
Q: Has anyone ever talked to you or asked you to talk about what happened...like to the Government, cause there’s a lot of research going on now because of the cover-up.
CF: There was one that came around, and I told him to shut up and not come around. I don’t know who they were. That was when I was Deputy Sheriff.
Q: When you saw the saucer, can you remember in your mind what it looked like. Can you draw it?
CF: No….you draw it?
(Note: Charlie had the interviewer draw because he broke his arm and can’t use it). He directed her to draw a circle (not an oval). Then he directed her to draw another circle with the circle. This was a drawing of the top of the saucer. Charlie was standing on top of the opposite side of the bank of the dry creek bed where the saucer had crashed.
The office of UFO witness Deputy Sheriff Charles H Fogus of Howard County(Photo: Irena Scott)
Q: Were you standing above it?
CF: I was standing on the back side. The saucer hit the bank on this side of the creek and I was standing on the other side of the bank, at the top of the hill. I was looking down at the site.
Q: So you had a ‘bird’s eye view‘, that’s why you were able to see the top of it?
CF: I didn’t have a ‘bird’s eye, I’ve got my own eyes (he laughs)
(showing Charlie the drawing the interviewer says "if this is the top (of the saucer), how much higher were you?"
CF: Probably about 20 feet above it.
Q: So, that’s why you saw the top (of the saucer). And you say, that from here to here (across the top of the saucer - diameter) is about 100 feet.
CF: It was evenly round.
A new book - UFOs TODAY, 70 Years of Misinformation, Lies and Government Cover-Ups By Irena Scott PhD - details the incident(Photo: Irena Scott)
Q: So it was absolutely round…. Not oval shaped and you were 20 feet above it, that’s why you saw the top. Did you see the fingers and hands?
CF: No, they were covered up. But I saw the head.
Q: But you said you saw the feet.
CF: Yeah, later on, when they were passing by I saw the feet. I could see them lifting it up with the crane. They wouldn’t let you close enough when they were puttin’ them into the truck. When they were liftin' them on the crane you could see them layin’ on that thing.
Q: You said the body was covered. Were the arms layin on the stomach under the cover?
CF: When the wind blew, the cover went back so you could see the face. The same way with the feet.
The man, who is not named in the film, makes the bombshell claims in new documentary Unacknowledged.
He describes he and the president discussing a newspaper article that mentioned UFOs in the early 1960s.
The pilot says the president asked him if he thought UFOs and aliens existed.
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REVEALED: It is claimed JFK had extensive knowledge of aliens and UFOs
“There is considerable knowledge as far as the being of UFOs and the ET phenomenon”
What JFK is alleged to have said
But he threw the question back at JFK.
He said: "JFK responded, 'well I asked you first'."
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."
The anticipated documentary Unacknowledged claims to expose the US government’s cover-ups about alien visits to Earth.
The UFO book that seems to be gathering interest and momentum at the moment is ‘UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up’ so I have taken this opportunity to interview the book’s author, Irena Scott PhD. 2017 will see the 70th anniversary of flying saucers and debate has raged on ever since and there seems no sign of it stopping anytime soon.
PM: Please tell us something about your background. Who is Irena Scott PhD?
I have a PhD, have had a professorship and have worked in scientific research for most of my life. My life began on an Ohio farm. We lived under quite primitive conditions, such as farming with horses. This background enables me to consider things from both a heartland farmer and a scientific viewpoint. Despite our lack of books and media, I became interested in astronomy at a very young age. I worked my way through college with an astronomy major, but found that I couldn’t be employed in that field because it was male-only in those days (which also enabled me to see scientists as less logical than normally presented). So, I went into one of the closest fields that females were allowed in, satellite photography. I worked at the Aerospace Center in St. Louis, Missouri, where they sent me to six months of cartography school, which was equal to a master’s degree. I later transferred to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington D.C. in the field of photointerpretation and photogrammetry. Here I received some of the highest clearances in the government and learned not only about this field, but also government secrecy and cover-up, and now think the government has much more ability to cover-up than people expect.
Later I married and moved to Nevada, because my husband had a position there after a previous position that included working in Area 51. I began working for the University of Nevada, earned free tuition, and later transferred and received a PhD from the University of Missouri School of Veterinary Medicine in physiology (a combination of chemistry and biology). After doing post-doctoral research at Cornell University, I became an Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University. Other positions included research and teaching at The Ohio State University, the University of Missouri, and at Battelle Memorial Institute (Battelle). I have also been a volunteer astronomer at the former Ohio State University Radio Observatory, been stationed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), and have taken flying lessons.
I have a variety of publications including books, research published in scientific journals, and in newspapers and magazines–such as having been a correspondent for Popular Mechanics magazine with byline articles and photographs in the science and technology sections. My listings as a scientist include: Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in the Midwest, and Who’s Who in Frontier Science and Technology. One of my recent books, Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue published by the Purdue University Press, is on a historical subject.
In the 1990s, I joined several UFO groups. I served on the MUFON Board of Directors (1993 to 2000), was a MUFON consultant in physiology and astronomy and a field investigator for both MUFON and the Center for UFO Studies. I co-edited eight MUFON symposium proceedings, have been a State Section Director for Ohio MUFON, was a founding member of the Mid-Ohio Research Associates (MORA) and its journal editor, and have published UFO material in books and magazines–including scientific journals. As an investigator, I conducted many studies and in these I met numerous fascinating people with amazing accounts.
PM: How and when did you first become interested in the UFO phenomenon?
I have always slightly paid attention to the subject because of a number of events that happened in my family from an early time. For one example, an aunt in West Virginia would write letters to my mother describing UFO events. Some events happened even before we had heard of UFOs–in one case, an aunt in West Virginia talked about small glowing objects that sometimes flew through their house. However my parents were conservative, Middle–American, farmers and did not allow us to even speak about the subject, thus, any interest was repressed. This made me a little sensitive to the idea of government cover-up, also.
I was also quite fortunate in the places I lived – such as Ohio, Nevada, and Washington DC – have been heavily involved in the UFO scene. For example, in Ohio are WPAFB and Battelle where the best-known studies took place. The DIA has been important in UFO study and some think that is the agency that began to investigate UFOs after Project Blue Book was closed.
PM: Have you ever had a personal UFO sighting at all?
Several events have drawn my attention. For one, I sometimes visited people who lived in the Davis Mountains in Texas that overlooked Marfa, which is known for the Marfa Lights. One night I saw and videotaped for about half an hour a large bright light over the town of Marfa that would turn on and off. Later I called the airport and they had nothing to report, but they would have been closed that late at night.
In another instance, while living in Missouri, my Mother in Ohio called to ask if I had just heard a strange sound. I thought this was quite odd and asked if my parents had just developed dementia. Later when I moved back to Ohio, I found information about this October 11, 1973 event. Not only had there been a strange noise, but a sudden wave of UFO reports happening at the same time. With the help of the State of Ohio seismologist Mike Hansen, I studied the noise. It was extremely widespread and much larger than a sonic boom or similar event. I was able to publish information about this sound in a peer-reviewed scientific journal (“Investigation of a Sound Heard over a Wide Area,” Ohio Journal Science 87(2), 1987: 11). I still don’t know what caused the sound. I also wondered why my parents had the strange mental reaction to it and wondered if others did.
PM: Has being an academic helped you in your research of the UFO phenomenon?
Yes, for example a Battelle co-worker and I were the first to show smoking gun evidence that UFO materials research may have taken place there. I also make some smoking gun discoveries while working in other places, for example at the DIA and at WPAFB. Being in the scientific field has made this possible. I worked in several of the institutions that were the most involved in UFO research, the DIA, Battelle, and WPAFB.
Being an academic has helped me in other ways. For example, I have been able to publish pieces about UFOs in scientific journals, and think this helps to establish the credibility of UFO study. I’ve spent much time interviewing not only witnesses, but people at random. In one case, after a sighting had been reported in the newspapers, I began to interview other people in that general location and published the results, “Survey of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Reports in Delaware County, Ohio.” Ohio Journal of Science 87.1 (1987): 24-26. One impressive result was that there appeared to be many more possible sightings than reports. Unfortunately, because of the difficulty of reporting these events, UFOlogy has been slow to advance and is still the subject of ridicule.
In addition, having training in statistics and experimental methods, I am able to evaluate the scientific experiments that have been done. It has helped me in interviewing witnesses, because I can ask questions that might be useful in scientific understanding. It makes me more aware of what might be called hard evidence and how to collect it, also.
PM: Could you explain how your new book UFOs TODAY first came about.
I joined several UFO groups in the 1990s and began to investigate sightings. I also became an editor of such publications as the MUFON symposium proceedings, and a local publication, the Ohio UFO Notebook. My field investigations gave me more of a perspective on UFOlogy than I would have from simply reading books. I discovered that the sightings that contained the most detail, often did not necessarily match the general idea of flying saucers as disc shaped craft. There were all kinds of unusual sightings, which along with my childhood exposure to the subject, made me think that the phenomena is much more complex than generally presented. I reported on many of these odd instances, thus, I already had them written up. Later the idea of writing a book struck me.
PM: Whilst compiling your research for your new book is there any one piece of evidence that for you really stands out?
Some of the most amazing to me have been ones that included interaction and ones such as lengthy events where authorities were notified, came, and even took part in the sightings. The authorities were often as mystified as the observers. For example, one sighting near Logan, Ohio, was of objects above a cornfield. These would blink on and off and move around. They were interactive with people. One followed a car. Authorities were notified, the event was reported on newscasts and TV, and police and other people came out to watch. Airplanes began to fly over in a grid pattern, although no one knew where they came from–the agency didn’t contact anyone. The objects remained interactive and one flew up to an airplane. A second sighting occurred the very night after another investigator and I had interviewed the witnesses.
Others have been abduction events, such as several that were linked with the October 11, 1973, sound that I investigated.
Dr. Irena Scott
(Credit: Irena Scott/Philip Mantle)
PM: What do you say to those that remain skeptical with regards to the UFO subject?
The term UFO carries considerable baggage. People generally link it with little green or gray men in space ships, or even the Loch Ness Monster. People ask each other whether they believe in it. This is because in general the idea is associated with alien visitation; people are asking whether they believe UFOs come from space. However the phenomena actually consists of many credible empirical observations such as of balls of light that can change to different forms; objects that appear and disappear, go through walls, merge and separate; and groups of lights that come together to form humanoid appearing entities. Others include objects of incredible size and speed, poltergeist-like activity, large and small UFOs, magnetic and radiation effects, abduction phenomena, thought control, and telepathy, for a few. Because of this, the phenomenon often doesn’t fit the profile of pilots and space ships, but of something vastly different from us. Such observations suggest that this data also might be investigated using different paradigms than our nuts and bolts ideas of space ships, such as by using quantum mechanical theories, or the idea that the phenomena might not be molecular as we are, or other ideas. I think new ways and different paradigms of science are needed to study it.
Another reason for the skepticism is that government has deliberately created it. Not only does it cover up, but it appears to use brainwashing techniques that produce skepticism rather than scientific examination. For example, there is some evidence that in even the very earliest reports some form of cover-up may have been active. The government has manipulated the results scientific studies, such as the one done by Battelle, to show that they found noting when in fact they did. In other cases it has set up panels that purported to scientifically examine the subject, but instead used them to debunk the phenomena, such as those of Robertson and Condon. It has actively set up debunking campaigns to plant outlandish UFO claims in the media to make UFO reports sound ridiculous. The Condon Report summary cautioned teachers to discourage any interest of pupils in UFOs, because such study would be harmful to their development. So if UFOs do not exist, how would an interest in them harm pupils and why should pupils be brainwashed? Why expend large amounts of money to lie and cover-up the phenomena, if it doesn’t exist. Such activities would certainly help the UFO phenomena by causing people to not take it seriously, thus helping it to hide its activities. In addition, UFO phenomena may be quite complex, thus one even wonders exactly what governments are covering up.
PM: In your opinion, how do we keep moving forward with UFO research?
I think numerous observations indicate this important phenomenon is much more complex that just space ships. I think it would be well to have statisticians go over the best UFO event data with the best developments in statistics to see what treads, or even significant results, can be found. I also think that as knowledge of people’s family trees and genetic studies are improving that one might search to see if there are any genetic similarities in people having sightings. Also people may not really understand what the phenomena is and that it might be much more complex that space ships from other worlds. Thus, I think that examining it for proof that we have visitors from space, or studying the propulsion systems and that sort of thing may not be as valuable as thought. For example, in both scientific experiments and in many reports there are mental aspects that are very difficult to understand. I think people need ways to study this element. I also think that people are interpreting the phenomena using Newtonian physics ideas, but need to study the possibility that the quantum theory elements may be involved in the phenomena. Other methods might be those of Dr. Harley Rutledge, who set up a study area with observing stations in an area of many sightings. His design may have resulted in the best scientific study ever done. He was even able to examine interactive behavior. Moreover, numerous reports have shown that the phenomenon is interactive, or even seems to put on a show, but witnesses in general are not directly contacted. This should also be studied.
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One of the most controversial aspects of this book has of course been the testimony of former US Deputy Sheriff Charles Forgus (deceased). He claims that he was a witness to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947. There is no way this can be verified of course and his testimony is simply being put into the public domain for further scrutiny. In my opinion the author is to be congratulated on treating such possibly controversial testimony in an open and honest way. Obviously efforts are continuing to try and obtain more information about Charles Forgus and his testimony with a variety of researchers involved and organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. It will be interesting to see what they uncover.
Although the space programs of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos garner much of the news regarding the privatization of space, Las Vegas real estate mogul Robert Bigelow is another important eccentric billionaire who has entered the scene. He has gotten a moderate amount of publicity throughout the years, in comparison to his colleagues, but an interesting fact about Bigelow the others do not have is that he is also a UFO enthusiast. Bigelow has never shied away of questions regarding his paranormal interests, and he was not shy about answering 60 Minutes’ Lara Logan’s questions on UFOs in an interview last Sunday.
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver is given a tour of the Bigelow Aerospace facilities by the company’s President Robert Bigelow on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, in Las Vegas. (Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The 60 Minutes interview was focused on Bigelow’s efforts in the space industry, but UFOs came up, and Bigelow was not fazed. The short UFO segment went like this…
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’s interests in space travel and UFOs seem to go hand in hand. This is something I can relate to, because I feel my dreams of traveling in space have spurred my interest in UFOs as well. In an interview in Bloomberg in 2013, Bigelow says it was in 1999 that he decided it was time to act on his interests in space.
“I had some money to work with, and I felt that the clock had already ticked along quite a ways, and if I were gonna do something, I’d better fish or cut bait,” Bigelow told Bloomberg.
Artist rendition of the Bigelow Aerospaces inflatable space module that is now in orbit.
(image credit: Bigelow Aerospace)
During his research for the best approach to get involved, Bigelow discovered a NASA program called TransHab that was on the verge of losing funding. TransHab was an inflatable base for Mars that would serve as a habitat for astronauts.
A NASA administrator tried to save the TransHab project by shopping it around to private corporations. Bigelow attended these meetings. “I had no employees at that time. I was just there as me,” he told Bloomberg.
None of the corporations showed interest, but Bigelow loved the concept. That is when he formed Bigelow Aerospace, bought 50 acres of land in an industrial park in Las Vegas and hired some engineers. Now, 18 years later, Bigelow Aerospace has an inflatable habitat attached to the International Space Station.
It is an exciting story, made even more exciting, at least for me, given Bigelow’s history in the study of anomalous phenomenon, including UFOs. By the time he had started Bigelow Aerospace, Bigelow had already had years of UFO and paranormal studies under his belt.
Bigelow Aerospace HQ in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
(Credit: Bigelow Aeropsace)
Bigelow says the impetus for his fascination with UFOs was a sighting his grandparents had. Bloomberg wrote…
One night in May 1947, his maternal grandparents were driving down the remote Kyle Canyon highway, returning to Las Vegas after a trip to the mountains, when they saw in the sky ahead something they thought was an airplane on fire. But as it drew closer, they realized it was a huge and unidentifiable oval object, glowing bright red; when the terrified couple pulled over to the side of the road, it bore down on them, finally filling their field of vision, before at the last second executing an abrupt 90-degree turn and disappearing. Bigelow heard about the incident years later, from his grandmother; his grandfather never liked to talk about what he’d seen. “He was still bothered by it,” he says, “because they both thought they were going to die that night.
Although Bigelow had an interest in space and the paranormal, the paranormal is where Bigelow applied his vast resources first. In 1995, he founded the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS). Similar to how he started Bigelow Aerospace, Bigelow first enlisted a group of scientists, including former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, to help him take a serious look into anomalous phenomenon. His board consisted mostly of PhDs.
NIDS wrote articles and reports on more than just UFOs. Crop circles and mysterious animal mutilations were a couple of examples of other phenomenon they looked into. All of their reports were posted on their website.
One of the most famous investigations conducted by NIDS was of a mysterious ranch in Utah dubbed the “Skinwalker Ranch.” NIDS lead scientist Colm Kelleher and Las Vegas investigative reporter George Knapp wrote the book Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah covering the many extraordinary experiences residents and scientists had on the ranch.
The Bigelow Aerospace BEAM module, currently on the ISS.
(Credit: NASA)
Retired Army Intelligence Colonel and defense consultant Dr. John Alexander, a NIDS team member, can be seen in the video below discussing their findings on the ranch.
NIDS closed in 2004. However, that was not the end of Bigelow’s dabbling in UFO research. He quietly moved this work over to Bigelow Aerospace. He established Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). BAASS made connections with the FAA, who claims to not be interested in taking UFO reports, so pilots could send their reports to BAASS.
BAASS also attempted to partner with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the largest civilian UFO investigation group and other organizations. I say attempted, because the relationship was short lived.
You would think that UFO researchers would be excited for someone with Bigelow’s resources to invest in UFO research. However, UFOs can be a funny business, full of paranoia and jealousy. As much as serious researchers did appreciate his efforts, others accused Bigelow of stealing and hiding information.
Jesse Ventura’s TV show Conspiracy Theory did an episode trying to expose Bigelow’s alleged UFO cover-ups. I got a call from one of their producers who wanted me on the show. She said she wanted to talk about how Bigelow had secret satellites that were watching people and other silly stories. I told her none of it was true, but that I would be more than happy to talk about his real history in UFO research. Needless to say, I was not included in the show.
One of the conspiracy theories with the most legs is the one about Bigelow trying to steal MUFON data. I have a unique insight into the attempted partnership between MUFON and BAASS, because I was a functional director with MUFON at the time and their official spokesperson.
Put simply, the deal was that BAASS would fund a special investigation group that could be deployed quickly and BAASS would also fund any analysis that would need to be conducted. MUFON was also tasked with supplying sighting information to BAASS. However, and this was clear between all parties, MUFON was in control of the information and investigations.
Robert Bigelow, with William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration.
(Credit: Ledyard King/GANNETT)
Although BAASS got information early, they were not given any information that was not also shared with the public. In fact, I had access to that information, and some of those cases and their results are featured on OpenMinds.tv and in Open Minds Magazine. One example is a case in New York in which a vehicle exhibited electromagnetic effects after an incident allegedly involving a UFO.
There were a few areas where things went awry. One issue, which I had expressed concern early on, was due to all of the MUFON directors needing to sign non-disclosure agreements. I advised that we make it public we were signing the disclosure before we did so, but the board did not agree. So I decided not to sign the disclosure. I did not want to be held responsible if some information leaked, and, since I was the spokesperson, I also did not want to have to walk on eggshells when speaking publicly. However, the only information I was not privy to were names.
Scientists and other professionals often do not want to use their names in relation to UFO investigations so as not to risk damaging their reputations. I have to use anonymous sources in stories on OpenMind.tv for that reason at times.
Another issue was MUFON’s slow response times. BAASS often wanted MUFON to deploy investigators more quickly. However, being volunteers, MUFON investigators had to get time off work and deal with other logistics that delayed investigations. In one case, because MUFON investigators were delayed, BAASS was given permission to send people first. This incident started rumors that, like the men in black, BAASS personnel were secretly shaking down UFO witnesses before MUFON could get there. I investigated this thoroughly, and can confidently say this was not the case.
Robert Bigelow (left) and guest with a model of a proposed Lunar base.
(Credit: Bigelow Aerospace)
These problems, along with internal disputes, tanked the project.
Either way, having been on the inside, I can say all parties involved attempted to work together in a spirit of furthering UFO research. Personally, I greatly appreciate the work Bigelow has sponsored.
I also appreciate Bigelow’s courage when addressing the UFO issue in his interviews with major media outlets. He does not do UFO interviews often. He has a great relationship with Knapp, whom occasionally hosts the late night radio program Coast to Coast AM. With Knapp as the host, Bigelow has appeared on the program to talk UFOs.
In an interview on Coast to Coast AM in 2013, Knapp asked Bigelow how he felt the topic of UFOs could be taken more seriously. Bigelow replied that he had little faith in the government being the first to speak to the topic. Instead, he identified two other areas where the phenomenon will likely be further exposed. First, the phenomenon exposes itself, and second is that the media could cover the topic more.
“My hats off to the phenomenon for having had so much interaction with pilots and planes, but we still cannot have definability, or get this into the media as an establish fact,” Bigelow explained. “That is amazing. The phenomena itself can do this.”
Obviously, we do not have control to motivate any possible anomalous phenomenon to present itself more publicly. However, we do have access to the media. Bigelow is optimistic about media coverage of UFOs.
Bigelow told Knapp, “Ever since we announced about our craft that will be attached to the space station, every media person who has interviewed me has also asked about UFOs. They are not just trying to character assassinate me, but they are genuinely interested and want to know. That is a good thing and that is why we are seeing a change here.”
Case in point, in the 60 Minutes interview, Bigelow was not ridiculed for his beliefs. Many UFO researchers have been expressing in social media that they feel Bigelow’s comments on 60 Minutes will go a long way in helping the public take the topic seriously.
Only time will tell if his 60 Minutes appearance will make a difference, but one thing the interview does reinforce is the fact that Bigelow’s interest in UFOs has not diminished over the years. It seems the media’s interest in Bigelow is also not going anywhere, which means we are sure to hear a lot more about Bigelow and his space and UFO research efforts.
At least one space technology billionaire believes we’ve already encountered aliens — and they’re living among us. Robert Bigelow, the founder of Bigelow Aerospace, said he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens existed.
NASA gave Bigelow Aerospace a $17.8 million contract in 2013 to create an expandable space habitat that would be connected to the International Space Station. Bigelow, 73, appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday to discuss the technology and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
“Do you believe in aliens?” interviewer Lara Logan asked Bigelow.
“I’m absolutely convinced,” he said. “That’s all there is to it.”
Logan also asked him if he believed if UFOs had already come to Earth.
Robert Bigelow said he was "absolutely convinced" that humanity had already made contact with aliens.
Photo: Bigelow Aerospace
“There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence,” Bigelow responded. “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.”
Bigelow declined to go into detail about any specifics his company had gleaned from its research on the subject. He also said he didn’t care whether people thought he was crazy for his viewpoints because “it’s not gonna change the reality of what I know.”
“Do you imagine that in our space travels we will encounter other forms of intelligent life?” Logan asked.
“You don’t have to go anywhere,” said Bigelow. “It’s just like right under people’s noses.”
Bigelow, who has no formal training in science or technology, made his money through long-term rental apartments called the Budget Suites of America located on the Las Vegas strip, a fortune he launched into his private aerospace venture. The space mogul said he first became interested in extraterrestrials when his grandparents had an encounter with a UFO.
“It really sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car,” he said. “And it took off at a right angle and shot off into the distance.”
Bigelow’s inflatable space habitat was launched by SpaceX during a resupply mission last year to the International Space Station, the first habitat of its kind tested for humans on the space station. The structure, called BEAM, remained attached to the ISS.
His Las Vegas-based company was also working on a technology he called “Olympus” a project that could function as a standalone destination containing everything human beings need for life.
NASA officials are given a tour of Bigelow Aerospace facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada, Feb. 4, 2011.
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Mannen in donkere pakken besturen de VS. Poetin vertelt in dit interview de ongemakkelijke waarheid
Mannen in donkere pakken besturen de VS. Poetin vertelt in dit interview de ongemakkelijke waarheid
Een machtige bureaucratie weerhoudt Amerikaanse presidenten ervan veranderingen te maken. Dat zei de Russische president Poetin tegen de krant Le Figaro.
Hij zei niet verrast te zijn dat Donald Trump de banden met Moskou nog niet heeft hersteld, net zoals Obama er niet in slaagde om Guantanamo te sluiten.
Amerikaanse presidenten komen en gaan terwijl het politieke landschap onveranderd blijft, aldus Poetin.
Donkere pakken
De bureaucratische machine legt een Amerikaanse president strikte beperkingen op zodra hij aan de macht komt, stelde hij.
“Als een persoon wordt verkozen tot president komen de mensen met koffers langs,” zei Poetin. “Ze zijn net gekleed en dragen donkere pakken. Deze mensen vertellen wat er gaat gebeuren. Zo gaat het elke keer.”
Geen enkele regering kan hieraan ontsnappen, legde de president uit.
Denkbeeldige bedreigingen
Hij voegde toe dat oud-president Obama ook slachtoffer is geworden van dit systeem en zijn verkiezingsbelofte om de beruchte gevangenis Guantanamo Bay te sluiten, niet kon waarmaken.
Poetin zei verder dat westerse landen moeten stoppen met het verzinnen van denkbeeldige bedreigingen uit Rusland.
Het voornaamste probleem waarmee NAVO-landen geconfronteerd worden, is het terrorisme. De enige manier om dat te bestrijden is door samen te werken, stelde hij.
“En Rusland is daarbij een onvermijdelijke bondgenoot om de globale veiligheid te herstellen,” besloot de Russische president.
Piloot JFK sprak met de president over UFO’s en aliens. Wat wist Kennedy meer?
Piloot JFK sprak met de president over UFO’s en aliens. Wat wist Kennedy meer?
Werd John F. Kennedy vermoord vanwege zijn interesse in buitenaards leven? Een geheime memo van de Amerikaanse CIA maakt duidelijk dat de omgelegde president 10 dagen voor zijn dood om inzage vroeg in UFO-documenten.
In een brief geadresseerd aan de CIA-baas vroeg Kennedy om vertrouwelijke documenten over UFO’s en het bestaan van aliens.
De memo is één van de twee brieven aan de Amerikaanse spionagedienst waarin Kennedy om opheldering vraagt.
Bevestigd
De interesse van de president in UFO’s en aliens, zo kort voor zijn dood, strookt met complottheorieën over de moord.
Verhalen dat Kennedy omgelegd zou zijn uit angst dat hij achter de waarheid kwam over het bestaan van aliens, werden bevestigd met het uitlekken van de geheime stukken.
Schrijver William Lester kreeg de documenten voor een boek dat hij heeft geschreven over Kennedy’s interesse in UFO’s.
Duizenden stukjes
De brieven voeden de theorieën dat de CIA veel meer over het bestaan van UFO’s weet dan wat zelfs de ‘machtigste man op aarde’ over UFO’s zou mogen weten.
Kennedy had bovendien gezegd dat hij ‘de CIA in duizenden stukjes wilde versplinteren en deze door de wind laten verjagen’.
In onderstaand fragment uit de nieuwe film Unacknowledged komt de voormalige piloot van JFK aan het woord. Hij onthult wat de vermoorde president wist over UFO’s en aliens.
Tienduizenden mensen waren die dag getuige van vreemde lichten in de lucht en nu, 20 jaar na deze gebeurtenis, is er officieel nog steeds geen antwoord over wat er die dag precies te zien was.
Sommige mensen zagen een aantal lichten op een rij en weer anderen zagen lichten in de vorm van een V.
Wanneer je een dergelijk iets waar neemt, zul je dit niet snel vergeten. Het was groots en indrukwekkend.
Natuurlijk zijn alle belachelijke theorieën zoals ballonnen en vuurpijlen de revue gepasseerd en nooit is er ergens een bevredigend antwoord gekomen over wat daar werkelijk vloog.
Hoe indrukwekkend het was in 1997 is te zien op de volgende beelden.
En dan, opeens, komt er na 20 jaar een getuige in de vorm van acteur Kurt Russell. Dit is wat hij onlangs vertelde in een televisie uitzending van de BBC.
Wanneer je het verhaal van Kurt Russell zo hoort, dan zit er een element in van: Ja, maar dat kan niet.
Hij komt als piloot aan bij het vliegveld in Phoenix en ziet vanuit de cockpit samen met Oliver, zoon samen met zijn vrouw Goldie Hawn, dit spectaculaire schouwspel.
Ze melden het aan de verkeersleiding die zeggen dat ze niets zien, ze landen en vergeten vervolgens dit hele verhaal.
Wanneer je iets dergelijks ziet vanuit de cockpit, dan geloof je je ogen niet en ga je vragen aan de bemanning van andere vliegtuigen die aangekomen zijn of vertrokken of ze ook iets hebben gezien.
Niets van dat alles en het is pas twee jaar later, wanneer zijn vrouw Goldie Hawn toevallig een programma over UFO’s kijkt waar wordt gesproken over de Phoenix Lights, dat hij zich "herinnert" dat hij die piloot was.
Je zou verwachten dat wanneer iemand na zo’n ervaring is geland, men op zoek gaat naar de ervaringen van andere bemanningen die op dezelfde dag daar zijn aangekomen of vertrokken om te vragen of zij misschien ook iets hadden gezien.
Je zou verwachten dat ze zouden worden ondervraagd door de autoriteiten na een dergelijke melding. Wanneer een vliegtuigbemanning iets uitzonderlijks meldt, wat dan ook, dan zal een luchtvaartinstantie zoals in Amerika de Federal Avation Authority daar het fijne van willen weten.
Het was in die dagen dat dit gebeurde overal in het nieuws en ook al was je het “even vergeten”, door alle berichten zou je toch weer snel worden herinnerd aan dit indrukwekkende schouwspel.
Kurt heeft een vrouw die klaarblijkelijk in het fenomeen UFO geïnteresseerd is en twee jaar later een programma erover bekeek. Wanneer je dan terugkomt van een vlucht waarbij je met eigen ogen één van de meest spectaculaire UFO waarnemingen ooit hebt gezien, is het dan aannemelijk dat je je vrouwe helemaal niets verteld hebt omdat je het glad bent vergeten?
En wat te denken van zoon Oliver die klaarblijkelijk ook helemaal niets aan zijn moeder heeft verteld.
Waar het meer op lijkt, is dat Kurt Russell van stal is gehaald om een rol te spelen in het gewenningsproces met betrekking tot buitenaards leven en UFO’s. De man is piloot, dus het hele verhaal is aannemelijk en er is geen hond meer, buiten de officiële instanties, die nog weet welke anonieme piloot op die dag in 1997 die melding heeft gedaan.
Ook als hij het wel was, dan hebben ze hem toentertijd op zijn hart gedrukt zijn mond te houden, omdat hij anders nooit meer een rol zou krijgen en hebben ze nu besloten dat hij mag meewerken aan de conditionering van het grote publiek.
De Engelse kranten brengen nu bijna dagelijks berichten over UFO’s en aanverwante zaken en dit interview was met Kurt Russell in samenwerking met BBC, een zender die zich altijd verre hield van dit soort dingen.
Grote sterren praten nu op zenders zoals de BCC open en bloot over dat ze UFO’s hebben gezien en het afgelopen jaar worden talloze nieuwe planeten ontdekt.
Kortom, we komen aanzienlijk dichterbij datgene wat ze met ons van plan zijn.
Disclosure of nep buitenaardse invasie?
Mochten er mensen zijn die aangaande bovenstaande een uitgesproken mening hebben, dan horen we dat graag.
HOE KAN DE ZEESPIEGEL VOOR ONZE NEDERLANDSE KUST ZOMAAR TWEE METER STIJGEN ( VIDEO )
HOE KAN DE ZEESPIEGEL VOOR ONZE NEDERLANDSE KUST ZOMAAR TWEE METER STIJGEN ( VIDEO )
Het was even nieuws in Nederland, maar ook alweer net zo snel vergeten te midden van al het andere belangrijke nieuws zoals het beslag op het huis van Patricia Paay door de belastingdienst.
Ondertussen hebben we hier te maken met een verontrustend fenomeen dat zich nog nooit eerder op deze manier heeft voorgedaan aan onze Noordzeekust.
Het begint steeds meer mensen op te vallen dat het weer bij ons ook aan het veranderen is.
Afgelopen week trok er in de ochtend een buienfront over de westelijke helft van het land en bij die passage viel iets waar te nemen dat je bij ons normaal gesproken nooit ziet.
Een heuse mini tsunami in de vorm van een vloedgolf aan de Nederlandse kust.
Er wordt nogal luchtig gereageerd op dit soort dingen in Nederland. Alsof het iets is waar we dagelijks mee te maken hebben. De weerman weet er dan een leuk praatje van te maken en laat de kijkers zien hoe er van het ene op het andere moment een enorm luchtdrukverschil ontstaat.
Maar wat die zee betreft. Daar ontstond eigenlijk het meest opmerkelijk verschijnsel. De eerste meldingen van een plotselinge vloedgolf aan de kust van Zuid Holland kwamen om kwart voor 6 binnen. Sterker nog, in Rockanje werd schade gemeld. Allerlei voorwerpen tot en met een soort van houten gebouwtje werden door het snel opkomende water verplaatst. Er zijn zelfs volstrekt unieke beelden van gemaakt met de beveiligingscamera van Beachclub Havana. Daarop is te zien dat het waterpeil met tenminste 2 meter stijgt! Korte tijd later passeert de vloedgolf ondermeer Katwijk en IJmuiden.
Het schijnt dat dit verschijnsel zich niet eerder heeft voorgedaan aan de Noordzeekust, alleen langs de oever van het IJsselmeer, een aantal jaren geleden.
En dat is nu het hele punt: We maken keer op keer wereldwijd unieke weersituaties mee die nog niet eerder zijn voorgekomen.
Wie had er ooit gedacht dat zomaar op een doordeweekse ochtend het waterpeil voor de Nederlandse kust met twee meter zou kunnen stijgen?
Niet alleen in Nederland zien we natuurlijk vreemde en totaal ongewone weersverschijnselen.
Hagelbuien met stenen die enorme schade kunnen veroorzaken en die je beter niet op je hoofd kunt krijgen, komen overal voor, zoals ook afgelopen week in Mexico.
Of, laten we gewoon zomaar een dag nemen en even kijken wat er zoal wereldwijd gebeurt, een dag zoals 31 mei 2017.
Steeds meer mensen wereldwijd die opmerken dat de positie van de aarde ten opzichte van de zon is veranderd en de zon niet meer ondergaat waar die dat vroeger deed, maar veel meer noordelijker op het noordelijk halfrond.
En alles en iedereen gaat gewoon door met de dagelijkse dingen en slikt de geruststellende woorden van de pratende hoofden op televisie.
Ondertussen worden door mensen steeds meer bizarre dingen gefilmd waaruit blijkt dat de grenzen met andere dimensies vervagen, er steeds vreemdere objecten gefilmd en wordt het inmiddels beruchte Nibiru mini zonnestelsel gefilmd vanuit een vliegtuig, zoals te zien in onderstaande video.
Een zonnestelsel dat geen lens flare is omdat de planeten worden gereflecteerd op de vleugels.
En het is dat mini zonnestelsel dat zorgt voor een twee meter stijging van onze zeespiegel op een doorsnee doordeweekse ochtend en wat ons nog veel meer ellende gaat brengen.
Wat er ook gebeurt de komende roerige tijden, het is belangrijk dat je je kracht en immuunsysteem op peil houdt en daarom bij deze nog eens de aanbieding van Orjana voor Nibiru lezers die nog geldig is tot en met zondag aanstaande:
En om daar een handje bij te helpen heeft Orjana deze week voor Niburu lezers een aantrekkelijke korting van 15 procent op haar 30 ml rauwe en hele plant CBD olie. Een aanbieding die geldig is tot en met aanstaande zondag 4 juni. Voer bij het afrekenen de code CBD1530 in.
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft een persconferentie gegeven om een indrukwekkende nieuwe missie voor te stellen. In de zomer van volgend jaar wil ze een sonde naar onze zon sturen. Het doel is om voor de allereerste keer "de zon aan te raken".
In oktober 1958 werd voor het eerst het idee geopperd om een sonde naar de zon te sturen. En nu is het eindelijk zo ver. De Parker Solar Probe - genoemd naar de ontdekker van zonnestormen - zal in de atmosfeer van de zon binnendringen en de oppervlakte van de zon naderen tot op amper 6,4 miljoen kilometer. Daarbij zal de sonde lange tijd ongeziene straling en temperaturen van 1.400 graden te verduren krijgen, iets wat nog geen enkel ruimtetuig ooit eerder heeft doorstaan.
Het toestel zal 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 onder meer 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, die door zware zonnestormen ontregeld kunnen raken.
"Het wordt de heetste missie die we ooit deden", volgens wetenschapster Nicola Fox. "Het hitteschild is het pronkstuk van de sonde. We doen 24 omwentelingen rond de zon, dus het moet niet alleen de hittte, maar ook de afwisseling van hitte en koude aankunnen. De instrumenten van de sonde werken op kamertemperatuur, dus het hitteschild moet wel wat aankunnen."
Foto's De binnenkant van de sonde - die 1.34 miljard euro kost - zal ook 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.
While whatever it is that’s going on between Washington and Moscow is shrouded in secrecy and intrigue, one man is openly proclaiming to the world that he is in talks with Russian officials that may eventually lead to Russian President Vladimir Putin becoming the first head of state to publicly acknowledge the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrials. Wait, what?
The man is Stephen Bassett, the executive director of the Paridigm Research Group International (PRG) and the first ET and UFO disclosure lobbyist in the U.S. In his mission to end alleged governmental suppression of the truth about alien contact, Bassett revealed this week that he spent the week of May 3 to May 10 in Moscow meeting with former Soviet and Russian military and agency officials who are now involved in that country’s own disclosure movement.
Part of the meeting was an interview of Bassett for a documentary. The PRG website details what was discussed:
During the interview, which will be broadcast in Russian in August, Bassett discussed various considerations that might prompt Russian President Vladimir Putin to make the first formal acknowledgment by a head of state regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. PRG believes this may be the first time anyone has made this argument on Russian media inside or outside Russia.
Bassett and PRG worked during the recent presidential election with candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager, John Podesta, to open U.S. government UFO files — an action which both promised to pursue. With Clinton’s loss, has Bassett given up on the current administration and decided to devote his attention to Vladimir Putin?
While humans have continued to destroy each other and the biosphere in which they live, there is a galaxy full of life waiting to be engaged. The extraterrestrial reality transcends politics, religion, race, and war. The embargo on this truth has accomplished nothing but delay the advancement of human civilization. Any number of heads of state could end this embargo at any time, and it can’t come soon enough.
Stephen Bassett
That’s not the kind of statement that would endear Bassett to the current U.S. administration, especially his reference to humans destroying the biosphere. Does he really think that former KGB agent Vladimir Putin will switch from stealing secrets to revealing them?
What the keepers of the truth embargo either fail or refuse to realize is a post-disclosure world could be the bridge between the US, China and Russia that would permit the necessary geopolitical realignments setting a new course away from the seemingly permanent war economies wasting vital resources and keeping the world always on the brink.
It sounds more like Bassett is slyly starting a competition between the leaders of the U.S., Russia and China in an attempt to goad one to be the first.
Which one seems to be the most responsive to competition and goading? Will we have to wait until August to find out?
On June 1st, NASA will conduct tests which will see them creating artificial clouds in the sky off the Eastern U.S. seaboard. To conduct the tests, NASA will launch sounding rockets from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s eastern shore. Compared to their larger space-faring counterparts, sounding rockets are smaller, lower-powered rockets designed for sub-orbital flights and used most often in scientific experiments.
A NASA scientist inspecting the cloud-creating rocket.
The NASA sounding rocket in this test will deploy ten pressurized gas canisters which will explode in the atmosphere, releasing the luminous blue and red clouds. The bright colors will allow scientists on the ground to better track and analyze the clouds as they form and disperse across the sky.
Residents of some coastal areas will witness red and blue-green clouds in the early morning of June 1st.
NASA’s official explanation for the clouds is that they are merely part of a test of new ionospheric monitoring techniques and technology:
The canisters will deploy between 4 and 5.5 minutes after launch blue-green and red vapor forming artificial clouds. These clouds, or vapor tracers, allow scientists on the ground to visually track particle motions in space. The vapor tracers are formed through the interaction of barium, strontium and cupric-oxide. The tracers will be released at altitudes 96 to 124 miles high and pose absolutely no hazard to residents along the mid-Atlantic coast.
Barium, strontium and cupric-oxide, eh? Sounds delicious, how do I breathe it in? Naturally, some sources have jumped at the chance to declare this as proof of climate manipulation or the ol’ chemtrails and the like. NASA, however, assures that the chemical-laced clouds pose no risk and that they’ve been conducting similar tests for decades. Most likely, it’s just a simple science experiment; after all, it’s pretty out in the open and you can even live-stream the launch on the mission website.
The best viewing areas are close to Delaware and Virginia.
With HAARP reportedly recently resuming experiments, though, you never can tell what’s really going on up above our heads. It’s probably fine, though. Keep watching the new season of House of Cards. Nothing to see here.
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.
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.
ROSWELL DEPUTY SHERIFF: 'I SAW A MASSIVE FLYING SAUCER AND FOUR DEAD ALIENS'!
ROSWELL DEPUTY SHERIFF: 'I SAW A MASSIVE FLYING SAUCER AND FOUR DEAD ALIENS'!
The incredible rising number of UFO sightings over the years is something to talk about, as it may be the time for humanity to finally meet extraterrestrial visitors.
But let's go back some decades and look into one of the most notorious events in UFO history, the 'Roswell incident'.
In 1947 a "flying saucer" crashed in Roswell, and the military raided the area to begin it's cover up. It made into newspapers front page, later to be changed into something else as part of this cover up. There have been clues about the incident here and there, but nothing absolutely "tangible".
One testimony about an alleged Roswell UFO crash site has been brought up by a man who claims to have seen a massive Flying Saucer crashed in a canyon. The flying saucer was already circled by the military of an unknown branch. Along with the UFO, there were humanoid corpses being carried away. He even describes the appearance of the extraterrestrial beings.
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Could Vladimir Putin reveal aliens exist? Kremlin chief asked to lift 'truth embargo'
Could Vladimir Putin reveal aliens exist? Kremlin chief asked to lift 'truth embargo'
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin could be the man to make world history by announcing intelligent aliens exist and have visited Earth, a "truth" campaigner believes.
Vladimir Putin has been asked to tell the world what he knows about aliens.
US citizen, Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Paridigm Research Group International (PRG), has spent a week in Russia trying to convince Mr Putin of the importance of lifting an alleged "truth embargo" that stops world leaders telling the public the truth about aliens.
Mr Bassett, who is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the subject of alien disclosure, believes a conspiracy theory that the truth of aliens has been withheld due to the fear of the impact on religion and the rule of law if we all knew.
He believes the conspiracy has been in place since at least 1947 when a flying saucer allegedly crash landed at Roswell, New Mexico.
Mr Bassett was interviewed for a Russian documentary during his visit.
A PRG statement said: "During the interview, which will be broadcast in Russian in August, Bassett discussed various considerations that might prompt Russian President Vladimir Putin to make the first formal acknowledgment by a head of state regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.
Bassett discussed various considerations that might prompt Russian President Vladimir Putin to make the first formal acknowledgment by a head of state regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.
Paridigm Research Group
"PRG believes this may be the first time anyone has made this argument on Russian media inside or outside Russia."
He also met former Soviet and Russian military and agency officials, who are now involved in the disclosure movement.
Mr Basset said: "Since 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia have spent in excess of $40trillion contesting over political and economic ideologies, fighting proxy wars around the world and building the most dangerous threat to the human race ever conceived.
"The Cold War has never really ended with gaming, brinksmanship and destructive policies continuing from both sides.
"While humans have continued to destroy each other and the biosphere in which they live, there is a galaxy full of life waiting to be engaged.
"The extraterrestrial reality transcends politics, religion, race, and war. The embargo on this truth has accomplished nothing but delay the advancement of human civilisation.
"Any number of heads of state could end this embargo at any time, and it can't come soon enough.
"What the keepers of the truth embargo either fail or refuse to realise is a post-disclosure world could be the bridge between the US, China and Russia that would permit the necessary geopolitical realignments setting a new course away from the seemingly permanent war economies wasting vital resources and keeping the world always on the brink."
In the bizarre clip – filmed above Cley Hill near Frome, Somerset – the strange object hurtles to the ground.
It then pulls up and starts looping – creating a circle with its long white tail.
While it is not clear exactly what the craft is, Cley Hill and its surrounding area is said to be a hotspot for alien activity.
Nigel Vile – a local rambler – said the nearby town of Warminster is sometimes described “as Britain’s UFO capital on account of phenomena first encountered in the mid-1960s”.
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BIZARRE: The UFO was filmed circling near a British town
He added: “Strange noises were heard in the skies above the town and an equally strange shimmering light was observed in the vicinity.”
But the unnamed resident who filmed the UFO was less sceptical.
“Probably a drone with a fancy flame effect tail or something,” he suggested.
Researchers Are Investigating A New UFO Sighting As They Prepare For The 70th Anniversary Of Roswell UFO Crashed
Researchers Are Investigating A New UFO Sighting As They Prepare For The 70th Anniversary Of Roswell UFO Crashed
Roswell is famously known as the alien mecca not only in the U.S. but the world. In 1947, an alleged crash of a flying saucer took place in this remote U.S. town. To mark the 70th anniversary of the mysterious event, a new UFO sighting is being investigated. The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), regarded as the biggest organisation committed to alien and UFO research, is looking into a report from a mother involving a strange sighting in the New Mexico town.
The unnamed mother said in a report to MUFON that she was driving with her son at around 9 pm when out of the corner of her eye, she saw a stationary, white and red light that was too big to be a star. She did not pay attention to the odd aerial sight right away.
She saw it on the horizon and could see it through her windshield. A few seconds later, she noticed another light on the left to the first. It was the time she looked directly at them.
The first light then disappeared after a few more seconds, but a third light then appeared on the left of the second. Then the lights vanished after about five seconds more, but made an appearance again in a different location and repeated the sequence.
The woman tried to rationalise the lights, but the lights did not appear like any aircraft. She even thought they could be fireworks, but she did not hear any sound and see any trail or explosion.
The mother decided to pull over on the side of the road and remained there for around five minutes, hoping to see those lights again. She wanted to record them and show someone what she had seen, but unfortunately, they did not reappear when they were parked there.
The unusual event took place on April 13.
MUFON researchers are investigating the case.
Roswell has been considered as the capital city of UFO since July 1947. The military announced in one press release that it had recovered the debris of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby. However, they retracted the statement the following day, saying the flying saucer was just a damaged Air Force balloon.
Witnesses later surfaced and claimed that there had been extra-terrestrial bodies within the crashed UFO. The claim further stated that the dead alien bodies were taken to the mysterious, top-secret Area 51 military facility in Nevada, along with the wreckage of the flying saucer.
The Roswell UFO Incident has gone on to become the largest UFO conspiracy theory until today.
There are around 50 alleged UFO sightings related to Roswell in the MUFON database.
Bigelow Aerospace, time to put up or shut up about UFOs
Bigelow Aerospace, time to put up or shut up about UFOs
Andrew Whalen
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Man running away from an alien flying saucer (Shutterstock)
On 60 Minutes Bigelow Aerospace president Robert Bigelow said “there has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence” on or around Earth. “I’m absolutely convinced. That’s all there is to it,” Bigelow told Lara Logan.
Bigelow, whose company has partnered with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test their immense, expandable spaceship habitats, inflated in orbit, has been a believer in UFOs as extraterrestrial phenomena since his grandparents reported encountering a craft that “sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car.”
But Bigelow’s belief in extraterrestrials visiting Earth go far beyond conclusions reached from family anecdote and the public record, or so he implies. “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.”
It’s likely the evidence Bigelow has amassed doesn’t conclusively prove extraterrestrials are visiting Earth, although it sure seems to have convinced him. When Logan asked if he’s risking anything by taking a public stance that UFOs are visiting Earth, Bigelow said, “I don’t give a damn. I don’t care.”
“It’s not going to make a difference. It’s not going to change reality of what I know,” he said. “You don’t have to anywhere… it’s just like right under people’s noses.”
If whatever Bigelow has found is so compelling, perhaps it’s time he share. Instead, Bigelow repeatedly hints at big secrets, sufficient for absolute certainty, that he’s simply not telling. The absence of evidence would be sufficient to dismiss most other UFO boasts of this nature. But in Bigelow’s case it’s not simply a naked claim, but one backed by an aerospace billionaire (perhaps the industry most entwined with government) who has spent years privatizing vast troves of UFO evidence.
Bigelow should make a choice between revealing what he knows — even if it means burning sources or leaking classified information — and relinquishing the rhetoric of certainty and insinuation. Otherwise we might be lead to the conclusion that Bigelow is deliberately withholding from the population of Earth the most important truth in the history of our species.
And if Bigelow won’t do it for us, he should do it for himself. In 1968 Daniel Ellsberg, who would later leak the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times, provided some advice to Henry Kissinger about the psychological toll classified secrets can take:
“It will have become very hard for you to learn from anybody who doesn't have these clearances. Because you'll be thinking as you listen to them: 'What would this man be telling me if he knew what I know? Would he be giving me the same advice, or would it totally change his predictions and recommendations?' And that mental exercise is so torturous that after a while you give it up and just stop listening.”
Kissinger didn’t take the advice. Bigelow now has the chance to make a different choice, by providing the transparency the public is owed on the UFO question, especially because the government won’t. Bigelow, it’s time to put up or shut up.
NASA’s Juno space probe is currently undergoing a multi-year orbit of Jupiter, and on Thursday the agency released a series of important discoveries the probe has made so far about the largest planet in our solar system. Normally we think of NASA’s data as visual, but Juno has also gathered some pretty incredible audio from the gas giant, which NASA released in tandem with the other findings.
Seriously — you’ve seen a million pictures of planets in your lifetime. How often do you get to hear what a planet sounds like?
Juno collected plasma wave signals from Jupiter’s ionosphere during a close flyby on February 2, 2017. The emissions came in at around 150 kHz, which is a much higher frequency than the human ear can perceive (our limit is around 20 kHz), so NASA slowed down the sounds to shift them into the audio frequency range, which we can hear just fine.
The video below plays the noise over a frequency-time spectrogram. The results show that plasma is denser in the lower parts of Jupiter’s ionosphere: The frequencies get higher as the plasma gets denser and as Juno descends closer to the planet.
NASA hopes that these signals can help us understand the processes occurring in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. A statement from the agency reads:
“The momentary, nearly pure tones follow a scale related to the electron density, and are likely associated with an interaction between the Juno spacecraft and the charged particles in Jupiter’s ionosphere. The exact source of these discrete tones is currently being investigated.”
Juno’s next close flyby will occur on July 11, when the probe will check out Jupiter’s famed Great Red Spot.
Robert Bigelow is obsessed with space. In the ‘90s, the wealthy real estate developer even launched a research institute called the National Institute for Discovery Science to study paranormal phenomenon and fringe sciences like ufology. Bigelow is convinced that aliens exist, and are even here among us.
“You don’t have to go anywhere, it’s right under people’s noses,” he cryptically tells 60 Minutes in a segment that aired Sunday.
These days it seems Bigelow’s final frontier obsession has shifted from discovering aliens here on Earth to getting humans out into space. The Nevada tycoon’s space company, Bigelow Aerospace, has partnered with NASA to develop expandable spacecraft. The lightweight structure is a reboot of an old NASA technology that was abandoned in the early 2000s due to a lack of funding. As opposed to space stations, expandable spacecraft can inflate in orbit, allowing humans new environments in which to live and work in zero gravity.
60 Minutes caught up with Bigelow last year at NASA mission control in Houston to watch the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, expand in space for the first time. After investing 300 million dollars and sixteen years of work, this was the moment of truth.
Robert Bigelow.
It took two tries over two days, but in the end, the mission was successful and the inflatable room is now being used and studied by astronauts living at the International Space Station.
BEAM is really just the tip of the iceberg for Bigelow Aerospace, who envision inflatable technology as a major player in the future of space activity. At their headquarters in Las Vegas, Bigelow gave 60 Minutes a tour of the Olympus, what he calls a “mansion for the skies.”
The Olympus
Housed in an 80-foot-tall warehouse, the structure is so large that a rocket powerful enough to launch it into space doesn’t even exist yet. But the idea is there, and Bigelow says the technology can be used for anything a client desires — an orbiting hotel, a hospital, or an inflatable research facility, for example.
Robert Bigelow shows '60 Minutes' reporter Lara Logan the inside of the Olympus.
He also showed 60 Minutes the B330, a smaller structure that Bigelow says could function as a space station. “It can function as a standalone destination because it has all the facilities that it would take to keep people alive,” he says.
Bigelow intends to market the B330 to countries looking to get into space with an affordable model.
Much like Richard Branson or Elon Musk, Bigelow believes that the future of space exploration is in the hands of private industry. “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,” he says.
With Elon Musk’s keen interest in building more powerful rocket technology, Bigelow’s gigantic, inflatable space hotel isn’t out of the question.
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Piek UFO-meldingen Nederland. Zijn dit buitenaardse ruimtereizigers?
Piek UFO-meldingen Nederland. Zijn dit buitenaardse ruimtereizigers?
Volgens het Nederlandse UFO-meldpunt is het aantal waarnemingen de afgelopen dagen enorm toegenomen.
Het is op dit moment erg druk bij het UFO-meldpunt. “De dagen zijn lang, mensen zijn veel buiten en dan zie je altijd een piek in het aantal waarnemingen van UFO’s,” zegt beheerder van de website Alex Griffioen op NPO Radio 1.
“Voor de meeste waarnemingen is een verklaring, maar met één op de 100 is echt is geks aan de hand,” vervolgt hij.
Open mond van verbazing
Zondag is boven het Sonsbeekpark in Arnhem een UFO gespot, meldt de Gelderlander. Twee getuigen maakten een video van drie bolvormige objecten.
“Iedereen die het ziet, zit aan het eind met open mond van verbazing,” aldus de getuigen.
“Ik heb geen idee wat dit was,” reageert Griffioen. “ Dit was een UFO! Dit zijn ze, ze zijn er!”
Driehoek
Afgelopen vrijdag werd er een driehoek waargenomen boven Veenendaal, schrijft RTV Utrecht. Iemand zag die dag ook drie heldere lichtpunten in Wijk bij Duurstede.
In Eemnes werd op 22 mei een rond voorwerp met een gat in het midden gezien en op 19 mei is een fel licht dat dimde en terugkwam waargenomen in Amersfoort en Utrecht.
Sinds de start van het meldpunt in 2011 zijn er al bijna 5300 waarnemingen gedaan. Het gaat voornamelijk om witte of gekleurde bollen, vlekken en strepen.
Fantasy-hoek
Griffioen vindt het jammer dat het onderwerp altijd in de fantasy-hoek wordt geplaatst, net als chemtrails en graancirkels. “Wij proberen er gewoon serieus naar te kijken,” zegt hij.
“Het is een fenomeen dat wordt waargenomen door piloten en door andere heel betrouwbare, verstandige mensen,” besluit hij.
Aliens bevinden zich recht onder onze neus. Deze NASA-partner doet opmerkelijke uitspraken
Aliens bevinden zich recht onder onze neus. Deze NASA-partner doet opmerkelijke uitspraken
Eén van de partners van NASA is er ‘absoluut van overtuigd’ dat aliens bestaan en op dit moment op aarde vertoeven.
Robert Bigelow, een ondernemer die nauw samenwerkt met de NASA op het gebied van toekomstige ruimtemissies, heeft gezegd dat hij weet dat er een buitenaardse aanwezigheid is op onze planeet, die zich ‘recht onder onze neus’ bevindt.
Bigelow deed zijn uitspraken tijdens een aflevering van het programma 60 Minutes over zijn werk voor de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie.
Hier aanwezig
Zijn bedrijf, Bigelow Aerospace, ontwikkelt vaartuigen voor mensen die in de toekomst in de ruimte kunnen worden gebruikt.
Bigelow begon tijdens het programma te praten over aliens en claimde dat UFO’s naar de aarde zijn gekomen. Hij voegde toe dat buitenaardsen hier ‘aanwezig zijn’.
“Ik ben er absoluut van overtuigd dat aliens bestaan,” vertelde hij aan presentatrice Lara Logan. “Dat is alles wat erover te zeggen is.”
Miljoenen en miljoenen
“Er is een bestaande aanwezigheid, een buitenaardse aanwezigheid,” onthulde Bigelow. “En ik heb hier miljoenen en miljoenen en miljoenen – waarschijnlijk nog meer dan welk individu dan ook in de VS – aan gespendeerd.”
Logan vroeg hem of het niet ‘riskant’ is om dit soort dingen te zeggen. Hij antwoordde dat het hem niet uitmaakt hoe mensen over hem denken.
Recht onder onze neus
Hij zei dat al het werk wat zijn bedrijf en de NASA doen niet nodig zal zijn om aliens te ontmoeten.
Mensen ‘hoeven nergens naartoe te gaan’ omdat de aliens zich ‘recht onder onze neus bevinden’.
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