Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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LOST WORLD Secrets of ‘lost eighth continent’ Zealandia to be unlocked as scientists set sail to explore underwater landmass
LOST WORLDSecrets of ‘lost eighth continent’ Zealandia to be unlocked as scientists set sail to explore underwater landmass
Mysterious submerged continent disappeared 75 million years ago and has never been fully investigated
By Jasper Hamill
SCIENTISTS have set sail on a mission to uncover the secrets of the “lost continent” of Zealandia.
This gigantic landmass disappeared beneath the waves 75 million years ago – and it has never been explored.
AFP
The drill ship Jodies Resolution sets sail to explore Zealandia
We know the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, so there is every chance scientists will find something totally unexpected in this drowned world.
It was originally part of the gigantic super-continent Gondwana, which was made up of many of the continents which now exist in the southern hemisphere.
Covering 1.9 million square miles, it extends from south of New Zealand northward to New Caledonia and west to the Kenn Plateau off Australia’s east coast.
Drill ship Joides Resolution will recover sediments and rocks lying deep beneath the sea bed in a bid to discover how the region has behaved over the past tens of millions of years.
The recovered cores will be studied onboard, allowing scientists to address issues such as oceanographic history, extreme climates, sub-seafloor life, plate tectonics and earthquake-generating zones.
Co-chief scientist Jerry Dickens, from Rice University in Texas, said the region was a vital area to study changes in global climate.
GSA TODAY
New Zealand sits atop a previously unknown continent—mostly submerged beneath the South Pacific
GSA TODAY
The continent would have been the size of greater India
GSA TODAY
Scientists have spent 20 years trying to prove Zealandia’s existence
“As Australia moved north and the Tasman Sea developed, global circulation patterns changed and water depths over Zealandia fluctuated,” he said.
“This region was important in influencing global changes.”
In a paper published in the Geological Society of America’s Journal GSA Today in February, researchers also made the case that it should be considered a new continent.
They said it was a distinct geological entity that met all the criteria applied to Earth’s other continents, including elevation above the surrounding area, distinctive geology, a well-defined area and a crust much thicker than that found on the ocean floor.
Australian National University’s Neville Exon said the two-month expedition, setting out Friday from Townsville, would also help better understand major changes in the global tectonic configuration that started about 53 million years ago.
What is a continent?
The Glossary of Geology defines a continent as “one of the Earth’s major land masses, including both dry land and continental shelves” (Neuendorf et al., 2005).
Continents must have high elevation relative to regions floored by oceanic crust; a broad range of siliceous igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks; thicker crust and lower seismic velocity structure than oceanic crustal regions; and well-defined limits around a large enough area to be considered a continent rather than a microcontinent or continental fragment.
Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, and Australia are all bonafide continents.
This is around the time that the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, a hotspot for volcanoes and earthquakes, came into existence.
In the February scientific paper, lead author Nick Mortimer said experts had been gathering data to make the case for Zealandia being a continent for more than 20 years.
But their efforts had been frustrated because most of it was hidden beneath the waves.
“If we could pull the plug on the oceans, it would be clear to everybody that we have mountain chains and a big, high-standing continent,” he said at the time.
The United States Navy has announced that the LaWS laser defense system is up and running. The weapon is designed to take out drones and ships and has future potential in missile defense.
The U.S. Navy has announced that the world’s first functional laser weapon is ready for action. The weapon, known as the Laser Weapons System (LaWS), can be found mounted on the USS Ponce, which is currently deployed in the Persian Gulf.
The weapon was designed to strategically take out flying unmanned vessels. It also has the ability to surgically destroy engines of manned watercraft without endangering the lives of any onboard personnel. The Geneva Convention restricts the use of laser weapons against humans, but the high precision of the laser could allow it to target a ship’s engine without the use of missiles. “That type of precision weapon work is something that you don’t really get with conventional weapons because there tends to be more collateral damage,” Inez Kelly, a U.S. Naval Forces Central Command science adviser, told CNN.
This technology could be the beginning of replacing missiles for the purpose of destroying enemy targets. On top of sparing lives, the cost comparison of a single shot from LaWS and a missile is astounding: while missiles can cost up to millions of dollars, a single LaWS “round” only costs about one dollar.
The weapon is currently only approved for drones and water vessels, but the Navy is also testing other applications — under the cover of classified status, of course.
Solar Warden: The Secret Space Program Built with Alien Technology
Solar Warden: The Secret Space Program Built with Alien Technology
“We now have the technology to take ET home.” –Ben Rich, CEO of Lockheed Skunk Works, 1993
The story behind this quote is an interesting one. At a lecture held in 1993 at the UCLA Alumni center, Ben Rich, the former CEO of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works held a speech about the advancements in space engineering during the previous 40 years.
He concluded with the quote about taking ET home while the final image in his slide presentation showed a “black disk zipping out into outer space.”
Over the years, the Skunk Works division of Lockheed has designed and built a number of high-tech aircraft such as the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-22 Raptor and the F-117 Nighthawk.
Taking this into account, some have drawn the conclusion that Rich alluded to advanced technology being secretly developed and it might be responsible for some of the flying disks we see today.
Seems too far-fetched? We’re on the same page but wait, it gets better.
In 2001, British systems administrator Gary McKinnon hacked his way into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers. He intended to find top-secret files regarding free energy but stumbled upon something bigger.
McKinnon claimed to have uncovered a spreadsheet containing names and information about “non-terrestrial officers” and transfers between fleets.
He cross referenced these names with a database of all U.S. Navy and military personnel but was unable to find any of the officers. McKinnon therefore concluded they were not of this world and labeled them as “Space Marines”.
In an interview with the BBC, he said he had been motivated by The Disclosure Project because:
“They are some very credible, relied-upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and they’ve captured spacecraft and reverse engineered them.”
McKinnon was discovered just as he was examining the image of a UFO stored in a NASA computer in Johnson Space Center’s Building 8. Caught in 2002, he was facing up to 70 years in prison and several million dollars in fines.
However, the U.K. never extradited him to the U.S. and McKinnon managed to avoid prison. Some say that he was able to do so because he had amassed sensitive information that he used as leverage.
He maintains his claim that extraterrestrial spacecraft have been captured and reverse-engineered and now the alien technology is being used by entities in our own figurative backyard.
Program Solar Warden
This brings us to Solar Warden. According to conspiracy theorists, Solar Warden is an ultra-secret project that maintains a fleet (or several fleets) of spaceships that are operating within our solar system. Some say they’re defending us against alien threats. Others say they’re involved in the covert colonization of space.
Such a fleet would require technology way ahead of what we’ve currently got. In order to send manned missions into the far reaches of our solar system we’d need exotic materials and propulsion systems. But there are some who claim we already do.
“I suspect that in the last 60 years or so, that there has been some back-engineering and the creation of this type of equipment, that is not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the apparent visitors have.”
Even so, who would have the coin required to fund such a venture?
The United States’ black budget for 2014 amounted to some $52.6 billion and they plan on spending around $58.7 B this year. But even this astronomical sum isn’t enough to fund or maintain a secret space fleet. And that’s when conspiracy voices start mentioning the deep black budgets.
As it turns out, there might be UFOs that were built on Earth, based on technology that originated elsewhere in the universe, and we might actually have a secret space fleet [capable of interplanetary travel].
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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 frm 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]
Math flier successmmo
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)]
The possibility of alien life on the icy planets and moons in our Solar System could be lower than previously thought, because any water on them will quickly vaporize, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience.
Scientists believe that Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon, and Europa, Jupiter’s smallest Galilean moon, are the most promising candidates in our search for extraterrestrial life, because of their icy exteriors.
As the Sun ages and gets hotter over time, the ice will melt and turn into water – a key ingredient needed to support life. But the paper published on Monday shows that those icy worlds will “transition directly to runaway greenhouse state, without passing through a habitable Earth-like state.”
Earth is unique, as it has been geologically active throughout its history. Volcanoes have emitted a steady stream of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide that trap heat from the Sun’s rays. It keeps Earth at the perfect temperature for liquid water to exist.
Other bodies such as Enceladus and Europa lack these processes, and with no help from greenhouse gases, the temperature is determined solely on the energy they receive from the Sun.
Researchers from Peking University in China, the University of Chicago and Cornell University in the US, and the University of Toronto in Canada developed climate models to simulate the evolution of the icy planets and moons.
They found that the solar energy – or stellar flux – needed to melt the ice is so high that they just transition from a “snowball state” to a “moist greenhouse state.”
“Our results suggest that an icy exoplanet at the equivalent distance of the modern Earth from the Sun would remain in a snowball state for a billion years or even longer until its received stellar flux evolves to become much higher than the insolation [exposure to the Sun’s rays] for the modern Earth,” the researchers warned.
“Following this, the planet would directly jump to a moist or runaway greenhouse state. Europa and Enceladus will have no habitable period. They will transit to a moist or runaway greenhouse state when the Sun becomes a red giant in 6-7 billion years." ®
Awesome GTA 5 Mod Takes Players To Space To Battle Aliens
Awesome GTA 5 Mod Takes Players To Space To Battle Aliens
Check out Grand Theft Space.
There's been no shortage of crazy and incredible mods made for Grand Theft Auto V, but most of them stay within the bounds of San Andreas. At this point, though--years after the game's original release--a group of modders apparently decided that the city was feeling a little stale and wanted to expand. And so they created a mod that takes GTA V to the final frontier.
Grand Theft Space, as it's called, is an ambitious mod that aims to let you explore space and battle with aliens. It's still in development, but the trailer that the team released gives a glimpse of a mod that's already awesome. Check it out below.
You can see from the video that you'll be able to blast off into space in a shuttle, explore the solar system, careen around the moon in a buggy, and meet new NPCs. You can see a list of features that the mod team is working on here.
"The earth has been alone in this galaxy since the very moment it was formed, but far far away in another galaxy, there was intelligent life peering at the people of earth for a millennium," modder Sollaholla wrote. "This life was not the friendly life we would like to believe. The NASA research team have found remnants of alien spaceship parts scattered around the state of San Andreas. We never thought that these intelligent life-forms would ever reach our planet; but they're coming and they're not on our side. It's your mission to take out these alien scum before they reach earth."
There's no set official release date for the mod yet; the modders say that it'll launch "when we think it's ready," Sollaholla said.
Space, the final felonious frontier.Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Auto 5's huge open-world is about to get even bigger with a new mod that hopes to take the series into space.
While mysterious rumblings of alien invasions and UFOs are nothing new to Rockstar's opus, actually heading into space for yourself has always been one giant leap away for players. This could be all about to change thanks to modder "sollaholla" and the work-in-progress "Grand Theft Space" mod.
Officially announced around six months ago, the mod has gained attention thanks to a spectacular teaser trailer (embedded below) which shows players blasting off into space in a rocket, fighting against aliens with laser weapons on the surface of a planet, and even approaching a swirling wormhole which bears a striking resemblance to scenes from 2015 sci-fi epic, Interstellar.
"The earth has been alone in this galaxy since the very moment it was formed, but far far away in another galaxy, there was intelligent life peering at the people of earth for a millennium," reads a synopsis for the mod.
"This life was not the friendly life we would like to believe. The NASA research team have found remnants of alien spaceship parts scattered around the state of San Andreas. We never thought that these intelligent life-forms would ever reach our planet; but they're coming and they're not on our side. It's your mission to take out these alien scum before they reach earth."
The modder, who previously co-created a popular mod bringing web-slinging superhero Spider-Man into GTA 5, has promised that, once released, Grand Theft Space will include four missions filled with planet exploration and combat, as well as the ability to explore planets outside of our solar system.
Writing during the announcement of the project, sollaholla said "I've heard little rumblings in the past of people wanting to make space mods. I've seen map-editor satellites, and space ship looking vehicles, the whole 9 yards. But nobody seems to have ever made it so you can actually go in space,"
"So I said, "Screw it, I'm gonna make a space mod.""
No release date has been set for the user-made cosmic expansion, but you can follow its progress here.
When it comes to comets making direct hits on our home planet, no news is good news. Today isn’t one of those days. A new NASA study of the Oort cloud where most of our solar system’s comets are born found that these frozen space rocks are much bigger than expected and up to seven times more likely to hit Earth than previously thought. Is it time to tell Elon Musk to hurry up with that Mars ship?
The study, published in the current edition of The Astronomical Journal, used NEOWISE (Near-Earth Orbit) data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission to track so-called ‘long-period comets’ which have orbits or 200 years or longer. That’s just the minimum cut-off – some of these comets can take thousands of years to complete one orbit around the Sun. The comets with shorter orbits (decades rather than centuries) are generally ‘Jupiter family’ objects that are heavily influenced by the largest planet (that we know of) in the solar system.
If they don’t fly by for hundreds of years, why should we — with so many more immediate problems — care?
“The number of comets speaks to the amount of material left over from the solar system’s formation. We now know that there are more relatively large chunks of ancient material coming from the Oort Cloud than we thought.”
University of Maryland astronomy professor and project leader James Bauer warns that the data shows there are seven times more long-period comets measuring at least 1 kilometer across than NASA once thought. It gets worse. Not only are there more of them, they’re bigger than the Jupiter family comets because they spend more time staying solid in frigid space than melting away near the Sun.
Astronomer and team member Amy Mainzer delivers more bad news.
“Comets travel much faster than asteroids, and some of them are very big. Studies like this will help us define what kind of hazard long-period comets may pose.”
Well, at least there’s a group of astronomers watching these long-period comets who will be able to give us some advance warning to start kissing up to Elon Musk for a seat on his Martian bus, right?
Wrong. On July 23rd, 2017, the ATLAS-MLO telescope in Hawaii detected that asteroid 2017 OO1 was on a collision course with Earth. In this case, “was” means the telescope picked up the asteroid three days AFTER it had already made its close pass of 76,448 miles away – just a third of the distance to the moon.
What was that Amy Mainzer said again?
“Comets travel much faster than asteroids, and some of them are very big.”
Mysterie rond mummies van Nazca kan geschiedenis veranderen. Worden er geheime experimenten gedaan?
Mysterie rond mummies van Nazca kan geschiedenis veranderen. Worden er geheime experimenten gedaan?
Het mysterie rond de ‘gemummificeerde aliens van Nazca’ kan de wereld veranderen, zo heeft een onderzoeker geclaimd.
Onlangs publiceerde de website Gaia.com een aantal video’s over vreemde mummies die in Nazca in Peru waren gevonden.
De Mexicaanse onderzoeksjournalist Jaime Maussan sprak in één van die video’s van een ‘wereldveranderende gebeurtenis’.
Drie vingers
Het verhaal begint in 2015, toen een lichaam met een smal hoofd en een hand met daaraan drie vingers werd gevonden.
Dat jaar werden in de Nazca-woestijn een aantal ondergrondse tunnels en ruimtes ontdekt, waarin twee sarcofagen stonden met daarin verschillende gemummificeerde lichamen.
Volgens sommige berichten is de ontdekking gedaan door wandelaars of grafrovers. Paul Ronceros kreeg de resten naar eigen zeggen in juli 2016 in handen.
Soortgelijke ontdekking
In januari dat jaar zouden medewerkers van het Instituto Inkari in de stad Cuzco een soortgelijke ontdekking hebben gedaan in Peru.
Ook zij vonden een hand met drie vingers en een schedel terwijl ze grotten en tunnels verkenden in Cuzco.
De Franse onderzoeker en verkenner Thierry Jamin van het Instituto Inkari deelde zijn bevindingen op 27 november 2016 op zijn Facebookpagina.
Zes botten
Enkele dagen daarvoor had Brian Foerster van Hidden Inca Tours een video over de vondst op YouTube geplaatst, waarin hij zegt dat hij van plan is de resten te onderzoeken.
Hij zei dat ‘experts’ na een aantal tests hadden geconcludeerd dat elke vinger zes botten bevat, meldde de Britse Daily Mail destijds.
In 2016 was Foerster opnieuw in het nieuws toen hij in een kantoorruimte in Mexico naar eigen zeggen op de resten van een vreemd gevleugeld wezen was gestuit.
Experimenten
“Ik ben opgeleid tot bioloog en kan me haast niet voorstellen dat dit nep is,” zei Foerster volgens de Daily Express.
Maussan reageerde: “Het is een hybride. Dat is erg belangrijk omdat ik denk dat er geheime experimenten worden gedaan. We kunnen dat fysieke lichaam analyseren en bewijzen dat er een intelligentie achter deze experimenten zit.”
Gaia.com liet weten binnenkort meer video’s over de vreemde mummies te publiceren.
Russia “UFO’s are real and we know how to Summon them!”
Russia “UFO’s are real and we know how to Summon them!”
Russians have claimed that they can predict when UFOs will appear and that they can even willingly summon them. They claim that UFO activity is increased when large scale weapons testing is taking place and have been measuring UFO activity by doing so.
Accrding to Vasily Yeremenko, a Major General of FIB in reserve, academician of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement:
“We can say that we learned to summon UFOs in Vladimirovka. To do this, we dramatically increased the number of military flights and movement of the equipment. If the intensity on our side increased, UFOs appeared with the probability of 100 percent.”
The Russians have come to three main conclusions:
Modern science is not yet able to identify such phenomena.
The UFOs could be US or Japan surveillance drones.
The UFOs could be extraterrestrial activity.
According to Svobodnaya Pressa, a news website, the Russian Navy have now declassified records of encounters with unidentified objects that technologically surpass anything ever built by humanity.
A special Navy group headed by Deputy Navy Commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov collected information on reports of unidentified objects, delivered by submarines and military ships.
According to Vladimir Azhazha, a UFO researcher and former Navy officer:
“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water.”
According to one report, a nuclear submarine on a combat mission detected six unknown objects pursuing them. After failing to lose the objects, the captain ordered the submarine to surface – the objects followed, departed from the water and flew away at high speed.
In 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal saw a group of humanoid beings dressed in silvery suits. Despite the divers trying to catch them, three of them died whilst the other four were injured.
According to Captain 1st rank Igor Barklayof Navy Intelligence:
“Ocean UFO’s often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”
If the organizers of Mars One – the project to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars – needs something to help bring up their recruitment numbers, this could be it. New photos from the Red Planet show that the Martian surface is dotted with mysterious blue pools and lagoons. If they’re filled with water or some other non-lethal but refreshing liquid, Mars could be the perfect place for extra-terrestrial swimmers, sunbathers and backyard party lovers.
The images were taken in November 2014 by the Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera and show the Arabia Terra region which is covered with craters of varying sizes, shapes and depths. A number of the craters show what appear to be blue pools that are in sharp contrast to the reddish surface around them. Is this the evidence we’ve been looking for of water on the surface of Mars?
Another view of a mysterious blue pool on Mars
The official word from the European Space Agency (ESA) is that the pools are the result of an “optical illusion” caused by a combination of Martian winds, erosion, dark volcanic sediments, image processing and probably a few more things. Here’s the explanation from ESA:
Is this a hint of blue liquid water? No, it is an optical illusion caused by the image processing. The blue-hued patches lying within the ragged craters are actually dark sediments that have built up over time. Again, this is due to the winds, which carry dark, volcanic, basalt-rich deposits across the planet.
While it’s true that Martian winds can reach 60 mph (100 km/h), hard enough to blow piles of dirt up against the walls of craters, why haven’t we seen these pools before in previous images? And why are they blue and not just a darkish shade of volcanic ash?
Is the ESA telling the truth about these mysterious blue pools? Or did these photos slip out before they could be removed or photoshopped by space scientists who don’t want us to know about these resorts on Mars? Is Mars One already telling Californians they can escape the drought on Earth by moving to the Red Planet?
Optical illusion? Martian backyard pools? Secret water reservoirs? Mars One recruiting ploy? Something else?
Another Interesting Leak: A Second NASA Scientist Tells Us That ‘Somebody Else’ Is On The Moon
Another Interesting Leak: A Second NASA Scientist Tells Us That ‘Somebody Else’ Is On The Moon
We live in a strange world, and as Neil Armstrong once said, there are “great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of the truth’s protective layers.”
Fast forward to today, and a number of people have become aware of the fact that not all of what goes on behind the scenes is made public. This is precisely why the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was created; it’s a federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government.
There are still many obstacles in the way of full transparency, one of which is the use of ‘national security’ to keep information classified and hidden from public viewing. This has become more evident with the revelations of WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden, but the problem goes deeper still. Did you know that the U.S government classifies roughly five hundred million pages of documents every single year? This is a completely separate topic in itself and if you’re interested in learning more about this, you can check out our article about the ‘Black Budget.’
NASA Scientists & What They Say About The Moon
Multiple NASA personnel have made some pretty shocking claims about the Moon. George Leonard, a NASA scientist and photo analyst who obtained various official NASA photographs of the Moon, many of which he published in his book titled Somebody Else Is On The Moon, is just one of these personnel.
Although the photos are small in size and their resolution is not up to today’s standards, they show details of original prints which were huge. While Leonard published the identifying code numbers of the photos in his works to back up their source, we still can’t say for sure that they were real, and their poor resolution only makes matters worse. Far more compelling than these photos are his statements about what was found on the Moon, along with his verified NASA credentials. Leonard was not the only one with a credible background trying to tell the world the truth regarding the Moon and the photos that were taken from the Apollo missions.
“Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many of us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program — the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there. They erased, for Christ’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events. Now we’re talking about several thousand individual frames that were taken that the so-called authorities determined that you did not have a right to see. Oh, they were ‘disruptive,’ ‘socially unacceptable,’ ‘politically unacceptable.’ I’ve become furious. I’m a retired Command Sergeant Major. I was never famous for having a lot of patience.” (source)
The quote above is from Bob Dean, who was speaking at a conference in Europe. Bob is a retired US Army Command Sargent Major, and he also served at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) of NATO as an intelligence analyst.
When it comes to the UFO phenomenon, we now have public disclosure of thousands of documents along with hundreds of credible witness testimonies.
It’s also important to note here that the Russian government recently called for an international investigation into the U.S. moon landings regarding the disappearance of film footage from the original moon landing in 1969. They are also referring to the (approximately) 400 kilograms of lunar rock that was obtained during multiple missions between 1969 and 1972. (source)
Leonard argued that NASA knew about extraterrestrial activity on the Moon and attempted to hide that information. He’s not the only one to make such an assertion.
“Read the books, read the lore, start to understand what has really been going on, because there is no doubt that we are being visited. . . . The universe that we live in is much more wondrous, exciting, complex and far reaching than we were ever able to know up to this point in time. . . . [Mankind has long wondered if we’re] alone in the universe. [But] only in our period do we really have evidence. No, we’re not alone.”
– Dr. Edgar Mitchell, ScD., NASA astronaut (6th man to walk on the moon)
Here is a clip of NASA astronaut Dr. Brian O’Leary saying the same thing.
Leonard is not the only NASA scientist to say some strange things about the Moon. Recently, a plasma scientist by the name of Dr. John Brandenburg said the same thing. He was the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon, which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA. The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. (Source: page 16 of 18)(source)(source)
It was (the Clementine Mission) a photo reconnaissance mission basically to check out ifsomeone was building bases on the moon that we didn’t know about. Were they expanding them?
He then went on to state that:
Of all the pictures I’ve seen from the moon that show possible structures, the most impressive is a picture of a miles wide recto-linear structure. This looked unmistakably artificial, and it shouldn’t be there. As somebody in the space defence community, I look on any such structure on the moon with great concern because it isn’t ours, there’s no way we could have built such a thing. It means someone else is up there.
If you were to tell the average person that you think another civilization, advanced enough to have mastered space travel, had been to the Moon before we got there and is possibly still going there, you would, without a doubt, receive some very peculiar looks in return. On the other hand, if that other person were to decide to hear you out, you would probably get their attention pretty quickly. For some, this type of information can be overwhelming, even terrifying, and that’s okay. Many people are not ready to open their minds up to these possibilities, but the truth of the matter is, it’s something we are going to have to confront eventually. We are clearly heading towards the inevitable reality of extraterrestrial contact — that is, if we smarten up and start taking care of our planet to the best of our ability. Perhaps we can make it long enough to realize this future, or maybe it’s coming sooner than we think.
That being said, there is a good deal of evidence to suggest that extraterrestrial contact is already happening.
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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.
Football and Brain Injury
The top images here show a normal brain. The bottom images show the brain of former University of Texas football player Greg Ploetz, who died at age 66.
Credit: Dr. Ann McKee, Copyright: BU Photography
A study of the brains of more than 200 deceased football players — including 111 who played in the National Football League (NFL) — reveals that nearly 90 percent of the players had a brain disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
In the study, published today (July 25) in the journal JAMA, researchers found evidence of CTE in 177 out of 202 brains, or 87 percent of the individuals. Among the brains of NFL players, 110 out of 111, or 99 percent, had CTE. (The other men who had donated their brains for the study played football either semiprofessionally, or in college or high school.) [Read more about CTE.]
Mysterious glass
Prince Rupert's drops are weird little glass confections that can resist a hammer strike to the head, but shatter with the slightest pressure to the tail. New research has revealed the physics behind the strange phenomenon.
Credit: Trevor Mahlmann/Purdue University
The mystery of tiny teardrop-shaped glass confections that can survive a hammer blow, yet shatter to smithereens with the slightest touch to the stem, has finally been solved.
Over the centuries, scientists puzzled over the riddle of Prince Rupert's drops. In 1994, Chandrasekar and a colleague used a high-speed camera to capture 1 million frames per second of the drops as they shattered. The footage revealed that tiny cracks that form in the tail rapidly spread into the head. [Read more about the solved mystery.]
Stinky Ritual
A preserved toe is famously served as a key ingredient in a by-request cocktail at a Canadian hotel saloon.
Credit: PR Services
The notorious "Sourtoe Cocktail" — a shot of alcohol containing a dehydrated human toe — is a bizarre tradition at the Downtown Hotel's Sourdough Saloon, in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. The cocktail craze kicked off in 1973, after riverboat Capt. Dick Stevenson found a preserved toe in an abandoned Yukon cabin; the toe was thought to belong to a 1920s-era bootlegger named Louie Linken, the Sourtoe Cocktail Club website says.
To date, 71,468 people have downed the drink and tasted the toe, toe captain Terry Lee recently told NPR. [Read more about the drink.]
CRISPR Progress
A group of scientists in Oregon has successfully modified the genes of embryos using CRISPR, a cut-and-paste gene-editing tool.
In general, editing the germ line — meaning sperm, eggs or embryos — has been controversial, because it means permanently changing the DNA that is passed on from one generation to the next. Some scientists have called for a ban on germ-line editing, saying the approach is incredibly risky and ethically dubious. [Read more about the procedure.]
Biblical Roots
A burial jar containing the remains of an ancient inhabitant of the Canaanite city of Sidon. This individual was one of five whose DNA was sequenced to reveal the ancestry of the Canaanites.
Credit: Dr. Claude Doumet-Serhal/The Sidon Excavation
The people of modern-day Lebanon can trace their genetic ancestry back to the Canaanites, new research finds.
Haber, Tyler-Smith and their colleagues extracted ancient DNA from the bones of five Canaanites who died in the ancient city of Sidon (an area now in Lebanon). The skeletons dated from between 3,750 and 3,650 years ago. The researchers then compared the genetic sequences of these ancient Canaanites with those of 99 modern Lebanese people, as well as with ancient DNA sequences of more than 300 other people from an ancient DNA database. [Read more about the dig.]
Unexplained Changes
Sperm counts among men in Western countries have dropped considerably in the last several decades, according to a new study.
The researchers said that they cannot determine from their data what might have caused the decline, but it could be related to environmental or lifestyle factors. The findings are concerning, not only because men's sperm counts are linked with their chances of conceiving a child, but also because poor sperm counts have been linked with a number of other poor health outcomes, including an increased risk of early death. [Read more about the mystery.]
Repeating History
The May 29 total solar eclipse in 1919.
Credit: Public Domain
For some skywatchers, the upcoming total solar eclipse on Aug. 21 is more than just a chance to catch a rare sight of the phenomenon in the United States. It's also an opportunity to duplicate one of the most famous experiments of the 20th century, which astrophysicist Arthur Eddington performed in an attempt to prove that light could be bent by gravity, a central tenet of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
But later analyses of Eddington's data seemed to suggest that the astrophysicist's confirmation might not have been the slam dunk he thought it was. Bruns said the debate over Eddington's data is why he wants to do the experiment again. [Read more about testing Einstein's theory.]
What's in YOUR water?
What's in your drinking water? Whether you're wondering if your water is safe or just what that weird smell is, a new tool is now available that could help.
In total, the tests found nearly 270 contaminants in drinking water across the country. Eight of the contaminants, including arsenic and lead, were reported in all 50 states. [Read more about the database.]
Long lost relatives
Scientists have found that a "ghost" lineage of archaic human may have interbred with the ancestors of modern humans in what is now sub-Saharan Africa around 200,000 years ago.
Credit: Bob Wilder/University at Buffalo
A protein that helps make human spit slimy reveals signs that the ancestors of modern humans interbred with an extinct human lineage that was an even more distant relation than Neanderthals, a new study finds.
Now, researchers suggest that a "ghost" lineage of ancient humans may have contributed the DNA for a protein called mucin-7 found in the saliva of modern humans living in sub-Saharan Africa today. [Read more about our unknown ancestors.]
Journals and Money
"Star Wars" microscopic midi-chlorians were born on the fictional Wellspring of Life.
Credit: Lucasfilm
Mitochondria: totally real cell organelles that convert sugars, fats and oxygen into usable energy for cells. Midi-chlorians: completely made-up and widely derided microscopic life-forms that give Jedi warriors their ability to use the Force in the "Star Wars" movies.
The paper was a hoax written by the so-called Neuroskeptic, who blogs pseudonymously for Discover magazine. The point? To expose "predatory journals," which claim to offer peer-reviewed, open-access publication but in fact publish almost anything for a fee, according to the Neuroskeptic. [Read more about the hoax.]
NASA SHUT DOWN THEIR LIVE STREAM AS STRANGE UFO ENTERS EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE
NASA SHUT DOWN THEIR LIVE STREAM AS STRANGE UFO ENTERS EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE
UFO hunters have raised the alarm about an alleged intrusion of Earth’s atmosphere by a massive UFO. The mysterious space object, according to UFO chasers, was spotted on the live ISS stream entering the Earth’s atmosphere on July 9, 2016.
The alleged intrusion was first reported by prolific UFO hunter Streetcap1 in a video uploaded online on July 9, 2016, the same day he spotted the mysterious object entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
According to Streetcap1 in the description of his video titled “UFO Enters Earth’s Atmosphere, July 9, 2016,” while it was possible that the object was a meteor, we may suspect it was an alien craft because NASA cut live transmission as it entered Earth’s atmosphere.
The UFO hunter wrote that the object may have been a meteor, but the suggestion appeared to be contradicted by his observation that it paused during entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
“Remember a UFO is an unidentified flying object,” Streetcap1 wrote. “This could well be a meteor or the like. What made it interesting was that the camera cut off when the UFO seemed to stop.”
Streetcap1’s observations sparked a debate among enthusiasts.
UFO Sightings Hotspot argued that although the object appears, at first glance, to be a natural space object, such as a meteor, a closer look could lead the observer to conclude it was an artificial space object, such as space junk or debris, making re-entry into the atmosphere from orbit.
“NASA seems to have a nasty habit of cutting off their live camera feeds every time a UFO enters the frame.”
But according to the blogger, the fact that NASA cut the live video raises suspicion.
“At first glance it could be a natural object like a meteor or an artificial object like space junk or a satellite but what made it interesting was that NASA cut the live camera feed just at the moment the UFO seemed to stop just above earth’s atmosphere,” the blogger wrote.
“If it [was a] recognizable and identified object then there is no reason to shut down the live streaming,” the UFO blogger continued, “but NASA seems to have a nasty habit of cutting off their live camera feeds every time a UFO enters the frame.”
UFO blogger Scott C. Waring also joined the debate. In a post to this UFO Sightings Daily blog, he ruled out the suggestion that the mysterious object was the Moon or a meteor.
Alien UFO entered Earth’s atmosphere from space, according to UFO hunters [Image via Shutterstock]
Although he admitted the object could be a giant UFO, he argued, rather uncharacteristically, that it was more likely the Chinese space station Tiangong-1.
“I have watched the International Space Station a lot over the last 6 years and I can tell you that this is not the moon, nor a meteor,” he wrote. “It may be the Chinese space station cargo ship, called Tiangong-1, or the other one Tangong-2.”
Tiangong-1 is China’s first space station launched unmanned into orbit in September 2011. It serves primarily as an experimental module for testing and demonstrating space maneuvers and operations, such as docking.
The Chinese plan to replace it with Tiangong-2 in September 2016, according toSpaceflights News.
Tiangong-2 will allow China to place two astronauts in orbit for up to 30 days,Shanghai Dailyreports.
This is not the first time that UFO hunters have accused NASA of cutting transmission after a mysterious UFO appeared on the live ISS stream.
A NASA spokesperson made a statement earlier in April denying allegations that NASA technicians deliberately shut down transmission when UFOs appear on the live video. According to the spokesperson, NASA never intentionally shuts down live transmission to hide UFOs. Loss of video is usually due to loss of signals from the ISS.
“The station [ISS] regularly passes out of range of the Tracking and Relay Data Satellites used to send and receive video, voice and telemetry from the station,” NASA spokesperson Tabatha Thompson said. “For video, whenever we lose signal video comes down on our higher bandwidth, called KU. The cameras will show a blue screen indicating no signal or a preset video slate, depending on where you are watching the feed.”
The statement was issued in response to media questions after Waring claimed in a blog post (see video above) that the agency cut live transmission following the appearance of a “diamond” or “horseshoe-shaped” UFO on the live feed.
Jupiter is so big it does not actually orbit the sun
Jupiter is so big it does not actually orbit the sun
One of my daughter’s favorite books is “Space Walk” by Salina Yoon. Each page shows a planet accompanied by a rhyming factoid about it.
But each time I read it to her — sometimes three or more times a day — I furrow my nerdy brow at this line: “Of all the planets that circle the sun, giant Jupiter is the biggest one.”
The gas giant is indeed the largest planet in the solar system, weighing more than twice the mass of all the other planets,moons, asteroids, comets, and more combined.
However, Jupiter does not technically orbit the sun — because it’s so dauntingly massive.
When a small object orbits a big object in space, the less massive one doesn’t travel in a perfect circle around the larger one. Rather, both objects orbit a combined center of gravity.
For a puny, fragile planet like Earth, which is 0.000003 the mass of the sun, the center of gravity resides so close to the center of the sun that we don’t even notice the slightly off-kilter orbit. It seems as though we circle the star.
The same is true of most other objects in the solar system — except Jupiter.
The gas giant is so big that it pulls the center of mass between it and the sun, also known as the barycenter, some 1.07 solar radii from the star’s center — which is about 30,000 miles above the sun’s surface.
Jupiter is about 0.001 as massive than the sun, but it’s sizeable enough that both the sun and Jupiter orbit that point in space.
This not-to-scale GIF from NASA illustrates the effect:
Essentially, that’s how Jupiter and the sun move through space together — though the distances and sizes are far different.
So the next time you read a kid’s book that says that Jupiter circles the sun, you’d be forgiven for trying to rip out that page. Just like my daughter enjoys doing.
‘Star Trek ship’ spotted in the sky by UFO sceptic – who admits he’s baffled by the sighting
‘Star Trek ship’ spotted in the sky by UFO sceptic – who admits he’s baffled by the sighting
A ‘Star Trek’ style spaceship has allegedly been spotted hovering in the sky in Canada.
Images of the strange object were captured by a self-proclaimed UFO sceptic who admitted he was the ‘last person’ to believe in aliens or extraterrestrials.
The video has been uploaded to YouTube by Tyler Glockner, UFO hunter and founder of Secureteam10.
In the clip, Tyler says: “Something [has been] caught flying in the skies over Canada.
“It looks like a saucer, it kind of looks like the Star Trek ship from the TV series.”
The bizarre UFO looks like a ‘Star Trek ship’
The strange object was spotted over Random Island in Canada, by a man named Chad Haines.
After handing in the footage to a Canadian news site, Mr Haines admitted to reporters that he was the last person to believe in aliens , extraterrestrials or UFOs.
But after witnessing the unidentified craft hovering in the sky near his house, he says he now can’t explain what else it could have been.
Even a UFO sceptic can’t come up with a rational explanation
Haines was deleting images off his camera in preparation when he stumbled upon photographs he’d taken earlier in the year.
He said the object was hovering over water ‘near to the moon’ and was visible for two to three hours.
After remaining still for most of that time, the object then moved up and down before rapidly shooting off out of sight.
Haines says the object definitely wasn’t a plane, and said the UFO was far too large to be a drone.According to Tyler, a sighting in the same place was spotted more than 37 years ago in 1978.This time, it was a strange cigar-shaped craft hovering over Random Island. The police officer who spotted the object was subjected to so much ridicule that he barely mentioned the sighting ever again.
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Detecting Alien Life Will Likely Be a Protracted Process, Not a Eureka Moment
Detecting Alien Life Will Likely Be a Protracted Process, Not a Eureka Moment
By Elizabeth Howell, Seeker
The nonprofit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute's Allen Telescope Array in California has been listening for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. So far, no aliens have tried to get in touch.
Credit: SETI Institute
Would it be easy to determine if the source of a mysterious radio signal was aliens? Probably not. A new paper argues that contact with extraterrestrials will likely be discovered through a prolonged, incremental process rather than an instantaneous eureka-like moment. Eureka — what the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes allegedly said when he cracked a tough science problem about water displacement — tends to be the exception in science rather than the rule.
Attributing scientific progress to eureka moments is popular because it is easy to understand, argues Milan Cirkovic, a senior research associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and an assistant physics professor at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and Montenegro. But, he writes in the journal Space Policy, "It puts too big an emphasis on the 'origin myths' and the role of great personalities, key moments, events, and circumstances in any historical process.”
Cirkovic said in an email that the community involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) should instead be prepared for a process that would take a very long time. It may take decades as the SETI community looks at all the reasons aliens might not be the source of a mysterious signal.
"I have only tried to point out that both history of science and logic and common sense suggest — on a descriptive level — that contact will be a protracted affair, probably not recognizable as such over timescales of years or decades," Cirkovic said. He was careful not to say how contact might proceed, but that it would take a long time and repeated observations.
Think about the protracted debate concerning "Tabby's star," which is showing strange brightening and dimming. Some say it's due to a possible "alien megastructure," while others are pointing to various natural processes, such as exocomets.
"More structure is obviously necessary, as far as signals are concerned," Cirkovic said. "The example often quoted (first due to Nikola Tesla, who was somewhat forgotten as a SETI pioneer) is the presence of prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ... etc. in the signal."
Prime numbers are a non-natural process that are considered by SETI scholars an indication of possible life.
"However," Cirkovic added, "this is the classic understanding of the first contact which I actually intend to undermine in the present paper. I argue — after some of the SETI ‘founding fathers,’ notably Nikolai Kardashev — that we are more likely to detect an anomalous astrophysical phenomenon, which would be a signpost of massive engineering effort by extraterrestrial intelligence.”
He added that in recent years the SETI community has said it expects contact to come through detecting one of these engineering signatures rather than through a radio signal. Cirkovic and some other experts call this "Dysonian SETI", after a 2011 paper that Cirkovic co-authored and was led by Robert Bradbury of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade.
Cirkovic — who has published more than 20 papers and a book on SETI since 2004 — urges the community to recalibrate its detectors, equipment, and models to better look for Dysonian SETI, which "deserves much more attention."
They believe under the harsh conditions of Saturn’s largest moon, the chemical could form stable, flexible structures similar to cell membranes.
“We found convincing evidence that acrylonitrile is present in Titan’s atmosphere, and we think a significant supply of this raw material reaches the surface,” said
Maureen Palmer, a researcher with the Goddard Center for Astrobiology at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and lead author of a paper in Science Advances.
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SATURN: The ringed planets moons are prime contenders for alien life
NASA
TITAN: Saturn's moons surface is covered in chemical lakes
“We have made the first unambiguous identification of carbon chain anions in a planet-like atmosphere”
Ravi Desai
The detections were made using Cassini’s plasma spectrometer as it flew through Titan’s upper atmosphere, 950–1300 km above the surface.
“We have made the first unambiguous identification of carbon chain anions in a planet-like atmosphere, which we believe are a vital stepping-stone in the production line of growing bigger, and more complex organic molecules, such as the moon’s large haze particles,” said Ravi Desai of University College London and lead author of the study.
“This is a known process in the interstellar medium, but now we’ve seen it in a completely different environment, meaning it could represent a universal process for producing complex organic molecules.
“The question is, could it also be happening within other nitrogen-methane atmospheres like at Pluto or Triton, or at exoplanets with similar properties?”
Space experts have long believed Titan is a prime candidate for life and has an atmosphere “consistent” with one supported by methane breathing aliens.
So far, Titan is one of the only objects in space other than Earth to have evidence of surface liquid, which is thought to be vital for sustaining alien life.
The cells of Earth’s plants and animals would not hold up well on Titan, where surface temperatures average minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 179 degrees Celsius), and lakes brim with liquid methane.
The discovery comes as NASA offered an up-close look at the Trappist-1 exoplanets – believed to be key in the hunt for life.
Sprawled out over a large swath of Eastern California, in the United States is a vast expanse of arid desert wasteland covering around 3,000 sq mi (7,800 km2), known rather fittingly as Death Valley, located mostly within Inyo County, California. This is an unforgiving, desolate land, which is a stranger to rain and known as one of the hottest places in the world, with some the highest temperature ever recorded in the world, at 134 °F (56.7 °C), recorded on July 10, 1913. It is as deadly, inhospitable a place as you are likely to find, that may as well be the surface of some scorching, barren alien planet, yet it has drawn more than its fair share of visitors who flock here to see the bleak, sun blazed vistas or merely out of pure curiosity. Yet for as many people that come here to visit, there are also those who never return, and this is a deadly, ominous place that has earned a rather sinister reputation for mysterious vanishings and deaths.
One of the earlier unexplained disappearances of Death Valley happened in 1958, when 26-year-old Army pilot First Lieut. Paul Byron Whipkey vanished under strange circumstances from Fort Ord, California. On July 10, 1958, Lieutenant Whipkey casually told his fellow officers that he was heading out to get a quick drink in the nearby town, and he would bizarrely be next seen a few hours later and hundreds of miles away in Mojave, California, where he allegedly checked into a motel for no known reason. The next day, he purportedly bought 14 gallons of gasoline and then proceeded to vanish off the face of the earth. The only clue would come 5 weeks later, when Whipkey’s abandoned vehicle was found by California fish and game officers in a remote, forbidding region of Death Valley, 15 miles away from the main road and 400 miles from where he had begun his odd journey in Fort Ord. Whipkey’s dog tags, suitcase, and other personal belongings were found within, but there was no sign of where he had gone.
Death Valley
The Army was quick to dismiss this all as a case of simple desertion, and would later claim that he had died after wandering away into the desert from his car, but there is no evidence at all of what really happened, and Whipkey’s brother, Carl Whipkey, would be deeply skeptical of this assertion, saying that right off the bat the government was being suspicious about it all. He would claim that from the day after his brother’s disappearance the Army had said they were packing up his belongings, of which Carl would say, “Superhyper Superquick. When you catch them packing up your brother’s clothes one day after he disappeared, you get super-hyper superquick.” Whipkey’s family has never accepted the Army’s official explanation, and feel that there is something more going on here, perhaps even a cover-up, which is especially believable considering that when Carl Whipkey requested information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the Freedom of Information Act, he was told that all of the files had been destroyed in 1977 for reasons unknown. Carl has said of the strange case:
The Government knows what happened to my brother. There are so many questions still unanswered. I would be satisfied even if the Army would say they can’t tell us for security reasons. But until then, we can’t rule anything out.
In the meantime all sorts of theories have popped up, with ideas such as that he was really a secret agent who saw something he was not supposed to or was silenced, that he was a test subject for some military experiment, a victim of nerve gas or atomic tests who was covertly swept under the carpet, or even abducted by aliens. Interestingly, it has been found that shortly before his strange disappearance, Whipkey had developed had developed inexplicable black moles and warts all over his body and had frequently complained of not feeling well, as well as displaying personality changes, appearing “nervous and uptight.” He also apparently had had many of his teeth pulled out and replaced with dentures. What does any of this mean, if anything? What happened to Paul Byron Whipkey? Whatever the answer to that may be is lost to us, as no sign of him has ever been found and all records on the case seemingly lost.
Probably the most well-publicized vanishings connected to Death Valley occurred in July of 1996, when four tourists from Dresden, Germany journeyed here to take in the sights. Cornelia Meyer, 27, her 4-year-old son Max, boyfriend Egbert Rimkus, 34, and his 10-year-old son, Georg Weber, were touring Las Vegas and the surrounding region in a rented Plymouth van. It was probably not the best time to be visiting, as at the time Death Valley was in the midst of a scorching, record-breaking heat wave which saw the already relentlessly, oppressively hot temperatures here soar up to 120 degrees and up. Regardless, they set out from their hotel in Las Vegas on July 22, and headed to Death Valley, where they stopped at a visitor’s center to purchase a book on the valley and a map before heading out to explore the heat blasted landscape. This would be the last time anyone would ever see them again.
Death Valley
On July 29, the family failed to board their scheduled flight home, and when a preliminary investigation was launched there was found to be an odd entry written in a guestbook perched on a metal pole at an abandoned mining ghost town in Warm Springs Canyon, which held the cryptic words “We are going through the pass,” written in German and signed “Conny Egbert Georg Max.” Although it was unclear just what they meant by “the pass,” authorities surmised that they must have meant Mengel Pass, a rather rugged and remote, poorly maintained dirt road that passed through a lifeless barren moonscape on the park’s southwestern border.
No other sign of the missing group of tourists was turned up until months later, when on October 23, the abandoned mini-van was discovered by a drug surveillance plane, in an isolated sandy ravine far from any road and well off the beaten path for tourists. The doors of the dust encrusted vehicle were found to be locked, and inside were found to be photo film, empty water bottles, sleeping bags, an information booklet, and a carefully folded American flag most likely bought as a souvenir, as well as a single child’s shoe. Other personal belongings such as wallets, passports, keys, or purses were not found, and oddly no tracks were found around the van either. It was as if they had just vanished into thin air. A beer bottle was found lying on the ground not far away, but it was unclear if this had belonged to the missing group or not.
In the wake of this baffling discovery, over 200 law enforcement officers from both Nevada and California methodically scoured the area on foot, horseback, and from the air, but no further clues were found. For decades the fate of these tourists remained a complete mystery, and theories swirled as to what had happened to them, such as that they had run across nefarious drug dealers and been killed or kidnapped, as well as the ideas that they had staged their own vanishing or that they had simply wandered off into the wilderness and fallen victim to the scathing, inhospitable conditions, but no one knew for sure and there was not a single trace of them or clue to their fate.
The German tourists’ car
In 2009, two hikers were traversing the perilous, bleak terrain of a remote area of Mojave Desert park when they came across the gruesome discovery of human bones mired in the sand and brush. The remains, which turned out to be of an adult male and female, were speculated to likely be those of the missing tourists, especially since Cornelia Meyer’s identification was reportedly found lying nearby, but this is not known for sure and the bones were too damaged by the sun for a successful DNA analysis. Despite this gruesome discovery, the remains have not been positively identified, it still remains a mystery as to what happened to them, and the remains of the two children have never been found.
The case has remained perplexing and widely discussed to this day. What happened to these people? Did they meet with foul play? Were they killed or kidnapped, and if so by who and for what reason? Or did they just succumb to the elements in their foolhardy adventure? Why did they drive their vehicle off road out in the middle of nowhere in the middle of a merciless heat wave, with no provisions and a woefully inadequate water supply? Were they just very adventurous, foolish, or is there some other inscrutable reason? Were those remains of the missing adults, and even if they are what happened to the kids? These are questions for which it seems the answers have remained evasive.
While the case of the missing Germans is by far the most widely circulated and oft-debated disappearance to have occurred in Death Valley, it is certainly not the only one and is not even the weirdest. Just 2 years later, in the Spring of 1998, five women vanished without a trace in the Los Angeles area, laid against a backdrop of assorted other bizarreness. The women were most notable for being part of a sort of New Age cult headed by the enigmatic Peruvian born New Age writer and philosopher Carlos Castaneda, a graduate student in anthropology at UCLA who had gathered quite a reputation for his outlandish esoteric theories and eccentric lifestyle. He was an extremely successful non-fiction writer of New Age books on supposed ancient, mystical knowledge of Native Americans in the 1970s and early 80s, selling millions of copies of his books with titles like The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, A Separate Reality, Journey to Ixtlan, and Tales of Power, which continue to sell well even now despite having received a good amount of scathing skepticism and criticism over the years.
Carlos Castaneda
Almost as well known as his books was his reclusive ways and the cult-like movement he formed in 1973, which was based on supposed shamanic secrets he called Tensegrity, which actually proved to be quite popular, spawning countless workshops, seminars, and instructional videos. One of the strangest aspects of the movement was an extremely secretive group of women Castaneda kept close by, a harem of sorts, which were referred to as “the witches.” Very little was known about the witches, what exactly their purpose was, or even how many of them there were, and they typically used aliases and absolutely refused to be photographed, all of which just added to Castaneda’s mystique. It is known that they were frequent users of peyote and engaged in all manner of shamanic mysticism and metaphysics, such as vision quests, speaking with animals, and various rituals.
Shortly after Castaneda wasted away and died of liver cancer in 1998, five of these witches, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar, Amalia Marquez, Kylie Lundahl, and Patricia Lee Partin, all completely vanished in quick succession. The only clue found at the time was Partin’s vehicle, which had been abandoned at Death Valley’s Panamint Dunes. In 2003, some hikers would find a desiccated corpse half-buried in sand out in the desert wearing shredded clothes. When the remains were finally properly analyzed they were found to be those of Patricia Lee Partin, although the cause of death nor why she had been out in such a remote area of Death Valley could not be determined. One former follower of Castaneda has come forward with his own theory on the matter, saying:
Castaneda once told her (Partin), if you ever need to rise to infinity, take your little red car and drive it as fast as you can into the desert and you will ascend. And that’s exactly what she did: She took her little red car, drove it into the desert, didn’t ascend, got out, wandered around and fainted from dehydration.
Patricia Lee Partin
None of the remains of the other women, nor any trace of them at all, have ever been found. It is widely thought that they likely committed suicide, which is a theory bolstered by Castaneda’s alleged frequent extolling of the virtues of suicide, which he deemed to be a noble way of gaining transcendence. Some of the witches had even been allegedly tasked with scouting locations in Death Valley such as caves and abandoned mines, one of which was spookily located not far from where Partin was found, that could be used as suitable suicide sites. One former follower has said of this:
He used to talk about suicide all the time, even for minor things. He regularly told us he was our only hope. We were all supposed to go together, ‘make the leap,’ whatever that meant. I didn’t know fully. He’d describe it in different ways. So would the witches. It seemed to be what they were living for, something we were being promised.
Did all of these women commit suicide out in the wastelands of Death Valley, or are the others still alive out there, as some have suggested? No one knows, and it remains an intriguing mystery. A quite macabre and recent disappearance and death in Death Valley happened in July of 2103, when Ryan Singleton, a 24-year-old former model and aspiring actor from Atlanta, Georgia, went out for a short vacation to Los Angeles. While he was there, he decided to rent a car and drive out to Las Vegas. On July 9, Singleton left Las Vegas to return back to Los Angeles, taking a route that passed right through the unforgiving Mojave Desert. At some point, his car broke down near the small town of Baker, after which he got out and began trudging towards the town along the dusty highway. A highway patrolman supposedly picked him up and offered to give him a ride into town, after which Singleton made a call to his friend from a gas station. He then sat down in the heavy heat to wait for his friend to come pick him up, and at some point disappeared off the face of the earth, being nowhere to be seen when the friend finally arrived.
Ryan Singleton
Searches for the missing man turned up not a single shred of evidence as to what had become of him, and it would not be until 74 days later that his body would be found sprawled out in the desert just 2 miles from the gas station, in an area that had already been extensively searched. Spookily, the body was found to be missing nearly all of its internal organs, a very strange detail that authorities would be quick to dismiss as the work of scavengers, even though the rest of the body, including common targets of scavengers such as the eyes, tongue, and other soft tissue, had been relatively intact. The cause of death itself could not be determined and was listed as unknown. Making things even more mysterious is the fact that authorities have been very slow and unable or unwilling to provide further details or information, even to Singleton’s family, with his mother, Iris Flowers, saying:
I’m waiting for answers. I’m in a holding pattern right now. I don’t know anything other than that my son was found with no organs in his body.
There has been much speculation that Singleton met up with foul play of some sort, especially since he was not only African American, but also openly gay, but why would they kill him and take his organs? Indeed, there has been much attention placed on the state of the body, with its missing organs, and suspicion over the official statement that it was scavengers as well. The missing organs have rather been blamed on perhaps illegal organ thieves, or that it was the MO of some sadistic serial killer, but the real reason remains murky. It remains a rather bizarre detail that hasn’t been satisfactorily explained.
In fact, nothing about the case has really been explained to any meaningful degree, and it is shrouded in secrecy and unanswered questions. Chief among these is why would he wander away from the safety of the gas station when he knew his friend was on his way to pick him up, and even then how could he have gotten so totally lost and died just 2 miles away? If he was targeted by nefarious individuals then what was their motive and why would they drag him 2 miles out into the desert instead of just killing him right there at the gas station? And what about those missing organs? Was that done intentionally for some reason or was it the work of scavengers, as authorities seem to think or at least want us to think? What in the world happened to Ryan Singleton? It will likely continue to be another enigma of Death Valley.
These cases have proven hard to come to a conclusion on. After all, this is one of the most formidable, ruthless places on the planet, with a deadly, scorched landscape that makes it one of the most extreme places on the planet. It seems only natural that it should live up to its title of Death Valley. Yet these cases hold so many elements of the weird and strange details that they seem to go beyond merely people being overcome by an aggressive environment that shuns humans, and indeed life in general. Here we have curious clues, baffling evidence, and questions hopelessly without answers. Death Valley is a seemingly forsaken place that not only lives up to its namesake, but manages to hold about itself mysteries which we may never penetrate.
I know what you’re thinking … crop circle? Really? I tend to avoid them unless there’s something interesting about it and this one caught my eye because it resembles a Metatron’s Cube, one of those sacred geometry figures that give a crop circle a greater air of mystery as well as a high challenge for perfect completion. Throw in the fact that Metatron is a name that appears often in literature and on television and that the location of the crop circle has an old legend involving the Devil and you’ve got the makings of an interesting tale.
The 400-feet-wide (120 meters) crop circle was reportedly found on July 18, 2017, in a wheat field near Cley Hill, Warminster, U. K., and photographed by the folks at Cropcircleconnector.com. It’s described as a variation of Metatron’s Cube, so let’s see how close it is.
Aerial image of the Cley Hill crop circle
(Cropcircleconnector.com)
A Metatron’s Cube is a set of 6 circles placed in a hexagon around a central seventh circle, with six more circles extending from the radii of the inner six, for a total of 13. It also has the five Platonic solids or polygons that can be built within a sphere – Tetrahedron (triangular pyramid), Hexahedron (cube), Octahedron (8-sides), Icosahedron (12-sided) and Dodecahedron (20-sided). The 3D Dimension website shows the correct design of Megatron’s Cube and shows the solids, while Linda Moulton Howe at earthfiles.com points out that the Megatron variation crop circle at Cley Hill actually has 18 triangles inside 18 circles that border the triangles.
Cley Hill saw another crop circle last year – a less-intricate formation said to resemble the calendar wheel of the Mayan Long-Count calendar. But the real mystery of Cley Hill is its association with the devil. According to local legend, the 66-acre mound west of Warminster in Wiltshire was formed by the devil when he was tricked by an old man who recognized him and dropped his sack of dirt that he planned to use to bury the nearby town of Devizes for converting to Christianity.
Cley Hill
As fitting of its association with the sacred geometrical shape, the word Metatron has a mathematical origin, coming from the Latin mētātor which means “one who metes out or marks off a place, a divider and fixer of boundaries.” Its most well-known ancient use is in the Judaic Book of Enoch in the form Mattatron, the Recording Angel or the Chancellor of Heaven. Most people today are probably more familiar with Metatron, the Voice of God in Kevin Smith’s movie Dogma, played by the wonderful real voice of the late great Alan Rickman. Metatron also shows up as an angel character played by Curtis Armstrong in the TV series Supernatural, an angel in the manga series O-Parts Hunter and and angel in the science-fiction/fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.
Aerial image of the Cley Hill crop circle
(Cropcircleconnector.com)
With that kind of history both past and present, it’s fitting that the name Metatron is associated with a sacred geometric figure and ended up near a hill with a devilish origin.
Who made the crop circle on Cley Hill? Who knows? Is its link to Metatron’s Cube an interesting connection and a tale worth telling? Hell yes!
A stunning new crop circle has appeared in Cley Hill just over a week ago. The formation is in excess of 300 feet (92m) in overall diameter and appeared in a barley field.
The complex formation of scalloped edges with two arcs containing semi circles at either side of the each scalloped apex is truly a thing is beauty. As you will see in pictures below, the formation contains a central cube with 12 radiating triangles.
The question is, how did it get here?!
As we will discuss below, crop circles are a phenomenon that simply can’t be ignored. Formations show up every single year and come with great mystery, even in the scientific realm. Many do not realize some of the amazing things that are happening inside crop circles that blow the board and rope theory out the window.
“Some of these formations are so immense and complex as to defy reason. And after all these decades, none of the perpetrators have been caught in the act of making any of the truly extraordinary formations.” – Richard Dolan, historian, academic, author, and one of the world’s leading UFO researchers (source)
Richard’s thoughts there are quite telling of this reality, and even scientific minds are at a loss for words as although they believe the circles are done by humans, they are calling it the most science oriented art movement ever.
For example, Richard Taylor, a University of Oregon physicist, published a paper on them in the 2011 issue of Physics World, stating:
“Crop circle arts are not going to give up their secrets easily. This summer, unknown artists will venture into the countryside close to your homes and carry out their craft, safe in the knowledge that they are continuing the legacy of the most science-oriented art movement in history.” (source)
But what would cause a physicist to conclude that these works do not have an extraterrestrial explanation? Or to even consider the issue seriously?
When you begin to explore the reality of crop circles you start to realize how one cannot simply pass the phenomenon off as people walking out into a field with some ropes and boards and making a design. It would be naive to make such a claim.
Above is a picture of an 800 foot crop circle that appeared in Wiltshire, England back in 2001. It caused a lot of commotion, and as you can see, it was very beautiful and extremely complex. The design consisted of 409 circles that form what’s known as a triskelion, a symbol that dates back thousands of years. There is some great footage of it in the documentary Crop Cricles: Quest for Truth by Academy Award-winning director William Gazecki. You can view that here.
“It was so large that it took us half an hour to find the center.” (quote taken from video link below)
There are some more great images of it in this YouTube video. You can also see footage of it taken by a helicopter flying above from the documentary Thrive in this video (at the 26.16 minute mark). This circle marks just one of thousands of verified formations that continue to baffle scientists, researchers, and onlookers alike.
Richard Taylor, the aforementioned scientist who studied these circles, again expressed his belief that this was one of the greatest art revolutions in history when he published his scientific analysis of crop circles in the journal Nature in 2010.
After studying the affected grass in the lab, he concluded that the circle makers must be using GPS devices, lasers, and microwaves to create these designs because the nodes of some of the stalks had been blasted out on one side. This same effect has been replicated by highly localized microwave heating, which is what causes the stocks to flop over to one side.
While he was able to come up with a scientifically feasible explanation for this phenomenon, he fails to address how hoaxers could come into possession of such advanced technology. It’s clear that there would be no other way to make some of these circles, so what is really going on here?
“If something like this caused the formations, then we are clearly talking about a highly sophisticated agency behind the phenomenon.” – Richard Dolan (source)
Did you know that the electromagnetic field over the area where a circle appears is usually electrostatically charged? Or that there is a rare form of electromagnetic energy called an “ionized plasma vortex,” also known as ball lighting, involved with these formations? (source)
The helicopters you see in the video are military helicopters. Military involvement with UFOs is well documented, and this should be no surprise. For more information on that you can read this article.
These are verified facts, which is why studies published in scientific journals have tried to come up with explanations that differ from unknown or extraterrestrial. For example, Dr. Terence Meadon, a professional physicist, meteorologist, and archaeologist at the University of Oxford, said that these balls of light are a result of wind currents and ionized plasmas. Whatever the case may be, the fact that scientists are taking note should signal that this phenomenon is worth our attention.
Zeer indrukwekkende graancirkel verschenen in Cley Hill. Bekijk hier prachtige beelden
Zeer indrukwekkende graancirkel verschenen in Cley Hill. Bekijk hier prachtige beelden
In Cley Hill in het Engelse Wiltshire is afgelopen week een indrukwekkende graancirkel verschenen.
De formatie heeft een doorsnee van bijna 100 meter en bevindt zich op een graanakker.
Graancirkel in Cley Hill (Lucy Pringle)
In het midden van de graancirkel zijn een aantal driehoeken te zien, die worden omgeven door halve cirkels. Daar vraag is nu hoe de formatie is ontstaan.
Verstand te boven
Ieder jaar verschijnen er weer nieuwe formaties, de ene nog mysterieuzer dan de andere. Zelfs wetenschappers verbazen zich erover.
“Sommige van deze formaties zijn zo immens en complex dat ze het verstand te boven gaan,” zei historicus Richard Dolan.
Nog nooit
“Na al die jaren zijn de daders nog nooit op heterdaad betrapt tijdens het maken van deze buitengewone formaties,” voegde hij toe.
Bekijk hieronder prachtige beelden van de nieuwe graanformatie:
NASA SCIENTISTS FOUND 'GOD' 17,000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY
NASA SCIENTISTS FOUND 'GOD' 17,000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY
Has GOD finally been discovered? Supposedly NASA Scientists believe GOD is 17,000 Light Years Away but is this all true? NASA Scientists were faced with a terrifying image that aimed at a galaxy that was 17,000 light years away. This started the speculation that the supposed Creator of Universe was finally caught on film.
The Space Agency's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or The NuSTAR was directed towards a pulsar called PSR B1509-58, and it's at an extremely staggering distance from earth. What was sent back was a masquerade of an outstretched hand which has become known as the iconic
Hand of God.
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Scientists believe the hand to be the remnants of a star which went supernova and ejected an enormous cloud of material which left pulsar PSR B1509-58 in its wake. When the remnant cloud was viewed via high energy X-rays, it showed up as a green, red and blue hand, which is about 175 light years across.
NuSTAR telescope principal investigator Fiona Harrison said, "NuSTAR's unique viewpoint, in seeing the highest energy X-rays, is showing us well-studied objects and regions in a whole new light'. Fiona added that "The new image depicts a pulsar wind nebula, produced by the dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova." What was left behind from all this was a pulsar by the name of PSR B1509-58 which can spin around seven times per second and blow a wind of particles into material that was ejected during the star's death throes.
When these particles interact with nearby magnetic fields, they produce an X-ray glow in the shape of a hand. Scientists currently are not sure whether the ejected material assumes the shape of a hand, or whether its interaction with the pulsar's particles was just making it appear that way.
Scientists have gathered a few things from all this being that the NuSTAR hand looks more like a fist which has given them some clues and the red cloud that appeared at the fingertips is its structure called RCW 89. However, some believers that reside on religious websites are not interested in their views.
A STRANGE SKELETON WAS FOUND BENEATH RUSSIA'S MOST MYSTERIOUS PLACE
A STRANGE SKELETON WAS FOUND BENEATH RUSSIA'S MOST MYSTERIOUS PLACE
Some people think these are the Annunaki. The jury's still out, as far as I'm concerned. I know we've been lied to horribly and repeatedly about our history. Once again, a hybrid alien cover up by the mainstream history and media.
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UFOS COMPILATION 1970 TO 1980
UFOS COMPILATION 1970 TO 1980
This list but these are considered the best UFO Photographs taken of 1970 to 1980 in world. They have stood the test of time, tested in laboratories at world all of them have been deemed authentic, many have tried to debunk them and they have been examined by experts.
THIS 'FLYING SAUCER' WAS SPOTTED ON GOOGLE EARTH OVER ANTARCTICA
THIS 'FLYING SAUCER' WAS SPOTTED ON GOOGLE EARTH OVER ANTARCTICA
What's going on the icy layer of our Earth called Antarctica? That's a question most conspiracy theorists and UFO Hunters ask as it's a location surrounded by strange phenomena mostly regarded as extraterrestrial activity.
Many believe it to be hidding a massive ancient city that has been lost for thousands of years if not more, or perhaps an entrance to the 'Inner Earth' where a powerful and advanced civilization reside.
But the most popular idea is that of Alien beings having a hidden base extremely inaccessible to humans where the only way to enter is by flying ship through cave holes found on top of the frozen mountains.
There have been many fantastic claims made by UFO hunters of visible UFOs or alien bases in different regions of Antarctica while they were scouting in Google Earth.
Most recently, experts believe a flying saucer was spotted hovering in Antarctica!
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STUNNINGLY COMPLEX NEW CROP CIRCLE IN ENGLAND. THIS IS A VIDEO OF FLYING OVER IT!
STUNNINGLY COMPLEX NEW CROP CIRCLE IN ENGLAND. THIS IS A VIDEO OF FLYING OVER IT!
A new crop circle appeared overnight a week ago in a field of barley in Cley Hill in Warminster.
The crop circle is more than 300 feet in diameter and it is one of the most complex and stunning of crop circles to have ever been seen.
SEMI-CIRCLES WITH SCALLOPS AT APEX AND TRIANGLES MAKE A STUNNING SIGHT
The crop circle has edges that are scalloped and two arcs that have semi-circles at both of the sides of each of the apex, which is scalloped, making it a stunning sight. The formation of the crop circle is that of a cube in the center with 12 triangles radiating out from it. But the big question is how did such a stunning and complex design just appear?
Crop circles are not something that is new, and they are a phenomenon that people just cannot ignore. Different formations of crop circles show up every year and are reported, and many of them have mystified the scientific realm. Some people have said that there is nothing mysterious about crop circles as they have been made using a board and rope and a lot of time and effort. However, there are some amazing things that happen inside the circle, which seem to blow that theory away.
LEADING RESEARCHER SAYS FORMATIONS ARE SO COMPLEX THEY DEFY REASON
One of the leading researchers of UFOs in the world, Richard Dolan, also a historian, author and academic, said that some of the formations in some of the crop circles are so complex, along with being immense, that they defy reason. He went on to say that after many decades, no one has been caught in the act of making one of the formations.
So even scientific minds cannot seem to work out just how and why the crop circles are made, despite the fact that many think they are the work of human beings. Crop circles have been called one of the most science oriented art movements ever. A physicist from the University of Oregon, Richard Taylor, published a paper on crop circles in 2011. He said that crop circle art would not be giving up their secrets so easily. He went on to say that unknown artist would be going out into the countryside to carry out craft, knowing that they are continuing a legacy of one of an art movement that is the most science oriented in history.
So it does look as though the scientific community is taking crop circles very seriously but why would a physicist come to the conclusion that the circles are man-made and they are not made by extra-terrestrials?
MAN-MADE OR EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL?
When really taking the time to look into crop circles, more so with some of the more complex designs, it is hard to believe that the making of them can be attributed to humans, walking around using boards and ropes to make them.
A crop circle of some 800 feet in diameter was found in England in 2011 and this was a design that was very complex along with being beautiful. This was a design made up of 409 circles forming a triskelion, which is a symbol that has dated back many thousands of years.
A documentary was made by William Gazecki, with the title of Crop Circles: Quest for Truth and he said that the circle was so big that it had taken them half an hour just to be able to reach the center.
INTRICACY OF CROP CIRCLES BAFFLE SCIENTISTS
The intricacy of the crop circle has continued to baffle researchers and scientists, and it was studied by Richard Taylor who said that once again it was among the greatest art revolutions in history. He had studied the grass in the crop circle and came to the conclusion that those who had made it and created the design must have used lasers, GPS devices, and microwaves, because the nodes of some stalks had been blasted on one side. He went on to say that the same effect was copied by localized microwave heating and that this had caused the stocks to flop to one side. With this in mind, he came up with an explanation that was scientifically feasible for the crop circle phenomenon. However, he was not able to say just how the hoaxers would have come by technology that was so advanced.
IF MAN-MADE SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGY WOULD BE USED
Richard Dolan said that if it was something such as this that was being used to make the crop circles, then there had to be an agency that was highly sophisticated behind the circles. He went on to say that over the region where a crop circle appears, there is usually an electromagnetic field or electromagnetic energy that is rare, known by the name of ionized plasma vortex, which has been called ball lightning.
The facts were verified, and studies that have been published in the scientific journals continue to come up with explanations that are not extra-terrestrial. Dr, Terence Meadon, a meteorologist, physicist and archaeologist at the University of Oxford said that the balls of light are due to ionized plasmas and wind currents. However, no one knows whether the crop circles are a man-made phenomenon or extra-terrestrial, but one thing that we do know is that they grab the attention of everyone and it is a phenomenon that is worthy of attention.
A strange craft has been accidentally photographed just at the moment the unknown craft flew over a lake outside Shoshone Wyoming.
The photographer, a retired USAF employee said: On July 1, 2017 I was on my way home from Las Vegas when I had to use the restroom at Boysen Reservoir outside Shoshone Wyoming.
After returning to my vehicle I realized that I had locked my keys in the truck. I called my wife to bring me the extra set of keys. I was less than 90 miles from my house. It would take her around 90 minutes to get to me.
I snapped a couple of photos of the lake and sent them to my son. It was around 3pm. My wife arrived and was home around 7pm. I downloaded the pictures from my phone into the computer about 15 days later.
When I looked at them on the screen something caught my attention on the right side of the picture a little over halfway up.
I enlarged it and was not sure what I was looking at. I asked my wife to come look at it at normal size. She said "I see a lake and a UFO".
We both studied it and cannot explain what we were looking at. I am retired USAF and after 20 years of service I can't remember seeing anything that looked like it.
At the time I took the picture I did not see or hear anything. I would greatly appreciate any information that you could give regarding what this is. Mufon case 85445.
Edgar Cayce’s Unique Vision of the Antarctica Atlantis Connection Revealed
Edgar Cayce’s Unique Vision of the Antarctica Atlantis Connection Revealed
Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt and Dr. Joseph Farrell analyzing the strange history and the recent peculiar happenings around the mysterious icy continent of Antarctica.
The possibility that Antarctica once formed a part of Atlantis in ancient times is explored, along with the idea that a pole shift took place 12,000 years ago and may be responsible for its current position on the globe.
Edgar Cayce’s unique vision of the enigmatic Atlantean ‘Mighty, Terrible Fire Crystal’ or 'Tuaoi Stone’ which powered the lost civilization is theorized as being the cause for the destruction and inundation of Atlantis.
Cayce’s High Technology Version of Atlantis.
While many esoteric traditions embrace the concept of a root culture that rose to great heights and destroyed itself, Cayce’s unique version of Atlantis had them located on the heart of the Atlantic Ocean and fully equipped with Advanced Technology, Flying Ships, Solar Power Stations, Laser Weapons, and Age Rejuvenation Centers.
He saw two major groups vying for power: the Sons of the Law of One, a spiritually advanced race of psychic avatars, and the Sons of Belial, a powerful group of black magic sorcerers and shadowy engineers.
The war between these two groups actually set off volcano activity due to misuse of the Fire Crystals and was responsible for splitting the continent into three islands between Florida on one side and Spain on the other.
Eventually the advanced members of the Law of One group survived founded the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan civilizations and were responsible for the cultural pyramid building as a way to preserve their ancestral memory.
With the latest happenings and developments that Dr. Farrell has been tracking since last year, is it possible a small part of this Atlantean group also went to Antarctica?
Roswell UFO Crash Witness Interview: Secrets Yet To Be Revealed
Roswell UFO Crash Witness Interview: Secrets Yet To Be Revealed
Despite the ever-changing, self-serving statements brought directly or indirectly by the U.S. Government or authorities, no one ever knew what crashed near the Roswell in July of 1947. Thanks to the courage and determined individuals that have the nerve to speak about what they saw or the role they played in an unexplained event, we can be almost sure of one thing. In July 1947, Deputy Sheriff Charles Fogus and Sheriff Jess Slaughter were walking together to pick up a certain prisoner. Luckily, they heard on their police radio reports of a crashed spacecraft. They then decided to witness the scene. The US military has claimed that the crashed object has been just a weather balloon, but the conspiracy theorists firmly believe the incident was the occurrence of a crash and the recovery of extraterrestrials. 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation, and Government Cover-ups, it is nice to know that law enforcement officers reveal they saw a downed flying saucer and military personnel removing some alien bodies from the scene.
It is important to keep in mind that these are just two of the many people that had first or second-hand knowledge about the infamous alien crash. Even a quick examination of the collective evidence would indicate this event involved something more than weather, radar balloon or high altitude with a bunch of crash test cadavers or dummies aboard. It was more than a crazy test vehicle that of super-intelligent midgets or children were piloting the New Mexico desert throughout a violent thunderstorm. These facts make the Roswell Incident an essential event that has become an annual reminder of a great mystery that remains unsolved. Up to this day, Roswell is a treasure path of undiscovered secrets. Proof of that comes from the people that still come forward with information about the things that happened in the town. This makes the Roswell incident alive.
Verified Genuine Video Shows A Real Flying Saucer Taking Off
Verified Genuine Video Shows A Real Flying Saucer Taking Off
A video showing a flying saucer taking off from the ground is said to be a verified genuine one. It was reportedly a former top-secret US military video recorded during the Cold War. The design of the craft is undoubtedly similar to the famous saucer-shaped UFOs reported all over the world.
The video shows the UFO-style craft hovering above the ground. The aircraft was allegedly built during a top-secret US military project known the Avrocar.
The scientists who were responsible for making the UFO a reality believed it would be the next great military flying machine at that time.
A large central fan powered the flying disc, which believed to be a great alternative to a helicopter.
The newly released video shows what appear to be test flights of the secret craft at an unnamed base. The makers of the aircraft had hoped it would reach speeds of around 300 mph at a maximum altitude of 10,000 feet and a range of 995 miles.
In the 1940s and 1950s, a lot of people reported seeing flying saucers across the US, and many have believed that the testing of such experimental aircraft was the reason.
The US allocated millions of dollar for the Avrocar project, but the finances for the flying saucer eventually diminished in June 1961, and the doomed project was eventually ditched.
Makers of the Avrocar found that it could only hover around a foot off the ground, highly volatile when travelling at high speeds and too loud to be a combat vehicle, the reasons the doomed project was ditched.
TOUGH INGREDIENTS Saturn’s moon Titan is frigid and lacks water, but it appears to hold one building block for a proposed alternative form of life.
NASA
A molecule that could help build otherworldly life is present on Saturn’s moon Titan, researchers have discovered.
Vinyl cyanide, a compound predicted to form membranelike structures, is created in Titan’s upper atmosphere, scientists report July 28 in Science Advances. There’s enough vinyl cyanide (C2H3CN) in the moon’s liquid methane seas to make about 10 million cell-like balls per cubic centimeter of ocean, researchers calculate. On Earth, about a million bacteria are found in a cubic centimeter of ocean water near shore.
“It’s very positive news for putative-Titan-life studies,” says Jonathan Lunine, a planetary scientist at Cornell University who was not involved in the new study.
Titan has no water, usually considered a prerequisite for life. Instead of water, freezing-cold Titan has liquid methane. There’s even a methane cycle that mimics Earth’s water cycle (SN: 3/21/15, p. 32). But Titan is so cold — usually about –178° Celsius — that the smallest unit of life on Earth, the cell, would shatter in the moon’s subzero seas.
Ball of life?
A chemical found on Titan may be able to form bubbles called azotosomes. Scientists think azotosomes might serve as cell membranes, a cell’s outer skin, for alien organisms.
JAMES STEVENSON
In 2015, Lunine and Cornell colleagues James Stevenson and Paulette Clancy proposed a way life might exist in methane. Computer simulations predicted that vinyl cyanide (also called acrylonitrile or propenenitrile) could make flexible bubbles called azotosomes that would be stable in liquid methane (SN: 4/30/16, p. 28). Those bubbles might act much as cell membranes do on Earth, sheltering genetic material and concentrating biochemical reactions needed for life.
When the Cornell researchers suggested the presence of azotosomes on Titan, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen had already been detected in abundance in the moon’s atmosphere. But no one knew whether those atoms joined to make vinyl cyanide there. The Saturn probe Cassini had detected a molecule of the right mass to be vinyl cyanide, but couldn’t definitively identify the molecule’s chemical makeup.
But evidence for the chemical compound was buried in archived data from a large radio telescope, Maureen Palmer of Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and colleagues discovered. Palmer, an astrochemistry and astrobiology researcher, combed data collected by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, in Chile between February 22 and May 27, 2014.
Astronomers point ALMA at Titan to calibrate the telescope because the moon has known brightness levels, says Palmer, who also works at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The team used that calibration data to detect the signature of vinyl cyanide at specific wavelengths of light and calculate its abundance.
“This is a pretty secure detection,” says Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md.
Even with confirmation of vinyl cyanide, researchers can’t say that azotosomes form on Titan. That’s probably not something telescopes can determine, Lunine says. A probe would need to sample Titan’s seas to detect the structures.
And even detecting azotosomes would not mean there’s life on Titan, says Lorenz. The moon’s extreme cold may hamper metabolism. What’s more, no one knows whether liquid methane can take the place of water for supporting life, he says. “If I were a betting man, I’d say Titan does not have life.”
How often have we thought about the existence of life beyond Earth, and feared that if we ever encountered extraterrestrial beings, they might wreak all kinds of havoc on our planet, as shown in the movies.
But the pertinent question still remains, do aliens exist?
Some might think the only people who believe in aliens are "forum-dwelling internet conspiracy theorists," but several NASA astronauts believe extraterrestrials exist and have been in touch with humanity for a long period, reports said.
Data cruncher and blogger Sam Monfort in his blog on Feb. 21 said the number of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) sightings is currently at an all-time high. He wrote that one of the first recorded UFO sightings was in Portland in 1905, where a "buzzing sphere-shaped UFO descended from the clouds."
According to Monfort's report, there have been 104,947 reported sightings on record over the past 100-plus years. He used information from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), which collects and disseminates objective UFO data and keeps careful logs of all UFO sightings worldwide.
Furthermore, there have been several astronauts such as Edgar Mitchell, Cady Coleman, Edwin Buzz Aldrin and Dr Brian O’Leary who have claimed to have seen UFOs. Aldrin, one of the first people to walk on the Moon, had shared his experience on board the Apollo 11, when he and fellow astronauts saw something flying alongside their spacecraft. Initially, they thought it was the final stage of a detached rocket, until mission control confirmed it was 6000 miles away from them.
Buzz Aldrin
Both Neil Armstrong and Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after their historic landing on the Moon in Apollo 11 on July 21, 1969, according to unconfirmed reports. NASA astronaut Armstrong believed aliens have a base on the Moon and they apparently warned Armstrong and others to "get off and stay off the Moon."
During a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session, Aldrin said the "first humans to set foot on Mars should never return to earth."
When one user asked Aldrin if he believed in aliens and asked him about the sightings he saw on board Apollo 11, the astronaut replied: "On Apollo 11 en route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world - it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft."
Although Aldrin was reluctant to describe the sighting as an extraterrestrial craft, he believes there are other life forms in space.
Edgar Dean Mitchell
In 1971, Mitchell became the sixth person to walk on the Moon, and the journey spiritually transformed his life in such a way that he devoted much of his time exploring "esoteric realms of science, psychic phenomena and the existence of extraterrestrial beings."
He was convinced after the journey to the Moon that "aliens have been observing us and have been here for some time." Mitchell once even claimed that "peace-loving" aliens had visited Earth to save humanity from nuclear war, and indicated the Vatican knew about the existence of extraterrestrials.
Mitchell, who had been outspoken about his belief in aliens, told Mirror Online that top-ranking military sources had spotted UFOs during weapons tests. He also said that strange crafts flying over missile bases at the White Sands facility have been spotted by military insiders. The facility is a government-owned rocket engine test site where the world's first ever nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945.
Gordon Cooper
Cooper was one of the seven astronauts who took part in Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the U.S., which ran from 1958 to 1963. Cooper, the last American to fly in space alone, had said he spotted UFOs flying over Germany seven years before he went into space.
In 1963, when he shot into space in a Mercury capsule for a 22-orbit journey around the world, Cooper told the tracking station he could see a glowing, greenish object appearing in front of him and approaching his capsule. The UFO was reportedly "real and solid," because even the tracking radar had picked it up, according to syti.net.
According to a taped interview by author, J.L. Ferrando, Cooper revealed how he felt he was living with a secret, which was imposed on all specialists in astronautics. "I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public," he said. He added: "Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means."
O'Leary, who was one of the 11 astronauts named for a possible NASA Mars mission in the 1960s, authored three books that spoke about our connection to UFOs. He had also lectured on the subject across the world.
Regarding crop circles that he first saw in 1991 in England, he said in an interview: "The Crop Circle phenomenon, besides the hoaxed ones, is a very real phenomenon created by some unknown, probably non-human intervention," according to UFO Evidence.
O’Leary is also reported to have said, "There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted. Civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time and that their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view.”
Saturn's moon Titan has long been a prime candidate when it comes to supporting life. Now, we may have more evidence.
Our quest for extraterrestrial life may be closer to bearing fruit. As per recent findings published in Science Advances Magazine, scientists now have a “definitive detection” of vinyl cyanide, described as “the best candidate molecule for the formation of cell membranes/vesicle structures.” And given that cells are the building blocks of life, it’s not too far of an extrapolation to say that the discovery of vinyl cyanide on Titan, one of Saturn‘s moons, could be the discovery of a potential ingredient for, well, life itself.
While scientists have long suspected that Titan might host vinyl cyanide, it was previously naught more than an inference. But now, NASA’s Cassini probe has achieved the “first spectroscopic detection” of the compound. Astronomers used data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, or ALMA, to draw their conclusions.
Titan has been a prime candidate for extraterrestrial life for quite some time. After all, the surface of the moon shows lakes, and Titan also features an atmosphere comprised mainly of nitrogen and compounds similar to those found on Earth that are crucial to life. The discovery of vinyl cyanide is yet another reason to continue researching Titan for its life-sustaining possibilities.
“This is a far cry from saying [life] definitely happens on Titan and these cells are involved in some kind of primitive life,” co-author Martin Cordiner, an astrochemist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told The Verge. “But it gives us a starting point in that discussion. If there was going to be life in Titan’s oceans, then it’s plausible vinyl cyanide could be a component of that.”
There is still no absolute proof that cell membranes could ultimately exist on Titan. In order to make that determination, we’d need to send another probe to Saturn’s moon. “There’s been some discussion of maybe sending a boat or something like that to Titan to observe what’s really going on in the lakes,” co-author Maureen Palmer, an astrochemist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told The Verge. “That’d be really cool to see.”
At the end of the day, concluded Cordiner, “As we explore more in the outer Solar System, these moons of the giant planets reveal to us that they are much more fascinating environments than we could have ever imagined. Complex chemistry is not unique to Earth.”
The search for life elsewhere in the universe is one of the most compelling aspects of modern science. Given its scientific importance, significant resources are devoted to this young science of astrobiology, ranging from rovers on Mars to telescopic observations of planets orbiting other stars.
The holy grail of all this activity would be the actual discovery of alien life, and such a discovery would likely have profound scientific and philosophical implications. But extraterrestrial life has not yet been discovered, and for all we know may not even exist. Fortunately, even if alien life is never discovered, all is not lost: simply searching for it will yield valuable benefits for society.
Why is this the case?
First, astrobiology is inherently multidisciplinary. To search for aliens requires a grasp of, at least, astronomy, biology, geology, and planetary science. Undergraduate courses in astrobiology need to cover elements of all these different disciplines, and postgraduate and postdoctoral astrobiology researchers likewise need to be familiar with most or all of them.
By forcing multiple scientific disciplines to interact, astrobiology is stimulating a partial reunification of the sciences. It is helping to move 21st-century science away from the extreme specialisation of today and back towards the more interdisciplinary outlook that prevailed in earlier times.
By producing broadminded scientists, familiar with multiple aspects of the natural world, the study of astrobiology therefore enriches the whole scientific enterprise. It is from this cross-fertilization of ideas that future discoveries may be expected, and such discoveries will comprise a permanent legacy of astrobiology, even if they do not include the discovery of alien life.
It is also important to recognise that astrobiology is an incredibly open-ended endeavour. Searching for life in the universe takes us from extreme environments on Earth, to the plains and sub-surface of Mars, the icy satellites of the giant planets, and on to the all-but-infinite variety of planets orbiting other stars. And this search will continue regardless of whether life is actually discovered in any of these environments or not. The range of entirely novel environments opened to investigation will be essentially limitless, and so has the potential to be a never-ending source of scientific and intellectual stimulation.
The cosmic perspective
Beyond the more narrowly intellectual benefits of astrobiology are a range of wider societal benefits. These arise from the kinds of perspectives – cosmic in scale – that the study of astrobiology naturally promotes.
It is simply not possible to consider searching for life on Mars, or on a planet orbiting a distant star, without moving away from the narrow Earth-centric perspectives that dominate the social and political lives of most people most of the time. Today, the Earth is faced with global challenges that can only be met by increased international cooperation. Yet around the world, nationalistic and religious ideologies are acting to fragment humanity. At such a time, the growth of a unifying cosmic perspective is potentially of enormous importance.
In the early years of the space age, the then US ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, said of the world: "We can never again be a squabbling band of nations before the awful majesty of outer space." Unfortunately, this perspective is yet to sink deeply into the popular consciousness. On the other hand, the wide public interest in the search for life elsewhere means that astrobiology can act as a powerful educational vehicle for the popularisation of this perspective.
Indeed, it is only by sending spacecraft out to explore the solar system, in large part for astrobiological purposes, that we can obtain images of our own planet that show it in its true cosmic setting.
In addition, astrobiology provides an important evolutionary perspective on human affairs. It demands a sense of deep, or big, history. Because of this, many undergraduate astrobiology courses begin with an overview of the history of the universe. This begins with the Big Bang and moves successively through the origin of the chemical elements, the evolution of stars, galaxies, and planetary systems, the origin of life, and evolutionary history from the first cells to complex animals such as ourselves. Deep history like this helps us locate human affairs in the vastness of time, and therefore complements the cosmic perspective provided by space exploration.
Political implications
There is a well-known aphorism, widely attributed to the Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, to the effect that "the most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world". Humboldt was presumably thinking about the mind-broadening potential of international travel. But familiarity with the cosmic and evolutionary perspectives provided by astrobiology, powerfully reinforced by actual views of the Earth from space, can surely also act to broaden minds in such a way as to make the world less fragmented and dangerous.
I think there is an important political implication inherent in this perspective: as an intelligent technological species, that now dominates the only known inhabited planet in the universe, humanity has a responsibility to develop international social and political institutions appropriate to managing the situation in which we find ourselves.
In concluding his monumental Outline of History in 1925, HG Wells famously observed: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." Such an observation appears especially germane to the geopolitical situation today, where apparently irrational decisions, often made by governments (and indeed by entire populations) seemingly ignorant of broader perspectives, may indeed lead our planet to catastrophe.
Last year, extraterrestrial exploration venture Breakthrough Initiatives announced an ambitious plan to send tonnes of tiny spacecraft to our nearest neighbouring star system, Alpha Centauri. The project, called Breakthrough Starshot, is focused on launching lightweight ‘nanocraft’ to the stars at rip-roaring speeds. Recently, the project took a big leap toward achieving its ultimate goal by successfully sending six test craft into Low Earth Orbit.
The tiny spacecraft, called “Sprites,” are just 3.5 centimetres on each side and weigh about four grams. Aerospace engineer Zac Manchester, who is leading the design on the Sprites, has been working on them for the last 10 years.
“What we’ve set out to do from the beginning is push the size limits of spacecraft,” Manchester told Gizmodo. “The question was how small can we make a satellite and still make it do something useful. One of the challenges is how can you get enough power, and given the tiny power you can harvest, how do you communicate back to Earth?”
Manchester and his fellow researchers hope that eventually, mini spacecraft similar to the Sprites—called StarChips—will be able to travel at 20% the speed of light, which translates to about 37,000 miles per second. It would take a spacecraft travelling at this speed less than seven seconds to reach the Moon from Earth, according to Sky and Telescope.
Those are speeds and distances no spacecraft of any size has gone before. Currently, the farthest spacecraft ever built is NASA’s Voyager 1, which launched in 1977, and only just reached Interstellar space a few years back.
For now, the Sprites are chillin’ in Low Earth Orbit. They launched on June 23rd on an Indian rocket called the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). Breakthrough Starshot anticipates that a second satellite will release more soon.
Obviously, much more work needs to be done before we get our hopes up about an interstellar voyage. But for astrobiology nerds and tinfoil hat believers alike, the Sprites’ successful launch could be an important step toward finding life beyond Earth.
“The distances are immense and it’s a big challenge,” Manchester added. “We’re a long way out to the eventual goals [of Breakthrough Starshot], but we’re setting the early precedent here.”
Monster telescope leads search for extraterrestrial life
Monster telescope leads search for extraterrestrial life
Sean O’Driscoll
The football pitch-sized telescope is made up of a network of antennasNIALL CARSON/PA
A telescope that may be humanity’s best hope of finding extraterrestrial life was switched on yesterday by John Halligan, a government minister who has said he believes aliens exist.
The International Low-Frequency Array (I-Lofar) telescope is a €150 million network of antennas across Europe that hopes to pick up signals from outer space, detect new planets, uncover the mysteries of black holes and the origins of galaxies.
Mr Halligan, the minister for training and skills, switched on the Irish Lofar telescope, which is the size of a football pitch, at Birr Castle, Co Offaly. yesterday. “Our galaxy is 100,000 light years across with a billion suns and two billion planets. It would be extraordinary if there was not some form of life,” he said. “I think it’s inevitable that it is out there and today’s launch will certainly help.”
Mr Halligan, who describes himself as a humanist, has sent out alien-themed Christmas cards in the past and has a longstanding belief in extraterrestrial life. He said described the project as fascinating and said it could lead to many practical uses on earth.
“Everything from improved planes to satellite mapping of global warming have come from our exploration of space, and this holds many new possibilities,” he said.
The Lofar radio telescope will be able to pick up accidental signals from any intelligent life that is using radio in space, according to Paul Gilster, a space exploration analyst.
“The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has generally looked for targeted signals sent deliberately our way but scientists are also considering the possibility of accidental receptions, the markers of an industrial society at work,” Mr Gilster said.
“Lofar opens up a new frequency domain for the search for life. With its omnidirectional antennas and computing resources, it may help us pin down the sources of transient radio signals that could be faint signals from cultures around distant stars.”
The telescope will also study radio signals from hydrogen that may uncover the mysteries of how the universe moved from its “dark ages” after the big bang to the creation of galaxies.
Researchers also hope its ultra-sensitive radio detection will tell us more about black holes and uncover planets in the Milky Way and in other galaxies. The chain of 12 telescopes is shared between countries including the Netherlands, the UK, Poland and Germany.
Ireland will pay €420,000 up front and €90,000 a year to be part of the project. The money will be paid first to Trinity College, and then to Lofar co-ordinators in the Netherlands. University College Dublin, Dublin City University, the Armagh Observatory and the NUI Galway are all involved in the project.
The facility at Birr Castle has been built next to the historic Leviathan telescope, which was built by the third Earl of Rosse in 1845 and was the largest optical telescope in the world until 1917.
Twenty frightened Townsville residents have reporting seeing unidentified flying objects over the past 20 years.
Evidence collected by UFO Research Queensland details the terrifying encounters.
Researcher Sheryl Gottschall is documenting the history of sightings of UFOs and would like to hear from anyone who may have had a personal UFO sighting, past or current, or know of such reports from their local area.
Ms Gottschall said the database included historical and new sightings.
She said the database was part of an attempt to gather a collection of reports from the public.
“We find that when people report through social media they don’t put much detail into it.
“The idea is for us to have a searchable database so the public, who are looking for similar accounts like their own, can use it.”
If you’ve seen a UFO, call Ms Gottschall on 3376 1780.
“If people have close encounters they can call us and we record their experiences,” she said.
A UFO sighting over Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Recorded UFO sightings
Townsville, Wednesday about July 10, 1999, 1.30am
A woman who lives near the Ross River observed a star coming over the top of a nearby mountain.
It vanished, then reappeared and started to get brighter and closer.
It had a spotlight beaming from it to the ground and she had the impression it was spying on the nearby army base.
She heard no noise as the object started bouncing in the sky very fast, then hovering and flying.
She became very frightened, went inside, turned off the lights and locked the door.
She watched it for a couple of hours.
She later rang the army base to see if they had something in the air at the time, which there wasn’t.
Townsville, Sunday May 19, 2002, 12.50am
A woman reported seeing a grey, boomerang-shaped object moving silently and not as fast as a plane.
There were no lights on it and it made no noise.
It was travelling at the speed of an ultralight and in a straight line.
She thought it might have been a hang-glider but it was going too fast.
She said she could see the structure of the object and even the welding.
When asked how she saw this object in the sky at 12.50am, she said it was a very light night.
Townsville, Saturday December 10, 2005, night
Just a few minutes ago I saw something suspicious in the sky.
It probably was a plane, but it was an object in the sky with three lights, normal white lights, moving faster than a plane, and I could see the shape of the object.
It was like a triangle without pointed sides.
They were curved and planes don’t seem to fly the way it was travelling.
My father saw it but he said it was a plane and one of my next door neighbours was outside too.
I don’t know if they looked up at the sky but they were around when I saw it.
Just wondering if what I saw is or was a UFO of some sort?
A UFO sighting over Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Townsville, Saturday April 19, 2009, 3.40am
I was outside on my back deck here in Townsville having a cigarette and looking at the stars when I noticed a very huge object that blended in with the colour of the sky, which was dark grey.
This object appeared to be a V shape and was just gliding very slowly, lower than plane height, and it had rows of very dim grey blue-coloured lights around the V shape.
The time was 3.40am. I watched for about 50 seconds before it disappeared behind some trees. It had no noise associated with it.
I waited for about five more minutes but did not see it again, however I did see a small light aircraft coming in low to the airport and could hear that easily.
Townsville, QLD, August 2, 2009, 2am
A family was sitting around a camp fire when directly above the group appeared three disks.
One took off at great speed and two moved in a different direction but stayed in view.
The third went in the opposite direction to the first leaving a white trail.
The witness has had a number of sightings.
The witness was indigenous to Australia and was waiting to be admitted to train in healing work.
A UFO sighting over Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Townsville, November 1 2009, 8.50pm
At around 8.50pm I took my daughter into the backyard and while looking up in the sky I saw what at first I thought was just a bright star, but then I saw it was moving.
This object was initially slow and I think it was not a satellite, as most of the satellites I have seen are between 6 and 8pm and are not very bright.
This thing was like a big star. It was travelling from the west towards the east, and then it started moving very fast towards the south.
I would say I saw this thing flying for about four or five minutes.
Townsville, January-February 2012
I quite enjoy investigating strange sightings in my spare time in North Queensland.
Recently I have received reports of a strange flying creature in Townsville. About a month ago two separate people witnessed a flying object in the sky at night.
They described the object to look somewhat like a bat, with batlike wings but the body of a man. The object was very dark.
Without looking into this further, this sighting seems quite similar to the Mothman sightings of West Virginia USA that are now UFO folk law.
Possibly a couple of people with an excessive imagination? Perhaps, however my investigation on this is still ongoing.
Whether it be in the north Queensland area or Australia wide. This is not the first sighting report of a “flying man” received from North Queensland.
Townsville, Friday September 14 2001, 10.15pm
The witness was driving in a car when she observed an orange light travelling very slowly from north to south. It seemed to have two red lights underneath it.
Townsville, February 1 2003, reported December 2008
After sighting a UFO in 2000, a strange orange light following a car I have been actively looking out for UFOs.
In Townsville at roughly 9.15pm after coming back from a jog, I was doing some stretches on my second story unit balcony.
As I was glancing up I sighted three white lights in a triangular formation that looked quite high up.
They were spaced quite far apart, easily far enough to be three separate objects.
They were travelling quite fast — it took roughly seven seconds for them to travel from directly above me to the horizon.
I could tell they were quite high, as they travelled above clouds. They were silent, with no smoke or vapour trail. The lights were about the same size as a satellite, yet they were about two or three times as bright.
A UFO sighting.
Townsville, August 31, 2011
I took three pictures that caught my eye while taking photos of the sun with my iPod 10 minutes ago.
In the top left hand quarter above the sun there is a white thing.
It shouldn’t be there what ever it is.
The first photo I noticed it then the 2nd it had slightly moved then the third it was streaking away. I didn’t move the iPod, I just kept pressing till I got about 10 shots.
I live in Kirwan, a suburb of Townsville, not far from the RAAF base. I am a current serving RAAF airman.
This is the 3rd UFO I’ve seen in my three years in Townsville, but the only one caught on camera.
Townsville, August 14 2010, 11pm
I’d like to report a strange light I witnessed over Townsville in mid-August. I was standing in my backyard in Oonoonba, having a cigarette, at around 11pm.
I glanced up into the sky and noticed an orange fireball about half the size of a full moon, which seemed to be stationary. I speculated that it must have been a military jet with afterburners lit, travelling directly away from me.
However it seemed to stay in the one place far too long. It was hard to gauge at what altitude this “fireball” was, other than to say it was below the upper-level cloud. It remained stationary for approximately 30 seconds, then suddenly seemed to gain height at an extraordinary rate.
Townsville, April 30, 2011, 9pm
I would like to report a sighting that occurred on 30 April 2011 at about 9pm in Townsville. The object was witnessed by my wife and myself.
I am a soldier in the Australian Army.
I saw what I first believed to be a shooting star. I initially noticed it nearly directly above my head and watched it travel in a Westerly direction away from me. I watched it move down towards the horizon for about half a second, at which point it seemed to explode like fireworks. It was very bright, maybe 5-10 times brighter than the brightest star in the sky.
I asked my wife if she had seen the shooting star and I was disappointed that she had not as it was very spectacular. I commented that it was very unusual as I have never seen a shooting star so bright.
I am an infantryman who has served about nine years and have spent many nights in the bush on training and operations. I have seen hundreds of shooting stars, many are picked up with night vision goggles that would not normally be seen by the naked eye, and I have never seen so bright a light. I was also excited as I had never seen a shooting star explode like a firework.
Townsville, April 26 2008, 4.30pm
On the 26th of April 2008 my mother and two brothers saw what they thought to be a man flying in the air, in broad daylight at 4.30pm in the afternoon against a cloudless sky and about 800 — 1000 metres away.
One of my brothers is an ex paratrooper in the Australian Army and he described the flying man as being about six to seven feet in height, and he was floating in a standing upright position. The man seemed to be moving his head and looking around, and when he turned towards Hervey’s Range, you could see his whole anatomy and it was a man.
Townsville, 1999 [reported October 12 2001]
Two years previously a man was travelling in a sleeping cabin on a train when he had a UFO sighting. He saw two objects together near Bowen heading in a straight line.
The two objects joined and there was an explosion like a star burst.
Townsville, 1970s [reported September 2004]
I would like to tell you about something that happened to my family and I back in the late 1970s.
It’s a tale I don’t normally speak about but I decided to take a chance and tell it to you.
My parents and I had a beach house about thirty minutes drive north of Townsville in north Queensland at a place called Toomula, a small beachside community. It was a Friday night and we were going fishing on the Saturday over at an island about thirteen or so miles off the coast called Rattlesnake, an island used for target practice at one time by the RAAF, so we needed to get some bait.
We were down at the mouth of Saltwater Creek, which also gave the small settlement its more commonly used name of Saltwater Beach, and my father was casting for bait when I noticed a bright light up in the sky that was reflecting strongly in the water.
Baffled by the light I drew it to the attention of my parents and grandfather, who was also with us. My father had a large torch with him and he used this to shine up at the light, and he flashed the torch at it several times. To our surprise the light in the sky flashed back at us several times before taking off at a great speed, heading along the coast towards Townsville, and I still believe that I saw the search light from the Townsville Airport shine up at it, which caused it to shoot out to sea for a distance before turning back in our general direction. It was still way out to sea when it passed behind the island I have already mentioned, proving that it was very low down in the sky. Then it started coming directly back towards us.
This light, or whatever it was, made no sound whatsoever and was obviously big, and it covered what must have been at least a hundred miles in a matter of seconds. Coming back towards us it came to a halt further from us than it had been when we first saw it, and hovered in the sky for a short time before it started to move up and down, and then from side to side. Then, to our horror I suppose, it started coming towards us, making a zigzag pattern as it moved towards us, again making no sound.
Townsville, 11 October 11 2008, 9pm
We live in Cranbrook. I just want to know if anyone else saw it, or know of an aircraft that might have five lights visible at once, that the red and green are back to front, and a vertical pale blue glowing light on the tail “fin”.
Maybe there is a reasonable explanation.
My daughter, 9, and I were outside with Ruby (dog) doing what dogs do.
We saw a strange looking plane in the sky. It came from the left, which is a flight path and headed in the re.ight direction. It suddenly became larger quickly and the lights were all wrong. The red lights were on the right, and the green lights were on the left. There were two at the back and two at the front.
You shouldn’t be able to see all four lights at once anyhow when a plane is flying.
I saw an extra blue light there and the sense of a large tailfin that was a very dim glowing electric light blu
Townsville Strand, August 28 2006, 6.30pm
A witness observed two lights moving about as the stars were coming out, for about 15 minutes. They moved about both slowly and quickly, changing direction. One of the lights disappeared. He took his eyes off the remaining light and when he looked back it was gone.
Ravenswood, 1991 [reported December 2006]
I wish to report a sighting of a Min-Min light between the Burdekin Dam and Ravenswood. It was in May or June 1991. There were five of us in the car. We all worked at the Coutts Burdekin Wilderness Lodge and were on our way to Townsville for a night out. The light followed the car, through the trees for about fifteen minutes.
It looked like a car headlight. At first it was behind us on the left hand-side, then it caught up to us and overtook us, then went across in front of the car and was travelling beside us on the right hand-side. It then seemed to slow and the last we saw it, it was directly behind the car and further back. We were all quite frightened at the time and trying to explain what it could be. What I found most strange is that the incident was never really discussed again between us, even though we lived and worked together. The wilderness lodge closed down at the end of June and we all lost contact. I have thought about the incident many times since and I would be a sceptic if I hadn’t witnessed the phenomena for myself.
Mundingburra, North Queensland, Thursday March 4 2004, 2am
I live at Mundingburra, in Townsville. For the past month between 12.00 midnight and 2.00am my girlfriend and I have seen, a number of times, an object that flashes four distinct colours — red, green, blue and white.
I did manage to take a video of this thing.
There have been no planes or aircraft in area and they would not move as quickly as this object.
Castle Hill, Townsville Wednesday March 31, 2004, 7.15pm
A man was walking his dog, looking west, and observed something that seemed to be a shooting star but changed into a “massive ball”.
It lit up for five seconds or less, was orange and had a small tail. He heard no noise at the time. The object was moving towards Harvey’s Range near the military base.
Independent confirmation of the above sighting was received in December 2004. I also spotted this. I was headed south on Upper Ross River Road at Rassmussen about the same time and saw an identical object, except I recall seeing what looked like sparks emanating from the tail.
North Queensland UFO festival
The only UFO festival in Australia will take place just north of Townsville this year.
The Cardwell UFO Festival is on October 21 and about 2000 UFO enthusiasts are expected to attend.
Cardwell and the region, including Tully which is known for its “Saucer Nest”, is regarded as a hot spot for unusual activity.
Is it a bird, is it a plane, or is it an unidentified flying object?
The flying object spotted in Shrewsbury
Richard and Margaret Pugh were leaving their house in Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury, to get a taxi to the airport when they heard a “low frequency buzzing noise”.
Mr Pugh said it was a “strange shaped aircraft in the sky about 500ft up”.
It may look a frisbee flung in the air, but the couple insist they do not know what the object, seen early Wednesday morning, is or here it came from. The 61-year-old added: “Whilst on the way to the airport at about 6:45am, my family and I spotted this strange circle shaped aircraft in the sky just west of Shrewsbury, near Bicton Heath.
“We were just getting in the taxi to get to the airport on our way to Spain, and we heard a buzzing noise that was a really low frequency and saw this whiz by us. It was only about 500ft up in the sky and was bigger than an RAF Typhoon fighter jet.
“My wife got her phone out and started frantically pressing the camera snap button to get this image.
“Our taxi driver said he couldn’t believe his eyes and it was a UFO.”
“I’ve never seen anything like this and yes it could of been a military drone type aircraft, but having looked on the web we can’t find anything remotely similar.
“The wife thinks it is aliens and I’m not sure – but not ruling it out.”
Astronomers are putting forward a theory that could explain the mysterious presence of antimatter in the middle of the Milky Way. Their study suggests that a specific type of supernova is generating all of the previously unexplained particles.
“SHERLOCKING” OUR GALAXY
While scientists have already uncovered answers to some of the universe’s greatest mysteries, there’s still a great deal we don’t understand — the “alien megastructure” star, fast radio bursts (FRBs), and the (non-)existence of dark matter are just a few examples. Thanks to new research by a team of astronomers, we may now be able to exclude from this list the previously unexplained mystery of antimatter in the Milky Way.
Essentially, antimatter is matter with its electrical charge reversed. For example, an electron’s antiparticle is a positron, while a proton’s antiparticle is an antiproton. When a particle of matter meets its antimatter cohort, they release a burst of energy and annihilate each other.
Some 40 years ago, scientists detected gamma rays that suggested that around 1043positrons were being annihilated in the Milky Way every second. They believe most were concentrated in the central bulge of the galaxy, which didn’t make sense as that area hosts less than half of the galaxy’s total mass. As Roland Crocker, particle astrophysicist at the Australian National University, told Space.com, “The origin of these positrons is a 40-year-old mystery in astrophysics.”
That mystery may finally have a resolution, and it’s a relatively simple one.“You don’t need anything exotic like dark matter to explain the positrons,” claims Crocker. Instead, he and his research team suggest that the positrons may have come from just one kind of supernova. Their study has been published in Nature Astronomy.
DEAD STARS, LOST STARS
Crocker’s team thinks that dim supernovas known as SN 1991bg-like could create all of those unexplained positrons. These supernovas result from the merging of two superdense white dwarf stars, and they generate a huge number of radioactive isotopes known as titanium-44, which is capable of releasing the positrons being annihilated.
But why were these positrons concentrated at the interior of the Milky Way? The researchers explained that SN 1991bg-like supernovas — unlike those resulting from the death of young, massive stars — likely occur in galactic neighborhoods with stars roughly 3 billion to 6 billion years old. Our galaxy’s central bulge happens to have a population of stars older than those in its outer disk.
Of course, while the simplest explanation does often prove to be the right one, Crocker isn’t ruling out a more exciting solution to this decades-old mystery. “The most recent data show that there’s a positron source connected to the very center of the galaxy,” he said. “In our model, this is explained as due to the old stars distributed on roughly 200-parsec [650 light years] scales around the galaxy’s supermassive black hole, but the black hole itself is an interesting alternative source.”
Strange beams of plasma that have been observed that seem to defy the laws of physics by moving faster than the speed of light.
A FASCINATING COSMIC Q-TIP
In the Galaxy M87 (which was created when two other galaxies merged), a jet of hot plasma — caused by gas being sucked into a central black hole, being heated, and then shot out by magnetic fields — has been helping us gain insight into the weird origins of our galaxy. It is shaped like a thin beam and is emitted from the center of a black hole.
Heber Curtis, an astronomer, first saw a ray of light connected to the galaxy in 1918. In order to see it with his instruments at the time, it had to be huge. And it turns out, it was; measuring at almost 6000 light years long.
The Hubble Space Telescope monitored its development between 1995 and 1999 and, after four years of photos, they saw the plasma ripple outwards faster than what was being emitted from the black hole, meaning it must be moving faster than the speed of light. In 2013, after 13 years of images, it appeared to move in corkscrew-like spirals, making this strange occurrence even more mystifying.
The Jet of Plasma Emitted from M87’s Central Black Hole. Image Credit: NASA/The Hubble Heritage Team
UNDERSTANDING OUR UNIVERSE
M87 is, however, not unique in this way. Since the first observation, researchers have discovered similar phenomena in other galaxies. Although the causes behind it are still enigmatic, these observations could aid us in our search in understanding how black holes function in the creation or destruction of galaxies. Similarly, an enormous magnetic bridge spanning multiple galaxies has been recently discovered.
Eileen Meyer, Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, said about the plasma,“We can see, over a human lifetime, things moving […] Which is crazy.” The speed of this process is particularly remarkable because of how powerful it is.
New research from Brown University suggests that huge amounts of water may be found under the surface of the Moon. The presence of water in the Moon's mantle could provide insight to how water got to Earth and help sustain future deep space missions.
A “WET” MANTLE
Scientists have long speculated about the presence of water on the Moon. Previous studies found traces of water in the icy shadowed regions of the Moon’s poles, but a recent study from Brown University suggests that there may be substantial amounts of water hiding inside the lunar rock.
Unlike the water in the lunar poles, which could have been caused by hydrogen coming from solar winds, the water in the mantle came very early in the Moon’s formation, Brown University geologist Ralph Milliken said in an interview with Space.com. In their study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Milliken and his team examined pyroclastic deposits — rock layers which were probably formed from large volcanic eruptions — using satellite data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument on the Indian Chandrayaan-1 probe.
“Our work shows that nearly all of the large pyroclastic deposits also contain water, so this seems to be a common characteristic of magmas that come from the deep lunar interior,” Milliken said in the interview. “That is, most of the mantle of the moon may be ‘wet.'”
FUELING FUTURE EXPLORATIONS
How large amounts of water ended up under the Moon’s surface remains unclear. Understanding it the water got there, possibly “delivered after the giant impact event,” as Milliken’s team thinks, could help explain how water came to be on Earth.
Even more interesting is the potential help lunar water could give to future exploration on the Moon and beyond. “These deposits may be much easier to access than potential water ice in shadowed regions at the lunar poles,” Milliken added in the interview. “Water is heavy and expensive to take from Earth to space, so any bit of water that you can get on the moon instead of bringing with you from Earth is a big deal and opens up possibilities for sustained human presence on the moon.”
This would be especially useful since some Mars missions in the works right now — notably NASA’s — involve using the Moon as a jump off point. A potential lunar base would be easier to maintain given the presence of water on Earth’s satellite.
“The better we understand how much water is there, then the better we can estimate the processes responsible and the usefulness of the deposits for future human exploration,” Milliken said to Space.com.
NASA has bought supersonic aircrafts a step further by completing the preliminary design review for a Quiet Supersonic Transport. It is one of many projects that could herald a second golden age of flight.
A THUMP IN THE FLIGHT
NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) — an experimental X-plane the organization has been developing with Lockheed Martin to decrease the strength of sonic booms — has passed an initial design review. It flew successfully in an 2.5-meter by 2-meter (eight-foot by six-foot) supersonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
The plane is the first stage in NASA’s wider plan to make the Low Boom Flight Demonstration (LBFD) airplane, and it completed its objective comfortably. A NASA statement said “the QueSST design is capable of fulfilling the LBFD aircraft’s mission objectives, which are to fly at supersonic speeds — 1.4 times the speed of sound — but create a soft ‘thump’ instead of the disruptive sonic boom associated with supersonic flight today.”
The next stages in the plan are to hire a contractor to build the piloted, single-engine plane, with initial flight testing ideally occurring in 2021. The next test will focus on ascertaining the consequences the atmosphere has on supersonic speed and quantifying the effect the plane will have on people on the ground through a combination of measurement and survey findings.
YEAR OF THE PLANE?
NASA’s experimental plane is one of many test aircraft that are looking to push the boundaries of aviation in different directions.
In terms of pure speed, Lockhead Martin has confirmed that the SR-72 — reportedly capable of mach 6 speeds — will be made for surveillance purposes, while British-based Skylon is planning to use a 5.4 mach plane to deliver payloads into space.
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen is also looking to apply planes to cosmic ends, but has developed the biggest plane ever rather than one of the fastest. After testing is complete, the Stratolaunch will be used to ferry spacecraft into orbit where they will require less energy to reach space when compared to a ground take off.
Eviation Aircraft will target the green aviation industry by producing an all-electric prototype which could be the first stage in decreasing the carbon footprint of the aircraft industry. The plane is produces zero-emissions and is capable of flying 965 km/h (600 mph).
BETZ MYSTERY SPHERE – AN ALIEN ARTIFACT FOUND BY A FAMILY?
BETZ MYSTERY SPHERE – AN ALIEN ARTIFACT FOUND BY A FAMILY?
THIS IS A STRANGE AND UNUSUAL STORY OF THE BETZ MYSTERY SPHERE THAT COULD DEFY THE LAWS OF GRAVITY…BUT NO ONE KNEW WHAT IT WAS OR WHERE IT HAD CAME FROM.
In 1974, the Betz family made as startling discovery that took the world media by storm. But no one knew what this mysterious metal ball was, which has become known as The Betz Mystery Sphere.
FINDING THE MYSTERY SPHERE
Fire ravaged 880 acres of a woodland property on Fort George Island, Florida that had a history going back to the 16th century, where a Spanish mission had once been located.
While Antoine Betz a Marine Engineer and his wife Gerri were examining the fire damage to their property, they came across a strange sphere on the ground.
At first they thought it may have been cannonball given the areas history – but they soon realized by the highly polished metal surface of the seamless orb…this was something different.
They then thought maybe the space aged looking object could have fallen from a NASA or Soviet satellite, flying above and somehow landed on their property.
Thy mysterious orb was about the size of a bowling ball and weight 22 lbs; but the unusual thing was that it had a strange elongated triangle, that was etched on the surface.
Seeing it as only a strange curiosity, the family decided to take it home with them and their son Terry, wanted to keep it in his room – but that did not last for too long.
UNUSUAL THINGS BEGAN TO HAPPEN WITH THE BETZ MYSTERY SPHERE
A couple weeks after the unusual find, Terry was playing his guitar and to his shock, the metallic orb started to react to the sound of the strumming. According to his testimony, the sphere resonated out a deep throbbing noise that seemed to greatly upset the family dog. Then it began to move to certain chords being played.
It didn’t take long before the Betz family discovered that the strange object had other strange characteristics.
When they pushed it across the floor, it would stop, vibrate then suddenly change direction and return back to the person who had pushed it.
They also saw it roll around the edge of the table finely balanced but it did not fall off onto the floor. On one occasion, they tilted the table at an angle, then saw that the sphere defy gravity and travel back up the leg of the table.
The family also claimed that it rolled for approximately 12 minutes continuously, while changing direction by itself but never once stopping. They considered all options and decided that it may have been fitted with a very sophisticated guidance system that allowed it to do this.
From what they had observed, the strange orb seemed to be powered by solar energy (even though solar energy was first discovered by Alexandre Edmond Becquerel in 1839, it was not in commonly used in 1974). They noticed that when the sun was shining brightly – the orb was more active.
Terry who had a curious nature, decided that he would do some tests of his own to try and work out what this strange object was.
First he gently hit the sphere with a hammer, which resulted in it ringing like a bell. Then he shook it vigorously and the orb suddenly rolled around the room as if trying to escape from him.
It is rumored that at night the Betz family would keep it in a sealed box – so that it would not escape.
Occasionally the orb would emit a rattling or low frequency vibration, as if there was some sort of mechanism running inside.
The Betz family were stunned at the sphere’s capabilities and started showing it to family and friends – they were equally shocked and it rapidly became an object of fascination.
SCIENTIFIC STUDY INTO THE BETZ MYSTERY SPHERE
Word soon got around about the Betz Mystery Sphere and quickly it started a media frenzy – everyone wanted to know about this strange ball.
Both officials from NASA, The Military Corp and Arial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) were sent out to see the sphere. They examined the steel object and could determine that there was no indication that it was manufactured or tampered with.
The military personnel would arrive skeptical onlookers, but by the time they left, were full of questions.
Despite requests from officials to take the ball to a lab for testing, the Betz family refused…but soon they had no choice.
THE BETZ MYSTERY SPHERE IS STUDIED
Soon the sphere started to exhibit strange and almost poltergeist behavior.
Doors would suddenly slam shut of their own accord and at night the house would fill with loud organ music – despite the fact that the Betz family did not own an organ.
This quickly became too much for the Betz family, so they agreed to allow the orb to be tested under scientific conditions – they wanted to know what this was?
The orb was taken to Jacksonville Naval Air Station in Florida, where the sphere was given to both scientists and metallurgists to examine.
They tried to x-ray the sphere to see what was inside, however x-ray machine was not strong enough to penetrate the metal, which they found baffling.
They determined that sphere was 7.96 inches wide (20 cm) and 21.43 pounds (9.67 kilograms), which could withstand 120,000 of pressure per square inch. It was made of magnetic stainless steel of the excellent quality, designed to withstand the highest heat temperatures and was corrosive resistant.
FURTHER STUDIES INTO THE BETZ MYSTERY SPHERE
The navy eventually used a 300 KV x-ray and discovered 2 objects inside the sphere – surrounded by a halo of material with unusual density. They also discovered that the spheres displayed 4 magnetic poles, 2 positive and 2 negative which did not have the same center.
It also showed signs of being radioactive but it was not explosive and one scientist (Dr Carl Wilson) was noted as saying that it“defies the law know to physics”. Another scientist (Dr J A Harder) is reported to have said that the elements inside were heavier than anything known to science.
THE MYSTERY CONTINUES
There have been people who have tried to debunk the Betz Mystery Sphere with many explanations ranging from: it was a lost steel ball that was meant to be used for an art project – to a sea bottom marker that somehow got into their burnt out field.
Since that time, other orbs have been found on earth since 1974 that include from Australia, Russia, Iraq and America …but no one knows what they are or where they come from.
Now over time no one talks anymore about The Betz Mystery Sphere – but where is it now? No one seems to know….and it has somehow disappeared from many people’s mind.
Six Of The Most Widely-Believed Alien Conspiracy Theories
Six Of The Most Widely-Believed Alien Conspiracy Theories
Disappointed by Skyline? Tantalized by Castle’s X-Files-y episode this week? Want an alien conspiracy with some meat on its bones (or exoskeleton, as the case may be)? Here are six of the greatest real-life alien conspiracy theories.
Actually, “real-life” is kind of a dubious term when talking about this kind of thing. The world of alien conspiracies is an improbably complex and interwoven one. It’s filled with weird personalities, unexplainable events, half-remembered government secrets, and countless races of alien visitors, all with their own agendas.
1. Roswell
So let’s start with arguably the grand-daddy of UFO conspiracy events: the supposed Roswell UFO incident. In 1947, the Roswell Air Force Base issued a press release saying that they’d found a mysterious metallic disc on a nearby ranch. The press was, of course, intrigued, but the base quickly changed their wording slightly: they’d found what appeared to be the remnants of a weather balloon.
The change was not quick enough, of course: the local papers ran giant headlines saying that the air force had recovered a crashed alien spaceship. And in the years since, that story has stuck, as accounts surfaced from employees at the base that include multiple crash sites, massive cover-ups, and even a reported alien autopsy (a film released in 1995 purported to depict the actual autopsy, but it its creator admitted that “most” of the footage was fake, thereby sort of discrediting all of the footage).
Die-hards still stand by these scant accounts of fishy dealings at Roswell. The supposed cover-up has permeated public perception of the base, leading to a Star Trek plot, a Futurama episode, and even an entire TV series, among many others. It also launched a veritable squadron of alien conspiracies. Some still believe that the spaceship remnants and alien bodies have been squirreled away in some sort of secret military enclave.
2. Area 51
And Area 51 might just be that military enclave. The actual base has long been a very closely-guarded secret, including wide “trespassers will be shot” stretches around the base itself and a large no-fly zone surrounding it.
According to conspiracy theorists, what we can see of Area 51 is just the tip of the paranoid iceberg. The base allegedly features elaborate underground labs, hidden tunnels, a dedicated extra-terrestrial runway that can disappear and reappear, and research programs dedicated to reverse-engineering alien technology.
In one particularly colorful and alluring detail, two different alleged former Area 51 employees reported working side-by-side with an alien being named “J-Rod” on cloning alien viruses and on a telepathic translator device (it’s funnier if you imagine J-Rod as Jar-Jar; I’d watch that movie).
And the mystery of Area 51 is still only one example of the vast network of supposed government cover-up of alien contact.
3. Project Blue Book and the Majestic 12
The government has been relatively transparent with Project Blue Book. It was an endeavor for the US government to catalog and examine every instance of supposed alien contact, visitation, and spacecraft reported to them. The project spanned years (and many incarnations), and its official result was that there existed no substantial evidence that these incidents were the result of alien visitation.
But that didn’t stop conspiracy theorists. In addition to challenging the rigor of the study, some “experts” on the subject stand by the claim that Blue Book became a distraction and cover-up from the reality of alien visitation, which included a top secret international squad called Majestic 12 to perpetrate the elaborate smoke-screen. Among the alleged weaponry of this massive cover-up are disinformation campaigns, character assassination, and elaborate webs of government lies.
Another weapon in the cover-up arsenal is the network of supposed Men in Black responsible for doing the actual dirty work. You’ve seen them in Will Smith movies and on the X-Files, but die-hard alien conspiracy theorists claim they’re everywhere, as CIA agents, or as shape-shifting aliens, or even inter-dimensional beings. Some even report encounters with these men in black (like the account in the video above), and some say they have the smashed cameras and bruises to prove it.
But WHY would the government try to cover up alien invasions? Just what are they hiding?
4. The Reptilians
The cover-up might just be so that world leaders can hide their true reptilian nature. Conspiracy theorist (and very creative thinker) David Icke is the man primarily responsible for the paranoia about secret shape-shifting reptile-like aliens invading Slitheen-style and replacing high-ranking political leaders. There are countless videos and images all over the internet purporting to depict these reptilians slipping and revealing their true selves.
One of my favorite details about Icke’s worldview is that of the Red Dresses. These are personality-less software constructs of the reptilian invaders installed at high rank to facilitate the aliens’ plans. This particular theory is what leads to stunning images like the one above, which reveals a few of the “red dresses” in their true form.
Another proponent of this reptilian-invasion worldview recently gained a bit of notoriety when discussing her own version of the conspiracy. Her name is Colleen Thomas, and she wants to warn us all of the impending shadow-government dirty bombing and a Draconian-Reptilian invasion.
These reptilian usurpers and shape-shifters are supposed to have been around for millennia, manipulating all of human history for their own gain. But Icke and his reptilian cronies aren’t the first to propose alien invasions in ancient history.
5. Ancient Astronauts
As long as we’re talking about extraterrestrials secretly influencing human history, we have to talk about the “ancient astronauts.” Erich von Däniken, in his landmark (in certain circles) book, Chariots of the Gods?, posits that Earth has been the frequent recipient of alien visitors. These visitors have brought with them advanced technologies, some of which helped build the pyramids, the Moai statues on Easter Island, Stonehenge, and more.
Many religions have developed as a response to this particular conspiracy, and we’ve covered some of the most absurd ones before. Hidden histories like this tend to have religious implications. But, as the next item demonstrates, they sometimes have unexpected political implications.
6. Esoteric Hitlerism
As with any internet discussion, it all eventually turns to a discussion of Nazism. And alien conspiracy theories are no exception, with my favorite of the weird extraterrestrial conspiracies, Esoteric Hitlerism.
Spearheaded by Miguel Serrano, Esoteric Hitlerists believe that the Aryan race is descended from an alien species of the highest order. Finding evidence in the story of the Nephilim in the bible, Serrano believes that an ancient alien civilization came to Earth to enlighten man. They bred with ancient earthlings, and the Aryan race are the only race alive that maintains any of the purity in their blood of these lofty ancestors. Serrano taught that the alien gods were hiding, with Adolf Hitler, in an icy underground fortress, from which they will one day emerge with fleets of spacecraft to usher in the Fourth Reich.
Yikes.
So if you are disappointed by a fictional portrayal of the secret alien interactions with humanity, you can always fall back on the real things that people believe. Sometimes, especially in the case of Esoteric Hitlerism, not only is the truth stranger than fiction – some people’s version of the truth is just too strange for fiction.
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Mysterious Ancient Underground Worlds
5 Mysterious Ancient Underground Worlds
Expeditions exploring deep, mysterious tunnels and caves in various parts of the world return with strange tales of subterranean civilizations, cities and advanced yet ancient technology. Many of these remarkable underground worlds remain shrouded in mystery because we have not been able to locate them yet. There are also fascinating very old underground tunnels, caves and cities that have been discovered, but the history behind them remains unsolved because we have no idea who built them and for what purposes.
1. UNDERGROUND TUNNEL SYSTEM BENEATH THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA
There is a lost history completely ignored by mainstream scholars when it comes to the Ancient Egyptian Civilization and the enigmatic Pyramids which according to many predates the Egyptian Civilization itself.
West of the middle pyramid on the Giza Plateau, the ground rises to its highest point where there are some of the surviving buildings of The Harvard camp, established by George Reisner in 1902 to pursue the aims of the Hearst Expedition of the University of California. The high ground suddenly drops away beyond the buildings leaving eroded cliffs facing north which have many tomb entrances dotted along its length.
The Labyrinth of Egypt has been described by a number of ancient writers such as Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus, and Pliny. The labyrinth’s age and ancient origins are unclear, but at the time of Herodotus’ visit it was more than 1,300 years old.
2. Tunnels in Bucegi Mountains
In the summer of 2003, in an unexplored area of the Bucegi mountains, an epochal discovery was found that would completely change the destiny of mankind.
There are 4 primary tunnels and further sub-tunnels that lead to deep underground places which you would have heard of.
In these tunnels you will find rooms, huge rooms, with huge tables and stone chairs for people much, much taller than us.
The projection room contains all our history and can be replayed visually.
A table where you can perform holographic experiments with DNA, mix and match anything you wish and see what the results would be.
These rooms were created at least 50,000 years ago and each is connected to each other, protected by an energy source which actives all as one is activated.
3. Underground City Beneath Death Valley
The very thought that there could be a secret city lying beneath California’s Death Valley that is more than 5,000 years old is astonishing and difficult for many people to believe. But for those who have entered the subterranean tunnels underneath the ground and visited this amazing location, it is all very real. There are many who believe that the underground city was once inhabited by an unknown race, now thousands of years later, the area is abandoned, however, visitors say that they have witnessed some strange artifacts while exploring inside.
The ancient city known as Shin-Au-Av could have been home to many different races, but it is important to look at the legends of the Paiute Indians before you start to imagine various creatures of the unknown lurking underground.
4. Lost Cave City in the Grand Canyon?
Did an ancient civilization live in caves below the Grand Canyon? This is as vague a statement as wondering why some of the ancient Mesoamerican people depicted their gods as white men or the Olmec gods looked African. Stretching the imagination … perhaps whatever was found in the Grand Canyon caves discussed below, is linked to Ancient Alien Theory. It is interesting to speculate on ancient Egyptians or Tibetans flying to the Grand Canyon in Vimanas, but, to date, there is no tangible proof to support these claims.
5. Highly Sophisticated Underground City Of Derinkuyu
The underground city of Derinkuyu is an ancient city located beneath the surface of the Derinkuyu district in the Nevşehir Province, Turkey. It is one of the most amazing underground cities to have been discovered, and no one knows its exact age, making this already awesome underground city even cooler.
In 1963, approximately 50 miles (30 km) south of Nevsehir, Cappadocia, Turkey, Omer Demir stumbled across a deep hole (in Turkish: derinkuyu) that led to a steep path leading deeper down to passages, niches and shafts dug into the bedrock.
After intensive excavation, it became clear that Derinkuyu was an entire city complex built in that hole beneath the surface.
If your doctors can’t figure out what’s wrong with you, don’t blame them … blame the universe. A new study found that half of your body, not to mention half of everything around you, comes from a galaxy other than the Milky Way. No wonder we have so many half-assed half-wits pushing half-baked theories full of half-truths and half-cocked schemes. Blame it on the halves from Andromeda.
Actually, the theory is not as half-baked as it sounds. Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, the leader of the study published this week in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, points to galactic winds as the culprit.
“It is likely that much of the Milky Way’s matter was in other galaxies before it was kicked out by a powerful wind, traveled across intergalactic space and eventually found its new home in the Milky Way.”
A long time ago from a galaxy far, far away …
His team at the Northwestern University astrophysics center, CIERA (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics), developed a supercomputer model to simulate various scenarios of how galaxies were formed in order to study wind recycling. Let your imagination run wild on that phrase for a minute. Finished? Wind recycling occurs when galactic winds are formed by supernovae and push gas particles around at high speeds. Some of this wind leaves the supernova’s galaxy, but a small amount gets sucked back in and used again – wind recycling. Did your imaginary picture of it involve deep breathing and a crowded galactic elevator?
As is the case in so many simulations, what the scientists found had nothing to do with what they were looking for. The models showed that the wind frequently escapes from its own galaxy and travls billions of light years across space to be absorbed in other galaxies and form new stars. . For some reason, this flow occurs most often from small galaxies to larger ones. Anglés-Alcázar got to name this phenomenon “intergalactic transfer.”
“It was actually surprising for us to find out that there is that much exchange of mass between galaxies.”
Which one are you from?
How much is ‘that much’? The simulations showed that a galaxy like the Milky Way (do we really care that much about the other ones?) got half of its matter from other galaxies. The disbelieving researchers checked their figures by converting the simulations to 3-D and the intergalactic transfer produced the same results … in 3-D.
For those who want to be space travelers but don’t think it will happen in their lifetime, Anglés-Alcázar has good news for you.
“Given how much of the matter out of which we formed may have come from other galaxies, we could consider ourselves space travelers or extragalactic immigrants.”
If we’re all extragalactic immigrants on this planet, isn’t it time we stopped pointing fingers and started getting along?
The Russian Colonel claims he had a “personal” encounter with aliens and that he had seen President Michael Gorbachev and Yeltsin meet with extraterrestrials.
He also issued a statement of warning from a real alien invasion upcoming, as the extraterrestrial beings are already here and have held humanity hostage without their knowledge, but with cooperation from their leaders.
In an interview, Skryabin says our leaders have sold out humanity down the river and to the aliens, the invasion is just few steps away.
The interview was given to a newspaper of Czech Republic and published in its website. However, in two days this interview was deleted from everywhere…
This Russian General have made contact with extraterrestrials as he was sent underground to conduct a personal training with them, he said “It was terrible experience, Humanity was sold fully to the ET’s by our president and the corrupted government”
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Deformed 'alien' skull found in Crimea belonged to a toddler who had his head bound in a Sarmatian tradition to create child warriors almost 2,000 years ago
Deformed 'alien' skull found in Crimea belonged to a toddler who had his head bound in a Sarmatian tradition to create child warriors almost 2,000 years ago
Archaeologists made the startling find at a burial site in Kyz-Aul, close to Kerch
The artificially lengthened heads were a feature of the Sarmatian culture
They were thought to alter the character and make warriors more aggressive
The boy is believed to have been aged between 18 months and two years old
An 'alien boy' with a weirdly elongated skull found in a tomb in Crimea was in fact a a boy marked out to be an ancient warrior, say Russian archaeologists.
The artificially lengthened head was a feature of children being groomed as Sarmatian fighters almost 2,000 years ago, they say.
Archaeologists made the startling find at a burial site close to a giant £2.9billion ($3.8billion) bridge currently under construction.
It was immediately called an 'alien's grave', said the scientists.
An 'alien boy' with a weirdly elongated skull found in a tomb in Crimea was in fact a trainee ancient warrior, say Russian archaeologists. The artificially lengthened head (pictured) was a feature of children being groomed as Sarmatian fighters almost two thousand years ago
ELONGATED SKULL
One of the most characteristic traits of the Late Sarmatian culture was the artificial deformation of skulls.
This was probably accomplished by tying a soft cloth around the infant's head, forcing an elongation of the cranium.
Special wooden planks were bound to the skull, pressing the bones and gradually altering the shape.
Such deformations were seen as altering the character, and making the warriors 'more aggressive'.
This cultural trait was specific to the populations living east of the Don River, according to the Silk Road foundation.
The high amount of offensive weapons found in Sarmatian graves indicates they lived a military-oriented nomadic life.
The find was made at Kyz-Aul, close to Kerch, where Vladimir Putin has commissioned construction of the bridge.
It will connect the peninsula, annexed from Ukraine in a 2014 military operation, to mainland Russia.
One Russian state media outlet reported that 'some adherents of "ancient astronauts" theories claim that the owners of such lengthened skulls may be human-extraterrestrial hybrids'.
The boy warrior from the second century AD is believed to have been aged between 18 months and two years old when he died.
Nikolay Sudarev, a scientist from the Archaeology Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, denied the grave was linked to alien civilisations.
'Elongated skulls were traditional for the Sarmatian culture,' he said, according to Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.
'They thought this was more beautiful.'
The artificially elongated skull was a sign of a 'true warrior' and the deformation process was practiced by a number of ancient cultures.
It began early in childhood when the bones were still soft, and no surgery was needed.
Special wooden planks were tied to the skull, pressing the bones and gradually altering the shape.
Such deformations were seen as altering the character, and making the warriors 'more aggressive'.
One Russian state media outlet reported that 'some adherents of "ancient astronauts" theories claim that the owners of such lengthened skulls may be human-extraterrestrial hybrids'. Pictured - the excavation site
The boy warrior (pictured) from the second century AD is believed to have been aged between 18 months and two years old when he died. The artificially elongated skull was a sign of a 'true warrior' and the deformation process was practiced by a number of ancient cultures
It began early in childhood when the bones were still soft, and no surgery was needed. Special wooden planks were tied to the skull, pressing the bones and gradually altering the shape. Such deformations were designed to make the warriors more aggressive
Near the skeleton was found a vessel made of clay, along with tiny beads.
On the boy's arm there was a copper bracelet.
While this infant was identified as male the Sarmatians were also famed for their female warriors who helped to conquer Crimea in ancient times.
The prominent role of the group's women in warfare was seen as an inspiration to the Amazons.
The find was made at Kyz-Aul, close to Kerch, where Vladimir Putin has commissioned construction of the bridge (pictured). It will connect the peninsula, annexed from Ukraine in a 2014 military operation, to mainland Russia
Near the skeleton (dig site pictured) was found a vessel made of clay, along with tiny beads. On the boy's arm there was a copper bracelet. The high amount of offensive weapons found in Sarmatian graves indicates they lived a military-oriented nomadic life
Archeologists made the startling find close to a giant £2.9billion bridge ($3.8billion - pictured) currently being build by Vladimir Putin to connect the peninsula - annexed from Ukraine in a 2014 military operation - to mainland Russia.
Langwerpige schedel gevonden in 'graf van alien'. Deze archeologen onthullen verrassende vondst
Langwerpige schedel gevonden in ‘graf van alien’. Deze archeologen onthullen verrassende vondst
Op de Krim is in een graftombe het skelet gevonden van een jongen met een vreemd gevormde schedel. Volgens Russische archeologen was de jongen een Sarmatiaanse strijder.
De archeologen deden de verrassende vondst in de buurt van een enorme brug die in aanbouw is. Meteen werd gesproken van ‘het graf van een alien’, aldus de wetenschappers.
De resten zijn gevonden in Kyz-Aul, in de buurt van de stad Kertsj. De brug zal het schiereiland verbinden met het vasteland van Rusland.
Mens-alien-hybrides
Russische staatsmedia meldden dat dergelijke schedels volgens complottheoretici toebehoorden aan mens-alien-hybrides.
Nikolaj Soedarev van de Russische Academie van Wetenschappen zei dat het graf niet kon worden gelinkt aan buitenaardse beschavingen.
Hij zei tegenover de krant Moskovskij Komsomolets dat langwerpige schedels binnen de Sarmatiaanse cultuur normaal waren.
Echte strijder
Ze vonden dit er mooier uitzien. Een langwerpige schedel maakte iemand een ‘echte strijder’. Ook andere culturen deden aan schedelvervorming.
Bij kinderen werden houten planken om de schedel gebonden, die druk uitoefenden op de botten en langzaam maar zeker de vorm van de schedel veranderden.
Dergelijke vervormingen maakten de strijders ‘agressiever’. De Sarmaten stonden ook bekend om hun vrouwelijke strijders, die in de oudheid hielpen om de Krim te veroveren.
Piramide
Bij het skelet werden verder kralen en aardewerk gevonden. Om zijn arm droeg de jongen een koperen armband.
De Sarmaten dreven op de Krim handel met de Grieken en Romeinen. Rond 300 voor Christus beheerste het volk de steppen ten noorden van de Zwarte Zee.
Enige tijd terug werd volgens het Crimean News Agency ook al een piramide ontdekt op de Krim.
A strange craft has been accidentally photographed just at the moment the unknown craft flew over a lake outside Shoshone Wyoming.
The photographer, a retired USAF employee said: On July 1, 2017 I was on my way home from Las Vegas when I had to use the restroom at Boysen Reservoir outside Shoshone Wyoming.
After returning to my vehicle I realized that I had locked my keys in the truck. I called my wife to bring me the extra set of keys. I was less than 90 miles from my house. It would take her around 90 minutes to get to me.
I snapped a couple of photos of the lake and sent them to my son. It was around 3pm. My wife arrived and was home around 7pm. I downloaded the pictures from my phone into the computer about 15 days later.
When I looked at them on the screen something caught my attention on the right side of the picture a little over halfway up.
I enlarged it and was not sure what I was looking at. I asked my wife to come look at it at normal size. She said "I see a lake and a UFO".
We both studied it and cannot explain what we were looking at. I am retired USAF and after 20 years of service I can't remember seeing anything that looked like it.
At the time I took the picture I did not see or hear anything. I would greatly appreciate any information that you could give regarding what this is. Mufon case 85445.
Explain This! Flying "Reptile" Head caught on camera over the River Tay, Scotland?
Explain This! Flying "Reptile" Head caught on camera over the River Tay, Scotland?
While visiting the river Tay in Scotland a family photographed a strange object in the sky described as a strange huge brown egg shaped object, but to me it looks like the head of a reptile or fish.
Now it is known that sometimes, fish falling from the sky once they get up into the weather system caused by severe weather conditions. It is common for example for tornados to suck up water and fish from rivers and drop them hundreds of miles away.
If such an event happens than mostly hundreds of fish falling from the sky at once, but in this case we only see a head which doesn't seem to fall out from the sky.
The photographer states: On July 28, 2017 I was at the beach with family and we saw dolphins in the river Tay. My girlfriend from Bulgaria doesn't believe that we have dolphins in the river in Scotland so I tried to snap some shots of them with my Sony Xperia x 23mp camera.
I took several pictures while focusing on the water and when I looked back to see if I had caught any dolphins emerging, one of the photos in the middle of the set taken had a strange brown egg shaped object in the sky.
Clearly the object is in the distance and is not dirt on or in my lens as my device is waterproof therefore airtight and nothing shows in the pictures before or after. I just can't explain it.
Gaat de zonne-auto - eindelijk - de markt veroveren?
Gaat de zonne-auto - eindelijk - de markt veroveren?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Een Nederlands bedrijf komt binnen een paar jaar met een auto die zichzelf oplaadt middels zonlicht. “Dit kan een gamechanger zijn.”
Zo snel mogelijk van de ene naar de andere kant van Australië reizen, is al een hele opgave. Maar stel je nu eens voor dat je daarbij ook geen brandstof mag verbruiken. Dan lijkt het een onmogelijke opgave te worden. Maar niet voor vindingrijke studenten. Herhaaldelijk reizen zij tijdens de Bridgestone World Solar Challenge met hun zelfgebouwde, rijkelijk met zonnepanelen bedekte auto’s van Darwin naar Adelaide. Bij de gratie van het gratis zonlicht haasten de auto’s zich dwars door de outback, terwijl ze meer energie opwekken dan ze verbruiken. De futuristische karavaan trekt vanzelfsprekend een hoop bekijks en je zou er hebberig van worden. Want: nooit meer tanken en tegelijkertijd zelden aan de oplaadpaal gekluisterd zijn, wie wil dat nu niet? Toch leek het een verre toekomstdroom te blijven. Want hoe gaaf de door studenten in elkaar geknutselde zonne-auto’s ook waren: echt praktisch waren ze niet. Vaak was er maar ruimte voor één (volslanke) persoon. En een kofferbak voor de boodschappen ontbrak.
De zonne-auto van het Nuon Solar Team van de TU Twente: leuk en superefficiënt, maar niet echt praktisch.
Tot 2012. Toen werd de Bridgestone World Solar Challenge uitgebreid met de Cruiserklasse. Binnen deze klasse moesten praktische zonne-auto’s (lees: ruimte voor meerdere passagiers en boodschappen) het tegen elkaar opnemen. Studenten van de TU Eindhoven gingen deze nieuwe uitdaging aan en bouwden Stella en een paar jaar later opvolger Stella Lux: gezinsauto’s die rijden op de zonne-energie die deze auto’s zelf opwekken. De studenten bleken met de Stella’s een gouden greep te hebben gedaan: in 2015 laten ze in de Australische outback alle andere zonne-auto’s in deze klasse achter zich en pakken goud. Het levert een hoop media-aandacht op en de studenten reizen van congres naar congres om hun succesverhaal te vertellen. En keer op keer klinkt daar vanuit het publiek dezelfde vraag: “Waar kunnen we de auto kopen?” “Op dat moment realiseerden de leden van het Solar Team zich dat er serieus vraag naar is,” vertelt Tessie Hartjes. Ze werkt voor Lightyear, een bedrijf dat is opgericht door een aantal van de studenten die in de Australische outback de overwinning behaalden. Die studenten zijn inmiddels afgestudeerd en vastbesloten om binnen een paar jaar de eerste zonne-auto’s op de markt te brengen. “Dit kan een gamechanger zijn.”
Stella Lux: een praktische zonne-auto.
Lightyear One Die gamechanger heet Lightyear One en kost 119.000 euro (exclusief BTW). De auto biedt ruimte aan vier personen en rijdt op zonne-energie die de auto zelf opwekt. Wanneer er meer zonne-energie wordt opgewekt dan de auto nodig heeft, wordt het overschot opgeslagen in de accu aan boord van de auto. Daar kan de auto op bewolkte dagen of ’s avonds dan weer een beroep op doen. Met een volle accu zou de auto tussen de 400 en 800 kilometer moeten kunnen rijden. Ben je niet zo’n kilometervreter? Dan kun je het overschot aan energie dat de auto opwekt, bijvoorbeeld afstaan aan jouw woning. “Je kunt je ook voorstellen dat er straks bedrijven zijn die twintig van dit soort auto’s bezitten. Wanneer de auto’s op de parkeerplaats staan, kan de opgewekte zonne-energie dan bijvoorbeeld gebruikt worden om de airco in het kantoorpand van energie te voorzien,” vertelt Hartjes.
Aerodynamisch en licht De actieradius die Hartjes en collega’s beloven, valt op. Deze is enorm. “Het is technisch gezien al mogelijk, hoor,” stelt Hartjes. Maar veel autofabrikanten zitten zichzelf nog in de weg. “Wanneer zij een nieuw model willen introduceren, gaan ze eerst ontwerpen en daarna pas optimaliseren voor de aerodynamica. Wij doen het andersom: onze auto wordt aangepast aan zijn functionaliteit.” Dat dat voor bestaande autofabrikanten lastig is, komt onder meer doordat mensen bepaalde verwachtingen van die fabrikanten hebben: een stukje herkenbaarheid dat ook in het ontwerp van nieuwe modellen terug moet komen. Die beperking hebben Hartjes en collega’s niet. “Wij kunnen het direct goed doen.” En dus wordt er momenteel een super-aerodynamische auto ontworpen. “Daardoor kunnen we maar een kleine accu nodig: ongeveer drie keer kleiner dan die van Tesla.” En dat betekent dat de auto weer een stukje lichter is, wat weer goed is voor het energieverbruik. “Het is sowieso een lichtgewicht auto, want we maken gebruik van carbonfiber.”
“ONDANKS ALLE GEHEIMZINNIGHEID ZIJN ER INMIDDELS AL TIEN LIGHTYEAR ONE’S VERKOCHT”
Tien verkocht Op dit moment is Lightyear druk bezig met het ontwerp van de auto. Hoe deze er precies uit gaat zien, blijft tot begin volgend jaar in nevelen gehuld. “Het zal een robuuste auto worden,” zo licht Hartjes een tipje van de sluier op. Ondanks alle geheimzinnigheid zijn er inmiddels al tien Lightyear One’s verkocht. “En we hopen er de komende vijf jaar nog zo’n 1000 te verkopen.” De eerste tien exemplaren zullen vanaf 2019 geleverd worden. “Die eerste lichting is tamelijk exclusief,” vertelt Hartjes. “Het is een statement car: we willen hiermee vooral laten zien dat je op zonne-energie kunt rijden. Maar uiteindelijk moet die prijs natuurlijk wel omlaag.” Zeker als je denkt aan de uiteindelijke doelgroep die Lightyear voor ogen heeft. “Uiteindelijk willen we de auto gaan verkopen in developing countries, oftewel opkomende economieën. Zo willen we voorkomen dat de mensen daar straks in onze oude benzine- en dieselauto’s gaan rijden.” Dat een bedrijf met deze ambitie zich met de eerste lichting richt op het luxe segment is volgens Hartjes niet vreemd. “We moeten ons als merk zien te vestigen en aantonen dat we een goede auto kunnen leveren.” Dat is belangrijk als het bedrijf straks auto’s wil verkopen in bijvoorbeeld India, waar de mensen zeer merkgevoelig zijn. “Bovendien is de kans dat er nu dingen misgaan veel groter als we in dit stadium reeds proberen om een zo goedkoop mogelijke auto te bouwen,” denkt Hartjes. Dat de prijs in de toekomst omlaag kan: daar heeft ze alle vertrouwen in. “Als we de componenten straks groot in kunnen kopen, moet dat lukken.”
Nu ook commercieel aantrekkelijk Het verhaal van Lightyear klinkt bijna te mooi om waar te zijn. Want als het technologisch gezien allemaal al lang mogelijk is en de consument erop zit te wachten: waarom heeft nog geen enkele autofabrikant zich dan aan de zonne-auto gewaagd? “Commercieel gezien is het allemaal nog maar kort haalbaar,” vertelt Hartjes. Eerder stonden de prijzen van zonnepanelen, carbonfiber en accu’s dergelijke experimenten nog niet toe. “Je ziet nu bijvoorbeeld pas dat ook Tesla gaat experimenteren met het integreren van zonnepanelen.” Maar dat ziet Hartjes niet als een bedreiging. “Wij bouwen de auto van onderen af op, om zoveel mogelijk rendement te maken. Je kunt wel zonnepanelen op het dak van een bestaande auto leggen, maar dan heb je te weinig oppervlak om echt alleen op zonne-energie te kunnen rijden.” Bovendien hebben deze oud-studenten iets in huis wat Tesla mist: ervaring. “De beste studenten van de Nederlandse technische universiteiten werken al heel lang met zonne-auto’s.”
Is dit dan de revolutie waar we al die tijd op gewacht hebben? Het zou zomaar kunnen, denkt Hartjes. “De zon is er elke dag en dankzij zonlicht kun je gratis schone kilometers maken. Dus ja, ik denk dat dit een gamechanger kan zijn.” Tegelijkertijd blijft er alle ruimte voor Hollandse nuchterheid. “Maar we moeten het natuurlijk nog wel laten zien.”
Detecting Alien Life Will Likely Be a Protracted Process, Not a Eureka Moment
Detecting Alien Life Will Likely Be a Protracted Process, Not a Eureka Moment
Scientific discovery most often comes through incremental progress rather than epiphanies, and there’s no reason to suggest discovering alien intelligence will be different.
Detecting Alien Life Will Likely Be a Protracted Process, Not a Eureka Moment
Scientific discovery most often comes through incremental progress rather than epiphanies, and there’s no reason to suggest discovering alien intelligence will be different.
Would it be easy to determine if the source of a mysterious radio signal was aliens? Probably not. A new paper argues that contact with extraterrestrials will likely be discovered through a prolonged, incremental process rather than an instantaneous eureka-like moment. Eureka — what the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes allegedly said when he cracked a tough science problem about water displacement — tends to be the exception in science rather than the rule.
Attributing scientific progress to eureka moments is popular because it is easy to understand, argues Milan Cirkovic, a senior research associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and an assistant physics professor at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and Montenegro. But, he writes in the journal Space Policy, "It puts too big an emphasis on the 'origin myths' and the role of great personalities, key moments, events, and circumstances in any historical process.”
Cirkovic said in an email that the community involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) should instead be prepared for a process that would take a very long time. It may take decades as the SETI community looks at all the reasons aliens might not be the source of a mysterious signal.
"I have only tried to point out that both history of science and logic and common sense suggest — on a descriptive level — that contact will be a protracted affair, probably not recognizable as such over timescales of years or decades," Cirkovic said. He was careful not to say how contact might proceed, but that it would take a long time and repeated observations.
Think about the protracted debate concerning "Tabby's star," which is showing strange brightening and dimming. Some say it's due to a possible "alien megastructure," while others are pointing to various natural processes, such as exocomets.
"More structure is obviously necessary, as far as signals are concerned," Cirkovic said. "The example often quoted (first due to Nikola Tesla, who was somewhat forgotten as a SETI pioneer) is the presence of prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ... etc. in the signal."
Prime numbers are a non-natural process that are considered by SETI scholars an indication of possible life.
"However," Cirkovic added, "this is the classic understanding of the first contact which I actually intend to undermine in the present paper. I argue — after some of the SETI ‘founding fathers,’ notably Nikolai Kardashev — that we are more likely to detect an anomalous astrophysical phenomenon, which would be a signpost of massive engineering effort by extraterrestrial intelligence.”
He added that in recent years the SETI community has said it expects contact to come through detecting one of these engineering signatures rather than through a radio signal. Cirkovic and some other experts call this "Dysonian SETI", after a 2011 paper that Cirkovic co-authored and was led by Robert Bradbury of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade.
Cirkovic — who has published more than 20 papers and a book on SETI since 2004 — urges the community to recalibrate its detectors, equipment, and models to better look for Dysonian SETI, which "deserves much more attention."
WATCH: We're Not Saying the Kepler Discovery Is Aliens, But ...
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Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks
Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks
Time and tide help to get life going
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By Abigail Beall
Worlds with a permanent day and night side aren’t obvious places to look in the search for extraterrestrial life. Apart from having extremes of temperature, such planets would make it hard for a biological clock to get going.
But now it seems that if these worlds also have oceans, then tides could drive a biological clock just like a rising and setting sun would, according to a simulation by Avi Loeb and Manasvi Lingam at Harvard University.
We used to think that not having a day-night cycle would make it harder for life to emerge, because of the lack of a circadian clock. On Earth, these built-in timekeepers play an important role in several biological contexts, including reproduction.
Of course, it’s possible to imagine aliens without biological clocks, but how life could evolve without one is difficult to imagine.
“There is abundant evidence that biological clocks are essential to modern life on Earth, and that biological clocks may have evolved very early in the history of life on Earth, either in cyanobacteria or in other single-celled organisms,” says Jennifer Macalady at Pennsylvania State University.
Tides make life tick
Loeb and Lingam’s study shows tides could play the role of timekeeper. If a planet with one side always facing its star has an elliptical orbit, the change in distance as it circles the star would create the back and forth pull needed for tides.
“Because of the small size of the habitable zone around stars like TRAPPIST-1, the tides are orders of magnitude larger than on Earth,” Loeb says.
Tides would form ponds as they go out, and can also help dissipate heat caused by volcanic activity or proximity to the planet’s star, mimicking periodic evaporation caused by a rising and setting sun. Each cycle would concentrate chemicals essential for the emergence of life. Eventually, life could evolve with its days and nights governed by the flow of the ocean.
This might sound alien, but even on Earth some animals’ biological clocks are set by the tides rather than the sun. So-called circatidal rhythms govern the lives of certain fish and crabs.
What kinds of worlds are likely to have a permanent day and night side? Some planets orbiting dwarf stars, like the nearby Proxima Centauri or TRAPPIST-1, are much closer to their host stars than we are to our sun. Because of this proximity, gravity from the star tugs much more at one side of a planet than the other, causing it to show the same face to its star throughout an orbit.
On such a “tidally locked” planet, the side facing away from the star would never receive light and could be too cold for life, while the side facing it could be too hot. The areas where life might develop would be on the border – the zone experiencing a constant “sunrise” or “sunset”.
“Work like this is important to inform our understanding of how life might evolve on the planets around other stars,” says Matt Burleigh at the University of Leicester, UK. “Oceanic tides may well be another factor that needs to be taken into account when speculating on life on planets around red dwarf stars like Proxima Centauri.”
Algal signals
Loeb and Lingam say these planets might be revealed to us through algal blooms that would change how the planet reflects its star’s light, in sync with the tides. But even if there is a signature there, seeing it might be tricky, says Jaymie Matthews at the University of British Columbia in Canada.
“Even if tidal blooms in an alien ocean are more extensive than in Earth’s, they are unlikely to be global,” he says.
“And they are not long-lasting, so the signature in the spectrum of exoplanet light will be diluted and intermittent.”
In Serbia, a local resident made a video of unidentified flying objects in the sky over the city of Doni Milanovac.
The video shows five bright UFOs lining up in triangles, changing the configuration and then disappearing. None of the objects looked like a star, and it is hard to ascribe the sighting to a natural phenomenon.
Earlier, another UFO sighting was reported in the sky over Chile. A V-shaped unidentified flying object was hovering in the night sky. The strange phenomenon was noticed by Roberto Antezana.
He is not the first to witness unusual manifestations from outer space. At first, the scientist decided that this was a Japanese satellite. However, the UFO was hovering in the sky for 35 minutes, which made the astrophysicist doubt its earthly origin. Inside the V-shaped nebula, there were other objects of unknown origin.
Jeanne Pollock of Acme, dressed as an Alien, puts her head through a wooden Alien cutout at the Kecksburg UFO-festival on Sunday July 3, 2016
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Watching the skies for mysterious UFOs
Watching the skies for mysterious UFOs
Mark Smith saw this 'UFO' in the sky above Preston
Do you believe in little grey men?
Blackpool is now a growing hub for those who want to believe, as a network for reported UFO sightings opens in the resort.
Tim Bartrop, 52, founded the Lancashire UFO Sightings Network in his youth, and now hopes to revive the club to provide the people of Blackpool with a viable alternative to the Ministry Of Defence’s UFO desk, which closed down in 2009.
He said: “The Ministry of Defence closed down its UFO service in 2009 and since then nobody has had anything to report UFO sightings to.
“That’s why I have opened this up in Blackpool.”
Tim, who lives off Central Drive, was inspired to form a group for believers to report their findings after his first and only encounter with the unexplained while growing up in Darnall, Sheffield.
He said: “I decided to call for my best friend at the time , who lived three doors up from me.
“As we were both star gazers we decided to go to the bottom of the street where the park is to get a better view of the sky above Darnall.
“We both had noticed this bright light in the sky, as well as other stars moving towards us.
“They were rectangle in shape and three of them joined up. It was very bright, with no sound. They must have been about 500 yards above the houses.
” He now hopes to encourage the people of Blackpool to come forward with stories of their own UFO sightings.
He said: “Blackpool and Lancashire is a hotspot for UFO sightings.”
Two UFOs were said to have been spotted in the sky over Fleetwood in 2015, and one over Lytham and St Annes the year before.
People who wish to report a UFO sighting to the Lancashire UFO Sighting Network (LUFOS) can email report.lufos@gmail.com.
Why looking for aliens is good for society (even if there aren't any)
Why looking for aliens is good for society (even if there aren't any)
by Ian Crawford, The Conversation
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The search for life elsewhere in the universe is one of the most compelling aspects of modern science. Given its scientific importance, significant resources are devoted to this young science of astrobiology, ranging from rovers on Mars to telescopic observations of planets orbiting other stars.
The holy grail of all this activity would be the actual discovery of alien life, and such a discovery would likely have profound scientific and philosophical implications. But extraterrestrial life has not yet been discovered, and for all we know may not even exist. Fortunately, even if alien life is never discovered, all is not lost: simply searching for it will yield valuable benefits for society.
Why is this the case?
First, astrobiology is inherently multidisciplinary. To search for aliens requires a grasp of, at least, astronomy, biology, geology, and planetary science. Undergraduate courses in astrobiology need to cover elements of all these different disciplines, and postgraduate and postdoctoral astrobiology researchers likewise need to be familiar with most or all of them.
By forcing multiple scientific disciplines to interact, astrobiology is stimulating a partial reunification of the sciences. It is helping to move 21st-century science away from the extreme specialisation of today and back towards the more interdisciplinary outlook that prevailed in earlier times.
By producing broadminded scientists, familiar with multiple aspects of the natural world, the study of astrobiology therefore enriches the whole scientific enterprise. It is from this cross-fertilization of ideas that future discoveries may be expected, and such discoveries will comprise a permanent legacy of astrobiology, even if they do not include the discovery of alien life.
It is also important to recognise that astrobiology is an incredibly open-ended endeavour. Searching for life in the universe takes us from extreme environments on Earth, to the plains and sub-surface of Mars, the icy satellites of the giant planets, and on to the all-but-infinite variety of planets orbiting other stars. And this search will continue regardless of whether life is actually discovered in any of these environments or not. The range of entirely novel environments opened to investigation will be essentially limitless, and so has the potential to be a never-ending source of scientific and intellectual stimulation.
The Earth photographed from the surface of Mars by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, March 2004. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texas A&M
Beyond the more narrowly intellectual benefits of astrobiology are a range of wider societal benefits. These arise from the kinds of perspectives – cosmic in scale – that the study of astrobiology naturally promotes.
It is simply not possible to consider searching for life on Mars, or on a planet orbiting a distant star, without moving away from the narrow Earth-centric perspectives that dominate the social and political lives of most people most of the time. Today, the Earth is faced with global challenges that can only be met by increased international cooperation. Yet around the world, nationalistic and religious ideologies are acting to fragment humanity. At such a time, the growth of a unifying cosmic perspective is potentially of enormous importance.
In the early years of the space age, the then US ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, said of the world: "We can never again be a squabbling band of nations before the awful majesty of outer space." Unfortunately, this perspective is yet to sink deeply into the popular consciousness. On the other hand, the wide public interest in the search for life elsewhere means that astrobiology can act as a powerful educational vehicle for the popularisation of this perspective.
Indeed, it is only by sending spacecraft out to explore the solar system, in large part for astrobiological purposes, that we can obtain images of our own planet that show it in its true cosmic setting.
In addition, astrobiology provides an important evolutionary perspective on human affairs. It demands a sense of deep, or big, history. Because of this, many undergraduate astrobiology courses begin with an overview of the history of the universe. This begins with the Big Bang and moves successively through the origin of the chemical elements, the evolution of stars, galaxies, and planetary systems, the origin of life, and evolutionary history from the first cells to complex animals such as ourselves. Deep history like this helps us locate human affairs in the vastness of time, and therefore complements the cosmic perspective provided by space exploration.
Political implications
There is a well-known aphorism, widely attributed to the Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, to the effect that "the most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world". Humboldt was presumably thinking about the mind-broadening potential of international travel. But familiarity with the cosmic and evolutionary perspectives provided by astrobiology, powerfully reinforced by actual views of the Earth from space, can surely also act to broaden minds in such a way as to make the world less fragmented and dangerous.
I think there is an important political implication inherent in this perspective: as an intelligent technological species, that now dominates the only known inhabited planet in the universe, humanity has a responsibility to develop international social and political institutions appropriate to managing the situation in which we find ourselves.
In concluding his monumental Outline of History in 1925, HG Wells famously observed: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." Such an observation appears especially germane to the geopolitical situation today, where apparently irrational decisions, often made by governments (and indeed by entire populations) seemingly ignorant of broader perspectives, may indeed lead our planet to catastrophe.
In the Milky Way alone, there are an estimated 100,000 million stars and 100 billion planets, many of which are “potentially habitable,” meaning they could have the conditions right for life to emerge.
It is important to remember when scientists discuss alien life, there are two types—microbial and intelligent. When NASA talks about searching for life elsewhere in our solar system, such as on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, they are referring to microbial life—simple primitive cells or multicellular organisms—not intelligent beings that have developed something resembling what we find on Earth.
Microbial life can exist in some of the most extreme conditions on Earth—from the bottom of the ocean to boiling hot hydrothermal vents. If we apply our understanding of life on Earth to conditions that may exist on other planets, the likelihood of life being able to survive increases.
Then there’s intelligent life. Intelligence does not necessarily mean human intelligence. It could come in a variety of forms. Octopus, for example, are considered to be extremely intelligent by scientists. But we couldn’t have a conversation with an octopus as it possesses a different form of intelligence to our own.
The Milky Way seen from the White Desert outside Cairo.AMR DALSH/RETUERS
There is also an argument to say that we, as a species, are not very intelligent. On the Kardashev scale—a measure of a civilization’s level of intelligence based on how technologically advanced it is—mankind is not even really at level one. The most advanced civilization would have mastered interstellar travel and can harness and control the energy produced by its entire galaxy.
The universe has existed for an estimated 13.82 billion years, with the first stars forming around 500 million years later. After the stars came the planets, with Earth being a fairly late addition, having been created 4.6 billion years ago.
With countless potentially habitable planets forming over the history of the universe, the chance life emerged on just one of them—Earth—is highly unlikely. But if extraterrestrial life is everywhere, why do we seem to be alone? This conundrum is known as the Fermi Paradox.
Dhara Patel, Astronomer for Royal Observatory Greenwich, tells Newsweek: “ Our nearest star is a star called Proxima Centauri and last year in August they found an exoplanet going around this star. It’s 4.2 light years away. If we’re talking about current technology, the technology we have with our spacecrafts, it would take 70,000 years to get there.
The planet Proxima b orbits the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System, as depicted in this artist's impression released by the European Southern Observatory on August 24, 2016. New study indicates the planet may well have a climate right for alien life.
ESO/M. KORNMESSER/HANDOUT
“Life on Earth only started around four billion years ago. Our universe is 13.8 billion years old and the first life could’ve started about one to two billion years after that start of the universe, so there’s been a huge time period before the Earth where civilizations could’ve developed, could’ve been wiped out and we wouldn’t have even known. Are we in the right time? Have we missed a civilization in the past or is there a civilization yet to come that we could communicate with?”
In the meantime, researchers are working to identify planets that sit within the habitable zone of their solar systems. This is the region of space where liquid water could exist, as it is not too hot or too cold.
NASA’s James Webb Telescope, which is scheduled to launch next year, will be able to detect the atmospheres of these planets, giving a stronger indication of whether or not they could host life. The space agency is also planning a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to search out microbial life—which could be the first proof that life exists elsewhere in our solar system.
But until our technology develops to the point where we can explore space on far shorter timescales, the chance of finding intelligent life is very much in the alien ball court.
Is there anybody out there? Is there life on other planets? If the answer is yes, and we can prove it, the physicist Jim Al-Khalili says that would be a revolutionary moment in science, up there with Copernicus proving that Earth is not the center of the universe. Considering the vastness of space, scientists mostly agree that somebody or something else is out there. Al-Khalili joins us Wednesday to explore where that life might be, what it might be like, and what would happen if we found it—or it found us.
Jim Al-Khalili is a quantum physicist, author, and a TV and radio presenter based at the University of Surrey in England. In 2016, he received the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication. He’s the author of several books, including Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics an Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology. Most recently, he’s the editor of the book Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life [Independent booksellers|Amazon|Audible]
When I first decided to take an active role in UFO research and investigation I consider myself very fortunate to join the Yorkshire UFO Society (YUFOS) which was formed in the early 1980’s by brothers Graham and Mark Birdsall. Many of you may well know that Graham went on to publish and edit the hugely successful newsstand publication UFO MAGAZINE.
Graham and Mark Birdsall (Credit: Philip Mantle)
Graham and Mark were extremely knowledgeable and enthusiastic and I leaned a lot from the both of them. I also consider it very fortunate that at the same time as joining YUFOS that we were literally swamped with UFO reports. In the early 1980’s we had more reports than we knew what to do with. A lot of these sightings came from areas in North Yorkshire and especially around the moors above the village of Carleton near Skipton.
Much of our work and UFO case files from that era have been lost along the way but some information does still exist. In the early days of YUFOS we printed the small publication the YUFOS JOURNAL.What I would like to do is to re-publish an article written by mark Birdsall which featured in the May 1983 YUFOS JOURNAL – VOLUME 2 Number 2.
YUFOS Volume 1
The Following article by Mark Birdsall shows exactly what I have been talking about and will hopefully give you some idea of what we were dealing with at the time.
The Case For North Yorkshire:
During the last 24 months we have received no fewer than 30 reports of unusual objects observed in North Yorkshire. We have on record, reports of objects coming within 50ft of experienced police officers. In fact we have been able to collect a number-of UFO reports, and build a careful picture of what is really happening in North Yorkshire. But first let us look at the information these cases contain. It is only fair to point out that a very large percentage .of sightings are made from experienced police officers. We have signed statements from many o£ the officers and all lead us to believe, that without a shadow of doubt, something unusual is taking place in and around the moors of North Yorkshire. However, through careful” research there are as many as 90% of the cases we cannot explain. We could state that it might have been a helicopter, or an aircraft. We cannot overlook who are making the observations.
From left: Mark Birdsall, Graham Birdsall and Philip Mantle at the Yorkshire UFO Society conference in 1985. (Credit: Philip Mantle)
Every possible cause for the sighting of an UFO has to be examined. The area, the description, weather conditions etc.But after researching all of these possibilities we cannot give a viable explanation. Many people then came forward to offer a possible answer. We again examined these, but even as objective researchers we must rule out these. For the reports we have, “contain diagrams and information, which if authentic (and we have no doubts that they are) leads .us to believe that, there is something highly unusual being observed in North Yorkshire. In fact there have been times when we have not been able to grasp the enormity of the situation we have found ourselves in. Is it coincidence that our only photographic evidence came from North Yorkshire, and as yet, has eluded all possible attempts by experts to conclude the photograph explainable hoax etc? Can we reach the position when we can confidently state, that all the information, statements, and photographic evidence is explainable; the answer must be NO.
If we now turn to the collection of reports we have assembled for this publication. On the map, vie have eight positions o It would be impossible to print all our ·cases, so we have selected these complete with diagrams and drawings. The area is proximately 3 miles by 2. The prominent lines across the map are other sightings, relating to the direction in which these objects were seen.
Sighting 1:
The information behind this sighting has yet to be released, however. This particular object was observed by a policeman and a member of the public. At approximately 12.30am both people noticed a large ball of light moving very slowly in their direction. The object was slightly yellowish in colour and was approximately 500ft above the ground. At this moment both persons noticed an aircraft possibly 20,000ft heading in, and over the UFO. At this precise moment the object moved off its original course and after seemingly heading towards the witnesses, altered its course. The object was now parallel to the observers, and it was at this moment one of the witnesses trained his binoculars on the yellow mass. He could clearly see that the yellow ‘oval was in fact the front of a large cigar shape. A red light which had been hidden by the yellow glow was now defined through, use of the binoculars. It was on the side of the object, yet the witness mentioned the red light slowly moved closer to the main yellow light. One can note the comparison in size to the yellow light. Also note the dark area on the underside of the main body of the object. As the object moved slowly away from the witnesses, a ‘small band of yellow lights’ flashed across the centre of the object, giving the impression that the UFO was revolving.The sighting lasted approximately 2 minutes.
Sighting 2:
This very detailed description was given, again by police officers from North Yorkshire. At approximately 5.20 am on Oct 24th, 1982, three police officers who had just 5 minutes earlier observed at close range an array of circular lights noticed a bright strip of light moving very close to the policemen’s original position. (The officers had tried to follow the circular of lights and had driven down the hill a few hundred yards). The object was crescent shaped, and although very bright it did not give off a beam. The UFO moved directly over the officers and one officer commented “it was so low you could have thrown a rock at it”.The object was in fact, just 75-100ft above their heads. At this point the full, length of light intensified, but again did not give off a beam. There are two points to make note of at no time during the sighting was any sound a heard, and notably, an array of red and white lights was clearly around the perimeter (underside) of the object.
Sighting 3:
Illustration of sighting by MODO.
As mentioned in the last report (sighting 2), this particular sighting was made 5 minutes earlier than the object witnessed is sighting 2. However the officers did not see the UFO approach, nor did they hear any sound. One policeman just looked up into the dark sky and observed the lights slowly moving over their patrol car. The officers state the object was very low. Is it conceivable that the officers had made an error in their observation? Three men, so close to an object they could clearly define, the answer must again be no, even to more objective or sceptical researchers. We now turn our attention to a member of the public, who along with his family experienced a terrifying encounter.
Sighting 4:
Illustration of sighting by MODO.
Mr. X and his family were traveling along the road that leaves the village of Carlton near Skipton. The road rises up and over the moors near Elslack. The family were heading for the supermarket in Colne, a journey they made once a week. They had reached an are known as Standrise Plantation, Mr X then looked through his mirror and noticed 2 coloured balls of light (red & green) moving closer to the car. The balls then buzzed’ the family before moving level with the car. The balls then started to pace the car. The objects themselves were no larger than footballs and both were situated on either side of the car. They continued to fly alongside the car at window height. The occupants in the car became extremely frightened; Mr X was now finding it very hard to keep the car under control. Mrs X was shouting at her husband to turn the car round and return home. The two children were now screaming with fright, and their pet dog was cowering in the back seat. The dog then tried to get beneath the footwell in the car. Mr X had, had enough, he turned the car around and headed back home, the balls of light, also decided to turn around and follow the car. The lights again tracked the family for a short while, before disappearing. Mr X and his family returned home in a very poor state, and since the incident took place, they have not travelled along the moors again.
Skywatching on Carleton moor. (Credit: Dave Atkins)
They use a road which takes them around the area. This particular incident took place in March 1980, and again we cannot find a plausible explanation. The investigator of this case was Alwyn Rogers and he made an interesting comment when typing the report up. He pointed out that Mr X was finding it difficult to control his car was the caused by fright or outside interference? Most members will remember the encounter involving Mrs X, at Coniston Cutting, although the case has almost ended due to circumstances which we are not in the position to control. It is hoped that one day we will be able to start the case moving again. Due to the fact that every member has detailed knowledge of this case, I will just present the outlying factors. Mrs X was followed by a small cluster of lights, shortly after she had left her mothers home. Although she could not define the object which was following her, she was adamant it was not a vehicle. Although at first she mentioned in the report, ‘that she felt· the lorry was taking a long time to overtake her.’ The lights were pacing the car and then she noticed a beam of light strike the side of the car from above her. The incident occurred in March 1982, and as most members are aware our investigation led us to use hypnotic regression for the first ·time. Mrs X had lost approximately 40 minutes on her journey home from her mother’s house in Morecambe. During the investigation, many efforts were made to explain the missing minutes; as yet the loss of such a large amount of time remains a mystery, not only to us, but also to the witness.
Scenic view from Carleton moor.
We are totally convinced that the initial report and information received is true, however we cannot possibly state that the information which we received .through the regression is fact. Again we have a case which involves a high degree of strangeness, and again in North Yorkshire.
Sightings 5 & 6:
Moving to sightings which most researchers would class as nocturnal lights. We have had no fewer than 60 reports of these objects. And I stress the word object. For I myself have observed them on no fewer than three occasions. These objects are quite clearly oval and circular depending on the angle they are viewed at. A number of investigators have seen these particular objects at close range. Sceptics pour .scorn on these sightings and declare them nothing more than· helicopters or aircraft. I agree that probably a number of sightings are explainable. But through careful research we find that on no occasion has any sound ever been heard, and also the majority of these objects are traveling just 400 feet above the ground. Many of the witnesses state that the object seemed to be following the contours of the moors.
Carleton moors.
Would it be conceivable to find aircraft flying at such a dangerous height? One must also note the speed of these objects, most observers’ state that they were traveling at speeds of no more than 40 – 50 mph. One interesting case involving one of these objects occurred in November last year. Two witnesses were on moors near Carlton, when they noticed a bright yellow light moving slowly over the hills. The approximate height of the object was 400ft. Both witnesses then observed an aeroplane heading towards the object (20,000ft). The object then changed course and moved behind a nearby hill. The witnesses watched the aeroplane move quickly out of sight. They were then amazed to see the yellow ball of light move from behind the hillside and continue its silent journey across the moors. These particular sightings are difficult to assess, and the in formation which they contain is limited. A comment by the witnesses who see these objects repeats it’ self throughout the statements made by the witnesses, this is, that on· no occasion did the observer see any other lights. Or in fact a solid body beneath the· glow however if we return to object one on the diagrams, the witnesses state that until they observed the object with binoculars they could see only the brilliant yellow glow. It would seem that the intense light .of the object distorted the actual shape; however this all remains conjecture at the moment.
Sighting 7:
Illustration of sighting by MODO.
One of the most spectacular sightings we have on record is this observation made by two North Yorkshire police officers. This sighting occurred on the moors just East of Cononley. The time was 3.20 am when both officers noticed an extremely bright light moving directly towards their position. No definition could be seen and the UFO moved directly over their position. The height of the object was approximately 200ft it was then that the object turned slightly to one side· (tilted). The officers were startled with regard to the actual shape and size of the object. Both· men estimated the length of the object to be approximately 100ft. The entire object was glowing and the lower ‘skirt’ was revolving. Three large balls on the underside could clearly be seen. ‘Portholes’ which were darker than the rest of the object were also seen. From an objective point of view, this case is almost too good to believe. But we have no doubts whatsoever regarding the information in this report, that the officers did in fact observe an unusual craft. It would be difficult not to relate such a ·detailed account if the object passed over your head at just 200feet. Many similarities have been made with the ‘Adamski’ photographs; however the witnesses state the object they observed appeared more streamlined than the alleged photographs taken by George Adamski. In any event, serious investigators do· not lay much foundation with regard to Adamski ‘s claims. However; critics would find it very difficult to try and explain to the officers involved with this sighting, that what they had observed was an IFO.
Sighting 8:
Illustration of sighting by MODO.
One of the most famous UFO cases in Britain was the Livingston close encounter, in Scotland. The witness (Robert Taylor) was apparently ‘attacked’ by two circular spiked objects. These small objects have led researchers to drawn up similarities with this sighting and the Livingstone incident. Three witnesses observed a small object zig – zagging across Elslack Moor. A series of rods and white lights could. Be seen revolving around the small body of the 0bject. It was approximately 4ft above the ground. They then noticed a beam of light being emitted from the underside directly onto the ground. At one point the object came within 50ft of the witnesses. Due to the circumstances which were about to follow we feel this object was in some way connected to the objects which were observed a few minutes later. We did send a ground team to the area, and one or two marks were noticed, but it would be difficult to relate them to this sighting. All we can say is that they were quite similar to marks found in the ground with regard to the Livingston case.
Illustration of sighting by MODO.
In this study we have just scraped the surface on the information which our case files contain. But our attention has been drawn to the area, not just because of the amount of sightings, but also the high strangeness of the cases.
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I have to say that I personally remember many of these sightings being reported to us at YUFOS and I also participated in the research and investigation of some of them. There is no doubt in my mind that many of them still remain unexplained. Carlton moor and surrounding areas near Skipton in North Yorkshire was a hot bed for UFO sightings. In those days it was termed a ‘window area’ while today you might call it a ‘portal’. I prefer window area personally. Our research also uncovered UFO sighting in the area going back decades so one this was for sure and that was that the wave of sightings in the area in the 1980’s was nothing new.
To be actively involved in UFO investigations during this time period was the ideal apprenticeship for any would-b UFO enthusiast and I consider myself to be very fortunate to have been there at the time. There was a period that we had more sightings reported that we could handle.
Of course all things must come to an end and YUFOS did but Graham went on with his brother Mark to publish UFO MAGAZINE and stage many highly successful UFO conference the like of which have not been seen again since Graham’s untimely death. I just hope I’m still around when the next ‘flap’ occurs around the moors above Skipton as I am in no doubt it will happen one day.
A California witness at Moorpark reported watching an odd object with cloaking abilities with the words “USAF 003” on its tail stabilizer, according to testimony in Case 84601 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration 1.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was sitting in a restaurant drive-thru lane at 11:24 a.m. on June 25, 2017, when the incident occurred.
“Looking right at it, my eyes hurt to look at it,” the witness stated. “It is using some kind of neural confusion. It was like trying to look at a needle coming at your eye. It gave off some type of electrical interference, and seemed to rotate radially even though it was stationary. It looked big enough to hold one or two people.”
But the witness stated that there were letters and numbers on the object that were readable.
“I could see very clearly on the tail stabilizer, USAF 003, in white paint. There were bright, silver fixtures and they had solid beacon lights that were white. The tail moved independent of the fuselage. There was a cockpit windscreen/canopy. It was non-reflective, silver material, that had a very odd indentation. It looked like a cookie sheet with a larger section around it to extend it, like a top hat.”
Witness illustration 2.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness seemed to think that the object was cloaking itself.
“The electrical interference seemed to pick up. It disturbed another one just like it in formation next to it and I could see an illusion effect and then nothing as the cloak reengaged and they were gone. There was an inaudible, pulse-like concussion as well. I said, ‘holy (blank)’ and it went over the microphone to the drive-thru guy, and he said, ‘hold on.’ And it definitely changed the electromagnetism around us. Something felt off. The air was empty. It felt like a rug had been pulled out from underneath the air. It’s hard to explain. They were about 400 feet above the 118 overpass in Moorpark, California. I swear by this statement and its truth. The metal looked old, and was matte-like. It did not pick up light like high gloss paint. I’ve been going through books since I came home. It’s good to know it’s us that has this stuff.”
Witness illustration 3.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness included three illustrations with the report, which was filed on June 25, 2017. California MUFON Field Investigator Rick Browman is investigating. Moorpark is a city in Ventura County in Southern California, population 34,421. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
THE AUTHOR BEGAN HEARING THE SOUND AT NIGHT, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 10 AND 11 P.M. 'STREET' VIA WWW.SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
In the spring of 2012, en I was living near the coastal village of Sechelt, on British Columbia’s picturesque Sunshine Coast, I began hearing a humming sound, which I thought were float planes.
The noise usually started later at night, between 10 and 11 p.m. My first clue that something unusual was happening came with the realization that the sound didn’t fade away, like plane noises typically do. And the slightest ambient noise – exhaling audibly, even turning my head quickly – caused it to momentarily stop. One night after the sound started I stepped outside the house. Nothing.
I was the only person in the house who could hear it; my family said they didn’t know what I was talking about.
Naturally, I assumed something in the house was the culprit, and I searched for the source in vain. I even ended up cutting the power to the entire house. The sound got louder.
While I couldn’t hear the sound outdoors, I could still hear it in my car at night with the windows closed and the ignition off. I drove for miles in every direction, and it was still there in the background when I stopped the car. I was able to rule out obvious sources: industrial activity, marine traffic, electric substations and highway noise.
When I searched on the internet for “unusual low-frequency humming noise,” I soon realized that others had conducted the same search. I was part of the small fraction of people who can hear what is called the “Worldwide Hum” or, simply, the “Hum.”
The questions motivating me and thousands of others were the same: “What’s causing this? Can it be stopped?”
One Geoscientist’s Theory
The classic description of the Hum is that it sounds like a truck engine idling. For some, it’s a distant rumbling or droning noise. It can start and stop suddenly or wax and wane over time. For others, the Hum is loud, relentless and life-altering.
I eventually came across one of the few serious papers on the topic. It was written in 2004 by geoscientist David Deming (who’s also a Hum hearer).
Deming began by describing the standard history: The Hum was first documented in the late 1960s, around Bristol, England. It first appeared in the United States in the late 1980s, in Taos, New Mexico.
He then examined the competing hypotheses for the source of the Hum. Many have pointed to the electric grid or cellphone towers. But this theory is dismissed on two grounds: cellphones didn’t exist in the 1960s, and the frequency emitted by both cell towers and the electric grid can be easily blocked by metal enclosures.
He wondered whether mass hysteria was to blame, a psychological phenomenon in which rumor and “collective delusions” lead to the appearance of physical ailments for which there’s no medical explanation. The fact that so many people have researched the Hum on their own, using a search engine – rather than hearing about it from some other person – moves the conversation away from delusion and hysteria spread by word of mouth.
Some have dismissed cellphone towers as a potential source.
Deming looked at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), an isolated military compound in Alaska that uses radio waves to study outer space and for testing advanced communication techniques – and a favorite focus of conspiracy theorists, who have accused the facility of acts ranging from mind control to weather control. He studied the possibility of otoacoustic emissions, which are naturally occurring sounds caused by the vibration of hair cells in the ear.
Deming eventually fingered Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio waves (between 3 kHz and 30 kHz) as the most likely culprit. The world’s military powers use massive land-based and airborne transmitters on these frequencies in order to communicate with submerged submarines. Radio waves at these frequencies can penetrate up to a solid inch of aluminum.
In the paper, Deming proposes a simple and elegant experiment for testing this hypothesis. Hum hearers randomly enter three identical-looking boxes. The first box blocks VLF radio signals, the second box is an anechoic (soundproof) chamber and the third box is the control.
He left the experiment for others to pursue, and while there are some practical difficulties with the design, Deming’s overall concept has motivated the experiments I am currently conducting.
A Disciplined Inquiry Begins
A plethora of pseudoscience and wild conspiracy theories has the potential to drown out the serious work in this area. I’ve encountered seemingly serious people who have argued that the Hum is caused by tunneling under the earth, the electronic targeting of specific individuals, aliens and mating fish.
Given the need for disciplined inquiry into the phenomenon, in late 2012 I started The World Hum Map and Database Project. The database gathers, documents and maps detailed and anonymous information from people who can hear the Hum. It provides raw data for research in a strictly moderated and serious forum for research and commentary, while providing a sense of community for people whose lives have been negatively affected by the Hum.
Most people have some experience with how disruptive some types of noises can be, which is why there are often noise ordinances in many cities and towns, especially at night. There are many sufferers who dread the nighttime because of how loud and relentless the Hum can be. The Hum database is replete with descriptions of desperate people who have been tormented by the noise for years. The phrase “driving me crazy” is all too common. (I feel fortunate that, in my case, the Hum is more of a curiosity than it is an irritant.)
The project also aims to validate and normalize the phenomenon by discussing it alongside other widely reported auditory phenomena, such as tinnitus, a relatively common medical condition that causes people to hear high-pitched squealing tones. Those who experience tinnitus and also the Hum report the two as being completely different in character.
The latest update of the Hum Map, from June 6, presents roughly 10,000 map and data points, and we’ve already made some notable findings.
For example, we’ve found that the mean and median age of Hum hearers is 40.5 years, and 55 percent of hearers are men. This goes against the widely repeated theory that the Hum mainly affects middle-aged and older women.
Interestingly, there are eight times as many ambidextrous people among hearers as there are in the general population. As more data are collected from Hum hearers, I hope that specialists in demographics and inferential statistics will be able to generate more detailed results.
The Goals Of The Research
The historical record of the Hum is crucial, because if the current version as narrated by Deming is correct, many theories can immediately be ruled out. After all, cellphones and HAARP didn’t exist until decades after the Worldwide Hum was first documented in England in the late 1960s. I currently have a researcher digging into the Times of London digital archive to search for mentions of the Hum going back to the 18th and 19th centuries. If convincing examples are found, then the direction of my research will shift dramatically because all modern technologies could be ruled out.
In my view, there are currently four hypotheses for the source of the world Hum that survive the most superficial scrutiny.
The first hypothesis – argued by Deming and the one I’m currently pursuing – is that the Hum is rooted in Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio transmissions. It’s increasingly accepted now that the human body will sometimes experience electromagnetic (EM) energy and interpret it in a way that creates sounds. This was established for high-frequency EM energy by the American neuroscientist Alan Frey in his infamous “microwave hearing” experiments, which showed that certain radio frequencies can actually be heard as sounds.
Today, there are biophysical models that predict and explain the impact VLF EM energy has on living tissue. I have designed and built a VLF radio blocking box that should be able to test whether VLF radio frequencies are a prerequisite for generating the Hum.
The second hypothesis is that the Hum is the grand accumulation of low-frequency sound and human-generated infrasound (sounds with audio frequencies below roughly 20 Hz and which can be felt more than they can be heard). This includes everything from highway noise to all manner of industrial activity.
The third is that the Hum is a terrestrial or geological phenomenon that generates low-frequency sounds or perceptions of those sounds. For example, there is a well-documented history of animals predicting earthquakes and taking action to save themselves. From an evolutionary perspective, there may be survival value in having members of a population highly sensitive to some types of vibrations. When it comes to the Hum, some humans may have a similar physiological mechanism in place.
The fourth is that the Hum is an internally generated phenomenon, perhaps rooted in a particular anatomical variation, genetic predisposition or the result of toxicity and medication.
The Hum is now the subject of serious media coverage and, increasingly, scientific scrutiny. The overall goal of my project and the people who contribute to it is to find the source of the Hum and, if possible, stop it.
If the Hum is man-made, then my task is to raise public awareness and advocate turning away from the technologies that are causing it. If the source is exogenous and natural, there’s the possibility that there may be no escape from it, apart from masking it with background sounds.
Of course there is the remote possibility that one of the more exotic explanations will prove to be correct. But, as in all science, it seems best to start with what we know and is plausible, as opposed to what we don’t know and is implausible.
Our world is a noisy place. Everywhere we go there is a veritable cacophony of noise pervading our surroundings, ranging from the sound of civilization, with its factories, construction, airplanes, and myriad vehicles with their roaring engines and speaking their language of honks and beeps, to the natural sounds of the wind, animals, and the earth’s various activities. Even in the realm of things we cannot physically hear there is noise, with the atmosphere saturated by all manner of low-frequency sounds both artificial and natural, as well as the countless waves and transmissions that give us our radio, TV shows, satellite information, and cell phone usage. Yet even beyond this there seems to be something more creeping about in the background, some ill-defined and persistent noise that only some can hear and which remains unexplained.
What has come to be mostly referred to as simply “The Hum,” or sometimes “The Worldwide Hum,” is a blanket term for a series of mysterious, inexplicable auditory phenomena that has emerged all across the world, and which typically entails a low frequency, persistent bass droning or rumbling noise, heard both indoors and outdoors and with no readily identifiable source or origin. It has been described as sounding like different things by different people, but a common description is that it sounds rather like an idling truck or industrial fan, and can vary in intensity from a general low bass background grumble to an invasive, ear piercing symphony of noise, depending on the person and location. This hum is most typically reported from rural or sparsely populated areas, but not always, and it is usually most noticeable in the evening hours, although this also depends on the person hearing it.
It is difficult to track down just when the phenomenon started, but it has apparently been around since at least the 1940s, when hundreds of people in the London and Southampton areas of Great Britain complained of a noticeable drone, and probably since much earlier. The 1950s and 1960s also saw the hum become widely publicized in the news and entering the public consciousness with various other reports from all over Great Britain, and in the 1970s there was a veritable media circus over the odd, persistent sound in Bristol, England, where complaints flooded in when many residents reported hearing it. The phenomenon would continue in Great Britain into the 1980s, where it was widely heard by residents in Largs, Scotland, a coastal town about 31 km west of Glasgow.
The Hum made perhaps its most famous debut in North America in 1992, when people in and around the town of Taos, New Mexico, began to report the sound, which has since become known as the “Taos Hum” and is probably the most well-known location for the phenomenon. The Hum also appeared in the United States in Kokomo, Indiana, in 1999, where it seems to have had a particularly potent effect, allegedly causing various negative physical symptoms such as headaches, nausea, dizziness, fatigue, and joint pain, to the point that many who heard it purportedly moved away to escape it. An in-depth investigation into the source of the Kokomo Hum by the Board of Public Works and Safety could not determine exactly what caused it. In the years since, the Hum has gone on to be reported from numerous other locations from all over the world, in such far-flung places as Italy, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico, among others, to the point where an attempt to chart the phenomena, called The World Hum Database and Mapping Project, was launched in 2012, containing a huge database of hum reports and locations all over the planet.
The hum phenomenon cannot be heard by everyone, and it has been estimated through studies in the U.S. and Great Britain that only about 2 percent of the population are actually susceptible to it, both male and female and usually those of middle age or older. For those who do hear it, often referred to as “Hummers,” the description of the hum is often very similar, and it is claimed that earplugs do nothing to stop the relentless drone or reduce its volume in any way. Although the description of the sound itself is mostly consistent, the situations in which these people can hear the sound can vary, for instance with some hearing it more often indoors while others are more prone to picking it up outdoors, and some hearing it more at night while others are affected only during the day. The volume and intensity of the Hum can vary between individuals as well, with some only faintly picking it up as an annoying but harmless static of sorts, while for others it can be absolutely blaring and some even reporting feeling it vibrate through their bodies or homes.
For the people who are very sensitive to the noise, it can supposedly be a deeply unsettling, life-altering experience; a nightmare in a sense. It can apparently cause a wealth of symptoms, ranging from ear pain, headaches, nosebleeds, and nausea, to more debilitating problems such as fainting or chronic pain in various parts of the body. It also allegedly alters emotional states, causes memory loss, impaired speech, and diminishes overall energy levels. The Hum has caused people to do drastic things, like sell their homes and move away, quit their jobs, spiral into depression, and in some extreme cases has even driven people to suicide. One sufferer named Hugh Witherington began to hear the Hum upon moving away from his home of London, England, to the quiet countryside of Hertfordshire, and has been continuously terrorized by it ever since, explaining it thus:
It sounded like a lorry had stopped outside my window and left its engine idling. No amount of exposure ever gets me used to it. It stops me from thinking, even now. I cannot accept it.
Another example of a sufferer whose life has been deeply affected by The Hum, 46-year-old Rosemarie Mann, of Romsey, England, claims that she is so plagued by the potent and nonstop noise that it has profoundly changed her life in the worst of ways. She says that it had dragged her down into depression, for which she now takes medication, diminished her will to live, and has strained her marriage. It is something she has to wrestle with every day, and she has said of the harrowing experience:
I can only describe it as a kind of torture. For the first few years I lost sleep, couldn’t concentrate and was unable to do anything. I was constantly in tears, which put a great strain on my husband. It has changed me from an active, creative person to a stifled, angry pessimist. The Hum still has a terrible draining effect. It is the invasiveness and relentlessness of the noise and having no understanding or control of it which makes it so distressing.
There have been numerous theories on what The Hum could be, ranging from the rational to the truly outlandish. One of the simplest explanations that has been offered is that these people are suffering from a fairly common condition called tinnitus, which is a perceived noise or ringing in the ears with no external cause and which can be caused by factors as varied as noise induced deafness, ear infections, head injuries, or mental conditions such as emotional stress or depression. The problem with this is that Hummers are adamant that the noise is produced externally, also saying that it is a much different sound than tinnitus, and furthermore the hum seems to be generally heard in clusters tied to certain locations.
Similar to this theory is that The Hum could be the result of various internal physical or mental causes which are causing some sort of auditory hallucinations, or perhaps it is caused by medication or toxins. The hum has also been speculated to perhaps be the result of sudden noises generated by our own inner ears, called “spontaneous otoacoustic emissions.” It has also been suggested that the hum is merely all in these people’s heads and that it is a combination of over-imagining and mass hysteria or mass delusion fueled by the Internet. In this scenario, these people are just imagining it all, or are having their senses and perceptions colored by what they have read about the mysterious Worldwide Hum.
There is also the widespread idea that The Hum is caused by some mechanical source, such as cooling towers, industrial plants, ventilator fans, generators, and so on. While this may be true in some cases, and has even been shown as such in some instances, in others The Hum has persisted even when such factors were eliminated, and additionally in many cases the sound has not been successfully tracked down to any particular mechanical source. Another manmade potential cause for The Hum put forward has been electrical grids or cell phone towers, but even if these are the origin in some more modern cases, cell towers were not around when the hum phenomenon started taking off. Also, even if the cause is somehow mechanical in nature it still does not explain why only a small percentage of human beings even seem to be affected by the hum, and to varying degrees.
Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio transmissions (between 3 kHz and 30 kHz), could also be the answer to the phenomenon, especially as it has been surmised that the human body can sometimes register electromagnetic waves as actual sounds. It could also be the result of any number of low or ultra-low frequency sounds or infrasound, those just on the threshold of human hearing, either human generated or by natural phenomena such as earthquakes or other seismic activity, and volcanic or tectonic plate activity, as well as pressure waves reverberating across the seafloor. Another natural source that has been proposed is that the sound is caused by the mating calls of certain species of fish, but in most cases any significant drone caused by this requires a boat hull to amplify it, and it has been argued that these sounds on their own would be insufficient to be a convincing candidate. With any of these explanations, we are still faced with the apparent fact that only some people can hear it.
If there is such a mundane cause for The Hum, then it seems fairly clear that whatever it is mostly likely stems from a combination of all of these, depending on the person, place, and the situation, with no one theory fitting every case. Of course with a phenomenon as mysterious and still largely unexplained as The Hum, there are certainly more far-out theories floating around as well. For some The Hum is indicative of a deep dark, government conspiracy complete with secret, shadowy experiments, mind-control devices, and cover-ups. Some have suggested that it is even a secret weapon utilizing focused ultra-low frequency waves and perched upon a satellite, which can beam down to target individuals or groups of people. For others it is the result of someone or something tunneling through the earth. There are also, of course, aliens. Why not? Still others claim that this is just something that originates in forces that currently lie outside of our understanding, but which we may someday fathom.
One of the problems posing an obstacle to coming to any real answers with the Worldwide Hum is that there have only been a handful of people who have ever tried to seriously study it, and those who have claimed to have experienced it are still largely dismissed and thought to be just “hearing things,” even as the number of reports and complaints from such people has been steadily increasing in recent years. Those who have looked into the problem with open eyes have been unable to come to a clear conclusion that can totally explain the breadth of the phenomenon. They simply don’t know what causes it or why it happens. It seems to be for now a strange phenomenon that is doomed to be just an anomaly that we may never fully understand, and that those who hear it will most likely just have to deal with it, to live with the incessant drone echoing through their head, possibly without ever knowing just exactly what it is they are hearing.
What is at the heart of the Worldwide Hum phenomena? Is this the result of artificial or natural frequencies or phenomena that some people are just more inclined to be sensitive to, or maybe some effect that we have yet to come to a clear understanding of? Is it some sort of radio waves or electromagnetic or sonic interference? Is it secret government experiments or weapons, aliens, or something more paranormal in nature? Perhaps at some point we will have more of an idea of what lies behind this strange background noise that seems to permeate some locations throughout the world and unravel its mysteries, but until then it will rumble on with its origin and purpose unknown.
BOER UIT ARIZONA, USA, IN HEFTIGE STRIJD GEWIKKELD MET GRAY ALIENS ( VIDEO )
BOER UIT ARIZONA, USA, IN HEFTIGE STRIJD GEWIKKELD MET GRAY ALIENS ( VIDEO )
Op een grote ranch in Arizona ziet men aliens liever gaan dan komen, want de ervaringen die men daar tot nu toe heeft met deze entiteiten zijn niet echt prettig.
Boer John Edmonds heeft genoeg van deze wezens die zijn dieren aanvallen en verwonden en gaat ze te lijf met een Samoerai zwaard.
Via een lezer (dank!) werden wij opmerkzaam gemaakt op een bijzonder verhaal.
Het begint bij een interview in 2015 van Project Camelot met een boer uit Arizona, John Edmonds.
In dat gesprek claimt John dat zijn ranch in Rainbow Valley waar hij met zijn vrouw woont, is geïnfiltreerd door Gray aliens. Deze vallen zijn dieren aan en richten nog meer ander kwaad ook aan. Edmonds zegt dat hij acht van die Grays heeft gedood door hen te doorboren met een Samoerai zwaard. Wanneer hij ze doorsteekt met dat zwaard, dan verdwijnen ze, dus wordt het een moeilijke zaak om te bewijzen dat hij deze Gray’s heeft gedood. Wel zegt hij te beschikken over hun lichaamsvloeistoffen en heeft deze laten onderzoeken. Daaruit blijkt ontegenzeggelijk dat ze “niet van deze wereld zijn” en niet menselijk.
In de volgende video de hoogtepunten uit dat eerste interview dat in totaal ongeveer twee en een half uur in beslag nam.
Vrij snel na dit interview kwam er een update op de site van Project Camelot met enkele foto’s die zouden zijn genomen op de ranch van Edmonds.
Deze zegt dat degene die de foto’s heeft genomen honderd procent betrouwbaar is en dat de beelden echt zijn. Hij zegt verder niet te weten of deze Gray’s daar echt rondliepen op dat moment of dat het een soort hologrammen waren omdat hij daar op de ranch acht van hen heeft gedood.
Hoe dan ook, de foto’s zijn echt.
Tijdens een ander interview enige tijd later gebeurde er ook iets bijzonders zoals te zien in de volgende korte clip.
John Edmonds zit voor de camera te praten via Skype, terwijl er een Gray om de hoek komt kijken.
Kerry Cassidy van Project Camelot vond het verhaal dermate interessant dat ze besloot om zelf een bezoek te brengen aan de ranch.
Tijdens dat bezoek filmde de crew de volgende UFO boven de ranch.
Een fascinerend verhaal over vortexen, verminkte dieren, het doden van Grays en nog veel meer.
A man claimed to have spotted two large UFOs in the sky above Chelmsford. The unnamed resident allegedly saw the objects over Manor Road where he resides on Monday afternoon, July 17.
According to the witness, the two UFOs were in different shapes, which were first spotted by a group of people outside the city centre. The reporting witness said he saw a small group of passersby looking up in the sky from his garden. He also looked up and saw two large objects in the air.
The UFOs were reportedly black underneath and quite big and high up. They were allegedly kind of rolling over and over in the air.
The reporting witness first thought they were giant balloons, but later realised that they should not move like the UFOs. His second thought was bits of plastic, but the UFOs were moving faster than the wind. He stated that one of the strange objects was a cylinder shape and the other one was longer. He also did not think that they were aeroplanes.
The witness rushed inside to get his camera, but when he came back outside, the UFOs had moved further away, but he still managed to get a few snaps.
The witness added that the two mysterious aerial objects appeared to be nearly linked together as they kept at around the same distance apart the entire time.
The witness watched them moved into the distance towards the cricket ground and lost sight of them.
The Government Cover Up Case: UFO Disabled 10 US Nukes in Silos
The Government Cover Up Case: UFO Disabled 10 US Nukes in Silos
Fifty years of fabricated alien sightings faked cover-ups, and false alien abductions have discredited the aliens in the individuals’ mind, to the extent that when the real ones appear, may be neglected. In fact, the brainwashing activity of the masses was so successful that if an actual alien spacecraft were to come forward, and then hover directly on top of the skies, they would succeed in explaining it as a secret experiment or any other usual objects.
In past times, people were burned at stake for merely believing in the existence of extraterrestrial life. Today, there seems to be less burning at stake, but other than that, nothing has significantly changed. Then, as now, extraterrestrial intelligence remains an obstacle for war-minded humans. It is normal for the US government to take measures in protecting its military activities from all harm.
A former US Air Force captain revealed an extraordinary alien incident allegedly involving the destruction of the nuclear weapons. Captain David D Schindele used to be a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile launch crew commander working in the Minot Air Force Base missile field situated in North Dakota. The incident took place in December 1996 when he was at the launch control facility. He claims that extraterrestrials destroyed ten nuclear missiles, making them useless in the facility. He was in charge of the nuclear weapons. Days after the incident, it was reported that UFOs are seen in the area. Unfortunately, air force officials ordered him to mum about the incident, and beg to erase the incident from his memory.
He admitted that many of his colleagues experienced unearthly incidents at the Minuteman facilities, but they were all instructed to keep silent. He then decided to write a book after hearing similar incident encountered by another missileer. The rationale behind his exposure is the idea that there can be no moral, ethical, or crucial reason to keep the happening a secret from humankind.
His book is available at Amazon.com, and the proceeds will go to the Seattle Chapter of the Air Force Association.
Filer’s Files #30 – 2017 UFO the Greatest Story Ever - PART I
Strange object over New Jersey on July 16, 2017
Filer’s Files #30 – 2017 UFO the Greatest Story Ever - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Alaska UFO Encounter, UFO the Greatest Story Ever Denied, Manta Ray Sounds, Flying Wing ‘Airship “STINGRAY, Mars Dome, Battlebury Hill Crop Circle, Angel and Alien Healings, and 2017: The Most Dangerous Year to Poke the Russian Bear
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Peru, Turkey, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The 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 Projects
Alaska UFO Encounter
Veteran Japan Airlines 747 Capt. Kenju Terauchi reported a spectacular prolonged encounter over Alaska in 1986. “Most unexpectedly, two space ships stopped in front of our face, shooting off lights,” he said. “The inside cockpit shined brightly and I felt warm in the face.” Despite the Federal Aviation Administration’s determination, that he and his crew were stable, competent and professional, he was grounded for speaking out. Several radar stations in Alaska confirmed the sighting. Captain Terauchi the pilot of the JAL 747 was featured on numerous radio and TV programs and in People Magazine. Within a few months of these events, he was grounded although retained by the airline, apparently for his indiscretion of reporting a UFO, even though he was a senior captain with an excellent flying record.
John Callahan, former division chief of the Accidents and Investigations Branch of the FAA, reported on FAA documentation and subsequent CIA suppression of the Terauchi encounter over Alaska. I and 20 other government and military witnesses at a National Press Club briefing to challenge official secrecy about this subject joined Callahan.
John Callahan states, “I was the Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations Branch of the FAA in Washington DC for six years. This particular incident started with a phone call from the people in Alaska who said, “Well, it’s that UFO. That was bouncing around the 747 here”…FAA Administrator, Admiral Engen, told me to attend a briefing the next day where the FBI, CIA, President Reagan’s Scientific Study Team, as well as others attended. When we gave the presentation to the Reagan staff, they had all those people swear that this never happened. I have been involved in many cover-ups with the FAA, but they never had me swear it never happened….
For those people who say that if these UFOs existed, they would someday be on radar and that there’d be professionals who would see it, and then I can tell them that back in 1986, there were enough professional people that saw it. I’ve got a videotape. I have the voice tape. And, I have the reports that were filed that will confirm what I’ve been telling you. In 1986, a huge UFO followed Japanese Airlines 747 flight for 31 minutes over the Alaskan skies. The UFO also trailed a United Airlines flight until the flight landed. There was visual confirmation as well as airborne and ground-based radar confirmation.” Thanks to the Disclosure Project
UFO the Greatest Story Ever Denied with Study of Alternative Realities (SOAR)
This stunning film documentary is 1 3/4 hours. The official denial and the ridicule began in 1942 with the Battle of Los Angeles, where a UFO was fired upon by our military that could not bring it down. This excellent Jose Escamilla film brings an end to over sixty years of official denial.
Somewhere in the back of your mind, you’ve always known it was true. Special Features: Trevor James Constable – Critter footage that has never been released for over fifty years that reveals entities that exist in the invisible Ultra-Violet spectrum. UFOs are not at all extraterrestrial spacecraft but animals comparable to giant amoeba or “critters” that “are built of matter of the etheric plane” or “plasmatic” and live in the skies of our planets. This was first proposed as a mere possibility by Charles Fort, but Constable went further by claiming that he had photographed these “sky animals” – flying among the “usual” flying saucers – using infrared film, exposed between dawn and sunrise in high, in “dry locales” that “will frequently objectify invisible objects of various kinds living in and passing through the atmosphere.”
Image Tampering – Learn what to look for and where to find structures on the Moon and Mars that have been hidden from you through deliberate tampering by NASA.
Moon – Mars Anomalies – A collection of photos containing highly unusual structures and other objects you aren’t supposed to know about.
Suppressed Inventions – UFO and other related technologies. Infra-Red UFO Footage – Featuring George Ritter’s Infra-Red footage.
Joe Foster writes, I can tell you a little something about this Disney movie from a personal perspective. I worked for a defense contractor that had one of the astronauts from STS-48 as its President and COO. This company was Air Force centric and was headquarted in Dayton, Ohio.
At minute 21 of the video, there are two short clips showing crew members getting ready to video “objects” viewed from shuttle windows in this now famous STS-48 mission (UFO video). The interesting thing about this particular video is that it corroborates something that was told to me by one of the astronauts in those clips (Col Mark Brown (USAF Ret).
He said, “There were “objects” (multiple) and the sighting(s) took place over a 20minute period”. The astronaut who mentioned this to me was the one with the large camera on his shoulder. He also mentioned that what was shown in the original video was not “frozen condensate droplets caught in the wash of one of the shuttle’s thrusters” (story NASA still clings to ). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9J3NbB6z8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUiA2k54_NY
Manta Ray Sounds
Dr. Bruce Cornet has just published another 22 minute video, this time on the various sounds the Manta Ray mystery craft produced during my 11 years of UFO investigation in the Wallkill River Valley between 1992 and 2003. During this field work I recorded on time exposure, video, and audio, with magnetometer readings, 23 sightings, giving me a range of flight patterns and performance capability. One thing is very clear: This craft is a flying projection platform that can produce various types of sounds, change sounds in passing, and travel silently. It can hover and defy gravity. It can project different types of images to different people on the ground, even people standing only three feet apart. That discovery was made during The Experiment, a website describing where the Manta Ray cooperated with John and me to answer my question of why Dr. Ellen Crystall and I were getting time exposures with slight but significant differences in light traces. Our photographs should have been identical.
During that period I was also given three holographic projections coming from a ship in the immediate area: A golden pyramid with a splay of light coming up through it (pyramid means light in middle); a holographic display or a vortex or solar system with binary suns (subject of a History Channel documentary in March 2008); and a green round temple positioned over a corn field with a golden light of another UFO above it (CORN ET). These projections are further proof of the purpose for and design of this craft as a magical flying projection machine, consistent with the investigations and findings of others such as Dr. Jacques Vallee in Messengers of Deception.
Dr. Bruce Cornet has sent some interesting sounds of craft he recorded over New York and New Jersey.
Regarding your audio recordings, C-5 and /or other heavy lifter turbine whine sound harmonics on most there. No fighter jet or afterburner running sounds. Sound of commercial type for last ‘Manta’. Is Interesting, especially the spotter type light rigging. Do any of the nearby bases or airports have a CIA or other experimental/intelligence gathering type unit based at them? And I would get ‘de-tagged’ if I were you. Thanks to White Eagle
From a New Paltz, NY, resident: Then you must be familiar with the underground hangers as well. My uncle worked at Stewart Air Force base from the early 60’s until the early ’80’s. He told me that it was to support Air Force aircraft. I never really knew of too many other people who really knew about this base. I know that as late as the early ’90’s it was a training ground for West Point and I believe the FBI trained there as well, but I always had my suspicions of what they were really doing out there and if those hangers were still in use. I have not spoken with my uncle in years about this place and have not en really thought about it until I saw your web site. Regards, Eagle
You can mention the now defunct Special Operations airbase west of Stewart AFB, and give two links to a web
An anomaly hunter studying NASA satellite images of Mars believes he may have found a pair of ancient structures on the Red Planet.
In a posting on YouTube which showcases the possible find, UK researcher Joe White highlights an intriguing crater that seems to sport some kind of circular dome-like oddity at its center as well as what appears to be a pyramid just a few hundred feet away.
The oddities were spotted via the Google Mars program which allows users to explore the Red Planet in a manner similar to their popular service that lets users look at areas all over Earth. White notes that the area where the potential structures were found is also a location that may be visited in the future by a Mars rover being sent to the planet as part of a joint mission by ESA and the Russian space agency.
To his credit, while the anomaly hunter argues that the ‘structures’ look artificial, White concedes that similar pronouncements have been proven wrong in the past when higher resolution images revealed that suspicious ‘domes’ inside craters were revealed to be sand dunes.
On that note, skeptics say that the newfound dome and pyramid are simply another case of pareidolia playing tricks on wishful anomaly hunters, albeit this particular case in unique in that White managed to find two ‘structures’ seemingly right next to each other. Source: Daily Mail
Battlebury Hill Crop Circle
This crop glyph at Battlebury Hill is spectacular. Steven Clementson in the U.K. made me aware of this recent development on 5 July. He included an image (attached) showing how this glyph matches the Celtic “shield knot” and the sacred Cosmati Pavements. I would like to add that the loops are like what the craft produced with their lights in 1992-1994. See attached UFO loops, discussed on my Transformation 1992 YouTube video.
This crop glyph at Battlebury Hill is spectacular. Steven Clementson in the U.K. made me aware of this recent development on 5 July. He included an image (attached) showing how this glyph matches the Celtic “shield knot” and the sacred Cosmati Pavements. I would like to add that the loops are like what the craft produced with their lights in 1992-1994. See attached UFO loops, discussed on my Transformation 1992 YouTube video.
There is abundant mention of angels in the Bible, the nature of this revelation is without the same kind of explicit description we often find with other subjects developed in Scripture: Every reference to angels is incidental to some other topic. They are not treated in themselves. God’s revelation never aims at informing us regarding the exact nature of angels. When they are mentioned, it is always in order to inform us further about God, what he does, and how he does it. Though theologians have been cautious in their study of angels we have been bombarded in recent years by what could easily be called Angelmania.
In Newsweek’s article titled “In Search of the Sacred” observed that “20% of Americans have had a revelation from God in the last year, and 13% have seen or sensed the presence of an angel” The bookstores abound with books on angels that claim encounters with angels, but also instruct people on how to contact them. Angels are servants of God and described by the author of Hebrews as, “ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?” Psalm 91:11 states: For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. . So certainly, for those who believe the record of Scripture, we can trust in the Bible’s teaching on angels and the personal accounts of reputable people.”
A good illustration of the latter can be found in an article by Sue Bohlin entitled, “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” She writes: I was about thirteen years old when I had my first encounter with an angel. I was going upstairs to my room, pulling my entire weight on the handrail, when it suddenly came off in my hand. I fell backwards, head first. Halfway into a terrible fall, I felt a strong hand on my back push me upright. There was nobody there—well, nobody visible!
A friend of mine became a pastor that surprised me based on his previous life. I asked why? He stated, I was swimming and lost my strength and began to drown and slowly sank to the bottom of the lake. As I floated down I saw a great light and strong hands pushed me to the surface much closer to the shore and I was able to live. I’m convinced I drowned, but was chosen to live for a great purpose in my life.
There are sometimes similarities to stories from abductees who report losing consciousness as they enter the craft, but awake in a round white room lying naked on an operating table. Aliens with large black eyes often help the abductees undress. The aliens usually do not speak, but communicate telepathically. They tell the abductee again they will not be hurt and to relax. The aliens flex and touch various parts of the body using small hand held instruments. Next, larger and more sophisticated instruments and machines and scan and probe the body. I know several witnesses who believe that the aliens healed their disease or tumors. Many of the abductees report healing of disease and parts of their body.
The examinations are often painful, traumatic, and embarrassing. The experience is similar to an operation in an American hospital but with greater pain. A comparatively tall alien leader often described as the doctor will touch the head of the abductee and relieve the pain. This may be a method of controlling the abductee.
Preston Dennett reports diphtheria, tuberculosis, polio, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy are just a few of the many diseases cured by both angels and aliens. Nearly every organ and organ system has been cured at one time or another. There are several cases on record in which ETs have cured people of heart problems
As a young girl Alice was very sick and the Doctor told her parents she would be dead by morning. That night, Alice was transported inside a UFO where she saw angels or aliens whom she describes as “angels in white robes with silver belts.” Alice now realizes that her experience matches the typical onboard UFO experience. The next morning her parents came to see her, and she asked for breakfast and was healed. As a child Alice felt she was healed by angels. Inside the UFO, the aliens waved a small “rod-like device” around her body and then made her stand inside a “large blue cylinder.” A blue light was turned on, and then Alice exited the cylinder she was informed she was now cured and ‘cleansed.’” Many people who have been healed also are given the ability to heal others. Alice Haggerty believes she was cured of diphtheria. Thanks to Preston Dennett
To Heal a Friend or Relative
Think, o God, of our friend who is ill, whom we now commend to Your compassionate regard. Comfort him upon his sickbed, and ease his suffering. We beg for deliverance, and submit that no healing is too hard for the Lord, if it be His will. We therefore pray that You bless our friend with Your loving care, renew his strength, and heal what ails him in Your loving name. Thank You, Lord.
2017: The Most Dangerous Year to Poke the Russian Bear
Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton and New York Universities, is the go-to American expert on US-Russia relations.
In April, he said we are in “the most dangerous moment in American-Russian relations, at least since the Cuban missile crisis.” In some ways, he went on, it’s worse. Not only is it more complex, but Kennedy wasn’t simultaneously accused of being a Soviet spy.
Cohen writes:
“Imagine, for example, John Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis. And for the viewers who are not of a certain age, the Kennedy administration was presented—and the evidence, by the way, was presented to us; they showed us the surveillance photos of Soviet missiles in Cuba. There was no doubt what the Soviets had done, putting nuclear missile silos in Cuba. No evidence has been presented today of anything. Imagine if Kennedy had been accused of being a secret Soviet Kremlin agent. He would have been crippled. And the only way he could have proved he wasn’t was to have launched a war against the Soviet Union. And at that time, the option was nuclear war.”
The media circus would be hilarious if it didn’t mean all life on the planet wasn’t at risk of being irrevocably irradiated out of existence.
“You know it’s easy to joke about this, except that we’re at maybe the most dangerous moment in US-Russian relations in my lifetime, and maybe ever. And the reason is that we’re in a new cold war, by whatever name. We have three cold war fronts that are fraught with the possibility of hot war, in the Baltic region where NATO is carrying out an unprecedented military buildup on Russia’s border, in Ukraine where there is a civil and proxy war between Russia and the west, and of course in Syria, where Russian aircraft and American warplanes are flying in the same territory. Anything could happen.” The Russophobes have dug themselves so deep they can’t turn back now. Through egg-colored goggles, everything is proof the Kremlin is holding Uncle Sammy hostage.
Note: I have intimate knowledge of the Cuban crisis and flew fifty miles from Cuba refueling RF 101 reconnaissance aircraft flying at low level over Cuba. Because I had a Top Secret Clearance I was recalled to General Sweeney’s Tactical Air Command Commander’s office to carry the nuclear missile photographs to General LeMay’s office who was the Commander of the entire Air Force. We were closer to World War III than people know. In nuclear war, all men and women are cremated equally.”
Now the future of the world and your life is in the hands of two men, Putin and Trump. What is the point of the news media forcing them into a possible nuclear confrontation?
On Saturday and Sunday July 29 and 30 at 1 PM Eastern
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Filer’s Files #30 – 2017 UFO the Greatest Story Ever - PART II
Filer’s Files #30 – 2017 UFO the Greatest Story Ever - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Peoria — When I went outside it was at night getting a smoke I saw 4 to 5 yellow orbs on July 20, 2017. I thought it was the moon, but it wasn’t shaped like the moon due to cloud cover like a crescent moon the ufo broke up into four or five orbs. Then it was absorbing the orbs and took off. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Moorpark – I was in the backyard assembling a BBQ grill and stood up to straightened back and noticed a whitish cylinder shaped object traveling above on June 19, 2017. I grabbed my phone to take pictures; and was able to take a couple pictures straight up as it flew off silently. The object was moving pretty fast for its size on a pretty clear afternoon around 3:30 pm on June 18, 2017.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Disc
Loveland — We were hiking up at the Devil’s Backbone on July 12, 2017. We were looking for any sort of animals and taking pictures of the scenery in the surrounding area. I did not see or hear the ufo and didn’t realize I had caught it on camera until later. It took only one photo to catch it. The other photos I added to this submission are my attempts to zoom in.
It was a camera phone so the pictures are not the best. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Abduction
Deltona — I have experienced things before, and so have a few of my family members. I am not sure why they come or when they will, but they do. It was a normal night unlike any other on July 5, 2017. I went to bed and awoke to brightness in my room. I grabbed my phone and saw that it was only 4:26 AM. and I wondered why it was so bright in my room since it was only 4:30 AM in the morning but was suddenly so sleepy that all I did was lay back down in bed as if nothing happened and went back to sleep. At least that is what I can remember as if there is something blocking my memory. In the morning I found it strange that I remembered waking up to a bright light, but had done nothing to investigate it. When I showered I noticed three spots in a triangular shape on my upper leg shown. But as usual cannot remember what happened and accept it. All I remember is the powerful light. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tampa — We were at a friend’s balcony in the afternoon when we saw the UFO on August 11 2014. At first I thought it was something in my eye, but it moved in all directions until I said out loud, what is that? It was dark metallic black cigar in the sky and moved in all directions. It suddenly changed color onto a bright silver color. Maybe it was when the sun was hitting the UFO. It hovered on top of the city for 30 minutes and flew about two miles away/and it started hovering in the other direction. We realized that it was nothing we had ever seen before as fear invaded my body. Then we lost sight of it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Orb
I was sitting in my office on June 16, 2017, when one of my employees who was currently on a smoke break told me to come outside. He told me to look up and straight ahead in which I saw one glowing object. He told me there were three but one had disappeared. As soon as he told me that the second object turned its lights back on a started to slowly fly away… as soon as it got above us it disappeared but I continued to snap pictures and got the outline of the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Objects and Metallic Sphere
My brother and I were outside, when we noticed what we thought to be a star in the sky on July 16, 2017. It was a shiny speck. We both ran inside and grabbed my camera, which had a 250x zoom lens with 18 megapixels. We took 4 photos. We went back inside to look at the pictures, and in awe we realized they were shaped oddly and had pipes. It wasn’t a star at all. Thinking it was a UFO, we went back outside to take more pictures and it was already gone.
Salem— I was driving along and witnessed a metallic sphere move through the clouds on July 6,2017and then hover.
I lost sight of the object around the next bend.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Lights
Las Cruces — The event was on July 5, 2017, and this happened to a good friend of mine and his wife. My friend had fallen asleep on his recliner in the living room. His wife was in their bedroom watching TV and they have a large window behind the head board of their bed. She states she “heard voices” coming from the left side of their house. She ran into the living room, woke up my friend and he went outside to investigate with their basset hound who, started barking like crazy, The dog was running back and forth and kept looking up at the sky. My friend never saw anything and the next day he checked his video, the circular light at the 3 o’clock position is a known street light. The light we want you to investigate is the light at the 9 o’clock position. 25 miles away that is facing towards White Sands Missile Range. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Cylinder
Amsterdam – I was riding in a vehicle coming home from a restaurant on July 16, 2017, looking at the sky through the sun roof. We were just leaving the city of Amsterdam. We were driving on Route 5 heading east towards Schenectady. I noticed this black object flying in the sky. It didn’t look like an airplane because it didn’t have wings and it was black. The object was just below the clouds but visible so that meant it had to be huge. The object appeared to be kind of rectangular in shape flying west very slowly. It was going a lot slower than an airplane. I felt excited because I am very interested in space and recorded the object. I took my eyes off it and looked at my Phone and looked back up it had disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Light
Diamond Lake Lodge — The object was here on July 19, 201, and was silver with shadow from the sun light, and at times emitted a glow. It has been seen with a black or dark craft hovering close by. Then the dark craft darts away after 4 minutes. It appears as a triangle of lights and as a singular orb of light. I have pictures emerging from Crater Lake as well. I’ve been posting daily for over a week Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Boomerang
Memphis – I was in the Main Historic District, at 12:15PM, taking out the trash on July 16, 2017, I took note of the mostly sunny sky. At first, I thought one of the birds had gone crazy doing aerial acrobats in a relatively small piece of the sky, then realized it was within too small a window of the sky even for a bird to behave this way. Then I realized it wasn’t flapping its wings and realized it was actually much farther away just above the cloud-bases. It was half an inch in size at arm’s length at about 5000-6000 feet altitude. It must’ve been quite large. I saw the first flare of brilliant turquoise-white light, bright even in broad daylight. It repeated within a few seconds.
I retrieved my 12X binoculars and the pitch black silky smooth object rose a 1000 feet. The shape was a rigid flattened V with the wings ending in a blunt 90 degree angles. The light flared again from the nose of the object. There were no notable windows, cockpit, or light source. Note: The turquoise-white light was “flaring” sporadically, every 5 to 20 seconds, so bright that it obscured the view of the craft. The exterior was featureless with no discernible engine, exhaust, seams or wheel wells just a flat V. The object’s cart wheeled and somersaulted all over the place mostly rising, sometimes falling. I observed these continued maneuvers through the binoculars for six minutes. I couldn’t imagine a plane that large doing that without coming to pieces or any person enduring the ride. It was constantly tumbling and estimate its width was 130 feet (+/- 20 feet), with a length of 70% of the width. I ran inside to grab a camera but when I returned, the object was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Light
National Airport— My 10 year old daughter flying home from her summer vacation with her godmother on July 8, 2017, took pictures of the plane taking off. She was excited to show me the wings of the plane and the pretty clouds she took with her cell phone during her first flight. She didn’t even notice these bizarre lights, but of course, I did. These lights are very weird and there is no logical explanation. Because I was not with her, I cannot answer most of the questions you asked. Thanks to MUFON CMS
West Virginia Lights
Smoot – On July 18, 2017, we were driving on I-64 around 2:15 AM, when we noticed the half crescent moon beginning to turn a bright red-orange color. We were the only cars on the road and the clear night felt eerily silent. Then, a large smokey fog came out from the trees and onto the road. We then began to see eight deer standing alongside the road.
We looked up and saw an object covering the middle of the moon, but it then disappeared. Two minutes later, we saw bright red flashing lights in the sky around the moon for about 40 seconds. Then they flew away into the trees but continued to pop up and flash as I started recording with my phone. The lights went out and I tried to record again, but the camera was frozen and would not focus on anything. I still managed to keep recording as the lights flashed and the object flew around making a/buzzing. My mom and I began to feel scared, strange and confused. We had a feeling it was something extra-terrestrial. The sighting took place for around 20 minutes and followed us from Smoot to Caldwell. It disappeared after we got off the Caldwell exit. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Object
Mt. St. Helen’s— I thought that you might be interested in this photo. I took on July 16, 2017 around 11:45 AM. We were at view point turn off on the way up to the Mt. St. Helen’s observatory. I didn’t realize I captured it until I uploaded my photos to my computer. There weren’t any birds, helicopters or airplanes flying then so I am not sure what it is. It is not something on my lens since the pictures I took before and after don’t have the spot on it. This photo is completely unedited. I didn’t mess with the contrast or anything.
Note: The object could be an insect, but this is speculation. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia ‘Lights and Cylinder
Harvey Bay– I went out to the Urangan Pier to take pictures of the water on February 10, 2017.
The UFO appears in just one picture with various colored lights.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Port Macquarie, N.S.W — .Object was first sighted with 90 MM telescope on July 9, 2017. At 2.06 PM to 2.39 PM, it was not visible to the naked eye. The object drifted west for 5 minutes and then east for 20 minutes until it was out of sight. I used a Canon 7D camera with a 1,800 MM lens raw format. The object was fading in and out of visibility and was turning slowly at times. It looked like a possible serpent, similar to Mexico sightings. Your guess on what this object was is as good as mine. It was an unknown object. Correction: This case is from William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Canada Object
Oshawa— I thought to share an interesting image taken on July 11, 2017, on a relative clear sky. I took some pictures and reviewed them later and found this strange white anomaly. Later that day after a family dinner outside, we were relaxing as a very low – slow Police helicopter flew around the house three times. It then flew directly over with its front light on and then was gone. Here is the original picture taken along with enhancements. Thanks to Paul Shishis
France Lights
Valensole — On July 7, 2017 at 10 pm Sébastien went into his garden and saw lights in the sky in a southerly direction. Three aligned spheres seemed to move into a cigar shape and rose vertically as if to observe the ground. Sébastien called his friend who saw the lights and went to warn his neighbors and took photos. These neighbors arrived around 10:20 PM and saw the lights reappearing coming from the western horizon. The spheres were independent small red and blue balls maneuvering around. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Lights
Frankfurt –The lights were coming from the left side of us on July 8, 2017. They were moving constantly forward and more up into the sky with blinking different colors. See video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Greece Lights
Athens — I captured this photo for a birthday party on the of our building’s roof with more than 50 people around me on June 21, 2017. I made several photos with my 85 mm 1, 2 Canon Lens and captured the Parthenon.
I did not see the lights in the dark sky when I took the picture. I viewed the picture and saw the lights in the sky and changed my position to check the lights but they remained. I zoomed in on the picture and I realized the lights on top of Parthenon have shadow like a triangle aircraft. Why can’t we see anything with our eyes but the camera captures the lights? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Peru Disc
Cajamarca — I saw a circular transparent, object in the shape of a disk that emanated a great light that lasted three hours on June 18, 2017. I photographed and recorded it at night, and observed the luminous object at low altitude. It flew silently at great speed and was seen by several people on different days. The first appearance was at 5:40 PM, two days before, then on Father’s Day, a very shiny object was seen static near the sun.
You must look carefully to spot it as it only appears white. With the increase of the camera: zoom, it was possible to see three green, red and yellow lights.
It was not a comet, or a star, or a plane, or a helicopter, or a satellite, or a drone. Some friends and relatives also photographed the objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Turkey Lights
Aydin— I’m sorry about my English if there is false grammar please try to understand me ok. The story started on April 3, 2017, at 6.38 am.
I woke up to feed my cats who were making lots of noise but I still have no idea what it was. It was weird and unusual and I checked the time on my TV’s receiver as 6.38 am. I just wanted to give them a little bit of food because I felt tried and just wanted to continue to sleep. Suddenly I found myself looking out the window and saw something of a ball of plasma that moved fast and then moved like feather in the air. My phone was next to me so I took a video and photos at 6.56 am. My fiancé also saw it. I have got lots of video and photos. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK England Sphere
Poole — While reviewing photographs I found an unexpected object in several photos taken over a short period time on 9th July 2017.
I had no idea that I might find an object of UFO interest. I was photographing the sky at the coast trying to capture early evening sky color transitions. I found a brown egg shaped fuzzy object in a photo. At first I assumed it must be an out of focus cormorant or a bug on the lens. I checked the EXIF data and found it was taken at 1000th of a second. This would not have given me a blurred image of a bird. I also noted that the foreground and distance was in focus. I then checked the photos taken before and after and found two small objects and one much larger that all resembled the original object. They were all placed differently in the sky. This ruled out anything having stuck to the lens. This object does not resemble anything I have witnessed in relation to training exercises, helicopter activity, or troop transportation. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Returning To Theaters - And Here's The New Trailer
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Returning To Theaters - And Here's The New Trailer
By Chris Arrant, Editor
Credit: Sony Pictures
Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind is returning to theaters nearly 40 years to the day it was originally released in 1977. Spielberg's own director's cut of the film was restored with 4k resolution, and will hit theaters this fall.
Here is a new trailer:
The 40th anniversary edition of Close Encounters of the Third Kind is scheduled for a one-week run beginning September 1 in select theaters.
A Finnish research team has taken a step towards the future of food by developing a method for producing food from electricity. If scaling it up proves to be successful, it could be a tool in the fight against world hunger and climate change.
THE ELECTRIC BIOREACTOR FARM
Finnish researchers have created a batch of single-cell protein that is nutritious enough to serve for dinner using a system powered by renewable energy. The entire process requires only electricity, water, carbon dioxide, and microbes. The synthetic food was created as part of the Food From Electricity project, which is a collaboration between Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
After exposing the raw materials to electrolysis in a bioreactor, the process forms a powder that consists of more than 50 percent protein and 25 percent carbohydrates — the texture can also be changed by altering the microbes used in the production.
Image Credit: Laurie Nygren
The next stage, according to Juha-Pekka Pitkänen, principal scientist at VTT, is to optimize the system because, currently, a bioreactor the size of a coffee cup takes around two weeks to produce one gram of the protein. Pitkänen said in a LUT press release, “We are currently focusing on developing the technology: reactor concepts, technology, improving efficiency, and controlling the process.”
He predicted that it would take about a decade before a more efficient incarnation of the system would be widely available — “Maybe 10 years is a realistic timeframe for reaching commercial capacity, in terms of the necessary legislation and process technology.”
A WORLD WITHOUT HUNGER
The potential impact of food produced using electricity and other widely available raw materials is enormous. Currently, there are two main ways that it could be used.
First, as a means of feeding starving people and providing a source of food in areas that are not suited to agricultural production. Pitkänen said that, in the future, “the technology can be transported to, for instance, deserts and other areas facing famine,” providing a source of cheap and nutritious food to those who need it most.
The machine also works independently of environmental factors, meaning that it could feed people consistently — Jero Ahola, a Professor at LUT, said in the press release that it “does not require a location with the conditions for agriculture, such as the right temperature, humidity or a certain soil type.”
Second, as a means of decreasing global emissions by reducing the demand for food livestock and the crops necessary to feed them. Currently, the meat industry accounts for between 14 and 18 percent of global emissions of greenhouse gases, as well as taking up swarths of land that could be applied for other ends.
The food from electricity project could decrease the amount of unsustainable farming needed to fill our bellies as it provides us with a smaller, cheaper, and renewable method of getting our nutrients. Other solutions to this problem include lab-grown meat or turning to insect farming, which produces less waste and requires less energy.
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‘THEIR SHIPS WERE FAR SUPERIOR TO OURS – BOY, WERE THEY BIG! – NEIL ARMSTRONG [VIDEO]
‘THEIR SHIPS WERE FAR SUPERIOR TO OURS – BOY, WERE THEY BIG! – NEIL ARMSTRONG [VIDEO]
Armstrong: I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology – Boy, were they big! … And menacing … No, there is no question of a space station.
Is there an occult reason why NASA hasn’t returned to the moon in decades? There are so many mysteries connected with the Apollo missions and the programs’ abrupt end. Many Ufologists have claimed throughout the years that the real reason why NASA decided to end the Apollo program are the numerous structures and alien objects the astronauts found while touching down on the lunar surface.
According to reports, Armstrong stated in an interview with an unnamed professor at a symposium that the Astronauts presence on the moon during the Apollo missions was immediately noticed by advanced alien civilizations who addressed mankind’s visitation to the moon during the Apollo 11 mission upon touchdown. These alleged ‘beings’ immediately revealed themselves occupying lunar space making it very clear mankind was not welcome on the surface of the moon.
Armstrong: It was incredible … of course, we had always known there was a possibility … the fact is, we were warned off. There was never any questions then of a space station or a moon city.
Professor: How do you mean “warned off”?
Armstrong: I can’t go into details, except to say that their ships were far superior to ours both in size and technology – Boy, were they big! … and menacing … No, there is no question of a space station.
Armstrong: Naturally – NASA was committed at that time, and couldn’t risk a panic on earth…. But it really was a quick scoop and back again. (Above Top Secret, p. 186)
Interestingly a video posted on YouTube allegedly recorded in 1969 by Neil Armstrong backs up the story about mankind and their ‘alien’ encounters on the surface of the moon. According to the video posted online, the alleged footage was filmed in 1969 by Neil Armstrong and shows ancient ‘alien’ structures on the surface of the moon. Many people around the globe argue that it isn’t a question anymore whether or not there are mysterious ‘Alien’ structures on the moon. This video, according to many is the ultimate proof.
Armstrong wasn’t the only astronaut to come forward claiming mankind was ‘intercepted’ on the moon.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, ScD., former NASA astronaut and the 6th man to walk on the moon said: “Read the books, read the lore, start to understand what has really been going on, because there is no doubt that we are being visited. . . . The universe that we live in is much more wondrous, exciting, complex and far-reaching than we were ever able to know up to this point in time. . . . [Mankind has long wondered if we’re] alone in the universe. [But] only in our period do we really have evidence. No, we’re not alone.”
In the hazy atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists have discovered molecules thought to be the building-blocks of the complex organic compounds that make life possible.
The surprise new find from the NASA/ESA Cassini mission means the massive moon is now a key target in the search for primitive alien lifeforms – and, it could help to explain the reactions that allowed first life to emerge on Earth.
These molecules are thought to be a ‘vital stepping-stone’ on the way to more complex molecules, and scientists say their presence at Titan suggests the process previously only known to exist in the interstellar medium may actually be universal.
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In the hazy atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists have discovered molecules thought to be the building-blocks of the complex organic compounds that make life possible. The surprise new find means the massive moon is now a key target in the search for alien lifeforms
WHAT CASSINI FOUND
Using the data collected as Cassini flew through the upper atmosphere, at about 950–1300 km (590-807 miles) above the surface, the researchers identified what are known as ‘carbon chain anions.’
And, these are thought to be the building blocks of more complex molecules.
The researchers say the data from Cassini’s plasma spectrometer (CAPS), suggest the carbon chains ‘seeded’ larger molecules at Titan, as they were found to dwindle closer to the moon, while precursors to larger aerosols underwent rapid growth.
Not only does the discovery suggest Titan may contain molecules that drive prebiotic chemistry, but it could also help to explain how life sprung up on Earth, according to ESA.
Titan’s atmosphere has a complex chemical makeup, and is thick with nitrogen and methane, ESA explains.
In the upper atmosphere, these compounds are subjected to energy from sunlight and particles from Saturn’s magnetosphere, spurring chemical reactions between nitrogen, hydrogen, and carbon.
While it’s thought that the large molecules eventually float down to the surface, how the simple molecules at higher altitudes become more complex lower down has largely remained a mystery.
But, in a new study on data from Cassini’s plasma spectrometer (CAPS), scientists discovered a type of negatively charged molecule previously thought unable to exist in Titan’s atmosphere.
These molecules, called anions, are highly reactive, and would quickly combine with the other materials in this environment.
Using the data collected as Cassini flew through the upper atmosphere, at about 950–1300 km (590-807 miles) above the surface, the researchers identified what are known as ‘carbon chain anions.’
And, these are thought to be the building blocks of more complex molecules.
According to ESA, carbon chain anions may even have been key ingredients in the processes that led to the earliest life forms on Earth.
‘We have made the first unambiguous identification of carbon chain anions in a planet-like atmosphere, which we believe are a vital stepping-stone in the production line of growing bigger, and more complex organic molecules, such as the moon’s large haze particles,’ says Ravi Desai of University College and lead author of the study.
Titan’s atmosphere (left) has a complex chemical makeup, and is thick with nitrogen and methane, ESA explains. In the upper atmosphere, these compounds are subjected to energy from sunlight and particles from Saturn’s magnetosphere, spurring chemical reactions
TITAN: EARTH'S 'TOXIC TWIN'
Aside from Earth, Titan is the only place in the solar system known to have rivers, rainfall and seas - and possibly even waterfalls.
Of course, in the case of Titan these are liquid methane rather than water on Earth.
Regular Earth-water, H2O, would be frozen solid on Titan where the surface temperature is -180°C (-292°F).
Aside from Earth, Titan is the only place in the solar system known to have rivers, rainfall and seas - and possibly even waterfalls. These features are composed of liquid methane
With its thick atmosphere and organic-rich chemistry, Titan resembles a frozen version of Earth several billion years ago, before life began pumping oxygen into our atmosphere.
Because Titan is smaller than Earth, its gravity does not hold onto its gaseous envelope as tightly, so the atmosphere extends 370 miles (595km) into space.
With Titan's low gravity and dense atmosphere, methane raindrops could grow twice as large as Earth's raindrops.
‘This is a known process in the interstellar medium, but now we’ve seen it in a completely different environment, meaning it could represent a universal process for producing complex organic molecules.
‘The question is, could it also be happening within other nitrogen-methane atmospheres like at Pluto or Triton, or at exoplanets with similar properties.’
The researchers say the data suggest the carbon chains ‘seeded’ larger molecules at Titan, as they were found to dwindle closer to the moon, while precursors to larger aerosols underwent rapid growth.
Not only does the discovery suggest Titan may contain molecules that drive prebiotic chemistry, but it could also help to explain how life sprung up on Earth.
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Breakthrough lofts the smallest satellites ever
Breakthrough lofts the smallest satellites ever
by Matt Williams , Universe Today
Project Starshot, an initiative sponsored by the Breakthrough Foundation, is intended to be humanity's first interstellar voyage. Credit: breakthroughinitiatives.org
In 2015, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner established Breakthrough Initiatives, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). In April of the following year, he and the organization be founded announced the creation of Breakthrough Starshot, a program to create a lightsail-driven "wafercraft" that would make the journey to the nearest star system – Alpha Centauri – within our lifetime.
This past June, the organization took a major step towards achieving this goal. After hitching a ride on some satellites being deployed to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Breakthrough conducted a successful test flight of its first spacecraft. Known as "Sprites", these are not only the smallest spacecraft ever launched, but prototypes for the eventual wafercraft Starshot hopes to send to Alpha Centauri.
The concept for a wafercraft is simple. By leveraging recent developments in computing and miniaturization, spacecraft that are the size of a credit card could be created. These would be capable of carrying all the necessary sensors, microprocessors and microthrusters, but would be so small and light that it would take much less energy to accelerate them to relativistic speeds – in the case of Starshot, up to 20 percent the speed of light.
As Pete Worden – Breakthrough Starshot's executive director and the former director of NASA's Ames Research Center – said in an interview with Scientific American:
"This is a very early version of what we would send to interstellar distances. In addition, this is another clear demonstration that it is possible for countries to work together to do great things in space. These are European spacecraft with U.S. nanosatellite payloads launching on an Indian booster—you can't get much more international than that."
Professor Abraham Loeb also has some choice words to mark this historic occasion. In addition to being the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, the Chair of the Astronomy Department and the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University, Prof. Loeb is also the chairman of the Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee. As he told Universe Today via email:
"The launch of the Sprite satellites marks the first demonstration that miniaturized electronics on small chips can be launched without damage, survive the harsh environment of space and communicate successfully with earth. The Starshot Initiative aims to launch similar chips attached to a lightweight sail that it being pushed by a laser beam to a fifth of the speed of light, so that its camera, communication and navigation devices (whose total weight is of order a gram) will reach the nearest planet outside the solar System within our generation."
Artist’s illustration of a light-sail powered by a laser beam (red) generated on Earth’s surface. Credit: M. Weiss/CfA
The craft were deployed on June 23rd, piggybacking on two satellites belonging to the multinational technology corporation OHB System AG. Much like the StarChips that Starshot is proposing, the Sprites represent a major step in the evolution of miniature spacecraft that can do the job of larger robotic explorers. They measure just 3.5 by 3.5 cm (1.378 x 1.378 inches) and weight only four grams (0.14 ounces), but still manage to pack solar panels, computers, sensors and radios into their tiny frames.
The Sprite were originally conceived by Zac Manchester, a postdoctorate researcher and aerospace engineer at Cornell University. Back in 2011, he launched a Kickstarter campaign (called "KickSat") to raise funds to develop the concept, which was his way of bringing down the associated costs of spaceflight. The campaign was a huge success, with Manchester raising a total of $74,586 of his original goal of $30,000.
Now a member of Breakthrough Starshot (where he is in charge of Wafer design and optimization), Manchester oversaw the construction of the Sprites from the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell. As Professor Loeb explained:
"The Sprites project is led by Zac Manchester, a Harvard postdoc who started working on this during his PhD at Cornell. Sprites are chip-size satellites powered by sunlight, intended to be released in space to demonstrate a new technology of lightweight (gram-scale) spacecrafts that can communicated with Earth."
The purpose of this mission was to test how well the Sprites' electronics systems and radio communications performed in orbit. Upon deployment, the Sprites remained attached to these satellites (known as "Max Valier" and "Venta") and began transmitting. Communications were then received from ground stations, which demonstrated that the Sprites' novel radio communication architecture performed exactly as it was designed to.
With this test complete, Starshot now has confirmation that a waferocraft is capable of operating in space and communicating with ground-based controllers. In the coming months and years, the many scientists and engineers that are behind this program will no doubt seek to test other essential systems (such as the craft's microthrusters and imagers) while also working on the various engineering concerns that an instellar mission would entail.
In the meantime, the Sprites are still transmitting and are in radio contact with ground stations located in California and New York (as well as radio enthusiasts around the world). For those looking to listen in on their communications, Prof. Loeb was kind enough to let us know what frequency they are transmitting on.
"The radio frequency at which the Sprites that were just launched operate is 437.24 MHz, corresponding to a wavelength of roughly 69 cm," he said. So if you've got a ham radio and feel like tuning in, this is where to set your dials.
A mysterious video, clearly showing three lights apparently “floating” over the US, has baffled internet users after it was posted online.
YouTube user Carmelo Valone filmed three bright lights from a plane window as he flew from Alquerque, New Mexico to Oakland, California.
He suggested the glowing orbs could be an alien spacecraft – and asked the internet for explanations.
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MYSTERY: Three lights seen by a plane over California could be UFOs
“You can see the far right object discharging something very bright”
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Some were impressed by the footage – claiming one of the “UFOs” discharged “something very bright, almost cloudish ball”.
But users of web forum Reddit may have solved the mystery.
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BLOW OUT: The light on the right appears to emit a bright ball of light
Viewers spotted the lights appeared to be stationary – or keeping pace with the plane so they didn’t move.
Some suggested they could be lights in the plane cabin, reflected in the window.
One said they might be irrigation sprinklers.
But several others said the lights looked like bright light reflecting off the mirrors of a solar power plant.
Reddit user IWILLCALLYOUOUT wrote: “They resemble solar mirror arrays.
“They are extremely bright and have an other-worldly appearance when viewed from the air.”
YouTube user Arman Peirce said: “I think I may know what that is.
“About five miles south of the Nevada/California border on the west side of Interstate 15, there is a huge solar project.
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FLIGHT PATH: The route of Carmelo Valone's flight
“It's one of those project where thousands of mirrors are all designed to focus on the top of a particular tower that is in the middle of all these mirrors.
“I believe this type of solar project is the one where they have salt in the tower, and it heats to several hundred degrees celsius.
“There are three towers in a row, each about half mile from each other.
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SOLAR FARM: The location of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System
Each tower is 200 to 300 feet tall, starting with one that is about a quarter to a half mile from the interstate.
“Each of the towers is super bright – they literally glow like a mini-sun during the day because of all the heat.
“Those objects look stationary. [It doesn’t look] like they are following [the plane] but looks like they are on the ground.
“It is probably this – although [I] could be wrong.”
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EXPLANATION? The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, in California
Arman Peirce appears to be referring to the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System – which does look like the video.
Carmelo Valone guessed he was flying over northern Arizona when he spotted the “lights” – but the Ivanpah Solar plant is fairly near northern Arizona.
The mystery appears to have been solved.
But not everyone is convinced.
Reddit user chillagalet98 said: “At 0.26 [in the video] you can see the far right object discharging something very bright – almost cloudish ball-like.
Big, Dangerous Comets Are More Common Than Previously Thought
Big, Dangerous Comets Are More Common Than Previously Thought
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
This NASA animation depicts a comet as it enters the inner solar system, with light from the sun warming the comet to create its coma and tail.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
There are a lot more big, potentially dangerous comets zooming through deep space than scientists had thought, a new study suggests.
Astronomers have likely underestimated by a factor of seven the number of "long-period" comets — those that take at least 200 years to complete one lap around the sun — that are at least 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) wide, according to the study.
"Comets travel much faster than asteroids, and some of them are very big," co-author Amy Mainzer, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. "Studies like this will help us define what kind of hazard long-period comets may pose." [Best Close Encounters of the Comet Kind]
The study team, led by University of Maryland professor James Bauer, analyzed data gathered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft.
This illustration shows how scientists used data from NASA's WISE spacecraft to determine the nucleus sizes of comets. They subtracted a model of how dust and gas behave in comets in order to obtain the core size.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The data set includes observations of long-period comets and Jupiter-family comets. Long-period comets are thought to arise in the distant Oort Cloud, a spherical shell of icy bodies that begins perhaps 186 billion miles (300 billion km) from the sun, researchers said. The long-period comets that WISE spotted were likely booted inward, toward the sun, by gravitational interactions with other Oort Cloud denizens millions of years ago, the researchers added.
Jupiter-family comets are quite different beasts. They lie relatively close to the sun, completing one lap around the star in less than 20 years. (They are so named because Jupiter's powerful gravity has shaped their orbits.)
The WISE data revealed an unexpected abundance of long-period comets, the researchers said. For example, over an eight-month stretch, three to five times more of these objects zoomed by the sun than scientists had predicted.
"The number of comets speaks to the amount of material left over from the solar system's formation," Bauer said in the same statement. "We now know that there are more relatively large chunks of ancient material coming from the Oort Cloud than we thought."
The study team also determined that long-period comets are up to twice as large, on average, as Jupiter-family comets. The size discrepancy is likely a consequence of the Jupiter-family comets' more frequent trips past the sun, the researchers said: Every time these icy wanderers get close to Earth's star, the sun's intense heat drives off water and other volatile substances, which drag dust with them as they jet into space.
"Our results mean there's an evolutionary difference between Jupiter-family and long-period comets," Bauer said.
The WISE spacecraft launched to Earth orbit in December 2009 and successfully carried out an all-sky survey in infrared light. NASA put WISE into hibernation in February 2011 but reactivated the spacecraft two years later to search for asteroids and other near-Earth objects. (Mainzer is the principal investigator for this new mission, which is called NEOWISE.)
The new study, which was published earlier this month in The Astronomical Journal, looked at data the spacecraft gathered during its prime mission, in 2010.
Not Aliens: Weird Radio Signal from Star Likely Has Duller Explanation
Not Aliens: Weird Radio Signal from Star Likely Has Duller Explanation
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The signal that seemed to emanate from the red dwarf star Ross 128, as detected by the Arecibo Observatory in May 2017 (enclosed in the red frame).
Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo
A strange radio signal that seemed to emanate from a small nearby star probably came from Earth-orbiting satellites, astronomers say.
Late last week, researchers announced that, on May 12, the 1,000-foot-wide (305 meters) Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico detected a bizarre radio signal in the vicinity of Ross 128, a red dwarf star that lies just 11 light-years from Earth.
The signal was theoretically consistent with a transmission from an alien civilization, the astronomers said, though they stressed that hypothesis was "at the bottom of many other explanations." Indeed, they pegged the leading candidates as flares from Ross 128, emissions from some other object in the same field of view as the star, and a burst from one or more high-orbiting satellites. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens]
Now, follow-up observations — by Arecibo, as well as the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in northern California — point to this last hypothesis as the most likely, team members said.
"The best explanation is that the signals are transmissions from one or more geostationary satellites," Abel Mendez, director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico, wrote in a statement today (July 21). (Geostationary satellites circle Earth at an altitude of about 22,300 miles, or 35,800 kilometers.)
"This explains why the signals were within the satellite’s frequencies and only appeared and persisted in Ross 128; the star is close to the celestial equator, where many geostationary satellites are placed," Mendez added. "This fact, though, does not yet explain the strong dispersion-like features of the signals (diagonal lines in the figure); however, it is possible that multiple reflections caused these distortions, but we will need more time to explore this and other possibilities."
But even though it's likely that the Ross 128 signal has a prosaic explanation, scientists should still follow up on similar detections in the future, stressed Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California.
"The historic lesson is clear — these things pop up, and you have to follow them up, because you never know what's going to be the real one, or even if there will ever be a real one," Shostak, who was involved in the recent ATA observations of Ross 128, told Space.com earlier this week. "Following up is mandatory."
Lockheed Martin will repurpose a space shuttle-era Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) to become a test and astronaut training prototype for NASA's deep space habitat.
Credit: Lockheed Martin/NASA via collectSPACE.com
A cargo container that was built to fly on NASA's space shuttles is being repurposed as a prototype for a deep space habitat.
"We are excited to work with NASA to repurpose a historic piece of flight hardware," said Bill Pratt, Lockheed Martin's program manager for the deep space habitat contract, in a statement.
Donatello was one of three MPLMs that was designed to fly in the space shuttle payload bay to transfer cargo to the station. Built by the Italian Space Agency under a contract with NASA, two modules, Leonardo and Raffaello, flew on 12 shuttle missions between 2001 and 2011.
Lockheed Martin will build its full-scale habitat prototype in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the Donatello module has been located. The MPLM measures 21 feet long by 15 feet in diameter (6.4 by 4.6 meters).
In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers help the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Donatello settle onto a work stand in February 2004.
Credit: NASA
Over an 18-month period, Lockheed Martin will build upon its deep space habitat concept it developed during the first phase of NASA's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships, or NextSTEP, program by using virtual and augmented reality prototyping in an effort to reduce costs and schedule, as well as identify and address issues while early in the design process. The results, to be shared with the space agency, will help to further understanding of the systems, standards and interfaces needed to make living in deep space possible.
"It is easy to take things for granted when you are living at home, but the recently selected astronauts will face unique challenges," stated Pratt, referring to NASA's 2017 class of astronauts, who may be assigned to deep space missions. "Something as simple as calling your family is completely different when you are outside of low Earth orbit."
"While building this habitat," Pratt continued, "we have to operate in a different mindset that is more akin to long trips to Mars."
The deep space habitat is intended to be part of the Deep Space Gateway, a planned crew-tended spaceport in lunar orbit under development by NASA. In addition to the living module, the gateway, as proposed, includes a power bus, docking capability, an airlock and a propulsion module.
To be launched within he first few missions of the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket, the gateway could also eventually serve as a staging point for a transport for astronaut missions outward into the solar system, or as a staging ground for missions to the lunar surface.
In addition to the deep space habitat prototype, Lockheed will also build a deep space avionics integration laboratory in Houston to demonstrate command and control between the Deep Space Gateway and the Orion spacecraft, also being developed by the company. According to Lockheed Martin, the lab will "help reduce risk associated with critical data interfaces" between gateway elements and "provide an environment for astronauts to train for various mission scenarios."
Lockheed Martin artist rendering of the NextSTEP habitat docked with Orion in cislunar orbit as part of a deep space gateway.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
"Because the Deep Space Gateway would be uninhabited for several months at a time, it has to be rugged, reliable and have the robotic capabilities to operate autonomously. Essentially it is a robotic spacecraft that is well-suited for humans when Orion is present," said Pratt.
In addition to Lockheed Martin, NASA selected five other companies to develop ground prototypes and concepts for deep space habitats, including Boeing, Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Bigelow Aerospace and NanoRacks.
Uit onderzoek blijkt dat tot de helft van de materie in onze Melkweg uit andere sterrenstelsels komt. Daarom stellen wetenschappers dat we onszelf moeten beschouwen als 'immigranten uit andere sterrenstelsels'.
De mens is samengesteld uit atomen die afkomstig zijn van andere sterrenstelsels dan het onze. Net als zowat de helft van heel onze Melkweg overigens. "We zijn dus allemaal ruimtereizigers of immigranten uit een ander sterrenstelsel", stelt de wetenschapper achter de nieuwe studie.
Die studie stelt dat de mens is samengesteld uit materie die vanuit andere sterrenstelsels miljarden kilometers aflegde.
Galactische winden Wetenschappers gebruikten computermodellen om uit te vissen hoe de materie die ons omringt in ons sterrenstelsel terechtkwam. Daaruit bleek dat supernova explosies (waarbij een ster op spectaculaire wijze explodeert) grote hoeveelheden materie verspreiden dankzij krachtige galactische winden.
Dat betekent dat dezelfde materie waaruit de mens is samengesteld wellicht heel lang geleden en ver van ons sterrenstelsel is ontstaan.
"Gezien de hoeveelheid materie waaruit we zijn samengesteld afkomstig is van andere sterrenstelsels, kunnen we onszelf beschouwen als ruimtereizigers of immigranten uit andere sterrenstelsels", stelt astrofysicus Daniel Anglés-Alcazar.
Intergalactische transfer "Het is heel waarschijnlijk dat heel wat van de materie uit de Melkweg afkomstig is uit andere sterrenstelsels, waar het door een krachtige wind werd weggeblazen en door de ruimte reisde om uiteindelijk een nieuwe thuis te vinden in de Melkweg".
Deze intergalactische transfer, het verplaatsen van materie van het ene sterrenstelsel naar het andere, is een pas ontdekt fenomeen en kan ons begrip van hoe sterrenstelsels worden gevormd fundamenteel wijzigen.
Miljoen lichtjaren
"Dit impliceert dat tot de helft van de atomen die ons omringen, zowel die in het zonnestelsel, op aarde als in ons allemaal, niet van ons eigen sterrenstelsel komt maar van andere sterrenstelsels die tot een miljoen lichtjaren verwijderd liggen", stelt co-auteur van de studie Faucher-Giguère.
Hoewel deze materie zich met honderden kilometers per seconde door het universum verspreidde, waren de afstanden zo groot dat het toch nog miljarden jaren duurde.
De simulaties toonden aan dat de materie zich van kleinere sterrenstelsels naar grotere verplaatste. Dat gas vormde vervolgens sterren en zorgde voor bijna de helft van de materie in sterrenstelsels zoals het onze.
“Getting into character” as a method actor has an extra level of challenge when the plot of your movie includes encounters with extraterrestrials. Do you spend time begging to get into Area 51 or some secret Air Force base with the promise of helping those who let you in meet Sigourney Weaver? Or do the film’s producers only hire actors who have had close encounters – thus giving all of the good parts to Dan Aykroyd? Fortunately for the makers of the original Alien movie, they got both in Yaphet Kotto.
“I’ve never talked to anyone about it man, this is the first time. I’ve only told my wife, my rabbi, and a psychologist. This is the first time I’m talking about it.”
Yaphet as Parker (Syfywire)
According to a new interview with Vice, the 77-year-old Kotto was well-prepared to play Parker, the chief engineer who eventually (spoiler alert – you REALLY haven’t seen the original Alien?) gets killed by the alien. He claims he’s been seeing 6-foot tall beings with “elongated heads” since he was nine and the visits, along with other strange experiences, occurred on a regular basis into adulthood.
“Every time I moved into a house, above it at some point, there would be a circle of what looked like smoke. I’d wonder where it came from because it sure as hell didn’t look like clouds. Those sightings continued for a good ten to 15 years. I’ve also had time loss. I have a big loss of time between some of these moments, and I’d often wonder if I was taken”
Kotto’s encounters weren’t limited to the U.S. – his most moving experience took place in the Philippines. It occurred after being told by his wife and others that they had seen a “a UFO as big as the Yankee Stadium turned upside down” followed by a circle of smoke.
“They were freaking out. Two or three nights later, I saw it. The thing blotted out the entire sky. The moon and everything, it was huge.”
Since Kotto says he’s never told anyone in the media before about his alien and UFO experiences, it didn’t play a part in helping get cast as Parker in Alien. However, it affected him during the shooting.
“Now, I’ll admit, there were things that I alone found on the set of Alien—the spaceship. That mechanism that Sigourney Weaver throws to put the Sulaco (fictional spacecraft) on automatic destruct. There were symbols there. Symbols that had nothing to do with the ship in the film and I kept finding these symbols. They were like Egyptian symbols and I started trying to decipher them, which I was able to do.”
Sigourney and Yaphet ( The Viewer’s Commentary)
Speaking of Sigourney Weaver, while it doesn’t come up in Kotto’s interview, the star of the movie said in an interview in 2011 that she believes in aliens too.
“I think there are extraterrestrial life forms in the cosmos. I think it’s more likely than not. The cosmos is a pretty big place.”
She also believes in conspiracies.
“I think there’s a department in our (the US) government which is exclusively dedicated to quashing reports about aliens. And that’s so unfair. It would be nice if we weren’t just able to read about it in the tabloids.”
Kotto feels the same way.
“The former Canadian defense minister Paul Hellyer came out and said America is playing around. He’s got some video tapes out there talking about a number of species that come here. He puts America down for not admitting the fact that aliens are a reality. That gave me a lot of comfort.”
Perhaps it’s time for Yaphet and Sigourney to get together again, this time to discuss real aliens.
Can a day go by without an update on the three-fingered allegedly alien mummies of Peru? As the cries of “Hoax!” increase, so apparently do the new releases of fee-for-view videos from Gaia.com and journalist Jamie Maussan, the go-to guy for all things 3-fingered. Yesterday, it was revealed that the mysterious cave where the mummies – at least five at last count – were supposedly found must be kept secret but the identity of the finder was revealed to be a guy named Mario, whose identity apparently must also be kept secret. However, new discoveries about the mummies are coming fast and furious to the patrons of Gaia.com. Fortunately, one of them is express.co.uk and they have revealed that a female 3-fingered mummy was going to be a mommy. That’s right, she was carrying eggs!
“In the pelvic cavity we see the presence of eggs. They are translucent meaning they consist of an organic substance.”
The eggs (credit: express.co.uk)
José de la Cruz Rios, who is identified as a ‘biologist’ and is known to have worked with Jamie Maussan before, came to this interesting conclusion that “translucent” means “organic” when looking at a CT scan of the alleged mummified remains of an alleged female 3-fingered aliens. Also, Dr. Edson Salazar Vivanco, who is identified as a ‘doctor’ and was involved in the analysis of an alleged 3-fingered alien hand last year, described how they found the ‘eggs’:
“The physical examination revealed that in the pelvic cavity there was a bump. This may have been its last meal, it may be something else, or it maybe gestation.”
A last meal? He obviously didn’t take the class that the biologist did where they explained that a bump with translucent oval objects means organic eggs. He must have also skipped the math class where they showed how you put two and two together and it adds up to “reptilians.” The Gaia.com videos have been alluding to the theory that these mummies may look like 3–fingered, big-headed, small humans with slit eyes but are actually more like reptiles or alien Reptilians and the eggs prove it because humans don’t lay eggs …right?
What next … babies?
Funny you should mention that. In the previous video where it was revealed that five mummies have been found so far, one of them was said to be a baby, which the ‘researchers’ named Wawita, which means … go ahead, guess. Give up? It means ‘baby’ in the local Cashua language. It’s nice to keep the locals involved, especially when many of them are upset that unidentified remains of ancient people – aliens or ancestors – are being shown for profit and possibly desecrated. Don‘t even get them started on the archeologists and mummy experts who are convinced this is all an elaborate hoax.
Is it? As the ‘researchers have been saying all along in previous videos:
“… now it is necessary to perform a DNA test …”
In the meantime, there were originally just six (that’s two 3-fingered hands worth) videos in the series but the attention this is getting may convince them to add another season or two … or some spinoffs. “Three-Fingered Men and a Baby” for the guys and “Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s a Dead Mummy” starring the egg woman.
Stranger things have happened, but not by much. Stay tuned for the next update.
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Mysterie rond Peruaanse mummies krijgt verrassende wending. Onderzoekers hebben nu dit gevonden
Mysterie rond Peruaanse mummies krijgt verrassende wending. Onderzoekers hebben nu dit gevonden
In één van de mysterieuze mummies die in een graftombe in Peru zijn gevonden zouden eieren zijn gevonden. Dat schrijft de Daily Express.
De website Gaia.com heeft een video gepubliceerd waarin CT-scans zijn te zien die laten zien dat in één van de gemummificeerde wezens drie eieren zitten.
De site claimt dat de mummies momenteel uitgebreid worden geanalyseerd door deskundigen, hoewel de vondst volgens wetenschappers een hoax is.
Laatste maaltijd
In de video zegt dr. Edson Salazar Vivanco over één van de wezens:
“Tijdens het onderzoek troffen we in de bekkenholte een bobbel aan. Mogelijk was dit de laatste maaltijd of misschien iets anders.”
Vervolgens werden er röntgenfoto’s van het wezen gemaakt.
Organische substantie
De Mexicaanse journalist Jaime Maussan zei hierover: “Toen we naar de röntgenfoto’s keken, zagen we dat er eieren in dit wezen zaten.”
Bioloog José de la Cruz Ríos zegt in het filmpje: “In de bekkenholte zijn eieren te zien. Ze zijn doorschijnend, wat betekent dat ze bestaan uit een organische substantie.”
Het team concludeert dat de wezens zich voortplantten door net als reptielen eieren te leggen, maar dat ze er mensachtig uitzagen.
Baby
Volgens Gaia.com zal in de volgende video een gemummificeerde baby te zien zijn die in de graftombe is gevonden.
De mummie heeft de naam Wawita gekregen, wat ‘baby’ betekent in de lokale taal Cuacha.
Gezicht op Mars achtergelaten door aliens. Deze ex-NASA-wetenschappers delen achtergehouden informatie
Gezicht op Mars achtergelaten door aliens. Deze ex-NASA-wetenschappers delen achtergehouden informatie
Toen ruimtesonde Viking 1 in 1976 foto’s van de rode planeet maakte, werd het beroemde gezicht op Mars vastgelegd.
Sommigen geloofden dat het was achtergelaten door een intelligente beschaving. In de VS ontstond een mediahype rond het gezicht, dat de naam Cydonia Mensa draagt.
Volgens de standaardtheorie werd het oppervlak van Mars in het verleden opgewarmd door vulkanen en ontstond er een landschap van geïsoleerde bergen.
John Brandenburg
Dr. John E. Brandenburg heeft onlangs tijdens een conferentie gezegd dat rond Cydonia mogelijk archeologische artefacten kunnen worden gevonden.
Nieuwe foto’s van het gezicht tonen volgens de fysicus namelijk ogen, een neus, mond en een helm.
Hij vertelde tijdens het congres ook dat er twee nucleaire ontploffingen zijn geweest in de Marsatmosfeer.
Dat zouden doelbewuste pogingen zijn geweest om al het leven op de rode planeet uit te roeien.
Dr. Brandenburg, die in 1994 meewerkte aan NASA’s Clementine-missie, suggereerde dat het gezicht is achtergelaten door een buitenaards ras.
Brian O’Leary
NASA-astronaut Brian O’Leary (1940-2011) zei in een interview dat de beroemde astronoom Carl Sagan de foto van het gezicht op Mars had bewerkt voordat de afbeelding beschikbaar werd gemaakt voor het publiek.
“Ik was heel erg teleurgesteld,” zei dr. O’Leary. “Niet alleen zat Carl ernaast, hij had ook gegevens gemanipuleerd.”
“Hij publiceerde een foto van het gezicht in Parade Magazine en zei dat het gewoon een natuurlijke formatie was,” voegde hij toe. “Maar hij had de foto bewerkt zodat het gezicht minder duidelijk te zien was.”
In mei 1990 publiceerde de astronaut een paper over de mogelijk intelligente herkomst van het gezicht op Mars, dat werd gepubliceerd in het Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.
Sagan en zijn collega’s drongen er bij de overheid op aan om het UFO-fenomeen in de doofpot te stoppen, aldus O’Leary.
Norman Bergrun
Dr. Norman Bergrun, die onder meer voor het Ames Research Laboratory heeft gewerkt, stelt dat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA knoeit met foto’s om bepaalde dingen te verbergen, waaronder het gezicht op Mars.
Hij zei in een interview dat ‘een zeer betrouwbare bron’ hem verteld had dat het ruimteagentschap foto’s van de maan bewust donkerder maakt.
Bergrun ontdekte naar eigen zeggen dingen op foto’s die de NASA dacht te hebben weggepoetst.
Onlangs was hij nog in het nieuws omdat hij eerder claimde dat enorme UFO’s zich schuilhouden in de ringen van Saturnus.
Vreemde ‘basis’ gespot bij Area 51. Is dit een ondergrondse hangar?
Vreemde ‘basis’ gespot bij Area 51. Is dit een ondergrondse hangar?
UFO-jagers die beelden van Google Earth hebben bestudeerd, zeggen op enkele kilometers van Area 51 een raadselachtige plek te hebben ontdekt.
In het landschap is een weg te zien die naar de rand van een gebergte leidt. In de berg zijn drie openingen te zien.
Het lijkt te gaan om door mensen gemaakte grotten. Complottheoretici denken dat er mogelijk een connectie is met de mysterieuze legerbasis Area 51.
Ondergrondse hangar
Ze suggereren dat de bergwand mogelijk fungeert als een soort ondergrondse hangar voor geheime vliegtuigen, van menselijke of buitenaardse origine.
Er wordt opgemerkt dat de smalle weg die naar het gebied leidt te smal is voor vliegtuigen en dat vaartuigen die daar opgeslagen zouden zijn verticaal moeten kunnen opstijgen.
Daarnaast wordt gespeculeerd dat de site leidt naar een tunnelcomplex waar ook Area 51 en andere bases in de regio op aansluiten.
Buitenaardse levensvormen
Aangezien er verder niets bekend is over de locatie, blijft het speculeren. Wellicht dat andere onderzoekers meer te weten zullen komen over de raadselachtige bergwand.
Sommigen geloven dat de Amerikaanse luchtmacht buitenaardse levensvormen bewaart in en rond Area 51.
Zo claimde Bob Lazar in S4 te hebben gewerkt aan buitenaardse vaartuigen. Zijn verhaal is uitgeplozen door journalist George Knapp van KLAS-TV en bleek te kloppen.
Nadat we onlangs zagen dat er een soort UFO-invasie plaatsvond in Zuid Amerika, schijnt nu hetzelfde te gebeuren in Europa.
Op verschillende plaatsen in Servië hebben bewoners opnames gemaakt van een indrukwekkende vloot UFO’s.
Zonder enige twijfel vindt er de laatste tijd een nogal spectaculaire toename plaats van UFO waarnemingen.
En die is eigenlijk onder te verdelen in twee hoofd categorieën.
De eerste is de meest voorkomende en dat is de witte ronde UFO of orb die nu echt overal ter wereld wordt waargenomen.
Een mooi voorbeeld hiervan enkele dagen geleden in de Amerikaanse staat North Carolina, waar een man zich vol verbazing afvraagt wat hij nu in vredesnaam ziet.
Een tweede mooi voorbeeld hiervan in ons eigen land waar op 25 juli het volgende object werd waargenomen boven Zuid Holland.
Naast dit soort eenzame orbs zien we zo ook regelmatig in formaties langskomen. Onlangs publiceerden we een aantal voorbeelden hiervan in Zuid Amerika en nu komen ze voor in Europa.
Drie dagen later is het weer raak als boven het plaatsje Donji Milanovac wederom een aanzienlijke UFO-vloot wordt waargenomen.
En wie denkt dat het nu afgelopen is in Zuid Amerika, die heeft het helemaal mis. Want de inwoners van de Chileense stad Santiago keken raar op toen ze op 17 juli ’s avonds naar de lucht keken.
En dat UFO's soms gewoon te verklaren zijn blijkt uit het volgende bericht dat wij ontvingen van een lezer (dank!):
Jullie postten een video van de engelse dame Kat Kinny van zogezegde ufo's gefilmd vanuit de laatst geplaatste cropcircle in Warminster. Ik was die dag daar aanwezig en op dat moment onderweg van de cropcircle naar Alton Priors . We merkten ook de lichten op en reden er naar toe. Ter plaatse gekomen ontdekten we dat het om vuurwerk ging. Zeer indrukwekkend van op afstand maar helaas geen ufo's. Dit ter info en verduidelijking.
Claims have emerged that a man said he had driven the Roswell UFO on a truck.
Investigators at the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) received an anonymous letter about an incident in around 1982 that could have helped shed light on the ongoing mystery.
The Roswell myth 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 allegedly taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.
The letter was sent to the US organisation in January, but details have just emerged after MUFON finished investigating the case.
It claims in around 1982, Jose “Che” Teran went into C&M tyre shop on Yarborough Drive in El Paso, Texas, as a customer, and told staff he was "personally involved in the Roswell Crash Incident."
A MUFON investigation report into the letter by Robert Spearing said: "According to the anonymous report sent to MUFON, Che said he was a truck driver with the US Army from an unknown location.
"He saw a damaged craft loaded onto his truck from viewing out his rearview mirrors. He saw a tarp covering it later.
"He was instructed by military personnel to sign a non-disclosure statement saying he saw nothing at risk of losing his military pension."
The letter said the story was overheard by a mechanic at C&M.
Che was said to be a regular customer, and would often tell staff the story.
The anonymous letter writer said it had been relayed to him by an employee of C&M.
MUFON, the world's biggest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research, has concluded investigating the claims.
He saw a damaged craft loaded onto his truck from viewing out his rearview mirrors. He saw a tarp covering it later.
Anonymous letter to MUFON
Investigators located Jose Che Teran’s stepson Fernando Jimenez, 77, and asked if he knew the story of the Roswell incident with his stepdad’s participation.
However, he was unable to find any living C&M staff.
The report said: "Mr Jimenez, frail and ailing, was sincere and cooperative. However, his knowledge was minimal.
"He could not recall the branch of service his step father was employed with.
"He also stated that he was well aware of the Roswell Crash Incident through television and newspaper accounts but his step-father never discussed the story with him."
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UFO arrives through Interdimensional portal in the skies over Alexandria, Louisiana
UFO arrives through Interdimensional portal in the skies over Alexandria, Louisiana
Incredible images captured by a couple apparently show a UFO coming out from a portal in the skies over Alexandra, Louisiana.
A couple coming back from their job spotted a strange ring-shaped cloud in the sky which then slowly changed into a very spherical ball.
They stated: "Me and a boyfriend stopped our car on the side and watched the huge spherical ball which remained stationary so we had time to take pictures, before it disappeared after a few minutes."
The strange object under the bright spherical ball looked pretty big and did not look like an airplane or a helicopter. It was 12:45 and the visibility was still good."
The images, taken on 2017/01/15, were submitted to Mufon for further investigation and registered under case nr. 85382.
The Night of Phelegethon! Strange Space Phenomenon observed in Australia and Hawaii
The Night of Phelegethon! Strange Space Phenomenon observed in Australia and Hawaii
The Night of Phelegethon!
In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon "fire-flaming" was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron.
Image left: Gigantic Jet Hawaii - Image right: Sprites Australia.
Plato describes it as "a stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the depths of Tartarus". It was parallel to the river Styx. It is said that the goddess Styx was in love with Phlegethon, but she was consumed by his flames and sent to Hades. Eventually when Hades allowed her river to flow through, they reunited.
Dozens of rare bright Sprites (space lightning) triggered by the discharge of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground have been filmed by amateur astronomer David Finlay who witnessed the space phenomenon from Kiama in Australia on the night of July 18, 2017.
David who was really surprised by the strange space phenomenon said: “It was a Sprite Phlegethon.”
The strange sky phenomenon not only appeared in Australia, a cloudcam located at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii captured another amazing lightning-like phenomenon known as a Gigantic Jet.
Gigantic Jets are related to sprites, but more powerful and they are true space weather phenomena.
Frankie Lucena of Puerto Rico, who processed the video said: The thunderstorm was north of the observatory on the night of July 24, 2017. There were several Gigantic Jets captured by the cloudcam but not all of them were complete. The ripples in the sky high above. ( Gigantic Jet around the 0.05 mark in the second video.)
Chester Bennington saw a UFO before he Died (Real Story - Linkin Park Video Interview
Chester Bennington saw a UFO before he Died (Real Story - Linkin Park Video Interview)
Chester Bennington saw a UFO at Arizona before he died. There are many conspiracies going on in this matter.
During an interview with a presenter from KIISFM.com, the 41-year-old Linkin Park frontman made the confession that he witnessed a UFO in the skies over Arizona.
When the presenter asked Chester Bennington if it was true, Chester said that it was a million percent true and although he couldn’t put a logical explanation together, he remembered what he saw knowing it wasn’t man-made.
It seems more and more celebrities begin to reveal their ‘UFO encounters’, what to think about the recent interview where Keshna an American singer and songwriter talks with the presenters of the Zach Sang show about her recently experienced UFO sighting.
We may wonder whether they speak spontaneously about their ‘UFO encounters’ or there's a reason behind their confessions.
It is known that celebrities are easy targets for mind control programs. There is a mind control program within MK Ultra known as ‘last days programming’ and it is said that celebrities are prominently involved in this MK Ultra mind control program.
It is believed Chester Bennington was facing some problems in his life after the UFO incident and God knows what was his reason to commit suicide.
Mysterieuze voetafdrukken ontdekt in India. Zag deze buschauffeur een alien?
Mysterieuze voetafdrukken ontdekt in India. Zag deze buschauffeur een alien?
In een dorp in India zijn enorme voetafdrukken ontdekt. Een buschauffeur claimt nu dat hij het wezen heeft gezien dat de afdrukken zou hebben gemaakt, meldt de New Indian Express.
Shivayya Gavimath zei dat hij de ‘alien’ op een avond had gezien toen hij aan het werk was.
Vanuit de bestuurdersstoel zag hij tot zijn verbazing een wit wezen dat ongeveer 2,4 meter groot was en ‘grote handen en benen had’.
Anders
Het wezen sprong de weg over, voor de bus langs, en verdween vervolgens, aldus de buschauffeur.
Lokale bewoners maakten daarna melding van nieuwe voetafdrukken van het wezen, die anders waren dan de eerdere afdrukken.
Mysterie
Indiase overheidsfunctionarissen bevestigden de ontdekking, schrijft de New Indian Express, en merkten op dat er ruim 1,5 meter tussen de voetafdrukken zat.
De politie zal vaker in het gebied patrouilleren om het mysterie tot de bodem uit te zoeken. Foto’s van de voetafdrukken worden momenteel geanalyseerd.
FORMATIE UFO'S GEFILMD VANUIT NIEUW GEVORMDE GRAANCIRKEL ( VIDEO )
FORMATIE UFO'S GEFILMD VANUIT NIEUW GEVORMDE GRAANCIRKEL ( VIDEO )
Naarmate de zomer voorbij glijdt en we langzaam maar zeker richting herfst gaan, blijven er bijzondere dingen gebeuren in de lucht.
Overal om ons heen blijven mensen vreemde dingen zien in de lucht en een vrouw filmt een groep van vijf UFO’s vanuit een net gevormde graancirkel.
De herfst die sowieso bijzonder zal worden omdat er op 23 september 2017 een unieke stand van sterrenbeelden is aan het firmament die zo uniek is en zo weinig voorkomt dat deze zelfs in de bijbel wordt genoemd in het boek Openbaringen.
Mensen die én de bijbel hebben bestudeerd én de stand aan de hemel komen tot de conclusie dat op die bepaalde dag de maagd iets zal baren, terwijl er een soort monster klaarstaat of wat het dan ook is, om het te verslinden.
Datgene dat geboren gaat worden, zou natuurlijk heel goed de onbekende planeet in ons zonnestelsel kunnen zijn waar de afgelopen jaren opeens weer heel veel over wordt geschreven.
Deze planeet of beter gezegd planeten omdat we praten over een mini zonnestelsel worden steeds beter zichtbaar zoals te zien op de volgende foto die een paar dagen geleden is gemaakt in Engeland.
Misschien is er na 23 september een tweede planeet (zon) zichtbaar naast onze zon en is dat wat wordt bedoeld in de bijbel.
Ondertussen blijven mensen vreemde luchten of dingen in de lucht zien. Hier een paar voorbeelden.
Over vreemd gesproken. De volgende opname werd op 15 juli 2017 gemaakt in de Amerikaanse staat North Carolina.
Niet alleen zijn daar duidelijk twee zonnen zichtbaar, maar deze zonsondergang is ook nog eens in het oosten.
Tegelijkertijd gaat de gewone zon onder in het westen, zoals we de laatste tijd al veel vaker hebben gezien.
En dan, alsof we bepaalde tekenen krijgen van buitenaardsen, gebeurt het volgende:
Op 18 juli 2017 verschijnt er in Cley Hill bij de Engelse stad Warminster in het graafschap Wilthshire een monumentale graancirkel.
Direct nadat deze graancirkel is verschenen, gaat een Engelse dame met de naam Kat Kinney op onderzoek uit.
Wat er dan gebeurt, is zien in de volgende video, gefilmd vanuit de graancirkel.
Linda Moulton Howe: Alien Binary Code Contains a Shocking Warning for Mankind
Linda Moulton Howe: Alien Binary Code Contains a Shocking Warning for Mankind
Linda Moulton Howe translated some of the binary code from an Army Sergeant who had received a downloaded message from alien intelligence of which included a cryptic warning about star systems in Orion and Zeta Reticuli. Binary code symbols and codes have also been recovered from crashed UFOs.
It has been independently confirmed both by Linda Moulton Howe and another researcher (Dr. Horace Drew) that C.J.’s symbols are in fact a message written in binary code that can be translated via a standard ASCII table.
C.J.’s message reads as follows:
Continuous protection of humanity 49.27n 11.5e. Expose Hidden Knowledge to ALL ` citizens Advancement imperative for planetary survival Beware of Orion 1350.3 and Z Ruticuli 39.170 Avoid (signal) messages sent
Beyond the X-Files: Aliens, Underground Bases for the ‘Elite’ and the New World Order
Beyond the X-Files: Aliens, Underground Bases for the ‘Elite’ and the New World Order
Phil Schneider, a very brave man, has lost his life due to what appeared to be a military-style execution in January 1996. He was found dead in his apartment with piano wire still wrapped around his neck.
He was one of three people to survive the 1979 fire fight between the large Greys and U.S. intelligence and military forces at Dulce underground base.
In May 1995, Phil Schneider did a lecture on what he had discovered. Seven months later he was tortured and killed by those for whom he had previously worked. This man’s final acts should not go unnoticed.
“It is because of the horrendous structure of the federal government that I feel directly imperiled *not* to tell anybody about this material. How long I will be able to do this is anybody’s guess.
“However, I would like to mention that this talk is going to be broken up into four main topics. Each of these topics will have some bearing on what you people are involved in, whether you are patriots or not.
“I want you to know that these United States are a beautiful place. I have gone to more than 70 countries, and I cannot remember any country that has the beauty, as well as the magnificence of its people, like these United States.
“To give you an overview of basically what I am, I started off and went through engineering school. Half of my school was in that field, and I built up a reputation for being a geological engineer, as well as a structural engineer with both military and aerospace applications.
The first base is the one at Dulce, New Mexico. I was involved in 1979 in a firefight with alien humanoids, and I was one of the survivors.
I’m probably the only talking survivor you will ever hear. Two other survivors are under close guard. I am the only one left that knows the detailed files of the entire operation.
Sixty-six secret service agents, FBI, Black Berets and the like, died in that firefight. I was there.
“Number one, part of what I am going to tell you is going to be very shocking. Part of what I am going to tell you is probably going to be very unbelievable, though, instead of putting your glasses on, I’m going to ask you to put your “skeptical” on.
But please, feel free to do your own homework. I know the Freedom of Information Act isn’t much to go on, but it’s the best we’ve got.
The local law library is a good place to look for Congressional Records. So, if one continues to do their homework, then one can be standing vigilant in regard to their country.
Deep Underground Military Bases and the Black Budget
“I love the country I am living in more than I love my life, but I would not be standing before you now, risking my life, if I did not believe it was so. The first part of this talk is going to concern deep underground military bases and the black budget.
The Black Budget is a secretive budget that garners 25% of the gross national product of the United States. The Black Budget currently consumes $1.25 trillion per year.
At least this amount is used in black programs, like those concerned with deep underground military bases. Presently, there are 129 deep underground military bases in the United States.
“They have been building these 129 bases day and night, unceasingly, since the early 1940’s. Some of them were built even earlier than that.
These bases are basically large cities underground connected by high-speed magneto-leviton trains that have speeds up to Mach 2.
Several books have been written about this activity. Al Bielek has my only copy of one of them. Richard Souder, a Ph.D architect, has risked his life by talking about this.
He worked with a number of government agencies on deep underground military bases. In around where you live, in Idaho, there are 11 of them.
“The average depth of these bases is over a mile, and they again are basically whole cities underground. They all are between 2.66 and 4.25 cubic miles in size.
They have laser drilling machines that can drill a tunnel seven miles long in one day. The Black Projects sidestep the authority of Congress, which as we know is illegal.
Right now, the New World Order is depending on these bases. If I had known at the time I was working on them that the NWO was involved, I would not have done it. I was lied to rather extensively.
Development of Military Technology, Implied German Interest in Hyperspacial Technology, and More
“Basically, as far as technology is concerned, for every calendar year that transpires, military technology increases about 44.5 years.
This is why it is easy to understand that back in 1943 they were able to create, through the use of vacuum tube technology, a ship that could literally disappear from one place and appear in another place.
My father, Otto Oscar Schneider, fought on both sides of the war. He was originally a U-boat captain, and was captured and repatriated in the United States.
He was involved with different kinds of concerns, such as the A-bomb, the H-bomb and the Philadelphia Experiment. He invented a high-speed camera that took pictures of the first atomic tests at Bikini Island on July 12, 1946.
I have original photographs of that test, and the photos also show UFO’s fleeing the bomb site at a high rate of speed.
Bikini Island at the time was infested with them, especially under the water, and the natives had problems with their animals being mutilated. At that time, General MacArthur felt that the next war would be with aliens from other worlds.
“Anyway, my father laid the groundwork with theoreticians about the Philadelphia experiment, as well as other experiments. What does that have to do with me?
Nothing, other than the fact that he was my father. I don’t agree with what he did on the other side, but I think he had a lot of guts in coming here. He was hated in Germany.
There was a $1 million reward, payable in gold, to anyone who killed him. Obviously, they didn’t succeed. Anyway, back to our topic – deep underground bases.
The Fire Fight At Dulce Base
“Back in 1954, under the Eisenhower administration, the federal government decided to circumvent the Constitution of the United States and form a treaty with alien entities.
It was called the 1954 Greada Treaty, which basically made the agreement that the aliens involved could take a few cows and test their implanting techniques on a few human beings, but that they had to give details about the people involved.
Slowly, the aliens altered the bargain until they decided they wouldn’t abide by it at all. Back in 1979, this was the reality, and the 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.
Schneider’s Worries About Government Factions, Railroad Cars and Shackle Contracts
“Now, I am very worried about the activity of the the federal government. They have lied to the public, stonewalled senators, and have refused to tell the truth in regard to alien matters. I can go on and on. I can tell you that I am rather disgruntled.
Recently, I knew someone who lived near where I live in Portland, Oregon. He worked at Gunderson Steel Fabrication, where they make railroad cars. Now, I knew this fellow for the better part of 30 years, and he was kind of a quiet type.
He came in to see me one day, excited, and he told me “they’re building prisoner cars.” He was nervous. Gunderson, he said, had a contract with the federal government to build 107,200 full length railroad cars, each with 143 pairs of shackles. There are 11 sub-contractors in this giant project.
Supposedly, Gunderson got over 2 billion dollars for the contract. Bethlehem Steel and other steel outfits are involved. He showed me one of the cars in the rail yards in North Portland. He was right.
If you multiply 107,200 times 143 times 11, you come up with about 15,000,000. This is probably the number of people who disagree with the federal government. No more can you vote any of these people out of office.
Our present structure of government is “technocracy”, not democracy, and it is a form of feudalism. It has nothing to do with the republic of the United States. These people are god-less, and have legislated out prayer in public schools.
You can get fined up to $100,000 and two years in prison for praying in school. I believe we can do better. I also believe that the federal government is running the gambit of enslaving the people of the United States.
I am not a very good speaker, but I’ll keep shooting my mouth off until somebody puts a bullet in me, because it’s worth it to talk to a group like this about these atrocities.
America’s Black Program Contractors
“There are other problems. I have some interesting 1993 figures. There are 29 prototype stealth aircraft presently. The budget from the U.S. Congress five-year plan for these is $245.6 million.
You couldn’t buy the spare parts for these black programs for that amount. So, we’ve been lied to. The black budget is roughly $1.3 trillion every two years.
A trillion is a thousand billion. A trillion dollars weighs 11 tons. The U.S. Congress never sees the books involved with this clandestine pot of gold.
…plus a host of hundreds more. Is this what we are supposed to be living up to as freedom- loving people? I don’t believe so.
Star Wars and Apparent Alien Threat
“Still, 68% of the military budget is directly or indirectly affected by the black budget. Star Wars relies heavily upon stealth weaponry.
By the way, none of the stealth program would have been available if we had not taken apart crashed alien disks. None of it. Some of you might ask what the “space shuttle” is “shuttling”.
Large ingots of special metals that are milled in space and cannot be produced on the surface of the earth. They need the near vacuum of outer space to produce them. We are not even being told anything close to the truth.
I believe our government officials have sold us down the drain – lock, stock and barrel. Up until several weeks ago, I was employed by the U.S. government with a Ryolite-38 clearance factor – one of the highest in the world.
I believe the Star Wars program is there solely to act as a buffer to prevent alien attack – it has nothing to do with the “cold war”, which was only a toy to garner money from all the people – for what? The whole lie was planned and executed for the last 75 years.
Stealth Aircraft Technology Use by U.S. Agencies and the United Nations
“Here’s another piece of information for you folks. The Drug Enforcement Administration and the ATF rely on stealth tactical weaponry for as much as 40% of their operations budget.
This in 1993, and the figures have gone up considerably since. The United Nations used American stealth aircraft for over 28% of its collective worldwide operations from 1990 to 1992, according to the Center for Strategic Studies and UN Report 3092.
The Guardians of Stealth and Delta Force Origins of the Bosnia Conflict
“The Guardians of Stealth: There are at least three distinct classifications of police that guard our most well-kept secrets.
Number one, the Military Joint Tactical Force (MJTF), sometimes called the Delta Force or Black Berets, is a multi-national tactical force primarily used to guard the various stealth aircraft worldwide. By the way, there were 172 stealth aircraft built.
Ten crashed, so there were at last count about 162. Bill Clinton signed them away about six weeks ago to the United Nations.
There have been indications that the Delta Force was sent over to Bosnia during the last days of the Bush administration as a covert sniper force, and that they started taking pot shots at each side of the controversy, in order to actually start the Bosnia conflict that would be used by succeeding administrations for political purposes.
Thoughts on the Bombings in the United States
“I was hired not too long ago to do a report on the World Trade Center bombing. I was hired because I know about the 90 some- odd varieties of chemical explosives. I looked at the pictures taken right after the blast.
The concrete was puddled and melted. The steel and the rebar was literally extruded up to six feet longer than its original length. There is only one weapon that can do that – a small nuclear weapon.
That’s a construction-type nuclear device. Obviously, when they say that it was a nitrate explosive that did the damage, they’re lying 100%, folks.
The people they have in custody probably didn’t do the crime. As a matter of fact, I have reason to believe that the same group held in custody did do other crimes, such as killing a Jewish rabbi in New York.
However, I want to further mention that with the last explosion in Oklahoma City, they are saying that it was a nitrate or fertilizer bomb that did it.
“First, they came out and said it was a 1,000 pound fertilizer bomb. Then, it was 1,500. Then 2,000 pounds. Now its 20,000. You can’t put 20,000 pounds of fertilizer in a Rider Truck. Now, I’ve never mixed explosives, per se. I know the chemical structure and the application of construction explosives.
My reputation was based on it. I helped hollow out more than 13 deep underground military bases in the United States. I worked on the Malta project, in West Germany, in Spain and in Italy.
I can tell you from experience that a nitrate explosion would not have hardly shattered the windows of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
It would have killed a few people and knocked part of the facing off the building, but it would have never have done that kind of damage. I believe I have been lied to, and I am not taking it any longer, so I’m telling you that you’ve been lied to.
The Truth Behind the Republican Contract With America
“I don’t perceive at this time that we have too much more than six months of life left in this country, at the present rate. We are the laughing stock of the world, because we are being hoodwinked by so many evil people that are running this country.
I think we can do better. I think the people over 45 are seriously worried about their future. I’m going to run some scary scenarios by you.
The Contract With America.
It contains the same terminology that Adolph Hitler used to subvert Germany in 1931. I believe we can do better. The Contract With America is a last ditch effort by our federal government to tear away the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Some Statistics on the Black Helicopter Presence
“The black helicopters. There are over 64,000 black helicopters in the United States. For every hour that goes by, there is one being built. Is this the proper use of our money?
What does the federal government need 64,000 tactical helicopters for, if they are not trying to enslave us. I doubt if the entire military needs 64,000 worldwide.
I doubt if all the world needs that many. There are 157 F-117A stealth aircraft loaded with LIDAR and computer-enhanced imaging radar.
They can see you walking from room to room when they fly over your house. They see objects in the house from the air with a variation limit of 1 inch to 30,000 miles.
That’s how accurate that is. Now, I worked in the federal government for a long time, and I know exactly how they handle their business.
Government Earthquake Device, AIDS as a Bioweapon Based on Alien Excretions
“The federal government has now invented an earthquake device. I am a geologist, and I know what I am talking about. With the Kobe earthquake in Japan, there was no pulse-wave as in a normal earthquake. None.
In 1989, there was an earthquake in San Francisco. There was no pulse wave with that one either. It is a Tesla device that is being used for evil purposes. The black budget programs have subverted science as we know it.
Look at AIDs, invented by the National Ordinance Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois in 1972. It was a biological weapon to be used against the people of the United States.
The reason I know this is that I have seen the documentation by the Office of Strategic Services, which by the way is still in operation to this day, through the CDC in Atlanta.
They used the glandular excretions of animals, humans and alien humanoids to create the virus. These alien humanoids the government is hobnobbing with are the worst news.
There is absolutely no defense against their germs – none. They are a biological weapon of terrible consequence. Every alien on the planet needs to be isolated.
“Saddam Hussein killed 3.5 million Kurdish people with a similar biological weapon. Do we, the people of this planet, deserve this?
No, we don’t, but we are not doing anything about it. Every moment we waste, we are doing other people on the planet a disservice. Right now, I am dying of cancer that I contracted because of my work for the federal government.
I might live six months. I might not. I will tell you one thing. If I keep speaking out like I am, maybe God will give me the life to talk my head off.
I will break every law that it takes to talk my head off. Eleven of my best friends in the last 22 years have been murdered. Eight of the murders were called “suicides.”
Before I went to talk in Las Vegas, I drove a friend down to Joshua Tree, near 29 Palms.
I drove into the mountains in order to get to Needles, California, and I was followed by two government E-350 vans with G-14 plates, each with a couple of occupants, one of which had an Uzi.
I knew exactly who they were. I have spoken 19 times and have probably reached 45,000 people. Well, I got ahead of them and came to a stop in the middle of the road.
They both went on either side of me and down a ravine. Is this what its going to take?
I cut up my security card and sent it back to the government, and told them if I was threatened, and I have been, that I was going to upload 140,000 pages of documentation to the internet about government structure and the whole plan. I have already begun that task.
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Bob Lazar: 25 Years After Spilling the Beans on Anti-Gravitational Flying Saucers Inside Area 51
Bob Lazar: 25 Years After Spilling the Beans on Anti-Gravitational Flying Saucers Inside Area 51
It has been 25 years to the day since a live interview with a shadowy guy named “Dennis” changed everything for America’s most secret military base
“Dennis” turned out later to be a man named Bob Lazar, who claimed he worked at a secret facility built into a mountainside just south of Area 51’s main facilities.
Lazar claimed to have worked in 1988 and 1989 as a physicist at S4, which was allegedly located at Papoose Lake southwest of top secret Area 51 near Groom Dry Lake, Nevada.
According to Lazar, S4 serves as a hidden military location for the study and research of extraterrestrial spacecraft, or flying saucers using reverse engineering.
Lazar says he saw nine different extraterrestrial vehicles there and has provided detailed information on the mode of propulsion and other technical details of a disc-shaped vehicle he called the sport model.
Your flying car might finally be on the way as the all-electric, two-seater Lilium Jet took its first test flight this week. Lilium Aviation's prototype consumes around 90 percent less energy than drone-style aircraft and could be the transportation mode of the future.
THE LILIUM JET
If you’ve been begging the universe for a flying car for your entire life, you may soon be able to stop asking (sort of). This week, Germany-based company Lilium Aviation took its new all-electric, two-seater vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) prototype for its first test flight. The jet was piloted remotely during the tests, but its creators say the vehicle’s first manned flight will happen soon.
Thirty-six separate jet engines mounted on 12 movable flaps on the Lilium Jet’s 10-meter-long wings power the craft. The flaps point down at take-off to provide vertical lift, and then they tilt gradually into a horizontal position for forward thrust. Lilium says that its electric battery enables the aircraft to reach a maximum cruising speed of 300 kph (183 mph) and achieve a range of 300 kilometers (183 miles), all while it “consumes around 90 percent less energy than drone-style aircraft,” according to a recent press release.
POWERED BY RENEWABLES
The startup plans to build a five-passenger version of the jet eventually, and Lilium envisions its product being used in an on-demand capacity in dense, urban areas — the Uber of flying cars (though Uber itself is working on its own flying model). Patrick Nathen, co-founder and head of calculation and design for Lilium Jet, told The Verge that the company’s ultimate goal is to make the technology accessible for everyone, replacing expensive ground taxi trips in urban areas with flights at a fraction of the cost.
Although electric-powered aviation is not yet highly developed, this prototype’s design makes it far more efficient in terms of power consumption than other electric aircraft. And although electric cars with the same 1,000-pound batteries used in this aircraft are typically limited to a range of about 482 kilometers (300 miles) per charge, Nathen says that’s enough for their jet.
This jet and virtually all other innovative vehicles in development right now will run on renewables. This is more than a trend — it is simply the way of the future. Tesla vehicles will soon be as affordable as standard vehicles, and their semi trucks and pickups are on the way. This kind of electric-powered aircraft is the next step in truly getting clean energy off the ground while leaving fossil fuels in it.
Dr. Steven Greer, MD and founder of The Disclosure Project and The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), has been on a mission for decades to shed light on the fact that we’re not alone, that we’ve never been alone, and that an ET presence is currently engaging our planet and the human race.
This topic is so broad that it encompasses nearly every area of human study and endeavour, diving into the black budget world, a world that has no oversight from Congress, as well as science, technology, new energy, history, and much more. It’s a topic when, fully exposed, will definitely ignite a major paradigm shift for the human race.
So far, Dr. Greer has been very successful, having brought forth hundreds of military and political whistleblowers of all ranks, with verified backgrounds, to testify and share their experience in public. To compliment these whistleblowers, thousands upon thousands of page of UFO documents have also been released by dozens of governments.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Greer was also chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in North Carolina.
The Disclosure Project movement began making noise when a groundbreaking National Press Club Disclosure event brought forth these whistleblowers. You can view that full conference here. More than 1 billion people worldwide have now listened to the testimony given at this conference, and it received coverage from several mainstream media outlets, as it was just too big to ignore.
Since then, multiple efforts have sprung forth, one being the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure that took place a couple of years ago. It was also held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, and saw a number of professors, historians, scientists, and high ranking political and military personnel gathered to elaborate on the ongoing reality of the UFO phenomenon to several former congresspeople.
Dr. Greer also released a previous film, titled Sirius, where he revealed having high level meetings within the Pentagon regarding the UFO/extraterrestrial topic. This was verified by Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 astronaut who accompanied Greer on his meetings.
He’s one of several astronauts to make numerous statements about the extraterrestrial issue.
“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)
In Greer’s new film, Unacknowledged, you’ll hear military, government, intelligence, and corporate witnesses present compelling testimony on the existence of extraterrestrial life forms visiting the planet, as well as the reverse engineering of the energy and propulsion systems of these craft. It also goes into the possibility of a “false flag” alien invasion. You can read more about that here.
This is by far one of the best documentaries out there to bring ANYONE up to speed as to what is happening with the UFO coverup and the implications that come with it. I truly enjoyed what this film had to offer and I believe it will make huge waves in helping to open the general public up to the reality of UFO’s and ET’s.
If you have ever had trouble explaining this phenomenon to skeptics or non believers, this is the film to show them and you simply can’t deny it any longer.
Greer has also authored multiple books and put out multiple DVDs on the subject, and teaches people and hosts groups throughout the world focused on peaceful contact initiatives. They are out there, so why not try to make contact? He also continues to research advanced alternative energy sources that, as you will see in the documentary, go hand in hand with the UFO phenomenon.
This man has done a lot for this movement. Known as “the father of the disclosure,” he is no doubt responsible for the massive wave of information and awareness that’s being created on the subject today.
“There are objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”
– Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (source)
By the way, by “unacknowledged,” Greer is referring to Special Access Programs (SAP). From these we have unacknowledged and waived SAPs. These programs do not exist publicly, but they do indeed exist. They are better known as ‘deep black programs.’ A 1997 US Senate report described them as “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.” (source)
NASA is putting its new telescope into a deep freeze to test how it will operate in outer space, and it is broadcasting the cold experiment online.
The James Webb Space Telescope was built and recently moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where it was put into a temperature chamber. Although the telescope is not visible while it is locked inside, a stream of the chamber’s exterior from its “Webbcam” includes a comparison between the temperature in that area compared to the temperature outside in the heat of Texas. While Houston was hitting the mid-90s on Wednesday, the NASA chamber was at -250 degrees Fahrenheit.
“The temperature of the Chamber A will continue to steadily drop until it reaches about 20 kelvins (minus 424 degrees Fahrenheit/minus 253 degrees Celsius),” NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center explained, “but it will take a little while longer for the Webb telescope and its instruments to reach the same temperatures they will be when operating in space.”
During the course of the experiment, which will last about 100 days, eventually the instruments will get to about -393 degrees Fahrenheit, their operating temperature. That’s with the exception of one instrument: the mid-infrared instrument, which contains a camera and observes light in the mid-infrared range.
According to NASA Goddard, that instrument has to be even colder than the others, reached -447 degrees Fahrenheit. To do that, it will use its own special cooling system.
NASA’s Webbcam shows the chamber at the Johnson Space Center in Houston where the James Webb Space Telescope is being frozen.
Photo: NASA/Steve Sabia
The James Webb Space Telescope has been compared to a blooming flower, but it is one tough piece of equipment that is designed to withstand the frigid vacuum of space.
Photo: NASA
The telescope has to be able to withstand the cold temperatures of space when it ventures 1 million miles out, but it would need to be cold even if space was hot: “In space, the telescope must be kept extremely cold in order to be able to detect the infrared light from very faint, distant objects,” NASA says.
In order to prevent the telescope from the light and heat of the sun, as well as anything coming from the Earth and the moon, Webb has a shield that works like a parasol to keep it shaded. NASA describes it as being composed of five layers and the size of a tennis court.
“The sunshield blocks sunlight from interfering with the sensitive telescope instruments,” according to NASA. “The sunshield separates the observatory into a warm, sun-facing side (reaching temperatures close to 185 degrees Fahrenheit/85 degrees Celsius) and a cold side (minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit/minus 240 degrees Celsius).”
Once it is launched in late 2018, the Webb space telescope will be searching for potentially habitable planets outside our solar system, among other focuses. One of the alien solar systems it will investigate is the Trappist-1 system, where seven rocky planets orbit a small star and at least three of them might be within the star’s habitable zone — the distance from the planet that is just the right temperature to support liquid water, one of the requirements to sustain life.
“If these planets have atmospheres, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the key to unlocking their secrets,” NASA exoplanet program scientist Doug Hudgins previously said.
The telescope will learn more about their atmospheres, including their water content and how much oxygen, carbon dioxide and other gases make them up.
Webb is being tested at a time when astronomers are constantly finding more exoplanets in the wider solar system, giving people hope that at least one of them contains extraterrestrial life.
The telescope has been a hit with the public, inspiring artists to create paintings, tattoos and works of art in various other media — which NASA is accepting and sharing.
Space sounds like an eerie chorus of 'alien birds'
Space sounds like an eerie chorus of 'alien birds'
Sarah Kaplan, (c) 2017, The Washington Post
If you ask Craig Kletzing, the recordings echo the chirping of crickets. To his wife, they sound like a chorus of alien birds.
But there is no life where these sounds are made, in the dazzling and dangerous stream of highly charged particles that surrounds our planet. For years, Kletzing, a physics professor at the University of Iowa, has been monitoring the radio waves that undulate through the void around Earth. When the data is turned into sound files, the result is an eerie cosmic symphony.
Van Allen Probes B: Exotic Chorus 2014-03-13
Van Allen Probes B: "Wild Whistlers" 2016-09-20
Van Allen Probes A: "Spooky Chorus" 2016-10-27
Although space is a vacuum, it is neither empty nor quiet. Just above our atmosphere exist two belts of energetic particles from the sun that get trapped by Earth's magnetic field. This phenomenon is vital to making our planet livable; the captured electrons and protons zip back and forth between Earth's magnetic poles instead of streaming through the atmosphere to bombard the surface. But the zones where these particles dwell, called the Van Allen Belts, are still dangerous: The trapped particles pose a threat to satellites and astronauts at the International Space Station, and the belts play a role in space weather that can destroy power grids on the ground.
"There are lots of practical reasons," to be interested in the Van Allen belts, Kletzing said. The physics of this violent region is fascinating in and of itself. Fluctuating electric and magnetic fields plow through the cloud of charged particles, called plasma, stealing energy from some particles and giving it to others, pushing them to high speeds.
In 2012 NASA launched the Van Allen Space Probes, twin robotic crafts that orbit the Earth and monitor this roiling envelope of charged particles. The probes carried a suite of instruments called EMFISIS, short for Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (apparently all aspiring physicists and astronomers take "Intro to Backronyms" before they get their PhDs). EMFISIS is designed to detect radio waves rippling around the Earth.
"It's literally like sticking a microphone out into space, but instead of listening to sound waves we're listening to electromagnetic waves," said Kletzing, EMFISIS's lead investigator.
Humans can't hear all the activity in the Van Allen belts. Our ears respond only to sound waves, which we sense via the vibration of molecules that are disturbed by the waves as they propagate through the air. Space is airless - practically void of matter - and therefore soundless.
But the electromagnetic waves are in the same frequency range as the part of the sound spectrum that is audible to humans. It was a simple matter to translate those radio waves as MP3s - turning EMFISIS data into a radio broadcast from the heavens.
One variety of wave sounded like Star Wars light sabers. These "whistler waves" were generated by lightning in the Earth's atmosphere, but escaped and bounced along the magnetic field. The lightning generates waves at multiple frequencies, and the faster (higher-pitched) waves reached the sensors just before the slower (and lower-pitched ones), resulting in the signature falling pitch that gives these waves their name.
When waves propagate through the plasmasphere - the shell of relatively low-energy plasma that encases the Earth just above the atmosphere - they generate what's known as plasmaspheric hiss.
Beyond the plasmasphere, where the plasma is warmer, electrons are pushed around in explosions generated by tangled lines of the Earth's magnetic field. As the particles from the sun are pushed toward the night side of the Earth, lower-energy particles create the "chorus" waves that Kletzing's wife said sounded like alien birds.
"There's a side of me that listens to it and says 'Wow, what interesting wave forms,' " Kletzing said. "But there's also a piece that just listens, and there's sort of an amazement at a certain level that the universe produces things that you recognize: birds, and in the background it sounds to me ... like crickets chirping."
The cricket-like sounds are compelling to Kletzing, not just because they evoke a languid summer evening. These sounds suggest that there could be smaller waves in space that trigger the larger ones - something Kletzing never noticed when he simply looked at the data on a computer screen.
"There's little bits of stuff in there that our ear can kind of pick out . . . that your eye on a plot doesn't do quite the same way," Kletzing said.
The multiverse of science fiction is populated by robots that are indistinguishable from humans. They are usually smarter, faster, and stronger than us. They seem capable of doing any job imaginable, from piloting a starship and battling alien invaders to taking out the trash and cooking a gourmet meal.
The reality, of course, is far from fantasy. Aside from industrial settings, robots have yet to meet The Jetsons. The robots the public are exposed to seem little more than over-sized plastic toys, pre-programmed to perform a set of tasks without the ability to interact meaningfully with their environment or their creators.
To paraphrase PayPal co-founder and tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, we wanted cool robots, instead we got 140 characters and Flippy the burger bot. But scientists are making progress to empower robots with the ability to see and respond to their surroundings just like humans.
Some of the latest developments in that arena were presented this month at the annual Robotics: Science and Systems Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The papers drilled down into topics that ranged from how to make robots more conversational and help them understand language ambiguities to helping them see and navigate through complex spaces.
Improved Vision
Ben Burchfiel, a graduate student at Duke University, and his thesis advisor George Konidaris, an assistant professor of computer science at Brown University, developed an algorithm to enable machines to see the world more like humans.
In the paper, Burchfiel and Konidaris demonstrate how they can teach robots to identify and possibly manipulate three-dimensional objects even when they might be obscured or sitting in unfamiliar positions, such as a teapot that has been tipped over.
The researchers trained their algorithm by feeding it 3D scans of about 4,000 common household items such as beds, chairs, tables, and even toilets. They then tested its ability to identify about 900 new 3D objects just from a bird’s eye view. The algorithm made the right guess 75 percent of the time versus a success rate of about 50 percent for other computer vision techniques.
In an email interview with Singularity Hub, Burchfiel notes his research is not the first to train machines on 3D object classification. How their approach differs is that they confine the space in which the robot learns to classify the objects.
“Imagine the space of all possible objects,” Burchfiel explains. “That is to say, imagine you had tiny Legos, and I told you [that] you could stick them together any way you wanted, just build me an object. You have a huge number of objects you could make!”
The infinite possibilities could result in an object no human or machine might recognize.
To address that problem, the researchers had their algorithm find a more restricted space that would host the objects it wants to classify. “By working in this restricted space—mathematically we call it a subspace—we greatly simplify our task of classification. It is the finding of this space that sets us apart from previous approaches.”
Following Directions
Meanwhile, a pair of undergraduate students at Brown University figured out a way to teach robots to understand directions better, even at varying degrees of abstraction.
The research, led by Dilip Arumugam and Siddharth Karamcheti, addressed how to train a robot to understand nuances of natural language and then follow instructions correctly and efficiently.
“The problem is that commands can have different levels of abstraction, and that can cause a robot to plan its actions inefficiently or fail to complete the task at all,” says Arumugam in a press release.
In this project, the young researchers crowdsourced instructions for moving a virtual robot through an online domain. The space consisted of several rooms and a chair, which the robot was told to manipulate from one place to another. The volunteers gave various commands to the robot, ranging from general (“take the chair to the blue room”) to step-by-step instructions.
The researchers then used the database of spoken instructions to teach their system to understand the kinds of words used in different levels of language. The machine learned to not only follow instructions but to recognize the level of abstraction. That was key to kickstart its problem-solving abilities to tackle the job in the most appropriate way.
The research eventually moved from virtual pixels to a real place, using a Roomba-like robot that was able to respond to instructions within one second 90 percent of the time. Conversely, when unable to identify the specificity of the task, it took the robot 20 or more seconds to plan a task about 50 percent of the time.
One application of this new machine-learning technique referenced in the paper is a robot worker in a warehouse setting, but there are many fields that could benefit from a more versatile machine capable of moving seamlessly between small-scale operations and generalized tasks.
“Other areas that could possibly benefit from such a system include things from autonomous vehicles… to assistive robotics, all the way to medical robotics,” says Karamcheti, responding to a question by email from Singularity Hub.
More to Come
These achievements are yet another step toward creating robots that see, listen, and act more like humans. But don’t expect Disney to build a real-life Westworld next to Toon Town anytime soon.
“I think we’re a long way off from human-level communication,” Karamcheti says. “There are so many problems preventing our learning models from getting to that point, from seemingly simple questions like how to deal with words never seen before, to harder, more complicated questions like how to resolve the ambiguities inherent in language, including idiomatic or metaphorical speech.”
Even relatively verbose chatbots can run out of things to say, Karamcheti notes, as the conversation becomes more complex.
The same goes for human vision, according to Burchfiel.
While deep learning techniques have dramatically improved pattern matching—Google can find just about any picture of a cat—there’s more to human eyesight than, well, meets the eye.
“There are two big areas where I think perception has a long way to go: inductive bias and formal reasoning,” Burchfiel says.
The former is essentially all of the contextual knowledge people use to help them reason, he explains. Burchfiel uses the example of a puddle in the street. People are conditioned or biased to assume it’s a puddle of water rather than a patch of glass, for instance.
“This sort of bias is why we see faces in clouds; we have strong inductive bias helping us identify faces,” he says. “While it sounds simple at first, it powers much of what we do. Humans have a very intuitive understanding of what they expect to see, [and] it makes perception much easier.”
Formal reasoning is equally important. A machine can use deep learning, in Burchfiel’s example, to figure out the direction any river flows once it understands that water runs downhill. But it’s not yet capable of applying the sort of human reasoning that would allow us to transfer that knowledge to an alien setting, such as figuring out how water moves through a plumbing system on Mars.
“Much work was done in decades past on this sort of formal reasoning… but we have yet to figure out how to merge it with standard machine-learning methods to create a seamless system that is useful in the actual physical world.”
Robots still have a lot to learn about being human, which should make us feel good that we’re still by far the most complex machines on the planet.
Scientist ‘solves’ mystery of the Bermuda Triangle – by claiming there was no mystery in the first place
Scientist ‘solves’ mystery of the Bermuda Triangle – by claiming there was no mystery in the first place
Karl Kruszelnicki says everything can be explained by human error, bad weather, and heavy air and sea traffic – not alien abduction or energy beams from the lost city of Atlantis
There has been decades of speculation about 'mysterious' disappearances in the triangle of ocean between Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico Getty
Defying 70 years of fevered speculation, a sceptical scientist has dared to declare that the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has been ‘solved’ – by claiming there was no mystery in the first place.
Karl Kruszelnicki has insisted the reason why so many ships and planes vanish without trace in the area between Bermuda, Florida, Puerto Rico is nothing to do with aliens or fire-crystals from the lost city of Atlantis.
Instead, the Australian scientist ‘revealed’, the high number of disappearances is explained by nothing more supernatural than plain old human error plus bad weather and the fact that lots of planes and ships enter that area of the Atlantic Ocean in the first place.
Mr Kruszelnicki told news.com.au that not only does the Bermuda Triangle - (aka ‘Hodoo Sea’, ‘Devil’s Triangle’, ‘Limbo of the Lost’ and other headline-friendly monikers) – cover a large, 700,000 square-kilometre (270,000 square-mile) swathe of ocean, it is also a particularly busy patch of sea.
“It is close to the Equator, near a wealthy part of the world – America - therefore you have a lot of traffic,” he said.
So, said Mr Kruszelnicki, when you then compare the number of disappearances to the large quantity of ships and planes passing through the Bermuda Triangle, you find there is nothing out of the ordinary about the area at all.
“According to Lloyd’s of London and the US Coastguard,” he said, “The number that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis.”
Sydney University for communicating science to the broader community, also said there were simple explanations for the disappearance that did the most to start the whole Bermuda Triangle speculation: the loss of “Flight 19.”
This was a flight of five US Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that set off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on December 5 1945 for a routine two-hour training mission over the Atlantic.
After losing radio contact with their base, all five planes vanished. No trace of them or their 14 crew members was found.
Even more spookily, it was later claimed, a PBM-Mariner seaplane dispatched that night on a search-and-rescue mission to find Flight 19 also disappeared, along with its 13 crew.
In the absence of either knowledge or fact-checking, speculation about Flight 19 became a growth industry, especially after 1964, when the writer Vincent Gaddis advanced his theories in an article entitled The Deadly Bermuda Triangle.
“Whatever this menace that lurks within a triangle of tragedy so close to home,” he wrote, “It was responsible for the most incredible mystery in the history of aviation - the lost patrol.
“This relatively limited area is the scene of disappearances that total far beyond the laws of chance. Its history of mystery dates back to the never-explained, enigmatic light observed by Columbus when he first approached his landfall in the Bahamas.”
As well as pointing out that Lloyd’s of London would disagree with Gaddis’ statistical analysis, Mr Kruszelnicki also offered simple explanations for the loss of Flight 19.
For a start, he said, despite Gaddis suggestion the patrol vanished in ideal flight conditions, “It wasn’t fine weather, there were 15m (49ft) waves.”
Mr Kruszelnicki added that the only truly experienced pilot in the flight was its leader, Lieutenant Charles Taylor, and his human error may well have played a part in the tragedy.
“[He] arrived with a hangover, flew off without a watch, and had a history of getting lost and ditching his plane twice before,” said Mr Kruszelnicki.
Radio transcripts from before the patrol vanished, he added, made it clear that Flight 19 had become unsure of its position.
The transcripts show Lt Taylor thought his compass had malfunctioned and that he was above Florida Keys - a string of islands stretching to the southwest of the US mainland - when in fact later analysis by ground staff would show he was to the southeast, near an island in the Bahamas.
Mr Kruszelnicki said Lt Taylor overruled a junior pilot who said they should turn west, and insisted the patrol fly east, unwittingly taking them further into the Atlantic, above deep water where it might be harder to find sunken planes or bodies.
“If you read the radio transcripts,” said Mr Kruszelnicki, “Some of the junior pilots are saying, ‘Why don’t we fly to the west?’, and the pilot says, ‘Why don’t we fly to the east?’”
Even more damningly for the Bermuda Triangle ‘mystery’, said Mr Kruszelnicki, was the fate of the search-and-rescue seaplane that according to Gaddis and others also vanished.
“It didn’t vanish without a trace,” said Mr Kruszelnicki. “[It] was seen to blow up.”
There were several witnesses to the explosion; an oil slick and debris were found; and after the disaster, the US Navy grounded all other PBM-Mariner seaplanes. The aircraft had already gained the ominous nickname ‘flying gas tanks’.
It remains to be seen, however, whether Mr Kruszelnicki, a popular science pundit on Australian TV and radio, will succeed in his attempt to close down the Bermuda Triangle ‘mystery’.
Very similar efforts have been made in the past.
Lloyd’s of London has been saying that Bermuda Triangle disappearances occur at the same rate as everywhere else since at least 1975.
That, however, was a bad year for Bermuda Triangle debunking, because Charles Berlitz’s book The Bermuda Triangle, published in 1974, was on its way to selling 20 million copies in 30 languages.
By 1977 the Bermuda Triangle had gained such mass appeal that Steven Spielberg included references to it in his avowedly fictional film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which depicted the crews of Flight 19 as having been abducted by aliens.
Seemingly undaunted, Lloyd’s of London has regularly repeated its claims about the unremarkable nature of the Bermuda Triangle.
In 1997 a spokesman backed up the claim that “There are just as many losses as in other wide expanses of ocean”, by adding that insurance premiums for voyages through the Bermuda Triangle were no higher than for any other routine sea journey.
This, however, had little noticeable effect.
The theories have proliferated, despite the fact that Gaddis’ Deadly Bermuda Triangle article had been published in an American magazine that sometimes promoted itself as “the magazine of masterpiece fiction”.
And despite the fact that Berlitz’s bestseller linked the Mary Celeste to the Bermuda Triangle, even though the ship had been found abandoned off the Azores, on the other side of the Atlantic, and its New York-Italy route would have taken it nowhere near the triangle.
It is now possible to go online and find theories that dismiss such absurd notions as planes and ships disappearing into some sort of black hole or time warp within the Bermuda Triangle, and instead explain: “The Bermuda Triangle is situated more or less in the middle of an area of the Atlantic Ocean that once housed Atlantis.
“When Atlantis was destroyed it sank to the very bottom of the ocean. While the ruined temples now play host to multitudinous underwater creatures, the great Atlantean fire-crystals that once provided so much of the tremendous power and energy that was found in Atlantis still exist.
“And they are still emitting strong energy beams into the universe.
“From time to time, the force field emitted by these damaged Atlantean fire-crystals becomes very powerful and any plane or ship coming within the influence of this force field disintegrates and is transformed into pure energy.”
New theories are constantly being put forward, some with a kernel of scientific truth to them.
Some have attributed Bermuda Triangle disappearances to explosive releases of methane gas, trapped as methane hydrate inside an icy crystalline cage of water molecules beneath the cold seabed of the deep ocean.
Such blowouts, it has been suggested, could release a giant plume of gas that could cause the sea to bubble like it was boiling, sinking ships because the resulting foam was much less dense than the water on which vessels normally floated.
The gas could also rise into the sky, producing a mixture of 5-15 per cent methane that would explode on contact with a hot aeroplane engine exhaust.
One United States Geological Survey scientist consulted on this theory admitted a gas hydrate blowout could indeed sink ships in the manner described.
The only problem, he said, that the most recent naturally-occurring hydrate gas blowout off the south-eastern US “probably occurred at the end of the glacial episode … about 15,000 years ago or more, when the more technically advanced men's ships were probably nothing more than hollow logs.”
Claims have emerged that a man said he had driven the Roswell UFO on a truck.
Investigators at the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) received an anonymous letter about an incident in around 1982 that could have helped shed light on the ongoing mystery.
The Roswell myth 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 allegedly taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.
The letter was sent to the US organisation in January, but details have just emerged after MUFON finished investigating the case.
It claims in around 1982, Jose “Che” Teran went into C&M tyre shop on Yarborough Drive in El Paso, Texas, as a customer, and told staff he was "personally involved in the Roswell Crash Incident."
A MUFON investigation report into the letter by Robert Spearing said: "According to the anonymous report sent to MUFON, Che said he was a truck driver with the US Army from an unknown location.
"He saw a damaged craft loaded onto his truck from viewing out his rearview mirrors. He saw a tarp covering it later.
"He was instructed by military personnel to sign a non-disclosure statement saying he saw nothing at risk of losing his military pension."
The letter said the story was overheard by a mechanic at C&M.
Che was said to be a regular customer, and would often tell staff the story.
The anonymous letter writer said it had been relayed to him by an employee of C&M.
MUFON, the world's biggest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research, has concluded investigating the claims.
He saw a damaged craft loaded onto his truck from viewing out his rearview mirrors. He saw a tarp covering it later.
Anonymous letter to MUFON
Investigators located Jose Che Teran’s stepson Fernando Jimenez, 77, and asked if he knew the story of the Roswell incident with his stepdad’s participation.
However, he was unable to find any living C&M staff.
The report said: "Mr Jimenez, frail and ailing, was sincere and cooperative. However, his knowledge was minimal.
"He could not recall the branch of service his step father was employed with.
"He also stated that he was well aware of the Roswell Crash Incident through television and newspaper accounts but his step-father never discussed the story with him."
MASTER SGT. ROSE REYNOLDS, U.S. AIR FORCE, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS // PUBLIC DOMAIN
Area 51 may be the world’s most famous secret military base. Established on an abandoned airfield in the Nevada desert, the facility has fueled the imaginations of conspiracy theorists scanning the skies for UFOs for decades. But the truth about Area 51’s origins, while secretive, isn’t as thrilling as alien autopsies and flying saucers.
According to Business Insider, the U.S. government intended to build a base where they could test a top-secret military aircraft without drawing attention from civilians or spies. That aircraft, the U-2 plane, needed to fly higher than any other manmade object in the skies. That way it could perform recon missions over the USSR without getting shot down.
How the U-2 Aircraft Made Area 51 Synonymous With UFOs
Bob Lazar, 58, said he reverse engineered recovered crashed alien flying saucers to try to develop their anti-gravity flying systems, at the mysterious base, which is guarded by armed security.
He spoke of UFOs being hidden in hangars carved out of the mountain sides close to the Nevada military base which is tucked away in the desert.
Mr Lazar's claims have divided the UFO community ever since, with many believing he a credible whistleblower, while others say he is a fantasist who has been debunked.
Now, two brothers claim they may have found something near Area 51, that sounds similar to what Mr Lazar described.
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Claims have been made this could be the hiding place of the Roswell UFO at Area 51
The US Government did not acknowledge the existence of Area 51 until 2013, but it is now commonly accepted research is done their on new USAF spy craft.
However, conspiracy theorists are convinced that if flying saucers have ever crashed on Earth, the wreckage and alien bodies have been secretly taken to storage in Area 51.
One long-running claim is a UFO that allegedly crashed in the New Mexico desert near Roswell in 1947 and it is now stored at Area 51.
Blake and Brett Cousins run YouTube channel Thirdphaseofmoon, which runs videos about UFOs and aliens.
The brothers claim they have found what they believe could be a “UFO hangar” buried into the mountains nearby to the base, reports Dailystar.co.uk.
They used Google Earth to show aerial images of the strange sighting.
Blake said: “Right in this mountain range, if you see this driveway it seems to lead to some kind of hidden underground entrance.
“Are these two entries to a base within this mountain range?
“Are they harvesting minerals out of this mountain or is this an entrance to a military base?
“These are never-before-seen images. Is this a possible entrance where they’re hiding the UFOs and flying saucers recovered from Roswell?”
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.
These are never-before-seen images. Is this a possible entrance where they’re hiding the UFOs and flying saucers recovered from Roswell?
Blake Cousins
The brothers' clip has been seen more than 35,000 times since it was posted.
One viewer said: "Whatever they have hidden from people there, must be huge.”
Another said: “The mountain itself looks almost like an alien craft.”
A third added: “That underground facility might be used for the storage of nuclear weapons or nuclear waste.”
Mr Lazar's claims have been looked into by UFO researches and many claim that his alleged educational background does not stand up, as facilities he claims to have attended have no record of him.
However, Mr Lazar counter claimed his record had been wiped by the security services in a bid to discredit him.
Thirdphaseofmoon has also come in for its own criticism by UFO debunkers.
Third Phase of Moon features on a number of UFO website and YouTube channel black lists created by sceptical ufologists, who claim they have screened hoax and misrepresented footage.
The brothers deny this, claiming to be genuine researchers.
However, this month, they release a video alleging to show a new UFO just outside Dos Palos off Interstate 5 in California.
Yet, Scott Brando, who runs hoax-busting website ufoofinterest.org, says he tracked down the original footage... and it was a confirmed weather balloon filmed over Dos Palos, and videoed FIVE years ago
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Triangle-shaped craft over Oregon
Triangle-shaped craft over Oregon
This triangle UFO was recently filmed over Oregon.
Witness report:
New capture over Oregon. Similar in shape to footage from 2011. Fortunately a star is noticed to help provide perspective and travel direction. Some frame by frame analysis of clearer images to notice the subtle changes about the lights such as colors changing on each corner to red and/or yellow. Other smaller and dimmer openings are hinted at but unfortunately the pixelated image doesnt prove definitive. Sorry the image stabilization is not as good on the camera as original. Captured at the last second while looking over my shoulder moving quietly…
Locals Baffle With Multiple UFO Sightings Across Cornwall
Locals Baffle With Multiple UFO Sightings Across Cornwall
A substantial evidence of alien life has been found over Cornwall as what some UFO hunters believed. Dozens of locals claimed to have seen a strange translucent, shimmering craft in the sky over the past week.
The bizarre event was first observed on Monday. Surfer Kiefer Krishnan caught the odd phenomenon on his Go-Pro camera and uploaded it to Instagram.
Since then, dozens of videos were uploaded to social media sites that were recorded in different locations across England’s southwestern tip.
Some suggestions state that it could be a flock of birds or insects. However, experts say that this is unlikely because it has the same shape over several days in similar locations.
Others say that it could be from the Eden Project performing a public stunt. The Eden Project is scheduled to open its new Journey Into Space attractions on this 27th of July 2017.
Eden Project spokesperson said that they have a galaxy of ways to the tell the story of space, coining a phrase that the truth is out there.
Wetenschappers van de Amerikaanse Brown University hebben ontdekt dat onze maan mogelijks niet zo dor is als we denken. Ze vonden grote waterreserves onder de oppervlakte en die zouden in de toekomst de dorst kunnen lessen van astronauten op ruimtemissie.
De onderzoekers ontdekten de sporen van water door gebruik te maken van satellietdata. "Pas een tiental jaar geleden vonden wetenschappers het eerste echte bewijs van water op de maan, in afzettingen die de Apollomissies mee terugbrachten", zegt Shuai Li, een van de auteurs van de studie. "Ze vonden over de hele oppervlakte van de maan vulkanische gesteenten die ongewoon hoge concentraties water bevatten onder de oppervlakte, in vergelijking met het omliggende terrein."
Rijk De ontdekking van water in die eeuwenoude afzettingen voedde het idee dat de oppervlakte van de maan wel eens rijker zou kunnen zijn aan water dan eerst gedacht. "Een belangrijke vraag is of de stalen die Apollo meebracht representatief zijn voor de hele oppervlakte van de maan of eerder wijzen op zeldzame waterrijke gebieden in een anders droge mantel", aldus hoofdauteur Ralph Milliken.
"Aangezien de stalen van over de hele oppervlakte van de maan kwamen, denken we dat het niet om een anomalie gaat", gaat hij verder. "Dankzij satellietdata kunnen we ook vulkanisch materiaal bestuderen dat niet werd meegenomen door de Apollomissies. Het vertoont allemaal sporen van water. Wat onze these bevestigt."
Mars Volgens de wetenschap zou de maan ontstaan zijn uit puin van de aarde, dat vrijkwam nadat een object ter grootte van Mars insloeg op onze planeet. Dat gebeurde toen ons zonnestelsel pas werd gevormd. Wetenschappers namen aan dat de hitte die bij de botsing vrijkwam zó groot was, dat alle waterstof - nodig om water te vormen - verloren ging. "Het aantal aanwijzingen dat er water in de maan zou zitten neemt toe en suggereert dat het op een of andere manier toch overleefde. Of dat het op de maan kwam door de impact van asteroïden of kometen nog voor de maan helemaal verhard was", aldus Li.
De resultaten van het onderzoek staan vandaag in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature Geoscience.
Astrofysicus Stephen Hawking is niet overtuigd van de goede intenties van mogelijks buitenaards intelligent leven: "Het zou kunnen uitdraaien zoals de indianen toen ze Columbus ontmoetten".
Astrofysicus Stephen Hawking waarschuwt dat we maar beter behoedzaam zijn wanneer we proberen te communiceren met mogelijke buitenaardse beschavingsvormen. Intelligente 'aliens' zouden volgens Hawking wel eens plunderaars kunnen zijn die het op de bestaansmiddelen van vruchtbare planeten zoals de onze hebben gemunt die ze veroveren en koloniseren.
Hawking herhaalt zijn waarschuwing in een nieuwe documentaire: 'Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places'. Van de mogelijks bewoonbare buitenaardse wereld, Gliese 832c, zegt hij: "Op een dag kunnen we een signaal ontvangen van dergelijke planeet, maar we moeten beducht zijn als we antwoorden. De ontmoeting met een geavanceerde samenleving zou wel eens kunnen zijn zoals de indianen die Columbus tegen het lijf lopen. Dat is niet zo goed afgelopen".
Luidruchtig Als planeet is onze Aarde nogal luidruchtig: we zenden nu al eeuwenlang radio- en televisiesignalen de ruimte in. Sommige astronomen menen dat een buitenaardse beschaving die in staat is snel genoeg door de ruimte te reizen om onze planeet binnen te vallen met een bezettingsmacht ons al lang zou opgemerkt hebben.
Daarnaast is er ook de fermiparadox, die stelt dat er geen buitenaards leven is en dat we alleen zijn in het universum.
Reservaat Of er is de conservatietheorie, die stelt dat meer geavanceerd leven onze planeet aan zijn lot heeft overgelaten totdat we hier een zeker niveau van ontwikkeling hebben bereikt en dat onze planeet in wezen een reservaat is.
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Meer details over gemummificeerde ‘aliens’ uit Peru. Is dit één van de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van de 21e eeuw?
Meer details over gemummificeerde ‘aliens’ uit Peru. Is dit één van de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van de 21e eeuw?
Gaia.comheeft een video geplaatst waarin de graftombe te zien zou zijn waarin eerder tenminste vijf mysterieuze mummies zijn gevonden.
Volgens de website was een man genaamd Mario degene die op de resten is gestuit.
De beelden werden op internet gezet nadat wetenschappers en het World Congress on Mummy Studies in een verklaring hadden gezegd dat het ging om een hoax.
Geheime ruimte
“Mario heeft sinds de jaren negentig geholpen bij de ontdekking van veel bekende archeologische vindplaatsen in Peru,” aldus de commentaarstem.
“Hij weet wat hij doet en hij weet wat hij heeft gevonden. Wat hij heeft gevonden behoort niet toe aan bekende Zuid-Amerikaanse culturen,” klinkt het verder.
De Mexicaanse journalist Jaime Maussan zegt in de video: “In deze graftombe trof hij twee sarcofagen aan in een geheime ruimte.”
Tunnels
“In de ene ruimte lagen alleen maar voorwerpen,” vervolgde hij. “In de tweede vond hij twee middelgrote lichamen en nog een aantal kleine lichamen.”
“Het grote lichaam bevond zich buiten de sarcofaag,” zei Maussan nog.
Mario denkt dat slechts 10 procent van de site is blootgelegd, misschien nog minder, en heeft geen idee hoe diep de ondergrondse tunnels reiken.
Voorouders
Het team dat het onderzoek leidt zegt de mummies te hebben gekregen van de Franse archeoloog Thierry Jamin, die ze op zijn beurt weer kreeg van Mario.
Jamin is voorzitter van het Instituto Inkari in Peru, een ngo die zich bezighoudt met archeologie.
Maussan zei eerder tijdens een persconferentie dat de wezens die in de tombe zijn gevonden ooit samenleefden met onze voorouders.
1700 jaar oud
“Deze mummies zijn in tombes voor mensen begraven,” zei hij. “Dit betekent dat ze samenleefden met onze voorouders, geen vijanden waren en dat er sprake was van wederzijds respect.”
Hij sprak van één van de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van de 21e eeuw.
Het team claimt dat de botten 1700 jaar oud zijn en dat de wezens drie vingers aan elke hand en vreemd gevormde schedels hadden.
CIA voerde gruwelijke experimenten uit op nietsvermoedende mensen. Bestaat dit bizarre programma nog steeds?
CIA voerde gruwelijke experimenten uit op nietsvermoedende mensen. Bestaat dit bizarre programma nog steeds?
MK-ULTRA was een illegaal programma van de CIA waarbij onderzoek werd gedaan naar hersenspoeling.
Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werden nazi-wetenschappers die onethische en gruwelijke experimenten op mensen hadden gedaan overgehaald naar de VS, om daar voor de CIA hetzelfde te gaan doen.
MK-ULTRA werd in april 1953 in het leven geroepen door toenmalig CIA-baas Allen Dulles en geleid door dr. Sidney Gottlieb.
Waarheidsserum
De CIA wilde een waarheidsserum ontwikkelen dat gebruikt kon worden tijdens ondervragingen.
Ook wilde men onderzoek doen naar het hersenspoelen van mensen, met als doel om bijvoorbeeld politieke leiders over te nemen of moorden te plegen.
Twintig jaar lang was de CIA betrokken bij een hele reeks illegale activiteiten. Nietsvermoedende proefpersonen werden onderworpen aan manieren om hun mentale staat en hersenfuncties te manipuleren.
Maling
Ze kregen drugs toegediend, werden gehypnotiseerd, uit de slaap gehouden, mishandeld, seksueel misbruikt en gemarteld.
De CIA had maling aan de Code van Neurenberg en diende gevangenen, drugsverslaafden en prostituees drugs toe om te kijken wat voor effect dat zou hebben.
Ook medewerkers van de spionagedienst, militairen, artsen en andere overheidsagenten kregen drugs toegediend.
Watergateschandaal
Zo zette de CIA meerdere bordelen op in Californië, waar klanten werden gedrogeerd.
Tegen 1962 hadden de spionagedienst en het leger een aantal drugs ontwikkeld die 100 keer krachtiger waren dan LSD.
In 1973, rond het Watergateschandaal, liet toenmalig CIA-directeur Richard Helms alle documenten over MK-ULTRA vernietigen. Hij was bang dat de geheime activiteiten van zijn dienst aan het licht zouden komen.
Topje van de ijsberg
In 1977 werden na een Wob-verzoek 20.000 documenten over het project opgedoken. Die waren per ongeluk in een ander gebouw opgeslagen.
Ex-CIA-agent Miles Copeland zei dat deze documenten slechts het topje van de ijsberg zijn. Hij zei ook dat het project nooit is stopgezet en mogelijk tot op de dag van vandaag bestaat.
Linkin Park-zanger Chester Bennington zag UFO vlak voor zijn dood. In deze video doet hij een boekje open
Linkin Park-zanger Chester Bennington zag UFO vlak voor zijn dood. In deze video doet hij een boekje open
Linkin Park-zanger Chester Bennington zag enkele maanden voor zijn dood een UFO. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Mirror.
De 41-jarige muzikant deelde zijn ervaring tijdens een gesprek met een presentator van radiozender KIIS-FM. Het fragment is onlangs op YouTube verschenen.
Over het incident, dat zich voordeed in Arizona, zei de zanger: “Het is een miljoen procent waar. Het is de enige keer dat ik iets heb gezien waar ik geen logische verklaring voor had.”
Te bizar
“Ik herinner me nog heel goed wat ik zag,” aldus Bennington. “Ik krijg nog steeds dat griezelige gevoel, dat je weet dat het niet door mensen gemaakt kan zijn. Het was te bizar.”
Het filmpje is in de dagen na zijn dood viral gegaan en al ruim 150.000 keer bekeken.
Bennington pleegde afgelopen week zelfmoord. In zijn woning in de buurt van Los Angeles werd zijn levenloze lichaam gevonden. De zanger laat zes kinderen bij twee vrouwen achter.
Geworsteld
Van de Linkin Park-frontman was bekend dat hij jarenlang heeft geworsteld met een drugs- en alcoholprobleem. Volgens sommigen zou dat komen omdat hij als kind was misbruikt.
De Linkin Park-zanger was een goede vriend van Soundgarden-zanger Chris Cornell, die in mei zelfmoord pleegde.
Tournee
Rockband Linkin Park brak in 2000 door. De band verkocht ruim 60 miljoen albums en won twee Grammy’s.
De band zat middenin een tournee door de Verenigde Staten. De rockband trad geregeld op in Nederland, een maand geleden stond Linkin Park nog in de Ziggo Dome.
INGANG VOOR UFO'S ONTDEKT IN TOP VAN STRATOVULKAAN ( VIDEO )
INGANG VOOR UFO'S ONTDEKT IN TOP VAN STRATOVULKAAN ( VIDEO )
Een aantal onderzoekers is wild enthousiast omdat zij ervan overtuigd zijn dat ze een soort hangar-deur voor UFO’s hebben ontdekt in een Amerikaanse stratovulkaan.
Het gaat hier om de inmiddels beroemde Mount Adams waar in 1947 al UFO’s werden waargenomen en waar wij de naam vliegende schotels aan te danken hebben.
In de Amerikaanse staat Washington ligt wat men noemt de Cascade Range.
De Cascade Range, Cascadegebergte of de Cascades vormen een gebergte evenwijdig aan de westkust van de Verenigde Staten. Het gebergte bestaat uit brede, besneeuwde toppen met een vulkanische oorsprong. Veel van deze vulkanen zijn ook tegenwoordig nog actief. Het gebied loopt van noord naar zuid vanaf Brits-Columbia door de Amerikaanse staten Washington en Oregon tot aan het Shasta Cascade-gebied in het noorden van Californië.
Eén van die stratovulkanen is Mount Adams dat met zijn ruim 3.700 meter hoogte een indrukwekkende verschijning is.
Deze berg is heel goed te zien vanaf de ranch van James Gilliland, de man die bekend is geworden omdat hij er dikwijls in slaagt om op commando UFO’s te laten verschijnen.
Er zijn dan ook altijd gasten te vinden op deze ECETI ranch en een aantal van hen heeft nu een bijzondere ontdekking gedaan aangaande Mount Adams.
Deze speciale vulkaan werd al in verband gebracht met UFO’s door de spectaculaire waarneming van Kenneth Arnold destijds. Dit gebeurde enkele weken voor de crash bij Roswell en wie dit bijzondere verhaal wil lezen, kan dat hier doen.Arnold is ook de man van wie de uitdrukking “vliegende schotel” afkomstig is.
Enkele dagen geleden maakten gasten foto's en video-opnames van de berg die vanaf de ECETI ranch heel goed te zien is.
Echter, tot hun stomme verbazing zien ze op één van de toppen van Mount Adams iets merkwaardigs. Iets dat lijkt op een ingang of een soort deur voor een hangar.
De avond voordat men dit ontdekt, zitten er ’s avonds een aantal gasten in de tuin en tot hun stomme verbazing zien ze een grijs uitziend object vliegen dat qua vorm veel weg heeft van wat Kenneth Arnold destijds zag. Een klassieke of ook wel retro UFO genoemd.
In de dagen nadat ze ingang hebben ontdekt, blijven de gasten op de ranch foto’s maken en ja hoor, daarop zijn UFO’s te zien, zoals de volgende:
Dit alles heeft weer tot gevolg dat meer mensen daar op onderzoek uit zijn gegaan, waarbij één ufoloog zelfs meent een groot buitenaards of althans vreemd wezen op de berghelling van Mount Adams te hebben ontdekt.
Hoe het ook zij, het is duidelijk dat er rondom en waarschijnlijk ook binnen in deze inmiddels beroemde Mount Adams, voor ons onbekende objecten rondvliegen.
THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: UFO COVER UP, HUMAN SPACE FLEET, ALIEN WAR
THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: UFO COVER UP, HUMAN SPACE FLEET, ALIEN WAR
We were born, and we live in a world we do not know. We do not know how it works and we live in it every day as we can, each of us. We have not been taught about the world we live in. We have not been taught to understand how it works, how the systems that make up it work.
Ever since ancient times, people have noticed that reality is relative and can change depending on many external factors. Starting from this theory, British philosopher Nick Bostrom developed a Matrix theory or even a digital prison.
An extraterrestrial race, possibly creative, reaching an impressive technological level and wanting to play God. In this way, the Universe was created, which is nothing more than a virtual reality programmed with the help of a supercomputer. This programmed reality develops and exists with the help of principles, which we call physical laws. But like most things, it's just a theory that can not be demonstrated for the moment, what is described as a theory of conspiracy.
Those who believe in aliens are wondering if "Anunnaki" are actually "gray aliens"; Otherwise, what would be the difference between these alien races?
Many researchers of UFOs and aliens, seem to agree that the Anunnaki aliens really represent a different race from gray aliens and that in many ways.
Grey aliens are described as an extraterrestrial race as extra-dimensional beings, and some believe that they were present in our solar system only as a result of the fact that Anunnaki were no longer active in this area.
However, several representations of gray extraterrestrials have been found in old cave drawings of various cultures, which could be proof that gray aliens have visited us since ancient times.
STATE-LEVEL TIES, BETWEEN PRESIDENTS AND ALIENS?
The first US president to start this series of contacts was Harry Truman. In 1949, he ordered the army to break down UFOs.
Eisenhower followed the same line. Kill UFOs, he ordered! This order was retired in 1950 when he realized that alien technology was advanced and the US could benefit from it.
Moreover, the US authorities realized that they could not bring down UFOs, given the spectacular tenology they were benefiting.
It is said that in 1950, Eisenhower had his first encounter with aliens, then changed his approach.
Jimmy Carter had promised in the election campaign that he would make light in this case. After becoming president, he was advised not to be involved or make statements, for reasons of security and national panic.
Ronald Reagan, when he was an actor and cast a movie on a hill in Los Angeles, was able to watch a UFO for 45 minutes with the shooting team.
Because of his state of health, memory loss, top secret information was no longer gaining. Decisions were taken on the back of power.
George Bush, formerly the head of the CIA, knew how to avoid this subject with elegance and keep it as secret as possible. Thanks to her friend, Laurence Rockefeller, who was interested in alien phenomena, Clinton has been asked many times about the connection between UFOs and the Air Force.
Diplomat, Clinton made a joke or changed the subject. Hillary asked Rockefeller not to open this topic in the presence of the president because he is a national security one.
Regarding Obama, he has been asked several times about this subject. With an accomplice smile, Obama responded with a joke.
DOES THE VATICAN ALSO BELIEVE IN ALIENS?
"It is possible that life also exists on other planets," said Reverend Jose Gabriel Funes, a 45-year-old Jesuit priest who is at the head of the Vatican's Astronomical Observatory and advises Benedict XVI.
In an interview published in the Vatican newspaper entitled "The alien is my brother," Funes said that the large number of galaxies and planets in the universe entitles people to imagine that life has developed elsewhere: "In such a great universe you can not rule out this hypothesis.
" He pointed out, however, that aliens are not an obstacle to faith in God: "Just as there is a multitude of creatures on Earth, some beings created by God, perhaps even intelligent, could populate other planets.
This does not contradict our faith because we can not limit the creative freedom of God. "
The testing of such experimental craft is believed to be responsible for the huge boom in flying saucer and UFO sightings across the US in the 1940s and 1950s.
The US ploughed £80million developing the Avrocar, but cash for the flying saucer eventually dried up in June 1961, and the doomed project was ditched.
Designs for the Avrocar were shelved after it was found to only be able to hover around one foot off the ground.
When it travelled at high speeds, it became extremely unstable and it was far too loud to be a combat vehicle.
What caused the massive explosion on the farside of the sun?
What caused the massive explosion on the farside of the sun?
On Sunday July 23, 2017 a spectacular CME emerged from the farside of the sun. Coronagraphs onboard the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) tracked the fast-moving cloud as it billowed into space.
NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft, which has a partial view of the sun's farside, identified the source of the blast as active sunspot AR2665.
Sunspot AR2665 will be back on the Earth side of the sun a little more than a week from now. If the sunspot remains active, it could bring a new round of geomagnetic storms and auroras to our planet in early August, reports Spaceweather.
Hypothetical:
The source of the enormous explosion on the farside of the sun is not active sunspot AR2665 but a strange black rectangular anomaly inside the fast-moving cloud.
Now, if you look at the moment the explosion occurs and you follow the fast-moving cloud as it billowed into space then you see something strange inside the cloud that looks like a rectangular black box connected to a string of light (see image 1) above the anomaly. Next, it seems as the string of light anomaly (see image 2) changes into a solid structure as it emerges from the black anomaly before disappearing into space.
From 3.30 minutes to 3.40 minutes in the below video you can see the massive explosion and the alleged anomalies.
Without a doubt, the source is sunspot AR2665 and the strange anomalies are not what it seems to be. They are just the effect of the fast-moving cloud. But how is it possible that such a cloud can produce nearly 100% rectangular shapes?
Coincidentally, Sunday’s farside explosion occurred on the 5th anniversary of another significant farside event: The Solar Superstorm of July 23, 2012. That superstorm, which has been compared to the historic Carrington Event of 1859, could have caused widespread power blackouts if it had not missed our planet.
Once our astronomers eventually determine that we aren’t alone in the universe, and we finally get to meet “real” aliens, I wonder if we’ll all sit down and have “The Great Cosmic Powwow” with them; an intergalactic meeting of the minds, of sorts.
Among other things, maybe we’ll finally address the issue of UFOs, and ask our alien neighbors whether the phenomena so many have seen over the years had been them all along.
“No,” I imagine the aliens saying. “That isn’t us, but we have those things (UFOs) too. We were hoping you guys might know what they are.”
Since the end of the Second World War, UFOs have been a cultural staple, both in America, and elsewhere around the world. Many argue that these objects—whatever they are—predate the war, and that for a variety of reasons, they became more apparent to us during the years after the conflict. Reasons for this might include the development of new technologies, such as radar, in addition to advancements in existing areas, like aviation, which could have made an existing phenomenon more apparent to us. Alternatively, it could also be the case that certain technologies harnessed by humans during the war—the atom bomb, for instance—might have garnered the attention of other forms of intelligence, resulting in an increased presence here on Earth in response to a perceived threat… if not to protect us from ourselves.
Whatever the case, humankind harnessing the power of the atom represents a fundamental turning point in the history and development of life on Earth. It’s no wonder then, that it has figured into pop culture as prominently as speculative scenarios pertaining to UFO origins. Perhaps there is no place in recent memory where this was more apparent than in David Lynch and Mark Frost’s seminal television series, Twin Peaks.
With the original 1990s Twin Peaks series, Lynch and Frost managed to work in a number of esoteric or paranormal themes. Project Blue Book, for instance, is introduced via the spiritually-developed character named Major Garland Briggs, as well as references to the SETI program. Toward the end of the original series’ first season, Major Briggs visits the show’s protagonist, Special Agent Dale Cooper, and shows him a message featuring his name, which seemingly came from otherworldly intelligences (while resembling a binary read-out featuring messages from space, it is later determined that this message actually came from a forest near Twin Peaks, in association with entrance points to a pair of otherworldly locations known as the White and Black Lodges). And of course, the symbolism relating to owls (“the owls are not what they seem”) seems ever-present throughout the original Twin Peaks series; this parallels imagery seen in books like Whitley Strieber’s Communion, and more recently author Mike Clelland’s The Messengers.
In the recent Showtime reboot Twin Peaks: The Return, we revisit several of the show’s original characters and themes, although much has changed, particularly in terms of style and atmosphere. A number of reviews have commented about how the new series is decidedly more “Lynch” than its 1990s incarnation, drawing from elements of Lynch’s other work that include Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, and Lost Highway, to name a few.
Kyle MacLachlan portraying Agent Dale B. Cooper
Granted, being “more Lynch” has also made the new series very different from its predecessor, and thus, some have struggled to get into the world of characters like “Dougie Jones” and some of the other new additions; all the while waiting, hoping… praying that some of the old, familiar quirkiness of Special Agent Dale B. Cooper and his cohorts will soon begin to reappear.
A particularly strange addition to the new series is its eighth episode, in which the viewer is taken on a bizarre, black-and-white trip through space, time, and an explosive alternative post-war history of the United States. The origin of “Bob,” the demonic bodiless killer from the original series, is seemingly explained, in that we see his essence born out of the initial tests of a nuclear weapon at White Sands, New Mexico.
Again, the parallel seems to be one which is similar to Ufology, in that with the arrival of humanity on the nuclear playground, strange phenomena also begins to appear on Earth (whether or not such things are overtly apparent at first). In UFO literature, we first called these things flying saucers; but in the realm of Twin Peaks, we have Bob, and seemingly in response, otherworldly characters like “The Giant” and his companion, the “Glamorous Woman” who resides with him in the Black Lodge, which seem to take note of what they see happening on Earth. In response to the explosion at White Sands, this ethereal pair produce and send an orange orb toward Earth which bears the essence of Laura Palmer, the femme tragique and focal point of the Twin Peaks universe; thus Laura Palmer, whose death serves as the focus for the original show’s first season, is shown to represent a kind of balance against Bob, and more broadly, the forces of good and evil held in the balance.
Actress Sheryl Lee, who portrayed Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks.
In the final minutes of the new series’ eighth episode, we are further treated to the appearance of a bizarre “frog-fly”, a mysterious young couple… and perhaps my favorite, a demonic Lumberjack who asks his victims if they’ve “GOTTA LIGHT?” before temporarily taking over a radio station, where he grabs the microphone and lapses into a bizarre poem about water, wells, horses, and utter darkness as he murders the night shift employees by applying crushing force to their craniums.
The entire sequence described above, utterly bizarre though it is, made episode 8 one of my favorites of the new series (oh, and of course, a performance by “The Nine Inch Nails”, as they are called during their introduction. Very cool). And let’s be clear: while we can extrapolate further on the parallels between Twin Peaks, the Atomic Age, and UFOs, I’m not entirely certain that anybody really knows what the “symbolism” Lynch was going for may have been. Hell, maybe Lynch himself doesn’t quite know.
In other words, we can’t be sure that all of the visual elements he incorporated were intentionally symbolic. Sometimes, I think that it’s safe with the arts to try that old method of, “throw it against the wall, and see what sticks.“ But what often results is that people attribute their own meaning to what they see thereafter, which makes it all the more meaningful when they watch it. We assign our own symbolism to the unique palate of weirdness that Lynch and Frost provide. Assigning our own symbolism to what we see makes it deeper, and more personal, as a viewing experience.
While the new series is certainly odd, and has already become renowned (if you want to call it that) for taking its sweet time, If we know Lynch, we know that he is the master of the slow-build. So I’m certain this will all pan out as intended, and fairly soon… hopefully. We still have a lot to enjoy along the way, but in the meantime, it is good to see that the program’s use of history and pop cultural references still keep us thinking about the more subtle instances of weirdness in life.
Australian scientist and popular TV science commentator Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki had that to say about a famous disappearance in 1945 of a military aircraft over the so-called Bermuda Triangle and would probably say this or something similar about most unexplained vanishings of planes and ships in the triangular area of the Atlantic most often defined as the waters between Miami, Bermuda and San Juan, Puerto Rico. In a recent interview with news.com.au, Dr. Kruszelnicki claimed he had solved the mystery of the triangle.
“According to Lloyds of London and the US coast guard, the number of planes that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis.”
That’s the starting point for his argument that there’s no mystery to the Devil’s Triangle. The area is an extremely busy corridor for both ships and planes between ports in North America, Europe and the Caribbean. However, the people who have to pay when things go wrong – the insurance companies – say the statistics show that it is no more or less dangerous than any other busy transportation passageway.
Based on the numbers, Dr. Kruszelnicki says planes and boats disappear in the Bermuda Triangle area for exactly the same reason as they do everywhere else … weather and operator error. He uses the famous 1945 vanishing of Flight 19 as an example. The training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers disappeared on December 5, 1945, somewhere in the triangle area. Dr Kruszelnicki notes that radio transcripts show that the squadron most likely ran out of fuel due to the inexperience of the junior pilots and navigational and judgmental errors made by Flight 19’s leader, Lieutenant Charles Taylor.
“(Lt. Taylor) arrived with a hangover, flew off without a watch, and had a history of getting lost and ditching his plane twice before.”
The mystery deepened at the time when a PBM Mariner flying boat rescue aircraft with a 13-man crew also disappeared. Dr Kruszelnicki points out that the weather was bad, the waves were high and the Mariner was prone to vapor leaks when fully fueled, which caused the planes to explode. Guess what happened, according to a tanker in the area?
“The plane that went to rescue then went missing was seen to blow up.”
It didn’t vanish without a trace. Dr. Kruszelnicki blames many of the Bermuda Triangle theories on Charles Berlitz, author of the 1974 book The Bermuda Triangle, who said “the people and planes and ships that have reportedly disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle have been victims of some sort of electromagnetic disturbances that cause them to disintegrate and fall into the sea.”
Does the Bermuda Triangle mystery needle point to Kruszelnicki, Berlitz or somewhere in the middle? Many Triangle vanishings like Flight 19 and its rescue plane have been explained by weather or errors. But not all of them. Statistics, trend analyses and extrapolations are excellent tools and reliable enough that Lloyds of London bets vast sums of money on them. But are they foolproof?
Who would you rather have planning your next Atlantic crossing – an actuary or an actual Bermuda Triangle believer?
CONFORM PROOF OF LIFE ON MARS' - SHOCK CLAIM AFTER 'ALIEN FOUND' IN NASA PICTURE
CONFORM PROOF OF LIFE ON MARS' - SHOCK CLAIM AFTER 'ALIEN FOUND' IN NASA PICTURE
Footage which claims to demonstrate a small alien peeping out from a rock on the scarlet Planet has gone viral online. The video post on YouTube by Paranormal Crucible is at liberty ‘Tiny Alien Spotted On Mars?’ The channel is said to have dotted the humanoid in images uploaded online by NASA from the Curiosity Rover droid which is scouring the outside for signs of life - but appear to have missed it.
Sign of life? A tiny alien or presently shading on a rock? A promotional blurb for the video said: "Interesting irregularity found by the rover, which looks like a little Martian. "I have colo rised the picture and added eyes to the head so its easier to see, but all is there in the original picture, whatever it is it looks humanoid, remind me of the Atacama Alien, about the similar size too, this one is around 6 inches." It is the newest in a series of alleged tiny aliens found in NASA images of Mars, and a number of alien chasers claim the planet could be occupied by tiny humanoids asa result. One of the believer is Scott C Waring, of Ufosightingsdaily.com. He blogged in a position entitled ‘6-Inch Alien Seen On Mars In NASA Photo, Absolute Proof Life exist On Mars, June 2016’: "This human-like figure is peering approximately the corner of a rock wall and I can make out its skull, chest, shoulders, arm, leg, knee, and foot from this one close up photo. "Paranormal Crucible say its about 6 inches...I agree. This is one of the species that once live on Mars and is still living there now, but in inferior numbers. The mysteries of Mars just keep enlightening themselves one by one."
Except Paranormal Crucible has been criticised for its use of digital, editing and treatment of images to make them come into view more like what is life form suggested. Sceptics argue these finds are presently simple cases of pareidolia where the brain trucks the eye into seeing family shape or matter in patterns or textures.
If you've been following social media posts from people in Cornwall over the last week, then you may think the alien invasion of Earth has begun in the English peninsula. Multiple seemingly unconnected people posted videos over Twitter and Instagram showing a strange, swarming formation hovering in the sky along with the hashtag #ufocornwall. But it wasn't aliens. It was likely the work of the Eden Project.
The Eden Project is a series of massive greenhouses in Cornwall with connected transparent domes filled with exotic plants. It's a visually stunning place and it's about to launch a new attraction called Journey Into Space, which includes an Astronaut Academy, an astronomy photography exhibit and something called "Alien Encounter."
The swarming UFO videos seem to have been orchestrated by the Eden Project as a publicity stunt tied into the alien-themed part of the experience.
The Eden Project describes the Alien Encounter as "An alien spaceship has crash-landed at Eden, and its inhabitants are stranded here. We're working on a way to communicate with these mysterious life-forms -- can you help us decode their signals and language?" It sounds a bit like the 2016 movie "Arrival."
A tweet on Monday with a short video showing the swarm-UFO beaming down to the Eden Project seems to confirm the origin of the social-media videos. The Eden Project has not yet responded to a request for comment.
As far as marketing stunts go, the UFO sightings is a decent one. The Eden Project had the good sense to create an interesting-looking alien presence that mimics natural phenomena like insect swarms or a starling murmuration. Some people will be disappointed to discover the hoax, but never fear, there will always be more UFO sightings to enjoy.
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Many scientists say that, life can be possible on other planet. Even a formula have been developed called "Drake Equation" which shows the possibility of finding life form on other planet. Here are 5 facts which shows that we have already encountered aliens.
1. The Skylab III Mission
Skylab III was the second manned mission to the first American space station. The mission began on July 28, 1973 and lasted 60 days. The crew was testing scientific experiments in space.
The astronauts saw a UFO that paced them for a while. The three observed the bright-red flashing object for 10 minutes, taking 4 coloured photographs.
While communicating with NASA the astronauts referred to what they were seeing with cryptic messages to avoid spreading unwanted attention.
In the brief time they were observing the object, now of the crew members decided to estimate its size and distance.
By measuring the delay between when Skylab III went in to the Earth's shadow, and when the UFO went in to the Earth's shadow. He was able to obtain a distance measurement, which showed the object to be 40-45 Km away and 243 metres in diameter.
At that time, in 1973, the Skylab was the largest object ever put in orbit, and it measured 43 meters in diameter.
2. Collisions of Planes and UFOs
Ever since man acquired the ability to fly, there have been more and more stories about encountering "delta-shaped" objects in mid flight.
With the increasing use of commercial airlines, the sightings have escalated tremendously, with many of the reporting being recorded.
Here's some of them:
ATC: Hey Cactus 564, say again... 564: I said there's Nothing on their radar on the other centres at all on that particular area, that object that's up in the air? ATC: It's up in the air? 564: Affirmative
ATC: What's the altitude about? 564: I don't know, probably right around 30,000 or so, there's Strobe, it starts from going counterclockwise and the Length is Unbelievable
ATC: Swiss Air 127, go ahead. 127: Yes Sir, I don;t know what it was but it just Overflew like a couple of hundred feet above us. I don't know if it was a rocket or whatever but incredibly fast, opposite direction. It was too fast to be an airplane.
3. The "Wow" signal
For over 50 years scientists have been listening to the skies in hopes of receiving messages from other life forms. Until August 15, 1977, there has been zero messages received.
The wow! signal is a 72 second transmission picked up by the Big Ear radio observatory at Ohio State University, coming from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
It's name comes from what Jerry R. Ehman, the man who recorded it, wrote down when he printed a copy of the signal.
The signal in words was "6EQUJ5".
There have been many theories as of what the signal meant, but none of them are conclusive.
4. The Apollo 11 Mission
Similar to the Skylab III case, during their journey to the moon, the Apollo 11 crew faced and observed a Ufo throughout the third day of their mission.
To avoid compromising the mission, the astronauts decided to use cryptic messages when the communication back to Huston.
"Huston, how far away is the S-IVB?" was what their cystic message said.
Nice the S-IVB, the detaching part of the spacecraft, was the only other object that they could have been observing, their cryptic message was saying " Huston, is what we are seeing what we think it is, or could it just be our detached S-IVB?"
The reply, stating that the S-IVB was 6,000 nautical miles away from them, confirmed what he crew was thinking....
After that they never talked about it for fear of ridicule... not even NASA knew this at the time.
5. Aliens DNA Samples
On the morning of July 23, 1992 at 7:30 am, while Peter Khoury was in bed, two beings in the forms of tall, beautiful Nordic women, with exceptionally long face features, visited the man in this room.
One appeared to have Asian Characteristics, with dark hair, big eyes, a long nose and slightly dark skin, while the other one was white as milk and had typical Nordic hair. The two beings were communicating telepathically with Peter Khoury who, once awaken by them, was shocked to find the two in front of him. Before he could do anything, one of the women grabbed him by the head and pushed him towards her breasts. The man, still in shock, reacted violently by biting the woman's nipple.
He chocked a little with the nipple in his throat, but managed to swallow it, noticing no blood whatsoever. The reaction of the woman was null. she communicated telepathically to the other one saying that had made a mistake. The man was able to hear their conversation, at the end of which they disappeared. Immediately after that he went to the bathroom because he was feeling pain on his penis. When he checked what was causing that feeling, he was shocked to find some of the blond woman's hair attached around that area.
He removed the hair with a lot of pain and effort and secured it so that he could send it for examination. After that he had six hour erection. At first it appeared to have come from a light skinned caucasian like looking woman. The thin blond hair was examined and was concluded that it could not have come from a normal human of that racial type.
Not only did Peter Khoury's story have physical proof, but it was also backed up by the lie detector, which concluded that he was stating the truth about an event that had really happened.
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Bizarrely, a team of British intelligence officers were assigned to investigate weird sightings in the skies in World War I – becoming the precursor of UFO investigators both real and fictional.
Most of us think of UFOs and mysterious sightings in the sky as a modern phenomenon – but ‘phantom airships’ became a huge panic in the early years of the Twentieth century, and regularly featured in newspapers.
By the time of World War I, a more scientific approach was needed.
A predecessor to MI5 – Military Observation Department Five (MO5), under the control of Lieutenant Colonel Kell – was assigned the task of classifying sightings in the air.
Amid panic about enemy airships, it was a military necessity to weed out ‘phantom airships’ from real aircraft sightings.
Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of the First World War says, ‘It can be regarded as the first ever official guide to studying UFO reports long before the CIA or any other organisation got with the subject when ‘flying saucer’ sightings were all the rage after WWII.
‘During WW! there were numerous reports of mysterious lights and objects moving about in the skies. These were studied by the Assistant Director of Military Aeronautics, a post held by Lieutenant Colonel W.S. Brancker; the department of Military Training; and by the Brancker and Kell can be regarded as the first Mulder and Scully who studied the flow of UFO-type reports that flowed into their offices.’
Lights in the sky
The reports sent to Brancker and Kell sound eerily like today’s UFO sightings – and came amid widespread panic not only about enemy airships but also more mysterious sightings.
A 1914 telegram from the Chief Constable of Lancashire said, ‘Large red light seen at 8.45pm today passing over Runcorn Bridge Arches. Immediately afterwards, an explosion was heard in Widnes and Runcorn.
The guidelines set out by the war office helped officers of MO5 categorise sightings as of natural origin – or as something more mysterious.
Flying saucers
Various legends about extraterrestrials have circulated about World War I – of which the most astonishing (and implausible) is that German fighter ace the Red Baron shot down a UFO.
Fellow pilots claimed, after the war, that Baron Manfred von Richtofen shot down a flying saucer type craft – from which two inhabitants fled.
Fellow German pilot Peter Waitzrick said that the fighters saw an aircraft like an upside down saucer, ‘We were terrified because we’d never seen anything like it before. The Baron immediately opened fire and the thing went down like a rock, shearing off tree limbs as it crashed into the woods.
‘There’s no doubt in my mind that the Baron shot down some kind of spacecraft from another planet and those little guys who ran off into the woods were space aliens of some kind.
The story is highly dubious, however – given that Waitzrick didn’t share his story until 80 years after the event, and chose to do so in the U.S. tabloid Weekly World News.
The disappearing soldiers
UFO fans claim that aliens may have ‘abducted’ people from the battlefields of World War I – with a claim of hundreds of men ‘vanishing’ into a cloud during the Gallipoli campaign.
Witnesses claimed to have seen British soldiers marching towards Hill 60 at Sulva Bay in Turkey on August 21, 1915 – before being snatched up by a ‘solid-looking’ cloud.
A statement from a supposed eye-witness published in 1965, said, ‘When they arrived at this cloud they marched straight into it with no hesitation, but no one ever came out to fight. About an hour later this cloud very unobtrusively lifted off the ground until it joined other similar clouds, then they all moved away northwards.’
But it seems likely that this is a hoax. Documents released after the Armistice suggest that 180 bodies found behind enemy lines are those of the ‘missing soldiers’ – and the story of the cloud is a myth.
The ‘Angel’ of Mons
An ‘Angel’ which many British soldiers credited with saving their lives in one of the first, brutal battles of World War I has been seized on by UFO fans as evidence of extraterrestrials…
Many soldiers credited the strange apparitions with saving their lives – and the story became a staple of parish magazines.
The battle had been one of the first in which the British faced the Germans – and despite retreating, only 1,600 lives were lost.
Decades later, debate rages still – some attributing the ‘Angel’ to a short story from the Evening Standard, others to British intelligence.
The popular author, Arthur Machen claimed that this legend was created by his fictional ‘The Bowmen’ story published in The Evening News, 29 September 1914.
In it, British soldiers call on St George for aid, and are helped by ghostly bowmen from the Battle of Agincourt. One fact that lends weight to this theory is that few reports of the incident exist before Machen’s story.
Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of World War 1 says, ‘Even today the legend is swathed in controversy. Theories about it range from it being a myth based on Machen’s story, the product of hallucinations due to stress and exhaustion, real angelic visitations, ghosts, swamp gas, airships or alien UFOs projecting or shaping themselves to the expectations of the witnesses.’
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NASA OPENLY ADMITS ALIEN LIFE EXISTS: GET READY FOR DISCLOSURE
NASA OPENLY ADMITS ALIEN LIFE EXISTS: GET READY FOR DISCLOSURE
Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.
Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:
“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”
It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.
Stofan goes on to say:
“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”
What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, our shadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.
William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.
We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millenia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10 million years.
Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.
Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:
“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”
It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.
Stofan goes on to say:
“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”
What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, our shadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.
William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.
We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millenia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10 million years old.
We will learn that a recent computer hacking retrieved millions of government and corporate personnel records, some say as part of documentation for Nuremburg-like trials, will begin soon against those who have mind-controlled, enslaved and tortured us. Undeniable photos of UFOs were also unearthed.
We will also learn that chemtrails and GMOs were the LEAST of plans made for us ‘sheeple’ and ‘useless eaters’ by a Luciferian cabal, and that President Harry Truman signed a document with certain ETs that allowed the ‘elite’ to conduct highly technological experiments with intelligence gained from these ETs in exchange for looking the other way when certain humans were abducted for ET experiments.
We will learn that we are not helpless, as we have been programmed to believe. We are, in fact, a rare humanoid race that has an incredible range of emotion and creative power. We will learn that our minds and emotions can either fuel chaos on this planet, or restore it to its rightful place of peace and cooperation, of care for others at least as much as ourselves.
We will learn that our ascension into infinitely peaceful beings is indeed possible, and it has been described in countless books, many of which have been suppressed along with UFO information.
NASA is telling us now that the likelihood of alien life is a ruse. Be sure to remember those who have been executed to try to prove this information to us decades ago, and to use discernment when the truth is finally revealed.
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NASA ADMITS: SOMEONE TOOK CONTROL OVER SPACE PROBE VOYAGER 2 AND SENT DATA IN AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE
NASA ADMITS: SOMEONE TOOK CONTROL OVER SPACE PROBE VOYAGER 2 AND SENT DATA IN AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE
NASA have revealed that a curious incident in 2010 might be firm evidence that an alien species is attempting to create communication links with humanity. In 2010, Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft powered by human beings to leave the known solar system. According to NASA expert Kevin Baines, at the time that the craft entered interstellar space, it became to send communications to the base on Earth in a language that was totally incomprehensible to the scientists who received it.
NASA SPACECRAFT HIJACKED BY ALIENS?
Baines said that the team immediately assumed that the spacecraft was malfunctioning in some way and proceeded to run a full assessment of its systems. However, they could find nothing wrong with it except that one component in the binary code system had been changed from 0 to 1. After running further investigations, they were left with no alternate explanation except that someone or something had taken temporary control of the spacecraft. The minute change in the binary code suggested that someone or something deliberately tried to alter aspects of Voyager 2’s computer system. This suggested to the team on the ground that the spacecraft had been temporarily taken over by computer hackers. However, they didn’t think it was likely that the hackers were of terrestrial origin as they would not have been able to make contact with the spacecraft at such an enormous distance. It took the experts at NASA three weeks to be able to reassert control over the spacecraft’s computer system and correct the era. Officially, NASA has conceded that they have absolutely no idea about who or what could have taken temporary control over Voyager 2 and sent the incomprehensible message to their team on the ground. However, German scientist Hartwig Hausdorff has not been so coy in revealing what he thinks was behind the incident – he is confident that the message was sent by an alien species.
A fleet of passenger aircraft is stabled at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport that it's impossible to buy tickets for.
They don't carry any company logos – they're plain white with a red band down the side - and anyone who boards one is sworn to secrecy about where they're going and what they do for a living.
The reason that the aircraft, mostly Boeing 737s, are so shadowy in nature, is because they serve America's most secret military base, Area 51 in Nevada, which conspiracy theorists claim houses UFO technology.
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At Las Vegas McCarran International Airport is a fleet of passenger aircraft (pictured) it's impossible to buy tickets for - because they fly to the US's secret Area 51 military base
Drone flying over Area 51 spots 'something odd'
They are run by the United States Air Force and operate from a private terminal at McCarran nicknamed Gold Coast, according to Flight Club.
The fleet does have a name of sorts – Janet Airlines, because that's the call sign the planes in it use while in civilian airspace.
From Las Vegas they fly north-west to a place that has what's widely regarded as the most restricted airspace in the world, the Area 51 base in the Nevada Test and Training Range.
In fact, Flight Club calls it 'restricted airspace inside restricted airspace'.
It claims that once the Janet aircraft approach this secretive area their call signs change from the likes of 'Janet 210' to 'bones 58'.
Once they touch down, the passengers disembark into a facility that's inspired countless books, TV shows and movies, but about which very little is known.
The Area 51-bound planes are run by the United States Air Force and operate from a private terminal at McCarran nicknamed Gold Coast (pictured)
UFO expert Nick Pope said: 'Area 51 [pictured] exists - it's part of a military testing range in Nevada - and because of the remote and sparsely-populated location, it's where various secret prototype aircraft and drones are developed and test flown'
Nick Pope, author of Encounter in Rendlesham Forest and the man who used to investigate UFOs for the British Ministry of Defence, explained to MailOnline Travel that Area 51 is the place where some of America's most hi-tech military hardware is built and tested – but he doubts any of it is extra-terrestrial in origin.
He said: 'Area 51 exists - it's part of a military testing range in Nevada - and because of the remote and sparsely-populated location, it's where various secret prototype aircraft and drones are developed and test flown.
'The UFO and conspiracy theory community think it's the place where crashed UFOs are kept and where the US military are trying to back-engineer this alien technology, and even Hillary Clinton has said that if she's elected President she'll look into the claims.
'Sadly, despite the rumours, I've seen no evidence that we've recovered any extraterrestrial technology.
'Having been namechecked in movies like Independence Day, Area 51 has become part of pop culture and the secret is out, so if there ever was alien technology at Area 51, I suspect it's been moved to a location we've never heard of.'
Something crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 68 years ago. The first military authorized press release stated, “RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region.” That’s right, the military was the first to indicate it was a flying saucer.
Then, they quickly said that was a mistake. It was just a weather balloon. But UFO researchers were never satisfied with that answer, even decades later, and the controversy only grew.
The military later revealed that this wasn’t a simple weather balloon, but an aircraft used for clandestine purposes — part of the Army’s top secret “Project Mogul”— to monitor atomic weapon testing in the old Soviet Union. The military also claimed that crash test dummies may have been mistaken for ETs. But that explanation only stirred the controversy.
The central figure surrounding the events of the 1947 Roswell UFO issue was Maj. Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer for the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. He was assigned the initial task of going out to the debris field to collect some of the material, described as shiny wreckage, including pieces of rubber, super-resistant tinfoil, wooden sticks and metallic-looking I-beams.
Here’s an excerpt from a 35-year-old interview conducted by this writer with Marcel, when he finally felt comfortable talking about the Roswell case more than 30 years after it happened:
We went out to the scene of where the crash was and started picking up the debris. It’s almost indescribable. It’s not the kind of material I’d ever seen in my life, nor have I seen it since. There were various types of materials which I couldn’t identify. There were little members that looked like they were made of wood, but it wasn’t wood and it had some kind of writing or hieroglyphics that I couldn’t decipher and nobody else could. It was flexible, but you couldn’t break it and you couldn’t burn it.
Also, I found a piece of metal which was about the thickness of the foil in a pack of cigarettes. But the amazing part about it was you could put it on the ground, hit it with a sledge hammer and you couldn’t even put a dent in it. That astounded me and I knew it was nothing from here. I was convinced it was not from anywhere on Earth and I’m still convinced of that.
I had brought a counterintelligence man with me in a staff car plus a pickup truck. We got everything we could into that and I sent the agent back to the base. Then I filled up my car with stuff. By the time I got back home, my wife said, ‘What happened to you? There’s been a bunch of news reporters out here, wanting a picture of you.’ And I said, ‘For what?’ And there had been a public relations officer with them. He said, ‘From what happened, your husband will be very popular by tomorrow morning.’ So that’s how it all started.
What amazed me most of all was the weightlessness of all this material — it weighed nothing. I found one piece of metal — supposedly metal — which was about a foot wide and about two-and-a-half feet long. When I got back to the base, we [Marcel and several enlisted men] brought it all into a briefing room and set up a whole lot of tables there. One of the men said, ‘Let me see if I can put some of those parts together, to see what the thing might have looked like.’ He came back later and said [he tried but couldn’t do it].
I consulted my CO [commanding officer], who said, ‘You better fly the thing to Wright-Patterson Air Field [Ohio]. So, we loaded up the whole thing — which was not a whole lot of material — onto a B-29. We had only picked up one small fraction of what was out there. It was scattered over such an area about three-quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide. We’d been there all day, picking up the fragments.
I asked my CO if it was a better idea to stop at Carswell [Air Force Base] at Fort Worth and consult General Ramey and he said, ‘Yes, you better do that.’ When I got to Fort Worth, I talked it over with the general, and he told me, ‘Don’t open your mouth to the press. Put some stuff on the floor and let them take a picture of it.’ But I was careful not to put out anything with detail on it. So they took pictures, and one picture appeared in the papers. (See image below)
Gen. Ramey told news reporters this was nothing but a crashed weather balloon, but I do know this: later on, Ramey wanted to cover his statement up, because he didn’t know, himself, what it was. I went back to Roswell to resume my duties, but what they did at Carswell was to make a mock display with a battered weather balloon and they let the press take pictures of that. The whole thing was a cover-up to begin with and that was the last I heard of it.
I know it was not a weather balloon and I’d swear it on the biggest bible. It wasn’t a missile or any part of an aircraft that we know of.
To mark the crash anniversary, Michael Donovan of OuterPlaces.com joined us on the HuffPost Weird News Podcast to discuss Roswell’s unanswered questions.
Two years ago, Donovan was standing in the Roswell crash debris field along with Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., a highly decorated military flight surgeon.
“It was a moving experience because we’re out on the site and this large thunderstorm was moving toward us — you could see lightning flashing — and he’s standing there with his Iraq war veteran hat on and said, ‘This is amazing. Sixty-six years ago, my father was standing on this very site,'” said Donovan.
“His father had loaded debris into his car, drove back to Roswell, stopping at his house, and showed his wife and son, Jesse Jr., the material after spreading it out on the kitchen floor,” said Donovan. “Here’s a guy — a doctor, a flight surgeon — why would he make up an experience he had in the middle of the night when he was 11 years old? So, when we were standing there at the crash site, I asked him, ‘When they loaded that plane up and flew it to Fort Worth, what happened to it?’ And he said, ‘You know what? I don’t know.’ But he said the base commander’s secretary, a few years ago before she retired, showed somebody a box of stretchy stuff that, if you crushed it, it would pop open. Jesse Jr. said to me, ‘I think that stuff must still be somewhere around, in the military’s possession.'”
Donovan says his belief in UFOs and a possible cover-up surrounding the Roswell UFO incident never gets in the way of his work — which includes co-designing the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
“No, not at all. It goes back to the idea of being on a quest, being a problem-solver, and that’s what designers do. We solve problems. In the reading of science fiction, you begin on a path to discovery. That’s what we do every day and it’s really that kind of interest — learning new things — that put me on the path that I’m now on, relative to OuterPlaces.com.
“In my own mind, I keep trying to create some kind of balance between what I think is a certain appropriate level of secrecy. We’re adults in this country, by and large, and I think the government owes us as much information and let us make up our own minds.”
Here are some unanswered questions that continue to surround the 1947 Roswell UFO crash incident:
1) What exactly crashed there in 1947? Was it a weather balloon, high altitude spy device, extraterrestrial craft?
2) Did the military switch materials that Maj. Marcel brought back from the debris field and, instead, allow the press to take pictures of an actual battered weather balloon?
3) If the crash site debris wasn’t really a weather balloon, where did the real stuff end up?
4) Why would the military decide to even issue a press release about a captured flying saucer?
5) Related to the above question, why would the military suddenly change the story from flying saucer to weather balloon?
6) Why did the military hire a local Roswell mortician to make child-sized caskets following the UFO debris retrieval?
7) Why did Jesse Marcel Sr. wait more than 30 years before finally revealing his part in the Roswell UFO events?
8) If true, why would the U.S. government want to cover up such a monumental event as the crash of an alien ship?
This weekend’s 20th Roswell UFO festival takes off full blast today with speakers giving their presentations at different locations simultaneously. If lectures don’t fit your fancy, there’s always the alien pet and alien costume contests and a UFO festival light parade to check out.
It’s fair to say that something happened outside Roswell in 1947 that literally put the town on the map. The debris is long gone, but the reverberations have never stopped.
Whatever it was, after almost 70 years, it still depends on whom you ask or what you read, and whether you believe them.
A 1997 CNN-Time poll showed that 80 percent of Americans think the government is hiding information about the existence of alien life forms, and nearly two-thirds of the poll respondents believed that a UFO crashed outside Roswell in 1947.
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HUMANS WORKING ALONG SIDE ALIENS IN AREA 51, CHILLING STORIES AND STOLEN FOOTAGE!
HUMANS WORKING ALONG SIDE ALIENS IN AREA 51, CHILLING STORIES AND STOLEN FOOTAGE!
Bill Uhouse, then a 71 year old man, claimed to have been a Area 51 engineer and revealed that he use to work in collaboration with a Grey Alien at the Area 51 site. Bill Uhouse claimed to have worked with an alien he dubbed “J-Rod” who helped him in understanding how to control the alien vehicle. Bill Uhouse passed away in 2009.
EACH RACE IS THOUSANDS OF YEARS MORE ADVANCED THAN US READ MORE:
Many people in the past have come forward with information and many have a lot of things in common. Here are some of them…
1. There is a massive underground system composed of bases and compounds. These facilities contain labs, workshops for reverse engineering and secure “rooms” for the “Extraterrestrial Biological Entities” or EBEs for short.
2. In relation to number one, these bases were constructed toward the end of the Truman Administration.
3. Multiple humanoid races exist.
4. A race of “Greys”. Three types: Tall or “Large” Greys. Short Greys and Greys the average human height as well.
5. A race of tall “Nordic” Human Extraterrestrials with large eyes.
6. There is even mention of a “Reptilian” race by many as well.
7. Each race is thousands of years more advanced than us. We are basically newborns in the galactic community of intelligence.
8. A treaty was signed between the U.S. and the Greys during the Eisenhower administration and a trade began. We would receive alien technology in exchange for a certain number of humans. The Greys use humans for biological research and possibly attempting to create hybrids to save their dying race
You’ll get chills down your spine once he begins to describe the extraterrestrials:
Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, is one of the places scientists are looking for microscopic lifeNASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via Getty Images
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are working on a new microscope technology in the search for alien life. Called digital holographic microscopy (DHM), it is, according to their publication, a technique that has a much better output when compared to traditional microscopes. The device, currently in development, has no moving parts, so it can be put to use in detecting life as long a large enough sample is collected.
The researchers have pointed out that the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are the most likely locationswhere life is possible on the outer planets. In their report, they pointed out that Nasa now has as an "explicit goal the search for signs of life".
Considering the distance that needs to be travelled and the restrictions that a spacecraft would face in outer space, especially the outer planets, sample collection cannot be done in high volume or quantity.
Life, if it exists on the outer planets, cannot be expected to be thriving. In fact, the researchers say that life will most likely be prokaryotic (a unicellular organism that lacks a membrane-bound nucleus), anaerobic (organism that does not require oxygen for growth), and present at potentially very low densities, presenting further difficulties in sample collection and detection.
According to the scientists, the new technology improves on the existing electron microscopy methods. They claim that it is an "approximately 100-fold improvement". The new technique also has the ability to capture two important facets of microorganisms- their 'intensity and phase'. This leads to clear images even when they are focusing on organisms that are nearly transparent.
In outer space, organic life cannot be expected to be similar to, or even resemble what is here on earth, so looking at single celled life and telling the difference between a mineral or a salt and a living cell is a challenge.
The scientists therefore need to detect "multiple identically shaped and sized, highly regular features that may suggest life". So that is what this new microscope will be looking for on alien surfaces.
Field testing of the technique was carried out in the Canadian High Arctic. The harsh cold terrain there could be compared to environments in outer space. Two samples were tested with different bacterial populations, concentrations, and levels of activity.
In the tests the team was able identify life clearly in of the samples using this new method without any "preconcentration or any other steps".
The target is Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. The Enceladus plume as it is known is a vapour spout that spews water into outer space. The idea of the DHM project is to collect samples there. A flyby through the heart of the Enceladus plume at an altitude of 50 km could give them enough samples to study and look for life forms.
The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts
The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts
Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate language and writing, architecture and arts, astronomy and mathematics. Their religious system was a complex one comprised of hundreds of gods. According to the ancient texts, each Sumerian city was guarded by its own god; and while humans and gods used to live together, the humans were servants to the gods.
The Sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in approximately 5000 BC.
The creation of Earth (Enuma Elish) according to the Sumerian tablets begins like this:
When in the height heaven was not named, And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name, And the primeval Apsu, who begat them, And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both Their waters were mingled together, And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen; When of the gods none had been called into being, And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained; Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven, Lahmu and Lahamu were called into being…
Sumerian mythology claims that, in the beginning, human-like gods ruled over Earth. When they came to the Earth, there was much work to be done and these gods toiled the soil, digging to make it habitable and mining its minerals.
The texts mention that at some point the gods mutinied against their labour.
When the gods like men Bore the work and suffered the toll The toil of the gods was great, The work was heavy, the distress was much.
Anu, the god of gods, agreed that their labour was too great. His son Enki, or Ea, proposed to create man to bear the labour, and so, with the help of his half-sister Ninki, he did. A god was put to death, and his body and blood was mixed with clay. From that material the first human being was created, in likeness to the gods.
You have slaughtered a god together With his personality I have removed your heavy work I have imposed your toil on man. … In the clay, god and man Shall be bound, To a unity brought together; So that to the end of days The Flesh and the Soul Which in a god have ripened – That soul in a blood-kinship be bound.
This first man was created in Eden, a Sumerian word which means ‘flat terrain’. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Eden is mentioned as the garden of the gods and is located somewhere in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Sumerian tablet depicting Enki in the creation myth. (world-myth.com)
Initially human beings were unable to reproduce on their own, but were later modified with the help of Enki and Ninki. Thus, Adapa was created as a fully functional and independent human being. This ‘modification’ was done without the approval of Enki’s brother, Enlil, and a conflict between the gods began. Enlil became the adversary of man, and the Sumerian tablet mentions that men served gods and went through much hardship and suffering.
Adapa, with the help of Enki, ascended to Anu where he failed to answer a question about ‘the bread and water of life’. Opinions vary on the similarities between this creation story and the biblical story of Adam and Eve in Eden.
Featured image: Sumerian chaos monster and sun god. (Wikipedia)
Note: Ancient Sumerian translations were taken from William Bramley’s book, The Gods of Eden.
NASA DISCOVERS HIDDEN PORTALS IN EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD
NASA DISCOVERS HIDDEN PORTALS IN EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD
Our planet has come a long way in scientific breakthroughs and discoveries. Mainstream science is beginning to discover new concepts of reality that have the potential to change our perception about our planet and the extraterrestrial environment that surrounds it forever. Star gates, wormholes, and portals have been the subject of conspiracy theories and theoretical physics for decades, but that is all coming to an end as we continue to grow in our understanding about the true nature of our reality.
In physics, a wormhole was a hypothetical feature of space time that would be a shortcut through space-time. We often wonder how extraterrestrials could travel so far and this could be one of many explanations. Although scientists still don’t really understand what they have found, it does open the mind to many possibilities.
Turning science fiction into science fact seems to happen quite often these days and NASA did it by announcing the discovery of hidden portals in Earth’s magnetic field. NASA calls them X-points or electron diffusion regions. They are places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, which in turn creates an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun’s atmosphere which is 93 million miles away.
NASA used its THEMIS spacecraft, as well as a European Cluster probe, to examine this phenomenon. They found that these portals open and close dozens of times each day. It’s funny, because there is a lot of evidence that points toward the sun being a giant star gate for the ‘gods’ to pass back and forth from other dimensions and universes. The portals that NASA has discovered are usually located tens of thousands of kilometres from Earth and most of them are short-lived; others are giant, vast and sustained.
As far as scientists can determine, these portals aid in the transfer of tons of magnetically charged particles that flow from the Sun causing the northern and southerns lights and geomagnetic storms. They aid in the transfer of the magnetic field from the Sun to the Earth. In 2014, the U.S. space agency will launch a new mission called Magnetospheric Multi scale Mission (MMS) which will include four spacecraft that will circle the Earth to locate and then study these portals. They are located where the Earth and the Sun’s magnetic fields connect and where the unexplained portals are formed.
NASA funded the University of Iowa for this study, and they are still unclear as to what these portals are. All they have done is observed charged particles flowing through them that cause electromagnetic phenomenon in Earth’s atmosphere.
Magnetic portals are invisible, unstable and elusive. they open and close without warming and there are no signposts to guide is in – Dr Scudder, University of Iowa
Mainstream science continues to grow further, but I often get confused between mainstream science, and science that is formed in the black budget world. It seems that information and discovery isn’t information and discovery without the type of ‘proof’ that the human race requires. Given that the human race requires, and has a certain criteria for ‘proof’, which has been taught to us by the academic world, information can easily be suppressed by concealing that ‘proof’. It’s no secret that the department of defence receives trillions of dollars that go unaccounted for and everything developed within the United States Air Force Space Agency remains classified. They are able to classify information for the sake of ‘national security’. Within the past few years, proof has been emerging for a number of phenomenon that would suggest a whole other scientific world that operates separately from mainstream science.
We have the technology to take ET home, anything you can imagine we already have the technology to do, but these technologies are locked up in black budget projects. It would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity
– Ben Rich, Fmr CEO of LockHeed Skunk Works
I use this video a lot in many of my posts, but it is just a profound statement, I love to use it over and over. He is x NASA personnel so it kind of fits in with the article.
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which recently picked up strange signals seemingly originating with the red dwarf star, Ross 128
(Credit: Courtesy of the NAIC- Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF)
Back in May, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico detected strange radio signals coming from Ross 128, a red dwarf star 11 light-years away. After closely analyzing the data with the help of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, the team has now revealed what they believe to be the source of the signals – and it's bad news for little green men hunters
According to the Arecibo astronomers, "the signals consisted of broadband quasi-periodic non-polarized pulses with very strong dispersion-like features," and they're unusual enough that the team has since dubbed the observation "The Weird! Signal," in an apparent reference to the 1977 Wow! Signal.
The astronomers put forward the three most likely explanations for the transmission: unusual stellar activity from the red dwarf, emissions from other background objects, or interference from satellite communications orbiting Earth.
Unfortunately, the most mundane of those turned out to be the culprit. The Arecibo team analyzed the data, backed up by observations from SETI using the Green Bank Telescope and the Allen Telescope Array, and has concluded that the Weird! Signal is most likely interference from geostationary satellites. Ross 128 is close to the celestial equator, which happens to be a busy patch of sky locally, and the signals are also within the range of frequencies that these satellites use to communicate.
Astronomers mark the Weird radio signal in the data
(Credit: PHL at UPR Arecibo)
That said, the team admits that the satellite solution leaves a few questions unanswered. Earthly origins don't quite account for the signals' "strong dispersion-like features," although this could be caused by multiple reflections. The researchers plan to continue looking into this scenario, as well as any others that might be a better fit.
Extraterrestrial intelligence was, of course, right at the bottom of the list of likely explanations. Intelligent life may ultimately have been responsible for these weird signals, but once again, it appears the call was coming from inside the house.
America spent millions of dollars creating a UFO-style alternative to helicopter
America spent millions of dollars creating a UFO-style alternative to helicopter
WATCH the once top-secret efforts by the American military to create a UFO-style alternative to the helicopter as revealed in this eye-opening series of images and video.
The video shows the classified Cold War project, which many in the US armed forces thought would be the next big thing in military innovation, going through a series of test flights between June 1 1960 and June 14 the following year.
The craft, called the Avrocar after the Canadian company that produced it, can be seen hovering a foot or so above the ground as it makes its way around the base, with one pilot at the controls.
Plans for the craft were first drawn up early in the Cold War, with each side desperate to find the next technological innovation. It was powered by a giant central fan, intended to lift it off the ground and propel it upwards.
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America spent millions of dollars creating a UFO-style alternative to helicopter
And the American military had big plans for the Avrocar, with some staggering projections for its performance. However, the reality of the aircraft fell way below expectations.
Designers had hoped that the craft would reach speeds of around 300 mph, with a maximum altitude of 10,000 feet and a range of 995 miles.
But, as can be seen in the video, the craft fell drastically short of the projections. It's maximum speed never reached above 35 mph, with a paltry maximum altitude of three feet and a range of just 79 miles.
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Designers had hoped that the craft would reach speeds of around 300 mph
The aircraft was re-financed several times by the American military before funding finally ran out in June 1961. At this point, with performance falling way below expectation and no signs of any immediate improvement, the military cancelled the project.
And, judged against its projections, it's easy to see why. Objectively speaking the Avrocar was a dismal failure, with several aspects of its design unfit for military use. The craft couldn't lift itself more than a few feet off the ground without becoming extremely unstable, and its design made high-speed performance tremendously difficult. Moreover, it emitted far too much sound and heat to mak }e it a suitable combat vehicle.
In total the US spent an estimated $10 million on the projection which, by today's standards, is actually relatively good value for money. It equates to approximately $100 million in today's money, a drop in the ocean in terms of military expenditure.
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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.
Eclipse Apocalypse?
During a total solar eclipse, the moon completely obscures the sun for parts of the Earth. Careful calculations help researchers and the public determine where to go to see the total blackout.
Credit: Miloslav Druckmüller, Peter Aniol, Martin Dietzel, Vojtech Rusin via NASA
One month from today, the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21 will make its way across the U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina. As the clock ticks down to the big day, the question is: Are you prepared?
A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon completely blocks the disk of the sun. While partial solar eclipses are common, with two to five occurring around the world each year, a total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth only about once every 18 months. The last total solar eclipse touched the continental United States in 1979, and the last to cross from ocean to ocean occurred in 1918. [Read more about the necessary preparations.]
Losing a Son As the Father
Cecil the iconic lion and his pride in Hwange National Park in November 2012. Cecil's son, Xanda, was shot and killed on July 7, 2017.
Credit: paula french/Shutterstock
The 6-year-old son of Cecil the Lion was shot and killed on July 7 just outside Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, meeting the same end his father did in 2015, according to news reports.
A private hunter in Zimbabwe reportedly led the hunt that brought down Xanda, though his clients' identities are not known, according to a statement by Lions of Hwange National Park. [Read more about the lost giant.]
Stumbling Block
Jude Sparks poses with the jawbone of a stegamastodon that he discovered while hiking in the desert in Las Cruces with his family.
Credit: Peter Houde
A 9-year-old boy hiking in the Las Cruces desert in New Mexico recently tripped over what is now thought to be a 1.2-million-year-old Stegomastodon skull.
After realizing Jude had tripped on a fossilized tusk, the Sparks contacted Peter Houde, a biology professor at NMSU who is also the curator-in-charge at the university's The Vertebrate Museum. [Read more about the fossils.]
Deadly Love
A stock photo of a man kissing a baby.
Credit: fizkes/Shutterstock
A newborn baby in Iowa died this week from an infection with the virus that causes cold sores, which she likely contracted from a kiss, her doctors say. But how does this happen?
In newborns, catching HSV-1 infection from a kiss is "unusual but not unheard of," said Dr. Otto Ramos, medical director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami. [Read more about the serious virus.]
Stony Birthday
The Rosetta Stone has been on display at the British Museum since 1802.
Credit: Vladimir Korostyshevskiy/Shutterstock
Exactly 218 years ago today, on July 19, 1799, French troops in Rosetta, Egypt, uncovered a striking black stone carved with three ancient texts: two Egyptian texts and a Greek one.
The discoverer of the Rosetta Stone was a French military officer, Pierre François Xavier Bouchard, who spotted it while he and his men were demolishing a wall to extend Fort Julien in Rosetta, a port city now known as Rashid. The troops were part of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, in which he (temporarily) conquered the country — and brought a bevy of scientists along who were eager to study what was to them unfamiliar land. [Read more about the discovery.]
Heir Apparent
Salvador Dalí's remains are set to be exhumed in order to collect DNA samples for a paternity claim against the artist's estate.
Credit: Barham/Getty
In a surreal development almost worthy of one of his paintings, Salvador Dalí's grave is scheduled to be opened tomorrow (July 20) in an effort to collect DNA samples that could settle a paternity claim against the artist's estate.
A spokesperson for the Dalí estate told AFP that the exhumation was scheduled to proceed on July 20, but an appeal is being filed against the court's decision. [Read more about the family.]
Cracking Up
Scientists are monitoring new rifts that formed on the Larsen C ice shelf in the wake a major calving event last week.
Credit: Project MIDAS
The trillion-ton iceberg that broke off Antarctica last week will not go quietly into the night.
Satellite images from ESA and the European Union’s Copernicus Program show that the massive iceberg is splintering and a constellation of smaller icebergs are surrounding it. The vagaries of ocean currents and buoyancy of ice will dictate how long the pack of 'bergs travels together. It's possible the smaller chunks could be the first drift north toward warmer waters in the South Atlantic where they would meet their likely demise. [Read more about the iceberg.]
Drone Blaster
The newly developed Laser Weapon System (LaWS) is situated on the USS Ponce, which is deployed to the Persian Gulf.
Credit: John F. Williams/US Navy
The world's first laser weapon — one that can "kill" threatening, airborne drones — is ready for action, according to news sources.
The LaWS laser beam is completely silent and invisible. It's also fast: The laser travels at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second, or about 300,000 kilometers per second), meaning it's about 50,000 times the speed of an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile, such as the one North Korea is testing, the Navy told CNN. [Read more about the laser.]
A Lost Continent
A map of Zealandia. Scientists aboard the Joides Resolution will visit six sites on this lost continent to take core samples later this summer.
Credit: IODP
Scientists will soon venture to the world's hidden eighth continent, the sunken land of Zealandia.
In February, scientists argued in the journal GSA Today that Earth has a hidden eighth continent, which should be reflected on maps. [Read more about the eighth continent.]
King Tut's Wife
This shot of the Valley of the Kings shows the tomb entrances at Thebes in Egypt.
Credit: mountainpix/Shutterstock
Famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass and his team say they've found evidence of a tomb that could belong to King Tut's wife.
As for whose remains were buried there, Hawass said the tomb could belong to Ankhesenamun, who was the wife of Tutankhamun (reign 1336-1327 B.C.). Ankhesenamunmarried Ay after King Tut died, so it's possible that her tomb is located near Ay's, Hawass said. [Read more about the tomb.]
What the Drake Equation Can Tell Us About the Future of Humanity
IN BRIEF
The Drake Equation is a method of quantifying the likelihood of finding intelligent alien life. Many variables influence the equation, which continually expands, but there are limits as well.
The Drake Equation attempts to quantify how likely we are to find intelligent alien life.
It takes all of the variables required for an intelligent civilization to exist AND send out communication signals, then multiplies them together.
The values of the variables on the left side of the equation are skyrocketing the more we explore the universe with telescopes and satellites. We’ve found far more star systems and planets capable of hosting life than we ever thought possible. Some estimates are as high as 60 billion planets in the Milky Way!
But the N value (the estimated number of alien civilizations in our galaxy capable of communication) must still be small because…well…we haven’t found them yet!
That begs that question — which of the variables on the right side, the unknowns, are the great filters causing that small N value?
The most critical variable to us on Earth is the last one. L is the length of time civilizations release detectable signals into space.
If L is responsible for the small N value, it could mean that species don’t often last long enough to create signals, let alone receive them. It would then stand to reason that the near-term destruction of our species is statistically probable.
SETI researchers hope that, instead, the great filter is behind us. Perhaps the emergence of intelligent life is the rare occurrence rather than how long those lifeforms survive.
Or maybe the Drake Equation is incomplete.
Maybe they have some Star Trek-esque ideal of never meddling with the growth of early-stage civilizations.
Maybe they are out there listening, but they’re so far away that our signals won’t reach them for centuries, and their replies will take just as long to hit our digital ears.
Maybe they’re so much more advanced that we’re just not that interesting to them.
…or maybe we’re one day away from receiving a reply.
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)]
Mysterieuze mummies ontdekt in Siberië. Welke verloren beschaving leefde daar?
Mysterieuze mummies ontdekt in Siberië. Welke verloren beschaving leefde daar?
In Siberië zijn gemummificeerde leden van een nog onbekende beschaving opgegraven uit de permafrost. Dat schrijft The Siberian Times.
De ontdekkingen nabij de stad Salechard wijzen erop dat mensen lang geleden al in het uiterste noorden van Rusland actief waren.
“De gemummificeerde resten lagen naast elkaar en hun voeten wezen in de richting van de rivier,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Alexander Goesev.
Cocons
“De lichamen waren gewikkeld in cocons van berkenschors en stof,” vervolgde hij. “De cocon van de volwassene was van top tot teen bedekt met koperen platen.”
“De cocon van de baby was bedekt met fragmenten van een koperen ketel,” aldus Goesev. Hij schat dat het kind niet meer dan zes maanden oud was.
De cocon van de volwassene was 1,70 meter lang, wat betekent dat de man of vrouw die erin zit voor die tijd uitzonderlijk lang was.
Perzië
Onderzoekers van het Centrum voor Arctische Studies en de Nationale Universiteit van Seoel doen momenteel onderzoek naar de resten. Ze gaan onder meer het geslacht bepalen en de vondst dateren.
Het archeologische complex werd ontdekt in 1997. Er werden eerder al voorwerpen uit Perzië gevonden in het gebied.
In 2014 en 2015 werden op dezelfde plek ook al mysterieuze mummies ontdekt. Bekijk hieronder beelden van de cocons:
Here's Why We Shouldn't Be Worried at All About That Morphing 'UFO'
Here's Why We Shouldn't Be Worried at All About That Morphing 'UFO'
It's never aliens. 😢
JACINTA BOWLER
If you've been keeping up with the news in the UK, you might have heard about a morphing UFO appearing at a number of locations across Cornwall last week.
We're telling you guys straight up – this is not aliens, despite some hashtags on the footage.
Neither of those things make sense over the timeframe, which had footage being uploaded over a number of days.
Well, as both Twitter and Instagram commenters pointed out, unfortunately it's nothing that cool – instead it's likely to be a giant publicity stunt for the Eden Project, a botanical garden in Cornwall.
Speaking to The Sun Online, a spokesperson for the project said "It's true we have a galaxy of ways to tell the story of space at Eden this summer."
"To coin a phrase…The truth is out there."
Although we don't have much information to go on at this stage, it's assumed that the videos have been doctored using CGI and released to a number of people to share the UFO 'sighting'.
Yeah, we're just as disappointed as you are, but if you want to see some incredible real footage, check out this bird murmuration video taken by Jan van IJken, in the Netherlands:
We're calling it now - nature beats publicity stunts any day.
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Plane passenger captured glowing TR-3B triangle UFO over Georgia
Plane passenger captured glowing TR-3B triangle UFO over Georgia
Is it possible that a plane passenger has photographed the mysterious and secret TR-3B?
Witness states: I was traveling (passenger), north on I-185 in west central Georgia, around 1:30 am.
With my iPhone, I was taking pictures of the clouds illuminated by the moon. I took 40-50 pictures, and saw only the beautiful clouds.
In the morning I was going through the pictures, and was shocked and excited to see some type of craft in two of the pictures.
It's shaped similarly to our stealth bombers, but not exactly. Also, it was glowing, and/or reflecting a bluish white. I have no idea what it was. I've shown the pictures to many people, and like me, they were clueless as to its identity.
Note: The TR-3B doesn't exist officially but the allegations are that these spy crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51, in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
It uses highly pressured mercury accelerated by nuclear energy to produce plasma that creates a field of anti-gravity around the craft. The plasma generated also reduces radar signature significantly. So it'll be almost invisible on radar and remain undetected.
The image was taken on April 19, 2017 and submitted to Mufon, case nr. 85293.
A US Congressman asked NASA whether Mars hosted an alien civilization at some point. Despite potentially favorable conditions on the red planet, it is almost infinitely unlikely that the planet ever hosted sophisticated life in the way suggested.
A hearing held by the House Science Committee that aimed to discuss the largest of NASA’s upcoming projects — including launching another Mars rover in 2020 and a Europa flyby mission with a possible subsequent landing — took a strange turn when congressman Dana Rohrabacher, of California, asked “Is it possible that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago?”
Kenneth Farley, a professor of geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology and project scientist for the 2020 rover team, answered: “there’s no evidence that, uhh, I’m aware of […] I would say that is extremely unlikely.” Additionally, he corrected Rohrabacher’s timeline by saying that “the evidence is that Mars was different billions of years ago. Not thousands of years ago.”
The chances of our planetary neighbor ever hosting a civilization, however, are extremely small — although some, perhaps not entirely credible sources, claim that evidence of a previous sophisticated species can be found in photos released by the Curiosity Rover, which may show a six inch man who bares a startling similarity to the Atacama Alien found in Chile.
Russian Scientists Just Launched An “Artificial Star” That Could Threaten Astronomy
Russian Scientists Just Launched An “Artificial Star” That Could Threaten Astronomy
A Russian Soyuz rocket has successfully launched a controversial satellite into orbit, which will become one of our brightest stars in a few days – and may hamper astronomical observations.
The satellite is called Mayak, developed by Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University (MAMU) and funded with $30,000 through Russian crowdfunding website Boomstarter. We first learned about it back in early 2016, and on Friday, July 14, it launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan along with 72 other satellites.
“The satellite launch was good, and we are waiting for NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense Command] to track it,” Alexander Panov from Mayak told IFLScience. “Roscosmos reported that everything was as planned, without any additional info.”
Mayak is a cubesat, a small satellite about the size of a loaf of bread. But once in position about 600 kilometers (370 miles) above Earth, it will unfurl a giant pyramid-shaped sail made of Mylar that’s designed to reflect the Sun. It will span 16 square meters (170 square feet) and is apparently 20 times thinner than human hair.
Klichnikova said they expected the satellite to unfurl in a few days, and they will be tracking it on the ground from Caucasus on the border of Europe and Asia next week.
The company says the goal of the mission is to inspire people to look up to space, as well as testing technology to de-orbit satellites. Using an app on their phone, backers of the project can track its location and find out when it’s flying overhead.
The satellite will remain in orbit for at least a month, although at such a high altitude, there’s a possibility it could stay there for many more months if it’s orbit does not properly degrade as planned.
By their calculations, the company says it will shine with a magnitude of -10, third only to the Sun and the Moon. Our calculations suggest it will be -3, making it the fourth brightest object in the night sky after Venus.
Either way, if the unfurling is successful, Mayak is sure to pose problems. The brightness of the satellite could hamper regular astronomers looking at the night sky. And it could pose a bigger problem for all-sky surveys, which monitor the entire sky.
An image of the launch. Denis Efremov/MTI
Astronomers often have to deal with other artificial objects, including satellites that occasionally shine brightly when they reflect the Sun. Some of the brightest of these are known as iridium flares. But these are an annoyance in of themselves; astronomers certainly don’t want other objects to hamper their observations.
“The brightness is the issue,” Nick Howes, an astronomer and former deputy director of the Kielder Observatory in Northumberland, told IFLScience. “Other satellites bar the ISS are relatively faint, and that’s a scientific mission. This is just a stunt.
“Despite what appears to be significant public and social media backlash against this by the astronomical community, they have proceeded to launch. One can only hope the mission fails and the plan to blight our pristine dark skies never takes shape.”
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told IFLScience: “I think at least one of these can be lived with, but if there were a bunch of them it would make modern astronomy almost impossible.”
Not all astronomers think it’s a bad idea, however. Michael Wood-Vasey, from the University of Pittsburgh, said Mayak was “quite unlikely to be a problem for astronomers.”
He added: “Mayak is orbiting just above the day/night terminator line – it’s always sunrise/sunset below where Mayak is orbiting. It will thus be too low on (or even below) the horizon when it really gets dark enough for astronomers to observe.”
For their part, the company says there is a scientific purpose for the mission. Aside from just shining brightly, the satellite will also test how to brake in orbit, with the large surface area causing more atmospheric drag and bringing it back into the atmosphere to burn up. This technology could be used to deorbit old satellites and space junk in the future.
However, there are undoubtedly other ways to test this technology without also causing a nuisance. One of these alone might not be an issue, but if this set a precedent for more in future, that probably wouldn’t be great.
Two large UFOs have been seen flying over Chelmsford
Two large UFOs have been seen flying over Chelmsford
A man has described his surprise at seeing two large UFOs in the sky over Chelmsford.
The resident, who did not want to be named, saw the objects in the air over Manor Road where he lives on Monday afternoon (July 17).
The two UFOs, which were different shapes, were first spotted by a group of people in the street just outside the city centre.
The man who contacted Essex Live said he was in his garden when he saw a small group of passers-by staring up into the sky.
“I heard one of them say ‘is it a bird?’ but then the others said ‘that is no bird’,” he said.
No one who saw the objects had any idea what they were
“When I looked up I saw two large objects in the sky. They were jet black underneath. They were quite big and quite high up. They were sort of rolling over and over in the sky. At first I thought they were bits of a large balloon but they didn’t move like that.
“Then I wondered if they were bits of plastic that had got up into the sky but they were moving faster than the wind which didn’t make sense. One was almost a cylinder shape and the other was longer. It was very strange.
“There is no way they were aeroplanes. At this point I rushed indoors to get my camera and when I came back they had moved a bit further away but I managed to get a few snaps.
The objects were said to be moving ‘faster than the wind’
“I have never seen anything like it before. I have no clue what they were. They seemed to be almost linked together as they kept at roughly the same distance apart the whole time.
“I watched them move off into the distance as they headed towards the cricket ground but then I lost sight of them. I wouldn’t like to say what they were, I really have no idea.”
The man has since showed the photos to “six or seven” people and no one has been able to hazard a guess at what they might be.
High-Ranking Republican Asks NASA: “Was There A Civilization On Mars?”
High-Ranking Republican Asks NASA: “Was There A Civilization On Mars?”
One of the high-ranking members of this committee, Dana Rohrabacher, has said some truly remarkable things in the past, but he’s just outdone himself. During a panel with several space science experts, including those from NASA, he asked: “Is it possible that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago?”
That’s right – an alien civilization. Not microbes, but full-blown Martians with cities and spacecraft.
Rohrabacher, by the way, had to ask special permission from the chairman to ask this question, the last of several of his – so clearly he was eager to find out the answer. The experts look at each other for a few awkward seconds, before one decides to heroically take up the challenge.
“Mars was different billions of years ago, not thousands of years ago,” one responds. Clearly stifling a laugh or at least a grin, he says that “There’s no evidence that I’m aware of that–” before being cut off by Rohrabacher.
“Would you rule that out? That – see, there are some people…well, anyway,” Rohrabacher replied. He may be alluding here to the mind-blowingly stupid conspiracy theories claiming NASA has a colony of child slaves on the Red Planet. Alternatively, he could be referring one of several alien-spotting YouTube channels.
“I would say that is extremely unlikely,” the expert responded.
That expert, by the way, is Dr Ken Farley, a project scientist on the Mars 2020 Rover Project. Instead of talking about that exciting mission and advancing the field of space exploration, he’s having to talk about ancient alien civilizations on Mars.
This type of madness is par for the course for Rohrabacher. After all, he once claimed that dinosaur farts caused deadly climate change. Although this turned out to be a joke, the fact that it was widely interpreted at the time as him being serious is all you need to know about how his scientific know-how, or lack thereof, is perceived.
He also suggested back in 2011 that in order to stop climate change, we should destroy all of the rainforests. You know, those carbon dioxide-absorbing rainforests.
Just as a reminder, Rohrabacher is a senior ranking Republican who has a powerful influence over America’s science policy. No wonder scientists are running for Congress in the hope of displacing Rohrabacher, and plenty of others like him.
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Is Earth a Prison/Slave Planet ?
Is Earth a Prison/Slave Planet ?
Earth Was Chosen To Be A Prison Planet
Science has proven that “hominids” have lived on this planet for a very long time. It has also proven that Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Cro-Magnon or Modern man) have not. Our ancestors were quarantined to Earth in order to stop, or at the very least isolate, the spread of mental illness, crime and murder. And, like our ancestors, we are prone to exhibiting the same criminal behavior and mental illness.
It is an inescapable part of our nature. It is not our fault, but rather it was caused by deviated genetic code. There is not a single human who is free of violent, lustful, vengeful, thieving and/or murderous thoughts. The unnatural horrors that humans experience on this planet are almost always caused by our species. Humans lie, steal, cheat, rape, murder and pollute. When we can no longer exert more dominion over air, water, land and animal, we victimize our own kind. We are a horrible menace to ourselves, to all the creatures of this planet, and to interstellar civilization.
The treacherous and murderous ways of human beings remain a very real threat to peace in the universe.
Earth was chosen to become a prison planet because of its remote location, varied climates, and the ability to support hominid life forms. Our ancestors were placed on different continents, selected for similarities to their physical characteristics and former climatic environments. Even though our ancestors varied in language, size, shape and color, all were Cro-Magnon. But, before being placed on Earth, our ancestors were stripped of all memory of their former lives.
It was believed that if the prisoners survived, they would do so in a primal state, co-existing by building relationships and possibly even interbreeding, with Earth’s native hominid species. It was a belief that was proven very wrong. We immediately began to dominate everything that came into our path. And, the sudden terrestrial appearance of modern man was on a scale so large, that it allowed Cro-Magnoids to drive Neanderthals, who had been at the top of Earth’s food chain for well over 200,000 years, to near global extinction within just a few thousand years.
At first, it appeared as though the Cro-magnon exile was proceeding as planned, but within a thousand years it became obvious that very serious oversights and assumptions had been made. The concept of prisoners remaining in a primal state was shattered when our ancestors began creating a microcosm of interstellar civilization. Earth, for the first time in its history, became witness to art, architecture, animal husbandry, agriculture, written languages, advanced mathematics, technology, law, religion and government. It also became witness to the atrocities of modern man. And, instead of interbreeding with other species, we began the systematic manipulation and/or destruction of other life forms.
Testing revealed that the surprising intellectual and technological development of our ancestors was the result of genetic memory, which caused us to experience intellectual reversion, rather than progression. This set off a very heated debate. One group called for the immediate extermination of our ancestors before they genetically “remembered” to the point of achieving interstellar flight, and possible re-infection of intergalactic civilization. The others were firmly convinced that, if given enough time, we would self-destruct and sought to simply observe and curtail our development.
An impasse was eventually reached, and further direct contact was forbidden. Continued observation and assessment of the prison planet was agreed upon, under strict conditions. It is important to note that one of the most significant turning points in last ten million years of Earth’s history occurred when our ancestors arrived on Earth, and began neanderthal annihilation.
Our incarceration on Earth was not agreed to by all. From the first days of our imprisonment on Earth, sympathizers in UFOs have slipped past ‘security’ and assisted select civilizations. These extraterrestrial visits always resulted in dramatic leaps of intellectual ability and technological accomplishment. Unfortunately, virtually all of those civilizations and their advanced technologies met with very sudden disaster, and in the majority of the cases, extinction. The true causes remain unknown.
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50 Years Ago, a Small Town Ohio Policeman Chased a Flying Saucer Into Pennsylvania… And It Ruined His Life
50 Years Ago, a Small Town Ohio Policeman Chased a Flying Saucer Into Pennsylvania… And It Ruined His Life
We met at Mike’s Place, the greasy spoon near Kent State with the X-Wing parked out front. It seemed appropriate – it was fifty years ago, this week, that James Evans’ father chased some kind of spacecraft into Pennsylvania. They seated us inside the converted school bus near the back of the place. He ordered biscuits and gravy and told me about what his old man saw, back in 1966.
“He didn’t like to talk about it,” James said. “And when he would, he always said, ‘I wished I’d never seen it.’”
James Evans, Dale Spaur’s son
Dale Spaur was a deputy Sheriff for Portage County in 1966. Big dude – 6’7”. Wicked sense of humor. Former gunner on a B-51 in the Korean War. He was known on the force for having a bit of a lead foot, reprimanded for taking turns too fast in his cruiser on Main Street in Ravenna. He worked the night shift with his partner, Wilbur Neff, known as “Barney” to friends. Spaur was a good cop with a good family – a wife and two boys at home. But everything changed the morning of April 17, 1966.
Spaur and Neff were called out to an abandoned vehicle on the side of State Route224, near the town of Atwater, at about 5 a.m. It was an isolated stretch of country road, lined with trees. They got out of their cruiser to investigate and that’s when Spaur spotted a glowing craft rising out of the woods. It reached treetop level and then began to move toward them, according to an article that appeared in the Record-Courier the following day. It was shaped sort of like an ice cream cone tipped on its side, a little pointed end sticking up in the back, and it made a sound like “an over-loaded transformer.” When it came close, they could feel the heat baking off of it. Slowly, it started east, down 224.
Dale Spaur
The two deputies returned to their cruiser and radioed in to dispatch. The sergeant on duty told them to follow it. The chase was on.
The faster Spaur pursued in his cruiser, the faster the object accelerated. Soon they were speeding east down old Route 14 into the rising sun, the odometer edging past 100 mph. Occasionally they’d have to stop for lights or traffic, though, and when they did the craft slowed down, too, like it was playing a game of “cat-and-mouse,” Spaur would later explain.
Along the way, Spaur and Neff were joined by East Palestine police officer, Wayne Huston, who followed in his own car. They chased the UFO all the way into Pennsylvania, where Spaur was finally forced to stop for gas. Another cop – Frank Panzanella – was already waiting at the service station. The four officers watched the UFO dart straight up into the sky and disappear.
By the time Spaur made it home, the local newspapers had the story. Headline: THEY TAILED A SAUCER 86 MILES! The national news picked it up and within three days, they were getting calls from Japan. At the station, Spaur and Neff were ridiculed. Neff took it in stride but it really got to Spaur, who lost twenty pounds from the stress of it all. Then men from Project Blue Book – the military’s Cold War UFO-investigation department – arrived. After interviewing everyone, they determined that the object the four police officers saw that morning was the planet Venus refracted through fog.
By all accounts, Spaur suffered an emotional breakdown after this. Within six months, he’d lost his job. His wife left with the children. In October, a Plain Dealer reporter found him living out of a motel, subsisting on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. “Thirty-four years old and what do I have? Nothing,” he said. “Who knows me? To everyone, I’m Dale Spaur, the nut who chased a flying saucer.”
James didn’t know who his real father was until he was thirteen – after the divorce, his mother remarried and James was adopted by his stepfather. He was watching Good Morning America with his older brother, Dale Jr., when a tall man was invited on the program to talk about flying saucers.
“My mother came in and said, ‘That’s your dad.’” The boys wanted to meet him so Daneise called the television station and the show’s producers passed along her message. Two weeks later, Dale Spaur pulled into the driveway in a big pickup truck. “I remember watching him get out,” said James. “It was like he unfolded out of the truck when he stepped out, he was so big.” During his visit, he told his boys about his adventures since leaving Portage County.
It had taken time, but Spaur had finally gotten his life back together. Not long after that reporter found him at the motel, Dale moved to West Virginia, where he worked in the mines. He had a terrible accident there, falling seventy feet down a shaft, breaking his back. He lay in a coma in the hospital for several days, eyes wide open but completely out of it. “A nurse was supposed to sit with him the whole time,” said James. “But she only lasted a couple hours. I guess she came running out of the room, screaming, ‘This man is possessed by an alien!’”
When he recovered, Spaur moved back to Ohio and settled in Rocky River. He remarried, opened a bar called the Avenue at West 65th and Detroit Road in Cleveland, and on rare occasions told stories about the UFO he called “Floyd,” which he claimed visited him sometimes when nobody else was around.
Later, he did a little consulting for Stephen Spielberg’s movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but walked off set in a huff after he found out the main character was not a cop, said James. The film opens with a police officer chasing a UFO shaped kind of like an ice cream cone on its side.
Spaur died on April 4th, 1983, never recovering from severe pneumonia after catching the flu. James remembers an endless stream of people he’d never seen before at his father’s funeral. He never knew his father had so many friends. “I look up and five Eskimos are standing there. Where did they come from? How did they know my father?”
I asked James what he thinks after all these years. What did his father see in the skies above Portage County fifty years ago?
“He believed what he saw was extra-terrestrial,” said James. “I believe him. Nothing we made could fly like that. In Pennsylvania, it hovered over his car. He could feel the heat coming off it. Then it went straight up and disappeared. Poof. Gone! And remember, my father served in the Air Force. You couldn’t put a bird up there he doesn’t recognize.”
If there’s definitive proof, the military has it. Spaur and Neff kept a camera in the cruiser. They took dozens of photographs. But when Blue Book came to town, the G-men confiscated the negatives. They have never been released.
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Filer’s Files #29 – 2017 Doug Auld’s UFO Photos- PART I
Disc taken on July 12, 2012, over Gatwick, England UK
Filer’s Files #29 – 2017 Doug Auld’s UFO Photos- PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Dan Aykroyd saw UFOs, Possible Blue Binary Star Changing Climate, Sun Entering Quiet Period, Doug Auld Is Taking Numerous UFO Photos, New EM Engine, ISS photo of lights, and North Korea Missiles Can Hit United States.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Turkey, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
George A. Filer III
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director.
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Dan Aykroyd Saw UFO
Possible Blue Binary Star Changing Climate
Dr. Bruce Coronet writes, “Our solar system may be binary with a dark star companion, misinterpreted by Sitchin as Nibiru or Planet X.” A dark star was theorized by astronomer Walter Cruttenden in his Precession Paradox paper (Forbidden Science, 2008). He said it may be a Brown Dwarf or blue Neutron Star, as in the Hopi Blue Star Prophecy predicted by Contactee Miriam Delicado as being revealed in 2017, which is why it was colored blue in the 28 April 1993 hologram projected over the Owen’s Dairy farm by our Visitors.
The Nazi Vril Society worshiped a Black Star, which may be the same invisible Star and why it is so elusive. Our Sun would dance with that Star, probably in a figure eight pattern. It would cause major climate cycles on Earth, and may be responsible for our Ice Ages. Ancient civilizations worshiped the sacred numbers 2160, 1080, and 4320, as Graham Hancock pointed out in Fingerprints of the Gods (1995).
These numbers are remarkably similar to geologic Precession cycle numbers of 21,600, 108,000, and 432,000, all multiples of one another, indicating a clock-like pattern of solar system mechanics.
Did you know that the Antarctic Ice Core data for the last 150,000 years has shown that the previous Sangamonian or Eemian Interglacial was 21,600 years long, and that the Wisconsinian Ice Age was exactly 108,000 years long? How can you explain our ancient civilizations (visitors) knowing more than we do before recent advances in our knowledge?
The Vortex hologram given to me may not be the Sirius binary star system as I first thought, but our own, which is why the Nordics chose to come to Earth, because it is similar to their home solar system.
On 16 October 1994 a UFO light rose up from behind a tree row, forming an ‘S’ sky glyph, perhaps for ‘Star’, because that light then traveled south as it rose in the night sky, and tagged the brightest Star in the eastern sky at that time. I was able to match the pattern of Stars captured on two time exposures with the Constellation Taurus and Pleiades. However, the Star that was tagged does not exist on any known Star chart!
Was its position tagged because this was the location of our Sun’s companion dark Star, which cannot be seen in the visible light spectrum? Was this Star the Blue Star depicted in the Solar System hologram? I have labeled our Sun and some of the Planets (i.e. Jupiter and Saturn) in this hologram, as well as the position of a possible 12th planet. Is this Star the mysterious Nibiru or Planet X of Sumerian and Babylonian myth? Was it mistaken by interpreters of ancient texts for a planet because it does not give off visible light, and very little reflected light? Was this where the Star was located at that particular time and date? If astronomers are interested, they may have recorded this part of the heavens on that date, and can backtrack to see if something is there.
Knowing where our Sun’s companion star was located, could give astronomers the ability to find it now in the blackness of space with radio-telescopes if it is a weak pulsar that spins at a regular rate, periodically pointing its gamma burst polar jets at Earth. And what has been theorized happening about 10,000 years ago, causing widespread radiation, death and extinction? Are we on the verge of making the greatest astronomical discovery of the Century? Thanks to Dr. Bruce Coronet
For 15 days starting on March 7, 2017, or SDO, returned visible light images of a yolk-like spotless sun. This is the longest stretch of spotlessness since the last solar minimum in April 2010, indicating the solar cycle is marching on toward the next minimum, which scientists predict will occur between 2019—2020.
The sun goes through a natural 11-year cycle marked by two extremes: solar maximum and solar minimum. Sunspots are dark regions of complex magnetic activity on the sun’s surface, so the number of sunspots at any given time is used as an index for solar activity. Solar maximum is characterized by intense solar activity and the greatest sunspot number. Conversely, during solar minimum, the sun is least active and sunspot number is at its lowest. The SDO images here compare the sun on March 20, 2017, and February 27, 2014, during the last solar maximum when the sun sported numerous spots.
Life on Earth is made possible by its proximity to the Sun. Yet even with the protection of our magnetic field, we face a daily barrage of radiation—the solar wind—which flows outward from the sun and possibly a Binary Blue star.
Scientist and citizens alike are preparing for August 21 when a total solar eclipse will cross North America for the first time in 99 years. The rare event will start in Oregon and take less than two hours to reach South Carolina. Adriana Diaz reports.
Solar Eclipse on August 31, 2017
By Lina Tran NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Doug Auld Is Taking Numerous UFO Photos
Hoboken — Here are two sightings attached as promised. I will send more over the weekend. Please let me know you got them/
The first one was in my town Hoboken NJ this white abject that looked like a star in the daytime sky sat perfectly still for 15 minutes. I took a number of photos, and when enlarged, showed this object changing shape and configuration. It did not move, regardless of the wind and cloud movement. It finally moved west, then stopped and went east behind clouds over New York City.
I also captured in my town, this odd wedge looking object passing thru the sky in a jet lane. One wouldn’t notice it on first glance. But I noticed something odd and took these shots. The enlarged ones show a white square. How this was able to fly or what it was, I don’t know. Doug
Here are pictures of my night vision set up a Yukon 5×54 night vision monocular, on a monopole with a small dvr recorder attached not sure model. And my standard day camera the Nikon Coolpix 900 that can zoom in amazingly with just the one lens. There may be better setups today but this is what i have been using.
This is a sighting I captured with my I phone at about 7 pm in my town about a year or so ago.
The image that appeared from a blackish mark in the sky that appeared and then dissipated in about 5 – 7 seconds. The first image you can see a small faint mark. The second image it seems more pointed and clear. That the image I enlarged to show this young mechanical and symmetrical looking object. The third and fourth image are enlarged and adjusted for contrast. It didn’t fly away or move, it just disappeared.
Thanks to Doug Auld.
New EM Engine
After months of speculation and leaked documents, NASA’s long-awaited EM Drive paper has finally been peer-reviewed and published. And it shows that the ‘impossible’ propulsion system really does appear to work. The NASA Eagleworks Laboratory team even put forward a hypothesis for how the EM Drive could produce thrust – something that seems impossible according to our current understanding of the laws of physics.
The EM Drive, or Electromagnetic Drive, is a propulsion system first proposed by British inventor Roger Shawyer back in 1999. Instead of using heavy, inefficient rocket fuel, it bounces microwaves back and forth inside a cone-shaped metal cavity to generate thrust. According to Shawyer’s calculations, the EM Drive could be so efficient that it could power us to Mars in just 70 days.
But, there’s a not-small problem with the system. It defies Newton’s third law, which states that everything must have an equal and opposite reaction. According to the law, for a system to produce thrust, it has to push something out the other way. The EM Drive doesn’t do this. Yet in test after test it continues to work Laboratory team got their hands on an EM Drive to try to figure out once and for all what was going on. And now we finally have those results.
The new paper is titled “Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio-Frequency Cavity in Vacuum“, published online in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)’s Journal of Propulsion and Power. Thrust data from forward, reverse, and null suggested that the system was consistently performing at 1.2 ± 0.1 mN/kW. It’s likely that the EM Drive can get a lot more efficient.
“The supporting physics model used to derive a force based on operating conditions in the test article can be categorized as a nonlocal hidden-variable theory, or pilot-wave theory for short.”But in recent years, the pilot-wave theory has been increasing in popularity, and the NASA team suggests that it could help explain how the EM Drive produces thrust without appearing to propel anything in the other direction. “If a medium is capable of supporting acoustic oscillations, this means that the internal constituents were capable of interacting and exchanging momentum,” “If the vacuum is indeed mutable and degradable as was explored, then it might be possible to do/extract work on/from the vacuum, and thereby be possible to push off of the quantum vacuum and preserve the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum.” The next step for the EM Drive is for it to be tested in space, which is scheduled to happen in the coming months. If it produces thrust there, the scientific community will need to sit up and take note.
ISS Photo of Lights
I was watching on live ISS Earth Viewing on July 14, 2017, and saw 7 white lights creating a circle. It was observed by ISS and after15 seconds they changed the camera;
It had the same angle but it had a different view as you can be seen in the picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Korea Missiles Can Hit the United States
The Kim Jong Un regime is “serious about trying to create a capability that threatens the United States,” Elleman told the Post.
“The missiles they’re shooting now have some new engineering, but it’s all based on old Soviet models,” former CIA deputy director David S. Cohen, who advised the Obama administration on North Korea’s weapons, told the paper. Cohen fears Kim’s regime has been underestimated for too long.
“It is a mistake to think that this is really a hermit kingdom that is cut off and doesn’t have access to the Internet,” Cohen told the Post.
“They have likely hacked older Missile data or have purchased equipment from Russia or its former break away nations. The biggest part of the government economy is their nuclear and missiles program, so the smartest folks they have are directed to do this work.”
Nearly 85 percent of North Korea’s global trade is with China, and much of that flows through Dandong. That includes the machinery, purchased in contravention of U.S. and U.N. sanctions, needed to build nuclear weapons, as well as the missiles needed to deliver them.
As the threat grows the US Government has moved Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missiles into South Korea. This anti-ballistic missile defense system is designed to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase by intercepting with a hit-to-kill approach. THAAD was developed after the experience of Iraq’s Scud missile attacks during the Gulf War in 1991. The THAAD interceptor relies on its kinetic energy of impact to destroy the incoming missile. A kinetic energy hit minimizes the risk of exploding conventional or nuclear warheads. North’s Korea’s, Hwasong-14, missile has the potential to reach Hawaii and Alaska. It is rumored highly classified laser beam weapons were also transferred to Korea. Japan also deploys an Aegis anti missile system aboard its naval destroyers.
Even the most limited strike risks staggering casualties, because North Korea could retaliate with the thousands of artillery pieces it has positioned along its border with the South that could target most of South Korea’s population.
A pre-emptive American attack would very likely fail to wipe out North Korea’s arsenal, because some of the North’s facilities are deep in mountain caves or underground and many of its missiles are hidden on mobile launchers. The North has warned that it would immediately retaliate by launching nuclear missiles
North Korea has 5 million troops with another 5 million reserves that can fight in a protracted war. The North Korean son gun policy means the military comes first in terms of food, fuel, and other materials before any are given to the population at large. Mandatory conscription (for a 10-year enlistment) means that most North Koreans have some form of military experience. Recently several North Korean soldiers defected to the South and were nearly starving indicating there may be serious weaknesses in the North’s forces. The North also boasts 605 combat aircraft and 43 naval missile boats, but its People’s Air Force’s most numerous fighter is the subsonic MiG-21, which debuted in 1953. The latest model is the MiG-29, from the 1970s. So in terms of military technology, North Korea pales in comparison to the South that has a technologically advanced military.
Both countries have significant military power. South Korea has one of the most powerful militaries in the world, with 3.5 million troops. The South’s GDP is 50 times as great as the North’s, and it spends five times as much as North Korea on defense. Since it can’t keep up in traditional combat arms, the North is beefing up its unconventional warfare capabilities, including chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, along with the ballistic missiles. North Korea has biological weapons, involving anthrax, plague, and smallpox. They may attempt to launch a secret biological attack.
A surprise attack by the North would likely succeed for four days but then be stopped. South Korea would likely gain the offensive after a week of fighting and invade North Korea. The US has 30,000 troops supported by an F-22 Raptor squadron. Civilian casualties could be exceptionally high despite thousands of air raid shelters in Seoul. Nuclear weapons could decimate both countries, so only a few are likely to be used. Cyber warfare and operations by Special Forces to neutralize Kim Jong Un are expected. Thanks to www.forbes.com.
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Filer’s Files #29 – 2017 Doug Auld’s UFO Photos - PART II
Filer’s Files #29 – 2017 Doug Auld’s UFO Photos - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Moon Object
Whittier— I was taking horizon night video of the sunset with my new drone over my town and decided to compare what I learned with Apollo footage from 1969. I saw the Raw Uncut Apollo 11 landing that helped me understand how awesomely clear that video was back then with all the streaks and black dots on the most important video of all time. Stop this video at 16:33 to see it yourself. At about 20 minutes, you’ll see a crime being committed. These aliens are better seen as a shadow. It’s a lot harder to hide a shadow. There are so many of these things, you may be able to catch hundreds on the screen. They hover over the astronauts heads and follow them. Something scared the life out of Armstrong and he freaks out. There is a slight glow that approaches the astronaut from behind very slow. He is warned by the other astronaut and he freaks out again. . The last photo was not take by me, but is very close to the image of Alien that I have. The only way to see if these Aliens are few or many or if they are being controlled (like my drone) by the two orbs seen far away in the background… If so, these guys are super awesome UAV Pilots. Watch this footage at super slow-mo and have some fun. I hope this disclosure is comfortable for everyone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Orbs
Vail — I was driving west on Highway 70 on June 29, 2017. I like to take pictures of scenery. As I was approaching Vail I placed my camera outside the window to take pictures of a road sign. A few days later once I got home (Austin, Texas) I was reviewing pictures and that is when I saw odd metallic shaped objects. Then I noticed the same objects in a different picture.
Note: The objects may be a reflection and therefore not real. A second photo (not shown) shows several of the “objects” throughout the sky. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Delaware Light
Ocean View– I had just returned from market and noticed an orange fire like light in the clearing in front of my house. It glowed like a fire in the sky so I pulled my phone camera was able to capture a photo before the light disappeared. I witnessed the craft veer left and then veer right again as if it were going through an s curve. The light ejected a flash of light/ beam from bottom of craft and at that moment I doubted it was a plane. A pulse of light the same color as the craft was shot straight down from the bottom of the craft. I ran into the house and showed my wife and daughter. We went outside but the craft was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
North Port— My fiancé and I were sitting on our back lanai talking at 9 pm when I spotted a small red-orange orb, flying NE. I said “Honey, what is that?” We got up to investigate for 5 minutes, before it was gone. The light intensified as it gained altitude, shining a bright orange aura around the orb. Suddenly, what was just one orb of light, turned into 8 or 9 orbs of light, rotating in sequence? After about 10 seconds of the sequenced lighting, it switches back to one single red, orange orb. You could clearly see it was a circular unidentifiable object, probably the size of a car. The lights were on the bottom of the craft about 10 miles away.
The craft would hover, then move forward a bit, stop, move back and then move forward really fast. Repeating this 4 times, also ascending and descending in a Z shape. Then it took off east and we never saw it again. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Idaho Cloud Ships
Caldwell — I’ve been recording the Cloud Ships that You Tubers are posting about for several months here on July 11, 2017. What I’m providing are pictures worldwide and some on your site and MUFON. The clouded drones, believed to be remotely controlled by small V like ships-often can be seen in the cloud sideways or backwards. They have approached my surveillance position in the past, but now they follow me, cloak and uncloak and approach my home. Now they employed on 4 occasions a regular Police looking Drone, which flies lighted, lights off, stationary and mobile surveillance, dangerously low on freeway, perpendicular to freeway, parks on on-ramp, and flies near aircraft possibly in blind spot. The clouded Drones fly over residential, industrial, commercial areas daily and a school by me, often at an increased speed downward which is intimidating. The last two nights have been horrifying, as they use numerous SR like ships, plus the real drone, and now lights or stars to intimidate me via proximity approach. I have many pictures over the months. I know I’m not the only one being targeted possibly. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Lights
Chicago – On May 25, 2017, I was in my back yard smoking a cigarette at 9:11 pm, I witnessed some sort of flying craft rise up above the trees, just to the north of I-55. It was very close when I first saw it about the size of a silver dollar. I could see bright multiple lights on the craft and seemed to represent one very bright light. The object went straight up at a very high rate of speed and looked about the size of a penny. I watched the silent object hover for around 30 – 45 seconds and noticed 4 individual lights which seemed to be in the shape of a diamond. The top light wasn’t very bright. The side lights were yellow-orange color very bright and somewhat oval shape. The bottom light was somewhat round and also very bright. These lights would flicker sporadically. After watching the object hover for 30 – 45 seconds, I ran into my house to grab my cell phone when I came out it was still hovering but a second later, it sped off SE as I took a photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Disc
Dunlop — on July 10, 2017, I was showing my 6 year old son the park I went to when I was young I took two pictures of my son, then two selfies with myself and son. As I stood up finishing the last picture, I saw some black object very quickly go across sky and into the cloud cover. I dismissed it immediately thinking that I imagined it. In the evening around 5 pm, I called my wife in California and sent her pictures. That is when I discovered the very black thing that had moved across the sky. There also seems to be some sort of portal looking thing that I remembered seeing go into cloud cover, that was very strange indeed.
I also had four other UFO incidences I never reported. I saw an L shaped ship, soundless ‘floating’ over a road while a friend and I pulled over in amazement to watch. It had two small white lights on underside in a fog under the ship with two super bright white light circles on the ground in 1997, in Elkhart County, Indiana. In the 1998 incident a friend and I saw two silver metallic saucers that disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maine Object
Presque Isle– On July 14, 2017. I was in the car on my way home when I saw a bright light to the left of me and I thought it was a plane. We have a small airport where the planes are usually pretty small, but. I noticed it was moving too slow to be a plane so I pulled over to check it out. I noticed it was just hovering when a jet came from its left and it bolted to the right and up into the sky. I didn’t see the object after that. I have never seen a military jet up and Maine before. I got some pictures of the UFO but it all happened too quickly to get much though. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Light
Medford— I arrived home just past 12 midnight on June 11, 2017, and looked up at nearly full moon with a blue blurry object just below the Moon. It was hovering and then flew from left to right, but staying within vicinity of the Moon. I got a very strange feeling that I was looking at something other than a Star so I began taking cell phone pictures zooming in. The object was going through a blurry transformation of shape and color. I was positive whatever it was, it had to be significant in size because of its distance away. After 10 minutes I went into the house to get my roommate but it had disappeared from view. I had taken all of the pictures in under a minute. At one point it looked “cylindrical” in shape and changed again into an unknown shape as it hovered and made no sound while I observed it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Orb
I was outside on my deck watching the sky and I saw a reddish orange glowing ball flying over me on February 19, 2017.
I took pictures with my phone not real clear but not fake either!
I was really excited when I seen it whatever it is!
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Abduction
Plymouth — Going to bathroom at 3:56 am when happened to look up through sky light to see a light/object quickly flying north on July 7, 2017. It made sudden turn to the NE. This is the second one in two nights. I know immediately what they are. It then suddenly disappeared. I have had multiple abductions since I was a child. I can tell you about seeing more than 5 different entities on a huge ship. I was taken around the ship and shown many things by a tall hybrid female who very strangely looked like me. I am aware of when they will come and when they will take me. They have taken my husband and children. They have little recollection. I have had many that I remember. The one in charge of the ship I was on last, was nearly 9.1/2 feet tall with a white robe, very thin, long white hair and facial hair. He glowed and sparkled as if lit up from within. I must tell you I will see them again and again, but have been allowed selected memories. I have much more details about the various abductions. They are getting ready for something big. They told me that our government is dealing with a type of Alien that cannot be trusted and are concerned for us as they have been watching over us. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Area 51
I look at Area 51 Google Earth maps quite a bit and stumbled on these new quite large man made caves near area 51 on July 14, 2017. They are to the south closer to the old nuclear test site. What I find very interesting is there are clearly quite a few vehicles parked near it so it looks quite active. I know a lot has been said about an area S4 and that it is in a mountain. Maybe it’s nothing but your team should look into this as I found it quite different than other surrounding structures. And with its proximity to Area 51 well it’s not hard to imagine that whatever this is related. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Hampshire Cylinder
Conway — We went to the top of White Mountain on July 7, 2017, and after coming back down the twisting road to park in the information building to cool the breaks and take a bathroom break.
As we were leaving I took a photo of the building and did not realize till today that there was an object above the building. That’s when I noticed the object in my photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Object
Beachwood — A week ago about July 5, 2017, at 1:30 am, I ran my dog out front and caught something in the sky I thought was odd. There was an aircraft with several flashing lights on it but it wasn’t moving. I come in the house and for the next hour I watched this silent thing out my window just hover with very slight bobbling. I was 100% positive it wasn’t a helicopter or planet because it’s much bigger than Jupiter/ I’m right next to Toms River in Ocean County. The object was near Joint Base McGuire so I called them at 2:30 am and got the operator. After explaining what I was seeing he said they have nothing in the sky, but he believes me and wasn’t surprised at all. Then he just said there’s nothing he can do and maybe try 911.
So the next night I brought my sister out around midnight when I saw it again Her first words were “What is that”? It’s not any kind of plane. My cell phone camera can’t pick it up unfortunately. Feel free to call me anytime on my cell 732-581-6000. Thanks, Joe
Ohio Disc
Celina — At 8:49 pm, I was standing on my balcony facing north while smoking a cigarette on June 27, 2016 when I noticed a while disc shaped object. It was significantly brighter in color and moving fairly quickly although the exact speed I couldn’t say. I managed to take 4 pictures before I lost the object. After taking the pictures I showed them to my wife and she dismissed the images .I still cannot figure out what the object was. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Orb
Harrisburg— I was at a buddy’s house Saturday night July 8, 2017. We were sitting outside when this extremely bright aircraft came over top of us. It made a noise like I haven’t heard before. It changed direction pretty quick and flew off out of sight in a few seconds. Four of us witnessed it. I got what photos I could from my crappy cell phone camera.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina Triangle
Columbia — I cannot recall the exact date now, but it was an evening in 2001 between 9 and 10:30 pm that it happened. I was driving from Columbia to Elgin when a MASSIVE triangular shaped craft was hovering above the interstate. It was dark colored, but it had three lights, one at each end of the triangle. I think one was green, red and either blue or yellow. Several of us decided to pull over to look closer, and got out of their cars while I stood up thru the sky roof for a good look. I stood and stared for at least 10 minutes. It was strange how it stayed so long, and then it went dark before it disappeared at an unnaturally high speed. I know many people travelling the highway saw it. Fort Jackson is very close and there are two air bases in Sumter that borders Columbia. I submitted sighting in May of 2008 in Spartanburg, SC.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Two Orbs
Huntington— I was driving north on South Veterans Drive and my radar started going off on April 18, 2017. So I held my phone to my left at an apartment complex to see if I could figure out where the cop was hiding.
Well I was shocked upon review of the footage that there was no cop and there were two orbs that appear and then streak off to the left or approximately south. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Lights
Texas City Dikes – I was taking pictures of sunset and surroundings on July 8, 2017.
I never seen this in the sky due to sun but after taking the pictures and seeing it is unbelievable.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Cylinder
Port Macquarie, N.S.W— .Object was first sighted with 90 MM telescope on July 9, 2017. At 2.06 PM to 2.39 PM, it was not visible to the naked eye. The object drifted west for 5 minutes and then east for 20 minutes until it was out of sight. I used a Canon 7D camera with a 1,800 MM lens raw format. The object was fading in and out of visibility and was turning slowly at times. It looked like a possible serpent, similar to Mexico sightings. Your guess on what this object was is as good as mine. It was an unknown object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada near Miss
Lake Ontario — Federal transportation investigators say they are unable to identify an airborne object that caused a Toronto-bound plane to take evasive maneuvers that left two flight attendants with minor injuries.
A Porter Airlines flight en route from Ottawa to Toronto on November 14, 2016 narrowly avoided a mid-flight collision above Lake Ontario with what flight crew said may have been a drone. The Transportation Safety Board says it has now closed its investigation into the incident, saying that the object doesn’t appear to have been a drone. The description and size of the object does not match any known commercial or consumer available unmanned aerial vehicle,” TSB spokeswoman Karine Eyamie said Wednesday. “The incident will remain identified as a near collision with an unidentified airborne object.”
The TSB noted that the incident occurred too far from shore and too high for the object to be a drone. The Dash 8 Porter aircraft with 54 passengers was flying at just under 3,000 meters over Lake Ontario at 7:30 a.m. and was about 55 kilometers from Toronto’s island airport when the near miss occurred.
The TSB said it will not file a full, public report on the incident. Porter previously said its two flight attendants, who were in the process of securing the cabin for landing and weren’t in their seats, were pitched about the cabin when the incident occurred, but continued with their duties. A TSB investigator said the aircraft ducked under the object in the air and noted that the encounter had been “very close.” A system-wide outage forcing Porter Airlines to ground all of its arriving and departing flights Saturday has been resolved, the airline says. Porter Airlines resumes flights following system outage affecting about 400 passengers Thanks to Paul Shishis
Scarborough— At 3:17 pm witnessed high in the sky thousands of feet– quarter mile away heading towards the southeast on July 4, 2017 I could see a very high bright white flashing UFO on and off I alerted a co-worker and pointed it out to him, who could now see it. After taking a total of eight zoom shots I took video. This unknown object went above the clouds and was not seen again. I had witnessed my 24th UFO sighting here at work Brief video clip — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUS9uJzu5-o Enjoy Paul Shishis
France Light
Saint Germain en Laye— I was at home watching the fireworks on July 14 at my window. 2. I call my girlfriend to tell her what I saw because my phone is broken cam. I describe to her the red point in the sky. 3. I thought it was a plane because the red light is like a plane’s light. 4. It looks like a red circle maybe more like a small cone, and not a perfect circle. At the beginning, before I took my laptop to film the object. It was like he is watching the fireworks or wondering what was going on here. It remained until the end of the fireworks and moved to the right and left very quickly. I turned on my Macbook Pro and turned on photo booth. It blinks 2 or 3 times and has flashing stop disappearing from my field of view.
Netherlands Orbs
Department Lozere — My mother, eleven year old son, and I were sitting outside looking up at the night-sky explaining the Big Dipper on August 18, 2012. There is a lot of activity in the sky: apart from the usual airplanes and satellites.
On the left of the handle of the Big Dipper a rather bright little white light (a little ‘star’ if you will), in a jerky fashion and with the tiniest wobble moves ‘down’ along the handle and finally, I think even before reaching the pan it disappears. I witnessed the exact same thing a couple of weeks earlier so immediately after I drew a simple sketch of it too.
The last sighting had a similar effect but the direction was NNW followed, in the same direction but at a little distance, by a short, parallel streak of light, most likely a meteor. #2 a light/’star’ was moving in the same manner but in the opposite direction of #1; While #4 flew the same as #1 again. Then #5: was observed by my son with his younger eyes. “Look look straight up!” he said, “I saw a dim metal grey flying vessel heading west. This was the most spectacular event we saw that night about 11:10 PM. The vessel seemed to be one object in a diamond shape but it had four segments with lightning-like bluish-white neon light tube. The silent vessel flew 100 meters high at 150 and 200 km/h and was the size of a fighter jet. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Object
I did see a flash to my right… There was no physical acknowledgement on November 11, 1997.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Peru Black Orb
Lima — I was adjusting my camera to high quality and making test pictures on July 9. 2017. Only when I was on my PC did I see a dark ball inside the fog of the sky. It was to the east of Lima. The previous and later pictures did not show the ball, it was in just one picture. I was taking some 15 pictures each minute. Today it was cloudy early in the morning and less cloudy at the time of the picture. The Sun was going to the West. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Puerto Rico Disc
Humacao— Following a sequence of photo shooting I found a Flying Saucer southeast of us on July 05, 2017, One photo was at 5:14PM and the other at 5{17PM.
One photo had three objects and the other had one object which I believe is the same object in both photo.
There seems to be UFO activities around the antenna tower area on top of the hill at the other side of the town in Humacao, Puerto Rico seen in the picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Turkey Orbs
Samsun— I sat on the balcony on Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 23:00. I looked at the sky to see if there were stars. Three lights of orange color appeared on the roof of the next school. They are in the shape of a circle and they fly in a northeast direction in the form of a triangle.
Two of the lights left their places a little and they came back to their old places. Everything was so fast and gets very close. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK England Disc
Gatwick — It was a hot summer’s day, and I was sitting in the garden, outside my building, when I noticed something shiny in the sky on July 12, 2012. I knew it was not an airplane, because, I live under the flight path of two airports, Gatwick to the South and Heathrow heading to the North.
I always take my camera and binoculars outside day or night. I took out my camera (old TZ8) and zoomed in and started taking pictures, I managed to get about 5/6 picture, when I looked at them, I was shocked at what I was looking at and decided, I was not staying out side anymore. I had/ have an Instagram page uploaded the pictures and told my followers, that I saw a UFO that evening. The UFO disappeared into the clouds and that was the last I saw of that one. The next day, I went back into my garden and noticed something red in the sky. I managed to get one picture of this UFO, because it was moving so fast. After seeing this UFO, I went inside, because I was getting scared. Since then, it’s been hell. I now have UFOs, coming over me and my building, every time I go outside to stargaze. I have pictures and videos to prove it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Huge Unidentified Flying Object caught on Sat24 Africa Satellite
Huge Unidentified Flying Object caught on Sat24 Africa Satellite
A resident of TD near Boston was looking at the weather on Sat24 and noticed a huge unidentified flying object moving at very high speed between north Sudan and Chad.
These pictures are taken from sat24 Africa satellite and daytime map on 23 July, 2017 and show a satellite image looking at the sub Saharan Africa region, specifically the border between Sudan and Chad.
At 09.30 there is nothing but cloud but at 10.00 you can clearly see something moving at high speed coming out of the border area between north Sudan and Chad.
At 10.15 the object is bigger and by the distance covered travelling at a very high speed, then at 10.30 it is gone. It seems to be coming out of north Sudan and curving into Chad in a SW direction.
The witness states “Given the high speed and size of the object, it is absolutely no plane.” So, what is it, a rocket, a UFO? Mufon case 85291.
Do not fear the animal mutilations, crop circles, claims of “ancient astronauts,” lights in the sky or the strange new cults for the reason that we do not know yet if they exist. However, it has been decades since the sighting emerged, however, no definite answers yet. So the answer would merely depend on the belief you have. It was a hot summer day when the witness was sitting in the garden. Minutes later, he noticed something shiny in the sky. Of course, he knew that it was not an aeroplane as he is familiar with it. In fact, he lives under the flight paths to two different airports, the Heathrow heading to the North, and the Gatwick heading to the South.
The good thing is, the witness always takes his binoculars and camera outside, whether it is day or night. He took his camera and tried zooming in. He started taking pictures and managed to get five to six photos. The witness was scared when he looked at them and finally decided never to stay outside again. The witness shared the photos on his Instagram page by telling his followers what he saw. The UFO finally disappeared in the clouds, and that was the last time he saw. The next day he decided to stay in the garden to do some readings but noticed something red in the sky. He again took his camera out of his bag and started taking pictures, but only managed to get one pic since it was moving too fast. After seeing the images, he went inside because of fear. Since then, it has been hell since strange objects are coming over as soon as he goes outside to stargaze.
There is no rationale as to how these strange objects got there or why they exist, to begin with. There are tonnes of research to be done concerning the aliens and what they are. The witness was reliable enough to conclude what he saw. He has photos and people that can support his statements.
NASA Mars Rover Snapped The Clearest Alien UFO Ever
NASA Mars Rover Snapped The Clearest Alien UFO Ever
It does not matter how anyone personally feels political these days. Folks who take religion to literal extremes could care less as well as many of these people that the Earth will suffer a biblical or dogmatic fate. NASA, one of the leading space discovery areas, is one that has helped to provide new insights to those interested in space. Not only is this a part of the current events, but also invites discovery into the events that are designed to help with the discovery of the history of space science.
Recently, a clear photo showing an extraterrestrial spaceship went viral on the internet. The Mars Rover of NASA has snapped a photo that shows a strange object appearing on the Red Planet’s surface. The high-definition image shows the rocky landscape situated on the Mars. However, there is an object right in the middle of the image that looks entirely different. It has a metallic and smooth exterior. There is no denying that it bears a resemblance to a stereotypical spaceship. Certainly, it does not look like the natural forces made it.
However, NASA did announce that it had found a running water in 2015 on Mars. Guess what? There may be an existence of an alien right now. Moreover, the new development rise after the hacking group named Anonymous claimed by the space agency will eventually announce the fact that they saw aliens. Alien hunters post photos or videos online, claiming to be an alien craft. They are amateur footage so not convincing. However, the Rover of NASA is equipped with powerful lenses, so the image is incredibly clear. According to the conspiracy theorists, many people accuse NASA of covering up the alien existence – sometimes posting images from the surface of the Mars or the moon, claiming they show aliens or artefacts even if they are just an oddly shaped object or rock. But with the image posted on March, the discovery is challenging to explain.
Abandoned 'out of this world' UFO-shaped Soviet monument captured in incredible photographs
Abandoned 'out of this world' UFO-shaped Soviet monument captured in incredible photographs
Explorer Bob Thissen snapped the incredible location saying it looked like a scene from a sci-fi film
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Incredible photographs have captured a Soviet monument that looks like a UFOstraight out of a sci-fi film.
With a large spaceship-shaped dome and a beaming silhouette from the centre it would be easy to confuse the Buzludzha monument with a scene from the movie Independence Day.
But the attraction near to Kazanluk, Bulgaria, played host to the country’s socialist communist party with its grandiose space, 70 metre tower and striking mosaic artwork.
Pictured: The Buzludzha monument(Image: Caters News Agency)
Bob made sure to get a selfie(Image: Caters News Agency)
Construction of the monument began on 23 January 1974 and opened on 23 August 1981. It cost roughly $35 million to build.
Mosaics cover approximately 510 square meters of space and are decorated in commemoration of the history of the Bulgarian Communist Party(Image: Caters News Agency)
Construction of the monument began on 23 January 1974(Image: Caters News Agency)
Mosaics inside the building cover approximately 510 square metres of space and are decorated in commemoration of the history of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
The site, which was abandoned in 1989 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was visited by Bob Thissen from Heerlen, The Netherlands.
The monument played host to the country's socialist communist party with its large hall, 70 metre tower and striking mosaic artwork(Image: Caters News Agency)
The location was the set for Hollywood film Mechanic: Resurrection with Jason Statham(Image: Caters News Agency)
Bob Thissen trekked two hours in the snow(Image: Caters News Agency)
The site was abandoned in 1989 after the collapse of the Soviet Union(Image: Caters News Agency)
After a two-hour mountainous trek through the snow, urban explorer Bob photographed the incredible location saying it looked like a scene from a sci-fi film.
The location was once used as the set for Hollywood film Mechanic: Resurrection with Jason Statham
“A tank-like object has been discovered on the moon, scattered among what appears to be ruins of some sort,” SecureTeam10 said in the video.
The researchers, who have drummed up several other UFO-related videos, also noted that it could be an odd-shaped rock not seen before.
Below is the video in its entirety:
The video also appears to show tracks on the moon, though the experts did not say whether the tracks and the purported tank were connected.
SecureTeam 10, which has nearly 800,000 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."
A strange looking object seen flittering over the skies of Cornwall left locals bemused, with some believing that aliens had paid a visit to the UK's southernmost county.
A number of clips taken over the past couple of days shows a shimmering black object in the sky morphing into different shapes and sizes, uncharacteristic of a flock of birds.
Surfer Kiefer Krishnan, caught the strange object on his Go-Pro camera while hitting the waves on Monday.
The 'UFO' on the A30 earlier this week as seen by a driver
The bizarre objects hovering other Roche Rock on Wednesday
The same day photographer Shayne House spotted the UFO, which appears to disappear and re-materialise, over the A30, declaring on Twitter: 'What the?! Is this an alien spacecraft over the A30?'
Also on Monday Harry Wild, who works in food marketing, caught the object over Fistral beach and asked on Twitter if anyone else had seen it.
On Tuesday, there were more sightings with beauty blogger Stephanie, who runs the 'cocochic' website, also recording the mysterious moving shades in the sky while going to the hairdressers in Truro.
She tweeted: 'filmed this in Truro today before my hair apt..can someone please explain?'
Others commented that it looked like a swarm of birds or insects.
The belief that aliens may have chosen Cornwall as their first landing point on Earth was short lived however.
The Eden Project, who are hosting its new Journey Into Space attraction on July 27, have hinted that they had something to do with the quickly moving black smudge in the skies.
A spokesperson for the centre said: 'It's true we have a galaxy of ways to tell the story of space at Eden this summer. To coin a phrase… ''The truth is out there.''
Surfer Kiefer Krishnan, caught the strange object on his Go-Pro camera while hitting the waves
The highly-classified air base in Nevada, US, is commonly believed to hold extra-terrestrial life-forms by conspiracy theorists.
And so-called truth-seekers Blake and Brett Cousins have added to this theory by finding what they believe is “UFO hangar” buried into the mountains nearby.
The pair used Google Earth to show aerial images of the strange sighting.
“Right in this mountain range, if you see this driveway it seems to lead to some kind of hidden underground entrance,” Blake says.
“Are these two entries to a base within this mountain range?
“Are they harvesting minerals out of this mountain or is this an entrance to a military base?
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MYSTERY: Is this an alien hangar near Area 51?
“These are never-before-seen images. Is this a possible entrance where they’re hiding the UFOs and flying saucers recovered from Roswell?”
The clip has been seen more than 35,000 times since it was posted to the brothers’ YouTube channel, thirdphaseofmoon.
“Whatever they have hidden from people there, must be huge,” one user commented.
Another added: “The mountain itself looks almost like an alien craft.”
But a third suggested: “That underground facility might be used for the storage of nuclear weapons or nuclear waste.”
Area 51’s primary purpose is unknown, although many believe it is the site of experimental aircraft and weapons testing.
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STRANGE: Two supposed entrances are seen heading into the mountain
There are others, though, who strongly believe the US Air Force holds alien life-forms and equipment there.
Bob Lazar in 1989 he had worked at Area 51 with alien spacecraft, that the US government had in its possession.
More and more footage of apparent UFOs have surfaced in recent weeks.
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UFOs in CORNWALL? Locals baffled after multiple sightings across county
UFOs in CORNWALL? Locals baffled after multiple sightings across county
UFO hunters are convinced they have found solid evidence of alien life over Cornwall as dozens of locals reported seeing a strange translucent, shimmering craft in the sky.
Over the past week, residents of Cornwall have reported seeing a strange shimmering object in the sky which some believe is proof that extraterrestrials are visiting.
The odd phenomenon was first spotted on Monday by surfer Kiefer Krishnan, who caught it on his Go-Pro camera, and uploaded it to Instagram with the caption: “Looking through the GoPro footage and found the Strangest sighting at the end of the vid.”
Since then, a flurry of videos were uploaded to social media sites, all of which were spotted in different locations across the southwestern tip of England.
Harry Wild wrote on Twitter: “Odd sighting at #Fistral today. Anyone else see it? #ufocornwall”.
He asked: “What the?! Is this an alien spacecraft over the A30?”
Another Instagram user from Kent, who posted footage over Roche Rock, St Austell, said: "What on Earth is this in the sky? It looks like some kind of craft to me, has anyone else seen this?”
Numerous other sightings have emerged of the bizarre 0UFO, leaving residents baffled.
Some have speculated that it could be a flock of birds or insects, but as it has a similar shape over several days and in the same locations, experts say this is unlikely.
Others, however, theorise that it could be a publicity stunt from the Eden Project, which is set to open its new Journey Into Space attraction on July 27.
A spokesperson for the Eden Project told Cornwall Live: "It's true we have a galaxy of ways to tell the story of space at Eden this summer. To coin a phrase… 'The truth is out there'."
It has been seen over Truro city centre, Carluddon clay tip, Fistral beach in Newquay, over the A30, above Roche Rock and by a surfer above the sea off the Cornish coast.
People have taken to social media in their droves after witnessing the weird object.
The first to spot it was surfer Kiefer Krishnan, who caught it on his Go-Pro camera, which he posted on his Instagram account on Monday.
The mysterious flying object has been spotted all over Cornwall(Image: Cornwall Live)
Photographer Shayne House spotted the weird object, which appears to disappear and rematerialise, over the A30, also on Monday. He filmed it for A30 and even managed a close-up. He declared on Twitter: "What the?! Is this an alien spacecraft over the A30?"
Harry Wild, who works in food marketing, was the next to upload footage of the unexplained object. She saw it over Fistral beach on Monday and asked on Twitter is anyone else had seen it. Many people commented it looked like a swarm of birds or insects.
There were three more sightings on Tuesday. The first was by Trudi, from Kent, who posted footage over Roche Rock, near St Austell, on Instagram. She wrote: "What on Earth is this in the sky? It looks like some kind of craft to me, has anyone else seen this?
People have taken to social media to question what the object is(Image: Cornwall Live)
Dan Goodwin took to Twitter when he captured footage of "this weirdness" at the clay tip near St Austell. His film was retweeted 78 times.
The final sighting, so far, was by a Steph – who goes by the name CocochicBlog – who caught the odd object on her phone above Truro while on the way to a hair appointment.
Cornwall Live has approached various agencies about these sightings but no one has any answers.
The Eden Project has launched its new Journey Into Space attraction on Thursday, July 27, and wondered if these supposed UFOs had anything to do with that.
A spokesman for the attraction said: "It's true we have a galaxy of ways to tell the story of space at Eden this summer. To coin a phrase … 'The truth is out there'."
Multiple sightings of bizarre 'UFO' are captured on video in Cornwall
Multiple sightings of bizarre 'UFO' are captured on video in Cornwall
A mysterious 'UFO' has been filmed several times in skies above Cornwall in recent days.
While some believe the shimmering, translucent, pulsating object is "some kind of craft", others believe it to be swarm of insects or birds - and it has even been suggested it could a publicity stunt for the new 'Journey into Space' attraction at the Eden Project.
Whatever it is, it has turned heads across the Duchy.
Over the last couple of days the strange black shape has been spotted over Truro city centre, Carluddon clay tip, Fistral beach in Newquay, over the A30, above Roche Rock and by a surfer above the sea off the Cornish coast, reports Cornwall Live.
The first to spot it was surfer Kiefer Krishnan, who caught it on his Go-Pro camera, which he posted on his Instagram account on Monday.
Photographer Shayne House spotted the weird object, which appears to disappear and rematerialise, over the A30, also on Monday. He filmed it for A30 and even managed a close-up. He declared on Twitter: "What the?! Is this an alien spacecraft over the A30?"
Harry Wild, who works in food marketing, was the next to upload footage of the unexplained object. She saw it over Fistral beach on Monday and asked on Twitter is anyone else had seen it. Many people commented it looked like a swarm of birds or insects.
There were three more sightings on Tuesday. The first was by Trudi, from Kent, who posted footage over Roche Rock, near St Austell, on Instagram. She wrote: "What on Earth is this in the sky? It looks like some kind of craft to me, has anyone else seen this?
Cornwall Live approached various agencies about these sightings but no one has any answers.
The Eden Project launches its new Journey Into Space attraction on Thursday, July 27, prompting speculation the UFO could be a publicity stunt.
A spokesperson for Eden cryptically told Cornwall Live: "It's true we have a galaxy of ways to tell the story of space at Eden this summer. To coin a phrase … 'The truth is out there'."
Awakening was billed as the place "where ufology and conspiracy meets spirituality and consciousness." I found Flat Earth truthers and Darth Vader instead.
I hadn't even entered Europe's biggest UFO convention before someone handed me a pamphlet linking Satan to aliens, featuring a quote attributed to Jesus that was apparently uttered by the Son of God sometime in September of 1985. I'd gone with my friends, Tom and Matt, to check out Awakening, billed as the place "where ufology and conspiracy meets spirituality and consciousness."
A month or so ago, Tom texted me a link to the event page. I knew I had to go as soon as I saw it—we wanted to challenge our deeply-held beliefs and see if they would stand up to all the ideas and theories we'd read about in obscure corners of the internet. Was the Earth flat? Are politicians actually reptilian humanoids? Why not go in with an open mind?
As Tom finished his cigarette, a man dressed as Darth Vader emerged out of the venue, followed closely by a troop of Stormtroopers. The Bowlers Exhibition Center in Manchester usually plays host to Elvis impersonator concerts and the Great Northern Ska Festival, but I doubted the 84,000 square feet hall had ever encountered this mix of sci-fi enthusiasts, New Age kooks, Flat Earth conspiracy theorists, and people otherwise willing to fork out anywhere between £15 to £100 for a ticket to drink in a Star Wars inspired cantina bar.
When Tom threw his cigarette butt on the ground, a woman handing out pamphlets to asked him to be a good lad and pick it up and put it in the bin. "They'll get ya," she added in a thick Mancunian accent, looking around conspiratorially.
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This was the first Awakening expo, but the packed crowd clearly didn't care that this was its maiden voyage. People stood around the entrance, spinning on their heels and deciding where to go first: the stalls selling everything from Pokémon toys, healing crystals and VHS tapes for 20 pence apiece? The Area 51 mock-up, complete with a UFO guarded by two alien "greys" with bulging, orb-like eyes? As we decided on a plan for the day, Tom nudged me, and I looked up to see a man dressed as Elvis circling the Pokémon stall, talking to a friend.
On our way to a talk titled "The Secret Life of Teas: A Journey Into Plant Intelligence and How It Can Guide Our Personal Evolution," we walked past two men dressed as men in black, complete with sunglasses and earpieces. "Cool costumes," I said to Matt. "Is that what they want you to think?" he replied.
Anne, the founder of Attic Teas, a Bristol-based tea company and cafe, took to the stage in front of about 25 people. Hydration, she informed us, was important to reach a higher state of being, and vibrations were key to reaching this higher consciousness.
We lined up to be served a small paper cup of tea and returned to our seats. According to Anne, it was a blend of Attic Teas' own making; once we'd drunk it, she would help us through a guided meditation routine. I downed mine and enjoyed the slightly herb-y aftertaste as Anne fiddled around with her laptop for a few seconds. "Notice the energy of your breath," a soothing voice radiated from the speakers. "Notice how it feels."
Darth Vader had clearly circled back to the venue; I could hear his distinctive breathing from somewhere in the crowd. Maybe he was a fan of artisanal teas and guided meditation. Despite the distractions, most of Anne's audience kept their eyes closed. I did feel relaxed and kind of spaced out, even though it sounded like Darth Vader was wheezing directly in my ear.
A rapt audience at a talk about how humanity was descended from lizards.
"We will definitely be attending next year," Anne said in an email after the event. "It was right up our street!" When I asked what a tea company had to do with conspiracy theories, and UFOs, she replied that she didn't really like the term "conspiracy theory" because it "sets an 'us versus them' tone."
"We should all be encouraged to question things and discover alternatives," she added. "For me, the power of possibility is what I find intriguing, the invisible world of vibrational energy, intention and ancient wisdom that comes from everything, not just humanity."
On another stage, Flat-Earth truther Darren Nesbit was just beginning a talk with the somewhat protracted title: "A Fixed Plane Earth Presentation. Exposing The Lies of NASA, The World Governments and Media."
Nesbit, a solemn bald man with a beard, admitted that a talk on the flat Earth might seem incongruous at a UFO convention, but explained that it was the perfect setting for it because everyone was here "seeking truth." As the name suggests, Flat Earthers believe that we live on a flat plane, instead of a round, sphere-like planet. (You might think that any number of NASA pictures would be enough to dissuade them, but Flat Earthers also believe that NASA is in on the conspiracy.)
The talk began with an image from The Truman Show (1998) featuring Jim Carrey ascending the stairs at the edge of his film set world, about to discover the truth of what lies behind his life. Its caption read: "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented."
Nesbitt's talk went down a storm: All the seats were taken, and people had lined up at the back to listen to him speak. After the event, he said that getting the Flat Earth message out was usually a lot harder. "I try to look for the right opening to bring it up, normally with humor," he said on email. "It's easier if you start with money, politics—things that people are familiar with and know there's something dodgy about to begin with."
According to its organizers, Awakening was a "phenomenal success"—tickets for their 2018 expo have already been released. The 2,500 people that walked through its doors, they said, were proof that "more and more people are seeking answers to the biggest questions of mankind and our true origins." One thing I do know is that I came out with more questions than when I went in, but maybe next year I'll just go for the tea.
MYSTERY surrounds a possible UFO sighting photographed by people on the northern beaches this month.
Narrabeen’s Gus Medero captured a close-up shot of the bizarre object and he was one of several witnesses at a loss to explain it.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has also described the object as “a mystery”.
Mr Medero was taking sunrise photos at Avalon’s Bangalley Head on July 5, about 7am, when his camera also captured a large white dot in the sky above the sun.
Gus Medero can take a mean UFO photo.
Medero said the unidentified object looked to have “four jet streams coming out” of it.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Mr Medero said.
“I can’t really give you a definitive answer (on what it was).”
A shot of the object above the sunrise at Dee Why. Picture: Blake HirstThe mysterious image in the sky. Picture: Blake Hirst
Mr Medero said the object — which was moving in upwards — was most likely a satellite, if he had to guess.
Cromer’s Blake Hirst also took photographs of the object, from Dee Why Beach.
He, along with others at the beach at the time, said he noticed the object move from one side of the rising sun to the other before it disappeared upwards into the atmosphere.
“It’s the strangest thing I’ve ever seen,” he said.
A different sighting on an object in the sky, in 2014. Taken at Dee Why. Picture: Don Jeffery
“I’m not one to believe in UFOs or ghosts or anything like that but it makes you wonder. Some guy made a joke that it was the North Koreans sending a missile.”
Asked if he thought it could have been a drone or a plane, Mr Hirst said: “The way it took off and shot up to space, it could have been a drone ... but I don’t know.
“It seemed it was going way too fast to be a drone — it was going faster than an aeroplane.”
Mr Hirst said it looked like lights were “flashing on and off” from the object.
Don Jeffery took a strange light hovering in the sky in 2014. Picture: Annika Enderborg
Belrose woman Bernice Camf also saw the object from her home and believed it was “space junk”.
A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority viewed photos of the object and said it was a mystery as to what it was.
At that time of the morning the light often makes things look different than they are,” he said.
LAS VEGAS - A computer hacker says he's seen evidence that suggests the United States military has its own secret space program, separate from NASA's space effort.
Gary McKinnon, a computer whiz from the United Kingdom, says he will talk about it at a Las Vegas symposium the weekend of July 21nd-23rd. According to McKinnon, in 2001, while he was searching online for evidence about UFO's, he accessed classified NASA computers a total of 13 times. But instead of evidence of UFO's, McKinnon found files about a secret space program operated by the U.S. Navy, he said.
McKinnon says he even found the names of the off-planet crew members. The president of the Mutual UFO Network, which meets in Las Vegas this week, told the I-Team what McKinnon uncovered.
"Basically, Donna Hare, who had worked for NASA, told him about specific buildings where they were airbrushing UFOs out of photographs before releasing them to the public for NASA, said Jan Harzan, of the Mutual UFO Network. "He wanted to go find that stuff, and in his search for that information, this is what he stumbled upon; literally a secret space fleet within the US Navy."
Mckinnon was arrested for the computer break in, and the U.S. tried to extradite him for trial, but after an 8-year legal battle, the British government refused to turn him over. Saturday at noon, McKinnon will speak via skype to the Mutual UFO Network Symposium, which meets in Las Vegas Friday through Sunday. Several other speakers will address different aspects of the alleged secret space program. For more information on the event go here.
A video filmed in the east end of Glasgow on Monday has attracted debate online over whether or not it captures a UFO.
The clip, uploaded by David Rhodes, shows a bright circular light in the distance.
Rhodes said in a comment posted online: “It disappeared right after the video ended and the sky was clear - spooky.”
Amateur photographs and videos of UFOs have a huge following, with the town of Bonnybridge, near Falkirk, being a mecca for enthusiasts from all over the world.
Earlier this year pictures of an UFO spotted near the Kelpies went viral.
Heather McEwan, from Falkirk, took some shots of the famous landmark in May and later spotted a strange object in the image she had taken.
Heather said: “I came home and it wasn’t till the following day when I was showing my daughter the pictures that she spotted a strange object.
“Curious I took the camera to Asda and had the picture blown up. I contacted UFO website BEAMS (The British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society) and sent the picture.
“They were very interested and asked me to send the original files which I did. After examining the files they have agreed that it is not a plane or drone, nor is it a reflection from a camera and have now put it up as a UFO on their website.”
I have a confession to make. If I were a member of Congress, I would ask serious questions like Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren do, but I'd also ask questions like the one that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher threw at Ken Farley on Tuesday. Farley is a Mars specialist from NASA. Rohrabacher is a congresscritter from California. The following dialogue ensued, from Ars Technica.
"You have indicated that Mars was totally different thousands of years ago. Is it possible that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago?"
"So the evidence is that Mars was different billions of years ago. Not thousands of years ago."
"Well, yes." "And, umm, there would be, there's no evidence that, uhh, I'm aware of," Farley continued.
"Would you rule that out? See, there's some people... Well, anyway."
"I would say that is extremely unlikely."
Admit it. You'd ask about stuff like this, too. Hell, Bill Clinton wasn't in office for six months before he was asking the Air Force about UFOs. Hillary Rodham Clinton talked about them while running in 2016. One of the least damaging revelations by WikiLeaks that came out of the hack of John Podesta's account was Podesta's abiding interest in the same subject, via NBC News:
Podesta also got multiple emails from Blink-182 guitarist and UFO enthusiast Tom DeLonge. They revealed that Podesta took part in a documentary about extraterrestrials by DeLonge was producing. And they revealed that DeLonge was interested in introducing Podesta to people who shared their UFO obsession. "I think you will find them very interesting, as they were principal leadership relating to our sensitive topic," DeLonge wrote in an Oct. 26, 2015 email. "Both were in charge of most fragile divisions, as it relates to Classified Science and DOD topics." "Just looking to have a casual, and private conversation in person," the email states.
Also, I'd advise you all not to elect me president, because I would go completely bananas on this kind of stuff.
UFO in de lucht boven Groot-Brittannië houdt gemoederen flink bezig. Wat is dit?
UFO in de lucht boven Groot-Brittannië houdt gemoederen flink bezig. Wat is dit?
Groot-Brittannië was deze week in de ban van UFO’s. In het Engelse Cornwall is door verschillende mensen een vreemd vliegend voorwerp gefilmd, schrijven diverse media.
Veel mensen denken dat het een publiciteitsstunt was van Project Eden, een lokale toeristische attractie. Anderen geloven dat aliens het graafschap hadden bezocht.
Fotograaf Shayne House legde de UFO vast boven de A30. Op Twitter schreef hij: “Is dit een buitenaards ruimteschip boven de A30?”
Op dinsdag waren er meer waarnemingen. Beautyblogger Stephanie wist het mysterieuze object op de gevoelige plaat vast te leggen toen ze op weg was naar de kapper.
Ze twitterde: “Ik heb dit in Truro gefilmd voordat ik naar de kapper ging. Kan iemand dit alsjeblieft uitleggen?”
EEN WEEK VAN VREEMDE WOLKEN, UFO'S EN DIMENSIEPORTALEN ( VIDEO )
EEN WEEK VAN VREEMDE WOLKEN, UFO'S EN DIMENSIEPORTALEN ( VIDEO )
Naast alle andere vreemde verschijnselen in de lucht is het nu zo langzamerhand overduidelijk dat er ook intelligente activiteiten boven onze hoofden plaatsvinden.
In slechts enkele dagen tijd zijn er een aantal verschijningen van vreemde wolken met daar omheen vliegende UFO’s.
Voor wie zijn ogen openhoudt, valt er veel te ontdekken in de lucht. De meeste mensen raken begrijpelijkerwijs al opgewonden wanneer ze een onbekend vliegend object ontdekken, maar vaak is er nog veel meer te zien.
Daarom vandaag wat voorbeelden die door mensen grotendeels niet worden opgemerkt.
Zoals de volgende opname die enkele dagen geleden is gemaakt in Veliki Novgorod, een stad halverwege tussen Moskou en Sint Petersburg in Rusland.
Zo op het eerste gezicht lijkt het op een eenzame UFO in de nachtlucht, maar schijn bedriegt hier. Wanneer je goed kijkt naar de beelden hieronder, dan zie je weer een voor ons bekend patroon.
Links een donkere wolk die eigenlijk niet in het landschap thuis hoort en al met al zie je twee UFO’s die om de wolk heen dartelen. Iets dat we al veel vaker hebben gezien en ons ook door getuigen is verteld.
Eveneens een paar dagen geleden filmt een inwoner uit Kazachstan vreemde lichten die uit een wolk tevoorschijn lijken te komen.
Ook hier lijkt het weer als je naar de bewegende beelden kijkt, alsof de lichten thuis horen in de dikkere wolk. Ook hier zie je hetzelfde soort verschijnsel van ronddartelende lichten alsof het verkenners zijn.
Dan een vreemde, minder vaak voor komende UFO en wolk opname die op 18 juli genomen schijnt te zijn bij Jacksonville in de Amerikaanse staat Florida.
Vanuit de hemel zie je een heel vreemdsoortige, diamant-vormige wolk als het ware naar beneden hangen, met aan de rechterkant daarvan een UFO.
Maar, hier wordt het nog veel vreemder. Ook hier zie je de UFO een beetje rond de vreemde wolk vliegen, maar aan het eind van het iets minder dan anderhalve minuut durend filmpje, zie je de vreemde wolk naar boven opstijgen.
Alsof het geen wolk is, maar een gecontroleerd ruimteschip, wat het waarschijnlijk ook is.
Dan een ander fenomeen dat eveneens deze week gebeurde, in het Engelse Cornwall. Dit gebied is gelegen aan de uiterste zuidwest punt van Groot Brittannië en talloze getuigen hebben opnames gemaakt van iets dat er als volgt uit ziet:
Het beweegt ook en heeft in eerste instantie wel iets weg van een grote groep vogels die soms ook wel hele vreemde patronen in de lucht kunnen maken, maar men schijnt het erover eens te zijn dat het hier geen vogels betreft.
Wat is het dan wel? Zijn we hier getuige van weer een soort dimensieportaal in een wolk of is het iets totaal anders?
Naast alle andere verschijnselen die zichtbaar zijn in de lucht en waar we eerder over schreven, is nu toch zo langzamerhand wel overduidelijk dat er meer, voor de gemiddelde mens onbekende, beschavingen actief zijn op aarde.
Er zijn aardig wat voorspellingen gedaan die te maken hebben met de maand september van dit jaar. Zijn wij getuige van de aanloop daar naartoe?
It’s a mighty big universe, but ET hunters are zeroing in on these prime candidates, reports Andrew Masterson.
For all the hope and expectation, it is sobering to recall that, despite the best efforts of scientists and engineers, there is still no evidence that life exists anywhere beyond our own planet. There are, however, some planetary prime suspects. Here are the five places astronomers and astrobiologists think are the best chances for harbouring ET.
An artist’s impression of “rocky super-Earth” LHS 1140b and its red dwarf host.
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1. LHS 1140b
News of this planet, a “rocky super-earth”, was announced in the journal Nature in April. Orbiting a red dwarf 39 light-years from Earth, the planet sits in its star’s habitable zone and has an estimated mass almost seven times that of our own planet, leading to the assumption that it comprises rock encasing a solid iron core. According to Jason Dittmann of the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, US, LHS 1140b’s density means it might have survived the runaway global warming thought to denude many red dwarf planets. If so, it might now boast a stable atmosphere and liquid water. “This is the most exciting exoplanet I’ve seen in the past decade,” he said. “We could hardly hope for a better target to perform one of the biggest quests in science – searching for evidence of life beyond Earth.
Brightly illuminated Enceladus.
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2. Enceladus
Thanks to data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, Saturn’s moon Enceladus has emerged as every ET-hunter’s favourite target – mainly due to the strong likelihood that it features a subterranean ocean. In April this year, a team of scientists from the South West Research Institute (SWRI) in Texas, US, revealed a plume of hydrogen erupting from the moon’s surface. The plume may well be evidence of hydrothermal vents in the subsurface ocean – the same type of vents that support extremophile life on earth. “The discovery of hydrogen gas and the evidence for ongoing hydrothermal activity offer a tantalising suggestion that habitable conditions could exist beneath the moon’s icy crust,” says principal investigator Hunter Waite.
Artist’s impression of the planet orbiting Proxima Centauri.
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4. Proxima-b
This planet, discovered in August 2016, orbits the star Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light-years away from our sun, and is the nearest candidate beyond the solar system for hosting ET. Research in May’s Astronomy & Astrophysics journal found the chances of life existing on the planet may hinge on its orbital speed. Astrophysicists at the University of Exeter calculated that if Proxima-b rotates on its axis three times for every two times it orbits its sun, then the chances of it being habitable are substantially improved.
TRAPPIST-1 planet lineup
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5. Trappist-1
The announcement of the Trappist-1 system in February, with seven rocky planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star, sent ripples of excitement through astrobiologists everywhere. At least three of the planets looked like they were within the star’s habitable zone. The latest analysis, by Eric Wolf from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, US, has somewhat dampened expectations, suggesting that only one of the group has life-sustaining potential. But never mind: one chance in seven is still better than no chance at all.
This article appeared in Cosmos 75 - Winter 2017 under the headline "The five top places to look for extraterrestrial life"
No one who saw the objects had any idea what they were
"When I looked up I saw two large objects in the sky. They were jet black underneath. They were quite big and quite high up. They were sort of rolling over and over in the sky. At first I thought they were bits of a large balloon but they didn't move like that.
"Then I wondered if they were bits of plastic that had got up into the sky but they were moving faster than the wind which didn't make sense. One was almost a cylinder shape and the other was longer. It was very strange.
"There is no way they were aeroplanes. At this point I rushed indoors to get my camera and when I came back they had moved a bit further away but I managed to get a few snaps.
The objects were said to be moving 'faster than the wind'
"I have never seen anything like it before. I have no clue what they were. They seemed to be almost linked together as they kept at roughly the same distance apart the whole time.
"I watched them move off into the distance as they headed towards the cricket ground but then I lost sight of them. I wouldn't like to say what they were, I really have no idea."
The man has since showed the photos to "six or seven" people and no one has been able to hazard a guess at what they might be.
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Alien ships near Saturn? Ex-NASA scientist claims of their existence
Alien ships near Saturn? Ex-NASA scientist claims of their existence
AN ENGINEER who previously worked at NASA Ames Research Center has claimed UFOs are hiding in the rings of Saturn.
UFOs are hiding in the rings of Saturn.
A FORMER NASA engineer at the Ames Research Center claims aliens are in our solar system and they are creating rings around planets like Saturn.
Dr. Norman Bergrun, who previously worked at NASA Ames Research Center has recently made comments that UFOs are hiding in the rings of Saturn.
According to conspiracy theory channel, SecureTeam10, which obtained Bergrun’s comments, the alien ships have been here for some time.
“Alien spacecraft are proliferating in our solar system and around these ringed planets,” Bergrun is quoted as saying on the video.
Bergrun also noted the aircraft are by the other ringed-planets in the solar system, including Jupiter and Uranus.
SecureTeam 10, which has nearly 900,000 YouTube subscribers, often runs conspiracy theory-based videos. The organisation 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.”
Bergrun wrote the 1986 book entitled Ringmakers of Saturn. The book highlights that there are massive alien ships around Saturn (which Bergrun dubs “ring makers”), including ones which have actually created some of the rings around the gas giant.
Maybe there is intelligent life out there, but it’s napping at the moment.
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After decades of searching, we still haven’t discovered a single sign of extraterrestrial intelligence. Probability tells us life should be out there, so why haven’t we found it yet?
The problem is often referred to as Fermi’s paradox, after the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Enrico Fermi, who once asked his colleagues this question at lunch. Many theories have been proposed over the years. It could be that we are simply alone in the universe or that there is some great filter that prevents intelligent life progressing beyond a certain stage. Maybe alien life is out there, but we are too primitive to communicate with it, or we are placed inside some cosmic zoo, observed but left alone to develop without external interference. Now, three researchers think they think they may have another potential answer to Fermi’s question: Aliens do exist; they’re just all asleep.
According to a new research paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, extraterrestrials are sleeping while they wait. In the paper, authors from Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and the Astronomical Observatory of BelgradeAnders Sandberg, Stuart Armstrong, and Milan Cirkovic argue that the universe is too hot right now for advanced, digital civilizations to make the most efficient use of their resources. The solution: Sleep and wait for the universe to cool down, a process known as aestivating (like hibernation but sleeping until it’s colder).
Understanding the new hypothesis first requires wrapping your head around the idea that the universe’s most sophisticated life may elect to leave biology behind and live digitally. Having essentially uploaded their minds onto powerful computers, the civilizations choosing to do this could enhance their intellectual capacities or inhabit some of the harshest environments in the universe with ease.
Once you’re living digitally, Cirkovic explained, it’s important to process information efficiently. Each computation has a certain cost attached to it, and this cost is tightly coupled with temperature. The colder it gets, the lower the cost is, meaning you can do more with the same amount of resources. This is one of the reasons why we cool powerful computers. Though humans may find the universe to be a pretty frigid place (the background radiation hovers about 3 kelvins above absolute zero, the very lower limit of the temperature scale), digital minds may find it far too hot.
But why aestivate? Surely any aliens wanting more efficient processing could cool down their systems manually, just as we do with computers. In the paper, the authors concede this is a possibility. “While it is possible for a civilization to cool down parts of itself to any low temperature,” the authors write, that, too, requires work. So it wouldn’t make sense for a civilization looking to maximize its computational capacity to waste energy on the process. As Sandberg and Cirkovic elaborate in a blog post, it’s more likely that such artificial life would be in a protected sleep mode today, ready to wake up in colder futures.
If such aliens exist, they’re in luck. The universe appears to be cooling down on its own. Over the next trillions of years, as it continues to expand and the formation of new stars slows, the background radiation will reduce to practically zero. Under those conditions, Sandberg and Cirkovic explain, this kind of artificial life would get “tremendously more done.” Tremendous isn’t an understatement, either. The researchers calculate that by employing such a strategy, they could achieve up to 1030 times more than if done today. That’s a 1 with 30 zeroes after it.
But just because the aliens are asleep doesn’t mean we can’t find signs of them. Any aestivating civilization has to preserve resources it intends to use in the future. Processes that waste or threaten these resources, then, should be conspicuously absent, thanks to interference from the aestivators. (If they are sufficiently advanced to upload their minds and aestivators, they should be able to manipulate space.) This includes galaxies colliding, galactic winds venting matter into intergalactic space, and stars converting into black holes, which can push resources beyond the reach of the sleeping civilization or change them into less-useful forms.
Another strategy to find the sleeping aliens, Cirkovic said, might be to try and meddle with the aestivators’ possessions and territory, which we may already reside within. One way of doing this would be to send out self-replicating probes into the universe that would steal the aestivators’ things. Any competent species ought to have measures in place to respond to these kind of threats. “It could be an exceptionally dangerous test,” he cautioned, “but if there really are very old and very advanced civilizations out there, we can assume there is a potential for danger in anything we do.”
Interestingly, neither Sandberg nor Cirkovic said they have much faith in finding anything. Sandberg, writing on his blog, states that he does not believe the hypothesis to be a likely one: “I personally think the likeliest reason we are not seeing aliens is not that they are aestivating.” He writes that he feels it’s more likely that “they do not exist or are very far away.”
Cirkovic concurred. “I don’t find it very likely, either,” he said in our interview. “I much prefer hypotheses that do not rely on assuming intentional decisions made by extraterrestrial societies. Any assumption is extremely speculative.” There could be forms of energy that we can’t even conceive of using now, he said—producing antimatter in bulk, tapping evaporating black holes, using dark matter. Any of this could change what we might expect to see from an advanced technical civilization.
Yet, he said, the theory has a place. It’s important to cover as much ground as possible. You need test a wide set of hypotheses one by one—falsifying them, pruning them—to get closer to the truth. “This is how science works. We need to have as many hypotheses and explanations for Fermi’s paradox as possible,” he said.
Plus, there’s a modest likelihood their aestivating aliens idea might be part of the answer, Cirkovic said. We shouldn’t expect a single hypothesis to account for Fermi’s paradox. It will be more of a “patchwork-quilt kind of solution,” he said.
And it’s important to keep exploring solutions. Fermi’s paradox is so much more than an intellectual exercise. It’s about trying to understand what might be out there and how this might explain our past and guide our future.
“I would say that 90-plus percent of hypotheses that were historically proposed to account for Fermi’s paradox have practical consequences,” Cirkovic said. They allow us to think proactively about some of the problems we as a species face, or may one day face, and prompt us to develop strategies to actively shape a more prosperous and secure future for humanity.“We can apply this reasoning to our past, to the emergence of life and complexity. We can also apply similar reasoning to thinking about our future. It can help us avoid catastrophes and help us understand the most likely fate of intelligent species in the universe.”
O’Connell, who teaches screenwriting at DePaul University, wrote several episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (including the fan favorite “Who Mourns for Morn?”).
(Courtesy Dey Street Books, an Imprint of William Morrow)
(Courtesy Dey Street Books, an Imprint of William Morrow)
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Mark O’Connell (Credit: Lori Compas)
Below, an edited Q&A with the author.
Chicago Tonight: Has this been a lifelong interest for you?
O’Connell: Absolutely. My first conscious memory is from when I was about 3 years old, 1963, and for some reason my mom tuned in this new TV show call “The Outer Limits” and I remember being scared to death by the space aliens in the premiere episode, and that sort of set the theme for my entire life.
Also, my mom was a librarian at our village library [in Big Bend, Wisconsin] and she would take me in with her a lot of times. When she worked I always gravitated toward the UFO bookshelf.
Did Hynek’s feud with Carl Sagan lead Hynek to create the Center for UFO Studies [CUFOS]?
It’s hard to draw a direct line between the two, but I think it was definitely a factor, because Dr. Hynek’s first public announcement about the formation of CUFOS took place on national TV on “The Dick Cavett Show” right after Carl Sagan had just finished ridiculing all the UFO witnesses on the panel, and he [Hynek] basically waits for a quiet moment toward the end of the show and says “Well, I’m starting a research foundation,” which probably meant nothing to the people watching the Cavett show but it meant a lot to Sagan, because it indicated that Hynek had scientific support for his work.
Video: “Wild Chicago” visits the Center for UFO Studies in October 1990.
CUFOS is no longer in a storefront on Peterson Avenue in Chicago. Where is Hynek’s research currently?
Hynek’s career as a UFO researcher is in a bunch of beat-up old file cabinets scattered around between two basements and an attic in Chicago and Skokie. So it’s kind of a sad state of affairs. The people who are taking care of the files are very dedicated and sincere people but there’s only so much they can do, because there’s no money.
Were his inquiries into UFO research met with controversy in the academic circles of Northwestern University and elsewhere?
He was a superstar professor at Northwestern because in his heyday, during the ‘70s especially, he was just on TV constantly – he was on Tom Snyder’s “Tomorrow Show,” “The Tonight Show,” Dick Cavett. So Northwestern loved the attention that he brought to the university, but they didn’t always love being attached to the idea of UFOs. It was a complicated relationship.
Below, an excerpt from “The Close Encounters Man.”
THE INTOXICATING MIX OF FEAR AND FASCINATION
that defined the public’s infatuation with science and with Earth’s heavenly neighbors reached a crescendo with the approach of Halley’s Comet in the spring of 1910. Here was a scientific phenomenon that nearly every human being on Earth could see with his or her own eyes in the night sky—the ultimate shared experience— and that a great many human beings feared. For while the exact time and location of a comet’s appearance could, by 1910, be accurately predicted by science, its actual nature and purpose was still clouded in myth and superstition.
It was established fact that Halley’s Comet appeared in our skies about every seventy-six years and established lore that its appearance—the appearance of any comet, for that matter— brought about certain calamity and suffering. In 1066, most famously, Halley’s Comet foretold the Battle of Hastings and the violent struggle for the British throne that ensued, and after that even Shakespeare submitted that the comet was a bad sign for a sitting monarch. This proved to be the case again in May 1910, when King Edward VII succumbed to failing health and passed away only days before the comet’s nearest approach.
Even worse, scientists discovered that all humanity was at risk of following Edward to his doom. Not only was it determined that Earth would be passing directly through the comet’s tail for a six-hour period on the night of May 18–19, but astronomers at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, utilizing the new technique of spectroscopy to determine the temperature and chemical composition of a luminous body by analyzing the spectrum of light it emits or reflects, found the tail to contain a deadly substance: poisonous cyanogen gas. French astronomer Camille Flammarion was distressed enough by the Yerkes findings to declare that “the cyanogen gas would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.”
Finding themselves stalled out and stranded on a celestial railroad crossing with an express freight hurtling toward them, the people of Earth gave way to fear and prepared for the end. “Some people took precautions by sealing the chimneys, windows, and doors of their houses. Others confessed to crimes they had committed because they did not expect to survive the night, and a few panic-stricken people actually committed suicide,” reported science writers Gunter Faure and Teresa Mensing.
The most gullible bought “comet pills,” “comet umbrellas,” and gas masks, while the most faithful gathered nervously in houses of worship, prepared to meet their maker. Some, intent on going against the grain, were gripped by an inexplicable end-of- the-world euphoria: “A strangely frivolous mood caused thousands of people to gather in restaurants, coffee houses, parks, and on the rooftops of apartment buildings to await their doom in the company of fellow humans.”
One of those rooftops was in Chicago, Illinois, although its viewing party took place almost two weeks ahead of the global deathwatch of the eighteenth, and the guest list was rather small. On the night of May 5, Joseph and Bertha Hynek took their five-day-old son, Josef, to the roof of their West Side home to bask in the light of the comet. What the mood was on that rooftop, one can scarcely guess, but it must have come as some relief to Joseph and Bertha that they and their newborn son survived the fallout of the comet’s tail thirteen nights later. Nonetheless, little Josef, who was to be their only child, may have gotten a sprinkling of comet dust that night, because for the rest of his life, his path would be marked, and sometimes defined, by the appearance and movements of unusual heavenly bodies.
Destined to become a trusted spokesman for the space race, a paradigm-shifting pioneer in astronomical imaging, an authority on the study of UFOs, both lauded and reviled, and an unexpected cultural touchstone in the world of science fiction, Josef Allen Hynek could not help but spend much of his life and career out on a limb, reaching for the lights in the night sky. Born into a world where cunning and intelligent Martians built thousand-mile canals and spied on us through giant eyes, where scientific destruction could rain down on us from the skies without warning, where impossible flying ships could crisscross the skies with impunity, and where a spaceman was laid to rest in a small cemetery in north Texas after crashing his flying ship into a windmill, Hynek would, fittingly, grow up to embody the contradictory nature of scientific inquiry and investigation in the twentieth century, with its simultaneous dependence on and rejection of imagination and wonder.
It wasn’t just a boy who was born on May 1, 1910, to Joseph and Bertha Hynek. He was a spaceman.
Excerpt reprinted with permission. Dey Street Books, an Imprint of William Morrow.
Have you ever seen something you can’t explain in the night sky? According to a new book, 105 people have reporting seeing something unusual in the skies above Oneida County.
Syracuse-based authors Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa have put together a new reference book that takes a look at all the UFO sighting data in the United States since 2001 through 2015, and, spoiler alert: there are a LOT.
According to a press release, Cheryl Costa is a columnist for 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.
According to their new book:
There were more than 121,000 eyewitness accounts during those years.
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.
They drilled down into the data to get really specific about Central New York sightings:
There were 105 UFO sightings in Oneida County, 23 in Madison County, and 31 in Herkimer County.
The City of Utica was responsible for 38 reports, while Rome made 19.
Sightings are more common in the months of June through October.
There were 468 UFO sightings in CNY, and 5141 in New York State.
I wonder why folks in Utica saw more? Is it because some of the buildings are a bit taller and we’re able to see a little farther? Or maybe it has something to do with the bars down on Varick Street and Saranac Thursdays…hmmm.
The Costas suggest, in a New York Times interview, that most sightings can be explained by some earthly phenomena but a few are truly inexplicable.
According to the New York Times article, entitled “People Are Seeing U.F.O.s Everywhere, and This Book Proves It”:
One of the most intriguing occurred on the afternoon of Sept. 17, 2011, when a man on the roof terrace of the New Museum on the Bowery photographed a fast-moving diamond-shaped object with windows and flashing blue and red lights against the TriBeCa skyline.
Are aliens real? All the evidence, sightings and conspiracy theories on whether extraterrestrials exist
Are aliens real? All the evidence, sightings and conspiracy theories on whether extraterrestrials exist
FROM Roswell to Rendlesham Forest in the UK, these are the most notorious stories of “alien encounters”.
Josie Griffiths
The Sun
Children eye a model of an alien on display inside the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell.
DO aliens exist? The question has baffled people for centuries.
From Roswell to the Rendlesham Forest incident in the UK, these are the sightings and conspiracy theories which UFO hunters reckon are proof of extraterrestrial life.
How many alien and UFO sightings have there been?
Numbers of UFO sightings are currently flying at an highest, according to data cruncher and blogger Sam Monfort.
This woman says she can speak to alien
The alien “expert” reckons there have been nearly 105,000 recorded UFO sightings in the past 100-plus years. And Sam is far from the only believer on our planet.
From an ‘alien autopsy’ video dating back to 1995 to a video of fighter jets apparently chasing a UFO over the M5, there are hundreds of videos which people claim are proof of alien life.
There’s even a clip of a UFO supposedly attacking a Taliban compound, as well as ‘sightings’ in Peckham and Warminster.
Most of the videos have been debunked by experts. In the M5 clip, for example, the motorway lorries look like models.
While the Peckham UFOs were “almost certainly Chinese lanterns”, former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Nick Pope told The Sun.
He added that “true believers wouldn’t be dissuaded” by evidence the videos are fake.
Meanwhile, popstar Peter Andre claims to have seen “several UFOs” on a family trip to the Nevada desert.
The desert is also the site of America’s famous Area 51 — a highly classified military base at the centre of alien conspiracy theories, because of scores of sighting of UFOs in the area.
And artist Dave Huggins believes he lost his virginity to a busty alien called Crescent — and has fathered 60 ‘hybrid’ babies.
Some people even believe this picture of Jesus’ crucifixion — which hangs on the walls of the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Georgia — is proof of alien life thousands of years ago.
A still image from TV documentary "The Roswell Incident: Aliens Revealed".
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What is the Roswell UFO incident?
The Roswell UFO incident is a world-renowned conspiracy theory about the existence of aliens.
In the summer of 1947, a farmer discovered unidentifiable debris in his sheep fields just outside Roswell, New Mexico.
A local air force base claimed the debris came from a crashed hot air balloon, but many people reckon it’s really the remains of a flying saucer.
The debate rumbles on, with people continuing to make claims about “leaked US government documents”, which supposedly prove it was a cover-up.
What happened at Rendlesham Forest?
Dubbed the ‘British Roswell’, a similar incident happened in Rendlesham Forest in 1980.
On December 26, Military personnel from RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, in Suffolk, saw strange lights in a nearby forest — and three of them were sent out to investigate.
Two of them encountered a small, triangular shaped craft — which they later drew images of.
One man, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object.
Two nights later, Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team also encountered the UFO — and were left baffled by the entire experience.
A newspaper report about the Roswell saucer.
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Are there any other alien conspiracy theories?
Marilyn Monroe’s death remains shrouded in mystery, and a new conspiracy theory claims the actress was murdered by the US government — after threatening to reveal top-secret information about aliens.
The bonkers theory was revealed in UFO documentary Unacklowedged.
It is claimed that Marilyn made the threats after having affairs with both President JFK and Bobby Kennedy, and was seeking revenge as they both simultaneously ended things with her.
What is Britain’s secret UFO dossier?
An official government UFO dossier, referred to as Britain’s X Files, contains a cache of 15 unusual incidents in British skies.
It has now been released by the Ministry of Defence but, in news which is sending believers wild, they’re making it very difficult to get hold of.
Sun Online exclusively revealed that Freedom of Information requests in relation to the dossier could be blocked, because it is hushed up by EU law.
The University of Manchester and Breakthrough Initiatives are currently running their own £77 million hunt for alien life — but experts are yet to find any concrete proof.
There is certainly no shortage of alien hunters.
Source:News Corp Australia
What have NASA said about aliens?
NASA are the experts in space activity, but they remain notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to alien life.
However, they were recently forced to deny claims from hacking group Anonymous — that an alien announcement was imminent.
They have also rejected bizarre claims from former CIA case officer Robert David Steele — who said NASA are running a child sex slave colony on Mars.
To date, there is no evidence of life beyond Earth — but, when it comes to unexplained events, the finger is often pointed at alien activity.
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‘A civilization on Mars thousands of years ago’: Congressman stuns NASA scientists
‘A civilization on Mars thousands of years ago’: Congressman stuns NASA scientists
A California congressman baffled a panel of space experts testifying in Washington when he asked if it was possible that Mars was home to an ancient alien civilization. The panel told him that there was “no evidence” and it would be “extremely unlikely.”
A hearing before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on Tuesday was interrupted when Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) requested additional time to ask the panel of scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) if there was any evidence of archaic extraterrestrials living on the red planet.
“You have indicated that Mars was totally different thousands of years ago,” said Rohrabacher, who is the vice chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee and a member of the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee since he first entered Congress in 1989.
“Is it possible that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago?” he asked.
Kenneth Farley, a professor of geochemistry at California Institute of Technology who worked on the Mars 2020 rover mission, fielded Rohrabacher’s question by first clarifying that “the evidence is that Mars was different billions of years ago, not thousands of years ago.”
“Billions… Well, yes,” Rohrabacher responded.
“There’s no evidence that I’m aware of,” Farley added before Rohrabacher interrupted.
“Would you rule that out? See, there’s some people… Well, anyway,”Rohrabacher said before being interrupted by Farley.
“I would say that is extremely unlikely,” Farley responded.
While it is unclear what Rohrabacher meant by “some people,” NASA recently had to respond to comments made by an InfoWars guest who claimed that there was a colony of kidnapped child slaves on Mars. NASA denied that there are any humans on the red planet.
Twitter erupted on Tuesday with many ridiculing Rohrabacher over his question.
That moment when you're not sure if the ancient Martian civilization question is a joke or if your agency's funding depends on your answer pic.twitter.com/Nh4Yxl6Sce
Some Twitter users were even able to combine Rohrabacher’s comments on Mars to previous comments he made that have led some to accuse him of being soft on Russia.
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Hypercivilisations and the primitive extraterrestrial hypothesis
Hypercivilisations and the primitive extraterrestrial hypothesis
More and more specialists admit that life is everywhere in Universe and three-four billion years of favourable conditions, lasting on a planet, ensures the emergence and development of intelligent beings and eventually the birth of a “technological civilization”, capable of building spaceships, for travelling to other inhabitable planets. These conditions, though rare, are found in many places in the immensity of the universe. On this basis, the extraterrestrial hypothesis became the easiest way to explain the UFO phenomenon.
On the other hand, prestigious ufologists, including Dr J. Allen Hynek or Jacques Vallée, questioned this explanation. They, along with die-hard sceptics, have mentioned, among others, that the distances between civilizations are too large for such cosmic travelling. But, as I have argued in my recent book “UFOs over Romania”, if we make an appropriate approach, we will discover that the most important distances between cosmic civilisations are not those in space but those in time.
I have estimated that in the history of our Galaxy could have come into being a number of technological civilisations, of which, maybe a few hundred survived the childhood diseases (that we face now on Earth) and still exist. But these civilisations have not arisen simultaneously. For example, in July 2015 it was announced the discovery at 1,400 light years from Earth, of the exoplanet Kepler 452b. It is similar to Earth, orbiting in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. That solar system is one billion years older than ours. That means that life and a possible technological civilisation could have appeared here one billion years earlier than on Earth. More generally, the first technological civilisations in the Milky Way could appear a billion years ago, or even earlier. Consequently, we understand that the possible civilisations in the Cosmos are far apart from each other not only in space, but also in time. In our Galaxy, these several hundred surviving civilisations, estimated above, have appeared, most likely, one in a several million years. Therefore, in the Milky Way there is no civilisation close to our level.
What will become of our civilisation (if it will survive) over millions (or billions) of years? It is impossible to imagine. We do not forget that we are not able to predict our future, even in a perspective of just several hundred years. How would the inhabitants of a civilisation that has outstripped us with millions of years look like? Maybe they became immortal, maybe time and space do not matter to them, they may have moved into a pervasive virtual reality, in other dimensions and so on. But the real answer is almost certainly even much more complex and defies our logic and imagination. We can accept however that they have been transformed into something else, beyond our understanding; into something we can name as a “hypercivilization”.
If somebody considers that we were too optimistic and the intelligent beings are much scarcer, we should add that our Milky Way is only one of at least 150 billion, more or less similar, galaxies of the Universe accessible to our instruments. And we have strong reasons to believe that there are other Universes too, maybe “parallel” ones, maybe from other states of matter, or parts of a “Multiverse” etc.
Schooling and science fiction, but not only, set our minds on patterns ignoring completely the possibility of hypercivilisations. Consequently, we face two “extraterrestrial hypotheses”: the first is what we might call the “primitive extraterrestrial hypothesis”, the other that of hypercivilisations.
The “Primitive Extraterrestrial Hypothesis” assumes that all cosmic civilisations are more or less at the same level of evolution. Therefore it nurtures some false preconceptions as: very long and difficult cosmic voyages, wish to land on the lawn of White House, equal rights, conversation, invasion, intervention, aid and so on.
This primitive view is completely implausible. If hypercivilisations exist (and they exist, with a probability of 99.999999%) they exploited, in the smallest detail, our Galaxy, millions of years ago, so they have known, for a long time, about our existence. This reasoning led Enrico Fermi, when he said, in 1950: “they should be here; where are they?” But neither he, nor many others, did consider that representatives of hypercivilisations could be here, among us, but could look so different from our expectations that we cannot recognise them. What prevents us to see them is, also, a set of widespread and deeply rooted prejudices, such as those below.
The preconception of equal rights. A difference of millions of years, or even hundreds of millions, is as huge as between us and a lizard or even an ant. If they are here (as it is highly probable), they can examine us, monitor our evolution, even contact us in some form, but they will never put them at the same level with us.
The preconception of conversation. As far back as 1959, Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison argued that if the difference between two civilisations is of millions of years, the probability that they could exchange ideas is zero. We interact sometimes with a lizard; but this will never be a conversation, they said.
The temporal provincialism (term used by Dr J. Allen Hynek). It states that, in opposition with the previous dark centuries, the last three-four hundred years brought us finally to the light of real truth and science. In this light, now we can decide what facts can be accepted and what will never be possible. If one hundred years ago or so we started to use the radio, some believe it will last as the best means of communications forever. If one hundred years ago Einstein postulated that the speed of light is a limit, no other physical law will be discovered until the end of times to avoid this limit and so on. As a peculiar example, we have the SETI preconception. According to it, even if the radio signals need thousands of years from one inhabited world to other, the cosmic civilisations will consider that signalling by radio waves will be, forever, the most appropriate means of contact and that we should spend money to search for them.
The preconception of invasion. For many people it should be normal if a cosmic civilisation arrives on Earth, it will attempt to conquer us by force. But the hypercivilisations probably knew, millions of years ago, that we are here; therefore they could invade us at any time and, in a certain sense, probably we are already invaded by them, for millions of years. Some “out-of-place artifacts” could be a hint of that.
The preconception of intervention and of aid. Some hope that the ET will help us (or at least some “chosen”) to overcome future catastrophes. But even us, if we discover a valuable piece of land, which has escaped from the human intrusion, we try to declare it a reservation, permitting only a very limited intervention, for scientific reasons. This attitude seems to be strengthening in time. A hypercivilisation observing the Earth and the human technological civilisation should act in a similar manner, avoiding to interfere in our evolution, but taking samples, making some experiments, having very limited contacts (not at all officially or as between equals) with only some individuals, selected upon their and not our criteria.
Therefore no settlement, no destruction, on one hand and no official contact, conversation or substantial help, on the other hand, are to be expected from highly advanced cosmic civilisations, even if they are here now.
The difference between a hypercivilisation and us could be as high as that between us and ants. Some entomologists who would propose to study the life of an anthill will try to disturb, as little as possible, its life. They could of course make experiments, examining or modifying some ants, or even taking them in remote laboratories, trying to create new “races” and so on. They will certainly try to find out, as much as possible, about the life of the anthill, but will not “present credentials” to the queen of the ants. If the entomologists have the technology, they will create some robot ants, sending them in to the hill and watching from a safe place, for example “on the computer screen”, the data transmitted by them. And if a robot ant would be lost in that mission, the incident would add a bit to the costs of research, without being a tragedy.
Artist’s rendition of the Milky Way’s billions of planets.
(credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO)
We can speculate that a hypercivilisation could attempt to realise, using genetic materials from the Earth, new races, with greater brain, with higher intelligence, adapted for some special tasks, etc. Therefore, many “races” described by the alleged abductees (the greys, the tall blonds etc.) can be such artificial human races or even bio-robots derived from the human species. They can be “produced” for example in reservations or bases somewhere outside the Earth. In the same manner we make new varieties of wheat from the traditional ones. Sometimes, the perfect variety of wheat became sterile or exposed to new diseases. At that moment the agronomists will try to find some appropriate genes in the pool represented by the primitive species of wheat, to improve the “perfect” variety. What if humans on Earth are the “wild pool” of genes, suitable to improve some artificial races elsewhere? In this case it will be no problem of compatibility between the visitors and us, as in some of the reported UFO abduction and hybridisation stories, but also, for example, in the biblical note: “In those days, divine beings and human daughters had sexual relations and gave birth to children. These were the ancient heroes” (Genesis, 6, 4). Some people suppose even that there is an ongoing external intervention in the evolution of the human race in order to improve it.
But obviously the comparison above – of mankind with an anthill – is slightly forced, as mankind is, nevertheless, a potential future hypercivilisation. The arising of a technological civilisation could be a very rare event in our Galaxy, occurring probably once in several millions of years. So it is normal for us to be of interest to the higher intelligences. But what could they expect from us?
A hypercivilisation will behave elusively and will not give us its knowledge and technologies; even more, it will forbid that. This is not, only, because of human aggressiveness and xenophobia, making from all new technology new weapons, nor only to avoid a “cultural shock”, which could virtually destroy all our social, economical, political, military, scientific, religious and cultural structures. I can speculate they have also some other reasons for that. Hypercivilisations could wait (and maybe harvest even now) our original ideas, viewpoints, creations (in art, science, philosophy, ethics etc.), produced as a result of millions of years of our independent evolution. And all that expected crop could be destroyed by a premature contact.
Some old, apparently absurd, stories may be an indication of such an attitude: the punishment for the apple of the forbidden tree of knowledge, the chaining of Prometheus, or the fallen angels (from Book of Enoch), thrown into a pit full of fire, because they were taught earthlings some skills.
Many abductees or contactees spoke about ethereal light balls as “deposits of knowledge and intelligence”, recording “everything in the Universe”, among others, the life of all (or of the most interesting) individuals. We have some hints for this when we speak about: the “Book of Life”, “Akashic Records”, “collective unconscious”, or even “morphogenetic field” etc. That “super-memory” could be written on a “spiritual” support, or on something around us we are not yet able to imagine. Sometimes, some people, under certain conditions, could gain access to this data warehouse. In that way we can explain: channelling, “xenoglossia”, “walk-ins”, “reincarnation”, ghosts, etc. In such a virtual reality, time is different. We can travel in the past, live events, without changing the real past, or we can see scenarios of the future (sometimes apocalyptical), without accepting fatality.
Of course, all the above is not a proof that the hypercivilisations are the explanation for everything strange and particularly for UFOs. It is only one hypothesis; but – I think – one which cannot be easily discarded.
A Michigan witness at Lennon reported watching and videotaping “three, massive, triangular-shaped crafts” that hovered under 100 feet off the ground, according to testimony in Case 84251 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Stretch of Corunna Road in Lennon, MI, where the incident occurred June 8, 2017.
(Credit: Google)
The reporting witness was in a vehicle moving along Corunna Road when he had the feeling he was being watched on June 8, 2017.
“As we broke the tree line, I noticed three lights in the sky from this distance I was at,” the witness stated. “It looked to be no more than 70-80 feet between the three lights. As we drove by, my mother stopped the vehicle to gain a better view. I began feeling mortified and terror consumed me. The craft hovered ominously, making no sound, pulsating a flurry of colors.”
Investigation illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness yelled for his mother to begin driving again as he did not feel safe.
“As we drove, another five minutes or less had passed, and I began feeling I was being watched again. This time, another craft had appeared over the tree line shinning blue-green very intensely. It then changed shape as it got closer, still making no sound. I began feeling the dread again.”
Investigation illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
They slowed down to get a better view of the craft.
“As it hovered, it stayed in position as we drove past. As with the previous craft, another five minutes or less had passed, then off in the same direction a small, white light from the horizon had grown from a dim white light to a star-sized object with red and blue and green and white flashing lights while still making no sound. We were the only ones on the road, so there was no background noise or disturbance. The two previous craft were a football field’s length away from us as we saw them no more than 50 to 100 feet above the ground hovering over trees.”
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness included this video clip with the report, which was filed on June 8, 2017.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
Michigan MUFON Chief Investigator Daniel Snow and Field Investigator Susan Gerberding investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown. Lennon is a Michigan village, population 511. 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.
Telescopen in Argentinië hebben een eerste glimp opgevangen van de volgende bestemming van ruimtesonde New Horizons.
Kijk goed naar de ster in het hart van deze beelden. Het ene moment zie je ‘m. Het andere moment niet. En daarna duikt de ster weer op. Hoe kan dat? Simpel: er beweegt iets voor langs. En dat ‘iets’ is 2014 MU69: de volgende bestemming van ruimtesonde New Horizons.
Deze beelden zijn begin deze week vanuit Argentinië gemaakt. Afbeelding: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI.
Het zijn bijzondere beelden. We zien hier een Kuipergordelobject dat meer dan 6,5 miljard kilometer van ons verwijderd is voor een ster (die nog verder van ons af staat) langs bewegen. En dat gaat allemaal razendsnel. Tussen de frames waaruit bovenstaand ‘filmpje’ bestaat, zit slechts 0,2 seconden.
Sterbedekking levert schat aan informatie op Wetenschappers gebruiken de beelden van deze sterbedekking om meer over 2014 MU69 te weten te komen. En dat is geen overbodige luxe. Tot voor kort was alleen ruimtetelescoop Hubble er maar in geslaagd om MU69 te spotten en zelfs die krachtige telescoop slaagde er niet in om de omvang en vorm van het Kuipergordelobject vast te stellen. Om toch te achterhalen hoe groot het object is, welke vorm het object heeft en hoe de directe omgeving eruit ziet (want dat wil je natuurlijk weten voor je er een 700 miljoen dollar kostende ruimtesonde langs laat scheren), hebben onderzoekers een slimme aanpak bedacht. Ze besloten 24 draagbare telescopen op enkele sterren te richten waarvan bekend was dat MU69 er voorlangs zou bewegen. Vervolgens probeerden ze – in juni vanuit Zuid-Afrika en begin juli vanuit Argentinië – die sterbedekking te vereeuwigen. Dat viel nog niet mee, onder meer omdat de sterbedekkingen maar van korte duur zijn. Toch is het onderzoekers gelukt om met meerdere telescopen de sterbedekkingen te spotten. “We hebben voor het eerst de vorm en omvang van 2014 MU69 kunnen zien (…) Dankzij dit succes kunnen we de komende scheervlucht met veel meer zekerheid gaan plannen,” aldus onderzoeker Alan Stern.
De komende weken zullen de gegevens die tijdens de sterbedekkingen verzameld zijn, verder geanalyseerd worden. Op 1 januari 2019 moet New Horizons langs het Kuipergordelobject scheren.
Enorme inslag kan drie vreemde trekjes van Mars verklaren
Enorme inslag kan drie vreemde trekjes van Mars verklaren
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Vroeg in de geschiedenis van Mars zou een planetoïde ter grootte van Ceres op de planeet zijn geklapt.
Mars heeft verscheidene vreemde trekjes en drie ervan blijven de gemoederen bezighouden. Ten eerste is het noordelijk halfrond (dat gekenmerkt wordt door vlakke laaglanden) absoluut anders dan het zuidelijk halfrond (dat gekenmerkt wordt door vele kraters). Daarnaast bezit de rode planeet twee manen met een bijzondere vorm (Deimos en Phobos). En alsof dat nog niet genoeg is, is de samenstelling van Mars ook nog eens heel anders dan die van bijvoorbeeld de aarde. Zo bevinden zich in de mantel veel zeldzame metalen, zoals platina, iridium en osmium.
Zeldzame metalen Een nieuw onderzoek richtte zich in eerste instantie op laatstgenoemde vreemde trekje: de zeldzame metalen. De onderzoekers berekenden eerst welk deel van de mantel uit deze zeldzame metalen bestaat. Het zou gaan om zo’n 0,8 procent. Aangezien deze elementen normaal gesproken aangetroffen worden in de kernen van rotsachtige werelden, leek het de onderzoekers aannemelijk dat de elementen op Mars zijn afgezet tijdens planetoïde-inslagen. Maar hoe groot waren die planetoïden dan? En hoe vaak sloegen er planetoïden in? Om dat te achterhalen, voerden de onderzoekers een groot aantal simulaties uit. Eén van die simulaties resulteerde in een uitkomst die wel heel dicht bij de werkelijkheid in de buurt komt. En in die simulatie klapte er 4,43 miljard jaar geleden een enorme planetoïde (van zeker 1200 kilometer groot) op Mars.
Noordelijk versus het zuidelijk halfrond Zo’n grote planetoïde is niet alleen nodig om de grote hoeveelheid elementen die we nu in de Martiaanse korst aantreffen, te verklaren. De omvangrijke inslag kan ook verklaren waarom het noordelijk halfrond er heel anders uitziet dan het zuidelijk halfrond. De inslag moet de korst van Mars namelijk radicaal veranderd hebben, waardoor het ene halfrond zich vandaag de dag duidelijk onderscheidt van het andere halfrond. De onderzoekers gaan ervan uit dat de inslag plaatsvond op het noordelijk halfrond. Het feit dat de korst op het noordelijk halfrond er veel jonger uitziet dan de korst op het zuidelijk halfrond lijkt dat te onderschrijven.
De manen En als klap op de vuurpijl kan zo’n enorme inslag ook het bestaan van de vreemde manen Deimos en Phobos verklaren. Door de inslag moet rond Mars een ring van puin zijn ontstaan. En uit dat puin zouden deze maantjes tot stand zijn gekomen. Het zou verklaren waarom de manen bestaan uit een mix van Martiaans en niet-Martiaans materiaal.
“Deze oplossing is heel elegant, aangezien het drie interessante en bijzondere problemen omtrent de totstandkoming van Mars oplost,” vindt onderzoeker Stephen Mojzsis. Grote vraag is nu echter of deze fraaie theorie ook werkelijk klopt. De onderzoekers hopen daar in de toekomst meer over te weten te komen door meteorieten afkomstig van Mars te bestuderen. Mogelijk getuigen zij van de vermeende catastrofe die Mars meer dan 4 miljard jaar geleden trof.
Het piepkleine Marsmaantje Phobos is vanaf de aarde alleen door de ‘ogen’ van goede telescopen te zien. De Hubble ruimtetelescoop zag het maantje om de rode planeet draaien.
De video bestaat uit dertien frames, die in een periode van 22 minuten zijn opgenomen. De foto’s zijn gemaakt in mei 2016, toen de afstand tussen Mars en de aarde heel klein was. Aangezien Hubble om de aarde draait, kon de ruimtetelescoop de vierde planeet van het zonnestelsel goed zien.
Medewerkers van NASA hebben de verschillende afbeeldingen niet alleen achter elkaar gezet, maar hebben tevens de beweging van Phobos zo vloeiend mogelijk gemaakt. Het resultaat is een fraaie video.
De verschijning van Phobos kwam voor wetenschappers als een verrassing. Ze waren van plan om alleen Mars te fotograferen, maar zagen toen plotseling het maantje opdoemen.
WIST JE DAT…
…Phobos de enige maan in het zonnestelsel is die sneller om zijn moederplaneet draait dan dat de moederplaneet om zijn as draait? Phobos doet 7 uur en 39 minuten over een rondje om de rode planeet, terwijl een dag op Mars 24 uur en 40 minuten duurt.
Tijdelijke maan Phobos is één van de kleinste maantjes in ons zonnestelsel. Het object lijkt op een rugbybal. De langste zijde heeft een lengte van 27 kilometer. Phobos is een ingevangen asteroïde. Dat betekent dat Mars het object naar zich toe heeft getrokken. Over ongeveer veertig miljoen jaar valt de maan waarschijnlijk uit elkaar, waardoor er een ring om de rode planeet ontstaat. Deze ring houdt ongeveer honderd miljoen jaar stand. Een oudere, alternatieve verklaring is dat Phobos over honderd miljoen jaar neerstort op de rode planeet.
Reusachtige krater Op de nieuwe Hubble-foto zijn niet veel details zichtbaar op Phobos. De maan is de afgelopen tientallen jaren door genoeg telescopen en ruimtevaartuigen gefotografeerd. Zo weten we dat de maan een gigantische krater heeft. Deze Stickney-krater heeft een diameter van negen kilometer en bestrijkt bijna de helft van de maan. Vorig jaar kwamen wetenschappers erachter hoe deze enorm krater kon ontstaan zonder dat Phobos compleet vernietigd werd.
Gebruiken aliens planeetovergangen om te communiceren?
Gebruiken aliens planeetovergangen om te communiceren?
Tim Kraaijvanger
Tot op heden is er nog geen contact geweest met een intelligente buitenaardse beschaving. Hoe komt dit? Misschien communiceren aliens wel anders dan wij.
In een nieuw paper presenteert wetenschapper Dr. Duncan H. Forgan van de St. Andrews Universiteit een interessant idee. Sommige onderzoekers denken dat buitenaardse beschavingen radiosignalen sturen, maar dit kost veel energie en daarnaast loopt een beschaving een risico. Radiosignalen zijn immers vrij makkelijk op te vangen door een onderontwikkelde beschaving, die vervolgens in het geheim een plan kan smeden om een planeet te veroveren. Als er zoiets bestaat als een ‘galactisch internet’, dan mogen alleen ver ontwikkelde beschavingen daar gebruik van maken.
Forgan denkt dat buitenaardse beschavingen hun eigen moederster gebruiken om te communiceren. Hoe? Dat komt zo. Laten we eerst een paar stappen terug doen…
Planeetovergangen Astronomen zoeken continu naar exoplaneten. Zij kijken dan o.a. naar dipjes in het licht van de ster. Neemt de helderheid van een ster periodiek af? Dan komt dit mogelijk door een planeet, die op dat moment voor de ster draait en een deel van het licht tegenhoudt. Stel, een buitenaardse beschaving kijkt naar de zon en zij zien iedere 365 aardse dagen een dip in helderheid, dan komt dit door de aarde die om de zon draait.
Megastructuren Forgan vermoedt dat intelligente aliens planeetovergangen ‘faken’. Deze beschavingen creëren hun eigen structuren om het licht van de ster tegen te houden. Dit gebeurt op onregelmatige momenten. Hierdoor vallen deze objecten direct op voor buitenaardse sterrenkijkers, net zoals bij KIC 8462852. Ze gebruiken deze planeetovergangen om te communiceren met andere beschavingen. “Zodra er een verbinding is tussen beschaving A en B, kunnen ze informatie uitwisselen”, schrijft Forgan in het paper. “Bijvoorbeeld middels (planeet)overgangen of elektromagnetische transmissies.” Misschien manipuleren aliens het spectrum van het licht om een boodschap te versturen.
Galactisch adressenboek Een voordeel aan dit systeem is dat niet iedere beschaving direct verbinding kan leggen. Pas wanneer wezens intelligent genoeg zijn, kunnen ze planeetovergangen zien en krijgen ze dus toegang tot het galactische netwerk. Als zo’n galactisch netwerk echt bestaat, dan vermoedt Forgan dat nieuwe leden direct een galactisch adressenboek ontvangen met daarin de coördinaten van de werelden van andere intelligente beschavingen. Dit is nuttig, want een nieuwe beschaving kan dan berichten doorgeven van aliens, die elkaar niet rechtstreeks kunnen bereiken.
Stroeve communicatie Er zijn natuurlijk ook nadelen. Buitenaardse beschavingen moeten wel op het juiste moment naar een ster kijken om een boodschap te lezen. Daarnaast gaan berichten zo langzaam heen en weer, dat de communicatie nogal stroef verloopt. Een beschaving kan natuurlijk wel continu zenden, maar ontvangen en reageren is een ander verhaal. Het is op dit moment onmogelijk om een bericht sneller dan het licht te verzenden. Als de afstand tussen twee intelligente beschavingen honderd jaar is, dan ontvangt een beschaving pas na 200 jaar een antwoord op een vraag.
Het blijft gissen Het is allemaal filosofie van de bovenste plank, maar het paper van Forgan zet ons wel weer aan het denken. Wetenschappers denken nog te vaak dat aliens op dezelfde manier communiceren als wij, maar misschien klopt hier niks van. We weten het pas zeker wanneer we daadwerkelijk buitenaards leven vinden, maar dat is nog niet gelukt. Lees hier waarom we tot op heden nog geen buitenaards leven hebben gevonden.
Vreemde signalen rode dwerg Ross 128 mogelijk afkomstig van satellieten
Vreemde signalen rode dwerg Ross 128 mogelijk afkomstig van satellieten
Tim Kraaijvanger
Toen astronomen de ster Ross 128 observeerden, vingen zij vreemde signalen op. Na een grondige analyse concluderen zij dat de mysterieuze signalen hoogstwaarschijnlijk afkomstig zijn van satellieten.
“We hebben de ster opnieuw geobserveerd met andere telescopen en hebben de bron van de Weird!-signalen gevonden”, schrijven de onderzoekers in een persbericht. “De beste verklaring voor de herkomst van de signalen is dat zij afkomstig zijn van één of meerdere geostationaire satellieten. Dit verklaart waarom de signalen binnen de frequentie van satellieten vielen en waarom de signalen alleen werden aangetroffen bij de dwergster Ross 128. Deze ster was namelijk te zien in een stuk hemel waar zich ook veel geostationaire satellieten bevinden. Het verklaart echter niet de spreiding van de signalen, maar dat komt mogelijk door verstoringen.”
De vreemde signalen zijn te zien in het rode kader. Weird!
Begin deze week kwamen astronomen al met drie mogelijke verklaringen. De signalen zouden veroorzaakt kunnen zijn door zonnevlammen op Ross 128, door een object dat tijdens de observaties van Ross 128 in het gezichtsveld verscheen of door satellieten. Uit het vervolgonderzoek blijkt dat de laatste verklaring het meest plausibel is.
Zijn de Weird!-signalen geen signalen van een buitenaardse beschaving? Die kans is klein, maar de onderzoekers sluiten het niet uit. Ze vroegen bijna 800 mensen – waaronder meer dan zestig astronomen – naar hun mening over de oorsprong van het signaal. Circa 250 mensen denken dat het signaal door aliens verzonden is. “Dit laat zien dat veel mensen nog steeds hoge verwachtingen hebben als het gaat om contact met een intelligente buitenaardse beschaving”, schrijven de wetenschappers. De meeste ondervraagden zien de mysterieuze signalen niet als een contactmoment met aliens.
Des chercheurs ont résolu le mystère du signal "étrange" venu de l'espace
Des chercheurs ont résolu le mystère du signal "étrange" venu de l'espace
S'il ne provient pas de la Terre, son origine est malheureusement décevante.
Gregory RozieresJournaliste sciences et technologies, responsable de la rubrique C'est Demain
Y. BELETSKY/ESO
On a résolu le mystère du signal "étrange" venu de l'espace.
ESPACE - Mi-juillet, des astronomes du radiotélescope d'Arecibo, un des plus puissants du monde, rapportaient dans une note de blog la découverte d'un signal "très étrange" venu de l'espace.
Cette onde radio semblait provenir de l'étoile qu'ils observaient, une naine rouge appelée Ross 128, située à moins de 11 années-lumière de la Terre. Une des plus proches du Soleil. Sauf qu'au vu de ses caractéristiques, il semblait impossible qu'elle émette de tels signaux. Les chercheurs avaient alors évoqué plusieurs hypothèses (et précisé que celle des extraterrestres était clairement la dernière d'une longue liste).
Pour en avoir le cœur net, les chercheurs ont donc "écouté" une nouvelle fois l'étoile. Ils ont été aidés par le télescope du Seti, un programme scientifique américain qui a pour but d'observer le ciel à la recherche d'un éventuel signal provenant d'une forme de vie extraterrestre.
Un signal artificiel, mais humain
Ce vendredi 21 juillet, Abel Mendez, l'un des auteurs de la première observation, a donné le résultat de ces analyses, de même que le Seti. Et la conclusion est décevante. Aucun signal spécifique n'a été entendu à nouveau en provenance de Ross 128.
Une explication possible serait donc que le signal soit d'origine terrestre. Ce ne serait pas la première fois qu'une émission radio étrange soit en réalité émise par un micro-onde défectueux dans la cuisine du laboratoire. Sauf que le signal bizarre n'a pas continué quand ils avaient observé d'autres étoiles immédiatement après, notait le chercheur à l'époque.
Au final, l'une des explications du Seti, la plus probable selon Abel Mendez, est que ce "signal bizarre" et bien artificiel, ne vienne pas de la Terre... Mais soit bien humain.
Il proviendrait en effet d'un de nos propres satellites. Ou même plusieurs. "Cela expliquerait pourquoi les signaux étaient dans les fréquences des satellites et sont seulement apparus pendant l'observation de Ross 128", précise-t-il. "Cette étoile est proche de l'équateur céleste, sur lequel beaucoup de satellites sont placés".
On peut voir sur le schéma ci-dessous que l'étoile est en effet entourée de nombreux objets humains tournant autour de la Terre à quelque 35.000 km d'altitude.
SETI BERKELEY
"Communication outrancière"
Quant à la nature bizarre du signal et sa dispersion, elle pourrait être due à de "multiples réflexions causées par ces distorsions", explique Abel Mendez.
Si ce faux positif est évidemment décevant, le chercheur veut positiver. "La morale ici, c'est que nous devons tous continuer d'explorer et de partager nos résultats de manière ouverte. Certaines personnes préfèrent uniquement apprendre des succès, mais d'autres préfèrent la science en temps réel, quel que soit le résultat final".
D'autres ne l'entendent effectivement pas de cette oreille. Plusieurschercheurs ont critiqué cette manière de communiquer sur des observations non-vérifiées et qui ne mènent pas à des résultats. Avant même que le fin mot de l'histoire soit dévoilé, la Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique avait dénoncé "le piège de la communication outrancière d'un chercheur américain".
Des chercheurs ont résolu le mystère du signal "étrange" venu de l'espace
Des chercheurs ont résolu le mystère du signal "étrange" venu de l'espace
S'il ne provient pas de la Terre, son origine est malheureusement décevante.
Gregory RozieresJournaliste sciences et technologies, responsable de la rubrique C'est Demain
Y. BELETSKY/ESO
On a résolu le mystère du signal "étrange" venu de l'espace.
ESPACE - Mi-juillet, des astronomes du radiotélescope d'Arecibo, un des plus puissants du monde, rapportaient dans une note de blog la découverte d'un signal "très étrange" venu de l'espace.
Cette onde radio semblait provenir de l'étoile qu'ils observaient, une naine rouge appelée Ross 128, située à moins de 11 années-lumière de la Terre. Une des plus proches du Soleil. Sauf qu'au vu de ses caractéristiques, il semblait impossible qu'elle émette de tels signaux. Les chercheurs avaient alors évoqué plusieurs hypothèses (et précisé que celle des extraterrestres était clairement la dernière d'une longue liste).
Pour en avoir le cœur net, les chercheurs ont donc "écouté" une nouvelle fois l'étoile. Ils ont été aidés par le télescope du Seti, un programme scientifique américain qui a pour but d'observer le ciel à la recherche d'un éventuel signal provenant d'une forme de vie extraterrestre.
Un signal artificiel, mais humain
Ce vendredi 21 juillet, Abel Mendez, l'un des auteurs de la première observation, a donné le résultat de ces analyses, de même que le Seti. Et la conclusion est décevante. Aucun signal spécifique n'a été entendu à nouveau en provenance de Ross 128.
Une explication possible serait donc que le signal soit d'origine terrestre. Ce ne serait pas la première fois qu'une émission radio étrange soit en réalité émise par un micro-onde défectueux dans la cuisine du laboratoire. Sauf que le signal bizarre n'a pas continué quand ils avaient observé d'autres étoiles immédiatement après, notait le chercheur à l'époque.
Au final, l'une des explications du Seti, la plus probable selon Abel Mendez, est que ce "signal bizarre" et bien artificiel, ne vienne pas de la Terre... Mais soit bien humain.
Il proviendrait en effet d'un de nos propres satellites. Ou même plusieurs. "Cela expliquerait pourquoi les signaux étaient dans les fréquences des satellites et sont seulement apparus pendant l'observation de Ross 128", précise-t-il. "Cette étoile est proche de l'équateur céleste, sur lequel beaucoup de satellites sont placés".
On peut voir sur le schéma ci-dessous que l'étoile est en effet entourée de nombreux objets humains tournant autour de la Terre à quelque 35.000 km d'altitude.
SETI BERKELEY
"Communication outrancière"
Quant à la nature bizarre du signal et sa dispersion, elle pourrait être due à de "multiples réflexions causées par ces distorsions", explique Abel Mendez.
Si ce faux positif est évidemment décevant, le chercheur veut positiver. "La morale ici, c'est que nous devons tous continuer d'explorer et de partager nos résultats de manière ouverte. Certaines personnes préfèrent uniquement apprendre des succès, mais d'autres préfèrent la science en temps réel, quel que soit le résultat final".
D'autres ne l'entendent effectivement pas de cette oreille. Plusieurschercheurs ont critiqué cette manière de communiquer sur des observations non-vérifiées et qui ne mènent pas à des résultats. Avant même que le fin mot de l'histoire soit dévoilé, la Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique avait dénoncé "le piège de la communication outrancière d'un chercheur américain".
Onze voorouders werden bezocht door buitenaardse beschaving. Schrijver vertelt hier zijn opzienbarende verhaal
Onze voorouders werden bezocht door buitenaardse beschaving. Schrijver vertelt hier zijn opzienbarende verhaal
De Zwitserse schrijver Erich von Däniken is er nog altijd van overtuigd dat de goden buitenaardse wezens zijn. De Volkskrant sprak met hem.
De stelling van Von Däniken is als volgt: de wereld is bezaaid met onbegrepen archeologische objecten, grottekeningen en megabouwwerken die wijzen op bezoek van een buitenaardse beschaving aan onze voorouders.
Ooit begonnen onze goden als buitenaardse ruimtevaarders die op aarde arriveerden.
Machines
Toen Von Däniken op school de Bijbel las begon hij vragen te stellen aan zijn leraren en bibliotheken te bezoeken.
Hij ontdekte daar dat alle culturen van India en Peru tot Egypte soortgelijke verhalen hebben. Machines die met veel vuur uit de hemel komen, goden die rondvliegen.
Het kan geen toeval zijn dat alle oude volken het hebben over machines die uit de hemel neerdalen, aldus de schrijver.
Terug
Grottekeningen van mannetjes met iets wat een helm lijkt, een cabine, een stuurknuppel en een raketvlam.
Waar archeologen religieuze visioenen zien, ziet hij volkeren die de ontmoeting met een technisch geavanceerde cultuur proberen vast te leggen.
Ooit komen de buitenaardse goden weer terug, zegt Von Däniken. Of misschien zijn ze er al en bestuderen ze ons.
Graancirkels
Zo nu en dan proberen ze misschien al contact te maken via bijvoorbeeld graancirkels, die volgens de schrijver te ingewikkeld zijn om bedrog te kunnen zijn.
Von Däniken heeft 26 boeken geschreven, waarvan ongeveer 60 miljoen exemplaren zijn verkocht.
In zijn boeken stelt hij onder meer dat de evolutie van de mens in het verleden is gemanipuleerd door buitenaardse wezens.
MEN ZIET STEEDS MEER VREEMDE ZAKEN AAN DE HEMEL ( VIDEO )
MEN ZIET STEEDS MEER VREEMDE ZAKEN AAN DE HEMEL ( VIDEO )
Er zijn eigenlijk altijd wel vreemde dingen te zien voor mensen die goed naar boven kijken, maar de laatste tijd worden er steeds meer bijzondere dingen waargenomen.
Zoals een vreemde straal aan de hemel bij zonsopgang in België, terwijl diezelfde dag iets dergelijks ook wordt gezien bij een zonsopkomst in Mexico.
Op 18 juli 2017 neemt iemand uit België een foto van de zonsopkomst. Op zich wordt het een hele mooie foto, maar er is ook iets merkwaardigs op te zien.
Als je goed kijkt, dan zie je naast het gebouw rechts een soort vreemde straal in de lucht. Het is niet precies duidelijk wat het is, maar wel dat dit niet thuis hoort in een normale lucht.
Op dezelfde ochtend, maar dan aan de andere kant van de wereld, kijkt iemand uit het Canadese Vancouver naar de zonsopkomst op de Mexicaanse webcams.
En ook daar is iets bijzonders op te zien. Eveneens een soort straal, net zoals op de foto uit België, maar dan breder.
Wanneer je beide afbeeldingen naast elkaar zet, dan is het wat duidelijker te zien.
Overal ter wereld nemen mensen vreemde dingen in de lucht waar, zoals deze roodachtige lucht.
Of dingen zoals de volgende vreemde regenboog-achtige kleuren boven de wolken.
Vreemde kleuren en andere verschijnselen in de lucht, maar ook merken veel mensen dat het licht heel anders is en lijkt veel feller te zijn dan het was.
Langzaam maar zeker begint het tot een deel van de wereldbevolking door te dringen dat dingen niet meer zijn zoals ze altijd waren. Dat er soms subtiele veranderingen zijn waar te nemen zoals: de schaduw viel sinds een paar jaar, op dezelfde tijd van het jaar, op een andere plek.
Instinctief voelen velen dat het geen gewone tijden zijn en de vreemde gebeurtenissen die overal zijn waar te nemen, lijken dit te bevestigen.
In de volgende video neemt Skywatch Media News een aantal van deze zaken onder de loep, zoals de waarschuwingen van NASA en een vreemde planeet in ons zonnestelsel.
Heeft u altijd al een kijkje willen nemen in het International Space Station? Dat kan nu in Google Street View. De dienst laat u rondkijken in de vijftien modules van het ruimtestation. Ontsnap even aan de zwaartekracht, en ontdek hier waar de astronauten eten en naar het toilet gaan.
Tijdens de 360-gradenrondleiding waant u zich even een echte astronaut. Google Street View biedt niet alleen een ongeziene blik op het ISS, maar ook verbluffende zichten op de aarde. De astronauten in het ruimtestation hielpen alle panorama's op beeld vast te leggen.
Verschillende objecten in de Street View-weergave van het ISS zijn aanklikbaar. Zo krijgt u beschrijvingen te zien van allerlei onderdelen van het ISS, zoals het systeem dat voor zuurstof zorgt, het Waste and Hygiene Compartment, oftewel het toilet, en de ruimtepakken.
Cupola Het meest spectaculair is het zicht vanuit de Cupola, de module met zes grote ramen die uitzicht bieden op de aarde. Daarnaast is het Sojoez-vaartuig te zien dat bevestigd is aan het ISS. De foto's zijn genomen toen een Dragon-capsule van Space X, Elon Musks bedrijf dat ooit mensen naar Mars wil brengen, het ISS aan het bevoorraden was; ook dat is zichtbaar.
Google heeft zijn Street View-dienst de afgelopen jaren uitgebreid met opvallende plekken op Aarde zoals het Great Barrier Reef en de bodem van oceanen, maar het is de eerste keer dat 360-gradenbeelden uit de ruimte zijn opgenomen. De rondleiding werd gelanceerd ter gelegenheid van de 48ste verjaardag van de maanlanding. Zelf een kijkje nemen? Dat kan hier.
Hij had begin dit jaar al laten weten dat 2018 krap zou worden en nu heeft Elon Musk - de grote baas van het privéruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX - laten weten dat de landing van zijn onbemande Dragoncapsule op Mars op een andere manier zal gebeuren dan gepland. Uit vrees dat die het anders niet zal overleven.
Musk deed de mededeling gisteren op de International Space Station Research and Development Conference. Hij wilde de Dragon oorspronkelijk uitrusten met stuwraketten voor een 'propulsieve' landing, maar hij vreest dat het te veel werk zal vragen om die ook veilig genoeg te maken voor een bemande missie naar de rode planeet, het ultieme doel van zijn bedrijf. "Het was een moeilijke beslissing", gaf Musk toe.
Groter Maar even later liet hij via Twitter weten dat hij wel al andere plannen heeft. Zonder te veel details te geven. "We gaan zeker en vast nog op deze manier landen op Mars, maar met een groter ruimteschip dan het huidige. En daarvoor zal de volgende generatie toestellen van SpaceX perfect geschikt zijn."
De landing van de Dragon zal nu vermoedelijk gebeuren met een parachute. De stuwraketten blijven ook aan boord mocht er een noodlanding nodig zijn.
Musk heeft altijd gezegd dat mensen naar Mars brengen het ultieme doel is van SpaceX. "Als we de kost van een verhuis naar de rode planeet gelijk kunnen maken aan de prijs van een gemiddeld huis in de Verenigde Staten - ongeveer 170.000 euro - denk ik dat de kans heel groot is dat we daar een zelfredzame kolonie kunnen stichten", aldus de miljardair.
Kolonie Hij zou daarvoor minstens 1.000 ruimteschepen in een baan rond de aarde willen brengen met herbruikbare stuwraketten. Die zouden dan terugkeren naar de aarde om brandstof te halen voor de schepen. Daarna zou er een 100-tal mensen per schip aan boord kunnen gaan met al hun bagage en materiaal om er een kolonie uit te bouwen. Daar aangekomen zouden de ruimteschepen uitgeladen worden en nieuwe brandstof krijgen, waarna ze naar de aarde zouden terugkeren voor een nieuwe lading. "Op die manier zouden we in 40 tot 100 jaar tijd een goed draaiende kolonie kunnen hebben."
VIDEODe NASA geeft intrigerende beelden vrij van een virtuele tour over het oppervlak van dwergplaneet Pluto. En ze zijn buitenaards mooi!
In 2015 zond het NASA-ruimteschip New Horizon de eerste close-upbeelden ooit uit van Pluto en zijn manen. Met data van het schip en digitale beelden van Pluto en maan Charon hebben wetenschappers vluchtbeelden gemaakt over verschillende terreinen, waaronder bergketens en ijsvlaktes.
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NASA HAS CAPTURED THE SHADOW OF A MYSTERIOUS KUIPER BELT OBJECT
NASA HAS CAPTURED THE SHADOW OF A MYSTERIOUS KUIPER BELT OBJECT
NASA has finally gotten a peek of an ancient and elusive Kuiper belt object. NASA has found a concerning object that a New Horizons spacecraft will likely visit next.
Reports say at least 24 mobile telescopes placed in the remote regions of Chubut and Santa Cruz, Argentina helped to capture the 200 milliseconds of the Kuiper Belt object that passed in front of a distant and unnamed star. This brief encounter showed the Kuiper Belt obfuscating its light, in the wake of July 17.
Scientists have been waiting for this brief moment for months, and some don't know exactly what they could have gotten from such a short glimpse of information. This was the third attempt at "occultation," blocking the light from stars that were nearby as it captured the shadow of an object moving in front of a background star.
Scientists at NASA believe that this can reveal important information about the objects shape, size, orbit and surrounding environment. Scientists say this will be crucial for the planning of the upcoming flyby mission.
It is known as 2014 MU69, after the year in which the object was first discovered. The Kuiper Belt object lies in our solar system, more than four billion miles away. The objects distance and faint brightness made it hard for scientists to figure out what this all meant. The object at the time remained a mystery.
However, scientists were able to learn that the object is known as a cold classical object. While avoiding external disturbances and collisions, scientists expect the object to reveal insights about the formation of the solar system. Monday became the third and most successful out of the three occultation campaigns. It helped contribute to answering some of the questions the scientists have had ahead of the New Horizons spacecraft flyby which is scheduled for January 1, 2019.
"It was the most historic occultation on the face of the earth," said Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science in a congratulatory call to the team, as the space agency reported in a statement. "You pulled it off, and you made it happen." NASA scientists also received support from the local community, including Argentinian scientists, government officials and of course citizens.
A major highway was closed off for two hours to try and avoid disturbance from car headlights. Street lights were turned off, and telescopes that were placed in people's backyards and trucks were parked perfectly to help serve as wind breaks. Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institution led the 60-people team of observers, who will reportedly study data that was obtained during the occultations to plan the upcoming flyby.
The New Horizons spacecraft has already completed a very successful flyby mission to Pluto in 2015. Located a billion miles farther from our sun Pluto, 2014 MU69 is predicted to be the farthest object ever encountered by any spacecraft. "Spacecraft flybys are unforgiving." Alan Stern said in May ahead of the occultations, "The occultations help us plan for a unique flyby of a scientifically important relic of the solar system's era of formation.
WHILE INVESTIGATING CROP CIRCLES A RESEARCHER CAPTURED FIVE UFOS
WHILE INVESTIGATING CROP CIRCLES A RESEARCHER CAPTURED FIVE UFOS
As a researcher when to Cley Hill, Warminster to investigate the crop circle phenomenon during her Facebook Live she caught this amazing footage of multiple ufos with makes me wonder are these objects responsible for the crop circles or is this just a case of being at the right place at the right time.
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VALERIAN - EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPECTACLE INVADES MOVIE THEATERS ACROSS THE U.S.
VALERIAN - EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPECTACLE INVADES MOVIE THEATERS ACROSS THE U.S.
The new science fiction film epic "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" is based on the TV series and comic both put out in France. To look at the trailer for this film which is now streaming online, this looks like amazing scenes of beauty and great special effects.
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS MOVIE REVIEW
There is a great scene of diverting a beast in a vast dessert, and a city underwater just to name a few of the special effects used here. In short, Valerian has the honor of being the most expensive independently made film ever produced.
Sounds great doesn't it, the trailer certainly looks great. There is just one issue at a closer glance could Valerian be yet another in a string of films that were more about visual effects and captivating an audience with them than an actual story that also grabs in viewers.
Alright, so what is the basis for the story in the movie "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets"? It is on a planet known as Mui where apparently a race of alien beings with shimmering skin live. Life on Muli seems quite content, these aliens live in harmony and have their types of pets. Little creatures are known as Mul converters that somewhat resemble cute little goblins. These creatures aren't just essential as companionship but as survival, turns out they secrete something that closely resembles a pearl that this species of aliens depends on to survive. So disaster hits when another alien race attacks the planet and destroys it with only a certain amount of the citizens of Mul managing to escape. There is just one problem; they were unable to save any of the creatures needed for their survival.
This is where the main protagonist of the film Major Valerian comes in at, he along with Sgt Laureline is assigned to find the last known surviving Mul converter that goes by the name of Melo. The two leave in a ship that looks a whole lot like the Millennium Falcon from the Star Wars films. But this isn't Star Wars that had the great epic good versus evil story. No, this is guy and girl humanoid alien species go off to find little creature movie. Most of the film is now devoted to these two on the quest of finding the creature. Of course along the way they take the time to fall in love and obsess more about finding the creature. But as perhaps the film makers intended the viewers are too wrapped up noticing the amazing visual CGI effects that they aren't bothering to notice the plot isn't that good.
So, instead of saying the next Star Wars or the next even Star Trek film, Valerian falls more into say the category of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yes, the latter is remembered quite fondly in pop culture, but take away the amazing visual effects even for that time along with the great musical score and explain the plot? For some of us that require Wikipedia to do so, which isn't a good thing. So, Valerian is perhaps another one of these films visually gorgeous, but if you take all that away, you are left with a plot that maybe isn't much to talk about other than a generic love story or lost pet film.
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ASTRONOMERS: 'WE WERE WRONG! 100 BILLION HABITABLE EARTH-LIKE PLANETS IN THE MILKY WAY ALONE'
ASTRONOMERS: 'WE WERE WRONG! 100 BILLION HABITABLE EARTH-LIKE PLANETS IN THE MILKY WAY ALONE'
New Zealand astronomers have used new scientific techniques to revise the number of possible Earth-like planets in our galaxy. The University of Auckland now provides an estimate of around 100 billion possibly habitable planets.
ASTRONOMERS ESTIMATE 100 BILLION HABITABLE EARTH-LIKE PLANETS IN THE MILKY WAY, 50 SEXTILLION IN THE UNIVERSE
The previous hypothesis was closer to 17 billion, a substantial difference. Using this new data and considering the nearly 500 billion galaxies in the universe leads to a staggering possibility- something like 50 sextillion planets that could contain life as we know it.
The process employed to estimate the new numbers is called gravitational microlensing. It is currently being used at Mt. John Observatory by a team of New Zealand, and Japanese scientists called MOA. Gravitational microlensing’s ability to detect objects under extremely low or no light conditions makes it a more exact tool when compared to apparent magnitude, the previously used technique.
Apparent magnitude involved measuring the dimming of stars as planets pass between them and the earth. Though used by such institutions as the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Kepler Space Observatory, apparent magnitude had some major disadvantages.
GRAVITATIONAL MICROLENSING UNLOCKS THE SECRET OF ALIEN LIFE
“Kepler finds Earth-sized planets that are quite close to parent stars, ” said Dr. Phil Yock, a representative of the university’s physics department. “These planets are hotter than Earth.” Scientists have long been skeptical of the possibility of life on such planets that fall too close to their suns. The circumstellar habitable zone often called the Goldilocks zone, is considered a more likely place for extraterrestrial life as it contains the not too hot, not too cold conditions to support liquid water.
In contrast, gravitational microlensing considers not the dimming of stars but the distortions of quasars, caused by the gravities of objects that move in front of them. Quasars emit electromagnetic radiation and are observable by radio, infrared, telescope, ultraviolet, and x-ray. When an object of sufficient gravity passes between a quasar and the earth, the warping of that object's gravity causes a magnification of the quasar’s radiation.
Dr. Yock wants to combine this new data with that previously investigated by apparent magnitude. “Our proposal is to measure the number of Earth-mass planets orbiting stars at distances typically twice the Sun-Earth distance. Our planets will, therefore, be cooler than the Earth. By interpolating. We should get a good estimate of the number of Earth-like, habitable planets in the galaxy.”
New Zealand’s extreme southern position gives it a unique view of the sky while its relatively low population, abundance of rural land and low levels of light pollution make it an excellent place for astral observation. It is one of only three countries to have an official Gold Rated International Dark Sky Reserve. It is considered one of the best stargazing locations on earth.
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NASA HAS ACCIDENTALLY FILMED THE MOST AMAZING UFO VIDEO EVER
NASA HAS ACCIDENTALLY FILMED THE MOST AMAZING UFO VIDEO EVER
Oh NASA!
Thanks to the onboard cameras at the International Space Station, UFO hunters have--apparently--spotted hundreds of unidentified flying objects near the space station, and even entering and leaving our planet.
NASA rarely comments on the alleged videos which have become more and more popular in recent years.
There are things out there that no one can explain. One such example is the video we share here.
UFO hunters spotted an unidentified flying object captured on video by NASA’s space cameras.
In the 'otherworldly' video footage, a strange object–with a peculiar disk-shaped design—seems to be leaving Earth’s atmosphere. So what was it? Is it an actual Alien vehicle? Is it just Space Debris? Perhaps an optical Illusion, or just the good ol' Swamp Gas?
Many users are convinced that this video is the ultimate evidence Earth is visited by Alien beings while others remain skeptical and still, unconvinced, saying that it's just a reflection or ice particles near the ISS floating away. But, come on guys, surely Ice Particles don't float off like that, do they?
And while we debate whether or not this is an actual alien vehicle spotted by NASA cameras, many scientists, former Astronauts, and military officials are convinced, even without seeing this video, that our planet has been visited by beings not from Earth for centuries.
This is just one example:
“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth now; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking.”
–Theodor C. Loder III, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire.
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Mesmerizing Sky - Rare Double Sunset over North Carolina
Mesmerizing Sky - Rare Double Sunset over North Carolina
A double sunset is a rare astro-geographical phenomenon, in which the sun sets twice on the same evening from a specific place.
The first published mention of a double sunset which occurred in Leek was made in 1686 by Dr Robert Plot in his book The Natural History of Stafford-shire.
The spectacle was last reliably witnessed, and filmed, from the churchyard belonging to the parish church of St Edward the Confessor in 1977.
Historically, it appears that a double sunset is very rare, so we may wonder what is going on because people around the world are currently witnessing double sunsets.
That the phenomenon is not an illusion proves the last double sunset which was spotted from North Carolina as Brian witnessed a bright East and West horizons after sunset on July 15, 2017 as you can see the below video.
MYSTERY surrounds a possible UFO sighting photographed by people on the northern beaches this month.
Narrabeen’s Gus Medero captured a close-up shot of the bizarre object and he was one of several witnesses at a loss to explain it.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has also described the object as “a mystery”.
Mr Medero was taking sunrise photos at Avalon’s Bangalley Head on July 5, about 7am, when his camera also captured a large white dot in the sky above the sun.
Gus Medero can take a mean UFO photo.
Medero said the unidentified object looked to have “four jet streams coming out” of it.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Mr Medero said.
“I can’t really give you a definitive answer (on what it was).”
A shot of the object above the sunrise at Dee Why. Picture: Blake HirstThe mysterious image in the sky. Picture: Blake Hirst
Mr Medero said the object — which was moving in upwards — was most likely a satellite, if he had to guess.
Cromer’s Blake Hirst also took photographs of the object, from Dee Why Beach.
He, along with others at the beach at the time, said he noticed the object move from one side of the rising sun to the other before it disappeared upwards into the atmosphere.
“It’s the strangest thing I’ve ever seen,” he said.
A different sighting on an object in the sky, in 2014. Taken at Dee Why. Picture: Don Jeffery
“I’m not one to believe in UFOs or ghosts or anything like that but it makes you wonder. Some guy made a joke that it was the North Koreans sending a missile.”
Asked if he thought it could have been a drone or a plane, Mr Hirst said: “The way it took off and shot up to space, it could have been a drone ... but I don’t know.
“It seemed it was going way too fast to be a drone — it was going faster than an aeroplane.”
Mr Hirst said it looked like lights were “flashing on and off” from the object.
Don Jeffery took a strange light hovering in the sky in 2014. Picture: Annika Enderborg
Belrose woman Bernice Camf also saw the object from her home and believed it was “space junk”.
A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority viewed photos of the object and said it was a mystery as to what it was.
“At that time of the morning the light often makes things look different than they are,” he said.
HAWAII GROUP DESIGNATED UFO LANDING PAD
Hawaii Group Designates UFO Landing Pad
The suspicious sighting comes after another man photographed a similar-looking, strange light hovering above a morning sunrise in 2014.
Don Jeffery’s photo was also taken from Dee Why and, wouldn’t you know it, it also occurred on a Wednesday.
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UFOs in CORNWALL? Locals baffled after multiple sightings across county
UFOs in CORNWALL? Locals baffled after multiple sightings across county
UFO hunters are convinced they have found solid evidence of alien life over Cornwall as dozens of locals reported seeing a strange translucent, shimmering craft in the sky.
Over the past week, residents of Cornwall have reported seeing a strange shimmering object in the sky which some believe is proof that extraterrestrials are visiting.
The odd phenomenon was first spotted on Monday by surfer Kiefer Krishnan, who caught it on his Go-Pro camera, and uploaded it to Instagram with the caption: “Looking through the GoPro footage and found the Strangest sighting at the end of the vid.”
Since then, a flurry of videos were uploaded to social media sites, all of which were spotted in different locations across the southwestern tip of England.
Harry Wild wrote on Twitter: “Odd sighting at #Fistral today. Anyone else see it? #ufocornwall”.
He asked: “What the?! Is this an alien spacecraft over the A30?”
Another Instagram user from Kent, who posted footage over Roche Rock, St Austell, said: "What on Earth is this in the sky? It looks like some kind of craft to me, has anyone else seen this?”
Numerous other sightings have emerged of the bizarre 0UFO, leaving residents baffled.
Some have speculated that it could be a flock of birds or insects, but as it has a similar shape over several days and in the same locations, experts say this is unlikely.
Others, however, theorise that it could be a publicity stunt from the Eden Project, which is set to open its new Journey Into Space attraction on July 27.
A spokesperson for the Eden Project told Cornwall Live: "It's true we have a galaxy of ways to tell the story of space at Eden this summer. To coin a phrase… 'The truth is out there'."
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UFO cube that appeared 'through portal' over US nuclear test base was REAL, claims expert
UFO cube that appeared 'through portal' over US nuclear test base was REAL, claims expert
EXCLUSIVE: This is genuine footage of a bizarre "cube-shaped" object "appearing through a portal" near one of the most secretive military bases in the US, according to an under-fire UFO hunter who has now admitted HOAX images have appeared in some of his videos.
Tyler Glockner, the man behind YouTube's most popular UFO and alien-related channel Secureteam10, has also admitted to Express.co.uk he once disguised his own voice to appear as that of an alleged source in one of his videos.
Yet, Mr Glockner today stood by his outlandish "cube" video and a follow-up that claimed the event actually happened, saying it was all "real".
The video entitled '[MIND-BOGGLING] Black Portal & Alien Cube UFO Over Texas' has been branded poorly made, photoshopped and fake by a series of UFO debunkers, some of who have placed Mr Glockner on UFO website and YouTube channel blacklists for his alleged crimes against ufology.
The video first emerged in June 2015 and claimed a "terrifying black cube was snapped over El Paso on the Texas border" just a few miles from White Sands – the infamous US military testing site where the world’s first Atomic bomb was detonated.
It has been viewed more than a staggering 3.6 million times.
SECURETEAM10*YouTube
This 'UFO cube' was faked, claim debunkers, but Tyler Glockner insists it was real.
The clip was looked at by the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which is the world's largest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research.
Fletcher Gray, lead MUFON investigator in Texas, said at the time: "If you blow the thing up, you can see too many pixels."
Various debunkers claim some YouTube channels such as Secureteam10 use outrageous claims and footage to attract maximum views and benefit from advertising revenue from YouTube.
Debunking website UFO Theatre estimated in April that Secureteam10 could pull in as much as £230,000 a year from advertising, but he was at risk of losing it die to changes in YouTube policy.
Mr Glockner, who today had nearly one million (958,228) subscribers to his channel, maintains he is just a genuine UFO researcher trying to "get the truth out there."
Secureteam10*YouTube
Tyler Glockner has an army of UFO buff followers on YouTube.
But aside from the shocking cube claim, his videos have included ridiculous allegations including:
*That video of a Hayabusa capsule re-entry from 2010 was recent "leaked" footage of an “alien satellite shot down by the Illuminati”.
*There are towers built on the moon
*That time lapse video of a helicopter was alien technology being tested over France
*Humans have lived on Mars for many years and Google's April Fool's day images of a space station on the Red Planet may actually be real
A new attack comes from YouTube's TheOutThereChannel which has a video exposing how Mr Glockner apparently distorted his own voice to give the impression he had spoken to an alleged NASA and NSA source Dr Eric Norton.
In the Secureteam10 video entitled 'Nasa whistleblower reveals about L-shaped ships on the far side of the moon', 'Dr Norton' discussed the craft being on the lunar surface.
TheOutThereChannel used software to strip back Dr Norton's voice, to reveal it was in fact Mr Glockner's.
In an earlier attack by YouTube channel Dazzathecameraman, the debunker analysed an outlandish claim made in a Secureteam10 video entitled 'Leaked? Giant body behind Saturn Entering Solar System - cover up'.
The video made the far-fetched claim that a massive unknown planet had been filmed entering our solar system behind the ringed planet, but it was being withheld from the public.
Have hoaxes made their way onto my channel in the past? Sure, but that's the game. I've sharpened my eye a lot since then, and I know what to look for.
Tyler Glockner
The video played what it said was a recording of a source - an astronomer from the W M Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii, called only Ken, who supposedly work led for a government agency.
He spoke over an alleged genuine image showing a large plant behind what appeared to be Saturn.
Express.co.uk had an exclusive Twitter exchange with Mr Glockner, after putting these claims to him.
He denied being responsible for hoaxing any material himself, but accepted he may have inadvertently shown other people's hoaxes in the past.
He said: "I don't 'hoax' anything.
"Have hoaxes made their way onto my channel in the past? Sure, but that's the game.
"I've sharpened my eye a lot since then, and I know what to look for."
After being met with claims the original cube video was digitally created, he posted a follow up with an unidentified female witness to the event.
He added: "I'm extremely careful, and the Texas cube was most certainly real, as was the interview I did with the woman who witnessed it."
He then turned to the claims that his own voice has been digitised to sound like sources speaking off camera in his videos.
He said: "I admitted in the VERY video that I recreated the voice audio for Ken, who WAS a real person, but didn't want their voice out there.
"I admitted this in the description of that video the day I posted it, so I find it hilarious that all of these haters have left that little detail out of their stories."
Whereas some UFO YouTubers who have come under fire have claimed it was CIA trolls out top discredit their work, Mr Glockner claimed jealousy from rivals was responsible.
He said: "I run the biggest channel in ufology with nothing but love from millions of fans.
"Everyone has a few haters, and that's fine. I pay no attention.
"I run this channel and I do my best to filter out the nonsense.
"Trolls constantly attack me as being a 'hoaxer', and yet anyone can go through the videos I post on day to day and see that's completely UNTRUE."
He said other YouTube channels that used "blatant CGI fakes" were getting less flack, adding: "I'm getting attacked for something that I posted back when I very first started the channel, and that wasn't even a hoax?
"Like I said, these guys just want to hate on the big guy, and that's me.
"My work stands for itself, and one or two crappy videos out of hundreds does not define me or the hard work I've done for this research. End of story."
Scott Brando runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org.
He told Express.co.uk: "We know that the UFO cube was a fake, not CGI but a bad image photoshopped.
"We don't know who was the witness who sent the picture to Secureteam10."
He said he was convinced the witness was also hoaxed after "it emerged the original image had been digitally created."
He added that Mr Glockner's admission about creating witness voices with his own, mean he could not be trusted with "what he said about sources."
Seth Shostak is best known for his work as Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, but he also works in the movie biz, offering scientific advice to Hollywood filmmakers. While writing my book, Silver Screen Saucers, I interviewed Seth about his activities in Tinseltown and about the role movies play in shaping our perceptions of potential alien life.
Seth told me:
“I think we are ready for ET contact in some sense, because the public has been conditioned to the idea of life in space by movies and TV… I think that Hollywood is by far the biggest term in the equation of the public’s reaction to confirmation of alien life.”
My conversation with Seth was fascinating, but ultimately was never included in my book. I’d significantly overshot my planned deadline for submission and I had insufficient time to weave this material into the established structure of the then near-finished manuscript. Still, I’m loath to let a good interview go to waste. So, here it is, in full…
Contact (1997). Shostak was a scientific consultant on the movie.
RG: You’ve advised on a number of Hollywood movies over the years, including Contact, the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, Green Lantern, and Battleship, among others. What’s the general nature of your involvement in these productions?
SS: The producers will call up and they ask me questions or they’ll fly me down to LA and I talk to the director and the writer and things like that. It’s a great deal of fun for me and I hope that it helps. Usually the filmmakers are in problem-solving mode. They already have an idea of what their scenario’s going to be; you’re not going to change that. But sometimes they have a specific problem, like ‘we need some realistic way for the aliens to communicate with us’—something very specific and descript, and they need some scientifically plausible mechanism for that. That’s usually the nature of their enquires. And you can understand that—they’re in the storytelling business; they’re not in the science education business, so if I can help them with that, that’s fine. What I would like to happen, but doesn’t, is for me to get to these people early enough that they incorporate some of the interesting things that are happening in science, rather than just taking the usual scenarios with a variant and them asking you to fix some scripting problems for them.
RG: What was the nature of your advice on Contact?
SS: Several of us at the SETI Institute here were advisors to the film. I was called up almost every day for a while—mostly by the art department at Warner Bros. because they wanted to get the sets right, so I took pictures of things for them, and so forth. But they would also call up and ask, “what does it look like when you fly through a wormhole?” Well, it’s not as if I do that regularly, but I kinda described to them what it would look like if you got close to the speed of light, where the whole universe collapses to a bright point in front of you and behind you. But, again, it was mostly technical details. The premise is that, if you get the science right, the film is somehow more valuable to getting kids interested in science. But I don’t know that it’s such a good premise; I don’t think it matters much. I don’t think kids will ever walk out of a movie theatre and say “well that’s it, mom, I’m not studying chemistry anymore because they got that wrong.” I don’t think that ever happens.
The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), on which Shostak worked as a consultant.
RG: What did you contribute to the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still?
SS: I was actually much more involved with that film. They flew me up to Vancouver to be on set when they were shooting a scene. That scene when Jennifer Connelly takes the alien, Keanu Reeves, to the home of this physicist, played by John Cleese, and there are all of these equations on the blackboard and the alien finishes one of the equations. Well, to begin with, I was really looking forward to meeting John Cleese, being a huge Monty Python fan, so that was fun for me. And Jennifer Connelly was… very nice. She called me several times here at the Institute, trying to get the jargon and so forth. But the director, Scott Derrikson, he needed those equations and I went through three iterations with him, so those equations on the film are in my handwriting. I was a little concerned actually when Keanu was writing one of the equations; I had written it, but then they traced what I wrote in pencil and then erased the chalk, so Keanu could see the pencil but the camera could not. And so during this sequence he has to trace the pencil with the chalk, and that means he’s writing these Greek letters very, very slowly. So, I said to the director: “No scientist would write them so slowly,” to which he replied “Seth, he’s an alien, of course he writes Greek letters slowly!” I also redlined the script and said “look, scientists don’t talk like this” and I would write suggested dialogue, about a third of which they accepted. But the other two thirds they didn’t take. But there was this whole sequence where someone says something like: “Professor Fudnick! There’s a bolide on a hyperbolic trajectory entering the solar system at three times ten to the seventh meters per second!” And I scratched all that out and replaced it with: “Bob, there’s a goddamn rock headed our way,” because that’s what they would say! But they decided to use their original dialogue instead.
RG: What do you consider to be the most scientifically accurate depiction of alien contact ever in film and television?
SS: Contact. Because, yes, that movie benefited from all the consultancy, but what it really benefited from was the fact that Carl Sagan wrote the book, and Sagan knew about SETI, so that was all going to be right. The middle of the story where she goes off on this big carnival ride to see the aliens, obviously that’s all fiction and maybe not so accurate, but nobody knows. But the depiction of how SETI works and so forth, that was very accurate. In fact, there a lot of in-jokes in the film. So, when they find a signal somebody says “Thank you, Elmer!” I’m sure there weren’t many people in the theatre who understood what that was about, but it was a reference to our Follow-Up Detection Device that we use to verify a signal—the FUDD. So that was a reference to Elmer Fudd. But in any case, that was all accurate.
RG: Were you pleased with the movie?
SS: Yeah. The first time I saw it I thought “God, there’s three endings to this film and it’s soft in the middle.” That was my first reaction. But of course I had to see the film many times, and the second time I saw it I thought, “yeah, this is a pretty good film,” and by the third time I thought “Y’ know, this is really a good film.” So, I have to say thumbs-up to that film.
RG: Did the success of Contact help SETI as an organization?
SS: I don’t know that it brought in additional monies, but it certainly simplifies my task during public lectures. The first thing I’ll ask is, “How many of you have seen Contact?” And if it’s a fair fraction of the audience, that shortens my exposition for how SETI works, because then they know. But in terms of getting people interested in this subject, the thing that movies can do is not educate people about the science, but it can get them emotionally involved, so that they see that this is exciting. It doesn’t have to be 100% scientifically accurate; it just has to be interesting.
Green Lantern (2011): another of Shostak’s consultancy credits.
RG: Do you think it’s fair to say that entertainment media is the dominant force in shaping popular expectations of life in the universe, and of first contact scenarios?
SS: Yes, I do. I really do. But I think we are ready for ET contact in some sense, because the public has been conditioned to the idea of life in space by movies and TV. And if you go into a classroom with a bunch of 11 year olds and ask them “how many of you kids think there are aliens out there?” they all raise their hands! Why? Is it because their parents have been educating them about astrobiology? No. It’s because they’ve seen them on TV! Now unfortunately these products may give the kids the impression the aliens are going to come here and flatten LA or something like that because the aliens often are hostile in these depictions. But anyway, they have this preconceived notion that we share the universe with lots of company, and, doggarn it, if we were to find it then we’re just proving something they already thought was true. So, yes, I think that Hollywood is by far the biggest term in the equation of the public’s reaction to confirmation of alien life.
RG: Is Hollywood’s influence in this regard beneficial or problematic?
SS: I don’t think it’s problematic. I think it’s okay. I think it’s a good thing, because, think about it, why do the American taxpayers spend a couple of buck a year to support NASA? Is it because they’re interested in the hydrology on Titan, or something like that? No. They’re interested in life in space, and that’s because of movies and TV. In that sense, William Shatner did more for NASA than NASA does for NASA. It’s a fact. People are interested in this because of the emotional appeal, the romance.
RG: If and when humanity makes contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, would the cinemagoing public be able to divorce Hollywood’s alien depictions from the alien reality with which we’re presented?
SS: I think that in the beginning people will imagine things that they’ve seen in the movies. They will probably imagine it in terms that they’re already familiar with, and they’ve been exposed to alien movies for a very long time.
Shostak also advised on Battleship (2012).
RG: Films depicting benevolent extraterrestrials—Close Encounters, E.T., Avatar, for example—have enjoyed enormous success at the international box office. Despite this, Hollywood prefers to explore the negative impact of alien contact. Why is this so? And would you like to see Hollywood produce more ‘friendly alien’ movies?
SS: Sure. It would be nice to have some more thoughtful films, because you might think about them, that’s all. It’s going to cost you the same to go see them; the popcorn’s stilling going to be outrageously expensive, and you’re still just going for the entertainment. I’m not going to the movies to learn something about extraterrestrial life, right? And, to be honest, I like the action films, too. They’re okay by me. But clearly when you look at films which have become classics, very frequently they have a message that goes beyond ‘here’s a bad guy and we’re going to have to vanquish them.’ Thoughtful films tend to have more endurance. But, hey, we’re not talking about Oxford University here, we’re talking about the motion picture industry and it’s a business, and so whatever succeeds at the box-office is what they’re going to make. Personally I don’t have much of problem with that. I used to have a problem with them getting the science wrong, but I’ve come around to realize that maybe that doesn’t matter. When I was a grad student I wrote Gene Rodenberry a letter and I said I’ll come over and redline your Star Trek scripts for you, and he replied saying he’d already got an organization [RAND] that’s doing that for us. Well, they didn’t do a very good job, I gotta tell you!
The search for alien life in space has once again turned to mysterious radio signals from distant stars. For years, so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs) have puzzled astronomers for years, with theories ranging from attempts at intergalactic communication or even that they might be powering some form of extraterrestrial spacecraft. While scores of these radio bursts have been recorded and their sources located, scientists still aren’t any closer to determining what (if anything) they might be signaling. Just this week, the search for radio communications in space got a huge boost thanks to the discovery of a new radio signal coming from right next door – cosmically speaking, that is.
Anomalous radio signals might not be as sexy as flying saucers, but they’re a start.
On May 12th, astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico made famous in the Goldeneye James Bond film detected an odd radio signal coming from Ross 128, a red dwarf star located just eleven light years away in the Virgo constellation. The signal lasted for around ten minutes and was in a frequency band not typically heard in known natural phenomena.
Ross 128 (center)
Abel Mendez, director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) at the University of Puerto Rico, issued a press releasedescribing the find and the three main theories his laboratory has put forth:
We believe that the signals are not local radio frequency interferences (RFI) since they are unique to Ross 128, and observations of other stars immediately before and after did not show anything similar. We do not know the origin of these signals but there are three main possible explanations: they could be (1) emissions from Ross 128 similar to Type II solar flares, (2) emissions from another object in the field of view of Ross 128, or just (3) burst from a high orbit satellite since low orbit satellites are quick to move out of the field of view.
Mendez is quick to note, however, that each of these theories has its holes. Solar flares typically emit frequencies quite different from the ones observed, and satellites aren’t known to emit radio bursts like the one recorded at Aricebo. While many outlets have been quick to jump on this radio signal as proof of an alien civilization, PHL scientists note that “the recurrent aliens hypothesis is at the bottom of many other better explanations.” Bummer. Always is, though, isn’t it?
Now that China has constructed the world’s largest radio telescope, it’s likely that strange radio signals like the ones found at Arecibo will receive more scientific attention.
Still, any discovery of radio signals are a step in the right direction, even if they end up being prosaic in origin. Learning how to discern naturally-occurring signals from what might be unnatural ones is all part of the ongoing narrative of our search for alien life. It’s got to be out there somewhere, right?
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Amerikaanse leger heeft geheim ruimtevaartprogramma. Hacker onthult tijdens dit symposium wat hij heeft ontdekt
Amerikaanse leger heeft geheim ruimtevaartprogramma. Hacker onthult tijdens dit symposium wat hij heeft ontdekt
Een Britse hacker zegt bewijs te hebben gevonden dat het Amerikaanse leger een geheim ruimtevaartprogramma heeft, dat losstaat van de NASA.
Gary McKinnon gaat tijdens een symposium in Las Vegas dit weekend dieper in op wat hij zoal heeft ontdekt.
McKinnon zocht in 2001 op internet naar bewijs voor UFO’s en brak tot 13 keer toe in op geheime NASA-computers.
Bemanningsleden
In plaats van bewijs voor UFO’s stuitte McKinnon naar eigen zeggen op documenten over een geheim ruimtevaartprogramma dat wordt aangestuurd door de Amerikaanse marine.
McKinnon zegt zelfs namen te hebben gevonden van bemanningsleden die in de ruimte verbleven.
De directeur van het Mutual UFO Network, dat deze week een bijeenkomst heeft in Las Vegas, liet aan zender KLAS-TV weten wat McKinnon heeft ontdekt.
UFO’s
“Donna Hare, die voor de NASA heeft gewerkt, vertelde hem dat er bepaalde gebouwen waren waar UFO’s uit foto’s werden verwijderd voordat ze werden vrijgegeven,” zei Jan Harzan.
“Hij wilde daar bewijs voor vinden en tijdens zijn zoektocht stuitte hij letterlijk op een geheime ruimtevloot binnen de Amerikaanse marine,” vervolgde hij.
Uitleveren
McKinnon werd gearresteerd voor de digitale inbraak en de VS wilde hem laten uitleveren. Na acht jaar juridisch getouwtrek weigerde de Britse overheid hem uit te leveren.
Kijk hier voor meer informatie over het symposium.
Australië al veel langer bewoond dan gedacht. Deze bijzondere vondst herschrijft geschiedenis
Australië al veel langer bewoond dan gedacht. Deze bijzondere vondst herschrijft geschiedenis
Wetenschappers hebben in het noorden van Australië zo’n 11.000 archeologische voorwerpen ontdekt.
Die laten zien dat de Aboriginals al zeker 65.000 jaar op het continent leven. Dat is zeker 10.000 jaar langer dan altijd werd gedacht.
De voorwerpen zijn gevonden in de grot van Madjedbe in het nationale park Kakadu, waar in de jaren zeventig al sporen werden gevonden waaruit bleek dat de eerste mensen zo’n 50.000 tot 60.000 jaar geleden aankwamen op het continent.
80.000 jaar
Die theorie moet nu bijgesteld worden, aangezien in een diepere gesteentelaag vele nieuwe voorwerpen zijn gevonden.
De oudste voorwerpen zijn meer dan 65.000 jaar oud. Er zijn zelfs voorwerpen aangetroffen die mogelijk tot wel 80.000 jaar oud zijn.
Er werden onder andere bijlen, slijpstenen, maalstenen voor graan en gemalen oker gevonden.
Veel eerder
De archeologen maakten gebruik van nieuwe technieken, wat het gemakkelijker maakte om de ouderdom van de voorwerpen met zekerheid vast te stellen.
“Mensen zijn hier veel eerder aangekomen dan gedacht,” zei Chris Clarkson van de Universiteit van Queensland.
Hele andere kijk
Eerder werd aangenomen dat de mens verantwoordelijk was voor het uitsterven van de megafauna van Australië, waaronder de buidelwolf, de reusachtige varaan en reusachtige kangoeroes.
Nu lijkt het er sterk op dat de mens samenleefde met de megafauna. “Een hele andere kijk op de menselijke evolutie,” zei professor Ben Marwick van de Universiteit van Washington.”
Het onderzoek is verschenen in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature.
Gigantisch ‘buitenaards moederschip’ gezien bij ISS. Bewijzen deze beelden dat we in de gaten worden gehouden?
Gigantisch ‘buitenaards moederschip’ gezien bij ISS. Bewijzen deze beelden dat we in de gaten worden gehouden?
Er zijn beelden opgedoken van wat volgens UFO-onderzoekers een buitenaards ‘moederschip’ is. Het object is vastgelegd door camera’s aan boord van het internationale ruimtestation ISS, meldt persagentschap Sputnik.
Alien-jagers Blake en Brett Cousins zetten beelden van het object deze week op YouTube.
In de video, die inmiddels meer dan 100.000 keer is bekeken, is een wazig object te zien dat in eerste instantie lijkt op een sliert brandende oranje lichtbollen.
Gevolgd
Op het moment dat de contouren van het object wat meer duidelijk beginnen te worden verdwijnt het weer uit beeld.
De makers van het filmpje merken op dat de beelden zijn versneld en dat de waarneming in werkelijkheid ruim negen minuten duurde.
Volgens het tweetal wordt het ruimtestation gevolgd door het vermeende vaartuig.
Bewegen
Ufoloog J. Andy Elias zegt in de video: “Toen ik de beelden bekeek wist ik in eerste instantie niet precies waar ik naar zat te kijken.”
“Maar op den duur zie je iets bewegen. Je ziet oranje stippen rond het object en het is net alsof het licht rechtstreeks naar het ISS gaat,” voegde hij toe.
Gigantisch moederschip
“Op het eind lijkt het hele ding te krimpen. Het zou een gigantisch moederschip kunnen zijn,” aldus de ufoloog.
“Die kleine oranje bollen kunnen verkenningsschepen zijn die de aarde steeds bezoeken,” klonk het nog.
Internet in rep en roer nadat Amerikaans congreslid vragen stelt over beschaving op Mars. Zie hier de reactie van NASA
Internet in rep en roer nadat Amerikaans congreslid vragen stelt over beschaving op Mars. Zie hier de reactie van NASA
Een Amerikaans congreslid heeft opzien gebaard door een panel NASA-wetenschappers vragen te stellen over buitenaards leven op Mars.
De Republikein Dana Rohrabacher vroeg of er duizenden jaren geleden een buitenaardse beschaving leefde op Mars.
Een panellid antwoordde dat het ‘extreem onwaarschijnlijk’ is dat er in het verleden een kolonie heeft bestaan op de rode planeet. Vrijwel direct barstte op internet de discussie los.
Beschaving
Het congreslid deed zijn uitspraken dinsdag tijdens een hoorzitting over toekomstige NASA-missies. Zo is het ruimteagentschap van plan een rover naar Mars en naar Europa te sturen.
“U heeft aangegeven dat Mars duizenden jaren geleden totaal anders was,” zei Rohrabacher. “Is het mogelijk dat daar duizenden jaren geleden een beschaving was?”
Dr. Kenneth Farley van het California Institute of Technologie reageerde: “Mars was miljarden jaren geleden anders, niet duizenden jaren geleden.”
Uitsluiten
“Voor zover ik weet is er geen bewijs voor,” voegde dr. Farley toe, waarna het congreslid hem onderbrak.
“Zou u het uitsluiten? Er zijn namelijk mensen die, nou ja…” vervolgde Rohrabacher. “Ik zou zeggen dat het extreem onwaarschijnlijk is,” reageerde Farley.
Enorme oceaan
Vlak daarvoor had Farley uiteengezet dat er op de rode planeet tot 3,6 miljard jaar geleden meren en rivieren waren en mogelijk zelfs een enorme oceaan.
Het Twitter-account EarthSky, dat meer dan 800.000 volgers heeft, schreef: “Vroeg hij dat nou echt?”
Aliens leefden in harmonie met de mens. Journalist doet gewaagde uitspraken in dit interview
Aliens leefden in harmonie met de mens. Journalist doet gewaagde uitspraken in dit interview
De journalist die claimt resten van aliens te hebben ontdekt bij de Nazcalijnen in Peru, zegt dat buitenaardse wezens ooit in harmonie met mensen leefden.
Afgelopen week zei de Mexicaanse journalist Jaime Maussan dat vijf mummies die de afgelopen twee maanden zijn ontdekt, meer lijken op reptielen dan mensen.
Nu stelt Maussan, die al zijn hele leven onderzoek doet naar buitenaardse fenomenen, dat nieuw onderzoek naar de mummies in de richting van intelligent leven wijst.
Realiteit
“We bevestigen dat we wetenschappelijk bewijs hebben voor het bestaan van wezens van een andere wereld,” vertelde Maussan aan RT.
“Voorheen was dit een mogelijkheid, nu is het realiteit,” voegde hij toe.
Het feit dat de lichamen zijn gemummificeerd suggereert dat de aliens ooit samenleefden met onze voorouders, aldus Maussan.
Wederzijds respect
“Deze mummies zijn begraven in menselijke graftombes, op heilige plekken,” zei hij. “Dit betekent dat ze samenleefden met onze voorouders, geen vijanden waren en dat er sprake was van wederzijds respect.”
De 1700 jaar oude skeletten die afgelopen maand aan de wereld werden getoond zijn 1,68 meter lang, hebben drie lange vingers aan elke hand en een vreemd gevormde schedel.
Volgens Maussan zijn mensen egoïstisch omdat ze geloven dat we de enigen zijn die in zo’n immens universum leven.
Area 51
Tijdens het interview zei hij ook dat Area 51 echt bestaat en dat binnen Area 51 een plek is die S-4 wordt genoemd.
“Daar worden schijnbaar buitenaardse schepen en enkele lichamen van aliens bewaard,” zei Maussan.
Niemand weet waar ze vandaan komen of wat het zijn, maar grote groepen mensen staren vol ongeloof naar de hemel.
Op diverse plekken in Zuid- en Midden Amerika zijn de afgelopen week enorme vloten UFO’s waargenomen.
We hebben een periode achter de rug waarbij het enigszins rustig was op het gebied van UFO-waarnemingen, maar die tijd lijkt nu voorbij.
Bekend is dat Zuid Amerika het continent bij uitstek is voor UFO-waarnemingen en het is dan ook vanuit die regio dat er de laatste weken heel veel meldingen komen.
Vooral ook waarbij veel UFO’s tegelijk werden gezien.
Een groep jongelui staat op straat en ziet maar liefst elf onbekende objecten over vliegen. Het zijn duidelijk geen drones of ballonnen en ze schijnen te vliegen in een bepaalde formatie.
Ook hier bestaat geen “logische” verklaring voor zoals drones of ballonnen. Wanneer je deze video bekijkt, dan zie je na ongeveer 25 seconden een rij lichten vanuit het niets tevoorschijn komen.
Werkelijk fascinerend om naar te kijken en je vraagt je onwillekeurig af wie of wat dit zijn.
Dan terug naar 15 juli, dezelfde dag van de waarneming boven Brownsville. Ditzelfde soort UFO’s verschijnt in de Braziliaanse stad Sao Paulo.
Ook hier zie je mensen verbaasd naar de lucht staren en ook hier zijn, net zoals in Brownsville, rond de tien of elf UFO’s waar te nemen.
Ze schijnen een beetje losjes rond te vliegen in een soort formatie en misschien zijn dit dezelfde UFO’s als die werden waargenomen in Texas.
Voor zover ons bekend hebben we dit soort massale waarnemingen bij ons niet gehad de laatste tijd, maar mocht dat wel zo zijn, laat het ons weten.
Omdat we nog niet beschikken over buitenaardse gezondheidszorg en het daarom extra belangrijk is om ons immuunsysteem op sterkte te houden, bij deze nog even aandacht voor de actie voor Niburu-lezers voor deze week:
MEER SLECHTE ERVARINGEN MET UFO-MELDINGEN RICHTING OVERHEID
MEER SLECHTE ERVARINGEN MET UFO-MELDINGEN RICHTING OVERHEID
Ongeveer een week geleden schreven wij een artikel over hoe argeloze burgers die een UFO-waarneming melden bij de overheid tot hun stomme verbazing door ene Marcel Hulspas van Stichting Skepsis worden gebeld op hun geheime telefoonnummer.
Niet alleen blijkt hieruit dat Skepsis een verlengstuk is van de overheid, maar ook dat je beter geen UFO-waarnemingen kunt melden bij de overheid zoals meer mensen ondervonden.
Keer op keer is er in ons land een bepaald patroon te ontdekken van argeloze mensen die denken dat de overheid er is om hen te helpen en die telkens tot de ontdekking komen dat die overheid een bepaalde agenda heeft en dat als het zo uitkomt, ze mensen simpelweg voorliegen.
Waarheid en overheid zijn nu eenmaal twee zaken die niet samen schijnen te gaan en dus zie je een permanent patroon van overheden die waarheden weghouden van of verdraaien voor hun burgers.
Een onderwerp waar binnen dat zo langzamerhand meer dan duidelijk is, is dat van niet geïdentificeerde objecten (UFO’s) die regelmatig door ons luchtruim vliegen.
Na de ervaring vorige week van degene die een melding deed via 112 en werd teruggebeld op zijn geheime telefoonnummer door pseudo journalist Marcel Hulspas van de Stichting Skepsis, volgt hierna het verhaal van een man (dank!) die ook niet al te prettige ervaringen heeft met het doorgeven van UFO-waarnemingen aan de overheid.
Wil mijn ervaring over het eerste en tweede keer melden wel kwijt zodat u misschien dezelfde dingen verneemt die anderen ook ervaren.
De eerste keer dat ik een ufo zag was in 1985 en ik was twaalf belde toen de luchtmachtbasis Leeuwarden om te melden dat ik samen met mijn toenmalige buurjongen op een sportveld omzoomd met hoge bomen midden in Drachten een zwarte driehoek met rode vaste lichten zonder geluid over onze hoofden vloog.
Daarop begon de meneer mij allemaal vragen te stellen of ik had gedronken, drugs gebruikt etc. aan het einde van het gesprek verwees hij mij door naar een ufo meldpunt (weet niet meer of het een bepaald meldpunt betrof of meer een algemeen meldpunt). Ben weer naar het sportveld gegaan maar voordat ik daar aankwam hoorde ik een F16 er over heen gaan. Heb daarna er verder niks meer mee gedaan.
In 2010 begon mij op te vallen dat op YouTube vele eigengemaakte filmpjes verschenen met steeds dezelfde soort objecten. Je kon toen nog de zoek resultaten selecteren met de nieuwste eerst wat later veranderd is in de laatste 24 uur.
Zodat de echte zaken verdwijnen doordat er elke dag een lading ufo docu's en cgi rommel in de resultaten gegooid wordt.
Op maandagavond 27-06-2011 belde mijn jongste broer die toen bij de gemeentelijke stadswacht werkte bij een muziekfestival in een buitenwijk ten westen in Drachten.
Hij vertelde opgewonden dat hij een grote ufo richting het centrum zag vliegen en vroeg of ik wilde buiten kijken omdat ik toen in het centrum woonde. Ben op mijn dakterras gaan staan kijken maar zag niks wat ik aan hem smste. Besloot nog een peukje te roken en kreeg de schrik van mijn leven en ging er een hele grote knop om in mijn hoofd.
Drie schijf vormige objecten scheerden onverlicht vlak boven mijn hoofd met een zacht zoemend geluid. Zag binnen het uur nog drie andere net boven de daken vliegen waarvan een een ongeveer 1.5/2 meter zwarte bol die op een rechte koers op en neer wiegde.
(Deze waarneming moet eruit gezien hebben zoals de volgende. Een foto die in 1966 werd genomen door Stephen Prattboven de Engelse stad Doncaster)
Dacht toen dat het zover was dat disclosure was gekomen en dat iedereen ervan zou weten. Wilde het van de daken af schreeuwen en besloot het op een website te melden namelijk de toenmalige 'Grenswetenschap'site.
Heb een comment geplaatst over een stukje over ufo's in Frankrijk. Dit was de comment :
Ze zijn er! in uur tijd 6 et voertuigen boven drachten gezien waarvan 3 dezelfde in formatie. Allen vlogen zeer laag. Ze gaan contact maken!
De volgende dag waren het geen ufo's die de aandacht vroegen maar twee sportvliegtuigen een rode en een gele die de gehele dag rond het centrum cirkelden wat niet normaal is.
Ze gingen om en om tanken op de airstrip bij Drachten zodat de gehele dag tot dat het donker was er minstens een vliegtuigje in de lucht was.
Had ze ook op de foto met registratie nummer maar ben die camera later in een pretpark kwijt geraakt.
Daarna heb ik weinig vernomen van enig directe overheidsbemoeiingen en heb snel afgeleerd om het van de daken te willen schreeuwen want niemand wil je geloven.
Je krijgt steevast te horen: Ik wil je wel geloven hoor maar moet het eerst zelf zien.
Met de ufo's was het ongelooflijk zo veel en verschillend. Samen met mijn moeder en twee broers zagen we ze regelmatig. In grote groepen of enkelen in alle vormen en maten ook de oranje bollen die vooral kwamen wanneer ik met mijn toen vijf jarige zoon zat te kijken.
Na dat jaar zie ik nu alleen dezelfde groepjes drie schotels of een groot groepje ovalen/ schijfvormig of enkelen die hoog vliegen en op een satelliet lijken. Soms zie ik ook een soort van lichteffect wat ze laten zien zodat ik weet dat hun dat zijn.
Als ik met mijn twee kinderen op pad ging naar het bos bij Beetsterzwaag of zelfs in een speeltuin in Drachten was het niet ongebruikelijk dat er op een gegeven moment weer een vliegtuigje even kwam cirkelen.
Mijn leven is in 2012 in een hel verandert en heb dankzij de overheid totaal geen uitzichten hier meer en het enigste wat me hier houd zijn mijn twee kinderen.
De belastingdienst heeft een valse claim op mij waardoor alles in de soep is gelopen na het verliezen van mijn baantje. Zo'n 4 jaar terug raakte ik dakloos en in de nachtopvang kwam iemand mij checken van de overheid. Het was een wat geitenwollen sokken type met grijs krullig haar en een brilletje.
Hij heeft mij alleen maar aan zitten kijken en durfde niet tegen me te spreken zo leek het.
Ze waren mij zeker uit het oog verloren
Heb nog wel in 2014 een mail gestuurd naar de MIVD wat ik toen net wat minder wantrouwde als de AIVD. Dit was naar aanleiding van een officiële vraag ingediend via de overheidswebsite over de ROE (rules of engagement) voor als militaire vliegtuigen ufo's onderscheppen.
Werd toen verwezen naar het ministerie van transport en logistiek die alleen maar melden dat alles wat hier mag vliegen een transponder dient te hebben.
In de mail naar de MIVD ben ik zo openhartig mogelijk geweest maar heb daar geen enkele reactie op terug gekregen.
Heb de overheid uit frustratie dit jaar nog benaderd met vragen over vliegtuigen die chemtrails maken maar niet te zien zijn op sites die transponder data verwerken. Kreeg daarop drie verschillende antwoorden
Unusual ‘Sky Beam’ appears at sunrise in Belgium and Mexico on the same day July 19, 2017: An unusual sunrise sky beam was observed on both side of the world on the same day. The same phenomenon which occurred in both hemispheres (Belgium a
Unusual ‘Sky Beam’ appears at sunrise in Belgium and Mexico on the same day
An unusual sunrise sky beam was observed on both side of the world on the same day.
The same phenomenon which occurred in both hemispheres (Belgium and Mexico) of the Earth is another indication that strange sky phenomena continue to escalate in both intensity and frequency worldwide.
Strange and often unexplained sky phenomenon as well as extreme weather is the new normal?
Huge mysterious ball of fire lights up the sky over Bergamo, Italy
Huge mysterious ball of fire lights up the sky over Bergamo, Italy
On July 14, 2017 around 1.30AM during severe storms Patrizia Lapatty saw something strange in the sky over Bergamo in Italy on which she began to film the strange phenomenon.
Wondering what the phenomenon could have been she decided to send the footage to EUStormMap asking for an explanation on which they gave the following statement:
“For us this is one of the most fascinating types of lightning, beyond rare, it’s so rare that many people disbelieve. We receive only 1-2 reports per year in Europe and this is the 2nd one we have seen in 2017.”
“Immediately after the strong pulsing glow came a very strong smell of sulphur, a common trait with ball lightning reports.”
“No sign of fire the following morning and this occurred some 2-3 meters above the tree tops on a hillside in front of the observers home.”
Thus, according to EUStormMap it was ball lightning and it happened 2-3 meters above the tree tops on a hillside.
At all, in my opinion their statement is very vague and I think more investigation is needed before claiming it is ball lightning.
If you look at the video it seems that the ball of lightning is much further away then right 2-3 meters above the tree tops.
If you listen to the video then you not hear an explosion. Instead of exploding the anomaly gave a strong pulse, before fading away.
If it did not explode how then you can smell sulphur? Besides, is it possible that Patrizia can smell the sulphur, given the distance from her location to the hillside?
And given the distance from the anomaly to the earth’s surface it seems unlikely that it would have been a malfunction of a transformer or power lines
Here is the fascinating video of the ball of fire in the sky over Bergamo and decide for yourself what it might have been.
Or see the video link below of the ball of fire via EUStormMap Facebook.
Extraterrestrial works for the U.S. government; Val Thor
Extraterrestrial works for the U.S. government; Val Thor
Commander Valiant Thor landed on Earth in 1957. The extraterrestrial asked to be called Val Thor. Before becoming the stranger at the pentagon, he and his crew were met by two police officers from Alexandria, who drew their weapons. Commander Val avoided conflict. He communicated to the officers his true intentions without speaking a word. Instead he used telepathy.
Valiant Thor requested a meeting with the leader of the free world, who was also a hero of the second world war, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. But the “space emissary” was brought first to the Pentagon for examination by the military. His uniform, which was all of one piece, was confiscated. He was provided with clothing made in America. The bright silver spacesuit was then tested separately.
Here’s one really interesting footage that was filmed last year but it was just posted on Youtube two days ago.
Witness report:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of November 15, 2016. It’s been a strange few months here in Las Vegas. Last month was the hottest June ever recorded here in Las Vegas and we had windy days that went along with it. After more than three years of going out every single chance I had for hours on end, I found that I had hit somewhat of a wall and was just tired and unwilling to try and keep up that kind of pace any longer. All work and no play is not a good thing so I slowed down. Actually, I didn’t really have much choice but to slow down anyway because of the hellish weather. Anyway, I definitely I found time to relax and to even quit smoking. I did try to get out a number of times during this slowdown but it was still too hot and there didn’t seem to be a whole lot going on. I thought I’d go back and remake one of my videos from November of 2016 because it is clearly three unidentified objects coming slowly in over Sunrise Mountain and ultimately landing either at Nellis Air Force Base or right next to it. This is a one of a kind video for me as I have never filmed another one just like it or in the same location. The point here is that these are definitely UFOs. What kind of UFOs is up for debate but they are 100% genuine. I hope to be getting out more real soon but not at the pace I was for more than three years. I can’t maintain that any longer.
Some scientists believe this is a seed sent to earth by aliens
The never-before seen image shows a microscopic metal globe spewing out biological material feared to be an infectious agent.
Though the origin or purpose of the mysterious sphere is uncertain, experts say it could contain genetic material - the precursor to life.
They sensationally claim it could have been designed by an intelligent species to “seed” and propagate alien life on Earth.
It is the first time anything like this has been seen and points not only to the existence of extra-terrestrial life, but to complex and civilised beings watching our planet.
It follows findings that DNA capable of inserting itself into living creatures and replicating can exist in harsh space conditions.
A tiny ‘plasmid’, a circular strand of DNA used in genetic engineering, was sent into space from Sweden in 2011 on the exterior of a TEXUS-49 rocket.
University of Buckingham
The mysterious organism has baffled scientists
After enduring 1,000C heat it was found to still be intact and with its biological properties when it returned to Earth.
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham in England, said it is further proof of alien life.
However the latest finding, by Professor Milton Wainwright and his team from the University of Sheffield and the University of Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, could reveal a much more sinister purpose.
Conjuring images as warned by H.G Wells in his 1898 novel War of the Worlds - it could have been deliberately engineered and sent to Earth to infect the planet.
Professor Wainwright said the structure is made from the metals titanium and vanadium with a “gooey” biological liquid oozing from its centre.
He said there are several theories as to where it came from, the first being it is a complete microorganism programmed to propagate alien life on Earth.
“It is a ball about the width of a human hair, which has filamentous life on the outside and a gooey biological material oozing from its centre,” he said.
“We were stunned when X-ray analysis showed that the sphere is made up mainly of titanium, with a trace of vanadium.
“One theory is it was sent to Earth by some unknown civilisation in order to continue seeding the planet with life.
“This seeming piece of science fiction, called “directed panspermia” would probably not be taken seriously by any scientist were it not for the fact that it was very seriously suggested by the Nobel Prize winner of DNA fame, Sir Francis Crick.
“Unless of course we can find details of the civilisation that is supposed to have sent it in this respect it is probably an unprovable theory.”
Professor Wainwright and his team found the object in dust and particulate matter collected from the stratosphere.
He sent balloons 27km into the sky to collect debris from space and isolated several particles he claims are proof of life in space.
It comes as the mysterious “ghost particle”, also found by Professor Wainwright was revealed and follows the revelation last year of the astonishing “Dragon Particle” the first of its kind to point towards proof of life in space.
Professor Wainwright said the curious orb landed on the sampler balloon it left a tiny impact crater proving it could not have gently fallen from close by.
He said: “On hitting the stratosphere sampler the sphere made an impact crater, a minute version of the huge impact crater on Earth caused by the asteroid said to have killed off the dinosaurs.
“This impact crater proves that the sphere was incoming to Earth from space, an organism coming from Earth would not be travelling fast enough when it fell back to Earth to cause such damage.
“This seems never before to have been found on Earth.”
He said one theory is the object was released deliberately to infect the human race with life-threatening diseases, another is that it travelled millions of miles on a comet.
He said: “For the moment, we are content to say that the life-containing titanium sphere came from space, possibly from a comet.
“NASA is currently sending a balloon into the stratosphere to look for life.
“Hopefully they will get the same results as we have, whether or not they acknowledge what the team have found, or claim the discovery for themselves remains to be seen.”
The findings come as scientists in the UK and Japan launch the ISPA (Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics) which seeks to prove life on Earth originated from Space.
Professor Wickramasinghe, director for research at the institute has long-maintained biological material including bacteria and viruses are constantly raining down from the skies.
He said: “Mainstream science and institutions have fought against theories which expound these beliefs but now evidence from meteorites, from samples of bacteria from space and from space observation is making resistance more difficult.
“Proving that the Earth is in a constant exchange of matter with the larger cosmos would have implications not only in terms of our identity, but could also give us insight into alien viruses which may be important for our group identity, evolution and survival itself.”
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The Night the Moon exploded and other Lunar tales from the Middle Ages
The Night the Moon exploded and other Lunar tales from the Middle Ages
Above: A Chronical illustration depicts five Canterbury monks espying the “split of the horn of the Moon” and Gervase recording their report
Vespers completed, five monks gathered in the garden of aCanterbury Abbyin an apparent religious reverie. It was apleasant, clear evening—June 18, 1178 by our reckoning, June 25 in the old Gregorian calendar. Contemplating a lovelycrescent Moon they were shocked when something like agiant explosion wracked the heavenly body then watched in awe for some time as the Moon seemed to undergo fantastic changes.
We know this because the five Monks reported to theirSuperior and to the Abby’s official ChroniclerGervase that “the upper horn [of the Moon] split in two.” Gervase recorded the observation thusly:
From the midpoint of the division a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out, over a considerable distance, fire, hot coals and sparks. Meanwhile the body of the Moon which was below writhed, as it were in anxiety, and to put it in the words of those who reported it to me and saw it with their own eyes, the Moon throbbed like a wounded snake. Afterwards it resumed its proper state. This phenomenon was repeated a dozen times or more, the flame assuming various twisting shapes at random and then returning to normal. Then, after these transformations, the Moon from horn to horn, that is along its whole length, took on a blackish appearance.
Many scientists now believe that what those tonsured clericsobserved was the effect of a collision of a small asteroid orcomet fragment with the Moon which made a significant impact crater just over the observable horizon on what we call the dark side of the Moon. Cue Pink Floyd now.
Those monks may be the only individuals ever recorded to have witnessed such a collision by the unaided eye.
Giorano Bruno got roasted by the Roman Inquisition. For his pains, scientists much later named the hidden crater on the Moon for him.
Specifically the impact may have created what we now call the Giorano Bruno Crater—after the Italian philosopher andDominican Friar who was burned at the stake for expanding on Copernicus’s theories of a heliocentric universein which the Sun is just another star. He was a great martyr to science, but not born yet when those other Monks made their observation. The Inquisition made toast of Bruno in 1600.
The crater is 22 kilometers in diameter and lies between the significant craters Harkhebi and Szilard. But evidence showsthat Bruno is far younger, by probable millennia than its neighbors. Observed from space the rim is high and sharp, uneroded by eons of impacts from micro objects and space dust. It sits at the center of a symmetrical ray system ofejecta that has a higher almost white reflection than the surrounding surface. These radiate nearly 300 km from the center. All of this is evidence of, by the standards of the Moon, a veryrecent event.
This NASA photo clearly shows the sharply defined Giodano Bruno crater between to much older neighbors.
Soviet unmanned lunar probes first photographed the far side of the Moon beginning in 1959. Since then ever higher resolution pictures have been taken by Russian and Americanorbiters and NASA Astronauts viewed the hidden surface onApollo missions.
Based on analysis of those photographs, geologist Jack B. Hartung first tied the Monks’ long ago observation to the Crater Bruno. The explosion that they witnessed on the “upper horn” corresponded exactly with the location of the Crater just over the horizon.
The observation also conformed to what many scientist expect would be the result of such a powerful impact—aplume of molten matter rising up from the surface consistentwith the monks’ description.
Much of the scientific community has agreed with the conclusion, but the theory also has its skeptics.
Some complain that such a spectacular event should have been noted by others. But in England and most of Northern Europe it could have been seenby hundreds of thousands who were either illiterate and could not record the event or whosenotations have simply not survived. It was daylight in areas of other regular observers of the sky who did keep usuallyscrupulous notes—the Muslim scholars in Baghdad and elsewhere and the Chinese especially. Local weather conditions might not have been so clear. So that in itself is not telling.
A more persuasive argument is that an impact of thatmagnitude should havesent tons of material out into space,most of which would eventually be captured by Earth’s gravity. It would have fueled a spectacularmeteor showerthat would have lasted more than a year. Yet no records of such an event can be found and falling stars wereeverywhere regarded as significant omens and clusters of them carefully recorded.
Skeptics argue that debris from the Luna collition should have sent debris into space that would have eventually resulted in a spectacular and long lasting meteor shower, and event which was never recorded after the Monks’ observation.
The same critics point out that a “recent” lunar event, even one which has been calculated to have occurred during the span of human history on earth can be very old in human terms—as likely to have been observed by Neanderthalsas by Medieval Monks.
Despite the lack of meteor shower argument, other scientists have posed an explanation. If the impact was caused by a comet fragment, other large fragments passing close to the Moon, may have gathered the rising debrisfrom the surface in their own gravitational pull, dragging it behind them in a long orbit around the Sun.
Skeptics still have to explain what the Monks actually saw or dismiss it as a fabrication or hallucination. The only explanation that they can come up will seems even more farfetched than the possibility of an accurate description of a collision. Their hypothosis holds that the Monks just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see an exploding meteor coming at them and aligned with the Moon. This would explain why the monks were the only people known to have witnessed the event because such an alignment would only be observable from a specific spot on the Earth’s surface.
For the monks who saw this phenomenon this event would be very worrying indeed. For medieval people the moon was an ever-present, fascinating and mysterious object. The moon not only brought light to the night sky, but it also marked the passage of time and could determine the personality of man or woman.
Medieval Science and the Moon
By the beginning of the Middle Ages there were already many theories about the moon, which actually was considered to be a planet like Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and even the Sun. Like these other planets, the moon revolved around the Earth in a perfect circle. Medieval thinkers still had a lot of other questions to answer about the moon – What was it made of? What was the distance between it and the earth? Where did it get its light from? Why were there light and dark spots on its surface?
Diagrams of the sun and moon orbiting the earth, with the sun casting shadows upon the other two.
Christian, Muslim and Jewish astronomers all had their reasons for studying the moon and its movements – such as figuring out when religious events occurred and basing their astrological predictions. Throughout the Middle Ages one can find various astronomers at work, detailing their theories about the moon. For example, al-Hasan ibn-Haytham (965-1039) wrote two works about the moon. In this passage he explains some of the ideas that were circulating in his time about why the moon appeared the way it did:
If one were to carefully observe and consider the surface markings, one finds them to be of constant disposition, revealing no changes in themselves, neither in their form, their position and size, nor in their respective types of darkness. Superstitious men, and those who should not be taken seriously, have proposed their own, divergent opinions on the matter. Certain people hold the spots belong the lunar body itself; others believe that they exist apart from it, namely between the lunar body and the eye of the observer; still others conceive that they offer an inverted image [of the Earth], since the lunar surface is smooth and reflecting.
Ibn-Haytham disagreed with all these ideas and proposed that parts of the surface of the moon were denser than others, which made them reflect more or less light.
Someone reading medieval astronomical works will find them tedious and difficult to understand. Moreover, in most cases they were wrong. For instance, the 13th century English friar Roger Bacon understood that the moon caused the tides in oceans, but he believed this was because the rays of light from the moon “raise vapours” from the sea, which cause the waters to move. When the moon was overheard, these rays evaporated the water, which made the tide recede.
Occasionally, however, a medieval writer stumbled across some piece of knowledge that turned out to be correct. The Anglo-Saxon monk Bede was able to figure out that tides were not the same in all places of the world. In his work The Reckoning of Time, he explains:
There are those who claim and affirm that an enormous outpouring of the ocean takes place in all the streams of every region and land at one and the same time. But we who live at various places along the coastline of the British Sea know that where the tide begins to run in one place, it will start to ebb at another at the same time. Hence it appears to some that the wave, while retreating from one place, is coming back somewhere else; then leaving behind the territory where it was, it swiftly seeks again the region where it first began.
The Moon can do more than just light up the night sky
“One cannot claim to know the causes of things if one does not know the movements and dispositions of the celestial bodies, for they themselves are the causes of earthly matters” ~ Robert Anglicus (13th century)
Medieval writers believed the moon could do more than just cause tides – it could also affect ones health. Hildegard of Bingen, a famous abbess in 12th century Germany, explained that bloodletting was best done when the moon was waning (moving toward a new moon). She also found that the phase of the moon helped to determine someone’s personality. For example, if a person was conceived on the fifth day after a new moon:
if it is male, will be virtuous and loyal, courageous and steadfast. He will be physically health and live long. But if it is a female, she will be virile, quarrelsome and vindictive, but honest nevertheless. At times, though not very often, she suffers from some mild infirmity. She too can live quite long.
Diagrams of the path of the Sun and the phases of the moon; from Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, England, last quarter of the 11th century, Royal 6 C. i, f. 30r.
The phase of the moon was also important for agriculture, such as when to plant seeds. The belief was that when moon was waning it would draw water deeper into the soil, and when is waxing (becoming a full moon) the water was being drawn up and out of the soil. An agricultural treatise from 15th century Spain states that in March, “melons, cucumbers, gourds, oats, sorghum, onions and green beans can be sown in the waning moon. Cabbage seed and radishes in the old moon. Green beans and sorghum and spelt can be sown in the new moon. Graft fig trees and other trees in waxing moon.”
The Eclipse in the Middle Ages
Hundreds of accounts of solar eclipses have been preserved in medieval records. Many are often terse – just a few words – but others provide some interesting insights. For example, one German chronicle reported in 1133, “on the 4th day before the Nones of August [Aug 2], the 4th day of the week, when the Sun was declining, towards the ninth hour the Sun in a single moment became as black as pitch and day was turned into night; very many stars were seen, objects on the ground appeared as they usually do at night…”
Chart of Lunar eclipses by al-Biruni
Astronomers during the Middle Ages were just beginning to understand when an eclipse would occur, so for the vast majority of people this event was unexpected and could be scary. The historian Ibn al-Athir was eyewitness of a total eclipse in his youth in the year 1176:
“In this year in the month Ramadan the sun was eclipsed totally and the earth was in darkness so that it was like a dark night and the stars appeared. That was before noon of Friday the 29th of Ramadan at Djazira Ibn ‘Umar, when I was young and in the company of my arithmetic teacher. When I saw it, I was very much afraid; but I held on to him and my heart was strengthened. He was also learned in astronomy and told me, ‘Now you will see that all of this will go away’, and it went quickly.”
By the later Middle Ages astronomers had become proficient at knowing when an eclipse would occur. Christopher Columbus made use of this during his fourth voyage to the New World. In 1504 he and his crew were stranded in Jamaica, and forced to rely on the local indigenous people to supply them with food. After a dispute the natives stopped bringing the food, and Columbus needed a way to convince their leader that he should continue the supplies. He had brought on the voyage a book of astronomical tables, and in it he noticed the date and the time of an upcoming lunar eclipse. Just before the eclipse occurred, he met with the native leader and told him that God was angry with them for not providing the food, and that there would be a sign of his displeasure. The lunar eclipse then occurred, turning the moon red, which frightened the natives. Within minutes they were bringing food supplies back to Columbus and his men.
A 19th century German depiction of the Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moon
When some people look at the moon they claim they can see the face or even the whole body of a human. The idea of a man on the moon goes back to the Middle Ages, with the earliest reference coming from the English scholar Alexander Neckham (1157 – 1217). In his book De Naturis Rerum he has a small section called ‘About the mark on the moon’ where he writes:
Don’t you know that which the common crowd calls “The peasant in the moon, who carries thorns’? Therefore one says commonly: The peasant in the moon, whom a (certain) bundle weighs down / Illustrates through the thorns that stealing is never profitable.”
A few other late medieval English stories also have a similar story where the man in the moon was some peasant who gets caught stealing thorns to help him build a hedge (every villager would be responsible for helping build and maintain hedges to keep livestock from roaming into planted fields – and they would place thorns on the hedges so the animals wouldn’t be able to eat that either).
A medieval German tale explains there are two people on the moon – a man and a woman. The man has been banished there because he had placed thorns on the path to a church in order to prevent people from going to Sunday mass. Meanwhile, the woman is there because she made butter on Sunday. To add to their punishment the man carries his bundle of thorns on his back, while the woman carries a butter-tub.
Another medieval legend says the man in the moon is Cain, who as punishment for the murder of his brother Abel is exiled to the moon with some twigs.
Travelling to the Moon
Stories involving people travelling to the moon are not very common in the Middle Ages – they became popular by the 17th century – but a few do exist. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a tenth-century Japanese folktale, revolves around a young woman named Kaguya-hime who was sent from the moon to the earth, where she almost marries the Emperor before returning to the capital city of the moon.
In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the moon is the outermost sphere of Paradise. When the poet arrives there with his guide Beatrice, he first asks her why are there light and dark spots on the moon, to which she replies by giving a detailed scientific explanation involving optics and rays of light. Before moving on to the other planets, Beatrice reveals that this is the place in Paradise for people who were good but were forced to break their vows, such as nun who was forcibly removed from her convent.
Detail of miniature of Dante and Beatrice visiting the inhabitants of the heaven of the moon.
A third tale involving travel to the moon is The Frenzy of Orlando, written by Ludovico Ariosto in 1516. This is the story of a knight named Orlando who had fallen in love with a pagan princess, but after she marries someone else he goes mad and travels around the world causing destruction. Finally, he is taken by St John the Evangelist to the moon, where he goes to the Valley of Lost Things in which Orlando finds his sanity. In her article, “Ariosto the Lunar Traveller”, Ita MacCarthy explains that the moon, which is depicted as much larger than the Earth, is a kind of allegorical junkyard:
On the moon, forgotten ancient crowns metamorphose into tumid bladders, flattery turns into stinking garlands, and human brains become liquid ooze: the world’s objects become allegorical parodies of themselves. The moon, at this point in the episode, offers something other than a mirror image of reality. It reflects back an altered version of it, one that highlights the essential rather than the outward qualities of the objects placed before it. As objects undergo a metamorphosis that reveals their essence, the moon becomes an allegory for the literary text, which also transforms reality as it reflects and reconstructs it.
Other Fun Facts about the Moon in the Middle Ages
The moon was believed to be cold and moist. It was said to be responsible for making the night air moister, which is why there would be dew on the grass in the early morning.
Roger Bacon calculated that if a person walked twenty miles a day, he would reach the moon in fourteen years, seven months and twenty-nine days.
In the Islamic tradition, the start of a new month does not begin until the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. This could lead to occasional problems, such as when the traveller Ibn Jubayr visited Mecca at the end of the twelfth century. He describes how the people were outside trying to spot the new crescent, which would mark the beginning of the month of Ramadan, but it was so cloudy that no one could see it. After some time someone cried out that he could see it, then others joined in, but when they approached the local judge to tell him what they saw, he ridiculed them and replied “if someone would claim to have seen the sun from behind those clouds I would not have believed him, let alone seeing a thin crescent!”
In Norse mythology, the moon was known as Máni and he was the brother of Sol, the Sun. They are being chased through the heavens by wolves.
The word Monday comes from the Old English term Mōnandæg which means ‘Moon’s Day’. In Latin, this day was called dies Lūnae, which has been transformed into modern French as lundi, in Italian as lunedì and in Spanish as lunes.
In a popular medieval fable, a fox lowers himself into a well with a bucket but gets trapped. A wolf comes by and the fox sees in the well, but also sees the reflection of the moon in the water. The fox convinces him that what he is seeing is a piece of cheese in the well, so the wolf uses the second bucket to go down, which lifts the fox’s bucket up, allowing him to escape. This type of story continues to be popular, such in Kitten’s First Full Moon.
Sources
“The Moon and Medicine in Chaucer’s Time,” by Laurel Braswell, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Vol.8 (1986)
The Moon: A Brief History, by Bernd Brunner (Yale University Press, 2010)
The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon, by Brian Clegg (London, 2003)
Medieval Views of the Cosmos, by E. Edson and E. Savage-Smith (Bodleian Library, 2004)
“A Note on the Man-in-the-Moon poem No.333 in Iona and Peter Opie’s The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1997)”, by Thomas Honegger, Notes and Queries (March 2000)
The Medieval Natural World, by Richard Jones (Pearson, 2013)
Bede: On the Nature of Things and On Times, trans. by Calvin Kendall and Faith Wallis (Liverpool University Press)
“The Medieval Man in the Moon,” by Claudia Kren,Mediaevalia, Vol.7 (1981)
“Ariosto the Lunar Traveller,” by Ita MacCarthy, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 104, No. 1 (Jan., 2009)
“The Middle English Vox and Wolf,” by G. H. McKnight, PMLA, Vol. 23, No. 3 (1908),
The Moon and the Western Imagination, by Scott L. Montgomery (University of Arizona Press, 1999)
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ARE ALIENS REAL?DO U BELIEVE IN ALIENS, ALL THE ALIENS SIGHTINGS, EVIDENCE AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES ON WHETHER EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS EXIST
ARE ALIENS REAL?DO U BELIEVE IN ALIENS, ALL THE ALIENS SIGHTINGS, EVIDENCE AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES ON WHETHER EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS EXIST
Are aliens real?
DO aliens exist? The question has baffled people for centuries.
From Roswell to Suffolk’s Rendlesham Forest, these are the sightings and conspiracy theories which UFO hunters reckon are proof of extraterrestrial
Children eye a model of an alien on display inside the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell.
‘Do aliens exist?’ One of life’s great unanswered questions
How many Alien and UFO sightings have there been?
Numbers of UFO sightings are currently flying at an all-time high, according to data cruncher and blogger Sam Monfort.
The alien expert reckons there have been nearly 105,000 recorded UFO sightings in the past 100-plus years.
And Sam is far from the only believer on our planet.
From an “alien autopsy” video dating back to 1995 to a video of fighter jets apparently chasing a UFO over the M5, there are hundreds of videos which people claim are proof of alien life.
There’s even a clip of a UFO supposedly attacking a Taliban compound, as well as ‘sightings’ in Peckham and Warminster.
Most of the videos have been debunked by experts. In the M5 clip, for example, the motorway lorries look like models.
While the Peckham UFOs were “almost certainly Chinese lanterns”, according to former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Nick Pope – who was speaking to Sun Online.
He added that “true believers wouldn’t be dissuaded” by evidence the videos are fake.
The desert is also the site of America’s famous Area 51 – a highly classified military base at the centre of alien conspiracy theories, because of scores of a sighting of UFOs in the area.
Many people believe that aliens live on Mars – while one man claimed there were secret child sex slaves on the planet
And artist Dave Huggins believes he lost his virginity to a busty alien called Crescent – and has fathered 60 ‘hybrid’ babies.
Some people even believe this picture of Jesus’ crucifixion – which hangs on the walls of the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Georgia – is proof of alien life thousands of years ago.
What is the Roswell UFO incident?
The Roswell UFO incident is a world-renowned conspiracy theory about the existence of aliens.
In the summer of 1947, a farmer discovered unidentifiable debris in his sheep fields just outside Roswell, New Mexico.
A local Air Force base claimed the debris came from a crashed hot air balloon, but many people reckon it’s really the remains of a flying saucer.
The debate rumbles on, with people continuing to make claims about “leaked US government documents”, which supposedly prove it was a cover-up.
Eye witnesses claim they saw UFOs in Roswell in 1947, and in Rendlesham Forest in 1980
Do you think Are aliens real?
What happened at Rendlesham Forest?
Dubbed the “British Roswell”, a similar incident happened in Rendlesham Forest in 1980.
On December 26, Military personnel from RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, in Suffolk, saw strange lights in a nearby forest – and three of them were sent out to investigate.
Two of them encountered a small, triangular shaped craft – which they later drew images of.
One man, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object.
Two nights later, Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team also encountered the UFO – and were left baffled by the entire experience.
Are there any are aliens real conspiracy theories?
Marilyn Monroe’s death remains shrouded in mystery, and a new conspiracy theory claims the actress was murdered by the US government – after threatening to reveal top-secret information about aliens.
The bonkers theory was revealed in UFO documentary Unacknowledged.
It is claimed that Marilyn made the threats after having affairs with both President JFK and Bobby Kennedy, and was seeking revenge as they both simultaneously ended things with her.
Are aliens real
A newspaper report about the ‘Roswell saucer’
What is Britain’s secret UFO dossier?
An official government UFO dossier, referred to as “Britain’s X-Files”, contains a cache of 15 unusual incidents in British skies.
It has now been released by the Ministry of Defence but, in news that’s sending believers wild, they’re making it very difficult to get hold of.
Sun Online exclusively revealed that Freedom of Information requests in relation to the dossier could be blocked, because it is hushed up by EU law.
The University of Manchester and Breakthrough Initiatives are currently running their own £77 million hunt for alien life – but experts are yet to find any concrete proof.
Artist Dave Huggins drew this image of an alien called Crescent – who he supposedly lost his virginity to
What have Nasa said about aliens?
Nasa are the experts in space activity, but they remain notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to alien life.
However, they were recently forced to deny claims from hacking group Anonymous – that an Are aliens real announcement was imminent.
They have also rejected bizarre claims from former CIA case officer Robert David Steele – who said Nasa are running a child sex slave colony on Mars.
To date, there is no evidence of life beyond Earth but, when it comes to unexplained events, the finger is often pointed at are aliens real activity.
Meanwhile, recently, stargazers received “some very peculiar signals” while observing a distant dwarf star. Experts listening in at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico were on a planet spotting mission when the strange “pulses” came over the radio between April and May. It wasn’t until two weeks after the project finished that they noticed the strange signals which came from Ross 128 (GJ447), some 11 light years away, on 12 May at 1.53 AM (BST).
But the recent studies and some sightings gives an appropriate answer for the question: Are aliens real
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Alien Nation: Have Humans Been Abducted by Extraterrestrials?
Alien Nation: Have Humans Been Abducted by Extraterrestrials?
Above Image: Anne Ramsey Cuvelier’s Victorian mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, where, once a year, alien experiencers gather and exchange stories. Inset, John Edward Mack at Harvard University, where he earned his medical degree in 1955., Courtesy of Anne Ramsey Cuvelier (house), courtesy of JPL-Caltech/UCLA/NASA (cosmos), courtesy of the family of John E. Mack (Mack).
A prestigious Harvard psychiatrist, John Edward Mack, thought so. His sudden death leaves behind many mysteries.
if you’re abducted by alien beings, are you physically absent?
This happens to be an important issue for the media-shy people gathered one afternoon last July on the porch of Anne Ramsey Cuvelier’s blue Victorian inn on Narragansett Bay, in Rhode Island, once called “the most elegantly finished house ever built in Newport.” Co-designed in 1869 by a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s, it has been in Cuvelier’s family since 1895, when her great-grandfather bought it as a summer getaway from his winter home blocks away, just as the Gilded Age cottages of the Vanderbilts and Astors began springing up across the island, redefining palatial extravagance. Still imposing with its butternut woodwork, ebony trimmings, and four-story paneled atrium frescoed in the Pompeian style, the harborside mansion turned B&B seemed a fittingly baroque setting for the group of reluctant guests Cuvelier describes as “not a club anyone wants to belong to.”
She had gathered them to compare experiences as, well, “experiencers,” a term they prefer to “abductees,” and to socialize free of stigma among peers. Cuvelier, an elegant and garrulous woman in her 70s, isn’t one of them. But she remembers as a teen in the 1940s hearing her father, Rear Admiral Donald James Ramsey, a World War II hero, muttering about strange flying craft that hovered and streaked off at unimaginable speed, and she’s been an avid ufologist ever since. “I want to get information out so these people don’t have to suffer,” she says. “Nobody believes you. You go through these frightening experiences, and then you go through the ridicule.”
So, for a week each summer for almost two decades, she’s been turning away paying guests at her family’s Sanford-Covell Villa Marina, on the cobblestoned waterfront in Newport, to host these intimate gatherings of seemingly ordinary folk with extraordinary stories, along with the occasional sympathetic medical professional and scientist and other brave or foolhardy souls not afraid to be labeled nuts for indulging a fascination with the mystery. I had been invited as a journalist with a special interest who has been talking to some of them for several years.
Perched on a wicker settee was Linda Cortile, a mythic figure in the canons of abduction literature, whom I’d come to know by her real name, Linda Napolitano. A stylish young grandmother in a green T-shirt, black shorts, and a charcoal baseball cap, she had agreed to meet me months before at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport to point at her 12th-floor window overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge, where, she says, one night in 1989 three small beings levitated her “like an angel” into a hovering craft in view of horrified witnesses, including, it was said, a mysterious world figure who might have been abducted with her. “If I was hallucinating,” she told me, “then the witnesses saw my hallucination. That sounds crazier than the whole abduction phenomenon.”
The short-haired Florida woman in white capris and a fuchsia flowered blouse was, like Cuvelier, not herself an abductee but the niece of two and the co-author of a book on the first widely publicized and most famous abduction case of all. Kathleen Marden, the director of abduction research for the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, one of the oldest and largest U.F.O.-investigating groups, was 13 in 1961, when her aunt and uncle Betty and Barney Hill returned from a trip through the White Mountains of New Hampshire with the stupefying tale of having been chased by a giant flying disc that hovered over the treetops. They said they had stopped for a look with binoculars, spotted humanoid figures in the craft and, overcome with terror, sped away with their car suddenly enveloped in buzzing vibrations. They reached home inexplicably hours late and afterward recovered memories of having been taken into the ship and subjected to frightening medical probes. Their car showed some peculiar markings, and Betty’s dress had been ripped, the zipper torn. She remembered that the aliens had fumbled with her zipper before disrobing her for a pregnancy test with a needle in her navel. I was surprised to hear from Marden (but confirmed it) that the garment is preserved at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham.
Also present was Barbara Lamb, a tanned and gold-coiffed psychotherapist and family counselor from Claremont, California, who studies crop circles, the enigmatic patterns left in fields, often in England, and practices regression therapy, treating personality disorders by taking people back to previous lives. She told me what she remembered happened to her about seven years earlier: “I was walking through my home and there was standing this reptilian being. It was three in the afternoon. I was alert and awake. I was startled somebody was there.” Ordinarily, Lamb said, she is repulsed by snakes and lizards, “but he was radiating such a nice feeling. I went right over and had my hand out. He was taller than I, this close to me”—she held her hands a foot apart—“with yellow reptile eyes. Then he was suddenly gone.” She said she had recalled more of the encounter when a colleague put her through hypnotic regression. “He said telepathically, ‘Ha, Barbara, good, good. Now you know that we are actually real. We do exist and have contacts with certain people.’”
Chatting with this group were two astrophysicists from a leading institution and the director of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital Southeast. I was intrigued by these eminent outsiders, who may have been risking their careers.
But I was interested most of all in the dead man who remained an icon to many on the porch. John Edward Mack, a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, spent years trying to fathom their stories and reached an astonishing conclusion: they were telling the truth. That is, they were not insane or deluded; in some unknown space/time dimension, something real had actually happened to them—not that Mack could explain just what or how. But weeks after attending the 2004 Newport gathering, days before his 75th birthday, he looked the wrong way down a London street and stepped in front of a drunk driver.
Aside from those of his circle and university colleagues, Mack is scarcely known today. But 20 years ago, when he burst onto the scene as the Harvard professor who believed in alien abduction, he was probably the most famous, or infamous, academic in America, “the most important scientist ever to dare to admit the truth about the abduction phenomenon,” in the words of Whitley Strieber, whose best-selling memoir, Communion, introduced millions of Americans to alien encounters.
Tall, impulsive, and magnetic to women and men, Mack was everywhere, or so it seemed—on OprahandNova; on the best-seller lists; in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Time; at his Laurance S. Rockefeller–supported Program for Extraordinary Experience Research; in scholarly journals, documentaries, poems, theater pieces, and Roz Chast cartoons. And then suddenly he was under investigation at Harvard, the target of a grueling inquisition. “I didn’t think people would believe me,” Mack had confided to his longtime assistant, Leslie Hansen, who was in Newport last July. “But I didn’t think they’d get so mad.” In the end he achieved a measure of vindication, but his freakish demise denied him a final reckoning in an unpublished manuscript he saw as his cri de coeur against scientific materialism and “ontological fascism.”
He left behind another unpublished manuscript, with another mystery he was seeking to unravel, a secret as dark as death itself. And now his interrupted journey may be heading to the big screen. After a four-year negotiation, the film and television rights to Mack’s story were granted by the Mack family to MakeMagic Productions, which has partnered with Robert Redford’s Wildwood Enterprises, and a major feature film is currently in development. But two decades after Mack took alien abduction from the pages of the National Enquirer to the hallowed halls of Harvard, the question remains: why would a pillar of the psychiatric establishment at America’s oldest university court professional suicide to champion the most ridiculed and tormented outcasts of society?
On Cuvelier’s porch, a Vermont shopkeeper who wanted to be known as “Nona”—the way Mack identified her in Passport to the Cosmos, his 1999 follow-up to Abduction—remembered filling 300 pages with “abduction recollections,” which Mack struggled to accept as real. Had she actually traveled on shafts of crystalline light? “John, I know when I’m physically gone,” she remembered replying. “I know when I’m going through a wall.” Mack had had one nagging disappointment, Nona recalled. He had never undergone an abduction, or even spied a U.F.O. Why can’t I see one?, he wondered. Nona would twit him. “Probably because you’re not patient enough, John.”
‘I was raised as the strictest of materialists,” Mack told the writer C. D. B. Bryan. “I believed we were kind of alone in this meaningless universe, on this sometimes verdant rock with these animals and plants around, and we were here to make the best of it, and when we’re dead, we’re dead.” A great-grandfather of his had pioneered the use of anesthetics in eye surgery, and a great-uncle had been one of the first Jewish professors at Harvard Medical School. His father, Edward, was a noted literary biographer and scholar at the City College of New York who had remarried a widow with a young daughter after his wife died of peritonitis eight months after John was born. John’s socially prominent stepmother, Ruth Prince, was an eminent feminist economist and New Dealer whose first husband, a great-grandson of the founder of Gimbels department store, had jumped or fallen from the 16th floor of the Yale Club as the Great Depression deepened.
John Edward Mack with his then wife, Sally, and their first child, Daniel, in Japan, 1960. Courtesy of the family of John E. Mack.
Mack graduated cum laude from Harvard Medical School and, while only a resident, founded one of the nation’s first outpatient hospitals. He took his social-worker bride, Sally, to an Air Force posting in Japan and, once home, introduced psychiatric services to incarcerated youths and impoverished nursery schoolers. He started the first psychiatric department at Cambridge hospital, winning a prize for a study of childhood nightmares, a field he would explore further in his first book, Nightmares and Human Conflict. His second book, a groundbreaking psychological study of Lawrence of Arabia, A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1977. He traveled in the Middle East, lecturing on the Arab-Israeli conflict and going on “bomb runs,” traveling from city to city warning what would happen if a one-mega-ton bomb exploded overhead, and getting arrested with his family at nuclear-test sites. He cornered Dr. Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb then pressing President Reagan for a Star Wars nuclear-weapons shield in space. Teller denounced peacenik physicians and told Mack: “If you are not in the pay of the Kremlin, you’re even more of a fool.” After the cold war ended, Mack studied consciousness expansion with Stanislav Grof, a Czech-born psychoanalyst who had experimented with L.S.D. Grof and his wife, Christina, had developed a breathing discipline called Holotropic Breathwork to induce an expanded state of consciousness. In one breathwork session with Russians at California’s Esalen Institute, Mack recounted that he became, “a Russian-father in the 16th century whose four-year-old son was being decapitated by Mongol hordes.’’ He owed a lot to the Grofs, Mack later said. “They put a hole in my psyche, and the U.F.O.’s flew in.”
Mack, at left, performs an autopsy as a student at Harvard Medical School, 1951. Courtesy of the family of John E. Mack. They flew in with a man named Budd Hopkins.
It was January 10, 1990, Mack recalled, “one of those dates you remember that mark a time when everything in your life changes.” A woman he had met at the Grofs’ introduced him to Hopkins, a nationally known New York Abstract Expressionist and intimate of Willem DeKooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell, whose works hung with his in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney. According to Hopkins, he had spotted a U.F.O. on Cape Cod in 1964, and he went on to investigate the case of a badly shaken neighbor who had reported seeing a spaceship with nine or ten small beings land in a park near Fort Lee, New Jersey. Hopkins wrote a story about it for The Village Voice that was picked up by Cosmopolitan. He was soon being thronged by abductees, whom he examined under hypnosis, and he would win renown as the father of the alien-abduction movement, starting with his book Missing Time, in 1981, and its 1987 sequel, Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods.
Hopkins was then beginning his investigation of the so-called Brooklyn Bridge U.F.O. abduction of the woman he called Linda Cortile, which would become his third book, Witnessed, in 1996. It would involve two security guards for an international figure Hopkins never named but believed to be U.N. secretary-general Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, who, Hopkins would conclude, appeared to have been abducted with her. (I had a local reporter in Lima ask the 92-year-old retired Peruvian diplomat directly about the matter in April 2012. He responded enigmatically, saying, “I’m not interested in those types of curiosities.” Asked if he recalled being questioned by Hopkins, Pérez de Cuéllar, who was in the process of updating his 1997 memoirs, said, “I don’t remember, but it is possible. I can’t assure it nor deny it. My memory at this age fails me.”)
Hopkins gave Mack a box of letters from people reacting to aliens. “I think most of these people are perfectly sane, with real experiences,” Hopkins recalled telling Mack when I visited him in his art-filled Chelsea town house shortly before his death of cancer at 80, in August 2011. But, he added, Mack could decide for himself. He was the doctor.
“Nothing in my nearly 40 years of familiarity with psychiatry prepared me,” Mack later wrote in his 1994 best-seller, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens. He had always assumed that anyone claiming to have been abducted by aliens was crazy, along with those who took them seriously. But here were people—students, homemakers, secretaries, writers, businesspeople, computer technicians, musicians, psychologists, a prison guard, an acupuncturist, a social worker, a gas-station attendant—reporting experiences that Mack could not begin to fathom, things, he reflected, that by all notions of reality “simply could not be.”
As he later said, “These individuals reported being taken against their wills sometimes through the walls of their houses, and subjected to elaborate intrusive procedures which appeared to have a reproductive purpose. In a few cases they were actually observed by independent witnesses to be physically absent during the time of the abduction. These people suffered from no obvious psychiatric disorder, except the effects of traumatic experience, and were reporting with powerful emotion what to them were utterly real experiences. Furthermore these experiences were sometimes associated with UFO sightings by friends, family members, or others in the community, including media reporters and journalists, and frequently left physical traces on the individuals’ bodies, such as cuts and small ulcers that would tend to heal rapidly and followed no apparent psychodynamically identifiable pattern as do, for example, religious stigmata. In short, I was dealing with a phenomenon that I felt could not be explained psychiatrically, yet was simply not possible within the framework of the Western scientific worldview.”
With the new millennium, Mack began showing up at Newport, Leslie Hansen remembered. She had been hired to help Mack transcribe recordings of his sessions, and she came to believe in the process that she had buried her own troubling childhood memories of aliens at her bedside. Mack’s household was in turmoil. Sally was unhappy with Mack’s treatment sessions in the house, especially the screams. Mack was also deeply in love with his research associate, Dominique Callimanopulos, the glamorous daughter of the Greek shipping tycoon who owned Hellenic Lines. “John had a lot going on, but he was kind of like a child,” Hansen recalled. “He kind of regarded every person as a fresh slate.” And, she added, “he was very attractive.” Hansen had heard about Cuvelier’s gatherings, and she invited him to attend. Mack was dubious. “What’s this going to cost me?,” he asked. Hansen laughed. “John,” she said, “you’re a guest.”
Two years after meeting Hopkins, Mack was working with dozens of experiencers, and one day he told incredulous fellow psychiatrists at Cambridge Hospital about alien abduction. In 1992 he and David E. Pritchard, a pioneering physicist in atom optics at M.I.T., got that institution to open its doors to a revolutionary alien-abduction conference. Mack presented his findings, as did Hopkins and David M. Jacobs, an associate professor of history at Temple University who was teaching the nation’s only fully accredited college course on U.F.O.’s, and who had just published a provocative book detailing alien encounters, called Secret Life. C. D. B. Bryan, the author of the best-seller Friendly Fire, was among a few select writers invited, for another book, Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, which Knopf would publish in 1995.
“If what these abductees are saying is happening to them isn’t happening,” Mack demanded, “what is?”
Conferees argued over the validity of a poll done by the Roper Organization for the hotel and aerospace mogul and U.F.O. advocate Robert T. Bigelow that sought for the first time to quantify alien abduction in America. Because few were likely to admit to being an abductee, the pollsters asked the 5,947 respondents if they had ever experienced five key abduction-type symptoms: waking up paralyzed with the sense of a strange presence or person in the room, missing time, feeling a sensation of flying, seeing balls of light in the room, and finding puzzling scars. (A trick question asked if “Trondant” held any secret meaning for them. Anyone who answered yes to the nonsense word was eliminated as unreliable.) Two percent of the respondents, or 119 people, acknowledged at least four of the five experiences, which Roper said translated to 3.7 million adult Americans. At a minimum, Hopkins reported, the results suggested that 560,000 adult Americans might be abductees.
The beings didn’t have to come from outer space, Mack theorized, maybe just a parallel universe. But by the time he wrote Abduction, he said his cases had “amply corroborated” the work of Hopkins and Jacobs, “namely that the abduction phenomenon is in some central way involved in a breeding program that results in the creation of alien/human hybrid offspring.” He concluded furthermore that the aliens were carrying warnings about dangers to the planet; almost all of his abductees emerged with “a commitment to changing their relationship to the earth.”
Some respected colleagues, asked to comment on his manuscript, were dismayed. Anyone could espouse alien abduction, but Mack was a renowned Harvard professor. “Can I believe any of this?,” wrote the editor of a psychiatry journal who turned down publication even though all of the peer reviewers urged it. An eminent Harvard ethicist and philosopher responded: “Clearly you cannot easily go ahead with publication so long as you do not have more incontrovertible evidence.” Even Hopkins called Mack “gullible.”
Indeed, Mack soon stepped into a minefield, adding to his circle of abductees a 37-year-old Boston writer who intrigued him with a bizarre tale of being taken into a spaceship with Nikita Khrushchev and President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis. Then, saying she was a double agent out to expose Mack’s U.F.O. cult, the woman, Donna Bassett, supplied tapes of her sessions to Time, which ambushed Mack with the hoax, calling him “The Man from Outer Space.” Mack countered that Bassett had a troubled history at his office, but the betrayal stung. The Boston Globe followed up with a gleeful headline: ALIENS LAND AT HARVARD!
Undaunted, Mack appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show with five of his lucid, articulate, and normal-acting abductees. “He believes them when they say they have been on the aliens’ spaceships,” declared Oprah. “And Dr. Mack believes them, he says, when they say that they have had children with aliens.” Mack put it differently. “Every other culture in history except this one, in the history of the human race, has believed there were other entities, other intelligences in the universe,” he said. “Why are we so goofy about this? Why do we treat people like they’re crazy, humiliate them, if they’re experiencing some other intelligence?”
Harvard had had enough. In June 1994 it convened a confidential inquest under a former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, Professor Emeritus Arnold Relman. “If these stories are believed as literal factual accounts,” Relman wrote Mack, “they would contradict virtually all of the basic laws of physics, chemistry and biology on which modern science depends.” Some went further, accusing Mack of ushering in a new dark age of superstition and magic.
Mack recruited a potent legal team: Daniel P. Sheehan, of the Christic Institute, who had helped to uncover the Iran-Contra drugs-for-arms deals of the Reagan administration and had represented Karen Silkwood’s family in their successful lawsuit against the Kerr-McGee nuclear power plant, and Roderick “Eric” MacLeish, former general counsel of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, who was to achieve fame for exposing sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Boston.
Experiencers who had appeared on Oprah with Mack testified for him. Peter Faust, an acupuncturist in his 30s, told of having been recognized on a spaceship by another abductee and of possibly having been an alien himself in a previous lifetime.
And then, as if scripted for dramatic timing, BBC journalist Tim Leach in Zimbabwe called Mack’s office about a flurry of U.F.O. sightings. Mack and his research partner Callimanopulos flew off to investigate a report that on September 14, 1994, a large, saucer-shaped spacecraft and several smaller craft had landed or hovered near a schoolyard in Ruwa, 40 miles northeast of Harare.
The children told Mack and Callimanopulos on tape that the beings had large heads, two holes for nostrils, a slit for a mouth or no mouth at all, and long black hair, and were dressed in dark, single-piece suits. “I think it’s about something that’s going to happen,” said one little girl. “What I thought was maybe the world’s going to end. They were telling us the world’s going to end.”
“How did that get communicated to you?,” Mack asked.
“I don’t even know. It just popped up in my head. He never said anything. He talked just with his eyes. It was just the face and the eyes. They looked horrible.”
By mid-December 1994, with Mack back in Cambridge, the Harvard committee accused him of failing to do systematic evaluations to rule out psychiatric disorders, putting “persistent pressure” on his experiencers to convince them they had actually been abducted by aliens, and preventing them from obtaining the help they really needed. Mack countered with a fervent rebuttal.
As the inquiry hit the press, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz wrote an op-ed picked up by The Washington Post and The Harvard Crimson: “Will the next professor who is thinking about an unconventional research project be deterred by the prospect of having to hire a lawyer to defend his ideas?”
When the final report came out, Mack was dumbfounded. In a short statement, Harvard Medical School cautioned him “not, in any way, to violate the high standards for the conduct of clinical practice and clinical investigation that have been the hallmarks of this Faculty.” But Harvard “reaffirmed Dr. Mack’s academic freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without impediment. Dr. Mack remains a member in good standing of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine.”
Mack had prevailed, but he realized in retrospect that he had made a fateful error. As he wrote nearly a decade later in a manuscript he was seeking to publish as his masterwork, “When Worldviews Collide”: “I can see now that I had to a large extent created my problem with the literalness that I had treated the encounter phenomenon in the 1994 book. It is possible that in some cases people are taken bodily into spacecraft. However, the question is more subtle and complex.”
Whether space aliens were visiting, what planet they came from, and whether they were friendly to humans seemed increasingly less important than what such spiritual encounters revealed about the cosmos, Mack wrote. The Western materialist worldview was closed to such mysteries. But even without physical proof of the encounters, scientific investigation could proceed through study of the abductees themselves. What was needed, Mack argued, was a new “Science of Human Experience” stressing “the value of the authentic Witness.”
In any case, the aliens’ abduction phase may have ended, Mack and his associates theorized. Had whatever hybrid-breeding program existed been accomplished? What was the next step? The emergence of aliens among us? How would humanity react?
On Cuvelier’s porch in Newport, a staff astronomer at a renowned astrophysics center, in a short-sleeved sport shirt and cargo shorts, explained what he was doing at a gathering of abductees. “I don’t mix the two,” he said. “As a scientist, I would say we don’t have enough data.” So far, he said, “it’s hearsay: somebody says they saw a light, somebody is telling a story what they saw.” But that didn’t mean, the astronomer added, that the stories weren’t interesting. He was joined soon by a towering, bullet-headed friend of Mack’s who had arrived straight from McLean Hospital Southeast, a psychiatric facility affiliated with Harvard Medical School, where he is the medical director. Jeffrey D. Rediger, who also holds a master-of-divinity degree, is no stranger to anomalous experiences. A decade ago in Brazil, where he had gone to study the claims of a mystical healer called John of God, Rediger said, he had witnessed surgeries without instruments and experienced, on his own chest, a sudden episode of spontaneous bleeding from an unexplained incision that quickly healed.
Rudolph Schild, a noted astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who had spoken up for Mack at the Harvard inquest, joined the group. I had talked to him several times about one of Mack’s friends and veteran experiencers, a woman named Karin Austin, who, some two decades ago, recalled somehow arriving at a clearing in a forest, where she and other humans had been presented with their “hybrid” children. Schild had interviewed Austin and was struck by her uncanny familiarity with the double suns orbiting one another in the Orion belt. How, he marveled, was she able to give such accurate descriptions of seasonal changes particular to a binary system?
Mack presents the Dalai Lama with a copy of his book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens in 1999. By Carl Studna.
With the new millennium, Mack’s interest had shifted to a new mystery, the survival of consciousness, particularly the story of his friends Elisabeth Targ, a psychiatrist with an interest in the paranormal, and her husband, Mark Comings, a theoretical physicist specializing in alternative energy. Targ’s grandfather William, as editor in chief of G. P. Putnam’s, had published The Godfather, and her father, Russell, an inventor of the laser, conducted top-secret extrasensory experiments for the C.I.A. in “remote viewing,” the ability to visualize objects thousands of miles away. Elisabeth’s mother, Joan, was the sister of chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer and had taught her little brother the game of chess. Elisabeth was also a prodigy, with unusual mental powers. As a psychiatrist, she practiced distant healing on AIDS patients, and, later, on patients with rare brain tumors, glioblastomas. Then, in a cruel twist of fate, she contracted the same type of cancer and, despite her practice of the non-traditional prayer therapies she championed, died. She was only 40. But now her husband was telling Mack that she was sending him messages of love from beyond the grave. Mack was writing a book about it, Elisabeth and Mark Before and After Death: The Power of a Field of Love. He sent the proposal off to his literary agent with a note: “There is a bit of urgency about this.” In a few days he would be leaving for London to deliver a lecture on his idol, T. E. Lawrence, killed at 46 in a motorcycle accident in England in 1935.
In Newport with the other experiencers, a Tom Hanks look-alike who wanted to be known as “Scott,” the way Mack referred to him in Abduction, remembered their last meeting at Cuvelier’s villa, in the summer of 2004. Mack was excited about his new book, on the survival of consciousness. Scott confessed his own fear of death. Mack reassured him. “You never know when it will be your time,” he said. “We could all go at any time. I could walk out on the street and get hit by a car.”
Raymond Czechowski, a 50-year-old computer technician, had spent three-and-a-half hours at the Royal British Legion, a military charity in north London, planning the latest poppy drive to aid the troops, in the course of which he downed five or six pints of shandy—beer mixed with lemonade and ice. Then, on that mild, clear Monday night of September 27, 2004, he pointed his silver Peugeot north and started driving home.
Just ahead, shortly after 11 P.M., in the north London suburb of Barnet, John Mack climbed wearily out of the Underground station at Totteridge and Whetstone. His talk had gone well, and many in the audience had brought copies of his Lawrence biography, which they asked him to sign. He had also spoken about the death of his father, Edward Mack, who, 31 years before, almost to the day, had been driving home with the groceries to their summer home in Thetford, Vermont, when his car collided with a truck. In London, Mack was staying with a family friend, Veronica Keen, a widow who told him she had been receiving messages from her deceased husband—more evidence, Mack thought, of survival of consciousness. She had said to call her from the station and she would pick him up, but Mack decided to walk. He crossed a divider and stepped into the busy street. His American instinct was to look to the left.
Czechowski hit the brakes, but too late. Mack’s body flew into the air, shattering the Peugeot’s windshield before traveling over the roof and landing heavily on the ground. “He just stepped there, bang,” Czechowski told the police, who registered his alcohol level at well over the limit.
Mack never regained consciousness. From a crumpled paper with an address on it found in his pocket, the police learned his destination and his identity.
Keen, who sat with Mack’s body at the morgue, said he materialized and told her, “It was as if I was touched with a feather. I did not feel a thing. I was given a choice: should I go or should I stay? I looked down at my broken body and decided to go.”
At Mack’s funeral, many recalled one of his favorite quotes, from Rilke’s Letter to a Young Poet (as translated by Stephen Mitchell): “That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter. That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless harm; the experiences that are called ‘visions,’ the whole so-called ‘spirit-world,’ death, all those things that are so closely akin to us, have by daily parrying been so crowded out of life that the senses with which we could have grasped them are atrophied. To say nothing of God.”
Barbara Lamb and other friends also reported visitations.
Roberta Colasanti, one of Mack’s research associates, said he communicated to her a cryptic message on the abductions they had been studying: “It’s not what we thought.” Colasanti waited breathlessly for the solution to the mystery, but it didn’t come. Mack promised to return with more information. So far he hasn’t.
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LIFE ON EARTH ORIGINALLY CAME FROM MARS — WE ARE ALL MARTIANS, NEW STUDY SUGGESTS
LIFE ON EARTH ORIGINALLY CAME FROM MARS — WE ARE ALL MARTIANS, NEW STUDY SUGGESTS
Evidence is mounting that we are all Martians. According to new research presented at the annual Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Florence, there is compelling evidence that life on Earth was kick-started by a meteorite from Mars bearing simple, RNA-based organisms. Furthermore, the same research also indicates that the ancient, primordial surface of Earth would’ve been inhospitable to the formation of the building blocks of life (RNA, DNA, and proteins) — therefore, the only way that life could’ve begun more than three billion years ago is if it arrived here from Mars.
As far as we know, life began on Earth roughly 3.5 billion years ago. The leading theory on how life begun is abiogenesis — that life spontaneously formed from organic compounds, which themselves spontaneously formed. What we don’t know is whether abiogenesis occurred here on Earth, or whether it occurred elsewhere in the universe and then was deposited here via a meteorite (exogenesis/panspermia). Now, according to the findings of Steven Benner of The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology in Florida, conditions here on Earth would’ve made it impossible for these organic compounds to make the leap to life — while the conditions on Mars would’ve been just right.
Basically, Benner postulates that RNA — the single-stranded, non-helical version of DNA that was probably the first building block of life — could only have been created in the presence of highly oxidized molybdenum and boron. Boron minerals could’ve helped early organic compounds to form into carbohydrate rings, and oxygenized molybdenum could’ve acted as a template for forming those carbohydrates into ribose, and thus RNA.
An artist’s concept of Mars’ west hemisphere, billions of years ago, when it still had its oceans and atmosphere
According to Benner, three billion years ago, back before Earth had an oxygen-rich atmosphere, this form of molybdenum wasn’t available. Likewise, Earth was completely covered in water, and boron is currently only found in extremely dry places. On the other hand, four billion years ago — long before life is believed to have started here on Earth — we believe that Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere and dry areas where boron could form in high concentrations. If simple RNA-based organisms did actually form on Mars, then it wouldn’t be too hard for it to hitch a ride to Earth on a meteorite.
This theory, if it’s correct, raises an interesting question: If life started on Mars, where is it now? Mars once had an atmosphere and surface water, but lost both a long time ago. We know that life is incredibly rugged, though, and capable of surviving in some of the most inhospitable environments imaginable, such as the vacuum of space or in darkness under miles of ice. If life did form on Mars, it’s entirely possible that it’s still there. Unfortunately, our current crop of rovers, such asCuriosity, aren’t outfitted with microbe-hunting gear — but the next rover, due to land on Mars in 2020, will have a microscope and other tools to search for fossils and other bio-signatures.
WETENSCHAPAstronomen van de Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico hebben radiosignalen opgevangen die afkomstig zijn van de rode dwerg Ross 128. De wetenschappers hebben geen verklaring voor de bron van de signalen. De ster bevindt zich op een afstand van bijna elf lichtjaren van de aarde.
De wetenschappers van de Arecibo Observatory hebben in april en mei meerdere rode dwergsterren waar planeten omheen cirkelen geobserveerd. Enkele weken na de observaties bleek dat er merkwaardige signalen in het in kaart gebrachte dynamische spectrum van Ross 128 zaten. De signalen lijken afkomstig van een deel van de ruimte in de buurt van Ross 128. De structuur van de signalen lijkt te suggereren dat de radiogolven van veel verder in het heelal komen.
De signalen van Ross 128 bevatten veel verschillende frequenties en de golven arriveerden op aarde op verschillende tijdstippen. Dat is een mogelijke aanwijzing dat de signalen gedurende lange tijd een aanzienlijke afstand hebben afgelegd en dus afkomstig zijn van een bron veel dieper in het heelal. Een radiogolf op weg naar de aarde komt talloze kleine deeltjes tegen, waardoor golven met lagere frequenties als het ware worden afgeremd en later arriveren dan golven met hogere frequenties.
De astronomen hebben nog geen goede verklaring voor wat de signalen veroorzaakt. Volgens hen zijn er drie mogelijke verklaringen. De signalen kunnen allereerst worden veroorzaakt door een mogelijke zonnevlam van Ross 128; de ster is nog behoorlijk actief en produceert met enige regelmaat zonnevlammen. Deze theorie lijkt echter niet waarschijnlijk, aangezien zonnevlammen radiosignalen produceren met veel lagere frequenties dan die van de opgevangen signalen.
Een andere verklaring is dat de signalen afkomstig zijn van een ander ruimteobject in de buurt van de rode dwerg. Deze theorie lijkt ook onwaarschijnlijk, aangezien de astronomen hebben vastgesteld dat er zich weinig andere objecten bevinden in de nabijheid van de Ross 128.
Eventueel komen de radiosignalen van een satelliet die in een hoge baan om de aarde draait; de wetenschappers stellen echter dat ze nog nooit hebben gezien dat satellieten dergelijke signalen uitzenden. De hypothese dat de signalen afkomstig zijn van mogelijk buitenaards leven, wordt door de onderzoekers echter beschouwd als het meest onwaarschijnlijke scenario.
Nieuwe metingen
De wetenschappers hebben de rode dwergster afgelopen zondag opnieuw geobserveerd en nieuwe metingen verricht. De data die dat heeft opgeleverd, zijn zij nu aan het analyseren. De bevindingen komen mogelijk deze week nog naar buiten. De wetenschappers hopen op dat moment meer te kunnen zeggen over waar de signalen vandaan komen.
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Aliens zijn al heel lang op aarde. Astronaut doet opzienbarende uitspraken in deze nieuwe film
Aliens zijn al heel lang op aarde. Astronaut doet opzienbarende uitspraken in deze nieuwe film
Wijlen Edgar Mitchell was de zesde man die voet zette op de maan. De astronaut maakte onderdeel uit van de missie Apollo 14.
Hij was ook lid van de reservebemanning voor de Apollo 10. Samen met Alan Shepard heeft hij de langste maanwandeling op zijn naam staan. Hij was dus niet zomaar iemand.
Tijdens een interview met NBC in 1996 zei Mitchell dat hij drie functionarissen uit drie verschillende landen had ontmoet die claimden contact te hebben gehad met aliens.
Verborgen
Dergelijk contact wordt volgens hem geheim gehouden door de overheden. “We weten allemaal dat UFO’s echt zijn. De vraag is alleen waar ze vandaan komen.”
Hij zorgde in 2008 voor opschudding toen hij op de radio vertelde dat buitenaardse wezens de aarde hadden bezocht en dat dit al 60 jaar verborgen wordt gehouden.
De astronaut stelde bovendien dat de Amerikaanse overheid het beroemde Roswellincident in de doofpot heeft gestopt.
Al heel lang
“De reden hiervoor was dat ze niet wisten of de aliens al dan niet kwaad in de zin hadden en ze wilden niet dat de Sovjets er lucht van zouden krijgen,” zei hij.
Volgens hem is er bij Roswell een UFO gecrasht. “Er zijn vaartuigen gecrasht en lichamen geborgen. We zijn niet alleen in het universum; ze komen hier al heel lang.”
“Het is een testgebied voor kernwapens en dáár waren de aliens in geïnteresseerd,” zei hij.
Voorkomen
Mitchell claimde dat vredelievende aliens de aarde hadden bezocht om ons te behoeden voor een kernoorlog en dat het Vaticaan de waarheid kent over het bestaan van buitenaardsen.
De Apollo-veteraan zei dat UFO’s in vrede kwamen om te voorkomen dat de mensheid zichzelf zou vernietigen.
Mitchell is te zien in de nieuwe documentaire Unacknowledged:
Grote ontdekking over Lijkwade van Turijn. Is dit bewijs dat Jezus in doeken werd gewikkeld?
Grote ontdekking over Lijkwade van Turijn. Is dit bewijs dat Jezus in doeken werd gewikkeld?
Uit nieuw onderzoek blijkt dat op de Lijkwade van Turijn de afdruk van het gezicht van een gemartelde man staat. Dat schrijft de Daily Mail.
Dit ondersteunt de theorie dat het gezicht van Jezus op het doek te zien is. Op de Lijkwade van Turijn, die in de Dom van Turijn hangt, staat volgens christenen Jezus Christus afgebeeld.
Op het doek is recentelijk bloed gevonden dat volgens het onderzoek afkomstig is van iemand die is gemarteld.
Afgezien
Wetenschappers schrijven in het tijdschrift PLoS ONE dat het doek indertijd is gebruikt om het lichaam van Jezus in te wikkelen en te begraven.
“De kleine bloeddeeltjes laten zien dat het slachtoffer zwaar heeft afgezien,” stelt Elvio Carlino van het Institute of Crystallography (IC).
Professor Giulio Fanti van de Universiteit van Padua lichtte toe dat in het bloed hoge concentraties creatinine en ferritine zijn aangetroffen.
Gewelddadige dood
Die stoffen worden vaak aangetroffen in het bloed van mensen die trauma’s hebben doorstaan, zoals een marteling.
De onderzoekers concluderen op basis hiervan dat de man die in het doek werd gewikkeld een gewelddadige dood is gestorven.
Haaks
De resultaten staan haaks op claims dat het gezicht van Jezus in de middeleeuwen door vervalsers op het doek is geschilderd.
De Lijkwade van Turijn is zolang zij bestaat onderwerp geweest van speculatie over de echtheid. Er zijn al veel wetenschappelijke onderzoeken naar gedaan.
Berg van God kan ieder moment uitbarsten. Moeten we ons zorgen maken?
Berg van God kan ieder moment uitbarsten. Moeten we ons zorgen maken?
Een vulkaan in het noordoosten van Tazania lijkt op uitbarsten te staan, schrijft National Geographic.
De Ol Doinyo Lengai, oftewel Berg van God, is de enige actieve vulkaan op onze planeet die carbonatiet spuwt.
Dat maakt de vulkaan, die bijna 3000 meter hoog is, één van de meest unieke vulkanen op aarde.
De Berg van God bevindt zich in de buurt van een aantal archeologische vindplaatsen die worden gezien als zeer kostbare stukken aarde.
Niet duidelijk
Het gaat onder meer om vindplaatsen waar voetafdrukken van vroege mensachtigen zijn gevonden.
Het is niet duidelijk wanneer de vulkaan precies zal uitbarsten. Universiteiten in de Verenigde Staten, Tanzania en Zuid-Korea houden de activiteit nauwgezet in de gaten.
Uit gegevens die de universiteiten hebben verzameld blijkt dat het goed mogelijk is dat er een eruptie aan zit te komen.
Steeds groter
Daarnaast spuwt de vulkaan as, zijn er aardbevingen geregistreerd en wordt een scheur langs de westelijke kant van de vulkaan steeds groter.
“De uitbarsting kan binnen nu en enkele seconden, enkele weken, enkele maanden of zelfs enkele jaren plaatsvinden,” zei Sarah Stamps van Virginia Tech.
De meest recente uitbarsting begon op 27 maart 2006. Toen kwam er lava naar boven en ontstonden er aswolken.
An aviation expert photographed it high in the sky after ruling out a plane or helicopter.
He sent the image to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's biggest organisation dedicated to investigating UFO and alien sightings.
The aviation mechanic described it as a sphere-shaped object, although when blown up the image appears as a bright disk.
He said he snapped and videoed it at 10.07pm local time on June 10, at Mahoning County, Ohio, and there may have been more than one object.
In a report to MUFON, he wrote: "Went out to grab my cell phone charger out of scooter glove box and saw this object or objects hauling across the sky.
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The aviation mechanic ruled out it being a plane or helicopter.
Went out to grab my cell phone charger out of scooter glove box and saw this object or objects hauling across the sky.
MUFON report
“Only had a little bit of time to snap a picture and a bit of video, but appeared to be more than one before I lost sight when the line of trees got in the way.
“Worked on F-16s and have enough knowledge of planes and helicopters to know it wasn’t a plane and it wasn’t arching like falling space objects.”
The witness provided two images and one short video clip with the report.
Ohio MUFON Field Investigator Joseph Pavlansky investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown, as the expert was unable to establish what it could have been.
Roger Marsh, MUFON director of communications, said: "Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made."
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His original shot without any zoom as sent to MUFON.
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On July 14, 2017 around 1.30AM during severe storms Patrizia Lapatty saw something strange in the sky over Bergamo in Italy on which she began to film the strange phenomenon.
Huge mysterious ball of fire lights up the sky over Bergamo, Italy
On July 14, 2017 around 1.30AM during severe storms Patrizia Lapatty saw something strange in the sky over Bergamo in Italy on which she began to film the strange phenomenon.
Wondering what the phenomenon could have been she decided to send the footage to EUStormMap asking for an explanation on which they gave the following statement:
“For us this is one of the most fascinating types of lightning, beyond rare, it’s so rare that many people disbelieve. We receive only 1-2 reports per year in Europe and this is the 2nd one we have seen in 2017.”
“Immediately after the strong pulsing glow came a very strong smell of sulphur, a common trait with ball lightning reports.”
“No sign of fire the following morning and this occurred some 2-3 meters above the tree tops on a hillside in front of the observers home.”
Thus, according to EUStormMap it was ball lightning and it happened 2-3 meters above the tree tops on a hillside.
At all, in my opinion their statement is very vague and I think more investigation is needed before claiming it is ball lightning.
If you look at the video it seems that the ball of lightning is much further away then right 2-3 meters above the tree tops.
If you listen to the video then you not hear an explosion. Instead of exploding the anomaly gave a strong pulse, before fading away.
If it did not explode how then you can smell sulphur? Besides, is it possible that Patrizia can smell the sulphur, given the distance from her location to the hillside?
And given the distance from the anomaly to the earth’s surface it seems unlikely that it would have been a malfunction of a transformer or power lines
Here is the fascinating video of the ball of fire in the sky over Bergamo and decide for yourself what it might have been.
Or see the video link below of the ball of fire via EUStormMap Facebook.
Night Vision Camera Reportedly Captures US Military Jets Chasing UFOs
Night Vision Camera Reportedly Captures US Military Jets Chasing UFOs
Around 50 people are claiming that the US Air Force jets chased UFOs in the night sky. The strange event reportedly took place at Landers, California at around 10 pm on May 21. The witnesses reported seeing two light sources, which they believed two objects. A military aircraft allegedly tailed the two unidentified flying objects.
These witnesses observed the bizarre UFOs and the military aircraft after a major UFO conference. The night sky watch was performed using night vision goggles with video cameras. The person who submitted the report to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the biggest organisation of UFO and alien research in the world, has not been named.
According to the report, a large, amber-coloured light appeared low on the horizon, behind Giant Rock. Around 20 of the 50 plus people ran to get a better view of the light, which seemed to be large to the naked eye. Some of the witnesses said that the UFO flew like a bumble bee.
Through night-vision goggles, the UFO was described as appearing like a huge UFO in a diamond shape.
The object then allegedly flew behind a small hill behind the larger group of witnesses.
As the others who ran came back to join the rest of the group, they reportedly all saw three military jets flying above in the direction of the strange aerial thing that disappeared behind the hill.
After the UFO and the three military jets were gone, the group apparently heard the sound of a low flying aircraft from behind the hill. The jet reportedly flew fast and appeared to chase a faster, large, red-glowing light.
The military jet made a loud noise as it flew directly above the witnesses, but the large red light had no sound at all. The jet had red and white blinking strobe lights and glowing afterburners, but the mysterious light had no blinking lights.
The witnesses who observed the strange event with goggles said that they saw either one object with two light sources on it or two lights.
The problem with the video is that it has no sound.
Three-fingered Alien Spotted at a Peru Convention: Illusion or Factual?
Three-fingered Alien Spotted at a Peru Convention: Illusion or Factual?
Many people have consulted the help of psychic experts about the alien abduction and being abducted by humanoid creatures. Many popular websites or Social Media like Facebook or YouTube have actual video footage of alien sightings and encounters. Many of these videos look genuine since they could be made to look realistic. Therefore, it is essential for you to collect as much information as you possibly can about the alien before making any concrete decision about them. The more that you learn about them, the more likely you will see for yourself that an alien story can make people panic.
Alien hunters are divided with the idea of whether the footage of a tiny, three-fingered humanoid-like creature found in Peru is merely an illusion or factual. The humanoid creature was allegedly unearthed in Nazca, Peru by Jaime Maussan, an investigative journalist. Now some fans are hailing the footage as evidence that the extraterrestrials lived on Earth at once. In a short documentary, a professor at Saint-Petersburg University named Dr Konstantin Korotkov claims that these humanoid features are not a form of deformity, but a creature or humanoid. The body was covered with white powder to preserve it.
Though the result has not been confirmed as a factual basis, Carbon dating samples of the body have been made which dates between 245 to 410 AD. According to a website called Ancient Origins, they should keep an open mind. However, others claim it is, of course, fake and should debunk as a hoax. Many people refer to this incident as a “cover up” by the government. However, there is no evidence found to support this that has ever been reported by the government itself. As far as crafts are concerned, we have to keep aware that we may or may not have been visited by space creatures. For now, the answers lie in our own beliefs.
And yet it is hard for me to look up from the evolutionary computer models I use to develop AI, to think about how the innocent virtual creatures on my screen might become the monsters of the future. Might I become "the destroyer of worlds," as Oppenheimer lamented after spearheading the construction of the first nuclear bomb?
I would take the fame, I suppose, but perhaps the critics are right. Maybe I shouldn't avoid asking: As an AI expert, what do I fear about artificial intelligence?
Fear of the unforeseen
The HAL 9000 computer, dreamed up by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke and brought to life by movie director Stanley Kubrick in "2001: A Space Odyssey," is a good example of a system that fails because of unintended consequences. In many complex systems – the RMS Titanic, NASA's space shuttle, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant – engineers layer many different components together. The designers may have known well how each element worked individually, but didn't know enough about how they all worked together.
That resulted in systems that could never be completely understood, and could fail in unpredictable ways. In each disaster – sinking a ship, blowing up two shuttles and spreading radioactive contamination across Europe and Asia – a set of relatively small failures combined together to create a catastrophe.
I can see how we could fall into the same trap in AI research. We look at the latest research from cognitive science, translate that into an algorithm and add it to an existing system. We try to engineer AI without understanding intelligence or cognition first.
Systems like IBM's Watson and Google's Alpha equip artificial neural networks with enormous computing power, and accomplish impressive feats. But if these machines make mistakes, they lose on "Jeopardy!" or don't defeat a Go master. These are not world-changing consequences; indeed, the worst that might happen to a regular person as a result is losing some money betting on their success.
But as AI designs get even more complex and computer processors even faster, their skills will improve. That will lead us to give them more responsibility, even as the risk of unintended consequences rises. We know that "to err is human," so it is likely impossible for us to create a truly safe system.
Fear of misuse
I'm not very concerned about unintended consequences in the types of AI I am developing, using an approach called neuroevolution. I create virtual environments and evolve digital creatures and their brains to solve increasingly complex tasks. The creatures' performance is evaluated; those that perform the best are selected to reproduce, making the next generation. Over many generations these machine-creatures evolve cognitive abilities.
Right now we are taking baby steps to evolve machines that can do simple navigation tasks, make simple decisions, or remember a couple of bits. But soon we will evolve machines that can execute more complex tasks and have much better general intelligence. Ultimately we hope to create human-level intelligence.
Along the way, we will find and eliminate errors and problems through the process of evolution. With each generation, the machines get better at handling the errors that occurred in previous generations. That increases the chances that we'll find unintended consequences in simulation, which can be eliminated before they ever enter the real world.
Another possibility that's farther down the line is using evolution to influence the ethics of artificial intelligence systems. It's likely that human ethics and morals, such as trustworthiness and altruism, are a result of our evolution – and factor in its continuation. We could set up our virtual environments to give evolutionary advantages to machines that demonstrate kindness, honesty and empathy. This might be a way to ensure that we develop more obedient servants or trustworthy companions and fewer ruthless killer robots.
While neuroevolution might reduce the likelihood of unintended consequences, it doesn't prevent misuse. But that is a moral question, not a scientific one. As a scientist, I must follow my obligation to the truth, reporting what I find in my experiments, whether I like the results or not. My focus is not on determining whether I like or approve of something; it matters only that I can unveil it.
Fear of wrong social priorities
Being a scientist doesn't absolve me of my humanity, though. I must, at some level, reconnect with my hopes and fears. As a moral and political being, I have to consider the potential implications of my work and its potential effects on society.
As researchers, and as a society, we have not yet come up with a clear idea of what we want AI to do or become. In part, of course, this is because we don't yet know what it's capable of. But we do need to decide what the desired outcome of advanced AI is.
One big area people are paying attention to is employment. Robots are already doing physical work like welding car parts together. One day soon they may also do cognitive tasks we once thought were uniquely human. Self-driving cars could replace taxi drivers; self-flying planes could replace pilots.
In our current society, automation pushes people out of jobs, making the people who own the machines richer and everyone else poorer. That is not a scientific issue; it is a political and socioeconomic problem that we as a society must solve. My research will not change that, though my political self – together with the rest of humanity – may be able to create circumstances in which AI becomes broadly beneficial instead of increasing the discrepancy between the one percent and the rest of us.
Fear of the nightmare scenario
There is one last fear, embodied by HAL 9000, the Terminator and any number of other fictional superintelligences: If AI keeps improving until it surpasses human intelligence, will a superintelligence system (or more than one of them) find it no longer needs humans? How will we justify our existence in the face of a superintelligence that can do things humans could never do? Can we avoid being wiped off the face of the Earth by machines we helped create?
The key question in this scenario is: Why should a superintelligence keep us around?
I would argue that I am a good person who might have even helped to bring about the superintelligence itself. I would appeal to the compassion and empathy that the superintelligence has to keep me, a compassionate and empathetic person, alive. I would also argue that diversity has a value all in itself, and that the universe is so ridiculously large that humankind's existence in it probably doesn't matter at all.
But I do not speak for all humankind, and I find it hard to make a compelling argument for all of us. When I take a sharp look at us all together, there is a lot wrong: We hate each other. We wage war on each other. We do not distribute food, knowledge or medical aid equally. We pollute the planet. There are many good things in the world, but all the bad weakens our argument for being allowed to exist.
Fortunately, we need not justify our existence quite yet. We have some time – somewhere between 50 and 250 years, depending on how fast AI develops. As a species we can come together and come up with a good answer for why a superintelligence shouldn't just wipe us out. But that will be hard: Saying we embrace diversity and actually doing it are two different things – as are saying we want to save the planet and successfully doing so.
We all, individually and as a society, need to prepare for that nightmare scenario, using the time we have left to demonstrate why our creations should let us continue to exist. Or we can decide to believe that it will never happen, and stop worrying altogether. But regardless of the physical threats superintelligences may present, they also pose a political and economic danger. If we don't find a way to distribute our wealth better, we will have fueled capitalism with artificial intelligence laborers serving only very few who possess all the means of production.
The Pentagon yesterday tried to shoot down a nagging 50-year-old UFO mystery with a new report saying the “alien bodies” spotted near a supposed saucer crash site in New Mexico were really just military crash-test dummies.
There is “no evidence whatsoever of flying saucers, space aliens or sinister government coverups,” the report said.
But UFO buffs branded the 231-page report optimistically titled “Case Closed” yet another whitewash by a government that seems to think they are the dummies.
“It’s preposterous,” said Michael Luckman, head of the New York Center for UFO Research.
Luckman pointed out that the Air Force’s life-size plastic parachute dummies were first dropped from the skies in 1953 six years after the mysterious 1947 incident in Roswell, N.M.
1 | 2New York Daily News published this on June 25, 1997.(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Witnesses say they saw four or five small gray bodies in early July 1947 at the Roswell Army Air Field Hospital, and being put aboard military planes bound for Texas.
Air Force Col. John Haynes, who presented the new report at a laughter-punctuated Pentagon press conference, speculated that people saw the dummies but confused the dates.
“I have no other explanation,” Haynes said.
In 1947, the Air Force said an ordinary weather balloon had crashed. After several witnesses over the decades said the debris looked extraterrestrial, the Air Force released a 1994 report saying it was really a top-secret high-altitude balloon designed to sniff out Soviet atomic tests.
On balloon flights, test dummies were used and placed in insulation bags to protect temperature sensitive equipment. These bags may have been described by at least one witness as “body bags” used to recover alien victims from the crash of a flying saucer.
(AP)
The latest explanation apparently won’t stop the conspiracy theorists.
A Time/CNN poll last week found that one in three Americans believes the Earth is being visited by aliens and that the government is covering it up.
But Haynes said the government could never pull it off.
“We can’t even keep single secrets,” he said. “How could we have a conspiracy or coverup?”
The 50th anniversary of the Roswell Incident to be celebrated next week by 100,000 UFO devotees in New Mexico has sparked new interest in flying saucers.
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GREAT PYRAMID, SPHINX MAY BE 800,000 YEARS OLD AFTER SURVIVING ‘GREAT FLOOD’
GREAT PYRAMID, SPHINX MAY BE 800,000 YEARS OLD AFTER SURVIVING ‘GREAT FLOOD’
Recent research suggests the Great Pyramid, Sphinx and surrounding Giza plateau have suffered heavy floods, indicating the structures may be thousands of years older than first thought. Traces of water erosion could also potentially prove that the Pyramids and Sphinx may even pre-date ancient Egypt.
THE OLDEST OF THE WORLD’S SEVEN WONDERS JUST GOT A LOT OLDER
ystery has always surrounded these monoliths. In addition to not understanding just how these were built without the use of modern technology, scientists are also baffled by its precision and location. Facing true north and at the direct center of earth’s landmass, the Great Pyramid is still the most accurate aligned structure in existence.
While these issues remain unsolved, perhaps this latest discovery is even more impressive. The evidence of water erosion found in Giza shows that the Great Pyramid and Sphinx were likely submerged under water. Although this theory was first explored in the early 90’s, recent studies have made significant gains in proving its validity.
At an International Conference of Geoarchaeology and Archaeomineralogy held in Bulgaria, two scientists presented existing geological studies to determine when this erosion may have occurred. Arguing that rising sea water caused the Nile River to overflow and the Giza plateau to flood, Vjacheslav Manichev and Alexander Parkhomenko used this information to establish that the age of the Sphinx may actually be over 800,000 years old.
“The geological approach in connection to other scientific-natural methods permits to answer the question about the relative age of the Sphinx,” the scientists said. “The conducted visual investigation of the Sphinx allowed the conclusion about the important role of water from large water bodies which partially flooded the monument with a formation of wave-cut hollows on its vertical walls.”
Though this research strongly points to these mammoth constructions being built by an ancient civilization prior to the Egyptians, there is still debate over whether a “great flood” ever happened. However, Robert Ballard, who is famous for his discovery of the shipwrecked Titanic, concluded through seashell carbon dating that such a catastrophic flood of “biblical” proportions must have taken place around 5,000 BC.
This evidence further demonstrates that the Great Pyramid and Sphinx may be even older than anyone previously believed. Yet, despite all these findings, researchers will never definitively be able to solve the mystery behind these enduring monuments.
“While many questions remain unanswered about the Great Pyramid of Giza, we still remain perplexed by the complexity and precision of this incredible ancient structure thousands of years after it was created,” Ivan Petricevic, founder and editor of the Ancient Code website, said.
What Does the absence of Rhesus monkey factor mean?
No solid scientific explanation exists as to how or why Rh- blood came about. It is presumed to be the result of a random mutation. Have you ever felt you were weird or different? It may be due to your DNA … 85% of humans have the monkey gene (RH+) and 15% do not (RH-) and maybe have an alien gene instead. RH- people are characterized by higher IQs, sensitive vision, lower body temperatures, sensitivity to heat and sunlight, psychic power, ability to stop watches and electrical appliances and having extra vertebrae…
Of the human blood types, O is the most common. It is a universal blood type. Blood types are further broken down into two groups, negative and positive. This is called the RH factor. The RH factor is the Rhesus (rhesus as in monkey) blood factor. If your blood tests positive for this, you have the factor in your blood. If you test negative, you do not have the factor in your blood. The RH factor is a protein found in the human blood that is directly linked to the Rhesus Monkey.
When blood type is inherited from your parents, it is known that this factor element of the blood is the most consistent human or animal characteristic passed on to the off spring. There are VERY few aberrations. It rarely changes.
Most people, about 85%, have RH-positive blood. That could support the idea that humans evolved or were derived from Primates. 15 % of humans have RH-negative blood. If blood type is one of least mutable human characteristic, where did the RH negative come from? This question has puzzled scientists for years. There is some evidence that suggests the RH-negative blood group may have appeared about 35,000 years ago. And the appearance was regional and seemed to, originally, be connected with certain groups/tribes of people.
Northern Spain and Southern France is where you can find some of the highest concentration of the RH-negative factor in the Basque people. Another original group were the Eastern/Oriental Jews. In general, about 40 – 45% of Europeans have the RH-negative group. Only about 3% of African descendent and about 1% of Asian or Native American descendent has the RH-negative group. Due to the larger European numbers, it is a safe bet that was where it was introduced into the human genetic code. Could this also be where the Caucasian was introduced? Is the introduction of Caucasian related to the RH-blood factor.
If the RH-negative factor is a ‘normal’ presentation of blood, then why is there a problem when a mother of the RH-negative blood group gives birth to an RH-positive blood group baby. This Hemolytic disease, actually an allergic reaction, can cause death when the two different blood groups are mingled during pregnancy. When the antigenic substances attack the negative blood group it can destroy the blood cells. So why does the human body produce antigens to this blood type? Is the blood group alien?
The only other time this occurs in nature is, as an example, when donkeys and horses are crossed to produce mules. This is not ‘natural’ because left alone in the wild, these animals would never cross breed. Only with intervention would this happen. Was there a cross breeding of two human like beings, similar but genetically different?
People with RH-negative blood group have certain characteristics that seem to be common among the majority. Here is a brief list of the most common.
¨ Extra vertebra. ¨ Higher than average IQ ¨ More sensitive vision and other senses. ¨ Lower body temperature ¨ Higher blood pressure ¨ Increased occurrence of psychic/intuitive abilities ¨ Predominantly blue, green, or Hazel eyes ¨ Red or reddish hair ¨ Has increased sensitivity to heat and sunlight ¨ Cannot be cloned ¨ Alien Abduction and other unexplained phenomenon
So what does this mean? What can be concluded?
The appearance of RH-negative blood did not follow the usual evolutionary path. In fact, evolution would seem to be ruled out as a possible cause of the anomaly. It has been proven that blood is the least likely to mutate. There are no other blood mutations. The introduction of the RH-negative blood type was not a naturally occurring part of human evolution.
This would lend credence that the RH-negative factor was introduced from an outside source. Could the source be from human like beings from another planet? Or maybe we are just as alien as they are, in that, we are a product of their manipulation and interference. Could they have come here and manipulated life forms already present on earth to create modern man?
Many ancient texts, including, the Bible, do support this theory. Many stories in the ancient texts, especially pre-Christian texts, do tell about a race that from the Heavens to the Earth Came. And they created man in their image. Man saw them as gods, living long lives and performing miracles. Flying about in the sky ships and shooting fire and creating ear-shattering booms. The humans watched as these gods built massive and glorious houses and created beautiful cities for themselves. From man’s primitive point of view, they were gods. But that was early man’s point of view.
Who were the gods? The ancient stories tell us a lot about these gods. They obviously had advanced technology capable of space travel and air travel. They knew about aviation, metallurgy, the universe, the cosmic progression, medicine and evidently genetics. They knew about atomic energy and weapons and used them. Evidence of this can be found on Earth. They knew about agriculture and how to create more nutritious grains and other food staples. All of the basic grains that humans rely on for food have been determined to have all appeared at the same time spanning roughly a 10,000 year period. A very short time, geologically speaking. And no new grain has since been developed.
Our ancient texts tell us they began to take humans for their spouses. The Bible says, and the gods looked upon woman and found her pleasant to behold and took her as their wives. They had children, many children. But not all humans were a result of interbreeding. The first human was a result of scientific research combining primates with the gods’ genes. The first humans were not a product of interbreeding. But small portions of humans are a result of this interbreeding and their blood type can support this.
In the first part of this article, I described to you what happens when two species who similar but genetically different interbreed. They produce hybrids. The example I gave was about horses, donkeys, and mules. Mules are the hybrid, the product of a union between a horse and a donkey. However, mules are born sterile because there is no genetic relationship between the horse and the donkey.
When humans were first created, they were a product of two genetically similar but not related species.
The combination of the DNA of the primates and the gods was produced ‘artificially’ in a lab. If the gods have the technology to create a new species, they would have no problem overcoming the problem of the hybrids being sterile. A little genetic manipulation and it would no longer be an issue.
Three proto types of humans were created. Each one successively more advanced. Two types by design and the last by chance. Neanderthal Man is suspected of being an early humanoid created by the gods but Cro-magnon was definitely a product of their intervention. The next type is whom we call pre-human and then we have modern man. Modern man was a result of interbreeding between the gods and pre-humans. This interbreeding for the most part created no problems in the resulting offspring, except for a line that inherited, from their godly parents, the RH-negative blood type.
This is supported by the fact that these humans did not inherit the protein found in the blood that is directly linked to the Rhesus Monkey. They did not inherit it because one of their parents did not have the monkey protein. This protein is present only because combining primate DNA with DNA from the gods created the original human proto-type that carried the monkey protein. So in conclusion, I suggest that man is a creation of a highly technological race of human like beings that From the Heavens to the Earth came. I suggest that these advanced beings are still among us today and are still very active in the affairs of man. To what end, I can only suggest.
Global Blood suppliers managed to infect or kill 90% of Hemophiliacs in world by providing them with tainted blood. If Hemophiliac is the “Royal Disease”, woe to generations of boys, who could not be king. Worldwide, over 120,000 men, women and boys…a true “genetic holocaust”…are now infected with HIV worldwide…due to tainted blood transfusions At least 25,000 have died.
In some areas, the Rh-Negative blood factor is referred to as “Blood Royale” or “Royal Blood”. For centuries, European royalty have been inflicted with Hemophilia or “bleeders disease”. Apparently, Queen Victoria was a “carrier” of Hemophilia and gave it to all of her children who then intermarried and infected the bloodlines of very throne in Europe during the 1800s and 1900s.
As a direct result, Hemophilia became known as the “Royal Disease”. To keep this in perspective, only about 5% of all “royalty” have Rh-Factor negative blood…which means “less than the general population. That would indicate that the vast majority of “rulers” and “monarchs” are NOT Rhesus-factor negative. Is this by chance? or by genetic engineering called “arranged marriages”?
For all practical purposes the cultural group with the highest rates of Rh-negative blood are the “Berbers” of Morocco. In an earlier meme, i indicated that the highest concentration of Rh-Factor Negative was from Iraq. It seems that the Berbers may actually have originated thousands of years ago, from the border of Syria and Iraq.
If European royalty are no disposed to intermarriage with Rh-Negs, it may be because they are avoiding the “arab” bloodline? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. It appears that the Basque Rh-neg factors come from ancient Berber sea farers as early as 8,000 BC! Perhaps, many of the “cave paintings” may be attributed to “strangers” of great artistic ability that migrated into the area.
Is “hyper-creativity” a “symptom” of Rh-Negative Blood? Artists? Entertainers? Who knows…but if European Royalty refuse to marry into the Rh Negative blood line it means one thing…Rh-Neg people are a “competing royal line”.
How do you get rid of it once and for all? Although the British would love for you to think that Victoria was the world’s first carrier…don’t be confused. It was he Hapsburg’s disease. Was Victoria a Hapsburg?
The unofficial motto of the Hapsburg family was “Bella gerunt alii, tu, felix Austria, nubes!” (”Where others must fight wars, you, fortunate Austria, marry!).
It’s curious that “marriage” can be a “dynastic” undertaking but it can also be a perverse form of “bio-warfare” or “genetic warfare”. In fact, the disease was much more ancient.
The “Father of Surgery” was El Zarhawi or Albucasis, 1013-1106. Albucasis described a family where only males died from blood loss after the most trivial of injury.
His full name was Abul Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahravi. He was born and brought up in Zahra (zorro?) , the royal suburb of Cordova (Arabic Qurtuba), the capital of Muslim Spain. As we know from the history, Zahra competed in grandeur and magnificence with Baghdad. Al-Zahravi served in the capacity of the court physician to King Al-Hakam-II of Spain. After a long and distinguished medical career he died in 1013 C.E.
As an inventor of many surgical instruments, Al-Zahravi is famous for developing instruments for internal examination of the ear, internal inspection of the urethra and for applying or removing foreign bodies from the throat. He introduced such new procedures as cauterization of wounds, crushing stones inside the bladder, the vivisection and dissection.
He applied cauterization procedure to as many as 50 different operations. In addition, Al-Zahravi discussed the preparation of medicines and the application of such techniques as sublimation and decantation. He prescribed the use of diuretics, sudorifics, purgatives, the absorption of pure wine and hot baths. Al-Zahravi was the first to give detailed description hemophilia and was the first to use silk thread for stitching wounds.
So, you begin to wonder if the good doctor was treating an “Arab” family in Moorish Spain for the disease. Then you begin to wonder just where a supposed blue blood like Victoria got her “Arab Royalty Disease”??? Was it a disease of Spanish Royalty?
In other words, was marriage to Victoria’s daughters a way to kill or weaken future “non-Hapsburg” kings…since mostly males only contract the disease from their mothers? Still, Hemophilia was in Royalty long before Victoria.
Victoria’s daughters passed the disease into the Spanish, German and Russian Royal lines and threatened the thrones of all of Europes major powers. It would appear that Victoria is actually a direct descendant of Ferdinand of Castille, who retook he city of Castille in 1236, where the surgeon Abulcasis had counseled King Hakam II about a family who’s sons died easily.
As you can see the vast majority of RH- people come from the Basque people of France and Spain, and then Europe has the second highest percentage. We can surmise that the RH- blood type originates out of Europe and has spread over to other countries that contain European ancestry heritage. The RH- recessive alleles (+/-) make up approximately 60% of the Basque people and 40% of the Europeans, so that means that a higher percentage of RH+ people in Europe are carrying the genetics of the RH- factor in their DNA.
“No one has tried to explain where the Rh negative people came from. Most, familiar with blood factors, admit that these people must at least be a mutation if not descendants of a different ancestor. If we are a mutation, what caused the mutation? Why does it continue with the exact characteristics? Why does it so violently reject the Rh factor, if it was in their own ancestry? Who was this ancestor? Difficulties in determining ethnology are largely overcome by the use of blood group data, for they are a single gene characteristic and not affected by the environment.
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. The average among most people is only 15%-Rh negative, while some groups have very little. The Oriental Jews of Israel, also have a high percent Rh negative, although most other Oriental people have only about 1% Rh negative. The Samaritans and the Black Cochin Jew also have a high percentage of Rh negative blood, although again the Rh negative blood is rare among most black people.
The Basque people are also known for having the oldest language in Europe, and the origins of the Basque language are unknown. The languages in neighboring countries in Europe show no resemblance to the Basque language, so this has become a real mystery to the linguist.
The Celtic people of Ireland and Great Britain also have high incidences of the RH- factor and it has recently been proven that there is a genetic link between the Basque and the Celts. This research proves that the Celtic people came from the Basque regions of France and Spain and a group must have migrated over to the islands of Great Britain. With this research I can surmise that my family got this distinct blood type from our French and Irish ancestry roots.
The Welsh and Irish Celts have been found to be the genetic blood-brothers of Basques, scientists have revealed.
The gene patterns of the three races passed down through the male line are all “strikingly similar”, researchers concluded.
‘Statistically indistinguishable’
He and his colleagues looked at Y-chromosomes, passed from father to son, of Celtic and Norwegian populations. They found them to be quite different.
“But we also noticed that there’s something quite striking about the Celtic populations, and that is that there’s not a lot of genetic variation on the Y-chromosome,” he said.
To try to work out where the Celtic population originally came from, the team from UCL, the University of Oxford and the University of California at Davis also looked at Basques.
“On the Y-chromosome the Celtic populations turn out to be statistically indistinguishable from the Basques,”
Professor Goldstein said.
Why are people calling RH negatives “blue bloods”? Well, again a peculiar thing happens between an RH- mother and a second RH+ baby. As you may remember an RH- mother builds up antibodies against the RH+ baby, and this means that the babies blood will start to agglutinate. Before the rhoGAM shot, babies were born blue and they needed to have blood transfusions to survive.
Blue blood is an expression from the Spanish phrase “sangre azul,” indicating noble birth or descent. This is said to derive from the fact that the native Spanish had fairer skin, which displays veins more prominently, than people of Arab origin. After the Moorish occupation of Spain, intermarriage occurred. The result seems to have been that the aristocracy, particularly certain families in Castille, who would not mix with the Moors, showed rather bluer blood vessels (in, for example, the back of the hand) than the ordinary folk.
So the phrase blue blood came to refer to the blood which flowed in the veins of the oldest and most aristocratic families. The phrase was taken over into English in the 1830s. By the time Anthony Trollope used it in The Duke’s Children in 1880, it had become common.
Russia “UFO’s are real and we know how to Summon them!”
Russia “UFO’s are real and we know how to Summon them!”
Summoning the Aliens
The Russians have recently claimed that they can now predict when UFOs will appear in the skies above them and that they have now learnt how to willingly summon them! The Russians have also claimed that UFO activity is increased when large scale weapons testing is taking place, of which they have been measuring UFO activity by doing so!
According to Vasily Yeremenko, a Major General of FIB in reserve, academician of the Academy of Security, Defence and Law Enforcement:
“We can say that we learned to summon UFOs in Vladimirovka. To do this, we dramatically increased the number of military flights and movement of the equipment. If the intensity on our side increased, UFOs appeared with the probability of 100 percent.”Vasily Yeremenko
Are the Aliens watching our weapons capabilities!?
The Russians have now put together the below three main conclusions:
Modern science is not yet able to identify such phenomena.
The UFOs could be US or Japan surveillance drones.
The UFOs could be extraterrestrial activity.
According to Svobodnaya Pressa, which is a major Russian news website, the Russian Navy have actually now declassified records of numerous encounters with unidentified objects that technologically surpass anything ever built by humanity….leading to the fact that these UFO’s MUST be of an Alien origin!
A special unique Navy group which is headed by Deputy Navy Commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov collected information on reports of unidentified objects, delivered by submarines and military ships.
According to Vladimir Azhazha, a UFO researcher and former Military Navy officer:
“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water.”Vladimir Azhazha
UFO’s appear to like to stay close to the water!
According to one high level report, a Russian nuclear submarine which was on a combat mission at the time had detected six unknown objects pursuing them. After failing miserably to lose the objects following them, the captain then ordered the submarine to surface, of which the objects followed, departed from the water and flew away at extremely high speeds.
Back in 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal witnessed a group of what appeared to be humanoid beings dressed in silver suits. Despite the divers trying to catch them, three of them died whilst the other four were injured in this bizarre incident.
According to Captain 1st rank Igor Barklayof Navy Intelligence:
“Ocean UFO’s often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”Captain 1st rank Igor Barklayof Navy Intelligence
Are they watching us and reviewing our ways and actions!?
U.I.P Summary
My what a year 2015 is becoming! We are getting piece of disclosure from every angle it feels like and perhaps it is now time to join all of the dots together!
When the Russians say that they can summon the UFO’s at a guess I think what they actually mean is that mankind’s actions can dictate when they appear. For quite some time now we have heard about UFO’s over looking military exercises and watching over Nuclear weapons storage facilities…..in fact some UFO’s have apparently even managed to turn nuclear weapons off!
Could it be that the Aliens are watching us so closely as they are concerned about what card we are going to play next. As we at U.I.P have stated many times before, nobody should have the right to destroy this beautiful planet with weapons of mass destruction….And perhaps THIS is why ‘they’ are watching us so closely!!
AN ARTIFICIAL ‘ALIEN’ INTELLIGENCE IS HEADING TOWARDS US AT BREAKNECK SPEEDS
AN ARTIFICIAL ‘ALIEN’ INTELLIGENCE IS HEADING TOWARDS US AT BREAKNECK SPEEDS
It’s a frightening thought, but there are many experts in the field of Alien visitation and space exploration who believe that the earth will be visited by a form of Alien Intelligence that is vastly superior to that of it’s own.
This seems to be something that all who have studied it agree upon even if they can’t pinpoint exactly when it will happen. Some think it will be in 50 years while others claim it will happen in actually 20 instead. In any case, there is concern that this from of Alien Intelligence could be a potential threat to mankind.
Yes, at first this AI could seem quite harmless, but there are predictions that once the AI starts to study the earth and its inhabitants, this could all change. Even if the AI still seems harmless, it could become too intelligent for humans to understand well and that could lead to problems or a threat as the AI decides to take over. It could happen if the AI believed itself superior to those around it.
CAN A HUMAN HIVE TAKE ON ALIEN INTELLIGENCE?
So, what can the human race do, are they doomed to domination? Not, necessarily, turns out the answer to dealing with the AI perhaps on it’s terms lies in the human brain. The human brain is a vast computer in itself, in many ways, there are aspects to it that many of us haven’t even harnessed within ourselves. So, imagine if many were to come together as in a sort of human hive of brains? It turns out there is research being conducted where the human mind becomes a sort of hive mind working on one purpose.
Think along the lines of saying the bee, one bee alone isn’t much of a threat or even that cunning but a whole hive working together, is quite powerful. So, in these studies, humans have come together and created a human brain hive. One such study was conducted using sports fans who were brought together in a group to see if they could accurately predict the outcome of the English Premier League games. The study was conducted by the Unanimous AI and Oxford University. The result of the study of forming a human hive was that these individuals when united as one was able to be around 72% accurate on their predictions. This was better than the fact that individuals it was only around 55%.
This is just one study that proves that together humans can create an amazing vast computer hive of intelligence. But the question remains will that be enough? Well, if history has proven anything it’s never to underestimate the self-preservation of human beings, we have determination, desire and we also understand about emotions such as love.
So, maybe the intelligence level may not get to the same extreme even a human hive as the Alien Intelligence, but these other components could end up being the secret weapon of the human race. So, even in a human brain hive, it’s important that humans never lose track of the thing that could set them apart from any form of AI their humanity.
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute has launched a new campaign in hopes to radically improve our ability to detect signals from advanced alien civilizations.
Despite decades probing the skies for signs of intelligent life, scientists have yet to discover extraterrestrial beings – but, if they are out there, the experts say they could be ‘pinging’ Earth with pulses of light that go undetected by current instruments.
With the new Laser SETI project, however, that could soon change.
In what would be the first ever continuous survey of the entire night sky, Laser SETI aims to create a world-wide network of specialized cameras, allowing scientists to detect alien signals shorter than a millisecond.
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In what would be the first ever continuous survey of the entire night sky, Laser SETI aims to create a world-wide network of specialized cameras, allowing scientists to detect alien signals shorter than a millisecond
HOW IT WILL WORK
Laser SETI would use astronomy-grade cameras with a large field of view.
A specialized processing system would allow them to read out the camera more than 1,000 times per second, according to the project’s page.
It would also rely on specialized transmission grating to distinguish the light from other sources in a technique known as ‘slitless spectroscopy.’
The cameras would be able to look in all directions at once.
Each observatory could use a handful of these devices – and, with 6-8 observing stations around the world, the scientists could continuously monitor both hemispheres of the sky.
The experts liken our current observation techniques to using tweezers to find a needle in a haystack.
At the moment, studies searching for alien signals focus on just one star system at a time.
‘Powerful lasers for signalling could be built by any advanced society,’ says Dr Jill Tarter, Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI, in a video on the campaign.
‘They could use them to propel their spacecraft.
'And the thing is, that brief flashes of light shorter than the blink of an eye could be in our skies right now and we wouldn’t know it.’
Through the $100,000 campaign launched on Indiegogo, the institute hopes to develop the first two cameras, allowing them to localize targets and validate the algorithm and distribution of potential signals.
Through the $100,000 campaign launched on Indiegogo, the institute hopes to develop the first two cameras. A prototype is shown
The system would use astronomy-grade cameras with a large field of view.
And, a specialized processing system would allow them to read out the camera more than 1,000 times per second, according to the project’s page.
It would also rely on specialized transmission grating to distinguish the light from other sources in a technique known as ‘slitless spectroscopy.’
If the campaign raises $510,000, the experts say they could achieve two full observatories.
Eventually, they hope to move on to large-scale production that would allow for a global network.
The cameras would be able to look in all directions at once.
Each observatory could use a handful of these devices – and, with 6-8 observing stations around the world, the scientists could continuously monitor both hemispheres of the night sky.
According to the SETI researchers, this would offer about 200,000 times the coverage of their earlier efforts.
Laser SETI would use astronomy-grade cameras with a large field of view. The cameras would be able to look in all directions at once. Each observatory could use a handful of these devices, and 6-8 observing stations could be set up around the world
STUDY: ALIEN EXPLORERS COULD BE BEHIND MYSTERIOUS FRBS
Mysterious signals coming from distant galaxies could be evidence of deep-space explorers billions of light-years from Earth, a new study has claimed.
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics claim a solar-powered transmitter using sunlight cast on an area twice the size of Earth could generate enough energy to be 'seen' by far away viewers.
And, a water-cooling system would allow a device of this size to withstand the extreme heat.
The researchers argue that the most plausible use for this tremendous amount of power would be to drive interstellar light sails.
A new study claims ' fast radio bursts’ could be coming from alien transmitters powering interstellar probes. An artist's impression is pictured
The light sail would rely on a steady beam from the transmitter.
While this would always be pointed at the sail, observers on Earth would see it as a brief flash, as the sail, its host planet, its star, and the galaxy all move relative to us.
This would cause the beam to sweep across the sky, only pointing at Earth for a moment.
‘I spent the last two years designing a device for practical all-sky survey,’ said Eliot Gillum, Director Optical, SETI.
‘With novel optics and specialized processing, we can leverage off-the-shelf hardware to minimize cost, while still being able to detect pulses shorter than a millisecond.
‘With an array of these spread throughout the globe, we can monitor the entire night sky continuously for the first time.’
If the campaign raises $510,000, the experts say they could achieve two full observatories. Eventually, they hope to move on to large-scale production that would allow for a global network. Possible locations are indicated in the map above
"Alien spacecraft are proliferating in our solar system and around these ringed planets," Bergrun is quoted as saying on the video.
Bergrun also noted the aircraft are by the other ringed-planets in the solar system, including Jupiter and Uranus.
Below is the video in its entirety:
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."
Bergrun wrote the 1986 book entitled "Ringmakers of Saturn." The book highlights that there are massive alien ships around Saturn (which Bergrun dubs "ring makers"), including ones which have actually created some of the rings around the gas giant.
This is not the first time Bergrun has made comments like this, having done so previously in 2016.
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)]
In een interview op een bijeenkomst van Amerikaanse gouverneurs stuurde de CEO van Tesla en SpaceX Elon Musk opnieuw aan op proactieve regulering van artificiële intelligentie (AI). De razendsnelle ontwikkeling van kunstmatige intelligentie vormt een "fundamentele bedreiging voor de menselijke beschaving."
"Ik heb toegang tot de meest geavanceerde artificiële intelligentie en ik denk dat we er heel ongerust moeten over zijn."
"Gewoonlijk komen we pas met reguleringen op de proppen nadat er al enkele ongelukken zijn gebeurd", stelt Musk. "Eerst is er publieke verontwaardiging, vervolgens wetgeving. Dat duurde in het verleden wel eens lang, maar vormde nooit een bedreiging voor de mensheid als geheel."
"AI is een zeldzaam geval waar proactieve wetgeving noodzakelijk is", oordeelt de CEO. "Tegen de tijd dat we reactieve regulering hebben ontwikkeld voor AI, zal het te laat zijn." Wetgevers moeten onmiddellijk in actie schieten om een ongecontroleerde wapenwedloop in AI-technologie tegen te gaan, waarschuwt Musk.
Musk waarschuwt al jaren voor de gevaren van AI, samen met andere grote figuren uit wetenschappelijke en technologische kringen, zoals fysicus Stephen Hawking en Microsoft-oprichter Bill Gates. "Ik blijf alarm slaan, maar tot ze robots in de straten zien die mensen afmaken, zullen de mensen niet weten hoe te reageren."
Volgens Musk kunnen we ons die dreiging niet goed voor de geest halen, omdat AI nogal theoretisch en als sciencefiction klinkt. "Ik heb toegang tot de meest geavanceerde artificiële intelligentie en ik denk dat we er heel ongerust moeten over zijn."
Deep intelligence
"AI kan een oorlog starten."
"Robots zullen tot álles in staat zijn." Dat kan leiden tot massaal jobverlies en sociale destabilisering. Maar het grootste gevaar schuilt in het gebruik van AI in een netwerk, de zogenaamde 'deep intelligence'. "AI kan een oorlog starten door 'fake news' te verspreiden, e-mailaccounts te vervalsen en informatie te manipuleren."
Musks investeringen in artificiële intelligentie dienden er naar eigen zeggen ook toe een oogje in het zeil te houden in de sector.
Het ziet ernaar uit dat er een zeldzame periode aankomt van extreem lage zonneactiviteit. Dat zegt doctor Michael Guillen, schrijver en voormalig docent fysica aan de universiteit van Harvard. Het zou volgens de wetenschapper de temperatuur op aarde doen dalen en de opwarming van de aarde kunnen afremmen. Maar voor iemand te snel gaat juichen: het is maar tijdelijk.
Onze zon gaat door een cyclus van hoge en lage activiteit, die gemiddeld elf jaar duurt. Op het maximum zijn er veel zonnevlekken en is de zon helderder, op het minimum zijn er weinig tot zelfs geen vlekken en is de zon minder helder. De cycli zelf gaan ook op en neer en eens om de 100 tot 200 jaar bereikt hij een 'grand maximum' of een 'grand minimum'. Het laatste 'grand maximum' dateert van 1958, waarna de zonneactiviteit langzaam maar zeker weer begon af te nemen. De afgelopen 9.300 jaar is die afname echter nog nooit zo steil geweest als nu.
Het bekendste 'grand minimum' was het Maunder Minimum, een periode van zeventig jaar tussen 1645 en 1715 waarin de zon enorm verzwakte. Haar helderheid ging met een procent achteruit en het aantal zonnevlekken daalde tot zo goed als nul. Het fenomeen deed zich exact voor tijdens de koudste periode van Kleine IJstijd, toen de temperatuur in de noordelijke hemisfeer met 0,6 graden Celcius daalde. "Een toeval of versterkte het Maunder Minimum de IJstijd?", vraagt Guillen zich af.
Kleine IJstijd Volgens het Goddard Institute for Space Studies van de NASA is de temperatuur op aarde met 0,8 graden Celcius gestegen sinds 1880, toen de Kleine IJstijd tot een einde kwam. Maar de grootste opwarming zou nog moeten komen volgens de meeste wetenschappers.
Computersimulaties van het National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado voorspellen dat een 'grand minimum' in het midden van de 21ste eeuw de door de mens veroorzaakte opwarming van de aarde zou vertragen met enkele tienden van een graad. Maar op het einde van dat 'minimum' zou de opwarming van de aarde gewoon weer verdergaan.
Kosmische straling Er is echter meer aan de hand, volgens Guillen. Want het 'grand minimum' heeft nog een ander gevolg, meer bepaald voor de kosmische straling vanuit onze melkweg. Normaal gezien wordt onze planeet daarvan beschermd door het sterke magnetische veld van de zon en haar radioactieve winden. Maar als de activiteit op de zon vermindert, krijgen we meer van die straling te verduren.
Recent onderzoek toont aan dat kosmische straling de vorming van wolken op aarde in de hand werkt. En die schermen ons af van de zon en koelen de aarde nog verder af. Volgens Russische wetenschappers in het 'Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics' zou dat fenomeen alle andere klimaatsfenomenen domineren de komende decennia.
Radicale theorie Een radicale theorie, maar zelfs mainstream wetenschappers die de zon bestuderen, houden er rekening mee dat er effectief een 'grand minimum' aankomt. "We weten niet wat de gevolgen zullen zijn, maar we leven in ongewone tijden", aldus Yvonne Elsworth van de universiteit van Birmingham.
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Raadselachtige inscripties ontdekt die alleen bij maanlicht zichtbaar worden. Maar wat betekenen ze precies?
Raadselachtige inscripties ontdekt die alleen bij maanlicht zichtbaar worden. Maar wat betekenen ze precies?
Onderzoekers hebben in het zuidwesten van Engeland een opmerkelijke ontdekking gedaan. Dat schrijft de Daily Telegraph.
De eeuwenoude steen uit Hendraburnick Quoit in Cornwall blijkt inscripties te bevatten die alleen te zien zijn bij maanlicht of een laagstaande zon.
De wetenschappers vermoeden dat ze werden gebruikt voor rituelen die duizenden jaren geleden werden gedaan bij de steen.
Veel uitgebreider
Hendraburnick (Wikicommons)
Bij deze rituelen werd kwarts gebroken, zo schrijven onderzoekers van de Cornwall Archaeological Unit in het tijdschrift Time and Mind.
In totaal werden 105 inscripties gevonden op de steen, die dateert uit de nieuwe steentijd.
“De inscripties bleken veel uitgebreider dan gedacht,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Andy Jones. “En ze waren het best zichtbaar bij maanlicht of als de zon laag in het zuidoosten stond.”
Stonehenge
“De nieuwe inscripties laten zien dat deze site ’s avonds werd gebruikt en datzelfde geldt waarschijnlijk voor andere megalithische sites,” zei hij.
Hij merkte op dat ook de stenen van Stonehenge dit soort inscripties bevatten.
“In veel culturen wordt duisternis geassocieerd met het bovennatuurlijke en een verscherping van de zintuigen,” zei Jones.
Onthullen
“Het is mogelijk dat sommige activiteiten rond Hendraburnick Quoit ’s avonds werden ondernomen,” ging hij verder.
“Kwarts heeft lichtgevende eigenschappen en reflecteert zowel maan- als vuurlicht,” klonk het. De stukken kwarts kunnen zijn gebruikt om de inscripties op een bepaalde manier te ‘onthullen’.
De wetenschappers hebben de symbolen nog niet kunnen ontcijferen en weten dus nog niet wat ze precies betekenen.
Vreemde signalen uit de ruimte opgevangen. Wordt dit mysterie ooit opgelost?
Vreemde signalen uit de ruimte opgevangen. Wordt dit mysterie ooit opgelost?
Wetenschappers hebben vreemde signalen opgepikt die afkomstig lijken te zijn van een ster op slechts 11 lichtjaar van de aarde
De mysterieuze radiosignalen komen uit de buurt van Ross 128, een rode dwerg, melden onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Puerto Rico.
Ze zeggen dat het gaat om een periodiek signaal en dat meer onderzoek nodig is om de herkomst van de signalen te achterhalen.
Onwaarschijnlijk
De radiosignalen zijn opgevangen door de Arecibo-sterrenwacht, een grote radiotelescoop in Puerto Rico.
Professor Abel Mendez van de Universiteit van Puerto Rico zei dat het onwaarschijnlijk is dat de signalen zijn verstuurd door aliens, maar voegde toe dat die mogelijkheid nog niet kan worden uitgesloten.
“De SETI-groepen zijn op de hoogte van de radiosignalen,” zei professor Mendez.
Nooit eerder
Een andere mogelijkheid is dat de radiosignalen afkomstig zijn van een satelliet die om de aarde draait.
Maar daarover zei Mendez: “We hebben satellieten nog nooit eerder zulke signalen zien uitzenden.”
Hij merkte op dat de radiosignalen ‘erg vreemd’ zijn. De signalen werden gedurende een periode van 10 minuten waargenomen en zijn uniek.
Mysterie
Rond andere sterren zijn voor en na de waarnemingen geen soortgelijke radiosignalen opgepikt.
De onderzoekers gaan de omgeving van Ross 128 de komende tijd nauwlettend in de gaten houden.
“Als we het signaal niet opnieuw opvangen zal het mysterie alleen maar groter worden,” zei Mendez.
UFO’s houden zich schuil in ringen Saturnus. Ex-NASA-wetenschapper klapt uit de school tijdens dit interview
UFO’s houden zich schuil in ringen Saturnus. Ex-NASA-wetenschapper klapt uit de school tijdens dit interview
Ex-NASA-wetenschapper Norman Bergrun heeft geclaimd dat hij buitenaardse ruimteschepen heeft gevonden in de ringen van Saturnus. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Express.
Volgens dr. Bergrun zijn de ringen gevormd door deze enorme objecten, die worden aangestuurd door een bepaalde intelligentie.
Hij zei dat de objecten waarschijnlijk ook de maan en de aarde hebben bezocht.
Vijf minuten
“Dit zijn geen conclusies die je normaal gesproken zou verwachten van iemand met mijn achtergrond,” zei dr. Bergrun.
“De meesten van ons hebben geleerd dat de ringen van Saturnus natuurlijk zijn en bestaan uit overblijfselen van uit elkaar gevallen manen,” legde hij uit.
“Astronomen zeggen dat deze ringen 100 miljoen jaar oud zijn. Maar op een paar foto’s is binnen vijf minuten verandering te zien!” zei hij.
Vervuiling
Bergrun ontdekte onverklaarbare lichtpuntjes op de foto’s. Met behulp van een microscoop zag hij dat het ging om gigantische cilindervormige objecten die sporen achterlieten.
Volgens hem zijn de mysterieuze objecten in ieder geval ten dele verantwoordelijk voor het ringensysteem van Saturnus.
Hij concludeerde dat de ringen niet natuurlijk zijn, maar een soort vervuiling als gevolg van de objecten die rond Saturnus draaien.
Uranus en Jupiter
Bergrun berekende dat de objecten ongeveer één tot drie keer zo groot zijn als de aarde.
“Je kunt ze inmiddels ook vinden rond Uranus en Jupiter,” zei hij.
Hij zei verder dat de cilindervormige objecten verantwoordelijk kunnen zijn geweest voor de onverklaarbare Toengoeska-explosie in Siberië in 1908 en massa-extincties op aarde.
The astonishing claims are being investigated by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which is the world's biggest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research.
A report sent to MUFON said the incident happened at Landers, California, during a major UFO event.
The people reported seeing two light sources, that they believed could have been two objects, being tailed by the military aircraft.
The sighting happened at about 10pm local time on May 21, one day of the Contact in the Desert, three-day special event in Joshua Tree, California.
A night sky watch was carried out using night vision goggles with video camera after the conference.
The person who led the skywatch and submitted the report to US-based MUFON has not been named.
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The incident was captured on night vision camera after a UFO conference.
Their report said: "Luckily one of my participants caught this and many of our other sightings, from all three nights no less, with his black-and-white night vision video camera.
“His additional footage of some of the other incredible sightings will be posted at a future date once they are compiled.
"Some of my participants and I saw a large, amber-coloured light low to the horizon just behind Giant Rock from where my whole group of about 50-plus people were gathered and using 15 pairs of night vision goggles.
"A contingency 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.’”
The UFO was described as looking like "a large diamond-shaped UFO." through night-vision goggles.
She said: "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, three 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.”
Some of my participants and I saw a large, amber-coloured light low to the horizon just behind Giant Rock from where my whole group of about 50-plus people were gathered and using 15 pairs of night vision goggles.
MUFON report
The group then reportedly heard the sound of a low flying jet from behind the hill.
She added: “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 two lights, or one object with two light sources on it.”
She said a review of the footage left her convinced during the single jet incident, there were two UFOs flying in perfect tandem with each other.
She wrote: "It appears you can see stars between them in the background, suggesting that these are two separate 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-colour, 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.”
California MUFON Chief Investigator Earl Grey Anderson is investigating.
Roger Marsh, MUFON director of communications urged for caution before the probe ends.
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Partially Cloaked Circular UFO Recorded Hovering Over Argentina
Partially Cloaked Circular UFO Recorded Hovering Over Argentina
Marcos Gentile has taken a video of strange object hovering over his house in Argentina on July 2, 2017. Excited by what he saw, Marcos is convinced that the object was a cloaked circular UFO.
While recording the UFO, for some reason something went wrong while trying to zoom in on the moving object and he lost the object behind the tree. Before he could film it again the object was gone.
Looking at the object it seems that a part of the UFO has become visible due to the angle of the sun.
As it is a fast moving object it seems unlikely that it may be a lens flare or the sun, moon or a natural phenomenon, like an eclipse.
The short video below shows the recording of the strange object.
Shining Disc Caught On Video Flying Around Toronto Harbourfront
Shining Disc Caught On Video Flying Around Toronto Harbourfront
A video showing an unknown white shining disk has made the rounds online, particularly among UFO communities. A couple at Toronto’s Harbourfront was in the city to join the celebration of Canada Day.
The video shows an apparent round object with the transparent or dark centre. The object in question appears and disappears many times in the video. It looks like a disk with a cut in the middle that seems like a vinyl record.
The reporting witness said that he and girlfriend were in the area to celebrate Canada Day on Sunday, July 2, 2017. He just reportedly happened to look at the sky and saw the white shining disk. In the background of the video, the boyfriend asks her girlfriend about what she thinks of the disk. The girlfriend first thought it was a kite or a drone, but soon started to realise that it wasn’t.
The couple further noticed the bright shininess of the disk as it moved in a circular motion. The reporting witness said that when the object disappeared in the clouds for good, a black helicopter appeared as if it was following the mysterious object.
Drones have appendages holding the rotors, especially the quad-copter variety. However, the object in the video does not have visible rotors. Balloons are often used during celebrations and fly with the wind, but they won’t disappear and appear like the object in the video.
China Landed on the moon and snapped the best-ever images of the lunar surface
China Landed on the moon and snapped the best-ever images of the lunar surface
China is really serious when it comes to space. In fact, in the last couple of years, China has made a huge leap forward towards space exploration. Just check out these jaw-dropping images of the lunar surface, and you’ll see why.
NEWS China Landed on the moon and snapped the best-ever images of the lunar surface ByAncient Code
China is really serious when it comes to space. In fact, in the last couple of years, China has made a huge leap forward towards space exploration. Just check out these jaw-dropping images of the lunar surface, and you’ll see why.
One of the best examples of China’s space program development is their Lunar Exploration Program—also known as the Chang’e program— an ongoing series of robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The program incorporates lunar orbiters, landers, rovers and sample return spacecraft, launched using Long March rockets.
The Change’3 specifically was launched in December 2013 as part of the second phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.
According to reports, the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program has been categorized into three main operational phases:
Orbiting (Chang’e 1and Chang’e 2) Landing (Chang’e 3 and Chang’e 4) Sample return (Chang’e 5and Chang’e 6) Named after the Goddess of the Moon in Chinese Mythology, the spacecraft incorporated a rover dubbed Yutu which successfully made its way to the lunar surface snapping the most amazing images of the lunar surface you’ve ever seen.
Chang’e 3 arrived into lunar orbit on December 6, 2013, and landed 8 days later on December 14, 2013, making history as the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since the Soviet Union‘s Luna 24 in 1976.
The images snapped by the Chinese lunar exploration vehicles are more than just beautiful. They are a set of never-before-seen images that show the lunar surface in great detail.
As noted by the GBTimes, China’s Chang’e-3 has demonstrated the techniques and capabilities for soft-landing and long-term operation on the Moon, extreme environmental adaptability with lunar nights and days seeing temperatures ranging from -180 to +100 degrees Celsius).
China has great plans for the moon it seems
China it seems went all in when it comes to space exploration. In fact, they are currently developing a 10-year strategy which encompasses both lunar and planetary exploration. China wants to send landers to the Moon’s poles and even potential human landings on the lunar surface.
Their next big step is the Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission due to launch in 2017 and a never-before-seen landing on the far side of the moon in late 2018.
The far side of the Moon—commonly and erroneously called the ‘Dark side of the Moon’—is not visible from Earth because of gravitational locking. The far side of the moon had never been observed until the Soviet Luna 3 probe sent the first images ever in 1959.
The Chang’e-5 mission will be the first lunar sample return in over 40 years, since Luna 24 by the USSR in 1976, and will make China only the third country to return samples from the lunar surface.
Here be bring you some of the most fascinating, breathtaking, stunning, incredible, awesome images snapped by the Chang’e-3 mission.
Enjoy and thank Emily Lakdawalla of The Planetary Society.
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China is really serious when it comes to space. In fact, in the last couple of years, China has made a huge leap forward towards space exploration. Just check out these jaw-dropping images of the lunar surface, and you’ll see why.
One of the best examples of China’s space program development is their Lunar Exploration Program—also known as the Chang’e program— an ongoing series of robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The program incorporates lunar orbiters, landers, rovers and sample return spacecraft, launched using Long March rockets.
The Change’3 specifically was launched in December 2013 as part of the second phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.
According to reports, the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program has been categorized into three main operational phases:
Orbiting (Chang’e 1and Chang’e 2) Landing (Chang’e 3 and Chang’e 4) Sample return (Chang’e 5and Chang’e 6) Named after the Goddess of the Moon in Chinese Mythology, the spacecraft incorporated a rover dubbed Yutu which successfully made its way to the lunar surface snapping the most amazing images of the lunar surface you’ve ever seen.
Chang’e 3 arrived into lunar orbit on December 6, 2013, and landed 8 days later on December 14, 2013, making history as the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since the Soviet Union‘s Luna 24 in 1976.
The images snapped by the Chinese lunar exploration vehicles are more than just beautiful. They are a set of never-before-seen images that show the lunar surface in great detail.
As noted by the GBTimes, China’s Chang’e-3 has demonstrated the techniques and capabilities for soft-landing and long-term operation on the Moon, extreme environmental adaptability with lunar nights and days seeing temperatures ranging from -180 to +100 degrees Celsius).
China has great plans for the moon it seems
China it seems went all in when it comes to space exploration. In fact, they are currently developing a 10-year strategy which encompasses both lunar and planetary exploration. China wants to send landers to the Moon’s poles and even potential human landings on the lunar surface.
Their next big step is the Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission due to launch in 2017 and a never-before-seen landing on the far side of the moon in late 2018.
The far side of the Moon—commonly and erroneously called the ‘Dark side of the Moon’—is not visible from Earth because of gravitational locking. The far side of the moon had never been observed until the Soviet Luna 3 probe sent the first images ever in 1959.
The Chang’e-5 mission will be the first lunar sample return in over 40 years, since Luna 24 by the USSR in 1976, and will make China only the third country to return samples from the lunar surface.
Here be bring you some of the most fascinating, breathtaking, stunning, incredible, awesome images snapped by the Chang’e-3 mission.
Enjoy and thank Emily Lakdawalla of The Planetary Society.
Image Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Space Administration / The Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration Sourceancient-code.com
HUMANS WORKING ALONG SIDE ALIENS IN AREA 51, CHILLING STORIES AND STOLEN FOOTAGE!
HUMANS WORKING ALONG SIDE ALIENS IN AREA 51, CHILLING STORIES AND STOLEN FOOTAGE!
ill Uhouse, then a 71 year old man, claimed to have been a Area 51 engineer and revealed that he use to work in collaboration with a Grey Alien at the Area 51 site. Bill Uhouse claimed to have worked with an alien he dubbed “J-Rod” who helped him in understanding how to control the alien vehicle. Bill Uhouse passed away in 2009.
EACH RACE IS THOUSANDS OF YEARS MORE ADVANCED THAN US READ MORE:
Many people in the past have come forward with information and many have a lot of things in common. Here are some of them…
1. There is a massive underground system composed of bases and compounds. These facilities contain labs, workshops for reverse engineering and secure “rooms” for the “Extraterrestrial Biological Entities” or EBEs for short.
2. In relation to number one, these bases were constructed toward the end of the Truman Administration.
3. Multiple humanoid races exist.
4. A race of “Greys”. Three types: Tall or “Large” Greys. Short Greys and Greys the average human height as well.
5. A race of tall “Nordic” Human Extraterrestrials with large eyes.
6. There is even mention of a “Reptilian” race by many as well.
7. Each race is thousands of years more advanced than us. We are basically newborns in the galactic community of intelligence.
8. A treaty was signed between the U.S. and the Greys during the Eisenhower administration and a trade began. We would receive alien technology in exchange for a certain number of humans. The Greys use humans for biological research and possibly attempting to create hybrids to save their dying race
Astronomers say they've detected "strange signals" coming from the direction of a small, dim star located about 11 light-years from Earth.
Researchers picked up the mysterious signals on May 12 using the Arecibo Observatory, a huge radio telescope built inside of a Puerto Rican sinkhole.
The radio signals appear to be coming from Ross 128, a red dwarf star that's not yet known to have any planets and is about 2,800 times dimmer than the sun. Abel Méndez, an astrobiologist at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, said the star was observed for 10 minutes, during which time the signal was picked up and observed to be "almost periodic".
Méndez said it's extremely unlikely that intelligent extraterrestrial life is responsible, but noted that the possibility can't yet be ruled out.
"The SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] groups are aware of the signals," Méndez wrote in an email to Business Insider.
Méndez thinks the signal is more likely from something humans put in space, perhaps a satellite that passed thousands of miles overhead.
"The field of view of [Arecibo] is wide enough, so there is the possibility that the signals were caused not by the star but another object in the line of sight," Méndez said, adding that "some communication satellites transmit in the frequencies we observed."
However, in a July 12 blog post about the mystery of Ross 128, he wrote that "we have never seen satellites emit bursts like that" and called the signals "very peculiar".
Another possible explanation is a stellar flare, or outburst of energy from the star's surface. Such bursts from the sun travel at light-speed, emit powerful radio signals, and can disrupt satellites and communications on Earth, as well as endanger astronauts.
Solar flares can also be chased by a slower-moving yet more energetic coronal mass ejections: a flood of solar particles that can distort our planet's magnetic field, generate geomagnetic storms, and cripple power grids and fry electronics.
Taking another look at Ross 128
To see if the signals are still there, Méndez said Arecibo is going to stare down Ross 128 and its surroundings many more times, starting July 16.
"Success will be to find the signal again" at the star's location but not in surrounding directions, he said. "If we don't get the signal again then the mystery deepens."
An aerial view of FAST in southwest China.Liu Xu / Xinhua via AP
Méndez wrote in his blog post that other radio telescopes might not be sensitive enough to pick up the signals, noting one exception: China's monstrous Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, or FAST.
But FAST isn't operational right now, since it's being calibrated, and Méndez said he doesn't know when it will be back online.
Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, confirmed that the group is "well aware of the signals" and might use its powerful Allen Telescope Array in California "to check them out."
"The chances are high that they're terrestrial interference, in fact. That's really always been the case," Shostak told Business Insider in an email.
Right now there's really only one compelling signal from outer space that might come from aliens: "[T]he WOW signal," Shostak said. "That one is still quite odd."
20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART I
20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART I
NASA – the criminally underfunded agency that was put in place to sort of recklessly shoot people, dogs, and some monkeys off of the planet strapped to giant explosives, and into the dark reaches of the cosmos. Such a beautiful concept.
Since its inception, NASA has proven to be the very pinnacle of elite science, and as such chooses only the best samples from the human species to experience the wonders that space travel has to offer.
Seriously, is anyone else bitter that they’re not among that elite? It keeps us up at night on a regular basis.
So when NASA astronauts come out of the woodwork and make claims, revelations, and confessions they tend to be treated quite seriously. There’s a certain credibility to those claims that no-one else has.
Even if those claims include Lionel Richie suggesting on British daytime television that his good friend Buzz Lightyear (might have been Aldrin, we don’t hear so well these days) has confessed to him about extraterrestrial experiences, we sit up and listen.
Or sit up and head to the message boards.
Yep, most of these confessions are in some way related to the presence of aliens among us, but there are also some surprising revelations completely unconnected to little green men and their obsession with our human anuses.
Let’s kick off with Lionel Richie’s best friend.
20.SPACE BUREAUCRACY
Via space.com
You know how it is, you’re coming back from your vacation, you’ve been prodded and probed by the TSA, spent hours in a cramped cylinder, and then some jerk wants to check your luggage for customs purposes…and moon rocks.
That’s right, not satisfied that Buzz Aldrin was the 2nd man to step on the surface of the giant rock that hovers precariously over our heads affecting our tides and sanity, the US government had him fill out a customs form upon his return.
The forms, posted by Dance-Master Aldrin (official title) on twitter in 2015, show that he had to declare to Uncle Sam that he was returning to earth with “moon dust” and “moon rocks”. These days we’re more sophisticated, of course, and rather than declaring it to customs, people returning from vacation with rocks and dust just put them in condoms and keister them.
Aldrin got his own back, though, and put in an expenses claim for $33. Popular belief is this was for a car rental, but we’d like to think it was for tang and ladies of the night.
19. BOOT FULL OF PEE
Via nationalairandspace.si.edu
Buzz Aldrin can claim some amazing feats. Primary among them is convincing people to call him “Buzz” instead of “Edwin”. Kudos. That’s like convincing your friends to call you “Ninjashark” instead of “Norman”.
Aldrin has often boasted that while Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, he was the first to pee on it. Well now, we all assumed this was a nice, sanitary urination into some kind of colostomy bag – but with a more NASA name…cosmic pee sack?
No.
Turns out, because Armstrong’s landing was a little too good and failed to crumple the legs of the module as expected, he and Aldrin had to jump from a larger height than planned for. As a result, Aldrin’s pee tube disconnected from it’s housing and he wound up peeing in his boot.
That’s one squelchy step for a man…
18.THE GOVERNMENT IS AFRAID OF PANIC
Via dinaview.com
If there’s one thing that science fiction has taught us, it’s that when faced with the possibility of extraterrestrial threat, the human race will tend to react in a unified manner. Unified, bat-crap crazy panic, possibly with a nice side of cannibalism. Hell, in real life, our species acts in that fashion when faced with the defeat of a sports team.
Gordon Cooper, former NASA astronaut and the face that UFO-philes point enthusiastically at when asked for evidence of extraterrestrial visitation, revealed that the government has been keeping aliens under wraps for this very reason.
Now, Cooper makes a lot of claims about UFOs, and if he weren’t a former astronaut, his credibility would be about as valuable as xxxxxx. But spaceman Cooper, who has also worked with the CIA, in an interview in 1995, revealed that the government cover-up we all assumed was happening (while adjusting our tin foil hats) is in fact a reality. When discussing a extraterrestrial landing that occurred in 1951, Cooper said, “I happen to know that the authorities did everything they could to keep this incident from the press and TV, just to prevent a panicky reaction.”
17. THE POPE KNOWS EVERYTHING!
Via YouTube.com
Edgar Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon – and no-one’s suggesting he was getting Armstrong’s sloppy seconds (more like slightly grubby sixths). Before he died in 2016, he made it something of a personal mission to out everything he could think of surrounding aliens…stuff that, once again, would sound crazy coming from anyone who hadn’t floated in a vacuum, sucking on vast quantities of artificially generated oxygen.
One of these topics of discussion revolved around one of only two men in the world who’s name can be suffixed by the word “mobile”. In an email to then-president Bill Clinton’s advisor, John Podesta, Mitchell wrote, “The Pope has knowledge of aliens out there who want to help humanity.”
Turns out he’s not talking to the same man who lives upstairs that Catholics think he is. At least these ones probably don’t mind if you use contraception.
16. UFO TRACKING IS A REAL LIFE JOB
Via thisdayinaviation.com
Joseph A. Walker. Astronaut, test pilot, fierce proponent of the Stetson. Also, there exists no photo in which the man doesn’t look like a genuine badass. Go on, go look, we’ll wait.
Walker was NASA’s seventh astronaut, and was probably not the first only because they were reluctant to let him ride the rocket like a bucking bronco.
Appropriately enough, in 1962 he revealed that he had possibly the most awesome job aside from “extraterrestrial ray gun tester”: UFO spotter. During a fifty-fifty high flight in 1962 he estimated that he filmed five or six UFOs, though he refused to speculate on their nature. To date this footage has not been released to the public.
15. ARMS IN SPACE!
Via ufosightingsdaily.com
There are things you probably don’t really want to see when you’re floating around in the black void of space; zombies, Donald Trump, zombie Donald Trump. While it would probably be every astronaut’s dream to see an extraterrestrial craft, they likely wouldn’t want to see one with appendages reaching out from it. That crap is just terrifying to think of.
But NASA astronauts Ed White and James McDevitt revealed that in 1965, while they were drifting over Hawaii in the Gemini spacecraft, they spotted not just your standard UFO, but one that had mechanical arms sticking out from it.
McDevitt took footage of the object with a cine-camera, but once again NASA haven’t released it. Why is everyone leaking celebrity sex tapes, but no-one’s leaking any of this hardcore alien action?
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20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART II
20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART II
14. MISSION CONTROL ASSUMES ASTRONAUTS ARE IDIOTS
Via bio.com
We’re used to NASA, or some kind of shadowy government organization working NASA’s puppet strings, treating we mere civilians like the morons it thinks we are. That’s par for the course, no shock there. They might be right too, we made the Kardashians cultural icons, we can’t be relied upon to make intelligent observations.
But you would have thought they at the very least would treat their astronauts, the people who go through years of training to be elite space sailors, as though they might know what they’re talking about.
In 1965 Jim Lovell saw a UFO during their second orbit. When he reported it to mission control, they questioned his sighting, asking if he was actually seeing a discarded booster. Lovell advised them he could see the booster too, and somehow refrained from telling them he knew the difference between a booster and a f*$@&!g UFO.
Maybe they mistook Lovell for Forest Gump Tom Hanks instead of Apollo 13 Hanks. Rookie mistake.
13. WE DON’T KNOW WHERE ALIENS COME FROM
Via denofgeek.com
This one might be our fault for making assumptions. We can blame the movies too. You see, every piece of alien fiction where we go off in search of alien planets/technology/women-to-teach-how-to-make-love those in charge of the missions seem to have some idea of where the aliens call home. We’ve been safe in the knowledge that, even though they won’t admit it to us, the government knows that the aliens come from Alpha Laheugo IX or something, out there in the Crustacean system…whatever, the point is, they’ve made contact, and we know.
We don’t bloody know!
This revelation comes from our friend Edgar Mitchell, who when speaking to Britain’s Kerrang Radio said, “Have we been able to identify where the other planets are? No. Certainly not in our solar system.”
But who could blame extraterrestrials for not giving us their address? After all, would you really want earth people showing up at your planet, asking if you’ve “heard the good news”?
12. ALIENS VISIT GERMANY
Via YouTube.com
Perhaps we’ve just been conditioned to think that aliens just mostly visit America. Or at least, they seem to crash there. Maybe America is just the extraterrestrial equivalent of the precarious mountain routes where drunk teenagers have drift road races. Either way, it seems that the wee green fellas like to take a trip to Germany too.
While NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was stationed in Germany in 1953, he was apparently subjected to frequent UFO sightings. In an interview in 1988, he said he would see strange metallic saucer-shaped objects in the sky for consecutive nights, and that they certainly weren’t indigenous to earth.
See, everyone loves bratwurst.
11. ALIENS VISIT US GOVERNMENT FACILITIES
Via YouTube.com
Usually the only people who willingly go to visit the government are lobbyists for the tobacco industry. Because, seriously, they don’t seem to be of much use to anyone else.
Well, except extraterrestrials.
Our pal Gordon Cooper, in a letter he wrote to the UN requesting the release of covered up information on UFOs, described how he had himself seen an extraterrestrial being just casually being brought into a government facility. You know, like every other Tuesday.
There’s no information as to exactly what the aliens are doing on government facilities, probably restocking the vending machines, or cleaning the toilets. You know, the menial jobs the government usually reserves for aliens.
10. LINES OF LIGHTS
Via blogspot.com
There are various reasons a person might see lines of lights – a reflection in the window, migraines, LSD flashbacks. But when you see them in space, there are considerably fewer alternative explanations to an actual, straight up, real-life line of lights.
That’s what NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao said he saw when he was out on a spacewalk in 2005.
“I saw some lights that seemed to be in a line, and it was like an upside down check mark, and I saw them fly by.”
So what was it Chiao saw while out on his spacewalk? We don’t know about you, but we’ll take that check mark as a sign from the aliens that they approve of Leroy’s superior spacewalking. Nice job, Leroy.
9. THE ROCK ROBBER
Via michaelsantos.com
We all have that dark side of us, the part that leans in close to our brain and whispers, “Hey, that sleeping person would look great with demonic horns super glued to their forehead”. Most of us don’t act on those wicked thoughts. But then there are those of us who go a little too far and convince our friend they are the actual real life devil.
Thad Roberts was the guy that went a bit too far.
In 2001 Roberts was accepted into NASA’s elite astronaut co-op program. Unlike most of the others on the program, however, Roberts was flat broke.
But he quickly made a name for himself as a rebel, a risk taker, sneaking into the space shuttle simulator for unofficial rides, and suchlike. When he saw 842 lbs of moon rocks – worth about $21m – just sitting in a laboratory safe, unused and ignored, he decided he was gonna put them to some use.
However, the buyer Roberts lined up got suspicious as to their legality and contacted the FBI, like a filthy narc. They investigated the case and promptly jailed him for 100 months.
In 2012 Roberts revealed his dual motives: love and science. He had fallen hard for a fellow program attendee, and felt that together the funds from the sale of the rocks could help them make beautiful, cutting edge science discoveries together. How sweet.
8. NASA IS OKAY WITH CRASHES
Via pinimg.com
NASA has a reputation for being kinda strict about who it decides can be thrown into space at terrifying speeds. It has high standards, which you would sort of expect from an organization that routinely puts members of our idiot species at the controls of vehicles worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
One of the things you would expect to be high up on NASA’s list of potential pilot candidates is that said astronaut in no way has the potential to make the vehicle plummet to it’s doom.
Turns out, they’re kinda relaxed about that.
In a 2016 documentary about his life, Eugene Cernan revealed that NASA has no real qualms about guys who are a little free and easy with their collisions. According to Cernan, in 1971 just two weeks before Apollo 14 launched – for which Cernan was selected as backup commander – he crashed a helicopter. He figured he’d screwed up his chances, but NASA called him to express the equivalent of a “meh” – the job was still his if he wanted it.
A year later he flew to the moon, and is to date the last man to step foot on it.
7. ALIENS ARE ANTI-NUCLEAR WAR
Via lasvegassun.com
With relatively few exceptions, we can agree that most of us are pretty firmly against the nuclear apocalypse, right? Sure, there are a few morons among us, perhaps with an orange tint to their skin, that have their tiny hands hovering above the button, desperate to press it at a moment’s provocation. But for the most part, we’re anti-nuclear.
Turns out, the aliens are too.
Our good friend and all-round extraterrestrial campaign cheerleader, Edgar Mitchell revealed in his email to John Podesta that the aliens are so staunchly against the threat of nuclear war, that they’ve gone so far as to actually shoot test missiles out of the sky.
At least somebody’s looking out for us. Or maybe they have a more sinister plan for us…we for one welcome our new alien overlords and their program of indentured servitude.
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20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART III
20 Shocking Confessions Made By NASA Astronauts - PART III
6. POLLUTION IS WORRYINGLY VISIBLE
Via dailysignal.com
Much as there are those in power that are reluctant to admit it, we are basically screwing up the planet we live on. Honestly, we’ve spent centuries looking around us, thinking – my, what a lovely rock that we’re hurtling through the cosmos clinging to the surface of, let’s see how many ways we can beat the shit out of it.
While the affects of pollution are evident in climate change, and even down to our day-to-day breathing in of toxic miasmas, it would seem that it can also be viewed from quite a distance above.
In 2016, astronaut Scott Kelly after having spent a year in space, revealed that he could see how incredibly polluted India and China were from his position peering out of a porthole in the ISS.
Scott said that there was a single day in his entire year in space that he could actually see China clearly – and it turned out that was the day the authorities turned off it’s vast collection of industrial machinery to celebrate a public holiday.
5. CARL SAGAN WAS PART OF A COVER-UP
Via earthsky.com
Carl Sagan is a goddamned hero. Not your run-of-the-mill American hero, no. A superstar universal king of the bloody cosmos type hero. Who doesn’t hear that voice and think, “This guy is my own personal Jesus”?
Well, brace yourselves for a shocker. Because it would seem that Carl Sagan was part of the extraterrestrial cover-up! Gasp (cue fainting)!
Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former NASA astronaut, was invited to teach at Cornell University by none other than Carl Sagan. Which is a bit like being recruited for…no…there’s no analogy worthy of that particular honor. O’Leary worked closely with Sagan in the Planetary Science Department of Cornell.
In an interview, however, O’Leary revealed that Sagan purposefully fudged data – including the famous face on Mars to make it look less face-like – with the intention of steering the public away from the truth about extraterrestrial life.
Say it ain’t so!
However, speculation is rife that Sagan was an integral part of making contact with alien life, and released his novel “Contact” as an underhanded way of revealing the truth.
4. YOUR BRAIN SHRINKS IN SPACE
Via huffpost.com
This one is less of a confession by the astronauts themselves, but by their brains. That’s right, NASA’s elite have had their brains rise up against them and make confessions to other scientists. It’s true, your brain is always conspiring against you.
Obviously it’s routine for those spending periods in space to have their bodies monitored. It’s important to know how space affects us so that we can build more effective exo-suits for the coming fight against Xenomorphs, right?
Well, in early 2017 a report was published showing that spending time in space actually physically shrinks your grey matter. The shrinkage was most prominent – between 10-15% decrease of volume – in the prefrontal and insular regions of those astronauts tested.
Which is a complex way of saying, space is conspiring against your damn brain.
3. A SPACE WAR IS COMING
Via geek.com
We all knew it was a distinct possibility. Hell, ever since we were kids we whipped out our makeshift lightsabers and begun our training for the inevitable space opera that our future was undoubtedly going to become. Your powers are weak old man, etc., etc. But it would seem that something is definitely brewing in the dark reaches of space that we’re just not prepared for.
Edgar Mitchell – who should by now have a fanfare every time his name is mentioned – revealed in an email to Bill Clinton’s aide John Podesta that there is a “space war” imminent. That’s right, a genuine NASA astronaut has confirmed that aliens are gearing up for a throw down.
It’s unclear what form this war will take, or who is fighting it, but Mitchell warned that we are unprepared for it, and the public needs to be better informed to become part of the universal community.
One thing is certain about a war between alien species: whoever wins, we lose.
2. SPACE TUNES
Via Washingtonpost.com
We know what space sounds like. It sounds like John Williams conducting a vast orchestra with the kind of dramatic flare that makes you pee yourself just a little bit every time you hear it. Yes?
Well, as it turns out, there really is some kind of soundtrack to space.
In May of 1969, while the Apollo 10 mission was out there in the cosmos, Gene Cernan began to hear what he described as “outer space music” in his ears. He asked fellow astronaut John Young if he could also hear the strange whistling sounds, to which Young replied that he could, and that it was really weird and “Nobody is going to believe us”.
We all hate paying our electricity bills. It sucks. When that letter comes through the door each month reminding you that you spend too many hours during peak time running Tesla coils in your garage, you let out a cry of anguish asking why haven’t the aliens freed us from this nightmare.
Dude, they’re trying.
According to Edgar Mitchell (fanfare), extraterrestrials that are benevolent in nature (sure they are) really want to give us the secret to something called Zero Point Energy – which is a cool-sounding name that doesn’t sound at all like something quantum physicists made up after an all night Star Trek binge. This is apparently a method of extracting and using free energy gleaned from empty space.
Problem is, they’re afraid of our violent tendencies and won’t give it to us unless we prove that we won’t use it for warmongering.
We could always just threaten them with nuclear weapons…oh, wait.
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Pentagon denies aliens crashed in Roswell
Pentagon denies aliens crashed in Roswell
The Pentagon yesterday tried to shoot down a nagging 50-year-old UFO mystery with a new report saying the “alien bodies” spotted near a supposed saucer crash site in New Mexico were really just military crash-test dummies.
There is “no evidence whatsoever of flying saucers, space aliens or sinister government coverups,” the report said.
But UFO buffs branded the 231-page report optimistically titled “Case Closed” yet another whitewash by a government that seems to think they are the dummies.
“It’s preposterous,” said Michael Luckman, head of the New York Center for UFO Research.
Luckman pointed out that the Air Force’s life-size plastic parachute dummies were first dropped from the skies in 1953 six years after the mysterious 1947 incident in Roswell, N.M.
1 | 2New York Daily News published this on June 25, 1997.(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Witnesses say they saw four or five small gray bodies in early July 1947 at the Roswell Army Air Field Hospital, and being put aboard military planes bound for Texas.
Air Force Col. John Haynes, who presented the new report at a laughter-punctuated Pentagon press conference, speculated that people saw the dummies but confused the dates.
“I have no other explanation,” Haynes said.
In 1947, the Air Force said an ordinary weather balloon had crashed. After several witnesses over the decades said the debris looked extraterrestrial, the Air Force released a 1994 report saying it was really a top-secret high-altitude balloon designed to sniff out Soviet atomic tests.
On balloon flights, test dummies were used and placed in insulation bags to protect temperature sensitive equipment. These bags may have been described by at least one witness as “body bags” used to recover alien victims from the crash of a flying saucer.
(AP)
The latest explanation apparently won’t stop the conspiracy theorists.
A Time/CNN poll last week found that one in three Americans believes the Earth is being visited by aliens and that the government is covering it up.
But Haynes said the government could never pull it off.
“We can’t even keep single secrets,” he said. “How could we have a conspiracy or coverup?”
The 50th anniversary of the Roswell Incident to be celebrated next week by 100,000 UFO devotees in New Mexico has sparked new interest in flying saucers.
When the unassuming turn of phrase “unidentified flying object” was coined in the 1940s, it was intended to suggest that the objects in question were nothing more mysterious than a rogue weather balloon or an unfamiliar aircraft. UFOs have since become synonymous with aliens, from cartoon flying saucers, to abduction stories, to X-Files-style conspiracy theories – in the popular imagination their mystery has been solved, UFOs equal aliens, whether you’re a true believer or not. This unshakable association came to be despite the diligent work Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a scientist who became convinced that we truly could not identify some objects in our skies, and kept pushing throughout his life for a scientific explanation, while keeping open every possibility, some of them way further out there than little green men.
Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, a new book by Mark O’Connell, serves as a biography for both the modern UFO phenomenon and for Hynek, an astronomer and professor at Northwestern University who died over 30 years ago, but whose ideas make him one of the most surprising scientific figures of the 20th century. The book reveals an academic committed to rigorous, methodical study, but whose deep intellectual curiosity also harbored a mystical side, intrigued by Rudolf Steiner’s concept of “supersensible knowledge” and the idea of a universe composed of many dimensions. By the time of his death in 1986, he was much more interested in the idea that UFOs might be evidence of interdimensional overlap or proof of a Jungian collective conscience, than the comparatively quotidian concept that they are vehicles carrying visitors from faraway planets.
Hynek’s struggle to properly inform the public through a dedication to the scientific method, while also embracing the very edges of what is possible strikes a chord today, in an era rife with deep mistrust of the government and of mainstream science. Conspiracy theories have moved from the fringe since we stopped agreeing on what constitutes a basic scientific fact, and there are more than a few big ones involving the coming alien takeover and of course, NASA, which sits at the intersection of science, government and outer space.
Just last week a NASA spokesperson told The Daily Beast, in all seriousness, that the agency does not have child slaves laboring on Mars, in response to an InfoWars segment claiming otherwise. The Disclosure movement believes that governments around the world have already been in contact with alien intelligence and have suppressed this information from the public, and no, Trump would not be tweeting about it because the President is kept out of the loop in this scenario, says O’Connell. This is deep state stuff. Even the ever-pragmatic Hillary Clinton vowed to release classified information on UFOs and aliens while being interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel last year during her campaign. The unknown and how we go about knowing it is very much on our minds as a culture.
Though he would be dismayed to see that the orthodoxy of personal belief in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary has persevered, even flourished in the 21st century, Hynek would certainly find our present appetite for conspiracy and for polarized debate familiar, from climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers to the Disclosure crowd. Over his long career he learned that “It’s very, very easy to disappoint people by telling them the truth,” O’Connell tells Rolling Stone. “Everyone wants to believe that the next case is the big one, the one that finally proves that these are spaceships from another world and unfortunately, up to now that’s never been the case, but the hope just doesn’t die.”
Born a few days before Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet in 1910, Hynek died just a few months after traveling through the comet’s wake again in 1986. He spent the interceding years as an astronomer who changed the field of celestial imaging by developing a high-altitude telescope and video telescope, founded the Corralitos Observatory in New Mexico, led a team that devised the first tracking system for satellites before there were any man-made objects in orbit, and reassured a nervous American public after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, which put him on the cover of Life magazine.
Hynek was also one of the first scientists to evaluate UFO sightings for the U.S. Air Force, working on a series of classified projects in the 1950s and 1960s. Though he started out a skeptic, he went on to found the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, landing a cameo in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 hit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind after contacting the director when he learned that the film’s working title was drawn from his work.
Even more than 30 years after his death, Hynek remains a controversial figure in UFOlogy, mainly because of his refusal to choose a side. O’Connell, a screenwriter and UFO history expert who writes the blog High Strangeness, has already had some of Hynek’s legacy rub off on his own reputation, which he takes as a sign that he is following in Hynek’s footsteps as an unbiased, open-minded researcher, rather than writing for one camp or another.
“Just based on what little some people know about the book and the interviews I’ve been doing, I already have some UFO establishment figures accusing me of being a skeptic, which is really dirty word in UFO circles,” he says. “The labeling has already begun.”
Hynek proved to be a thorn in the government’s side when it came to investigating UFO reports, refusing to dismiss the unexplainable as the product of mass hysteria or unreliable witness testimony. Indeed, a great number of the seminal 20th century sightings that convinced Hynek that UFOs were worth further study involved highly credible witnesses, including airline and military pilots, law enforcement officers and Delbert Newhouse, a navy photographer who caught such an object on film in the Utah desert in 1952. Hynek though, refused to say that the strangeness of UFOs and UFO sightings proved they were alien spacecraft, which made him unpopular on the other side of the debate as well. An intellectual independent, he ended up sandwiched between the government, which demanded mundane explanations for sometimes fantastic sightings, and a public convinced that aliens walked among them.
“The inability for ambiguity to exist is a powerful force in UFO research,” O’Connell says. “You have to go one way or the other, there’s no middle ground.”
Throughout the heyday of UFO sightings, significant incidents, including reported contact with alien entities and their aircraft, frequently popped up in clusters, referred to as “flaps” by Hynek. Though the last flap occurred after Close Encounters of the Third Kind debuted in 1977, UFOs are having a moment right now, too. This year Spielberg’s film celebrates its 40th anniversary, and the 1947 sighting of “flying saucers” over the Cascade mountains in the Pacific Northwest by pilot Kevin Arnold, which is widely noted as the beginning of the modern UFO phenomenon, marks 70 years of celestial intrigue. The History Channel just picked up a scripted series about Project Blue Book, the UFO investigation project that Hynek led for the government in the 1950s and 60, with Robert Zemeckis as executive producer. And of course, there’s the matter of NASA’s secret slaves on Mars. Are we headed for a new flap?
O’Connell is not so sure. “You would think that this amazing advance in technology, in photo imaging would have delivered us with the perfect UFO photo by now,” he says. “You would think that but it hasn’t happened and it’s hard to decide exactly why. You can definitely argue that there are more people watching the sky with cameras in hand than ever before in human history.”
What he’s most interested in, beyond seeing Martin Freeman cast as Hynek – though he was amused by the thought of David Duchovny donning the professor’s signature goatee – is an embrace of Hynek’s balance of rigor and open-minded curiosity. Like Hynek himself, O’Connell wants to reposition the conversation about UFOs, as well as an agreement to adhere to the scientific method itself, back into the mainstream and plumb what might be possible, rather than single-mindedly trying to prove, or disprove the existence of aliens.
He finds some of Hynek’s heady combination of scientific rigor and mysticism in the work of quantum physics and astronomers who are working on exoplanets right now. “Both of those fields involve, in my opinion, leaps of faith, leaps of intuition,” he says. “We’ve shifted very dramatically from this idea that life on other planets must be exceedingly rare to this space where now where we’re talking in terms of life in the universe being unbelievably abundant because we keep on finding all these goldilocks planets with our high powered space telescopes. Those are the two areas where I see that same kind of thinking that same kind of approach to science coming back to the way that Hynek saw things.”
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Nasa releases recording of strange ‘space music’ heard by Apollo 10 astronauts
Nasa releases recording of strange ‘space music’ heard by Apollo 10 astronauts
When three astronauts orbiting the moon noticed a strange “whistling sound” in outer space, they thought they were imagining things.
In fact, the men were so perplexed they worried about whether or not they should tell their bosses, for fear they would be laughed at and not allowed to go on future missions.
Now nearly 50 years later, the strange “space music” has been shared with the public for the first time.
Nasa has released the sounds heard in May 1969 by the trio of Apollo 10 astronauts as they circled the moon.
The story behind the unusual whistling noises emerged in a programme on Discovery, as part of a series called Nasa’s Unexplained Files.
The three men, Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan, recorded the sounds and transmitted them to mission control in Houston
“You hear that? That whistling sound?” asks Cernan, describing it as “outer-space-type music.”
They asked one another: “Who’s gonna believe it? Nobody.”
One of the astronauts can be heard saying: “Shall we tell them about it?”
His colleague responds: “I don’t know. We ought to think about it”.
Nasa claims the sounds could not have been alien music.
An engineer from the US space agency said the noises likely came from interference caused by radios that were close to each other in the lunar module and the command module.
But astronaut Al Worden, who flew on Apollo 15, disputes that explanation. He said: “Logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there’s something there.”
Michael Collins, the pilot of Apollo 11, who became the first person to fly around the far side of the Moon by himself while Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were walking on the surface, said he too heard “an eerie woo-woo sound”
He accepted the explanation of radio interference. In fact, he’d been warned in advance, he wrote in his book, Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys.
“Had I not been warned about it, it would have scared the hell out of me,” he wrote.
“Fortunately the radio technicians (rather than the UFO fans) had a ready explanation for it: it was interference between the LM’s and Command Module’s VHF radios.”
A transcript of the conversation between the astronauts was released in 2008, but it is only now that the audio has been made public.
The Apollo 11 astronauts (L-R) Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edward “Buzz” Aldrin Photo: REUTERS
CLOSE ENCOUNTER: Two US Navy F-14s were called to a UFO over the Mediterranean
A US spy plane reported encountering a 130ft flying object with 20 flashing lights near Cyprus.
Two US Navy F-14 fighters and an RAF Phantom were sent to aid the US Air Force RC-135.
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SPY PLANE: A Boeing RC-135, like the one that encountered the UFO
The American spy plane crew said the UFO turned away and flew off in the direction of the African coast.
Britain and the US launched investigations into the close encounter – but it has never been explained.
“It was larger than an RC-135”
RAF
The shocking 90-minute incident was part of a stash of confidential UFO files released by the British Ministry of Defence and reported by journalist and transparency campaigner Dr David Clarke, on his blog.
It happened on October 19, 1982 – but has never been publicly known until now.
Behind it appears to be a plane with its wing lights blinking as it follows the stage two lights.
The clip was shot with night-vision goggles which highlighted the bizarre UFO chase.
It was taken in Joshua Tree, California before being analysed on alien hunter website Open Minds.
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SIGHTING: Alien hunters believe a military jet was chasing two UFOs in California
BIZARRE red lights flash in sky during heavy thunderstorm
“I am nearly certain it shows two UFOs flying in perfect, locked tandem with one another.”
UFO witness
A witness told the site: “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."
They added: “After extensive review of the footage, I am nearly certain it shows two 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 two separate objects.”
The clip was shot in May this year but was reported to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
California MUFON Chief Investigator Earl Grey Anderson is now reportedly investigating the sighting.
SPECTACULAIRE UFO-WAARNEMING BOVEN BRAZILIË ( VIDEO )
SPECTACULAIRE UFO-WAARNEMING BOVEN BRAZILIË ( VIDEO )
Een inwoner van de Braziliaanse stad Fortaleza stapt enkele dagen geleden naar buiten en ziet een heel vreemd object in de lucht.
Het is lang en sigaarvormig, glinstert in het zonlicht en volgens de getuige leek het te gloeien.
Je kijkt zeker verbaasd wanneer je naar buiten loopt om een uur of drie ’s middags en je ziet een object boven je hoofd dat er uit ziet zoals op de volgende afbeelding.
Het ziet er zo spectaculair uit dat je al snel geneigd bent te denken dat je hier weer met één van de vele nepfilmpjes op Youtube te maken hebt.
En misschien is dat ook wel zo, maar deze video heeft alle kenmerken van een echte opname.
Belangrijk is te kijken naar waar een dergelijke opname vandaan komt en dan blijkt het afkomstig van een bijna niet gebruikt Youtubekanaal van iemand waar vier jaar geleden voor het laatst een video op is geplaatst.
De getuige omschrijft duidelijk waar en wanneer deze opname is gemaakt.
“Ik heb dit object gefilmd in de middag van 13 juli 2017 toen ik rond 15.00 uur mijn huis verliet. Toen ik dit vreemde object zag besloot ik het te gaan filmen omdat het er erg vreemd uit zag en mijn richting op kwam. Ik vond het heel erg vreemd, het leek bijna doorzichtig, grijsachtig en het gloeide behoorlijk”.
Alhoewel de persoon dit zou kunnen faken of de opname ergens anders vandaan halen, lijkt het er gezien het bovenstaande niet op.
Nog voordat we de kans kregen het artikel te publiceren met de bewegende beelden van dit object is de video razendsnel offline gehaald. Gelukkig hebben wij het bestand, maar dan gebeurt er nog iets merkwaardigs. Wanneer wij dit willen uploaden wordt het geweigerd door Youtube, terwijl er met het formaat en technisch gezien helemaal niets mis mee is.
Dus, wie de bewegende beelden wil zien, stuur ons een mail en dan krijg je het bestand zoals dat origineel op Youtube stond totdat het razendsnel weer werd weggehaald.
Dat dit soort schepen voor komen is bekend.
Het zal dan ook absoluut geen toeval zijn dat dit type eerder werd gefilmd in Brazilië zoals te zien is op de volgende opname uit 2011:
In de volgende korte video over dit type UFO’s zie je onder andere opnames van de Russische luchtmacht waarbij deze bezig zijn een dergelijk schip te achtervolgen. Op het moment dat deze in de gaten krijgt dat de vliegtuigen in de buurt komen, versnelt het plots en is het verdwenen.
En dan met dit type is er uiteraard nog de connectie met de ruimteschepen van de Duitsers, zoals we schreven in een eerder artikel:
De Duiters hadden een project in de jaren '43-'45 van de vorige eeuw onder de naam Andromedagerät. De Andromeda was een groot sigaarvormig ruimteschip, met binnenin ruimtes waar zich kleinere vliegende schotels bevonden.
Of dit ruimteschip ooit daadwerkelijk heeft gevlogen is niet zeker, alhoewel er wel enkele foto's zijn waarop dit schip vliegend is afgebeeld, zoals de volgende.
WE zijn inmiddels ongeveer 65 jaar verder sinds het Andromeda ruimteschip is ontworpen. Als de Nazi's ten tijde van de mislukte expeditie van admiraal Byrd al de beschikking hadden over vliegende schotels die geluidloos uit de zee opstegen, en ook toen al beschikten over in ieder geval het ontwerp van de Andromeda dan is het niet onlogisch om aan te nemen dat nu, zoveel jaren later, zij in staat zouden zijn om kunstmatige wolken te creëren met daarin verborgen een moderne versie van de Andromeda.
A dog owner in Scotland got a shock when, while helping her dog give birth, one of the puppies came out bright green. Not ripe yet? Was the pooch’s mama seeing an Irish setter? An alien dog? Has anyone spotted Marvin the Martian’s best friend K-9 in the neighborhood?
“It was all hands on deck but then as the puppies started to arrive, we noticed that one of the puppies had green fur. We couldn’t believe it.”
Louise Sutherland of Golspie in the Highlands pulled the green puppy out of Rio, her golden retriever who was delivering her second litter. Eight of the nine puppies survived (seven males, one female) but this was the only pea-colored one. Louise decided to give the others away but keep the green guy, giving him the hue-appropriate moniker Forest (was Lief taken?), even though she had no idea why he was green. Is this what happens when dogs eat grass and don’t barf it back up?
Louise, Rio and the green puppy (Daily Mail)
After photos of Forest, Rio and Louise were posted by the media on the Internet, the answer came in … Biliverdin. No, that’s not a planet of horny green dogs. Biliverdin is a bile pigment found in the placenta of dogs. It’s a green-colored waste product from the breakdown of hemoglobin and can mix with amniotic fluid from the placenta to turn light-colored puppies, like golden retrievers, green. It’s extremely rare – a random sampling found only three occurrences worldwide.
Dogs aren’t the only animals with biliverdin. High concentrations of it are found in blue or green eggshells – we’re looking at you, robins. This is apparently a good thing in birds as the biliverdin is produced by a gland rather than a random breakdown in hemoglobin. In fact, the bile plays a role in the greening of green-scaled fish, green butterflies, the tobacco hornworm and other greenish creatures.
Before you breathe a sigh of relief that only dogs can have green babies, humans also have biliverdin and you’ve probably seen yours. When a human bumps into an inanimate object, the bruise often has a green hue before turning yellow – that’s green biliverdin from the breakdown of hemoglodin before it itself breaks down into the yellowish bilirubin.
Before you have a breakdown, there’s no chance of having green human babies, at least not from biliverdin. The 12th century Green Children of Woolpit, a brother and sister who were said to be green, were probably victims of chlorosis, a condition caused by a diet deficient in iron that gave their skin a greenish tint that would eventually disappear with better food.
Which brings us back to Forest. There’s no need for kids in the neighborhood to yell “Run, Forest, run!” when they see UFOs shining spotlights on local doghouses. Forest’s green color faded quickly and he’s now just as golden as his mom and siblings.
That “whoosh” you hear is K-9 breathing a sigh of relief.
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NASA SCIENTISTS JUST 'CREATED' THIS OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD PLUTO FLYBY VIDEO
NASA SCIENTISTS JUST 'CREATED' THIS OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD PLUTO FLYBY VIDEO
To celebrate the two-year anniversary of NASA's New Horizon probe arriving at Pluto, the space agency has released a breathtaking video showcasing the notoriously distant planet.
The remarkable presentation, culled from data obtained during the 2015 study of Pluto, provides viewers with the perspective of flying over the planet from around 8,000 miles above its surface.
While there are no signs of UFOs or alien bases, the footage is still pretty awesome when one considers that Pluto, at its furthest point, sits an astounding 4.6 billion miles away from the Earth.
As such, the video constitutes what is probably the only view of Pluto that many of us will have in our lifetimes, since it's highly unlikely that humans will make their way out to the planet anytime soon.
That said, based on the barren and seemingly unforgiving landscape of the planet, we're not sure anyone would really want to visit the faraway world anyway.
NASA said:
"Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were discovered and which have reshaped our views of the Pluto system – from a vantage point even closer than the spacecraft itself."
UFO HUNTERS CLAIM SATURN'S MOON IAPETUS IS AN ‘ALIEN DEATH STAR’!
UFO HUNTERS CLAIM SATURN'S MOON IAPETUS IS AN ‘ALIEN DEATH STAR’!
One of the most notorious science fiction films of all time appeared in the 70s with a plot not like any other.
The movie 'Star Wars' was a hit back in the day, and still is considered an important film franchise spawing several sequels and prequels, TV shows, video games and countless merchandise. In the movie we witness a terrifying war against the Empire who have the upper hand in the galactic dominance with their incredible and over powered space fleet. But the most terrifying weapon they hold is the moon sized space station called 'The Death Star'.
Now imagine if this existed in real life!
Well, conspiracy theorists claim it does. Saturn's moon 'Iapetus' is said to be an extraterrestrial artificial mega structure and that movie makers tried to warn us that it was there, long before we had actual pictures of it.
It closely resembles the 'Death Star' from Star Wars and scientists don't know how this moon was formed as it stands out among the other Saturn's moons. Another peculiar thing about Iapetus is the ridge that stretches along it's center, making UFO hunters claim that it was weilded together.
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PAUL HELLYER, FORMER CANADIAN MOD, TALKS 9/11, THE BANKING CABAL, AND ROSWELL UFO
PAUL HELLYER, FORMER CANADIAN MOD, TALKS 9/11, THE BANKING CABAL, AND ROSWELL UFO
Paul Hellyer, once the Canadian Defense Minister claims 'The Cabal is out to get Trump!'
At the recent Alien Cosmic Expo Paul Hellyer spills the beans on the wicked conspiracy of the Cabal e.g. high finance groups, around the world including 9/11 and other forms of abject terrorism, as well as about the Roswell UFO case.
Strange white Orbs emerging from a tree in Heaton Park Manchester, UK filmed by Drone
Strange white Orbs emerging from a tree in Heaton Park Manchester, UK filmed by Drone
On July 8, 2017 a drone enthusiast who was flying his drone above Heaton Park in Manchester, UK caught some strange white Orbs moving at high speed around the park.
He filmed various parts of the park but the orbs are only on the one short bit of footage that shows a number of white orbs emerging from a tree.
The drone enthusiast still don't has a clue what the shapes are, but maybe these white spheres are so-called tree spirits?
According to ancient folklore these tree spirits are benign and they live in the trees as long as the tree does. Only when they are very disturbed by something or for example people cut down the tree then they leave the tree.
Given these orbs flying through the air at high speed I have the idea that he has filmed something extraordinary.
The video shows the event in normal speed and slow motion.
Several UFOs filmed from plane over Toluca, Mexico
Several UFOs filmed from plane over Toluca, Mexico
The pilot of a small plane, while preparing for landing at Toluca, Mexico on July 8, 2017 was left baffled when he observed several strange objects passing his plane.
More and more mid-air UFO encounters are reported and it is known that pilots have done evasive maneuvers to get out of the way.
And although it is not entirely clear whether these objects are UFOs or drones, I’m convinced there’s a potential threat posed by nearby unidentified flying object to commercial and private airplanes.
Shining Disc Caught On Video Flying Around Toronto Harbourfront
Shining Disc Caught On Video Flying Around Toronto Harbourfront
A video showing an unknown white shining diskhas made the rounds online, particularly among UFO communities. A couple at Toronto’s Harbourfront was in the city to join the celebration of Canada Day.
The video shows an apparent round object with the transparent or dark centre. The object in question appears and disappears many times in the video. It looks like a disk with a cut in the middle that seems like a vinyl record.
The reporting witness said that he and girlfriend were in the area to celebrate Canada Day on Sunday, July 2, 2017. He just reportedly happened to look at the sky and saw the white shining disk. In the background of the video, the boyfriend asks her girlfriend about what she thinks of the disk. The girlfriend first thought it was a kite or a drone, but soon started to realise that it wasn’t.
The couple further noticed the bright shininess of the disk as it moved in a circular motion. The reporting witness said that when the object disappeared in the clouds for good, a black helicopter appeared as if it was following the mysterious object.
Drones have appendages holding the rotors, especially the quad-copter variety. However, the object in the video does not have visible rotors. Balloons are often used during celebrations and fly with the wind, but they won’t disappear and appear like the object in the video.
A Plane Passenger Flying Around Havasu City In Arizona Captures A UFO On Video
A Plane Passenger Flying Around Havasu City In Arizona Captures A UFO On Video
A shining bright light had caught the attention of an aeroplane passenger flying on the 5th of July 2017. The witness, who flies weekly, found the strange light from his corner vision while passing the sky above Lake Havasu in Havasu City, Arizona.
He recorded the bizarre aerial thing on video. The witness describes the light as having a non-reflective gold shine. It was apparently moving in a northwesterly direction. The witness estimated that they were moving at around 484 mph ground speed at approximately 29000 in altitude.
Havasu City has its share of UFO sightings as dozens of witnesses reported their bizarre experience throughout the years.
Videos such as this one are often dismissed as a reflection of light from inside the aircraft. However, many argue on this particular video that the strange light does not appear to be a reflection and in fact moving on its own below the aircraft.
Many people find it hard to trust alleged UFO sightings as much as they want to believe. Photographic evidence of UFO sightings is usually too small and grainy. Clear images are often debunked as hoaxes too.
However, the following story features somewhat believable images. These images may not depict UFOs very well, but the truth may be even more unusual than many would think.
In 1971, an American Navy submarine USS Trepang was on a voyage in the Arctic Ocean to test its weapons under the ice caps.
An anonymous source claims that Klika saw a strange object flying overhead while looking through the periscope. What he did see would be 40 years before it was answered.
The French publication Top Secret printed images in an article in 2015 claiming that an unnamed source provided the photograph.
Beyond the photos, only a little information was provided, but some were officially marked “not to be released” and “Unauthorized Disclosure Subject.” Despite the markings that seem to be warnings, the publication printed 11 pictures; each one shows an apparent massive object hovering above and possibly crashing into the water.
The article of the images says that they are showing a triangular-shaped UFO without a doubt.
THE AVELEY ALIEN ABDUCTION: UFOS ABOVE OUR ESSEX COUNTRY LANES
THE AVELEY ALIEN ABDUCTION: UFOS ABOVE OUR ESSEX COUNTRY LANES
[The following information is sourced largely from renowned British Ufologist Andrew Collins’s report – The Aveley Abduction – compiled January 1978, along with other supporting online sources. At the time Collins called The Aveley Abduction “probably the most important British case ever” and it still gets heralded today as such by those in UFO research communities]
On late Sunday evening October 27th 1974, a run of the mill Essex family were driving a route between Harold Hill and Aveley to see relatives. The Avis family, consisting of John, aged 32, his wife, Elaine, aged 28, and their three children: Kevin, aged 10, Karen, aged 11, and Stuart, aged 7, were on Hacton Lane about one mile out from Hornchurch with, for them, the roads noticeably quiet even for a Sunday night.
Elaine recalled the car jerking violently as the mist curled around the car
At a point in the journey, it was Kevin, the only one of the children awake, who asked his parents about a light he could see above the country lane houses. Collins reports, “Glancing round, both John and Elaine saw, at an angle of about 25 degrees – 30 degrees above the skyline, an oval-shaped, pale blue iridescent light, like a big star, over the top of the houses to their left”.
John and Elaine standing on Aveley Road
The family remembered the “big star” seemed to be travelling in the same direction as the car, stopping and starting as it moved. The light seemed to “stay with them” but for periods where rows of trees on the country lanes would obscure the view, at which times in the early stages they would relax, thinking it may have gone. At first, John and Elaine thought it might be a helicopter light, but it was not long before the family began referring to it as a UFO.
The Avis family cleared the last of the houses, venturing into open countryside, eventually passing the White Hart pub. They were approaching country lanes near Upminster at about 30mph when they had a “terrible feeling that something was wrong”. Suddenly, the engine and tyres went silent and the only sound that could be heard was from their radio.
Then, as they went through a bend on Aveley Road, they could see, no more than 30 yards in front of them and covering the whole road, a thick mist, or fog, described as “dense green and banked about 8-9 feet high”.
The exact place where the green mist appeared has been drawn in
Just as the mist was seen by the Avis family, the radio started crackling and smoking, causing John to pull out its wires. Then they were engulfed by the fog, still travelling around 30mph. Elaine recalled the car jerking violently as the mist curled around the car.
With two children asleep and Kevin awake, John and Elaine recall it was “very light” inside the fog and that they “felt very cold”. A tingling sensation was felt, and there was dead silence. They recall being in the mist for “what seemed like a second or two” before they were out. There was a jolt described as “like a car going over a hump back bridge” and the “mist” was gone.
Elaine remembered asking “is everybody there?” with herself and John both feeling very nervous and frightened, although no ill effects were remembered and the two children aside from Kevin still asleep. The couple don’t recall talking a large amount about what had happened and the situation instead provoked a “let’s just get home” atmosphere. The couple expected it to be around 10:20pm when they arrived home, but it was 1am, leaving around three hours the couple could not account for.
The family reported unnerving incidents around the family home after the encounter including an object levitating
There were noticeable changes in the family following the incident, Collins reports. Before Christmas that year John had a nervous breakdown and stopped working, before later taking on a job working with mentally handicapped people, something he had wanted to do for years.
The job “fell into his lap”, a different direction from his usual carpentry and construction work; he would also begin writing poems about life. Elaine started attending college and reportedly grew in confidence. Additionally, John & Elaine stopped eating meat and became far more health conscious in their nutrition, with the taste of meat/fish now making them ill. And whereas before the incident they would “enjoy a good drink”, the couple would now not touch a drop of alcohol.
The couple reportedly also became very environmentally conscious, with John also quitting his “60 to 70 a day” smoking habit. Kevin’s reading age at school reportedly was “well beyond his years” whereas prior to the incident it had been reported as “backwards of his age”. The family reported unnerving incidents around the family home after the encounter including an object levitating, “clicking noises” and the sound of “Morse code”, and young Kevin reportedly seeing a strange figure beside his bed on one occasion, similar in looks to that of a clown.
Map of where the incident took place
When questioned by Collins, both John & Elaine would admit to strange dreams in which creatures would examine them on long tables and other visions of that ilk. At this point, Collins sought hypnotist Leonard Wilder to query the couple’s subconscious and see if these dreams were masking real abduction memories. John was first to agree to hypnosis while Elaine declined preferring to try and move on and “forget it” instead. It was decided hypnotising Kevin was not an option due to his age and the impression any memories may leave.
John, the first under hypnosis, began to remember that as the car entered the mist, he found himself in a big room with tall “peaceful” beings, in one-piece colourless suits. John recalled that they had pink eyes and communicated by telepathy. They put him on a table and ran a bar like instrument over his body. He asked where they came from; they showed him “a map but not a map”, and gave an explanation of which he could only remember “Phobos”. They travel, he was told, almost instantaneously. They explained how but he could not understand. A small being was present at the table; it had fur-like covering and made chirping sounds; it served the tall beings. Leonard Wilder remarked to Andrew Collins that John was an excellent subject for hypnosis, and a second session was arranged.
In the second session John remembered that when the car entered the mist, a white beam cut through it, and lifted the car. The next thing he knew was that they were in a very large room. Here, an “examiner,” “smaller than us,” with big eyes and a mouth “not like ours” examined him.
Based on a drawing by John. This is the head and shoulders of one of the tall entities
The tall beings had no visible mouths. John understood that their propulsion system used a magnetic “vortex”, though he had begun to mutter somewhat incoherently his responses at this point. He encountered only three of the tall beings, and only one communicated with him.
When John was asked the reason for the beings visit to earth, he replied, “No visit. They are here always.” Asked where they came from, he said “There was no need for them to say,” and that they have no need to return home; “they have more than one base,” he said.
After being brought out of hypnosis, he said that at this point he felt prevented from saying anything more (following questioning surrounding the beings origin). My understanding is that the sessions were stopped there as memories came flooding back naturally outside of hypnosis. Collins reports to have kept in touch with the family and that John & Elaine would later separate with the former moving to Scotland to live with a new partner.
The case is spoken of frequently in UFO circles and if you wish to know more of what happened, or Elaine’s account –check this link of the original report:
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15-07-2017
10 Bizarre Claims Of Alien/Human Hybrids
10 Bizarre Claims Of Alien/Human Hybrids
Of all the alien claims and theories out there, the ones that speak of an alien/human hybrid agenda might be the most outlandish. However, many people do make these claims to the world, and although they themselves sometimes note how crazy they sound, they insist that what they’re saying is real. While it is hard for even the most enthusiastic ufologist or alien researcher to take these statements entirely seriously, they are still very interesting ideas.
10 The Body In The Car
In July 2015, the story of a supposed alien hybrid government agent, who had been found decomposing in a car, appeared on several online media outlets. The man, who was eventually identified as Jeffrey Alan Lash, was found with over a thousand guns, as well as other weapons such as knives, machetes, and a bow and arrows. He also had seven tons of ammunition and cash amounting to $230,000.
In addition to the car he was discovered in—which was designed to be able to drive underwater, no less—he also owned 14 other vehicles.
His fiance, Catherine Nebron, made the off-the-wall announcement of his otherworldly origin through her attorney shortly after his death. She stated that Lash had confided in her several weeks before he died that he was working undercover for several unnamed government agencies. He had left Catherine with instructions to leave his body in the car when he died, and that “government agencies” would come to retrieve it.
Initial background checks on Lash didn’t uncover any sign of criminal activity on his part, and investigators didn’t suspect that he had been the victim of foul play. According to Nebron, he had begun to experience difficulty breathing, but he’d refused to let her call for medical assistance in the hours before his death.
9 Born In A Petri Dish
It wasn’t until Cynthia Crawford was in her ’30s that her father revealed to her that she was the result of a top-secret government program. She was, her father informed her, an alien/human hybrid created in a petri dish, and that as well as carrying human DNA, she had the DNA of two different alien races as part of her genetic makeup.
She claimed that she had encountered what she believed to be alien abductions many times throughout her life—which included medical procedures and impregnation—but that she now realized these experiences were more likely part of the program.
She was told by her father that, as a child, she was taken in the middle of the night to an underground military facility. There, she was regularly tested and examined by government agents there. Despite the many doubters to her story, no DNA testing has been volunteered by Crawford to confirm her claims. She is a regular speaker at numerous UFO and alien seminars across the United States.
8 Miguel Mendonca’s Proof Of Alien Hybrids
Miguel Mendonca is a leading expert on green energy and renewable power sources. He is also convinced that aliens are in the process of helping humans evolve into “higher beings” by implanting their DNA into pregnant women around the Earth.
Mendonca, from Bristol, England, co-authored the book Meet The Hybrids: The Lives and Missions of ET Ambassadors On Earth with respected and experienced UFO researcher, Barbara Lamb. In the book, he claims to have met several alien hybrids, all of whom state they are involved in a mission that will improve the human race.
Mendonca claims that DNA testing would be of little use to help prove his claims, as only human DNA would be detected and anything else would simply be ignored. He also stated that the hybrids themselves are against their DNA being taken for fear that governments would use it to create super soldiers that would be utilized by the military.
Mendonca stated that he went into the project with an open mind, but that he can “feel” the energy of the hybrids when he speaks with them and is convinced of their authenticity. He also states that he is very much an “academic” and has to be “sure of his facts.”
He believes this is why there are so many UFO sightings and that the hybrid agenda is the reason “they” are coming to Earth.
7 Celtic Genes
According to Hilary Porter, who says she has been abducted many times herself by aliens, extraterrestrials are specifically targeting people of Celtic descent in order to install an alien hybrid program. Porter is an experienced ufologist who is a regular speaker at UFO seminars. She even believes that one stretch of road in particular, between Swansea and Cardiff in Wales, is a “hot-spot” for UFO activity. Not only this, she says that the government is fully aware of what is happening, but they are “powerless to stop it.”
Porter believes that aliens are targeting people of Celtic descent as they feel their genes are better suited for creating a human/alien hybrid race, which she says is their ultimate goal.
Porter has conducted extensive research for over four decades which has led her to conclude that the alien hybrid agenda is very real. She also states that this agenda is not for the good of mankind, as many who make similar claims say it is. She says that although she and others have recalled pleasant memories from their experiences, this is nothing more than a “cover” or false memory implanted by the aliens themselves in order to hide the horrific events.
6 Jujuolui Kuita: Star Being
Author and ufologist Jujuolui Kuita claims to have had extraterrestrial experiences since she was five years old, and has since “awakened to her ET identity.” In 2010, she published the book We Are Among You Already, which told of how aliens were “incarnating” and creating alien/human hybrids right here on Earth. She also founded the East Bay UFO contact group the same year.
Kuita states that she is a star being who chose to “incarnate” on Earth as a human being (some are said to choose to do so as animals). According to Kuita, Mother Earth sent out a signal for help into the cosmos many decades ago. She further claims that she originates from the planet Faqui, which she says is in the Andromeda galaxy, and that her people are called Fajans.
Kuita believes her mission is to assist in awakening other star beings and ultimately raise the vibration of planet Earth, which she says is being monitored by countless beings throughout the cosmos.
5 The Indigo Children
There are claims of Indigo Children or Star Children—extremely intelligent and highly sensitive children—all over the world. While these are most likely just normal children who happen to have extremely high intelligence for their young ages, some claim that they are the result of genetic engineering. Two cases in particular appear to stand out
Jason Andrews’s first alien experience occurred on his fourth birthday in Kent, England, in 1987. As a violent storm proceeded to sweep over the area, Jason apparently began to mutter a series of numbers, seemingly in a trance-like state. As the storm took hold, the house the Andrews family lived in began to shake until Jason turned to his parents and calmly stated to them, “They are waiting for me—I have to go!”
The four-year-old boy then went to exit the property before his father wrestled him away from the front door. As suddenly as it had begun, the shaking of the house and the storm ceased, and Jason returned to his normal self. The family appeared to forget about the incident until eight years later, when Jason informed them that since that day, he had been abducted by strange beings that would come into his room and take him to some kind of operating table. His mother, Ann Andrews, along with UFO researcher and author Jean Ritchie, came to the conclusion that Jason was an Indigo Child, and this was the reason that the aliens had an interest in him. Jason himself, now in his thirties, states that he does have certain psychic and spiritual abilities.
Nikki Pattillo claims that her daughter, Maddy, is also an Indigo Child who has claimed several times to her that “her home is in the sky.” Pattillo claims Maddy has developed and shown otherworldly abilities, and she firmly believes that the girl carries alien DNA within her body. Pattillo wrote a book about her experiences titled Children of the Stars and stated that her daughter and many other alleged Star Children are the incarnation of spirits that have been sent to Earth from all over the universe for the benefit of the human race.
4 Hybrid Children And Alien Fathers
In January 2016, a story circulated the Internet regarding two young ladies who claimed they were mothers to multiple alien hybrid children. Bridget Neilson from Sedona and Aluna Verse from Los Angeles both claimed to be just two of many women who were part of the Hybridization Program.
Bridget claims to have 10 alien-hybrid children, while Aluna says that she has three otherworldly offspring. They claim that at the moment, their children are in a state of “suspended” childhood and live with their fathers onboard huge space ships. They hope that one day they can set up a community somewhere far from the city for themselves and other mothers of hybrid children. This they believe will allow their cosmic children to feel safe enough to visit them on Earth.
The aim of the hybridization program, according to Bridget, is to create a “super being” with the best of the genes from humans and aliens alike. Bridget claims to be in regular contact with all 10 of her children and says that hundreds of women around the world are mothers to hybrid children but simply do not realize it.
3 David Jacobs
David Jacobs taught American history for over 30 years at Temple University. He also recently made the claim that aliens had likely been abducting human beings for centuries in order to create alien/human hybrids who not only walk among us right now but are poised to take over the world. Jacobs is now the director at the International Centre for Abduction Research and has conducted interviews and studies of over 150 abductees.
He has also released several well-written and well-received books to make his argument to the wider public—all of which have been published by respected publishers.
He states that abductees, albeit under hypnosis, more often than not recall the exact same obscure details. They all speak of either human-like or insect-like aliens that appear to have a “need” to breed. Many female abductees frequently speak of being impregnated before having the fetus removed surgically, and then being forced to nurse the infant. He also reports that at the time of the alleged abductions, the person is usually genuinely physically missing, with many loved ones reporting the person missing before they suddenly reappear again.
Jacobs said recently that his work will either be “an interesting but nonessential footnote” or that it will prove to be “the most important thing that’s ever happened to humankind.” He says that he suspects that the aliens’ actions are for their benefit and not for ours.
2 Hybrids Created By Reptilians
Alien abductee and UFO researcher James Bartley recently made available online an interview he had conducted with a fellow abductee who had been sent to him by experienced researcher Barbara Bartholic. In the transcript, the abductee is referred to as “PR” to protect his identity.
PR told of his close-up experience with alien/human hybrids, who he said are a creation of the reptilians. Their main goal was to harvest the life force from humans.
Following the interview with PR, Bartley concluded that there are three types of alien hybrids on Earth. There are alien abductees who have had their genetic makeup altered by their abductors. There are “half-grey half-human” alien hybrids that are, according to Bartley, mostly present during abductions. And then there are hybrids that appear for the most part as normal human beings. It is this last type of hybrids that the reptilians have placed in positions of power around the world. Coincidentally or not, this last claim of hybrids is very much in line with author David Icke, who has made similar claims of reptilian hybrid aliens for the last two decades.
1 Eddie Page And The Secret Experiment
After years of confusion that included being arrested as a defector during a tour of Vietnam when he went missing for 11 days, a broken first marriage, and discovering he was adopted, Eddie Page finally discovered the truth about his existence. He was the product of a top-secret government experiment to produce an alien hybrid.
According to Page, his father is actually an alien from the Pleiades star system. He even claims that his official military documents state that he is “not of human origin.” Page states that during 1953 to 1955, there were experiments carried out on US citizens by aliens in exchange for providing alien technology to the US government.
He made the discoveries after he agreed to be hypnotically regressed. He recalled that the missing days he experienced in Vietnam were due to him being wounded on the mission he was on and consequently being taken by aliens and “patched up” before being returned to Earth—800 kilometers (500 mi) away from where he should have been. The rest of his unit died, and he has no doubt he would have died also if it hadn’t have been for their intervention.
Page further discovered that he was one of 32 clones who were part of the experiment—a total of 21 female clones and 11 (including Page) male clones. According to his research, only eight of those clones still alive, of which he is the only male.
Despite Page producing alleged medical records that he states shows his blood group is unidentified, as well as the fact that he has an extra vertebra and rib, the vast majority of people are skeptical of his claims, to say the least.
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Alien Encounters – Lost Disney UFO Documentary
Alien Encounters – Lost Disney UFO Documentary
UFO hunter nexus r/UFOs have turned up a Disney documentary about UFOs and aliens that was originally used to promote the “ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter” experience (The Wikipedia page describes the attraction, hilariously, as “theater-in-the-round”) that anchored Disney World’s Tomorrowland from 1994 to 2003.
While numerous UFO sites are running the Disney documentary as a “lost” film, it has been available on YouTube for several years. Nevertheless, the “lost” Disney UFO documentary is a fascinating glimpse into both mainstream reportage on alien visitation and the modern UFO conspiracy mindset, which views the documentary as existing in a continuum of “disclosure” material designed to prime humans for the eventual reveal of extraterrestrial contact.
You can watch the Disney UFO documentary Alien Encounters: From New Tomorrowland, complete with Mickey Mouse, right here:
Redditor AnotherPint does a nice job characterizing the conspiracy mindset as it relates to this “lost” Disney UFO documentary:
“According to lore, the doc, which weirdly treats UFOs and aliens as virtually established fact, was shown once, without warning, on a few isolated small-market TV stations in quieter parts of the US, then stowed away.
The conspiracists’ view is that this was part of a covert government-Disney collaboration to test public reaction to UFO disclosure. But there is no evidence of this. It was merely a tie-in promotion for a new Disney World attraction.”
It was at a 1979 MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) Symposium when the alien disclosure theories surrounding Walt Disney first exploded into the conspiracist consciousness.
Some say it was just propaganda to promote the new attraction Tomorrowland. Here’s the IMDb but with little info except a couple reviews. One of which from someone who claimed to work there at the time.
“As someone who worked at Disney/Magic Kingdom/Tomorrowland in the 90’s, I know, without a shadow of doubt (and the reason is was only shown once) is that the ENTIRE THING was a publicity stunt to bring attention to the new ride Alien Encounters.
If you look at all the younger people being interviewed? They’re all wearing the exact costume that cast members from Alien Encounter wore. Some of the younger, no-name ‘witnesses’ were actually cast members from Opening Crew.
The ENTIRE thing – every second of it – was publicity for the new attraction.
The only reason it can’t be found now, is because Disney maintains control of it and it’s locked up in their archives. It was only shown in 5 cities, because they were target cities.
Last year, we showed you the massive size of the universe (hint, it’s REALLY big). But in a universe that large — and given the Milky Way Galaxy itself is so expansive — why haven’t aliens contacted us? That’s the essence of the Fermi Paradox.
The idea is this: It shouldn’t be out of the question that there are many sophisticated civilizations across the galaxy. Given the age of the Milky Way itself (about 13.21 billion years), even a cosmically small sliver of time (like 10 million years) should be enough for some type of contact to occur.
Italian physicist Enrico Fermi is credited with bringing this question into the scientific forefront. According to stories, the genesis of the Fermi Paradox came during a 1950 lunchtime discussion with colleagues. They all thought it reasonable to speculate that we were not alone, and that we likely have a lot of company. But Fermi began to wonder, if that’s true then where is everyone?
Think about it in terms of humankind’s own space accomplishments. We’re on the cusp of interstellar space travel, and likely will send our first interstellar probes within the next few decades. That’s less than a century after mankind first sent a human being into space. In hundreds, thousands, if not millions of years, what could we do?
This point wasn’t lost on Fermi and his companions, even years before the first humans made it to space. An alien race should have no trouble colonizing the galaxy with a decent amount of rocket technology and some imperial wherewithal — especially in ten million years.
But scientists need proof though, and there’s little if any scientifically accepted evidence to back up the notion that we’re not alone in the universe. Even so, and using physics as an excuse for limiting speed of any alien spacecraft, it just doesn’t make sense.
Take Proxima Centauri, for example. Even going just a quarter of the speed of light, an alien craft could make it to Earth in 16 years. The planets around Gilese, 60 years. The slew of potentially habitable planets around TRAPPIST-1? About 160 years. That’s a long time, but nowhere near the 10 million year timeframe Fermi and his colleagues discussed, and a drop in the bucket when compared to the age of the Milky Way Galaxy itself.
The Drake Equation
Let’s shift gears to understand further why the Fermi Paradox gives astrophysicists fits. The Drake Equation is a simple mathematical formula first proposed by astronomer Frank Drake in 1961. Simply put, it tries to estimate the number of technologically advanced and communicating societies present in the galaxy. It looks like this:
Over the years, many astrophysicists have attempted to estimate each of the values, but here’s what they have come up with. R can also be thought of as the number of stars in the galaxy, which is currently estimated at 100 billion. Even on the low end, the fraction of good stars with planetary systems is thought to be about 20 percent, and those with “ecoshells” — life sustaining atmospheres — thought to be at least one per star. For the sake of argument, let’s say only 10 percent could actually develop lifeforms capable of human intelligence and communication. We’re eliminating quite a few possibilities, since that’s 10 percent of 10 percent of 10 percent.
Finally, “L” is a fraction of time the planet has borne communicable life. We’ll assume that they’ve been on their planet for as long as we have, so we make this 1/100,000,000. So, we’ve been awfully pessimistic. What is our result?
Two. So us, and somebody — or thing — else. It’s hard to believe that other civilizations haven’t been around longer than us. There are also other pre-technology civilizations that Drake’s Equation doesn’t even address. This leaves us with even more questions.
The Kardashev Scale
Adding to the debate is something called the Kardashev scale. Created by Soviet Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, it classifies civilizations by the amount of usable energy they can harness. These classes are:
Type I. This civilization has the ability to use all energy available on their planet.
Type II. This civilization can harness all the energy radiated by its star.
Type III. This civilization can harness the energy of the entire galaxy.
Carl Sagan put us about 70 percent of the way to Type I, and we should be able to achieve it within a century or two. Current calculations estimate we will reach Type II in a few thousand years, and to Type III within 100,000 to a million years.
At Type II or III, a civilization should be able to speed across the galaxy at close to the speed of light (or faster, if they’ve managed to discover ways to bend the current laws of physics). Things get even more mysterious.
So what gives?
The problem with the Fermi Paradox is that we might not ever be able to confirm or deny it, unless we either gain the technology to scan every planet in the galaxy, find aliens ourselves, or they find us. In the meantime, we’re left to speculate why we still haven’t heard from any galactic neighbors.
The Great Filter
One explanation is known as The Great Filter theory. In simplified terms, “The Great Filter” is an evolutionary step that is so difficult to surpass that most civilizations cannot surpass it. This prevents civilizations that could eventually gain spacefaring capabilities from doing so, simply because they destroy themselves first.
But there’s no consensus on where this Great Filter is located on the path from the origins of a civilization to a Type III on the Kardashev scale. Some even argue that we’ve already surpassed it, or that there are actually multiple ‘Great Filters.’ We also have no way of knowing how far we’ve come in the process, and we could simply be the most evolved species currently in existence.
Another version of the theory argues that we haven’t even made it to one of these Great Filters, and that we’re destined for destruction just like everybody else. The discovery of fossilized complex lifeforms on other planets could lend credence to this theory — but that hasn’t happened yet.
There’s a reason for the silence
Another line of reasoning speculates that it’s not necessarily the Great Filter, but a host of other reasons for why we haven’t heard from aliens yet. Here are a few possibilities:
They were already here.
Aliens could have visited us thousands of years ago, and we’d have no way of knowing. Early humans had no way to describe what they were seeing in modern terms. In fact, they’d probably consider it a sign from God himself. But there is merit to this theory, in spite of that crazy-haired guy from Ancient Aliens. Some of the structures built by early man are so extraordinarily complex that they defy explanation even in our modern society.
They’re too advanced, and don’t care.
Galactic snobbery may be at play. Spacefaring societies may already know about us, but believe Earth has nothing to offer. So they pass us by, and will continue to do so until we’re interesting to them.
We live in the Galactic version of the boondocks.
Other portions of the galaxy may already be colonized, it’s just that Earth and the solar system are in a remote area. This would prevent them from getting to us easily, and vice-versa.
Safety reasons.
interstellar chatter might attract the attention of aggressive species aimed at galactic domination — think Star Trek’s Borg. This species may have also wiped out other communicative species, which is actually a tad bit scary if you think about it. We could be next!
We’re too primitive.
Maybe signals from other civilizations are already out there, and our current communications technologies are too primitive to either pick out those signals, or we’re listening the wrong way (applying our techniques for communication transmission to an alien society which might be doing things completely differently). Think of it like turning on the radio to the wrong station.
We live in The Matrix.
Perhaps the most depressing explanation is that none of this reality is actually real, and it’s all just a simulation. The theory has gained some speed over the past decade or two, and it would indicate that we are alone, and an experiment for another, far more advanced civilization’s scientific curiosity.
As you can see, there’s a multitude of reasons — all of them even in the slightest bit plausible — for why the search for alien life has come up fruitless. But until we find concrete proof, the Fermi Paradox will continue to keep astrophysicists busy trying to explain the eerie galactic silence.
It might not be Fermi after all…
In the interest of complete accuracy, we should mention that Fermi was not the first scientist to speculate on this issue, and some accounts dispute he was even speaking of the lack of alien contact in terms of the actual existence of alien life during that lunch conversation. As early as 1933 astronautical theorist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was speculating on many of the same issues that Fermi is credited for, although in unpublished manuscripts.
Fermi’s rumored discussions were the first to be extensively debated in the scientific community, and he’s received many of the accolades — fair or not.
Scientists are still baffled by how Iapetus – the third largest of Saturn’s 62 moons – formed, as it does not seem to show similar formation patterns to the other ringed planet’s lunar satellites such as Titan and Rhea.
An image taken by Nasa’s unmanned Cassini spacecraft in 2004 shows a line that stretched around the entire moon, leading to theories that it was once two metallic structures that had been welded together.
The shape of the moon is eerily similar to that of the Death Star in Star Wars with some suggesting that movie makers have been slowly feeding the public information.
Conspiracy theory channel SecureTeam10 said in a video: “There’ some very prominent researchers out there who have theorised that Iapetus is a constructed object, it’s artificial.
Iapetus looks like the Death Star, according to conspiracy theory
“We go back to Hollywood drip feeding us bits of truth.
“We didn’t even have close up images of Iapetus, supposedly, when the Star Wars films came out in the 70s.
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The ridge of Iapetus
“Yet decades later we finally have some great close-up image and it’s identical to this fictional artificial weapon that is disguised as a planet in the Star War films.”
The huge ridge along the centre of the moon is 16,000 kilometres long and 20 kilometres high – almost double the size of Earth’s largest mountain Mount Everest.
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Saturn's moon Iapetus
This, according to the narrator of the video, is proof that it has been pieced together.
The video continues: “It looks as if there were two separate pieces and it’s almost as if they were welded together.
“There is a large welding mark wrapping around the crater as if they were two separate pieces that were cut down the middle and connected together.”
However, astronomers say that the most likely explanation for the giant ridge is that the moon expanded very quickly in its early days, causing ice to collect at the centre.
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Here's The Real Reason Why We Still Haven't Found Alien Life
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Here's The Real Reason Why We Still Haven't Found Alien Life
We're already going extinct.
CARLA LANT, FUTURISM
The Milky Way Galaxy alone is home to between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, and each is potentially orbited by planets. There are probably at least two trillion galaxies like ours in the observable universe, each one populated by trillions of planets orbiting hundreds of billions of stars.
Even if planets capable of sustaining life are exceedingly rare, on the numbers alone there should be intelligent life somewhere in the universe.
For example, according to Business Insider, if a mere 0.1 percent of planets in our galaxy that might be habitable harboured life, that would mean there were about a million planets with life on them.
These numbers prompted Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi to ask in regard to alien life forms: "Where are they?" This question has come to be known as the Fermi paradox, and most possible answers to it would be concerning for humans.
Of particular concern is the "Great Filter" hypothesis, which posits that before intelligent life has the opportunity to escape the bounds of its original planet, it hits some sort of wall - the Great Filter.
There are certain transitional moments from an evolutionary perspective that any planet like ours would have to master before communicating with other worlds. Some happen in the early stages of life, and in our case, we may be running up against that filter at this point in our evolution.
Climate change, if it is allowed to continue, will eventually devastate much of life on Earth as we know it. It was the remarkably stable climate of the past 12,000 years or so that has allowed human civilisation to flourish, benefitting from agriculture and eventually industrialisation (although ironically that may also be our undoing).
Recent research points to several characteristics of species more likely to survive the rigours of a planet ravaged by climate change: two of the most vital being an indiscriminate palate and a rapid reproductive cycle. Therefore, humans are basically the opposite of the types of creatures considered to be prime survivors.
In other words, although things wouldn't unfold in the same ways on different planets, it's possible that there are so many hurdles for life to clear that other civilisations haven't made it.
David Wallace-Wells wrote in New York Magazine: "In a universe that is many billions of years old, with star systems separated as much by time as by space, civilisations might emerge and develop and burn themselves up simply too fast to ever find one another ... The mass extinction we are now living through has only just begun; so much more dying is coming."
Other thinkers have different answers to the Fermi paradox, which are even more depressing (or less - depending on your perspective).
Oxford neuroscientist Anders Sandberg, Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade member Milan Ćirković, and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Stuart Armstrong have suggested that aliens aren't extinct, but are in hibernation, waiting for the universe to cool.
Professor Zaza Osmanov of the Free University of Tbilisi believes that our search for signs of alien megastructures has yet to be rewarded because we are looking around stars when we should be looking around pulsars.
And physicist Brian Cox suggests yet another possibility; a cautionary tale for our own civilisation as well as any others.
"It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster," says Cox.
If intelligent life unwittingly renders itself extinct as soon as it advances sufficiently, the physicist believes, "we could be approaching that position."
For The First Time, Scientists Have Captured 'Alien Ice' Crystallising on Earth
So cool.
PETER DOCKRILL
Not all ice is the same. In distant realms far beyond this world's Slurpees, melting glaciers, and the Ice Bucket Challenge, water hardens into a solid state in strange ways that just aren't possible here on Planet Earth.
Now, for the first time, scientists have managed to catch one of these alien, otherworldly ices in the act as it crystallises – recording water freezing into a structure called Ice VII (aka 'ice seven') under extreme, controlled conditions in the lab.
"These experiments with water are the first of their kind, allowing us to witness a fundamental disorder-to-order transition in one of the most abundant molecules in the Universe," says geophysicist Arianna Gleason from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
But wait – if you're wondering what happened to Ices I through to VI already, you've got another thing coming. There are actually around 20 known crystalline phases of ice, and only two of them – hexagonal ice and cubic ice – occur naturally on Earth.
Hexagonal ice, also known as Ice Ih (ice one h), is the structure of pretty much all the frozen water humans ever come into contact with on Earth's surface, while cubic ice (Ice Ic, or ice one c) is thought to sometimes form in our planet's upper atmosphere.
Ice VII. Credit: Arianna Gleason
All the other kinds of ice would only occur in conditions involving extreme temperatures or pressures not found here on Earth. Sometimes scientists can replicate those parameters in the lab and artificially create foreign ice structures, while at other times they only exist in simulations, being too difficult to actually synthesise.
In the case of Ice VII, this incredibly dense form is thought to naturally occur when icy planetary bodies collide in space, bringing an insane amount of pressure to bear on any liquid water molecules caught in the squeeze.
To recreate the intensity of such a hypothetical clash, Gleason's team fired a laser at a layer of diamond adjacent to a small cell containing liquid water.
Doing so vaporised the diamond and generated an intense shock wave, compressing the water to a pressure some 50,000 times greater than the Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level and triggering the phase change from liquid to solid.
At the exact same instant, pulses from a strobing X-ray laser imaged the water as it underwent its transformation, providing the first record of Ice VII crystallising on Earth.
"We discovered that we can transform the liquid into a solid just by moving the shock wave through. And during that tiny, short amount of time – it really is only a few nanoseconds, that's a billionth of a second – we probe with these ultrafast and brilliant X-ray pulses."
According to the team, this kind of laser setup could help scientists to capture some of the other mysterious ice structures at the moment of crystallisation – and the things we can learn from studying these molecular transitions aren't purely theoretical.
With Ice VII, for instance, knowing how ice crystals form on icy moons and comets could help us prepare for future space exploration to destinations like Jupiter's moon Europa, and help us understand why impact craters form the way they do on battered off-world landscapes.
According to planetary scientist Sarah Stewart from the University of California, Davis, who wasn't involved with the study, there's no shortage of demand for these kinds of insights.
"Looking at the fundamental materials that are everywhere in the Solar System to understand what happens under dynamic pressure," she told Space.com, "as a materials scientist, you eat this up."
The sensational claim was made by Dr Norman Bergrun, a well respected engineer who held a position at Nasa’s Ames Research Centre.
Dr Bergrun said that "living alien UFO spaceships” are using the rings of Saturn as a hiding spot and that they are “proliferating” at am alarming rate.
The former Nasa employee has previously said that the amount of spaceships has reached “critical” levels, and that authorities should keep an eye on it.
He added that the rings have become so compact with UFOs that they are now starting to gather around the likes of Jupiter and Neptune.
Saturn is hiding aliens, according to Norman Bergrund
Dr Bergrun: "What I found out is, these things inhabit Saturn, that’s where I first discovered them, and they’re proliferating. You can find them around Uranus and Jupiter.
"Wherever you see some rings, that’s where I see the aircrafts, I call them a ring maker.
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Dr Norman Bergrun
"I say that it is electromagnetic because I can identify streamline patterns with respect to it that I knew were what we called 'potential lines' and that says it was electrical."
Prominent UFO hunter Scott C Waring believes that Dr Bergrun has blown the lid on Nasa’s biggest secret.
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Some point to this break in Saturn's rings as signs of alien activity
He wrote on his alien-dedicated blog UFO Sightings Daily: "Norman Bergrun worked in a top secret area inside the US government and has personally witnessed seeing photos directly from Nasa that had UFO near Saturn that make the rings around Saturn.
"He says he has personally seen an increase of alien ship activity among the rings of Saturn over his career. Something has to be done."
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Aviation mechanic unable to identify sphere-shaped object
Aviation mechanic unable to identify sphere-shaped object
An Ohio witness at Mahoning County reported watching and photographing a sphere-shaped object crossing the sky, according to testimony in Case 84308 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness stepped outside at 10:07 p.m. on June 10, 2017, when the incident occurred.
“Went out to grab my cell phone charger out of scooter glove box and saw this object or objects hauling ass across the sky,” the witness stated. “Only had a little bit of time to snap a picture and a bit of video, but appeared to be more than one before I lost sight when the line of trees got in the way.”
Witness image close-up.
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The witness has an aviation background.
“Worked on F-16s and have enough knowledge of planes and helicopters to know it wasn’t a plane and it wasn’t arching like falling space objects.”
The witness provided two images and one short video clip with the report, which was filed on June 10, 2017. Mahoning County, Ohio, has a population of 238,823.
Mahoning County, Ohio, has a population of 238,823.
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Ohio MUFON Field Investigator Joseph Pavlansky 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.
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.
Teleportation Records
Chinese scientists have just shattered a record in teleportation. No, they haven't beamed anyone up to a spaceship. Rather, they sent a packet of information from Tibet to a satellite in orbit, up to 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) above the Earth's surface.
Experiments like this have been done before, but Howard Wiseman, director of the Center for Quantum Dynamics at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, told Live Science in an email that this one expands the possibilities for the technology. [Read more about the big jump.]
A Big Break
The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission detected the huge chunk of ice that broke off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf on July 12, 2017.
Credit: ESA
One of the largest icebergs ever recorded, packing about a trillion tons of ice or enough to fill up two Lake Eries, has just split off from Antarctica, in a much anticipated, though not celebrated, calving event.
The iceberg was expected, though scientists didn't know when the crack in the ice sheet would finally release the floating chunk. The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf — the fourth-largest shelf in Antarctica — has been around for decades. [Read more about the giant iceberg.]
Nasty Mess
A truck filled with slime eels, or hagfish, recently overturned on an Oregon highway, covering the entire roadway in slimy goo.
A truck carrying a bunch of slime eels recently crashed on the highway in Oregon, releasing a mind-boggling amount of slime and forcing the highway to close.
It turns out that the creatures aren't truly eels at all, but are hagfish, or primitive, bottom-dwelling fish that use their slime to fend off predators, several experts said. [Read more about the slimy situation.]
Super-Sized Super Soaker
Mark Rober with the colossal Super Soaker
Credit: Mark Rober/YouTube
If you're going to challenge someone to a water gun fight this summer, it's best you don't take up arms against Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who has created the world's largest Super Soaker.
The Super Soaker that Rober made with his friends works in a slightly different manner. It would be too cumbersome and difficult to pump up a 7-foot-long pistol, so instead, they installed two tanks — one with high-pressure nitrogen gas and the other with water — in the gun's handle. [Read more about the big gun.]
Water Bears are Tough
An extreme close-up of a tiny tardigrade, also known as a "water bear." A new study suggests the tiny eight-legged creatures could be the last survivors of Earth, outliving humanity.
Credit: University of Oxford
The eight-legged micro-animal called a tardigrade could survive nearly all the way until the death of the sun, a new study suggests — long after humans are history.
A still image from a movie that was stored in bacterial DNA. The image on the left is the original, and the image on the right is reconstructed from the data stored in DNA.
Credit: National Institute of Mental Health
If you thought flash drives were small, wait until you see this: Researchers have encoded the data to make a short video into the DNA molecules of bacteria. They also were able to retrieve the information from the genetic code and play back the movie.
Although it may seem like this project would have very limited applications to real life, researchers say they have goals far beyond the scope of the current study. [Read more about the movie.]
Flea Market FindA World-War II era German Enigma 1 machine recentlysold at auctionfor about $51,000.
Credit: Heimsoeth & Rinke
A German cryptography machine found at a flea market recently fetched $51,000 at auction.
Enigma machines were special encryption machines that were used by the Germans during World War II to send secure messages to their forces. While the initial code was cracked by Polish mathematicians on the eve of World War II, that didn't get them very far. [Read more about the rare machine.]
Finding Amelia
The 1935 Japanese photo book "Umi no seimeisen : Waga nannyou no sugata" has the same photo uncovered by the History channel.
Credit: National Diet Library Digital Collections
It's not her.
History channel researchers had claimed the image showed Earhart after she had been taken hostage as a suspected spy by the Japanese, who had a military presence in the Marshall Islands, where the photo was taken. [Read more about the photo.]
Beer and Birthdays
Scientists found a cache of letters written in ink on wafer-thin slices of wood.
Credit: The Vindolanda Trust
A cache of secret letters has been unearthed near the site of an ancient Roman fort in the United Kingdom.
The trove of Roman letters was in surprisingly pristine condition, thanks to the oxygen-free, or anaerobic, conditions in which they were buried. As a result, bacteria that normally degrade such items over time have not had a chance to attack the artifacts. [Read more about the birthday wishes.]
Early Animals, Special Powers
Frond-like rangeomorphs were among the first nonmicroscopic life-forms on Earth. These weird animals could be anywhere from a few centimeters to 2 meters (6.5 feet) tall.
Credit: Sarah Collins/University of Cambridge
Some of Earth's first large animals were shape-shifters, new research suggests.
Now, new measurements of these frondy fossils suggest that these animals, called rangeomorphs, were able to adjust their body size in response to changing ocean conditions. This shape-shifting ability may have enabled them to grow very large, very quickly. [Read more about the shape-shifters.]
See Juno Probe's Amazing Up-Close Views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (Photos)
See Juno Probe's Amazing Up-Close Views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (Photos)
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this raw image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot during a close flyby on July 10, 2017.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
You can now feast your eyes on the first up-close photos of Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot ever taken.
On Monday night (July 10), NASA's Juno spacecraft zoomed just 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) above the mammoth storm's cloud tops — closer than any probe had gotten before.
"For generations, people from all over the world and all walks of life have marveled over the Great Red Spot," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement before the flyby. "Now we are finally going to see what this storm looks like up close and personal."
The images that the probe's JunoCam instrument snapped during the close encounter have come down to Earth, NASA announced today (July 12), and the agency is urging anyone who's interested to have a go at processing the photos. You can do so on the mission's JunoCam page.
Another raw photo of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot captured on July 10, 2017, by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
The Great Red Spot has been swirling for centuries; astronomers have been monitoring it since 1830, NASA officials said. The storm is about 10,000 miles (16,000 km) wide, making it considerably bigger than the entire Earth. (Earth's diameter is about 7,900 miles, or 12,700 km).
But the Great Red Spot used to be even bigger; the storm has been shrinking for decades, though the rate at which this is occurring has slowed recently.
Another raw JunoCam image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot captured during Juno’s July 10 flyby, which brought the probe within 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) of the storm’s cloud tops.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Juno launched in August 2011 on a $1.1 billion mission to investigate Jupiter's composition, interior structure, formation and evolutionary history. The probe reached Jupiter on July 4 of last year, settling into a highly elliptical orbit that takes 53.5 Earth days to complete.
Juno collects most of its data during its closest passes by the solar system's largest planet. The Great Red Spot photos were taken during the latest such encounter — the sixth science flyby Juno has performed. (The spacecraft has actually performed seven close flybys, if you count the one that occurred during its orbital arrival, when Juno's science instruments were off.)
Juno's mission is scheduled to run through at least February 2018.
Vreemde objecten op schilderij zorgen voor beroering. Waren er aliens aanwezig bij de kruisiging van Jezus
Vreemde objecten op schilderij zorgen voor beroering. Waren er aliens aanwezig bij de kruisiging van Jezus?
In de Svetitschoveli-kathedraal in Georgië is een afbeelding van Jezus te zien die onder complottheoretici voor nogal wat beroering zorgt. Dat schrijft de Daily Express.
De afbeelding toont een menigte rond Jezus terwijl hij wordt gekruisigd. In de hoeken zijn een soort vliegende objecten zichtbaar. De objecten zijn koepelvormig en laten een spoor achter.
Historici die het 11e-eeuwse schilderij hebben bestudeerd zeggen dat de vreemde objecten beschermengelen zijn.
Belangrijke rol
Maar tijdens de Byzantijnse periode, die in het zuidoosten van Europa en het zuidwesten van Azië duurde tot de jaren 1450, werden engelen afgebeeld als mensachtigen met vleugels.
“De onbekende kunstenaar lijkt ons te vertellen dat deze vliegende schotels aanwezig waren bij de dood van Jezus,” schrijft de website The Ancient Aliens.
“De gezichten wijzen erop dat deze vaartuigen werden bestuurd door mensen of wezens die een belangrijke rol speelden bij de gebeurtenis,” klinkt het.
Gedaanteverwisselaar
Jezus Christus en het christendom zijn door de jaren heen al vaak gelinkt aan buitenaardse activiteit, aldus de Express.
Uit oude Egyptische teksten zou bijvoorbeeld zijn gebleken dat hij een gedaanteverwisselaar was die soms onzichtbaar was en kon vliegen.
De teksten, die zijn bestudeerd door professor Roelof van den Broek van de Universiteit Utrecht, bevatten een aantal opvallende passages.
Verdween
Zo zou stadhouder Pontius Pilatus hebben gezien hoe Jezus voor zijn ogen verdween. En in een droom zag hij Jezus vliegen.
Ook vroegen de autoriteiten Judas volgens de teksten om hem te identificeren door hem te kussen omdat hij van gedaante kon verwisselen.
De teksten, geschreven door bisschop Cyrillus van Jeruzalem, werden uiteindelijk niet opgenomen in de Bijbel.
MEXICAANSE PILOOT KOMT UFO'S TEGEN TIJDENS LANDING ( VIDEO )
MEXICAANSE PILOOT KOMT UFO'S TEGEN TIJDENS LANDING ( VIDEO )
Of er steeds meer UFO’s voor komen of dat ze zich vaker in de buurt van vliegtuigen begeven, is niet helemaal duidelijk, maar ze worden steeds vaker dichtbij vliegtuigen gesignaleerd.
Ongeveer een week geleden is een piloot van een klein vliegtuig bezig met de voorbereiding voor een landing in de Mexicaanse plaats Toluca wanneer er meerdere vreemde objecten langs zijn cockpitraam vliegen.
Wanneer je als piloot in een vliegtuig zit en er vliegen onbekende objecten rakelings langs je cockpitraam, dan zit je toch niet echt lekker ontspannen in je stoel.
Hierna volgen de beelden en als je goed kijkt, zie je meerdere objecten langs het raam van de cockpit vliegen op hele kleine afstand van het vliegtuig.
Wat we niet weten is of deze piloot de volgende dag is gebeld door Marcel Hulspas namens de Stichting Skepsis om hem te vertellen dat hij discolichten heeft gezien.
De man vliegt met zijn drone boven het Heaton Park met daaraan een camera gemonteerd die opnames maakt.
Dan zijn er dingen te zien zoals op de volgende afbeelding.
En net zoals met het vliegtuig in Mexico zie je ook hierna in de bewegende beelden diverse objecten langs de drone schieten.
Voor zover ons bekend heeft nog niemand een verklaring gevonden voor deze vreemde objecten.
Naast vliegende objecten die worden gefilmd vanuit vliegtuig of drone zien we ook regelmatig opnames van UFO’s bij vliegtuigen die vanaf de grond worden gefilmd.
Enkele dagen geleden filmden en fotografeerden meerdere mensen in Londen UFO's in de buurt van de aanvliegroutes naar vliegvelden en nu is er een vergelijkbare opname uit Slovakije.
Hierna de bewegende beelden en het betreft hier meerdere UFO’s die zich in de buurt van een passagierstoestel ophouden.
Mocht iemand een verklaring hebben voor wat hier allemaal gebeurt, dan horen we dat graag.
fel oranje (het leek vlammend) bollen die in rechte formatie met dezelfde snelheid en dezelfde afstand van elkaar vlogen van richting oost naar west. Vanuit arm lengte gezien hadden ze ongeveer de grote van een stuiver.(zie filmpje). Ze vlogen op grote hoogte, althans zo leek het en verplaatsten zich sneller dan een vliegtuig zo leek het. Ik heb een aantal jaar geleden deze bollen ook al een keer gezien, alleen waren dat er meer (6 stuks in formatie) alleen deze vlogen dynamisch.
“Nobody has proven that it is a fraud. We are going to present preliminary evidence that will determine in the eyes of the media, that these are true specimen. And if there are still doubts that this is real, the obligation of Peruvians and the whole world is to preserve these bodies to find a true answer.”
If those three-fingered humanoid mummies allegedly discovered and revealed to the public in Peru over the past two months could count off for roll call, they’d need two hands. At a press conference this week in Lima, mummy spokesperson and journalist Jaime Maussan announced that there are now five confirmed bodies so far – bodies that he and Gaia.com, his partners in the recovery, are calling “The Mummies of Nazca.” Which will they run out of first – mummies or fingers?
During the press conference, Maussan presented a number of X-rays of what he claimed were skeletons inside the mummies which resemble plaster statues more than the more familiar cloth-wrapped mummies of Egypt and movies. As in previous teaser videos for the pay-to-view series from Gaia.com on the mummies, he claims they are over 1,700 years old, which is also the speculated age of the famous Nazca lines, conveniently connecting the two without actually proving it.
Jaime Maussan (Ruptly)
This is the first time that anyone involved with the mummies has revealed how many have been found, possible relationships between them and what species they resemble.
“Apparently the body of a baby with the same characteristics according to the first analysis could be related. However, now it is necessary to perform a DNA test to be able to determine the relationship between the two. Those are two bodies and there are three of which seem to have characteristics that are closer to reptiles than to humans. That is, we have five bodies.”
Five bodies, at least one a baby, and three that look like reptiles. This has Reptilian fans sweaty, while the elongated skulls have the grey believers salivating. No one can explain the tree-fingered hands and three-toed feet, which has prompted some to declare this a new species among aliens as well as humanoids. That body count of five doesn’t seem to include the headless mini-mummy revealed earlier this week, unless that’s the baby.
One thing that has remained the same in all of these teaser videos is some variation of this statement:
“… now it is necessary to perform a DNA test …”
The rest of us knew that from day one. What are they waiting for … other than all four episodes of the series to run first?
Stay tuned and be grateful you can count to 7 without removing your shoes.
The cryptic drawings, known as petroglyphs, appear to show two men in helmets with strange weapons – proof that ancient astronauts came to Earth, according to some.
The petroglyphs seem to show the strange figures in protective suits, while white lines also seem to be coming from the heads, with some suggesting that it depicts lights built into the helmets.
The drawings in Valcamonica, near to the central Alps in northern Italy, are believed to be 10,000 years old and are part of a collection of more than 200,000 petroglyphs carved into the rocks of the valley.
Most of the drawings are of symbols and animals, but a few, such as these ancient astronaut drawings, stand out for their bizarre nature.
Conspiracy website Unknown5 said: “Believers in ancient alien theories point to these rock carvings as evidence of prehistoric alien visits to earth, and claim that the drawings were the people of the area recording what they were witnessing.”
In 1979, the collection of petroglyphs were recognised by UNESCO as a world heritage site – Italy’s first.
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Some point to the pyramids as evidence of aliens
Conspiracy theorists believe that aliens are depicted through human history, claiming that ET has guided mankind’s evolution.
They point to things such as the mystery still surrounding the building of the pyramids and various other rock drawings as proof that aliens have come to Earth to give our ancestors a helping hand.
Billionaire space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, CEO of commercial space company Bigelow Aerospace, is just one influential person who believes that aliens have been to Earth, and are still here.
He recently told CBS’s ’60 Minutes’: "I'm absolutely convinced [that aliens have visited] and that's all there is to it.
"There has been and there is an existing presence, an ET presence."
Part 2: Whatever happened to Kenneth Arnold and his Flying Saucers?
It is, to say the least, an unusual signature; ‘Kim’, surmounted by an unusual bat-wing shape in motion. For my benefit, Kim Purvis wrote a brief explanatory note next to her signatory glyph:
‘one of my dad’s saucers!!! 2nd from the last in group of 9 over Mt. Rainier in State of Washington.’
Kim’s maiden name is Arnold, and her father, Kenneth, changed world history by reporting seeing nine unusual aerial objects on June 24th 1947, comparing their motion to ‘a saucer if you skip it across the water’. Estimating their speed at a then staggering 1200 mph, he reported what he saw, Kim told me, ‘out of the deep fear for the military protection of our nation. He felt that this speed in combination with nuclear weapons could easily have destroyed our great nation.’
The contemporary records portray the businessman and private pilot as a respectable man who sincerely believed he saw something of genuine significance and reported it as such. But thereafter became embroiled in a media sensation that did not always treat him kindly, especially what became known as the Maury Island hoax, and perhaps the more exotic theory he eventually developed about his seminal report.
The Arnold Legacy
Kim Arnold became the guardian of his legacy, and so I contacted her whilst researching the potential TV series The Secret History of Flying Saucers. She was initially wary about my contact, explaining:
‘My father was interviewed by BBC Television years ago. They…re-enacted his original sighting over Mt. Rainier [and] promised him honourable representation in their documentary. Their creative results were not what they promised. My father wrote them a 2 page letter stating his personal dissatisfaction (I have recently checked on the existence of any original footage of this interview, they have discarded it). He never heard from them again and could do nothing to alter their finished product.’
However, she eventually and enthusiastically agreed to co-operate with my project. Of obvious interest were any cine-film records of her father, or shot by her father. Not least because in the book he co-authored with fantasy magazine publisher Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Arnold stated he had another sighting of multiple aerial objects, no more than 2 feet in diameter and brass coloured, which he filmed from his aircraft. Did this film survive?
‘I do not have any of the film with the golden objects or saucers that my father took…it was so bad…If I did identify it…I tossed it. When I was going over the film[s], I had the help of a professional movie producer…so don’t think that I threw out anything of value,” [verbatim] wrote Kim.
Tape Recording
There were, however, other historical treasures in the archives. Kim told me she had discovered an audio recording dating to 1950, wherein her father had re-flown his fateful flight to Mt Rainier, Washington State, narrating recollections of his 1947 sighting. This recording evidently lasts some 40 minutes and is surely of vital importance to historians of the subject.
As to the Maury Island affair, it became the prototype of almost every conspiracy theory that would dog the subject thereafter. Kenneth Arnold’s investigation of a reported multiple saucer sighting by one Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman involved claims of mysterious debris disgorged by one of the saucers, threats to Dahl from a ‘man in black’ and the tragic death of investigating Army Air Force Intelligence Officers whose plane crashed on the return flight from collecting samples of the ‘debris’.
Kim Arnold wrote:
“I have read all the government documents in regards to the Maury Island Incident. I have personally and recently talked to Fred Crisman Jr. the son of Fred Crisman. The dedicated UFO historians have been correct. Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl were con-artists looking for a fast buck.’
Adding:
‘It is with deep sadness [sic] that they took my father on a fantasy trip and two military intelligence men whom my father respected were killed in a plane crash.’
Spirit in the Sky
She asserts that her father was profoundly affected by his sightings ‘and always felt within his soul that his experience was spiritual and part of a divine plan.’
I was surprised at the depth of this feeling in her subsequent remarks:
‘The only other request is that your program does not shape the UFO phenomena into a negative thing like “devil related” My father’s experience was of a spiritual nature, and he was personally a believer in a divine plan for each person’s life. He believed in a Creator, but believed that the universe and our surroundings were unlimited in thought and creativity. I would not want my father’s pictures used in any kind of production that would promote devil type insinuations, or beliefs.’ [emphasis in original]
As to what her father actually saw, no one knows for sure. Meteor fragments? Mountain peaks seen through air turbulence? Many times Arnold was quoted in the media:
‘They’re living organisms of some sort “that come down to the lower atmosphere when they are disturbed by earthquakes, atomic explosions or things like that.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel, Sun Jul 24, 1955
Arnold believed what he saw were actually organisms rather than spacecraft, and possibly extraterrestrial (reminiscent of the Arthur Conan Doyle short story The Horror of the Heights[i])
Certainly Arnold never described the objects as circular, saucer-like or with any form of cupola, cockpit, dome, appendages or features of any kind. The sketches for the Army Air Force depicted eight of the objects as looking rather like a military shovel or spade head in plan form, with the description that they were about 1/20th the thickness of their apparent length. The 9th object he described as a bat-like wing (as depicted in Kim Arnold’s signatory glyph). USAF investigator J Allen Hynek, who re-examined the case made a strong argument that Arnold’s estimates as to size, speed and distance could simply not have tallied.
But few doubt that whatever Arnold saw, he sincerely believed it worthy of reporting. And historians of the subject should resist the revisionist attempts to link the emergence of the saucer phenomena with the Roswell farrago rather than its true impetus: Kenneth Arnold and his ‘Flying Saucers’.
Many thanks go to Kim Purvis nee Arnold, who, in 1997, was unfailingly courteous and helpful in response to my various questions. I offer my obvious regret to her and others that the project was never completed. Kenneth Arnold’s story surely deserves a film in its own right.
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Asteroids may have been giant mudballs in the early solar system
Asteroids may have been giant mudballs in the early solar system
Hayabusa 2 will collect samples from an asteroid
Akihiro Ikeshita/JAXA
By Sam Wong
Before there were asteroids, there were giant mudballs hurtling around the solar system.
The most common type of asteroid, called carbonaceous asteroids, may have delivered water and organic molecules to Earth, and could even be the precursors of rocky planets. They are thought to have formed from ice, dust and mineral grains called chondrules in the disc of dense gas and dust that birthed our solar system.
But not much is known about their history, and they have some unexplained characteristics. These rocks appear to have been altered at relatively low and uniform temperatures, so they must have had some way to lose heat from within. Some have proposed that water flowing inside the early asteroids cooled them down, but soluble elements don’t appear to have been moved around, as would be expected if water had been present.
Modelling early asteroids as mud makes more sense, says Philip Bland at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, and his collaborator Bryan Travis at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.
Muddy mixture
When the ice, dust and chondrules came together, they wouldn’t have been compacted under pressure into rock straight away, says Bland. Instead, the ice would have been melted by decaying radioactive atoms present among the dust and gas, turning the mixture into a sludgy mud.
Their model shows that these mudball asteroids likely formed from dusty material left over after the sun’s formation, and that convection would take place, allowing the interior to lose heat easily. Soluble and insoluble elements would be mixed together, preserving the primitive chemistry of the asteroid. “It turns out that that explains many more features of interest than if it’s a rock,” says Bland.
The mud would have turned to rock later on, perhaps aided by gravitational pressure once the asteroid got big enough, or by impacts with other objects.
“I think it’s a very exciting idea,” says Tom Davison at Imperial College London. “From the way they’ve presented it, it’s almost inevitable that this would happen in at least some bodies.”
Matching our meteorites
Sara Russell at the Natural History Museum in London says the mudball model aligns well with what is found in meteorites. “We see from our meteorite collection that chondrules within a single sample are the same size as each other,” she says. That’s difficult to explain without this model, she says.
Two space missions are currently en route to asteroids formed in the early universe that could be former mudballs: NASA’s Osiris-Rex and Japan’s Hayabusa 2 (depicted above). Both of these will map the asteroids in detail and return a sample to Earth, potentially allowing us to test this idea.
Understanding how asteroids formed will help us explain how organic chemistry evolved in the solar system, and could even help in the search for life elsewhere, says Bland. “It will help us make more sophisticated models of where we can look for habitable worlds around other stars,” he says.
The best way to detect aliens may be by finding their footprints
The best way to detect aliens may be by finding their footprints
Sign of life: Mars rover tracks
NASA/JPL-Caltech
By Mika McKinnon
To detect traces of alien life, try to find their footsteps. The first signs of life on another planet may not be a complex signal captured by an antenna or images of a scampering creature on an alien horizon, but a track left in long-dried mud.
On Earth, palaeontologists study traces left behind when an organism interacts with its environment. A team led by Andrea Baucon at the University of Modena, Italy, suggests that astrobiologists should follow suit and search not just for living and fossilised creatures, but also the traces they may have left behind.
“You have a heck of a lot more chance of finding the trace of an organism than you do the actual organism itself,” says Lisa Buckley, a palaeontologist at Peace Region Palaeontology
Research Centre in British Columbia, Canada. “One animal will leave countless traces in its lifetime, but it’s only ever going to leave one body fossil.”
Expanded search
Baucon says the odds of finding alien life would be increased by hunting for footprints, infilled burrows, excrement or other signs that something living disturbed the sediments of Mars, Saturn’s moon Titan or other solid surfaces in the solar system.
Traces mean that evidence of soft-bodied organisms – which lack a skeleton that can mineralise into fossil – can also be preserved, expanding the types of creatures found in the geological record.
Furthermore, they could reveal the behaviour of extraterrestrial life forms. On Earth, fossilised footprints show the gait of long-extinct dinosaurs and burrows indicate the habits of clams. Traces on other planets could provide hints about how alien organisms interact with their environments.
Traces of life
Baucon and his team tested the concept by hunting for signs of life in high-resolution photography of the solid bodies within our solar system. They didn’t find aliens, but they did discover traces of life: human boot prints on the moon and rover trails meandering over Mars. However, trace fossils won’t always be as easy to identify as solid footprints in lunar dust.
“Just because an organism leaves the trace, doesn’t mean that all traces are beautifully preserved and easily recognisable,” says Buckley. “Unless you actually find the animal dead in its tracks or you actually see the animal making the trace, you can never be 100 per cent sure that specific animal made that trace.”
The only evidence of soft-bodied organisms may be trace fossils
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It can also be hard to tell if traces are marks left by a life form or merely the relic of a purely geological process. A simpler organism is more likely to leave a simpler trace that can be confused with something that is not biological, like a squiggle or a crack in the rock, says Buckley.
Geological processes like metamorphism, weathering or erosion can also alter the rock, obscuring or altering traces. Definitively identifying traces is challenging enough on Earth without factoring in the many unknowns of an alien environment.
These techniques could open up new ways to discover alien life – if we can spot traces when we find them, that is. Would we recognise a footprint if we had never seen a creature with legs?
NASA image shows the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
Move over, Mars: Titan could be the best place for a human colony. As far as extraterrestrial bodies go, Saturn's largest moon is surprisingly like Earth, with a dense atmosphere that could shield delicate earthlings from radiation, reports New Scientist.
Titan's candidacy as a settlement isn't new, but a fresh analysis shows the yellow moon has valuable energy sources that could power a settlement.
Per Science Alert, Amanda Hendrix and Yuk Yung write that once propulsion issues of getting there are tackled, Titan is the "optimal location in the solar system for an off-Earth human settlement." Some 808 million miles away, self-sustainability on Titan is key.
Robots and even humans could one day make nuclear power by using radioactive decay there. The scientists say solar power could come from a US-sized solar farm, even though Titan is nearly 10 times farther from the sun than Earth is.
Titan's strong winds could also be put to use, if humans learn to build strong-enough turbines. Powerful tides created by Saturn's pull could be harnessed for hydropower, though little rain adds complications.
Titan could even be a crash pad on the road to more-distant exploration; ample methane-laced lakes may be mined for rocket fuel. "As a resource for long-term, solar-system-wide civilization, Titan would be a pivotal place," a Johns Hopkins University researcher tells New Scientist.
Researchers concede, however, that there are many unknowns, including Titan's geology. And, they say, Earth's own technology will have to improve before it can be exported.
These consequences of human activity could be the thing that prevents our civilization from advancing much further. In a particularly extreme scenario, it could even wind up wiping us from the face of the Earth.
That may sound unlikely, but it's the answer some scientists are giving to a perplexing question: Why haven't we encountered intelligent alien life?
The Fermi paradox We live in a galaxy with between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, each potentially surrounded by planets. Until recently, we thought there were about 200 billion such galaxies in our observable universe, each containing hundreds of billions of stars and trillions of planets — but new NASA research indicates there are probably at least 10 times as many.
Even if habitable planets are rare and life is exceedingly unlikely to arise, those mind-boggling numbers suggest there should still be other intelligent life somewhere in the universe. If just 0.1% of potentially habitable planets in our galaxy harbored life, there would still be a million planets with life.
So, as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked of our alien neighbors, "Where are they?"
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg looking down on Earth through windows in the ISS. NASA
Why haven't we heard from aliens or found any evidence of their existence? That question is known as the Fermi paradox, and there are several potential answers (most are fairly disconcerting).
One hypothesis is that before intelligent life manages to spread beyond its original planet to other nearby planets, it runs into a sort of "Great Filter."
As the philosopher Nick Bostrom explains, this idea suggests there are several "evolutionary transitions or steps" that life on an Earth-like planet has to achieve before it can communicate with civilizations in other star systems. But an obstacle or barrier may make it impossible for an intelligent species like ours to get through all those steps. That would explain why we haven't heard from or seen any other life.
"You start with billions and billions of potential germination points for life, and you end up with a sum total of zero extraterrestrial civilizations that we can observe. The Great Filter must therefore be powerful enough — which is to say, the critical steps must be improbable enough — that even with many billions of rolls of the dice, one ends up with nothing: no aliens, no spacecraft, no signals, at least none that we can detect in our neck of the woods."
Humans' Great Filter Climate change caused by the development of advanced civilization could very well be that filter in our case. David Wallace-Wells suggested this possibility in a recent feature for New York magazine:
"In a universe that is many billions of years old, with star systems separated as much by time as by space, civilizations might emerge and develop and burn themselves up simply too fast to ever find one another.
"Peter Ward, a charismatic paleontologist among those responsible for discovering that the planet's mass extinctions were caused by greenhouse gas, calls this the 'Great Filter': 'Civilizations rise, but there's an environmental filter that causes them to die off again and disappear fairly quickly,' he told me. 'If you look at planet Earth, the filtering we've had in the past has been in these mass extinctions.'
"The mass extinction we are now living through has only just begun; so much more dying is coming."
Scientists are currently debating whether we are now in the midst of the Earth's sixth mass-extinction event or approaching it. Either way, the situation is dire — the existential risks posed by a worst-case climate-change scenario are real.
If those risks become serious enough to act as humans' Great Filter, it may be too late for us to communicate with anyone else in our universe.
Read the original article onTech Insider. Copyright 2017.
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Bodies of FIVE alien-beings discovered at ancient Peru site
Bodies of FIVE alien-beings discovered at ancient Peru site
IN BIZARRE footage a UFO expert claims the mummified remains of five “alien” bodies were discovered near ancient artwork.
By Zoe Drewett
During a press conference held in Lima, Peru, UFO enthusiasts and journalists discussed the alleged discovery of alien remains near the ancient Nazca Lines.
Mexican Ufologist Jaime Maussan claimed that a total of five bodies have been discovered in the past two months and said the remains possess qualities “closer to reptiles than humans”.
He said the bodies are over 1,700 years old, the same date the Nazca Lines – huge etching of figures carved into the Earth only visible from the air – are believed to have been created.
Maussan included X-rays of the mummified remains to dispute claims made after the initial discovery in June that they had been faked and made from plaster cast.
“Nobody has proven that it is a fraud. We are going to present preliminary evidence that will determine in the eyes of the media, that these are true specimen,” he said.
“If there are still doubts that this is real, the obligation of Peruvians and the whole world is to preserve these bodies to find a true answer.”
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BIZARRE: The mummified alien bodies were found near an ancient site in Peru
The well-preserved “alien” remains unveiled last month allegedly measured 5ft 6ins tall, had three long fingers and an elongated skull.
Conspiracy theorist Maussan has long been criticised for “hyping up” the existence of aliens on Earth with dubious evidence.
British UFO author Nigel Watson slammed the extraterrestrial evidence as “a plaster cast model” describing it as “110% fake” in The New York Post.
And one dedicated debunker in Peru claims the discovered creatures’ hands are made of a mixture of bones, including children’s bones.
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CONFUSING: The claims have split opinion among theorists
Those at the conference reportedly forked out a staggering £232 for the privilege of attending and seeing the “aliens” up close, leading to more criticism of the theory.
However conspiracy theorists in Georgia might agree with Maussan.
By Wednesday afternoon, Juno had transmitted the clearest digital images yet of the Great Red Spot, which were then captured by NASA’s 230-foot wide Deep Space Network antennas, enabling the space agency to release humanity’s closest ever view of the crimson mystery.
NASA scientists don’t have time to immediately process all the photos themselves, so the space agency made the raw images available for anyone to process and share with curious Earthlings everywhere. Space fanatic and graphic designer Jason Major just processed and tweeted out an image of the Great Red Spot, shown below; hundreds more images are rolling in and being uploaded by NASA.
Juno passed just 5,600 miles above the Great Red Spot, shooting the storm with JunoCam’s wide field of view to create long panorama-like images. When the spacecraft neared Jupiter’s equator, JunoCam boasted an impressive resolution of nearly two miles (really, three kilometers) per pixel, and about 30 miles per pixel (50 kilometers) when shooting images over the poles.
Before Juno, the best shots of Jupiter came from the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which passed by the gas giant nearly 40 years ago, in 1979.
NASA scientists have yet to comment on the storm, but it’s certain that they’re scouring the images as they drop down into the agency’s Deep Space Network satellite dishes, strategically spread out around the globe in California, Spain, and Australia, to ensure that they don’t miss any incoming storm data.
It’s unknown if the storm’s baffling behavior will be cleared up, along with colliding systems around Jupiter’s south polar region and elsewhere. At the very least, JunoCam has given us an opportunity to look into the eye of the Great Red Spot, a curiosity that humans have been watching from afar for nearly 200 years.
A close-up of the Great Red Spot, shot by the JunoCam, captured on Earth by NASA, and processed by citizen-scientist Sean Doran.Photos via Sean Doran
Weather experts have been left baffled by a solid black ring which appeared in the sky -- but a former UFO investigator claims it's a Smoke Vortex.SWNS.com
Alien hunters say a fresh sighting of a mysterious black ring in the sky shows earthlings may not be alone in the galaxy.
The latest “smoke vortex” – believed by some to be a Unidentified Flying Object — was seen by Kimberley Robinson, who was driving in Yorkshire, England Sunday with her boyfriend.
The 22-year-old captured a photo of the strange black mark on her camera’s phone.
“We hadn’t ever seen anything like this before,” she told a local reporter after uploading the photo to social media. “We have looked into it and no one knows what it is.”
The photo shows what appears to be a giant black smoke ring, but local fire authorities said there had been no reports of fire in the area.
A similar black ring was spotted hovering over Disneyland in California last year and in 2015, footage emerged of a 320 feet-wide ring of smoke floating over Kazakhstan.
Nigel Watson, the author of “UFOs of the first World War,” said he believes the rings are being made by flying objects from another planet.
“Smoke rings in the sky like this one look very spooky and unusual,” he told the MailOnline.
Prominent UFO blogger Scott C Waring said he’s convinced the these marks are made by a type of extra-terrestrial space craft.
“Ring UFOs are super rare, but they have been seen,” he said about the Disneyland sighting.
He said it “causes the family to worry about an alien invasion.”
Alien theories aside, the recent Yorkshire sighting may have been caused by a nearby World War II battle re-enactment – complete with pyrotechnics – that was staged in the area earlier in the day.
“We had our WWI re-enactment on the Saturday and our WWII one on the Sunday, and that plume is actually from the WWII battle,” Sarah Clarke, an organizer for the Yorkshire Wartime Experience, told Express.co.uk.
In the 13 years Ian Purcell has lived in his home near Shawnigan Lake, he said he has never seen an object like he saw in the sky on June 27.
Purcell said he grabbed his video camera and began recording what appeared to be some sort of silver flying machine that was coming from the east before it arced around and started heading back in the direction from whence it came.
Purcell filmed the object’s progress across the sky for almost 10 minutes and then posted it on YouTube.
“It’s a very clear view of some sort of very odd ship with many engines clearly visible,” he said.
“It was definitely not from this Earth.”
Purcell said he lives about 45 kilometres from Victoria Airport and has watched thousands of planes at various distances over the years.
He said that whatever the object was, it would have to be at least the size of a large jet liner, based on reference points and distance, and had at least six engines that he could see.
“I could see different lights that looked like jets appearing and disappearing and at the nose, too,” Purcell said. “This is some of the best footage I have ever seen on a clearly visible UFO. I’m definitely going to keep my video camera nearby and fully charged from now on.”
Jon Willis, an associate professor from the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Victoria, said that after viewing a segment of the video, he believes the object is most likely man made.
“However, as an astronomer, my main expertise in these cases is being able to confirm that what is being observed is not a common celestial misidentification, like the moon, Venus, or a solar effect such as a parhelion (sun dog),” he said.
“Beyond that, I would caution that my expertise is very limited; no better than any other member of the public.”
Commenters on the YouTube video have suggested several explanations, including that it could be a large silver inflatable balloon that got loose.
Most ufologists are keenly aware of the frequent reports of what people often refer to as “orbs” which lacks much clarity. The term is often used to describe objects that turn out to be everything from Chinese lanterns, to ball plasma, and even navigation lights on aircraft. The term is also used to describe lens flares created from pointing cameras towards a bright light source, an out of focus light, and is also a dust particle that floats in front of a camera with a bright light seen in ghost investigations.
There exists another class of objects that science has yet to fully explain which seem to be a naturally recurring phenomena that are seen in certain geographic areas with increased frequencies (almost nightly) than the objects previously mentioned. In 1973, Piedmont, Missouri experienced a rash of sightings of luminous phenomena and documented by Dr. Harley Rutledge in his book, Project Identification. Dr. Rutledge had a team conduct a field study over a period of years, capturing scientific data, video and photographic evidence in the hopes of learning more about its nature. His summary report of these lights are consistent with other observations in other areas.
Missouri was not the only location that experienced this phenomena in 1973. In Cloverdale, Alabama, a small town located in the northwestern part of Alabama, similar lights were being seen almost nightly and appeared to be balls of luminous lights of varying colors. Residents saw these objects so frequently that they just ignore them – “it’s those dang lights again”. The Cloverdale phenomena continues to appear even today. Wyatt Cox, a former native of the area, now residing in South Carolina has documented and classified many hundreds of sightings that him a friend observed in his book, Spooklights, The Amazing Cloverdale, Alabama Spooklight Mystery.
Wyatt has done an excellent job in creating a classification system for the variations seen (e.g., colors tend to be blue, yellow/orange, white). The lights vary in size, speed and duration based on the colors noted. White lights are generally seen during warmer months, where yellow/orange lights tend to be seen during cooler months (October through April). The Spooklights, now referred to as “Earthlights” by Wyatt, tend to be 8 foot in diameter (the blue and white ones are 2-4 feet in diameter), travel in straight line paths (east to west or reversed), and can be at ground level and rise to altitudes of several thousand feet. They move at 20 mph, but can also stop and then proceed in their path. The lights can go out and then come back on as they proceed on their path and they generally disappear by fading out.
Wyatt Cox
Every serious UFO researcher and field investigator needs to get a copy of the books mentioned here along with the works of William Corliss on Luminous Phenomena. Corliss has done an excellent job of categorizing, referencing and even illustrating the myriads of types of luminous phenomena observed on the earth. Both Corliss as well as Cox see these objects as naturally occurring phenomena, not alien spacecraft. They are very similar to the lights in Hessdalen, Norway, the Marfa Lights, the Paulding Lights, Crossett Lights, Gurdon Lights and dozens of other areas around the globe and it this author’s opinion that it can explain a vast number of UFO sightings even outside of these geographic areas reported by witnesses as “orbs”.
One of many time-lapsed photos of an Earthlight.
Similar to the field study conducted by Dr. Rutledge, a scientific field investigation is being planned for the Cloverdale area this fall. We are seeking to secure the best equipment possible (spectroscopes, gravimeters, magnetometers, cameras capturing images in multiple parts of the EM spectrum, and other data collection tools) along with trained users of that equipment to see what we can learn. Plans include the possible use of a drone to see if we can get close-ups of the lights, equipped with sensors. The outcome will be to deliver a report on our findings and sharing our data collected. We have already begun collecting geological data, earthquake zone data, and weather data for the area.
For further information or interest in the study, please contact this author by writing him at ufoxprt@gmail.com.
Witness allegedly captures military UFO chase video
Witness allegedly captures military UFO chase video
A California witness at Landers reported that a group of people at a UFO conference watched and videotaped a military jet “chasing” two lights sources that may have been two independent objects, according to testimony in Case 84123 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The sighting occurred about 10 p.m. on May 21, 2017, at the conference in Joshua Tree, CA, that included one participant shooting video with night vision goggles.
“Luckily one of my participants caught this and many of our other sightings (from all three nights no less), with his black-and-white night vision video camera,” the witness stated. “His additional footage of some of the other incredible sightings will be posted at a future date once they are compiled.”
The witness described the event.
“At just before 10 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 contingency 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.’”
Image from witness video allegedly showing a UFO on left and military aircraft on right.
(Credit: MUFON)
One of the guests had a good look.
“One guest 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, three 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.”
The group then heard the sound of a low flying jet from behind the hill.
“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 two lights, or one object with two light sources on it.”
Image from witness video shows UFO.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness reviewed the video.
“After extensive review of the footage, I am nearly certain it shows two 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 two separate 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.”
California MUFON Chief Investigator Earl Grey Anderson 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.
NASA bekent: we hebben het geld niet om mensen op Mars te zetten
NASA bekent: we hebben het geld niet om mensen op Mars te zetten
Caroline Kraaijvanger
En daarom is er dus nog geen datum geprikt voor die allereerste bemande Marslanding.
Dat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie droomt van een bemande Marsmissie is geen geheim. Maar wanneer die dan precies plaats moest vinden? Dat bleef eigenlijk altijd een beetje vaag. Je zou je dan ook bijna af gaan vragen of NASA het eigenlijk wel kan: mensen op Mars zetten.
Met dit budget gaat het niet Tijdens een bijeenkomst van het American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics kwam Bill Gerstenmaier, dé man als het gaat om de bemande ruimtevaart binnen NASA, met een ontnuchterende reactie op dat vraagstuk. Nee. NASA kan met de huidige budgetten geen mensen op Mars zetten.
Verrassend Misschien komt dat een beetje als een verrassing. Want NASA heeft ons lang voorgespiegeld dat een bemande missie naar Mars prima mogelijk was. Als het budget jaar na jaar – in lijn met de inflatie – een beetje bleef stijgen en het gloednieuwe Space Launch System en ruimtevaartuig Orion in gebruik zouden worden genomen, gold: the sky is the limit. Dan moesten we mensen op Mars kunnen zetten en weer heelhuids terug kunnen brengen.
Landen Maar Gerstenmaier zet nu dus een streep door die optimistische beweringen. Hij doet dat in reactie op een heel redelijke vraag die tijdens de bijeenkomst van het American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics vanuit het publiek komt: Waarom heeft NASA nog geen datum geprikt om mensen op Mars te zetten? “Ik kan daarvoor geen datum prikken en de reden is dat we – met het beschreven budget dat dus grofweg elk jaar 2% stijgt – geen oppervlaktesystemen voor Mars kunnen bouwen,” aldus Gerstenmaier. Het is met deze budgetten dus prima mogelijk om Orion en SLS af te maken en uiteindelijk naar Mars te vliegen. Maar de atmosfeer van Mars binnengaan, afdalen in die atmosfeer en vervolgens heelhuids op het oppervlak van de rode planeet landen: dat is – met het voorgespiegelde budget – een brug te ver.
Marsrover Curiosity op het oppervlak van Mars.
Afbeelding: NASA.
Marsrovers zijn anders Misschien vraag je je af waarom dat zo lastig is: NASA heeft in het verleden toch al verscheidene Marsrovers heelhuids laten landen? Correct. Maar dat is niets in vergelijking met het laten landen van een bemande ruimtesonde, legt Gerstenmaier uit. “Als je kijkt naar de rovers die op Mars geland zijn, dan zie je dat ze grofweg 1 metrische ton wegen.” Een bemande lander zou ongeveer 20 keer meer wegen. “En dat is de minimale massa die we op het oppervlak van Mars moeten kunnen zetten.” En NASA weet nog niet hoe dat moet. Natuurlijk kun je dat uitvogelen, maar: dat kost geld. En dat geld is er dus niet. En daarom is het lastig om een datum te prikken voor een bemande landing op Mars.
Moeten we de rode planeet dan voorlopig maar helemaal uit ons hoofd zetten? Zeer zeker niet. Want het krap zittende NASA is niet de enige die droomt van een missie naar Mars. Ook bijvoorbeeld SpaceX en Blue Origin zien zo’n bemande Marsmissie wel zitten. En Elon Musk (SpaceX) durfde daar eerder wel al een voorzichtige datum voor te prikken: ergens in 2025 zou het moeten gaan gebeuren.
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"AIAA" De afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door NASA / John Frassanito and Associates
Moon Express wil in 2020 al materialen van de maan gaan halen
Moon Express wil in 2020 al materialen van de maan gaan halen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het bedrijf ziet de maan als het achtste continent dat – in navolging van de zeven op aarde – zo snel mogelijk moet worden uitgebuit.
Moon Express is voornemens nog dit jaar een lander op de maan te zetten en zo de Google Lunar X Prize in de wacht te slepen. Maar terwijl de voorbereidingen voor die allereerste private maanlanding nog in volle gang zijn, kijkt het bedrijf ook alvast verder. Want Moon Express is niet van plan om het bij die ene landing te laten.
De lander die de zuidpool van de maan ergens tussen 2017 en 2020 moet gaan verkennen.
Naar de zuidpool Dat blijkt uit de nieuwe plannen die het bedrijf op de site bekend heeft gemaakt. Kort nadat de eerste commerciële maanlander voet op de maan heeft gezet, wil Moon Express de allereerste commerciële expeditie naar de zuidpool van de maan opzetten. Tijdens deze expeditie zal opnieuw een lander voet op de maan zetten. Die lander moet onder meer uitzoeken welke waardevolle mineralen de zuidpool van de maan herbergt.
In 2020 wil Moon Express materiaal van het maanoppervlak halen en naar de aarde brengen.
Sample return In 2020 is het dan vervolgens tijd voor het echte werk. Tijdens deze derde expeditie zal wat materiaal van het oppervlak van de maan worden gehaald en naar de aarde worden gebracht. Het belooft de allereerste commerciële sample return mission te worden. En als die missie volgens plan verloopt, lijkt niets Moon Express nog in de weg te staan om ook de kostbare grondstoffen die de maan herbergt naar de aarde te halen.
Moon Express heeft er nooit een geheim van gemaakt dat het erop uit is om elementen die op aarde schaars (en dus duur) zijn van de maan te halen en op aarde te gaan verkopen. Maar dat het bedrijf dat al zo snel wil gaan doen, is verrassend. Het is tenslotte zo 2020. Maar laten we niet teveel op de zaken vooruit lopen. Eerst maar eens zien of het bedrijf er later dit jaar in slaagt om die lander heelhuids op de maan te krijgen. Overigens is Moon Express natuurlijk niet het enige bedrijf dat dit jaar nog naar de maan wil. Er zijn nog vijf teams in de race voor de Google Lunar X Prize. Lees er hier alles over!
Ook extreme TNO's suggereren dat planeet X echt bestaat
Ook extreme TNO's suggereren dat planeet X echt bestaat
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Ook de banen van extreme Transneptunische Objecten wijzen op de aanwezigheid van een negende planeet.
Begin 2016 beweerden twee astronomen dat ons zonnestelsel niet acht, maar negen planeten telt. Ze baseerden zich op zes Kuipergordelobjecten. De banen van deze objecten leken beïnvloed te worden door een zwaar object aan de rand van het zonnestelsel: planeet X. Deze planeet zou tien keer groter zijn dan de aarde en twintig keer verder van de zon verwijderd zijn dan Neptunus.
Twijfels Een opwindende ontdekking. Maar wel eentje die direct in twijfel werd getrokken door sommige onderzoekers. Deze onderzoekers wezen erop dat er gemakkelijk sprake kon zijn van een ‘observational bias‘. Hierbij denken astronomen een patroon te zien in de bewegingen van hemellichamen dat eigenlijk helemaal niet bestaat. Zo’n ‘bias’ zou in dit geval kunnen zijn ontstaan, doordat astronomen nog maar een zeer beperkt aantal Kuipergordelobjecten geobserveerd hebben.
Extreme TNO’s En zo blijft dus een beetje onduidelijk of planeet X nu wel of niet bestaat. Een nieuw onderzoek probeert iets meer duidelijkheid te scheppen. Spaanse onderzoekers zijn in het zonnestelsel op zoek gegaan naar bewijs voor het bestaan van planeet X en hebben daarbij gebruik gemaakt van een methode die veel minder vatbaar is voor een ‘observational bias‘. Ze richtten zich op een speciaal type Transneptunisch Object (TNO): de extreme TNO’s. Deze bevinden zich gemiddeld op een afstand van de zon die 150 keer groter is dan de gemiddelde afstand tussen de zon en de aarde en kruisen de baan van Neptunus nooit.
NOG EEN TIENDE PLANEET?
Recent stelden onderzoekers dat ons zonnestelsel mogelijk tien planeten telt. Ze hadden aanwijzingen gevonden dat op zo’n negen miljard kilometer van de zon een nog onontdekte planeet ter grootte van Mars cirkelt. De La Fuente Marcos is onder de indruk van hun theorie en hoopt ook die in de nabije toekomst met nieuw bewijs te kunnen staven.
Knopen De onderzoekers bestudeerden 28 van deze extreme TNO’s en stelden vast hoe groot de afstand van hun knopen tot de zon was. De knopen zijn twee punten in de baan van de extreme TNO’s. Deze punten bevinden zich op de plekken waar de baan van de extreme TNO’s het omloopvlak van de planeten die rond de zon draaien, raakt. Het is ook op dit punt waar de kans op een interactie met andere objecten het grootst is. Vandaar dat je op deze punten ook de grootste veranderingen in de baan van de hemellichamen zou verwachten. “Als er niets is dat ze (de extreme TNO’s, red.) verstoort, zouden de knopen van deze extreme TNO’s uniform verspreid moeten zijn, aangezien er niets is om te vermijden, maar als er één of meer verstoorders zijn, kunnen twee dingen gebeuren,” aldus onderzoeker Carlos de la Fuente Marcos. “Eén mogelijkheid is dat de extreme TNO’s stabiel zijn en in dit geval zijn hun knopen ver verwijderd van het pad van de mogelijke verstoorder. Maar als zij onstabiel zijn, gedragen ze zich als de kometen die de interactie aangaan met Jupiter en wiens knopen vaak juist dicht bij de baan van de hypothetische verstoorder liggen.”
Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat er waarschijnlijk wel een planeet is die invloed uitoefent op de knopen van deze extreme TNO’s. “We geloven dat wat wij hier zien niet toegeschreven kan worden aan een observational bias.” Een observational bias hangt namelijk samen met de manier waarop geobserveerd wordt. Maar de afstand tussen knopen en de zon is afhankelijk van de omvang en vorm van een omloopbaan: en dat zijn parameters die nauwelijks door een observational bias beïnvloed worden.
Daar zijn ze! De allereerste close-upfoto's van Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek!
Daar zijn ze! De allereerste close-upfoto's van Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek!
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Ruimtesonde Juno scheerde begin deze week over de gigantische storm die al meer dan 350 jaar op de gasreus woedt.
“Honderden jaren hebben wetenschappers Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek geobserveerd, zich over de vlek verwonderd en er theorieën over bedacht,” vertelt onderzoeker Scott Bolton. “En nu hebben we de beste foto’s ooit van deze iconische storm.”
Afbeelding: NASA / Kevin Gill.
Scheervlucht Ruimtesonde Juno maakte de foto’s afgelopen maandag. De zevende scheervlucht langs Jupiter voerde de sonde over de Grote Rode Vlek. Op het moment dat Juno over de storm heen vloog, was de afstand tussen de ruimtesonde en de wolkentoppen slechts zo’n 9000 kilometers.
Afbeelding: NASA / Gerald Eichstädt.
Breder dan de aarde Op de foto’s zien we de machtige, roodkleurige storm, die doorweven is met donkere wolken. De storm is zo’n 16.350 kilometer breed en daarmee net iets breder dan de aarde. Wetenschappers houden de storm al sinds 1830 in de gaten en gaan ervanuit dat deze al meer dan 350 jaar woedt.
Afbeelding: NASA / Jason Major.
Op het moment dat Juno over de Grote Rode Vlek vloog, was niet alleen zijn camera actief. Ook alle andere wetenschappelijke instrumenten aan boord van de sonde hebben hun werk gedaan. De resulterende onderzoeksgegevens zullen de komende tijd bestudeerd worden. “Het zal wat tijd kosten om niet alleen de data van JunoCam, maar ook die van Juno’s acht wetenschappelijke instrumenten te analyseren en een nieuw licht te werpen op de geschiedenis, het heden en de toekomst van de Grote Rode Vlek,” stelt Bolton.
While UFOs may be the most democratic of all unexplained mysteries –it can be experienced by both rich men or poor, illiterates or academicians, in developed countries or the 3rd World– UFO witnesses on the other hand are not regarded in such egalitarian terms; some are given more credibility than others depending on either their physical or mental aptitudes, training and professional career. For better or for worse, what one does for a living and how many years one spent inside a class room, determines whether others will take seriously your testimony of an encounter with something extraordinary.
Such is the case with police officers. Overall we consider them to be of above average moral integrity because we entrust them with the enforcement of the Law for the safekeeping of civilian citizens, hence their word can determine whether a suspect goes to jail or not. They have to be fit to fulfill their duties, have received instruction in firearm use and observation; but above all they have to be psychologically prepared to face any kind of situation, and be willing to put their lives at risk on a regular basis.
When a cop admits he or she saw a UFO, we inevitably pay closer attention.
The story I’m about to share with you, fellow Coppertops, also involves a police member –a military police, no less!– but is not widely known in the English-speaking UFO circles. And yet it is so unique and steep in high strangeness, it almost makes the aforementioned examples sound too… conventional.
But before we get down to business, there’s another thing that distinguishes UFO encounters involving police officers, which we shouldn’t forget to mention: Cops tend to have more to lose when they go on the record with a UFO encounter. Their reputations and/or personal lives tend to be perennially marred by that one episode, no matter how many years pass –as was the case with several of the witnesses in the cases previously mentioned.
J.J. Benítez. Spanish UFO hunter extraordinaire
Which is why when Spanish UFOlogist (and my long-time hero) Juan José Benítez met with a member of the Civil Guard –the military force in charge of police duties in Spain– on a local café in his home town of Barbate during the summer of 1980, he was asked absolute discretion and never to reveal his real name or rank without permission. The guard was accompanied by a partner of his, who was also a long-time friend of Benítez and had arranged the meeting with the seasoned investigator, so he could hear a first-hand account of what could very well be one of the most confounding cases in his long UFOlogical career.
The event, the witness told Benítez –who included it in his book ‘The Tip of the Iceberg’– had happened in July of 1974. The man was 24 years old at the time and lived in the city of Jerez de la Frontera –one of the municipalities in the province of Cádiz. He hadn’t joined the Civil Guard yet, and worked instead at an auto-repair shop; he was a motorcycle enthusiast and loved to cruise in his Puch mini-cross through the local country roads and highways, which he knew like the back of his hand.
That night, like many others, the young Jerezano went to the neighborhood of San Juan de Dios to see his girlfriend. The weather was warm and pleasant, so the couple went walking to a nearby field, not too far from the National Road IV, to probably do the kind of things young people in love like to do away from prying eyes, on a nice summer’s eve.
Map of Jerez de la Frontera, where the encounter took place.
At around 11:30 pm the couple noticed a strange light behind some cinder blocks nearby. It was round and amber in hue, like the color of a traffic light, and it slowly flew directly overhead at an altitude of around a thousand feet in complete silence. The astonished youngsters observed in amazement how the luminous object crossed the road, and seemed to land on top of a low hill some 1.8 miles away (3 kilometers).
“I didn’t think it twice,” said the guard to Benítez. With a fierce determination to find out what was it they had just witnessed, he took his girlfriend back to her home and then sped on his motorcycle toward the hill; but before reaching it and without any warning, the light disappeared.
Unfazed, the young motorist continued his trek to the hill. There, at its base he found a moped parked at a ditch. Suddenly he saw two male teenagers frantically running downhill toward him; they were the owners of the moped, and excitedly told him they had just witnessed a round apparatus with a dome on top, through which they had managed to observe two ‘shadows’ inside.
“I asked them to accompany me to the top, but they flat-out refused.” The terrified teens fled to Jerez as fast as their little moped permitted it.
Puch mini-cross motorcycle, similar to the one owned by the witness
Tenaciously, the young man rode his bike to the summit at full throttle. He reached the top and everything was in complete darkness, the night only disturbed by the nervous barking of dogs from a nearby shack. He searched around and saw that the orangish light was again airborne, flying slowly away towards the crossing of the roads to Sanlúcar and Trebujena. The man felt anger, thinking he had just missed the landed object for a matter of seconds.
Fortunately for our intrepid chaser, the light took ground once more on the steepest side of another nearby hill, some one and a quarter miles away from where he was. The game, as Sherlock Holmes might say, was still afoot.
Not taking the light out of his sight he charged toward the second hill, both his bike and his heart at full speed. But when he was no more than 650 feet away, the tricksterish luminescence faded away once more; whether it had disappeared or it just ‘shut down’ he couldn’t say. The motorized UFO hunter slowed down and felt outplayed in this bizarre cat-and-mouse situation. It was then when he first took notice of two most peculiar details: Not only was the entire zone enveloped in an eerie blanket of utter silence –“as heavy as lead,” the witness explained to Benítez– but also during the following minutes he never managed to see any type of vehicle transit in both directions, something totally uncommon on these heavily-transited highways.
It was as if someone had pushed a cosmic PAUSE button on the entire region of Jerez.
Fed up and on the brink of giving up, the motorcyclist gave the pursue one final shot. He rode in the direction of Trebujena, where there was a slope which he could use as a vantage point to better scout the whole area. With any luck, he thought, he might be able to track the elusive light one last time –which by now he was convinced it was no conventional aircraft.
But without any warning and before he could reach the slope a moving truck appeared heading directly in front of him. Its color was blue and had big red lights on the top of its cabin, a seemingly mundane vehicle –despite the fact it was the first one he had spotted in quite a while– if not for one small yet disturbing detail: When it crossed to his left, the guard explained to Benítez, he realized the truck did not make any noise whatsoever!
He didn’t even feel the expected rush of wind produced by its wake!
“It can’t be!” he thought to himself as he abruptly put on the brakes and changed direction, now in pursuit of the silent truck, which continued its unperturbed trajectory toward Jerez. It moved at an approximate speed of 37 miles per hour (60 km/hr) which made catching up with it easy enough, and the motorist began tailing it and keeping a close distance of no more than 165 feet.
The chase now continued through a zone of steep loops in the highway, and no sooner than the young motorist emerged from a left curve, he astonishingly realized the phantom vehicle had vanished from his sight; “something materially impossible,” he was adamant in his exposition to Benítez, “because at that point the curve gave way to a narrow, straight line of more than half a mile in length.” There was simply no place in which the truck could have pulled over without being spotted by the young man, nor an alternative road or detour it could have taken to lose sight of its biking pursuer.
The disappearance of the “ghost truck” was the last straw for the intrepid UFO hunter, and the totality of the strangeness he had experienced so far began to take its toll on his nerves. He decided to call it a night and return to Jerez, but the very moment he switched his motorcycle’s high beam, the road ahead was illuminated by a different source…
There, in front of him, was the amber light he had recklessly pursued like a motorized Ahab in hunt of and otherworldly white whale, shining all across the entire width of the lonely highway. He now could distinctly perceive a shiny-looking dome on top of it, which looked to him “like the glass in a bathroom” –perhaps because it was not entirely opaque. He knew it was the same object which had previously terrified the two teenagers in the moped.
Without knowing why, the witness began to make light signals to the object, switching from the low beam to high beam of his bike. But the object was unresponsive to the improvised communications attempt.
Just to make sure he wasn’t suffering from some sort of hallucination, the civil guard confessed to Benítez 6 years after his close encounter, he reached out and touched the escape pipe of his minicross. The throbs from the burned flesh in his right hand confirmed what his mind was frantically trying to reject: This wasn’t a dream.
This was REAL.
Maybe it was the burning pain what managed to rekindle the young man’s indomitable spirit. Maybe, if true, this is the account of the bravest UFO witness who’s ever lived to tell his tale. Whatever the case, the motorist knew he had no choice but to finish what he’d started. So, in a final push of courage, he revved his faithful bike and sped toward the flying saucer at full speed. Don Quixote couldn’t have felt more proud of this modern giant slayer mounting his mechanized Rocinante.
“But no sooner had I started to run in the direction of the object,” the guard told Benítez, “when in the blink of an eye the amber-like light, the domed object and all of that ‘turned off’, disappearing from my sight. And in their place appeared the lights of two automobiles!”
J.J. Benítez was just as incredulous as you might be by now, my dear Coppertops. He kept pushing the Civil Guard into explaining and re-explaining this last point of his incredible story. No, the police officer insisted, there hadn’t been any perceived lapse between the ‘dematerialization’ of the UFO and the ‘materialization’ of those two cars, parked one in front of the other on the right side of the highway with their headlights on. It had all happened completely simultaneously.
Confused, but still as curious and brave as ever, the young motorist slowly approached the parked vehicles, which appeared to him as big sedans (Mercedes or Dodge, he couldn’t really say) of a gray, shiny color –“almost as if they had just been car-washed.”
Not knowing what drove him to do it, he told Benítez, the witness stopped his bike near the driver’s door of the first sedan, which had its window down. Something told him these were no ordinary automobiles, despite the seemingly flawless disguise. He peered inside the car, which didn’t have any inner lights on, and saw that behind the wheel was a man with silvery hair who seemed to be around 50 years of age, and yet looked tall and athletic behind his impeccable ashen-gray suit, complete with a white shirt and a dark tie.
The driver wasn’t alone in the car. Next to him and on one of the back seats were two more individuals, and directly behind him was a tall, younger woman with long blond hair, dressed in a tailor suit which left her neck exposed. Despite the lack of light our young witness could tell she was very beautiful, aside from her serious expression.
The second car was no more than 3 feet away from the first, and although the young man was certain there was someone inside, it was too dark to tell.
“Buenas noches,” the middle-aged driver greeted the young motorist. “Please, where is the direction of the National Road IV?”, he proceeded to ask in impeccable Spanish without any hint of a strange accent. His eyes and appearance looked completely normal, and yet the witness felt there was just something odd in the features of these ‘lost tourists’ he couldn’t quite put his finger on –“their faces weren’t national nor foreign… they were just strange.”
The other three passengers never opened their mouths.
The young motorist started to explain to the driver how to get to the road he asked for. After a few minutes he realized that, even with the directions he was providing, finding the National Road IV at this ungodly hour of the night would be no easy task –this was, after all, during the ‘dark ages’ before Google Maps and Waze. Incidentally, during his brief inspection of the car’s interior the witness didn’t see any maps which the ‘tourists’ could use to orient themselves; so he diligently offered to escort the two cars to the road.
“Very well,” was the only thing the silver-haired man uttered as a way to thank the young Good Samaritan. The motorcycle ran ahead and the cars made a u-turn and followed behind. The roles had now been absurdly switched: The previous pursuer was now leading the ‘materialized’ cars into the city of Jerez, which were just as devoid of any normal sound as the blue moving truck preceding them, or the amber flying saucer which had started the whole thing.
The young motorist kept riding while keeping a close watch of the sedans with his rear-view mirror. The three vehicles crossed under a bridge –again, no sound coming from the cars bounced off of it– and once they entered the city and reached the zoo, the witness slowed down and stopped. The two sedans did the same.
The witness turned and reached the first vehicle, again from the side of the driver’s window, to talk to the silver-haired conductor. “Now you just follow straight ahead, and turn to the first right…” he started to explain to the elderly man in the gray suit. “Very well, thank you” was his stark reply, without letting finish the motorcyclist’s indications. Not once did he offer any smile or sign of appreciation for the young man’s service.
Either the young man now felt some sort of responsibility toward these ‘tourists’ –despite their obvious lack of cordiality– who could still find it hard to reach the National Road IV, or maybe something in the back of his mind deduced this was just a big ruse. “Do you want me to take you directly to the road?” he offered.
“No, thank you!” said the driver with great conviction.
“Hey, it’s no trouble at all…”
“No. THANK. YOU!” the man repeated. The tone of his voice and the force in his stare were crystal clear.
The young motorist bid them good night, turned 180 degrees on his bike and rode back home. The two cars moved through the street he had indicated them, and he lost them out of his sight, never to see them again.
Benítez had been listening to the Civil Guard’s astounding account, refraining from interrupting him too much, and only making a few occasional clarifying questions. The two officers –the witness and his partner– had gone uncomfortably quiet and so had he, sitting on that little café in the small coastal town where he had lived most of his life, when he wasn’t chasing after those elusive flying saucers all over the globe. He didn’t know what to make of the young man’s tale, other than he felt he was being totally sincere in his recollections –the fact that he rejected any kind of publicity being evidence of it.
Finally, Benítez ventured one final question, and he urged the witness to think carefully before he replied:
“When you approached those two cars for the first time, saw the occupants and spoke with the driver… did you note or perceive any special sensation?”
It didn’t take long for the military man to answer: “Yes. I felt they were expecting me.” [Emphasis mine]
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Officers of the Spanish Civil Guard wearing their traditional uniform
Benítez concluded that first interview, and in subsequent days he contacted the witness again to fill in a few minor details. The officer added that soon after the strange incident he’d lived that summer of 1974, he started to complain from a strange ‘pressure’ in his temples. He went to see a doctor but it was simply diagnosed as a ‘nervousness.’ He lost his job at the auto repair shop, and enrolled in the Civil Guard two years later, where he’d had a very good career.
As it’s his custom, Benítez accompanied the guard to the place where the event took place, to take notes and make measurements. One detail lacking in the account made by the seasoned investigator in his book ‘The Tip of the Iceberg’, is any mention of possible burn marks or physical traces left by the UFO during its multiple landings. After 6 years the chances that any mark left by the object could still be found in the highway’s tarmac are very slim –after all, transited roads coming in and out of a city have to be regularly repaired and maintained. But what about the two hills where the ‘light’ took ground during the first stage’s of the chase?
Either it was something omitted by the witness in his testimony, or there simply wasn’t any physical evidence to be found.
One little thing Benítez does mention, however, might be more revealing than any sample of scorched material: When he parked his car –a small Renault 18 he owned at the time– in the same spot where the witness saw the gray sedans for the first time, and he tried to turn to reconstruct the exact itinerary followed by the cars as they were escorted by the motorcycle to the city, he was forced to back up at the edge in order not to hit the ditch, because the road was not wide enough for a complete u-turn.
And yet, the witness did not recollect seeing the two cars make the same corrective maneuver from his rear-view mirror. Something simply impossible considering the length of the sedans –or at least as possible as two big combustion-engined vehicles from the mid-1970s being able to cruise without emitting ANY sound…
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Borderlands is the name of a book written by Mike Dash, dealing with all sorts of high-strangeness cases he’s investigated, like the one we’ve just discussed –the book has been commented by Ben and Aaron on past MU episodes.
Borderlands is also the name of a popular video game series, in which players are free to explore an alien planet and embark on different adventures at their leisure. There are several ways to move around the planet: Walking, which is slow and boring (not to mention dangerous); Teleporting, which you can only do once you find one of the few ‘Fast Travel’ terminals scattered across the game field; or, if you feel like cruising around the landscape, there’s always the option to ‘Catch-A-Ride’, which is the name of stations that instantly materialize a fully-customized four-wheel vehicle for you.
Catch a riiiiiiiide?
What makes the ‘Catch-A-Ride’ particularly fun is because it lets you customize your vehicle in many different ways; changed your mind about the paint color or think you want to trade the machine gun for a rocket launcher? No problem! You push the station button and your ride is switched in the blink of an eye.
For a videogame player, there’s nothing special about watching a full vehicle appear out of thin air. It’s what you expect from a make-believe cybernetic universe in which you can move around strange worlds, shoot guns, die and reborn as many times as you want. Just 1’s and 0’s running through the game’s code, right?
But what happens when similar capabilities are observed in what we think is the ‘real world’? Is it a hint that all of us are nothing but synthetic characters embedded in a universal sandbox for the benefit of god-like users?
If the story of the anonymous Civil Guard is true –and to be fair, there seems to be no further circumstantial evidence to corroborate it– then it is disturbing because of its encompassing implications. During all this time ‘conventional’ UFOlogists –read ‘nuts-and-bolters’— have operated under the assumption they are dealing with a tangiblephenomenon; something, however exotic or foreign, that has nevertheless defined properties like a given mass or occupying a finite space. Something that could be measured, if having the luck of being at the right place and the right time.
What our young motorized hero claimed to have witnessed throws that out of the window though, because it seems to implicate a power capable of assuming whatever shape it suits it best: From a bonafide flying saucer to a large moving truck, and then even ‘splicing’ into two separate vehicles. We can only assume those ‘morphing’ abilities can also be applied to whatever possible intelligences control that power.
The ‘simulation’ was not 100% perfect though, as hinted by the lack of sound emitted by the multiple manifestations of the phenomenon. One wonders what would have happened if our intrepid UFO chaser would have dared to reach out and grab the arm of that mysterious ‘man in gray’ driving the mirage car…
Does this denote a limit to the phenomenon’s reach, the same a video game has to limit the ‘polygon count’ of every synthetic model generated in its cyber-space? Or perhaps it simply didn’t care to create a flawless deception to fool just one stubborn kid on a bike…
Or maybe the ‘flaw’ was also part of the ruse all along, to keep luring the witness into that absurd cat-and-mouse chase. Because surely a power capable of manipulating its shape could also make itself invisible to the human eye –the way the light ‘shut down’ just as the motorcyclist was about to catch on with it.
Whatever the case, the story of the ‘morphing flying saucer’ coaxes us to reframe our assumptions –see what I did there?– about what exactly we are dealing with, even if we’re still so far away to understand its true motives.
Perhaps no place on Earth has held quite as much mystery and intrigue as the famous Rapa Nui, formerly (and still popularly) known as Easter Island, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. A world heritage site since 1995, its unique location and appearance, thanks in part to archaeological remains in the form of the “moai” statues found on the island, have contributed to the wonder and appeal it has instilled in our minds in modern times.
There have long been a number of mysteries about the remote island, and the origins of the people who first settled it. Recognized as a territory of Chile today, it is believed that Polynesian settlers were likely the first to have arrived on the island, who once represented a thriving culture known today as the Rapa Nui civilization, who lived well despite the island’s isolated location in the pacific.
It has long been suspected that the downfall of the Rapa Nui resulted from the destruction of natural resources over time, which led to deforestation and extinction of indigenous species, as a result of overpopulation the likes of which affected other ancient cultures, including the Mayan Civilization. While numbering only in the thousands by the time of its discovery in the early 1700s by Europeans, the island once had an estimated population of 15,000.
However, despite the prevalence of what many have called the “ecocide” theory of Easter Island’s historic past, new evidence suggests that human influence on the environment and depletion of natural resources may not have caused the widespread population decline as once thought.
Researchers at Birmingham University, in cooperation with State University in New York have found evidence from recent soil analysis that suggests the Rapa Nui were far more skilled at improving soil fertility and improving environmental conditions than once thought, which, in addition to a large degree of subsistence off of marine resources, counters the traditional narrative involving environmental decline.
Carl Lipo, a Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, commented on this in a university press release:
”One of the resources that they supposedly used up was trees that were growing on the island. Those trees provided canoes and, as a result of the lack of canoes, they could no longer fish. So they started to rely more and more on land food. As they relied on land food, productivity went down because of soil erosion, which led to crop failures…Painting the picture of this sort of catastrophe. That’s the traditional narrative.”
Analysis of samples from the island involved carbon and nitrogen isotopes, as well as certain amino acid and isotopic analyses which studied collagen present in the samples. This helped determine which had origins in terrestrial sources, versus those from the surrounding ocean. The samples included human, animal, and plant remains retrieved from multiple archaeological sites on the island.
Popular Archaeologyreports that, “Results of carbon and nitrogen analyses independently show that around half the protein in diets from the humans measured came from marine sources; markedly higher than previous estimates. These findings point to concerted efforts to manipulate agricultural soils, and suggest the prehistoric Rapa Nui population had extensive knowledge of how to overcome poor soil fertility, improve environmental conditions, and create a sustainable food supply.”
“That supports the argument we’ve made in our previous work,” Lipo says, “that these people came up with am ingenious strategy in enriching the soils by adding bedrock to the surface and inside the soil to create, essentially, fertilizer to support their populations, and that forest loss really isn’t a catastrophe as previously described.”
Earlier studies at Birmingham University carried out by Lipo have similarly addressed the idea that the islanders, as resources declined, waged war against one another, effectively destroying the Rapa Nui civilization. Earlier this year, the university reported that an analysis of artifacts found at Easter Island determined that they were general purpose tools, rather than spearpoints as once believed.
“When you can compare [the tools] to European weapons or weapons found anywhere around the world when there are actually objects used for warfare, they’re very systematic in their shape.” Lipo argued that such tools “have to do their job really well. Not doing well is risking death.”
“We found that when you look at the shape of these things, they just don’t look like weapons at all.”
The ongoing research into Easter Island, its history, and mysterious decline can be read about at Birmingham University’s website.
A group of people attending a UFO conference in Washington State say they spotted a large opening near the top of Mt Adams and some claim it’s an opening for alien spaceships to depart and enter. With the history of UFO and orb sightings in this area, anything is possible. But an alien hangar?
The discovery occurred at the 2017 ECETI (Enlightened Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence) conference held annually at the ECETI Ranch in Trout Lake, Washington. The ranch was founded as a mountain retreat in 1986 by James Gilliland, an author, teacher, ufologist and spiritual counselor. After a near-death experience, Gilliland left the business world to help other embark on their own spiritual journeys.
Mt. Adams would seem to be an ideal place for a spiritual retreat … and more. The dormant volcano, along with Mt. Hood and Mt. St. Helens, form the “smoking mountains” that appear in many Native American legends. It also played a part in the famous 1947 UFO sighting when pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed he saw nine UFOs fly past Mount Rainier at an estimated 1,200 miles an hour (1,932 km/hr) before disappearing at Mt. Adams. Since then, there’s been speculation that Mt. Adams is hiding a secret spaceship base.
Gilliland believes there’s a dimensional portal in the vicinity, has seen thousands of UFO – including one he boarded – and says he’s encountered aliens. However, the apparent opening in Mt. Adams was found not by him but by Jimmy Church, a paranormal radio and television host (Fade to Black) who was participating in the conference. In his video, he shows before (June 29th) and after (June 30th) images of Mt. Adams and points out when the hole appeared and seemingly stayed open while over 150 people were said to have seen the 500 by 150 foot dark spot.
What did they see? The media reports and the Fade to Black YouTube video scream “UFO hangar door” because … well, it’s Mt. Adams. It certainly looks more like a hole or a cave opening than a shadow, but not much like a door for sophisticated spacecraft flown by an advanced civilization. James Gilliland does not seem to have anything to say about it in the video, but he has many of his own videos and corroborating witnesses of what he says are UFOs passing through the “interdimensional door” to a base. Church’s video also show a UFO but it wasn’t using the hole.
The most frequent comment about the video is “Send in the drones!”, which seems like a reasonable suggestion since the spot is so clearly identified … unless the hole closes up. Of course, someone could also climb up and knock.
Is this the smoking gun in the smoking mountain that will prove the existence of an alien UFO base … or just smoke? Church, Gilliland and ECETI have a year to find something whole about the hole for the 2018 conference.
Chinese wetenschappers hebben met succes een object vanop Aarde de ruimte in geteleporteerd, meldt de MIT Technology Review. De doorbraak plaveit de weg voor meer ambitieuze en futuristische projecten. 'Beam me up, Scotty!'
Concreet gaat het om een fotondeeltje dat naar een satelliet werd gezonden die op een kleine 500 kilometer afstand in een baan om de Aarde draait. De techniek die de wetenschappers gebruikten heet 'kwantumverstrengeling', een "vreemd fenomeen, dat optreedt wanneer twee kwantumobjecten, zoals fotondeeltjes, op hetzelfde moment en punt in de ruimte ontstaan en zo dezelfde existentie delen", aldus het blad van MIT.
Een jaar geleden slaagden wetenschappers er voor het eerst in een object te teleporteren buiten een labosetting. "In het verleden waren experimenten met teleportatie beperkt tot afstanden van zo'n 100 kilometer", zeggen de onderzoekers aan het MIT-blad.
Het onderzoek betekent een doorbraak op de weg naar meer ambitieuze doeleinden. "We slaagden erin de eerste verbinding te leggen voor betrouwbare kwantumteleportatie over een lange afstand. Dat is een essentiële stap in de richting van een kwantuminternet op wereldschaal", aldus de onderzoekers.
Volgens het MIT-blad toont de verwezenlijking bovendien dat China een overduidelijke dominantie en pionierspositie tentoonspreidt in het onderzoeksgebied, die tot voor kort nog op het conto van Europese en Amerikaanse onderzoekers werd geschreven. "Hoe het Westen hierop zal reageren, is een belangrijke kwestie", stelt het blad.
Voor een kwantumverstrengeling-voor-dummies uitleg kan u bij onderstaand filmpje terecht.
RUIMTEVAARTDe NASA is al lange tijd bezig met plannen om mensen te landen op Mars, maar dat blijkt op dit moment niet mogelijk te zijn, zegt de ruimtevaartorganisatie.
NASA kondigde aan dat het op dit moment niet betaalbaar is om mensen te landen op de rode planeet. Wel blijft het wellicht mogelijk om astronauten naar Mars te laten vliegen, maar landen is een heel andere zaak, zo klinkt het.
"Ik kan geen datum plakken op wanneer mensen Mars zullen kunnen betreden", aldus William Gerstenmaier, NASA's hoofd van de menselijke ruimtevaart, aan Ars Technica. De mededeling is opvallend omdat de ruimtevaartorganisatie in het verleden nogal geheimzinnig en vaag communiceerde over dit onderwerp.
"Met de huidige budgetsituatie, inclusief de verhoging van zo'n twee procent, hebben we geen oppervlaktesystemen beschikbaar voor Mars", aldus nog Gerstenmaier. Volgens het NASA-hoofd is het dalen, landen en toetreden tot de planeet "een grote uitdaging".
Het Space Launch System en het Orion ruimtetuig, die naar verwachting een toekomstige Mars-landing mogelijk maakten, bleken heel duur om te bouwen. Als gevolg daarvan kon NASA nog niet eens landingsvoertuigen bouwen die op Mars zouden landen.
'Het is een feit dat de Amerikaanse bedrijven pioniers zijn wat ruimtevaart betreft'
Amerikaans vicepresident Mike Pence
Veel alternatieven om de kosten te drukken zijn er niet. Er is wel de optie om veel meer te vertrouwen op gedeeltelijk of volledig herbruikbare lancering en in-space transportsystemen die worden gebouwd door bedrijven zoals SpaceX, Blue Origin en United Launch Alliance. Politiek gezien is tot op heden elke afhankelijkheid van commerciële bedrijven voor diepe ruimteverkenning echter not done in het Amerikaanse congres.
Maar dat kan misschien veranderen nu vicepresident Mike Pence de deur op een kier houdt voor commerciële partnerschappen binnen de NASA. "Het is een feit dat de Amerikaanse bedrijven pioniers zijn wat ruimtevaart betreft", liet Pence zich al ontvallen.
NASA zelf houdt intussen de deur open voor nieuwe missies op de maan. "Als we erachter komen dat er water op de maan is, en we willen uitgebreidere operaties op de maan doen om dit te verkennen, hebben we de mogelijkheid om met Deep Space Gateway een uitgebreid maanoppervlakprogramma te ondersteunen," zegt NASA-hoofd Gerstenmaier. "Als we ons meer willen concentreren op Mars, kunnen we dat wel behouden", besluit hij.
"I was in Joshua Tree, totally sober, let me preface -- completely f---ing sober ... I think people would be like, 'She was on acid' or something. I wasn't. I was on nothing. I was a totally sober Sally, just a lady in the desert," Kesha told Billboard. "I look up in the sky and there's a bunch of spaceships."
As a result of her experience, Kesha's new album, "Rainbow," which is set to be released on August 11, has a bit of an extraterrestrial theme to it. Not only are there spaceships on the cover, but there is also a song, aptly-named "Spaceship."
Kesha described her experience with the unidentified flying objects, stating there were between five and seven of them and the objects were cruising in the night sky, manuevering about.
“I swear to God, there were like five to seven, and I don’t know why I didn’t like try to take a picture of it — I just looked at it," the singer went on to say. "I was sitting on a rock, and I was like, ‘What in the hell is that?’ I was trying to figure it out, and then they went away. And then they came back.”
UFO sightings have surged in recent years, according to data from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), which tracks such sightings.
The first recorded sighting was in 1905, but by 2010, there were nearly 105,000 reported sightings, including 45,000 in 2010 alone. Since then, there have been no less than 300 reported sightings per month. July 2014 saw 1,103 sightings, the highest number ever recorded.
Zangeres zag ruimteschepen in de woestijn. In dit interview doet ze een boekje open
Zangeres zag ruimteschepen in de woestijn. In dit interview doet ze een boekje open
In een interew met Billboard zei de Amerikaanse popzangeres Kesha (echte naam: Kesha Rose Sebert) dat ze UFO’s heeft gezien.
“Ik was in Joshua Tree, volstrekt nuchter, toen ik naar de lucht keek en een aantal ruimteschepen zag,” zei ze.
Deze ervaring heeft zoveel indruk op haar gemaakt dat haar nieuwe album Rainbow een buitenaards tintje heeft gekregen.
Vijf tot zeven
Er staan niet alleen ruimteschepen op de cover, maar het album bevat ook een nummer getiteld ‘Spaceship’.
Tijdens het interview ging Kesha dieper in op haar ervaring met de ongeïdentificeerde objecten. Zo zei ze dat ze er vijf tot zeven zag.
“Ik zweer dat het er vijf tot zeven waren,” zei ze. “Ik weet niet waarom ik niet probeerde om er een foto van te maken, ik kon er alleen maar naar kijken.”
Aliens
“Ik zat op een steen en dacht bij mezelf: Wat is dat in hemelsnaam? Ze vlogen weg en kwamen vervolgens weer terug,” aldus de zangeres.
“Ze kwamen in een andere formatie weer terug,” zei ze. “Ik zei tegen mezelf: Dat zijn aliens. Het waren ruimteschepen!”
In mei plaatste Kesha een foto over UFO’s op haar Instagram-pagina. “UFO’s bestaan echt. Ik heb ze gezien. Geen grap.”
People around the world have been left baffled by menacing black rings appearing in the sky, sparking theories they could be alien portals.
The bizarre black ring-shaped UFOs, which can be hundreds of feet wide, have been dubbed 'smoke vortexes'.
The most recent strange 'smoke vortex' was spotted above the M62 near Birkenshaw in Yorkshire.
Last year a black ring was spotted above Disneyland in California and in 2015 eerie footage emerged of a 320 feet-wide (100 metre-wide) ring of smoke floating over clear skies in Kazakhstan.
But one expert has revealed the latest black ring was simply the byproduct of cannon fire of a battle reenactment at the nearby Yorkshire Wartime Event.
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The black ring-shaped UFOs, which can be hundreds of feet wide, have been dubbed 'smoke vortexes'. The most recent one was filmed floating above the M62 near Birkenshaw (pictured). The ring was a byproduct of cannon fire of a reenactment at the Yorkshire Wartime Event
WHAT ARE THEY?
The latest ring was the byproduct of cannon fire of a battle reenactment at the nearby Yorkshire Wartime Event.
The event nearby involved more than 500 Military Vehicles and 50 reenactments, many involving canon fire.
Canon fire can create smoke rings because it produces a sudden disturbance in the surrounding air, and as a result, creates a circular vortex.
The air is displaced around the ring while the air within the vortex circles within the ring.
Similar smoke rings have been formed at music festivals such as Burning Man.
'Smoke rings in the sky like this one look very spooky and unusual', Nigel Watson, author of 'UFOs of the first World War' told MailOnline.
'In this case it isn't an extraterrestrial spacecraft from planet Zog sent by evil aliens, but the byproduct of cannon fire of a battle reenactment at the nearby Yorkshire Wartime Event.'
Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFOs and other mysteries for the Ministry of Defence, also debunked the phenomenon.
He said: 'Despite exotic theories about UFOs, aliens, or portals to other dimensions, I believe there's a decidedly down-to-earth explanation here.
'A so-called smoke vortex can arise when you have a blast through a circular structure like a smokestack.
'So these weird effects can be caused by accident - or indeed by design.
The 'smoke vortex' was spotted above the M62 near Birkenshaw in Yorkshire last weekend.
Kimberley Robinson spotted it while in the car with her roofer boyfriend Danny Cooper, 26, when she looked up and saw a mysterious black ring.
The 22-year-old photographed the black mark on her Samsung phone.
The circle resembles a giant smoke ring but West Yorkshire Fire Service say there had been no reports of fire at the time of the sighting on Sunday just after 1.30pm.
'Smoke rings in the sky like this one look very spooky and unusual', Nigel Watson, author of 'UFOs of the first World War' told MailOnline.
'In this case it isn't an extraterrestrial spacecraft from planet Zog sent by evil aliens, but the byproduct of cannon fire of a battle reenactment at the nearby Yorkshire Wartime Event.'
The Yorkshire Wartime Event taking place nearby involved more than 500 Military Vehicles and 50 reenactments.
Canon fire can creates these smoke rings because it produces a sudden disturbance in the surrounding air, and as a result, creates a circular vortex.
The air is displaced around the ring while the air within the vortex circles within the ring.
Similar smoke rings have been formed at music festivals such as Burning Man.
Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFOs and other mysteries for the Ministry of Defence, also debunked the phenomenon.
He said: 'Despite exotic theories about UFOs, aliens, or portals to other dimensions, I believe there's a decidedly down-to-earth explanation here.
'A so-called smoke vortex can arise when you have a blast through a circular structure like a smokestack.
'So these weird effects can be caused by accident - or indeed by design.
'I realise that by debunking this I'll probably be accused of working for the Illuminati or something, but I genuinely think we can close the case file on this one.'
The Met Office said that the ring did not appear to be weather-related.
While there appears to be a simple explanation, Miss Robinson was baffled by the ring.
She described the circle as 'the weirdest thing I have ever seen'.
She said: 'Me and my boyfriend were driving today and noticed a black flying ring in the sky.
'It looked a bit smokey but the shape was a solid ring.'
People around the world have been left baffled by menacing black rings appearing in the sky The Met Office said that the ring did not appear to be weather-related
The circle resembles a giant smoke ring but West Yorkshire Fire Service say there had been no reports of fire at the time of the sighting on Sunday just after 1.30pm
A spokesperson for the Met Office said: 'We have had a look at it and cannot think of anything metrological that would have caused such a phenomenon.
'It looks reasonably clear, with fair-weather cloud that looks like it has bubbled up. There is a little bit of rising air in the atmosphere', he said.
'It does not appear to be anything at ground level that is causing the smoke to rise.
'It looks as if it's a small feature rather than something several miles across.'
On 27 April 2016 a video showed the bizarre cloud-like phenomena hovering above the Magic Castle at the popular theme park in California.
Baffled visitors watched it float by, yelling: 'What is that?' while a conspiracy theorist said it would cause families to worry of an alien invasion.
In the footage witnesses were heard exclaiming in shock as the mysterious ring floated above them.
The sighting (pictured) is the latest in a string of strange sightings with one filmed floating over Disneyland in California just last year
Full-time mum Miss Robinson described the circle as 'the weirdest thing I have ever seen'. She said: 'Me and my boyfriend were driving today and noticed a black flying ring in the sky
On 27 April 2016 a video showed the bizarre cloud-like phenomena hovering above the Magic Castle at the popular theme park in California
The film maker, Kyle Hawkins, said: 'No idea what this could be... Walking up main Street at Disneyland, following the parade.
'It was a windy night, couldn't have been a smoke ring.
'Everyone watched it in fear/confusion. I half expected an alien portal to open up through this ring as we were gazing up in disbelief...The strangest thing I've ever seen.
In 2015 eerie footage emerged of a 100 metre-wide (320 feet-wide) black ring of smoke floating over clear skies in Kazakhstan
'I yanked my phone out to record as soon as I saw this thing, then immediately uploaded to YouTube. This is raw footage, apologise for shakiness.'
In 2015 eerie footage emerged of a 100 metre-wide (320 feet-wide) black ring of smoke floating over clear skies in Kazakhstan.
It was seen 40 miles north of the capital Astana and hovered in the sky for 15 minutes before suddenly vanishing without trace.
In 2014 one was spotted above Warwick and stayed in the sky for three minutes. It was believed to be smoke from the pyrotechnics used at Warwick castle.
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Meteorologists are baffled by this giant ‘smoke ring’ - but UFO expert isn’t
Meteorologists are baffled by this giant ‘smoke ring’ - but UFO expert isn’t
Weather experts have been left baffled by a solid black ring which appeared in the sky over West Yorkshire.
Kimberley Robinson was in the car with her roofer boyfriend Danny Cooper, 26, when she looked up and saw a mysterious black ring.
The 22-year-old photographed the strange black mark near Birkenshaw on the M62 on her Samsung phone.
The circle resembles a giant smoke ring but West Yorkshire Fire Service say there had been no reports of fire at the time of the sighting on Sunday just after 1.30pm.
The Met Office said that the ring did not appear to be weather-related.
But Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFOs and other mysteries for the Ministry of Defence, thinks he may have debunked the phenomenon.
He said: “Despite exotic theories about UFOs, aliens, or portals to other dimensions, I believe there’s a decidedly down-to-earth explanation here.
“A so-called smoke vortex can arise when you have a blast through a circular structure like a smokestack.-
“So these weird effects can be caused by accident - or indeed by design.
“On this latter point, they can be created as a sort of pyrotechnic effect, and it would be interesting to know if there were any outdoor festivals being held in the area concerned.
“I realise that by debunking this I’ll probably be accused of working for the Illuminati or something, but I genuinely think we can close the case file on this one.”
Full-time mum Miss Robinson described the circle as “the weirdest thing I have ever seen”.
She said: “Me and my boyfriend were driving today and noticed a black flying ring in the sky.
“It looked a bit smoky but the shape was a solid ring.
“We hadn’t ever seen anything like this before do we have looked into it and no one knows what it is.”
The pair were travelling back home to Bury from Norfolk after spending the night at an RAF base to see Mr Cooper’s godson.
A spokesperson for the Met Office said on Monday: “We have had a look at it and cannot think of anything metrological that would have caused such a phenomenon.
“It looks reasonably clear, with fair-weather cloud that looks like it has bubbled up. There is a little bit of rising air in the atmosphere.
“It does not appear to be anything at ground level that is causing the smoke to rise.
“It looks as if it’s a small feature rather than something several miles across.”
Alien autopsy performed in London’s old mail rail tunnels
The UK’s first alien autopsy was performed last night in front of astounded guests in the subterranean lair of London’s old mail rail tunnels.
Members of the public were invited to the yet-to-be-opened Postal Museum in the spooky Mount Pleasant sorting office for the event hosted by Audible, to launch X-Files: Cold Cases.
They were joined by former Ministry Of Defence UFO expert Nick Pope who has been described as a ‘real life Fox Mulder’.
With Pope on hand to oversee, the autopsy was carried out in a similar way to if a real life invasion was to happen.
Other than a hoax alien autopsy video which was submitted to the Ministry of Defence in 1995, this could be the closest as we have come to performing an actual autopsy.
Pope said: “If we were to conduct an autopsy with The Flukeman from X-Files, I’d advise finding out all about its DNA, taking multiple samples to profile to help build an idea around what the Flukeman’s weaknesses are – so we can be prepared for any future attacks.
“One possible danger to bear in mind is the impact a possible alien autopsy would have and the threat of intergalactic war.
“Think of it this way – if a soldier from another country came to the UK and we chopped him apart his country wouldn’t be best pleased.
“Therefore if Aliens came to earth to find the soldier they sent down to test the waters had been experimented on, it would create tensions which could turn nasty.”
Pope researched and investigated UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena to determine their defence significance for the Ministry from 1991 to 1994.
Having been lucky enough to work on the real-life X-Files at the Ministry of Defence, he said there are some spooky parallels with the fictional world in which Mulder and Scully are involved in.
And when it comes to the potential threat of alien invasion, he says government has no set plan.
Speaking at The Investigation Bureau event, Nick Pope said: “Recently the National Archives released some files from the now-disbanded UFO project, detailing once highly classified documents covering UFO sightings, alien abductions, crop circle appearances, animal mutilations and even a government project to try to recruit psychics!
“It’s these parallels between fact and fiction that show why The X-Files is still as relevant as ever.”
Alien autopsy performed in London’s old mail rail tunnels
The UK’s first alien autopsy was performed last night in front of astounded guests in the subterranean lair of London’s old mail rail tunnels.
Members of the public were invited to the yet-to-be-opened Postal Museum in the spooky Mount Pleasant sorting office for the event hosted by Audible, to launch X-Files: Cold Cases.
They were joined by former Ministry Of Defence UFO expert Nick Pope who has been described as a ‘real life Fox Mulder’.
With Pope on hand to oversee, the autopsy was carried out in a similar way to if a real life invasion was to happen.
Other than a hoax alien autopsy video which was submitted to the Ministry of Defence in 1995, this could be the closest as we have come to performing an actual autopsy.
Pope said: “If we were to conduct an autopsy with The Flukeman from X-Files, I’d advise finding out all about its DNA, taking multiple samples to profile to help build an idea around what the Flukeman’s weaknesses are – so we can be prepared for any future attacks.
“One possible danger to bear in mind is the impact a possible alien autopsy would have and the threat of intergalactic war.
“Think of it this way – if a soldier from another country came to the UK and we chopped him apart his country wouldn’t be best pleased.
“Therefore if Aliens came to earth to find the soldier they sent down to test the waters had been experimented on, it would create tensions which could turn nasty.”
Pope researched and investigated UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena to determine their defence significance for the Ministry from 1991 to 1994.
Having been lucky enough to work on the real-life X-Files at the Ministry of Defence, he said there are some spooky parallels with the fictional world in which Mulder and Scully are involved in.
And when it comes to the potential threat of alien invasion, he says government has no set plan.
Speaking at The Investigation Bureau event, Nick Pope said: “Recently the National Archives released some files from the now-disbanded UFO project, detailing once highly classified documents covering UFO sightings, alien abductions, crop circle appearances, animal mutilations and even a government project to try to recruit psychics!
“It’s these parallels between fact and fiction that show why The X-Files is still as relevant as ever.”
Area 51 has been the focal point of alien conspiracy theories in America for decades. The remote military base in the Nevada desert has a lot of history, and has been associated with aliens almost since its inception. Here's why. Following is a transcript of the video:
In the early 1950s, US planes were conducting low-flying recon missions over the USSR. But there were constant worries of them being spotted and shot down.
So … in 1954, President Eisenhower authorized the development of a top secret, high-altitude recon aircraft Dubbed Project Aquatone. The program required a remote location that wasn't easily accessible to civilians or spies. Area 51 fit the bill perfectly.
It was in the Nevada desert near a salt flat called Groom Lake. No one knows exactly why it's called Area 51, but one theory suggests it came from its proximity to the Nevada Nuclear Test Sites. The Nevada Test Site was divided into number-designated areas by the Atomic Energy Commission. The location was already familiar territory for the military, as it had served as a World War II aerial gunnery range.
In the summer of 1955, sightings of "unidentified flying objects" were reported around Area 51. That's because the Air Force had begun its testing of the U-2 aircraft. The U-2 can fly higher than 60,000 feet. At the time, normal airliners were flying in the 10,000 to 20,000 feet range. While military aircraft topped out around 40,000 feet. So if a pilot spotted the tiny speck that was the U-2 high above it, they would have no idea what it was. And they would usually let air traffic control know someone was out there. Which is what led to the increase of UFO sightings in the area. While Air Force officials knew the UFO sightings were U-2 tests, they couldn’t really tell the public. So they explained the aircraft sightings by saying they were "natural phenomena" and "high-altitude weather research."
The testing of the U-2 ended in the late 1950s; but, Area 51 has continued to serve as the testing ground for many aircraft, including the F-117A, A-12, and TACIT BLUE.
No one knows for sure what Area 51 is up to these days. The government never even publicly acknowledged the existence of the base until 2013, with the release of declassified CIA reports. But if you’re ever at the Las Vegas airport, keep an eye out for some small, unmarked, passenger planes in a fenced-off area. They're how Area 51 employees get to work from their homes in Vegas.
Bizarre footage showing what appears to be a flying saucer-like UFO hovering above a town has sparked an online controversy.
Stunned eyewitnesses filmed the phenomenon with their smartphones in the small town of Progreso de Madero in the Quecholac municipality of central Mexico's Puebla state.
The footage, which shows a huge black ring hovering in the sky, left local residents baffled.
Some were convinced that it was a flying saucer while others, pointing out that it was partially enveloped in cloud, thought it was a weather-related phenomenon.
Some believe the huge black ring was a flying saucer
Eyewitnesses can be heard in the background of the video trying to explain the apparition.
One woman asks: "What is that?", and a man replies: "A flying saucer?"
Another woman speculates: "It's a rain formation", but the man counters: "No, it's not, it's a black wheel", and the woman notes: "It's going up."
The black ring quickly disappeared from view and there is still no official explanation for it.
Netizen 'Alejandro Lopez Robles' was convinced he had seen something otherworldly, commenting: "It's a flying saucer."
Others dismissed the UFO as a weather phenomenon
But 'Xavior Burns Red' felt there was a more natural explanation, adding: "I have never seen a whirlwind before. Impressive."
There have been a number of reported sightings of UFOs above Mexico in recent months.
Motorist Carlos Arriola filmed a black disc in the sky above the city of Morelia in state of Michoacan in central Mexico in April.
And a 'fleet' of seven or eight shining lights were seen flying over the US/Mexico border at Tijuana in January.
Chuck Lehneis, of Valley Center, who, one night in 1976 says he saw three UFOs flying near Bates Nut Farm (see story.)
It was my intention with this series to delve further into the history of George Adamski’s contribution to the UFO phenomenon, when I got a phone call from a longtime VC resident, Chuck Lehneis, who had a remarkable story to tell about a night in 1976 where the Milky Way was spilling out onto the sky above Bates Nut Farm.
Lehneis, who is 70, and a disabled Vietnam War vet, had moved to Valley Center the year before. That was in the days when the Valley barely had 5,000 people and the skies were pristine and filled with diamonds. It was a night right out of the film classic “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
Lehneis was living on Cool Water Ranch Road, right after the Wood Valley Kampground, and on a house overlooking Bates Nut Farm. He had rented a house on the highest part of the road, with a big sliding glass door facing to the east.
“It was a perfectly clear night.” Lehneis recalls, although he doesn’t remember what time of year it was.”
At about 2 a.m. he woke up and saw three “stars” way to the east. He had a TV with rabbit ears, and he used the rabbit ears to sight the objects, so that he could tell if they were moving or not.
“I realized that they weren’t stars because they had movement,” he said. Holding his hand out towards the horizon it appeared that the stars were above three inches above it—in relative terms.
He woke his girlfriend of that time and they went outside onto the patio. It wasn’t cold, he recalls.
“They were zipping back and forth. As we watched them, they were zipping in different directions, a foot in my vision. They got into a formation and came straight down to line up straight where the chicken ranch is on Woods Valley & North Lake Wohlford. They came up Woods Valley Road.”
Lehneis describes the lights as “upside down saucers with lights underneath. They were pretty close together and in a line, like ‘one, two, three.’ They went by us at no sound at all.”
The saucers crossed south and out of sight, concealed by a hill or something, and then came out into view. “They went straight up into the sky, like at a forty-five-degree angle, and took off straight up and out of sight.”
Lehneis and his girlfriend broke up soon after that (nothing to do with the UFOs, he said) and about 15 years later they decided to get together to catch up.
“As I walked into the door, she said, ‘Do you remember . . .?”
“I knew you were going to ask me this, Colleen,” he replied.
They walked each other through the story and it was an exact recollection, he says.
“The crazy thing is the next day [after the sighting] a newspaper had a story about lights at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. It wasn’t much of a write up.”
All these years later he still remembers them vividly. “I think about it just exactly as I saw it. In a line, one two three, with not one bit of noise. The lights were multiple colors, red and yellow. You would think of flying saucers and these were upside down.”
At the time, he talked to someone at The Roadrunner and “nobody was much interested.”
A couple of years later, after he and his new wife had purchased a home on Mirar de Valle. They were sitting outside and his wife saw something that seemed like a moving object to her.”
“She called the Adamski people [who were operating in Valley Center at that time] and they said it was Sirius, the star. They were pretty informative.”
However, regarding the lights he saw on that night overlooking Bates Nut Farm, “I have absolutely no doubt that they were not stars.” Nevertheless, he never reported his sighting again to anyone else until he called The Roadrunner this week.
Lehneis lived in Valley Center from 1976-90 and then moved to Sacramento and Pismo Beach. He moved back to Valley Center two years ago.
The Roadrunner contact Cheryl Costa, who has published a database about all of the UFO sightings in the U.S. and asked her about 1976, and the possibility of a sighting at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
“My database is only 21st century data 2001-2015,” she wrote back, but added, “I did peek at the Raw NUFORC DB [National UFO Reporting Center Data Base] for 1976; only three San Diego, UFO sightings listed none mention an animal park.”
The archives for the old Times-Advocate and the San Diego Union aren’t available without going to a bit more trouble than I was willing to undertake this time, so we will just have to assume that Chuck Lehneis’s memory about reading about such a sighting is accurate.
Costa’s database for 2001-2015 shows that for that period there have been four official recorded sightings of UFOs in Valley Center. Palomar Mountain and Pauma Valley each had two. I can attest to have written about quite a few more “unofficial” sightings over the years. There were 98 in Escondido. As we further explore this subject, I’m sure we will hear more about others.
The truth is out there: A history of Edinburgh’s UFO hotspot
The truth is out there: A history of Edinburgh’s UFO hotspot
The skies over Edinburgh have been home to many mysterious UFO sightings over the years.
Picture: Ian Rutherford
ANDREW HENNESSY
HAVE YOUR SAY The area around Edinburgh has more reported UFO sightings than anywhere else on earth. I was born into a family originally from Gorebridge, the ‘hotspot’ of alien activity in Scotland today.
With a mother who passed on to me at an early age her knowledge of the Scottish psychic tradition of ‘second sight’, I had a natural attraction to the subject – beginning with the supernatural, but moving very quickly on to the entities of alien encounters.
Since the 1980s I have been researching UFOs, conspiracies and the paranormal, documenting my own observations and conclusions – some of which are controversial.
The Robert Taylor Incident
In Central Scotland, the skies always seem to be busy, and not just with the landing lights of jets on their way into our airports.
To quote one Falkirk Triangle alien abductee, G Wood, who was lifted from his car on the A70 road in 1992:
“They’re here and they’re [still] coming here.”
Modern tales of UFO close encounters in Scotland really begin with the so-called Robert Taylor Incident, which took place in 1979 at Dechmont Woods, near Livingston.
Later recorded by the police as a criminal assault by an unknown or alien entity, Robert Taylor, a local forester, was accosted at night by a UFO as it was scouting over his area of the wood.
According to Taylor, he saw a large flying dome hovering above the forest floor. He then smelled a foul odour, and smaller spheres began dragging him towards the larger dome, before he lost consciousness.
Several similar incidents were to follow in this central region of Scotland, stretching from Stirling to Falkirk and back to the southern fringes of Edinburgh. The area has since become known as ‘The Falkirk Triangle’.
The folklore of Gorebridge
Gorebridge is a small, ex-coal mining town about 15 miles south of Edinburgh.
My family originally comes from this area, and like so many others, its men had been miners.
Drafted to fight in both world wars, they returned to a community undergoing change.
For, in amongst the hustle and bustle of these human affairs and operating the deepest mines in Scotland, there had also been a long-simmering, non-human agenda of secret meetings and whispered stories of the ‘others’ amongst us.
This excerpt from poem The Ballad of the Gore, dating back to 1916, alludes to the supernatural ‘auld races’.
“… Proud Arniston; in ‘fairs o’ state
for ages Laird and son Soldiers, Lawyers, Statesmen great
richt sterlin’ work has done,
Wae on the day shouldt frae’t be gone
The auld race o’ Dundas;
May that ne’er be, but lang there reign
its Leddy and its Lass ….”
The Gorebridge story with its ‘auld races’ started within stone-lined tunnel networks, allegedly linking archaic stone circles and underground cities.
These faerie stories have been woven together into a rich tapestry of local folklore by local collectors, such as Mary Macleod Banks in the 1930s.
But the Edinburgh area doesn’t just have a historic link to folklore and the supernatural – incidents are still happening to this day.
Alien encounters in Scotland
Gorebridge, today, continues to display all the hallmarks of an active alien presence and occupation zone.
Many of the encounters there can only be described as intimidating or surreal, which Dr J A Hynek (the father of Ufology) characterised in his 1978 speech to the UN as ‘high strangeness’, an extreme ‘oddness’, symptomatic of alien encounters.
The Gorebridge ‘camp’ is the site of what is believed to be an operational alien base near an abandoned mine, and nearby is Dalhousie Castle, the location of a well-documented alien abduction.
Both historically and more recently, there have been regular UFO sightings above and over the area of an extensive cavern system that also takes in Rosslyn to the west, and Gifford and Goblin Halls to the east.
– observing/filming massive low-level ships, many shapes and sizes
– alien use of small glowing UAVs which can vanish
– seeing operational stargates near the cavern systems
– time slip
– harassment and interception from Men in Black-
– over-flying ships and 40 spherical, black drones above Barleyknowe Road at rooftop height
– black choppers, under 200 feet
– cattle mutilations on film
– lights at the old mine
– alien materialisation
– greys and alien equipment photographed in the woods
– holographic shape-changing hardware that mimics military vehicles and aircraft
These incidents are still on-going in east-central Scotland, including the capital itself, which adds greatly to the lore of ancient secrets being enacted today before our cameras and our eyes.
• Andrew Hennessy is an experienced ufologist and folklorist. His company, Stargate Edinburgh Tours, gives an insight into unexplained phenomena around Edinburgh through bespoke guided tours – stargateedinburgh.com
A witness in the town of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada can not identify a strange object photographed on July 11, 2017 from an apartment balcony. The witness described the object as “rectangular box-shaped,” and says the object hovered slowly overhead and at one point changed direction.
Witness photograph. Click image to see full-size.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness submitted the report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) earlier today, along with several pictures the witness took from the witness’ apartment balcony.
The witness claims to have spotted that object at about 4:15 pm. The witness described the object’s movement as “floating” or “sailing” overhead. When it got closer to the witness, the object changed direction. The witness said the object was about the size of a small vehicle, such as a Mini Cooper.
“It looked like a large, rectangular, metallic box,” explained the witness. “How it was airborne, and how it remained so, completely puzzled and mystified me.”
The witness titled the report: “Unidentifiable, 3D rectangular box-shaped object drifting very smoothly over the city.”
Witness image cropped. Click image to see full-size.
On July 11, 2017 at approximately 16:15 – 16:20 hrs., I witnessed an unidentifiable flying/floating object sailing over my area (East Hamilton, Ontario), from my apartment balcony. My balcony faces N/E, toward the bay of Lake Ontario. I stepped out to take a look at the construction crew tearing down an old high school across the road from my building, and to check on the current temperature, when this object caught my eye, drifting at first in my direction (fully south), coming from the north area of the city, closer to the lake. It was fairly large, and I estimated it to be almost the size of an Austin Mini Cooper car. It looked solid/3D, and was rectangular and box-like in shape. The colour was a dark grey, but parts of it appeared to be a lighter grey. It changed direction as it approached my area, turning left, and heading toward the town of Stoney Creek (south-east/east). My neighbourhood is on the border of Stoney Creek, and this object floated away over that town and out of sight. I captured a few photos of it with my mobile phone, but by the time I went into my apartment to get my phone and returned to the balcony with it, the object had moved further away, so the photos don’t show it very well. I had no idea what this object was when I first noticed it, or when it sailed past my location. It looked like a large, rectangular, metallic box. How it was airborne, and how it remained so, completely puzzled and mystified me. I was talking on my house phone (cordless handset) with a friend while all of this was going on, and I remember just laughing slightly when I first saw it, telling her, “Holy CRAP… there’s a UFO heading this way, and by that, I mean an unidentifiable flying object.” Then after it started to turn toward the east I said, “Well, now there’s a large metallic, rectanglar box just sailing past this neighborhood… gonna grab my phone and take some photos.” So I stepped inside, grabbed the phone, and took about a half-dozen photos, before it sailed too far away. I don’t know how to describe my feelings at the time, really… nothing extraordinary, because I had no idea what this object could be. I was just really puzzled/curious, more than anything, because I couldn’t figure out what it was. I’m still wondering about it, and would love to hear if anyone else happened to witness it too, and may have some idea of what it could be?!
The images do show a rectangular-shaped object in the sky. The slow movement would usually indicate something floating in the sky, such as a balloon, and party balloons do come in all shapes and sizes. Balloons do not often seem to make a change in directions, but it is possible if the wind changes direction. However, it is not immediately apparent what the object is.
The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the object in the comments below.
Austria: Double UFO Sightings Capture In Two Separate Videos Showing Two Mysterious Flying Machines
Austria: Double UFO Sightings Capture In Two Separate Videos Showing Two Mysterious Flying Machines
UFO enthusiasts are wondering what could be the identity of the mysterious objects on videos that were captured by two different witnesses in Graz, Austria on June 30 of this year. The movements of the unusual objects alone have intrigued the UFO community.
Two witnesses from different locations in Graz managed to record the strange aerial event on videos. UFO Institute then uploaded the clips to YouTube.
The videos show two mysterious objects in early twilight on June 30. The unusual things appear to have dual lights while performing manoeuvres above the city. Many think that they are interacting with each other as they travel in the skies.
The behaviour of the two objects prompted some UFO enthusiasts to believe they were not manned machines. However, some UFO sceptics think otherwise as they consider the lights to be likely human-made. Others suggest the lights were acrobatic aircraft from the Blanix Team, which usually performs above the Graz airport.
Another suggestion is that the lights may be from petrol-powered drones as some frames in the video show fumes coming out of the machines, which could mean they are burning fuel. Some believe that the UFOs could be ultralights, which are known as flying machines with engines.
Nevertheless, the complex movements of the two UFOs have baffled both sceptics and believers as very few known aircraft can pull off such manoeuvres.
Check out this amazing sighting of a bright linked lights that were filmed over Girard, Ohio on 7th July 2017.
Witness report:
Huge hovering craft over golf course and houses, flew low enough over power lines then took off fast over golf course
This was the second sighting two nights in a row for me. My family and I were coming home from shopping and the time was 9:32 exactly. Because of the sighting I had the night before I was being extremely observant of the skies. It was almost dark but the sun was setting and the sky was clear with no cloud cover. We turned the corner off Liberty street that runs parallel with the golf course. As soon as you turn onto this road you have a clear view of the golf course and the skies above it and as soon as I looked up there was a huge glowing disk shape craft just hovering above the golf course. By my estimation it was hovering just above the club house at the time we turned the corner.
As we made our way down the street to our house the craft seem to move closer towards the houses that lined the 3rd hole of the xourse. I stopped the car as soon as we came up next to the school on our right hand side, the golf course and the craft were on our left. I immediately froze at first have been shaken already from the even the night before I couldn’t believe it was happening again. This size of the craft was huge! Probably about 300 feet long. It was pulsating lights of yellow and red around it and it seemed to make no sound. We parked the car and just stood there looking at this massive disk whapped craft. We stood there for about 10 minutes. I took my phone out to get a video because the night before my phone wouldn’t work around the objects and I wanted to try again. This time I was able to get about 18 seconds on video before the craft started to move towards us even more and when it moves overhead of the homes on the course my phone shut down again. This thing scared my daughter and my girlfriend. You can hear them on the video getting scared when it seemed liked the craft was reacting to me filming it.
After my phone shut down we got in the car and I took my family home to be safe. I dropped them off and I proceeded to follow the craft on foot throughout the neighborhood. It flew directly over the treeline of the house on the golf course for about another 10 minutes at a very slow speed . Then all of a sudden I could hear helecopter and Jets coming from the Air Force Base in Vienna. As soon as I heard the first jet, the craft took off to the northwest almost toward Cleveland. I then saw a bright flash that looked like lighting and the craft was gone. The sky was then littered with planes and helecopter flying in circles around the Liberty/Girard area. This event shook me to my core. There were also about 4 other cars slowing on the road looking at this object as it flew by. It was amazing and freightening at the same time. We live in a very small, quite town and my neighborhood is a lot of young families so to see this object so close to the house and the ground 2 nights in a row was very strange indeed.
This is a UFO footage from 21st May 2017 and it was filmed over Landers in California.
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.
Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA heeft een reeks beelden gepubliceerd van de grote rode vlek op Jupiter, die dinsdagochtend zijn gemaakt door het ruimtetuig Juno. De sonde vloog op zowat 9.000 kilometer boven de planeet. Het is de eerste keer dat van zo dichtbij de gigantische anticycloon van 16.350 kilometer diameter kan worden waargenomen.
Scott Bolton van het Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, de wetenschappelijk verantwoordelijke van de missie, verklaarde dat tijd nodig is voor de analyse van alle gegevens, die de acht instrumenten van Juno hebben opgeleverd. "Die gegevens moeten verduidelijking brengen over de oorsprong, de huidige aard en de toekomst van dit fenomeen."
De grote rode vlek wordt waargenomen sinds 1830 en werd al 350 jaar geleden vermeld door astronomen. De vlek lijkt kleiner te worden.
In augustus 2011 werd Juno gelanceerd vanop Cape Canaveral in Florida. De sonde kwam op 4 juli 2016, na een reis van vijf jaar en bijna 3 miljard kilometer, aan bij haar doel. De sonde zal 37 keer boven de planeet scheren, meestal op een hoogte tussen 10.000 en 4.667 kilometer. De volgende, de zevende al, is voorzien op 1 september.
Het doel van de missie is onder andere om meer te weten te komen over de magnetische velden, de samenstelling van de atmosfeer en de kern van de gasplaneet. De wetenschappers hopen op basis van de bevindingen ook meer te leren over het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel.
Uiteindelijk zal de sonde, die volledig met zonne-energie wordt aangedreven, zichzelf vernietigen.
WETENSCHAPArcheologen hebben in de omgeving van het prehistorische monument Stonehenge een meer dan 5.000 jaar oud dodenhuis ontdekt. Mogelijk bevat het overblijfselen van de voorvaderen van de bouwers van Stonehenge.
De neolithische grafheuvel ligt op een landbouwveld halverwege tussen Stonehenge en een gelijkaardige steencirkel in Avebury. Onderzoekers van de universiteit van Reading zijn de overblijfselen van het grafmonument op dit moment aan het opgraven.
Wetenschappers zijn al tientallen jaren op de hoogte van het bestaan van de grafkamer. Ze gingen er echter vanuit dat het binnenste deel niet overeind gebleven was, tot een onderzoek met een drone recent het tegendeel aantoonde. Nu de zandlaag weggehaald is, zijn de omtrekken van een grafkamer, geflankeerd door twee sleuven, duidelijk zichtbaar.
Het monument dateert van de vroege neolithische periode, een tijdperk waarin de eerste landbouwgemeenschappen ontstonden en de eerste monumenten gebouwd werden. Experten zijn verrast dat er nog bewijzen van het gebouw te vinden zijn. Ze denken dat het graf mogelijk restanten bevat van mensen die er rond 3600 voor Christus begraven werden
Wetenschappers krijgen niet vaak de kans om een dergelijke grafheuvel te onderzoeken. In het graafschap Wiltshire gebeurde dat voor het laatst in de jaren 60.
Het onderzoeksteam zal nu de archeologische overblijfselen opgraven en zoveel mogelijk artefacten, beenderen en andere bewijzen zoeken, die nadien geanalyseerd zullen worden.
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Bizarre Atmospheric Phenomena Caught On Camera
Bizarre Atmospheric Phenomena Caught On Camera
Strange lights darting on top of a UFO-like cloud, the moon seems to be rectangular, odd rainbow cloud and other bizarre atmospheric phenomena have been captured throughout the world last week.
A stunning image of a strange atmospheric phenomenon has been captured by amateur astronomer John Stetson over Casco Bay in Maine on July 9, 2017.
While watching the moonrise from Dyer Point in Cape Elizabeth, Stetson saw the moon suddenly changing into a rectangular shape.
Wondering what happened and looking for an explanation it appears that the rectangular moon is the effect of a combination of warm and cold air meeting off the coastline of Maine.
Another strange sky phenomenon has been filmed in Thailand last week when the witness saw a strange light darting at the top of a UFO-like cloud.
This phenomenon is a so-called cumulonimbus cloud and is the effect of sunlight reflecting off ice crystals aligned with the electric field just above the top of cloud. See video of the UFO-cloud here.
And on July 4, 2017 something really strange happened in the sky over US when people witnessed a bizarre rainbow cloud close to another strange luminous light visible between a HAARP-like cloud cover. See video of the rainbow cloud here.
As we know HAARP, NORAD and other similar facilities around the world can manipulate the weather and create what appears to be a normal weather phenomenon but in fact the most of these kinds of sky phenomena are out of place and caused by high-tech weather experiments, according to conspiracy theorists.
Who created this crop circle near Battlesbury Hill in Wiltshire, UK discovered on July 5, 2017?
Who created this crop circle near Battlesbury Hill in Wiltshire, UK discovered on July 5, 2017?
An impressive crop circle was discovered near Battlesbury Hill in Wiltshire, UK on July 5, 2017, the question is who created it?
The circle resembles an ancient universal symbol called a ‘Celtic Shield Knot’, see enlarged images of this crop circle at cropcircleconnector, and was first seen in the third and fourth centuries AD and used by the Celtics who placed this knot near ill people or on battle shields for warding off the evil spirits or any other danger.
Maybe the appearance of this universal symbol of protection is some sort of an early message to inform us about near-future-events which will have an impact in Earth’s history?
Moreover, what never has been mentioned is the fact that the location of this crop circle is just over twenty kilometers from the famous Stonehenge where during the solstice of June 21, 2017 strange UFO lights in the sky were seen at Stonehenge around 9pm.
Although the appearance of the strange lights at Stonehenge occurred two weeks earlier we may wonder whether these lights have something to do with the crop circle in Wiltshire since there are no traces in the field or around the circle which could be an indication that the circle is not human-made.
Strange Glowing Light in the sky changes its colors before fading away over Floresville, Texas
Strange Glowing Light in the sky changes its colors before fading away over Floresville, Texas
A couple headed towards Floresville on Hwy 97 near 1784 on July 11, 2017. They were deep in conversation when the passenger glanced towards the sky and saw a strange glowing light between the cloud formations.
The passenger describes the light as follows: Raymond was driving and when I glanced towards the sky, which I have a habit of doing, that’s when I saw the light.
Raymond looked and he saw the light too. We watched it for about 5 miles.
It was a brilliant fluorescent green when we first noticed it. Then it started changing colors. First the light changed to a bluish color, yellow, then a red orange and then finally a deep orange red color.
It looked as if that part of the sky was on fire. The light slowly began to fade from the left side to the right. After the light faded, we continued looking towards the cloud to see if anything came out, but nothing did.
At first, I was nervous because I hadn't seen anything like that before but then we became very interested in learning what it is. We are UFO enthusiasts and frequently stargaze looking for our universal neighbors. Mufon case 85035.
Editor’s note: As the couple noticed and saw the light phenomenon for about 5 miles before they took images of the object we can rule out that it is lens flare. Could it be the sun? To me, it seems unlikely; have you ever seen a green sun?
I don’t think it has anything to do with UFOs or paranormal activities it looks more like a so-called earthquake light, which is an unusual luminous aerial phenomenon that reportedly appears in the sky before or after earthquakes and could provide an early warning sign of a potential earthquake.
UFO verschijnt op commando. Rapper praat tijdens dit interview openhartig over bovennatuurlijke ervaring
UFO verschijnt op commando. Rapper praat tijdens dit interview openhartig over bovennatuurlijke ervaring
Afgelopen maand overleed de Amerikaanse rapper Prodigy, die samen met Havoc het duo Mobb Deep vormde.
Maandag zond tv-zender Viceland een interview met de rapper uit. Tijdens het gesprek met dr. Siri Sat Nam Singh deed Prodigy een aantal opmerkelijke uitspraken.
In een fragment dat Viceland op zijn Instagram-pagina plaatste zegt hij dat hij eens een UFO heeft laten verschijnen.
Stroom uitgevallen
“Ik vroeg om een UFO. Het [object] verscheen boven mijn huis,” herinnerde Prodigy zich. “Het begon lichten in onze slaapkamer te schijnen.”
“Vlak daarvoor was in de hele buurt de stroom uitgevallen,” vervolgde hij. “Ik keek uit het raam en zag dat nergens licht brandde.”
“Eerst zag ik een wit licht en dacht ik dat het een politiehelikopter was die naar iemand zocht, maar toen verschenen er allerlei gekleurde lichten in de kamer,” zei de rapper.
Doodstil
“Toen was alles doodstil,” klonk het. “Al die lichten veranderden van kleur. Het was ongelooflijk. Het was onbetwistbaar. En het gebeurde omdat ik erom vroeg.”
Prodigy zei ook eens een mysterieuze zwarte schaduw in zijn slaapkamer te hebben gezien.
“Toen ik in bed lag waren alle lichten uit en terwijl ik daar lag liep er een zwarte schaduw door mijn kamer,” zei hij, toevoegende dat het een soort zwarte Spider-Man was.
Hij zei dat hij ‘supergezond en helder van geest was’ toen hij de mysterieuze figuur door de kamer zag lopen.
Onderzoeker toont foto’s van buitenaardse mummies aan de wereld. Is dit bewijs van buitenaards leven?
Onderzoeker toont foto’s van buitenaardse mummies aan de wereld. Is dit bewijs van buitenaards leven?
Buitenaardse wezens zijn al minstens 1700 jaar hier op aarde. Dat zei de Mexicaanse journalist en ufoloog Jaime Maussan tijdens een presentatie afgelopen dinsdag, waar onder andere het Duitse persagentschap Ruptly bij aanwezig was.
Hij stelde dat in Lima in Peru vijf buitenaardse mummies zijn opgegraven, waarvan er drie ‘meer verwantschap met reptielen dan met mensen vertonen’.
Volgens Maussan is het bewijs van buitenaards leven op aarde na de vondst van deze vreemde mummies geleverd.
Nazcalijnen
Hij zei dat de mummies tenminste 1700 jaar oud zijn en uit dezelfde periode stammen als de beroemde Nazcalijnen.
“Niemand heeft bewijzen dat er fraude in het spel is,” zei Maussan tijdens zijn presentatie.
“Wij zijn van plan om binnenkort voorlopige resultaten van het onderzoek te publiceren,” voegde de journalist toe.
Twijfel
Als er daarna nog twijfel heerst, is het aan de Peruanen en de rest van de wereld om de lichamen te bewaren en de waarheid boven tafel te krijgen, aldus Maussan.
De mummies worden op dit moment uitgebreid bestudeerd. Zo worden er onder andere DNA-tests gedaan en röntgenfoto’s gemaakt.
Mysterieuze onbekende planeet voorbij Neptunus bestaat echt. Deze astronomen hebben nieuw bewijs
Mysterieuze onbekende planeet voorbij Neptunus bestaat echt. Deze astronomen hebben nieuw bewijs
Wetenschappers hebben nieuwe aanwijzingen gevonden voor het bestaan van een nog onontdekte planeet in ons zonnestelsel, die ook wel Planeet X wordt genoemd.
Spaanse astronomen hebben ontdekt dat zich op 300 keer de afstand van de aarde tot de zon een mysterieus object bevindt dat invloed uitoefent op de banen van objecten voorbij Neptunus.
Het bestaan van dit hemellichaam, dat 10 keer zwaarder zou zijn dan de aarde, is afgeleid uit de baaneigenschappen van deze zogeheten transneptunische objecten.
Onbekend
Planeet X is één van de meest besproken planeten van de laatste jaren. De omloopbanen van een aantal transneptunische objecten zouden zich gericht hebben naar een nog onbekend groot hemellichaam.
Het team van het project Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) stelde vorige maand nog dat de omloopbanen geen voorkeursrichting vertonen.
Maar astronomen van de Complutense Universiteit van Madrid hebben met behulp van een nieuwe techniek laten zien dat de omloopbanen van deze objecten niet willekeurig georiënteerd zijn.
Wel degelijk
Volgens het team zijn de objecten gegroepeerd rond bepaalde afstanden tot de zon. De Spaanse wetenschappers concluderen dat ze wel degelijk onder invloed staan van een nog onontdekte planeet.
“Wij interpreteren deze resultaten als aanwijzingen voor het bestaan van een planeet op 300 tot 400 astronomische eenheden van de zon,” zei astronoom Carlos de la Fuente Marcos.
BIJNA BOTSING TUSSEN UFO EN VLIEGTUIG BOVEN LONDEN ( VIDEO )
BIJNA BOTSING TUSSEN UFO EN VLIEGTUIG BOVEN LONDEN ( VIDEO )
Engeland staat altijd al in de belangstelling als een land waar veel UFO’s worden gesignaleerd, maar meestal gebeurt dit niet boven de hoofdstad Londen.
Nu is dat wel het geval en niet alleen dat, ze verschijnen ook op de aanvliegroutes naar vliegvelden zoals Heathrow met als gevolg dat de eerste “near miss” al is geregistreerd.
Op 2 juli 2017 rond een uur of twaalf ’s middags filmt een dame op het dak van haar huis in Londen een bijzonder incident.
Een UFO, die heel dicht in de buurt komt van een passagiersvliegtuig.
De dame die de opname maakte, woont in het oostelijke deel van Londen, vlakbij een aantal luchtvaartcorridors richting Londense vliegvelden.
Nadat talloze mensen en experts de bewegende beelden hebben bekeken, schijnt er consensus te zijn over dat het echt is.
Enkele dagen later is het weer raak, want op 8 juli verschijnt er weer een UFO en weer dicht in de buurt van een passerend vliegtuig, alhoewel minder dichtbij dan de week daarvoor.
Hoe dit allemaal kan, is een raadsel, maar onderaan het artikel waar deze waarneming staat, zegt de vrouw die dit allemaal heeft gefilmd, June Miller, dat ze een 69-jarige ufologe is die vanaf het dak van haar huis het afgelopen jaar al meer dan 20 keer dit soort opnames heeft gemaakt.
Ook via een andere bron komen er berichten binnen over toenemende UFO activiteit boven Londen en het heeft misschien wel betrekking op dezelfde waarneming als in het geval van June Miller.
Deze waarneming is eveneens op 2 juli vertelt het verhaal van een man die eveneens onder aanvliegroutes woont in Londen, in dit geval van Gatwick en Heathrow.
Hij ziet iets glinsteren in de lucht, zag al snel dat het geen vliegtuig was en nam een aantal foto’s.
Volgens de man verschijnen ze sinds die dag regelmatig, maar is hij zo bang geworden dat hij er de voorkeur aan geeft om binnen te blijven.
WERKT MARCEL HUSPAS ALS UFO-SPION VOOR MILITAIRE INLICHTINGENDIENST ( VIDEO )
WERKT MARCEL HUSPAS ALS UFO-SPION VOOR MILITAIRE INLICHTINGENDIENST ( VIDEO )
Je staat raar te kijken wanneer je een ufomelding doet via 112 en de politie geeft je geheime telefoonnummer door aan Stichting Skepsis en “journalist” Marcel Hulspas.
Dat is wat Bart overkwam toen hij een UFO-melding deed via 112 en vervolgens van Marcel Hulspas te horen kreeg dat hij discolichten had gezien, terwijl net daarvoor zwarte helikopters en een AWACS vliegtuig over dat gebied vlogen.
Hoeveel mensen zouden in de loop der jaren geen bloedserieuze UFO-meldingen hebben doorgegeven aan het alarmnummer 112? En hoeveel van die mensen zouden denken dat ze daarmee goed hebben gehandeld omdat de overheid er is voor hen?
Er is enkele dagen geleden een video gepubliceerd met daarin het verhaal van een gezin dat in de duinen bij Schoorl een aantal UFO’s waarneemt.
De man die na de melding van dit gezin prominent in beeld komt, zo zeggen zij, is Marcel Hulspas die zich meldt als zijnde van de Stichting Skepsis.
Marcel Hulspas is de man die naast zijn activiteiten bij Stichting Skepsis ook regelmatig “stukkies” schrijft in bladen zoals de Volkskrant en het AD.
De man die in een walgelijk en arrogant stuk in de Volkskrant de draak steekt met eenieder die vraagtekens zet bij de officiële versie van getuigenverslagen.
Zo schrijft hij onder meer over dat soort mensen:
Paranoïde gekkies die zich op Demmink hebben gestort. Nadat hij volstrekt ten onrechte door Panorama en de Gay Krant aan de schandpaal was genageld als 'pedofiel', vonden zij in Demmink hét bewijs dat de duistere elite die Nederland regeert door en door verrot is.
En als klap op de vuurpijl:
Kat is de ongekroonde koning van dit gekkenhuis. En iedereen kent iedereen, want alles hangt met alles samen.
We zullen het vandaag niet hebben over de rechtszaak die Micha Kat heeft aangespannen tegen de Volkskrant, we zullen het wel hebben over Marcel Hulspas, de man die volgens het verhaal van het gezin dat de UFO waarneming deed in Schoorl, het Nederlandse volk verraad waar ze bij staan.
Het verhaal dat wordt verteld lijkt authentiek, mede door het feit dat er in de video ook originele politiedocumenten worden getoond.
De man waar het allemaal om gaat, is te zien op de volgende afbeelding, Marcel Hulspas
Voor het verhaal gaan we een stukje terug in de tijd.
In oktober 2002 wandelt een gezin in het duingebied bij Schoorl en ziet een aantal vreemde vliegende objecten in de lucht.
De mensen schrikken en bellen 112, het alarmnummer, waarna ze worden doorverbonden met de regiopolitie in Alkmaar. De melding wordt genoteerd en de volgende dag ziet het gezin in datzelfde gebied zwarte ongemarkeerde helikopters rondvliegen.
Even later verschijnt een zogenaamd AWACS toestel (bedoeld voor verkenning) boven het gebied, wat bijzonder is omdat deze daar normaal gesproken niet vliegen.
Aan het einde van die dag wordt de man van het gezin, die ook de melding had gedaan via 112, Bart, gebeld door iemand van Stichting Skepsis in verband met zijn UFO-melding. Dit is een voor velen welbekende stichting die zo ongeveer alles afkraakt wat niet in het standaard mainstream verhaal past.
De man die belde namens Stichting Skepsis bleek niemand minder te zijn dan Marcel Hulspas.
Bart reageert uiterst verbaasd en op zijn vraag hoe Skepsis zo snel weet van zijn UFO-melding, antwoordt Hulspas dat hij de meldingen doorkrijgt van de politie.
De reden dat hij belt, werd dan ook al snel duidelijk, want hij vertelde Bart dat wat hij had gezien waarschijnlijk discolichten waren geweest.
Na dit gesprek gaat Bart piekeren en vraagt zich af hoe het mogelijk is dat zijn geheime 06-nummer in handen van Hulspas kan komen als hij een melding doet bij een overheidsinstantie.
Het zal niemand verbazen dat Bart van het kastje naar de muur wordt gestuurd en uiteindelijk terechtkomt bij de Nationale Ombudsman, die hem op alle punten volledig gelijk geeft.
Het verhaal in de video lijkt echt en overtuigend, ook omdat er originele brieven van de politie worden getoond.
Er wordt in de video gezegd dat hetzelfde wat Bart overkwam bij talloze anderen ook is gebeurd. Graag zouden wij vernemen van mensen die na een UFO-melding bij 112 ook gebeld zijn door “een medewerker” van Stichting Skepsis (of andere misleidende instrumenten).
Als het verhaal inderdaad klopt, dan toont het inderdaad aan dat de overheid bewust mensen op een dwaalspoor zet en toont het bovendien ook aan dat Stichting Skepsis een verlengstuk van de overheid is. En uiteraard dat Marcel Hulspas een levensgevaarlijke spion en agent is van de overheid met als doel het volk op een dwaalspoor zetten.
Dus, mochten er mensen zijn die in het kader van bovenstaande iets te melden hebben, dan graag!
OP VERSCHILLENDE PLEKKEN IN NEDERRLAND TWEEDE LICHTBRON ( VIDEO )
OP VERSCHILLENDE PLEKKEN IN NEDERRLAND TWEEDE LICHTBRON ( VIDEO )
De laatste zijn er veel mensen die op verschillende plaatsen op de wereld een andere lichtbron ontdekken, afgezien van de zon.
Zo hebben we al diverse opnames laten zien van mensen die, terwijl normaal gesproken de zon in het westen ondergaat, ook een zonsondergang in het oosten zien.
Verder natuurlijk de vele tweede zonnen die worden waargenomen, waarvan een aantal onverklaarbaar is, behalve als je gelooft in een mini zonnestelsel in onze atmosfeer.
Echter, daarnaast is er ook een volkomen natuurlijk verschijnsel en dat heet bijzon.
Een parhelium of bijzon is een natuurlijk optisch fenomeen of halo-verschijnsel in de aardatmosfeer dat gezien kan worden wanneer een lage zon door losse cirruswolken schijnt
Het maakt dus een groot verschil of je een tweede object ontdekt aan (een soort wolkenloze) hemel of één die bedekt is met (hoge) wolken.
Zo ontvingen wij de volgende foto van een lezer (dank!):
Gister reed ik in de auto door Edam toen ik iets vreemds aanschouwde. Het leek een 2e lichtbron in de lucht. Heb er een paar foto's van gemaakt. Dacht misschien kunnen jullie er iets mee :)
Een optisch verschijnsel zoals een 22º halo (gekleurde kring) rondom de zon of maan, ontstaat ten gevolge van breking van zon- of maanlicht in ijskristallen.
Kringen om de zon zijn echter allerminst zeldzaam, gemiddeld iedere twee of drie dagen is er ergens in ons land wel zo’n kring te zien en elders in de wereld is dat niet anders. Met de regenboog heeft het verschijnsel niets te maken. Een regenboog ontstaat door weerkaatsing van zonlicht in regendruppels, een halo door weerkaatsing in ijs. Naast de kring kunnen allerlei vormen zichtbaar zijn zoals bogen in verschillende richtingen die raken aan de kring, lichtzuilen boven de zon en lichtvlekken aan weerszijden van de zon. Deze meestal prachtig gekleurde vlekken zijn geregeld te zien en worden bijzonnen genoemd. Halo’s hebben een voorspellende betekenis: een kring om zon of maan is vaak een voorbode van een weersverslechtering. Niet voor niets kennen we de oude weerspreuk “Kring om de zon, brengt regen in de ton”.
Ook uit Friesland kregen we beelden (dank!) van een tweede zon. Al hebben wij twijfels bij deze foto omdat de wolken voor de tweede zon langs lopen en dat zou erop kunnen duiden dat dit wel degelijk een tweede lichtbron is.
Dan krijgen we opnames opgestuurd van een tweede zon en nog een vreemd object vanuit Groningen (dank!).
Toen mijn vriendin en ik op de terug weg waren naar Groningen, zagen wij weer iets heel bijzonders in de lucht, tijdens zonsondergang. Links van de ondergaande zon, zagen wij verschillende kleuren in het wolkendek. Ik pakte vervolgens mijn telefoon en maakte een aantal foto's.
Ook deze foto valt in dezelfde categorie en als je goed kijkt dan zie je de halo van de zon.
Dan volgt er nog een foto met daarop een vreemde bol of planeet boven de bijzon.
Wanneer je deze vergroot ziet het eruit als volgt:
Maar, ook hier is niets mysterieus aan, omdat dit een lensflare is die wordt veroorzaakt door sommige types van de moderne smartphone.
Dit alles wil niet zeggen dat er geen onverklaarbare fenomenen zijn waar te nemen in lucht. Zoals de volgende uit Amerika:
En dan natuurlijk waar we al vaker over publiceerden, dat mensen zowel een zonsondergang in het oosten zien als in het westen.
Steeds meer mensen zien een normale zonsondergang in het westen en tegelijkertijd in het oosten een tweede vreemde lichtbron, vaak met rood/roest-achtige luchten.
Wat eveneens heel bijzonder is, is de reactie van een jong meisje bij het zien van de volgende afbeelding die wij in een eerder artikel plaatsten.
Ze “herkende” de rode lucht en de sfeer uit beelden waarover ze heel vaak droomt.
Door de gloed van de Verwoester was de aarde gehuld in een roodachtig licht. Het land was platgeslagen en verwoest door enorme hagelstenen die neer beukten op alles wat stond. Ze kwamen naar beneden in hete buien en achter hen aan kwam een soort vreemd gloeiend vuur dat over de aarde liep.
DOES THIS PAINTING PROVE ALIENS WERE PRESENT DURING CHRIST'S CRUCIFIXION?
DOES THIS PAINTING PROVE ALIENS WERE PRESENT DURING CHRIST'S CRUCIFIXION?
One of craziest theories by UFO enthusiasts is the presence of aliens and UFOs during the time of Jesus Christ. Many claim Jesus was actually an extraterrestrial visitor and that his phenomenal powers were that of a non-human entity.
Another crazy theory is that Jesus Christ was actually a shapeshifter. But this theory is backed by ancient texts found in Egypt that are now stored in the organ Library and Museum in New York City.
The texts say that Jesus sometimes took the form of an old man, sometimes a young man, etc.
Another fascinating theory tells of UFOs being present during the crucifixion. If we look at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral's fresco of the Christ's crucifixion we can spot two strange object in the upper corners. It resembles something like an UFO, although historians say that it could represent guardian angels.
ISS SPOTTED GIGANTIC ALIEN MOTHERSHIP DURING LIVE FEED
ISS SPOTTED GIGANTIC ALIEN MOTHERSHIP DURING LIVE FEED
Footage has emerged online of what many UFO researchers are referring to as an alien ‘megaship’ which was spotted on the NASA live feed of the region of space in proximity to the International Space Station (ISS).
The mysterious object in question was first spotted by a YouTube user who operates under the handle of StreetCap1 who was monitoring the live stream of the ISS at the time.
CIGAR SHAPED ‘MEGASHIP’ SPOTTED ON ISS FEED
“I thought I saw things, ” he wrote underneath the video in which a distinctive cigar shaped UFO can be seen hovering over the horizon of Earth in the region close to the space station. After he took screenshots and selections of the feed and uploaded them to his YouTube channel his images caused something of an internet storm, with some eagle eyed viewers noting that there were some peculiar orbs positioned underneath the supposed ‘megaship’ in the video. StreetCap1 noted that he had to be very quick when it came to taking pictures of the mysterious object as the live stream immediately dimmed and became poorer in quality almost as soon as the presumed craft appeared on screen. UFO researchers claim that this is a regular tactic employed by NASA or other agents to ensure that the general public is not given clear images of alien visitors to this solar system.
The video caught the attention of Tyler Glocker, the creator of the Secure Team 10, who has a great deal of experience when it comes to UFO sightings. He said that it is very clear that there are ‘anomalous objects’ in the video including the long cigar-shaped UFO and reflective looking orbs. He said that it was very likely that while NASA released these low image resolution photographs to the public that they had their own high-resolution images which they were keeping for their own inter-departmental analysis.
According to Glockner, it is not unusual for mysterious objects such as the one spotted in this video to appear on the ISS live feeds. He claims to have seen UFOs on numerous occasions after monitoring hundreds of sessions of these particular feeds. However, despite the regularity of these incidents, NASA and the other space agencies that operate out of the ISS generally refuse to address the issues or to make comments to the public about what the objects could be.
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Video: The NT News’ favourite UFO clips
Video: The NT News’ favourite UFO clips
ALONG with croc stories, the NT News loves a good UFO yarn. Whether you’re a believer in little green men or not, there’s been no shortage of strange sights in our skies.
The NT News has dug through its digital archives for a look back on our favourite UFO videos from the Territory and around the world.
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Filer’s Files #28 – 2017 Cosmonauts saw UFOs - PART I
Moving objects over Havasu City, Arizona on July 5, 2017
Filer’s Files #28 – 2017 Cosmonauts saw UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Cosmonauts saw UFOs, Our Sun is a Binary Star? Whose Spaceships Are Flying in Orbit Around Earth? Spaceship Orbiting Mars. Baalbek in Lebanon the Largest Known Megalithic Stone in the World, Sounds of the Manta Ray UFO, The 4000 year old Beauty of Loulan of China, and World’s Largest X-band Radar
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over, Canada, Columbia, New Zealand Russia, Spain, Turkey, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The 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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MUFON Eastern Region Director
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Special Projects
Cosmonauts Spotted UFO on MIR mission
Cosmonaut Gennadij Strekhalov states on the last two flights I saw something. During the flight of 1990, I called Gennadij Manakov, our commander: “Come to the porthole”. Unfortunately, but this is typical, we did not manage to put a film in the camera quickly enough to film it. We looked on Newfoundland. The atmosphere was completely clear. And suddenly a kind of sphere appeared. I want to compare it with a Christmas tree decoration, beautiful, shiny, and glittering. I saw it for ten seconds. The sphere appeared in the same way as it disappeared again. What it was and what size it had, I don’t know. There was nothing I could compare it with. I was like struck by lightning by this phenomenon. It was a perfect sphere, glittering like a Christmas tree decoration. I reported to the Mission Control Center, but I did not say that I have seen a UFO. I said I saw a kind of unusual phenomenon. I had to be careful with the choice of my words. I don’t want someone to speculate too much or quote me wrong. Thanks to Paul Stonehill
Our Sun is a Binary Star?
The Binary Research Institute (BRI) has found that orbital characteristics of the recent discovery of Sedna, a large minor planet in the outer reach of the Solar System by Cal Tech astronomer. “Sedna”, demonstrate the possibility that our sun might be part of a binary star system. A binary star system consists of two stars gravitation-ally bound orbiting a common center of mass. Binary stars are now considered to be common in the Milky Way galaxy.
University of California Berkeley said on June 13, 2017 that our sun “almost certainly” was born in the company of a twin, though not an identical twin. What’s more, according to this new research study, every other sun like star in the universe was born with a sibling, also. This assertion is based on a radio survey of the Perseus molecular cloud, which is a giant cloud in space known to be forming new binary stars located 600 light-years away. And it’s based on a mathematical model that can explain astronomers’ observations of the Perseus molecular cloud only if all sun like stars are born with a companion.
Astronomers have searched for a companion to our sun. Along the way, this hypothetical companion was dubbed Nemesis for the Greek goddess of retribution – because the sun’s sibling was supposed to have kicked an asteroid into Earth’s orbit that collided with our planet and exterminated the dinosaurs. A Nemesis-type star in our own solar system has never been found, however. In recent years, the name has popped up mostly doomsday conspiracy theories, where an unseen and undiscovered star “companion to our sun periodically rains comets down on Earth.
Meanwhile, Steven Stahler, a UC Berkeley research astronomer, we are saying, yes, there probably was a Nemesis, a long time ago. The data was one in which all stars form initially as wide binaries. These systems then either shrink or may break apart.
Sedna provides what could be indirect physical evidence of a solar companion. Matching the recent findings by Dr. Brown, showing that Sedna moves in a highly unusual elliptical orbit, Cruttenden has determined that Sedna moves in resonance with previously published orbital data for a hypothetical companion star.
Dr. Brown stated: “Sedna shouldn’t be there. There’s no way to put Sedna where it is. It never comes close enough to be affected by the sun, but it never goes far enough away from the sun to be affected by other stars. Sedna is stuck, frozen in place; there’s no way to move it, basically there’s no way to put it there — unless it formed there. But it’s in a very elliptical orbit like that. It simply can’t be there. There’s no possible way – except it is. So how and when?”
“I’m thinking it was placed there in the earliest history of the solar system. I’m thinking it could have gotten there if there used to be stars a lot closer than they are now and those stars affected Sedna on the outer part of its orbit and then later on moved away. So I call Sedna a fossil record of the earliest solar system. Walter Cruttenden agrees that Sedna’s highly elliptical orbit is very unusual, but noted that the orbit period of 12,000 years is in neat resonance with the expected orbit periodicity of a companion star as outlined in several prior papers. Consequently, Cruttenden believes that Sedna’s unusual orbit is something indicative of the current solar system configuration, not merely a historical record. “It is hard to imagine that Sedna would retain its highly elliptical orbit pattern since the beginning of the solar system billions of years ago. Because eccentricity would likely fade with time, it is logical to assume Sedna is telling us something about current, albeit unexpected solar system forces, most probably a companion star”.
Cruttenden’s book “Lost Star of Myth and Time“, which outlines historical references and the modern search for the elusive companion, the possibility of a binary partner star to our sun has been left to the halls of academia. But with Dr. Brown’s discoveries of Sedna and Xena, (now confirmed to be larger than Pluto), and timing observations like Cruttenden’s, the search for a companion star may be gaining momentum. Materials provided by Binary Research Institutewww.sciencedaily.com
Whose Spaceships Are Flying in Orbit Around Earth?
There are huge craft in orbit around the Earth. Governments of the Earth deny their ability to operate anti-gravity craft. Assuming they are telling the truth, nations of the Earth only have the International Space Station in orbit. The Obama Administration stopped the Shuttles flying and is spending a billion dollars to fly US astronauts aboard Russian Rockets to the ISS and purchasing Russian Rocket engines. So a billion dollar bill infers that these orbiting craft do not belong to the US. These huge ships could be an Interstellar migration of aliens who have an interest in watching humans and the plant and animal life on this planet. They could be here to help or to take advantage of our tribal warfare. There is evidence of mining going on under the ocean and on the moon. Present day telescopes, radars, space fence can pick up the large craft circling Earth. The ISS regularly takes video and photographs of objects in space. David Wilcock, Corey Goode, and William Tompkins claim that at least some these ships belong to the United States/:
We speculate that the images John is taking are large space ships belonging to the United States, although they may belong to other countries or alien intruders. There is also indication that several countries are working together to down alien intruders. Thanks to John Walson
Professor Gerry Gilmore writes to John Walson, Again my congratulations on your superb astrophotography. John is clearly getting images at almost the diffraction limit of his telescope. In the very sharpest images there are hints of diffraction rings visible on the edges of the satellites. That is of course the absolute limit of optical performance, and is only rarely attained. Interestingly, the process you have, of using a high-quality imaging system, with fast read-out, and then selecting the rare `perfect’ images is something which has been developed and applied somewhat by one of my colleagues here.
You might like to look at our local web page presenting some of this: link to www.ast.cam.ac.uk. Thank you for the images: once again they show that you are an excellent photographer. There are of course many satellites in orbit, only a few of which are anything to do with JPL, but these are readily seen by astro-photographers like you all over the world.
You should just enjoy the excellence of your images, and make them available as widely as is possible to the public, so you can get the credit you deserve for your skills. Regards Professor Gerry Gilmore Experimental Philosophy. Institute of Astronomy direct Cambridge University PA.
Note: 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. gofundme link here. GoFundMe or PayPal
Spaceship Orbiting Mars
Here is a great capture of a UFO shooting past the Mars Curiosity Rover on May 4, 2017. The UFO is long and well lit up from one of the Mars moons. At least, it looks like a moon, except for the beam of light coming from it. The UFO passes just below it and the sunlight bouncing off the moon hits the UFO. Rovers don’t lie, they just record what they see and transmit to Earth. They have no feelings, no emotions, no reservations, just pure tech. It’s a terrific find by Streetcap1.
Baalbek in Lebanon the Largest Known Megalithic Stone in the World
The Stone of the South’ at Baalbek, Lebanon is the largest worked monolith on Earth, weighing in at a staggering 1242 tons. It is even heavier than the ‘Stone of the Pregnant Woman’ which weighs an estimated 1000 tons, that sits on the other side of the road in the quarry. Neither of these stones made it to the main ‘Temple of Jupiter’, some 900 meters to the northeast, but some 400-ton and 800-ton stones did make their way to the temple, were raised 20 feet in to the air and were placed with machine-like precision into the foundations of this mighty ancient complex. Last week, Janine Abdel Massih and her team uncovered a further
monolith that sits virtually underneath ‘The Stone of the Pregnant Woman’ that was once destined for the main Temple site (see featured image). Until recently, it was buried under a few feet of dirt, and has been measured at 19.6 meters long, 6 meters wide and 5.5 meters thick. “Because we have not yet reached the bottom of the rock to be completely cleared,” Janine Abdel Massih said, “we have no idea of the volume or complete dimension of this ancient stone.” (1). The outline of it can be seen in these images, and shows a kind of precision we find in ancient Peru and Egypt. The discovery of this new monolith, just adds another level of mystery to the situation, as it sits virtually ‘under’ the ‘The Stone of the Pregnant Woman’, and would have had to have been lifted out, after this other 1000 ton block was moved. Zecharia Sitchin who wrote the Earth Chronicles series told me Baalbek was an alien launching and landing site.
Sounds of the Manta Ray UFO
Dr. Bruce Cornet has sent some interesting sounds of craft he recorded over New York and New Jersey..
The 4000 year old Beauty of Loulan of China
Loulan was discovered in 1980, but it was 3800 years ago that she died in China on the trade route known as the Silk Road. The natural dryness and salty soil preserved her and over two hundred other mummies, who had lived in settlements along the trade route. The mummy has been called the Loulan Beauty because of her amazingly preserved stately facial features. Light hair that have remained quite beautiful even in death.
The Chinese government has been reluctant to allow full access to the mummies because of their Caucasian identity. The Tarim mummies look more European than Asian and may be descendants of the original inhabitants of the area and not later arrivals, as Chinese history claims.
Victor Mair, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was instrumental in getting access to these mummies’ genetic samples in 1993. Their findings revealed that the mummies are indeed European but they probably migrated from the Siberian region. Mainstream historians have always had the concept that early people were not world travelers when in fact most evidence points to just the opposite. Loulan’s people are clearly of Caucasian descent and their grave goods suggest that they were probably merchants of textiles.
The settlements along the Silk Road might very well have been meeting points where merchants from the west traded their goods for goods from the East. Pliny the Elder described the traders from this area as tall with golden flaxen hair and blue eyes. Loulan herself lived to be about 40 to 45. One of the mummies, the Yingpan Man, was six feet six inches tall and wore a red tunic with gold embroidery. He also wore a gold foil burial mask.
She probably died from lung disease and was buried in well-made woven clothing. Some of the mummies are actually wearing plaid patterned loomed cloth. Many of the mummies are tattooed like modern tattooing and one female has crescent moons and ovals tattooed on her face. A male mummy known as the Chrechen Man has sun tattoos on his temples, although the tattoos could represent UFOs. It is known that the ancient people rode horses, used chariots and had at least some medical knowledge.
World’s Largest X-band Radar
Raytheon’s nine-story-high X-band Radar (XBR) is the world’s largest X-band radar that can track UFOs.
The sea-based X-band (SBX) platform that it sits on stands more than 250 feet high and displaces more than 50,000 tons. It consists of a semi-submersible oil production platform topped with the XBR.
XBR is the primary payload on the semi-submersible platform supporting the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense phase of the Missile Defense Agency Ballistic Missile Defense System.
SBX’s floating platform, a modified oil-drilling vessel, was designed for exceptional stability in high winds and storms. Measuring 240 feet wide and 390 feet long, the vessel includes a power plant, bridge and control rooms, living quarters, storage areas, and enough floor space and infrastructure to support the X-band Radar.
The X-band Radar itself, which sits on top of the floating platform, is the largest, most sophisticated phased array, electro-mechanically steered X-band radar in the world.
It consists of thousands of elements driven by transmit/receive (T/R) modules. In the X-band Radar, they provide the full fire control sensor functions for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system, including search, acquisition, tracking, discrimination and kill assessment.
Thom Reed UFO Monument Park
The Thom Reed UFO Monument Park was established with the thought of the community of Sheffield, Massachusettes in mind. The UFO incident that occurred on September 1, 1969 was verified and ruled by the Great Barrington Historical Society as “historically significant and true”. This was preceded by the Governor’s two citations inducting the incident and Thom Reed into United States history in 2015 along with the unveiling of the 5000 pound monument.
Coverage was provided by the Boston Globe and ABC News NY. During the time of the incident Thom Reed and his family received some criticism over their experience but the town of Sheffield did not waver in what they witnessed due to eyewitness reports and coverage by Great Barrington’s own WSBS radio airing the sightings. Many traveled from across the states to visit the location of the incident and see the monument due to its listings on road side attractions websites. Shawn Stowe, owner of Inspirational Talent Management came upon the numerous televised programs about the case and knew that something needed to be done to make sure that this area became a permanent part of history and provide a thank you to the town of Sheffield for coming forward with their eyewitness accounts despite criticism and backlash.
The area at the time was just a monument and a marker of where the incident had occurred which was significant in itself and at risk of being forgotten. Shawn reached out to numerous television celebrities and The Roswell UFO Museum for financial backing for the dream of establishing this beautiful waterside park that needed to be preserved and improved to commemorate the event.
The plan was to put a few benches in the park with plaques that the town could enjoy as well as be a part of history overall. Ben Hansen from Fact or Faked, Travis Walton from Fire in the Sky and the Roswell UFO Museum were excited to get on board. Once the funding came through, Shawn reached out to Thom Reed to let him know of her plans to establish the first historical UFO Park to be inducted into United States History in the town of Sheffield dedicated to him. Reed was extremely grateful and humbled by her excitement over developing the area that definitely needed someone to get behind it. Phase one was officially in motion…the benches were transported to the incident location with the sponsor plaques on them and cleaning up of the area from winter began. Phase two was just put underway in June when a large outpouring of support from the community incited another visit to the park. A donation of two solar lights were given by Gary Holloway and placed in the park on June 10, 2017. The area was also expanded further and the monument that had been vandalized was refinished. There are countless plans for further development of The Thom Reed UFO Monument Park in the near future including a picnic table, fencing and more expansion.
We are extremely excited that the town of Sheffield has been so courageous to get behind the new developments. If you would like to get involved with the park please visit www.ufomonumentpark.com and click on the sponsor page. Anyone who donates to the park regardless of the size of the donation will be listed on a sign in the park and in a book that is currently being co-written by Thom Reed and Brent Smith. This year Paraween, an event taking place during Haunted Happenings on October 21, 2017 at the Salem Waterfront Hotel and Suites will be paying tribute and discussing the Thom Reed UFO Monument Park with a speaker from Roswell UFO Museum and a local historian. To purchase tickets please visit www.paraween.com. For more information or to sponsor something at the park please contact Shawn Stowe at info@inspirationaltalentmanagement.com
Fake News Poll
The new YouGov poll finds: “The rise of fake news, a growing multitude of media sources and an increasingly polarized nation have Americans learning to take their headlines with a grain of salt.” or several grains. Perhaps predictably, Republicans and members of that other party both see bias in news media — but to differing degrees. More than eight-of-ten Republicans (85%) see media bias while about one-of-two Democrats do (52%). http://hotair.com/archives/2017/06/22/media-bias-poll-finds-broad-bipartisan-agreement.
Fake News Fails to Report NY Mayor de Basio is Rioting in Hamburg Riots
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) flew to Germany this week to participate in an anti Capitalism protest, drawing criticism for leaving after a Bronx police officer was killed. ABC and NBC failed to mention he was one of the rioters that set fires, looting, and injuries to 200 police officers.
The event coincides with a summit attended by world leaders in Hamburg that aims to strengthen technological innovation and employment. De Blasio’s trip immediately raised questions from political opponents and from the city’s police union, which has had a strained relationship with de Blasio.
On Thursday the Mayor skipped an NYPD swearing-in ceremony made somber by this week’s assassination of a cop. Ed Mullins president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association told The Washington Post, “You’ve chosen to leave while the city is mourning. I just don’t understand what he’s thinking,” De Blasio left the day after Officer Miosotis Familia was fatally shot while sitting in a police vehicle in the Bronx early Wednesday morning. Mullins questioned the purpose of the trip, saying de Blasio’s job is in New York City, not abroad. Fox and One American News showed what appeared to DeBasio in the front of the rioters that desire to stop capitalism.
In another story not carried in national news, Isabel Martinez, 33, an illegal immigrant knifed to death her husband and four children under ten. A fifth child is in critical .condition.They did cover an alligator that bit a man on the arm. Note UFOs, Illegal immigrant killings and drug busts, police and military funerals, Christian or Jewish success is virtually never covered in the evening news.
500 MUFON Sightings in June
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In June 2017 there were 590 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries; United States 421, Canada 54, United Kingdom 47, India 9, Australia 7, Brazil 6 and Spain 6. Etc.
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Filer’s Files #28 – 2017 Cosmonauts saw UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #28 – 2017 Cosmonauts saw UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Objects
Havasu City — I fly weekly, so I’ve seen a lot in my years of travel. I suddenly caught a shining bright light from my corner vision. It had a golden shine as video may indicate. We had just passed Lake Havasu at an altitude of 29,000 feet at approximately 484 mph ground speed. The objects were moving in what seemed a NW direction as shown on video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Scottsdale — My friend and I were out on the patio looking for nearby fireworks and were disappointed as they were all far away on July 4, 2017. I spotted what looked to be a firework with a trail coming straight down out of the sky about a mile away. I got my friend’s attention thinking it was about to explode and begin a nearby fireworks show. To our amazement it stopped and sat still for a few seconds while still shining bright. I pulled out my phone as we both wondered what it was.
The object began to move horizontally while emitting a trail sparks. I captured a short video where the orangish trail is visible. A few seconds later an identical object appeared above and to the right of the first object. My friend and I are still in amazement over what we saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California B-1 and Disc
Glendale – I photographed a B-1 bomber doing a flyby at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on January 2, 2012.
The .photo was taken from Glendale. I could see the bomber but could not see the disc with my naked eye, but I saw them in the photo…..what is that?
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Object
Buckley— While compiling a brief report on the devastating hail storm of May 8, 2017, over Denver, I came across this photo looking NNW at an approaching storm. This was over Buckley AFB the primary US missile tracking station. If you look above the left side of the geodomes on the site, close to the top of the photo, there is an apparent object that looks like a disc, angled at 45 degrees. On magnification it appears to have a central dome. I have been a professional observer air traffic controller for many years from control towers and didn’t recognize that object as an aircraft. There is no tail assembly and the angle of bank is severe for a commercial aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Siesta Key– On June 17, 2017, at sunset a round ball of light flew across the sky at very fast speeds. It changed directions quickly and disappeared into the water. It was captured on three different I-phones.
It was at sunset on a private beach with 60 to 70 people when we noticed it when we were taking photos. Two others with us were able to capture photos as well. It was moving super fast and then seemed to dive into the ocean.
Note: The witnesses apparently saw the object. This is not the result of anomalies showing up in the background of videos or photos.
Update –It appears that the object was only seen through camera lenses. Given this scenario the object is likely a lens flare. The original report strongly suggested that the object was seen and then videos were taken. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Iowa Light
Marion – The first of four consecutive sightings, within 20 minutes at a party on July 3, 2017 We were watching fireworks going off to the west at 8:45 pm. We saw a large reddish-orange very bright glowing in the sky at the end of the street, just to the left/and south of the fireworks. There was no trail like would come with a firework. I knew it was something strange that looked slightly hazy. It hovered for about two minutes. I grabbed my cell phone intending to video but only took a photo! The orb was the same size as the moon, but slowly got smaller until it was invisible. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Light
Moorhead— At around 9:30 Pm I was heading outside to watch fireworks, and noticed a strange glowing red/orange light through the window to the North on July 4, 2017. I felt excited, and I knew it wasn’t a plane or a firework. I went outside to see another one much closer to the South. It flew directly over my head traveling North at e 35 – 45 mph? Over the next hour and a half I saw at least 6 more at different times. All seemed to be travelling north. I stopped seeing them about the 11 pm, when a thunderstorm arrived. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mississippi Green Light
Lucedale – I attended my local fireworks show last night on July 4, 2017, and began taking a few pictures with my mobile phone once the show started. I noticed nothing unusual until I got home and began uploading my photos to my tablet. Upon observation, I noticed an unusual anomaly to the left of the fireworks display. It was a green, half-circle shape that appeared to be glowing. It was in all of the photos I took. I also noticed once zoomed in that a second anomaly appears to be to the upper left of the very visible one. It was too big to be a drone, and was completely stationary but the second one possibly moved. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Object
Kansas City — I was with a few of my friends overlooking the city and took a picture on Snapchat. I swiped right a couple of times to find the right filter, posted it and kind of forgot about it. That is until I looked at the picture again in the morning and noticed something I hadn’t seen before. In the middle left just above the city you can see three faint lights in the shape of a triangle that I am positive were not stars or a plane, that because we didn’t even see the lights with our naked eyes. I decided to put the picture through a few other filters on an application on my desktop and could make out a kind of rim that was connecting the lights. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Hampshire Orange Lights
Keene— On June 21, 2017, at 3:35 AM, I saw two bright reddish-orange lights in the sky. They looked like two bright planets. They were far apart, but moving slowly at the same speed northwest. There was no sound or flashing. One of them vanished first and the second one vanished shortly after. I tried to get pictures, but I only got one blurry one. Of course my camera zoom wouldn’t function right. I have always been a skeptic about UFO’s and need some kind of explanation, but I am baffled by this one. I have never seen anything like it. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
New Jersey Object
Perth Amboy — We were driving over the outer bridge in New Jersey on July 1, 2017.
There were so many rainbows so I started taking photos. Then I noticed the strange objects in the photos.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Avalon— My wife and I returned to our beach house after dinner on Saturday, June 24, 2017. I looked up at the sky and saw three objects in formation the size of a bright planet flying from SW to NE, headed out over the ocean at 10:12 pm. They flew rather slowly and several seconds later, four more identical objects also in formation flew over. Then more objects flew over, one-by-one. They kept coming silently until we finally counted a total of 15. They were almost directly overhead flying straight and level, nothing about them suggested they might be aircraft. The entire episode lasted a few minutes. I called the Coast Guard Station in Cape May, New Jersey and reported what happened. They asked many questions, and said they would call back, which they never did. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orb
Lincoln City — This was taken at Road’s End State Park, on June 23, 2017 just after sunset at 9:06 PM. The streak just hovered, and then slowly moved across the sky. It was to the west. At first I thought it was a comet, but it was moving way too slow. Then, I thought maybe it could be a plane or a jet streak, but it was just hovering before moving. It moved slowly across the sky before fading in about 6 or 7 minutes. I didn’t time it. I just watched it.
Note:The photo appears to show an aircraft with a short contrail over the Pacific Ocean. The short contrail could be the result of a dry atmospheric resulting in evaporation of the contrail shortly after formation. However, the witness stated that the “streak” hovered and then moved. This casts some doubt on this explanation. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Pennsylvania Object
Lancaster – I had just left work at 7 pm and entered Route 30W from Rou 340 when I noticed an object floating in the air to my right through the passenger window on June 29, 2017. I never saw any wings so I thought it might be a lost Mylar helium balloon but it appeared too angular and changed direction. I pulled off the next exit at Greenfield Road and after pulling on to the shoulder a tree obstructed my view. I took a picture and a short video zoomed all the way in with my Samsung S7 cell phone. It seemed to hover and then move slowly east, then changes direction and moved west. It was a slightly angular/boxy/diamond shape and may have had a gray or silver diagonal line/angle from its top left to the bottom right. When I got to the top of the ramp the object was no longer to be seen. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas lights
Houston — I was heading home from Houston in an airplane on July 3, 2017, when the captain called over saying that we were 10,000 feet. I looked out the window and saw lights over the city and took a picture. When I went to lift up my phone to take another picture, it was gone without a trace. It was about 21:30 at night. The cabin was 90% black. In the photo the reflection of the phone faintly overlaid the lights, debunking that they were cabin reflections. It was too high to be fireworks and too close to be stars and to far and small to even be lights from the cabin. There were 8-9 lights all in a boomerang or triangle pattern. When I zoom in the lights look to have a windows with a vertical bar that separates them like a household window. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Light
Ajax— My husband and I were out for a walk on the Ajax Waterfront Trail at 8:10 pm. on Saturday, June 24, 2017 when I noticed a faint rainbow in the distance and tried to photograph it. I pulled out my cell phone and took two photos. The sun was blinding so I couldn’t really see my screen very well, so I just put it back in my purse without reviewing the pictures.
On Monday, I finally looked at the photos and the rainbow was barely visible, but I noticed a perfectly spherical cloud with what appeared to be lights inside it. I checked the second photo to find the same spherical cloud. Both photos were taken within seconds of each other, and the sphere is lower in the first picture, and has 6 lights visible. Higher in the second picture the sphere has only 4 lights visible. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Toronto — Saw this object near the CN Tower down at the harbor front on July 2nd, 2017, around 5 pm. What do you think it is? Thanks to Paul Shishis
AB — There is a small airport where some biplanes were flying around in the late afternoon on June 18, 2017. I took a picture of one flying over some buildings beside the small airfield. It was around 3:30 pm. and sunny with clouds. When I looked at the photo later I noticed something behind the aircraft. At the time I took the picture there was only the biplane flying just above it, I used an iPhone 5. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Columbia Light
Armenia, Quindio — On May 28, 2017, I was in the living room of my house experimenting with an infrared lens in my tablet camera. I started recording from 2:30 until 5:30 pm, of .10 videos for a test. Later I examined the videos to see what I had captured with the infrared lens. In two of the 10 videos I could see luminous translucent spheres. In one of those two videos I could see with astonishment as in the first three minutes a strange gray-silvered object flies past at high speed. At 3:54 a second luminous sphere appears in the shot. Retaining such amazing speed, the object appears on top of the small cloud. The object descends quickly, and emits a flash of light which is captured with great clarity.
The high speed object makes a sharp turn to the right and emits a flash of bluish light which seems to be some kind of pulsation produced by the energy that propels it. It may be a kind of electromagnetic force or Parisian pulsation affect. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Cigar
Most nights I’m outside in the early hours, looking at the sky. I’ve sent two pictures to show it’s real. The first photo shows a cylinder, the second is where I’ve been able to blow it up and print the cigar picture. The area I live in is a hotspot for ufos. I live in the mountains and most nights I see something. But these things go so fast it’s almost impossible to photograph them. You mostly see them when you have no camera or the bloody camera doesn’t work in darkness. I have a set of IR monocular that can see 500 miles into space and the things I see are amazing. I have many pictures I’ve taken of UFOs with my Canon Camera. Thanks to Pete
Russia Light
Izhevsk – There was rain and strong fog tonight on July2, 2017. I was watching sky from my balcony with my girlfriend and little niece. I saw the strange bright light shine over a construction crane in the distance. I have long tried to understand what the object is. After the object divided into two parts – the first part disappeared in few seconds. My girlfriend and little niece were afraid. I took the phone and got the photo of second object. This object hovered over the crane for few minutes. The tried to get a video, but the video was worse as the object disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Light
Ibiza— I was just outside San Antonio and was taking a picture of the sunset. I had no idea of the object at the time and only noticed it later when looking at the photos I’d taken.
Having zoomed in on the anomaly it appears to be an actual object that I simply cannot explain. The picture was taken on a Samsung S6 phone.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Turkey Object
Denizli — We were sitting on the back balcony as we always do with my sister on July 7, 2017. I always like watching the sky and especially the moon. Then, suddenly, under the moon, the object flew too deep and sometimes straight, at very high speed. I could not follow the object because the balcony ended there. The object is exactly as I pictured it. It did not make any noise; and was too fast to be a plane.
I had a very strange dream when I slept 2 hours later. I had two white, unicorn winged, very bright light horses in my dream, and these horses were approaching me trying to tell me something as if they wanted me to touch them. I had the same dream 3-4 times a few hours each night. But I awoke when I would touch them and tell me something. I hope it’s useful. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Lights
South Leicestershire — 8.35 AM, I was making myself a cup tea and went outside in the garden to talk to my dad. It was a beautiful morning, with a clear blue sky and I noticed a bright star like light appear from behind a row of trees on June 17, 2017. It was travelling from the west to the east in a straight line towards the morning sun. I rushed to get my camera and took some photos. The object was moving from right to left from my point of view and must have been very high. Eventually it disappeared; I did try to find it again from the front of my house but couldn’t see it. When I zoomed in digitally afterwards I saw something really bizarre. A very bright (reflective?) object that seems to be kind of a vertical to the horizon hoop shape. When looking at the 20 photographs afterwards I also noticed a blurry spot (in the white circle) and saw that it moved from right to left and then disappeared when just below the main object. This is by far the strangest thing I’ve ever seen. I used a Nixon D5300 Camera with a Tamron 70-300mm lens. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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MYSTERY OBJECT 1991 VG SET TO PASS EARTH IN 2017 COULD BE AN ALIEN UFO EXPLORING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM ACCORDING TO ASTRONOMERS
MYSTERY OBJECT 1991 VG SET TO PASS EARTH IN 2017 COULD BE AN ALIEN UFO EXPLORING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM ACCORDING TO ASTRONOMERS
A mysterious object, 1991 VG, which has left scientists scratching their heads since it was first discovered by astronomer James Scotti in November 6, 1991, will pass Earth in the summer of 2017. Based on its unusual features and properties, some scientists considered 1991 VG a candidate object in the ongoing search for an alien spacecraft or probe in our solar system at the time it was first discovered.
Scotti discovered the mysterious, small, fast moving space object with unusual features in November 1991 while searching the skies for asteroids at the University of Arizona’s Kitt Peak National observatory.
The object, only about 10 meters in diameter, exhibited strange properties that raised the astronomer’s suspicion. It moved faster than expected for a space object its size and had an unusually fast rate of rotation. It also exhibited an anomalous pattern of brightness variation that suggested it was not an ordinary main-belt asteroid, according to Motherboard.
Scotti tracked the mysterious object for two nights, collecting data needed to plot its orbit. He was surprised to find that it had a heliocentric orbit strikingly similar similar to Earth’s. He was also surprised to find that it was due to brush past Earth at a distance of 280,000 miles the following month and that it had already passed close to Earth at least once in the past. Data plotting 1991 VG’s orbital trajectory showed that it passed Earth around March 1975.
The information was surprising because 1991 VG was the only known “asteroid-like” body with a heliocenteric orbit similar to Earth’s, according to NASA. And although small asteroids passing close to Earth are not uncommon, they tend to be very short-lived because they are prone to impacting the planet or be thrown out into a different orbital path by Earth’s gravitation field.
In short, 1991 VG’s combination of properties and features suggested to Scotti and his colleagues that it could be an artificial object built by someone and launched to space. But although the scientists admitted frankly that 1991 VG could be an alien spacecraft or probe operating in our solar system, they were unwilling to concede the suggestion without overwhelming evidence supporting it. The scientists thus looked instead at the possibility that it was a part or section of a man-made craft — such as an Apollo 12 rocket — launched into space decades ago.
Scotti, however, acknowledged that researchers were pushed further towards admitting unreservedly that 1991 VG could be an alien spacecraft after eliminating practically all possible man-made spacecraft and rocket bodies that might be 1991 VG.
“There were a few possible spacecraft and rocket bodies that might be 1991 VG, but when we looked into each, we were able to eliminate each of them.”
Still unwilling to concede the likelihood that 1991 VG could be an alien spacecraft, researchers began investigating the possibility that it could be a small asteroid with unusual features that simulate an artificial space probe.
Despite scientists’ reservations about declaring the object an alien probe ahead of irrefutable evidence that could emerge during observation as it passes close to Earth in the summer 2017, there was excitement among members of the online UFO community who hoped that we could obtain irrefutable evidence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life when 1991 VG passes close to Earth later in 2017.
But skeptics suggested in a Reddit forum that 1991 VG could be a rocket that the Soviets launched secretly into space during the Cold War.
“The Soviets had rockets as powerful as American rockets, were quite fond of covering things up when they went badly, and were attempting to get to the moon themselves,” a skeptic argued on Reddit.
“It is plausible that a forgotten Russian mission resulted in this object.”
However, conspiracy theory speculation that 1991 VG could be an alien spacecraft positioned in heliocentric orbit to collect data about conditions on Earth during regular flybys got a big boost when, in 1995, Duncan Steel, an astronomer at the University of Adelaide, argued in an article published in The Observatory that evidence appeared to support the alien probe theory.
According to Steele, the fact that no known “man-made rocket bodies left in heliocentric orbits during the space age have purely gravitational orbits returning to the Earth [in November of 1991]” meant that the mysterious object could be regarded as a prime candidate as an alien space probe exploring our solar system.
“It might be argued that 1991 VG is a candidate as an alien probe observed in the vicinity of our planet.”
But Steele attempted to douse the flaring flames of conspiracy theory speculation by arguing that he raised the theory that 1991 VG could be an alien artifact only as way of finding a more likely alternative explanation. He argued subsequently that 1991 VG was more likely a man-made object, such as a section of an Apollo 12 rocket.
“I do not think [VG 1991] is of extraterrestrial origin,” Steel said, according to Motherboard. “I do think that we should take seriously the possibility that there are alien artifacts in the solar system, although I very much doubt that there are any, based on what we know so far.”
But conspiracy theorists dismissed Steel’s arguments, saying that he was merely engaging in double-talk out of fear that subscribing unreservedly to the alien object explanation of 1991 VG could expose him to censure by his professional colleagues. According to conspiracy theorists and Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts (SETA) enthusiasts, it is likely that close observation of 1991 VG during the next flyby in the summer of 2017 will prove that it is an alien spacecraft or probe exploring our solar system.
But other astronomers, such as Scotti, insisted that close observation during the flyby in 2017 will likely show that 1991 VG is a natural space object, such as a small asteroid. But some researchers pointed out that the natural object theory was contradicted by the pattern of brightness fluctuation of 1991 VG at the time it was observed. The pattern of variation in brightness suggested that 1991 VG was rotating very rapidly. According to experts, a natural body rotating as fast as 1991 VG would likely fly apart due to excessive centrifugal forces.
But subsequent research showed that small asteroids under 100 feet with monolithic structures are able to rotate very fast without disintegrating. This increased the chances that 1991 VG is a small monolithic space rock.
“Where did 1991 VG come from and how did it get into its present orbit?” Scotti mused while exploring the possibility that 1991 VG is small asteroid with a monolithic structure. “One possibility would be that it is ejecta from a lunar impact. Another possibility is that the Yarkovsky force, caused by the thermal emissions of a rotating object, systematically pushed the object around over long times. It’s still a puzzle!”
But scientists hope that the puzzle will be resolved in the summer of 2017 when 1991 VG makes another Earth flyby. Meanwhile, alien hunters are holding their breath in anticipation of a major breakthrough in the decades-old search for extraterrestrial artifacts (SETA).
Space object 1991 VG will be observable from the southern hemisphere during its next flyby in the summer of 2017.
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DO ALIENS EXIST? MOST COMPELLING EVIDENCE OF ALIEN EXISTENCE
DO ALIENS EXIST? MOST COMPELLING EVIDENCE OF ALIEN EXISTENCE
Some say it’s obvious we’re not alone, others scorn the very idea and still others yet will hauntingly report their own experiences of alien probings following their casual night-time stroll through the fields of small town America. But with everything from increasingly bizarre reportings from increasingly credible sources, to basic mathematical probability suggesting the likelihood of alien life, these days, scepticism is harder won. Whatever your opinions, you may well find that the following examples have some impact on them.
ANCIENT EVIDENCE
It’s easy enough to write off much recent phenomena, quoting anything from wayward weather balloons to the perpetuation of the legend and UFO sightings in pop culture providing a cohesive image of extra terrestrials for eye witnesses to draw on should someone cry alien. But what’s slightly harder to dismiss is the ancient evidence (i.e. pre the National Enquirer). Enter the ‘The Madonna with Saint Giovannino’, otherwise known as the UFO painting.
The Madonna with Saint Giovannino - Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons
Created in the 15th century, it depicts the Virgin Mary and in the backdrop of the painting, a man and his dog staring up at a hovering disk-like object that is suspiciously familiar. And this painting isn’t alone either, with everything from ancient cave paintings to Sanskrit Scrolls all depicting alien life. A sighting even crops up in the Bible in The Book of Ezekiel. Either this is compelling evidence, or humanity has a rich tradition of conspiracy theorists.
In the ancient city of Paracas, Peru, archeologists have uncovered mummified remains with elongated skulls dating back to 300 BC.
Back in 1961, astronomer Frank Drake devised an equation by which he could estimate the likelihood of the existence of alien life, taking into account a number of factors including the average number of planets able to support life and the fraction that could go on to support intelligent life. This was then implemented in 2001. The result: statistically, hundreds of thousands of such planets should technically exist.
UNSOLVED SIGHTINGS
There are more registered sightings of UFOs than there is the word count here to deal with them and the majority of the time, there’s a thorough debunking accompanying them. But throughout history there have been a number that have been harder to explain away, from the to 1853 sighting by a number of students and professors at the Tennessee College campus, to the oft quoted Stephenville Lights case from 2008, with over 200 witnesses spotting the UFO including three policemen who remained anonymous. Consider these compelling cases unsolved.
If you’re going to believe any reports of UFOs, you might as well trust those coming from the men who have actually been to space (who usually also come with all their teeth and a P.H.D.). The list of those who have made claims of sightings includes Edgar Mitchell, Cady Coleman and Dr. Brian O’Leary, many also referencing government knowledge of alien existence and cover-ups. Buzz Aldrin has also spoken of his own experience on board the Apollo 11 when they saw something flying alongside them. At first they thought it was the final stage of the detached rocket, until mission control confirmed it was 6000 miles away from them…
GOVERNMENT FILES
While some US presidents have released classified files on the subject of UFOs, with Jimmy Carter famously describing his own encounter, others still have been denied access to classified information on the subject altogether, Bill Clinton claiming to be among them. This has led many believers to suggest there’s a cover up afoot. Clinton has been consistently vocal on the existence of aliens and it’s worth noting his opinions on an ‘Independence Day’ situation too. You know, just in case…
This Black Smoke Ring Is Amazing, But It’s No Mystery
This Black Smoke Ring Is Amazing, But It’s No Mystery
byNBC NEWS
Is it a "portal to hell," or witchcraft, or just a puff from a smoke machine? A black smoke ring that was caught on video floating over northern Kazakhstan certainly looks eerie, but it's far less mysterious than the Internet buzz makes it out to be.
The Ruptly TV service posted the video over the weekend, and said the sight was recorded in the skies over the Kazakh village of Shortandy. The O-shaped ring floated in the air for 15 minutes, and then disappeared, Ruptly reported.
Creating smoke vortices generally requires a blast through a circular structure — perhaps from a factory smokestack, or a homemade trash-can smoke ring launcher, or a hippie-dippie apparatus specially designed for the job. Check out this 2008 video from the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, with "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" as accompaniment, and then ask yourself whether the Black Ring of Shortandy still looks so mysterious.
Ufo-onderzoeker graaft buitenaardse mummies op in Peru: “Bewijs van buitenaards leven op aarde”
Ufo-onderzoeker graaft buitenaardse mummies op in Peru: “Bewijs van buitenaards leven op aarde”
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Finding Extraterrestrial Life May Rely on Identifying Traces Rather Than Aliens
Finding Extraterrestrial Life May Rely on Identifying Traces Rather Than Aliens
By Elizabeth Howell, Seeker
The surface of Mars.
Credit: NASA/JPL
When the famous 15th-century inventor and scientist Leonardo da Vinci examined petrified shells with borings in them long ago, he had a remarkable insight. The strange fossilized formations, he determined, were likely left behind by ancient organisms.
Half a millennium later, this perspective is potentially useful in our search for alien life, argues a new paper that appears in Earth-Science Reviews, whose findings were recently presented at the European Astrobiology Network Association congress in the Netherlands.
Astronomers have been weighing options for how to identify the existence of life on other planets and moons in our solar system. There are a range of possibilities. Mars could be host to ancient or current life, depending on how much water flows on the surface and how salty it is. There are also many icy moons (some with water geysers) in the outer regions of our solar system — among them Saturn's Titan and Enceladus, and Jupiter's Europa and Ganymede.
"Leonardo understood the biological nature of borings based on their shape, not their biochemistry," said Andrea Baucon, the lead researcher. Baucon is an ichnologist, a type of scientist that studies life's traces through burrows, borings and trails. He previously studied da Vinci's work and is a researcher at the University of Modena and UNESCO Geopark Naturtejo.
"This observation appears to be trivial," he went on, "but it potentially allows [us] to detect extra-terrestrial life that differs from known life."
A major limitation of this kind of study, however, is that animal traces and alterations by geology can sometimes appear very similar. For example, researchers have identified what they say are more than four-billion-year-old fossils in formations in northern Quebec, Canada. This finding was announced earlier this year; in 2016, a separate team claimed to find 3.7-billion-year-old microbial mats in Greenland.
But given that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, critics of these discoveries argue, the changes in Earth's geology over billions of years can sometimes mimic the appearances of lifeforms. Microbiologists therefore need to prove that the older lifeforms did indeed exist by comparing the older fossils to much younger and better-verified examples of life. Researchers must also attempt to verify markings by life against the chemistry in the rocks, although again this can be altered by rock deformation over time.
Baucon is a member of ROSAE, an Italian acronym that in English stands for Organism-Sediment Relationships in Extreme Environments. It's a scientific project that looks at how organisms and sediments interact in so-called "extreme environments," such as the deep sea.
In this latest study, Baucon and his colleagues attempt to explain the best way to find extra-terrestrial traces. One method could be looking for "meandering" trails and burrows, which is an efficient way for microorganisms to look for food. Rather than making straight lines in an environment or repeatedly crossing a surface, the meandering allows a creature to search for food without exerting too much energy.
"Rangers look for tracks on the snow to determine the presence of elusive animals such as the lynx," said Baucon, pointing out that the traces work for creatures ranging from microscopic organisms to large dinosaurs. "Why not to do the same with alien tracks, borings, and burrows?"
"Traces of interactions with the substrate" — the natural environment for a creature — "are a common evidence for life on Earth, and their fossils can survive the humongous pressures and temperatures generated by colliding continents," he added.
Superdense Extraterrestrial Ice Formed in a (Laser) Flash
Superdense Extraterrestrial Ice Formed in a (Laser) Flash
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
Comet Hale-Bopp as imaged in 1997, showing dual tails of ions and dusty particles. Comets and icy satellites may form an ultradense phase of ice, ice vii, during collisions.
Credit: E. Kolmhofer/H. Raab.Johannes-Kepler-Observatory/Vesta~commonswiki/Wikimedia Commons
In a new experiment, researchers have created a superdense version of ice found deep within icy moons and colliding comets, and watched it form in nanoseconds.
The scientists created the ice by exposing ordinary water to a sudden, intense, laser-generated shock wave, and they observed the formation of the superdense phase of ice, called ice VII, using rapid X-ray pulses to document its nearly instantaneous phase change. The transformation took place at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Linac Coherent Light Source — the world's most powerful X-ray laser.
"We're really excited about this work because it's the first diffraction evidence, or structural evidence, of seeing liquid water transform in real time, in situ, into a high-pressure crystalline phase," Arianna Gleason, lead author of the new work, told Space.com. "The implications for this work in the planetary science context and geoscience context, for icy satellites or icy large planetary bodies — say, the ice giants even in our own solar system — is really exciting." Gleason is a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a visiting scientist at Stanford University in California, where the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is located. [Rosetta Sees Signs of Water Ice on Comet Surface (Photos)]
Water molecules in their many forms are found all over the solar system; they gush from subsurface oceans on Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa, form the bodies of icy comet visitors from the distant Kuiper Belt and appear in trace amounts in many planets' atmospheres.
On Earth, humans are familiar with the way water vapor can turn into liquid water, and liquid water to ice, as temperature decreases or pressure increases (and it can go from ice to water to vapor with the reverse). In certain conditions, ice can even turn straight into water vapor — a process called sublimation. But those are far from the only forms water can take; by going to otherworldly extremes of temperature and pressure, water molecules can slip into different crystalline forms.
Ordinary ice forms hexagonal crystals, but the form of ice the researchers investigated, ice VII, has a cubic structure. This form of ice is difficult to create and sustain in the lab, and until now, it's been impossible to measure its formation. However, researchers theorize that it forms briefly when comets or icy moons collide, affecting the way craters are shaped.
A circular layer of water is sandwiched between a diamond platelet coated with gold and a quartz platelet. When the surface is blasted with an intense green laser, the shockwave transforms the water layer into ice VII. Ultra-rapid X-rays image the transformation process as it happens.
Credit: Arianna Gleason
To re-create that collision environment, Gleason's group sandwiched a tiny, pen-tip-size package of liquid water in a tiny cell measuring 2 by 2 millimeters (0.08 by 0.08 inches). They shined a powerful green laser at a piece of diamond on the edge of the cell, vaporizing its edge "almost instantaneously" into plasma. That force sent shock waves blasting in the other direction, passing through the water.
"It really is like a tiny rocket effect," Gleason said. "We discovered that we can transform the liquid into a solid just by moving the shock wave through. And during that tiny, short amount of time — it really is only a few nanoseconds, that's a billionth of a second — we probe with these ultrafast and brilliant X-ray pulses."
Although this type of shock-compression process has been done before, documenting how the water molecules rearranged is only possible with the Linac X-ray laser, Gleason said. Like a flip-book, the X-ray images provide a moving record of how the ice formed.
"Collisions and impacts between large bodies [in space] — that dynamic process is very hard to model," Gleason said. "And so having a shock compression experiment like this, where we can actually see, [in] real time, how the constituent materials transform from one to another, is really exciting and providing new constraints on the formation of these bodies." [Water Ice in Moon's Shackleton Crater Identified]
Researchers tested tiny water cells in a vacuum chamber to try and image the freezing process before the experiment began. Later, they shock-compressed and destroyed the cell — but just before it was destroyed, they gathered X-ray records of the water transforming to a high-pressure ice VII phase.
Credit: Arianna Gleason
Space collisions on Earth
Sarah Stewart, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved with the new work, studies how giant impacts shape the craters found on solar system bodies. For her thesis work, she also formed phases of ice like ice VII in the laboratory. The only way that Stewart could confirm that she had created a particular ice was by measuring its density, she said. The new work lets researchers track the structure of the ice as it forms.
"What's amazing about Arianna's work is that she can reproduce in the lab a little parcel of what nature has done millions of times in the solar system, and let us understand what's possible in terms of these phase changes," Stewart told Space.com. "Nature makes shock waves, just like these lab experiments, by impact cratering, and we have these icy surfaces all over the solar system with impact craters on them."
Knowing the way ice VII forms during comet and moon collisions is crucial to scientists' understanding of how craters form. In Stewart's work, she wondered whether it formed quickly, which would lead to a crater structure similar to what's seen in reality, or slowly — which might demand another explanation for crater shape. This work affirms that ice VII can form extremely quickly.
But beyond that, both Gleason and Stewart said they look forward to researchers applying this technique to a range of materials, to learn how they change form when exposed to sudden shock. That would help scientists not only pin down what's going on in a tumultuous solar system but also learn much more about how materials in general change phase — a crucial question for physicists and chemists.
"Looking at the fundamental materials that are everywhere in the solar system to understand what happens under dynamic pressure — as a materials scientist, you eat this up," Stewart said. With this experiment, "I know what the structure is; I can show you how long it takes to get there. It's absolutely convincing. There's no hand waving. It took this amazing new facility to be able to do that."
The new work was detailed today (July 11) in the journal Physical Review Letters.
New research shows that the thin Mars atmosphere interacts with perchlorates, chemicals on the planet's surface, to create a toxic environment for bacteria. This confirms that the search for life on Mars should include digging beneath the surface.
“TOXIC COCKTAIL”
New research shows that our aspirations to grow potatoes on Mars may be a little premature. Results of a new study indicate that the thin Martian atmosphere and the ultraviolet radiation it allows to reach the planet’s surface interact with chemical compounds called perchlorates to create a deadly environment for bacteria.
We have known that there were perchlorates on the surface of the Red Planet since the 1970s when the Viking 1 and 2 spacecraft landed there. We’ve confirmed this with other probes since that time, and until recently that fact has actually been viewed in an encouraging light. That’s because although perchlorates — made from oxygen and chlorine — are toxic to humans, bacteria tend to thrive in their presence, using them for energy. Perchlorates also lower the point at which water melts, which offered still more hope for the existence of bacterial life on Mars.
Image Credit: NASAHowever, this new development definitively shows that all of those factors change when there isn’t enough atmosphere to filter out ultraviolet radiation. In the study, University of Edinburgh researchers exposed Bacillus subtilis, a common bacteria, to simulated Mars conditions, including low oxygen and temperatures. Under those conditions, bacteria lived for as much as an hour. However, with the addition of ultraviolet light, entire test tubes of bacteria were sterilized within 30 seconds. Furthermore, irradiated perchlorate reacted with hydrogen peroxide and iron oxide, two other common components of Martian soil, which rendered the soil hostile to bacteria.
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE
This, however, isn’t the end of the search for life on Mars. “I can’t speak for life in the past,” co-author of the study Jennifer Wadsworth said to The Guardian. “As far as present life, it doesn’t rule it out but probably means we should look for life underground where it’s shielded from the harsh radiation environment on the surface.” The ExoMars rover will look for bacteria by digging approximately 12 feet into the ground during its 2020 mission.
It’s also possible that an extremophile bacterium could survive these conditions. The common Bacillus subtilis is no extremophile, and the Martian environment may have created its own extremophiles that are even tougher than any found on Earth. “Life can survive very extreme environments,” Wadsworth told Popular Science. “The bacterial model we tested wasn’t an extremophile so it’s not out of the question that hardier life forms would find a way to survive.”
Meanwhile, the ExoMars orbiter is on track to carry out its mission: finding biochemical signs of life on Mars, or beneath its surface. The Mars 2020 rover will also be digging deep in the search for past life. NASA is developing a lidar system for the search for life on Mars. Hopefully, with this many research irons in the fire, we’ll get some exciting answers soon.
This Mars Discovery Could Have Major Implications for Search for Alien Life NASA IN BRIEF New research shows that the thin Mars atmosphere interacts with perchlorates, chemicals on the planet's surface, to create a toxic environment for bacteria. This confirms that the search for life on Mars should include digging beneath the surface. “TOXIC COCKTAIL” New research shows that our aspirations to grow potatoes on Mars may be a little premature. Results of a new study indicate that the thin Martian atmosphere and the ultraviolet radiation it allows to reach the planet’s surface interact with chemical compounds called perchlorates to create a deadly environment for bacteria.
We have known that there were perchlorates on the surface of the Red Planet since the 1970s when the Viking 1 and 2 spacecraft landed there. We’ve confirmed this with other probes since that time, and until recently that fact has actually been viewed in an encouraging light. That’s because although perchlorates — made from oxygen and chlorine — are toxic to humans, bacteria tend to thrive in their presence, using them for energy. Perchlorates also lower the point at which water melts, which offered still more hope for the existence of bacterial life on Mars.
Image Credit: NASA However, this new development definitively shows that all of those factors change when there isn’t enough atmosphere to filter out ultraviolet radiation. In the study, University of Edinburgh researchers exposed Bacillus subtilis, a common bacteria, to simulated Mars conditions, including low oxygen and temperatures. Under those conditions, bacteria lived for as much as an hour. However, with the addition of ultraviolet light, entire test tubes of bacteria were sterilized within 30 seconds. Furthermore, irradiated perchlorate reacted with hydrogen peroxide and iron oxide, two other common components of Martian soil, which rendered the soil hostile to bacteria.
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE
This, however, isn’t the end of the search for life on Mars. “I can’t speak for life in the past,” co-author of the study Jennifer Wadsworth said to The Guardian. “As far as present life, it doesn’t rule it out but probably means we should look for life underground where it’s shielded from the harsh radiation environment on the surface.” The ExoMars rover will look for bacteria by digging approximately 12 feet into the ground during its 2020 mission. It’s also possible that an extremophile bacterium could survive these conditions. The common Bacillus subtilis is no extremophile, and the Martian environment may have created its own extremophiles that are even tougher than any found on Earth. “Life can survive very extreme environments,” Wadsworth told Popular Science. “The bacterial model we tested wasn’t an extremophile so it’s not out of the question that hardier life forms would find a way to survive.” Meanwhile, the ExoMars orbiter is on track to carry out its mission: finding biochemical signs of life on Mars, or beneath its surface. The Mars 2020 rover will also be digging deep in the search for past life. NASA is developing a lidar system for the search for life on Mars. Hopefully, with this many research irons in the fire, we’ll get some exciting answers soon.
References: the Guardian, Nature, Popular Science, Smithsonian.
A man recorded a UFO disappearing into the sky over the Yakutia region in Russia's Siberia province.
The extraterrestrial was spotted in the Yakutia region in Russia's Siberia province and a man called Semyon, who filmed the alien footage, said it was floating above houses and had a vapour trail.
One theory suggest the lights could have been caused by lasers and a drone.
The Siberian Times say police have not had calls about this strange sighting.
Flying saucers, aliens, extraterrestrial life —all flying around in space! Will there be a traffic jam?
Ever found yourself looking at the skies, spotting something you have never seen before? For all you know, you’ve probably spotted an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO).
July 2 was World UFO day. The general definition of a UFO is something that is seen in the sky which cannot be identified.
The Roswell mystery
On July 2, 1947, Mac Brazel, a rancher, was taking care of his sheep, about 75 miles from the town of Roswell, New Mexico, when he discovered something unusual — metallic sticks held together with tape, plastic, scraps of glossy, paper-like material, in a mess. Baffled and unable to identify the strange objects, the rancher called Roswell’s sheriff, who called officials from the Roswell Army Air Force base. Officials searched the field, gathered the debris and took it away. It was suspected to be a flying saucer. But the excitement fizzled out when, a few days later, an air force official said that the “flying saucer” which had crashed was actually only a crashed weather balloon. Gradually, interest subsided.
Then, in the late 1970s, ufologists (people who study UFOs) began claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed, and the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, who then covered it up.
In the 1990s, the U.S. military published two reports explaining the true nature of the crashed object — a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul — a top secret project by the U.S Army Air Forces that can detect sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests.
But even these explanations did not satisfy people, and the Roswell incident continues to be of interest, and conspiracy theories are still being formed. The Roswell case has been described as “the world’s most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim”.
Atmospheric sound channels – good for sleuths but not UFOs
Atmospheric sound channels – good for sleuths but not UFOs
US army efforts in 1947 to put ‘wiretapping’ balloons in the mesosphere led to flying saucer tales but ultimately to scientists finding natural channels of communication
Earth from orbit. Above the orange strip of the troposphere and lighter coloured stratosphere, lies the mesosphere in the blue layer – location of the sound channels. Photograph: NASA
Seventy years ago a rancher near Roswell, New Mexico, found some peculiar wreckage of silver foil and sticks. An official US army statement claimed it was a “flying disc”, leading to headlines that an alien flying saucer had been captured.
A second statement said the debris was just a weather balloon. The media accepted this version, although UFO enthusiasts still believe the Pentagon has a crashed extra-terrestrial spacecraft.
The second explanation was correct if misleading. It was an exotic weather balloon from a classified military programme, the existence of which was not revealed until 1994. The secret Project Mogul involved a cluster of meteorological balloons designed to carry microphones to a high altitude.
Aliens join the 2000 festival in Roswell, New Mexico, which celebrates the 1947 crashed balloon, first passed off by the army as a UFO. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty
In the oceans there is a layer called the “deep sound channel”, which can carry sound for long distances, allowing submarines to be detected at long range. Scientists thought there might be a similar layer in the atmosphere which would channel loud noises – specifically Russian ballistic missile launches and nuclear tests. They calculated that such launches could be located from thousands of miles away.
Unfortunately the atmospheric sound channels, located in the 1960s, proved too high for the Mogul balloons. One channel was found at an altitude of 45-50 kilometres (28-31 miles), another at 80-90 kilometres (50-56 miles).
Raising instruments to these altitudes is impractical, but Swedish scientists have been using the sound channels for more than 30 years, catching reflections from them at ground stations. The equipment can track reflected infrasound from distant thunderstorms, meteors and volcanoes, and even pick up sonic booms from Concorde flights.
Exactly seventy years ago this week, three UFOs were sighted buzzing Roswell Army Air ForceBase in New Mexico. A few days later, the Army used a new Scaler longitudinal radar device to scramble their electro-magnetics, causing them to crash. Two of the UFOs struck one another and went down southwest of Corona, New Mexico. The third vessel crashed in Horse Mesa west of Magdalena, New Mexico and was not found until two years later. Thirteen more UFOs would be taken down and reverse-engineered. Sixty-five ETs from numerous different species were recovered... along with one survivor!
This is just the tip of a massive iceberg of truth revealed in the pages of two just-released new books, Unacknowledged by Dr. Steven M. Greer (edited by NY Times best-selling author Steve Alten), and Alten's own book, Undisclosed.
Alten's three-year commitment to bring the most incredible secrets in history to the public was inspired by his own first-hand encounter with a UFO - three days before he was scheduled to meet Dr. Greer - considered by many to be the world's foremost authority on UFOs and Extraterrestrials.
On Saturday, December 14, 2013 at approximately 11:10 PM, Alten and his wife were returning home from dinner and a movie. As they drove through their neighborhood, they noticed something bizarre moving toward them in the night sky - pale amber lights like nothing they had ever seen.
Says Alten: "There were eight to twelve of them flying in staggered pairs, approaching from the south less than a thousand feet (estimated) above Route 441/State Road 7 in Palm Beach County. 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 carand we just stood and watched until, pair by pair, they simply faded into the ether. Let me be clear here, they didn't move out of range or shut off their lights or disappear into a cloud bank, they slipped out of existence. Neither one of us had ever seen a UFO before. Far from being scared, we felt exhilarated, like we had just been treated to something very special."
Three days later, the couple drove to Miami Beach and had dinner with Dr. Steven M. Greer and his wife Emily. The founder of CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Dr. Greer has prepared briefs for two sitting presidents, members of congress, the Head of the Joint Chiefs, and many world leaders. He also leads CE-5 expeditions - Human-instigated ET encounters which use group meditation and remote viewing techniques to vector in ET craft.
Through new contacts in Intelligence, the military, NASA, the FAA, and private defense contractors, Dr. Greer was in the process of accumulating startling new testimonials about UFOs, man-made reverse-engineered UFOs (called ARVs), black ops subterranean bases built several miles beneath established bases, ET structures located on the far-side of the moon... and mind-boggling secrets that were taped but not allowed to be published until after the death of all eyewitnesses. Greer reached out to Alten to co-write and edit Unacknowledged, a new tell-all book that would be mainstreamed with a new documentary (The Orchard - SONY). Alten agreed - provided he could use the information in his own book, Undisclosed, a "FACTional" thriller.
Alten explains: "Undisclosed is a Trojan Horse; it's a page-turner that weaves this mind-boggling information into the storyline in digestible bites. Neither book holds anything back. We use real names and list real locations. The most incredible stuff - the stuff that will really tick you off was provided by witnesses who died over the last few years, allowing Dr. Greer to make their information public. Insiders have been murdered to keep zero-point-energy hidden from the public. We're talking about a clean, abundant and free technology that would replace fossil fuels, end poverty and hunger, create hundreds of millions of new jobs worldwide, and stop climate change... only a handful of greedy sociopaths running these illegal black ops agencies refuse to allow it to be released to the masses. That was our goal in writing these two amazing books - to alert the masses to a new energy source that would change the world."
Move over Tom DeLonge – the singer/celebrity UFO club is getting crowded. While promoting her new album, “Rainbow,” singer/songwriter Kesha revealed that the music on it was inspired by her UFO encounter in Joshua Tree, California. At the same time, in an interview recorded shortly before his death, the rapper Prodigy discusses his own UFO and paranormal experiences.
“I was in Joshua Tree, totally sober, let me preface – completely f***ing sober … I think people would be like, ‘She was on acid’ or something. I wasn’t. I was on nothing. I was a totally sober Sally, just a lady in the desert. I look up in the sky and there’s a bunch of spaceships.”
“Totally Sober Sally” sounds like a designated driver, not a UFO witness – especially one in the music business – but that’s how Kesha describes it in a recent interview on the Zach Sang Show.
“I swear to God, there were like five to seven, and I don’t know why I didn’t like try to take a picture of it – I just looked at it. I was sitting on a rock, and I was like, ‘What in the hell is that?’ I was trying to figure it out, and then they went away.”
No cellphone pictures … aw, Kesha. It’s hard to believe she didn’t take out her phone at that point and text someone “OMFG UFO!” At least then she would have had it ready for this:
“And then they came back. They came back in a different formation than the one they were in previously. I was like, ‘Those are f***ing aliens.’ They were spaceships!”
While she didn’t get a picture, Kesha did get inspiration for her new CD and especially for the album art and one song called “Spaceship.”
In a moving interview with Viceland before his death from sickle-cell anemia on June 20, Mo Depp MC Prodigy talked about an incident when a UFO hovered over his house.
“It came over my house. Just started shining lights in our bedroom. The whole neighborhood blacked out at first. And then I looked out the window and looked down the block and all the power was out. At first, it was a white light and I thought it was a police helicopter looking for somebody outside, and then all these colored lights started coming into the room and it was dead quiet. All these lights were changing many colors. It was pretty significant, man. It was undeniable. And it became because I was asking for it to come.”
He also briefly touched on this in My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, where he mentions that his wife, Kiki Johnson, was also there. Prodigy had apparently been asking for a sign and wrote that he believed this was it.
“The UFO came to my house to show me the light, as if to say, “Wake up, nikka! Snap out of it! We are real and you are important to us! Okay, we gotta go for now, hope you’re ready when we come back!”
Prodigy (Viceland)
In the Viceland interview, Prodigy also talks about his encounter with what he believes was the grim reaper at a time when, like Kesha, he was cold sober.
“When I laid down to go to sleep, you know, all of the lights were off in my room, and I’m laying there and a black shadow walk across my room. And it looked like—the only way I can describe it [as looking] like is the Black Spider-Man. And I woke up the next morning—the pain woke me up. I [hadn’t] been sick in six years. And I was in so much pain I had to get carried to the hospital. I knew what happened automatically, I already knew what it was. I already knew what that black shadow was.”
While it’s easy to connect experiences like these by music stars to drug use, it may also be that the minds of highly creative people are naturally open to more than the average person can see or experience. If the UFOs are bearing aliens, perhaps they can see that these musicians and artists are better equipped mentally and even spiritually for communications.
That doesn’t excuse Totally Sober Sally from not getting any pictures.
Last year, a Long March 2D rocket took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert carrying a satellite called Micius, named after an ancient Chinese philosopher who died in 391 B.C. The rocket placed Micius in a Sun-synchronous orbit so that it passes over the same point on Earth at the same time each day.
Micius is a highly sensitive photon receiver that can detect the quantum states of single photons fired from the ground. That’s important because it should allow scientists to test the technological building blocks for various quantum feats such as entanglement, cryptography, and teleportation.
Today, the Micius team announced the results of its first experiments. The team created the first satellite-to-ground quantum network, in the process smashing the record for the longest distance over which entanglement has been measured. And they’ve used this quantum network to teleport the first object from the ground to orbit.
Teleportation has become a standard operation in quantum optics labs around the world. The technique relies on the strange phenomenon of entanglement. This occurs when two quantum objects, such as photons, form at the same instant and point in space and so share the same existence. In technical terms, they are described by the same wave function.
The curious thing about entanglement is that this shared existence continues even when the photons are separated by vast distances. So a measurement on one immediately influences the state of the other, regardless of the distance between them.
Back in the 1990s, scientists realized they could use this link to transmit quantum information from one point in the universe to another. The idea is to “download” all the information associated with one photon in one place and transmit it over an entangled link to another photon in another place.
This second photon then takes on the identity of the first. To all intents and purposes, it becomes the first photon. That’s the nature of teleportation and it has been performed many times in labs on Earth.
Teleportation is a building block for a wide range of technologies. “Long-distance teleportation has been recognized as a fundamental element in protocols such as large-scale quantum networks and distributed quantum computation,” says the Chinese team.
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In theory, there should be no maximum distance over which this can be done. But entanglement is a fragile thing because photons interact with matter in the atmosphere or inside optical fibers, causing the entanglement to be lost.
As a result, the distance over which scientists have measured entanglement or performed teleportation is severely limited. “Previous teleportation experiments between distant locations were limited to a distance on the order of 100 kilometers, due to photon loss in optical fibers or terrestrial free-space channels,” says the team.
But Micius changes all that because it orbits at an altitude of 500 kilometers, and for most of this distance, any photons making the journey travel through a vacuum. To minimize the amount of atmosphere in the way, the Chinese team set up its ground station in Ngari in Tibet at an altitude of over 4,000 meters. So the distance from the ground to the satellite varies from 1,400 kilometers when it is near the horizon to 500 kilometers when it is overhead.
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To perform the experiment, the Chinese team created entangled pairs of photons on the ground at a rate of about 4,000 per second. They then beamed one of these photons to the satellite, which passed overhead every day at midnight. They kept the other photon on the ground.
Finally, they measured the photons on the ground and in orbit to confirm that entanglement was taking place, and that they were able to teleport photons in this way. Over 32 days, they sent millions of photons and found positive results in 911 cases. “We report the first quantum teleportation of independent single-photon qubits from a ground observatory to a low Earth orbit satellite—through an up-link channel— with a distance up to 1400 km,” says the Chinese team.
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This is the first time that any object has been teleported from Earth to orbit, and it smashes the record for the longest distance for entanglement.
That’s impressive work that sets the stage for much more ambitious goals in the future. “This work establishes the first ground-to-satellite up-link for faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation, an essential step toward global-scale quantum internet,” says the team.
It also shows China’s obvious dominance and lead in a field that, until recently, was led by Europe and the U.S.—Micius would surely have been impressed. But an important question now is how the West will respond.
Voor het eerst is een object van de aarde naar de ruimte geteleporteerd. Deze wetenschappers bereiken doorbraak
Voor het eerst is een object van de aarde naar de ruimte geteleporteerd. Deze wetenschappers bereiken doorbraak
Chinese wetenschappers hebben een foton (lichtdeeltje) succesvol geteleporteerd van de aarde naar een satelliet op 500 kilometer boven het aardoppervlak.
De satelliet, Micius genaamd, is in staat om kwantumstaten van fotonen die vanaf het aardoppervlak worden afgevuurd te detecteren.
Het team heeft voor het eerst een object geteleporteerd van de grond naar de ruimte. Ook is voor het eerst een kwantumnetwerk tussen een satelliet en de aarde opgezet.
Star Trek
Tijdens eerdere experimenten konden wetenschappers fotonen over afstanden tot maximaal 100 kilometer teleporteren.
Bij teleportatie denk je misschien aan Scotty die de bemanning naar de Enterprise ‘straalt’ in Star Trek, maar in de praktijk werkt het anders.
Kwantumteleportatie is afhankelijk van kwantumverstrengeling, een situatie waarin twee kwantumobjecten (zoals fotonen) zich tegelijkertijd op dezelfde plek vormen.
Verbonden
Ze blijven met elkaar verbonden, ook al worden de fotonen van elkaar gescheiden. Metingen aan het ene deeltje beïnvloeden gelijk de staat van het andere, ongeacht de afstand tussen de deeltjes.
In dit geval creëerde het Chinese team verstrengelde paren fotonen op de grond. Ze straalden vervolgens één foton naar de satelliet, terwijl het andere deeltje op de grond bleef.
Daarna werden de fotonen op de grond en in de ruimte gemeten om te bevestigen dat ze verstrengeld waren.
Grote stap
Het is nog niet mogelijk om iets groots te teleporteren. Het is een kwetsbaar proces, aangezien de link gemakkelijk kan worden verbroken.
Hoe dan ook plaveit het onderzoek de weg naar nog meer ambitieuze onderzoeken naar kwantumteleportatie.
Het team zegt dat het een grote stap heeft gezet richting een wereldwijd kwantuminternet.
An Ohio witness at Delphos is trying to understand why he drove by a hovering UFO and did not stop to investigate, according to testimony in Case 83981 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The incident occurred about 3:45 p
.m. on November 20, 2016.
“I was driving home from work in Delphos,” the witness stated. “I looked up below the trees and saw a black and gray, or silver, squared, cubicle shape with the top right cut out about 8 to 10 feet in size – just hovering or vibrating.”
The witness saw the object hovering at the tree level. Pictured: Delphos, Ohio.
(Credit: Google)
The next piece of the story is a mystery to the witness.
“I kept driving past it. And when I got home five minutes later, I asked myself why I didn’t turn back. It’s like I couldn’t.”
The witness is sure the object was not a known object.
“I know it wasn’t a drone or toy plane. It could have been military, but not sure. Or it looked like a pixel cube like in the movie, “Wreck-It Ralph.” Or could been a glitch-like movie, Matrix. I’m a normal, non-smoking guy and don’t drink much. I know what I saw was something real.”
The witness drove by the object and did not stop. Pictured: Delphos, Ohio.
(Credit: Google)
Delphos is a city in Allen and Van Wert counties, Ohio, population 7,101.
The witness provided one illustration with the report, which was filed on May 25, 2017. Ohio MUFON Field Investigator Scott Miller is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
It’s the story that never ends, and certainly one that will not go away.
It has been so often covered and continually rehashed that many websites, authors, radio shows and podcasts that delve into the unexplained have sworn never to mention it, for fear of boring their followers into a sound and restful slumber.
It’s like that vampire who, no matter how many times he is impaled, incinerated, beheaded, or staked through the heart, somehow gets rewritten into another plot so that the story can continue on and on, ad nauseam.
Or that one zombie that keeps getting blasted to bits, and just won’t stop coming after you.
I think you get the point. The persistence of this particular story is due, in part, to its legendary status in UFO circles, as well as what, for decades, was held by many to be “the smoking gun” as far as proof that extraterrestrial life has indeed visited our planet.
Yes, we’re talking about Roswell.
I ask forgiveness in advance–both from my readers, and my editors–for joining the ranks of the present surge in reporting on this tried, true, and now more-than-slightly-over-cooked UFO story. Yes, many would agree that Roswell has seen a bit more attention than it really deserves over the years (especially in the last few weeks). However, as I hope to help illustrate here, its relevance in relation to what was happening in 1947 has also been somewhat overblown, especially when compared with other UFO reports in the weeks preceding the alleged crash at Roswell.
So I’ll do my best to help set the record straight on a few things, and then I’ll quietly toss a smoke bomb and disappear, returning to my oath of silence on the perennially overdone Roswell UFO incident.
As expected, Roswell has been getting a lot of attention lately, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the incident. A recent festival (well, a series of festivals) in the New Mexico town, which has now become a tourist hub for trinkets of the extraterrestrial variety, showcased events and speakers like my fellow MU writer Nick Redfern, and several others that gave perspectives on the incident.
What has also been interesting has been the media coverage Roswell has been getting from outside the UFO community in recent weeks. Dozens (and dozens) of articles have appeared, rehashing the incident and retelling the presumed explanation involving what, in likelihood, might have been a then-secret Project Mogul balloon that dropped onto a ranch outside of town. In nearly every case, the explanation is given in shades of sarcasm, as though the old “ET crashed there” idea is really what most serious UFO buffs still believe.
That’s not the case, of course. Speaking for myself, I concede that the Mogul explanation is at least one of several plausible scenarios that explains the Roswell incident, and the inconsistencies in reporting that occurred around the time (most notably, the downgrading from a “flying disc” to a “weather balloon”, which many have argued as being evidence of a conspiracy).
But that’s neither here nor there. Let’s look at a few headlines and excerpts from recent articles on the subject, along with their sources, and see what kinds of patterns emerge:
One recent headline at Bleeding Cool read, “Roswell, The Beginnings Of The UFO Craze And What It Has To Do With DC Comics.” Elsewhere, writing for Smithsonian.com, Donovan Webster noted that, “In Roswell, New Mexico, exactly seven decades ago this month (July), the first little green men arrived.” On July 7th, the Texarkana Gazette similarly reported, “Today marks 70 years since the U.S. began seriously contemplating whether there might be something ‘out there’.”
What do these headlines and excerpts all have in common? Each one appears to insinuate that the modern UFO craze essentially began in July, 1947. Further, the alleged crash at Roswell, New Mexico, is presented as though it had been influential enough, at the time, that it helped spur a “UFO craze” in 1947, which ultimately led to widespread belief in UFOs leading up to the present day.
However, while it makes for attention-grabbing headlines, there are a few problems with this retelling of history.
A few media outlets got things right. For instance, at JSTOR Daily a somewhat tepid article titled, “Roswell, Sacred Shrine of UFO Enthusiasts” correctly noted that, “A brief UFO craze resulted from the events of the summer of 1947. And there the story ended—until the late 1970s, when an alternative story began to emerge. It wasn’t a balloon after all: it was a spacecraft whose remains, including alien beings, had been kept secret since.”
That’s right. The “events of the summer of 1947” referenced here, in a scholarly sense, don’t pertain exclusively to the Roswell incident, nor even the famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold of what became known as “flying saucers” over Mount Rainier the month beforehand. Following Arnold’s sighting, and leading up the incident at Mac Brazel’s farm outside of Roswell, newspaper articles from the intervening two-week period recount hundreds of UFO reports that were seeing coverage at the time.
In other words, the “UFO craze” of 1947 was already well underway by the timethe incident at Roswell occurred. Let’s take a look at why this was the case.
One of the best historical commentaries on this period had been a NICAP report that was compiled in 1967, appropriately titled “Report on the UFO Wave of 1947,” over at the NICAP website. The report’s author was Ted Bloecher, although a foreword was provided by Dr. James E. McDonald, who at the time was, in addition to being a UFO advocate, the Senior Physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona.
In his foreword, McDonald gave us the following background on Bloecher’s work, and the prevalence of UFO reports during the two week period culminating in the events at Roswell, New Mexico:
“…[A]lready in the first two weeks after Kenneth Arnold’s Mt. Rainier report of June 24, 1947, press reports of other American sightings of highly unconventional aerial objects numbered not the dozen or so that most of us might recall, but many hundreds. Since Bloecher is careful to concede that his own searching cannot possibly have gleaned every last report from the 1947 press files, we can safely round upwards his collection of about 800 reports to an estimate that at least some thousand sightings of unidentified objects probably occurred within the United States in midsummer 1947, the bulk of these coming within a rather sharply defined wavecrest centered on about July 7. As Bloecher properly emphasizes, this clearly marks the episode as one of the outstanding sighting-waves on record.”
Of course, McDonald and Bloecher contended that the “wavecrest centered on about July 7,” which coincided with the date Mac Brazel first approached Roswell Sheriff George Wilcox, and told him that he believed one of the alleged “flying discs” making headlines around the country might have crashed on his property (the actual crash occurred sometime in the middle of June, and Brazel first noticed the scattered wreckage himself on June 14th, only reporting it once he began to suspect the wreckage could be one of the mysterious discs). In other words, Bloecher’s research showed the peak of the “surge” occurring one day before the Roswell story even hit the newsstands.
The following day on July 8th, the story of a “flying disc” that was captured became news, after the issuance of an RAAF press release which, at that time, also referred to the object as a “disc.” By July 9th, the explanation involving a balloon had replaced mention of a “disc”, and was appearing in newspaper reports, most notably the Roswell Daily Record.
It is important to remember here, of course, that interest in the Roswell incident itself didn’t begin to really gain traction until decades later, beginning in the late 1970s. Researchers including Stanton Friedman and others began interviewing witnesses and reviving interest in the story, which led to the first popular books being written about an alleged UFO crash, and the ensuing cover-up that occurred. Therefore, while it is often insinuated that the controversy surrounding Roswell had been what helped launch the 1947 UFO craze, the incident didn’t really begin to receive much attention until 1978.
That said, there were countless other UFO sightings and reports in the summer of 1947 that were getting plenty of attention.
Also worth noting is that, while Ted Bloecher did a fine job chronicling the “wavecrest” of reports that sparked the great UFO wave of 1947 (with or without the direct help of the Roswell Incident at that time), he also notes a number of reports of UFOs that occurred earlier in the year, placing them several weeks prior to Kenneth Arnold’s “first” sighting in June. Among the earliest had been the following report from April, 1947:
As early as the middle of April 1947, at the Weather Bureau in Richmond, Virginia, a U. S. Government meteorologist named Walter A. Minczewski and his staff had released a pibal balloon and were tracking its east-to-west course at 15,000 feet when they noticed silver, ellipsoidal object just below it. Larger than the balloon, this object appeared to be flat on bottom, and when observed through the theodolite used to track the balloon, was seen to have a dome on its upper side. Minczewski and his assistants watched the object for fifteen seconds as it traveled rapidly in level flight on a westerly course, before disappearing from view. In the official report on file at the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, at Wright-Patterson Field, in Dayton, Ohio, this sighting is listed as Unidentified.
Bloecher’s entire Report on the UFO Wave of 1947can be read here, and rest assured that it makes for some interesting historical reading for those interested in the UFO subject.
However interesting the finer details of UFO history may be (at least to some of us), one thing that likely isn’t going away anytime soon (much like the Roswell story itself) will be the way mainstream commentators gloss over everything with such self-assurance. So just to help set the record straight: no, Roswell didn’t single-handedly launch a “UFO craze.” In fact, it was merely one small piece in a much greater movement that was already well underway at the time, and didn’t begin to have a significant cultural impact on its own until decades later.
Okay, great… now that I’ve got that out of my system, I’ll now return to blogging about other things… anything, in fact, but another blog post about Roswell!
It’s the story that never ends, and certainly one that will not go away.
It has been so often covered and continually rehashed that many websites, authors, radio shows and podcasts that delve into the unexplained have sworn never to mention it, for fear of boring their followers into a sound and restful slumber.
It’s like that vampire who, no matter how many times he is impaled, incinerated, beheaded, or staked through the heart, somehow gets rewritten into another plot so that the story can continue on and on, ad nauseam.
Or that one zombie that keeps getting blasted to bits, and just won’t stop coming after you.
I think you get the point. The persistence of this particular story is due, in part, to its legendary status in UFO circles, as well as what, for decades, was held by many to be “the smoking gun” as far as proof that extraterrestrial life has indeed visited our planet.
Yes, we’re talking about Roswell.
I ask forgiveness in advance–both from my readers, and my editors–for joining the ranks of the present surge in reporting on this tried, true, and now more-than-slightly-over-cooked UFO story. Yes, many would agree that Roswell has seen a bit more attention than it really deserves over the years (especially in the last few weeks). However, as I hope to help illustrate here, its relevance in relation to what was happening in 1947 has also been somewhat overblown, especially when compared with other UFO reports in the weeks preceding the alleged crash at Roswell.
So I’ll do my best to help set the record straight on a few things, and then I’ll quietly toss a smoke bomb and disappear, returning to my oath of silence on the perennially overdone Roswell UFO incident.
As expected, Roswell has been getting a lot of attention lately, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the incident. A recent festival (well, a series of festivals) in the New Mexico town, which has now become a tourist hub for trinkets of the extraterrestrial variety, showcased events and speakers like my fellow MU writer Nick Redfern, and several others that gave perspectives on the incident.
What has also been interesting has been the media coverage Roswell has been getting from outside the UFO community in recent weeks. Dozens (and dozens) of articles have appeared, rehashing the incident and retelling the presumed explanation involving what, in likelihood, might have been a then-secret Project Mogul balloon that dropped onto a ranch outside of town. In nearly every case, the explanation is given in shades of sarcasm, as though the old “ET crashed there” idea is really what most serious UFO buffs still believe.
That’s not the case, of course. Speaking for myself, I concede that the Mogul explanation is at least one of several plausible scenarios that explains the Roswell incident, and the inconsistencies in reporting that occurred around the time (most notably, the downgrading from a “flying disc” to a “weather balloon”, which many have argued as being evidence of a conspiracy).
But that’s neither here nor there. Let’s look at a few headlines and excerpts from recent articles on the subject, along with their sources, and see what kinds of patterns emerge:
One recent headline at Bleeding Cool read, “Roswell, The Beginnings Of The UFO Craze And What It Has To Do With DC Comics.” Elsewhere, writing for Smithsonian.com, Donovan Webster noted that, “In Roswell, New Mexico, exactly seven decades ago this month (July), the first little green men arrived.” On July 7th, the Texarkana Gazette similarly reported, “Today marks 70 years since the U.S. began seriously contemplating whether there might be something ‘out there’.”
What do these headlines and excerpts all have in common? Each one appears to insinuate that the modern UFO craze essentially began in July, 1947. Further, the alleged crash at Roswell, New Mexico, is presented as though it had been influential enough, at the time, that it helped spur a “UFO craze” in 1947, which ultimately led to widespread belief in UFOs leading up to the present day.
However, while it makes for attention-grabbing headlines, there are a few problems with this retelling of history.
A few media outlets got things right. For instance, at JSTOR Daily a somewhat tepid article titled, “Roswell, Sacred Shrine of UFO Enthusiasts” correctly noted that, “A brief UFO craze resulted from the events of the summer of 1947. And there the story ended—until the late 1970s, when an alternative story began to emerge. It wasn’t a balloon after all: it was a spacecraft whose remains, including alien beings, had been kept secret since.”
That’s right. The “events of the summer of 1947” referenced here, in a scholarly sense, don’t pertain exclusively to the Roswell incident, nor even the famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold of what became known as “flying saucers” over Mount Rainier the month beforehand. Following Arnold’s sighting, and leading up the incident at Mac Brazel’s farm outside of Roswell, newspaper articles from the intervening two-week period recount hundreds of UFO reports that were seeing coverage at the time.
In other words, the “UFO craze” of 1947 was already well underway by the timethe incident at Roswell occurred. Let’s take a look at why this was the case.
One of the best historical commentaries on this period had been a NICAP report that was compiled in 1967, appropriately titled “Report on the UFO Wave of 1947,” over at the NICAP website. The report’s author was Ted Bloecher, although a foreword was provided by Dr. James E. McDonald, who at the time was, in addition to being a UFO advocate, the Senior Physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona.
In his foreword, McDonald gave us the following background on Bloecher’s work, and the prevalence of UFO reports during the two week period culminating in the events at Roswell, New Mexico:
“…[A]lready in the first two weeks after Kenneth Arnold’s Mt. Rainier report of June 24, 1947, press reports of other American sightings of highly unconventional aerial objects numbered not the dozen or so that most of us might recall, but many hundreds. Since Bloecher is careful to concede that his own searching cannot possibly have gleaned every last report from the 1947 press files, we can safely round upwards his collection of about 800 reports to an estimate that at least some thousand sightings of unidentified objects probably occurred within the United States in midsummer 1947, the bulk of these coming within a rather sharply defined wavecrest centered on about July 7. As Bloecher properly emphasizes, this clearly marks the episode as one of the outstanding sighting-waves on record.”
Of course, McDonald and Bloecher contended that the “wavecrest centered on about July 7,” which coincided with the date Mac Brazel first approached Roswell Sheriff George Wilcox, and told him that he believed one of the alleged “flying discs” making headlines around the country might have crashed on his property (the actual crash occurred sometime in the middle of June, and Brazel first noticed the scattered wreckage himself on June 14th, only reporting it once he began to suspect the wreckage could be one of the mysterious discs). In other words, Bloecher’s research showed the peak of the “surge” occurring one day before the Roswell story even hit the newsstands.
The following day on July 8th, the story of a “flying disc” that was captured became news, after the issuance of an RAAF press release which, at that time, also referred to the object as a “disc.” By July 9th, the explanation involving a balloon had replaced mention of a “disc”, and was appearing in newspaper reports, most notably the Roswell Daily Record.
It is important to remember here, of course, that interest in the Roswell incident itself didn’t begin to really gain traction until decades later, beginning in the late 1970s. Researchers including Stanton Friedman and others began interviewing witnesses and reviving interest in the story, which led to the first popular books being written about an alleged UFO crash, and the ensuing cover-up that occurred. Therefore, while it is often insinuated that the controversy surrounding Roswell had been what helped launch the 1947 UFO craze, the incident didn’t really begin to receive much attention until 1978.
That said, there were countless other UFO sightings and reports in the summer of 1947 that were getting plenty of attention.
Also worth noting is that, while Ted Bloecher did a fine job chronicling the “wavecrest” of reports that sparked the great UFO wave of 1947 (with or without the direct help of the Roswell Incident at that time), he also notes a number of reports of UFOs that occurred earlier in the year, placing them several weeks prior to Kenneth Arnold’s “first” sighting in June. Among the earliest had been the following report from April, 1947:
As early as the middle of April 1947, at the Weather Bureau in Richmond, Virginia, a U. S. Government meteorologist named Walter A. Minczewski and his staff had released a pibal balloon and were tracking its east-to-west course at 15,000 feet when they noticed silver, ellipsoidal object just below it. Larger than the balloon, this object appeared to be flat on bottom, and when observed through the theodolite used to track the balloon, was seen to have a dome on its upper side. Minczewski and his assistants watched the object for fifteen seconds as it traveled rapidly in level flight on a westerly course, before disappearing from view. In the official report on file at the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, at Wright-Patterson Field, in Dayton, Ohio, this sighting is listed as Unidentified.
Bloecher’s entire Report on the UFO Wave of 1947can be read here, and rest assured that it makes for some interesting historical reading for those interested in the UFO subject.
However interesting the finer details of UFO history may be (at least to some of us), one thing that likely isn’t going away anytime soon (much like the Roswell story itself) will be the way mainstream commentators gloss over everything with such self-assurance. So just to help set the record straight: no, Roswell didn’t single-handedly launch a “UFO craze.” In fact, it was merely one small piece in a much greater movement that was already well underway at the time, and didn’t begin to have a significant cultural impact on its own until decades later.
Okay, great… now that I’ve got that out of my system, I’ll now return to blogging about other things… anything, in fact, but another blog post about Roswell!
Just a few days ago I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe on the curious saga of Orfeo Angelucci. He was a UFO Contactee. And although he didn’t gain as much fame and notoriety as the likes of George Adamski, he did have his day. Angelucci may very well have been the target of an MK-Ultra-type “mind-control” operation, as my article demonstrated. Not everyone agrees with that scenario/theory. There is a lively debate going on, right now, at Rich Reynolds’ UFO Conjectures blog on this very subject. While Rich, like me, believes that the mind-control theory has a great deal of merit attached to it, not everyone does. You can find some of the lame comments here.
We can argue endlessly over whether Angelucci was indeed subjected to mind-altering substances or wasn’t. It’s important to note, however, that accounts like his don’t stand alone. In fact, there are more than a few almost identical ones to choose from. Today, I’ll focus on a man named Stanley Glickman. Salon.com notes: “Until his death in 1992, Glickman insisted that a CIA agent, who for 40 years he consistently described as having a clubfoot, had slipped him a mind-bending mickey in a glass of Chartreuse liqueur at a bar in Paris in 1952, driving Glickman mad and destroying his life.”
The story of Glickman is an interesting and ultimately tragic one. At the time of his strange encounter, Glickman, an American, was living and working in Paris, France. He was in his mid-twenties and life was good: he spent time at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and with modernist Fernand Leger. At least, for a while, life was good. One night, in the latter part of 1952, Glickman met with a friend in the Paris-based Cafe Select. It was while the pair was hanging out and drinking coffee that something very weird happened. Two American men came into the cafe and soon engaged Glickman in a deep debate. Hank Albarelli’s 2009 book, A Terrible Mistake, chronicles the events in detailed fashion. He notes that “the two strangers fell into a heated debate with Glickman about politics, power, and patriotism.”
The confrontational debate finally came to an end, at which point the two men offered Glickman a drink, which he accepted. It was just about the worst move that Glickman could have made. In no time at all, he found himself plunged into a psychedelic nightmare. He felt as if he was floating above the table. His perceptions, said Albarelli, “became distorted.” The mystery men watched on “intently,” as Glickman’s hallucinations became evermore graphic and terrifying. It was a situation which affected Glickman’s whole life: delusions and a sense of going insane gripped him for weeks after he was hit by the mind-bending cocktail. He was finally given shock-treatment at the American Hospital of Paris, but was never the same again. Glickman gave up painting, moved back to the United States (New York), and ran an antiques shop for the rest of his life.
Notably, Glickman stated that one of the two men had a very noticeable limp. This has given rise to the theory that the limping man was Sydney Gottlieb, a chemist, and one of the key figures in MK-Ultra, and who just happened to have a clubfoot. In Gottlieb’s 1999 obituary, the U.K.’s Independentnewspaper stated: “Gottlieb’s contribution was to oversee MKUltra. From the early 1950s through most of the 1960s hundreds of American citizens were administered mind-altering drugs. One mental patient in Kentucky was given LSD for 174 consecutive days. In all the agency conducted 149 mind-control experiments. At least one ‘participant’ died as a result of the experiments and several others went mad.”
Blotter LSD
The Alliance for Human Research Protection states that, in 1977, Glickman “…learned about Gottlieb and CIA’s LSD experiments on unwitting involuntary subjects from the Kennedy congressional hearings. Glickman sued in 1981, but the trial was delayed 17 years on technical grounds, by which time Glickman had died in 1992.”
There are undeniable parallels between the story of Orfeo Angelucci and the affair of Stanley Glickman. Both were dosed in cafes/diners. Both incidents occurred in the 1950s. Glickman’s two characters debated him on his politics. Angelucci, in a curious way, had a tie to communism (as my earlier article shows). And both Glickman and Angelucci were watched “intently,” a word which both Angelucci and Albarelli used when telling their respective accounts. Can we say for sure that Angelucci and Glickman were the victims of mind-altering drugs? No. But, what we can say is that the cases eerily mirror each other – which should be definite food for thought.
The next time I dig into this area of research, it will be in relation to a man named Conrad Zerbe and his involvement in the Roswell incident of July 1947. Few will have heard of Zerbe and his Roswell connection, but he had a significant story to tell of his knowledge of what happened on the Foster Ranch – and he did tell it. After which, he too found himself in a near-identical situation to that of Glickman and Angelucci. In 1980, in a Los Angeles, California diner…
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TOP UFO SPOTS IN THE UK
TOP UFO SPOTS IN THE UK
The truth is out there...apparently in various parts of the UK. This is because some of the world's leading UFO hotspots can be found in our nation.
Don't believe us? Take a look at 5 of the top UFO sighting spots in the UK:
1. Liverpool
How Liverpool would look if aliens invaded
Image source: Liverpoolecho.co.uk
Liverpool is the UK's top alien sighting hotspot. Police in Merseyside have had 13 calls regarding UFO sightings since 2013, more than anywhere else in the UK. While the alien group Mutual UFO Network claim that they have received 17 reports of UFOs being seen across Liverpool in 2016. And in 2015, a Ryanair flight delayed landing due to sighting a UFO over the River Mersey.
2. Wiltshire
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
Image source: openminds.tv
Crop circle formations and UFO sightings have been reported in and around Warminster in western Wiltshire since the 1950s. Farmers have discovered crop circles on their land and locals have captured on camera strange lights, flying saucers and noises. There are also claims of these UFOs killing flocks of pigeons and causing cars to fail.
3. Bonnybridge
Local reports of UFOs in Bonnybridge in the 1990s
Image source: dailyrecord.co.uk
This small Scottish town is one of the most visited places in the world for UFO sightings. An average of 300 sightings are claimed per year, and everything from alien ships landing to unexplained balls of light have apparently been spotted. Now somewhat of an alien tourist trap, local Councillor Billy Buchanan has requested the last three Prime Ministers to do an official investigation into these UFO spottings. So far, none have agreed.
4. Staffordshire
An alleged "mass UFO sighting" at Cannock Chase in March 2015
Image source: paranormalcannock.blogspot.com
UFOs aren't just aliens - as werewolves, pigmen, black-eyed children and even Big Foot himself have reportedly been spotted in the area of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire. There's even a blog dedicated to sightings at this Area of Outstanding Beauty and in 2015 several hundred local residents claimed to see a UFO spaceship hover over the area.
5. Broad Haven
Children from Broad Haven Primary School reported seeing alien activity in their playing field in 1977
The youngsters were asked to draw what they saw by their headmaster
Image source: Walesonline.co.uk
Alien sightings go as far back to the 1970's in this Welsh seaside town. Local school children claimed to see a UFO spaceship land while other locals have claimed to see little silver men and flying saucers. Although some of these claims have been partly debunked (apparently secret military training was to account for some of the sightings) people still visit Broad Haven throughout the year in the hope of spotting a UFO, and there are even locally run UFO tours available.
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Triangle UFO quickly disappears over small Ohio town
Triangle UFO quickly disappears over small Ohio town
An Ohio witness at Batavia described a triangle-shaped object with three lights at its points moving directly overhead with no flashing lights or sound, according to testimony in Case 83789 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was outside in a front yard with a dog on a clear night at 9:45 p.m. on May 16, 2017, when the incident began.
“I immediately noted how many stars I could see and the darkness of the sky,” the witness stated.“While standing on the driveway and shortly after looking up, I saw the object come over my roof into view. It appeared to be several thousand feet up in the sky. I could easily make out three distinct, white lights in a perfect triangular pattern.”
The object appeared to be several thousand feet up. Batavia is a small Ohio town with a 1,509 population.
(Credit: Google)
The witness stated that the object did not appear to be the average aircraft.
“There were no flashing aircraft lights of any kind. There was no noise as the object passed over. It was heading in a southwest direction. There were no clouds in my viewing area to obscure it, only some faint ones on the horizon, so I had a clear view of it. It was almost directly overhead of my neighborhood.”
The witness described the object’s movement.
“It made a bend in its trajectory turning towards the west after a few seconds. Shortly after, it abruptly disappeared. During the sighting, I did not want to lose sight of the object, so I did not run inside for my phone to take video. I noticed blinking aircraft lights within a few degrees of the object during and after the sighting. There are multiple airports in the area and I am used to seeing all sorts of planes and this immediately struck me as not having any blinking lights and a perfect triangle shape.”
The object was moving very fast.
The object was fast-moving and quickly disappeared. Pictured: Batavia, Ohio.
(Credit: Google)
“It also must have been moving quite fast since it covered a pretty large area of the sky in a short time. The altitude and lack of noise reminded me of seeing a satellite, but the triangle shape made me question whether it could be one. Whether the planes were tracking it or just flying over, I couldn’t say. We see a lot of planes around here.”
Batavia is a village in and the county seat of Clermont County, Ohio, population 1,509. Ohio MUFON Field Investigator Tim Kelly is investigating. The witness included one illustration with the report, which was filed on May 16, 2017. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Micah Hanks’ recently-published article for Mysterious Universe – titled “The British UFO Files: An Estimate of the Situation?” and on the subject of newly-declassified British Ministry of Defense UFO files – includes the following words: “One of the most recent reports to come to light deals with an unusual, Cold-War era incident that occurred in October 1982. It involved an American RC-135 spy plane that, while monitoring Soviet military operations, came under some kind of surveillance by a large, unidentified and brightly-lit aircraft. The USAF base detailed in the report was located at RAF Troodos on Cyprus, and discussed an incident involving an unidentified aircraft which lasted close to 90 minutes.”
This is particularly intriguing to me, as I have a story that – to a degree – is somewhat similar to the one which Micah refers to. It’s a case that also revolves around both U.K. and U.S. authorities. The location is the same: Cyprus. The UFO, in both cases, was described as being large. And, the case brought to my attention occurred in the summer of 1981, just one year before the case referenced by Micah. Also, both UFOs were in view for a considerable amount of time. It’s important to note that I can’t be accused of having fallen for a modern-day hoaxer, as the story was given to me years ago. In fact, it takes up three pages of my first book, A Covert Agenda, which was published way back in 1997, a full twenty years ago.
For a period of time beginning in 1981, the source of the story was employed as a radar operator at a particular military facility on the island of Cyprus (RAF Akrotiri). On August 16, an unknown vehicle, described as being “vast,” was tracked approaching the island at a height in excess of 30,000 feet, and at a speed of around 900 miles per hour. It was initially believed that this was a conventional aircraft, although one of an undeniably extraordinary size. This tentative conclusion was quickly blown out of the water, however, when the UFO came to a complete halt in the skies – hovering high above RAF Akrotiri for close to an hour. Those who saw it described it as being of a brilliant white color, triangular in form, and somewhere in the region of seven hundred feet in length.
Interestingly, the informant – who shared his story with me on January 12, 1993 – revealed that at some point before the incident took place, the Ministry of Defense had issued what was described to me as a “complete stand-down” of military planes in the area, in the event that something both unusual and extraordinary might be seen in the sky – which it certainly was. Reportedly, a huge amount of photographs of the object were secured. They, and the station’s log-book, were handed over the next day to a man and a woman from the Ministry of Defense, and who had flown in from London. All those involved in the curious affair were reminded they had signed the British Government’s Official Secrets Act. It’s interesting to note that, soon after, according to the informant, a meeting was held at a U.K. military facility called Royal Air Force Lakenheath, located in the English county of Suffolk. Those who attended the classified meeting, specifically to discuss the event, included representatives of the British Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
There’s no doubt that the most baffling part of the story revolves around the claim that the MoD seemed to have prior knowledge that the UFO would appear in the skies over Cyprus. In light of this, I asked the guy who who related the story to me if he had pondered on the possibility that the object was not a UFO, after all, but some kind of secret, highly-advanced aircraft of a terrestrial – rather than extra-terrestrial – nature. Given that the craft hovered over the base for around three-quarters of an hour and was around 700 feet in length, he felt that such a scenario was highly unlikely. But, he admitted that he had no answer as to how the MoD knew the craft might appear. After A Covert Agenda was published, Mark Birdsall, the editor of Eye-Spy magazine informed me that he had received a near-identical story years earlier. Maybe, in light of all the above, we’ll soon learn more about what was afoot in the skies of Cyprus in the 1981-1982 period.
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Archeologen ontdekken in dolmen mysterieuze inscripties die alleen 's nachts zichtbaar worden HLN.be
Archeologen ontdekken in dolmen mysterieuze inscripties die alleen 's nachts zichtbaar worden - HLN.be
Britse wetenschappers hebben een opmerkelijke ontdekking gedaan op een grote, eeuwenoude steen uit Hendraburnick Down, in het uiterste zuidwesten van Groot-Brittannië. Ze bleken inscripties te bevatten die alleen zichtbaar werden als het donker was. Volgens de onderzoekers zouden ze deel hebben uitgemaakt van heidense rituelen die duizenden jaren geleden werden uitgevoerd op de site.
Het was het team van dokter Andy Jones van de Cornwall Archaeological Unit die de 105 inscripties vond op een bijlvormige rots. Die zou dateren van het neolithicum, 6.000 tot 4.000 jaar geleden.
De steen zou deel uitgemaakt hebben van een ritueel waarbij kwarts gebroken werd, zo staat te lezen in een rapport in het tijdschrift Time and Mind. "Tijdens ons onderzoek ontdekten we dat de inscripties veel uitgebreider waren dan we dachten. En dat ze het beste zichtbaar waren als de zon laag in het zuidoosten stond of 's nachts", aldus Jones.
Duisternis werd in oude culturen vaak geassocieerd met het bovennatuurlijke en een verscherping van de zintuigen. "Als twee stukken kwarts tegen elkaar worden geslagen, ontstaat er korte tijd een gloed", aldus Jones. "We vonden fragmenten van kwarts op de site en het kan gebruikt zijn als onderdeel van een nachtelijke activiteit, waarbij de lichtgevende kwaliteiten van de steen werden aangewend om de verborgen kunst op de rots te onthullen. Na het ritueel bleven de stukken op de grond glinsteren in het maanlicht en ze zullen zo nog bijgedragen hebben aan het aura van de site."
Ontcijferen Wat de inscripties precies betekenen, hebben de wetenschappers nog niet kunnen ontcijferen. "Maar we zijn er zeker van dat ze ook op andere plaatsen gevonden kunnen worden", zegt hij nog.
Het Amerikaanse Congres buigt zich momenteel over een voorstel om een ruimteleger op te richten. Dat moet de belangen van de Verenigde Staten in de ruimte veiligstellen. Maar er is flink wat discussie over hoe dat vorm moet krijgen: als een aparte eenheid of als bevoegdheid van luchtmacht of marine.
Het 'Space Corps' zou onder meer de verantwoordelijkheid krijgen over de beveiliging van Amerikaanse satellieten en ruimtetuigen. Het voorstel spreekt van een aparte eenheid binnen de luchtmacht en de baas van het ruimteleger zou het achtste lid worden van de Joint Chiefs of Staff, een militair adviesorgaan van de federale overheid. Nu is de verantwoordelijkheid voor missies buiten onze atmosfeer nog gewoon een bevoegdheid van de luchtmacht zelf.
Die laatste is niet akkoord. "Het zou het leger complexer maken en meer geld kosten om een aparte eenheid op te richten", aldus secretaris Heather Wilson. Ook de marine ziet het anders en wil graag zélf de verantwoordelijkheid binnenhalen. Met het argument dat ruimtemissies van dezelfde aard zouden zijn als missies op zee.
Oorlog Externen vragen zich dan weer af of een van beiden überhaupt geschikt is. "Geen van de twee onderdelen van het leger zijn echt voorbereid op een oorlog in de ruimte", zegt Harry J. Kazianis, defensie-expert van denktank 'Center for the National Interest'.
De primaire focus van het 'Space Corps' zou op militaire satellieten liggen. Die moeten beschermd worden tegen potentieel vijandige grootmachten zoals Rusland en China. Dat laatste land vernietigde in 2007 nog een van zijn eigen satellieten en zou in 2013 al een afweersysteem met raketten getest hebben dat objecten kan vernietigen die rond onze aarde cirkelen.
Consequenties "Mocht er ooit een oorlog uitbreken met bijvoorbeeld Rusland of China, zal die niet alleen op de grond, op zee en in de lucht uitgevochten worden, maar ook in de ruimte", aldus Kazianis, die er zelf pleit voor een samenwerking tussen de verschillende militaire takken in plaats van een nieuw korps. "Winnen op een van die domeinen zou verregaande consequenties hebben voor alle andere."
VIDEOHij moest er met zijn team 12 uur voor vliegen, 1.200 kilometer voor rijden door een desolate woestijn en daarna nog eens honderden kilometers offroad, opletten dat hij niet op kraaienpoten reed en zelfs wegduiken toen op zeker moment een geweersalvo weerklonk. Maar het was het waard, als we hem mogen geloven. De Nederlandse fotograaf Bob Thissen heeft een passie voor verlaten en verboden locaties en is net terug van een expeditie naar een zwaar bewaakt Russisch militair domein in Kazachstan. En hij slaagde erin om daar adembenemende beelden te schieten.
De expeditie vond midden mei plaats en Thissen heeft er nu een compleet verslag van gemaakt. Hij verzamelde een team van drie mensen rond zich. Dat bestond uit de Vlaming Frederik Sempens uit Lovenjoel bij Bierbeek en twee Denen. "Dat was al een eerste horde. Het was niet eenvoudig om mensen zo gek te krijgen om met me mee te gaan. De missie was best gevaarlijk, want in Rusland raak je net iets makkelijker in de cel dan hier. Ik heb voor mijn vertrek echt afscheid genomen van mijn dierbaren, want ik wist oprecht niet of ik wel zou terugkomen." (lees hieronder verder)
Seksmuseum Waarom hij het dan toch deed? "Ik leef daarvoor", lacht hij. "Ik reis al tien jaar de wereld rond op zoek naar verlaten plaatsen waar het net is of de tijd stil is blijven staan. Waar niemand nog komt of dúrft te komen. Van vervallen kastelen, leegstaande ziekenhuizen tot een gesloten seksmuseum: niets is te gek. Maar dit was met voorsprong wel het spannendste avontuur dat ik al aanging. Het is een kick om je aan zoiets te wagen. Ik zoek het echt op."
Na hun vliegreis naar Kazachstan reden ze drie dagen door de woestijn om bij de legerbasis te komen, een plek waar nog nooit een buitenlander een voet had gezet. Het complex staat leeg, maar wordt nog altijd streng bewaakt door Russische militairen. "Het begon al te schemeren toen we op het einde van de derde dag arriveerden. We zagen een beetje verderop een auto voorbijrijden en doken weg toen plots geweerschoten weerklonken."
Verschansen Het laatste stuk legden ze te voet af. "Uiteindelijk raakten we binnen en we verschansten ons meteen, want het werd al snel duidelijk dat er druk gepatrouilleerd werd", gaat hij verder. (lees hieronder verder)
De fotograaf had zijn huiswerk gemaakt en hij wist dat er in een van de loodsen twee spaceshuttles moesten liggen, die een aardig beeld konden opleveren. "Kopieën van de toestellen waarmee de Amerikanen de ruimte in gingen vorige eeuw. Ze dateren nog uit de tijd van de ruimtewedloop. We moesten omzichtig te werk gaan om niet ontdekt te worden. Terwijl telkens twee teamleden op de uitkijk lagen op het dak, gingen we met zijn tweeën naar binnen. En we kregen waar voor ons geld", aldus de fotograaf. (lees hieronder verder)
In een van de loodsen lag een bijna complete ruimteshuttle. "Ik vermoed dat die voor 80 procent was afgewerkt", klinkt het. "Er was ook een toestel dat daadwerkelijk in de ruimte was geweest. Ik wilde graag nog een ander loods checken, waar een raket lag. En daarvoor heb ik het risico genomen om er op klaarlichte dag heen te sluipen, terwijl de militaire politie rondliep. Dat was wel heftig." (lees hieronder verder)
Uiteindelijk gingen ze er na 24 in plaats van 48 uur alweer vandoor, omdat hun watervoorraad op begon te raken door de drukkende hitte van 40 graden en de loden zon. Maar met een geweldige reeks beelden en filmpjes. "Een aantal daarvan bleek niet goed te zijn toen we thuiskwamen, dat was minder leuk, maar we hadden gelukkig voldoende materiaal verzameld", klinkt het nog.
Wie graag de volledige fotoreportage ziet, kan terecht op de website van Bob Thissen en op zijn YouTubekanaal.
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Meer mysterieuze mummies gevonden in Peru. Zijn dit buitenaardse wezens?
Meer mysterieuze mummies gevonden in Peru. Zijn dit buitenaardse wezens?
Internetzender Gaia heeft nieuwe beelden online geplaatst van de mysterieuze mummie die in Nazca in Peru is gevonden, schrijft de Daily Express.
De mummie, genaamd Maria, zou niet alleen zijn. In dezelfde tombe zouden ook andere, kleinere lichamen zijn gevonden, zegt het onderzoeksteam.
Eén van deze wezens, Victoria, is inmiddels ook onderzocht. Zij lijkt enigszins op Maria, maar lijkt tot een andere soort te behoren.
Buitenaards wezen
In de video die Gaia online heeft gezet is te zien hoe het mensachtige wezen wordt bestudeerd. De zender claimt zelfs dat het zou kunnen gaan om een buitenaards wezen.
Op Facebook schreef Gaia: “Een ander lichaam afkomstig uit Nazca wordt nu onderzocht. Het lijkt te gaan om een compleet andere soort.”
De Mexicaanse onderzoeksjournalist Jaime Maussan, die jarenlang op de Mexicaanse tv te zien was, suggereert in de video dat het mogelijk lichamen van dode aliens zijn.
Overheid
“Mensen moeten begrijpen dat dergelijke lichamen altijd al in handen zijn geweest van de overheid en het leger,” zei hij.
“Het is voor het eerst dat we zo’n kans krijgen en we moeten die dan ook met beide handen grijpen,” voegde hij toe.
Eén van de belangrijkste
Maussan claimde eerder dat de vondst van Maria ‘één van de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van de 21e eeuw was’.
Meer sceptische onderzoekers beweerden dat de vondst van de mummies in Peru een hoax is.
De eerste aflevering van de reeks is hier gratis te bekijken.
Nieuwe tunnel ontdekt onder Bosnische piramides. Door wie zijn ze aangelegd?
Nieuwe tunnel ontdekt onder Bosnische piramides. Door wie zijn ze aangelegd?
Onder de Bosnische piramides is een nieuwe tunnel ontdekt. In onderstaande video verkennen dr. Sam Osmanagich en Edo Gradan de tunnel.
De meeste tunnels die in het gebied zijn gevonden, zijn naar schatting 4600 jaar geleden gevuld met zand en stenen door een onbekende hoogontwikkelde beschaving, stelt Osmanagich, die al jaren onderzoek doet op de plek waar hij de piramides heeft ontdekt.
De nieuwe tunnel, die op 6 juli is gevonden, is niet gevuld met materiaal en loopt van noord naar zuid, aldus de onderzoekers.
Betere kwaliteit
Volgens diverse onderzoeksinstituten, waaronder het Italiaanse Politecnico di Torino, zijn de steenblokken waar de piramides uit bestaan gemaakt van beton dat van betere kwaliteit is dan modern beton.
Duitse geofysici bevestigden in 2007 aan de hand van radarapparatuur dat er gangen onder de grond lopen op de plek waar de piramides zich bevinden.
De piramides zijn net als sommige piramides in China, Mexico en Guatemala bedekt met bodemmateriaal en vegetatie.
Oudste
Het Bosnische Federal Institute for Agropedology stelde vast dat het bodemmateriaal waarmee de Zonnepiramide is bedekt, ongeveer 12.000 jaar oud is.
Dat zou deze piramide de oudste piramide ter wereld maken. Tienduizenden toeristen zijn al naar het gebied afgereisd om een kijkje te nemen.
Meer over de ontdekking van de nieuwe tunnel in onderstaande video:
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?'
Duizenden koeien verminkt sinds begin jaren zeventig. Is dit het werk van aliens of van iets anders?
Duizenden koeien verminkt sinds begin jaren zeventig. Is dit het werk van aliens of van iets anders?
In 1973 zagen Ron en Paula Watson uit Missouri ‘een groen, kegelvormig vaartuig met ernaast twee zilverkleurige wezens’ bij een grote zwarte koe. Dat schrijft de Daily Mail.
Paula beschreef tot in detail hoe de aliens de koe inspecteerden en hoe het dier vervolgens naar hun grote schip ‘zweefde’.
De buren hebben hun verhaal nooit geloofd, hoewel één buurman wel toegaf dat er één zwarte koe ontbrak.
Chirurgische precisie
In de jaren zeventig werden er in de Verenigde Staten vele duizenden gevallen van veeverminking gemeld.
Het meest vreemde in dit geval is niet dat de koeien werden gedood, maar de manier waarop. Verschillende organen waren met chirurgische precisie verwijderd.
Hoewel er in de loop der tijd meerdere mogelijke verklaringen zijn bedacht voor dit fenomeen, is het mysterie nog altijd onopgelost. Zelfs de FBI staat voor een raadsel.
Bollen of schijven
Veel lokale bewoners zagen helikopters in gebieden waar later dode koeien werden gevonden. Sommigen dachten om die reden dat de overheid erachter zat.
Maar er werden ook bollen of schijven waargenomen voordat dieren werden verminkt.
De meeste mensen die hier onderzoek naar hebben gedaan, denken dat aliens er verantwoordelijk voor zijn en dat de overheid dit al jaren onder het tapijt probeert te vegen.
Iets met een intelligentie
Eén van hen is onderzoeksjournaliste Linda Moulton Howe, die Ron en Paula Watson interviewde voor haar documentaire Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms.
Christopher O’Brien zei daarnaast dat hij 200 gevallen van veeverminking heeft onderzocht en dat 40 daarvan het werk waren van ‘iets met een intelligentie’.
Zuid-Amerika
O’Brien merkte op dat er nog altijd gevallen worden gemeld, vooral in Zuid-Amerika. In landen als Brazilië en Argentinië zijn sinds 2002 duizenden meldingen geweest.
Hij vermoedt dat hier sprake is van een geheim overheidsproject dat erop gericht is bepaalde ziektes in de kiem te smoren.
GRAANCIRKELS WORDEN NIET GEMAAKT DOOR GROSCH DRINKERS MET EEN HOOGWERKER ( VIDEO )
GRAANCIRKELS WORDEN NIET GEMAAKT DOOR GROSCH DRINKERS MET EEN HOOGWERKER ( VIDEO )
Ook het Nederlandse volk wordt van alles wijsgemaakt en dus ook dat graancirkels worden gemaakt door jongelui met een slok op.
Echter, hoe ze dan de volgende prachtige graancirkel in het Engelse landschap hebben kunnen maken, is dan weer niet helemaal duidelijk.
Een aantal weken geleden was er in ons land een graancirkel in Lochem. Al snel kwamen er berichten in de mainstream media dat het raadsel was opgelost en dat een aantal dronken grappenmakers na een avond volgieten met Grolsch dit hadden gedaan in het holst van de nacht.
Het zal niemand verbazen dat niemand echt heeft aangetoond hoe ze die cirkel dan gemaakt zouden hebben en zolang dat niet gebeurt, sturen wij het verhaal over half of geheel dronken jongelui in een weiland midden in de nacht naar het rijk der fabelen.
De boer in Lochem gelooft ook niet dat het jongelui waren, simpelweg omdat er zelfs niet eens sporen te ontdekken zijn. Ze zouden deze cirkel dan gemaakt hebben met behulp van een hoogwerker (waar ook geen sporen van zijn).
Op 5 juli 2017 is er een prachtige nieuwe graancirkel ontdekt in Engeland in een plaats die Battlesbury Hill heet en ligt in de buurt van Warminster in het graafschap Wiltshire (beroemd om zijn vele graancirkels).
En net zoals in Lochem is op de volgende afbeelding te zien dat er nergens sporen zijn in het veld waaruit je zou kunnen afleiden dat er mensenhanden aan te pas zijn gekomen om deze graancirkel te maken.
Wat nergens wordt vermeld, is dat deze graancirkel op iets meer dan twintig kilometer afstand van Stonehenge is gevonden, de plek waar tijdens de zonnewende op 21 juni een aantal merkwaardige lichten werden waargenomen.
Graancirkels zoals die bij Battlesbury worden niet gemaakt door halfdronken mannetjes met hoogwerkers middenin de nacht.
En dit soort prachtige beelden in het graan niet zijn gemaakt door mensen, maar wie heeft ze dan wel gemaakt? Wij ontvingen onderstaande foto van een lezer (dank) die ons ook deed denken aan het beeld van de bovenstaande graancirkel.
Wij houden het erop dat de graancirkels berichten zijn afkomstig van onze ruimtebroeders en dat het aan ons is om deze berichten goed te interpreteren.
Dus, mochten er mensen die denken te weten wat er door middel van dit recente exemplaar wordt duidelijk gemaakt, laat het ons weten.
En ons aanbod voor de Lochemse graancirkelmakers staat nog steeds.
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!
Ondertussen hebben wij een echte expert geraadpleegd voor wat nadere uitleg omtrent de betekenis van graancirkels:
EXTRATERRESTRIAL ACTIVITY ON EARTH CONFIRMED BY THE CIA
EXTRATERRESTRIAL ACTIVITY ON EARTH CONFIRMED BY THE CIA
The CIA has released a wave of documents relating to the UFO phenomenon revealing interesting information about the intelligence agency’s secret investigations into what appeared to be extra-terrestrial incidents within the United States.
CIA RELEASES TEN NEW FILES ABOUT THE UFO INVESTIGATIONS
The newly declassified documents reveal that in 1952 alone there were almost one hundred incidents relating to the UFO phenomenon which the CIA had deemed to be ‘inexplicable’. The report states that the testimony upon which the files were compiled were ‘believable’ but that agents from the intelligence agency had no idea what could have possibly caused them. An agent from the CIA wrote that the situation would continue to be monitored and that there ought to be no reports made to the public about the nature of the bizarre investigations.
According to a spokesperson for the CIA, these newly declassified files have been released to the public to coincide with the release of a new series of the cult science-fiction television program, the X-Files. “We have decided to release to publicity a few files that even the most skeptical individuals will find appealing. Five of these files are fit for “X-Files” Agent Fox Mulder, but the other five files are perfect for his skeptical partner, Agent Dana Scully, ” the spokesperson explained.
However, this explanation has been treated dubiously by some UFO researchers who think that the re-release of the X-Files is nothing more than a convenient pretext for the CIA to release the documents to the general public. It is believed that the CIA wish to eventually disclose the existence of alien activity on this planet but that they want to gently ease the public into the disclosures so as not to engender mass panic or a breakdown of social control in light of the revelations.
In recent years, there have been murmurings that those in the highest positions of power in the world are gearing up to make a revelation about the existence of extra-terrestrial life on Earth. In December 2012, the Russian prime minister Dmitri Medvedev revealed that every leader of the Kremlin is briefed about the activities of extra-terrestrial beings on the planet. However, after the sensational revelation, the former president of the Russian Federation appeared to go silent on the topic. Could it be that all will be revealed shortly? Only time will tell.
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15,000 PEOPLE TURN OUT TO UFO EVENT IN ROSWELL
15,000 PEOPLE TURN OUT TO UFO EVENT IN ROSWELL
The town of Roswell in southeastern New Mexico was a buzz of activity last weekend as an estimated fifteen thousand visitors descended on the beautiful small town for a four-day UFO festival.
Roswell achieved notoriety back in 1947 when it became the center of one of the most mysterious and compelling UFO events in US history. It all began when a local rancher named William Brazel stumbled on bizarre debris in the desert which appeared to be the remnants of a terrible air crash involving what some witnesses what some witnesses described as a flying saucer. The authorities initially confirmed that the object that had been discovered was indeed a flying saucer and then promptly changed their story, claiming that the debris was from a fallen weather balloon.
This explanation did not convince the general public who have long believed that Roswell was the site of a UFO crash that the government attempted to cover up. Since then Roswell has essentially become a by-word for the UFO phenomenon, which the local landscape reflects completely. Today, Roswell boasts a flourishing business in UFO themed gift shops, museums, and even restaurants.
Given its history, it’s only natural that the town’s UFO festival would be very well attended by visitors from all over the United States. Tourists to the town passed the time by buying up some of the alien memorabilia available from Roswell’s many gift shops and street vendors and munching on themed desserts such as the so-called ‘Martian turds’.
But it wasn’t all fun and games at the UFO Festival. Experts were also among those who descended upon Roswell and held a number of fascinating panel discussions focussing on various topics such as the comparison between aliens and demons and the logic associated with aligning the UFO phenomenon with Biblical scripture. In addition to this, festival goers were also granted an audience with the famed UFO researcher Travis Walton who has made a number of sensational claims about spending time with aliens back in 1975 and whose story was the inspiration for the 1993 film, ‘Fire in the Sky’.
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AN OFFICIAL CIA REPORT CLAIMS THAT 23 SOLDIERS WERE TURNED INTO STONE BY ALIENS AFTER THEY SHOT AT A UFO
AN OFFICIAL CIA REPORT CLAIMS THAT 23 SOLDIERS WERE TURNED INTO STONE BY ALIENS AFTER THEY SHOT AT A UFO
A recently declassified report from the CIA had described the terrifying episode when a military unit in Siberia came under a vicious and deadly attack from unknown beings who are presumed to be extra-terrestrials.
According to the new report, which is available to view in full on the CIA’s public website, the soldiers working in the military unit in Siberia were aware of a bizarre flying saucer-shaped vehicle coming into close proximity of their position.
NEWLY DECLASSIFIED CIA FILE DESCRIBES TERRIFYING UFO ATTACK IN SIBERIA
The soldiers immediately opened fire on the craft with a surface to air missile which brought the flying saucer down to Earth. The report claims that after the flying saucer was brought crashing down, things got even more terrifying and strange.
The CIA notes say that five humanoid beings with large heads and large black eyes exited the craft after it was brought down. Following that, the five beings then appeared to merge together into a white ball of light which began to buzz and hiss at the soldiers. After a period of seconds, the ball of light then exploded. Twenty-three soldiers who were in the immediate proximity of the blast were killed and, bizarrely, according to the report thy were ‘turned into stone’.
There were only two survivors of the devastating attack who were both in a shaded area at the time of the lethal explosion.
According to a Ukrainian newspaper which has covered the terrifying episode, the initial report on the incident was investigated in depth by agents from the Soviet intelligence agency, the KGB. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the intelligence agency in the wake of the end of the Cold War and the reconstruction of Russia, many of the formerly secret files held by the KGB somehow found their way into the hands of the Americans, including this fascinating 250 page dossier on the UFO attack in Siberia.
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Cigar-shaped UFO caught on tape over Tampa, Florida
Cigar-shaped UFO caught on tape over Tampa, Florida
This interesting UFO video was recorded over Tampa, Florida back in August 2014.
Witness report:
Saw a worm like shape, it moved a all directions hovered over the city until it got further away until we lost sight of it.
1. We were at a friends balcony in Tampa Florida watching the sky in the afternoon when we saw the UFO. 2. I was the one that noticed it first I thought it was something in my eye, as if it was a bug or something. It moved in all directions until I said out loud what is that. Nobody could answer. 3. A bug or something in my eye. 4. It was metallic, I want to say a little darker than usual. It looked like a black cigar on the sky and moved in all directions. It suddenly changed color onto a bright silver color maybe when the sun was hitting the UFO. It hovered on top of the city for around 30 minutes. It came closer, just hovering our way maybe about 1.5-3 miles away but we got scared and they started hovering on the other direction. There was no type of contact. They just hovered and peacefully left. 5. At first I think you dont process correctly what you are looking at, so your brain comes up with all the possible outcomes. When we realized that it was nothing that we had seen before then fear invades your body. Fear of the unknown. As they stayed there peacefully we got curious and exited to see another species in Planet Earth. 6. It kept going N (not sure if it was exactly N) but just further away from us, until it got too far away and we lost sight of it.
Here is a modest collection of digital copies of UFO books
Here is a modest collection of digital copies of UFO books
A reddit user ConcernedEarthling just posted his collection of UFO books in digital edition.
This is what he wrote:
This collection of books is what I have accumulated and organized over time to supplement my physical library at home, and it has been a useful collection to refer to others who have wanted some relevant reading.
It is actually one folder of a larger collection of online UFO materials, in what I call the UFO Reading Center, and it contains organized collections of magazines, studies, papers, and other materials. The entire collection is hosted on Google Drive..
I hope this is a useful and plentiful resource for those of you who may not have stumbled on it yet.
EU Laws Block Requests To Access UFO Sighting Information
EU Laws Block Requests To Access UFO Sighting Information
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A leading expert has claimed that the government hushed up UFO sightings using EU laws. The state has previously been granted the public the access to records, including detailed reports of mysterious sightings in the sky by civilian aircrews.
They are now discovering that the access has been revoked, referring to the European legislation. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) receives several reports of strange sightings each year.
MOD’s UFO desk was responsible for collecting information on UFO sighting reports, but the responsibility has fallen to the CAA since the UFO desk closure in 2009. As a government agency, the CAA collected files should be subject to Freedom of Information requests.
Any member of the public who wants to gain access to data from government institutions can use these transparency laws. However, the CAA has allegedly refused to release any UFO sighting information, citing the 2014 European legislation.
UFO author Nigel Watson said that such move only ignites government cover-up of UFO sightings and related information.
Principle research fellow Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University’s department of journalism had accessed the files from the CAA using FOI requests. However, he was refused permission to do it again earlier this year.
According to Dr Clarke, the change is an embarrassment on the part of the aviation industry. He said that the industry does not want to admit that its pilots occasionally encounter UFOs in the sky. He pointed out that authorities should be proactively promoting open access to records of UFO sightings, which is known as occurrences in bureaucratic language, to improve public confidence in air safety.
The EU legislation is designed to protect airline staff, including the pilots, who report witnessing unexplainable aerial phenomena. It states that the release of occurrence information to the media or the general public is not permitted, including in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. The occurrence information, however, can be released for the purpose of improving or maintaining aviation safety.
Strange UFO Rising in Sky’s Portal Viewed by Millions of People
Strange UFO Rising in Sky’s Portal Viewed by Millions of People
The internet is bubbling over with stories, accounts, photographs and even videos of these alien UFO incidences. When the photos are posted, whopping millions of people of different opinions viewed them. A sensational footage that became viral appears to be an odd-looking object disappearing into a “portal in the sky.” The video, which was displayed on the Facebook page, shows a flying object that was spotted over southern Colorado. It garnered more than one million views.
The video shows a bizarre shaped series of lights rising before the portal opens in the night sky and disappears later on. If this is a genuine video, then it would be the most interesting piece of evidence in every extraterrestrial activity. Unfortunately, it has been exposed recently that such piece could be made through CGI technology. Snopes.com, a fact-checking website, has investigated the footage. As a finding, the article and the video are fake. For one, the page does not say exactly where in Southern Colorado the footage was filmed. Without sufficient information, they cannot check with the local authorities to verify whether the residents saw something that may cause alarm what the witness claims to be.
Snopes went on to conclude that the footage did not originate in Colorado since it was first conveyed in Sonora, a Mexican state on the US border, last March of this year. They admitted finding any Mexican tabloid media reports showing that residents have witnessed the incident. However, a Spanish YouTuber said that recreating the video through Adobe After Effects would also be possible. Irrespective of the opinions, Snopes.com debunked the video as unproven because this video is difficult to validate or disprove without knowing more about what and where it is supposed to be.
Scott Brando, who manages a hoax-busting site branded the interesting video as a fake after slowing it down to stabilise it. On his Facebook account, he labelled it as another fake UFO has gone viral.
The Roswell Incident and the Kardashians Have Something in Common
The Roswell Incident and the Kardashians Have Something in Common
Many Americans believe an alien spacecraft crash-landed near Roswell, New Mexico 70 years ago. But SETI expert Seth Shostak isn’t convinced.
Costumed participants march in the UFO Festival Amazing Alien Parade in Roswell, New Mexico in 2009.Mark Wilson / Roswell Daily Record Via AP File
If you’re a believer, you probably know that this month marks the 70th anniversary of a major cosmic mishap that took place not on the moon or Mars, nor in the dim recesses of our galaxy — but in New Mexico. On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Daily Record claimed that the U.S. Air Force had recovered a flying saucer in the desert scrub about 30 miles northwest of the city.
Apparently, aliens were sufficiently intrigued by the Land of Enchantment to travel untold trillions of miles to check it out. Alas, whether it was a result of altimeter failure or distracted driving, the saucer botched the approach and dived to the dirt.
The incident was of limited interest at the time. But it has become an icon for those who are convinced that aliens are in our skies. These folks maintain that for seven decades the U.S. government has covered up the extraterrestrial facts about Roswell.
Now a discussion of the merits of this claim is a book-length subject. Indeed, it’s a shelf-load-of-books subject, and any analysis in the limited space of this column will surely be trolled as either biased or incomplete by those who have spent their lives discussing Roswell — or made it their career.
Members of the U.S. Air Force identify metallic fragments found by a farmer near Roswell, New Mexico, as pieces of a weather balloon. The discovery of the fragments is the basis of the Roswell incident.Bettmann Archive / Getty Images
But let’s consider a few facts outside the specifics of this story.
Perhaps the greatest achievement of the Roswell incident is that — like the Kardashians — it’s famous for being famous. It has become a poster child for people who believe UFOs are craft from another world. And that’s a lot of people: one-third of Americans seem certain that our world hosts non-earthly visitors. If you asked these folks to cite evidence for this extraordinary idea, there’s little doubt that most would recount the events in Roswell.
Clearly, if you’re an advocate for alien visitation, it’s great to have a high-profile, go-to example. This is impossible for the one-third of the public who insist that ghosts or angels are real. There’s no ghost incident comparable to Roswell in notoriety. Ditto angels.
Perhaps the greatest achievement of the Roswell incident is that—like the Kardashians—it’s famous for being famous.
Perhaps the greatest achievement of the Roswell incident is that—like the Kardashians—it’s famous for being famous.
Roswell’s notoriety derives in part from the fact that the story has morphed from being a massively important discovery (if true) to something else: a conspiracy. Intrigue has trumped science, and the public finds the former considerably more appealing. A quick search on Amazon returned twice as many books under the search terms “Roswell UFO” as under “Higgs boson.”
Thanks to this metamorphosis, Roswell enthusiasts no longer need to deal with such vexing questions as “what powered this ill-fated spacecraft” or “where did it come from?” They can focus on the more visceral question of why the feds don’t give up the evidence. It’s easier, and it’s more emotional.
Children look at a model of an alien on display at the UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico.AP File
But that’s a second remarkable aspect of Roswell: the notion that the U.S. government is the sole proprietor of alien evidence, and is sufficiently worried about the effects of releasing the information to keep it secret for 70 years.
Frankly, the federal government doesn’t have much of a track record for keeping things under wraps over long periods. How to build an atomic bomb was an American secret for just four years. The Pentagon papers leaked out even faster. The Coca Cola Company has done better with its soft drink recipe.
And there’s this: why is it that despite the fact that three score and ten have elapsed since aliens totaled their transport in the desert, Roswell is still the trademark of the UFO crowd? Have the aliens lost interest in us? Have they simply become better at being cryptic? There are at least 10,000 reported sightings of UFOs every year, and none has developed the sheen of Roswell.
But there’s an indisputable upside to the Roswell incident. Roswell, a small, dusty city between the mountains and deserts of the west and the Great Plains to the east, has a cache that’s rare for other cities its size. The downtown area is dominated by stores catering to folks who've made a pilgrimage to the place where some unlucky beings came to grief all those years ago — a bit like what happened to the Donner Party — except that the aliens were martyred to the benefit of the Roswell Chamber of Commerce.
Children hold stuffed aliens at the Roswell Carnival.Corbis / Getty Images File
So while I think the chance is slim to none that aliens were involved in any way, one can’t help but find the whole Roswell story modestly compelling, if not very instructive. A few years ago I asked Stanton Friedman, who has written and lectured about Roswell for much of his life, the following: “Even if I were to believe that aliens did crash at Roswell, what have we learned from that?”
His response: “We’ve learned that UFO’s are real! Isn’t that enough?”
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What actually crashed near Roswell? This photo may hold a crucial clue
Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey, 8th Air Force commander, left, and Col. Thomas J. Dubose, chief of staff, look over debris flown to Fort Worth Army Air Field (now Naval Air Station Fort Worth) from a mysterious crash near Corona, N.M., in June, 1947. The text on the paper in Ramey’s hand is being studied. J. Bond Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram collectionSpecial Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library, Arlington, Texas
What actually crashed near Roswell? This photo may hold a crucial clue
BY BUD KENNEDY
ARLINGTON, TEXAS
Something crashed in New Mexico 70 years ago, or was it someone?
Whatever wrecked in the famous “Roswell Incident” in 1947, it was already world news before the crash debris was delivered to Fort Worth.
In New Mexico, a U.S. Army Air Force spokesman called it a “flying saucer,” setting off a worldwide sensation. But later that day, officers at what is now Naval Air Station Fort Worth showed a Star-Telegram reporter a bundle of tinfoil and sticks and identified it as a weather balloon.
The mysterious debris has made then-Star-Telegram reporter J. Bond Johnson famous, and his photos the most requested and studied in the newspaper’s 111 years.
The incident has been called a cover-up. Maybe so. A later federal investigation described the wreckage as a top-secret spy balloon that officials were hiding.
Did a UFO really crash outside of Roswell?
KOAT - Albuquerque, NM
But the debris in the photos looks like a plain old weather balloon. And why blame a UFO?
Johnson happened to be in the newsroom July 8, 1947, when city editor Cullum Greene sent him to see the wreckage flown by a B-29 from Roswell.
What the information officer there first described as “nothing made on this earth” was unfolded here and looked like foil, paper and sticks. Both the rancher who gathered it up from a ranch near Corona, N.M., and the pilot who flew it to Fort Worth also described it as just a small bundle.
“‘Disk-overy’ Near Roswell Identified As Weather Balloon,” the headline read.
THIS IS THE PERFECT PIECE OF UFO EVIDENCE. … IF WE COULD ONLY READ WHAT IT SAYS.
Iowa UFO researcher Kevin Randle on the paper in J. Bond Johnson’s photo
Johnson, 21, a Methodist minister’s son and later a minister himself, had graduated from Texas Wesleyan College. His sister, Elaine J. Carroll, said Johnson got the assignment because the staff photographers were gone and he had a Speed Graphic camera.
Columnist Cheryl Costa concludes her three-part article series on Project Blue Book
In a 1997 book about the CIA’s involvement with UFOs written by CIA historian Gerald Haines, he indicated that then President Harry S. Truman had serious concerns.
“A massive buildup of sightings over the United States in 1952, especially in July, alarmed the Truman administration.”
The CIA’s concern with the issue would lead to the creation of the Robertson Panel in January 1953.
For four days in January 1953, the Robertson panel reviewed all the evidence available at the time and published the Durant Report. The report simply took the position that UFOs were not a threat to national security. Of course, they parroted the position from Project Grudge that the Soviets could possibly mask an invasion by using a massive UFO-sighting event to clog communication channels.
The Robertson Panel further recommended the debunking of UFO sighting reports to quiet the growing interest in UFOs. They publicly instructed the military and all other national security entities to remove UFOs from any sort of special reporting status.
As a result of the Robertson Panel, Project Blue Book’s prestige as an investigative unit took a huge fall. Captain Edward Ruppelt, who was the lead investigator for Project Blue Book, left the Air Force in 1953.
It was at this juncture that several interesting things happened. The Air Force quietly drew a shroud of secrecy around itself with regard to UFOs. Officially and publicly, Project Blue Book was again in the debunking business with regard to UFOs.
In addition, as a result of the Robertson Panel, a joint military-wide directive JANAP-146 made reporting of UFOs by military personnel, outside of military channels, an act subject to espionage laws. In other words, if you were in the service and saw something, you couldn’t report it publicly without being in violation national security regulations.
For the next nine years Project Blue Book languished as a back water within the Air Force Intelligence community. By the early 1960s, many in the Air Force intelligence community that felt that Project Blue Book was a burden — plain and simple.
In the spring of 1966, Congress stepped in. The House Armed Services Committee asked the Air Force to contract out a university study into UFOs. In the fall of 1966, the Air Force announced that it had awarded a contract to the University of Colorado to be headed by American physicist Dr. Edward Condon.
Publicly the contract’s objective was to give UFO phenomena a proper and serious academic study. As it turned out, the study was simply a smoke screen to justify a way get the Air Force out of the UFO investigation business, as evidenced by a speech given by Dr. Condon shortly after the study began in February 1967 at the Corning Glass Works chapter of the Sigma Chi Iota Honorary Fraternity. In his speech he said:
“It is my inclination right now to recommend that the government get out of this business. My attitude right now is that there’s nothing to it … but I’m not supposed to reach a conclusion for another year.”
On Jan. 9, 1969, the 1,439-page Condon Report was released. Its final conclusion read as follows:
“Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge. Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.”
Project Blue Book was officially closed on Dec. 17, 1969.
If investigating UFOs since 1969 has been done within the government, it has been done secretly from within the Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (USAP) within the National Security Agency establishment and in the Pentagon.
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.
The truth is out there: the history of Edinburgh’s UFO hotspot
The truth is out there: the history of Edinburgh’s UFO hotspot
The skies over Edinburgh have been home to many mysterious UFO sightings over the years
(Photo: Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)
Andrew Hennessey
The area around Edinburgh has more reported UFO sightings than anywhere else on earth.
I was born into a family originally from Gorebridge, the ‘hotspot’ of alien activity in Scotland today.
With a mother who passed on to me at an early age her knowledge of the Scottish psychic tradition of ‘second sight’, I had a natural attraction to the subject – beginning with the supernatural, but moving very quickly on to the entities of alien encounters.
Unidentified objects and mysterious encounters have been reported in the ‘Falkirk Triangle’
(Photo: Andrew Hennessey)
Since the 1980s I have been researching UFOs, conspiracies and the paranormal, documenting my own observations and conclusions – some of which are controversial.
The Robert Taylor Incident
In Central Scotland, the skies always seem to be busy, and not just with the landing lights of jets on their way into our airports.
To quote one Falkirk Triangle alien abductee, G Wood, who was lifted from his car on the A70 road in 1992:
“They’re here and they’re [still] coming here.”
Modern tales of UFO close encounters in Scotland really begin with the so-called Robert Taylor Incident, which took place in 1979 at Dechmont Woods, near Livingston.
Later recorded by the police as a criminal assault by an unknown or alien entity, Robert Taylor, a local forester, was accosted at night by a UFO as it was scouting over his area of the wood.
According to Taylor, he saw a large flying dome hovering above the forest floor. He then smelled a foul odour, and smaller spheres began dragging him towards the larger dome, before he lost consciousness.
Several similar incidents were to follow in this central region of Scotland, stretching from Stirling to Falkirk and back to the southern fringes of Edinburgh. The area has since become known as ‘The Falkirk Triangle’.
The folklore of Gorebridge
Gorebridge is a small, ex-coal mining town about 15 miles south of Edinburgh.
My family originally comes from this area, and like so many others, its men had been miners.
Drafted to fight in both world wars, they returned to a community undergoing change.
This photo shows and alleged sighting of a ‘grey’ alien at Gowkshill near Gorebridge
(Photo: Andrew Hennessey)
For, in amongst the hustle and bustle of these human affairs and operating the deepest mines in Scotland, there had also been a long-simmering, non-human agenda of secret meetings and whispered stories of the ‘others’ amongst us.
This excerpt from poem The Ballad of the Gore, dating back to 1916, alludes to the supernatural ‘auld races’.
“… Proud Arniston; in ‘fairs o’ state
for ages Laird and son
Soldiers, Lawyers, Statesmen great
richt sterlin’ work has done,
Wae on the day shouldt frae’t be gone
The auld race o’ Dundas;
May that ne’er be, but lang there reign
its Leddy and its Lass ….”
The Gorebridge story with its ‘auld races’ started within stone-lined tunnel networks, allegedly linking archaic stone circles and underground cities.
These faerie stories have been woven together into a rich tapestry of local folklore by local collectors, such as Mary Macleod Banks in the 1930s.
But the Edinburgh area doesn’t just have a historic link to folklore and the supernatural – incidents are still happening to this day.
Alien encounters in Scotland
Gorebridge, today, continues to display all the hallmarks of an active alien presence and occupation zone.
Many of the encounters there can only be described as intimidating or surreal, which Dr J A Hynek (the father of Ufology) characterised in his 1978 speech to the UN as ‘high strangeness’, an extreme ‘oddness’, symptomatic of alien encounters.
The Gorebridge ‘camp’ is the site of what is believed to be an operational alien base near an abandoned mine, and nearby is Dalhousie Castle, the location of a well-documented alien abduction.
Edinburgh and the surrounding area is one of the most active alien hotspots in the world
(Photo: Andrew Hennessey)
Both historically and more recently, there have been regular UFO sightings above and over the area of an extensive cavern system that also takes in Rosslyn to the west, and Gifford and Goblin Halls to the east.
Reports from this area have spoken of:
– observing/filming massive low-level ships, many shapes and sizes
– alien use of small glowing UAVs which can vanish
– seeing operational stargates near the cavern systems
– time slip
– harassment and interception from Men in Black-
– over-flying ships and 40 spherical, black drones above Barleyknowe Road at rooftop height
– black choppers, under 200 feet – cattle mutilations on film – lights at the old mine
– alien materialisation
– greys and alien equipment photographed in the woods
– holographic shape-changing hardware that mimics military vehicles and aircraft
These incidents are still on-going in east-central Scotland, including the capital itself, which adds greatly to the lore of ancient secrets being enacted today before our cameras and our eyes.
Andrew Hennessy is an experienced ufologist and folklorist.
His company, Stargate Edinburgh Tours, gives an insight into unexplained phenomena around Edinburgh through bespoke guided tours – stargateedinburgh.com/
Micah Hanks’ recently-published article for Mysterious Universe – titled “The British UFO Files: An Estimate of the Situation?” and on the subject of newly-declassified British Ministry of Defense UFO files – includes the following words: “One of the most recent reports to come to light deals with an unusual, Cold-War era incident that occurred in October 1982. It involved an American RC-135 spy plane that, while monitoring Soviet military operations, came under some kind of surveillance by a large, unidentified and brightly-lit aircraft. The USAF base detailed in the report was located at RAF Troodos on Cyprus, and discussed an incident involving an unidentified aircraft which lasted close to 90 minutes.”
This is particularly intriguing to me, as I have a story that – to a degree – is somewhat similar to the one which Micah refers to. It’s a case that also revolves around both U.K. and U.S. authorities. The location is the same: Cyprus. The UFO, in both cases, was described as being large. And, the case brought to my attention occurred in the summer of 1981, just one year before the case referenced by Micah. Also, both UFOs were in view for a considerable amount of time. It’s important to note that I can’t be accused of having fallen for a modern-day hoaxer, as the story was given to me years ago. In fact, it takes up three pages of my first book, A Covert Agenda, which was published way back in 1997, a full twenty years ago.
For a period of time beginning in 1981, the source of the story was employed as a radar operator at a particular military facility on the island of Cyprus (RAF Akrotiri). On August 16, an unknown vehicle, described as being “vast,” was tracked approaching the island at a height in excess of 30,000 feet, and at a speed of around 900 miles per hour. It was initially believed that this was a conventional aircraft, although one of an undeniably extraordinary size. This tentative conclusion was quickly blown out of the water, however, when the UFO came to a complete halt in the skies – hovering high above RAF Akrotiri for close to an hour. Those who saw it described it as being of a brilliant white color, triangular in form, and somewhere in the region of seven hundred feet in length.
Interestingly, the informant – who shared his story with me on January 12, 1993 – revealed that at some point before the incident took place, the Ministry of Defense had issued what was described to me as a “complete stand-down” of military planes in the area, in the event that something both unusual and extraordinary might be seen in the sky – which it certainly was. Reportedly, a huge amount of photographs of the object were secured. They, and the station’s log-book, were handed over the next day to a man and a woman from the Ministry of Defense, and who had flown in from London. All those involved in the curious affair were reminded they had signed the British Government’s Official Secrets Act. It’s interesting to note that, soon after, according to the informant, a meeting was held at a U.K. military facility called Royal Air Force Lakenheath, located in the English county of Suffolk. Those who attended the classified meeting, specifically to discuss the event, included representatives of the British Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
There’s no doubt that the most baffling part of the story revolves around the claim that the MoD seemed to have priorknowledge that the UFO would appear in the skies over Cyprus. In light of this, I asked the guy who who related the story to me if he had pondered on the possibility that the object was not a UFO, after all, but some kind of secret, highly-advanced aircraft of a terrestrial – rather than extra-terrestrial – nature. Given that the craft hovered over the base for around three-quarters of an hour and was around 700 feet in length, he felt that such a scenario was highly unlikely. But, he admitted that he had no answer as to how the MoD knew the craft might appear. After A Covert Agenda was published, Mark Birdsall, the editor of Eye-Spy magazine informed me that he had received a near-identical story years earlier. Maybe, in light of all the above, we’ll soon learn more about what was afoot in the skies of Cyprus in the 1981-1982 period.
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ALIEN STRUCTURES AND MONOLITH WERE PHOTOGRAPHED ON IAPETUS, THE MYSTERIOUS MOON OF SATURN!
ALIEN STRUCTURES AND MONOLITH WERE PHOTOGRAPHED ON IAPETUS, THE MYSTERIOUS MOON OF SATURN!
Iapetus is Saturn's third largest natural satellite. The Cassini mission in 2007 revealed several unusual features of this moon. One of these features is a huge mysterious equatorial ridge that reaches a height of 20 km, a length of 1300 km and a width of 20 km. This huge summit involves more than 75 percent of the moon.
It is unclear how this huge protuberance was formed, and NASA experts are having a hard time explaining why this ridge follows the equator almost perfectly. There are at least four current hypotheses, and the first is that the ridge could be icy material, which flowed below the surface and then solidified on the Iapetus surface.
The second hypothesis is that the "ring-shaped ridge" was created during its formation due to the "Hill sphere", or a sphere of gravitational influence of a celestial body, which compared to the perturbations of another organism, with A larger mass, around which it orbits, it created the equatorial ridge in Iapetus.
The third hypothesis is that the protuberance on the moon of Saturn is the result of an old geological convective overturning. The fourth hypothesis, risked by ufologists is that Iapetus is not a natural moon, but an artificial structure built by an alien race, and it has become an alien space outpost.
Reports on social media, which have been picked up by mainstream news outlets across the world, claim a UFO has been filmed seemingly rising into a "portal" that then closes and vanishes.
The startling sights have happened in Russia, north American, and Mexico.
However, despite reports of the visions continuing as recently as yesterday, experts have now dismissed it as a viral hoax which has been viewed well over one million times.
One international news site ran the story yesterday.
YouTube
A still from the viral footage showing the "UFO entering the portal".
It suggested the incident may have been filmed above Yakutia, in Russia, entitled: "Bizarre diamond-shaped 'UFO' swallows another unidentified flying object in the night sky."
The article said: "The strange video, seeming to show a mysterious unidentified flying object full of lights in the night sky, has emerged in media circles in Yakutia, the largest region in Russia.
"There is no information about when and where it happened.
"Yakutia or the Sakha Republic is the largest region in Russia, and appropriately is famous for its diamonds.
The strange video, seeming to show a mysterious unidentified flying object full of lights in the night sky, has emerged in media circles in Yakutia, the largest region in Russia.
International newspaper website
"Police have not reported calls about strange objects in the sky."
The story was then covered in the UK press.
However, the new reports show how easily viral reports can travel online.
Express.co.uk reported back in June how debunking website Snopes.com had reached the conclusion a video showing the same footage, which was viewed by more than one million people, was likely a CGI-made fake.
The website examined a version of the same video doing the rounds on social media, which said the event had been filmed in southern Colorado.
Snopes.com found earlier versions of the video claimed the footage had been recorded in Mexico.
The site said: "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 added 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.
UFOs coming out of cloud formations recorded over Lake Havasu, Arizona and Aylmer QC, Canada
UFOs coming out of cloud formations recorded over Lake Havasu, Arizona and Aylmer QC, Canada
The following two sightings show unknown objects coming out of strange cloud formations recorded over Lake Havasu, Arizona and Aylmer QC, Canada.
Case 1: UFOs caught on video from plane near Havasu City, Arizona.
Havasu City, Arizona - May 5, 2017: I fly weekly, so I've seen a lot in my years of travel. On this particular flight on the 5th, I suddenly caught a shining bright light from my corner vision.
It wasn't a reflective shine; it had a gold shine as video may indicate.
We had just passed Lake Havasu (I was tracking our flight).
The objects were moving in what seemed a northwesterly direction. See video below.
Case 2: Dark square changing into a bell like object hanging from a strange oval cloud over Aylmer QC, Canada.
On May 16, 2017 I was looking out my window at the river and dark clouds. All if a sudden one if the clouds hanging over the river between Ontario and Quebec seemed to have what appeared to be a darker square like cloud under it but seemed attached.
I took out my binoculars and sure enough it looked like a small dark square made of something solid bout cloud was over it.
I put down the camera for a minute and when I picked it back up the sun was shining on one side of the square and it reflected as if metal. It was definitely a cube then.
The sun went in and when I looked again the object seemed to have split and then later once again and wasn't as square ad before.
Actually after I took photos of it and enlarged the last picture, this going to sound odd but the shape reminded me the Nazi Die Glocke, the bell.
It was the same shape of that bell. All the time it hung there it didn't go anywhere, it just stayed over the river and seemed to change shape by absorbing another object or just shape shifting.
I don't know if it went back up into the dark cloud or disintegrate but my guess is the former.
I live in the capital too though so government experimental craft can't be excluded either. You can see the video, which I have submitted to Mufon, registered under case 84990, of the strange cloud/object here:
Thursday’s 5.8-magnitude earthquake in western Montana was the strongest to hit the state in 60 years, and it quickly raised fears that the nearby Yellowstone supervolcano had awoken from its long slumber. But Montana residents can rest easy: While the Yellowstone volcano is active, a common earthquake is unlikely to have an effect on this ancient cauldron of superheated rock.
Still, local fears are understandable: The temblor struck early on the morning of July 6, some 230 miles from Yellowstone National Park, and was accompanied by at least 10 lesser quakes. It was the region’s strongest earthquake in over a decade, but although the shaking startled residents, scientists quickly determined that it didn’t represent the ominous rumblings of an awakening supervolcano. The U.S. Geological Survey’s seismic sensors immediately identified the quake’s culprits, which were slipping faults — fractures in the Earth’s crust — and not a threatening reservoir of pressurized magma, waiting to explode out of the ground.
Scientists, however, certainly believe that the massive Yellowstone volcano, whose rim measures 30 miles long by 45 miles wide, has a catastrophic potential far greater than anything mankind has ever experienced before. It’s just not likely to reveal it anytime soon.
Quakes as intense as the one Montana just experienced are unsettling, but this earthly rousing is geologically commonplace. Yellowstone National Park experiences between 1,000 and 3,000 earthquakes each year, revealing an active volcanic world beneath one of America’s most popular national park destinations. The park’s heat-propelled geysers and dangerous thermal pools also hint at the hot magma brewing below.
But all that activity does not portend an eruption, large or small. Though scientists will never rule out the possibility of an eruption entirely, decades of everyday monitoring have revealed no signs of a looming eruption. According to the Yellowstone National Park’s website:
Another caldera-forming eruption is theoretically possible, but it is very unlikely in the next thousand or even 10,000 years. Scientists have also found no indication of an imminent smaller eruption of lava.
Signs of volcanism at or around Yellowstone, the park notes, should be expected:
As at many caldera systems around the world, small earthquakes, ground uplift and subsidence, and gas releases at Yellowstone are commonplace events and do not reflect impending eruptions.
If an eruption was imminent, scientists expect the buildup to be more extreme, something that would be detectable for weeks or even years. This would include massive deformations of the land around the park (think abruptly formed canyons) and a continued onslaught of earthquake swarms, perhaps jolting the area each day.
Yellowstone's history is a history of caldera-forming volcanism. A caldera is a volcanic basic, caused by a collapse of earth following a magma-emptying eruption.
Lava last gushed out of the Yellowstone supervolcano around 70,000 years ago, and in the last two million years, scientists believe that three “major” volcanic eruptions occurred. One of these, the Island Park super-eruption, left a telltale blanket of volcanic rock in the area about two million years ago, and scientists estimate that this event produced 2,500 times more ash than the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. This geologically puny eruption, it should be noted, leveled a forest, tossed trees around like toothpicks, blew the top off a mountain, caused over a billion dollars in damage, and dumped ash onto 11 U.S. states and five Canadian provinces.
Early Sunday morning, a full moon will take over the night sky, along with a clear glimpse of Saturn nearby. The Thunder Moon with be completely full at 12:07 a.m. Eastern time on Sunday, when the Earth is directly between the Sun and the Moon, allowing for its full luminosity. As is typical of a summer full moon, it will be visible above the horizon for a shorter time than in winter months. This summer full moon will grace us for around 10 hours.
Why It’s Called the “Thunder Moon”
The names we use for full moons come from Indigenous titles given to each one hundreds of years ago. The names tend to correspond to natural characteristics of the season and can carry spiritual significance. April’s Pink Moon was named after the pink wildflower known as phlox, which blooms around the same time as the moon phase.
This moon has actually been gifted several names. The Thunder Moon comes from a charmingly obvious point of inspiration — summer is a time of constant thunderstorms around much of the U.S. Algonquins also called it the Full Buck Moon; at this time of year a male deer’s antlers are in full growth mode. The Tlingit, in the Pacific Northwest, referred to it as the Salmon Moon.
Best Spots to See It
The best views of the moon will be where it’s highest in the sky — in this case the southern U.S. will get a prime-time view. In Miami, the Thunder Moon’s altitude will reach 48 degrees above the horizon, making it one of the best places to see it. New Yorkers will get a decent view, with the Thunder Moon reaching a maximum altitude of 29.3 degrees. On the opposite side of the world, Australia will get the least optimal perspective, with the full moon beginning to rise about three hours after its full phase has already occurred, at 2:07 p.m. in Sydney.
If you’re fortunate enough to see the full moon at night, hopefully it won’t be too stormy to get a good view. If the evening lives up to this moon’s namesake, don’t lose hope: a near-full moon will be visible on Monday as well.
The first report of a flying saucer crash landing came in 1947 and was said to have happened near a military base in Roswell. It wasn't long before rumors spread about alien bodies found in the spacecraft.
UFO expert Nick Pope spoke to Inside Edition about the crash in Roswell in the canon of American history and pop culture.
“Roswell is really the ground zero of the UFO phenomenon," he said. "It's the place not just where there was a sighting, here the suggestion was that something crashed, if that's true, the U.S. government has in its hands definitive evidence that we are not alone."
Decades after the unusual sighting, Roswell continues to be invoked in movies like Independence Day, as well as TV shows like The X-Filesand the aptly named Roswell.
Many of the sci-fi films and shows feature Area 51, the Nevada Air Force Base rumored to secretly house the evidence of extra-terrestrial life.
Dave Grohl, who formed the Foo Fighters in 1994, named the group after the military's nickname for UFO. He also named his record label Roswell Records, as an homage to the area.
Through the years there have been all sorts of strange lights in the sky.
Many remain mysterious while others are explained, like a 10-ton meteor that exploded over Russia and caused panic when it hit Earth in 2013.
In 1995, the Roswell incident was back in the headlines when Ailien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? aired on network television. It showed what was believed to be three military doctors performing an autopsy on an alien corpse recovered from the Roswell crash site in 1947. The footage was later exposed as a hoax.
The fascination with beings from outer space continues with a new series UFOs: Uncovering the Truth, which airs Saturday night on Destination America.
“What's fascinating is it's not just a UFO story, it's now firmly a part of American pop culture,” Pope said.
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B1 Bomber accompanied by two UFOs above Glendale, California?
B1 Bomber accompanied by two UFOs above Glendale, California?
A resident from Glendale, California took an image of a B1 bomber while doing a flyby at rose bowl in Pasadena.
Although the event occurred in 2012, when looking the image on his computer again, he noticed two unknown flying objects close to the B1 bomber which he did not saw with the naked eye at the time he took the image.
Wondering what the objects might have been he submitted the image to Mufon registered under case 84936 asking ‘What are these two objects, birds, dirt on the lens or maybe UFOs”?
The object was seen floating into the diamond shaped 'window' (Image: East2West)
A bizarre video which purports to show a UFO disappearing inside another before they both vanish has left viewers scratching their heads.
The strange film has been seen in the diamond-rich region of Yakutia in Russia's Siberia province, but its origin and location is unclear.
A man called Semyon, who posed the weird footage, said: "An unidentified flying object was seen floating above houses. It had many lights, and also a vapour trail."
He added: "At the end of a short video a diamond-shaped brightly illuminated 'window' opens up above the flying object, which disappears into it."
The footage emerged in the diamond rich area of Yakutia in Siberia(Image: East2West)
People have puzzled overwhat the strange sight could be(Image: East2West)
The diamond-shaped object then vanishes.
"There is no information about when and where it happened," said Semyon.
One theory is that the video is a "performance" involving lasers and a drone.
The diamond is seen closing when the object disappears(Image: East2West)
This is not the first UFO which has appeared over this region.
In October last year, a series of bright green flashes were seen in the sky above Lake Baikal near the Mongolian border.
Initially people believed it was the tail of a International Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) test but this was later disproved and a leading astronomer said it was not a meteorite.
Lilia Mironova from the Astronomical Observatory at Buryat State University in Ulan-Ude told the Siberian Times it was "definitely man-made" as it was travelling too slow to be a meteorite, meteor or comet and if it had hit the ground there would have been a "shockwave".
Exactly 70 years ago, on 8 July 1947, one of the most famous UFO sightings was reported by the press and it captivated both common folks and UFO hunters for years.
It was the Roswell incident where witnesses claimed that the US military had captured an alien aircraft. In reality, or what US military maintained, it was the debris of a surveillance device from a classified operation that was spotted by people.
But many still believe that there was some extra-terrestrial activity that day and that there are aliens out there who have visited Earth from time to time! And not just this, conspiracy theorists are firm...
ASTRONOMERS DISCOVERED A SOLAR SYSTEM WITH 7 EARTH-SIZED PLANETS — AND IT’S THE PERFECT PLACE TO SEARCH FOR ALIEN LIFE
ASTRONOMERS DISCOVERED A SOLAR SYSTEM WITH 7 EARTH-SIZED PLANETS — AND IT’S THE PERFECT PLACE TO SEARCH FOR ALIEN LIFE
NASA just announced something fantastic! A solar system 39 light years from Earth with seven exoplanets.
But that’s not the best part: Each planet is similar in size to Earth.
This doesn’t mean they are all similar in composition to Earth, nor are they teeming with life, but the possibility is there.
Three of the seven planets live in the habitable zone, where liquid water can exist on large scales — think vast, deep oceans like on Earth. And where there’s water, there’s the potential for life, as we know it.
This planetary system was first discovered in early 2016, but we now know how rich it is in Earth-sized planets. In fact, it holds the record for the most number of Earth-sized planets in a single planetary system.
Do any of these planets harbor life? That’s a question that we’ll have to wait to see.
On the premiere episode of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, host, Ryan Sprague, introduces the listeners to the show and then speaks with historian and author, Richard Dolan, about the media and UFOs. They also discuss the possibility and forms of disclosure that may occur in a new American political era, and then they wrap things up by confronting the future of UFO studies.
Richard Dolan is the author of two volumes of history, ‘UFOs and the National Security State’, both ground-breaking works which together provide the most factually complete and accessible narrative of the UFO subject available anywhere. He also co-authored a speculative book about the future, ‘A.D. After Disclosure’, the first-ever analysis not only of how UFO secrecy might end, but of the all-important question: what happens next Richard’s latest work, ‘UFOs for the 21st Century Mind’, provides a fresh treatment of the entire subject. In it, he discusses the important sightings, the encounters, the politics, the cover-up, ancient aliens, the bizarre science, disclosure, and offers advice on being both critical and open-minded in today’s world. Like his previous three books, it asks fresh questions and offers new insights to further our understanding of the UFO mystery.
Richard hosts a weekly radio show, The Richard Dolan Show on KGRA Radio, is a frequent guest on Coast-to-Coast AM. He is currently featured on several television series and documentaries, including Ancient Aliens, Hangar One: The UFO Files, Close Encounters, and UFOs: The Lost Evidence.
Prior to his interest in UFOs, Richard completed his graduate work at the University of Rochester, where he studied U.S. Cold War strategy, European history, and international diplomacy. Before that, he had studied at Alfred University and Oxford University, and had been a finalist for a Rhodes scholarship. In addition to his research, Richard’s company, Richard Dolan Press, actively publishes innovative books by authors from around the world. His website is www.richarddolanpress.com
Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to an Alien Phenomenon
by Ryan Sprague
Ordinary people are seeing extraordinary things in our skies. And while reports of UFOs and their possible occupants are littered with dates, times, and descriptions, they rarely focus on those who’ve actually experienced them. How have these dramatic and often traumatic events affected those involved? Could both the positive and negative implications, whether subtle or revelatory, further our knowledge of what exactly these phenomena represent? Through extremely detailed testimony from highly credible witnesses, including pilots and military personnel, and insight from those in the psychological, academic, and scientific fields, Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to an Alien Phenomenon, is a personal journey that also weaves together a story of stories, furiously pumping new blood into the heart of these mysteries, one inextricable experience at a time.
Footage uploaded to YouTube of the "UFO" filmed just outside Dos Palos off Interstate 5 in California, has been viewed more than 10,000 times.
The video shows a motorist pulling over next to a small road before filming a distant white object.
However, when the camera is later zoomed in it appears to have a green tinged trail coming from it.
It has been suggested by alien conspiracy theorist YouTube channel Third Phase of Moon, the object is hurtling into Earth’s outer atmosphere before the clip comes to an end.
The video narrator says: "In the beginning, I thought you may as well dismiss it as a weather balloon sighting.
“But the closer you look at it, the weather balloons don’t act this way.
“It continuously morphs and the colours are quite amazing.”
Viewers had mixed reactions.
YouTube
The 'trailing UFO' but it has emerged it dates back five years.
One YouTube poster said: “Weather balloon? You kidding… it's obvious that that is some thing out of this world.”
A second added: “Wow, I am speechless.”
However, a third added: “This is so clearly fake.”
Third Phase of Moon features on a number of UFO website and YouTube channel black lists created by sceptical ufologists, who claim they have screened hoax and misrepresented footage.
ufoofinterest.org
Ufoofinterest.org has compared the sighting to other balloons and says it is the same.
In the beginning, I thought you may as well dismiss it as a weather balloon sighting. But the closer you look at it, the weather balloons don’t act this way.
ThirdPhaseofMoon
Brothers Brett and Blake Cousins, who run the channel, deny this, claiming to be genuine researchers.
However, Scott Brando, who runs hoax-busting website ufoofinterest.org, says he tracked down the original footage... and it was a confirmed weather balloon filmed over Dos Palos, and videoed FIVE years ago.
Mr Brando provided Express.co.uk a link to the event as it was first published on YouTube in July 2012.
At the time, the uploader also claimed it was a UFO.
However, Mr Brando also provided links to other footage comparing the sighting to a deflating balloon.
He told Express.co.uk: I think we are seeing something like this, similar to a super pressure balloon deflated reflecting sunlight."
Most of us haven’t quite realized there is something extraordinary happening.
A few months ago, I freed myself from standard-procedure society. I broke the chains of fear that kept me locked up into the system. Since then, I see the world from a different perspective: the one that everything is going through change and that most of us are unaware of that.
Why is the world changing? In this post, I’ll point out the eight reasons that lead me to believe it.
1. No one can stand the employment model any longer.
We are reaching our limits. People working with big corporations can’t stand their jobs. The lack of purpose knocks on your door as if it came from inside you like a yell of despair.
People want out. They want to drop everything. Take a look on how many people are willing to risk entrepreneurship, people leaving on sabbaticals, people with work-related depression, people in burnout.
2. The entrepreneurship model is also changing.
Over the past few years, with the explosion of startups, thousands of entrepreneurs turned their garages into offices to bring their billion-dollar ideas to life. The vortex of entrepreneurship was to find an investor and get funded — to be funded was like winning the World Cup or the Super Bowl.
But what happens after you get funded?
“Isn’t it absurd that we, 7 billion of us living in the same planet, have grown further apart from each other?”
You get back to being an employee. You may have brought in people not sharing your dream, not in agreement with your purpose, and soon it’s all about the money. The financial end becomes the main driver of your business.
People are suffering with it. Excellent startups began to tumble because the money-seeking model is endless.
A new way to endeavor is needed. Good people are doing it already.
3. The rise of collaboration.
Many people have figured out that it doesn’t make any sense to go on by yourself. Many people have awakened from the “each man for himself” mad mentality.
Stop, take a step back, and think. Isn’t it absurd that we, 7 billion of us living in the same planet, have grown further apart from each other? What sense does it make to turn your back on the thousands, maybe millions, of people living around you in the same city? Every time it crosses my mind, I feel blue.
Fortunately, things are changing. Sharing, collaborative economy concepts are being implemented, and it points towards a new direction. The direction of collaborating, of sharing, of helping, of togetherness.
This is beautiful to watch. It touches me.
4. We are finally figuring out what the Internet is.
The Internet is an incredibly spectacular thing, and only now — after so many years — we are understanding its power. With the Internet, the world is opened, the barriers fall, the separation ends, the togetherness starts, the collaboration explodes, the help emerges.
Some nations saw true revolutions that used the Internet as the primary catalyst, such as the Arab Spring. Here in Brazil, we are just starting to make a better use out of this amazing tool.
Internet is taking down mass control. The big media groups controlling news by how it suits best what they want the message to be and what they want us to read are no longer the sole owners of information. You go after what you want. You bond to whomever you want. You explore whatever you may want to.
With the advent of the Internet, the small are no longer speechless. There is a voice. The anonymous become acknowledged. The world comes together. And then the system may fall.
5. The fall of exaggerated consumerism.
For too long, we’ve been manipulated to consume as much as we possibly can, to buy every new product launched — the newest car, the latest iPhone, the top brands, lots of clothes, shoes, lots and lots and lots of pretty much anything we could our hands on.
Going against the crowd, many people have understood that this is way off. Lowsumerism, slow life and slow food are a few types of action being taken as we speak, pointing out the contradiction of how absurdly we have come to organize ourselves.
“With the advent of the Internet, the small are no longer speechless. There is a voice. The anonymous become acknowledged. The world comes together. “
Fewer people are using cars. Fewer people are overspending. And more people are swapping clothes, buying used goods, sharing assets, cars, apartments, offices.
We don’t need all of that they told us we needed. And this consciousness of new consumerism can take down any company living on the exaggerated end of it.
6. Healthy and organic eating.
We were so crazy we even accepted eating anything! It only needed to taste good, and everything would be alright.
We were so disconnected that companies started to practically poison our food, and we didn’t say anything!
But then some people started waking up, enabling and strengthening healthy and organic eating.
This is only going to get stronger.
But what has this got to do with economy and work? Just about everything, I’d say.
Food production is one of the basic fundamentals of our society. If we change our mindset, our eating habit and our way of consuming, corporations will have to respond and adapt to a new market.
The small farmer is getting back to being relevant to the whole chain of production. People are even growing plants and seeds inside their homes as well.
And that reshapes the whole economy.
7. The awakening of spirituality.
How many friends do you have who practice yoga? What about meditation? Now think back, 10 years ago. How many people did you know by then who practiced these activities?
Spirituality, for too long, was for esoteric folks — those weird-like and mystic people.
But fortunately, this is also changing. We’ve come to the edge of reason and rationality. We were able to realize that, with only our conscious mind, we can’t figure out everything that goes on here. There is something else going on, and I’m sure you want to get hold of that as well.
You want to understand how these things work — how life operates, what happens after death, what is this energy thing people talk about so much, what is quantum physics, how thoughts can be materialized and create our sense of reality, what is coincidence and synchronicity, why meditation works, how it’s possible to cure some ailments using nothing but bare hands, how those alternative therapies not always approved by regular medicine can actually work sometimes.
Companies are providing meditation to their employees. Even schools are teaching the young how to meditate. Think about it.
8 . Un-schooling trends.
Who created this teaching model? Who chose the classes you have to take? Who chose the lessons we learn in history classes? Why didn’t they teach us the truth about other ancient civilizations? Why should kids follow a certain set of rules? Why should they watch everything in silence? Why should they wear a uniform? What about taking a test to prove what you actually learned?
We developed a model that perpetuates and replicates followers of the system, that breed people into ordinary human beings.
Fortunately, a lot of people are working to rethink that though concepts such as un-schooling, hack-schooling and homeschooling.
Maybe you’ve never thought of that and even may be in shock. But it’s happening.
Silently, people are being woken up and are realizing how crazy it is to live in this society. Look at all these new actions and try to think everything we were taught so far is normal. I don’t think it is.
There is something extraordinary happening.
Gustavo Tanaka is a Brazilian author and entrepreneur, trying to create with my friends a new model, a new system and maybe helping to create a new economy.
Patterns in Earth's Magnetic Field Morph Every 1000 Years --"The Reason is a Mystery"
Patterns in Earth's Magnetic Field Morph Every 1000 Years --"The Reason is a Mystery"
Some 800,000 years ago, a magnetic compass' needle would have pointed south because the Earth's magnetic field was reversed. These reversals typically happen every several hundred thousand years. The geomagnetic field is critical to life on Earth. Without it, charged particles from the sun (the "solar wind") would blow away the atmosphere, scientists say. The field also aids in human navigation and animal migrations in ways scientists are only beginning to understand. Centuries of human observation, as well as the geologic record, show our field changes dramatically in its strength and structure over time.
Scientists have identified patterns in the Earth's magnetic field that evolve on the order of 1,000 years, providing new insight into how the field works and adding a measure of predictability to changes in the field not previously known.
The discovery also will allow researchers to study the planet's past with finer resolution by using this geomagnetic "fingerprint" to compare sediment cores taken from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Results of the research, which was supported by the National Science Foundation, were recently published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Yet in spite of its importance, many questions remain unanswered about why and how these changes occur. The simplest form of magnetic field comes from a dipole: a pair of equally and oppositely charged poles, like a bar magnet.
"We've known for some time that the Earth is not a perfect dipole, and we can see these imperfections in the historical record," said Maureen "Mo" Walczak, a post-doctoral researcher at Oregon State University and lead author on the study. "We are finding that non-dipolar structures are not evanescent, unpredictable things. They are very long-lived, recurring over 10,000 years - persistent in their location throughout the Holocene.
"This is something of a Holy Grail discovery," she added, "though it is not perfect. It is an important first step in better understanding the magnetic field, and synchronizing sediment core data at a finer scale."
While scientists are well aware of the pattern of reversals in the Earth's magnetic field, a secondary pattern of geomagnetic "wobble" within periods of stable polarity, known as paleomagnetic secular variation, or PSV, may be a key to understanding why some geomagnetic changes occur.
The Earth's magnetic field does not align perfectly with the axis of rotation, which is why "true north" differs from "magnetic north," the researchers say. In the Northern Hemisphere this disparity in the modern field is apparently driven by regions of high geomagnetic intensity that are centered beneath North America and Asia.
"What we have not known is whether this snapshot has any longer-term meaning - and what we have found out is that it does," said Joseph Stoner, an Oregon State University paleomagnetic specialist and co-author on the study.
When the magnetic field is stronger beneath North America, or in the "North American Mode," it drives steep inclinations and high intensities in the North Pacific, and low intensities in Europe with westward declinations in the North Atlantic. This is more consistent with the historical record.
The alternate "European mode" is in some ways the opposite, with shallow inclination and low intensity in North Pacific, and eastward declinations in the North Atlantic and high intensities in Europe.
"As it turns out, the magnetic field is somewhat less complicated than we thought," Stoner said. "It is a fairly simple oscillation that appears to result from geomagnetic intensity variations at just a few recurrent locations with large spatial impacts. We're not yet sure what drives this variation, though it is likely a combination of factors including convection of the outer core that may be biased in configuration by the lowermost mantle."
The researchers were able to identify the pattern by studying two high-resolution sediment cores from the Gulf of Alaska that allowed them to develop a 17,400-year reconstruction of the PSV in that region. They then compared those records with sediment cores from other sites in the Pacific Ocean to capture a magnetic fingerprint, which is based on the orientation of the magnetite in the sediment, which acts as a magnetic recorder of the past.
The common magnetic signal found in the cores now covers an area spanning from Alaska to Oregon, and over to Hawaii.
"Magnetic alignment of distant environmental reconstructions using reversals in the paleomagnetic record provides insights into the past on a scale of hundreds of thousands of years," Walczak said. "Development of the coherent PSV stratigraphy will let us look at the record on a scale possibly as short as a few centuries, compare events between ocean basins, and really get down to the nitty-gritty of how climate anomalies are propagated around the planet on a scale relevant to human society."
The magnetic field is generated within the Earth by a fluid outer core of iron, nickel and other metals that creates electric currents, which in turn produce magnetic fields. The magnetic field is strong enough to shield the Earth from solar winds and cosmic radiation. The fact that it changes is well known; the reasons why have remained a mystery.
Now this mystery may be a little closer to being solved.
In the new science fiction film Arrival, Amy Adams must convince moviegoers that she is a crack linguist named Dr. Louise Banks, tasked with communicating with a many-tentacled alien species called Heptapods. Unsurprisingly, making us believe Amy Adams is really Louise is much easier than convincing us that Heptapods are what aliens might actually look like. Science fiction can make us believe all sorts of things, but there’s a tricky difference between something seeming realistic and being realistic.
At first glance, the aliens of Arrival are more convincing — or at least more complicated — than the extraterrestrials found in most sci-fi movies. But why? The simple answer to this is that they have both tentacles and a complex language. Plus, their language is real, even if it was made specifically for the movie. This means humans could conceivably use the logograms in Arrival to communicate, giving the alien invasion movie a sheen of plausibility.
Much older science fiction dealing with aliens (TV, film, poetry, or prose) often now feels laughable and outdated, because how can you not laugh at those stupid rubber masks in Outer Limits? But, it’s pretty important to remember that these don’t feel dated because of any contemporary advance of real science. As of now, there is no working biological field of study about what intelligent aliens would look actually look like. This isn’t to say the entire field of astrobiology doesn’t exist, it’s just that it’s primarily focused on the extraterrestrial environments where basic organisms could evolve. Wild speculation about whether intelligent aliens would have tentacles or exist as hive minds made out of gas doesn’t figure into real astrobiology.
And in terms of real science, contact with intelligent alien life is improbable enough to be considered practically impossible. The Fermi Paradox states plainly that the reason we don’t see any evidence intelligent alien life in the Milky Way Galaxy is because there isn’t any.
A many-tentacled alien in the 'Alien' prequel 'Prometheus'
In short: Because intelligent alien bodies have never, ever been seen, there is no real scientific case study on which to base their fictional design. Instead, the presentation of more “realistic” aliens with tentacles in science fiction is probably based on this line of thinking: Life as we know it would have evolved in an ocean. Things that live in the ocean have tentacles and seem “alien” to humans. Ergo, more “realistic” aliens would have space tentacles. And because there’s a legacy of great science fiction — like Octavia Butler’s 1987 novel Dawn — that feature complex aliens with tentacles, the many-tentacled alien motif has become code for more a more “plausible” alien.
Tentacles then, might be somewhat superficial, making the Heptapods really no more “alien” than the pointy-eared Vulcan, Mr. Spock on Star Trek. This isn’t the fault of the Heptapods, or of Mr. Spock. It’s actually just a very real limitation human creativity.
Ted Chiang’s short story “The Story of Your Life” (the basis for Arrival) finds Louise ruminating on the challenges of communicating with the aliens: “The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand,” she says. And though this is a brilliant line, it belies the opposite tendency of the physical depiction of aliens in most science fiction: We are in fact very “familiar” with the “bizarreness” of aliens who have tentacles.
In his groundbreaking 1997 meta-fictional essay/short story titled “If Lions Could Speak,” noted science fiction writer Paul Park points out that when any writer tries to “describe” an alien, that writer is probably only describing humanity through a lens. As Park writes: “The words we put into an alien mouth, the feeling into an alien heart, the tools into alien hands, what can they be but imitations of our words, feelings, tools?” In both “The Story of Your Life” and Arrival, the Heptapod aliens work in the narrative because there’s something human and relatable about them, despite their exotic appearance. No one loves this movie or short story because of the extreme “alienness” of the Heptapods. Instead, we love it because it has heart.
Cover detail of 'Coelestis.'
As Park writes, stories about aliens invariably show us something other than aliens: “When a writer conceives of an alien species, she will extrapolate what human beings would be like if they shared the alien’s morphology.” In his novel Coelestis (published as Celestis in the U.S.) Paul Park explored this as a literary conceit: The only way to write about aliens would be to imagine an alien who had been forced to be human. The story of Coelestis is all about aliens who have been coerced over the years to essentially change their species over to humanity. The novel focuses on a girl named Katherine who originally wasn’t a “girl,” because she’s not actually human. The plot then, focuses on her discovering her “alien” qualities. In this way, the dishonesty of trying to write from a true “alien” point of view is slyly subverted. “You can’t talk about the subject [of aliens] directly, or in a way that makes sense,” Park told Inverse, “Because of the logical problem in the story.”
Practically speaking, a realistic story about alien intelligence defies logic. In Stanislaw Lem’s famous novel Solaris, the basic question of bridging impossible communication gaps ends in sad failure. An intelligent alien ocean conjures up dead people from the memories of a depressed scientists in an attempt to say hello. Clearly, something is lost in translation.
But the impossibility of it all isn’t why we love stories like this. The communication with the Heptapods in Arrival is warm and touching because were are convinced — for a brief moment — that these aliens are real. The attention to detail and the idea that language is so central to the plot cements their “reality” firmly enough to make us care. But Louise’s journey with her Heptopod friends is ultimately — as all good alien stories are — mostly about her. “The alien intelligence becomes part of the landscape, something to be experienced or overcome,” Paul Park said. “It’s something to show us aspects of ourselves.”
When Louise writes the word “human” on her little dry erase board in Arrival, she’s really holding up a mirror to the Heptapods. And even if the reflection in that mirror is covered in tentacles, make no mistake, these aliens are still totally human.
Photos via Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Peter Elson, pintrest
Asking someone if they believe in aliens might seem like an innocent enough question, but it’s actually really loaded. Believing in the possibility of extraterrestrial life existing somewhere is definitely not the same as believing in abductions, flying saucers and government cover-ups. As many UFO fans celebrate the anniversary of Roswell, consider this: how come there have been fewer reports flying saucers and alien abductions in the age of the camera phone?
Many true-believers of little grey aliens consider July 8, 1947 to be a seminal moment, as it was the official date of the so called-“Roswell Incident”. According to lore, alleged real aliens crashed in Roswell, New Mexico and were quickly hidden by the US government. If you believe that alien visitors did in fact crash land on US soil on that date, that’s okay. But consider this: most of the eye-witness accounts of the Roswell crash are not only contradictory, they also don’t provide any kind of scientific body of information for anyone study. In his 1975 essay “The Rocketing Dutchman,” Isaac Asimov elucidated the problem with considering only eye-witness accounts as “proof” of flying saucers. “Eyewitness evidence by a small number of people uncorroborated by any other sort of evidence is worthless,” Dr. Asimov wrote. “There is not a single mystical belief that is not supported by numerous cases of eyewitness evidence.”
As Asimov explained, real scientific inquiry requires impartial data. Of course, devotees and fans of the X-Files who have mistaken it for a series of non-fiction documentaries will tell you that the lack of evidence supports the existence of a cover-up. Asimov calls this kind of circular argumentation “one of the chief delights of the intellectually feeble.”
In recent years, the phenomena of flying saucer sighting and alien abduction accounts have been viewed more soberly as sociological human quirks rather than fuzzy science fake-news. Writer Jack Womack explained that his collection of UFO ephemera, and cheekily titled 2016 book Flying Saucers are Real! were an attempt to catalog the beliefs of those obsessed with outlandish accounts.
“I can study TB without catching it, preferably,” Womack explained. “And I can be a student of the Bible without being a Christian.” Womack’s work on cataloging writing about flying saucer obsessions in the 20th century is exhaustive. Recently, Inverse got back in touch with the author, to discuss this important Roswell anniversary. This led to an important and relevant insight: “Going by both research and empirical observation the number of UFO reports dropped off significantly in the early 21st century,” Womack said. He attributes this, at least partially, to the rise of camera phones.
Which makes sense. Arguably, the ‘80s and ‘90s were the peak of UFO interest in the United States. Proof? The vast majority of famous books published about UFOs and government cover-ups — most notably The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William Moore — were published in these two decades. And yet, once every regular citizen had a camera on them at all times in their phones, reports of UFO sightings suddenly dropped off. Did the aliens get camera-shy?
In 2012, Joe Nickell and James McGaha outlined their theory of “Roswellian Syndrome” for the Skeptical Inquirer. Nickell and McGaha echo William Gibson’s observation that flying saucer theories are meme-like, insofar as they will experience a media bandwagon period, as well as a period of not being so interesting to the mainstream. They also predict that a reboot of everyone you know suddenly believing in Roswell is coming, too.
Basically, because it hasn’t been hip to believe in abductions for awhile, this can cause these kinds of beliefs to come back with a vengeance. “During a period of submergence, the mythologizing tendency has been at work followed by a reemergence—rather like a new, more virulent strain of a virus.”
Nickell and McGaha point out that contemporary “UFOlogists are always looking for a Holy Grail case to verify their belief.” And the problem there is that Holy Grail could easily exist. If only those abducted by aliens would remember to get a clear image of saucer men captured on their iPhones.
Research suggests traits could lead to “alien abduction” experiences.
Are you worried about being abducted by aliens? I suspect it will cross the mind of some of you reading this post that alien abduction is a possibility. After all, many people worldwide have claimed to have been abducted by aliens, been taken against their will to an alien spacecraft or enclosed place, questioned or physically examined, and they remember these experiences either consciously or through methods such as hypnosis. Indeed, many of those people who claim to be alien abductees are seemingly sincere, psychologically healthy, nonpsychotic people—so are their experiences real and their claims to have been abducted true?
Professor Rich McNally and his colleagues at Harvard University have spent over 10 years researching the psychology of alien abductees, and in particular why it is that some people embrace the identity of “alien abductee.” His research has isolated a number of traits possessed by ‘alien abductees’ each of which he argues contributes to the experiences they recall when ‘being abducted’ and to the desire to cling on to their belief that aliens were responsible for their abduction experiences. Let’s look at each of these five traits in turn.
1. Regularly experiencing sleep paralysis and hallucinations when awakening:
Many people who have reported alien abduction suffer episodes of early morning sleep paralysis. On awakening from this paralysis, their terror gives rise to hallucinations of flashing lights and buzzing sounds. Some experience feelings of ‘floating’ around the room or seeing figures in the room. While many people interpret these post-sleep paralysis experiences as dreaming, some people interpret these experiences as seeing figures, ghosts, or aliens.
2. Tendency to Recall False Memories:
In an elegant set of experimental studies, McNally and colleagues found that individuals who claimed to have been abducted by aliens were prone to what is known as “false memory syndrome.” That is, alien abductees regularly claimed to recall words, items, sentences, etc. in memory tests that they had never actually seen before. If this “false memory” affect can be generalized to autobiographical memories, then individuals who claim to have been abducted by aliens would be twice as likely to “falsely remember” things that had never happened to them than would non-abductees.
3. High levels of “Absorption”:
Alien abductees also score significantly higher than most people on the mental characteristic known as ‘absorption.’ This is a trait related to fantasy proneness, vivid imagery, and susceptibility to hypnosis and suggestion. Because of this it is probably not surprising that many alien abductees recall their experiences under hypnosis, where memories of abduction can be induced through suggestibility—especially if the person leading the hypnosis session asks particularly leading questions about abduction.
4. New Age beliefs:
Being whisked up into space ships by tractor beams or light sources is not something that happens every day—nor is it something that is easily explainable within our existing knowledge of physics. Similarly, being subjected to imaginative medical procedures requires a tendency to accept unusual and non-mainstream ideas. This is also a trait possessed by ‘alien abductees.’ They score highly on measures of magical ideation and endorse New Age ideas that encompass beliefs about alternative medicines and healing, astrology, and fortune telling. Such beliefs would certainly allow the individual to accept things happening to them that would be dismissed by existing scientific knowledge.
5. A familiarity with the cultural narrative of alien abduction:
As a cultural phenomenon, alien abduction has entered folklore and the images and descriptions of aliens and their spacecraft have become familiar to many people. Alien abductees tend to be very familiar with this cultural narrative which is one possible reason why their descriptions of aliens and their spaceships are so similar—being fuelled as they are by sci-fi films and numerous books about aliens and alien abduction.
As Professor McNally points out in a very readable review of his studies on alien abduction, it is still unclear whether all these characteristics are necessary ingredients in the recipe for ‘alien abduction’ or whether some are more necessary than others. Other researchers have also identified further traits that appear to be characteristic of ‘alien abductees’, such as paranoid thinking and weak sexual identity. There is still much more research to do to fully understand the motivations and thinking patterns of individuals who claim to have been abducted by aliens, but as McNally shrewdly points out, these people are not anxious nor depressed, they are not psychotic and do not appear to have any obvious mental health problems. ‘Alien abduction’ experiences often deepen spiritual awareness and give shape to the identities of abductees and provide a basis for their beliefs about the world and the universe. Whether the experiences of abduction were real or not, the experiences and interpretations adopted by ‘alien abductees’ are often psychologically helpful and can be spiritually comforting.
Finally, a note of caution.
All of these studies of ‘alien abductees’ were carried out after they had their abduction ‘experiences’, so it’s difficult to know whether these five traits are consequences of the experience or were—as McNally suggests—factors that led individuals to interpret rather earthly experiences (such as sleep paralysis and hallucinations) as evidence of abduction. And then— perhaps fantastically—can we genuinely rule out the possibility that such traits are implanted in their victims by aliens in invasive medical procedures carried out on alien space ships! My skeptical, scientific mind says probably not—but who knows?!
Series of gigantic arrangement are discovered buried deep beneath the Polar ice cap.
The mysterious “landmasses” are icy beneath an ice cap that’s some half a mile thick.
Have scientists found Atlantis? Mysterious Antarctic structures are discovered buried beneath half a mile of ice
The frozen wastes of Continent are hiding a big secret
These art show the location of the structures. The merchantman image shows how deeply they are inhumed beneath the ice
Some of them are so large they they are “alike in height with the Eiffel tugboat”.
The discovery is likely to ignite desert speculation among people who citizens who believe Antarctica is home to UFO bases and is concealing the remains of a lost civilisation.
Nevertheless, the scientists who found the structures were extended measured in their assessment of uncovering.
Conspiracy theorists conceive that there could be an elderly city hidden underneath the ice of Continent.
A team from the Université libre de Bruxelle in Belgique said the structures were support of “water conduits and Dregs ridges below the Antarctic ice episode”.
Essentially, this means thither is a large network of tunnels and strip frozen under the ice.
It’s believed these congenital formations contribute to the stability of the ice cap.
The mammoth landmasses “carve deep-seated incisions at the bottom of the ice”, forming “mark”.
These relatively small businessman are are the beginning of wider channels which develop in size “downstream” as the ice go closer to the sea.
In places where the ice is vagrant above the ocean, the thin ice is a “forceless spot when exposed to thaw from the warmer” bathe beneath.
If scientists understand the processes which design these channels, they may be strong to predict the effect climate exchange is having on ice caps.
However, this grave assessment is unlikely to silence the gibber of people who firmly believe Atlantis is skulking beneath the ice.
UFO encounters are often dismissed by skeptics as the product of attention-seekers, hoaxes, or simply overactive imaginations. But what happens when the UFO is seen by some of the most trained and trustworthy professionals around? Compared to encounters by ground-dwelling civilians, cases of UFOs seen by pilots and astronauts are some of the most credible UFO stories around.
These UFO sightings are, perhaps, the most convincing because these witnesses are highly respected professionals whom we trust with our lives. These individuals have nothing to gain by putting their careers and reputations on the line reporting bizarre happenings in the skies.
More shocking is the sheer volume of these reported incidents that happen every year. Here’s a list of some of the more notable sightings of alien spacecraft by pilots and astronauts.
1. Astronaut Leroy Chiao Reported a UFO While on a Space Walk with the ISS
In 2005, astronaut Leroy Chiao, commander of the International Space Station, reported a UFO encounter during a space walk. He and a colleague were installing navigation antennas when something unusual caught Chiao’s eye. Below him in the Earth’s atmosphere he saw a line of lights that looked like “an upside-down question mark.”
One non-UFO explanation for Chiao’s sighting offered by skeptics is that Chiao simply saw the bright lights of a fishing boat hundreds of miles below him. Of course, those would have to be some pretty insanely powerful fishing lights to be seen all the way in outer space – and why Chiao didn’t see the lights of other boats all over the ocean has never been explained.
2. Two Turkish Pilots Saw a Mysterious Object – And So Did Citizens Below
Pilots from Turkish Airlines were flying from the Turkish resort town of Bodrum to the country’s largest city, Istanbul. Suddenly, a mysterious green light appeared over the plane. As the pilot later testified,“An unidentified object with green lights passed 2- to 3,000 feet above us. Then it disappeared all of a sudden. We are guessing that it was a UFO.”
The UFO was also reported to be seen around Istanbul’s Silivri district.
The General Directorate of State Airports Authority denied spotting any image that fitted the description of the pilot. Doubters claim that the pilots saw a green laser pointer that was reflecting off a cloud. However, it seems pretty hard to believe pilots would never have seen a laser pointer before – plus, that would have had to be a pretty huge laser pointer to create an effect such as they described.
For the record, pilots do not generally report fleeting flashes of light as UFOs.
3. Reports Claim UFOs Met Astronauts During the Moon Landing
According to unconfirmed reports, both Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin saw UFOs shortly after that historic landing on the moon in Apollo 11 on July 21, 1969. Viewers listening to the broadcast heard Armstrong refer to lights above a crater before his audio feed went dead for a few minutes.
According to former NASA employee Otto Binder, unnamed radio hams with their own VHF-receiving equipment (that bypassed NASA’s broadcasting) picked up the following exchange:
NASA: What’s there?
Apollo 11: These babies are huge, sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn’t believe it! I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there, Lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They’re on the moon watching us!
Armstrong and Aldrin have denied the exchange took place, but other have insisted that off the record, the astronauts have admitted to many scientists that they did indeed see something.
4. Mercury Astronaut Slayton Tracked a Flying Saucer
Gordon Cooper wasn’t the only Mercury astronaut to report strange encounters. Deke Slayton revealed in an interview he had seen UFOs in 1951:
I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high. As I got closer, it looked like a weather balloon, grey and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing, it didn’t look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me – and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45-degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.
5. Pilots Reported a Flying Saucer Over Bariloche Airport During a Mysterious Blackout
In 1995, an Aerolineas Argentinas flight landing at Bariloche airport in Argentina reported that it was “buzzed” by a luminous disk moving in a way that defied the laws of physics. According to reports, the pilot was forced to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision. Strangely, at the same time, there was also a mysterious power shortage in Bariloche.
There was also a power outage at the airport. One Argentine newspaper reported the air traffic control personnel as saying, “The control instruments went crazy.”
The UFO was also seen by personnel on the ground, as well as the crew of a police plane flying 600 meters (2,000 ft) above.
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.
Astronomers Observe Strange Quantum Distortion in Empty Space for the First Time Ever Henning Dalhoff/Science Photo Library IN BRIEF Vacuum birefringence has been observed by a team of scientists for the first time ever using the European Southern Obser
Astronomers Observe Strange Quantum Distortion in Empty Space for the First Time Ever
Henning Dalhoff/Science Photo Library
IN BRIEF
Vacuum birefringence has been observed by a team of scientists for the first time ever using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT).
The team observed neutron star RX J1856.5-375, which is about 400 light-years from Earth, with just visible light, pushing the limits of existing telescope technology.
A LITTLE LESS STRANGE
Vacuum birefringence is a weird quantum phenomenon that has only ever been observed on an atomic scale. It occurs when a neutron star is surrounded by a magnetic field so intense, it’s given rise to a region in empty space where matter randomly appears and vanishes.
This polarization of light in a vacuum due to strong magnetic fields was first thought to be possible in the 1930s by physicists Werner Heisenberg and Hans Heinrich Euler as a product of the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED). The theory describes how light and matter interact.
Now, for the first time ever, this strange quantum effect has been observed by a team of scientists from INAF Milan (Italy) and from the University of Zielona Gora (Poland).
Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), a research team led by Roberto Mignani observed neutron star RX J1856.5-375, which is about 400 light-years from Earth.
Neutron stars are rather dim, yet they are 10 times more massive than our sun. As such, they have extremely strong magnetic fields permeating their surface and surroundings.
Vacuums are supposedly empty spaces (according to Einstein and Newton, at least) where light can pass through uninhibited or unchanged. But, according to QED, space is full of virtual particles continually popping in and out of existence. Very strong magnetic fields, like those surrounding neutron stars, can modify such spaces as vacuums.
Using the FORS2 instrument on the VLT, the researchers were able to observe the neutron star with just visible light, pushing the limits of existing telescope technology.
Credits: ESO
BETTER TELESCOPES
Studying VLT data on the star, the researchers saw linear polarization occurring at a significant degree of around 16%. This is very likely due to vacuum birefringence in the area surrounding RX J1856.5-375.
“The high linear [polarization] that we measured with the VLT can’t be easily explained by our models unless the vacuum birefringence effects predicted by QED are included,” said Mignani.
Given the limited technology used, Mignani believes that future telescopes can discover more about similar strange quantum effects by studying other neutron stars. “[Polarization] measurements with the next generation of telescopes, such as ESO’s European Extremely Large Telescope (EELT), could play a crucial role in testing QED predictions of vacuum birefringence effects around many more neutron stars,” he said.
“This measurement, made for the first time now in visible light, also paves the way to similar measurements to be carried out at X-ray wavelengths,” researcher Kinwah Wu said.
A young Canadian couple visiting Toronto’s Harbourfront area on Canada Day spotted a mysterious “white shining disk” flying over the area and recorded a video of the sighting. The bright UFO appeared and disappeared several times in the blue sky as if its brightness was fluctuating.
The couple reported the sighting and submitted their video (see below) to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a U.S.-based organization that documents and investigates reported UFO sightings and related phenomena — including alleged alien sightings — from around the world.
The intriguing video shows a shiny disk- or saucer-shaped UFO that has what looks like a dark central bulge or a cut section in the center, like a vinyl record, according to Open Minds-TV. The mysterious UFO is shown in the video flying over the Harbourfront area and near the iconic CN Tower. It appears and disappears multiple times as it flies across blue, cloudless sky.
According to the witness, he and his girlfriend were celebrating Canada Day at Toronto’s Harbourfront area, when he looked up and noticed the white, shining, disk-shaped UFO in the sky. He drew his girlfriend’s attention to the object flying across the sky and both agreed after a brief debate that it was likely a kite or a drone.
The witness proceeded to film and watch the object (see video below).
However, after watching and filming it for some minutes, the couple began to doubt that it was a kite or a drone. The UFO was very bright. It shone in the sky with a powerful, dazzling glare, and it appeared to spin as it flew across the blue sky in the direction of some white clouds. As the UFO flew across the sky, it appeared and disappeared mysteriously multiple times. Then after it reached the clouds, it disappeared.
The couple stood watching for several minutes after the object disappeared when it reached the clouds. They continued watching the sky, hoping that it would reappear, but they never saw it again until they left the Harbourfront area. However, as they watched the sky, hoping that the strange UFO would reappear, they saw a lone black helicopter flying across the sky in the same direction as the UFO, as if trying to catch up with it.
“I noticed the glaring shininess of the disk…and how it was moving across in a circular motion.”
“We then witnessed a black helicopter and thought maybe it was following it?” the witness said. “I was shocked witnessing this… I was puzzled. My girlfriend was skeptical at first… but realized it might have not been a drone after all.”
MUFON investigators noted that the witnesses could be right that the object was not a drone. Drones, according to the investigators, have appendages that hold the rotors and they move fast through the air unlike the UFO shown in the video which does not appear to have rotors.
Some viewers suggested that the mysterious object might have been a balloon released to float across the sky as part of the ongoing Canada Day celebrations. However, they were unable to account for the ability of the object to appear and disappear. There were no visible clouds, objects or shadows that could have blocked the object from sight.
“Balloons do not appear and disappear as this one does.”
“If the balloon is somehow going into and out of shadows, it might appear as though it is disappearing and reappearing,” the MUFON investigator noted. “However, this balloon is high in the sky and it does not appear anything could cause shadows at that height.”
Although MUFON investigators were unable to explain the mysterious sighting, the organization warned viewers to not jump to the conclusion that the UFO was of extraterrestrial origin. MUFON warned that the “vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain.”
NOBEL PRIZE WINNING CO-DISCOVERER OF DNA SAYS OUR GENES WERE BROUGHT HERE BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS
NOBEL PRIZE WINNING CO-DISCOVERER OF DNA SAYS OUR GENES WERE BROUGHT HERE BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS
Francis Crick (8 June 1916 — 28 July 2004) was an English scientist who was most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 alongside James D. Watson.
Francis Crick Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology for Medicine “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.”
He was clearly a brilliant scientist who unfortunately, like many other brilliant minds who came up with theories that challenged the accepted frameworks at the time, wasn’t given much ‘press.’
In his book published in 1982, Life Itself, he argues that there is no possible way that the DNA molecule could have gotten its start here on Earth and that it had to have come here from somewhere else. Within the mainstream scientific community, the generally accepted theory is that we are the result of a bunch of molecules accidentally bumping into each other, creating life. However, according to Francis, we are the result of what is now known as Directed Panspermia. Crick and a British chemist, Leslie Orgel, published their paper on it in July of 1973.
Their theory explains that, “organisms were deliberately transmitted to earth by intelligent beings on another planet. We conclude that it is possible that life reached the earth in this way, but that the scientific evidence is inadequate at the present time to say anything about the probability. We draw attention to the kinds of evidence that might throw additional light on the topic.” (source)
As far as Crick’s thoughts on the theory that we are the result of accidentally bumping into each other, he thinks this was as likely as the assembly of a jumbo jet hit by a hurricane in a junk yard. In other words, he thought the theory held little to no credibility.
When it comes to Crick’s theory, there have been some who expanded upon his work and have actually found evidence of it. Perhaps Crick had some evidence or he was able to connect some dots? After all, theories like this aren’t just born out of nowhere and this gentleman won the Nobel Prize for the study of DNA. Thoughts like this should not be taken lightly and evidence should be examined to see if it’s a plausible hypothesis.
Please keep in mind while reading this article that, although we’ve discovered much, we have yet to identify the biological functions of large portions of our DNA. There is so much mystery wrapped in what could possibly hold the answer to life itself and the origins of the human race.
A few years ago, Chandra Wickramasinghe, the Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham in the U.K., published a paper regarding their supposed findings of the first-ever evidence of extraterrestrial life found in a celestial body.
At the time, Wickramasinghe pointed out to Huffington Post how, in 1962:
“Hoyle and I pioneered the theory of carbon grains in space to replace the old ice grain theory. This was vehemently resisted by the astronomical community at the outset, but with the dawn of infrared spectroscopy, the ice grain theory gave way to the carbon dust theory. Over a few years, after a great deal of model-fitting, we came to the conclusion that material similar to biomaterial fitted all the available data in astronomy. We considered the possibility that microbiology had a universal character, and no observations in astronomy or new information from biology has provided contrary evidence.If only ideas that are considered orthodox are given support through award of grans or publication opportunities, it is certain that the progress of science will be stifled as it was throughout the middle age.”
English Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle and Wickramasinghe are considered co-developers of the panspermia theory. In another paper that Wickramasinghe co-authored in 2012 titled “Non-terrestrial origin of life: a transformative research paradigm shift,” he points out that, “For nearly five decades, evidence in favour of a non-terrestrial origin of life and panspermia has accumulated which has not been properly assessed. A point has now been reached that demands the serious attention of biologists to a possibly transformative paradigm shift of the question of the origin of life, with profounds implications across many disciplines.” (source)
It’s interesting to think about, isn’t it? We are indeed, as Author Graham Hancock noted, like species with amnesia. We still don’t completely know where we came from and how we got here.
What About The Fact That We Are Probably Not Alone & That We Are Probably Being Visited?
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source)
The quote above comes Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, the former Chief of the Defence Staff and 5 star Admiral of the Royal Navy. That’s the highest possible rank of the British Royal Navy, similar to General Dwight Eisenhower’s 5 star rank in the United States. He was also Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. These are definitely positions to be ‘in the know’ about what is going on, at least to some extent.
If you are unaware, there have been hundreds of witnesses carrying impressive backgrounds that have been in the position to ‘know’ about these things. To compliment this testimony, we also have evidence in the form of documents from several different government/military/intelligence agencies.
Personally, when I think of all of the evidence that’s surfaced within the past few years alone, it’s mind-altering. If you’re interested, you will have to do your own research. If you don’t, next time somebody brings up the subject, it’s good to keep an open mind and at least acknowledge that yes, this is actually a strong possibility.
I’ll leave you with this last clip from the Thrive documentary, of the late great Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former NASA astronaut, one of many astronauts who has spoken out enthusiastically about this subject and the evidence behind it. My apologies if you’ve already seen it, as I’ve used it numerous times in previous articles.
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America
As World War II ended, the race was on with the Soviet Union to seize as many German scientists as possible in anticipation of the Cold War. The full story has remained elusive until now. Operation Paperclip, by Annie Jacobsen, provides perhaps the most comprehensive, up-to-date narrative available to the general public. Her book is a detailed and highly readable account of the program. Jacobsen compiled extensive primary and secondary sources, duly annotated in over 100 pages of notes and bibliography. In it are many new sources, among them US government records (President Clinton’s “Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act”), German archival records, first-person accounts, memoirs, and letters. The book also contains a useful index and biographies of the principal players.
Jacobsen offers a detailed chronology of events related to Operation Paperclip. Because of its scope and the introduction of so many characters, the narrative could have been improved if the author had focused on a shorter list than the 89 individuals profiled and maintained more topical continuity. Nevertheless, the book is a compelling work with interesting historical and personal revelations, for example:
One of the most notorious cases of WMD proliferation occurred on 15 May 1945, when the German U-234 submarine, bound for Japan, was captured off Newfoundland by the USS Sutton. The U-boat carried Dr. Heinz Schlicke, Director of Naval Test Fields at Kiel, and the cargo included plans for the Hs293 glider bomb, V-1 glide bomb (forerunner to cruise missiles), V-2 rocket (forerunner to the SCUD missile), Me262 fighter aircraft (the first combat jet fighter), low observable submarine designs, and lead-lined boxes filled with 1,200 lbs. of uranium oxide, a key ingredient of atomic bombs. Schlicke, who claimed to be an electronic warfare expert, became a prisoner at Ft. Meade, MD.
Sarin was produced at Dyhernfurth (Dyhernfurth later fell into Russian hands). Its name derives from the initials of its developers: Gerhard Schrader and Otto Ambros from the infamous IG Farben chemical company—maker of the killing gases used at concentration camps—and from the names of two German Army officers.
Schrader tells the story of inventing “tabun,” a nerve agent named after the English word “taboo.” The Germans called it 9/91 and, after their defeat at Stalingrad, seriously considered using it on the Russians.
Henry Wallace, former vice president and secretary of commerce, believed the scientists’ ideas could launch new civilian industries and produce jobs. Indeed, German scientists developed synthetic rubber (used in automobile tires), non-running hosiery, the ear thermometer, electromagnetic tape, and miniaturized electrical components, to name a few.
Werner von Braun is well known to those who remember the Apollo moon landing. During the Ford administration, von Braun was almost awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—until one of Ford’s senior advisors, David Gergen, objected to his Nazi past.
Less well known is that another 120 fellow German scientists, engineers, and technicians developed the Saturn V launch vehicle, or that the Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was headed by Kurt Debus, an ardent Nazi. The Vertical Assembly Building—bigger in volume than the Pentagon and almost as tall as the Washington Monument—was designed by Bernhard Tessmann, former facilities designer at the German missile launch facility at Peenemuende.
Dr. Hubertus Strughold, who played an important role in space medicine by developing space suits and other life-support systems. In June 1948, he put a rhesus monkey named Albert in the pressurized nosecone of a V-2 rocket in a pressurized nose cone, the first step in the effort to send humans to space.
General Reinhard Gehlen, former head of Nazi intelligence operations against the Soviets, was hired by the US Army and later by the CIA to operate 600 ex-Nazi agents in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany. In 1948, CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter assumed control of the so-called Gehlen Organization.
German biologist Dr. Kurt Blome was hired to develop offensive and defensive capabilities to counter Soviet biological warfare activities.
In 1949, the CIA created the Office of Scientific Intelligence. Its first director, Dr.Willard Machle, traveled to Germany to set up a special program to interrogate Soviet spies. The CIA believed the Russians had developed mind-control programs and wanted to know how US spies would hold up
against this capability if caught. He also aimed to explore the feasibility of creating a “Manchurian candidate” through behavioral modification. Thus, Operation Bluebird was born. Bluebird, later called MKULTRA, was a research activity experimenting in behavioral engineering of humans. The Nuremberg Code prohibits experimentation with humans without their consent. During this program, Dr. Frank Olson, a US Army biological weapons researcher, was given the drug LSD without his knowledge, leading to his death by leaping from a building. DCI Richard Helms ordered much of the documentation destroyed, and the circumstances of his demise remain controversial to this day.
Although she understandably questions the morality of the decision to hire Nazi SS scientists, Jacobsen balances her judgment with an understanding of the perceived threat of the Soviet Union under Stalin and the communists’ dialectical determination to prepare for total war with the West. The Soviets similarly captured and used German scientists for their own defense programs. That side of the story is not covered in this book.
Jacobsen provides insights on joint intelligence coordination and cooperation among US services and Allies; operational deconfliction; document and foreign materiel acquisition and exploitation; interrogation techniques; active tracking; production of foreign intelligence; surveillance and countersurveillance methods; and negotiating the sometimes conflicting objectives of the judiciary and the Intelligence Community (i.e., “hang them” vs. “hire them!”).
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Flight into the furnace of Mercury could bring us closer in hunt for alien life
Flight into the furnace of Mercury could bring us closer in hunt for alien life
Investigation will give clues about where to look for habitable planets
The BepiColombo probe at the ESA’s space centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Photograph: Michael Kooren/Reuters
Atiny world that is battered by intense radiation and incredible heat, Mercury is one of the most inhospitable places in our solar system. Zinc would melt on its surface. Yet this scorched planet is set to play a crucial role in one of science’s most important quests: the search to find life on other worlds in our galaxy.
Astronomers believe that Mercury’s proximity to the Sun could provide them with crucial insights about the prospects of finding worlds that can support living organisms. And they hope these insights will be revealed by BepiColombo, a European-Japanese probe that was unveiled to the public last week at the European Space Agency’s research and technology centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
The 7-metre-long, 4-tonne spacecraft is one of the most complex space missions ever built and one of the most expensive. It cost €1.6bn (£1.4bn) to construct and is set for launch in October 2018, when it will begin a seven-year voyage to reach its target and begin its study of this mysterious world.
The importance of its task was underlined by Mark McCaughrean, the European Space Agency’s senior adviser for science and exploration. “We have detected planets – known as exoplanets – that are in orbit around other stars in our galaxy, and some have been found to lie in potentially habitable zones that we think are not too cold and not too hot to support life,” he said. “Crucially, however, most of these promising exoplanets are in orbits that take them very close to these very cool stars. In terms of heat, you could safely orbit close to a cool star, but there may be other dangers lurking there. And that is why Mercury is so important – it is much closer to the Sun than any other planet in the solar system. It should have very important lessons to teach us.”
Mercury’s proximity to the Sun – its orbit carries it, on average, about 57m kilometres from the Sun compared with Earth’s 149.6m – is a key issue, astronomers stress. Until they understand conditions that affect planets that orbit very close to stars, they cannot be sure about their potential to support life. In particular, other forms of radiation could still pose a problem for such planets – such as ultra-violet radiation.
This point was made by G Murakami, of the Japanese space agency Jaxa, which collaborated with European space engineers in the building of BepiColombo. “Ultra-violet radiation could be much stronger in these worlds and we need to study a planet in such circumstances, and Mercury fits the bill for that perfectly.”
An artist’s impression of the BepiColombo’s planetary orbiter and magnetospheric orbiter above Mercury.
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The crucial point, McCaughrean said, is that scientists cannot be sure just how habitable an exoplanet is until they understand conditions on a world that orbits near a star. Hence the importance of Mercury. However, the little world – the most cratered planet in the solar system – offers other important goals for science.
Another mystery that astronomers hope to solve is the puzzle of Mercury’s magnetic field. It is the only planet in our solar system, other than Earth, that has one, though it is about 100 times weaker than ours. However, studies by the US probe Messenger – which orbited Mercury between 2011 and 2015 – discovered that this field is offset from the planet’s centre by about 500 kilometres, an astonishing amount for a little planet.
“In fact, most theories about the formation of our solar system suggest that a tiny world like Mercury should not have a magnetic field at all, so we are facing a real mystery,” said McCaughrean. “We cannot claim we understand how our solar system formed if we cannot explain why Mercury possesses such an anomaly. We have real theoretical issues to resolve, and hopefully BepiColombo will let us do that.”
In addition, BepiColombo will seek out regions, in high latitudes, where its predecessor Messenger found evidence of water ice inside the unlit walls of craters. Their existence is another of the puzzles that astronomers have uncovered on this little planet.
Designing and building a craft that can achieve these goals has not been easy. BepiColombo – named after the 20th-century Italian mathematician and engineer Giuseppe Colombo – is actually a twin spacecraft: a European planetary orbiter that will study the planet and a Japanese craft that will study the planet’s magnetic field. Both will be carried to their target by a propulsion module known as the Mercury transfer module.
The mission was approved in 2000 by the European Space Agency in collaboration with Jaxa. However, the complexities of flying a probe so close to the Sun forced design delays that raised costs from several hundred million euros to the probe’s current estimated price tag of about €1.6bn. It also triggered years of delay in building the satellite. Indeed, the project came close to termination when several member states, including Britain, urged that no extra funds be made available after costs over-ran to several hundred million euros. It took weeks of complex negotiations to save the project.
The main problem facing BepiColombo was that the mission’s principal orbiter has to be flown so that it hovers over the searing hot surface of Mercury while the Sun beams down on it. “Solar radiation is 10 times the level on Mercury than it is on Earth because the planet is so close to the Sun,” said Mauro Patroncini, of Thales Alenia Space Italia, which built much of the probe. “At the same time, Mercury’s surface is so hot – about 430C – that it generates a massive flux of infrared radiation and heat of its own.” Essentially the satellite will be grilled on both sides: the Sun on one and Mercury on the other.
“We thought we could deal with that with conventional techniques when we were designing the craft, but realised in 2006 that we would have to develop new technologies, including temperature-resistant coatings and insulated instruments, to stop the craft overheating violently,” said Patroncini. “That is what caused the delays and cost over-runs.”
The danger of overheating was endorsed by ESA project manager Ulrich Reininghaus, who also stressed the problems that lay ahead for the mission. “We’re flying into a pizza oven. We had to test materials at different, very high temperature regimes, sometimes with very unwanted results.” Hence the delays in launch.
Constructing a craft that can endure such hellish conditions has proven to be a gruelling business. There were tears of frustration over the delays, and a great deal of sweat was expended in redesigning a craft that has pushed engineers to the limit of their abilities, said McCaughrean. Then there was the construction race after all the delays.
“BepiColombo has sheets of tough insulating material that has had to be sown, by hand, into position in its sun shield and other parts,” he said. “A colleague went into the probe’s assembly area one morning and found blood spattered beside it. Another member of staff had stabbed themselves with a needle overnight as they stitched up the thermal blankets. So you could easily say that blood, sweat and tears were expended in getting this mission ready for launch.”
FANTASTIC VOYAGE
BepiColombo is a probe of many parts: a massive sunshade, a planetary orbiter, a second orbiter that will study the planet’s magnetic field, and a transfer vehicle that will carry these various components to Mercury after the mission’s launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in October 2018.
The craft will weigh more than 4 tonnes, including 1.4 tonnes of propellant that will be used to power it on a complex journey round the solar system en route to Mercury. The trip will take seven years and will involve making one flyby of Earth, two of Venus and six of Mercury in order to position the craft when it reaches its destination in 2025 in a way that makes it easy to slip into orbit around the planet.
“We could fire BepiColombo straight at Mercury and it would get there in a few months, but we would have to use all our fuel decelerating to reach the planet at a reasonable speed,” said Mark McCaughrean, the ESA’s senior scientific adviser. “That is why we are taking the slow way.”
Once in orbit round Mercury, the transfer vehicle will release its two orbiters. The European craft will map Mercury while the Japanese craft will hover further from the planet and study its magnetic field. BepiColombo is designed to operate for one year, but with the option of running for a second. Privately ESA officials hope they will get up to three or four years out of the craft.
Aliens and UFOs are among the most enigmatic mysteries that yet haven’t been solved by humanity.
Who are these aliens? How do they look like? Nobody knows but thousands of people see UFOs and aliens every year.
So why don’t our governments disclose this information? Why they hide aliens from us? We still have no answer. But a lot of people have!
This is not a fake! Get ready to see real UFOs caught on tape. Even if you never believed in UFOs and aliens this video will convince you to believe in their existence! Get ready and share this article among others!
Aliens and UFOs are among the most enigmatic mysteries that yet haven’t been solved by humanity.
Who are these aliens? How do they look like? Nobody knows but thousands of people see UFOs and aliens every year.
So why don’t our governments disclose this information? Why they hide aliens from us? We still have no answer. But a lot of people have!
This is not a fake! Get ready to see real UFOs caught on tape. Even if you never believed in UFOs and aliens this video will convince you to believe in their existence! Get ready and share this article among others!
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PROJECT SERPO – THE EXCHANGE PROGRAM BETWEEN HUMANS AND ALIENS
PROJECT SERPO – THE EXCHANGE PROGRAM BETWEEN HUMANS AND ALIENS
In 2005, an anonymous source sent a series of emails to a UFO Discussion Group led by former U.S. Government Employee Victor Martinez.
These emails detailed the existence of an Exchange Program between the U.S. Government and the Ebens – alien beings from Serpo, a planet from the Zeta Reticuli Star System. The program was thus called Project Serpo.
The source identified himself as a retired employee of the government, claiming he had participated in a special program.
The program’s origins lay with the two UFO crashes in New Mexico in 1947, the famous Roswell incident and another one in Corona.
He claimed one extraterrestrial survived the crash and was transferred to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The other six deceased extraterrestrials were placed in a freezing facility in the same laboratory.
Establishing communications with the scientists and military personnel, the survivor provided them with the location of its home planet and continued to cooperate until its death in 1952.
The alien provided information regarding the items found inside the crashed UFOs. One of the items was a communication device that it was allowed to use, contacting its home planet.
A meeting was set for April 1964, when an alien craft landed near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Upon retrieving the bodies of their dead comrades, the extraterrestrials engaged in an information exchange that was carried out in English, thanks to the aliens’ translation device.
One thing led to another and in 1965, the aliens accepted to take a group of humans back to their planet as part of the exchange program.
Twelve military personnel were carefully selected for a ten year stay on Serpo. The ten men and two women were specialists in various fields and their task was to gather as much information as possible, regarding all aspects of life, society and technology on the alien planet.
They were three years late and four people short when they finally returned in 1978. Two men had died on the alien planet. One man and one woman had decided to stay. The journey to Serpo, located 37 light years from Earth, took only nine months aboard the alien craft.
They had learned that Serpo was a planet similar to our own, albeit smaller. It orbited around a binary star system and had an atmosphere similar in composition to the one on Earth.
However, the two suns meant there were higher levels of radiation and the twelve humans had to resort to protection at all times. Two of them died from complications. The heat was extreme and it took the remaining humans several years to adjust.
Another problem was the food. The crew had taken enough food to last them for two and a half years but eventually had to resort to eating native Eben food. Anyone who’s traveled abroad knows about the serious gastrointestinal implications posed by eating local food but the human crew eventually adjusted.
Another problem was the length of the day on Serpo, which was 43 Earth hours long. Also, it never got fully dark as their night skies were dimly lit by the smaller sun. The crew had complete freedom to explore the alien planet and they were not hindered in any way.
The geology of the alien world was different; there were few mountains and no oceans. Several types of plant-like life existed but mostly near the polar area, where it was cooler.
There were also types of animal life and some of the larger ones were used by the Ebens for work and other tasks but never as food sources. They produced their food through industrial processes, of which they had many.
The inhabitants of Serpo lived in small communities led by a large city. They lacked a central government but seemed to be doing fine without it.
The Ebens had leadership and an army but the Earth team noticed they never used weapons of any type and violence was virtually unheard of. They had no concept of money or commerce. Every Eben was issued items in accordance with their needs.
The planet’s population was about 650,000 individuals. The human crew noted the Ebens were disciplined in all aspects of their lives, working on schedules based on the movements of their suns. There were no other civilizations on Serpo except the Ebens.
Their method of reproduction was similar to our own but it had a much lower success rate. Therefore, their children were highly isolated.
In fact, the only problem the human crew had was when they intended to photograph Eben children. They were escorted away by the army and asked not to attempt that again.
Upon returning to Earth, the remaining eight members of the expedition were quarantined for a year. During this period, they were debriefed and the complete account amassed around 3,000 pages.
All members of the expedition have since died from various complications due to radiation exposure. The fate of the two people who chose to remain on Serpo is unknown. The Ebens have not contacted Earth since 1985.
Seventy years ago, on 24 June 1947, flying saucers were spotted ‘invading’ planet Earth. It was a reported as a modest formation of nine unusual objects flying at high speed over Mount Rainier, Washington, USA.
The witness was Kenneth Arnold, who was not a jet pilot, astronomer or scientist, but a civilian fire systems salesman who was flying from Chehalis to Yakima.
Just before 3pm, he was just turning his CallAir A-2 aircraft eastwards, when his attention was caught by powerful flashes of light coming from the north of Mount Rainier.
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At a distance of about 23 miles he saw nine convex shaped objects flying erratically, like saucers skimming across water.
In a confidential statement to Army Air Force Intelligence dated 12 July 1947, he said:
I am convinced in my own mind that they were some type of airplane, even though they didn’t conform with the many aspects of the conventional type of planes that I know.
Not long afterwards he was interviewed by local newspaper reporters who found him articulate and credible. The original stories referred to the objects as saucer-like but this soon turned into the term ‘flying saucer’ that we know and love today.
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His sighting was a sensation at the outbreak of the Cold War, when tensions between the USSR and USA were quickly escalating. People wondered if Arnold had seen Soviet remote controlled missiles or some new U.S. weapon being secretly tested. Speculation was rife but no one then, or since, has come up with the ultimate explanation for his sighting.
The inability to find a satisfying explanation led to thoughts that these new fangled flying saucers were being controlled by extraterrestrial aliens. As time has passed the term flying saucer has been supplanted by the more scientific term Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
Whatever, the terminology the subject of ufology has come to embrace everything from lights in the sky to alien abductions and government conspiracy.
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Only a few days after Arnold’s sighting, on 8 July 1947, the Roswell Army Air Base publicly announced that they had recovered the remains of a crashed flying saucer from a nearby ranch.
The wreckage was sent to Wright Patterson Air Base and it was quickly announced that it was the remains of a conventional weather balloon.
The Roswell case was largely forgotten or at best dismissed as a footnote in UFO history until the late 1970s, culminating in the publication of The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William Moore in 1980.
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Since then it has encouraged all manner of ‘eye-witnesses’ (or friends of friends of eye-witnesses) who saw the debris and dead alien bodies being retrieved and held in storage by the U.S.A.F.
To some Roswell is the ultimate proof that the U.S. government has concrete evidence of an alien presence; to others it is a myth that has been inflated out of all proportion to the facts.
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Rather than being a spaceship, UFO author John Keel claimed that a Japanese FUJI balloon, launched during World War II had finally returned to Earth, causing the Roswell crash.
Another explanation was that this was a balloon used by Project Mogul; a top secret US project used to spy on the USSR. Due to public pressure, internal investigations were launched by the General Accounting Office to disclose the truth of the matter. Their first report, in 1995, confirmed that the wreckage was of a Project Mogul balloon.
In 1997, their second report looked at the rumours and stories about recovered alien bodies. This concluded that they were a combination of rumours, and half-forgotten memories of missions involving the recovery of injured pilots or anthropomorphic dummies used in experimental projects unconnected with UFOs.
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These reports did little to dent the enthusiasm for speculation about the Roswell crash. Indeed, in 1995 more fuel was added to the flames when Ray Santilli, a British entrepreneur, released film footage, which showed a graphic autopsy of a recovered alien from the Roswell crash.
Several years later, he admitted that this was a reconstruction of the autopsy as the ‘genuine’ film footage had been lost.
In 2011, Roswell hit the headlines again when a book by journalist Annie Jacobsen - Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base - claimed that the aliens recovered from Roswell were actually genetically mutated 12-year-old children.
They were sent by the Soviet Union to the USA in a remotely piloted aircraft to promote hysteria in the American population.
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Several years earlier, a similar theory was put forward by Nick Redfern, who claimed that the Roswell crash was caused by a balloon based on Japanese technology.
The balloon was used to launch a glider that had a pilot and crew consisting of handicapped people. The object of this and other missions was to study the effects of radiation and high altitude on the human body.
In 2015, pictures of the alleged Roswell alien were given worldwide publicity. They soon proved to be images of a mummy in an exhibition case, once again the gullibility of UFO experts and our wish to believe in aliens from outer space.
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With the 70th anniversary of the Roswell incident, a number of new pieces of evidence have just come to light. One of the most intriguing is a 47-page top secret dossier of 1950s vintage, which details the recovery of 327 fragments of the Roswell craft and four decomposing alien bodies.
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).
Slightly more credible is the testimony of a former U.S. Deputy Sheriff, Charles H. Forgus published in a newly published book UFOs Today: 70 Years of Lies, Disinformation and Government Cover-Up by Dr Irena Scott.
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Forgus said he was travelling from Texas to Roswell, and heard about the crash on the radio and made a detour to see it. He says he saw about four hundred soldiers using a crane to put a 100ft diameter craft on the back of a truck, and hauling away four, 5ft tall, brownish coloured, humanoid aliens that seemed to be dead.
It does seem odd that the military didn’t block off the road to the crash site, and just allowed someone to openly view these activities without being stopped or questioned.
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Joe Nickell and James McGaha have even put forward the concept of the Roswellian Syndrome, which has five main stages:
1. The Incident. This is the event that initially triggers the crash retrieval rumours.
2. Debunking. The recovered wreckage is quickly given a mundane explanation.
3. Submergence. The story lingers in the fading memories and speculation of the local population.
4. Mythologising. As time passes faulty memory, exaggeration and deliberate hoaxing comes into play.
5. Re-emergence and Media Bandwagon Effect. The story resurfaces in the media and takes on a life of its own.
Kenneth Arnold’s sighting triggered the whole UFO saga, but he is largely forgotten and overshadowed by the power of the Roswell myth. Or is that what ‘they’ want us to believe? Is the real evidence of Roswell and flying saucers tucked away in Area 51 or some other government facility?
Will the truth ever emerge or will we still be asking similar questions in 70 years time?
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Close Encounters: Why UFOs Are Having a Moment
Close Encounters: Why UFOs Are Having a Moment
A new biography on scientist Dr. J. Allen Hynek shows that we might be on the verge of another cluster of UFO sighting reports
A new biography on Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a scientist who became convinced that we truly could not identify some objects in our skies, opens up new questions about UFOs. Everett
When the unassuming turn of phrase "unidentified flying object" was coined in the 1940s, it was intended to suggest that the objects in question were nothing more mysterious than a rogue weather balloon or an unfamiliar aircraft. UFOs have since become synonymous with aliens, from cartoon flying saucers, to abduction stories, to X-Files-style conspiracy theories – in the popular imagination their mystery has been solved, UFOs equal aliens, whether you're a true believer or not. This unshakable association came to be despite the diligent work Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a scientist who became convinced that we truly could not identify some objects in our skies, and kept pushing throughout his life for a scientific explanation, while keeping open every possibility, some of them way further out there than little green men.
Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, a new book by Mark O'Connell, serves as a biography for both the modern UFO phenomenon and for Hynek, an astronomer and professor at Northwestern University who died over 30 years ago, but whose ideas make him one of the most surprising scientific figures of the 20th century. The book reveals an academic committed to rigorous, methodical study, but whose deep intellectual curiosity also harbored a mystical side, intrigued by Rudolf Steiner's concept of "supersensible knowledge" and the idea of a universe composed of many dimensions. By the time of his death in 1986, he was much more interested in the idea that UFOs might be evidence of interdimensional overlap or proof of a Jungian collective conscience, than the comparatively quotidian concept that they are vehicles carrying visitors from faraway planets.
Hynek's struggle to properly inform the public through a dedication to the scientific method, while also embracing the very edges of what is possible strikes a chord today, in an era rife with deep mistrust of the government and of mainstream science. Conspiracy theories have moved from the fringe since we stopped agreeing on what constitutes a basic scientific fact, and there are more than a few big ones involving the coming alien takeover and of course, NASA, which sits at the intersection of science, government and outer space.
Just last week a NASA spokesperson told The Daily Beast, in all seriousness, that the agency does not have child slaves laboring on Mars, in response to an InfoWars segment claiming otherwise. The Disclosure movement believes that governments around the world have already been in contact with alien intelligence and have suppressed this information from the public, and no, Trump would not be tweeting about it because the President is kept out of the loop in this scenario, says O'Connell. This is deep state stuff. Even the ever-pragmatic Hillary Clinton vowed to release classified information on UFOs and aliens while being interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel last year during her campaign. The unknown and how we go about knowing it is very much on our minds as a culture.
Though he would be dismayed to see that the orthodoxy of personal belief in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary has persevered, even flourished in the 21st century, Hynek would certainly find our present appetite for conspiracy and for polarized debate familiar, from climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers to the Disclosure crowd. Over his long career he learned that "It's very, very easy to disappoint people by telling them the truth," O'Connell tells Rolling Stone. "Everyone wants to believe that the next case is the big one, the one that finally proves that these are spaceships from another world and unfortunately, up to now that's never been the case, but the hope just doesn't die."
Born a few days before Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet in 1910, Hynek died just a few months after traveling through the comet's wake again in 1986. He spent the interceding years as an astronomer who changed the field of celestial imaging by developing a high-altitude telescope and video telescope, founded the Corralitos Observatory in New Mexico, led a team that devised the first tracking system for satellites before there were any man-made objects in orbit, and reassured a nervous American public after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, which put him on the cover of Life magazine.
Hynek was also one of the first scientists to evaluate UFO sightings for the U.S. Air Force, working on a series of classified projects in the 1950s and 1960s. Though he started out a skeptic, he went on to found the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, landing a cameo in Steven Spielberg's 1977 hit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind after contacting the director when he learned that the film’s working title was drawn from his work.
Even more than 30 years after his death, Hynek remains a controversial figure in UFOlogy, mainly because of his refusal to choose a side. O'Connell, a screenwriter and UFO history expert who writes the blog High Strangeness, has already had some of Hynek's legacy rub off on his own reputation, which he takes as a sign that he is following in Hynek's footsteps as an unbiased, open-minded researcher, rather than writing for one camp or another.
"Just based on what little some people know about the book and the interviews I've been doing, I already have some UFO establishment figures accusing me of being a skeptic, which is really dirty word in UFO circles," he says. "The labeling has already begun."
Hynek proved to be a thorn in the government's side when it came to investigating UFO reports, refusing to dismiss the unexplainable as the product of mass hysteria or unreliable witness testimony. Indeed, a great number of the seminal 20th century sightings that convinced Hynek that UFOs were worth further study involved highly credible witnesses, including airline and military pilots, law enforcement officers and Delbert Newhouse, a navy photographer who caught such an object on film in the Utah desert in 1952. Hynek though, refused to say that the strangeness of UFOs and UFO sightings proved they were alien spacecraft, which made him unpopular on the other side of the debate as well. An intellectual independent, he ended up sandwiched between the government, which demanded mundane explanations for sometimes fantastic sightings, and a public convinced that aliens walked among them.
"The inability for ambiguity to exist is a powerful force in UFO research," O'Connell says. "You have to go one way or the other, there's no middle ground."
Throughout the heyday of UFO sightings, significant incidents, including reported contact with alien entities and their aircraft, frequently popped up in clusters, referred to as "flaps" by Hynek. Though the last flap occurred after Close Encounters of the Third Kind debuted in 1977, UFOs are having a moment right now, too. This year Spielberg’s film celebrates its 40th anniversary, and the 1947 sighting of "flying saucers" over the Cascade mountains in the Pacific Northwest by pilot Kevin Arnold, which is widely noted as the beginning of the modern UFO phenomenon, marks 70 years of celestial intrigue. The History Channel just picked up a scripted series about Project Blue Book, the UFO investigation project that Hynek led for the government in the 1950s and 60, with Robert Zemeckis as executive producer. And of course, there's the matter of NASA's secret slaves on Mars. Are we headed for a new flap?
O'Connell is not so sure. "You would think that this amazing advance in technology, in photo imaging would have delivered us with the perfect UFO photo by now," he says. "You would think that but it hasn't happened and it's hard to decide exactly why. You can definitely argue that there are more people watching the sky with cameras in hand than ever before in human history."
What he's most interested in, beyond seeing Martin Freeman cast as Hynek – though he was amused by the thought of David Duchovny donning the professor's signature goatee – is an embrace of Hynek's balance of rigor and open-minded curiosity. Like Hynek himself, O'Connell wants to reposition the conversation about UFOs, as well as an agreement to adhere to the scientific method itself, back into the mainstream and plumb what might be possible, rather than single-mindedly trying to prove, or disprove the existence of aliens.
He finds some of Hynek's heady combination of scientific rigor and mysticism in the work of quantum physics and astronomers who are working on exoplanets right now. "Both of those fields involve, in my opinion, leaps of faith, leaps of intuition," he says. "We've shifted very dramatically from this idea that life on other planets must be exceedingly rare to this space where now where we're talking in terms of life in the universe being unbelievably abundant because we keep on finding all these goldilocks planets with our high powered space telescopes. Those are the two areas where I see that same kind of thinking that same kind of approach to science coming back to the way that Hynek saw things."
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XCOR Aerospace Lays Off Remaining Employees
XCOR Aerospace Lays Off Remaining Employees
By Jeff Foust, SpaceNews Writer
XCOR Aerospace suspended work on the Lynx, a two-seat reusable suborbital spaceplane, in 2016.
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WASHINGTON — XCOR Aerospace, a company developing rocket engines and a suborbital space plane, has laid off its remaining employees but is continuing efforts to raise funding to maintain at least some of its projects.
In a statement provided to SpaceNews July 5, Michael Blum, a member of the company's board of directors who is also serving as acting chief executive, said some "critical" employees would be retained as contractors as the company attempts to stay alive.
"Due to adverse financial conditions XCOR had to terminate all employees as of 30 June 2017," Blum said in the statement. "XCOR management will retain critical employees on a contract basis to maintain the company's intellectual property and is actively seeking other options that would allow it to resume full employment and activity." [Meet Lynx: XCOR Aerospace's Space Plane (Gallery)]
Blum did not disclose how many employees were laid off or how many would be kept on as contractors. In May 2016, XCOR laid off nearly half of its 50 to 60 employees as it devoted its resources to a liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen engine the company was developing under contract with United Launch Alliance.
At that time, XCOR said it was suspending work on Lynx, a two-seat suborbital space plane the company had been working on for several years to serve the space tourism and research markets. Company officials said earlier this year that XCOR had not entirely abandoned the Mark 1 prototype vehicle that had been under construction at its Mojave, California, facility.
"Although we have advanced the program with much of our recent efforts, completion of the prototype is funding-dependent," Marco Martinez-Venturi, head of astronaut relations at the company, told SpaceNews in March.
With its employees laid off, company sources say management and investors are working to save at least some of XCOR's products, keeping the company from folding entirely.
XCOR's decision to lay off its remaining employees could also jeopardize a $10 million financial incentive package it received in 2012 to move the company to Midland, Texas. Brent Hilliard, chairman of the board of the Midland Development Corporation, which provided the incentive package, told the Midland Reporter-Telegraph that the board will meet with XCOR July 6 to discuss the company's status.
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
Martian conditions may be unfriendly to life, North Korea tests a missile, two supermassive black holes circle and country music royalty serenades space station astronauts — this and more in Space.com's top stories for this week.
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1. Mars: not great for microbes?
Chlorine compounds on Mars are triggered by the sun's radiation, which could kill microbes.
Researchers found that bacterial cells die within minutes when exposed to the compound in Mars-like conditions.
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2. North Korea test-launches ballistic missile
North Korea test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday, July 4. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement that the United States strongly condemns the launch, and some scientists say that while the maximum range of the missile would not pose a threat to the lower 48 states or Hawaii, it could reach Alaska.
The Intelsat 35e satellite successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday July 5 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The satellite will provide commercial broadband communications services in the Caribbean, and services in the African continent.
The Trump administration will heavily emphasize crewed missions to the moon and Mars, according to Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday, July 6. While he did not offer a time frame or a budget for the expeditions, Pence cited partnerships with commercial companies as key.
Scientists have visually imaged a pair of supermassive black holes orbiting each other for the first time ever. While it remains uncertain how big each black hole is, the data that astronomers do have suggests that one black hole is two to four times the size of the other.
6. Twenty years ago, a new chapter in astronomy began.
NASA's Pathfinder mission landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, bringing a small rover called Sojourner to the Martian surface! In the past two decades, eight other NASA robots have reached the red planet; five remain active today.
7. Telescope inaugurated to seek visible source for gravitational waves
Gravitational-wave detectors will coordinate with a new telescope in Spain's Canary Islands to pinpoint the wave's sources, such as merging black holes or massive supernovas. The Gravitational-wave optical Transient Observer (GOTO) was officially inaugurated on July 3, and can hopefully act as an intermediary between LIGO in the U.S. and powerful telescopes to investigate those sources. [Full Story:Optical Telescope Will Seek Sources of Gravitational Waves]
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8. Astronauts get country music serenade
Country music legends Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sang to space station astronauts during a visit to NASA's mission control in Houston on June 29. The couple sang into the telephone that links voice communications between the ground and the space station.
After a nearly five-year journey through deep space, the Juno probe arrived to the gas giant Jupiter on July 4, 2016. With the data Juno retrieves, scientists should be able to get a better understanding of Jupiter's evolution and structure.
New Horizons performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto in July 2015, and its next target may actually be a cluster of objects rather than just one. The target, called 2014 MU69, lies about 1 billon miles beyond Pluto's orbit, and might possibly be small remnants from the formation of the solar system.
Chris Becke captured this video of the sounding-rocket launch from Williamsburg, Virginia.
Credit: Chris Becke
When NASA finally launched its long-awaited sounding-rocket mission from Wallops Island, Virginia, early-bird viewers along the U.S. East Coast were treated to a spectacular show of glowing, multicolor clouds drifting through the sky.
Photographers woke up early to see the colorful display on several occasions, only to learn that the launch had been repeatedly delayed due to weather conditions. But when the mission finally blasted off on Thursday (June 29) at 4:25 a.m. EDT (0825 GMT), some persistent photographers finally had their chance to capture some incredible photos of the artificial clouds.
Chris Bakley photographed the sounding rocket launch from Stone Harbor, New Jersey.
In Stone Harbor, New Jersey, photographer Chris Bakley had been waiting for weeks to shoot the colorful vapor clouds after NASA's sounding-rocket launch. "To be honest I wasn't expecting much from the launch but to see a whole sky full of glow-in-the-dark clouds," Bakley told Space.com in an email. "I was really impressed, to say the least."
About 5 minutes after the rocket lifted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, it released barium, strontium and cupric oxide into the sky. When those chemicals interacted, they formed blue-green and red clouds that slowly faded to purple as they dissipated in the morning sky.
Harrison Jones captured the colorful vapor clouds all the way from Hanover, Pennsylvania.
Harrison Jones was up "bright and early" to get some photos of the launch from Hanover, Pennsylvania, he told Space.com in an email. Jones managed to get some zoomed-in shots of the multicolored clouds from about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of the launch site in Wallops Island.
And in Williamsburg, Virginia, photographer Chris Becke had an excellent view of the sounding rocket's colorful vapor clouds. "I had received some prior information on the launch angle and release height of the canisters as well as the range of possible drift. Using this information, I did some trigonometry calculations to predict the necessary field of view to capture the launch and subsequent vapor trails," Becke told Space.com in an email.
Colorful vapor clouds disperse in front of star trails in this image captured by Chris Becke in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Credit: Chris Becke
Becke went to "a reasonably dark site" called Little Creek Dam, located about 81.5 miles (131 km) from the launch site. There, he captured I captured 20-second exposures of the launch up until about 24 minutes after launch, "when the vapor trails had drifted out of the field of view," he said.
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How Can A Lake In Iceland Give Clues About Life On Jupiter’s Moon?
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How Can A Lake In Iceland Give Clues About Life On Jupiter’s Moon?
Andrew Follett
Energy and Science Reporter
A lake in Iceland is giving scientists clues about how alien life could develop on Jupiter’s moon, according to new research published Friday.
Researchers with Iceland’s science institute Matís sampled Skaftárkatlar lake and discovered several strains of bacteria previously unknown to scientists. The finding suggests life may be a lot more likely to develop on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, than previously thought.
“Our preliminary results reveal new branches of life here,” Dr. Gregory Farrant, a lead investigator at Matís, said in a press statement. “It’s tricky to analyse DNA of microbes that are totally new to science because there’s no prior knowledge about them. We’re dealing with a lot of unknowns.”
Skaftárkatlar lake resembles the geology of the distant moon, and offers a unique opportunity for scientists to study how life might evolve in Europa’s subterranean ocean. Farrant’s team concluded microorganisms can survive on sulphur-rich water deep in the lake.
Europa probably has a watery and salty oceans similar to those of Earth’s below the ice, likely kept warm by complex gravitational interactions and the planet’s core. Life could exist in the ice-covered ocean — perhaps in an environment similar to the deep-ocean hydrothermal vents where life on Earth may have emerged.
NASA approved a new robotic mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa after a major internal review. NASA began preliminary design and testing in February, and the space agency intends to launch a probe sometime in the early 2020s. The Europa Clipper probe will investigate the icy moon’s potential for human colonization and alien life.
NASA previously used the Hubble Space Telescope to find evidence for water ice plumes jetting off Europa, leading the agency to suspect the moon has an icy shell on top of an ocean of liquid water. NASA has also found evidence of clay-like minerals associated with organic matter on the icy crust of Europa.
This month is the 70th anniversary of… something in Roswell, New Mexico. Officially, a balloon being tested for the monitoring of Soviet nuclear tests crashed. But curiously, the military’s own initial press release said the crash was of a flying disk. A brief UFO craze resulted from the events of the summer of 1947. And there the story ended—until the late 1970s, when an alternative story began to emerge. It wasn’t a balloon after all: it was a spacecraft whose remains, including alien beings, had been kept secret since.
Today, “Roswell” usually indicates an inside joke and/or the site of a vast conspiracy. Popular culture has made the town a household synonym for aliens, secrecy, and decades of cover-ups, thanks to Unsolved Mysteries, The X-Files, Alien Autopsy, Independence Day, and Roswell. Meanwhile, the “Roswell Incident,” as it is termed, is marketing gold: Roswell features “aliens” painted onto the globe streetlights, a McDonalds shaped like a flying saucer, and UFO welcome mats for sale at the tourist information center.
Pilgrims collect the holy dirt both at Roswell, New Mexico and at a Catholic shrine site in Chimayó, Mexico.
But the Roswell phenomenon is also something else, as Jeremy R. Ricketts explains. For “the truth is out there” believers, the New Mexico city has become a sacred space, a place to visit and commune with multiple alleged crash sites. Ricketts compares Roswell, now the site of the International UFO Museum and Research Center, and the village of Chimayó, also in New Mexico, and the location of a famous Catholic shrine. He argues both places “straddle a space between the sacred and the profane, and between the commercial and the spiritual.” Such sacred spaces, he argues “can act as screens upon which tourist-pilgrims project their hopes and desires.”
But these places don’t just happen. They are “largely social constructions created by interpretive communities that work to re-enchant believers and tourist-pilgrims who seek deep meanings in sacred geographies.” Ricketts details how both Chimayó and Roswell sites have been built up over the years. At both places, for example, pilgrims collect the supposedly holy dirt.
Ricketts dates the apotheosis of Roswell to 1980 and the publication of The Roswell Incident, which “served as a new creation myth that began the canonization of Roswell as the pilgrimage destination for UFO enthusiasts.” As at Chimayó, “a coherent and unified genesis is not necessary to sustain powerful belief.” Of course, not everybody has the same agenda in Roswell. The Chamber of Commerce, conspiracy buffs, evangelicals, and New Agers don’t necessarily mix, but as at Chimayó, syncretism, the blending of differing political/philosophical/theological concepts, proceeds apace.
Ricketts argues that the contemporary world is in a state of “disenchantment” (the term is from Max Weber), drained of meaning and spiritually vacant. Little wonder seekers converge on New Mexico, branded as the “Land of Enchantment.” There, ancient native legends and Spanish Catholic religious traditions converge at Chimayó, while Space Age/New Age optimism about aliens mingles with conspiracy and paranoia in Roswell.
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PROJECT BLUE BOOK
PROJECT BLUE BOOK
In June 1947, while flying his small plane, businessman and civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine objects moving at high speeds through the skies over Washington’s Mount Rainier. Widely publicized reports of Arnold’s experience, followed by an increasing number of reported UFO sightings, led the U.S. Air Force to begin an investigation into the sightings, called Operation Sign, in 1948. The initial investigation resulted in the formation of Project Blue Book in 1952; that project became the longest running of the U.S. government’s official inquiries into UFO sightings, compiling reports on more than 12,000 sightings or related events from 1952 to its dismantling in 1969.
EARLY SIGHTINGS
Though reports of mysterious flying objects–often attributed to spirits, angels, phantoms, ghosts or other supernatural phenomena–have existed for centuries, World War II and the accompanying development of rocket science marked a new level of interest in what would officially become known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The first well-known UFO sighting occurred in June 1947, when civilian pilot and businessman Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine objects, glowing bright blue-white, flying in a “V” formation at speeds of up to 1700 mph in the skies over Washington’s Mount Rainier.
After news of Arnold’s experience hit the media, a rash of similar sightings were reported across the United States, including a highly controversial report of what appeared to be a crashed UFO near a U.S. Army base in Roswell, New Mexico. (The Army claimed the object in question was the wreckage of a weather balloon, claims that conspiracy-minded “ufologists” would later dispute.) In response to the increasing number of UFO-related reports, the U.S. Air Force launched Operation Sign in 1948. Among the initial theories of the project’s participants was that some UFOs were actually Soviet aircraft (this was the Cold War era, after all), although they also posed the hypothesis that some might be extraterrestrial spacecraft.
FORMATION OF PROJECT BLUE BOOK & THE ROBERTSON PANEL
The Air Force’s UFO-related inquiries took place against a backdrop of frenzied popular interest in the strange flying objects, which reached its peak soon after Project Blue Book began in 1951. Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, Project Blue Book would become the longest running of the U.S. government’s official inquiries into UFOs. Alarmed by the striking number of UFO sightings reported in 1952, the administration of President Harry S. Truman feared an outbreak of hysteria over the issue. In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) responded to these fears by assembling an expert panel of scientists, headed by physicist H.P. Robertson of the California Institute of Technology, to discuss the UFO issue.
The Robertson Panel met for three days, during which they interviewed military officers and Blue Book officials and reviewed photos and film of supposed UFOs. The panel concluded that there was no basis for the so-called extraterrestrial hypothesis, and that UFOs posed no security threat. Fully 90 percent of the sightings, according to the Robertson Panel, could be attributed to astrological or meteorological activity, or to man-made causes such as balloons or searchlights. The panel’s findings were not fully declassified until 1979, feeding suspicions that a government conspiracy was in the works.
THE CONDON REPORT
Over the next 17 years, Project Blue Book would compile reports of 12,618 UFO sightings or related events. Similarly to the Robertson Panel, Blue Book would eventually classify more than 90 percent of these as “identified,” meaning they were caused by a known astronomical, atmospheric or artificial (man-made) phenomenon. The remaining 700 incidents remained “unidentified”; these included cases in which there was insufficient information to assign the event a known cause.
In 1966, the Air Force had requested the formation of another committee to look into the details of 59 UFO sightings investigated by Project Blue Book. The committee, headed by Dr. Edward Condon and based at the University of Colorado, released its “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”–better known as the Condon Report–in 1968. According to the Condon Report, the sightings they examined showed no evidence of any unusual activity, and recommended that the Air Force stop investigations into UFO-related incidents. In 1969, in response to the Condon Report as well as a declining number of UFO sightings, Project Blue Book was officially brought to an end; among its conclusions were that of the sightings categorized as “unidentified,” there was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that they were the result of technology beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge or that they were extraterrestrial vehicles.
“UFOLOGY” CONTINUES
Despite the dismissive attitude expressed by the Condon Report and the subsequent dismantling of Project Blue Book, civilian investigations into UFOs continued, as many “ufologists” were dissatisfied with the government’s conclusions. In 1974, the astronomer J. Allen Hynek, who had served as an adviser to Project Blue Book, created the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). This organization continues to look into UFO sightings and to weigh the hypothesis that they could be evidence of extraterrestrial activity.
In addition to UFO investigations conducted in the United States, similar work has been done over the years in other countries all over the world, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Greece and Sweden. In January 1979, the British House of Lords even held a three-hour-long debate on the subject of UFOs and a motion (eventually defeated) that the British government should make public what it knew about them.
A UFO expert explains what his theory behind mysterious lights seen in Skegness.
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A UFO expert has shed light on a mysterious UFO sighting over Skegness in 1996.
It was recently revealed in "Britain's X Files" that mysterious lights were seen over the coast for up to seven hours but the RAF were told to ignore it - as it was "overruled at the highest level".
The incident happened on October 5, 1996, where red, white and blue lights were seen and radar readings were also recorded.
Nigel Watson, who has written the Haynes UFO Investigations Manual, believes there may be an explanation for the incident at Skegness.
He said: "It looks like a combination of factors where there has been radar returns and sightings, but the two don't match up together.
"There are three separate locations where the light had been seen and this didn't match with radar data and that's the problem with the case.
UFO spotted in Lincolnshire. File Photo
"What seems to have occurred is the lights in the sky were probably Venus.
"A bright planet can look quite stunning in the sky.
"Radar returns were probably a return from a local church spire which may have caused the signals."
Mr Watson added that the RAF justified not scrambling to the incident.
He said: "The RAF concluded they were right not to scramble jets that night and that 'research has not revealed evidence that alarming or extraordinary events were being witnessed'."
He added that psychology also has a role to play within sightings of UFOs.
Five strange lights spotted over Lincoln
He said: "I think over the years there is a lack of solid evidence - there are eyewitness accounts but no one has come across a flying saucer, or it has been retrieved by the government and taken away. So you begin to think it's more to do with psychology and social setting.
"There was a fear of enemy invasion when people started talking about UFOs.
"The Skegness incident sounds like an important one as it has the relatively rare element of simultaneous visual and radar sightings.
"Like many such incidents, the situation can be very confusing at the time and a combination of factors can make people think we are on the verge of an alien invasion.
"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."
Incredible 1989 Nashville UFO Photographs Provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy
Incredible 1989 Nashville UFO Photographs Provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy
The photographs of these UFOs were provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy. He obtained these photographs of a FS-143 saucer from a close friend who claimed to have rendezvoused with another intelligence and requests anonymity. These photographs were allegedly taken on September 27, 1989, near Nashville, Tennessee and used to build a model for theatrical events.
The photographs show strong circular columns of light shining down from the craft that suddenly stop in mid-air. Our spotlights do not function in this manner.
The Photographer’s Story
nashville3An experienced photographer was driving in a remote area near Nashville, Tennessee on the night of July 14, 1989. He saw a light behind the trees on top of a mountain several miles away at about 9:00 PM. He stopped his car, opened the trunk, picked up two cameras, a Canon AE-1 and a Canon T-90, that had previously been loaded with film. He started walking toward the bright light.
The light came over the mountain several miles away and he started taking pictures with the cameras. He noticed a coronal discharge from around the perimeter of the object. It appeared to be materializing and coming into his vision. The bright light continued moving toward him. He aimed the camera at the light and started taking photos. His first photo was taken about 30 degrees above the horizon. When the object stopped he was shooting at about 50 degree up with the object still about four to six miles away. The photographer states, “I had a feeling that the craft was behind the mountain waiting for me and when it appeared it felt like I was in another world, the sounds were far, far away.” He looked at the object but could not see any definition, the light was far too bright and too far away. When he looked through the lens the craft was sharp and vivid. The craft was visible for more than five minutes, but less than ten. It seemed like forever. He changed the lens package from the T-90 to the AE-1 camera and continued shooting using all his film.
He felt he was not in control of what was happening. He remembers constantly pushing the buttons on the back of the T-90, each time he made a change it sharpened the image. The T-90 Canon with his lens package cost $3,400.00 It has four computer chips and at the time was one of the most professional cameras you could buy when purchased in 1985.” There were other witnesses, but they have been reluctant to come forward. They also were taking pictures, but the field around the craft interfered with the film as the craft moved away. They did not have high magnification lens so there was not enough definition to make the craft identifiable. The photographer has had a recent heart attack and an auto accident and does not want his name revealed. The Canon T-9- was set up pled3with a spacer, two 2-2 X multipliers and 500 mm mirror lens with five filters. The lens package was 2000 mm plus. The speed of the film using the film push process is close to 3000. The camera was set up to take scenery at a distance. The computerized camera with computer chips was set to open the aperture as wide as possible. Commander Graham Bethune. was told by Bill Sherwood of Kodak that the object photographed with this package used on the camera was about five miles distant and would be 100 feet in diameter.ASA Kodak 400 or above film was used. Push processing was ordered when developing the film.
Film Analysis
Analysis of the film shows unusual colors not normally seen in any lighted object. The colors indicate a coronal discharge similar to the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights.) The photographs show a craft with approximately 32 red, white and blue perimeter lights. These lights are not used in normal aircraft configuration. At times they appear all red. At other times they are all white. Sometimes outer perimeter lights appear mixed in color indicating they may have the ability to change color.
Inside the outer perimeter lights are panels of lights. These also appear to have the ability to change color. Although they are predominantly white they are sometimes seen as partially red or black. Assuming the craft is 100 feet in diameter these outer panels take up about 40 feet or 20 feet on each side. Below the center of craft there appears to be a crystal or lights with crystal like appearance. Generally these lights appear blue. craft appears to rotate in the photos. Graham gave me his word that these were authentic photographs of an actual flying craft to the best knowledge. He has known the photographer for 24 years and the man worked for him for ten years. He has always been know to tell the truth and was of high character.
National UFO Center Note: I have observed a UFO at close distance.
The colors of the smoke probably a coronal discharge were similar to what I saw. The lights themselves have an unusual depth of color. When you look at a colored light it is normally a white light covered by a lens of red, yellow, green, blue etc. The lights on the craft appear as if the light contain the actual color. There is a vividness of color that is difficult to describe that appears to be in these photos. The fog or plasma is penetrated by the powerful lights shining downward. The lights extend down for an estimated seventy-five feet to one hundred plus feet and seem to stop abruptly. Duplication of this capability is exceptionally difficult to accomplish with any normal lights. I have never seen lights that have these properties except on a UFO, nor have I seen comparable photography. I have over 5000 hours flying time and taken thousands of photographs. I would be very interested in any similar photographs or videos of a comparable craft.
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Possible UFO discovered in an old wall painting in Romania
Possible UFO discovered in an old wall painting in Romania
UFO research organization in Israel has sent out a report regarding a wall painting in a 14th century church in Romania that may depict a UFO. It is similar to objects seen in paintings and coins ranging from the 4th century to the 17th century. One UFO investigator feels that the objects in the images may have an explanation that is more down to earth.
Gilli Schechter and Hannan Sabat of the Israeli Extraterrestrials and UFOs Research Organization (EURA), say they received a picture of the painting from Catalina Borta. Borta took the picture while visiting the Biserica Manastirii, or Church of the Dominican Monastery, in the town of Sighisoara. Sighisoara is believed to the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for the legend of Dracula.
The Sighisoara wall painting.
(Credit: Catalina Borta)
The wall painting depicts a disc-shaped object over a building that is emitting smoke. It also has a caption in German that reads “Israel, hoffe auf den HERRN,” which translated means “Israel, put your hope in the Lord.” EURA explains that this is a quote from Psalms song of ascents, c.130 v.7.
The painting appears to be very old, but it is hard to tell how old. According the Monastery’s website, it was originally built in the 14th century, but was destroyed and rebuilt in the 17th century. The EURA report also notes that they are unsure who painted it and when. However, they point out that the caption in the painting probably dates it to after 1523, when the bible was translated into German.
EURA also notes that the painting is not often referenced in UFO research regarding depictions of UFOs in art. However, the image does look similar to other paintings and coins which are commonly believed by UFO researchers to depict aerial anomalies.
One such image is from the Prodigiorum Liber, which was an account of mysterious occurrence in early Rome written by Julius Obsequens. The image in question is supposed to depict a round object that was seen at sunset with a “large beam of fire” to the right. This sighting is supposed to have taken place in 98 B.C.
Image from the Prodigiorum Liber.
There are also French coins from the 17th century with a similar round object. Some researchers believe these to be depictions of Ezekiel’s wheel. However, Marc Dantonio, Chief Photo/Video Analyst for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), has another explanation. He says the shield-shaped object in these images is just that, a military shield.
Dantonio came to this conclusion by researching France in the late 1600s. He found the shields of that period did appear just like the images depicted in the coins. Furthermore, there was a civil war in France in 1680, in which the territorial aristocracy was replaced by the absolute monarch of Louis XIV. He believes the shields were placed on the coins to illustrate King Louis’ strength.
Coins from France called Jetons. These depict the shield images that are often believed to be UFOs.
Images provided by Marc Dantonio of a couple of shields from antiquity whose designs look similar to those in the “UFO” art.
He points out that on another coin, arrows can be seen raining down onto the shield as in an archer’s attack. He also notes that in some cases a line can be seen coming from the center of the shield, which is often mistaken for a ray of light coming from the craft. However, Dantonio explains this is actually a piece of metal that is attached to the shield to deflect arrows.
Although, Dantonio says the object is a shield, he admits that it is still a mystery as to why they are in the sky or coming out of the clouds. He writes:
“One story is that this particular coin is showing Jupiter’s Shield falling to Earth to aid Numa Pompilius, the second Roman king. The shield it said led them to victory during desperate times. But even so, it is still interesting that the shield was bestowed from on high. Was there some otherworldly influence rooted in their culture that prompted putting the shield in the sky? Protection or technology from above perhaps? That’s still a mystery.”
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THE CIA CONFIRMS THERE’S EXTRATERRESTRIAL ACTIVITY ON OUR PLANET
THE CIA CONFIRMS THERE’S EXTRATERRESTRIAL ACTIVITY ON OUR PLANET
A wave of recently declassified UFO files and statements of high rank officials are slowly turning the UFO phenomenon into reality.
Believing that we are the only civilization in the physical Universe – which scientifically speaking is infinite – shows not only an immense ego, but also an unfathomable ignorance. But what happens when high rank officials
On December 2012, the Russian prime-minister Dimitri Medvedev gave a live interview aired simultaneously on five television channels. After that, the Russian ex-president revealed to a journalist that every leader of the Kremlin is handed two folders with classified information regarding the visit of extraterrestrial beings.
At that time, Medvedev’s statement was a worldwide premiere, since it was the first time when a high level official publicly acknowledged the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations during the presidential mandate.
A riveting news article was published in 1980 in the “Sputnik” magazine about the perceptions and experiences of UFOs. This article contains reports from ten Soviet and American astronauts. Only one of these astronauts refused the possibility of UFOs getting in and out of our galaxy.
Ievgheni Krunov declared that it’s actually impossible to deny the presence of UFOs, and we should admit that these are more than simple optical illusions, even some of their characteristics like the rapid change of flight course at a 90 degrees angle offers us a lot of food for thought.
Astronaut Ghenadi Strekalov mentioned that he witnessed numerous strange and inexplicable phenomena, but hesitates to classify these events in any way. Still, he described a phenomenon observed on September 28 1980, during his day shift on the Mir space station: a flying sphere above the Earth, at an altitude of 20-30 km, around Newfoundland. The atmosphere was clear and the visibility was perfect, so he could watch for about 10 seconds how the sphere was shifting beautiful vivid colors, and afterwards disappearing almost instantly.
Strekalov remembered that the UFO had a perfect oval shape. He claimed that he reported the event to the Mission Control Center, but it did not classify as a UFO, concluding that he must be more precautious in the relation with his superiors.
According to publicly released documents, in the year of 1952 alone have been checked and confirmed over 100 UFO phenomena with no logical explanation, that were registered and labeled in the CIA archives as “inexplicable”.
“Almost 100 believable confessions remain inexplicable at the moment. However, the CIA monitoring will continue and no reports will be made public.”, the report notes.
To the disappointment of ufologists around the world, the declassification of those 10 documents coincides with the relaunch of the “X Files” series and apparently those documents do not contain any information regarding crashed UFOs, encounters or kidnappings.
According to the CIA spokesman, the organization believes that the public will find the information extremely fascinating:
“We have decided to release to publicity a few files that even the most skeptical individuals will find appealing. Five of these files are fit for “X Files” agent Fox Mulder, but the other 5 files are perfect for his skeptical partner, agent Dana Scully.”
Conspiracy theorists believe that CIA’s decision to make these documents public does not coincide with the relaunch of the new X Files series, but rather are an attempt to warm-up the audience for later disclosures.
“Apparently, the CIA used the rebirth of the X Files franchise to remind the people that the agency has agents investigating these cases.”, declares Stephen Basset, executive director of Paradigm Research Group, an organization that militates at the White House in order for the government of the United States to admit that aliens are real.
If the world will eventually accept the UFO reality we are yet to find out, but hopefully it won’t take long until our governments will spill the beans about the existence of extraterrestrials.
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An alien dome and a pyramid on Mars or just rocks? Nasa satellite spots two mystery objects on the red planet sending conspiracy theorists into a frenzy
An alien dome and a pyramid on Mars or just rocks? Nasa satellite spots two mystery objects on the red planet sending conspiracy theorists into a frenzy
A YouTube channel has posted a video showing the Nasa satellite images
The channel claims that a circular shape is a dome, and a triangle is a pyramid
The makers of the video maintain that the images have not been altered
But sceptics say that the evidence is 'flimsy' and is likely to be rocks or shadows
From skulls to beer bottles, conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted a range of weird and wonderful items on the surface of Mars.
And the latest alleged 'sighting' suggests that there may be a pyramid and a dome on the surface of the red planet.
Satellite images taken by Nasa show a mysterious circular structure near a triangular shape – although they are likely to just be rocks.
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The latest alleged 'sighting' suggests that there may be a pyramid and a dome on the surface of red planet. Satellite images taken by Nasa show a mysterious circular structure near a triangular shape – although they are likely to just be rocks
WHY WE SEE STRANGE THINGS ON MARS
Pareidolia is the psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random stimulus.
It is a form of apophenia, when people see patterns in random, unconnected data.
There have been multiple occasions when people have claimed to see religious images and themes in unexpected places.
On the red planet, one of the most famous is the 'face on Mars' spotted by one of the Viking orbiters in 1976.
This was later proven to just be a chance alignment of sand dunes.
ArtAlienTV, a YouTube channel that regularly posts alleged alien and UFO sightings, posted a video online showing the structures on Nasa satellite images.
The channel claims that the dome looks 'artificial', and maintains that the images have not been altered.
In the description for the video, ArtAlienTV wrote: 'We have a clear 50 foot dome or sphere in a Mars Crater with large pipes coming out of it on the left.
'Also, a triangular pyramid shaped structure about 500 feet away from it that is 120 ft wide.'
He added: 'These features look artificial in nature and are clearly visible on Google Mars with no enhancements.
'The structures are between the Mawrth Vallis region and Oyama Crater in an area that was short listed for a Mars Rover to explore for possible signs of life before Gale Crater was eventually chosen.
'It is not hard to find.'
But not everyone is convinced of the dome and pyramid theory.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'They have done well to find a dome and a pyramid relatively close together on Mars.
'We all love the idea that thousands of years ago aliens built such structures on Mars and Earth.
'Or there is even the suggestion that aliens still inhabit Mars and/or humans have secretly colonised the planet.
'They are reasonable fantasies but this flimsey new evidence isn't sufficient enough to make them real.'
This isn't the first time that conspiracy theorists have claimed to spot a mysterious object on Mars.
The channel claims that the dome looks 'artificial', and maintains that the images have not been altered
Last week, Nasa's Curiosity rover snapped a photo of an object on the surface of Mars, which conspiracy theorists believe could be evidence of aliens.
The high-definition image appears to show the object glinting against Mars' rocky landscape.
While many people believe that the object is made by aliens, others have suggested that it is merely the rover's own entry debris.
Last week, Nasa's Curiosity rover snapped a photo of a mysterious object on the surface of Mars, which conspiracy theorists believe could be evidence of aliens
Prosaic Origin, the Reddit user who posted the image, wrote: 'Uh Nasa? UFO caught on Mars Rover mission? Is this real?'
His post has received 79 replies, many of which back up his thoughts that it could be aliens.
EdisonVonneZula said: 'Looks like light glimmering off of a genuine spaceship on an alien planet in outer space.'
The high-definition image appears to show the object glinting against Mars' rocky landscape. While many people believe that the object is made by aliens, others have suggested that it is merely the rover's own entry debris
And Crazylegs99 wrote: 'They forgot to Photoshop that one out. Love how skeptical the mods are.
But some users suggested the image could merely show debris from the rover's landing craft.
OnceReturned wrote: '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.'
DO YOU BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking, according to a study earlier this year.
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and negative psychological traits.
Writing in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the team explained: 'Previous research linked the endorsement of conspiracy theories to low self-esteem.'
In the first study, a total of 202 participants completed questionnaires on conspiracy beliefs, asking how strongly they agreed with specific statements, such as whether governments carried out acts of terrorism on their own soil.
Alongside this, they were asked to complete a narcissist scale and a self-esteem assessment.
The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
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Eisenhower Had Three Secret Meetings with Aliens, Former Pentagon Consultant Claims
Eisenhower Had Three Secret Meetings with Aliens, Former Pentagon Consultant Claims
Ex-President met with extra-terrestrials on three separate occasions at New Mexico air base
Eisenhower and FBI officials organised the meetings by sending out ‘telepathic messages’
Former American President Dwight D. Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens, a former US government consultant has claimed.
The 34th President of the United States met the extra terrestrials at a remote air base in New Mexico in 1954, according to lecturer and author Timothy Good.
Eisenhower and other FBI officials are said to have organised the showdown with the space creatures by sending out ‘telepathic messages’.
The two parties finally met up on three separate occasions at the Holloman Air Force base and there were ‘many witnesses’.
Conspiracy theorists have circulated increased rumours in recent months that the meeting between the Commander-in-Chief and people from another planet took place.
But the claims from Mr Good, a former U.S. Congress and Pentagon consultant, are the first to be made publicly by a prominent academic.
Speaking on Frank Skinner’s BBC2 current affairs show Opinionated, he said that governments around the world have been in regular contact with aliens for many decades.
Odd meeting: It has been claimed that Dwight D. Eisenhower met the extra-terrestrials at the Holloman Air Force base in New Mexico
‘Aliens have made both formal and informal contact with thousands of people throughout the world from all walks of life,’ he added.
Asked why the aliens don’t go to somebody ‘important’ like Barack Obama, he said: ‘Well, certainly I can tell you that in 1954, President Eisenhower had three encounters, set up meetings with aliens, which took place at certain Air Force bases including Holloman Air Force base in New Mexico.’
He added that there were ‘many witnesses’.
Eisenhower, who was president from 1953 to 1961, is known to have had a strong belief in life on other planets.
The former five-star general in the United States Army who commanded the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War, was also keen on pushing the U.S. space programme.
His meeting with the cosmic life forms is said to have taken place while officials were told that he was on vacation in Palm Springs, California, in February 1954.
The initial meeting is supposed to have taken place with aliens who were ‘Nordic’ in appearance, but the agreement was eventually ‘signed’ with a race called ‘Alien Greys’.
Mr Good added: ‘We know that up to 90 per cent of all UFO reports can be explained in conventional terms. However, I would say millions of people worldwide have actually seen the real thing.’
According to classified documents released by the Ministry of Defence in 2010, Winston Churchill may have ordered a UFO sighting to be kept secret.
The UFO was seen over the East Coast of England by an RAF reconnaissance plane returning from a mission in France or Germany towards the end of the war.
Churchill is said to have discussed how to deal with UFO sightings with Eisenhower.
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“.
They May Look Like Aliens, But These Creatures Are Very Much Earthlings… Yes, Really!
They May Look Like Aliens, But These Creatures Are Very Much Earthlings… Yes, Really!
Reddit user iBleeedorange has shared with us amazingimages of what must be some of the most outlandish creatures to ever walk, swim or crawl on Earth. They truly look like aliens. I know from biology that there is always a reason for an animal to look a certain way, but these guys simply stretch credulity.
The most amusing image, I think, is the one of the fearsome-looking goblin shark, with the caption informing us that it “poses no danger to humans”. As one Reddit commenter put it, “that’s exactly what a goblin shark would say”. Now have some fun.
1. Sea pig.
Scotoplanes live on deep ocean bottoms, specifically on the abyssal plain in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean, typically at depths of over 1000 meters. They are deposit feeders, and obtain food by extracting organic particles from deep-sea mud.
2. Okapi.
This mammal is native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa. Despite the zebra-like stripes, it is actually more closely related to giraffes.
3. Thorny dragon.
Colored in camouflaging shades of desert browns, this lizard has a “false” head, which he presents to his predators by dipping the real one.
4. Shoebill.
This large stork-like bird gets its name because of the shape of its beak. Even though it was already known to ancient Egyptians and Arabs, the bird was only classified in the 19th century.
5. Indian purple frog.
Found in India, this species of frog have a bloated body and an unusually pointy snout; it only spends two weeks a year on the surface of earth, leaving theunderground for mating.
6. The Blue Parrotfish.
This bright blue fish can be found in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and spends 80% of its time searching for food.
7. The Bush Viper.
Being a carnivore predator, the Bush Viper lives up in the trees of the tropical forests of Africa, and does most of its hunting at night.
8. The Saiga Antelope.
This saiga, spread around the Eurasian steppe, is known for its extremely unusual, over-sized, flexible nose structure, the proboscis.
9. Glaucus Atlanticus.
Also known as the blue dragon, this creature is a species of blue sea slug. You can find it in warm waters of the oceans. It normally floats on the surface because of a gas-filled sac in its stomach.
10. The Pacu Fish.
You probably don’t need much explanation as to why the residents of Papua New Guinea call this fish a “ball cutter.” The local fishermen were really worried about the safety of their testicles when they had to get in the water!
11. Venezuelan Poodle Moth.
Discovered in Venezuela in 2009, this new species of alien-looking moth is still poorly explored. Waiting for more info about them!
12. Hummingbird Hawk-Moth.
As this hawk-moth feeds on flowers and makes a similar humming sound, it looks a lot like a hummingbird. What’s interesting is that it is surprisingly good at learning colors.
13. Mantis Shrimp.
Also called the “sea locusts”, “prawn killers” and even “thumb splitters”, this is one of the most commonpredators in tropical and sub-tropical waters; little is known about them because of how much time they spend hiding in their burrows.
14. Umbonia Spinosa.
These thorn bugs are related to cicadas, and use their beaks to pierce plant stems to feed upon their sap. Their strange appearance still poses many questions to scientists.
15. Penis Snake.
This, uhm… peculiar eyeless animal is actually called Atretochoana eiselti. It is a large, presumably aquatic, caecilian amphibian with a broad, flat head and a fleshy dorsal fin on the body.
16. The Panda Ant.
The Mutillidae are a family of more than 3,000 species of wasps (despite the names) whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. Found in Chile, they are known for their extremely painful stings, hence the common name cow killer or cow ant. Black and white specimens are sometimes known as panda ants due to their hair coloration resembling that of the Chinese giant panda.
17. Goblin Shark.
Goblin sharks inhabit around the world at depths greater than 100 m (330 ft), with adults found deeperthan juveniles. Given the depths at which it lives, the goblin shark poses no danger to humans.
18. Red-lipped Batfish.
Found on the Galapagos Islands, this fish is actually a pretty bad swimmer, and uses its pectoral fins to walk on the bottom of the ocean.
Is A “Breakaway Civilization” Behind The Mysterious Secret Space Program?
Is A “Breakaway Civilization” Behind The Mysterious Secret Space Program?
Richard Dolan author of, UFOs and the National Security State1&2, and A.D. After Disclosure, came up with the term Breakaway Civilization to describe a separately evolving covert, technically advanced community of people with trillions of dollars of resources siphoned off from our host society. This very autocratic, even fascist elite society uses fear, greed and intimidation even murder, to remain invisible to its host society all under the guise of National Security.
Anything that relates to this Breakaway Civilization is classified Top Secret or above with access by need to know and Special Access Programs (SAPS). While much of the Breakaway Civilization is centered in the United States it has integrated itself into allied governments around the globe. It is what President Eisenhower called the Military-Industrial complex in his farewell speech, just before leaving office, warning that it was breaking away from constitutional controls.
If a person really thinks about it, Special Access on a need to know basis, is how the plantation slave owner controlled his slaves, educating them just enough to do their jobs but no more. To educate them further than need to know would invite rebellion. The old plantation system promoted ignorance among slaves in tandem with methods of control based on fear, intimidation and reward. I think the New World Order (NWO) as envisioned by the Elite Military-Industrial Complex Globalists is no more than a more sophisticated version of old feudal society reintroduced into the modern age.
The NWO’s wage slaves are not controlled by the whip or the withholding of food as in the past, but through the creation and control of paper money and the mass media. Money is created and distributed through private central banks disguised as Federal, in almost every country of the world. Paul Hellyer the Ex-Defense Minister of Canada gave a very good speech called Global Fraud, Global Hope that explains sophisticated mechanism of control and even slips a little ET information into the mix as well.
I explained in the introduction to this book that there should be nothing surprising about the idea of elite breakaway civilizations. Humanities past is replete with instances where the ruling elite of a society overtly maintains a standard of living and technology in advance of what subjects as a whole have access to. What is different is when such a system becomes covert, and hides behind a guise of National Security, while growing like a cancer to such size that it subverts and corrupts legitimate transparent constitutional governments all around the world.
I am going to provide the reader with evidence that supports the idea that much of this Breakaway civilization’s advanced technology and its super-secret Space Program is based upon reverse engineering extraterrestrial technologies. These advanced exotic propulsion and exotic power technologies have been gained first through extraterrestrial crashes, and soon afterward from what are called Technology Transfer Programs (TTPs), negotiated between different ET civilizations including the Tall Whites and the Greys. Such negotiations imply embassies and ambassadors, in fact Charles Hall states that his female teacher in the 1960s was, “The Ambassadors Daughter”.
This Military Industrial Complex is the real reason the UFO/ET cover up has lasted so long because the corporations involved profit immensely from maintaining a monopoly on ET access or in the suppressing of exotic cheap energy technologies that would put the fossil fuels industry out of business. I call this loosely knit conglomerate of allied special interests the Alien Resource Cartel.
According to aerospace engineer Bill Uhouse and Ben Rich this cartel was spun off of the MJ12 organization in a purge by the Nixon administration in the 1960s. These following quotes from Bill Uhouse material provide fascinating window into how, what he calls the Satellite Government operates. As one can see from these quotes Nixon left a dark imprint upon society in this arena as well. In this early report Bill was called Jarod, but later the ET he worked with was called the Jarod. Bill Uhouse states:
“Understanding how this social structure works is like trying to understand the internal relationships of a tight-knit family in some Asian culture.” “If any area seems dubious, he asks his boss about it, who says either “Okay” or “Let’s hold off on that a while.” For example, his boss said it was okay to mention Nixon as the founder of the Satellite Government, because “Nixon is dead. ” Playing by the rules is very simple for Jarod. He is not working from any rule book or security classification system.”
“Jarod says the satellite government lives by its own laws, completely separate from the conventional government except for an interface with the military. It is not controlled by any other agency, so it does not have to obey the security regulations of other agencies. The fact that Jarod is allowed to speak does seem to imply permission from a higher level than the supervisor, but perhaps a word from management, without any paperwork, is all it takes to make something secret or not secret. Security could be both more intrusive than in any conventional defense program and more informal to those who are used to the structure. Consider the special circumstances….”
“This agency was separated from the rest of the government over 40 years ago. Thus, it would have had an opportunity to evolve in its own way, adapting to the unique requirements of the subject matter.” “The organization is largely composed of older men who have worked with each other for decades. A worker’s supervisor and his security officer are assigned to him for life.”
“The organization is extremely hierarchical, especially given the needs of compartmentalization. A worker reports only to his immediate supervisor, and direct contacts with members of other departments and higher management are rare.” (End)
In my estimation one of the most important documents released by the United States Government is the declassified Wright Patterson 1956 paper on Electogravitics. It’s technical, but it provides a powerful foundation and basis for the technological development timeline to a present day Secret Space Program based on electromagnetic and electrogravitic propulsion and exotic power technologies.
It also includes the names of corporations that became the major players in the Military Industrial Complex. I have included it in its entirety at the end of this chapter so that it is available to the technically inclined, but the lay person can just skip over it and move to Chapter Three if they like.
Many researchers believe that this Secret Space Program and its Space Fleet is capable of not only rapid travel about our solar system with bases on the Moon and Mars, but is deep space capable as well as first was indicated by Ben Rich. This is why there has been no overt return to the moon because in the 1960s NASA became little more than an expensive and dangerous cover and public propaganda operation. Several NASA employee whistleblowers have testified to being involved in airbrushing out any and all images of the ET presence from images of the Earth, Moon, Mars and even space.
There is so much evidence for this Secret Space Program and the Breakaway Civilization in which it is imbedded that I hardly know where to start. Maybe the best place to start would be statements that Ben Rich made in public and in private before he died.
Ben Rich Lockheed’s CEO Admits on Deathbed: ET/UFO Are Real
What he said might be new to many people today, but he revealed the information before his death in January 1995. His statements helped to give credence to reports that the U.S. military has been flying vehicles that mimic alien craft. The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building technologically advanced airplanes of small number and of high class for highly secret missions.”
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”
“We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.” When Rich was asked how UFO propulsion worked, he said, “Let me ask you. How does ESP work?” The questioner responded with, “All points in time and space are connected? ” Rich then said, “That’s how it works!”
Lockheed “Skunk Works” former CEO knew the Roswell extraterrestrial UFO influenced designs of Testor model kits for Roswell UFO models, and U.S. top secret aircraft. According to a CNI News report by Colorado resident Michael Lindeman, the design information was derived from forensic illustrations and numerous witness testimonies about the Roswell UFO, provided by William L. “Bill” McDonald.
In an e-mail, dated July 29, 1999, apparently addressed to Lindeman, McDonald referenced an excerpt of a discussion with Harold Puthoff, founder of the highly classified U.S. “remote viewing” program. McDonald said: “Well Hal, you asked for it! Now that legendary Lockheed engineer and chief model kit designer for the Testor Corporation, John Andrews, is dead, I can announce that he personally confirmed the design connection between the Roswell Spacecraft and the Lockheed Martin Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), spy planes, Joint Strike Fighters, and Space Shuttles.
Andrews was a close personal friend of “Skunk Works” CEO Ben Rich — the hand-picked successor of Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson and the man famous for the F-117 Nighthawk “Stealth” fighter, its “half-pint” prototype the “HAVE BLUE”, and the top-secret F-19 Stealth Interceptor. Before Rich died of cancer, Andrews took my questions to him.
1. There are 2 types of UFOs — the ones we build and ones ‘they’ build. We learned from both crash retrievals and actual “hand-me-downs.” The Government knew and until 1969 took an active hand in the administration of that information. After a 1969 Nixon “purge”, administration was handled by an international board of directors in the private sector…
2. Nearly all “biomorphic” aerospace designs were inspired by the Roswell spacecraft — from Kelly’s SR-71 Blackbird onward to today’s drones, UCAVs, and aerospace craft…
3. It was Ben Rich’s opinion that the public should not be told [about UFOs and extraterrestrials] . He believed they could not handle the truth — ever. Only in the last months of his decline did he begin to feel that the “international corporate board of directors” dealing with the “Subject” could represent a bigger problem to citizens’ personal freedoms under the United States Constitution than the presence of off-world visitors themselves.”
Lindeman added that “Bill McDonald received the above information from Andrews from 1994 until their last phone call near Christmas in 1998.” Lindeman also noted “It should also be known that Dr. Ben R. Rich attended a public aerospace designers and engineers conference in 1993 before his illness overwhelmed him in which he stated — in the presence of MUFON Orange County Section Director Jan Harzan and many others that – ‘We’ (i.e., the U.S. aerospace community/military industrial complex) had in it’s possession the technology to “take us to the stars”. See the complete letter in May, 2010 MUFON UFO Journal from John Andrews and the hand written reply from Dr. Ben Rich.
Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer USAF, and CIA Contractor Don Phillips confirms Ben Rich’s statements, “These UFOs were huge and they would just come to a stop and do a 60 degree, 45 degree, 10 degree turn, and then immediately reverse this action”. During the Apollo landing, Neil Armstrong says, “They’re here. They are right over there and looking at the size of those ships., it is obvious they don’t like us being here”. When I was working with the Skunkworks with Kelly Johnson, we signed an agreement with the government to keep very quiet about this.
Anti-gravitational research was going on. We know that there were some captured craft from 1947 in Roswell, they were real. And, yes, we really did get some technology from them. And, yes, we really did put it to work. We knew each other from what we call an unseen industry. We can term it black, deep black, or hidden. The knowledge I have of these technologies came from the craft that were captured here. I didn`t see the craft, nor did I see the bodies, but I certainly know some of the people that did. There was no question that there were beings from outside the planet.
Are these ET people hostile? Well, if they were hostile, with their weaponry they could have destroyed us a long time ago. We got these things that are handhold scanners that scan the body and determine what the condition is. We can also treat from the same scanner.
I can tell you personally that we’ve been working on them. And we have ones that can diagnose and cure cancer. One of the purposes I had for founding my technology corporation in 1998 was to bring forth these technologies that can clean the air and can help get rid of the toxins, and help reduce the need for so much fossil fuel. Yes, it is time. I can tell you personally that it has already started. pp. 375, 383.” (End)
The following is an article I wrote after I first heard the term Solar Warden being used as the alleged code name for the part of the Secret Space Fleet that operates within our solar system. I already had an interest in the Secret Space Fleet and had written material about what I already knew.
Here is an interesting little ti-bit folks, that Vince White our exopolitical poet in residence sent me yesterday that I think deserves sharing. People that have been following my blog know I have discussed this alleged allied space fleet in some of my articles.
Forwarded Message: “Subject: Solar Warden Date: 4/5/2009 Dear Jerry: I have verified a little about the Solar Warden that you asked about some time ago. It is the overall project identification for out Space Fleet Carrier program coming out of Regan’s old Star Wars efforts. We apparently have one or more Space Carriers, like Aircraft Carriers at sea, but in deep space, that supports our Space Patrol efforts and house our American built flying discs that require no fuel and operate on free energy.”
“The STS-58 video clip that was filmed from one of our space shuttles showed such an intercept and that footage was immediately suppressed and resulted in that free video from the shuttles being shut down. Gary McKinnon, the English computer nerd that lived with his mother in London, using a cheap home PC late at night, said that he discovered this project and that he found evidence of three such carriers and their names and numbers and even the names of some of the commanders in those black project files.”
“Now you can see why our government is spending so much money and political clout to extradite that foreign national to our country for trial in our country for silencing and then elimination. One has to wonder how much it took to persuade the English House of Lords to give him up to us. Regards, W” (End)
After I posted the two articles on Solar Warden, Open Minds Forum ( OM) management sent the following to me. It would appear that the code name Solar Warden first surfaced at OM before the Gary McKinnon affair. As far as I know Gary did not know of the name Solar Warden.
“You may come to find the information somewhat shocking and unable to understand as. I pray the Almighty will look out for the inhabitants of this planet as the coming years will bring much misery. I pass on this information in the hope that you, as an unbiased observer, will make sure the public learns the truth.”
“All space programs are a cover that exists to deceive the people of this world. We have a space fleet, which is code named ” Solar Warden.” There were, as of 2005, eight ships, an equivalent to aircraft carriers and forty-three “protectors,” which are space planes. One was lost recently to an accident in Mars’ orbit while it was attempting to re-supply the multinational colony within Mars. This base was established in 1964 by American and Soviet teamwork. Not everything is, as it seems.”
“We have visited all the planets in our solar system, at a distance of course, except Mercury. We have landed on Pluto and a few moons. These ships contain personnel from many countries and have sworn an oath to the World Government, also, known as the Bilderbergers. The technology came from back engineering alien-disc wreckage and at times with alien assistance.” (End)
I think we can begin to build points on a historical timeline from the very strong foundation of the 1956 Declassified Wright Patterson Electrogravitics paper to the present day Secret Space Fleet. One very important point has been presented by Senior Research Engineer Boyd Bushman who worked for Lockheed Martin, Texas Instruments and Hughes Aircraft.
In October of 2011 he provided evidence to investigators in an interview that by 1959 the U.S. government had already reverse engineered an extraterrestrial spacecraft using a nuclear reactor for propulsion! I mean this was three years after the Wright Patterson Electrogravitics paper was published. It should not be hard for the reader to begin to logically create a time line from 1956 to 1959 to the present super-secret space fleet.
There has been speculation and some evidence that the Navy has operational control over the Secret Space Fleet, in a case of fact imitating Star Trek fiction. It is well know that the Navy pretty much has had a monopoly on engineering small compact nuclear reactor power plants for its ships and carriers in its large ocean going fleets. The Navy’s organizational structure is well suited for operating large ocean going fleets. On the other hand the Air Force has experience in the research and development, testing and flying advanced aerospace craft and expertise in aerospace tracking and base support in conjunction with Air Force Space Command.
One would assume that some kind of working arrangement has been worked out over the years between the Air Force and the Navy. As it the fiction movie Avatar, one would expect the Army and Marines to have operational control of ground operations on Secret colonies and bases on the Moon, Mars and even on other solar systems. A second important point on the historical time line to a Secret Space Fleet and it’s off world bases and colonies using exotic electromagnetic propulsion systems with compact nuclear power plants to provide the huge amounts of electrical power necessary, is the Piney Woods Incident, the Cash-Landrum UFO Case that took place in December of 1980.
One can speculate from the revelations of Bob Lazar now backed up to some extent by Boyd Bushman and some material in UFO Crash at Aztec, that alien power plants are not that easy to replicate, so these first craft used electromagnetic and electrogravitic off the shelf power plant technologies.
The Cash-Landrum case has been well researched and has withstood the test of time, and seems to have involved a core meltdown in a super-secret exotic aerospace craft. It was surrounded by military helicopters and it severely irradiated the witnesses involved. The three witnesses sued the U.S. government for damages to their health and the case even went to a Congressional Hearing but the government would not admit responsibility for the incident.
Technological Singularity: Beyond the Event Horizon
While many may not realize, it humanity is a rapidly approaching what is being called a Technological Singularity and I believe the Breakaway Society has already passed beyond that event horizon leading the way for the rest of society to follow.
I and others believe that at the technological singularity boundary the technological rules change just as drastically as the rules of physics change at the boundary of a black hole. It is at this Technological Singularity where we begin to rewrite our genome and our external reality giving us superhuman powers and intelligence. In a case of monkey see, monkey do, I believe we are copying this process from covert extraterrestrial contact.
A friend of mine at Open Seti suggested to me after reading my article on genome security that my next article should cover the man in the machine or the concept of human machine hybrids. We need to explore what will happen to us and what will we look like when we no longer interface with our computers through keyboard and mouse but through mind-machine interfaces.
The first step toward a man-machine hybrid as suggested to me by whistleblower Clifford Stone is through a bio-suit loaded with microprocessors and sensors, while the second and final step is integration of these devices into our genetic structure as suggested by Ar Borden. Both individuals claim contact with several ET races. I think the main driver behind the approaching Technological Singularity is extraterrestrial contact.
While this contact is still being hidden from the public it is filtering out into the public domain accelerating our technological development in ways suggested by Col. Corso in his book, The Day After Roswell. This has happened before in our history with the covert release of newly discovered Chinese technology in the 12th and 13th centuries by the autocrats of the day, so as to preserve their control over the masses. (See next section)
I think that many of these extraterrestrial races and civilizations now becoming known to us are already in this technological singularity domain, and by association we are ourselves drawn rapidly into the domain as well. Let’s hope we can handle ourselves in a creative rather than a destructive fashion becoming an asset rather than a liability in this domain. I think that this domain is what the Hopi and other Native Americans have foreseen as the Fifth World as described to them by the Sky People in their past.
I think that the extraterrestrials are shepherding us into this technological or evolutionary singularity for better or for worse, but once there our future is for us to decide, if we will take responsibility for our thoughts and actions.
ET’s Ignite a Modern Renaissance Similar to China in Europe 600 Years Ago
I am always interested in discovering historical material that helps to better understand this process of humanities integration into extraterrestrial realities and the nature of information locked up in the Breakaway Society. I stumbled across Gavin Menzies book 1434 in the course of my studies that provide quite a body of evidence suggesting that the European Renaissance was sparked by the overt and covert introduction of advanced Chinese science and technology. This technological transfer from the world’s only real superpower of the period reached its zenith in 1434 when the Chinese fleet that had already explored and mapped the world in 1421 sailed to Italy.
I had read Gavin’s first book 1421 years ago, but the evidence he had collected was a bit flimsy and a fishing expedition of sorts, but since then many more historical scholars have become involved all over the world and a huge body of evidence is building supporting his speculations and initial data. This is causing a complete rewrite of history for the 1300s and 1400s, even interesting the Smithsonian, and gives us a road-map of the process by which contact with a more technologically developed civilization integrates into a lesser advanced hierarchical society on earth.
History seems to be once again repeating itself where global rulers are allowing scientific and technological knowledge from extraterrestrial contact to covertly leak out into the public domain for their own benefit, while at the same time suppressing other knowledge that would weaken their hold on power. This exact same process seems to have happened in Europe when the Chinese leaders make contact with European leaders, who supported at the time, severely distorting the historical record as to where these ideas and knowledge originated.
“On the cover jacket Gavin says, “Florence and Venice of the early fifteenth century were hubs of world trade, attracting traders from across the globe. Based on years of research, this marvelous history argues that a Chinese fleet –official ambassadors of the emperor–arrived in Tuscany in 1434, where they were received by Pope Eugenius IV in Florence.”
“The delegation presented the influential pope with a wealth of Chinese learning from a diverse range of fields: art, geography (including world maps that were passed on to Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan), astronomy, mathematics, printing, architecture, steel manufacturing, military weaponry, and more. This vast treasure trove of knowledge spread across Europe, igniting the legendary inventiveness of the Renaissance, including the work of such geniuses as DA Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo and more.”
This new knowledge uncovered by Gavin Menzies and others clearly shows that learned men with access did not make many of the discoveries attributed to them, but simply copied already existing technological and scientific ideas that had been in use and known in China for hundreds of years. A small part of the huge Chinese fleet sailed to Italy in huge ocean going ships armed with cannon, mortars, exploding bombs, flamethrowers etc. when at the time the European navies were not more that sail and row galleys, armed with archers. One can imagine the shock to the European political and military authorities when they realized they were basically defenseless against such superior military technology.
Not only did this spark the Renaissance; it sparked an arms race to catch up militarily with the Chinese very similar to what we have today after the crashes of extraterrestrial spaceships in the 1930s and 1940s. The Chinese after bankrupting themselves building such a huge ocean going fleet along with other excesses fell rapidly into decline while the Europeans rapidly became the world’s technological power. There are many lessons from the past that are as applicable today as 600 years ago.
I find it interesting that contact between both humans and extraterrestrials seems to always result in genetic mixing of races. In the 1400s there was also a flourishing slave trade of Chinese slaves mostly young girls to Italy, as many as ten thousand a year. This resulted in a genetic mixing in Italy that reminds me of the forced genetic mixing going on between earth humans and certain races of aliens today in what I call the abductee alien slave trade. In both cases the autocratic authorities approved and facilitated such abhorrent forms of human trafficking.
I believe extraterrestrials have ignited a modern global renaissance in science and technology the likes of which has not been seen for 600 years. When the Chinese ignited the Renaissance they were just as alien and technologically advanced in relation to the Europeans as extraterrestrials are to us today. European political, military and religious leaders acted is very similar ways to exploit the technologies involved while at the same time suppressing the real source of the information and other information that would weaken their hold on power.
In both cases the initial cultural shock was quickly replaced with the emotions of fear and greed. In 1434 the military feared the advanced gunpowder weaponry and naval capabilities of the Chinese that quickly sparked a rapid gunpowder arms race and naval buildup that resulted in the European voyages of discovery and colonization. In 1947 the discovery of extraterrestrial weapons and advanced ET space fleets resulted in a rapid space and arms race resulting in a multi trillion dollar secret space fleet.The greed side of the equation kicks as economic power figures out how the new information could be exploited for the benefit of the ruling classes at the expense of the lower classes.
In both cases the famous learned men of their time became complicit in cooperating with the ruling classes to suppress certain knowledge and to fraudulently take credit for the inventions and scientific discovers that were not theirs. How this was done 600 years ago is explained in 1434 just as Col. Corso explained how it was done after 1947 in the book, The Day After Roswell.
For those who would study the evidence accumulated in the book 1434 and on the website, it is obvious that Leonardo DA Vinci, Santini, Taccola, Di Giorgio all took credit for inventions and scientific discoveries that were not their own. Just compare the similarity of the illustrations in chapter 16. Furthermore the laws of celestial mechanics credited to Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo were know by the Chinese and used to create a very accurate calendar in 1280 for Kublai Khan (page 23 -28) that was later adopted by the Europeans. This calendar required very complex astrological calculations of the earth’s rotation, varying speeds around an elliptical orbit around the sun, etc. The Chinese had even noticed moons around Jupiter visible to the naked eye in certain locations in China in 364 B.C…
How can we account for such similar political reactions and responses by the authorities of both periods and their learned servants? I think the answer is inherent in autocratic rule that is driven in a large part by fear, deception and greed and is by nature insecure as leaders can fall from power just as quickly as they rise to power. Obviously any democratic or populist countermanding force has been far too weak in both cases to have any significant immediate check on autocratic power and societal exploitation of the technologies involved.
It remains to be seen if the situation will change over the longer term in regards to extraterrestrial knowledge due to democratic disclosure rumblings and extraterrestrial disclosure activities by the ET’s themselves. If the Chinese source for this advanced scientific and technological knowledge in 1434 could be effectively covered up for 600 years, 60 years seems a very short time. But on the other hand just as Chinese advances in printing technology helped to rapidly integrate Chinese advanced knowledge and fuel the Renaissance, so too the Internet seems to be not only uncovering old Chinese-European secrets but now ET secret classified knowledge is being uncovered and distributed to the public.
Mars image reveals triangle, saucer and spherical anomalies
Mars image reveals triangle, saucer and spherical anomalies
An anomaly hunter who is studying images of the planet Mars via Google Earth is convinced that he has found an ancient artificial object that looks like a dome or a sphere.
British researcher Joe White points to an intriguing dome or spherical object sphere located inside a crater.
Although Mr. White claims that the structure seems to be artificial, he is aware that similar statements in the past have been proven to be false when higher resolution images of the object revealed that the so-called dome or sphere is nothing but a sand dune.
Mr. White and ufovni2012 who uploaded a video of the unnatural looking “Sand Dune” did not mention two other strange objects next to the crater in the shape of a triangle and a saucer.
Here too, after specialists are going to view higher resolution images, without a doubt they will show that the triangular and saucer-like objects are “Sand Dunes” too or at least “Rock Formations.”
It is interesting to note that this area where these potential ancient structures and UFO-like objects have been found is near Mawrth Vallis which will be the possible landing zone for the ExoMars 2020 mission.
Mawrth Vallis is smack in the middle of a region that has always been mysterious to scientists.
This region is the boundary between the southern highlands and northern lowlands of Mars and Mawrth Vallis itself is an ancient channel carved by catastrophic floods.
Now, the Mars Science Laboratory science team would use the rover to piece together the history of Mawrth Vallis which means "Mawrth" is the Welsh word for Mars and "Vallis" is Latin for valley.
You can check the anomalies by yourself, here are the coordinates: Google Mars: 23°44'49.88"N 18°55'38.41"W
Yesterday on July 7, 2017 a number of strange objects in the sky and outside our atmosphere were observed and recorded by residents of Tennessee, UK and the Netherlands.
While watching NASA’s live feed on July 7, 2017, just after Moon-rise at the 55 minute mark on the link below, Streetcap1 spotted a huge cigar-shaped unknown object on the cam, after several small flashes emanating from Earth's Surface.
Streetcap1 is convinced that it is not a satellite, meteor or shooting star as the object is outside the earth’s atmosphere and would not illuminate until it enters the atmosphere and burns up.
Maybe coincidence but on the same day a Dutch UFO site posted images of a similar object which has been photographed while flying over the former air base Soesterberg in the Netherlands.
Then, again on the same day, a resident of Tennessee while viewing the ISS live feed using the NASA app on his phone spotted a large spherical object on his screen.
The resident, who submitted the images to Mufon registered under case 84922 states that at first he thought that the object was just a spot on the glass of the phone, then he checked and it wasn’t.
He took a screen capture to see it larger and it looked like the Station was getting closer to the sphere before the screen suddenly went black saying that there was technical difficulties.
They show a map as to where the ISS is to be positioned during the feed but when it came back it was pointed somewhere else because it didn’t show the same direction.
I don’t know what is up there but it just seemed very strange that the live feed cut off as the ISS moved closer to the sphere!
Many questions are left unanswered about the existence of extraterrestrial life 70 years after the Roswell incident. Several people across the world are wondering what aliens do look like and where would they go. It seems that the answer is in Newcastle.
The infamous Roswell incident marks its 70th anniversary this year, and the Newcastle area has had its fair share of UFOs. A new amateur video footage shows the answer, according to many UFO enthusiasts.
The North East has its own list of so-called X-Files as dozens of witnesses have reported their UFO sightings over the years.
A Flight Lieutenant at RAF Boulmer said that he saw bright objects, including a luminous round object that was five times larger than a helicopter.
In 2004, a Gateshead vicar said he snapped a photograph of a bright object in the sky hovering smoothly from left to right before the light turned off as if the object was still there, but hidden.
In 2015, a Tynemouth resident Craig Lowther filmed a dome-shaped object hovering over the North East coast with pulsating lights.
Dozens of other videos have also been collected, including one from North Shields where three bright lights in a triangle formation were captured on video.
The new amateur UFO sighting video comes just days after rumours about NASA’s upcoming or pending announcement about the existence of alien life were making the rounds on the internet last week.
Part 1: Project Blue Book Head Thought Roswell ‘Saucer crash’ a Nuclear Accident
Whilst researching a potential TV documentary series, The Secret History of Flying Saucers, I was fortunate to speak and correspond with a number of the key surviving figures of that troubled and controversial history.
They offered some fascinating insights.
Major Robert Friend (Ret.) was head of USAF’s Project Blue Book – the public face of UFO investigations, between 1958 and 1962 – a particularly challenging time following the panic and paranoia sparked by Sputnik. With limited resources Friend strove to maintain objectivity in investigations, earning the respect of Blue Book scientific consultant J. Allen Hynek and his colleague Jacques Vallee. Major Friend had also been prepared to at least consider the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) even though he thought the evidence did not support it.
When he wrote to me in 1997[i] he thanked Vallee and Hynek “for their views of my effort on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Program.”
Most interestingly he continued:
“I do have personal views of some of the cases that differ from the official explanations.
Notably I believe that an unarmed nuclear device was inadvertently released at Roswell and that initially someone felt that a story regarding a UFO landing would cover the recovery operations. There is evidence that points in this direction.
If you are interested I will provide you more detail regarding what leads me to this conclusion.”
There is a precedent for this. In 1945, whilst practising bombing runs from Utah for the atomic attack on Japan, a massive dummy warhead containing an explosive trigger was accidentally dropped from an aircraft, embedding itself several feet in the ground close to the Californian desert town of Caliapatra.[ii] A massive security operation hastily retrieved the device and bulldozed the crater in what must be the first ever ‘Broken Arrow’ incident – one that resonates as a precursor to the many ‘something strange crashed in the desert’ tales that would later form a colourful ‘crashed disc’ folklore.
Of course Friend may have evidence to refute the leading conventional hypothesis: that a Top Secret Project Mogul balloon train and acoustic package to detect evidence of Soviet atomic bomb testing from the atmosphere had come to ground. But there is certainly no evidence for an extraterrestrial origin.
‘Lacombe’ says ‘non’
The afore-mentioned Jacques Vallee, a long-time proponent of scientific research into UFO phenomena (and role model for the French scientist Lacombe in Close Encounters of the Third Kind) graciously declined my request to participate in the proposed documentary:
“Given the current level of the debate about UFOs, I am very sceptical that anything I would say would be heard in the context of the Alien Autposy fraud or the Roswell controversy. Accordingly I believe I can make a better contribution by pursuing my research behind the scenes.”
And:
“Even in the context of your careful approach, the timing is such (with the Roswell anniversary coming up, etc.) that anything I might say would likely be lost in the noise.”
Surely a damning indictment of an event that has come to symbolise the worst excesses of UFO commercialism; hucksterism packaged in a gaudy carnival for the benefit of a town more than 70 miles away from where a sheep ranch foreman found some tin foil, sticks and deflated balloons in scrubland at Corona, NM, and waited for three weeks or more before he bothered to tell anyone about it.
Richard Hall NICAP
Richard Hall, former colleague of Major Donald Keyhoe at NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) – the civilian investigation group that most aggressively pursued the ETH, and volubly criticised the USAF investigations – thought my proposed documentary ‘an extremely interesting one’ but wanted to know:
“Will your ‘history’ be confined to what might be described as the rational record (facts, science, views of reputable and responsible people) or will it, as is all too often true here, feel obliged to report the utterances of kooks, con-men, and New Age airheads as well?
Having spent a good part of my life trying to show that UFOs are a serious, scientific question, there are a few people whose views and attitudes I find so onerous that I generally refuse to appear in the same venue with them. I am referring to people whom I consider either intellectually dishonest, con-men, or raving lunatics. (There are others with whom I strongly disagree about particulars, but honest and scientific disagreement is okay.)
I would like to know who else, among UFO researchers (‘ufologists’) will be interviewed for the series. Although it is not an exhaustive list, some of the most offensive and unacceptable are Philip Klass, William Milton Cooper, Robert Dean, Bob Lazar, Steven Greer, and Bob Oeschler. Not to mention Ray Santilli.”
Hall concluded with asking if I could send him an outline of the series, adding he would be “glad to recommend good people to interview” and that if I really wanted the ‘secret history’ he could ‘steer’ me ‘to important witnesses and unreported information.’
Students of UFO history will recognise all the hallmarks of NICAP’s approach in this letter, especially the need to control the myth, its presentation, and to be the arbiter of what represents ‘good’ research or not.
I was struck by the reference to Ray Santilli, a UK media producer who allegedly obtained the ‘Alien Autopsy’ footage from a former U.S. military cameraman (despite the fact that it was faked by film-maker Spyros Melaris) – clearly even hardened champions of the ETH thought the Alien Autposy film scam beneath them.
PolyGram Television International sales brochure for The Secret History of Flying Saucers
Richard Hall’s reference to Philip Klass did not surprise me. Klass was an aviation writer whose scepticism about UFO phenomena and outright rejection of the unsupported ETH marked him as the bogeyman for all ‘true believers’. His pithy response to my request to made me smile:
Classic Klass
“I am indeeded [sic] flattered by your invitation and delighted to accept – subject to the following condition:
That the producer of the TV documentary agree to pay me the sum of $10,000,000 for my interview, or agree to provide me with a video tape of the documentary in U.S. (NTSC) format after it is shown on TV or otherwise made public – I leave the choice up to your associate.
I expect to be at home in Washington for at least the first several months of 1997 – unless abducted by a UFO.”
NASA, who resolutely avoided having to conduct any UFO investigations – despite the fact that investigators such as Maj Robert Friend at Blue Book (among others) thought their involvement would be completely legitimate – responded with a standard 3-page letter that effectively dodged the issue of making any representative available for interview. However, contacted privately, former Administrator Robert A. Frosch wrote he ‘would be willing to be interviewed about the NASA 1977 decision re UFO questions.’
Dewey Fournet
Not all those involved in the USAF UFO investigations had completely discounted the ETH.
I received a charming letter from former Major Dewey Fournet, a pilot and engineer who had been intimately involved in the earliest Saucer investigations as intelligence liaison between the Air Force investigations and the Pentagon:
“Your proposal confronted me with a dilemma. Except for agreeing to be portrayed in the Greene-Rouse movie, “UFO” (because I was convinced that it was a serious attempt to document the UFO subject up to the mid-1950s)… I have consistently avoided public appearances and pronouncements relating to UFOs. I rejected out-of-hand numerous attempts in past years to involve me publicly in the subject. However, I found that I couldn’t summarily dismiss your proposal because of your obvious sincerity, apparent knowledge of the subject and factual approach – over the phone and in your letter.’
Fournet kindly agreed in principle to participate should production go ahead, subject to issues such as the health of his wife and where filming would occur.
An interesting caveat was:
“After 40+ years my memory has dimmed on many things, for example, I can recall nothing about the BMI Project Stork”
Project Stork was ostensibly a statistical analysis of UFO sightings by ‘think tank’ the Battelle Memorial Institute. Controversially the project would suggest withholding some data from the CIA’s Robertson panel in 1953, and suggested faking UFO incidents in areas where large numbers of sightings had occurred.
But most importantly, for an intelligence officer who early Blue Book head Edward Ruppelt had characterised as ‘probably the most thoroughly convinced believer that UFOs were interplanetary spaceships that I knew’[iii] and who had prepared a technical study arguing that reported flight characteristics of UFO were consistent with the possibility of extraterrestrial vehicles, Fournet was emphatic on one issue:
”It must be clearly understood that I will offer no personal opinion about the nature of UFOs.”
And he concluded:
“Incidentally, I am no longer entitled to be addressed as “Major”. I resigned my reserve commission when I was released from active duty with the Air Force in early 1953; I wasn’t eligible to retire. And this action by me had nothing whatsoever to do with my involvement with the UFO program.”
There is more to share about the research for The Secret History of Flying Saucers in a later post.
I would like to thank Philip Mantle, who was a research consultant for me on the project, David Rozalla, who championed the project at PolyGram, and sincere appreciation to the many fascinating individuals who so graciously gave their time and effort to assist, especially the memories of Dewey Fournet, Philip Klass and Richard Hall, who have all since passed away.
[i] By a quirk of fate, Friend’s letter was dated 24th June, 1997, exactly 50 years to the day since Kenneth Arnold’s sighting gave birth to the Flying Saucer myth.
[ii]Ruin From The Air – Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan Witts
This link to a January 1, 1968 John Keel letter http://www.johnkeel.com/?p=1449 as well as this one referring to John Keel's article "The Flying Saucer Subculture" https://www.scribd.com/.../The-Flyi... recently posted on social media with the following statement: "John Keel considered himself a Fortean, not a ufologist. Mark Pilkington dedicated Mirage Men to Keel and said that he "was first and foremost a story-teller," and his work "knowingly blurs the lines between fiction and non-fiction... Keel charged his ideas with the power of myth and so ensured their continued survival long beyond his own lifetime.” In this video from a 1992 Fortean lecture (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOY...), Keel discussed UFOs as being living energy (that sometimes burn witnesses), their hallucinatory nature, and their causing dogs to bark.”
The individual who posted the John Keel open letter finds it a good one and according to another individual this letter still rings true to this day. John Keel’s "The Flying Saucer Subculture" was even described as "an unflinching history of the first two decades of ufology and Essential reading”. As you will see below, I have also included a 2002 article from noted UFO researcher and historian Jerome Clark re the late John Keel as a counterbalance. Stanton Friedman informed me in his May 29, 1998 letter (I didn't have a computer back then) that "John Keel has made so many false claims I can't count them.” And as the late James McDonald observed about Keel, as can be read in Jerry Clark's piece John Keel vs UFOlogy: “you’re not in a particularly strong position to criticize someone like myself for speculating on the UFO problem. I might tick off, but won’t take time to, a pretty long list of your own speculations that are not well supported in your writings. As a matter of fact, it is not your own speculations that I find disquieting, but your practiced style of writing as if you had some deep insights into baffling mysteries that no one else has plumbed. "I simply do not understand you. You just spin one mystery inside another and never get anything across in any concrete terms.”
In the second paragraph of John Keel's article "The Flying Saucer Subculture”, it reads: “An unidentified flying object,” according to Dr. Edward U. Condon’s definition, is “the stimulus for a report made byone or more individuals of something seen in the sky (or anobject thought to be capable of flight but seen when landed on the earth) which the observer could not identify as having anordinary natural origin ..." This observation is flat-out wrong because Hynek said that a sighting report should not become a "UFO" until it has been screened for IFO type conventional explanations by scientifically competent personnel. He severely criticized Condon's definition of a UFO as merely whatever a witness says he/she can't identify, and said that an expert must make that evaluation.
In the thread where these links were posted, Stanton Friedman was described as a “professional UFO lecturer”, a "UFO Superstar” or a “promotor” of false claims like the Marjorie Fish star map, the MJ-12 documents and the Aztec UFO crash hoax "repeating the same false claims in his lectures for decades” and "whose material is stale and tiresome”. My reaction to such accusations has always been that these individuals should debate Stanton Friedman — I even give them his contact address — and present these false claims to him, instead of writing all kinds of silly comments on social media unbeknownst to Friedman. Perhaps they already know they wouldn’t stand a chance when debating Friedman, which reminds me of amateur astronomer and debunker James McGaha who engaged in a two-hour debate with Stanton Friedman at Middle Tennessee State University on January 24, 2004. Friedman won hands down, because he had the relevant facts in hand whereas James McGaha put his mouth in gear without presenting any evidence.
It has been my personal observation that there seems to be so much undeserved hostility towards researchers like Friedman who has been viciously attacked and accused of doggedly standing behind his ETH conclusions for some UFO cases, while there seems to be overly blind acceptance and friendliness towards researchers à la John Keel and James W. Moseley disseminating obscurantism and unreliable, vague and perpetual story-telling and trickery. It's really astonishing to observe that some individuals on social media, notably at UFO Updates’ Facebook page, seemingly prefer to choose the Glenn Becks and the Clowns of UFOlogy or the Fast Writers among UFOlogists with the weirdest mystical ideas about the nature and origin of UFOs — as long as it isn’t a "nuts and bolt" ET - over reliable and clear-headed researchers who have made straightforward observations based on years of personal investigations or based on their knowledge of specific (scientific) areas like e.g. Stanton Friedman and other intelligent, meticulous individuals I know but whom I won’t mention here. Of course, the latter researchers can be wrong or make mistakes, but are they wrong or do they make mistakes all the time? That is a big difference! Any expert in whatever specialised area is subject to mistakes and such. If something is true based on the factual data or evidence gathered through personal investigations, does it become invalid simply by repeating it time after time in lectures? According to some it clearly does. To me, that is rather strange reasoning or logic. Perhaps one of the best tentative but straightforward conclusions made about UFOs, at least to me, is that of the late atmospheric physicist James E. McDonald: "On the basis of the evidence I have examined, and on the basis of my own weighing of alternative hypotheses, I now regard Hypothesis 7 [Extraterrestrial devices of some surveillance nature] as the one most likely to prove correct. My scientific instincts lead me to hedge that prediction just to the extent of suggesting that if the UFOs are not of extramundane origin, then I suspect that they will prove to be something very much more bizarre, something of perhaps even greater scientific interest than extraterrestrial devices” (Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects (p. 5), 1968).
As to the late James W. Moseley, noted UFO researcher and historian Jerry Clark wrote a critical review in 2002 of Moseley's "Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist" which he co-wrote with the late Karl T. Pflock. Jerry Clark sent me this review "The Trivialist" many years ago. I still have it.
And as to Mark Pilkington and his Mirage Men, Stanton Friedman had sent me his review in 2015 about Pilkington’s poor “research”, which you will find enclosed. He had already sent me his column the year before. Friedman also informed me that those who had attended Pilkington’s lecture at the 2015 IUFOC know how many people left early who were totally unimpressed, adding that many thanked him afterwards for pointing out Pilkington's deficiencies at the end of his presentation.
So it wasn’t just me who thought the late and great John Keel made stuff up…..
JOHN KEEL vs UFOLOGY
by Jerome Clark
[published in Fortean Times 156 (2002), pp. 39-42]
On March 17, 1969, John A. Keel, occult journalist, composed a three-page letter to James E. McDonald, atmospheric physicist. Except for their mutual fascination with the UFO phenomenon and their outsized personalities, it would be difficult to imagine two men less alike. Between them they personified the extremes of 1960s ufology.
One addressing himself almost exclusively to radical ufologists and Forteans itching for an exciting alternative to the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) harked back to the 1940s, to Richard S. Shaver and N. Meade Layne, and, even earlier, to classical demonology and supernatural folk belief. The other allying himself with the most conservative ufologists and speaking to his fellow scientists and to elite institutions possessing the wherewithal to fund UFO research and to overcome entrenched resistance to the phenomenon sought to drag ufology out of its marginality and to transform it into a branch of normal science. Barely more than two years later, McDonald would be dead by his own hand, and Keel would live on to write The Mothman Prophecies and other books and to remain an active presence into the 1980s and an enduring influence even now.
It can be fairly said that if McDonald wanted to domesticate UFOs and place them in the mainstream, Keel preferred them so wild and woolly that the ETH would pale into banality by comparison. The whole structure of post-Enlightenment civilization itself would collapse before Keel’s shape-changing ultraterrestrials demons with a fancy new moniker became a generally recognized species. In Keel’s view, McDonald, an accomplished and (at least until he took up UFO advocacy) well-regarded member of the University of Arizona’s Institute of Atmospheric Physics, needed educating and not just about the supernatural reality underlying UFOs and allegedly related manifestations: poltergeists, fairies, Sasquatch, Republicans, in short just about anything else not immediately explainable. Keel, using a rhetorical technique that over the years would become wearily familiar, remarked that
“McDonald suffered from a regretable [sic] emotionalism & apparent in many of your public statements.”
Moreover, Keel observed, “You often tend to substitute speculation for facts.”
McDonald was associating with the wrong people, for example the ufologists associated with NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, a relatively cautious, pro-ETH private group headed by UFO author and retired U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe). These sorts were buffs who adopted a conclusion before they had any evidence. Keel, on the other hand, drew on extensive field studies and personal experiences, not to mention the valid, independent studies he had conducted outside the buffery sphere of reference. Among other things, he had established conclusively that known poltergeist cases and known UFO waves correlate precisely with each other, thus substantiating Keel’s theory that the poltergeist phenomenon is a UFO effect.
Keel declared that his comprehensive study of all religious traditions proved divine miracles and UFO contacts also to be identical at their root. No specifics accompanied these assertions, though he did urge McDonald to look up recent Keel articles in such august journals as the pulp cheesecake-and-adventure magazine Male and Ray Palmer’s pulp hollow-earth-championing Flying Saucers. On the last of his three pages, he did mention West Virginia contactee Woodrow Derenberger. Highly qualified psychiatrists had given Derenberger a completely clean bill of health. Even more revealingly, one of the doctors involved experienced direct contact himself!
McDonald’s restrained response, written on March 24, observes mildly that
“you’re not in a particularly strong position to criticize someone like myself for speculating on the UFO problem. I might tick off, but won’t take time to, a pretty long list of your own speculations that are not well supported in your writings. As a matter of fact, it is not your own speculations that I find disquieting, but your practiced style of writing as if you had some deep insights into baffling mysteries that no one else has plumbed.”
Writing back with a long letter dated April 2, Keel portrayed himself as the one man who had broken through all the buffery myths and nonsense, conducted not just the field work but the statistical and scientific studies others (such as McDonald, who had only emotional involvement, or NICAP’s obsessive-compulsive paranoid schizophrenics ) had not even thought to try, and found a definite conclusion based upon hard facts.
“The UFOs are transmogrifications. The UFO entities are variations on the age-old elemental types.”
In a much shorter reply McDonald, refusing to rise to the bait, remarked that Keel simply was not making himself clear. When he talked about transmogrifications and age-old elemental phenomena, he wrote,
"I simply do not understand you. You just spin one mystery inside another and never get anything across in any concrete terms."
In a note to himself —McDonald was a compulsive note-taker— he said that he was disinclined to engage in further correspondence.
It was a wise decision. Keel had already declared that the celebrated scientific method has proven to be totally unworkable where UFO investigation and interpretation are concerned.[i] Those who have had access to McDonald’s massive UFO files (housed at the University of Arizona in Tucson) have seen abundant evidence of his commitment to the scientific method.[ii] McDonald, alas, merely a passive observer; could only interview witnesses, weigh testimony, study radar records, consider alternative explanations for sightings, and all the rest. Keel, on the other hand, could actually control UFO events. Once, he claimed, he had conjured up the notion of gillmen, and not long afterwards according to Keel anyway someone actually encountered a gillman. Who, where, or when Keel never let on.
If you believe John Keel, you also believe this: Supernatural gods (ultraterrestrials, hereafter UTs) once ruled directly over the earth but then returned to their abode, the superspectrum (the upper reaches of the electro-magnetic spectrum ), after human beings began to populate the planet. Displeased with the intrusion, the UTs engaged in protracted conflict with Homo sapiens in an effort to resolve this territorial dispute. (Keel does not explain why such presumably superior entities would have to wage the dispute over thousands of years.) The UTs also battled each other, and one group assumed human form so that it could more easily communicate with the Neanderthals, whom it sought to enlist in its physical army.
“The unintended result was sexual intercourse and the creation of the human race as we know it.[iii] This produced strange responses in the offsprings materialized nervous system,” Keel wrote. “Emotions were born. Frequencies were changed. The direct control of the superintelligence was driven from their bodies. They were trapped on Earth, unable to ascend the electromagnetic scale and reenter their etheric world. With the loss of control, they became animals, albeit highly intelligent animals.” [iv]
According to Keel, humanity’s long interaction with the supernatural, as well as the timely intervention of enigmatic, unearthly strangers in the lives of historical personages such as Thomas Jefferson and Malcolm X, testifies to the continuing presence of the gods of old, including God, who dwell in the superspectrum. Its manifestations include UFOs and their occupants, monsters, demons, angels, poltergeists, ghosts, and voices in the head.
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel
“The Devil’s emissaries of yesterday have been replaced by the mysterious men in black,” he stated. “The quasi-angels of Biblical times have become magnificent spacemen. The demons, devils, and false angels were recognized as liars and plunderers by early man. The same impostors now appear as long-haired Venusians.” [v]
“Thus you swallow all but the benign slant of testimony from such notorious characters as George Adamski, Howard Menger, Aladino Felix (aka Dino Kraspedon), and Ernest Arthur Bryant (of the notorious Scoriton episode, in which a reincarnated Adamski returned via spacecraft to rural Devonshire), all contactees of the 1950s and 1960s, all of them with at least to other observers – very serious, some might say fatal, credibility problems.[vi]And then there’s the already-mentioned Woodrow Derenberger and, on the other side of him, Thomas F. Monteleone.”
From November 1966 until he dropped out of sight a few years later, Derenberger, a late-middle-aged sewing-machine salesman, challenged the credulity of even the most slack-jawed with ever more expansive fables of interactions with space people and of jaunts to their home planet, Lanulos ( near the Ganymede star cluster [vii]). Given conservative ufology’s antipathy to contactees, NICAP’s Pittsburgh Subcommittee led a remarkably vigorous, open-minded field investigation into Derenbergers early claims as they were occurring — or, more accurately, evolving — until it arrived at the only conclusion possible: that Derenberger’s yarns owed everything to human invention, nothing to extraterrestrial intervention. A local psychologist drawn into the probe — the one who, Keel told McDonald, experienced direct contact himself! — suffered something of a breakdown, seeing saucers invisible to other family members, meanwhile channeling failed prophecies.
Derenberger’s tall tales figure largely in Mothman Prophecies (1975). Keel, who spent time with Derenberger, rejects any notion that the man was just making it up as he went along. He also cites as supporting evidence the adventures of a University of Maryland student, Tom Monteleone, who claimed also to have met denizens of Lanulos and to have traveled to the home planet, whose inhabitants cavort about it in the nude. Monteleone surfaced after he called a Washington, D.C., radio station on which Derenberger was appearing. As Keel writes in Mothman, Even Woody was surprised by such direct confirmation of his own experiences. After meeting Monteleone personally, Keel determined that Monteleone was privy to subtle details about such things that only true UT encounterers would know about; “thus, I finally had to conclude Tom was on the level.”
Except he wasn’t. Monteleone was, one, a psychology major — that alone ought to have raised a red flag or at least a Keelian eyebrow — and, two, an aspiring (and later successful) science-fiction writer. He had conjured up the story on a lark, as a hoax on a hoaxer. Writing in the May 1979 issue of Omni, he crowed, “I contradicted Mr. Derenberger’s story on purpose, claiming to have seen totally different things on my visit to Lanulos. But on each occasion, he would give ground, make up a hasty explanation, and in the end corroborate my own falsifications. He even claimed to know personally the UFOnaut who contacted me!” [viii]
When these revelations saw print,[ix] Keel did not, no surprise, graciously concede that all those conservative ufologists buffs and cultists in Keelian had been right all along. Keel insisted not only that he had known Monteleone was lying from the start, but that anybody who read what he had written on the subject could see that.[x] Well, not so. To the contrary, Keel had been so wowed by Monteleone’s Lanulosian friend Vadig’s customary farewell “I’ll see you in time” that he cited it as evidence that UFOs come from outside our time frame and [Keel’s italics] “from outside the environment of the known universe.” [xi]
It should be stressed, too, that Keel does not always use the word hoax as the rest of us do, to denote humans fooling, or attempting to fool, other humans. In Keelian, hoaxing more often represents what UTs do to us. Since UTs are virtually all powerful, they can represent themselves as just about anything. Consequently, even the most manifestly preposterous encounter claims are real paranormal events, even if not what they seem to witnesses. Thus, Adamski and Derenberger are telling the truth as they saw it; thus, too, the airship inventors of 1896/97 were disguised UTs (even though practically every sober investigator of the airship period has deduced that such figures did not exist outside the fictions of journalist-pranksters). Thus, anything, and I mean anything, goes.
I have a personal history with Keel, whom I have known since if memory serves early 1967, when Charles Bowen, then editor of Flying Saucer Review, brought us together. We entered into correspondence. I was young, impressionable, modestly read, uncritically minded, and in the fashion of the period susceptible to paranoia. In Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969 (1992) Jacques Vallee records the following from his entry of April 3, 1969: “Don [Hanlon] believes that Jerome Clark, a young ufologist from Chicago [sic],[xii] has become so convinced that an extraterrestrial [sic] invasion was imminent that he has been driven close to a breakdown.”
Well, not quite — in April 1969 I was more upset about a break-up with a girl friend than about invading UTs — but it is certainly true that I suffered both an unhealthy degree of fright and an overblown imagination. I was hardly alone. Earlier, in December 1967, I had visited Keel at his Manhattan apartment, where he and a young couple caught up in the excitement were trying on gas masks, anticipating an imminent UT strike on New York City. Reading the correspondence I had with Keel and others back then, I can only cringe at the youthful folly painfully in evidence. At least, I suppose I could say in my defense, I had the excuse of being rather younger than Keel.
In any event, I grew up, and away from Keel, though once he had confided his hope that one day I would be the next generation’s John A. Keel. Though I had thought the parting was amicable, I was wrong. As late as the 1990s, long after our personal interaction consisted in its entirety of no more than the rare pleasant note and the even rarer crossing of paths, he was madly spreading slanders whose subject was lapsed Keelist Jerome Clark. When at last I confronted Keel on the matter, he replied that he was only pointing out the obvious, which is that I… "live in a world of paranoid conspiracies and illiterate misconceptions. To curb this you may need extensive psychotherapy, coupled with drug treatment. You are ill and have been haunted by this illness all your life." And so on. In short, the usual charming way of dispatching critics: they say those things because they’re crazy, in the most clinical sense of the adjective. For good measure, he added the to-me-amusing observation that I have fallen for hoax after hoax. [xiii]
None of this matters much, and my annoyance over this strange little episode passed quickly. Still, besides demonstrating Keel’s often-shown preference for vituperation over reasoned discourse, it underscores his crankiness, in both senses of the word. It’s not that Keel will not lightly abide fools; it’s colleagues he objects to. And come to think of it, why given his medieval-demonologist outlook, his relentless credulity, his charm-challenged anti-intellectualism, and, well, his bad manners — would anybody want to be a colleague of Keel’s?
Contrary to general impression, which is wont to credit him with a more creative imagination than he in fact has, he is not a particularly original thinker. His mentor Meade Layne, founder of the occultish (the uncharitable would say crackpotish) Borderland Sciences Research Associates, got many of his ideas from medium Mark Probert, who channeled teachings from, among others, a 500,000-year-old Tibetan.[xiv] If this is your idea of a reliable source of information, God bless you, but I suspect most of you would elect to look elsewhere. Layne, I might mention, thought the etherians UTs were a generally benign lot. It was Trevor James Constable, a student of Layne’s, who first discerned the dark reality beneath the sunny exterior: The spacemen finally begin to emerge as coteries of unethical invisibles, exerting a psychic despotism over innocent and well-meaning people. [xv]
But Keel has been more widely read, and it is largely through him that ufologists and Forteans, or at least some of them, have plunged into the thickets of occultism and obscurantism, into a realm where words like elemental and superspectrum and ultraterrestrial and transmogrification are actually supposed to mean something.[xvi] Into, in other words, a domain of incoherent theory and dubious data and, finally, numbing irrelevance. If Keel were a humorist like Charles Fort rather than a windmill-tilter like Tiffany Thayer,[xvii] one could smile and shrug it off as an ongoing, offbeat joke. No Fortean, to my knowledge, has ever championed Fort’s sky islands or Ambrose-collectors, knowing that Fort wasn’t championing them, either. But Keel is deadly, gloomily, blusteringly, spittle-spewingly in earnest. Though usually politer and calmer about it, so are the legions of acolytes who since then have dropped a ton of Keelist doctrine on all our heads.
Let me close, however, on a mostly positive note. To the best of my recollection, I have been in Keel’s company three times, possibly four. Even with that limited exposure, I think I can safely testify that there are few more entertaining dinner companions. Though it’s hardly something one would infer from his writing public or private, in restaurants he has a dazzling and wicked sense of humor. I also think Mothman Prophecies is a hugely fun book, even if there are whole chunks of it no sensible human would take seriously for a nanosecond. I hope that the movie based on it is a huge success and that Keel makes a ton of money from it. He deserves to retire in peace. And, if the truth be told, the rest of us deserve to be left in the peace of Keel’s retirement.
i. A New Approach to UFO Witnesses, Flying Saucer Review, May/June 1968.
ii. As well as McDonald’s correspondence with a dizzying range of UFO personalities, from the sane to the certifiable.
iii It is surely pointless to mention here that no living physical anthropologist believes that Neanderthals were the ancestors of Homo sapiens.
iv. Our Haunted Planet (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1971).
v. UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970).
vi. Keel’s explanation for conservative ufologists rejection of claims like these is characteristically ad hominem. In The Flying Saucer Subculture, Journal of Popular Culture 8 (1975), he writes, Interestingly, the hard-core believer [sic] & tends to be over-skeptical & and has an extremely suspicious nature, perhaps because he/she has created an imaginary self-image and constructed the necessary lies to maintain it. Thus they tend to believe that everyone else shares these personality flaws. They often project or transfer their own problems to the UFO witnesses they interview, and many sincere percipients and contactees have been branded liars by UFO enthusiasts who thought they detected their own behavioral problems in them.
vii. Ganymede, of course, is usually thought to be a moon of Jupiter.
viii. Monteleone has his own credibility problems. The Omni confession, devoted chiefly to the ridicule of those foolish enough to believe him, gives the impression that his role as hoaxer was brief and limited. In fact, as late as January 1970, he was making public appearances. In an August 11, 1970, letter to Keel, he stated that the experiences I had with Vadig [his contact from Lanulos] were completely true. This was, of course, long after he had made whatever point he originally intended to make.
ix. Not only in Omni but in a better (and more restrained) piece by Karl T. Pflock; see Anatomy of a UFO Hoax, Fate, November 1980.
x. For example, see Mark Opsasnick’s amusing account in Strange Magazine (Spring 1995). Confronting Keel on his curious assertion that hed always known Monteleone was a fraud, Opsasnick asked, reasonably enough, why, knowing as much, he had still chosen to present it in Mothman Prophecies. Keel snapped, The chapter is about hoaxes! Read the whole chapter! Don’t read one sentence! The whole book says it’s all a crock of shit! Opsasnick notes, I decided to leave it at that. I reread the chapter. It is not about hoaxes. I could only hope that Keel s �statement the published word doesn’t mean anything applies only to this chapter.
xi. The Time Cycle Factor, Flying Saucer Review, May/June 1969.
xii If it matters, I was living in Moorhead, Minnesota, at the time.
xiii. Letter dated March 27, 1996.
xiv. See, for example, Layne’s Mark Probert, Baffling San Diego Medium, Fate, May 1949.
xv. Scientists, Contactees and Equilibrium, Flying Saucer Review, January/February 1960.
xvi. As veteran ufologist Richard Hall once wittily observed (MUFON UFO Journal, August 1977), for all the meaning terms such as these and extra-dimensional, psychical, Magonia, and the like bear, one might as well say that UFOs emanate from the chronosynclastic infindibulum.
xvii. The late James Blish once wrote of Thayer, founder of the Fortean Society, that he advocated almost every imaginable crazy belief. At bottom, he added, every one of these beliefs & turned out to rest on some form of personal devil theory. Cited in Damon Knight’s Charles Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1970).
MAJESTIC-12: A FORBIDDEN STORY ABOUT THE SECRET U.S. UFO COMMITTEE
MAJESTIC-12: A FORBIDDEN STORY ABOUT THE SECRET U.S. UFO COMMITTEE
Majestic 12 (MJ-12) is the nickname given to a secret group (scientists/military/government) of paranormal researchers- widely theorized by popular UFO conspiracy claims.
Who was this secret group? Where did this secret group come from? Is this secret group true? What evidence did they find? How much does our government know?
The government must have had an inkling to round a search party. MJ 12 was organized by then President Truman in 1947. Rumors of MJ12 began when the FBI investigated leaked documentation regarding secret alien life capture- and deemed it false. The public did not trust the FBI and displayed their belief that the leaked proof was indeed authentic.
The infamous leaked eight pages are directly linked to the notorious Roswell Incident. At that time there were already whispers of a government cover-up. The eight pages were actually photos of eight pages of documents that were received anonymously by a high ranking UFO Explorer. The first page mentions the three words, Operation Majestic Twelve, hence the formation of the nickname, Majestic 12. The second image was of the names of the twelve members. On page three comes the bombshell, news of the actual possession of a crashed alien Warcraft- and a genuine alien life form.
The papers go on to detail the involvement and ongoing cover-up by government officials. Truman supposedly knew about the alien crash and sent Defense Secretary Forrestal to keep house. The genuine nature of these documents is believed by many because of Truman's orders to keep civil obedience a top priority. Letting fears of civil unrest take precedence over the right of the public to know the truth.
WHO ARE THE MAJESTIC-12?
There are several reasons why many people doubt the authenticity of this documentation. Military time is commonly used by the military; these papers were typed with the time in regular/civilian time. Another theory claims misuse of the title admiral when the correct term is "rear admiral." There are also a few words that do not date back to the 40’s- when this document was allegedly written.
On the other hand, the twelve signatures on this classified sworn secret project. Were all verified as authentic. It was an extremely powerful group of people, Majestic 12. CIA, top politicians, and respected scientists. Whoever masterminded the creation of this group knew what they were doing. How much the government knows and does not know will always be up for discussion.
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Ancient Aliens looks at the truth behind The Majestic 12
Ancient Aliens looks at the truth behind The Majestic 12
Ancient Aliens looks at the truth behind The Majestic 12
This week Ancient Aliens examines the mysteries of The Majestic Twelve.
Sometimes known as MJ-12, many conspiracy theorist believe this group was formed back in 1947 by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in order to recover and examine various extraterrestrial objects, including perhaps downed or found UFOs.
The theories stem from a series of documents that were said to have been leaked from inside the government. These contained details of the group, explaining that it was made up of various military expert and scientists.
However, the FBI examined the documents and declared that they were fake. Never the less the theories have remained popular and have made it in to various forms of popular culture.
Even as late as the 1990s new documents emerged claiming to have more information about the 12, but again these were seen to be a hoax.
A few theorists also think the whole thing, including the leaks, were part of a government misinformation campaign.
Ancient Aliens airs at 9:00 PM on History Channel.
The first report of a flying saucer crash landing came in 1947 and was said to have happened near a military base in Roswell. It wasn't long before rumors spread about alien bodies found in the spacecraft.
UFO expert Nick Pope spoke to Inside Edition about the crash in Roswell in the canon of American history and pop culture.
“Roswell is really the ground zero of the UFO phenomenon," he said. "It's the place not just where there was a sighting, here the suggestion was that something crashed, if that's true, the U.S. government has in its hands definitive evidence that we are not alone."
Decades after the unusual sighting, Roswell continues to be invoked in movies like Independence Day, as well as TV shows like The X-Filesand the aptly named Roswell.
Many of the sci-fi films and shows feature Area 51, the Nevada Air Force Base rumored to secretly house the evidence of extra-terrestrial life.
Dave Grohl, who formed the Foo Fighters in 1994, named the group after the military's nickname for UFO. He also named his record label Roswell Records, as an homage to the area.
Through the years there have been all sorts of strange lights in the sky.
Many remain mysterious while others are explained, like a 10-ton meteor that exploded over Russia and caused panic when it hit Earth in 2013.
In 1995, the Roswell incident was back in the headlines when Ailien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? aired on network television. It showed what was believed to be three military doctors performing an autopsy on an alien corpse recovered from the Roswell crash site in 1947. The footage was later exposed as a hoax.
The fascination with beings from outer space continues with a new series UFOs: Uncovering the Truth, which airs Saturday night on Destination America.
“What's fascinating is it's not just a UFO story, it's now firmly a part of American pop culture,” Pope said.
UFO witnesses capture “shinning disk” on video near Toronto Harbourfront
UFO witnesses capture “shinning disk” on video near Toronto Harbourfront
A couple celebrating Canada Day at Toronto’s Harbourfront recorded a video of a mysterious “white shining disk,” according to a UFO report they submitted today to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Along with the report, the couple uploaded their video.
Toronto Harboufront.
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Map of Toronto Harboufront.
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The video shows a round object with what appears to be a clear or dark center. The object cannot be seen throughout the video, but appears and then disappear several times. The object looks disk-shaped, perhaps even a disk with the center cut out like a vinyl record.
A still image submitted by the witness. Click on the image to see a larger version. (Credit: MUFON)
Me and my girlfriend were celebrating Canada Day weekend at Harbourfront on Sunday July 2nd, 2017. I looked up in the sky for no particular reason….and noticed this circular white shining disk. As you can see on the video, I asked my girlfriend, what do you think that is? She then witnessed it too….and was thinking it was either a kite or a drone, thinking drones are everywhere. But once she started looking at it again…and then saw the video, she realized that it was not a drone. When looking at the object…I noticed the glaring shininess of the disk…and how it was moving across in a circular motion. It then just disappeared in the clouds, we were watching for awhile, but did not see it again. At that point we then witnessed a black helicopter and thought maybe it was following it? I was shocked witnessing this….I was puzzled. My girlfriend was skeptical at first…but realized it might have not been a drone after all.
Drones, often of the quad-copter variety, have appendages that hold the rotors and zip through the sky. This object does not demonstrate that sort of behavior, nor does it appear to have rotors, so the witness is likely right that a drone is not what they filmed. Balloons are often set afloat during celebrations and move with the wind. However, balloons do not appear and disappear as this one does. If the balloon is somehow going into and out of shadows, it might appear as though it is disappearing and reappearing. However, this balloon is high in the sky and it does not appear anything could cause shadows at that height. Still, a balloon might not be able to be ruled out.
The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the object in the comments below.
As I have threatened to before, this series on UFOs will rip the scab off the secret history of UFOs in Valley Center, Pauma Valley and Palomar Mountain.
The area does have a fun history concerning Little Green Men and other anomalies. The first king of aliens, George Adamski (1891-1965), made a pretty impressive footprint in the Backcountry in the years just after World War II, which is when reports of UFOs skyrocketed all over the country and the world.
Adamski was special, however. He was sort of a black belt in the Martian arts. He was also so obviously a fraud and a charlatan that he inspires a sort of backhanded admiration from those of us who find scoundrels fascinating. He is so dodgy that he could have easily been a founding father of San Francisco. Instead, if anyone could be said to be a father of the UFO craze, he deserves the honor. He became one of the most famous of the so-called “UFOlogists” when he claimed to have taken photos of spaceships from other planets, and to have hosted and been hosted by friendly aliens.
I’m not going to make any claims about the authenticity of Adamski’s claims. The spaceships he took pictures of may very well have been authentic. But some of them did look an awful lot like pie plates!
I recall a man who used to run the Palomar Mountain Lodge years ago reminiscing about Adamski, who used to hold late night seminars on the big porch that overlooks Pauma Valley from the lodge. He would host groups of acolytes, who usually paid well for the privilege, and they would watch through the spectacular skies above the mountain.
“There’s one!” Adamski would say. When others professed not to have seen the phenomenon, he would nod sagely, point to himself and say with the air of a sage: “You’ve got to have a trained eye!”
Adamski liked to maintain a post office box on Palomar Mountain. The boxes are reserved for residents of the mountain, but Adamski loved the association with what was then the most powerful telescope in the world, Palomar Observatory’s 200 inch Hale telescope. Known to the astronomical world as “The Big Eye.” For used there used to be a mockup of a flying saucer on the property of the Oak Knoll campground—at the foot of Palomar—where Adamski held some of his gatherings.
Valley Center’s historian, Bob Lerner also tells me, that Adamski had a home on Cool Valley Road and that there was an Adamski-related group that was on Miller Road. We’ll find out more about that in subsequent installments of this series.
Meanwhile, I want to hear about you and your experiences. Especially if you have some experiences that aren’t of the “amazing but untrue,” variety. I’m a skeptic, but I’m an open-minded skeptic. I am sure, as they said in “The X-files” that the truth is out there, and sometimes the truth is a little weird.
As Hamlet said, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Let’s find out about the UFOs in our back yard. Contact me at editor@valleycenter.com or call me at 760-749-1112.
In this UFO Sightings video clip: Roswell: A brief look at the Roswell UFO encounter, and the controversy around it. For over 60 years, the debate has raged on. What happened in Roswell? An alien encounter or a government cover-up? Get a closer look at Roswell.
UFOs aren’t a new phenomenon. In fact, humans have been describing unidentified flying objects for millennia, with depictions of disk-like objects and unusual atmospheric objects found in the art and literature of ancient civilizations from the Sumerians and the Egyptians to the Greeks and Romans.
But the modern era of UFOs took off in the middle of the 20th century, right around the time rockets and high-tech aircraft were being devised, often in secret. Coincidence? Paranoia? Perhaps. In any event, these seven UFO sightings certainly occurred, but it’s up to you to decide what explanation you’ll believe in.
1. Kenneth Arnold, 1947
Pilots E.J. Smith, Kenneth Arnold, and Ralph E. Stevens look at a photo of an unidentified flying object which they sighted while en route to Seattle, Washington. (Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)
The origin of today’s fascination can be traced back to civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold. While flying his small aircraft near Washington’s Mount Rainier on June 24, 1947, Arnold claimed to have seen nine blue, glowing objects flying fast—at an estimated 1700 mph—in a “V” formation. He first believed the objects to be some sort of new military aircraft (this was, after all, just two years after WWII and the first year of the Cold War), but the military confirmed that there were no tests being conducted near Mount Rainier that day. When he described their motion as similar to “a saucer if you skip it across water,” the media coined the now-ubiquitous phrase “flying saucer.” Soon, other reports of a group of nine UFOs cropped up across the region, including sightings by a prospector on Mount Adams and the crew of a commercial flight in Idaho. The government never had a true explanation for the sightings—it simply claimed that Arnold had seen a mirage or was hallucinating. But UFO mania had set in, and just a few weeks later, the infamous Roswell sighting would perpetuate the obsession.
2. Roswell, 1947
Roswell UFO Museum Sign. (Credit: David Zaitz/Getty Images)
It’s the mother of all UFO sightings, but no object was actually observed flying in the Roswell incident. In the summer of 1947, rancher William “Mac” Brazel discovered mysterious debris in one of his New Mexico pastures, including metallic rods, chunks of plastic and unusual, papery scraps. When Brazel reported the wreckage, soldiers from nearby Roswell Army Air Force Base were called in to retrieve the materials.News headlines claimed that a “flying saucer” crashed in Roswell, but military officials purported that it was only a downed weather balloon. Ever since, conspiracy theorists have been hard at work trying to prove the wreckage was extraterrestrial, with one gentleman, Ray Santilli, going as far as releasing a video in 1995 of an alien dissection purported to have taken place after the incident. (Santilli would admit in 2006 that it was a staged film, but he maintained that it was based off of actual footage.)
As it turns out, the government was indeed covering something up—but it wasn’t aliens. The crashed weather balloon was, in fact, part of a top-secret military endeavor called Project Mogul, which launched high-altitude balloons carrying equipment used to detect Soviet nuclear tests. The Air Force provided plenty of proof in a 231-page report released in 1997 called “Case Closed: Final Report on the Roswell Crash.” Though the mystery has been thoroughly debunked, interest in the case has only grown, and Roswell’s tourism is heavily based around its famous “UFO sighting.” It’s home to the International UFO Museum and Research Center, a spaceship-shaped McDonald’s and an annual UFO festival, held each summer.
3. Lubbock Lights, 1951
The “Lubbock Lights”, photographed at Lubbock, Texas, by 19-year old Carl Hart, Jr. in 1951. (Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)
On the evening of August 25, 1951, three science professors from Texas Tech were enjoying an evening outdoors in Lubbock, when they looked up and saw a semicircle of lights flying above them at a high speed. Over the next few days, dozens of reports flooded in from across town—Texas Tech freshman Carl Hart Jr., even snapped photos of the phenomenon, which were published in newspapers across the country and Life magazine. Project Blue Book investigated the events, and their official conclusion was that the lights were birds that reflected the luminescence from Lubbock’s new streetlamps. Many people who saw the lights, however, refuse to accept this explanation, arguing that the lights were flying too fast.
4. Levelland, 1957
One of several people who witnessed the UFO in Levelland, Texas in 1957, holding up a drawing of what he saw. (Credit: Carl Iwasaki/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
Have you ever seen the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind? There’s a famous scene where a UFO makes the electronics in a car go haywire. As it so happens, that’s not just a Hollywood invention for the silver screen—there’s real-life precedence. In 1957, dozens of citizens of Levelland, Texas, individually reported seeing a rocket or strange lights that interfered with their vehicles: Engines died, lights cut out. Though the police initially thought the reports were a hoax, they, too, saw the mysterious lights, as they investigated the situation.Project Blue Book, a UFO research group created by the Air Force, was assigned to investigate the case. Their findings? It was an electrical storm and ball lightning that caused the lights and the mechanical malfunctions, despite the fact that there were no reported thunderstorms in the area that night.
The September 19, 1976, incident in Tehran, Iran, started much like many others, with phone calls from concerned citizens reporting a bright light in the sky. An F-4 fighter jet was set out to investigate, but as it neared the object, its instruments blacked out, forcing the pilot to return to base. A second F-4 took its place, and as it neared the unusual light, it achieved radar lock. But then, according to the pilot, the UFO released a glowing object—the pilot assumed it to be some sort of missile headed straight for him. As he prepared to fight back, the pilot experienced malfunctions with his instruments, and he witnessed another bright object released from the UFO that headed straight toward the ground. He safely returned to base, despite the faulty equipment.After the incident, Iran contacted the United States to aid them in an investigation. An unclassified memo by U.S. Air Force section chief Lieutenant Colonel Olin Mooy detailed the events of the night: There are explanations for nearly all of them.
First, the bright light seen by civilians (and possibly the pilots) might have been Jupiter, which was visible in the sky that night. Second, as author Brian Dunning notes in a podcast, the second F-4 jet had a long history of electrical problems, meaning that the instrumentation might have failed regardless of a UFO situation. It also could explain the radar lock—it might simply have been a malfunction. The first F-4, reports Dunning, was never turned in for maintenance following the incident, so there’s no official indication that its instrumentation failed. And finally, as for the “alien missiles,” there was a meteor shower that night, which could easily account for the sightings.
6. Rendlesham Forest, 1980
A general view of disused missile silos at the former RAF Bentwaters base near Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk where an alleged alien interference with US nuclear weapons site took place. (Credit: PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo)
In December 1980, U.S. Air Force members stationed at two British Royal Air Force bases, Woodbridge and Bentwaters, reported seeing strange, colorful lights above Rendlesham Forest, about 100 miles northeast of London. One man who entered the forest to investigate claimed to have discovered some sort of spacecraft there, and the next day, others confirmed damage to nearby trees and a higher-than-normal level of radiation at the site.Several days later, more sightings were reported. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt recorded his observations on an audio tape as he watched the lights, and while not definitive proof, theorists consider this the strongest evidence of the events. But the UK’s Ministry of Defence, which oversaw reports of UFO incidents until the early 2000s, did not find any credible threat to the nation, and thus did not pursue investigations further. As at Roswell, UFO tourism is prevalent in Rendlesham Forest, and there’s even an official Rendlesham UFO trail that visitors can hike, off of which is a model of the reported spacecraft.
7. The Belgium Wave, 1989-90
Flying triangle claimed to have been photographed on June 15, during the 1990 Belgian UFO sighting over Belgium. (Credit: J.S. Henrardi)
At the end of November 1989, citizens of Belgium reported seeing a large, triangular UFO hovering in the sky. But other than these visual sightings, no evidence of the UFO’s existence was to be found—for now. A few months later, in March 1990, new sightings of multiple objects were reported, which were confirmed by two military ground radar stations. Two F-16 fighter jets were sent out to investigate the anomalies, and though the pilots could not see anything visually, they were able to lock onto their targets with radar. But the UFOs moved so fast that the pilots ended up losing them. Some 13,500 people are estimated to have witnessed the incident, making it one of the most widely experienced UFO sightings of the modern era.The Belgian Air Force had no logical explanation for the activity, but it acknowledged that an unknown activity had taken place in the air. The Belgians reached out to the UK’s Ministry of Defence to investigate further, but once they determined that the incident was not a hostile or aggressive one, they stopped the investigation.
Proving UFOs exist is impossible–even fringe, paranoid, silly–or so goes the prevailing attitude in this country. But investigative reporter Leslie Kean’s research on the topic is pretty thorough–and astonishing. A veteran independent reporter for various national and international publications, including The Boston Globe, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Nation, Kean has been featured on NPR, CNN, and The Colbert Report, among others. She has dedicated more than a decade to dissecting the controversial topic, interviewing high-level officials and aviation experts. Her book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record, is a fascinating compendium of their first-hand accounts of sightings.
According to Kean, 5-10 percent of sightings are, in fact, unidentified; a vast majority of aerial phenomena, 90-95 percent in Kean’s estimation, can be explained to be one of the following: “weather balloons, flares, sky lanterns, secret military aircraft, birds reflecting the sun, planes reflecting the sun, blimps, helicopters, planes in formation, the planets Venus or Mars, meteors or meteorites, space junk, satellites, swamp gas, spinning eddies, sundogs, ball lightning, ice crystals, reflected light off clouds, lights on the ground or lights reflected on a cockpit window.” Her book focuses on the former, the events in history that cannot be attributed to any of the latter.
Whether or not you’re a believer, there’s no denying that Kean’s findings are remarkable, and she delivers the facts that support the existence of UFOs without feeding conspiracies as to why, how–or even what might be piloting them. We asked Kean about the evidence she’s collected, along with why the concept of UFOs isn’t more widely accepted, why there’s still isn’t more physical proof, and ultimately if there are steps we can take to understand the issues (including self-protection) more fully.
A Q&A with Leslie Kean
Q: Your book presents incredible evidence—first-hand accounts of sightings and experiences from generals, pilots, NASA-employees from across the globe. Why is the concept of UFOs not generally accepted?
A:The proof is only for some kind of unexplained, physical phenomena that appear to demonstrate technology we don’t have here on earth. But there isn’t proof that these are alien spacecraft–although this is a valid hypothesis. In fact, we don’t know what UFOs are, where they’re from, or why they are here. The issue of non-acceptance by the status quo is a complicated one. We need more data to satisfy the scientific community—and such data is very hard to come by without the participation of these scientists.
“Some may feel that if these crafts have an extraterrestrial origin, they are way more advanced than us, that they could have complete power over us if they wanted to, and that we have no control over them or what they do.”
The topic is taboo: Ridicule has been generated towards this topic since the 1950’s in order to make it go away, and the “giggle factor” has become ingrained in our culture. Some may feel that if these crafts have an extraterrestrial origin, they are way more advanced than us, that they could have complete power over us if they wanted to, and that we have no control over them or what they do. This is frightening, so the reaction is to avoid dealing with UFOs altogether. And, our government’s attitude does not help either.
Q: Of all the accounts you’ve covered, which is your favorite?
A: This is very hard to say. I find all the cases featured to be exceptional. One of the most spectacular was the Belgium Wave of 1989-91, in which sightings of remarkable triangular objects kept repeating themselves over time. These bizarre machines hovered, usually silently, glided, and lit up fields with their brilliant spotlights. Sometimes they accelerated to an incredible speed in a split second. Air Force Major General Wilfried De Brouwer (a colonel at the time) was put in charge of dealing with the “invasion” in restricted Belgian airspace of an unknown flying craft, which was not following aviation rules or communicating, as he describes it. In contrast to how the US government handles such events, the Belgian government became openly involved and worked with a group of outside scientists who collected data on the sightings. They accumulated twenty-five large notebooks of reports, drawings, and other data, and many audiocassette tapes of police officers and others who reported sightings, all of which I studied when I was in Belgium. The Belgian Air Force sent up F-16s to try to get close to the objects, after setting up special radar gear. De Brouwer went to the highest levels of other NATO countries to find out if these were some sort of secret technology test flights by Russia or the United States, and he was told that they absolutely were not. In fact, documents show that United States officials wanted to find out more about these incidents from him. As De Brouwer points out, we still don’t have the technology today that would allow a vehicle to do what these did.
Belgium Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer explaining radar data taken near one of the UFO sightings. Photo courtesy of the author.
Q: Where do you think this resistance to even consider the potential of UFOs comes from?
A:Two pivotal events occurred after WWII that were instrumental in establishing and lending momentum to this resistance. In the early 1950’s, the Air Force established Project Sign, later known as Project Blue Book, to gather information on UFOs and to assess whether they were a threat to national security. Project Sign staff wrote a report concluding that UFOs, already documented as real by the Air Force, were most likely interplanetary. Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg rejected the report for lack of proof—and thereafter, the required political position became that UFOs must always have conventional explanations.
Secondly, in 1953, Cold War fears and the persistence of UFO reports led the CIA to convene a hand-picked scientific advisory group (known as the Robertson Panel) to again assess the UFO question. But participants were shown selected, narrow, and incomplete evidence; the panel’s resulting recommendations, classified at the time, stated that everything from documentary films to advertising to Disney cartoons, should be used to debunk the phenomenon in the eyes of the public. It also recommended infiltrating civilian UFO groups in order to dampen enthusiasm. These recommendations set the stage for the public ridicule of the UFO issue from that point forward.
Q: The accounts you detail are amazing, particularly the waves of sightings over prolonged periods of time with hundreds of witnesses—why isn’t there more video and photographic proof?
A:That’s a good question, which is asked frequently. Imagining beforehand what we would do if we saw something unexplainable turns out to be quite different from what we do in reality. The thought “Oh, I should run indoors and fetch my camera” isn’t how most people respond in the moment. Instead, they report being overcome with intense curiosity, awe, wonder, sometimes fear. The witnesses typically stand immobilized and stare at the object, knowing that it will not be there for long; sometimes they call out for someone nearby to look also. They don’t want to take their eyes off the UFO for one second, so most have not tried to find a camera under those circumstances. For many of the most famous incidents, cell phone cameras did not yet exist, and people didn’t carry cameras around with them. Now that everyone has a cell phone, photos crop up all the time, but so far, most cell phone images of distant objects or lights have been poor quality, not conveying enough information for a proper analysis to be conducted. That said, we do have a number of outstanding, official photos that have been properly vetted–some of these are in my book.
Q: Your work is focused on aircraft and UFOs, but you don’t get into the idea of aliens—do you believe the crafts are piloted?
A:I don’t know if they are piloted. That is a possibility, but we don’t have enough evidence to make a determination. Sometimes the objects do behave as if under intelligent control–that much we know. But first and foremost, we must focus on the objects themselves, for which we have much data. Convincing the scientific community and policy makers of that fact is hard enough—it’s been met with many obstacles.
“First and foremost, we must focus on the objects themselves, for which we have much data. Convincing the scientific community and policy makers of that fact is hard enough—it’s been met with many obstacles.”
Establishing that the objects exist must be the first step; questions about possible pilots have to come later. Members of the “UFO community” aren’t helping when they claim that extraterrestrials are here on earth, communicating with humans; their unfounded claims only make the people we are trying to reach even more resistant. You can’t jump ahead—if we can convince the powers-that-be of the reality of the objects themselves (which has worked in reaching some officials, and has led to UFO government agencies in other countries) by providing concrete data, then we have a chance.
Q:Many skeptics believe UFOs are simply prototypes of aircraft, drones, or top-secret military operations—is there a counter to that?
A:In the very best cases, for which we have adequate data to rule out conventional explanations, this option has already been exhaustively explored by experts. Particularly in the earlier cases, the objects demonstrate fantastic capabilities beyond even today’s technology.
Of course, many sightings can be explained by such prototypes and/or secret operations, but the cases I’m referencing cannot be explained in this way. Examples would be the brilliant diamond-shaped object seen by General Parviz Jafari and others over Tehran in 1976, the objects over Belgium, and the two-mile-long stationary objects seen by Captain Ray Bowyer, his passengers, and another pilot in a different location, and picked up on radar, in 2007 over the English Channel. There are many others, with the earlier cases being the most compelling. However, we can never state with 100 percent certainty that something secret is not at play—we have no way of knowing. But for many of our strongest cases, this does not seem feasible.
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UFO photographed in 1971 by mapping aircraft of the Costa Rican government. Photo courtesy of CEFAA.
Q:You say that 5 percent of UFO sightings are legitimate, in that they are truly unidentified. What does this mean?
A:This means that these cases (and they could be closer to 10 percent) involve adequate data to make the determination that there are true unknowns. Without enough data about the sighting, you have to allow for the possibility that it could be explained by conventional, “normal” phenomena, because you don’t have enough data to rule out all other possibilities. But when all conventional explanations can be ruled out by qualified investigators with access to all the necessary information for a proper and complete analysis, then the sighting becomes one of the truly baffling, well-documented cases. The outstanding cases of this type involve military personnel, government officials, pilots and crews, and police officers. The cases in my book fit these criteria.
Q:From a safety perspective, why is it so important that we take the consideration that there could be UFOs seriously?
A:UFOs have already affected aircraft in various, sometimes alarming ways: They have pulled them off course, disabled communications, and rendered equipment temporarily inoperable. Pilots have had to make sudden maneuvers to avoid collisions with UFOs, and a few times, passengers were injured as a result. These cases are rare, but there is always the possibility of accidents caused by the activity of a UFO near an aircraft. Perhaps pilots and aircrews need to be better informed in case they do encounter a UFO, so it’s not a shock or disorients them in some way. Former FAA head of accidents and investigations John Callahan suggests in my book that we need to adjust our air radar systems, which aren’t configured to pick up UFO activity if the objects are moving too fast, are too large, or if they hover in one place. Pilots need to have reporting forms so that the aviation authorities know when unusual objects appear in the skies.
In addition, UFOs appear to have disabled nuclear weapons, which represents a national security problem. In 1967, at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, all ten nuclear missiles were rendered inoperable within ten seconds of each other when a glowing red, oval-shaped object hovered over a control center at the base. A week earlier, another facility thirty-five miles away had been visited by UFOs, losing all its missiles as well. In total, twenty nuclear missiles went down. The missiles were sixty feet underground, and Boeing engineers checked every possible cause for the failures but were unable to explain them. In 1970, when closing Project Blue Book, the US Air Force released a statement stating that “no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security.” These events occurred during the Cold War; the US Air Force was clearly not telling us the truth. For more information on aviation safety issues, check out the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena.
Q:Your book came out in 2010—has anything of note happened in the intervening years in terms of UFO sightings or research?
A:I have since joined the board of a new, all-volunteer scientific organization called UFODATA which is on the cutting edge of new research. Our goal is to build a large network of automated surveillance stations with sophisticated sensors to monitor the skies 24/7, looking for aerial anomalies. We have spent several years developing our ideas, making plans, and testing relevant technologies with a team of outstanding scientists and engineers from around the world. Our initial prototype station will have a core optical unit with cameras capable of detecting and recording both an image and spectra (visible and invisible waves of electromagnetic radiation), a magnetic sensing unit, instrumentation to detect microwave and other radiation, and other sensors to record atmospheric and local environmental data. Alarm triggers will initiate recording, permitting capture of a broad range of physical data that can then be analyzed. We need high quality, publishable data to take this issue into the scientific world and break that barrier.
Q:Where do you believe UFOs come from? Do you have any theories?
A:Like the government agencies in Chile and France that have documented the UFO phenomena, I am hesitant to speculate about what the origin of UFOs might be. We can’t possibly know where they’re from, specifically. But if we could get some of the best scientific minds on the planet together on this issue, devise a sophisticated methodology for studying the UFO problem—just as with the massive telescopes and particle accelerators to study black holes or minuscule particles—we’d have a chance at finding out. Our best minds are not informed about the issue; it is considered taboo. If the US government changes its attitude on the topic—even slightly—that would invite the scientific community to take it more seriously. I hope that basic curiosity and a desire to solve one of our biggest mysteries will eventually motivate our scientists to take this on.
Richard Branson has confirmed plans to launch people into space in 2018, with the first test flights beginning this year.
In a new interview, Branson said that Virgin Galactic will start performing powered tests of its SpaceShipTwo craft every three weeks, with plans to extend them into space by November or December.
And after his own flight, full commercial passenger operations will start by the end of 2018, he said.
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Richard Branson has confirmed plans to launch people into space in 2018, with the first test flights beginning this year
VIRGIN GALACTIC: THE CRASH
In October 2014, SpaceShipTwo - a plane designed to run the first ever passenger flights into space - split into pieces as it fell to Earth over California's Mojave Desert.
The vehicle broke up after the co-pilot unlocked the craft's tail wing breaking system early, which led to a sudden increase in aerodynamic forces as it passed through the sound barrier.
Investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said no safeguards were built into system to overcome the error of the co-pilot.
While Branson is optimistic about Virgin Galactic's commercial space flights, he said that the huge appetite for space travel leaves room for competitors.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Branson said: 'We will never be able to build enough spaceships. The demand is enormous.'
Branson mentioned that Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin – two of Virgin Galactic's biggest competitors – could fill this gap.
He said: 'There is definitely the demand for all three.
'We can take off at 24-hour's notice, put a couple of satellites up and come back again.
'With ground-based rockets, there's quite a long waiting time. Elon has bigger rockets, so he has advantages there.'
When asked to comment on Donald Trump's views on space travel, Branson said: 'I think myself and Jeff Bezos and Elon are just getting on with it.
'I don't think I've heard of anything majorly exciting that's come out of the administration as far as space is concerned, but maybe they'll surprise us.'
Already 500 potential customers have reserved a spot on one of his trips at a cost of $250,000 (£200,000) each.
Sir Richard Branson's firm has designed SpaceShipTwo, pictured, to take 'space tourists' on short flights into space without going into orbit
Last August the SpaceShipTwo aircraft - which is designed for two pilots and six passengers - received its operating licence from the US Federal Aviation Authority.
'I think I'd be very disappointed if we're not into space with a test flight by the end of the year and I'm not into space myself next year and the progamme isn't well underway by the end of next year', Branson told the Telegraph in April.
'The test programme is going really well, and as long as we've got our brave test pilots pushing it to the limit we think that after whatever it is, 12 years of hard work, we're nearly there', he said.
Earlier this year, Branson also invited Professor Stephen Hawking to come to space on board a Virgin Galactic flight.
The physicist and cosmologist, 75, said he had not expected to have the opportunity to experience space but that the Virgin boss had offered him a seat.
Prof Stephen Hawking has revealed he has been offered a dream trip to space on Virgin Atlantic. Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Hawking said he did not hesitate in saying 'yes' to Richard Branson's offer
Discussing the meaning of happiness on Good Morning Britain, he said: 'My three children have brought me great joy.
'And I can tell you what will make me happy, to travel in space. I thought no one would take me but Richard Branson has offered me a seat on Virgin Galactic, and I said yes immediately.'
Branson had previously suggested that he might be able to complete a flight in 2009, but the plan was thrown off by a range of problems and disasters.
In October 2014, SpaceShipTwo - a plane designed to run the first ever passenger flights into space - split into pieces as it fell to Earth over California's Mojave Desert.
The vehicle broke up after the co-pilot unlocked the craft's tail wing breaking system early, which led to a sudden increase in aerodynamic forces as it passed through the sound barrier.
New experiments on Earth may affect how we search for life on the Red Planet.
Mars Pathfinder and its mini-rover Sojourner (pictured) landed on the Martian surface 20 years ago this week. The planet has been continuously “inhabited” by landers and orbiters ever since. (NASA)
In a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports, Jennifer Wadsworth and Charles Cockell from the U.K. Centre for Astrobiology in Edinburgh, Scotland, report on a series of experiments to test how environmental stresses on Mars would affect bacterial populations. It was already known that the Martian surface is a tough place for microbes to survive, but the new experiments show just how toxic the mix of ultraviolet irradiation, perchlorates in the soil, and iron oxides really is.
Wadsworth and Cockell used for their tests Bacillus subtilis, a common soil bacterium on Earth that normally is quite resilient to environmental stresses. But the Mars-like combination of perchlorates and UV radiation simply was too much. In some cases, stressing the bacteria resulted in complete sterilization of a sample in only 60 seconds!
Of course, we might expect that indigenous life on Mars would be better suited to deal with these environmental stresses than terrestrial life is, because any existing Martian organisms would have had a long time to adapt from a warmer and wetter Mars to current conditions, and may have evolved adaptation strategies. Nevertheless, seeing the devastating effects of the toxic cocktail on a familiar type of bacteria shows how difficult these stresses would be to overcome. It would be a tough hill to climb for any organism.
Does that mean there is no life on Mars? No. We already knew that the Martian surface is a hostile environment, and this new study just provides experimental confirmation of how hostile it really is.
That means we may have to refine our search strategy. If the surface of Mars is toxic, we might expect any indigenous life to thrive in the subsurface, where UV radiation does not reach. The new experiments may motivate us to look a bit deeper below the surface than we had planned to, or focus more on possible niche habitats such as within salt rocks.
This 200-yard-wide pit on Mars, likely a cave entrance, was photographed by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
We also have to keep in mind that Mars is a big planet with different types of soils, rock layers, and environmental conditions. Past rover and lander missions have given us a glimpse of this variety. The so-called Special Regions on Mars are subject to stricter planetary protection guidelines precisely because they could contain life. Particularly promising locations are found below ice crusts or within lava tube caves, where life would find natural protection from UV radiation and a higher availability of water. Regions associated with hydrothermal activity also would be promising, and some of these are likely to be active today.
So despite the new results, the search for life on Mars is by no means over. It will simply become more focused as we learn more about the Martian environment and its variations.
ESA SET TO EXPLORE ‘THE MOST MYSTERIOUS PLANET’ IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
ESA SET TO EXPLORE ‘THE MOST MYSTERIOUS PLANET’ IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
This illustration shows HD 189733b, a huge gas giant that orbits very close to its host star HD 189733. The planet's atmosphere is scorching with a temperature of over 1000 degrees Celsius, and it rains glass, sideways, in howling 7000 kilometre-per-hour winds. At a distance of 63 light-years from us, this turbulent alien world is one of the nearest exoplanets to Earth that can be seen crossing the face of its star. By observing this planet before, during, and after it disappeared behind its host star during orbit, astronomers were able to deduce that HD 189733b is a deep, azure blue — reminiscent of Earth's colour as seen from space.
A double decker spacecraft—which can carry TWO orbiters, one belonging to the Japanese Space Agency and another one from the European counterpart is set to explore one of the most mysterious planets in the solar system, on a mission that will launch in 2018. Scientists want to get as close as possible to the surface of the planet, which is blasted by EXTREME radiation levels around ten times higher than on the sun, and by temperatures that literally melt metal.
The Mission is set to launch on October 5, 2018, from Kourou in French Guinea and will arrive at Mercury, the closest planet in our solar system on December 5, 2025.
Mercury is considered as one of the most intriguing planets in our solar system, and very little is known about it. BepiColombo would be the European Space Agency’s FIRST mission to the closest planet in our solar system.
The ESA has said that BepiColombo aims to “follow up on many of the intriguing results of NASA‘s Messenger mission, probing deeper into Mercury’s mysteries than ever before.”
The mission’s main goal is to research the strange characteristics of Mercury’s internal structure and magnetic field generation, and specifically how it interacts with the Sun and the Solar Wind.
The entire mission cost around 1.3 billion Euros and involves around 33 companies from a total of twelve countries in Europe, as well as companies from the United States and Japan.
The spacecraft has an extremely unusual design carrying two orbiters, one from the ESA and one from JAXA, which will separate upon arrival in order to enter two different but complementary orbits around the closest planet to the sun.
According to the European Space Agency, “BepiColombo is Europe’s first mission to Mercury. It will set off in 2018 on a journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. When it arrives at Mercury in late 2025, it will endure temperatures in excess of 350 °C and gather data during its 1-year nominal mission, with a possible 1-year extension. The mission comprises two spacecraft: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). BepiColombo is a joint mission between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), executed under ESA leadership.”
The mission has already been delayed several times in the past but mission specialists are confident that the launch will definitely take place in Octobre of 2018.
Alvaro Gimenez, ESA’s director of science told reporters at the agency’s center in the Dutch coastal town of Noordwij: Mercury is the ‘most peculiar of all rocky planets.’ And Mercury rightfully is the most mysterious of them all, having a surface governed by extreme temperatures that range from a drastically 450 to -180 degrees Celsius.
However, Mercury is also the ONLY planet in the solar system that has a magnetic field beside Earth. And while Earth’s magnetic field protects us from harmful solar radiation, Mercury’s magnetic field is so weak that it doesn’t provide much protection against solar radiation. The planet orbits the sun just 58 million kilometers away, meaning that it’s bombarded by radiation levels that would destroy life as we know it in an instant.
Mercury is also a planet that is difficult to study from Earth due to its proximity to the sun, as the brightness tends to impede the view.
Furthermore, due to the extreme gravity, the sun has on the planet, it’s very hard to place a spacecraft into stable orbit around the planet.
“We are flying into a pizza oven which is why we had to test materials at a very high and different temperature rates. Sometimes with very unwanted results,” said Ulrich Reininghaus, the ESA BepiColombo project manager.
Mercury has truly been a challenge for space agencies around the globe. So far, only two NASA missions have managed to visit the planet before—the Mariner 10 and the Messenger missions who studied the planet in the 1970’s and 2011 respectively.
The Mercury mission is Europe’s “most complicated ever,” said Gimenez.
“It’s difficult to get there, it’s difficult to work there.”
Mission scientists want to get as close as possible to the surface of the planet, which is blasted by EXTREME radiation levels around ten times higher than on the sun, and by temperatures that literally melt metal.
Both spacecraft are expected to study the planet between one to two years, but experts say the orbiters could last a bit longer before crashing into the surface of the planet.
The name Travis Walton is well known within UFO circles. The (in?)famous abduction story that took place in Arizona’s Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest made international headlines. While the case does have its detractors, a recent soil study of the site has come up with some very strange findings. Perhaps something otherworldly did occur on that November night in 1975.
On the evening of November 5th, Walton and some friends were driving down a quiet road in the forest after a long day of logging. Noticing a strange light, Walton and his buddies went to investigate. As they approached the strange object emitting a bright light, Travis was hit by some sort of beam and thrown several feet into the air. Panic ensued. His friends left him lying on the forest floor, and ran for it. Minutes later, realising they had just left their friend injured or dead, the men returned to the site. The object was gone, and so was Walton. They went to the local Sheriff’s department, reported the incident, and were suspected of murdering Walton. Five days later, Walton found himself on a lonely stretch of highway, tired, hungry and dehydrated. As Walton’s memory slowly began to return, he remembered being aboard a strange craft, odd alien beings, and a life altering event that has totally reshaped his entire grasp of reality.
Travis Walton
A study of soil samples completed by Frontier Analysis Limited last week of the site where the alleged abduction took place has provided some interesting insight into the story, and perhaps has begun to shed some light onto that mysterious event in 1975. Led by Phyllis A. Budinger, an accomplished chemist and scientist, the report details the soil composition of the location directly beneath the strange object Walton saw that night.
According to the report,
The objective of this project is to determine whether the analysis of the soils will detect any anomalies which can be related to an unknown craft (UFO).
Several soil samples were taken from the supposed abduction site itself, along with several more control samples from the surrounding area. While there was not much difference between the site samples and the controls, two anomalies did present themselves.
The report states,
It is revealed that iron containing particulates amounts are higher in the site soils compared to the control soils. Furthermore, there is indication that the levels tend to be higher in the surface soils compared to the sub-surface soils of the site samples….The exchangeable cations (calcium, magnesium, potassium) are significantly higher in the site samples than the control samples. This would indicate some chemical changes in the site samples. The detection of the differences in cationic activity in the soils is intriguing.
While the report suggests that there may be a natural reason for the cationic activity, such as clay deposits influencing chemical changes, the increased amount of iron in the sample is definitely out of the norm.
Images of the cationic samples, courtesy of The Black Vault.
The report engages in some speculation,
…the hovering craft propulsion system has a powerful electromagnetic effect thereby drawing (and concentrating) these iron particulates toward the surface…And, there is indication that while hovering an electronic force field surrounds the craft, causing an ionizing effect to materials in close proximity.
The team behind the report has apparently done similar soil studies in the past of UFO landing sites. However, their conclusions reflect a strong push for more studies.
Clearly the quantitative results for the iron containing particulates need to be further verified. So definitely, more soil sampling is needed from the site and outside the site…
The report argues that additional studies are required, however, this initial report does lay the groundwork for additional scientific study of the UFO question. Whatever a person’s opinion may be in regards to UFOs and the Travis Walton abduction, when real science engages in these events, a few puzzle pieces begin to fit together. While we may never fully understand what occurred on that November night, this study definitely leads us down a path that, like Walton, may begin to shift our perception of the UFO phenomenon.
If the scientific community does choose to engage in more soil sampling of the site, as well as other evidence from the many UFO events in recent years, will humanity generate a better idea of what UFOs are? Is the truth literally buried in the ground beneath our feet?
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Vreemde objecten gespot op Mars. Hebben alien-jagers een piramide gevonden op de rode planeet?
Vreemde objecten gespot op Mars. Hebben alien-jagers een piramide gevonden op de rode planeet?
Op Mars zijn door alien-jagers mysterieuze ‘koepelvormige’ en ‘piramideachtige’ structuren gespot. Dat meldt Fox News.
De onregelmatigheden op het Marsoppervlak werden vertoond op het YouTube-kanaal ArtAlienTV, nadat een onderzoeker de rode planeet met Google Earth had afgespeurd.
“We hebben hier een 15 meter grote koepel of bol in een Marskrater waar grote pijpen uit komen,” legt ArtAlienTV uit.
Kunstmatig
De "koepel" en "pyramide" zichten op Mars
(GOOGLE EARTH/ESA/DLR/FR Berlin, G. Neukum )
“Op 150 meter afstand is een driehoekige, piramideachtige structuur te zien met een doorsnee van ruim 35 meter,” aldus het kanaal.
“Deze objecten lijken kunstmatig te zijn en zijn duidelijk zichtbaar op Google Mars,” klonk het verder.
Het gebied waar de ‘koepel’ en de ‘piramide’ zijn gevonden, bevindt zich tussen de Oyama-krater en Mawrth Vallis, een vallei op de planeet waar de ExoMars-rover mogelijk gaat landen in 2020.
Steencirkel
ArtAlienTV merkt in de video op dat veel van de potentiële koepels die op Mars zijn gevonden, uiteindelijk zandduinen bleken te zijn.
Onlangs nog claimden alien-jagers een mysterieuze ‘steencirkel’ te hebben gevonden op het Marsoppervlak.
Boomstronk
Eerder dit jaar werd daarnaast beweerd dat Marsrover Curiosity van de NASA een oude boomstronk had gefotografeerd op de rode planeet.
In 2015 zeiden UFO-jagers dat ze een mysterieuze vrouw met paraplu hadden ontdekt op een foto die door Curiosity was gemaakt.
Al jaren doen er de meest wilde verhalen de ronde over UFO waarnemingen op de voormalige vliegbasis Soesterberg.
In 1979 werden al de eerste observaties gedaan en nu anno 2017 lijkt het alsof ze zich nog steeds in die omgeving bevinden.
Op de website Weerplaza stond enkele dagen geleden een artikel over de zogenaamde lichtende nachtwolken.
Op zich een heel interessant artikel met daarin een kort 14 seconden durend filmpje met de volgende omschrijving.
Het is een zogenaamde timelapse opname, gemaakt op de voormalig vliegbasis Soesterberg, waarbij de camera met kleine tussenpozen opnames maakte tussen middernacht en 1 uur 's nachts.
Aangezien ze heel bang zijn dat iemand anders hun filmpjes bekijkt op andere plekken dan bij hen hebben ze de instellingen van dat filmpje zodanig gemaakt dat je het alleen daar kunt bekijken.
Wanneer je die 14 seconden bekijkt, zie je eigenlijk ook niet bijzonders. Echter, een lezer (dank!) ontdekte dat er wel degelijk dingen op staan die niemand anders had opgemerkt.
Want helemaal aan het einde zie je een aantal opnames van wat niet anders te omschrijven is dan als UFO’s.
Hierna volgen de drie screenshots zoals wij die ontvingen en omcirkeld zijn de plekken waar de UFO’s zichtbaar zijn.
Op de screenshots zelf zijn ze moeilijk te zien, daarom volgen daarna enkele vergrotingen, waar ze wel heel duidelijk zijn.
En dan hierna enkele uitvergrotingen van de vreemde objecten:
Dit is uiteraard niet de eerste keer dat Soesterberg in het nieuws komt vanwege een UFO waarneming.
De eersten, voor zover ons bekend, gaan terug naar 1979 en vonden plaats op de voormalige vliegbasis Soesterberg. Het relaas van die waarnemingen staat uitgebreid gedocumenteerd op de website Ufowijzer.
Vaak houden mensen die iets bijzonders hebben meegemaakt op het gebied van UFO’s en in militaire dienst waren hun kaken stijf op elkaar omdat ze te maken hebben met geheimhoudingsplicht.
Wanneer ze ouder worden en niet meer in actieve dienst zijn, willen ze toch vaak vertellen wat ze hebben meegemaakt. Zo te zien, valt het volgende verhaal in die categorie.
De waarneming speelde in 1991 en wanneer je het verhaal van de getuige leest, wordt duidelijk waarom dat nu pas naar buiten komt.
De getuige is anoniem en vertelt het volgende verhaal:
In de nacht van 17 februari 1991 liep ik de nachtdienstwacht op de militaire basis Soesterberg in Nederland.
Samen met een andere cadet kwam ik om 3.00 uur in de ochtend aan bij de centrale parkeerplaats en zie een grote cirkel in de lucht, recht boven ons. Het had geen bepaalde vorm, maar alleen felle lichten die langzaam tegen de wijzers van de klok indraaiden. De lichtpunten zelf roteerden niet, maar de kleuren (veranderden) op een soort vloeibare manier.
Ik schat dat het object ongeveer 30 tot 50 meter in doorsnee was. Het eerste dat wij beiden dachten, was dat het hier ging om een luchtschip, een Zeppelin, zo eentje als GoodYear heeft met lichtschermen aan de zijkanten.
Dat dit ding heel erg laag hing en heel stil, maakte dit alles echter vreemd, heel erg vreemd.
Na een paar minuten begonnen de lichten sneller rond te draaien en plotseling steeg het object op met een onvoorstelbare snelheid richting westen.
Een paar seconden later voelden we een harde wind die om ons hoofd blies, zoals dat gebeurt met bijvoorbeeld een helikopter.
Als er een manier zou zijn om de snelheid van dit ding te beschrijven dan zou ik dat doen, maar die is er niet. We hadden een onbelemmerd uitzicht van ongeveer 30 kilometer. Dit ding legde die afstand vanuit stilstand af in ongeveer een tiende van een seconde.
Ik ken de luchtvaart en ik heb zelf vliegervaring en daarnaast ben ik erg technisch. Door dit soort acceleraties zou een mens veranderen in een vloeibare stof.
Jarenlang is dit een onbesproken hoofdstuk geweest in mijn leven. Ik wilde niet over dit voorval spreken omdat direct na het incident de andere cadet en ik om onverklaarbare redenen heel erg ziek werden. Dagenlang hadden we hoge koorts en moesten we overgeven. De ziekte was zo erg dat het hele voorval mij getraumatiseerd heeft en ik er jarenlang niet over heb kunnen praten.
Tot zover het verhaal van de getuige.
Het verslag sluit natuurlijk naadloos aan op de eerdere UFO-waarnemingen boven de voormalige vliegbasis Soesterberg. Voor een uitgebreid artikel hierover verwijzen wij naar Ufo wijzer.
Sommigen kunnen zich misschien nog wel de reportage van RTV Utrecht herinneren over de waarnemingen uit 1979.
Een ding lijkt duidelijk en dat is dat er zich heel wat meer afspeelde rondom deze voormalige NAVO basis dan ons ooit verteld zal worden. En wie weet, misschien komen door bovenstaande wel meer getuigen naar voren.
En anno 2017 lijkt de omgeving van Soesterberg nog steeds in de belangstelling te staan van onbekende vliegende objecten in het luchtruim.
Dankzij een satelliet van de gigantische VLT-telescoop in Chili werd een unieke exoplaneet ontdekt. Dat deelt de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO mee.
De SPHERE van de VLT stootte op een planeet die ongeveer 385 lichtjaar van ons is verwijderd. Ze heeft zes tot twaalf keer de massa van Jupiter. Met een temperatuur van 1.000 tot 1.400 graden Celsius is het hemellichaam behoorlijk warm.
De planeet lijkt te zijn gehuld in een zeer stoffige atmosfeer met dikke bewolking, en draait om een hete, jonge ster die verrassend snel om haar as wentelt. De ster lijkt niet omringd te zijn door een schijf van puin, wat volgens de ESO merkwaardig is voor haar leeftijd. Het ontbreken van deze schijf roept de vraag op hoe de planeet überhaupt is ontstaan.
Dubbelster Eén mogelijkheid is dat de planeet zich heeft gevormd in een schijf van gas en stof, waarna interacties met andere planeten ervoor hebben gezorgd dat ze in haar huidige wijde omloopbaan terechtkwam. Maar het is ook denkbaar dat de ster en de planeet samen zijn gevormd als een soort dubbelster, waarin de zwaarste van de twee zijn lichtere soortgenoot ervan heeft weerhouden om voldoende materie te verzamelen om een echte ster te worden.
De ontdekking van de planeet biedt astronomen de mogelijkheid om de samenstelling en verdeling van wolken in zijn atmosfeer te onderzoeken, en theorieën over het ontstaan, de evolutie en de fysica van exoplaneten te toetsen, zegt de ESO.
De bittere koude, de verschroeiende straling en de dunne atmosfeer maken van Mars een weinig benijdenswaardige plek om te leven. Toch zijn wetenschappers naarstig op zoek naar bewijs van leven op de rode planeet en worden er bemande missies naar Mars voorbereid. Maar de kans om er leven aan te treffen, is dankzij nieuw onderzoek echter een stuk kleiner geworden.
Ooit was Mars een planeet met oceanen, zeeën en rivieren. Het microbieel leven dat toen ontstond, zou volgens wetenschappers op verschillende plaatsen nog aanwezig kunnen zijn. Maar volgens een nieuwe studie zit de bodem van de planeet vol bacteriedodende stoffen. Alle micro-organismen die ooit bestaan zouden hebben, zouden daardoor verstikt zijn.
Perchloraten kunnen een voedingsbron vormen voor bacteriën, maar ze kunnen ook giftig zijn - afhankelijk van de aanwezigheid van UV-straling.
Reeds in 1976 troffen de ruimtetuigen Viking 1 en Viking 2 perchloraten aan in de bodem van Mars. Ook de Curiosity rover, die nog steeds aan het werk is op de rode planeet, bevestigde die ontdekking. Perchloraten kunnen een voedingsbron vormen voor bacteriën, maar ze kunnen ook giftig zijn - afhankelijk van de aanwezigheid van ultraviolette straling en daar baadt Mars helaas in overvloed in.
Om uit te kunnen maken of de perchloraten een goede of een slechte zaak zouden zijn, beslisten postgraduaatsstudent Jennifer Wadsworth en professor Charles Cockell van de Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy om een stukje Mars na te bouwen in een laboratorium.
Ze wilden onderzoeken of de 'bacillus subtilis' - een veelvoorkomende aardse bacterie - er zou kunnen overleven. Wadsworth en Cockell dompelden de bacterie onder in een waterachtige oplossing van magnesiumperchloraat, de soort die het meest voorkomt op Mars, aan een gelijkaardige concentratie. Vervolgens stelden ze de oplossing bloot aan ultraviolette straling op dezelfde golflengte als die Mars over zich heen krijgt.
Vernietigd
De bestraalde cellen in de perchloraatoplossing waren binnen 30 seconden steriel. Cellen die aan het UV-licht werden blootgesteld zonder het perchloraat, deden het ietsje beter: die kolonie werd na 60 seconden van de kaart geveegd.
Uit volgende testen bleek dat de UV-stralen het perchloraat afbreken in andere chemicaliën, namelijk hypochloriet en chloriet, en het zijn deze stoffen die de bacteriën vernietigen.
Giftige cocktail
"Het oppervlak van Mars is dodelijk voor vegetatieve cellen en maakt een groot deel van het oppervlak en regio¿s dicht aan het oppervlak onbewoonbaar."
Jennifer Wadsworth & prof. Charles Cockell, Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy
De wetenschappers onderzochten ook de effecten van ijzeroxides en waterstofperoxide, eveneens terug te vinden in de bodem van Mars. Maar die experimenten brachten nog meer slecht nieuws: wanneer de bacteriën bestraald werden met UV-licht in de aanwezigheid van perchloraten, ijzeroxide en peroxide, stierven ze elf keer sneller dan met enkel perchloraat.
Volgens Wadsworth en Cockell worden de ongastvrije leefomstandigheden veroorzaakt door een "giftige cocktail van oxidanten, ijzeroxides, perchloraten en UV-straling". "Het oppervlak van Mars is dodelijk voor vegetatieve cellen en maakt een groot deel van het oppervlak en regio's dicht aan het oppervlak onbewoonbaar."
Sprankeltje hoop
"Het betekent waarschijnlijk wel dat we leven ondergronds moeten zoeken, waar het afgeschermd is van de harde stralingsomgeving aan het oppervlak."
Jennifer Wadsworth
Dat betekent echter nog niet dat alle hoop verloren is. Enkele zaken spelen immers wel in het voordeel van de bacteriën.
De onderzoekers voerden hun experiment uit aan een temperatuur van 25 graden Celsius, maar wanneer ze dat opnieuw deden aan 4 graden Celsius, stierven de bacteriën tien keer minder snel.
Mars is echter nog een stuk kouder: de gemiddelde temperatuur op de planeet is -55°C, met pieken tot 22°C. Ergens tussen de dodelijke koude en de té warme temperaturen, zou er een comfortzone moeten zijn waarin de bacteriën wel kunnen blijven bestaan. Bovendien zijn perchloraten niet overal in een even grote concentratie aanwezig en sommige bacteriën die zich onder het oppervlak bevinden, zouden ook afgeschermd kunnen zijn van UV-straling.
"Ik kan niet spreken voor het leven uit het verleden," aldus Wadsworth, "maar wat het huidige leven betreft: dit [onderzoek] sluit het niet uit, maar betekent waarschijnlijk wel dat we leven ondergronds moeten zoeken, waar het afgeschermd is van de harde stralingsomgeving aan het oppervlak."
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Cold War Spy Plane Encountered Mysterious Craft Covered In 20 Flashing Lights
Cold War Spy Plane Encountered Mysterious Craft Covered In 20 Flashing Lights
British Ministry of Defence released the once top secret file last week, together with several other formerly declassified documents.
The information includes the unexplained incident involving a USAF RC-135 plane and a big object. It took place on October 19, 1982, when the plane was snooping on Soviet military activity. The big object reportedly buzzed the aircraft over the Med.
The American crew called for help to the British troops stationed at RAF Troodos, a base on Cyprus, as a UFO reportedly cloaked in a multitude of flashing lights, 20 at a time, zoned in.
The incident reportedly lasted for around 90 minutes. The UFO was spotted on the south of the island and an RAF Phantom, and two US Navy F-14 fighters were scrambled to chase the so-called intruder.
As the three jets approached, the American crew saw the UFO turned away and headed toward the African coast, but the fighter pilots had seen nothing.
Documents show that an investigation was conducted and sent to the US defence bods. Intelligence officers analysed the transcripts of the distress call, tapes, and radar film, but all of these were removed from files.
A suggestion from an RAF worker says that they have a strong suspicion that the UFO was a mirage effect from lights on Israel or Lebanon coast.
However, the results of the joint UK and US investigation are missing in the file.
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University was instrumental in the release of those files. He described the encounter as fascinating and puzzling as the US and UK military authorities took it very seriously.
Watch UFO Sighting Video – Plane Flight From New Mexico to California
Watch UFO Sighting Video – Plane Flight From New Mexico to California
UFOs were filmed from a plane over Unsure, New Mexico. Three bright orb-like objects apparently accompanied the Sunday morning flight from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Burbank, California. The three UFOs were videotaped over the very difficult to reach part of the desert, seemingly resting in the middle of nowhere.
The reporting witness recorded them on video. He also claimed that his partner observed the mysterious orbs as well.
It is not the first time UFOs are either filmed or snapped from inside of planes. Sceptics would often suggest that reflections from light sources inside the plane could actually look like UFOs hovering or flying outside.
However, this case involves two individuals that allegedly saw the strange objects.
Check the video out and see whether they are UFOs or not.
Government agencies are finally taking seriously the threat posed by potential asteroid impacts. Surprise near-miss asteroids, official asteroid preparedness plans, and predictions of future encounters have been in the news with regular occurrence lately, and for good reason. Space agencies track tens of thousands of space rocks hurtling through the solar system all around us, while most of us here on Earth are oblivious to the dangers looming above our heads. Aside from collaborating with other federal agencies on what to do in the event of a strike, NASA has finally decided to test an asteroid redirect technology straight from the pages of science fiction.
We’re pretty much surrounded.
The test is being called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, and is slated to take place in 2024. The test gets its name from the fact that the particular asteroid to be redirected is part of a binary system of asteroids, a one-two punch of deadly space projectiles. The system is known as Didymos, composed of Didymos A and Didymos B. Didymos A, the larger of the two, measures in at around 2,560 feet (780 metres) in diameter, while the smaller Didymos B is only about 525 feet (160 meters) in diameter – still plenty to wipe out significant portions of the human population.
The spacecraft will be sent on a collision course with Didymos A.
During the DART test, NASA will fire a refrigerator-sized “kinetic impactor” projectile at Didymos A intended to knock it slightly off its trajectory. Since the asteroid has a ‘twin,’ NASA scientists will have a control against which they can measure the efficacy of the DART spacecraft.
Basically a man-made asteroid.
One of the DART team leaders, Andy Cheng, says the test will be the first experiment to determine how viable such a planet-saving maneuver might be in the event that we are faced with a do-or-die scenario:
Since we don’t know that much about their internal structure or composition, we need to perform this experiment on a real asteroid. With DART, we can show how to protect Earth from an asteroid strike with a kinetic impactor by knocking the hazardous object into a different flight path that would not threaten the planet.
Let’s just hope we don’t need to save the planet before 2024.
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE FILMED IN ORBIT BY INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE FILMED IN ORBIT BY INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
The image captured by the International Space Station is not crystal clear, but the again they never are, but it has enthusiasts arguing that it clearly shows the Black Knight Satellite shape. This is an alien vehicle that is enigmatic and one that has been creating a buzz throughout the last couple of years.
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE CAME TO LIGHT DURING THE LATE 1950S
Earth The Black Knight Satellite is said to be the most famous of space objects that are orbiting planet Earth. The artificial satellite has been the cause of much interest in the media and it has been since the late 1950s. It has also become one of the space objects that have been the most talked about. It was first suggested that the Black Knight Satellite might have been a spy satellite from Russia and it has held the interest of millions of UFO seekers around the world.
The Black Knight first came to light in the media when the San Francisco Examiner and St. Louis Dispatch wrote about the Satellite on 14 May, while Time Magazine went with a story of 7 March 1960. Ufologists have said that the satellite is alien and it has been keeping watch over Earth for 13,000 years.
BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE SEEN BY MILLIONS SINCE ISS INSTALLED LIVE FEED
The Black Knight Satellite, along with many other objects that people have said are alien, has been seen by millions of people around the world since the ISS installed a live feed. In the new video, it has been argued that the enigmatic alien vehicles can be clearly seen and it is not a thermal blanket, which is what many skeptics have claimed it to be.
Looking at the photo, the object does look strange and does not seem to look like any object that is man-made, which has been orbiting the planet. One thing is the orbit of the object, which is odd, along with the shape and the design, which is exactly what people would expect an alien spacecraft to look like.
Hunters searching for UFOs have said that the object does not have any solar panels on its main body and this lead to many people suggesting that perhaps it is using and relying on a propulsion system that is unknown.
GORDON COOPER REPORTED UFO FLYING AROUND HIS CAPSULE IN 1963
While NASA generally does not open up about any alleged sightings of UFOs, when they do, the American Space Agency does tend to say that the majority of suspected UFOs are shadows, space debris or lights that have come from the International Space Station. When Gordon Cooper was launched into space in 1963, which was his final orbit, he had reported a glowing green object directly in front of his capsule in the distance and it moved towards his spacecraft.
Cooper reported the object to the Muchea tracking station in Australia, and they picked up the UFO on their radar and reported it as traveling east to west. While this was picked up by NBC and they reported it, when he returned to Earth they were not allowed to ask Cooper any questions about the UFO. The official explanation that had been given about the sightings of Cooper was that he had been subjected to carbon dioxide at high levels and this had brought on hallucinations.
UFO SHADOWED SPUTNIK 1 SPACECRAFT IN 1957
In 1957 an unknown object was said to have been seen shadowing the Sputnik 1 Spacecraft. Reports had said that the UFO had been in Polar orbit at the time. Neither the USA nor the Russians had the technology to maintain any spacecraft in Polar Orbit. The first satellite that was Polar-orbiting had been launched in 1960.
Polar orbits have been used for mapping the Earth along with observing the Earth and capturing it as time passes from one point, along with reconnaissance satellites. This means that the Black Knight is in the category of the observational satellite. However, one of the biggest questions has been who put the Black Knight Satellite into orbit and why did they put it there?
This means something. This is important. This video entitled “This Means Something” was uploaded to the Sony Pictures Entertainment YouTube page on Monday, which just so happened to be World UFO Day. The video features an air traffic control radar animation locating an unidentified flying object targeting one of its planes.
SPACE PROPULSION BREAKTHROUGH: HERE IS THE NEXT-GENERATION PLASMA ENGINE
SPACE PROPULSION BREAKTHROUGH: HERE IS THE NEXT-GENERATION PLASMA ENGINE
Japanese scientists make a breakthrough in the development of next generation space engines.
Plasma engines are considered to be something of a holy grail in the next stage of space exploration. Plasma thrusters are theoretically capable of producing a large enough thrust to propel rockets and satellites into outer space without the vast amount of fuel that current space engines require.
However, the process towards creating viable plasma engines has been beset with difficulties as the science is incredibly complex. As of yet, no designers have managed to produce a plasma engine which is capable of reaching outer space. However thanks to new research from Tohoku University, the world may have been brought one small step closer to this elusive goal.
Plasma is comprised of specially charged particles, which means that it can be directed and manipulated through the use of magnetic fields. Scientists and engineers working on the construction of plasma engines have experimented with magnetic nozzles to manipulate the plasma, but they have run into some problems when it comes to using this method.
The magnetic nozzle is designed to compress the plasma so that it will reach a higher state of energy and therefore a higher state of velocity when it is expelled from the engine. However, they have found that the magnetic field produced by the nozzle is formed in such a way that the plasma does not expel itself as required but instead curves back into the engine resulting in a net thrust of zero.
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, two scientists named Kazunori Takahashi and Akira Ando have outlined how this problem may be fixable. The scientists suggested that it was possible to stretch the magnetic field lines to allow the plasma particles to escape into space in a very specific direction.
Instead of using the magnetic nozzle to achieve this, the scientists came up with the ingenious solution of allowing the plasma to direct itself. When charged particles are in motion, they will generate a magnetic field. This means that plasma itself can create the conditions to allow itself to escape and cause propulsion.
Despite the fact that their lab experiments were only slightly more successful than those carried out using a magnetic nozzle, their research has been hailed as highly significant as it has brought additional information into the pool of human knowledge about the nature of plasma itself. Scientists are aware that the vast majority of matter in space is comprised of plasma, but it is very rare on planet Earth. Therefore, any additional information about the nature of plasma is considered to be highly valuable when it comes to understanding the wider universe as well as bringing humans closer to developing viable plasma engines in the future.
NASA RECORDED THE BIGGEST EXPLOSION ON THE MOON EVER AND WARNS 'WE COULD BE NEXT'
NASA RECORDED THE BIGGEST EXPLOSION ON THE MOON EVER AND WARNS 'WE COULD BE NEXT'
And terrifyingly the 56,000 mph collision – captured by NASA scientists highlighting the catastrophic danger planet earth faces from similar meteors – was caused by a space rock weighing no more than 88 lbs (40 kilos).
Despite the meteor’s tiny proportions – about the size of a small boulder and the weight of an average 10-year-old boy – the impact damage was colossal and the explosion shone with the brightness of a magnitude 4 star.
A similar strike against a city on earth would create a crater 65feet (20m) deep and create a devastating kill zone equivalent to TEN Tomahawk cruise missile striking in exactly the same place.
Experts fear the death toll would run into thousands.
Fortunately, because of the speed and angle of entry the rock exploded while still in the air but 7,200 buildings were damaged and 1,500 people were injured seriously enough to seek medical treatment.
A spokesman for respected science website Science.com said: “For the past eight years NASA has been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteors.
THEY’VE SEEN THE BIGGEST EXPLOSION IN THE HISTORY OF THE PROGRAM
“It exploded in a flash 10 times as bright as anything we’ve seen before. Anyone looking at the Moon at the moment of impact could have seen the explosion – no telescope required.”
The Chelyabinsk meteor is the largest known natural object to have entered Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska meteor, which destroyed a wide, remote, forested, and very sparsely populated area of Siberia.
NASA is so concerned about the possibility of an asteroid strike ending all life on earth it has started the first design phase of a spacecraft known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) which will be used to redirect an asteroid’s path.
Lindley Johnson, planetary defence officer at Nasa Headquarters in Washington, said: “DART would be NASA’s first mission to demonstrate what’s known as the kinetic impactor technique – striking the asteroid to shift its orbit – to defend against a potential future asteroid impact.
MYSTERIOUS "SPACE BALLS" KEEP LANDING IN A VILLAGE IN SPAIN - WHAT ON EARTH ARE THEY?
MYSTERIOUS "SPACE BALLS" KEEP LANDING IN A VILLAGE IN SPAIN - WHAT ON EARTH ARE THEY?
Residents from villages in Murcia have been left perplexed and in fear as objects are mysteriously dropping from the skies onto their fields. It all started when one object fell from the sky, found by two shepherds in Calasparra.
A second object was then found in Villavieja. The third object was then found in Elda. This has left villages in southern Spain in fear for what more is to come.
It has been reported that objects are about one meter in diameter and weigh about 20 kilograms each. What instilled fear was because of how the first object was handled: The civil guard came in wearing hazmat suits and initiated a CBRN protocol(chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear). Once the objects have been examined, they were cleared of hazards. However, they were still taken away, and more research had to be carried out.
The people are wary. Calasparra mayor, Jose Velez, has released a statement to Olive Press, stating: “I think it is a more serious issue than it seems. Citizens have real concerns about what is happening and deserve an explanation."
In lieu of the space debris that has hit the Indian Ocean, many are theorizing that the cause of these flying space litter is due to space debris falling to Earth at a terminal velocity, as what science tells us. While the weight of these objects might not cause craters, they are sure large enough to cause fatal damage or even death to an innocent passerby walking just about anyway in Southern Spain.
Let's just hope the investigation comes to an end, and that the barrage of weird objects stops.
What is this mysterious array of light in front of an aircraft flying over Slovakia
What is this mysterious array of light in front of an aircraft flying over Slovakia
Something very strange is going on in the atmosphere of our planet. People all around the world witness and take images of strange sky phenomena.
What to think about the strange array of light in the sky filmed by Martin Mikuaš from Slovakia on June 12, 2017 whereby an aircraft clearly follows the trajectory of the beam.
Is this plane, whether it is a chemplane or not, involved in a technology of controlling the phase of light waves (PAO) transmitted or reflected from an unknown location?
Is this footage proof that they, besides already controlling the weather, now also can create, shape and manipulate visible light or this array of light is something what cannot be explained?
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Dr. Steven Greer reveals different types of Aliens known to the Government
Dr. Steven Greer reveals different types of Aliens known to the Government
Today, in modern society we will find that there is a worldwide debate going on about extraterrestrial life.To summarize it, there are people who believe that we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings, and there are those who firmly disagree, suggesting that we are the only intelligent species in the universe.
Given the fact that the universe is SOO big, it’s hard to even imagine that life only came into existence –miraculously— on Earth.
To put the possibility of alien life existing elsewhere into perspective, there are approximately 10 billion galaxies in the observable universe. The number of stars in each galaxy may differ, but assuming there is an average of around 100 billion stars per galaxy, it would mean that there are around 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – lots of zeroes yup, and that’s 1 billion trillion— stars in the observable universe.
This of course, isn’t the entire number but just one segment of the entire picture since we can only observe parts of the universe that are within 13.7 billion light-years of earth.
As noted on SCSB, this is due to the fact that the big bang occurred about 13.7 billion years ago. Thus, w make observations about distant stars by measuring the light that reaches earth and satellites that we have in space.
Light from stars farther than 13.7 billion light-years away has not had time to reach us yet. The universe must be much bigger than the universe that we can observe at this time, therefore there may be many more stars out there.
After realizing how big the universe really is, we turn to the Alien question.
In the past, numerous scientists, military officials, and whistleblowers have come forward speaking about UFOs and alien visitations to Earth.
The debate about Alien life isn’t something new to modern times, as a matter of a fact, since recorded history, people have asked what if somewhere out there is life similar to that on Earth. “To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.” – Metrodorus, Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C.
One of the most interesting comments regarding extraterrestrial life comes from former Canadian defense minister, Paul Hellyer.
Mr. Hellyer has said that here are more than 82 known alien species who have visited Earth. It is claimed that a wealth of information about these extraterrestrial species is contained in highly-classified documents used as training manuals or guides for military and intelligence personnel. The documents reveal that many of the known species, such as the Alpha-Draconians or Reptilians, have been living on Earth long before the human race.
Comments made by Mr. Heller are backed up by many other scientists, military officials, and whistleblowers.
Franklin Story Musgrave, an American Physician, retired NASA astronaut who worked on the design and development of the Skylab Program and the only astronaut to have flown missions on all five Space Shuttles had very interesting things to say about life elsewhere in the cosmos:
“Statistically it’s a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they’re so advanced that they’re even doing interstellar travel. I believe it’s possible that they even came here. It’s logical to presume the universe must have other life in it and by virtue of association that we could be visited at some point.”
One of our favorite quotes comes from Dr Brian O’Leary, a former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor:
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, which seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.”
In addition to the above, a very interesting video about alien life and alien visitations is the one posted below, where Steven Macon Greer –a retired medical doctor and ufologist, founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Disclosure Project— speaks of the various types of aliens. The interview was made in 2010.
Once held to be the outermost planet of the Solar System, Pluto‘s designation was changed by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, owing to the discovery of many new Kuiper Belt Objects that were comparable in size. In spite of this, Pluto remains a source of fascination and a focal point of much scientific interest. And even after the historic flyby conducted by the New Horizons probe in July of 2015, many mysteries remain.
What’s more, ongoing analysis of the NH data has revealed new mysteries. For instance, a recent study by a team of astronomers indicated that a survey by the Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed the presence of some rather strong x-rays emissions coming from Pluto. This was unexpected, and is causing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew about Pluto’s atmosphere and its interaction with solar wind.
In the past, many Solar bodies have been observed emitting x-rays, which were the result of interaction between solar wind and neutral gases (like argon and nitrogen). Such emissions have been detected from planets like Venus and Mars (due to the presence of argon and/or nitrogen in their atmospheres), but also with smaller bodies like comets – which acquire halos due to outgassing.
Artist’s impression of New Horizons’ close encounter with the Pluto–Charon system.
Credit: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben
Ever since the NH probe conducted its flyby of Pluto in 2015, astronomers have been aware that Pluto has an atmosphere which changes size and density with the seasons. Basically, as the planet reaches perihelion during its 248 year orbital period – a distance of 4,436,820,000 km, 2,756,912,133 mi from the Sun – the atmosphere thickens due to the sublimation of frozen nitrogen and methane on the surface.
The last time Pluto was at perihelion was on September 5th, 1989, which means that it was still experiencing summer when NH made its flyby. While studying Pluto, the probe detected an atmosphere that was primarily composed of nitrogen gas (N²) along with methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO²). Astronomers therefore decided to look for signs of x-ray emissions coming from Pluto’s atmosphere using the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Prior to the NH mission’s flyby, most models of Pluto’s atmosphere expected it to be quite extended. However, the probe found that the atmosphere was less extended and that its rate of loss was hundreds of times lower than what these models predicted. Therefore, as the team indicated in their study, they expected to find x-ray emissions that were consistent with what the NH flyby observed:
“Given that most pre-encounter models of Pluto’s atmosphere had predicted it to be much more extended, with an estimated loss rate to space of ~1027 to 1028 mol/sec of N² and CH4… we attempted to detect X-ray emission created by [solar wind] neutral gas charge exchange interactions in the low density neutral gas surrounding Pluto,” they wrote.
Images sent by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show possible clouds floating over the frozen landscape including the streaky patch at right.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwR
However, after consulting data from the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) aboard Chandra, they found that x-ray emissions coming from Pluto were greater than what this would allow for. In some cases, strong x-ray emissions have been noted coming from other smaller objects in the Solar System, which is due to the scattering of solar x-rays by small dust grains composed of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
But the energy distribution they noted with Pluto’s x-rays were not consistent with this explanation. Another possibility that the team offered is that they could be due to some process (or processes) that focus the solar wind near Pluto, which would enhance the effect of its modest atmosphere.
“The observed emission from Pluto is not aurorally driven. If due to scattering, it would have to be sourced by a unique population of nanoscale haze grains composed of C, N, and O atoms in Pluto’s atmosphere resonantly fluorescing under the Sun’s insolation. If driven by charge exchange between [solar wind] minor ions and neutral gas species (mainly CH4) escaping from Pluto, then density enhancement and adjustment of the [solar wind] minor ion relative abundance in the interaction region near Pluto is required versus naïve models.”
For the time being, the true cause of these x-ray emissions is likely to remain a mystery. They also highlight the need for more research when it comes to this distant and most massive of Kuiper Belt Objects. Luckily, the data provided by the NH mission is likely to be poured over for decades, revealing new and interesting things about Pluto, the outer Solar System, and how the most distant worlds from our Sun behave.
Adorned with a thin band of icy ring particles, the small moon Pan inspires comparisons to alien spacecraft, walnuts, and even ravioli.
There’s a tiny “flying saucer” orbiting deep within Saturn’s rings, and a NASA probe has just gotten its most impressive look yet at the strange object.
The saucer is actually a little moon called Pan, and NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured its distinctive shape on March 7 in a stunningly detailed series of images.
When she first saw the new pictures of Pan, Cassini scientist Carolyn Porco thought they might be an artist’s representation.
“They are real! Science is better than fiction,” she later commented.
Named for the flute-playing Greek god of wild places, 21-mile-wide Pan is what’s called a shepherd moon. It lives within a gap in Saturn’s A ring, which is the farthest loop of icy particles from the planet. As it zips around Saturn, Pan continually clears debris from the gap by vacuuming up some ring particles and punting others away, like a little Roomba with a force field.
Another raw image from Cassini showcases Pan’s equatorial band.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
In fact, it’s this absence of ring junk that led scientists to predict Pan’s existence as early as the mid-1980s. But the small moon wasn’t officially discovered until 1990, when Mark Showalter and his colleagues took a good look at images returned by the Voyager 2 spacecraft and found the moon that is responsible for the gap’s existence.
These more recent images show in detail that the moon is swaddled in what’s called an equatorial accretion disk, or a smooth, thin layer of ring particles that have been glued on to Pan’s waistline by the moon’s meager gravity.
“This is such a far cry from the nondescript ‘dots’ that I was tracking way back in 1990 in the Voyager images! It’s very gratifying finally to see Pan’s closeup, “says Showalter, now at the SETI Institute in California.
In a 2007 study published in Science, Porco suggested the thin disk formed long ago, before the moon had completely vacuumed out material from the gap.
“The shape, as others have also pointed out, is probably because it is always sweeping up fine dust from the rings,” Showalter explains. “The rings are very thin compared to the size of Pan, so the dust accumulates around its equator.”
Pan isn’t alone in its bizarre appearance: Another small moon, Atlas, bears a similar shape for similar reasons.
Header Image: One of Cassini’s new views of Saturn’s moon Pan. PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
NASA looks into sending astronauts on a trip beyond the moon as early as 2019
NASA looks into sending astronauts on a trip beyond the moon as early as 2019
NASA and its commercial partners say they’re studying the possibility of sending astronauts beyond the moon years earlier than planned, by putting a crew on the first flight of the space agency’s heavy-lift Space Launch System.
The NASA study, sparked in part by a desire for the Trump administration to do something dramatic in space during its first term, would consider whether such a flight could occur in 2019 or 2020.
The current plan calls for an uncrewed test flight of the SLS and NASA’s Orion capsule in late 2018, known as Exploration Mission-1 or EM-1. That mission would followed by a crewed test flight called EM-2 in the 2021-2023 time frame.
In a statement, NASA said acting administrator Robert Lightfoot asked Bill Gerstenmaier, the agency’s associate administrator for human exploration and operations, to assess whether the first crew could ride on EM-1 instead of EM-2.
“The study will examine the opportunities it could present to accelerate the effort of the first crewed flight and what it would take to accomplish that first step of pushing humans farther into space,” NASA said.
Gerstenmaier discussed the study with NASA’s commercial Orion/SLS partners at a conference today in Washington, D.C. NASA representatives declined to specify how long the study would take, but some of the reports that emerged after Gerstenmaier’s talk suggested a 30-day time frame.
Boeing, Lockheed Martin on board
EM-1’s current mission plan calls for sending the Orion capsule on a trajectory beyond the moon, most likely into lunar orbit, and then back to Earth. No lunar landing would be attempted. The trip would be similar to Apollo 8’s “Earthrise” mission in 1968. The current plan calls for EM-2 to go beyond the moon as well.
The revised plan would force NASA and its partners to ensure that EM-1 had all the safety and life support features required for human spaceflight. That’s why EM-1 would have to fly somewhat later that currently planned.
The crewed Orion/SLS flight would mark the first trip for humans beyond Earth orbit since NASA’s last Apollo moon mission in 1972. There’s another historical angle if the round-the-moon flight were to take place in 2019, in that it would come during the golden anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Boeing and Lockheed Martin, NASA’s two main commercial partners in the multibillion-dollar Orion/SLS program, both said they’d look into accelerating their schedules. Boeing is the prime contractor for the SLS rocket, while Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the Orion crew capsule.
“The possibility of NASA accelerating the timeline to put humans into the vicinity of the moon and onto Mars is exciting,” Boeing spokeswoman Kelly Kaplan said in an email. “Safety of the crew is most important, so of course there will be many factors we will consider as we assess the feasibility of adding crew to EM-1. We applaud NASA’s bold path forward in this transition time, and we’re proud to be a part of the journey to Mars.”
Lockheed Martin is also on board with the study, said Allison Miller, a spokeswoman for the company’s Orion program. “We’ll look at accelerating remaining crew system designs, as well as potential technical and schedule challenges and how to mitigate them,” she said in an email.
Trump’s space strategy
Word of the potential schedule shift comes after weeks of speculation over how President Donald Trump and his advisers might change the focus of the nation’s space program.
Trump’s predecessor, President Barack Obama, had initially set NASA’s sights on sending astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid in the mid-2020s, followed by trips to Mars and its moons in the 2030s.
Those plans have morphed over the years, and at the same time, billionaire-backed commercial ventures such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin have upped the ante. Last fall, Musk unveiled plans to send settlers to Mars in the 2020s, and Blue Origin executives said their long-term vision for spaceflight included trips to the moon and Mars as well.
Some of Trump’s advisers reportedly pressed for an accelerated campaign to send astronauts on trips around the moon, and put commercial robotic landers on the moon’s surface, by 2020. One scenario even called for an “internal competition” between NASA’s traditional industrial partners and more recent market entrants such as SpaceX and Blue Origin.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who advised Trump during the presidential campaign, told Politico last week that “a good part of the Trump administration would like a lot more aggressive, risk-taking, competitive entrepreneurial approach to space.”
NASA’s Lightfoot addressed the debate in a memo he sent to the space agency’s employees today.
“There has been a lot of speculation in the public discourse about NASA being pulled in two directions – what has come before and what we want to do now,” he said in the memo, as reported by NASA Watch. “At NASA, this is an ‘and’ proposition, not an ‘or.’ … We must work with everyone to secure our leadership in space – and we will.”
Trump hasn’t yet nominated an administrator for NASA. Lightfoot is serving in a caretaker role – but he is regarded as one of the prospects for the official appointment, along with U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla.
Speeding up the schedule for sending astronauts beyond Earth orbit carries significant risks. It would be highly unusual for humans to get on board for the first test launch of a new type of rocket. Contractors would have to shorten their time frame for testing the hardware needed for crewed flight, ranging from launch abort systems to life support systems.
Keith Cowing, a former NASA employee who now runs the independent NASA Watch website, said in a posting that the schedule speed-up looked like a “Hail Mary pass” for the expensive SLS program.
“To move this rather important milestone up now in the midst of dueling and ever-shifting policy directions – for no clearly articulated reason other than politics – starts to smell like launch fever to me,” he wrote.
SpaceX to send two people around the moon who paid for a 2018 private mission
SpaceX to send two people around the moon who paid for a 2018 private mission
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, revealed on Monday that two people have paid for a private mission around the moon, tentatively set for launch in 2018 with the private company’s yet untested Falcon Heavy rocket.
In a conference call with reporters, Musk declined to name the people or what they had paid, though he said the individuals know each other and are “very serious” about the flight. The “private citizens” approached the company late last year and will receive training and take health and fitness tests as early as this year.
Musk said the circumlunar journey would take about a week, nearing the moon’s surface without landing on it before its return to Earth. The total flight would go about 300,000 to 400,000 miles into space, he said,meaning the flight could take humans farther from Earth than ever before.
If SpaceX accomplishes the trip before Nasa or another space agency can send astronauts to the moon, it would be the first lunar mission with humans in 45 years, on a course that would extend past the record 249,000 miles traveled by the Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970.
SpaceX said in a statement that the would-be passengers “have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission”, and Musk called the cost “comparable” to that of sending astronauts to the International Space Station. Nasa currently pays Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, about $70m a person to fly astronauts to the ISS.
“Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow,” the company statement read. “Additional information will be released about the flight teams, contingent upon their approval and confirmation of the health and fitness test results.”
The flight would rely on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the massive engine that the company hopes to test for the first time this summer, and a Dragon 2 capsule. Musk said that the capsule had a “quite high” success rate for missions so far.
The passengers were “nobody from Hollywood”, Musk said.
He acknowledged that the flight would be dangerous but said the customers have “their eyes open” about what could happen. “We’re doing everything we can to minimize that risk, but it’s not zero,” Musk said.
“We would expect to do more than one mission of this nature,” he added.
While Nasa has contracted SpaceX to launch crewed missions to the International Space Station, the company has not yet flown any missions with humans. Musk said the space agency would receive priority if it decided to do another lunar mission first, and that the private trip would need a license from the Federal Aviation Administration. Nasa’s acting administrator, Robert Lightfoot, has said that the agency is reviewing a possible return to the moon or a flight into deep space beyond it.
The company will test its Crew Dragon spacecraft without humans on board later this mission and is scheduled to fly a crewed mission to the space station in 2018.
In its 15-year history, SpaceX and its founder have accrued a steady record of ambitious goals and blown deadlines. In 2011, Musk said that SpaceX would “be ready to fly its first manned mission in 2014”. That same year, he told the Wall Street Journal that he hoped to take humans to Mars by 2021 in a “best case” scenario, an estimate that he pushed back to 2024 last year. And though SpaceX has launched and landed eight reusable rockets, it has also suffered setbacks of failed landings and last year’s launchpad explosion that destroyed the expensive rocket and its satellite payload.
Earlier this month, the Government Accountability Office warned of safety concerns in a review of SpaceX’s rockets and plans, suggesting that there are more delays ahead. The report noted that both SpaceX and another private contractor, United Launch Alliance, have consistently failed to meet deadlines.
Musk remained optimistic on the call, saying, “Next year is going to be the big year for carrying people.”
In a statement, Nasa said it “commends its industry partners for reaching higher”.
“We will work closely with SpaceX to ensure it safely meets the contractual obligations to return the launch of astronauts to US soil and continue to successfully deliver supplies to the International Space Station,” the agency said.
In its statement, SpaceX said that Nasa has encouraged privately crewed missions, saying that through them “long-term costs to the government decline and more flight reliability history is gained, benefiting both government and private missions”.
Only after crewed missions have begun for Nasa, SpaceX said, will the company launch its mission around the moon, from the Cape Canaveral launchpad used by the Apollo program. “This presents an opportunity for humans to return to deep space for the first time in 45 years and they will travel faster and further into the Solar System than any before them,” the company said.
Rival spaceflight company Blue Origins, headed by the Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, has also announced plans to eventually take people and cargo to low Earth orbit with its own reusable rockets. In 2001, billionaire Dennis Tito became the world’s first space tourist for an estimated $20m, booking a trip on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, and about half a dozen others followed him into orbit.
UFO shot down by Military before they were attacked and killed by the surviving aliens!!
UFO shot down by Military before they were attacked and killed by the surviving aliens!!
USAF shot down a UFO before they were attacked and killed by the surviving aliens, it is sensationally claimed in a declassified CIA report.The report suggested that a low flying flying saucer had appeared over a military unit in training in Siberia, before one of the soldiers fired a surface to air missile, bringing it down.
The shocking report, which includes claims that 23 soldiers were turned into stone by the aliens in the UFO after they transformed into a ball of light, was buried among thousands of declassified files published online by the US intelligence agency.
The report in question, created on March 27 1993, is a translation by the CIA of a report from the Ukrainian newspaper Ternopil vechirniy.
The newspaper report said that after Mikhail Gorbachev lost power in 1991, many KGB files made their way to the CIA, including an alleged 250-page dossier on the bizarre UFO attack, which included pictures and witness testimonies.
The report suggested that a low flying flying saucer had appeared over a military unit in training in Siberia, before one of the soldiers fired a surface to air missile, bringing it down.
It said: "Five short humanoids with large heads and large black eyes got out.”
Two soldiers are said to have survived, who described how, after emerging from the debris, the five beings merged into a brilliant white spherical ball of light that buzzed and hissed.
It then exploded, and as it did 23 soldiers who stood watching were turned into stone, the report claimed.
The two survivors had been in a shaded area, it said.
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Mars More Toxic to Life Than Previously Thought
Mars More Toxic to Life Than Previously Thought
Mount Sharp on Mars, as imaged by the Curiosity rover.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Life on Mars … does it exist? Depending on when you last checked in with news about the Red Planet, you could probably be convinced either way. As we discover more and more about the composition and planetary dynamics of Mars, there has been cause for both elation and disappointment regarding the likelihood that organic life could manage to eke out a living on the planet.
The pendulum swung back toward the “no” side today with the release of a study examining how a special kind of salt on Mars interacts with ultraviolet radiation there. Martian soil is laced with perchlorates, an ion composed of one chlorine and four oxygen atoms, and which binds to a number of different elements to form various compounds. It’s classified as a salt, and was initially cause for celebration among extraterrestrial hopefuls because it drastically lowers the freezing point of water, meaning that liquid H20 might conceivably exist on the surface. It can also be used to produce rocket fuel and oxygen, another plus for future settlers.
Salt of the Mars
It turns out that these perchlorates are actually highly toxic to life when bathed in UV radiation that pummels Mars. Researchers from the United Kingdom Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh exposed a strain of bacteria commonly found on spacecraft to levels of perchlorates and UV light found on the Red Planet and found that nearly all of them were dead within a minute. They tried this with several different kinds of perchlorate, and found similar results every time. Adding in additional environmental factors found on Mars like low temperatures, additional minerals found on Mars and a lack of oxygen also failed to keep the bacteria alive.
This was a bit surprising for the researchers because the strain of bacteria used, Bacillus subtilis, belongs to a genus that actually does fine in the presence of perchlorates, as studies of the microbes in terrestrial environments have confirmed. These findings were initially good news for researchers looking for extraterrestrial life, as they suggested that some forms of life could survive in Martian analogue conditions.
It Takes More Than Salt
There’s more to Mars than just the soil though, and when the Edinburgh researchers added in a few more Mars-like factors — UV specifically — the bacteria died in short order. They think this happens because the UV light breaks apart the perchlorate molecules into more reactive ions that wreak havoc on living cells. This hypothesis was backed up by the observation that low temperatures, which slow down chemical reactions, extended the lifespan of the bacteria in the perchlorates but still resulted in them dying. If they can’t survive there, it significantly lowers our chances of finding life on Mars — life that looks similar to organisms on Earth at least. The researchers published their findings Thursday in Nature Scientific Reports.
While it’s a blow to the possibility of finding life on Mars, there is at least one upside to the news: NASA regularly worries about the possibility of contaminating other planets with Earthly bacteria, even going so far as to crash probes into Saturn so that they don’t hit the planet’s moons. If Mars is so hostile to bacteria that they can’t even make it a minute on the surface, our fears of contamination could be pretty much resolved.
Just what on Earth - or perhaps Mars or Jupiter - is this?
This apparently intergalactic lightshow was filmed above Gloucester.
The mysterious orb was first spotted by Rob Wheatman in Elmbridge in March and he had a powerful enough camera to zoom right in on it.
Rob Wheatman captured this on camera above Gloucester
Rob said: "I saw it as a sparkling 'star' from the garden in Elmbridge, due south. What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and travelled at speed north east.
"I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that's when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw."
Another video was taken showing a 'UFO' in the skies above Gloucestershire at around the same time.
It was taken by Ryan Gribbon in Hucclecote.
It is the second video showing strange lights in the sky above the city.
We don't know what the lights are, but we are sure you, our readers, have a lot of suggestions.
Ethan Dunn, 10, spotted the unfamiliar object from his house floating high in the sky over the Sooke Basin while he was eating dinner last week.
Taken on the morning of June 4 by a resident in Hope of a “strange blurry object.” (ufosnw.com)
“It almost looked like a dinner plate,” Dunn said. “It was shiny and silver and flying much higher than a plane would go.”
Two weeks ago Sooke resident Ann Talbot reported a similar object near the same location.
“I didn’t know what it could be, it was interesting. I didn’t think it was a meteorite, because it would have had a trail. I couldn’t hear a thing, no buzzing, no whooshing sound, nothing,” Talbot said.
Talbot also described the UFO to be bright and perfectly round. Both Sooke residents said the object floated higher than a drone would be able to, and moved faster than a plane could cross the sky.
“I saw it and wondered if it correlates to what other people had seen,” Dunn said. “It looked much larger than a drone so I don’t think it could have been that.”
He described the UFO to be “fairly large” but found it hard to compare to anything because it was too far away.
Dunn said the object stayed in sight for around 10 seconds before he lost sight of it.
“It was like it vanished into thin air,” he said. “One second it was there and the next it had disappeared.”
One thing’s certain, whatever the objects may have been, they weren’t military, said Greg Menzies, a media spokesperson at CFB Esquimalt.
“We have no drones flying around, and we don’t participate in exercises in the Sooke Basin.”
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO,is a fine city that boasts a small museum, a picturesque state park, a gorgeous wildlife refuge, and all kinds of shopping. Not that it mattered to the 15,000 or so people who visited last weekend. All they cared about were aliens.
It's been that way since 1947, when a rancher named William Brazel stumbled upon some strange debris in the desert 30 miles north of town. The US Army Air Force declared it the wreckage of a flying saucer, but upon closer inspection said, no, wait, it's a weather balloon.
Too late. The legend was born. For 70 years now, people have believed ET landed in this corner of southeastern New Mexico. That's prompted no end of conspiracy theories and outlandish stories, not to mention a thriving business in UFO-themed gift shops, museums, and restaurants.
And, of course, the four-day UFO festival. True believers came from as far away as Vermont for last weekend's 22nd annual extraterrestrial extravaganza, and WIRED sent Angie Smith to take it all in. “Everywhere you looked you saw neon green,” she says.
Alien aficionados roamed Main Street, gobbling delectable desserts called Martian turds, buying kitschy alien eggs and other mementoes, and generally getting more than a little out there. A woman decked out in glittery blue paint with pipe cleaner "antennae" in her hair told Smith she attended the festival to “lift everyone’s vibrations.”
The truly inquisitive listened to experts hold forth during panels addressing topics like “Are Aliens Demons? Evidences That Suggest ‘Yes’” and "Why Defending UFOs with the Bible is a Bad Idea.” Afterward they lined up for pictures with UFOlogists like Travis Walton, who claims he spent five days with aliens in 1975, an experience that inspired the 1993 film Fire in the Sky (call him weird, but more than half of all Americans believe in aliens).
You don't have to believe in aliens to appreciate the playful, bizarre spirit of the event captured in Smith’s photos. “It’s fun and fascinating," she says, "whether or not you believe in it." Should aliens ever truly land in Roswell, they'll have a lot to live up to.
Tourists snap a selfie in front os a UFO sculpture just outside Roswell, New Mexico
Angie Smith for WIRED
An attendee poses for a portret with Travis Walton, who claims to be abducted bybAliens in 1975.
If an alien lands on the Earth and there’s no attempt by the government to cover it up, is it really interesting? Apparently not, because in these five documentaries, extraterrestrials and conspiracy theories go hand in hand.
1. UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)
The good news is that UFOs: It Has Begun is narrated by Rod Serling, which automatically makes it cooler, if not necessarily more credible, than other documentaries about aliens. The bad news is that Serling died in 1975. Originally released in 1974 as UFOs: Past, Present and Future, this documentary was rereleased under its new name in 1976 and 1979; you have to watch it on YouTube. But the film’s strength (besides Serling) is its complete reliance on source material from NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, which adds instant gravitas to an often over-the-top subject. —Allison Gorman
2. Out of the Blue (2003)
This made-for-TV documentary is narrated by actor Peter Coyote. Pulling a respected actor onto the project was a smart move for James Fox, the young filmmaker, especially since he was plumbing a subject famous for attracting nutcases, and ridicule. Out of the Blue acknowledges that dynamic; in an interview, Fox has admitted he “dismissed … as a crackpot” the friend who first told him about Area 51, only to have his own UFO experience there and face similar skepticism from his own family. In this film, he and co-filmmakers Tim Coleman and Boris Zubov counter the skeptics with some big-name witnesses, including American presidents and astronauts. —Allison Gorman
3. I Know What I Saw (2009)
James Fox is back, and this time he brought an army (or air force). The maker of Out of the Blue, who incorporated some of that documentary into this one, organized a 2007 forum at the National Press Club, bringing in government and military officials from several countries to offer personal testimony supporting the theory of alien life and high-level coverups. Their accounts, which form the bulk of this film, are left to stand on their own merits—or, more accurately, on the merits of the speakers’ credibility. That said, some are pretty far out, but they’re worth a listen for entertainment value alone. —Allison Gorman
4. The Day Before Disclosure (2010)
The Day Before Disclosure puts forth the idea that decades of flying saucer sightings by pilots, military personnel and ordinary citizens, plus supposed evidence of alien life on Earth going back thousands of years or more, are finally coming to a head. Through video footage of UFOs and interviews with eyewitnesses, including some who claim to have been abducted by aliens, Norwegian filmmaker Terje Toftenes asserts that the U.S. and other governments have been suppressing what they know about extraterrestrials—but with much of that information now publically available, their secret won’t be safe for long. —Allison Gorman
5. Mirage Men (2013)
A British documentary based on Mark Pilkington’s book by the same name, Mirage Men takes the standard conspiracy theory about extraterrestrials and doubles it back on itself. Rather than asserting that the government has been trying to cover up evidence of alien life, it sets out to prove that the U.S. Air force and intelligence services have been pushing ET/UFO mythology—“weapons of mass deception”—to make believers look crazy, and to deflect attention from its own high-tech doings. Maybe it’s all hooey, but in our new world of alternative facts, this four-year-old film suddenly seems rather timely. —Allison Gorman
Prey’s Typhon monsters are seriously creepy. Whether it’s a run-in with a duplicitous mimic, a stalking phantom or those eerie, confounding telepaths, you’re likely to come out unnerved by the encounter. Their gooey dripping profiles and low roaring static background noises make them distinctly uncomfortable to be around. (Which is a real pain if you like using the Mind Jack or Phantom Genesis Neuromod abilities). Whether it’s in games, films or literature, for a monster to succeed at frightening an audience, it must feel otherworldly, uncanny and unknowable. Prey’s employment of this aesthetic feels inspired by some of the great monster films of the past few decades, though it ultimately creates something new and unique from the wealth of available source material. Below are a few of the films that share Prey’s sense of the grim, alien and mysterious in the design and execution of their monsters.
1. Alien
So much of modern sci-fi creature design draws inspiration from H.R. Giger’s ghastly creations. Preyis no exception. The tricky mimics that populate Talos I’s labs and office spaces reflect the springlike potentiality of face huggers. Walking up and examining a suspicious coffee mug’s shimmering edges might reward you with a face full of twisted black limbs, just as John Hurt’s Kane got a shocking surprise in the egg chamber back on LV-426. To be fair to Prey, one could hardly be blamed for falling for the clever antics of mimics, whereas a hundred space trucker pensions couldn’t convince me to invade the personal space of an unfolding alien egg sac.
2. Attack the Block
Attack the Block’s creatures are “blacker than black” according to Franz Drameh’s Dennis. They share with Giger’s Alien a lack of eyes and a threatening maw, though they are much more purposefully obscured, with a spiky profile encircling a pitch black body. This design allows them to maintain a sense of mystery even as they openly bound around the screen. They seem forever hidden in shadows even under the bright fluorescent lights of the tower block’s halls. Disrupting recognition also falls within Prey’s wheelhouse. We require light to judge the world around us and to identify what is or isn’t a threat. A creature that rejects light, and thus identification, is inherently menacing. Prey’s Typhon are built around deception—they multiply, mimic objects and teleport. Even their profiles are in constant flux: expanding in anger and shrinking into small heaps of snakelike coils in death.
3. Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow’s Mimics share not only a name with the Typhon menace, but a startlingly close physical resemblance. Instead of skin and bone they’re both composed of a swirling miasma of coiling particles. A low staticky roar is emitted from deep within both, as if a million chemical reactions are happening all at once. Like the midnight black creatures from Attack the Block, their form defies easy identification. A snapping electric cable broken free during a thunderstorm or a wildfire crackling in fits and bursts feels like a better analogy to the Typhon or Edge of Tomorrow’s Mimics than any Earth-bound flesh and blood creature.
4. The Thing
Prey is at its tensest during the early hours of the game where, underpowered, you creep through each level, hoping to avoid mimics and other biological landmines. The tenseness of each encounter is inevitably lessened as your character levels up and unlocks the ability to scan each room for hidden enemies. The unlucky research crew in The Thing don’t get to make it that far. Like Prey’s Typhon, the Thing is a creature which is capable of confounding our ability to distinguish friend from foe. Like Talos I, the Antarctic research station the film is set in is cramped and claustrophobic, probably the worst place you want to be trapped in alongside a dissimulating boogie-man. Worse still, is when that menace builds itself up off the corpses of allies who quickly become enemies once your back is turned. That the friendly and familiar can so swiftly transform into the strange and dangerous is at the heart of why horror works as a genre.
5. Arrival
When I wrote about Arrival earlier this year it was in respect to the film’s message that urged embracing the alien and the strange, despite how much it might frighten you. And Arrival’s Heptapods are truly meant to make for a frightening first contact. Their massive Lovecraftian forms disappearing into the mist confuse and bewilder the film’s characters and audience alike. We can barely discern if we’re looking at feet, heads or bodies, since the enormity of their existence is rarely shown. There is always a little more hinted at, hidden out of sight. Encountering something so inconceivably large in scope may be frightening, but for many it’s also an irresistible prospect. It infects the imaginations of Prey’s scientists just as it does for many of the characters on this list. It’s a lucky thing for Amy Adam’s Louise and the rest of her team that embracing the Heptapods did not result in similar outcomes.
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The "Niagara Falls Of Mars" Were Made Of Lava Not Water
The "Niagara Falls Of Mars" Were Made Of Lava Not Water
Those long streaks are actually "frozen waterfalls of lava streaming into a crater.
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Hawaii’s Kilauea is the most active volcano in the world. Erupting continuously since 1983, it has created a cornucopia of beautiful alien features, from overflowing lava lakes and waterfalls to anastomosing rivers of lava at the surface and the dragon-like lava tubes snaking through the ground beneath them.
Once upon a time, Mars was a lot like Kilauea – a volcanic landscape with a grand mosaic of strange hellish features. Now, thanks to a new series of NASA images, scientists think that they’ve spotted some ancient lava waterfalls draped across the surface of the Red Planet.
Unlike Kilauea, Mars is no longer volcanically active, so these waterfalls aren’t fresh ones. Rather, they’re frozen monuments to an age of fire long past – and they’re huge.
Snapped by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), these lava drapes are spread out across the rims of a volcanic crater 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) across. So how did they form?
When they first formed, the "waterfall" would have looked a little like this. Alexey Kamenskiy/Shutterstock
This crater, found in the once highly active Tharsis region, initially looks like it could have contained a lava lake similar to the one at the heart of Kilauea: a bubbling mass of molten rock that is continually churning, listing, rising, and falling.
When the hotspot beneath lava lakes manages to melt more of the upper crust than usual, the lava lake sometimes rises up to such a height that it overflows and cascades down the crater rim. This can be seen on a semi-regular basis on Hawaii, and perhaps the same phenomenon happened on Mars.
However, in this case, the lava is doing something weird. It’s actually coming from outside the crater and surrounding it. At some point, the lava flow was so extensive that it ran up the crater slopes and cascaded down into it.
As the lava breached the crater rim, it encountered a series of rocky “steps” created by previous periodic eruptive episodes. This meant that the lava flow you can see here essentially moved down a volcanic staircase, a bit like pouring fresh glaze over a multi-tiered cake. Its extent has earned this aesthetically pleasing feature a new moniker by NASA – the “Niagara Falls of Mars”.
The lava flow was so extensive that it entered the crater at four separate locations to create four unique lava "waterfalls". NASA
Although active for billions of years, the heat sources at the heart of Mars – its primordial heat left over from its formation and the heat released by radioactive elements – were extinguished, and these huge lava flows were no more. It’s a shame, really, because Mars once had some seriously cool volcanoes.
Its lack of plate tectonics meant that its gigantic hotspots produced the most massive volcanoes in the Solar System, and there was once an eruption so extensive that it caused the planet to tip over on its axis by 20°.
Strange 'dome' and 'pyramid' spotted on Mars, say alien hunters
Strange 'dome' and 'pyramid' spotted on Mars, say alien hunters
The 'dome' and 'pyramid' features on the surface of Mars (Google Earth/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, G. Neukum)
Mysterious ‘dome’ and ‘pyramid’ structures have been spotted on the surface of Mars, according to alien hunters.
The purported anomalies on the surface of Mars were featured on the ArtAlienTV YouTube channel after they were spotted by a researcher scanning the surface of Mars with the Google Earth tool.
“We have a clear 50 foot dome or sphere in a Mars Crater with large pipes coming out of it on the left. Also a triangular pyramid shaped structure about 500 feet away from it that is 120 ft wide,” explains ArtAlienTV in a post accompanying the video. “These features look artificial in nature and are clearly visible on Google Mars with no enhancements.”
The area where the ‘dome’ and ‘pyramid’ are located between Mars’ Oyama Crater and Mawrth Vallis, a valley on the planet that has been identified as a possible landing site for the joint European Space Agency/Roscosmos ExoMars rover mission in 2020.
In the video ArtAlienTV says that many of the potential domes found on Mars have turned out to be sand dunes.
Features on the Red Planet’s surface continue to be a source of fascination. Alien hunters, for example, recently claimed that a mysterious ‘stone circle’ has been spotted on the surface of Mars.
Earlier this year, it was also claimed that an image taken by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover shows an ancient tree stump on the surface of the Red Planet.
In 2015, UFO hunters said they had identified a mysterious woman-like shape in a picture taken by the Curiosity Rover.
Have alien-hunters discovered an ancient pyramid on Mars? Anomalies spotted on red planet
Have alien-hunters discovered an ancient pyramid on Mars? Anomalies spotted on red planet
A YouTube user known as ArtAlienTV posted a video online showing what he called "anomalies" on NASA satellite images of the surface of the planet.
BY RACHEL O'DONOGHUE
Alien-hunters claim they have found what appears to be a pyramid and bizarre dome structure on Mars.
A YouTube user known as ArtAlienTV posted a video online showing what he called "anomalies" on NASA satellite images of the surface of the planet.
Explaining the dome, the conspiracist claims they look "artificial" and says he has not enhanced the images in an way.
"We have a clear 50 foot dome or sphere in a Mars Crater with large pipes coming out of it on the left. Also, a triangular pyramid shaped structure about 500 feet away from it that is 120 ft wide," he wrote.
An alien-hunter spotted the bizarre 'structures' on the surface of Mars(Image: ArtAlienTV - MARS ZOO/Youtube)
It appears to be a dome-like structure on Mars(Image: ArtAlienTV - MARS ZOO/Youtube)
According to ArtAlienTV, the find was made by fellow alien-hunter William Benton.
He added: "These features look artificial in nature and are clearly visible on Google Mars with no enhancements.
"The structures are between the Mawrth Vallis region and Oyama Crater in an area that was short listed for a Mars Rover to explore for possible signs of life before Gale Crater was eventually chosen.
"It is not hard to find."
Alien-hunters regularly study NASA images of the Red Planet(Image: ArtAlienTV - MARS ZOO/Youtube)
But claims by so-called "truth-seekers" searching for evidence of extraterrestrials on Mars is nothing new.
In March, netizens scouring pictures from NASA's Curiosity rover uncovered what they claimed were "alien bones".
The rover is currently exploring the rocky surface of the distant planet and makes all its images free to view in the public domain.
A pair of shots caught the interest of the alien-hunting community after appearing to show decaying bones lying in Mars' red dust.
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.
(Image credit: Amanda Smith, Institute of Astronomy)
Rare hypervelocity stars tearing through the Milky Way galaxy are runaway suns that have escaped neighbouring galaxies, according to research presented at this year’s National Astronomy Meeting in Hull, England.
Hypervelocity stars are travelling between 300 and 700 kilometers (186 and 435 miles) per second faster than our galaxy’s escape velocity. Only 20 cases have been confirmed so far, most of them late B‑type stars that are larger than our sun.
There has been some debate around the origin of these breakaway stars. Scientists believed a portion of them might have been lobbed from the Milky Way’s central rotational center.
But a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in March makes the argument that all the hypervelocity stars are actually foreign objects. The research was presented at the National Astronomy Meeting in Hull on Wednesday.
The idea is that these ultra-fast stars were part of a binary system and escaped their original home – the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a neighbouring satellite galaxy. A supernova explosion made the orbit between both stars unstable, and the schism caused the smaller one to be booted far away like a ball in a slingshot.
A group of researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK dug into data taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to build computer simulations of runaway stars escaping from the LMC to the Milky Way.
They started by modelling the stellar evolution of the birth and death of stars in the LMC over the past two billion years, and focused on every runaway star. The gravitational interactions between these stars were also simulated so that they could reproduce and track the trajectory of the stars. They predict that there are 10,000 runaway stars spread across the sky.
There should also be about a million runaway neutron stars or black holes, since some of the massive blue stars reach the end of their lives on their way out of the LMC. They should collapse to neutron stars or black holes that continue zipping through the Milky Way.
Only half of the simulated stars that escape the LMC are fast enough to escape the gravity of the Milky Way, making them hypervelocity stars. If the confirmed hypervelocity stars are runaways, it would also explain their position in the sky.
'Hypervelocity stars did not satisfy me'
“Earlier explanations for the origin of hypervelocity stars did not satisfy me,” said Douglas Boubert, lead author of the paper and a PhD student at Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy.
“The hypervelocity stars are mostly found in the Leo and Sextans constellations – we wondered why that is the case.”
The closer stars in a binary system are, the faster they orbit one another, and they’re more likely to reach speeds fast enough to become hypervelocity stars. Runaway stars starting out in the Milky Way are too slow to become hypervelocity stars because the blue B‑type stars can’t orbit close enough to their companion star in the binary system without merging, the researchers argue.
But fast-moving galaxies like the LMC could give rise to these swift stars. The LMC also has 10 per cent of the mass of the Milky Way, so the fastest runaways can easily escape the galaxy’s pull.
Like a bullet fired from a moving train, the speed of these escaping stars would be the velocity they were booted at plus the velocity of the LMC. This boost increases the likelihood that these stars become hypervelocity ones when they stream through the Milky Way.
“These stars have just jumped from an express train – no wonder they’re fast,” said Rob Izzard, co‑author of the paper and a Rutherford fellow at the Institute of Astronomy. “This also explains their position in the sky, because the fastest runaways are ejected along the orbit of the LMC towards the constellations of Leo and Sextans.”
“We’ll know soon enough whether we’re right,” said Boubert. “The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite will report data on billions of stars next year, and there should be a trail of hypervelocity stars across the sky between the Leo and Sextans constellations in the North and the LMC in the South.”
Another independent group of researchers are also hoping to study hypervelocity stars by trying to find more specimens through data with the help of artificial neural networks. ®
A new biography on scientist Dr. J. Allen Hynek shows that we might be on the verge of another cluster of UFO sighting reports
A new biography on Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a scientist who became convinced that we truly could not identify some objects in our skies, opens up new questions about UFOs. Everett
When the unassuming turn of phrase "unidentified flying object" was coined in the 1940s, it was intended to suggest that the objects in question were nothing more mysterious than a rogue weather balloon or an unfamiliar aircraft. UFOs have since become synonymous with aliens, from cartoon flying saucers, to abduction stories, to X-Files-style conspiracy theories – in the popular imagination their mystery has been solved, UFOs equal aliens, whether you're a true believer or not. This unshakable association came to be despite the diligent work Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a scientist who became convinced that we truly could not identify some objects in our skies, and kept pushing throughout his life for a scientific explanation, while keeping open every possibility, some of them way further out there than little green men.
Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, a new book by Mark O'Connell, serves as a biography for both the modern UFO phenomenon and for Hynek, an astronomer and professor at Northwestern University who died over 30 years ago, but whose ideas make him one of the most surprising scientific figures of the 20th century. The book reveals an academic committed to rigorous, methodical study, but whose deep intellectual curiosity also harbored a mystical side, intrigued by Rudolf Steiner's concept of "supersensible knowledge" and the idea of a universe composed of many dimensions. By the time of his death in 1986, he was much more interested in the idea that UFOs might be evidence of interdimensional overlap or proof of a Jungian collective conscience, than the comparatively quotidian concept that they are vehicles carrying visitors from faraway planets.
Hynek's struggle to properly inform the public through a dedication to the scientific method, while also embracing the very edges of what is possible strikes a chord today, in an era rife with deep mistrust of the government and of mainstream science. Conspiracy theories have moved from the fringe since we stopped agreeing on what constitutes a basic scientific fact, and there are more than a few big ones involving the coming alien takeover and of course, NASA, which sits at the intersection of science, government and outer space.
Just last week a NASA spokesperson told The Daily Beast, in all seriousness, that the agency does not have child slaves laboring on Mars, in response to an InfoWars segment claiming otherwise. The Disclosure movement believes that governments around the world have already been in contact with alien intelligence and have suppressed this information from the public, and no, Trump would not be tweeting about it because the President is kept out of the loop in this scenario, says O'Connell. This is deep state stuff. Even the ever-pragmatic Hillary Clinton vowed to release classified information on UFOs and aliens while being interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel last year during her campaign. The unknown and how we go about knowing it is very much on our minds as a culture.
Though he would be dismayed to see that the orthodoxy of personal belief in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary has persevered, even flourished in the 21st century, Hynek would certainly find our present appetite for conspiracy and for polarized debate familiar, from climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers to the Disclosure crowd. Over his long career he learned that "It's very, very easy to disappoint people by telling them the truth," O'Connell tells Rolling Stone. "Everyone wants to believe that the next case is the big one, the one that finally proves that these are spaceships from another world and unfortunately, up to now that's never been the case, but the hope just doesn't die."
Born a few days before Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet in 1910, Hynek died just a few months after traveling through the comet's wake again in 1986. He spent the interceding years as an astronomer who changed the field of celestial imaging by developing a high-altitude telescope and video telescope, founded the Corralitos Observatory in New Mexico, led a team that devised the first tracking system for satellites before there were any man-made objects in orbit, and reassured a nervous American public after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, which put him on the cover of Life magazine.
Hynek was also one of the first scientists to evaluate UFO sightings for the U.S. Air Force, working on a series of classified projects in the 1950s and 1960s. Though he started out a skeptic, he went on to found the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, landing a cameo in Steven Spielberg's 1977 hit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind after contacting the director when he learned that the film’s working title was drawn from his work.
Even more than 30 years after his death, Hynek remains a controversial figure in UFOlogy, mainly because of his refusal to choose a side. O'Connell, a screenwriter and UFO history expert who writes the blog High Strangeness, has already had some of Hynek's legacy rub off on his own reputation, which he takes as a sign that he is following in Hynek's footsteps as an unbiased, open-minded researcher, rather than writing for one camp or another.
"Just based on what little some people know about the book and the interviews I've been doing, I already have some UFO establishment figures accusing me of being a skeptic, which is really dirty word in UFO circles," he says. "The labeling has already begun."
Hynek proved to be a thorn in the government's side when it came to investigating UFO reports, refusing to dismiss the unexplainable as the product of mass hysteria or unreliable witness testimony. Indeed, a great number of the seminal 20th century sightings that convinced Hynek that UFOs were worth further study involved highly credible witnesses, including airline and military pilots, law enforcement officers and Delbert Newhouse, a navy photographer who caught such an object on film in the Utah desert in 1952. Hynek though, refused to say that the strangeness of UFOs and UFO sightings proved they were alien spacecraft, which made him unpopular on the other side of the debate as well. An intellectual independent, he ended up sandwiched between the government, which demanded mundane explanations for sometimes fantastic sightings, and a public convinced that aliens walked among them.
"The inability for ambiguity to exist is a powerful force in UFO research," O'Connell says. "You have to go one way or the other, there's no middle ground."
Throughout the heyday of UFO sightings, significant incidents, including reported contact with alien entities and their aircraft, frequently popped up in clusters, referred to as "flaps" by Hynek. Though the last flap occurred after Close Encounters of the Third Kind debuted in 1977, UFOs are having a moment right now, too. This year Spielberg’s film celebrates its 40th anniversary, and the 1947 sighting of "flying saucers" over the Cascade mountains in the Pacific Northwest by pilot Kevin Arnold, which is widely noted as the beginning of the modern UFO phenomenon, marks 70 years of celestial intrigue. The History Channel just picked up a scripted series about Project Blue Book, the UFO investigation project that Hynek led for the government in the 1950s and 60, with Robert Zemeckis as executive producer. And of course, there's the matter of NASA's secret slaves on Mars. Are we headed for a new flap?
O'Connell is not so sure. "You would think that this amazing advance in technology, in photo imaging would have delivered us with the perfect UFO photo by now," he says. "You would think that but it hasn't happened and it's hard to decide exactly why. You can definitely argue that there are more people watching the sky with cameras in hand than ever before in human history."
What he's most interested in, beyond seeing Martin Freeman cast as Hynek – though he was amused by the thought of David Duchovny donning the professor's signature goatee – is an embrace of Hynek's balance of rigor and open-minded curiosity. Like Hynek himself, O'Connell wants to reposition the conversation about UFOs, as well as an agreement to adhere to the scientific method itself, back into the mainstream and plumb what might be possible, rather than single-mindedly trying to prove, or disprove the existence of aliens.
He finds some of Hynek's heady combination of scientific rigor and mysticism in the work of quantum physics and astronomers who are working on exoplanets right now. "Both of those fields involve, in my opinion, leaps of faith, leaps of intuition," he says. "We've shifted very dramatically from this idea that life on other planets must be exceedingly rare to this space where now where we're talking in terms of life in the universe being unbelievably abundant because we keep on finding all these goldilocks planets with our high powered space telescopes. Those are the two areas where I see that same kind of thinking that same kind of approach to science coming back to the way that Hynek saw things."
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Mars is een giftige bal
Mars is een giftige bal
Een visualisatie van de donkere pekel op Mars. Zowel die pekel, maar ook de ‘gewone’ bodem, bevatten perchloraten die heel erg giftig kunnen zijn. Foto: REUTERS
Bacteriën maken geen schijn van kans aan de oppervlakte van de planeet Mars, zo bevestigen experimenten.
Toen ruimtevaartorganisatie Nasa twee jaar geleden met veel bombarie aankondigde dat er water gevonden was op Mars, steeg meteen ook de hoop om leven te vinden op de rode planeet. Maar dat water, gevonden in de vorm van vloeibare pekel en zichtbaar als bruine strepen, is net de meest onbewoonbare omgeving aan het Mars-oppervlak. Dat blijkt uit experimenten die deze week gepubliceerd zijn in het vakblad Scientific Reports.
De pekel bestaat namelijk in grote mate uit natriumperchloraat en magnesiumperchloraat, zouten die uitermate dodelijk zijn voor bacteriën. Niet op zich, integendeel. Van perchloraten wordt gedacht dat ze een energiebron kunnen zijn voor groeiende bacteriën. Maar het is in combinatie met UV-straling dat de perchloraten omgezet worden in uiterst reactieve oxidanten. Dat konden wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Edinburgh achterhalen door de bacterie Bacillus subtilis bloot te stellen aan zowel perchloraten als aan de dosis UV-straling die de bodem van Mars bereikt. Bacillus subtilis is een beweeglijke bacterie die op Aarde meestal in de grond voorkomt en vrij extreme omstandigheden kan verdragen. Het is ook een van de micro-organismen die vaak meereist met ruimtetuigen.
Giftige cocktail
De onderzoekers benaderden in hun laboratorium zo veel mogelijk de omstandigheden van Mars. De experimenten werden uitgevoerd bij een temperatuur die - afhankelijk van de plek en het moment van de dag - ook op Mars bereikt wordt. In bijkomende proeven voegde men stoffen toe die net als de perchloraten alomtegenwoordig zijn in de bodem van onze dichtste planeet. Wat bleek: in combinatie met ijzeroxiden en waterstofperoxide waren de perchloraten nóg dodelijker. Na 60 seconden bleef er bijna niets van de bacteriën over.
De studie lijkt slecht nieuws, maar is vooral oud nieuws. Dat de bodem van Mars een giftige cocktail vormt, werd al langer vermoed en is nu bevestigd. Bovendien moeten we nu wellicht niet vrezen dat we Mars ‘besmetten’ met micro-organismen van de Aarde, een bezorgdheid die vaker geuit wordt. Dat bacteriën ‘in hun blootje’ doodgaan op Mars, hoeft overigens niet te beletten dat er ooit mensen in ruimtepak rondwandelen. Het is zelfs niet uitgesloten dat er alsnog leven is op Mars: de perchloraten zijn giftig in combinatie met UV-straling, maar zoals gezegd niet zonder straling. Het kan dus best dat er dieper onder de grond wel martiaanse micro-organismen leven.
Several recent developments have made it clear that space has become the latest front in whatever strange new Cold War is brewing. Just this week, it seems that the war might have gone from ‘cold’ to ‘shooting’ with the news that several satellite-tracking agencies have spotted a European-contolled communications satellite breaking apart in space. The satellite’s operator? A private agency which provides satellite services for the U.S. Armed Forces, NASA, and NATO, among others.
It’s currently unclear what could have damaged the satellite, but a deliberate attack has not been ruled out.
The story began on June 17th when the Luxembourg-based satellite firm SES S.A. lost control of its AMC-9 satellite which reportedly provides data and broadcast services over the U.S. and Mexico. Shortly after, operators watched helplessly as the satellite began to drift and then break apart.
It’s currently unknown what might have happened to the satellite. Leading theories include a collision with debris or a malfunction, although the possibility remains that the satellite could have been attacked by the new weaponized satellites many world superpowers have been putting into orbit recently. Doug Hendrix, CEO at aerospace technology firm ExoAnalytic Solutions, told ArsTechnica that his company watched the AMC-9 satellite break apart, but even they aren’t sure what the cause was:
We have seen several pieces come off of it over the past several days. We are tracking at least one of the pieces. I would hesitate to say we know for sure what happened.
There are concerns now that debris from the satellite might damage others in the same orbit, which is heavily populated with communications satellites. It’s been known for years that satellites will become both the next weapons and the next targets in the wars of the future; disrupting an entire geostationary orbit with debris would be a perfect way to distract one’s adversaries.
The next war will happen far above our heads. Invest in umbrellas. Strong ones.
Noting that a war might be brewing in space isn’t purely conjecture; the U.S. Armed Forces have made several recent announcements regarding the creation of new space weaponsand space-oriented leadership posts in what has been described as a pivot to the upcoming battlefield that is space. Couple that with the news that Russia is waking up its mysterious “killer satellites,” launching unidentified new satellites from secret Arctic bases, and that U.S. intelligence agencies are launching their own mysterious satellites which have been displaying some rather strange behavior lately, and it seems as if a shadowy space conflict might already be underway.
During the course of last week’s 70th anniversary festivities in Roswell, New Mexico – specifically following my lecture on the legendary crash of July 1947 – the subject of the controversial “Ramey Memo” surfaced. For those who don’t know, the memo is one of the most intriguing pieces of Roswell-based documentation in existence. In fact, it’s one of the very few, real documents pertaining to Roswell (forget about all that MJ12 documentation). It’s a single piece of paper and can be seen in a black-and-white photograph taken of Brigadier General Roger Ramey. In 1947, he was the head of the 8th Army Air Force, which operated out of Fort Worth, Texas. Ramey is a key part of the story, as he is holding the memo in question in his left hand; a memo which says something about Roswell. But, what? That’s the issue UFO researchers are unable to agree upon. What we know for sure is that the photo was taken at Fort Worth on July 8, 1947 by a man named J. Bond Johnson. At the time, he worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper. The controversy over what the memo shows began years ago, but it gained far more momentum in the 2015-2016 period.
Yes, the memo can certainly be seen in the photo, with the text pointing outwards, albeit in slightly folded fashion. A number of attempts have been made to decipher the memo. The first real attempt of any major significance was undertaken on behalf of the U.S. Air Force. In their massive 1994 report on the Roswell affair, the USAF stated that it sent the photo-collection to what was only referred to as a “national-level organization for digitizing and subsequent photo interpretation and analysis.” The results, however, were disappointing, as that same unnamed organization informed the Air Force, on July 20, 1994, that even after careful digitizing, “the photos were of insufficient quality to visualize either of the details sought for analysis.” It’s interesting to note that, to this day, the Air Force refuses to identify the aforementioned “national-level organization.” On top of that, the Air Force states that the relevant documentation generated by the organization cannot now be found.
With the turning of a new century, Ufology undertook its very own attempts to solve the mystery of the Ramey Memo and what, exactly, it says. One of those was UFO investigator David Rudiak, who has a particular interest in deciphering the memo, and whose research into its contents continues to this day. Rudiak says of his work in this particular arena: “There is very little doubt that the memo includes the words ‘in the ‘disc’ they will ship.'” Far more controversially, Rudiak concludes from his analysis that the words “operation at the ranch” and “the victims of the wreck” can also be seen.
Of the memo itself, Kevin Randle said in 2015: “The only point of dispute is what the memo actually says. Parts of it are easily read and others are obscured to the point where it is sometimes just a best guess. If the memo could be completely deciphered it might provide a clue about what fell near Roswell and would be some of the best documentation available.” Randle also noted in 2015: “While ‘Victims of the wreck’ might not take us immediately to the extraterrestrial, it would certainly start us on the path.”
Then, in 2016, there was this from Kevin: “Several have suggested that the word is not ‘victims’ but is ‘viewing.’ It does contain the right number of letters and it does begin with a ‘V,’ but it also alters the importance of the Ramey Memo if that is correct.”
There is no doubt that the Ramey Memo is extremely thought-provoking, specifically in terms of what it might say, and in relation to the events which occurred in 1947-era New Mexico. A careful study of the text does suggest that the word “victims” could actually be the correct one. As Kevin Randle notes, however, “viewing” is an equally good candidate, too. The latter makes sense, considering the fact that the debris was on show for J. Bond Johnson to photograph. And for Johnson to view. Kevin is also right on target when he states that if the real word is “viewing,” then it most definitely lessens the importance that is generated by the word “victims.” After all, if there were victims, then the object which came down was clearly neither a weather-balloon nor a Mogul balloon. And no-one of a sane mind would ever describe a crash-test dummy as a victim.
There is, however, an issue that seldom gets discussed when it comes to the matter of the Ramey Memo. The full-on “Roswell was E.T.” believer would most likely say that a reference to “victims” is the smoking-gun we have sought for so long; a smoking-gun which makes a reference to the aliens found on-board the wrecked UFO, or somewhere else on the huge Foster Ranch. But, does it, really? Well, it certainly could; but I suggest not. And I will tell you exactly why.
I find the use of that specific word – “victims” – to be both odd and potentially revealing. I would have thought that terms like “the crew,” “the pilots,” “the spacemen,” or “the beings” would have been far more appropriate when it came to describing strange-looking entities that arrived from another world with no warning. “Victims” suggests something else. In fact, I would go so far to say that just the word “victims” itself has an undeniable human, even emotion-filled, quality attached to it, rather than something we might apply to a definitively unearthly alien.
Let’s take a look at the definitions for “victim” that Merriam-Webster provides. They include: (A)“one that is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent;” (B) “one that is injured, destroyed, or sacrificed under any of various conditions;” (C) “one that is subjected to oppression, hardship, or mistreatment;” and (D) “one that is tricked or duped.”
If the “human experiment” angle for Roswell is the correct one – as I believe it to be – then the terminology used by Merriam-Webster to define a “victim” is most apt. Finally, but still on the matter of that controversial sentence in the Ramey Memo, there is the issue of the word “wreck.” It seems very strange that such a word would have been used to describe what the military was assuring the media was just a flimsy weather-balloon. It’s equally odd terminology to use for a Mogul balloon – the theory the Air Force came up with in 1994. “Wreck” implies something pretty physically substantial that has been significantly damaged, rather than the torn and scattered remains of a balloon, whether large or small. So, while the Ramey Memo is not the ultimate smoking-gun that proves any particular theory, there’s no doubt that it keeps the Roswell flame burning, whatever the answer.
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Overheid gebruikt EU-wetgeving om dossier over UFO’s geheim te houden. Wat hebben ze te verbergen?
Overheid gebruikt EU-wetgeving om dossier over UFO’s geheim te houden. Wat hebben ze te verbergen?
Het gewone volk zal mogelijk nooit achter de waarheid komen over recente UFO-waarnemingen in de lucht. Dat heeft allemaal te maken met Europese wetten, zo blijkt.
Piloten maken ieder jaar geregeld melding van vreemde objecten in de lucht. Die meldingen komen in Groot-Brittannië terecht bij de burgerluchtvaartautoriteit (CAA).
De CAA is de grootste Britse overheidsorganisatie die nog UFO-waarnemingen bijhoudt, maar zij heeft besloten om documenten over incidenten die tussen 2011 en 2017 hebben plaatsgevonden niet vrij te geven.
Achter slot en grendel
Normaal gesproken kan iemand middels een Wob-verzoek toegang krijgen tot dit soort documenten, maar de CAA gebruikt een Europese wet uit 2014 om ze achter slot en grendel te houden, schrijft The Sun.
De wet heeft onder meer tot doel om de identiteit van piloten die vreemde objecten in de lucht hebben gezien te beschermen.
Dat is vreemd, aangezien namen en adressen in documenten die via een Wob-verzoek zijn opgevraagd, doorgaans netjes zwart worden gemaakt.
Stomverbaasd
Dr. David Clarke van de Sheffield Hallam University kreeg eerder toegang tot de stukken, maar was stomverbaasd toen zijn Wob-verzoek eerder dit jaar werd afgewezen.
Hij vertelde aan The Sun dat de CAA al sinds 1976 informatie over vreemde incidenten in het luchtruim bijhoudt.
“Jarenlang heeft de CAA deze informatie vrijgegeven,” zei Clarke. “In 2012 gaf de baas van de Britse luchtverkeersleiding, Richard Deakin, tijdens een interview met BBC Radio 4 toe dat zijn agentschap iedere maand UFO-meldingen binnenkrijgt.”
Lastig te verklaren
“Nu gebruiken ze een Europese wet om publieke toegang tot deze stukken te blokkeren,” voegde hij toe.
Clarke vermoedt dat de luchtvaartindustrie niet wil toegeven dat piloten geregeld dingen in de lucht zien die lastig te verklaren zijn.
In de kaart
Door deze documenten achter slot en grendel te bewaren speelt het agentschap de complottheoretici in de kaart, aldus Clarke.
De CAA liet in een reactie weten dat de stukken beschikbaar zijn, alleen niet voor journalisten of het publiek.
5000 jaar oude graftombes van ongewoon lange mensen ontdekt in China. Waar kwamen deze ‘reuzen’ vandaan?
5000 jaar oude graftombes van ongewoon lange mensen ontdekt in China. Waar kwamen deze ‘reuzen’ vandaan?
Archeologen zijn in het oosten van China op een begraafplaats gestuit waar 5000 jaar oude ‘reuzen’ liggen, meldt persbureau Xinhua.
Deze mensen torenden uit boven vele van hun tijdgenoten. De skeletten zijn gevonden in het dorp Jiaojia, nabij de stad Jinan in de provincie Shandong.
Veel van de mannen die in het kerkhof zijn gevonden waren 1,8 tot 1,9 meter lang en zouden 5000 jaar geleden door de gemiddelde Chinees zijn aangezien voor reuzen.
Beter voedsel
Eén van de mannen was langer dan 1,9 meter.
“Dit is gebaseerd op de botstructuur,” zei Fang Hui van de Universiteit van Shandong. “Als hij nu zou leven, zou hij langer dan 1,9 meter zijn geweest.”
Archeologen zeggen dat de grote tombes erop wijzen dat het gaat om personen die machtig waren. Individuen met een hoge status die toegang hadden tot beter voedsel dan de gemiddelde Chinees.
Lichaamsbouw
Maar hoe kan het dat ze zo lang waren? “Mensen hadden in die tijd al toegang tot gevarieerde en rijke voedselbronnen waardoor hun lichaamsbouw veranderde,” legde Fang Hui uit.
Mannen die vandaag de dag in de regio leven zijn gemiddeld 1,753 meter lang. Het landelijke gemiddelde ligt op 1,72 meter.
Longshan-cultuur
Archeologen hebben op het kerkhof een aantal voorwerpen gevonden die toebehoren aan de Longshan-cultuur uit de jonge steentijd.
In het dorp zijn het afgelopen jaar ruïnes van 104 huizen, 205 graven en 20 offerplekken blootgelegd, meldt China Daily.
STRONGEST EARTHQUAKE IN DECADES ROCKS YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
STRONGEST EARTHQUAKE IN DECADES ROCKS YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
An earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Lincoln in Montana.
The M5.8 earthquake is the largest earthquake in years hitting the region of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. It was felt in Oregon and Washington state.
The strong M5.8 earthquake was followed by two moderate quakes of M4.5 and M3.9
If the preliminary magnitude holds, it will be the strongest earthquake to hit Montana since June 1975, when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Yellowstone National Park. A 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Idaho in 1983 was also felt in Montana.
HERE A FEW REPORTS ABOUT THE STRONG SHAKING:
Seeley Lake, Montana / MMI V (Moderate shaking): House shaking, fixtures moving,heard structure making cracking noise,pet bird would not calm down in her cage. Mild Aftershock.
Whitefish (217.9 km NNW from epicenter) [Map] / MMI V (Moderate shaking): Lasting about a minute.
Missoula, Mt / MMI IV (Light shaking): Thought my buddy was shaking the bed, light rumble then a few good jolts, nothing compared to the nisqually quake but enough to grab your attention.
Placerville Idaho / MMI IV (Light shaking): Shook bed. Moved bed enough to disconnect a plug-in. Outside deck moved and creaked. Felt slight aftershocks. Stevensville / MMI V (Moderate shaking): Strong rolling shake with strong afterquake shortly after ( via strangesounds.org ).
Nu al bijna 1000 aardbevingen in 2 weken. Gaat deze vulkaan binnenkort uitbarsten?
Nu al bijna 1000 aardbevingen in 2 weken. Gaat deze vulkaan binnenkort uitbarsten?
Sinds 12 juni hebben zich een slordige 900 aardbevingen voorgedaan in Yellowstone National Park, zo zeggen experts.
In het park bevindt zich één van ’s werelds meest gevaarlijke supervulkanen. Vanwege de recente activiteit denken sommigen dat de supervulkaan op uitbarsten staat.
Als de Yellowstone-vulkaan uitbarst, zou de eruptie duizend keer krachtiger zijn dan de uitbarsting van de Mount St. Helens in 1980, claimen experts, toevoegende dat het risico nog ‘laag’ is.
Zwaarste
Volgens de Amerikaanse geologische dienst USGS is de kans dat de supervulkaan het komende jaar uitbarst 1 op 730.000.
In twee weken tijd zijn er 878 aardbevingen geregistreerd rond Yellowstone.
De zwaarste beving deed zich op donderdag 15 juni voor. De schok had een kracht van 4,4 op de schaal van Richter.
Het ging om de zwaarste aardbeving in het gebied sinds maart 2014.
Geen bewijs
“Aardbevingszwermen in Yellowstone komen geregeld voor,” zei professor Jamie Farrell van de Universiteit van Utah tegen Newsweek.
“Gemiddeld worden er jaarlijks rond de 1500 tot 2000 aardbevingen geregistreerd in Yellowstone,” voegde hij toe. “40 tot 50 procent daarvan maakt deel uit van aardbevingszwermen.”
Volgens Farrell is er geen bewijs dat de activiteit gerelateerd is aan magma dat onder het oppervlak beweegt.
Verwoestende uitwerking
De supervulkaan barst niet vaak uit. In de afgelopen twee miljoen jaar zijn er maar drie grote erupties geweest. De laatste ‘superuitbarsting’ deed zich 640.000 jaar geleden voor.
Als de vulkaan ooit weer uitbarst, zullen de lava, as en rook volgens waarnemers waarschijnlijk een verwoestende uitwerking hebben op de VS en de rest van de wereld.
The JUno space probe (pictured) will fly over Jupiter's red spot.
The Juno space probe is set to orbit a 10,000 mile-wide storm on Jupiter on July 10, after a year of circling the gas planet.
A NASA spokesman said: "This will be humanity's first up-close and personal view of the gigantic feature - a storm monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years."
Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said: "Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter.
"This monumental storm has raged on the solar system's biggest planet for centuries.
"Now, Juno and her cloud-penetrating science instruments will dive in to see how deep the roots of this storm go, and help us understand how this giant storm works and what makes it so special."
The data collection of the Great Red Spot is part of Juno's sixth science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops.
Perijove, the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter's centre, will be on Monday, July 11, at 2:55am (BST).
At the time of perijove, Juno will be about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometres) above the planet's cloud tops.
Eleven minutes and 33 seconds later, Juno will have covered another 24,713 miles (39,771 kilometres) and will be directly above the coiling crimson cloud tops of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
The spacecraft will pass about 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometres) above the Giant Red Spot clouds. All eight of the spacecraft's instruments as well as its imager, JunoCam, will be on during the flyby.
Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter. This monumental storm has raged on the solar system's biggest planet for centuries.
Scott Bolton
The spacecraft has chalked up about 71 million miles (114.5 million kilometres) in orbit around the giant planet in 12 months.
Rick Nybakken, project manager for Juno from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said: "The success of science collection at Jupiter is a testament to the dedication, creativity and technical abilities of the NASA-Juno team.
"Each new orbit brings us closer to the heart of Jupiter's radiation belt, but so far the spacecraft has weathered the storm of electrons surrounding Jupiter better than we could have ever imagined."
Juno launched on August 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
During its mission of exploration, Juno soars low over the planet's cloud tops - as close as about 2,100 miles (3,400 kilometres).
During these flybys, Juno is probing beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and studying its auroras to learn more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.
Early science results from NASA's Juno mission portray the largest planet in our solar system as a turbulent world, with an intriguingly complex interior structure, energetic polar aurora, and huge polar cyclones.
European legislation has blocked the British public from knowing about the number of UFO sightings
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is said to have blocked public access to documents which reveal a number of strange sightings to impede their “curiosity”.
The CAA has been using European law from 2014 to block access to the public records of sightings or incidents between 2011 and 2017, the Sun reports.
The law reportedly states: “Occurrence information can only be used for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety, and the release of occurrence information to the general public or the media, including in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests, is not permitted.
They seem surprised that curious individuals might want to see details of these incidents
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University
“However, if you require occurrence information for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety you are able to make an application to the CAA.”
Although the EU protests that the information is accessible via application, a university professor suggests otherwise.
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University was previously granted access to the files.
But was shocked when his FOI requested was refused earlier this year.
He told the Sun Online: “These have been collected and logged by the CAA since at least 1976.
“For many years the CAA has released this information under FOI without any evidence that commercial secrets or safety have been harmed or compromised.
“Indeed in 2012 the chief executive of Britain's National Air Traffic Control Services, Richard Deakin, admitted in a BBC Radio 4 interview that his agency received reports of UFOs from civil aircrew somewhere in the world every month.
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British public do not know how many UFO's spotted
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The UK Public are completely unaware of how many UFO's are spotted
“But then they seem surprised that curious individuals might want to see details of these incidents using Open Government legislation.
"Now they are using a piece of European Regulation to block public access to these records.
"The only conceivable reason for this change of policy is embarrassment on the part of the aviation industry. It does not want to admit that its pilots do occasionally report things in the sky that are difficult to explain.
"To improve public confidence in air safety, the authorities should be proactively promoting open access to records of this type."
The authority reportedly claimed that public access had been blocked because the identity of pilots needed to be maintained.
A CAA spokesman said: "The Mandatory Occurrence Reporting (MOR) scheme requires individuals and organisations within the aviation industry to report safety occurrences to the CAA, with the intention that these reports are used to constantly improve safety levels.
“Information held by the CAA under the MOR system may be made available, for the purpose of improving aviation safety, subject to completing this application form."
Did you see a bright, fast-moving light over Adelaide last night?
Did you see a bright, fast-moving light over Adelaide last night?
UPDATED: SOUTH Australians have reported seeing a strange bright light across the sky in Friday night. But what was it? And did you see it?
Greg Barila
A BRIGHT “fast-moving” light with a green trail across the sky Friday night has captured the imaginations of at least a few locals who are this morning trying to get to the bottom of what it is they saw - or think they saw.
Advertiser.com.au has received and read a smattering of reports about the strange light, which one expert says could have been a meteor or space junk re-entering the earth’s atmosphere.
A Reddit user reported seeing “what I can only guess was a meteor” pass over Henley Beach.
“Saw it from the city, fast moving bright light, green trail, bright flash.”
Southern Lights Adorn Starlit Skies Over Tasmania
Another Reddit user responded that the same phenomenon was witnessed by “a lot of people” on the Eyre Peninsula.
Salisbury East man Bradley Cousins said he was driving home from work in Tanunda around midnight when he looked up at the moon because it “looked strange”.
“I was halfway along the road when all of a sudden, this orange/red light appears suddenly in the sky and it quickly got bigger,” Mr Cousins said.
“At first I thought it was a meteor or something because of how it was getting bigger and travelling so fast, as a reflex I put on my brakes.
A fireball captured over Mt Ives station south of Lake Gairdner by the Desert Fireball Network at 11.56pm on Friday night, which they say is possibly the brightest they've photographed.
“Then all of sudden it instantaneously goes bright green, gets smaller and completely disappears without evidence of it hitting the ground.
“I know this sounds crazy and I sound crazy but I can’t explain it.”
Paul Curnow, lecturer at the Adelaide Planetarium at the UniSA’s Mawson Lakes campus didn’t see the light for himself but says he woke to several reports confirming sightings on the Eyre Peninsula.
“People have seen a meteor or something over Port Lincoln and so it must be a fairly big and bright one that’s come across,” Mr Curnow said adding that they were “not unusual”.
“What I don’t know is whether it’s a piece of returning space junk.”
“It could be something like that but I mean there’s a lot of rock that comes in from space and we call those meteors and if they make their way to the surface of the earth we call them meteorites.”
Mr Curnow said it might be possible to work out exactly what occurred if people happened to record the light via a dashcam or security camera.
“That’s where we’re getting more and more footage of these things.
“That would give it some sort of direction.”
Did you see the mystery light? Comment below to tell us what you saw.
IF you’ve ever worried that an asteroid is going to hit the Earth and wipe out the world as you know it, your worries could soon be over.
It will be the first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defence.
IF YOU’RE the sort who lies awake at night in a cold sweat, holding your breath, worrying that an asteroid is going to hit the Earth and wipe out the world as you know it, your worries could soon be over.
If all goes according to plan, it will blast off from Earth in 2024.
Its mission: to redirect a nonthreatening asteroid.
Its goal: to prove it can be done when and if a large one actually threatens to hit us. Move aside, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. This could actually work.
If all goes according to plan, DART will crash into a small asteroid called Didymos B at the speed of 6 kilometres per second, about nine times faster than a bullet. Then scientists on Earth will monitor whether and how the collision alters Didymos B’s orbit around its larger twin, Didymos A.
Scientists chose Didymos B because, at roughly 152 metres in diameter, it is typical of an asteroid that could pose a common hazard to Earth.
Move it, and you don’t have to move the world.
“DART is a critical step in demonstrating we can protect our planet from a future asteroid impact,” said Andy Cheng, who is co-leading the DART investigation at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), which will build the refrigerator-sized spacecraft.
“Since we don’t know that much about their internal structure or composition, we need to perform this experiment on a real asteroid. With DART, we can show how to protect Earth from an asteroid strike with a kinetic impactor by knocking the hazardous object into a different flight path that would not threaten the planet.”
Secret UFO sighting dossier hushed up using EU law so the public may never learn what’s inside
Secret UFO sighting dossier hushed up using EU law so the public may never learn what’s inside
A SECRET database filled with UFO incidents reported by airline crews has been kept away from prying eyes thanks to the government.
Margi Murphy
Ministry of Defence files show UFO reported sightings.
Picture: PA/National Archives
THE public may never learn of the recent UFO sightings made by pilots in our skies thanks to a piece of EU legislation, it has emerged.
Airline staff report a number of strange sightings to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) every year, it is understood.
The Sun reports since the MoD closed its UFO desk in 2009, the CAA has become the last British government organisation to retain an interest in UFOs and keep files on incidents involving civilian aircrews.
But it has decided not to release a dossier detailing sightings or incidents between 2011 and 2017.
Government files of this kind are normally available under the Freedom of Information Act, which allows any member of the public to request files from the government.
But the CAA is now using a piece of European legislation from 2014 to block access to its record of “occurrences”.
It states: “Occurrence information can only be used for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety, and the release of occurrence information to the general public or the media, including in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, is not permitted.
“However, if you require occurrence information for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety you are able to make an application to the CAA.”
Ministry of Defence has decided not to release a dossier detailing sightings or incidents between 2011 and 2017.
Picture: PA/National ArchivesSource:Supplied
One of the purposes of the legislation is to protect the identity of pilots who come forward to share details of strange sightings in the sky.
However, information obtained using FOIA is typically “redacted” to remove any identifying features like names and addresses.
David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University’s department of journalism has previously been granted access to the files, but was shocked when his FOI request was refused earlier this year.
He told The Sun Online: “These have been collected and logged by the CAA since at least 1976.
“For many years the CAA has released this information under Freedom of Information without any evidence that commercial secrets or safety have been harmed or compromised.
“Indeed in 2012 the chief executive of Britain’s National Air Traffic Control Services, Richard Deakin, admitted in a BBC Radio 4 interview that his agency received reports of UFOs from civil aircrew somewhere in the world every month.
The move to block the release of these records is certain to set conspiracy theorist’s tongues wagging
Picture: istockSource:istock
“But then they seem surprised that curious individuals might want to see details of these incidents using Open Government legislation.
“Now they are using a piece of European Regulation to block public access to these records.
“The only conceivable reason for this change of policy is embarrassment on the part of the aviation industry. It does not want to admit that its pilots do occasionally report things in the sky that are difficult to explain.
“To improve public confidence in air safety, the authorities should be proactively promoting open access to records of this type.”
The move to block the release of these records is certain to set conspiracy theorist’s tongues wagging.
But when quizzed, the Civil Aviation Authority told the Sun Online that the files were available — if you could prove you were going to use the information to further safety in the sky.
It is not available to journalists or the general public.
A spokesman said: “The Mandatory Occurrence Reporting (MOR) scheme requires individuals and organisations within the aviation industry to report safety occurrences to the CAA, with the intention that these reports are used to constantly improve safety levels.
“Information held by the CAA under the MOR system may be made available, for the purpose of improving aviation safety, subject to completing this application form.”
It’s unclear whether Brexit will open up the files to the public again — but there’s a two year wait until the divorce is settled.
When asked if Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority collects similar information, news.com.au was told there was no database of information.
However, CASA said its view of UFOs is that if they follow the aviation safety rules they are welcome to share the skies.
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Filer’s Files #27 -2017 Wars in Heaven and Earth - PART I
Ken Rice shot this photo on June 17, 2017 in Oshawa, Canada
Filer’s Files #27 -2017 Wars in Heaven and Earth - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Wars in Heaven and Earth, Space-based Lasers, Space-based Lasers, John L.Walson Photos, Teller Claims Great Menace from Space Exists and Unified Film Theory.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Bulgaria, Canada, Haiti, New Zealand, 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.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
George A. Filer III
New Jersey State Director
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Wars in Heaven and Earth
I have interviewed numerous abductees who claimed they were shown a war where UFOs intermingled with modern fighters and two sides fought in a tremendous war. This theme has been carried on for thousands of years. Numerous ancient scriptures also describe a war in Heaven a beautiful planet where some go at the time of our death. John Lear claims the aliens are here for the souls of the dead, and are souls continue to live in a different form.” The Book of Revelation describes a war in heaven between angels led by the Angel Michael against those led by “the dragon”—identified as “the devil and Satan”—who are defeated and thrown down to the earth. Revelation’s war in heaven is related to the idea of fallen angels, and possible parallels have been proposed in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Satan Thrown Out of Heaven
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Revelation 12-7-13.
Angels are always depicted with wings because of their ability to fly.
In Islam, the devil is called Shayṭān, and refers to all evil forces under leadership of the arch devil known as Iblīs, who was cast out of heaven, after he refused to prostrate before Adam the first human created by God. The Quran mentions that Satan’s are the assistants of those who disbelieve in God:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) Book of Mormon teaches that Revelation 12 concerns an actual event in the pre-mortal existence of man. The Book of Moses, included in the LDS “standard works” canon, references the War in Heaven and Satan’s origin as a fallen angel of light. This image of a war in heaven includes not only Satan but a third of all angels as well, referred to in the phrase “the dragon and his angels” Book of Moses God reveals Himself to Moses—Moses is transfigured—He is confronted by Satan—Moses sees many inhabited worlds—Worlds without number were created by the Son—God’s work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
Parallels are drawn to the passage in Isaiah 14:4-17 that mentions the “son of the morning” that had “fallen from heaven” and was “cast down to the earth”. In verse 12 of this passage, the Hebrew word that referred to the morning star was translated into Latin as Lucifer. “The name Lucifer, the Latin name (literally “Light-Bearer” for the morning star (the planet Venus in its morning appearances), is often given to the Devil in these stories.
In Ezekiel 1:4-6 on the Hebrew Torah in we read: ”
And I saw, and behold, a tempest was coming from the north, a huge cloud and a flaming fire with a brightness around it; and from its midst, it was like the color of the chashmal from the midst of the fire.
And from its midst was the likeness of four living beings, and this is their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. The opening chapters 1-3 of the Book of Ezekiel present a detailed picture of God coming in a chariot, surrounded by retinues of angels, etc. This picture, called “the arrangement of the chariot” (ma’aseh merkavah), became the starting point of special mystical studies. The flying chariots were what we call UFOs.
In the Book of Enoch 29:4, 31:4, where Satan is described as having been one of the archangels. Because he contrived “to make his throne higher than the clouds over the earth and resemble ‘My power’ on high”. Satan was hurled down, with his angels, and since then he has been flying in the air continually above.
Indra Hindu God of War in India
Indra was one of the most prominent deities within the Rigveda as the leader of the Gods and Lord of Heaven according to Hindu scripture. He was the God of war, storms, thunder, and the ultimate warrior carrying his famous lightning bolt, Indra was described as being very powerful with long arms wielding his bolt. It is even said he was born fully grown and fully armed from his mother’s side ready to defend the world.
His most notable achievement was fighting the asura Vrita who in form of a mighty dragon stole all the water from the earth. When Indra was born he heard of the offenses of Vrita and fought to reclaim the precious water he had stolen from the world. He rode forth to seek him out, smashed through all 99 of Vritra’s fortresses, and battled Vrita as dragon and destroyed him. Water began flowing from his fallen adversary after battle which restored the earth from its perpetual drought. Indra became a hero not only to the people, but to the Gods alike. In show of allegiance the gods elected him as their king. More recent accounts of his famous battle even include his rescuing by Vishnu and Shiva in order to defeat the dragon
If ancient aliens visited Earth, what was their legacy, and did they leave behind clues that exist in plain sight such as sophisticated aircraft, complex electrical grids, and intricate construction machinery? Indian Sanskrit texts, dating back to 6000 B.C., describe in vivid detail flying machines called Vimanas. Megalithic stone structures in Egypt reveal evidence of precision saw work. Are these examples of modern technology, or is there evidence that these incredible mechanisms existed on Earth thousands of years ago?
The Quimbaya were a pre-Colombian culture living in South America from 300 to 1550 CE, they were well known for their incredible skills in very precise gold and metalwork. Among the figurines discovered, some models actually resemble what some believe to be, “flying machines”. The figurines created 2,000 years ago might actually be capable of achieving flight, (with a couple of minor alterations).
Dead Sea Scrolls
Israel Dead Sea Scrolls Museum
Some scholars discern the concept of a war in heaven in certain Dead Sea Scrolls, namely, the War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness, also known as the War Scroll
In the War Scroll, the angels of light, who are identified with Michael, the prince of light, will fight in heaven against the angels of darkness, who are identified with Belial, while the Sons of Light fight the Sons of Darkness on earth, and during the last of the seven battles described in the scroll will come and help the Sons of Light win the final victory. War of the Sons of Light and Sons of Darkness
A couple of years ago, Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell who walked on the Moon introduced me on the BBC coverage of the Disclosure Project at the National Press Club and I had a brief conversation after the show we spoke to about fifty Congressional staff personnel in Washington DC. He indicated that we may be visited by some type of intelligence from space. I asked Edgar, what he thought was the real secret to all of this concerning UFOs?
The Israel Museum that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls is built in the shape of a UFO, suggesting the builders were aware of extraterrestrial visitations.
He said, “The answers are all in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” I said, “You mean like the Sons of Light and Darkness?” He said, yes but even now; not all of these scrolls have been revealed. I searched the scrolls myself later to find some meaning. The text of the “War of the Sons of Light and Sons of Darkness” describes an invisible war where two sides are in an apocalyptic battle for Earth. The angels and mankind are described as being part of the fight.
“Warrior angels are in our muster, and He that is mighty in War is in our throng. The army of His spirits marches beside us. Our horsemen come like clouds or like banks of dew, to cover the earth, or like torrential showers, to rain judgment on all that grows in it. Opposing the good forces are the forces of darkness. But for corruption thou hast made Belial, an angel of hostility. All his dominion is darkness and guilt. All the spirits that are associated with him are angels of destruction. They follow only the laws of darkness, and their craving is directed toward it.” Pages 414-416 The Dead Sea Scriptures.
The scriptures from various nations depict a war in space between good and evil. Tibetan and Indian scriptures tell us about extraterrestrials. God sent angels from Heaven to help humans. The visits to earth of ET are recorded in the religions, scriptures, and folklore of almost every nation on Earth. We are told our ancestors were cavemen of limited education just barely living of the land. Throughout the world are vestiges of sophisticated giant structures such as hundreds of pyramids, and archeological sites such as Babel, Where did people get the idea to build pyramids in China, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico and Egypt. The Book of Ezekiel describes a space ship as does the Indian Mahabharata. Many Kings, Pharaohs, and Chinese Emperors claimed they were actually descended from Extraterrestrials. Ancient Secrets of Mankind:
I had dinner with Zecharia Sitchin several years ago and asked him if he felt the Bible was true. He answered that most of Genesis and much of the Old Testament was based on much earlier writings from ancient Mesopotamia.
He spoke about the Anunnaki or ancient aliens who visited earth. 14 according to Sitchin the clay tablets describe an alien race known as the Anunnaki who came to Earth to mine gold and helped create modern humans. Anunnaki is a collective name for the gods of Heaven and Earth known as Anu, Enlil and Enki. The tablets are the account of Enki, an Annunaki, from a planet called Nibiru. Nibiru is supposed to circle the sun every 3,600 earth years. They needed mine workers so Enki created humans on Earth in their image.. Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea.
The point is that many ancient scriptures and tablets reveal a similar story of visitors from space. There is a rumor that the Pope was visited by an exterritorial and that more revelations will be forthcoming including ET has the same ‘God we do.
The Star Wars Anti-Ballistic Missile System
The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) mission is to develop, test, and field an integrated, layered, ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends against all ranges of enemy ballistic missiles in all phases of flight. The system, which was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. The initial concept envisioned large sophisticated orbiting laser battle stations, space-based relay mirrors, and nuclear-pumped X-ray laser satellites. Later research indicated that some planned laser technologies were feasible with then-current technology. A large complex defense system called Star Wars by the press would require large space ships to handle the large power requirements to make the lasers effective. Although the government has never admitted these craft were built there is evidence they exist.
Space-based Lasers
I n 1979 Edward Teller contributed to a Hoover Institution publication where he claimed that the US would be facing an emboldened USSR due to their work on civil defense. Two years later at a conference in Italy, he made the same claims about their ambitions, but with a subtle change; now he claimed that the reason for their boldness was their development of new space-based weapons. What had really changed was that Teller was now selling his latest nuclear weapon, the X-ray laser. Finding limited success in his efforts to get funding for the project, his speech in Italy was a new attempt to create a missile gap.
There was good evidence that in the late 1960s the Soviets were devoting serious thought to both explosive and non-explosive nuclear power sources for lasers.[ Soviet space-based LASER systems began no later than 1976 as the Skif, a 1 MW Carbon dioxide laser along with the anti-satellite Kaskad, an in-orbit missile platform.
These lasers were designed to destroy any US satellites. More tentatively, it is also suggested that the Zarya module of the International Space Station, capable of station keeping and providing sizable battery power, was initially developed to power the Skif laser system.
Nuclear pumped X-ray laser
The US project was the result of a 1977 development by George Chapline, Jr. of Lawrence Livermore’s “O-Group”. Livermore had been working on X-ray lasers for some time, but Chapline found a new solution that used the massive release of X-rays from a thermonuclear weapon as the source of light for a small baseball-bat sized lasing crystal. A test in November 1980s “Dauphin” appeared to be a success, and plans were made for a major series of experiments in the early 1980s under “Excalibur”.
Since the lasing medium was fairly small, a single bomb could host a number of them and attack multiple ICBMs in a single burst. The Soviet ICBM fleet had tens of thousands of warheads, but only about 1,400 missiles. If each satellite had two dozen lasers, two dozen satellites on-station would significantly blunt any attack. In Molniya orbits, where the satellites would spend much of their time over the USSR, only a few dozen satellites would be needed, in total. An article in Aviation Week and Space Technology described how the devices “… are so small that a single payload bay on the space shuttle could carry to orbit a number sufficient to stop a Soviet nuclear weapons attack”. Some time later Teller used similar language in a letter to Paul Nitze, who was preparing a new round of strategic limitations talks, stating that “A single X-ray laser module the size of an executive desk… could potentially shoot down the entire Soviet land-based missile force.
Lasers originally developed for the SDI plan are in use for astronomical observations. Used to ionize gas in the upper atmosphere, they provide telescope operators with a target to calibrate their instruments.
Throughout the 2000s, the United States Air Force worked on the Boeing YAL-1, an airborne laser mounted in a Boeing 747. It was intended to be used to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles over enemy territory. In March 2009, Northrop Grumman claimed that its engineers had successfully built and tested an electrically powered solid state laser capable of producing a 100-kilowatt beam, powerful enough to destroy an airplane. According to Brian Strickland, manager for the United States Army’s Joint High Power Solid State Laser program, an electrically powered laser is capable of being mounted in an aircraft, ship, or other vehicle because it requires much less space for its supporting equipment than a chemical laser. However, the source of such a large electrical power in a mobile application remained unclear. Ultimately, the project was cancelled in December 2011 with the Boeing YAL-1 prototype being stored and eventually dismantled.
The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA Space-Based Interceptor (SBI)
Missile Defense System Successfully Intercepts ICBM Target
May 30, 2017 – Ground-based Midcourse Defense
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force 30th Space Wing, the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense and U.S. Northern Command, today successfully intercepted an intercontinental ballistic missile target during a test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the nation’s ballistic missile defense system.
Groups of interceptors were to be housed in orbital modules. Hover testing was completed in 1988 and demonstrated integration of the sensor and propulsion systems in the prototype SBI. It also demonstrated the ability of the seeker to shift its aiming point from a rocket’s hot plume to its cool body, a first for infrared ABM seekers. Final hover testing occurred in 1992 using miniaturized components similar to what would have actually been used in an operational interceptor. These prototypes eventually evolved into the Brilliant Pebbles program.
Brilliant Pebbles
Brilliant Pebbles concept artwork
Brilliant Pebbles was a non-nuclear system of satellite-based interceptors designed to use high-velocity, watermelon-sized, teardrop-shaped projectiles made of tungsten as kinetic warheads. It was designed to operate in conjunction with the Brilliant Eyes sensor system. The project was conceived in November 1986 by Lowell Wood at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Detailed studies were undertaken by several advisory boards, including the Defense Science Board and JASON, in 1989.
The Pebbles were designed in such a way that autonomous operation, without further external guidance from planned SDI sensor systems, was possible. This was attractive as a cost saving measure, as it would allow scaling back of those systems, and was estimated to save $7 to $13 billion versus the standard Phase I Architecture. Brilliant Pebbles later became the centerpiece of a revised architecture under the Bush Administration SDIO.
John H. Nuckolls, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1988 to 1994, described the system as “The crowning achievement of the Strategic Defense Initiative”. Some of the technologies developed for SDI were used in numerous later projects. For example, the sensors and cameras that were developed and manufactured for Brilliant Pebbles systems became components of the Clementine mission and SDI technologies may also have a role in future missile defense efforts.
A particle-beam weapon uses a high-energy beam of atomic or subatomic particles to damage the target by disrupting its atomicand/or molecular structure. A particle-beam weapon is a type of directed-energy weapon, which directs energy in a particular and focused direction using particles with negligible mass. Some particle-beam weapons are real and have potential practical applications, e.g. as an antiballistic missile defense system for the United States. Thanks to wikipedia
Solar Warden Space Craft
The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA)
This craft was commissioned in 1988, and was based on the similar construction of a nuclear submarine with the nuclear power engine replaced by an anti gravity engine. It is a classified Interplanetary Exploration Spacecraft. According to the British hacker, Gary Mckinnon these spacecraft are part of the Solar Warden program and the US currently operates eight of these ships that are the size of an aircraft carrier. They are said to be part of the secret military space program spearheaded by the US Navy Space Weapons Division (MILAB). McKinnon found several files listing “non terrestrial officers” as well as ship to ship transfers to ships that do not exist in Navy records such as the USSS Hillenkoetter and the USSS Curtis Lemay. One of the photos he was able to view was in his words above Earth’s atmosphere and looked like a cigar with geodesic domes.
Engineer William Tomkins on Jeff Rinse’s Radio show explained he helped design these ships that have the ability to travel throughout our Galaxy and are currently attempting to fight off alien Reptilians with the help of Nordic aliens. The domes at the ends of the craft house laser weapons
William Tompkins revealed US Navy has Battle Groups operating outside the Earth. He personally designed five space ships and thirty support ships. Using the latest technology, he designed different space ships for Northrop Aviation Company. Northrop started building the huge craft underground in Utah. These craft now cruise the solar system and fight against Reptilian craft. The battles with them are very short, but we need more battle groups as they are becoming stronger and outnumber both our craft and the Nordic craft. The US works closely with the Nordic aliens who have similar craft. They apparently came from the Orion Constellation and influenced the building of the pyramids and imply they are our ancestors. The Reptilians allegedly attack various planets, take them over, and put the residents into slavery. The popularity of the Star Wars movie may be because the public understands the story is close to the truth being withheld from the public.
Telecommunications in space
Recent technology has allowed prototypes for laser communications and visible light communication in outer space. The communication range of free-space optical communication is currently on the order of several thousand kilometers, but has the potential to bridge interplanetary distances of millions of kilometers, using optical telescopes as beam expanders.
John Lenard Walson Photos
For over ten years now John Lenard Walson has shared his uniquely close-up footage and images of our Moon and other celestial bodies in orbit around Earth: We speculate that the images John is taking are large space ships belonging to the United States, although they may belong to other countries or alien intruders. There is also indication that several countries are working together to down alien intruders. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Subscription Coordinator sent congratulations to John on his superb astrophotography. You might also be interested in a journal produced by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory – which is the group which has built some of the things you are seeing. Much of what they do is what used to be the Star Wars project, which no doubt involves some of your objects. They don’t talk about the military satellites, of course, but there are many discussions of earth surveillance, and related issues. It is distributed only to academic organizations, so you may need to get your local library to borrow it, but you may be able to get this (for free) from Room L-054
Lincoln Laboratory MIT 244 Wood Street Lexington MA 0240-9185 USA Teller Claims Great Menace from Space Exists
Edward Teller, Ph.D., in memo to President Ronald Reagan “A menace greater than the nuclear arms race exists. It does not originate here on Earth, but comes from space itself. ”
-President Ronald Reagan awarded physicist Edward Teller, Ph.D., the National Medal of Science in 1983. Image courtesy Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
Star Wars, Plowshares, and Three Mile Island. Teller was Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1958-1960) and then an Associate Director. He also served concurrently as a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a tireless advocate of a strong nuclear program. In 1975, he retired and was named Director Emeritus of the Livermore Laboratory.
In the 1980s, Teller began a strong campaign for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also called “Star Wars”, the concept of using lasers or satellites to destroy incoming Russian ICBMs or possibly alien incursions. Teller lobbied with government agencies—and got the sanction of President Ronald Reagan—for his plan to develop a system using elaborate satellites which used atomic weapons to fire X-ray lasers at incoming missiles. However, scandal erupted when it later became apparent that the scheme was technically infeasible and that Teller (and his associate Lowell Wood) had deliberately oversold the program.
The project was eventually scaled back but now exists in altered form. Teller was later encouraged, however, by the Bush administration’s revitalization of the missile defense program in the early 21st century (known to its critics as “Son of Star Wars”) that is at least partially effective against some alien incursions. Fortunately, it has curbed North Korea and other nations from launching missile
Note: Over 31,000 scientists signed the OISM Petition Project stating “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere”. (OISM)
Vortex Image
Dr. Bruce Cornet I have image enhancing software. I became a webmaster back in the late 1990s, and published over 200 web pages by 2007. That Vortex image was the subject of a History Channel documentary shot in late 2007, which aired in March of 2008. It is called, UFO Vortexes, and a team of experts analyzed that photograph, which appeared on a time exposure on 28 April 1993. Ellen Crystall and I saw the image being made in a split second, but didn’t know what it was until the photograph was developed. Dr. Bruce Maccabee of the Naval Research Lab in WDC appeared on the show with me, and stated categorically that it was not made by any known human technology. He further stated, along with the UFO Hunters team, that it was the best evidence so far presented that we are not alone.
I disagree with them that it represents an interdimensional portal opening up, but for the purpose of advancing fringe ideas, I don’t mind Upon enlargement, it appears to be a holographic projection of a solar system with a binary blue star. Initially I thought it might be a representation of the Sirius star system. The solar system contains rings that may represent orbital paths, because each ring has a colored sphere (planet) in it. The blue star to the right may represent a Brown Dwarf or Neutron Star.
Then after Walter Cruttenden published a most interesting article (Precession Paradox) in Forbidden Science, 2008, about his theory that our solar system is binary, and we cannot see our Sun’s companion star because it is a “black” star, something that the Nazi Vril Society recognized. If that is true, that the hologram may be a gift from our visitors that the long term climatic cycles of 21,600 yrs., 108,000 yrs., and 432,000 yrs. may be caused by our two suns doing a figure eight dance in the heavens. We may also have another explanation for the gamma ray bursts that periodically hit Earth every 10-11,000 years, if that blue star is a pulsar that spins around and points its polar jets at Earth periodically.
I think mankind has much yet to learn about Earth, our Solar System, the Universe, and ET life. We need to keep an open mind. Thanks to Bruce Cornet
Unified Film Theory of Basic Forces and Elementary Particles
Yue-Liang Wu writes, “A unified field theory of all known basic forces and elementary particles is built based on a postulate of gauge invariance and coordinate independence along with conformal scaling gauge symmetry.” The hyper-spin charge of a unified hyper-spinor field is conjectured to correlate to the dimension of a hyper-spacetime with Dh=19 via a maximal symmetry. A unified fundamental interaction is postulated to be governed by a hyper-spin gauge symmetry SP(1,Dh-1). The gravitational origin of gauge symmetry characterized by a gauge-type hyper-gravifield enables us to study gauge gravity and gravity geometry correspondences and to reveal a gauge geometry duality. www.arxiv.org
“We Are Not Alone Radio
“We Are Not Alone” is a t”We Are Not Alonewo time award winning radio show on WHFR.FM and is a member of the MUFON Radio Network Paul Stonehill was born in Kiev, USSR and immigrated to the US in 1979. He graduated with a BA in political science from California State University. Paul is the author of “Soviet UFO Files” and “Russia’s USO Secrets”. Join us for the discussion on Tuesday, July 4 at 1PM. Go to http://whfr.fm/ and click on “Listen Now”. The show is archived at http://www.ufoimplications.com/radio_archive.html
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Filer’s Files #27 -2017 Wars in Heaven and Earth - PART II
Filer’s Files #27 -2017 Wars in Heaven and Earth - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Conway— I’ve been on my porch for most of my best sightings and on June 16, 2917, I noticed them moving. They usually “fly” slow, making minor trajectory changes here and there. Sometimes they blink to me when I “speak” to them or mentally acknowledge their presence. I’ve noticed lately that they will appear seconds after I think about them and react to my words and thoughts. I once saw one 6 or so feet away around lunch time. I almost wrecked my car, I was so in awe. A couple days ago, I requested a “demonstration” from them, and one appeared. I followed it with my new binoculars and it split up into multiple lights before blinking in a strange pattern in the sky.
California Object
North Hollywood — My friend and I were just parking on June 24, 2017, and we both got out of the car I happen to notice the lights first. Then I pointed it out. Others happen to be around and look up. At first I made sure to understand what I was looking at. I have to airports by my house. We also have a lot of sky activity with police or news helicopters. It wasn’t a light show when I noticed the six in formation I knew I was looking at something very unusual. They were amber color with an orange, red color. I was thrilled by what I was looking at. It’s not my first time seeing UFO’s. But I knew getting proof now and shot a snap chat fist followed by filming a live video with my iPhone. The sighting was about three minutes from the time we noticed them till they disappeared one by one. It looks like a teleport effect out of a sci-fi movie. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Light
New Orleans — My husband and I were on our way from prayer night for one of the pictures on February 13, 2017.The other time we were standing out in the open.
After taking one of these pictures my phone crashed, but thank God I was finally able to retrieve them. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Orbs
Moscow– I can see two unknown objects in the image taken near Moscow on June 22, 2017.
Severe storms were in area east of my location at the time the image was taken. I did not see anything until I looked at the images later. Another image taken one minute later does not show anything unusual in same area. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Triangle
Medford — Driving home from work after working an evening shift on June 14, 2017, there was a big red moon on the horizon. Turned into my street and could clearly see jet plane lights high above, not uncommon for the area. At 0016 (1216 AM), on my right side through a break in the foliage, I saw three yellowish-white lights in triangle pattern hovering about 400 feet above the houses on the street adjacent to where I was. I slowed to about 15 mph to get a look at the lights, when the three lights suddenly flew quickly NE from a standstill. There was no build-up of speed like with a drone or plane/jet. The lights flew off within 10 seconds of when I first pulled onto the street, and had disappeared over the tree line to the NE (heading toward Medford Lakes over Jackson road in less than 5 seconds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Orbs
On June 25, 2017, morning flight from Albuquerque New Mexico to Burbank California, we passed by 3 glowing orb like objects that had seemed to be at rest in the middle of nowhere in a very tough to reach part of the desert. I videotaped it and my partner witnessed this as well. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Objects
I’ve been an avid photography for several years and am fond of shooting the Milky Way, Comets, and Meteor Showers. I’ve gotten great quality pictures of these in the past. It takes a lot of practice to get the proper exposure, aperture, and ISO settings correct to produce a clear and good quality image of the night sky. After several years of practice, I’m getting proficient.
What I saw two nights ago, on June 26, 2017, and what I inadvertently photographed was not normal. At around 2:15 AM, I was taking 20 second exposure pictures (using a tripod obviously). I scanned the sky and saw two lights that resembled brighter stars hovering a few degrees apart one above the other. I knew they didn’t belong there, as they weren’t there 30 seconds before. Suddenly both lights became the brightest objects in the night sky, then dimmed slowly and became invisible. My first thoughts were “Holy cow, I just saw my first true UFO. My camera caught them “arriving”. Thanks to Ralph D.
Pennsylvania Orbs
Easton — I was sitting on the porch with a friend and saw strange orb things in the sky on June 29, 2017, I told her to look; she said, “Maybe it’s the moon, and she told me to take a picture.” So I took a picture with flash and two more appeared, Then I took another picture and more appeared. Each time I took a picture with my flash, a star like light appeared so I tried taking pictures with flash to see if it did it again. It got brighter with each picture then eventually disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Object
Weslaco — I was on my way to drop off my 7 year old son at summer school. As I turned north, I noticed an object in the sky and told my son as he loves to see airplanes in sky. As we traveled toward it, we both realized it did not appear to be a plane or a helicopter, but could not determine what it could be. What I found odd was it was not moving in any direction. As I approached the stop light, I decided to open car window and take picture with my cell phone. I zoomed as much as my phone would allow me. We continued traveling north about a mile and a half and then turned right toward his school. Once we arrived at his school, we got off car and looked back toward same direction and to see if object was still there and notice a jet had left a smoke trail. As we looked toward the end of the smoke trail we noticed the object once again. By this point the receptionist at my son’s school came outside and wondered what we were looking at and she also saw the object and all of sudden it disappeared. About 5 seconds later it reappeared. It was very strange how it disappeared and reappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Bulgaria Objects
These are collection of similar objects (61) observed via helioviewer near the Sun during five day period 19-24 June 2017. These are marked objects on moon photo taken by Apollo 11, I downloaded photo from here: [Link moved to FI Section/cms/tg] Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Sightings
Oshawa — Wildlife photographer Ken Rice was out shooting photos on June 17, 2017, when something unusual suddenly appeared in his camera lens. Ken Rice Photo
It came out of nowhere, this thing,” said the Oshawa resident, who was at the marsh area near the General Motors on Colonel Sam Drive at about 7:45 p.m. when he noticed the object off in the distance.
“I saw something pop out of nowhere, 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 took off.” Later, Rice took a closer look at the image and said he has no idea what it could be.
Caribbean Sea — I was on a Royal Caribbean cruise in January of 2015. We were in the Caribbean, headed towards Haiti. I was watching the water off my balcony room and saw something really weird looking, that looked to be pretty far off in the distance. I took a picture of it, and watched it until it was out of site (from our boat sailing past). The object didn’t seem to be moving, from what I could see. I didn’t hear anything either (again, it was very far off in the distance. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Light
Arona — I was doing a video because I like thunderstorms, and I saw something on May 25, 2017.
It was unbelievable when I saw the record of the video.
Thanks to MUFON
New Zealand Plane and UFO
Queenstown— We were spending the day boating in on Boxing Day on December 12, 2015. There were about ten of us there – family and friends. We had just dropped someone we knew at the airport so I took a succession of photos of their Qantas plane taking off to send to them to show them what a beautiful view it was from below. When I looked back over the photos a few seconds later one of them had the image of something in the photo. The photos on either side of the image had nothing in the shot. Whatever it was, it is moving faster than the plane as it was blurred. No-one had seen anything flying around the area – we had all been watching the plane take off and waving our friend off. We were all quite surprised, a bit skeptical but all very confused as to what else the image could be, other than of a UFO as there was nothing visible flying in the sky around the plane that had taken off. I’d love for someone to try and enhance the image to try and get a clearer picture of what we saw. Maybe it was an insect or a bird, but my feeling was that we saw was something moving so fast it wasn’t viewable with the naked eye. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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After a 50-year break, NASA has returned to the idea of using nuclear fission to power space missions. However, providing energy for off-world colonists is just one of myriad questions we will have to answer before we could hope to become a multi-planetary species.
NUCLEAR NASA
Being able to produce power on alien worlds will define our terraforming and interplanetary colonization experiences — how we generate atmospheres, produce life’s prerequisites, and power machines for exploration depend on it. NASA experts estimate that a Mars expedition would require roughly 40 kilowatts of power — around enough to power eight houses on Earth — and they think they may know the best way to generate that energy: nuclear fission.
For the past three years, NASA has been funding Kilopower, a project that aims to develop “a compact, low cost, scalable fission power system for science and exploration.”
The project’s budget is around $15 million, and in September, the agency will unveil the fruits of their labor — a 1.9 meters (6.5 feet) tall generator designed to produce up to 1 kilowatt of electric power — during testing at the Nevada National Security Site.
Although other alternatives for generating power have been put forward, none are as viable as fission. Solar energy, for instance, would require that astronauts stick to regions that receive an adequate amount of sunlight. “If you want to land anywhere, surface fission power is a key strategy for that,” Michelle Rucker, an engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, told Space.com.
Project Kilopower marks something of a fission resurgence for NASA after a hiatus of more than 50 years. The last time the agency operated a fission reactor was in 1965, when they launched the Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power (SNAP) project. That project resulted in radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) that are still used to power spacecraft today, as well as the nuclear-powered spacecraft SNAP 10A, which stopped working 43 days after it was launched into space due to an electrical component failure.
A QUESTION OF TERRAFORMING
Individuals such as Stephen Hawking have issued warnings that Earth can’t survive our habitation for much longer, so finding an alternative home for humanity is becoming critical. The question of how to provide power off-world is one of the biggest ones we face as we consider the Red Planet as our future home.
Other aspects of Mars colonization are already falling into place. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is driving the transportation element of the cosmic migration forward, developing detailed plans and working on ever-larger spaceships that we could use to get to our planetary neighbor.
If we ever successfully move to another planet, these questions and hundreds more, such as how diseases will respond to space and how reproduction will work, will have to be answered. Estimates concerning how long this will take vary, with some saying decades and others saying centuries. At any rate, let us hope it is sooner rather than later if Hawking’s prediction proves to be accurate.
Titan’s lakes are pretty calm, so a spacecraft might have an easy time landing on the Saturn moon as it searches for alien life.
Scientists analyzed radar data taken from the icy moon in the outer solar system to determine how choppy the seas are, finding that the biggest waves only get about 1 centimeter high and 20 centimeters long. From that information, scientists can better understand something they cannot directly study on that world: wind.
The data used for their study, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, was taken during the early summer season at the three biggest lakes on Titan: Ligeia Mare, Kraken Mare and Punga Mare. Those three lakes are not made from water, but rather are composed of liquid hydrocarbon.
“There’s a lot of interest in one day sending probes to the lakes, and when that’s done, you want to have a safe landing, and you don’t want a lot of wind,” lead author Cyril Grima said in a statement from the University of Texas at Austin. “Our study shows that because the waves aren’t very high, the winds are likely low.”
Previous research has suggested that early summer is the start of the windy season on Titan, but these new findings could change that idea because high winds would probably translate to bigger waves than the ones observed.
And it’s not that there isn’t wind on the planet — experts have investigated how sand particles on Titan stick together and suggest that because of their light weight and low density, the way the wind makes them rub together creates so much static electricity that they clump firmly together, making it difficult for the wind to then blow them apart.
NASA’s Cassini space probe captures Titan’s three largest lakes — Ligeia Mare, Kraken Mare and Punga Mare.
Photo: Cyril Grima/The University of Texas at Austin
“From the results, it looks like we are right near the threshold for wave generation, where patches of the sea are smooth and patches are rough,” co-author and Cornell University astronomy professor Alex Hayes said in the UT statement.
To understand the sizes of these lakes on Titan, the methane lake Kraken Mare could be bigger than the Caspian Sea, an oblong body of water in western Asia that is bounded by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan.
Information about the environment on Titan’s surface would be crucial for a future mission to the moon, manned or unmanned. It holds scientists’ interests because liquid is believed to flow on its surface in a similar way to how it does on Earth, with the hydrocarbons methane and ethane falling like rain and filling up its lakes.
However, recent analysis has questioned whether that flow is more like what you would have found on Mars before that planet transformed into the dry landscape we know today — as Earth has tectonic plate activity that puts things in flux whereas Mars and the Titan moon do not.
Regardless of the way the liquid flows, Titan has other conditions that make it a possible candidate for a world outside of our planet that harbors life.
“The atmosphere of Titan is very complex, and it does synthesize complex organic molecules — the bricks of life,” Grima said. “It may act as a laboratory of sorts, where you can see how basic molecules can be transformed into more complex molecules that could eventually lead to life.”
A spacecraft sent to Titan would likely be geared toward learning more about its surface and its atmosphere as well as investigating potential ice volcanoes and an underground water ocean.
NASA’s Cassini space probe views Saturn’s moon Titan and its biggest lake, Kraken Mare, which is near its north pole.Photo: NASA/JPL
Seeing the Vought V-173 flying in the skies above Stratford, one could be forgiven for thinking it was a spacecraft from another planet. If you described its appearance to others, detailing its wingless, round, saucer-like fuselage, its slow, almost hovering movements in the air, those you told could be forgiven for thinking you were crazy.
But this flying saucer-like plane was real and wasn’t the work of visitors from another planet; instead it was made in Stratford during World War II. It was called the V-173 and known as the “flying pancake” for its flattened, round appearance. The wingless, or “all wing” experimental fighter plane was the brainchild of aeronautical engineer Charles Zimmerman and was developed for the U.S. Navy by Vought-Sikorsky in Stratford as a prototype to test Zimmerman’s outside-the-box theories about plane design. The craft’s strange shape allowed for near-vertical takeoff and landings, useful for operating from Navy ships. Though never used in combat, the aircraft proved important theories about flight, and may have inadvertently helped cause the UFO hysteria that swept the nation in the aftermath of World War II. Cue Twilight Zone music.
Zimmerman conceived of the craft in the early 1930s and won a 1933 design contest put on by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the precursor to NASA. Impressed as NACA officials were with the design, the government organization felt it was too advanced to be developed. Zimmerman brought the design to Vought in 1937, and the Navy awarded a contract for a full-scale, proof-of-concept plane in 1940.
The aircraft earned Zimmerman some derision. In addition to the pancake nickname above, the plane was called the “Zimmer Skimmer,” and some doubted it would fly. The plane, like others in its day, had a wooden frame covered with a fabric skin. Two air-cooled continental engines provided a mere 80 horsepower.
Before flying it, Boone T. Guyton, Vought’s chief test pilot, took the plane on a variety of fast taxis and short hops on the runway at Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport, then Bridgeport Municipal Airport (though owned by the city of Bridgeport, the airport is located in Stratford).
On Nov. 23, 1942, Guyton piloted the strange-looking craft into the sky, where it performed well, completing a short takeoff and reaching 100 mph in a 13-minute flight that concluded with a short landing.
Despite its oddness, the aircraft was popular with pilots because it was maneuverable at low, nearly hovering speeds and was nearly impossible to stall, particularly useful when attempting the tricky maneuvers of landing on a ship at sea. Among the plane’s supporters was legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh, who worked as a consultant for Vought at the time and flew the V-173 on several occasions.
According to one account, Lindbergh became a fan of the V-173 after witnessing Guyton’s close call in the aircraft. At the end of one test flight, Guyton attempted to land the plane on a nearby Stratford beach, but at the last second saw two sunbathers in his way. He made a sudden turn which flipped the plane onto the sand. The fact that Guyton survived the accident, and the plane and pilot were relatively unscathed, impressed Lindbergh.
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With flight tests completed, more advanced prototypes of the V-173 were ordered. A newer version was designated the XF5U-1 and had a larger engine and greater capabilities. Armed with 1,600-horsepower Pratt & Whitney radial engines, it had a 425-mph top speed and 20-mph landing speed. Despite its capabilities, its development lagged as Vought focused on other planes, including the Corsair fighter plane, during World War II. When the war ended in 1945, the XF5U-1 was behind schedule and over budget. At the same time, the jet age began to dawn, shifting interest from propeller planes. The Navy canceled the XF5U-1 contract in March 1947.
During their brief use, the V-173 and the XF5U-1 proved Zimmerman’s theory of a plane capable of near-vertical takeoff and landing, a concept that became important for later aircraft. The crafts may also have helped generate decades’ worth of conspiracies.
After the V-173’s early flights in Connecticut and over Long Island Sound, there were reports of UFO sightings. In addition to talk of aliens, the craft fueled speculation that the U.S. government was developing its own flying saucer. A 1950 New York Times story on the spate of UFO sightings in post-war America included a picture of the V-173 with the words “COULD THIS BE ONE?” above it. The article cites the magazine U.S. News and World Report, claiming the saucers spotted across the country were “aircraft of a revolutionary design … accounts show these planes to be 105 feet in diameter and circular in shape. … Indications are, according to the magazine, that the ‘saucers’ are being developed by the Navy.”
The V-173 was restored by former Vought employees and is now on display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas, where it is on loan from the Smithsonian Institution. Pictures of the V-173 at the museum show a bright yellow, almost-cartoonish aircraft that is a cross between Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon and something from The Jetsons. Imagining it in the air, moving slowly, appearing to hover, it’s easy to see why some people thought it was not of this world.
FLYING SORCERY - Secret UFO sighting dossier hushed up using EU law so the public may NEVER learn what’s inside
FLYING SORCERY - Secret UFO sighting dossier hushed up using EU law so the public may NEVER learn what’s inside
A secret database filled with UFO incidents reported by airline crews is being kept away from prying eyes
EXCLUSIVE
By Margi Murphy
THE public may never learn of the recent UFO sightings made by pilots in our skies thanks to a piece of EU legislation, it has emerged.
Airline staff report a number of strange sightings to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) every year, it is understood.
It’s believed that hundreds of UFO reports are filed every year
Since the MoD closed its UFO desk in 2009, the CAA has become the last British government organisation to retain an interest in UFOs and keep files on incidents involving civilian aircrews.
But it has decided not to release a dossier detailing sightings or incidents between 2011 and 2017.
Government files of this kind are normally available under the Freedom of Information Act, which allows any member of the public to request files from the government.
But the CAA is now using a piece of European legislation from 2014 to block access to its record of “occurences”.
It states: “Occurrence information can only be used for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety, and the release of occurrence information to the general public or the media, including in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, is not permitted.
“However, if you require occurrence information for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety you are able to make an application to the CAA.”
PA:PRESS ASSOCIATION
Several of the Ministry of Defence files from the 70s through to 2009 has been released
One of the purposes of the legislation is to protect the identity of pilots who come forward to share details of strange sightings in the sky.
However, information obtained using FOIA is typically “redacted” to remove any identifying features like names and addresses.
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University's department of journalism has previously been granted access to the files, but was shocked when his FOI request was refused earlier this year.
He told The Sun Online: "These have been collected and logged by the CAA since at least 1976.
PA:PRESS ASSOCIATION
A sketch of a UFO sighting from a flight from Heathrow which was released in 2013
"For many years the CAA has released this information under Freedom of Information without any evidence that commercial secrets or safety have been harmed or compromised.
"Indeed in 2012 the chief executive of Britain's National Air Traffic Control Services, Richard Deakin, admitted in a BBC Radio 4 interview that his agency received reports of UFOs from civil aircrew somewhere in the world every month.
"But then they seem surprised that curious individuals might want to see details of these incidents using Open Government legislation.
"Now they are using a piece of European Regulation to block public access to these records.
Previous sightings made between the 1970s-1990s before the MoD UFO desk shut in 2009 are publically available
"The only conceivable reason for this change of policy is embarrassment on the part of the aviation industry. It does not want to admit that its pilots do occasionally report things in the sky that are difficult to explain.
"To improve public confidence in air safety, the authorities should be proactively promoting open access to records of this type."
The move to block the release of these records is certain to set conspiracy theorist's tongues wagging.
But when quizzed, the Civil Aviation Authority told the Sun Online that the files WERE available - if you could prove you were going to use the information to further safety in the sky.
It is not available to journalists or the general public.
A spokesman said: "The Mandatory Occurrence Reporting (MOR) scheme requires individuals and organisations within the aviation industry to report safety occurrences to the CAA, with the intention that these reports are used to constantly improve safety levels.
“Information held by the CAA under the MOR system may be made available, for the purpose of improving aviation safety, subject to completing this application form."
It's unclear whether Brexit will open up the files to the public again - but there's a two year wait until the divorce is settled.
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Graancirkels hebben buitenaardse oorsprong. Deze onderzoeker legt uit hoe ze ontstaan
Graancirkels hebben buitenaardse oorsprong. Deze onderzoeker legt uit hoe ze ontstaan
Graancirkelonderzoeker Janet Ossebaard zegt in gesprek met dagblad de Stentor dat ze niet twijfelt aan de buitenaardse oorsprong van graancirkels.
Ze heeft naar eigen zeggen formaties gevormd zien worden. “Ik heb het drie keer mogen meemaken. Je leven staat op z’n kop, want je hebt geen enkel antwoord op de vraag: what the f*ck gebeurde daar?”
Ossebaard zag tijdens het ontstaan van graancirkels lichtbollen, hoorde gras knetteren en ook gingen haar haren overeind staan. Bovendien vielen camera’s uit.
Sterkste energetische baan
“Het is een enorm sterk elektromagnetisch veld en daarna is de graancirkel een feit,” zegt ze.
In 1994 zag ze net buiten Assen haar eerste graancirkel. Ze werd helemaal stil van binnen.
In het zuiden van Engeland ontstaan de meest complexe graancirkels. Volgens Ossebaard komt dat waarschijnlijk doordat de sterkste energetische baan van de aarde door dat gebied loopt.
Hoewel er in Nederland wel interesse is in het graancirkelfenomeen, staan mensen in andere landen meer open voor deze cirkels.
Eén op de drie
“In Australië heeft één op de drie mensen UFO’s gezien,” zegt ze. “En in Mexico is niemand sceptisch. De westerse wereld staat er minder voor open.”
Ossebaard zette in Deventer het Graancirkelcentrum op, waar mensen informatie kunnen krijgen over het fenomeen.
“Mensen kunnen er praten over hun ervaringen zonder te worden uitgelachen,” licht ze toe.
BEWIJS DAT RUIMTEOORLOG IN VOLLE GANG IS ( VIDEO )
BEWIJS DAT RUIMTEOORLOG IN VOLLE GANG IS ( VIDEO )
We zijn gewend dat er eigenlijk permanent oorlogen woeden op aarde, maar dat dit ook in de ruimte gebeurt, is iets dat bijna niemand weet.
Nu is er bewijs boven water gekomen dat een satelliet in de ruimte door een aantal onbekende vliegende objecten is aangevallen en onklaar is gemaakt.
Het lijkt een beetje op een sciencefictionverhaal, maar dat is het absoluut niet.
Zoals bekend bij de meesten gaat veel van de tegenwoordige communicatie, inclusief televisiebeelden, via satellieten die zich hoog boven de aarde bevinden.
Nu bestaan er verschillende soorten. Je hebt satellieten die zich in een omloopbaan rondom de aarde bevinden en die die op een soort vaste positie blijven. Dit noemen ze een "geo-stationary" satelliet. Dit soort wordt meestal gebruikt voor dingen zoals televisie-uitzendingen omdat wanneer de satelliet zich in een baan om de aarde zou bevinden het signaal op een gegeven moment urenlang zou verdwijnen, wanneer het zich aan de achterkant van de aarde zou bevinden.
De AMC-9 is een dergelijke "geo-stationary" satelliet en verzorgt televisie-uitzendingen voor Noord- Midden- en Zuid Amerika.
Het is al een oud beestje en is eigendom van een bedrijf dat SES heet. Deze satelliet verblijft al sinds 2003 in de ruimteop een hoogte van 36.000 kilometer en sinds 17 juni is er een serieus probleem mee.
De satelliet leek in stukken op te breken en er vlogen naderhand ook enkele brokstukken door de ruimte.
De eigenaar van de satelliet, SES, heeft ondertussen een verklaring gegeven waar onder andere in staat dat de SES Satellite Control er op 1 juli in is geslaagd om weer contact te maken met de AMC-9 en dat men weer probeert deze onder controle te krijgen.
Op 20 juni maakte SES bekend dat er gedurende het weekend problemen waren geweest met AMC-9 vanwege een “behoorlijke onregelmatigheid” en dat activiteiten zouden worden overgeheveld naar andere satellieten.
Omdat de satelliet ook uit haar normale baan/positie was verschoven, kwam men met de suggestie dat dit alleen gekomen kon zijn door een “energetische” gebeurtenis.
We hebben dus een satelliet die uit koers is geraakt, waar in de buurt enkele brokstukken zweven en die niet meer goed functioneert.
Dan zijn er radarbeelden waarop iets heel bijzonders te zien is. Want op een gegeven moment is niet alleen de satelliet zichtbaar, maar ook dat deze als het ware wordt ingehaald door een drietal vreemde objecten, op enige afstand gevolgd door een vierde.
Op het moment dat deze objecten op ongeveer gelijke hoogte zijn met de AMC-9 begint deze te flitsen alsof er iets mee gebeurt.
Nadat de onbekende objecten zijn gepasseerd, zie je de brokstukken van de AMC-9 af komen en ook dat de satelliet uit koers raakt.
Met andere woorden, wie of wat die objecten ook zijn, het lijkt er sterk op dat ze deze de AMC-9 satelliet uitschakelen. Hebben we hier een voorbeeld van een ruimteoorlog die boven ons hoofden woedt?
Onbekend is wie of wat die objecten zijn en of ze van aardse makelij zijn of juist buitenaards. Ook is de reden onbekend waarom deze satelliet uitgeschakeld lijkt te worden.
Onze lezer Bert denkt er het volgende van:
Persoonlijk denk ik dat het een aardse vloot is, als het aliens zijn dan zie je ze volgens mij niet eens. Als wij al laserstraal technologie hebben dan kun je wel nagaan wat die aliens kunnen doen.WW3 is gewoon in de ruimte begonnen. Voordat het echt los gaat zullen we waarschijnlijk een totale black out mee maken. Zodra internet, radio en tv er uit gaat kun je dekking zoeken. Men schakelt gewoon eerst de cruciale satellieten uit.
Dat wij mensen in staat zijn om dit soort dingen te doen, hebben wij aangetoond in eerdere artikelen.
Zowel bij de begrafenis in Kabul, waar een UFO langsvliegt en vervolgens een enorme explosie veroorzaakt en ook bij 9/11 waar heel duidelijk net voor de explosie in de tweede toren van het WTC een UFO voorbij schiet. Daarnaast schrijven wij al jaren over het bestaan van een geheime ruimtevloot waarvan het grote publiek geen flauw benul heeft dat deze bestaat.
Als we er dan vanuit gaan dat we hier te maken hebben met een aardse aanval, dan is natuurlijk de volgende vraag: Wie zit hierachter en wie zou hier voordeel bij hebben?
De satelliet is eigendom van het in Luxemburg gevestigde bedrijf SES S.A, met ook branches in Den Haag.
SES S.A. is een beursgenoteerd bedrijf in Luxemburg en aan de Euronext in Parijs als SESG. SES staat voor Société Européenne des Satellites en werd opgericht in maart 1985. Op 9 november 2001 is SES Global S.A. ontstaan na de overname van GE Americom. Hierdoor is het nu wereldwijd de grootste commerciële satelliet exploitant. Het concern biedt diensten aan op het gebied van verspreiding van televisiezenders, radiostations, data-overdracht, telefonie en toegang tot internet via diverse satellieten. SES S.A. is de overkoepelende organisatie van SES Astra in Europa; SES Americom in de Verenigde Staten; en New Skies Satellites in Afrika, Zuid-Amerika, het Midden-Oosten en een deel van Azië. Ook bezit het concern aandelen in Ciel (70%) in Canada en Quetzsat (49%) in Mexico. SES S.A., eerder SES Global, beheert wereldwijd een park van 47 satellieten.
Wat in dit verhaal ook van belang kan zijn, in het licht van het "waarom", is de UFO aanval op de Space X raket van ondernemer Elon Musk. Deze is van plan om een kolonie op Mars te gaan beginnen en rijdt op deze manier duidelijk de elite in de weg die Mars waarschijnlijk hebben voorbestemd als een eigen ontsnappingsmogelijkheid voor wanneer hen hier op aarde de grond te heet onder de voeten wordt.
Een andere mogelijkheid zou kunnen zijn dat we hier te maken hebben met militaire oorlogsvoering en/of demonstratie/oefening. Dit is waar het het meeste op lijkt.
Eerder dit jaar verscheen er een bericht dat de Amerikanen nogal waren geschrokken van een nieuwe testvlucht van een nieuwe Russische anti satellietraket, de PL-19 Nudol. De Amerikaanse legerleiding liet toen doorschemeren dat hun eigen defensiemogelijkheden voor wat betreft satellieten niet vergelijkbaar waren met de Russische. Omdat de Amerikanen eigenlijk van oudsher domineerden in de ruimte hebben ze het up to date houden verwaarloosd en kampen ze nu met verouderde middelen terwijl andere inmiddels high tech (bewapende) apparatuur hebben rondcirkelen om de aarde. Het Pentagon en de Amerikaanse luchtmacht zijn dan ook in sneltreinvaart begonnen met het verbeteren van hun ruimtedefensie.
We weten dat satellieten uitgerust kunnen worden met kernwapens. Dit kwam vooral in beeld als een mogelijkheid voor Noord Korea om bijvoorbeeld Amerika te bereiken met haar kernwapens omdat zij ook een aantal satellieten in de ruimte hebben.
Toen de AMC-9 satelliet in 2003 werd gelanceerd, gebeurde dit met een Russische raket vanuit Kazachstan. Degene die vooral nadeel ondervinden van het neerschieten lijken televisiemaatschappijen in Amerika, maar waaronder ook NASA, die gebruikmaken van deze satelliet. Of deze informatie volledig is, is niet duidelijk. Er zijn ook indicaties dat AMC-9 bewapend was met nucleaire wapens.
Je zou dan ook kunnen voorstellen dat een Vladimir Poetin aan de vooravond van de G-20 in Duitsland waar hij voor het eerst Donald Trump zal ontmoeten, even zijn visitekaartje wil achterlaten door te laten zien waartoe de geheime Russische ruimtevloot toe in staat is.
Het lijkt qua timing echter op iets anders. Op 30 juni jl herinstalleerde Trump de National Space Council. Bovendien liep de satelliet AMC-9 tegen het einde van de geplande contracts/werkingsduur van 15 jaar en hebben de televisiestations al enige tijd geleden hun uitzendingen over andere satellieten verdeeld en leken ze dus op de hoogte van het naderende einde van deze satelliet. Ook is plekje in de ruimte voor satellieten schaars en duur. en aangezien deze tegen zijn einde liep, was het mogelijk een mooie oefening om hem neer te schieten en gelijk ook capaciteiten te showen. Er wordt openlijk gesproken over ruimteoorlogen en het bewapenen in de ruimte.
Bovendien heeft de de luchtmacht sinds enige tijd de verantwoordelijkheid over het budget voor ruimteverdediging/-wapens. Dat is niets anders dan het militair industrieel complex die achter veel narigheid op aarde zitten. De Amerikaanse president heeft heel weinig vat op deze ruimteactiviteiten.
The Air Force and Pentagon are pursuing a strategy aimed at countering the fast-emerging weaponization of space and preparing to defend against space-war anti-satellite attacks, service officials said.
“The last Defense Authorization Act gave authority back to the Air Force for buying space hardware and services. We need to fully implement those changes in order to get space capabilities we need on faster timelines,” Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told the Senate Armed Services Committee Strategic Forces Subcommittee May 17.
Disaggregation and diversity are among the most heavily focused-upon techniques which seek to deploy multiple satellites carrying both conventional and nuclear systems; diversity tactics are aimed at using multiple satellites to achieve the same goal.
Commercie speelt in deze sector natuurlijk een zeer grote rol en gebeurtenissen rond het neerschieten van zo'n satelliet kunnen een aanwijzing zijn van de werkelijke achtergronden. Toevalligerwijze is Boeing in de run voor satellietbouwer voor de Amerikaanse overheid. Om daarmee Alcatel uit het veld te duwen. Er is nu behoefte aan een nieuwe satelliet doordat er AMC-9 vernietigd is. En het zou ons niets verbazen als Boeing die gaat bouwen.En er zijn meer partijen die graag meedoen en er wordt dus ook veel geruzied in de markt waardoor (gelukkig) regelmatig informatie naar buiten komt die een kijkje naar binnen verschaft.
Wat duidelijk is, is dat er in de buurt van de neergeschoten satelliet, die hier live te volgen is, intelligent bestuurde objecten aanwezig waren die in de mainstream berichtgeving volledig worden genegeerd. Dat de satelliet tegen alle (natuur)wetten in van koers verandert, wat inhoud dat deze uit zijn positie moet zijn geforceerd. De satelliet breekt in stukken nadat het felle lichtflitsen toonde op de radar precies ten tijde van de passage van deze eerst 3 en daarna 4 onbekende objecten. Dat in tegenstelling tot de officiële berichtgeving overduidelijk is dat er veel meer speelt, getuige alle contextuele activiteiten zoals hierboven uiteengezet. Het gezicht van voormalig astronaut Aldrin spreekt boekdelen over wat Trump allemaal zegt over hun ruimteactiviteiten. Recentelijk werd deze Aldrin met spoed van Antarctica weggehaald.
Wat ons betreft staat vast dat het ding is neergeschoten en waarschijnlijk door aardlingen met ruimtewapens.
Gedachten/aanvullende info van lezers hierover zijn welkom.
Ian Purcell who filmed the mind blowing object managed to capture very clear and very close up images of the UFO which you can see in the below 9.50 minutes video at around 33 and 55 seconds for a really clear still shot of the back and at 50 seconds for a clear shot of the front.
Editor’s note: At first glance I though it is a drone however after a quick search on the web I could not find similar objects.
So, any idea what this robotic-like object, what seems to be under intelligent control, could be?
MOD FILES REVEAL UFO INCIDENT WITH COLD WAR SPY PLANE
MOD FILES REVEAL UFO INCIDENT WITH COLD WAR SPY PLANE
The Ministry of Defence in Britain has released 15 files of out of the remaining UFO files that are held at the National Archives in the UK and in them are details about a UFO encounter that was witnessed by the whole crew in a spy-plane belonging to the US Air Force.
USAF RC-135 PLANE BUZZED BY UFO WITH MANY FLASHING LIGHTS
The secret RAF files have a detailed account of an incident that happened on October 19, 1982, and this was when a USAF RC-135 plane that had been watching the activity of the Soviet military was buzzed over the Eastern Mediterranean by what was described as a big object.
In the files, it was stated that British personnel who were stationed at the RAF Troodos, a remote base located on the island of Cyprus at Mt. Olympus, had listed to radio calls that had come from the crew from the USA while they encountered the UFO 35,000 feet above the level of the sea.
Radome at 280 Signals Unit base, RAF Troodos, Mt Olympus, Cyprus – one of the most important overseas British installations (credit: Wikipedia/Ed Weissman)
They had described the UFO as being covered with many flashing lights, with as many as 20 of them flashing at any one time and it had been picked up on the radar of the spy plane while it was approaching them from the south. It was then said to have gone in a circle around the plane with the call sign Beano 73 and then closed in on it while the navigator asked for help down on the ground.
NAVY FIGHTER JETS SCRAMBLED TO UFO INCIDENT
Two F-14 US Navy fighter jets were scrambled from their aircraft carrier along with an RAF Phantom, which had to be diverted from a nighttime exercise, to go and intercept the UFO, which was to the south of Cyprus. While the three interceptors were approaching the crew on the spy plane saw the UFO departing and making its way to the coast of Africa, but the fighter pilots did not see it.
The hidden files that have just been revealed show that the RAF personnel at the radar station monitored the whole incident and it lasted around 90 minutes, with it starting at about 4 pm local time. However, the British air defense stations did not see the incident and nor was it picked up by seaborne or ground radar.
After the UFO encounter, an investigation was launched in secret by the authorities in Britain and the results of it were sent along to the Department of Defense in the US in November 1982. Neither the US or British government ever gave any information about the incident, until the secret files were opened.
MOD AND USAF CLOSE DOWN UFO FILES
An extract from the RAF file on the incident [David Clarke/The National Archives]
The Blue Book of the US Air Force UFO Project was officially closed in 1969, and in 2009 the British Ministry of Defence went on to close their own UFO desk. The secret space intelligence unit, DI55, then claimed that they were no longer interested in any unidentified aerial phenomena in 2000.
However, the RAF files that have been released now reveal that the officials did order a transcript to be made of the tape that recorded the capture of radio transmissions that had been made between the people on the ground in the control tower and the crew of the spy plane. Copies of the report were sent out to the Assistant Chief Scientist of the RAF, DD Ops, and GE of the RAF, DI55, and DSTI.
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE WAS MISSING FROM FILES
The RAF Troodos radar station had provided film, and this had been studied very carefully by photographic experts in the UK along with large prints that had been taken from the radar picture had been prepared for scrutiny by intelligence officers. The file did not say where this evidence had gone. Also, the results of the investigation by the UK and USA were not in the file.
A tentative explanation for that was given by a senior member of the RAF who said that they had a suspicion that the UFO had been a mirage effect that came from the lights which were on the coast of Lebanon or Israel. However, a signal that had reported the sighting that had been sent from RAF Troodos to the Ministry of Defence in the UK had described the UFO as being bigger than an RC-135.
The Boeing RC-135 is an aircraft that was used by the RAF and USAF in support intelligence gathering. The airplanes have been used in all armed conflicts, and this included the Cold War around borders of the former Soviet Union. This is an aircraft that has a length of 136 feet and a wingspan of about 130 feet.
UFO TRACKED BEANO 73 FOR 90 MINUTES
The signal from the RAF that reported the encounter said that the UFO had first been seen around two miles from the RC-135 and then changed its position around the aircraft and closed. The object then tailed Beano 73 for around 90 minutes on the northeast/southwest race track. The signal went on to report that the UFO had been witnessed by the entire crew.
Three of the RC-135s had been bought in 2017 by the RAF, and they serve in the 51 Squadron which has a base at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. The crew of them includes a navigator, two pilots, and as many as 25 mission staff.
Also in the file, it was said that the RAF Group Captain had gathered together information about the UFO reports that had been received by his air defense staff over a period of 30 years and coming to an end in 1996. This was in response to a question in parliament from Martin Redmond, the Labour MP for Don Valley. He had asked radar stations, including the Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station, which is located on the North Yorkshire Moors at RAF Fylingdales to submit UFO data to the HQ No 11 Group. He said in his report that he could not find any reports or mentions of the UFOs that had been detected by the Air Defence Ground Environment units or the 11/18 Group aircraft using the radar equipment.
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Roswell SOLVED? Ex-USAF Major claimed UFO crash was 'cover story for a nuclear incident'
Roswell SOLVED? Ex-USAF Major claimed UFO crash was 'cover story for a nuclear incident'
THE alleged Roswell UFO crash may have been a cover story from the United States Air Force (USAF) to take away the heat from a botched nuclear incident, it has been claimed.
A theory that the Roswell crash was a cover for a nuclear accident has been proposed.
Media producer and sceptical UFO blogger John Keeling revealed the theory this month, saying he stumbled upon it years ago while researching for a potential TV documentary in the 1990s.
Mr Keeling said the theory was proposed by former Major Robert Friend, who was lead investigator of UFOs for the USAF from 1958 to 1962.
Major Friend had been at the helm of the infamous Project Bluebook when the USAF actively investigated incidents such as Roswell and other UFO phenomena at the height of the Cold War.
Mr Keeling said he contacted Mr Friend to take part in the series and received the startling claim in a letter of response.
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.
According to Mr Keeling, Mr Friend replied: "I do have personal views of some of the cases that differ from the official explanations.
"Notably I believe that an unarmed nuclear device was inadvertently released at Roswell and that initially someone felt that a story regarding a UFO landing would cover the recovery operations.
"There is evidence that points in this direction.
"If you are interested I will provide you more detail regarding what leads me to this conclusion.”
Mr Keeling is not clear in his blog if he asked for further details and if they were provided.
He continued that there could be "a precedent" for this type of nuclear accident.
He wrote: "In 1945, while practising bombing runs from Utah for the atomic attack on Japan, a massive dummy warhead containing an explosive trigger was accidentally dropped from an aircraft, embedding itself several feet in the ground close to the Californian desert town of Caliapatra.
"A massive security operation hastily retrieved the device and bulldozed the crater in what must be the first ever ‘Broken Arrow’ incident – one that resonates as a precursor to the many ‘something strange crashed in the desert’ tales that would later form a colourful ‘crashed disc’ folklore."
In 1994, due to increased interest in the Roswell incident, the USAF reinvestigated the case.
It concluded that the balloon that had crashed was part of a top-secret spying project called Project Mogul.
The balloons in question were fitted with devices to spy on Soviet Union nuclear tests.
The USAF concluded there had been no real attempt at a cover up through.
Mr Keeling added: "Of course Friend may have evidence to refute the leading conventional hypothesis: that a Top Secret Project Mogul balloon train and acoustic package to detect evidence of Soviet atomic bomb testing from the atmosphere had come to ground.
"But there is certainly no evidence for an extraterrestrial origin."
However, the 1994 report did actually consider the possibility of a nuclear mishap, but ruled it out.
Notably I believe that an unarmed nuclear device was inadvertently released at Roswell and that initially someone felt that a story regarding a UFO landing would cover the recovery operations.
Major Robert Friend
It said: "One of the areas considered was that whatever happened near Roswell may have involved nuclear weapons.
"This was a logical area of concern since the 509th Bomb Group was the only military unit in the world at the time that had access to nuclear weapons.
"Again, reviews of available records gave no indication that this was the case.
"A number of records still classified TOP SECRET and SECRET-RESTRICTED DATA having to do with nuclear weapons were located in the Federal Records Center in St. Louis.
"These records, which pertained to the 509th, had nothing to do with any activities that could have been misinterpreted as the "Roswell Incident."
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: "The US Government's report concluded that there was no evidence to say an alien spacecraft or its occupants were recovered.
"It also dismisses the idea that this was a nuclear accident.
"This would at face value be a logical explanation as the only military unit that had access to nuclear weapons, the 509th Bomb Group, was based at the nearby Roswell Army Air Base.
"Instead the report suggests that the top secret Project Mogul was probably responsible. This involved launching high altitude balloons that could travel over the Soviet Union
to detect the testing of atomic weapons.
"The nuclear accident theory does not hold water even if it does seem more credible than the alien spaceship theory.
"Over the passage of time Roswell has reached mythological status, with the result that
even now 'new' theories and explanations are put forward, or new 'evidence' and witness testimony is uncovered.
"Roswell is now a circus geared to entertaining our beliefs and prejudices, and that just about sums up the state of UFO research today heldback by the dead weight of a metaphorical lead Zeppelin (or in this case lead balloon).
Sightings of UFOs are being hushed up by the government using EU laws, a leading expert has claimed.
The public has previously been granted access to records held by the state, detailing reports of strange sights seen in the sky by civilian aircrews.
They are now finding that this access has been revoked, with the agency responsible for maintaining the files citing European legislation to block requests.
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Sightings of UFOs are being hushed up by the government using EU laws, a leading expert has claimed. The Civil Aviation Authority reportedly receives numerous reports of unexplained sightings above Britain each year (stock image)
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Sightings of UFOs are being hushed up by the government using EU laws, a leading expert has claimed.
As a government agency, files collected by the Civil Aviation Authority CAA should be subject to Freedom of Information requests.
These transparency laws can be used by any member of the public who wishes to view files held by public institutions.
But the CAA has reportedly refused to release any information about UFO sightings, citing European legislation from 2014.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) receives numerous reports of unexplained sightings above Britain each year, according to The Sun.
It was previously the responsibility of the MOD's UFO desk to collect this information, but since its closure in 2009 it has fallen to the CAA.
As a government agency, the files collected by the CAA should be subject to Freedom of Information requests.
These transparency laws can be used by any member of the public who wishes to view files held by public institutions.
But the CAA has reportedly refused to release any information about UFO sightings, known as 'occurrences' in bureaucratic language, citing European legislation from 2014.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'This move falls into the hands of those of think there is an ongoing Government cover-up of UFO sightings and related evidence.
'"Occurrences" in this instance could relate to anything from meteor sightings, drones, foreign aircraft infringing our airspace or anything unusual that might fall into the UFO category.
'There is also the embarrassment factor where pilots are reluctant to report anything unusual, because if it is made public they might seem like cranks or unreliable.
'This very thing is highlighted in the teaser trailer for the re-release of Steven Spielberg's classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind film, in which aircraft controllers and aircrew see a UFO but mutually agree not to report it.
Dr David Clarke, principle research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University's department of journalism, has previously accessed the CAA's files by using FOI requests.
He was refused permission to do so again earlier this year.
Speaking to The Sun, Dr Clarke said: 'The only conceivable reason for this change of policy is embarrassment on the part of the aviation industry.
As a government agency, the files collected by the CAA should be subject to Freedom of Information requests. But the CAA has reportedly refused to release any information about UFO sightings, citing European legislation from 2014 (stock image)
'It does not want to admit that its pilots do occasionally report things in the sky that are difficult to explain.
'To improve public confidence in air safety, the authorities should be proactively promoting open access to records of this type.'
The EU legislation is designed to protect pilots and other airline staff who report seeing unexplained aerial phenomena.
But identifying information about private individuals is already routinely redacted from data supplied in response to FOI requests.
The European law states: 'Occurrence information can only be used for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety, and the release of occurrence information to the general public or the media, including in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, is not permitted.
'However, if you require occurrence information for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety you are able to make an application to the CAA.'
'BRITAIN'S X-FILES' REVEAL A UFO WAS SPOTTED FLOATING ABOVE SKEGNESS FOR SEVEN HOURS
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.
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,
Conspiracy theorists are hoping the files may shed light on the notorious Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980, dubbed Britain's Roswell
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.
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UFO Sightings In Wales and Manchester
UFO Sightings In Wales and Manchester
While the existence of alien UFOs still hotly contested, Wales and Manchester in the UK have recorded multiple videos of UFO sightings since the last year. Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a UFO phenomenon investigative body, reported that Wales and Manchester have 25 and 23 UFO sightings respectively since January 2015.
According to people who have claimed to spot UFOs in Wales, the sighting range from a white dot moving three times faster than a jet, to craft as wide as a street.
UK MUFON recorded a total of 476 sightings between January 1, 2015, and in the middle of February in 2016.
Manchester also recorded several UFO sighting videos that show a range of objects, from five metallic flying objects travelling in a triangle formation to a red-green orb flying in diagonal formation at an incredible speed, and a large square object flying above the roof.
Are these numbers of UFO sightings mean that UFOs are hovering above the UK?
UFO sightings have not been only recorded in the UK, but also the other parts of the world, including the U.S.
ABC News previously revealed that the National UFO Reporting Center or NUFORC recorded a total of 1,177 UFO sightings from January to April 2015.
Edwin Fuhr Shares His UFO Sighting In 1974 During An Interview
Edwin Fuhr Shares His UFO Sighting In 1974 During An Interview
An eyewitness revealed in an interview that he saw many small silver disks landed in his farming field. Farmer Edwin Fuhr, 36, was at his grape crop at about 11:00 am to make a harvest. All of a sudden, he noticed a metallic dome object in a grassy area about 50 feet away. Trying to investigate the mysterious thing, he left his swather and walked around 15 feet of the object.
Seeing the object spinning and swirling the grass underneath made him afraid and backed away. He climbed back on the swather to look around and observed four more domes in a rough semi-circle, all looked the same, spinning and hovering approximately a foot over the ground.
Then one object took off, which was followed by the other four quickly, going up in a step formation. They stopped in approximately 200 feet with their exhaust-like extensions at the base emitting a puff of gray vapor. He saw the vapor extending about six feet. He then noticed a downward gust of the wind that flattened the rape in the immediate area.
The mysterious objects then formed a straight line, hovered for about two minutes, then suddenly went up into the low cloud cover and vanished.
Fuhr later learned that cattle in a field nearby had bellowed and broken through a fence during the time of the sighting. Eager to learn something more about what had taken place, he went into the landing area and saw five rings of depressed grass swirled in a clockwise pattern. He found no traces of heat or burning. Later that month, more circles were reported in the area.
Canadian Press quoted Ron Morier, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable, saying there was something and he doubted it was a hoax. He said the witness appeared genuinely scared and no indication that it had been wheeled in or out.
NASA to shoot Didmyos asteroid into new flight path in DART test
NASA to shoot Didmyos asteroid into new flight path in DART test
The spacecraft, which is the size of a refrigerator, will strike an asteroid at nine times the speed of a bullet.
Image:Artist concept of NASA's DART spacecraft. Pic: NASA/JHUAPL
NASA is preparing its first ever mission to deflect an asteroid, a move the space agency hopes will provide lessons for how Earth can be protected from a potentially planet-destroying impact.
The spacecraft for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is now moving to the design phase, and aims to demonstrate the "kinetic impactor technique" in which it will strike an asteroid and physically knock it into a different flight path.
The Didymos asteroid - named after the Greek word for "twin" - is being targeted because it is an asteroid binary system which consists of two bodies orbiting each other as well as the Sun.
Didymos A is the larger body, and is about a half mile across (780 metres) with the smaller body, Didymos B, being only 530 feet across (160 metres).
"A binary asteroid is the perfect natural laboratory for this test," said Tom Statler, programme scientist for DART at NASA Headquarters.
"The fact that Didymos B is in orbit around Didymos A makes it easier to see the results of the impact, and ensures that the experiment doesn't change the orbit of the pair around the sun."
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DART would fly to Didymos and use an on-board autonomous targeting system to aim itself at the smaller body.
The size of a refrigerator, the spacecraft would then strike Didymos B at about nine times the speed of a bullet or 3.7 miles per second (6km per second).
"Earth-based observatories would be able to see the impact and the resulting change in the orbit of Didymos B around Didymos A, allowing scientists to better determine the capabilities of kinetic impact as an asteroid mitigation strategy," said NASA.
"DART is a critical step in demonstrating we can protect our planet from a future asteroid impact," said Andy Cheng of The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, the DART investigation co-lead.
"Since we don't know that much about their internal structure or composition, we need to perform this experiment on a real asteroid.
"With DART, we can show how to protect Earth from an asteroid strike with a kinetic impactor by knocking the hazardous object into a different flight path that would not threaten the planet."
MASSIVE MEGALITHIC BLOCKS OF STONES. EVIDENCE OF ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS OF GIANTS IN RUSSIA?
MASSIVE MEGALITHIC BLOCKS OF STONES. EVIDENCE OF ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS OF GIANTS IN RUSSIA?
In a remote region of Russia researchers and geologists have discovered huge rock formations that now make the existence of an ancient civilization made up of giants an extremely likely explanation.
More evidence emerges to prove the existence of an ancient giant civilization
The formations found near Mount Shoriya in Siberia are made up of huge boulders weighing from 3000 to 4000 tons each and stacked 130ft high. As with many other similar large rock formations found all over the globe for instance in Stonehenge and the Pyramids, the question arises as to how they were put together. Increasingly experts are considering the possibility that the explanation of an ancient civilization made up of giant humanoid beings is the only theory that comes close to explaining the construction of these huge and expertly assembled structures.
Such structures have baffled experts the world over for years
Firstly, the smooth flat surfaces and accurate angles on such huge boulders indicate the use of massive tools. Even modern machinery today would struggle to sculpt individual boulders of such size and on such a scale.
Secondly, the assembly of these boulders into the massive structures that are visible even today requires cranes and lifting equipment that did not even exist back when these structures were assembled.
Folklore and religion have previously been used to explain these structures and have even alluded to the existence of such beings. Scriptures in most Abrahamic faiths including Judaism, Christianity and Islam as well as Native American, Greek, Roman, Norsk, Jainism and Hindu faiths tell of a prehistoric civilization made of giant beings.
Some scientists have proposed that the formations arose due to natural geological processes over millions of years which have led to the eroding and shaping of the structures visible today.
However now in the face of lack of any other feasible explanation more and more skeptics have had to accept that only the existence of giants comes close to providing a credible explanation.
A curious aspect of the UFO phenomena is why more people aren’t curious about it. I don’t mean regular people. A Newsweek poll shows most Americans (54 per cent) believe UFOs are visiting Earth from Alpha Centauri, or Sirius A, or Krypton, or some other place with cleaner air and better coffee.
I’m talking about those who could reveal to the public whether extraterrestrials are, in fact, visiting our planet illegally and taking jobs away from hard-working Americans. Connected people, powerful people, people who get things done – like Oprah Winfrey.
A recent study by doctoral student and statistician Sam Monfort (favorite T-shirt, “No one parties like a statistician”), shows there are more UFO sightings now than, well, ever. Triangle craft, cigar-shaped craft, saucers and the Millennium Falcon are being reported at a record number.
Seriously, the Millennium Falcon. Crashed. At the bottom of the Baltic Sea. This picture was taken in 2011 by the Swedish diving team that discovered it.
Monfort’s report shows there are 300 times as many sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in the United States than there are in the rest of the world combined. Given our political climate, I’m not surprised. Which brings me to the Offutt Extraterrestrial Hypothesis: Americans see UFOs because Canada’s not far enough away.
With the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arresting weepy American border crossers (21 in just one weekend in Emerson, Manitoba), I’m sure Taphao Thong looks like a good place to settle down (this is the planet’s actual name. It rolls off the tongue compared to 47 Ursae Majoris b).
But what do people in The Know know? You know?
NASA recently announced the discovery of seven rocky Earth-like planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 in its Goldilocks Zone (a distance from its star that would allow a planet to support liquid water). NASA scientists are going to begin searching for life there just as soon as they feel like it, but not now. They’re too busy naming the planets after Belgian beers (not a joke).
If there’s life out there, however, NASA may already know.
The agency mysteriously cut its live feed from the International Space Station on 9 June last year after a bright object flew through its view, per an article in USA Today. NASA denies voluntarily cutting the stream – just like it didn’t cut the video in January 2015 when a UFO hovered in front of the camera, and this February when “six large objects scurry(ed) by,” per the U.K.’s Daily Mirror.
The Daily Mirror article included posts from a man simply named “Tyler” from the UFO research group SecureTeam, claiming the objects to be “a fleet of unidentified flying objects moving in the distance behind the International Space Station.”
The objects were lens flares, per NASA. Even the one with the Pearl Jam bumper sticker.
NASA didn’t help its case for “move along, there are no aliens to see here,” by appearing on Reddit Feb. 22 to discuss the TRAPPIST-1 announcement. When the alternative media outlet Collective Evolution asked NASA when it was coming clean on aliens, Reddit deleted the outlet’s account.
I mean, that’s not suspicious, or anything.
UFO disclosure is all on your shoulders, Oprah Winfrey. All on yours.
Still frame from the ISS live feed picturing a hovering UFO.
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Will truth about 'UFO crash' in Roswell desert 70 years ago ever be known?
Will truth about 'UFO crash' in Roswell desert 70 years ago ever be known?
EXACTLY 70 years ago this week arguably the world's most notorious UFO mystery began after an "object" crashed near a ranch in the desert on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico.
Despite countless alien investigators pouring over the "evidence" from the alleged UFO crash which reportedly included aliens, both alive and dead inside the wreckage, the riddle has never been solved to everyone's satisfaction.
This weekend saw the town's 50,000 population almost double as UFO enthusiasts from across the globe flocked to the mecca.
On July 7 1947 rancher W W Brazel told Sheriff George Wilcox he had found "something strange" on his sheep ranch on the outskirts of Roswell.
Mr Brazel stumbled across some rubber, foil, and other debris on the ground and told the sheriff who alerted the nearby Army base air field.
Major Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer, was sent to investigate.
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THe Roswell mystery has captivated UFO hunters for more than 70 years.
Mr Marcel was apparently convinced the rancher had found the world's first evidence of aliens and what they were looking at were the remains of a flying saucer.
He, in turn, reported this up the chain, prompting duty press officer Walter Haut, at the now notorious Nevada Area 51 base, to send this out in a news release.
The following day's edition of the local paper, the Roswell Daily Record, unsurprisingly had the dream headline: "RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION”.
But next came a big U-turn and still no sign of actual aliens.
Perhaps in 1947 people would have thought a cosmos travelling flying saucer would be made from foil, rubber, tape, paper and wood, as Mr Brazel found.
But the day of the news report, the RAAF retracted its original release and said what was found were the parts of a downed weather balloon.
The paper duly printed a follow-up in which Mr Brazel spoke of his embarrassment to have got "worked up over nothing".
But by now the snowball had started, and it was gathering pace.
No one was interested in the follow up story, and the original first went national and then global, even without the internet, and in Roswell, USA the world's UFO capital was born.
It was also the birth of the conspiracy theorist, whereby the unimaginable is more likely to be the case than the rational.
Instantly, claims were made that the military had found a craft, but they did not want news getting out and the weather balloon story was quickly made up as a cover.
But it appears to have taken several years before the "aliens being found inside" element of the story began.
US magazine Time did an investigation published on the Roswell Incident - as it became known - on the 50th anniversary in July 1997.
It said Stanton Friedman, a former nuclear physicist-turned UFOlogist, was told in 1978 that a now retired Mr Marcel had "once handled the wreckage of a UFO".
Mr Friedman reportedly met Mr Marcel, who remained convinced the debris was a flying saucer.
This sparked him to investigate the 31-year-old case, seeking out other witnesses from the time.
Was there a government cover up of a UFO or aliens in the Roswell crash? What exactly went on at Area 51?
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His book - The Roswell Incident, co-written by Charles Berlitz and published in 1980 - saw the mystery revisited many times.
There were many more articles and books, and hoaxers in 1995 released a black and white video showing military medics carrying out a makeshift autopsy on an alien corpse, amid claims it was a leaked genuine recording from the incident in 1947.
This was later proved to be a hoax, although many conspiracists and UFOers still refuse to accept that.
Allegations of the cover up grew so widespread that the Air Force eventually ran its own probe at the end of which it published previously confidential information about a top-secret balloon-tracking project that had been going at the same time in 1947, which it was said explained the found remains.
It has remained one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories and UFO cases.
In May 2015, a photograph purporting to be of one of the dead aliens taken at time was unveiled, but later discovered to be nothing more than a mummified human child in a museum display case.
Walter Haut died in 2007 insisting that after earlier founding Roswell's UFO Museum which remains open.
One thing seems clear - even if "the truth is out there" believers of the Roswell UFO crash will not go away and theories will continue to abound.
On the alien-ufo-research.com website today under the special Roswell section, it still lists the 1995 hoax footage as being genuine leaked material.
The website says: "Was there a government cover up of a UFO or aliens in the Roswell crash? What exactly went on at Area 51?
"It isn't as widely known, but there were actually two crash sites. Did the government acknowledge the first, only to say it was a high tech weather balloon test that crashed, to divert attention away from a second and more important UFO crash site?
"Why if nothing went on is the crash site and Area 51 still in lock down after many decades. Don't believe everything you are told.
"Do your research and decide for yourself what really happened that night in Roswell."
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UFO Disclosure 2017- 70th Anniversary of Roswell
UFO Disclosure 2017- 70th Anniversary of Roswell
Published on Jul 3, 2017
So it turned out that 2016 was not the year of UFO Disclosure, but could 2017 be it? It is seventy years since an artefact from an extraterrestrial civilization came to grief on the earth's surface and was secretly salvaged by the government. They then planted fake news stories in the media to bury the truth. Will this anniversary raise the profile of the Roswell Incident to the level where we can finally have UFO Disclosure? In this film I also catch up on the latest UFO Disclosure news. See here for the previous film in the series UFO Disclosure 2017: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2017/.... See here for additional background: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2015/....
Bij de lancering zal hij niet groter zijn dan een brood, maar een Russische satelliet die binnenkort in een baan om de aarde wordt gebracht, zou een van de helderste objecten worden aan de nachtelijke hemel als hij zich helemaal heeft ontvouwd. Alleen de zon, de maan en de planeet Venus zouden nog sterker schijnen. Astronomen kunnen er alvast niet mee lachen.
Het gaat om een project van de Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University en het werd gefinancierd via de Russische crowdfundingwebsite Boomstarter. Dankzij de 26.500 euro die daar voor 'Mayak' werd verzameld, kan de satelliet over tien dagen de ruimte in gebracht worden vanop de lanceerbasis van Bajkonoer in Kazachstan.
Eenmaal in een baan om de aarde, op 600 kilometer hoogte, zal hij een gigantische, flinterdunne reflector van 16 vierkante meter ontvouwen in de vorm van een piramide. Die zal zonlicht naar de aarde kaatsen. Met de missie willen de wetenschappers ook een betere manier vinden om satellieten in en uit een goede baan om onze planeet te brengen. En de interesse in ruimtevaart en technologie doen toenemen.
Volgens de wetenschappelijke website IFL Science zou de satelliet echter schijnen met een magnitude van -3.6. Alleen de zon, de maan en Venus zijn nog krachtiger. De site acht het echter ook mogelijk dat het zelfs een magnitude van -10 zal zijn, wat hem nog helderder maakt dan Venus.
"Vreselijk" Astronomen kunnen er alvast niet om lachen. Want zij zitten niet te wachten op een kunstmatige ster die hun zicht beperkt. "We voeren strijd voor een donkere hemel bij nacht en het is vreselijk om dat verloren te zien gaan door belachelijke crowdfundingnonsens", aldus Nick Howes van het Kielder Observatory in Britse Northumberland.
Volgens Alex Shaenko - de projectleider van Mayak - zal het zo een vaart niet lopen en zou de satelliet niet zo helder schijnen als gevreesd.
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NASA ROVER SPOTS 'ALIEN THIGH BONE' ON MARS
NASA ROVER SPOTS 'ALIEN THIGH BONE' ON MARS
E.T. enthusiasts claim photos are proof 'intelligent life forms once occupied the planet'
Image taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows weathered rock that some say resembles a ‘thigh bones’ on Mars
NASA’s rover has photographed a strange formation of rocks that some UFO hunters claim are really fossilized “alien bones” proving there’s life on Mars.
The one-ton Curiosity rover, which has been scouring the surface of the planet since August 2012, sent back a pair of images that resemble thigh bones and a hip bone protruding from the planet’s surface.
The alien-hunter group Martian Archaeology presented the images in a video claiming the photos are evidence of “signs of life”:
Some took the photos as surefire evidence that NASA must be hiding proof of life.
“After years of research and study, I’m convinced now, more than ever, that there[‘s] much more to Mars then [sic] what NASA admits to,” wrote T.J. Devereaux in the comments section of the video. “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.”
However, NASA has said the following 2014 photo – which some have claimed could be an “alien thigh bone – is just another weathered Martian rock.
Image taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows weathered rocks that some say resemble ‘thigh bones’ on Mars
In the photo description, NASA explained that the “Mars rock may look like a femur bone,” but it’s not the remains of a dead Martian.
“Mission science team members think its shape is likely sculpted by erosion, either wind or water,” NASA explained.
Even so, if aliens do live on Mars, they’re more likely to be microscopic creatures, the scientists said.
“If life ever existed on Mars, scientists expect that it would be small simple life forms called microbes,” NASA officials wrote in the photo description. “Mars likely never had enough oxygen in its atmosphere and elsewhere to support more complex organisms. Thus, large fossils are not likely.”
Some also claimed another photo snapped by the rover resembles a hip bone:
Image taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows weathered rocks that some say resemble a ‘hip bone’ on Mars
Alien enthusiasts say a weathered rock found on Mars (right) resembles a hip bone (left) (Photo: YouTube screenshot)
Apparently humans seeing shapes in Mars rocks is nothing new. In the 1800s, astronomers believed they located canals on the Red Planet.
And in 1976, a photo from NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter depicted a rock formation that resembled a shadowy human face, known as the “Face on Mars.”
‘Face on Mars’
Since then, other photos revealed rock formations resembling a lizard, a rat and even a jelly donut.
On Friday (June 30), scientists around the world will once again use Asteroid Day as a talking point to help protect our planet from the next killer world. The threat is serious enough that NASA has an entire Planetary Defense Coordination Office dedicated to tracking down asteroids and running scenarios about protecting Earth. On a more lighthearted note, however, threatening asteroids also make for excellent Hollywood fodder.
We've picked a small number of films that are memorable for their depictions of a small rocky or icy world threatening the Earth, including those renowned for their lack of factual accuracy ("Armageddon") or their cute depictions of dinosaurs ("The Good Dinosaur"). Here's a brief rundown of fun asteroid (and comet) films to fill your summer movie schedule — and if you have other suggestions, please add them in the comments. [Space Movies to Watch in 2017]
1. "The Day the Sky Exploded" (1958)
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Unlike many of the other films discussed in here, this film's threatening asteroid comes about through human activity. This Italian film — often cited as the first science-fiction film from that country — shows a malfunctioning moon rocket going off course and exploding in the asteroid belt, propelling a swarm of asteroids toward Earth.
While you're getting your mind around the weird physics of that, consider the solution proposed in the film — to have every nation fire its nuclear warheads toward the cluster and save the world. There must be some sort of moral about world peace in there, but we're struggling to find it. Notably, there's so much stock footage in the film that (decades later) the "Monthly Film Review" labeled this film "stock-shot film par excellence." [Best Space Movies in the Universe]
2. "Meteor" (1979)
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The trailer for this movie alone is worth the 3-minute watch. While using dramatic sounds of an asteroid whizzing through space (which wouldn't happen, as there is no air in space in which sound can carry), the narrator begins describing the impending asteroid strike in panicked terms:
"Its power is greater than all hydrogen bombs. Its speed is higher than any rocket ever conceived. Its force can shatter continents. Its mass can level mountain ranges. It cannot think. It cannot reason. IT CANNOT CHANGE ITS COURSE."
Starring Sean Connery (who was best known at the time as James Bond), this movie shows the United States and what was then the Soviet Union putting aside Cold War tensions and working together to stop the threat.
3. "Night of the Comet" (1984)
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Before getting to this movie's plot — and it's worth the wait, as there are undead people involved — let's do a quick overview of an asteroid versus a comet. An asteroid is considered a small, mostly rocky body. Comets are similarly sized but have more ice in them; when comets get close to the sun, the ice streams off the comet and (if strong enough) can form a long tail visible from far away.
Anyway, on to the movie. The Earth passes through the stream of a comet for the first time in 65 million years (the extinction of the dinosaurs). The science gets silly very quickly, however, as the resulting dust peppering the Earth either kills people or turns them into zombies. But here's the best part — this movie, now considered a cult classic, was watched by none other than film and TV creator Joss Whedon. He has said in interviews that he liked the lead female character (Sam Belmont, played by Kelli Maroney) so much that he modeled "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" onher.
4. "Deep Impact" (1998)
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"Deep Impact" was released in the same summer as "Armageddon," forever setting up the two movies as rivals for plot and scientific accuracy. While "Deep Impact" did better on both counts, it grossed less at the box office. The plot (while reasonably watchable) is depressing, as we see an estranged father and daughter (Robert Duvall and Tea Leoni) reuniting just as Earth is being threatened by a planet-killing menace.
The movie (spoiler alert) actually does show a comet fragment hitting one of the Earth's oceans and causing a megatsunami across the Atlantic — that sequence was considered a fairly accurate representation of what happens. Fantasy nerds should also watch out for a pre-"Lord of the Rings" Elijah Wood. [Why Do We Love Space Movies?]
5."Seeking A Friend for the End of the World" (2012)
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This is a bittersweet movie about Dodge Peterson (Steve Carrell) after news of an asteroid about to strike Earth prompts his wife to leave and his friends to change. While Peterson's life at first carries on as usual, the hope of a new love has him taking risks that he wouldn't have imagined previously.
There isn't much talk about the science in this film, but instead it explores how people would react if the world were ending. We really enjoy the journey that Carrell's character goes through, as he identifies the things that are the most important — something that we should all be doing anyway from time to time.
6. "The Good Dinosaur" (2015)
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The leading theory for the demise of the dinosaurs is that an asteroid smacked into the Earth 65 million years ago. The movie depicts an alternate universe where the asteroid safely passes by the Earth. (A bunch of grazing dinosaurs looks up as it flies overhead, and then resume eating.)
Adorably, it then portrays what would happen if dinosaurs and humans actually coexisted — and makes us more optimistic of the result than the "Jurassic Park" series. Specifically, the movie shows Arlo (an aptosaurus) bonding with a young cave boy named Spot. Arlo, who is the klutzy runt of the family and can't figure out yet how to contribute to his family's farming business, gains new confidence after meeting up with his first human.
Disney released a film called "Dinosaur" in 2000 that also depicts the aftermath of a missed meteor, but in that film the friendship was between lemurs and an orphaned iguanodon.
7. "Armageddon" (1998)
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This movie is the source for most meteor-impact jokes you hear today, particularly any references about calling in Bruce Willis to save the Earth. The movie depicts Harry Stamper (Willis) and his oil rig crew (who are mostly losers who have done time in jail) being hired by NASA as astronauts. Their goal is to drill into an asteroid the size of Texas and deploy a bomb to break it into pieces, before the asteroid hits the Earth.
Meanwhile, Stamper's daughter Grace (Liv Tyler) falls into a torrid love affair with one of Willis' crew, A.J. (Ben Affleck). We'll spare you the details of their overwrought discussions of love over animal crackers — but do understand that the science, plainly put, sucks. Highlights include occasional depictions of Earth-scale gravity on a tiny asteroid, watching two space shuttles take off at the same time just a few hundred feet from each other, and the most stereotypical portrayal ever of a Russian cosmonaut on then-space station Mir.
Team Gurus, originally unearthed a new UFO model and some scripting that they were able to use to trigger a Supply Run mission. That required some hacking and modding tools though, so not really a choice for most people. This is what the mission actually looks like:
However, the ability to trigger the event legitimately, in-game, has now been unearthed and... holy crap it's a lot of work. Basically, you'll need to complete 601 gunrunning sales and then start a supply run between 21:00hrs and 23:00hrs, to get a crack at stealing some alien eggs from the crashed UFO.
Be warned, as well that, this looks like a one-shot deal, so you won't get another go once you trigger it. That said many think this could be the start of more UFO related activities. Remember, the original Mount Chiliad drawing shows a UFO, egg - both now found - as well as an as yet undiscovered jet pack. Who know's where this is going? Especially as 600 sales is so much for a one shot mission, and people are already wondering if there has to be more?
World UFO Day may have just passed, but that doesn’t mean we can’t experience a few more Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Sony Pictures released a mysterious trailer Monday titled “This means something,” meant to tease an exclusive theatrical re-release in time for its 40th anniversary, EW has learned.
The video — which you can watch above — features air traffic controllers tracking a colorful, unexplained craft of some kind slowly descending before simply disappearing. Interspersed throughout are “flashes” of scenes from the 1977 movie (below). In the final seconds, the site address for WeAreStillNotAlone.comflashes across the screen, with the page it leads to asking visitors to “sign up” for news on UFO sightings.
The title itself is a reference to an iconic line from the movie which Richard Dreyfuss’ Roy Neary utters after building the famous mashed potato replicaof the Devils Tower (a rock formation that is one of Wyoming’s national monuments). The Steven Spielberg-directed movie told the story of Neary’s determined attempts to contact alien intelligence (a.k.a. having a close encounter of the third kind) after he witnesses a UFO.
No word yet when Close Encounters‘ theatrical return will be, but it’s worth noting the anniversary is on Nov. 16.
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.
His was the first widely reported UFO sighting in this country, and it set off a wave of other reported sightings.
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 more than 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.
A long time ago, in 1977, I interviewed Arnold after reaching him by phone.
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.
That direct connection goes from Area 51 allegedly hiding an alien craft, to the Roswell UFO Incident; and from movies such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, to the TV series The X-Files.
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.
Interested in a 1952 drawing of “flying saucers over Belgian Congo uranium mines?” It’s in the CIA files.
Unassuming salesman
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.
In another declassified intelligence report in July 1947, First Lt. Hal L. Eustace of the Army Air Corps put Arnold’s report as part of “silly-season episodes.”
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.
From Yakima, Arnold then flew to an air show in Pendleton, Oregon. The next day, on June 25, he stopped by the local newspaper, the East Oregonian. He wanted to know if the military had been testing secret warplanes in the area.
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.
PLATO Deep-Space Observatory Will Search for Exoplanets and Alien Life
PLATO Deep-Space Observatory Will Search for Exoplanets and Alien Life
File: French astronaut Thomas Pesquet speaks at an ESA press conference on June 6, 2017, after spending 196 days on the International Space Station. ESA approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to seek out habitable planets in other star systems. Photo: Roberto Pfeil / afp
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PLATO, a deep-space observatory designed to search for exoplanets, has been approved for construction by the European Space Agency. Researchers aim to launch PLATO in 2026 and are particular interested in using it to discover potentially habitable worlds.
SEARCHING THE STARS
The European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee has approved the Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission to move into the construction phase. They aim to launch this deep-space observatory in 2026 with the goal of “discovering and characterizing Earth-sized planets and super-Earths orbiting Sun-like stars in the habitable zone” — although it “could eventually lead to the detection of extraterrestrial life,” according to a University of Warwick press release.
The observatory will have 26 telescopes on board and will be launched 1.5 million km (932,000 miles) into space, where, according to a mission summary, it will conduct “Ultra-high precision, long (up to several years), uninterrupted photometric monitoring in the visible band of very large samples of bright (mV ≤11) stars.” This will provide unprecedented data on distant planets.
Image Credit: C. Carreau / European Space Agency
The project will be undertaken by the University of Warwick, England, and includes an important follow-up aspect for verifying PLATO’s data. PLATO’s resolution will not be high enough to tell conclusively when it is detecting an exoplanet, so researchers will need to check the readings to be sure they are not indicating noise or a different spacial anomaly before more resources are committed to investigating that part of space.
THE PANTHEON PLATO WILL JOIN
PLATO will be one of two missions that explicitly seek habitable planets in the galaxy — the other being Kepler, which worryingly went into emergency mode in 2015. Kepler has now detected 4,034 planets, of which 2,335 have been verified as exoplanets. Of the roughly 50 candidates that are near-Earth size and orbit in habitable zones, more than 30 have been verified as capable of supporting life.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has also been detecting hospitable worlds, but this was not its primary function — instead its aim, as stated on the NASA website, is to “observe astronomical objects and phenomena more consistently and with better detail than generally attainable from ground-based observatories,” which can include nebula, galaxies, and black holes.
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Members of Congress have laid the groundwork for the U.S Air Force to establish a new branch of the military, known as a Space Corps, by January of 2019.
The proposal came from Congressmen Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Jim Cooper. D-Tenn., the top representatives of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, which oversees military space operations. They introduced the legislation into the House Armed Services Committee National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday.
According to a joint statement by Rogers and Cooper, the Space Corps would reorganize the national security space enterprise “to ensure prioritization of the space domain by creating a U.S. Space Corps as a separate military service within the Department of the Air Force and under the civilian leadership of the Secretary of the Air Force.”
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"There is bipartisan acknowledgement that the strategic advantages we derive from our national security space systems are eroding," the statement said, "We are convinced that the Department of Defense is unable to take the measures necessary to address these challenges effectively and decisively, or even recognize the nature and scale of its problems."
Rogers told Space News “As I’ve been chairing this subcommittee for the last four years, we have seen time and again that our ability to meet new challenges in space is lethargic at best.”
Space would fall under the command of its own chief, equal in rank to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, who would sit on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and answer to the Secretary of the Air Force.
But Air Force leaders are rejecting the plan. “The Pentagon is complicated enough,” Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told reporters following her testimony in front of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. “This will make it more complex, add more boxes to the organization chart and cost more money. If I had more money, I would put it into lethality, not bureaucracy.”
An Air Force statement, sent to Fox News on Wilson’s behalf, said, "I could not agree more that now is the time to address the threats our nation faces in space, which is why the Air Force has proposed a 20 percent increase in space funding in this year's budget, and announced last week a reorganization that integrates, elevates and normalizes space."
When Air Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein was asked at a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces hearing, “some space advocates these days are calling for space corps, something like the structure of the Marines within the Navy. Do you support that, or do you think we should take a pass?” he responded “Sir, I do not support it at this time in our history” and went on to say “Whether there is a time in our future when we want to take a look at this again, I would say that we probably ought to keep that dialogue open. But right now, I think it would actually move us in the wrong direction and slow us down from where we need to go.”
Fox News went back to Rogers and Cooper about the Air Force opposition to their legislation. Cooper did not return a request for comment and Rogers sent a statement saying:
“My subcommittee has studied this issue for months. Congressman Cooper and I have met with space experts and space leaders and have concluded that Congress must intervene to help address the significant flaws in the organization and management of our national security space. I am outraged by the response from the Air Force leadership – I know creating the Space Corps will take work, but they are completely out of touch if they truly believe the U.S. can keep up with China or Russia if we do not do move forward with Space Corps. In fact, China and Russia are also ahead of us in terms of reorganizing their military space capabilities. The United States will fall further behind because space is the future for warfare.”
The Air Force already has a Space Command, but if this new legislation makes it through votes in the House and Senate, and is signed into law by the president, then the U.S. will have “a separate military service responsible for national security space programs for which the Air Force is today responsible.”
VS stuurt leger de ruimte in. Waar zijn ze bang voor?
VS stuurt leger de ruimte in. Waar zijn ze bang voor?
Het Amerikaanse Congres heeft het fundament gelegd voor een nieuwe legerafdeling die ‘de ruimte moet gaan beschermen’. Tegen januari 2019 moet de afdeling, die Space Corps zal heten, operationeel zijn.
Congresleden Mike Rogers en Jim Cooper, die militaire ruimteoperaties overzien, hebben inmiddels een wetsvoorstel over het Space Corps ingediend.
Uit het wetsvoorstel blijkt dat het korps zal vallen onder de Amerikaanse luchtmacht en wordt geleid door het hoofd van de luchtmacht.
Ingewikkeld genoeg
Rogers vertelde aan SpaceNews dat keer op keer is gebleken dat de VS niet goed in staat is om ‘het hoofd te bieden aan nieuwe uitdagingen in de ruimte’.
De luchtmachttop is niet erg te spreken over het nieuwe plan. “Het Pentagon is al ingewikkeld genoeg,” zei luchtmachtbaas Heather Wilson tegen journalisten.
“Dit zal het nog complexer maken,” voegde ze toe. “Hierdoor zal de organisatie nog groter worden en meer geld kosten.”
Bedreigingen
Wilson zei dat het nu de tijd is om het hoofd te bieden aan bedreigingen in de ruimte en dat de luchtmacht om die reden het ruimtebudget vergroot met 20 procent.
Cooper reageerde woedend op de uitspraken van de top. “De ruimte is de toekomst van oorlogsvoering,” zei hij.
Von Braun
Dr. Carol Rosin verklaarde dat raketgeleerde Wernher von Braun in de jaren zeventig al tegen haar had gezegd dat eerst de Russen en later de terroristen als vijand zouden worden aangewezen.
Vervolgens zouden mensen bang worden gemaakt voor aliens en zouden er wapens in de ruimte worden gebracht. Krijgt Rosin nu gelijk?
Veel vliegtuigen en schepen verdwenen in Bermudadriehoek. Maar nu is er ook iets verschenen
Veel vliegtuigen en schepen verdwenen in Bermudadriehoek. Maar nu is er ook iets verschenen
In de Bermudadriehoek is een eiland ontstaan. Het was in april niet meer dan een kleine zandbank en is inmiddels al meer dan 1,5 kilometer lang en ruim 100 meter breed.
Het mysterieuze eiland wordt door lokale bewoners Shelly Island genoemd vanwege het grote aantal schelpen dat er is aangespoeld.
Het eiland bevindt zich in de buurt van Buxton in North Carolina. Nieuwsgierigen zijn massaal afgereisd naar het bijzondere eiland, maar dat is niet zonder gevaar.
Stroming
In de wateren rond het eiland zijn namelijk metersgrote haaien en pijlstaartroggen waargenomen.
Daarnaast is de stroming tussen het eiland en het vasteland zo sterk dat zwemmen er sterk afgeraden wordt.
Janice Regan bezocht het eiland in april met haar 11-jarige kleinzoon, toen het niet veel meer was dan een kleine zandbank.
“Is dit niet gek?” vroeg ze. “In april was er slechts een kleine bult te zien.”
Verdwijning
Het eiland verscheen in de wateren rond de beruchte Bermudadriehoek, die zich in de Atlantische Oceaan bevindt.
De Bermudadriehoek kan volgens sommigen worden gelinkt aan de verdwijning van tientallen vliegtuigen en schepen.
Onduidelijk
Gemiddeld verdwijnen er in het gebied vier vliegtuigen en 20 jachten per jaar.
Het is onduidelijk wat er met het nieuwe eiland gaat gebeuren. Het kan volgend jaar weer gaan krimpen en verdwijnen, of groter worden.
MIMIC reveals huge unknown anomaly above the Earth flying towards Antarctica
MIMIC reveals huge unknown anomaly above the Earth flying towards Antarctica
A huge anomaly that looks nearly exactly like that of a large asteroid or possibly an enormous piece of space debris has shown up on the MIMIC map of July 4, 2017 first appearing at just below the equator.
The anomaly appears to originate at a steep incline off of the west coast of Africa flying all the way across the South Atlantic Ocean.
Although this anomaly is different from the waves/anomalies which have been caught in the past, it clearly makes a ‘bee-line’ towards Antarctica like all the waves/anomalies before.
Incredible images of transparent vehicle in the sky over Kaufman, Texas
Incredible images of transparent vehicle in the sky over Kaufman, Texas
While driving on the Highway 175 near Kaufman in Texas the witness noticed a shiny object in the sky. At first he thought it was a plane but there was no sound and strange enough the object did not move.
He quickly took two repeat images of the shiny object before it suddenly was gone.
After looking the images he was shocked at what appeared in the images what looks like a transparent vehicle. The images were taken last year, July 19, 2016 and submitted to Mufon, case 84792.
Note:It reminds me the stunning image captured by a resident of Vienna in Austria in 2014 of a huge transparent vehicle floating above the clouds for 2 minutes before it was gone.
Some time ago, Airbus has unveiled its vision for flight in 40 years' time that includes see-through walls, holographic gaming and morphing seats but in this case it seems unlikely that the photographer captured images of such a transparent plane of the future or it must be the transparent vehicle still is in its development phase.
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EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE REVEALED ON RUSSIAN DECLASSIFIED SECRET PHOTOGRAPHS OF VENUS
EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE REVEALED ON RUSSIAN DECLASSIFIED SECRET PHOTOGRAPHS OF VENUS
A series of photographs have been released by the Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. The images had been captured by the Venera probe and they allegedly reveal evidence that there are organisms that are alive on Venus.
Venus is thought to be among the most inhospitable places in the solar system for human beings and is the second planet from the sun and the most similar of planets in the solar system in regards to size along with structure to Earth. However, the structure of it is not anything at all like that of Earth.
VENUS HAS TEMPERATURE OF 480 CELSIUS
Venus is the hottest of planets in the solar system and this is down to the atmosphere, which has a greenhouse gas that traps heat which is about 97% carbon dioxide. The temperature is said to be about 480 degrees Celsius, constantly, and this has heat enough to be able to melt lead and is hotter than Mercury, which is the closest planet to the Sun.
Leonid Ksanfomaliti, the doctor of physical and mathematical science from the Institute for Space Research, said that the photographs had been captured about 30 years ago and they show movement on the surface of Venus of objects that are very strange.
Of course, NASA 'debunked' the discovery of what might be proof of life on Venus. They said that the creature that Ksanfomaliti said was like a scorpion, was, in fact, nothing more than noise in a second-hand photograph, which had not been seen in the original photograph. They also said that the disc that had been seen moving over the surface of Venus was a lens cap.
This has not stopped Ksanfomaliti believing that in the photographs there is a disk, along with what was described as being a black flap, and a creature that has the shape of a scorpion, moving in the images and moving directly in front of the camera that is onboard Venera 13.
OBJECTS ON SURFACE OF VENUS WERE SAID TO EMERGE, FLUCTUATE AND DISAPPEAR
Reports from a news agency in Russia said that Ksanfomaliti had told a magazine in Russia that they had all emerged and then fluctuated and finally disappeared. He went on to say that if people forgot about the theories that life cannot exist on Venus, then the morphological features of the objects lead people to believe that they are actually living forms.
NASA photo analyst disagrees with Ksanfomaliti and he said that what Ksanfomaliti saw on the photographs is more than likely nothing more than a disc that would have come from the spacecraft. He went on to say that there were two cameras on Venera-13, one of which was situated on the back and the other one to the front. One image showed the lens cap from the camera at the back, not a lens cap that had moved.
NASA CLAIMS NOTHING COULD SURVIVE ON SURFACE OF VENUS
NASA went on to say that there was absolutely no way that anything would be able to survive on the surface of Venus. Scientists have said that perhaps once in the very distant past, Venus may have been able to support life and this would have been during a time when the planet had giant oceans. This would be well before the greenhouse effect and the creation of the high temperatures that exist over Venus today.
There are theories that perhaps Earth and Venus may both have started out very similar. It has been suggested that perhaps there might have been plenty of water on the planet Venus and it may have been possible that there was a large amount of carbon dioxide on Earth. This came from a paper that was published in2004 by Professor Andrew Ingersoll from Caltech.
PERHAPS THERE ARE ALIEN BEINGS WHO LIKE HIGH TEMPERATURES
One of the biggest issues with scholars and scientists who are looking for extra-terrestrial life in the universe and solar system is that for life to have been able to exist, the planet would have to have a climate along with conditions that are very similar to those on Earth.
However, it has been suggested that it may be possible that on Venus, or perhaps elsewhere, there are beings living who do actually need temperatures that are scorching, in order to be able to survive. Perhaps they are beings that are able to breathe carbon dioxide and do not rely on oxygen or water in order to be able to survive. Perhaps if people want to be successful in searching for aliens then they need to alter the patterns and conditions of the search.
In 2011, Denise Stoner and I met to discuss the commonalities that alien abduction experiencers share. As longtime abduction investigators/researchers, we were aware of certain repeating patterns of information and characteristics. The pertinent literature, the academic social science studies and the works of David Jacobs, PhD, Thomas Bullard, PhD, and the late Budd Hopkins, John Mack, MD, and others had identified several commonalities among abduction experiencers. But we had not been able to locate an academic study that was specific to our particular interests. I earned a B.A. degree in social work from the University of New Hampshire in 1971, and participated in graduate studies in education at the University of Cincinnati and U.N.H., while working as a teacher and education services coordinator. My primary academic interest has been in social research and psychology. I left my job in 1990 to pursue a career as a UFO investigator, researcher and writer. As the niece of Betty and Barney Hill and witness to the primary evidence and aftermath of their alien abduction in 1961, I had been aware of the UFO phenomenon for more than fifty years. My book (with nuclear physicist/scientific ufologist Stanton T. Friedman), Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience was published in 2007 and our second book Science Was Wrong was published in 2010. I had surveyed the psychological studies on self identified abduction experiencers for a chapter on alien abduction in SWW and a research paper I prepared for the MUFON 2010 International UFO Symposium Proceedings. In addition to my independent research, I am also Florida MUFON’s Director of Abduction Studies and the National Director of the Abduction Research Team.
Denise has an educational background in business and psychology, and is a certified hypnotist specializing in regressive hypnosis. For 12 years Denise did background investigations for the military on recruits seeking highly classified clearances for work on nuclear submarines. Prior to retirement, Denise moved to a military research facility where she was the training coordinator for several hundred military and civilian employees. For the past several years, Denise has expanded her work with UFO research and investigation. She is an independent abduction researcher and hosts a study group for abduction experiencers and public interest meetings on the UFO phenomenon in general. She is Florida MUFON’s Asst. Director of Abduction Studies and the former Chief Investigator for the state.
At our study’s inception our stated goals were to benefit abduction experiencers by identifying specific traits that they have in common with other experiencers, and to expand the UFO research community’s knowledge of alien abduction phenomena. The most efficient scientific method for obtaining this information, in our opinion, was through the use of simple straightforward questionnaires, designed to identify commonalities among the UFO abduction experiencers. Each of us brought to the table knowledge of several unique, unpublicized characteristics of the alien abduction experience. The commonalities study would ascertain how widespread these commonalities are across the abduction experiencer population. We developed three questionnaires: The “UFO Abduction Experiencer Questionnaire” listed 45 multiple choice questions pertaining to experiencer’s demographics, abduction memories, emotional responses, physiological responses, and psychic phenomena. The second questionnaire, the “Abduction Experiencer E.T. Technology Questionnaire” would increase our knowledge of E.T. technology. The third, “Commonalities among Non-Abductees Questionnaire” queried individuals who denied having been abducted by aliens. It was developed after the first two questionnaires had been available for several months, and a commonalities trend had emerged. The 16 multiple choice questions would determine whether or not some of the commonalities among abduction experiencers are common across the general population. We established a minimum sample size of 50 completed questionnaires for abduction experiencers (AE) and 25 for non-abduction experiencers (NAE). There were 54 participants in the “UFO Abduction Experiencer Questionnaire”, but 4 questionnaires could not be tallied because they were too incomplete.
The “Abduction Experiencer E.T. Technology Questionnaire” study is not yet complete, as there have been only 24 responses to date. This can be attributed to the fact that a much smaller percentage of experiencers have clear recall of the craft’s interior and the technology observed. This part of the study is ongoing. Participants for our study were solicited via the MUFON UFO Journal and several alien abduction and UFO oriented websites. We also appeared on several radio shows and invited listeners to participate. Last, there were questionnaires at my vendor table at several UFO conferences and at Denise’s meetings. I posted the questionnaires, a letter of explanation, and an informed consent notice on my website at www.kathleen-marden.com. We communicated to participants that all questionnaires would be kept in a locked and secure location and destroyed at the end of the study. All personal identifying information that was volunteered would remain confidential. As a cautionary measure, we advised all potential participants that they should only complete the questionnaire if they could do so without feeling uncomfortable.
Demographics
Nearly twice as many women (32), as men (18) completed the “Abduction Experiencer Questionnaire”. Does this indicate that abduction is far more prevalent among women? Not necessarily so. Statistical evidence indicates that men are less likely than women to answer surveys of any kind. But this trend was not supported when we tallied the results of the “Commonalities among Non-Abductees Questionnaire”. The majority of respondents were men (15) as opposed to women (9). If trends in human behavior have not skewed the results, it suggests that more women than men have been abducted by aliens. This finding has been widely reported by other researchers. We were interested in identifying possible trends among age groups, partly due to the fact that a significant number of abduction experiencers in the 50+ age group had reported their experiences to us within recent months. Our intuition was correct. 44% of the AE Group participants were born in the 1950’s, although only 20% of the NAE Group was in the same age group. This figure drops dramatically for those born in the 1940’s (18%) and the 1960’s (26%). Could these statistics indicate that the human abduction program began slowly, perhaps during the 1950’s and 60’s, and was in full swing beginning in the 1970’s? Could this signify that the alien abduction program is winding down? Or could it be that younger people are less likely to fill out questionnaires? Only 12% of the AE Group respondents were under age 40. Yet 24% of the NAE Group was under 40.
We asked each group to identify the size of their area of residence. A survey of the relevant literature indicated that more UFOs were sighted in less populated areas than in large cities in the 1960’s and 70’s. Also, the majority of well investigated, famous abduction cases (Villas Boas, Hill, Walton, Buff Ledge, Casey CO., etc.), took place in rural areas. Yet the late Budd Hopkins wrote of alien abduction in New York City. We wanted to test whether or not a trend could be established. . AE Group—Area of Residence: Rural (15), Small Town (13), Suburban (13 ), Urban (9) . NAE Group—Area of Residence: Rural (3), Small Town (5), Suburban (12), Urban (5) The AE participants’ area of residence was fairly evenly divided among abduction experiencers, with 30% residing in a rural area, 26% in small towns, 26% in suburbs, and 18% in an urban area. 12% of the NAE group resides in a rural area, 20% in a small town, 48% in the suburbs and 20% in an urban area. These statistics indicate that no trend could be established. Slightly more experiencers (12%) are taken from a rural environment than from an urban area. But the difference is not statistically significant.
We wanted to determine if alien abduction is more prevalent one area of the US than another. . AE Group—Time Zone: Eastern (33), Central (10), Mountain (2), Pacific (4), Eastern Australia (1) . NAE Group—Time Zone: Eastern (20), Central (4), Mountain (0), Pacific (0), British (1) 66% of the AE group resides in the Eastern Time Zone, 20% Central, 4% Mountain, 8% Pacific, and 2% in foreign countries. These statistics are a bit perplexing. We asked, “Are there more abduction experiencers living in the Eastern US than in all other regions combined? Or did more people in the Eastern US listen to our radio interviews?” The NAE questionnaire answered this question. 80% reside in the Eastern Time Zone, 16% Central, 0% Mountain, 0% Pacific, and 4% in Great Britain. The majority of participants in both groups reside in the Eastern US. Therefore, the AE group presents no valid evidence that more experiencers reside in the Eastern US than elsewhere. The majority of abduction experiencers believe that they have been taken repeatedly over a number of years or throughout their lifetime.
We wanted to determine how frequently contact occurs. How many times do you think you’ve been taken?
*1 time only (2), 2-5 (8), 6-10 (4), More than 10 (25), Not certain (8), no answer (3) 64%
25 of 39 of those who could quantify their abductions stated that they have been taken more than 10 times.The next largest group was those who could not state a specific number, followed by the 2-5 range. This is a significant finding because the majority of abduction experiencers believe that their alien contact occurs periodically throughout their lifetime. Only two participants stated that they had been taken only one time. This is interesting because their answers on the questionnaire revealed that they had little in common with multiple abduction experiencers. Many experiencers believe that they have been taken since they were small children. We asked for this information.
* Age when first abduction occurred? Under 5 (18), 5-9 (10), 10-19 (7), Over 20 (7), Not sure (8) 83%
35 of 42 of the respondents who could qualify their age at the time of their first abduction indicated that they were under age 20 when their first abduction occurred. 51% (18 of 35) were under 5. In another question we asked how frequently their visitations had occurred. 68% stated that their abductions occurred most frequently when they were under age 30. However, a surprising 21% of the over 40 group stated that their contacts are still frequent. A clear pattern of frequency across all age groups could not be established. Only 20% stated that they had been taken more than one time per month. An equal number are not sure how often they’ve been visited by ETs. Others replied from one time per month to 2-3 times per year.
Abduction Memories
This section of the questionnaire is divided into four parts with subcategories. 1. Conscious recall 2. Emotional responses 3. Physiological responses 4. Psi phenomena
Conscious recall
* 88% stated that their abduction memories were consciously recalled; 56% through dreams; 36% through hypnosis; 16% through other means such as flashbacks.
* 67% stated that they consciously recalled (not with hypnosis), the observation of an unconventional craft at less than 1000 feet prior to an abduction. . 56% stated that they consciously recalled (not with hypnosis), the observation of non-human entities immediately prior to an abduction while they were outside their home. 76% indicated that they were not alone when they were taken.
* 62% of the witnesses had conscious recall for at least part of the experience.
* 43% stated that witnesses reported the observation of a UFO near their house, vehicle, tent, etc. prior to or during their abduction.
* 58% stated that they are aware of having been examined on an alien craft.
These highly significant statistics reveal that the majority of the respondents had conscious recall of at least one abduction experience and were not alone when it occurred. More than half remembered observing a craft at less than 1000 feet and non-human entities prior to at least one abduction experience. We are often led by media sources to believe that the majority of abduction experiencers are procured exclusively from their bedrooms and have no witnesses. The Marden-Stoner study indicates that this perception is false.
Emotional Responses
(These open ended questions were not conducive to statistical analysis.)
* We asked, “What is your typical response to abduction?” More than one response was permitted. The most predominant reply was fear (26), followed by curiosity (23). 12 indicated that they felt despair and 11 felt pleasure. (More than one response was permitted.)
*We asked, “How did you feel after an abduction experience?” 15 stated that they felt angry. 15 felt tired, exhausted or physically drained and unwell. 11 were fearful. Only 3 felt peaceful.
We wanted to test several hypotheses pertaining to emotional stability as a factor in alien abduction experiences. Is there an increased sense of sadness among experiencers? Are there more mood swings among this group? Is there mood consistency throughout one’s lifetime? Respondents were permitted to check more than one answer.
* AE Group—On a daily basis, how would you describe your mood? Happy (15), Sad (7), Frequent mood swings (6), Without unusual highs and lows (25)
* NAE Group –On a daily basis, how would you describe your mood? Happy (15), Sad (0), Frequent mood swings (4), Without unusual highs and lows (6).
* AE Group—As a child, how would you describe your mood? Happy (13), Sad (13), Frequent mood swings (5), Without unusual highs and lows (14), Anxious (7).
* NAE Group—As a child, how would you describe your mood? Happy (10), Sad (0), Frequent mood swings (4), Without unusual highs and lows (10), Anxious (2).
The majority of respondents in both groups stated that they are happy or do not have unusual highs or lows. It is interesting that a higher percentage of the NAE group reported frequent mood swings on a daily basis than the AE group. But a small percentage of the the AE group reported that they experienced more sadness as adults. Several of the “sad” and “frequent mood swings” AE respondents reported that they had been the victims of childhood abuse. Their feelings of sadness and their mood swings have persisted throughout their lifetime. This group was more likely to report abuse by their ET captors. Additionally, those who reported traumatic memories of being abused by ETs are more likely to feel sad as adults. The majority of respondents reported that they used one or more coping mechanisms to deal with their fear or anxiety due to their abduction experiences. Only 3 reported that they have no fear. Coping mechanisms that give relief to experiencers include talking with a supportive, non- judgmental person, meditation or relaxation exercises, prayer and writing about their experiences.
We were interested in the sleep patterns of abduction experiencers. Did they have difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep? Could this be related to a fear of abduction? Or were other factors involved?
* Do you have difficulty falling asleep? Yes (37) No (13) . Staying asleep? Yes (35), No (14). (1 respondent did not answer the second part of the question.)
74% of the AE group had difficulty falling asleep and 71% had difficulty staying asleep. 7 of the 8 people (16%) who indicated that they sleep well throughout the night attributed it to overcoming their fear of abduction. This is a very small percentage, but it might be an indicator that the loss of fear improves sleep quality. Only 1 person who reported the absence of fear has difficulty falling and staying asleep and that person is in the 60+ group. We speculated that since 44% of the respondents are in the 50-59 group, and since older people tend to experience more sleep problems, that the results might have been skewed by this factor. The evidence did not bear this out. In fact, 5 of the restful sleepers are in the 50-59 age range. It is interesting, however, that all but one person in the over 60 group reported sleep problems regardless of whether or not they were fearful. 2 individuals in the under 40 group reported that they do not have sleep difficulties, and neither has a fear of abduction. The remaining 4 had difficulty falling asleep, but once they were asleep they were able to sleep through the night. (These questions were not on the NAE questionnaire.)
Physiological Responses
Alien implants have been widely reported in UFO abduction literature thanks to the work of Dr. Roger Leir and Derrel Sims. We wanted to ascertain the percentage of experiencers that suspected they have a palpable alien implant. It was also important to us to ask where the implants are located in the human body. 40 of the 50 respondents replied to this question. . We asked, “Can you feel a foreign object in your body that you suspect is an alien implant?” Yes (21), No (19). If yes, where is it located? 53% believe that they can feel an alien implant in their body. The majority of participants indicated that it is located in their head, including the following: temple, eye, nose, behind ear, inside ear, groin, and eyebrow. Other areas mentioned are in the spine, lower leg, hand, chest and vagina. Unexplained marks, such as patterned bruises, scoop marks, puncture wounds, and rashes are commonly reported by abduction experiencers. (I am collecting and cataloguing experiencers’ photographic evidence.)
* AE Group—Have you awoken with unexplained marks on your body?” Yes (40), No (8), No answer (2)
* NAE Group—Have you awoken with unexplained marks on your body? Yes (5), No (20).
A highly significant 83% of the AE Group stated that they had awoken with unexplained marks on their bodies, whereas only 20% of the NAE group replied in the affirmative. Long, thin bruises were most often found on women’s calves, thighs or buttocks, suggesting finger marks. Patterned bruises were found on the upper arm. Scoop marks were reported on arms, ankles, behind knees, or on feet. Puncture wounds were found on hands and rib cages, although one woman reported a vaginal puncture wound. Burn marks were on upper backs and sunburn like rashes were reported, sometimes on the entire body.
Several participants mentioned plastic-like filaments, the size of a strand of hair, coming from various locations on their bodies.
* We asked,” Has your nose bled immediately following an abduction? Yes (26 ), No (23), not sure (1) A significant 52% replied in the affirmative. Several mentioned significant scarring in their nasal cavity that had been of concern to their physicians. One mentioned that his physician found a strange metal object high in the respondent’s nasal passage.
* We asked, “Have you noticed strange skin rashes immediately following an abduction?” Yes (17), No (29), Not sure (4)
37% of those who answered yes or no have noticed rashes on their body following an encounter. Earlier in the history of alien abduction, burns on one’s neck or upper back, hair loss and conjunctivitis were reported. An example of this is the 1976 Casey County, KY abduction of Elaine Thomas, Louise Smith and Mona Stafford. We wanted to know if these problems have persisted.
* We asked, “Have you ever suffered burns, hair loss, or conjunctivitis following an abduction?” Yes (11), No (34), Not sure (4)
22% of the respondents stated that they had suffered burns, hair loss or conjunctivitis following an abduction experience. One participant stated that her sunburn-like rash was accompanied by a pins and needles tingling sensation after an abduction in 1978. She and several others reported that one or both eyes were red and swollen following a contact experience. One participant stated that she suffered a combination of all three physical affects in 1988. We were interested in determining whether or not participants had undergone changes in their blood chemistry or bleeding disorders after an abduction experience.
* We asked, “Has your doctor noted changes in your blood chemistry, blood clotting easily, or bleeding too freely after an abduction?” Yes (9), No (41)
One respondent was diagnosed with a clotting disorder. Another mentioned problems with vitamin D and iron absorption. Others mentioned consistently high white blood cell counts.
Our next question did not pertain specifically to our research findings and we did not anticipate the result.
* AE Group—Do you crave excessive amounts of salt? Yes (29), No (18), No answer (3)
* NAE Group—Do you crave excessive amounts of salt? Yes (3), No (22)
62% of the AE Group craves salt, whereas only 12% of the NAE Group does. Dehydration is the most common cause of salt cravings. Although rare, Addison’s disease is caused when the adrenal gland does not produce enough of the hormone cortisol. One might speculate that if the adrenal glands are continually tapped by ongoing stress due to alien abduction, it could lead to adrenal distress that is characterized by symptoms of fatigue, insomnia and salt cravings. However, this is another condition that is best studied by the medical community.
The following questions regarding physical affects were on the questionnaire. The answers are self explanatory.
* After your abduction did you notice any of the following? 1.More acute hearing? Yes 28% 2.More sensitive to light? Yes 56% 3.More allergies? Yes 36% 4.More fluctuation in your mood? Yes 34%
* Has your doctor noted changes in your blood chemistry, such as blood clotting easily, or bleeding too freely after an abduction? Yes 18%, No 82%
The following questions were asked of the AE and NAE Groups:
* AE Group—Do you suffer from migraine headaches? Yes (20), No (26), No reply (4)
* NAE Group—Do you suffer from migraine headaches? Yes (2), No (23) 43%
20 of 46 of the AE Group suffers from migraine headaches (moderate to severe pulsing headaches that last 4-72 hours and worsen with physical activity, whereas only 8% of the NAE Group does. Medical studies indicate that only 10-12% of the general population suffers from migraines. This is a highly significant finding indicating that abduction experiencers suffer from migraine headaches at a considerably higher rate than the non-abduction experiencers that participated in our study, and the general population.
Gynecological problems among female abduction experiencers have been widely reported in UFO abduction literature. We wanted to obtain statistics on the prevalence of these disorders.
* AE Group—If you are a female, have you experienced gynecological problems? Yes (22), No (10)
* NAE Group—If you are a female, have you experienced gynecological problems? Yes (3 ), No (6)
A significant 69% of the AE Group reported that they had experienced gynecological problems, whereas 33% of the NAE Group made the same report. Two respondents from the AE Group mentioned that they had tested positive for pregnancy, but then were not pregnant, and there was no cramping or bleeding. The sample size in the NAE Group is too small to draw an acceptable comparison. We found it interesting, however, that three of the women in this group that answered “yes” had more in common with the AE group than the NAE group on all of the questions.
Several years ago, a study revealed that a high percentage of abduction experiencers suffer from Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, sometimes called Chronic or Reactivating Mononucleosis. Affecting less than 1% of the US population, CFIDS can be a devastating disorder. 2.5% of the US population has the symptoms, but no formal diagnosis. These include debilitating fatigue that is not improved by bed rest; problems with concentration and short term memory; flu-like symptoms; word finding problems; reading retention difficulties; and ambulation difficulties due to balance problems. It is not a depressive disorder. Medical researchers have noted immune, neurological, and endocrine abnormalities in CFIDS sufferers. 25% of sufferers are bedridden and 50% cannot work during flare-ups. We decided to revisit this question when we asked the following:
* Have you been diagnosed as having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Reactivated Mononucleosis? Yes (18), No (30).
2 respondents stated that they CFIDS symptoms but no formal diagnosis. 38% of the participants in our study have a CFIDS or RM diagnosis, whereas less than 1% of the US population has this diagnosis. This is a highly significant finding. Reports of such a high rate of CFIDS among abduction experiencers should be taken seriously by the medical community. One has to wonder if the alien environment is causing illness among humans. Are the ET’s experiments passing this syndrome to experiencers? Could it be caused by the alien technology that allows the transfer of a human body through a solid structure? Is it an adrenal response caused by one’s persistent fear of abduction? Is it the result of a sleep disorder? Is it a retrovirus created by ETs?
Psi Phenomena
Psi phenomena, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, out of body experiences, etc. have long been associated with the alien abduction phenomenon. It is both perplexing and troubling to investigators. Many are not inclined to investigate reports of events that seem more like imagination than reality. Some consider it an embarrassment to the scientific study of UFOs and would prefer to sweep it under the rug. Others feel that they are not equipped to investigate psi phenomena. Yet, abduction experiencers consistently report being transported through solid surfaces, telepathic communication, light orbs that expand into non-human entities, poltergeist activity in their homes (soon after a contact experience), and new psychic abilities. In an attempt not to lead the participants to specific information we referred to these phenomena as “paranormal” rather than ghost related, mystical or psychic. The Free Dictionary defines paranormal as “Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.” We developed 7 questions pertaining to these phenomena.
* AE Group—Have you witnessed paranormal activity in your home? Yes (43), No (6), No answer (1). If so, please describe it.
* NAE Group—Have you witnessed paranormal activity in your home? Yes (11) 44%, No (14) 56%. If so, please describe it.
88% of the abduction experiencers reported that they had witnessed paranormal activity in their homes, including light orbs that dart or float through the air. Sometimes the orbs pop like a bubble into 1-3 ETs. Many reported poltergeist activity such as household items flying through the air, pictures flying off walls, lights turning off and on, windows opening and closing, doors opening and closing and toilets flushing on their own. 44% of the NAE Group reported paranormal activities in their homes, but there was a slight variation between the AE and the NAE Groups. They reported ghosts, shadow people, spirits, mist clouds, strange sounds, strange odors, and cold spots. One respondent reported light orbs, but she had all of the characteristics of an abduction experiencer. A small percentage (4%) of the AE group reported ghost-like activity such as invisible beings that had weight in their beds and temperature changes in their home environment. For example, a room was 56 degrees although the thermostat was set at 83 degrees. We were struck by and hadn’t anticipated the high percentage (44%) of paranormal activity reports by the NAE Group, as early on in this part of the study only a tiny percentage of the NAE group had reported paranormal activity. This increased dramatically following my interview on a popular paranormal radio show. In order to determine whether or not the paranormal activity is directly tied to the alien abduction experience, we asked:
* Did it begin prior to or after your first abduction? Prior to (13), After (22), Not sure (3), no answer (5)
It is significant that 51% of the participants reported that their paranormal activity began after their first abduction experience. Many commented that this activity is not ongoing, but occurs immediately prior to or after a contact event.
The next question pertains to telepathic communication. We were interested in determining whether or not all communication between the “visitors” and the experiencers was telepathic.
* AE Group—Have you ever received telepathic messages from your visitors? Yes (44), No (6)
* NAE Group—Have you ever received telepathic messages? Yes (8), No (17 )
A statistically significant 88% of the AE Group reported telepathic communication with their visitors, whereas only 32% of the non-experiencers reported telepathic communication. Many experiencers reported that they “sensed” a contact experience was about to occur or received a telepathic message prior to its onset. It is interesting to note that 2 of those who answered “No” reported having only one abduction experience.
* We asked those who answered yes, “Was the telepathic communication related to an abduction experience? Yes (30), No (2), not sure (1), No answer (11).
91% of those in the EA Group that answered the question replied in the affirmative. The next two questions are closely related.
* Are you more or less “sensitive” or intuitive than you were prior to your abduction experience? More (36 ), Less (0), about the same (8), Not sure (6)
*. Did you develop new psychic abilities after your abduction experience? Yes (26), No (7), Maybe (2), No answer (15)
72% stated that they are more sensitive or intuitive than they were prior to contact. 79% stated that they developed new psychic abilities after a contact experience. One person reported that they have always been psychic and another noted that his or her psychic abilities increased. The following question was worded to ask whether or not abduction experiencers discovered that they had the ability to heal others following an abduction experience.
* Do you feel you have been given a gift of healing following an abduction experience? Yes (25), No (18), Don’t know (5), No answer (1)
50% stated that noted that they were able to heal others for at least a short period following an abduction experience. This gift persisted for an extended period of time for some of the participants, but not for others. 2% mentioned that they had always been healers.
Miscellaneous
Kay Wilson, a well-known abduction experiencer, had written about her “invisibility” experience in an airport and two additional abduction experiencers reported to us that they, at times, felt literally invisible. We decided to determine whether or not others have experienced this sensation by asking, “Do you ever feel that you are literally invisible and others can’t see you? It is interesting that 25% answered in the affirmative.
Blood types, Rh factors, and ancestral genetic links have long been of interest to alien abduction researchers. We decided to inquire about blood types. . AE Group—What is your blood type? A (17), B (1), O (10), AB (1) Positive? (15) Negative? (8 ) . NAE Group—What is your blood type? A (9), B (1), O (6), AB (2). Positive? (10) Negative? (2 ) 29 AE Group participants responded to the question. Of these 59% is type A and 34% is type O. Because 66% of the respondents reside in the Eastern Time Zone, we researched the distribution of blood types throughout the US. It is estimated that 20-25% of the US population residing in the Northeast and East-Central has type A blood and 70-80% are type O. Does this indicate that there is an elevated percentage of A blood types among abduction experiencers? We compared our statistics to the NAE Group and found that 50% are type A and 33% type O. This indicates that the majority of participants in both groups are type A regardless of whether or not they have experienced alien abduction. We then evaluated the Rh factor knowing that 85% of all humans have Rh+ blood types. We found an elevated percentage of Rh- Factor (35%) among abduction experiencers. The Stanford School of Medicine Blood Center reports that 6.3% of their collected blood types are A negative and 6.6% are O negative. This elevated percentage among abduction experiencers could be significant. Among the NAE Group 83% had a positive Rh factor and 17% were negative indicating that both groups had elevated Rh negative blood types. It is interesting that a significantly higher percentage (18%) of AE Group reported a negative RH factor than in the NAE Group. However, many participants did not know their blood type, so the sample size is too small to be considered statistically reliable.
Throughout the history of alien abduction electrical malfunctions have been widely reported. We decided to address this issue in our questionnaire.
* AE Group—Following an abduction, did you ever experience malfunctions of electrical equipment such as lights, digital watches, computers, etc? Yes (34), No (16)
* NAE Group—Have you ever experienced malfunctions of electrical equipment such as lights, digital watches, computers, etc. for no obvious reason? Yes (8), No (17)
68% of the AE Group reported experiencing malfunctions of electrical equipment, whereas only 32% of the NAE Group had the same experience. The AE Group reported malfunctioning computers, watches, appliances, radios, televisions, cameras and compasses. Some reported that light bulbs blow out or blink off and on and the hands on their watches spin. One participant stated that the time clock at his place of employment malfunctions only for him. The NAE group mentioned that street lights blink out when they drive or walk under them. This has also been reported to me by abduction experiencers. Another stated that when she became emotionally upset light bulbs would “shoot in the room I was standing in.” Both groups reported that televisions, appliances and computers would automatically switch themselves off and on.
Conclusion and Discussion
After we had excluded the demographic information and the open ended questions, we were left with 37 questions that could be analyzed for correlating information. Of these we found 23 positive, statistically significant correlations among abduction experiencers. A pattern emerged indicating that the majority of abduction experiencers had conscious recall of at least one event and were with a witness who also recalled the experience. They had a close encounter with an unconventional craft and sometimes observed its occupants. They are aware of having been examined aboard a craft and were left with perplexing, unexplained marks on their bodies. Slightly more than half had a nose bleed immediately after an experience. Women reported an elevated percentage of gynecological problems that appear to be related to reproductive procedures performed by alien entities. The vast majority was revisited—some more than 10 times—and was taken from their homes to an alien craft. Often the abduction experiencers sensed an impending visitation by alien entities before it occurred. The mode of communication between alien entities and humans is almost entirely telepathic. A new psychic awareness has emerged in the majority of experiencers and about half have found that they now have new healing abilities. Immediately before or soon after a visitation they become aware of paranormal activity in their homes, such as light orbs, objects flying through the air or from walls, doors opening and closing without assistance, etc. The majority noticed malfunctioning electrical equipment, appliances, watches, computers, TVs, radios, cameras, etc. Slightly more than half developed a new sensitivity to light and now crave salt. They feel a foreign object in their body and are fearful of being abducted again. Most have difficulty falling asleep and remaining asleep throughout the night. Those who have resolved their fearfulness are more likely to sleep restfully.
Finally, we want to express our sincere gratitude to those who participated in this study. It wasn’t an easy task. We asked them to visit my website and copy the 45 question or 16 question form. Then we requested that they fill in the multiple choice questions and add their comments and accounts of their personal experiences that would elucidate us regarding their specific information. They were then asked to mail their questionnaires to me or to return them via email. Although it required some effort on their part, it reduced the possibility that hoaxers would intentionally sabotage the study. In the end, we were very pleased with the knowledge we gained and the opportunity it gave us to support abduction experiencers and expand the UFO research community’s knowledge of the alien abduction phenomenon.
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Faces On Mars, Alien Satellites and Moon Bases: 5 ‘Unexplained’ NASA Photos Explained
Faces On Mars, Alien Satellites and Moon Bases: 5 ‘Unexplained’ NASA Photos Explained
Space is filled with many strange and wondrous things, some of which are currently not fully understood by modern science. Space is also filled with many mundane and simple things, some of which are also not fully understood by the people of Earth who are desperate to find something else out there.
This is where alien sightings, UFOs and other associated conspiracy theories come in. The often grainy nature of space photography means it is not hard to find flying saucers, little green men and more in NASA pictures. Let’s take a look at some of them and try to figure out what they really are.
1. The Face of Cydonia
Space is filled with many strange and wondrous things, some of which are currently not fully understood by modern science. Space is also filled with many mundane and simple things, some of which are also not fully understood by the people of Earth who are desperate to find something else out there.
This is where alien sightings, UFOs and other associated conspiracy theories come in. The often grainy nature of space photography means it is not hard to find flying saucers, little green men and more in NASA pictures. Let’s take a look at some of them and try to figure out what they really are.
The Face of Cydonia
When NASA’s Viking 1 was circling Mars in 1976 it sent back some extraordinary photos of the Red Planet’s surface. On of them in particular appeared to show an eerie face looking right back at the camera.
The photo was a huge sensation, and NASA hoped it would inspire interest in its Mars missions. It certainly grabbed the public’s attention and it wasn’t long before people were talking about ancient alien structures, pyramids and ancestors on Mars.
What Is It Really?
The face is merely a large mesa rock formation that doesn’t even particularly look much like a face. Admittedly the original image does resemble a face, but this is due to the low quality of the early camera. Its ‘eyes’ and ‘mouth’ are merely shadows, while the nostril is merely a black spot caused by limitations in transferring photos at the time (you can see hundreds of them spread throughout the photo).
Subsequent missions to Mars made it a priority to photograph Cydonia. With every mission came improvements with camera technology as well as pictures which debunked the ‘alien face monument’ theory. One of the most recent photos shows quite clearly it is simply a geographic formation.
2. The Black Knight Satellite
Another well-known space conspiracy theory concerns a supposed alien satellite which is orbiting the polar regions of Earth and broadcasting a strange message. Some claim it has been there for 13,000 years and constitutes a welcome invitation from an advanced alien race.
Known as the Black Knight, it is claimed that it has been photograpged several times, such as the examples below:
What Is It Really?
These photos are often captioned as ‘unexplained’, but that’s a blatant fallacy. NASA know exactly what it is. It’s a thermal blanket which became detached during an EVA aboard Endeavor’s STS-88 mission. There’s even a video of NASA’s personnel aboard the Endeavor filming it float away. Watch that below:
Despite this explanation, the claims these pictures are an ancient alien satellite persist. In reality, all the claims regarding the Black Knight have been categorically debunked.
3. Apollo 16 UFO
When returning from the moon on April 27, 1972, the Apollo 16 crew filmed a few seconds of film from the window of their spacecraft. The 16 mm film was later described as containing “a saucer-shaped object with a dome on top.” None of the crew reported seeing a UFO at the time, but this hasn’t stopped UFO experts from claiming they were being shadowed by an alien craft. Watch the video below:
What Is It Really?
The interest surrounding the video was so great, NASA conducted an investigation into the object. After digitally improving the picture and conducting frame by frame analysis, they discovered the object had a “linear feature” attached to one side (above). Eventually, they deduced it was nothing more than the floodlight boom used for EVA missions.
4. The Woman on Mars
When NASA’s Spirit Rover was trundling around Mars looking for signs of water, it seemed to have found something much more spectacular – a Martian woman.
The image, sent back from Mars, appears to show a figure just chilling out on a rock and seemingly unaware of the massive NASA rover only a few meters away. Of course, many saw this as proof of life on Mars.
What Is It Really?
This one probably isn’t that surprising, but the Martian Woman is in fact just a rock – and not even a particularly big one. Astronomer Phil Plait explained:
Talk about a tempest in a teacup! The rock on Mars is actually just a few inches high and a few yards from the camera. A few million years of Martian winds sculpted it into an odd shape, which happens to look like, well, a Bigfoot! It’s just our natural tendency to see familiar shapes in random objects.
Plait is referring to a well-known psychological phenomenon known as pareidolia, which causes humans to often find familiar things (such as faces and bodies) in random shapes. This woman isn’t the only example of pareidolia on Mars – in fact they are dozens of them, including rats, dragon skulls and alien skulls.
5. Buildings On The Moon
A Youtube video claiming to feature dozens of leaked images from NASA included this curious picture which it says shows buildings on the surface of the moon.
What Is Really Going On Here?
Of course, there’s a lot in this picture which doesn’t make sense, like for example, why does the moon appears to have foliage and a pond nearby. But, more importantly, many people have seen that building before – and not on the moon.
The building is in fact a photoshopped image of Iran’s Ardeshir Palace, one of the oldest and best known Sassanid palaces. It’s notable domes as well as its nearby road and domes are all clearly visible in the picture above.
Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) have designed a new simulation model to help better our understanding of the Moon soon after its formation. Their work could increase our knowledge of exoplanets, which may be humanity's best hope of finding extraterrestrial life.
Most researchers believe the Moon formed when a Mars-sized object collided with the Earth 4.5 billion years ago, forming a cloud of molten material that was later coagulated into the Moon by gravitational forces. Existing models suggest that the Moon would have had its own atmosphere soon after this formation, but the team from GSFC actually did the math to reach a more precise understanding of this atmosphere and how it reacted with the Moon’s surface.
The researchers added up the radiation the young satellite would have felt from the magma covering its surface, the Earth, and the Sun. According to their model, supersonic winds would have blown across the surface of the side of the Moon facing the Earth, causing waves in the magma ocean covering it. After about a thousand years of cooling, the surface of the ocean would have been covered by floating rocks, at which point the atmosphere would have collapsed.
“The Moon’s atmosphere was like a hard-partying rock star,” Prabel Saxena, one of the researchers involved in the study, told Science News. “It had a really violent, heavy metal existence, but it rapidly just fell apart.”
EXPLAINING EXOPLANETS
This new model is particularly exciting because the greater our understanding of our Moon’s formation, the greater our understanding of how other space objects form. Exoplanets currently orbiting Red Dwarfs, for example, should in some ways be comparable to our Moon in its early years. “If we can characterize what the early Moon looked like, it can tell us about the physical mechanisms that are operating on these close-in extreme exoplanets,” explains Saxena.
Exoplanets are perhaps humanity’s best bet for finding extraterrestrial life, and in just a short amount of time, we have discovered thousands of them. A model like that created by the team at GSFC could help us narrow down the list to those most likely to harbor life, which could then be studied further using tools like the James Webb Space Telescope.
Truly, thanks to the work of researchers like those at GSFC, we have never been closer to answering humanity’s greatest questions: Where did we come from, and are we alone?
Hundreds of boats and planes have been lost to the mysterious triangle
The disappearances in the infamous region has repeatedly been blamed on the paranormal - with suggestions it could be a vortex to another dimension which has transported the poor souls on board away from our universe.
But now scientists believe there could be a much more Earthly, and provable explanation, for the legend also known as the Devil's Triangle.
Researchers have found huge undersea craters which could be tell-tale signs on why vessels went missing and were possible blown to smithereens, to end up at the bottom of the sea.
The up to half-mile-wide and 150ft deep craters in the Barents Sea are thought to have been caused by a build-up of methane.
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This graphic shows the vast extent of the triangle
They are just off the Norweaigan coast - a country rich in natural gas reserves.
Methane is likely to have leaked from deposits of natural gas deeper below the sea bed, then created cavities which eventually burst, once the pressure gets too high, the scientists said.
This would lead to a massive blow up of gas, which could cause a boat or ship to fail if it was passing at the height of the explosion.
Russian scientist Igor Yeltsov, deputy head of the Trofimuk Institute, said: "There is a version that the Bermuda Triangle is a consequence of gas hydrates reactions.
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"They start to actively decompose with methane ice turning into gas.
"It happens in an avalanche-like way, like a nuclear reaction, producing huge amounts of gas.
"That makes the ocean heat up and ships sink in its waters mixed with a huge proportion of gas.
"The crater area is likely to represent one of the largest hotspots for shallow marine methane release in the Arctic."
Hundreds of boats and planes have been lost within and just outside the triangle since Christopher Columbus was the first to record its existence, noting his ship's compass stopped working and he saw a fireball in the sky.
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Crew of Torpedo Bomber28, lead plane of Flight 19 which vanished in December 1945
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The the first reported ship with a radio lost in the triangle was the USS Cyclops ship in 1918
An average of four planes and 20 boats have been reported lost a year, with no trace of any debris, due to the Gulf Stream being believed to move them away.
Disappearances have been blamed on UFOs, strange mists, and even time travel.
The biggest recorded loss was in 1945 when five US Navy Avenger torpedo bombers flying from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Bimini Island never showed up after a radio call from the 14 men on board that their compasses stopped working.
Three rescue planes also disappeared.
The Bermuda Triangle covers 440,000 square miles of sea - from the British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean, to the Florida coast and on to Puerto Rico.
Crew of US Air Force Cold War spy plane saw 'large UFO with flashing lights' - UK X-Files
Crew of US Air Force Cold War spy plane saw 'large UFO with flashing lights' - UK X-Files
NEWLY-released formerly top-secret British Ministry of Defence (MoD) 'UFO X-Files' have detailed a fascinating encounter between the crew of a US Air Force (USAF) spy plane and a large bizarre UFO with flashing lights over the Mediterranean Sea.
The case was released in the latest batch of MoD UFO files released in the UK.
The MoD last month made 15 of 18 remaining classified UFO investigation files public through the National Archives.
Most can only be viewed by visiting the National Archives in London, but details are starting to emerge after UFO investigators visited the records office.
The files include a detailed report on a UFO incident on October 19, 1982, at around 4pm local time.
A a USAF RC-135 plane, which was monitoring Soviet military activity as part of the Cold War, came across ‘a big object’ over the Eastern Mediterranean at around 35,000 feet.
Details of the file show that British RAF personnel at RAF Troodos, on Cyprus, listened in shock to the encounter unfold through the radio calls of the American crew.
No details of this case have previously been released, according to Dr David Clarke, a UFO and folklore journalist, who revealed details of the encounter. The results of the investigation are not in the file.
But, one explanation was offered that it was just a mirage.
A senior RAF official wrote: "We have a strong suspicion that the 'UFO' was a mirage effect from lights on the coast of Israel or Lebanon."
The RAF signal who reported the encounter said 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….”
According to scientists from the European Space Agency, an asteroid will impact Earth ‘sooner or later’ and it could wipe out mankind.
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Scientists from the (ESA) spoke about the risks our species faces as the world ‘celebrates’ International Asteroid Day. According to experts, our planet is at a very ‘high’ risk of being impacted by an asteroid which could bring upon us devastating effects.
Interestingly, throughout our planet’s long—4.5 billion-year—history, Earth has been repeatedly impacted by asteroids and comets which have triggered many extinction events on Earth.
Even though astronomers have positively identified most of the 1km-size asteroids that are a threat to Earth, they currently are hunting for those with an average size of 150 meters since those space rocks too could cause catastrophic damage if they impact Earth.
“Sooner or later we will get… a minor or major impact,” warned Rolf Densing, head of the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
Densing said that “the risk that Earth will get hit in a devastating event one day is very high,” even though such an event might not occur in our lifetime.
However, experts warned that mankind is “not ready to defend ourselves” against an Earth-bound object. “We have no active planetary defense measures,” he added.
And while the threat IS out there, experts have already begun cooking up with plans on how we could defend our planet against such potential collisions. The options are a few and vary from blowing up space rocks with NUKES—Armaggeddon-movie style—to vaporizing them with lasers of pulling them off course with space-tractor technology.
However, for us to save humanity from asteroids and comets we must first find them. Obviously.
Astronomers are on the lookout for space rocks which are classified into several different sizes ranging from a few centimeters to those with a diameter of more than 10 kilometers—average size of the comet that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.
Experts warn we are not read to defend ourselves against dinosaur-killing asteroids.
The largest impacts tend to occur every 100 million years or so, and the next impact could spell catastrophe for the human civilization.
Recent studies have also looked into why some extinction event seem to repeat themselves.
Experts believe that our solar system has a missing—rogue star—which they dubbed Nemesis, which could be responsible for hurling objects from the outer solar system towards our planet. In fact, NEMESIS may even have been responsible for mass extinctions that have rocked Earth for millions of years.
So far astronomers have managed to trace more than 90% of asteroids that are in the dinosaur-killing range, discovering that so far, none of them pose an immediate threat.
However, the dinosaur-killing asteroids aren’t what worries experts as a much bigger concern is the hiding place of millions of space rocks that range from 15 to 150 meters in diameter.
An asteroid of around 40 meters in diameter caused the largest impact in modern history when it exploded over Tunguska, Siberia, on June 30, 1908.
The Tunguska impact destroyed 80 million trees over 2,000 square kilometers.
According to experts, Tunguska-type impacts tend to occur every 300 years or so.
Nicolas Bobrinsky, program manager of the European Space Agency’s Space Situational Awareness project, which surveys asteroids said: “Imagine that this type of asteroid would fall in a very populated area like… Paris or Germany, I mean this is something that would be really, really a catastrophe.”
Rol de planeet op zijn zij en daar verschijnt een heuse smiley!
Dat blijkt uit deze prachtige foto die ruimtesonde Juno van de gasreus heeft gemaakt. Twee ovaalvormige, witte stormen vormen de ogen van Jupiter. En schuin daaronder bevinden zich – in de vorm van een gigantische oranjekleurige verstoring van de atmosfeer – Jupiters opgespoten lippen.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Jason Major.
De foto Juno maakte de foto – die voor de gelegenheid dus wel geroteerd moest worden – halverwege mei. De sonde was op het moment dat deze de foto maakte zo’n 19.433 kilometer van Jupiter verwijderd.
WIST JE DAT…
…onderzoekers onlangs de eerste onderzoeksresultaten van de Juno-missie bekend hebben gemaakt? Lees hier wat ze allemaal ontdekt hebben!
Wetenschap Juno arriveerde halverwege 2016 bij Jupiter en heeft al verschillende adembenemende foto’s gemaakt (bijvoorbeeld van de noordpool van Jupiter). Maar het maken van foto’s is niet Juno’s kernactiviteit. De sonde is met name naar Jupiter afgereisd om de geheimen van de gasreus te ontrafelen en onder meer de volgende vragen te beantwoorden: hoe steekt de atmosfeer van de gasreus in elkaar, wat gaat er onder het wolkendek van Jupiter schuil en hoe is de gasreus ontstaan?
Om een antwoord op die vragen te vinden, scheert Juno elke 53 dagen rakelings langs Jupiter. De eerstvolgende scheervlucht staat gepland voor 10 juli. Dan zal Juno over misschien wel één van de bekendste fenomenen op Jupiter scheren: Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek. Het levert naar verwachting mooie foto’s op van deze reusachtige storm die al zeker 300 jaar actief is. Daarnaast hopen onderzoekers eindelijk te weten te komen tot hoe diep in de atmosfeer de storm reikt en hoe de storm werkt en stand weet te houden.
No, NASA isn’t running a child trafficking ring on Mars
No, NASA isn’t running a child trafficking ring on Mars
by Chuck Bednar
Another day, another batshit crazy theory involving NASA: days after rumors that the US space agency has evidence proving the existence of extraterrestrial life from humanity were debunked, a new and possibly even more ludicrous accusation has been leveled against the organization.
Never mind the fact that, as the Washington Post pointed out, the atmosphere on the Red Planet is comprised primarily of carbon dioxide and the average temperature on the planet is 81 degrees below zero – NASA has somehow found a way to establish a child-trafficking ring on Mars.
At least that’s what activist and former Reform Party presidential candidate Robert David Steele said Thursday during an interview on Alex Jones’ radio show, the newspaper reported Saturday. The children involved in the interplanetary trafficking ring, Steele claimed, “were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20-year ride” and had “no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony.”
Why smuggling the abducted youngsters to Mars would have taken two decades is unclear, for as Space.com explained, the 33.9-million-mile voyage to the Red Planet takes just 6-9 months using modern-day propulsion technology. Nonetheless, Steele – a “CIA insider,” according to the show – seemed convinced of his claim’s validity, and Jones was not dismissive of the accusations.
“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,” the host, who has claimed that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax and who helped spread false allegations that the Clinton campaign had been linked to a child-sex ring at a Washington DC pizzeria, responded. “There is so much stuff going on... clearly, they don’t want us looking into what is happening.”
‘No humans on Mars,’ according to NASA spokesperson
Despite the seemingly ludicrous nature of these claims, Guy Webster, a spokesperson for Mars exploration at the agency, took the time to issue a formal denial, telling the Daily Beast, “There are no humans on Mars. There are active rovers on Mars... but there are no humans.”
As Space.com pointed out, this is not the first Mars-related conspiracy theory to make the rounds on the Internet – though it may very well be the most unusual. An unusual landform discovered by the Viking 1 mission in 1976 garnered attention due to its resemblance to a face, and images that were recently captured by the Curiosity rover have been said to depict various animals, including crabs, lizards, rats and squirrels, the website added.
The alleged child-trafficking ring is the second wild accusation to be leveled against NASA over the last few weeks. Late last month, a YouTube video posted by an individual claiming to be part of Anonymous accused the agency of hiding evidence proving the existence of alien life.
The video, however, featured out-of-context comments made by NASA science director Thomas Zurbuchen back in April during a public congressional hearing. While Zurbuchen did say that the agency was “on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history” during that hearing, he was actually discussing the recent discovery of distant planets and organic chemicals on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, not extraterrestrial life.
The Washington Post reached out to NASA following the posting of the video, and was told via email that there was “no pending announcement regarding extraterrestrial life.” Similarly, they reached out to the agency for comment on the Martian child-trafficking ring accusations but had not received a response as of press time.
The search for life, as we know it, beyond Earth has been one of the scientific endeavors of mankind since the dawn of space travel. But given the numerous problems inherent in that effort, its twin search has been for other habitable planetary bodies where life could potentially thrive.
Relatively close by, within our solar system, ancient Mars was a possible candidate but it is now an arid wasteland. Moons of Jupiter and Saturn, such as Europa and Enceladus, are also thought to harbor conditions that could perhaps be habitable for life. However, as human technology has advanced and we have found exoplanets — planets outside the solar system — the possibility of finding suitable conditions for life has jumped manifold.
Those searching for exoplanets in the so-called “Goldilocks zone” of other stars often focus on cool stars and look for Earth-like planetary bodies orbiting them. This is so because if a star is relatively cooler, there are higher chances for planets around it to have liquid water — a prerequisite for life as we know it. New research presented Monday applied models of massive stellar eruptions to such stars, and found that the eruptions from those stars could affect the exoplanets’ chances of habitability.
Christina Kay of the NASA Goddard Flight Center presented the research at the ongoing National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2017 at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. Coronary mass ejections (CME) — large eruptions of plasma and magnetic fields from stars, including the sun — contribute to space weather and potentially affect the habitability of the planets they encounter, the research found.
Artist’s impression of HD189733b, showing the planet’s atmosphere being stripped by the radiation from its parent star.
Photo: Ron Miller
The CME impact on a planet could severely deplete the planet’s magnetosphere, which in turn would expose its atmosphere to space. The CME would then strip away the atmosphere, causing the temperatures to rise and any liquid surface water to evaporate, leaving behind a barren desert. This phenomenon would also leave the planet’s surface and any life-forms on it exposed to harmful X-rays from the nearby star.
“We figured that the CMEs would be more powerful and more frequent than solar CMEs, but what was unexpected was where the CMEs ended up,” Kay said, according to a statement released by NAM.
For the research, Kay and her team used CMS theories developed at Boston University, based on our solar system, and applied them to other stars. Specifically, the trajectories of theoretical CMEs were modeled for the cool star V374 Pegasi, and the results suggested exoplanets would need magnetic fields that are ten to several thousand times that on Earth if their atmoshpheres were to be shielded from the star’s CMEs.
“While these cool stars may be the most abundant, and seem to offer the best prospects for finding life elsewhere, we find that they can be a lot more dangerous to live around due to their CMEs,” Marc Kornbleuth, a graduate student involved in the project, said in the NAM statement.
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.
Sea pickle invasion
Pyrosomes fished out of the water along the Oregon coast range in size from a few inches to more than 2 feet (0.6 meters) long.
Credit: Hilarie Sorensen/University of Oregon
The waters off the Oregon coast are mysteriously awash with strange, jelly-like creatures that look like translucent slugs, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Each pickle-like creature is, in fact, a colony made up of individual zooids that join to create a hollow, tube-like structure that has one closed end and one open end. (A zooid is a small, multicellular organism that makes up part of a colonial animal, and can arise from another zooid by budding or dividing.) [Read more about the alien invaders.]
Strange deaths
A female great white shark that was missing its liver.
Credit: Marine Dynamics
Orca whales have claimed the life of another great white shark by eating its liver and leaving it for dead, making it the fourth such gristly death in less than two months.
No one saw the sharks' last moments, but their injuries indicate that orcas, also known as killer whales (Orcinus orca), were the culprits, the researchers said. [Read more about the dead sharks.]
Lab-grown parts
A sun-shaped viral replication center within sea turtle skin tissue. Re-creating sea turtle skin in the lab allowed scientists to observe how a tumor-associated herpesvirus replicates in three-dimensional tissue.
Credit: Thierry Work/USGS
Dr. Frankenstein, eat your heart out: Scientists have grown the pebbly green skin of sea turtles in the lab for the first time ever.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and the U.S. Endangered Species Act list green sea turtles as threatened or endangered throughout their ranges worldwide. [Read more about turtle skin.]
Dangers of fireworks
The image on the left shows the man's left eye shortly after the explosion. The yellowish spots are fragments from the firecracker embedded in his cornea. The image on the right is a CT scan of the man's head. The arrows point to firecracker fragments, which appear as bright white spots, embedded in both eyes.
With July Fourth just around the corner, it's important to keep an eye out for eye dangers: A man in India suffered severe eye injuries after a firecracker exploded close to his face, according to a new case report.
The doctors were able to remove the firework fragments from the man's left eye, though Dr. Jagat Ram, a professor of ophthalmology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in India who treated the man, said removing all of the fragments took several sessions. [Read more about firecracker injuries.]
Coffee with a side of what?
How do you take your iced coffee? For some people in the United Kingdom, an investigative report from the BBC has sparked concerns that the drink may come with an unwanted add-in: a dash of fecal bacteria.
The sample size was very small, and all three coffee chains told the BBC that they are looking into the problem. [Read more about the caffeinated scare.]
Carved skulls
Researchers have discovered seven skull fragments from three different skulls, each marked with deep cuts like this one made shortly after death.
Credit: German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
Fragments of three carved human skulls have been uncovered at a mysterious ritual site in Turkey.
Now, Göbekli Tepe has become a little bit more fantastic with the discovery of skull fragments carved with long, deliberate lines from the forehead to the back of the head. These discoveries reveal the existence of a "skull cult" in ancient eastern Anatolia, Gresky told Live Science. The ritual markings on these skulls are unlike those seen in any other civilization, though. [Read more about the ritual skulls.]
Weird creature
An artist's reconstruction shows Macrauchenia patachonica, which lived in South America during the last ice age.
Credit: Jorge Blanco
An odd extinct mammal that lived in South America during the last ice age had a long neck like a llama's, three-toed feet like a rhino's and what may have been a tapir-like trunk. This peculiar combination of traits fueled a mystery lasting nearly two centuries about how to classify the bizarre beast.
Macrauchenia fossils are fairly plentiful, but paleontologists nonetheless struggled to understand the creature because its combination of features was so unusual, said study co-author Ross MacPhee, curator in the mammalogy department at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. [Read more about the ancient mystery.]
Marriage and animals
That "squeee!" you feel when you look at pictures of cute puppies or bunnies might be good for your love life. A new study finds that looking at baby-animal photos may increase couples' levels of satisfaction with their relationships.
In the study, the researchers looked at 144 married couples who had been married for less than five years. The participants' average age was 28. Around 40 percent of the couples had kids, the researchers said. [Read more about animals and matrimony.]
New liquid water
Liquid water exists in two different forms, new research reveals. Here, an illustration of the water molecule in front of an X-ray pattern from high-density amorphous ice, created by creating high pressures and low temperatures.
Credit: Mattias Karlén
Liquid water comes in two forms — low density and high density, scientists have found.
Water is essential for life (at least on Earth). And wherever liquid water exists — whether it's in icebound lakes or scalding hydrothermal vents — tiny microbes have been found. That is why scientists have been excited by the possibility of salty water flows and other evidence of ancient water on Mars — it means there may well have been life early on in the Red Planet's history. [Read more about the strange liquid.]
How eclipses work
The Hinode spacecraft captured this stunning image of the maximum solar eclipse on May 20, 2012, which darkened the sky in parts of the Western United States and Southeast Asia, according to NASA.
Credit: Hinode/XRT
If the sun were just a little bit bigger or the moon a bit farther away, total solar eclipses may never occur. But they do, and it turns out this celestial phenomenon that has changed human history, and our perspective of the universe, may be a sheer coincidence.
Such a nearly perfect match wasn’t always the case, however. Because the distance between the moon and the Earth is slowly changing, solar eclipses looked very different millions of years ago — and they will again, tens of millions of years in the future. [Read more about solar eclipses.]
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)]
In recent weeks, the release of a trove of once-classified British UFO documents has managed to arouse controversy, both for the information contained therein, as well as the fact that the documents have had a somewhat limited readership: following their release by the Ministry of Defense, the files were not disclosed in an easily-searchable digital format, evoking cries of suppression, and even conspiracy from eager potential readers worldwide.
Fortunately, news agencies in the UK have been following up, with featured articles appearing every few days that detail elements contained within the files, often dealing with hair-raising encounters kept quiet by the MOD for decades.
One of the most recent reports to come to light deals with an unusual, Cold-War era incident that occurred in October 1982. It involved an American RC-135 spy plane that, while monitoring Soviet military operations, came under some kind of surveillance by a large, unidentified and brightly-lit aircraft.
The USAF base detailed in the report was located at RAF Troodos on Cyprus, and discussed an incident involving an unidentified aircraft which lasted close to 90 minutes.
According to the report, two US Navy F-14 fighters were involved, as well as an RAF Phantom, which had been diverted to join the F-14s in pursuit of the aircraft over Cyprus. The object was observed by the pilots of the American crew streaking away toward the African coast; the intercepting pilots did not report seeing the object.
According to the Sun, “Radar film, tapes and transcripts of the distress call were also analysed by intelligence officers – but removed from the files.”
Reports of similar encounters between military aircraft and unidentified objects are rife throughout UFO literature, having been disclosed in government documents by a number of countries around the world. The UK has a long history of similar incidents, which include an event that occurred in 1956 at Lakenheath-Bentwaters (not to be confused with the later RAF Bentwaters incident, otherwise known as the “Rendlesham Forest Incident”).
Apart from the reports themselves, we are left with considerations about what, precisely, these kinds of incidents represent. Within the broader UFO narrative, a number of hypotheses emerge, which range from skeptical interpretations of the incidents as being pure misidentification of prosaic phenomena, to secret military operations and, yes, the long-held idea of alien visitors.
Different theories, ranging from the thought-provoking, to the downright absurd, have emerged over the years pertaining to UFO sightings. A listing of these might include the following; note that these are arranged in no particular order, and taking into full account that some are highly improbable, while some are, at very least, far less likely than others:
Extraterrestrial visitors
Unexplained Natural Phenomena
Secret technologies developed by the U.S. or other world superpowers
A so-called “Breakaway Civilization”
Time travelers from the future
“Cryptoterrestrial” hidden denizens of Earth
Interdimensional visitors
Psycho-social phenomenon and misperception/misidentification
Evidence of a hologram-like “Matrix” reality, in which UFOs are the operators
A form of artificial intelligence of unknown origin
An open-minded collection of ideas such as this takes into account a number of very creative concepts, borrowed largely from science fiction. Though in truth, this has been the case since the inception of the modern UFO phenomenon beginning shortly after WWII, where such ideas began to be appended to the subject in an effort to try and account for the seemingly unexplainable.
In other words, the fact that no simple explanation exists for the “how, why and what” associated with these alleged aircraft has inspired a lot of imaginative thinking over the years, which, of course, isn’t to say that something like “extraterrestrial visitors” can be ruled out entirely. Rather, it is to drive home the point that in the absence of a clear explanation for UFOs, a division of thought has seemingly occurred, where one end of the broader spectrum favors the otherworldly, while the other proposes that simple things have been blown out of proportion, and that no such “phenomenon” exists at all.
These two “primary arguments” will inevitably continue to be appended to the UFO situation, especially with the release of new material like the MOD’s current batch of files. However, if there is truly anything we can glean from new data like this (even if it is decades old by the time we see it), perhaps it is that between the two extremes, there is something which might logically account for why government agencies have had such a long history of encounters with phenomena they can’t explain… and which, at times, has warranted military responses, like with the 1982 Cyprus incident.
A multitude of reports like these, often involving what are described as being clearly tangible objects, and seemingly of technological origin, do remain unexplained. Beyond any filtration through overt belief or skepticism (which often requires a certain level of illogic in order to bend the phenomena to fit the parameters of the interpreter), we are left with a plethoraof data that does suggest that something unusual is occurring… whatever that is. Logically, this would appear to stand, even if only a handful of these reports remain viable after cold, hard, skeptical analysis.
So what is our “estimate of the situation”? As with virtually all rational attempts to draw conclusions about the UFO phenomenon, we are left with too many holes in the data to know anything for certain, apart from the fact that something exists, which is seemingly technological, and which cannot be accounted for based solely on knowledge of technologies and aircraft on the civilian level. In our opinion, evoking the paranormal in order to account for these objects requires a logical leap, whereas overconfidence in the skeptical dismissal of every UFO incident, despite the data, represents equally illogical behavior.
Somewhere in between these two “universes of belief”, a more likely, and logical, solution may exist; these aircraft are obviously capable of operating in Earth’s atmosphere, and are seemingly highly-adaptable to earthly circumstances. In equal measure, these objects appear to display an interest in earthly happenings, often interacting with military aircraft; this would seem to suggest that the technologies in question are being operated with an interest in things of a political nature, rather than the pursuit of scientific knowledge, etc. Perhaps this is a significant clue to the ultimate nature of the more tangible UFO incidents that have turned up over the years.
At the end of the day, the same old conundrums keep turning up: we need more physical evidence to back up the claims of tangible objects. Conversely, if these things are “ours”, then whoever is in-the-know isn’t talking… and the likelihood that those with a “need to know” would (or could) keep so quiet, and for so long, seems almost as unlikely as space aliens, dimensional visitors, or time travelers.
If there is something tangible at work here, then there must be some kind of solution too, right? In the long run, solving the UFO mystery may require some creative thinking, paired with a willingness to keep our ideas in check, and not get ahead of ourselves with our theories.
SPECTACULAIRE UFO-SHOW MET MOEDRSCHIP BOVEN OOSTENRIJK? ( VIDEO )
SPECTACULAIRE UFO-SHOW MET MOEDRSCHIP BOVEN OOSTENRIJK? ( VIDEO )
In deze tijd van duizenden nepvideo’s, geproduceerd door mediabedrijven vanwege de reclame-inkomsten, is het een verademing om zo af en toe een echte opname te zien.
En als er dan ook nog door twee verschillende mensen een prachtige UFO-show boven Oostenrijk wordt gefilmd, compleet met vreemde wolk, dan is dat iets bijzonders.
Het probleem is dat niemand meer op kijkt van spectaculaire UFO waarnemingen omdat Youtube volstaat met de meest interessante waarnemingen en objecten.
Helaas is 99,9 procent daarvan totale nep en is het gewoon een media industrie geworden, wat er ook de reden van is dat een UFO specialist Scott Waring met zijn website is gestopt.
Het gros van de bevolking ziet nauwelijks dat het nep is en daardoor slippen de echte opnames vaak door het net omdat ze niet genoeg opvallen.
Maar, er zijn nog plekken waar wel echte dingen voor komen en daar vind je dan ook af en toe juweeltjes zoals de volgende.
In de Oostenrijkse deelstaat Stiermarken ligt de hoofdstad Graz en vanaf die locatie komen twee heel bijzondere opnames.
De eerste zegt dat deze is gemaakt in Stiermarken, maar noemt niet specifiek de stad Graz.
De video is gemaakt door een jongeman die samen met een vriend of kennis door het raam naar buiten kijkt en een paar hele bijzondere lichten ziet.
Het begint met twee keer twee lichten en daar komt vervolgens nog een derde bij. Dan op een gegeven moment verdwijnen de lichten om even later weer terug te komen en je hoort de verbaasde commentaren van de mannen in de achtergrond.
De tweede opname dateert van dezelfde tijd zo te zien en deze zegt specifiek te zijn opgenomen in Graz. Beiden opnames lijken ’s morgens heel vroeg gemaakt te zijn, rond het moment dat de zon op komt.
In die tweede video zien we een prachtig landschap met daarin weer de bekende wolken die er eigenlijk niet in thuis horen.
Rondom die wolken dartelen enkele UFO’s.
Wanneer de camera wat verder inzoomt, dan zien we dezelfde UFO’s als in de eerste video.
Op een gegeven moment verandert de vreemde wolk/moederschip wel wat van vorm, maar de UFO’s blijven in de buurt van die wolk.
Dan plotsklaps, alsof iemand een knop omdraait, verdwijnen ze.
Twee verschillende mensen op ongeveer dezelfde locatie, zo te zien op een hele vroege ochtend, filmen identieke UFO’s.
Beide opnames zijn mooi en helder en uit de commentaren is op te maken dat ze echt zijn en de mensen verrast door wat ze zien.
In het tweede geval zie je zelfs de basis/moederschip/wolk waar ze thuishoren, waardoor deze waarneming in Oostenrijk als heel bijzonder kan worden bestempeld.
Nasa said it was responsible for the even which was labelled “an early Independence Day fireworks display”.
But UFO conspiracy theorists say this was a so-called "false flag"to test people's reactions to paranormal events such as an alien attack.
The Project Blue Beam conspiracy theory claims through Nasa the US Government will one day use hologram technology to create a false paranormal event such as UFO invasion or even a second coming, in order to introduce new controls upon us all.
While the Daily Star reports ufologists believe the space agency may have sent UFOs into the sky in order to prepare people on Earth from an impending invasion of extra-terrestrial life.
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The amazing blue light display (left) and NASA's launch (right).
In truth, after multiple failed attempts, NASA's Malemute sounding rocket lit up the sky with blue, green and red artificial clouds on Thursday.
The light show was seen by witnesses across the US from North Carolina to New York.
In tweets with photos of the rocket launch, the space agency called it “an early Independence Day fireworks display”.
The rocket launch – from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, US – reached an altitude of 118 miles and lasted eight minutes.
Four minutes in, it deployed 10 canisters about the size of soft drink cans, each containing a coloured vapour that forms artificial, luminescent clouds.
The Wallops facility, and local police stations, reportedly received 2,000 UFO reports and photographs from stunned onlookers, terrified about what exactly the unidentified lights were.
This looked like an alien invasion and it would appear they’re testing these different technologies that could potentially be used in order to get people frightened and flood the 911 centres with calls about these strange lights moving through the sky.
Tyler Glockner
Tyler Glockner, who runs controversial UFO YouTube channel SecureTeam 10 said in a video: “This looked like an alien invasion and it would appear they’re testing these different technologies that could potentially be used in order to get people frightened and flood the 911 centres with calls about these strange lights moving through the sky.
“They run their test, they got their reaction and they have the perfect cover story.
“Is this a test of Project Blue Beam?
“Do you guys think that a lot of the UFO sightings we see are not from off planet but are in fact from our own government?”
“Are they nothing but holographic simulations in order to condition us for the big alien invasion?”
Project Bluebeam has largely been debunked as a fictitious theory first presented in 1994 by Quebecois journalist and conspiracy theorist Serge Monast, in the book Project Blue Beam.
Many viewers were unconvinced by Secureteam 10's shock claims.
One viewer said: “The fear mongering in your videos is not necessary to gain a following, you being one pioneer of ufology you should be pursuing a change in how the public view aliens,”
Mr Glockner appears on a number of UFO blacklists created by more sceptical investigators, due to claims he uses false footage and misrepresentation in his videos.
Mr Glockner denies misleading people and claims to be a genuine investigator.
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NASA TO LAUNCH PLANETARY DEFENSE MISSION
NASA TO LAUNCH PLANETARY DEFENSE MISSION
NASA is going to launch a mission for the first time that uses a deflection technique against asteroids for defending the planet.
NASA LAUNCHING DART MISSION TO DEFLECT ASTEROID
The mission is known as DART, Double Asteroid Redirection Test and it will be able to show how any deadly impact due to an asteroid could be averted if one was to be heading towards Earth. It would be able to strike the asteroid with force enough that it would force it to move trajectory away from the Earth, this is a method that is called kinetic impactor technique.
The mission is at the moment in the preliminary design phase, but the goal of it is to strike Didymos B, which is the smallest of the two binary asteroids that are said to be approaching Earth in 2022 and will make their way around again in 2024. The program scientist, Tom Statler, said that a binary asteroid would be the perfect natural laboratory of a test.
DART WILL HIT DIDYMOS B NINE TIMES THE SPEED OF A BULLET
DART is about the size of a regular fridge, and it has an autonomous targeting system onboard that it will aim at Didymos B and will then proceed to hit it at around nine times faster than a bullet from a gun would hit it. Andy Cheng from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel Maryland in the USA said that the mission is a very critical step in showing how Earth can be protected from a possible impact by an asteroid.
He went on to say that as no one knows very much about the internal composition or internal structure of asteroids, the mission is needed as an experiment on an asteroid that is real. He said that thanks to DART, NASA will be able to show just how Earth can be protected in the event of an asteroid strike with a kinetic impactor as it can knock any objects that are hazardous hard enough to send them onto a different flight path, one that would not be any threat to Earth.
On the website of NASA, it was said that the DART mission is now moving away from the concept development and going into the preliminary design phase after getting approval from NASA on 23 June. NASA said that the target for DART is Didymos B, which is about 530 feet in size; the system has been under the close scrutiny of NASA since 2003.
TWO UFOS FILMED BY TWO DIFFERENT WITNESSES IN GRAZ, AUSTRIA, JUNE 30,2017
TWO UFOS FILMED BY TWO DIFFERENT WITNESSES IN GRAZ, AUSTRIA, JUNE 30,2017
In this truly rare footage you see two objects flying in what appears to be an 2×2 formation before just vanishing into thin air but what is unique about this footage is that two different people from different parts of the city filmed the same objects. This is what makes this sighting all the more interesting and credible.
Alien chasers hope the annual event will pressure world leaders to release top secret flying saucer files, and even admit that a massive cover up over alien life has been going on for years.
UFO-ers have been keeping their eyes firmly on the skies to celebrate the global fascination with the flying saucer.
The event is now in its 17th year.
According to the World UFO Day website, it is dedicated to "raising awareness about the undoubted existence of UFO’s and with that intelligent beings from outer space."
The website is also part of a campaign to get international governments to "declassify" their so-called confidential "X-Files" on UFO sightings throughout their history.
And, it is convinced something might be about to happen.
An article to coincide with this year's event said: "We at World UFO Day feel something is in the air.
"Since December 21st, a lot of interesting turns have been made by the UFO community.
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World UFO Day campaigners believe Donald Trump may be the key to truth about aliens.
"The image of UFO believers has made a shift. People around us are opening up to a truth that has been there all along.
“Is it time for the truth about UFOs to come out in 2017?"
The website believes President Donald Trump could be the key.
It added: "When Trump first became President there were many hopeful signs that his push for more transparent and accountable government would translate into greater openness where the truth would finally come out about UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
"Whistleblowers were ready to come forward to testify about a host of illegal government activities if they were given protection to reveal their secrets.
"This culminated in the belief that disclosure of extraterrestrial life was imminent early in the Obama administration.
"Four years later, those early hopes look positively naïve.
"Government transparency did not open up national security archives to researchers, and whistleblower protection did not happen after all.
"The Trump administration went on the record to disavow any interest in investigating claims that the Roswell crash really involved otherworldly UFOs.
"There was no disclosure of extraterrestrial life visiting our world.
"But what has changed, four years after Obama’s first Presidential election, is that the world is better prepared for accepting that extraterrestrial life exists?"
The website said a recent survey found 80 million Americans, 36 percent of the US population, believe UFOs are real.
One in 10 respondents even said they had witnessed an alien spaceship.
A separate Express.co.uk survey found that 36 percent of people asked who is most likely to reveal the existence of aliens thought it would now be Donald Trump.
A whopping 37,800 people responded to our online survey, with 13,608 saying they felt Mr Trump could be the disclosure president.
There were 9,450 who thought it would instead be Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the same figure said "no one, because aliens do not exist."
There were 4,536 people who felt a retired Barack Obama would do it and just 378 people thought it would be Theresa May and the same amount felt German chancellor Angela Merkel might come through.
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Clear Alien UFO Photo From NASA Mars Rover
Clear Alien UFO Photo From NASA Mars Rover
The internet went into a frenzy with the crystal clear photograph allegedly showing an alien spaceship. The Mars Rover of NASA has photographed what looks like a UFO on the Red Planet’s surface. The rocky landscape of Mars can be seen in the high-definition image along with ripples etched by the wind on the surface.
The interesting part for UFO enthusiasts is the mysterious object in the middle of the picture that looks entirely different. It seems to have a smooth, metallic exterior with visible lights. It looks like a spaceship as people often describe. Moreover, it appears that natural forces have nothing to do with it.
Some UFO enthusiasts have jumped to the conclusion that the image is an undeniable evidence of intelligent alien life. NASA is yet to give a word on the discovery. Extraterrestrial life is possible on Mars as the space agency announced in 2015 that it had found running water on the planet. Hacking group Anonymous made the story more interesting as it said that NASA is about to reveal that it has discovered ETs.
Alien enthusiasts regularly post photos and videos online with claims that they show alien craft. Most of these images are grainy and not very convincing.
The Rover is equipped with powerful lenses, making the images it captured very clear. Conspiracy theorists often accused NASA of covering up extraterrestrial existence. They sometimes post images of so-called alien artefacts from the Moon or Martian surface. Most images involve an oddly shaped rock, but this particular new image is tough to explain.
The exploits of a being named as Valiant Thor has been recently uncovered in top secret documents. Valiant Thor claimed that he was from a portal world in Venus. He further stated that he helped the US Armed Forces throughout the Cold War in procuring advanced extraterrestrial technology in Area 51. Thor appeared to have made frequent appearances in many American military bases and was called as The Stranger at the Pentagon.
According to conspiracy theorists, he seemed to be a Nordic alien in a Caucasian human figure. He reportedly looked like an ordinary person, but both of his hands have six fingers. Thor claimed he scored 1200 when measuring his intelligence using the old Stanford-Binet scale. His internal organs were allegedly different from humans. He was reportedly 500 years old when he left the Earth.
Several reports noted the friendship between Valiant Thor and Former American President Dwight Eisenhower. They apparently discussed matters in technology and geopolitics frequently. He allegedly left the Earth in 1959 and refused to take part in any human activities since then.
Thor’s actions and exploits are featured in a book Stranger at the Pentagon, by Dr Frank E Stranges, published in 1967 (Amazon link).
RAF Pilots Ignore UFO Over Skegness, British X-File Reveals
RAF Pilots Ignore UFO Over Skegness, British X-File Reveals
A set of files called the Britain’s X-Files had been revealed to the public this week. One incident in 1996 has caught the attention among conspiracy theorists where RAF was told to ignore a UFO sighting on radar.
Several civilians spotted bright lights on the morning of October 5, 1996. Radar signal was also detected, but no response from the RAF.
An unnamed government official wrote to the Ministry }Defence about the no response from the RAF, which was supposed to be keeping a watchful eye on such incident. The RAF appeared to have no idea about the UFO sighting on radar.
The government official asked the Ministry of Defence about the standard procedure for these incidents. It is noted that the object was on their radar for around seven hours, so the RAF had supposedly enough time to think about it.
However, the case may not be that exciting, according to the UFO Investigations Manual author Nigel Watson. The information is not new, according to Watson, as the case became opened to the public in a batch of MOD files released back in 2010.
In the RAF report about the event, the radar signals were produced by 273 feet tall St Botolph Church. Aviation circles called the church spire as the Boston Stump, which occasionally appears on some radars.
The report further explains that the lights in The Wash area were observed from three separate locations above the horizon and in the same general direction, but with no corroborating radar data. Civil or military radars did not detect associated air vehicle, thus, suggests a distant celestial source. Royal Greenwich Observatory identified these celestial sources as Venus or could be the stars, Sirius and Vega.
NASA’S STUNNING BREAKTHROUGH: Its First Warp Drive…Is a TRUE Mindblower!
NASA’S STUNNING BREAKTHROUGH: Its First Warp Drive…Is a TRUE Mindblower!
A few months ago, physicist Harold White shocked the aeronautics industry when he announced that his team at NASA was in the process of developing a faster-than-light warp drive. His design could one day transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks.
The idea originally came to White while he was considering an equation formulated by physicist Miguel Alcubierre in his 1994 paper titled, “The Warp Drive: Hyper-Fast Travel Within General Relativity. Alcubierre suggested a mechanism by which space-time could be “warped” and behind a spacecraft.
Michio Kaku dubbed Alcubierre’s theory a “passport to the universe,” which harnesses a quirk in the “cosmological code” that allows for the expansion and contraction of space-time. If proven true, it could allow for hyper-fast travel between interstellar destinations. In order to accomplish this, the starship would need able to expand the space behind it rapidly to push it forward. For passengers, it would look like a lack of acceleration.
White believes a drive like that could result in “speeds” that could take us to Alpha Centauri in just a matter of weeks, even though the system is only 4.3 light-years away. Essentially, a bubble would be created that moves space-time around the object, repositioning it.
“Remember, nothing locally exceeds the speed of light, but space can expand and contract at any speed,” White told reporters at io9. “However, space-time is really stiff to create the expansion and contraction effect in a useful manner in order for us to reach interstellar destinations in reasonable time periods would require a lot of energy.”
However,” White added, “based on the analysis I did in the last 18 months, there may be hope.” “My early results suggested I had discovered something that was in the math all along,” he recalled. “I suddenly realized that if you made the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger — like shifting from a belt shape to a donut shape — and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly reduce the energy required — perhaps making the idea plausible.”
The next step for White will be a proof-of-concept. His team are in the lab and working on actual experiments to make that a reality.
Yesterday, a gentleman named Mauricio Morales posted some remarkable pictures on the internet that ended up going fairly viral across social media. They were snaps of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs, which does not mean they are extraterrestrial in origin).
That being said, don’t be fooled, there is a tremendous amount of evidence pointing toward the fact that some of these UFOs, whose presence were officially acknowledged within the mainstream using declassified documents and hundreds of high ranking military/political whistleblowers, are indeed extraterrestrial in origin.
There is ample evidence suggesting that many are ‘ours’ as well.
We’ve written about this quite extensively, and if you want to learn more about that and sift through all of the evidence we’ve accumulated over the past 8 years, please visit the exopolitics section of our website here. Another great place to start is with UFO researcher Richard Dolan.
Here’s Morales’ statement on what he experienced from his Facebook post:
“As I was driving back to Phoenix this evening, I was a few miles past Parker, AZ when I saw a shooting star with a green hue in the corner of my eye. I kept driving for a few miles and noticed a small orange light far in the distance to my right. At first I thought that maybe a meteor had hit nearby and set a fire in the desert or possibly a distant antenna light.
I didn’t quite think much of it and continued to drive for another three miles. I noticed that the light was gone. I drove another half of a mile and I saw the light appear again. This is when I realized that whatever this was, wasn’t normal.
I was about a quarter of a mile from the crossing between Highway 72 and Highway 95 between Parker and Quartzsite, Arizona.
I immediately pulled over and attached my camera to my tripod. To my SW direction, there were six orange-red lights floating around in the horizon. Some of them would dim out and then brighten back up, others just seemed to float and hover away slowly. They seemed to travel in a parallel pattern with a very bright fiery glisten. I took photos and videos and in less than 15 minutes, the mysterious objects vanished without a trace.
All of the photographs are timestamped and are not edited whatsoever. The video is slightly cropped for better viewing.
Whatever this was, I have never seen anything like this in my life before. Super cool experience.
*UPDATE* 4/11/17 11:22pm I have noticed that my cameras clock is set 8 minutes ahead. Which means that the time stamps are all 8 minutes ahead. I also saw a video of the same exact thing but from the opposite end in El Centro, CA. That means that whatever this was, it was visible for at least 100 miles.
ABC15 is reporting that the photos were part of the meteor. They were not. The meteor struck about 10 minutes before I pulled over on HWY 95 and got footage of these lights. The difference in lighting you see in the photos is because I was using different settings to get a more visible photo of what they were.”
Below are a few pictures, but you can view the video Timelapse on his Facebook page.
SOME RECENT VIDEO FOOTAGE
Below is some footage from Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Known to some as the “Father of the Disclosure Movement,” he was instrumental in bringing forth hundreds of military whistleblowers of all ranks, with verified backgrounds, to share their experiences and testify on the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon.
He has had high-level meetings within the Pentagon about this issue, and that was confirmed (in his documentary Sirius Disclosure) by Apollo 14 astronaut and the 6th man to walk on the Moon, Dr. Edgar Mitchell.
“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.”
– Doctor Edgar Mitchell, 6th man to walk on the moon (source)(source)(source)
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UFO sightings astride the Atlantic
UFO sightings astride the Atlantic
People recently reported UFO sightings in Arizona and United Kingdom, creating a flurry of excitement online. Have extraterrestrial neighbors decided to make contact? Investigation suggest that the Arizona sightings were of mercury vapor lights and not alien visitors. However, recent sightings above England are not so easily explained away. RT America's Brigida Santos has the story.
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DID ALIEN BEINGS GENETICALLY ENGINEER HUMAN MANKIND?
DID ALIEN BEINGS GENETICALLY ENGINEER HUMAN MANKIND?
Could blood types prove that human beings are genetically engineered?
Throughout the years, several scientific studies have searched for this answer.
Many people are unconvinced that evolution alone was capable of taking humanity from its original brute aim form into the only animals on the planet Earth capable of language, writing, and civilization itself. Instead, they look towards the ancient scriptures and the stories from societies from all corners for the world that tell of mysterious visitors, fallen angels, gods or the Anunnaki. While these tales may vary slightly from one another, they all tell the same broad tale. God-like creatures once came from the heavens and brought human beings the tools to create vast and sophisticated civilizations. Versions of these tales can even be found in the Christian Bible in reference to the fallen angels in Genesis, chapter 6.
The mysteries posed by ancient scripture seem to be supported by the architectural evidence which has been believed to give modern humans their greatest clues about the ancient societies that came before them. For years, archaeologists, historians and engineers alike have been baffled by the supremely intelligent technology apparently available to humanity’s ancient ancestors to build the extraordinary megaliths in regions such as Egypt, Peru, and Mexico. But perhaps an even bigger clue lies in the genetic structure of human beings themselves.
The story of the Anunnaki describes how this powerful alien race created the first humans to work as drone workers in the colonized gold mines of planet Earth. The most compelling evidence to support this theory is the existence of the blood type group Rh Negative.
Human beings fall into four blood types; A, B, AB and O. This classification is determined by the make-up of the person’s immune system, specifically, the proteins present on the surface of the cells which amass to fight bacteria, viruses and other foreign bodies in the human body. The vast majority of human beings exhibit these proteins, but some do not. The people who fall into negative blood groups are perfectly healthy individuals who experience no significant difference in medical outcomes to other people. To this day, scientists have failed to adequately explain why this is the case or indeed, why this discrepancy even exists. Could it be that this is evidence of a holdover from our genetically engineered past?
Britain just released its UFO dossier, a total of 15 files that contain details of some of the most mysterious and sometimes terrifying encounters with RAF personnel that remain unsolved to this day. The newly released “Britain X-Files” includes what is dubbed as the most famous UFO sightings in the UK, the Rendlesham Forest incident which involved a triangular craft observed near two Royal Air Force bases. More interestingly for American UFO enthusiasts, some of the incidents covered by the dossier also reveal the involvement of U.S. military personnel.
Fifteen files from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) dubbed as the “Britain X- Files” by the media have just been made available to the public, according to The Sun. The files, which contain details of various UFO incidents, may be accessed at the reading room of the National Archives located in Kew, West London.
Unfortunately, the files are not yet available in a digitized format and, therefore, can’t be downloaded for viewing at home. This means that UFO enthusiasts who wish to view the documents will have to contend with long queues to gain access.
In addition to the 15, three more files are yet to be released. Nick Pope, who headed MOD’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994, reveals that the additional files could be made public later this year. He also heralded the release of the UFO files as a sign of government transparency.
[Image by Bruce Rolff/Shutterstock]
“This is a good day for open government and for freedom of information.”
U.S. Military Involvement
What is interesting is that a number of the UFO incidents described in the British documents involve U.S. military personnel. For instance, a 1982 incident involved a U.S. Air Force spy plane on a Cold War-era mission to observe Soviet military movements.
The crew of the American spy plane, the USAF RC-135, radioed for help when several UFOs appeared. The call was picked up by RAF stationed at the Troodos base in Cyprus. The U.S. responded by sending in two F-14 fighter planes from the Navy while the RAF diverted a Phantom from a training exercise. The UFOs, which were described as “a multitude of flashing lights, 20 at a time,” left for the African coast as the fighter planes approached.
Meanwhile, an American was likewise involved in Britain’s most famous UFO case. The Rendlesham Forest incident, also dubbed as Britain’s Roswell, happened in December 1980. For several nights, RAF personnel noticed strange light coming from the Rendlesham Forest and dispatched some personnel to investigate it.
One person named Jim Penniston even got close enough to touch the triangular craft. Meanwhile, John Burroughs, Penniston’s companion in the investigation, drew some sketches on what they saw. A couple of nights later, a team, which included Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, also encountered the UFO. He later stated that the first-hand experience is something that he just can’t debunk.
“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.”
Will the U.S. Follow Britain’s Lead?
Of course, all eyes are now on the U.S. government if they will follow Britain’s example and release their own top-secret investigations. UFO enthusiasts were briefly thrilled when then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised to make public the UFO files as much as possible.
Interestingly, John Burroughs, one of the U.S. personnel involved in the Rendlesham Forest case, had successfully claimed compensation for the injuries he sustained in that incident. This prompted his lawyer Pat Frascogna to comment that the U.S. government might have already indirectly acknowledged the existence of UFOs.
“In citing the [MoD radiation documents] and in granting John Burroughs full disability for his injuries in Rendlesham Forest, the U.S. Government has by de facto acknowledged the existence of unidentified aerial phenomena which, in John Burroughs’ case, resulted in physical injury.”
[Image by Fred Mantel/Shutterstock]
However, it appears that making the UFO files public is not one of the Trump administration’s priorities at the moment. It remains to be seen whether the government will give in to mounting pressure for disclosure. That or the arrival of an alien fleet for the whole world to see, making any government confirmation no longer necessary.
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Quand la Nasa est obligée d'assurer qu'elle n'a pas envoyé des colonies d'enfants esclaves sur Mars
Quand la Nasa est obligée d'assurer qu'elle n'a pas envoyé des colonies d'enfants esclaves sur Mars
DESINTOXLa rumeur est partie d'un témoignage lors d'une émission de télévision américaine...
Curiosity semble être seul sur Mars. — NASA/ SIPA
Des colonies d’enfants envoyées sur la planète Mars: ce n’est pas le scénario du dernier film de Ridley Scott mais une rumeur qui s’est rapidement répandue sur Internet. A tel point que la Nasa a préféré la démentir illico.
Tout a commencé jeudi 29 juin à la télévision américaine. Le présentateur Alex Jones, réputé pour aimer les théories du complot, a invité Robert David Steele à s’exprimer dans son émission The Alex Jones Show ( en replay ici). L’homme a affirmé que des enfants étaient kidnappés puis envoyés sur Mars via un voyage de vingt ans. Une fois arrivés, ces « enfants » n’avaient d’autre choix que de devenir des esclaves dans les colonies martiennes.
Et ce n’est pas tout. Robert David Steele ajoute : « Ils les terrorisent pour enrichir leur sang en adrénaline, et les tuent. Ça inclut aussi de les tuer, comme ça, ils peuvent récupérer la moelle récoltée. »
La Nasa a immédiatement réagi dans le Daily Beast, par la voix de son porte-parole Guy Webster. « Il n’y a pas d’humain sur Mars. Il y a des robots actifs sur Mars. Une rumeur était en train de se propager la semaine dernière qu’il n’y en avait pas. Il y en a. Mais il n’y a pas d’humain. »
Sur Twitter, certains ont préféré le prendre avec humour. « Si la NASA a kidnappé des gosses pour les envoyer sur Mars, il est mathématiquement impossible qu’il y ait des "colonies d’enfants" là-bas. Selon votre copain, ils ont voyagé 20 ans pour arriver à destination. DONC CE SONT DES COLONIES D’ADULTES. »
Alex Jones se fait souvent l’écho de ce genre de rumeur : en 2016, lors de la campagne présidentielle, le présentateur-producteur a relayé sur ses chaînes la théorie selon laquelle des proches d’Hillary Clinton géraient un réseau pédophile dans la cave d’une pizzeria à Washington. Convaincu de la véracité de cette information, un homme s’était rendu dans ce restaurant et avait ouvert le feu, sans faire de victime.
Now UFO experts have made wild claims the unidentified light show could actually have been set up by NASA.
Ufologists believe the space agency may have sent UFOs into the sky in order to prepare people on Earth from an impending invasion of extra-terrestrial life.
After multiple failed attempts, NASA's Malemute sounding rocket lit up the sky with blue, green and red artificial clouds on Thursday (June 29).
The light show was seen by witnesses across the US from North Carolina to New York.
Tweeting photos of the rocket launch, the agency called it “an early Independence Day fireworks display”.
The rocket launch – from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, US – reached an altitude of 118 miles and lasted eight minutes.
Four minutes in, it deployed 10 canisters about the size of soft drink cans, each containing a coloured vapour that forms artificial, luminescent clouds.
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CLAIMS: Alien experts claim NASA have been testing public reaction to an alien invasion
“This looked like an alien invasion and it would appear they’re testing technologies to get people frightened about these strange lights”
SecureTeam 10
But the Wallops facility, as well as local police stations, reportedly received 2,000 reports and photographs from stunned onlookers, terrified about what exactly the unidentified lights were.
Now conspiracy theorists claim it was all in preparation for an alien war.
“This looked like an alien invasion and it would appear they’re testing these different technologies that could potentially be used in order to get people frightened and flood the 911 centres with calls about these strange lights moving through the sky,” UFO expert SecureTeam 10 claimed in its latest YouTube video.
“They run their test, they got their reaction and they have the perfect cover story.
“Is this a test of Project Blue Beam?”
Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory that claims NASA is attempting to implement a New Age religion with the Antichrist at its head and start a New World Order, via a technologically-simulated “second coming”.
“Do you guys think that a lot of the UFO sightings we see are not from off planet but are in fact from our own government?” SecureTeam 10’s presenter Tyler asks viewers.
“Are they nothing but holographic simulations in order to condition us for the big alien invasion?”
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INCREDIBLE: NASA posted photos online of the rocket launch
While some viewers were shocked by the claims, others seemed unconvinced.
“The fear mongering in your videos is not necessary to gain a following, you being one pioneer of ufology you should be pursuing a change in how the public view aliens,” one fan commented on the clip – which has been seen more than 140,000 times in less than 24 hours.
These strange lights were spotted on an October night in 2016 in the Phoenix sky. Some people believe them to be a UFO.
(Twitter Photo/@tater_todd55)
PHOENIX — On World UFO Day, we look back on the Phoenix Lights and other notable UFO sightings in the past couple of years in the Valley.
The Phoenix Lights, which celebrated their 20th anniversary earlier this year, is remembered for the bizarre lights described as “otherworldly” that was seen by thousands of people in Nevada, Arizona and even parts of Mexico.
The timeline of the phenomenon tracks over several events, including a sight in the sky described as a V-shaped object the size of a commercial plane soaring through the air and a series of stationary orange and red lights.
Late last year, there was another uproar for a UFO sighting when several Twitter users asked if anyone else had seen what they had.
At least one person caught the lights on video and posted it to Twitter(WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE).
There was also the incident at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport earlier in 2016 when an employee said a massive, chevron-shaped UFO flew over him.
Those sightings weren’t the first in Arizona and they won’t be the last.
Op Wereld Ufo Dag op 2 juli wordt het bestaan van Ongeïdentificeerde Vliegende Objecten of ufo's gevierd. De Wereld Ufo Dag Organisatie wil op deze dag de bewustwording over het bestaan van ufo's verhogen. Volgens haar bestaan ufo's ongetwijfeld. De organisatie moedigt regeringen op deze dag ook aan om hun kennis over ufo-waarnemingen bekend te maken.
Er worden tijdens Wereld Ufo Dag talrijke ufo-activiteiten georganiseerd. Zo kijken mensen op op die samen naar de hemel om ufo's te spotten. Er wordt ook gekeken naar films over ufo's zoals E.T. en Men in Black. Maar hoe zit dat nu eigenlijk met die ufo-meldingen?
Hoewel de meningen over het wel of niet bestaan van UFO’s verdeeld zijn, houdt het ‘unidentified flying object’ – zoals de Engelse benaming luidt – de gemoederen wel bezig. In de periode 1947 tot 1989 is een groot aantal UFO’s waargenomen. Niet zo lang geleden is er nog een UFO gesignaleerd boven het Engelse Bracknell. Een top 10 van de UFO waarnemingen die het meeste indruk hebben gemaakt:
1. Roswellincident - 1947 De bekendste ufo-melding gebeurde in juli 1947 in de Verenigde Staten in Roswell in de staat New Mexico. Op een boerderij dichtbij Roswell zou er een vliegende schotel, een ufo, neergestort zijn. Talrijke getuigen beweerden dat het om een buitenaards ruimtevaartuig met buitenaardse lijken ging. De gebeurtenis werd heel snel wereldnieuws.
Volgens de Amerikaanse luchtmacht ging het echter om een neergestorte weerballon. Later kwamen er evenwel nieuwe verklaringen van de luchtmacht. De nieuwe verklaringen en de gewijzigde uitleg van de overheid heeft de geruchten over een werkelijke neerstorting van een ufo alleen maar gevoed.
Tussen eind 1989 en begin 1991 waren er in België een reeks waarnemingen van driehoekige ufo's. Deze waarnemingen staan bekend als de Belgische ufo-golf. Op een bepaald moment werden onbekende voorwerpen waargenomen door naar schatting 13.500 mensen op de grond.
Mensen namen ook foto's van de vermeende buitenaardse ruimtevaartuigen. De bekendste foto werd genomen in de Luikse gemeente Petit-Rechain. De wereldberoemde foto van een driehoekige ufo met verlichte hoeken bleek in 2011 een vervalsing te zijn. De fotograaf gaf toe aan de Franstalige televisiezender RTL-TVI dat het in werkelijkheid een maquette in piepschuim was.
3. De waarneming in Westall - 1966
In april 1966 zagen ruim 200 studenten – en hun leraren – van twee scholen in het Australische Melbourne een vliegende schotel in de lucht. Tot hun verbazing daalde de UFO neer in een nabijgelegen stuk gras. Even later steeg het object weer op en verdween in het luchtruim. Ondanks het feit dat de UFO zich – volgens hun zeggen – even in hun midden bevond, is geen van de getuigen erin geslaagd om een foto of video van deze waarneming te maken. Het object was ongeveer 20 minuten in beeld. Je kunt je voorstellen dat het ontbreken van enig beeld van deze waarneming door sceptici werd gebruikt om te benadrukken dat UFO’s – als ook buitenaards leven – niet bestaan. Hiermee samenhangend is beweerd dat het zou gaan om een experiment van de Australische luchtmacht. Overigens heeft de luchtmacht zich hierover nooit uitgesproken. Met enige regelmaat komen de studenten en leraren samen om hun UFO waarneming te herdenken.
4. De Kenneth Arnold case - 1947
In 1947 werd voor de eerste keer de aanduiding ‘vliegende schotel’ gebruikt. Deze woorden kwamen overeen met de verklaring van de Amerikaanse piloot Kenneth Arnold. Tijdens een vlucht – op 24 juni 1947 – werd Arnold’s toestel ingehaald door negen UFO’s. Arnold schatte in dat de objecten zich voortbewogen met een snelheid van circa 2.000 kilometer per uur. De UFO’s vlogen over de Mount Rainier. Bijzonder aan zijn UFO waarneming is dat Kenneth Arnold alle mogelijke verklaringen – die hij hoog in de lucht heeft bedacht – tot in detail met het publiek heeft gedeeld. Toen hij de lichten voor de eerste keer zag, dacht hij dat zijn vliegtuig een ander vliegtuig te dicht was genaderd. De radar maakte duidelijk dat zich in de verste verte geen ander toestel bevond. Daarna checkte Arnold of het niet een reflectie betrof van de vleugels van zijn toestel. De volgende gedachte – die bij hem opkwam – was dat het om een zwerm ganzen moest gaan. Deze beesten konden onmogelijk zo snel vliegen! Toen wist Kenneth Arnold het zeker; hij had een aantal UFO’s waargenomen.
5.Ufo's in Bracknell - 2013
Ufo's in Bracknell
Sceptici vonden het een goede grap; hoog in de lucht boven een pub in het Engelse Bracknell zou een UFO hebben gevlogen! Toch is getuige Steve Lambert – die met zijn mobiele telefoon een foto heeft gemaakt – ervan overtuigd dat hij een UFO heeft gezien. Zittende op het terras van de pub viel zijn oog op een vliegtuig – voorzien van twee lichten – dat zich bovengemiddeld snel door het luchtruim bewoog. Jammer genoeg was Lambert de enige, die het verschijnsel heeft opgemerkt. Begin van 2013 heeft zich in deze stad een vergelijkbaar voorval voorgedaan; toen nam een man – die anoniem wenst te blijven – een oranje/rood gekleurd object waar, dat zich pijlsnel verplaatste door de lucht. Vormt Bracknell misschien een soort knooppunt op de UFO routekaart?
6. Ronald Reagan zag UFO’s – 1974
Net als een aantal van zijn voorgangers, heeft ook president Ronald Reagan verklaard UFO’s te hebben gezien. Twee keer zelfs! In die periode (1967-1975) was Reagan aangesteld als gouverneur in de staat California. Tijdens de landing van het toestel – waarin hij zat – merkte de gouverneur een vreemd licht achter het vliegtuig op. Het zou gaan om een helder wit licht. Reagan gaf opdracht om achter het licht aan te gaan. Zo vloog het toestel een aantal minuten achter het lichtverschijnsel aan. Plotseling boog het licht af; het verdween met grote snelheid in de hemel. Alle aanwezigen – waaronder de crew – waren getuige van dit opmerkelijke verschijnsel. Geen van allen heeft zich er formeel over uitgesproken; men wilde niet het risico lopen om te worden uitgemaakt voor een onbenul. In latere interviews is Reagan er nog wel eens om gevraagd. Toen heeft hij het verhaal verteld, zoals hierboven is omschreven.
7. Levelland incident - 1957
Ook het zogenaamde incident bij Levelland (1957) kenmerkte zich door relatief veel getuigen. Zo hebben 15 verschillende mensen melding gemaakt van een eivormig, lichtgevend, vliegend voorwerp in de lucht boven de stad Levelland. Deze waarnemingen zijn gedaan in tijdsbestek van drie uur. De optelsom van deze feiten – het aantal getuigen in combinatie met het korte tijdsbestek waarin de verschijnselen zijn waargenomen – maakte dat UFO-deskundigen op het puntje van hun stoel gingen zitten! De Amerikaanse luchtmacht heeft verklaard dat het zou gaan om een bol bliksem. Dit verschijnsel staat ook wel bekend als ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’. De verklaring is gebaseerd op het onderzoek van een naar Levelland afgevaardigde sergeant. Op de dag na de waarnemingen heeft hij diverse mensen – waaronder drie ooggetuigen – gesproken. Hun kleurwaarnemingen in combinatie met de grillige weersomstandigheden brachten hem ertoe om te concluderen dat het om een uitzonderlijke vorm van bliksem zou gaan.
8. De lichten boven Phoenix - 1997
Op 13 maart 1997 zagen honderden mensen in de Amerikaanse staat Arizona verschillende lichtflitsen. Ook in Sonora (Mexico) zijn deze lichten waargenomen. Meer gedetailleerde verklaringen maken duidelijk dat het zou gaan om een driehoekige formatie van lichten – een UFO – omgeven door een aantal stilstaande lichten. Deze lichtverschijnselen staan ook wel bekend als de ‘Phoenix Lights’. Gezien de omvang van het gebied – en de vele ooggetuigen – kun jij je wel voorstellen dat hier honderden foto’s en video’s van gemaakt zijn! Het kon niet uitblijven of een woordvoerder van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht bracht de volgende verklaring naar buiten: de stilstaande lichten waren afkomstig van de vuurpijlen van een A-10 Thunderbolt II. Deze verklaring komt niet overeen met de bevindingen van de ooggetuigen. Immers, zij hebben geluidloze objecten gezien die geen rookspoor achterlieten. Ook is er beweerd dat het zou gaan om de vlucht van een geheim toestel. Ook deze bewering wordt in twijfel getrokken; de luchtmacht zou nooit een dergelijk toestel boven een stad met de omvang van Arizona laten vliegen.
9. Ufo's in São Paulo - 1986
In 1986 nam men via de radar in de Braziliaanse staat Sao Paulo welgeteld 20 UFO’s waar. Vanaf vliegvelden verspreid over het hele land stuurde de ‘Brazilian Air Force’ er een aantal militaire toestellen – waaronder twee F-5E en drie Mirage jet gevechtstoestellen – op af. Op het moment dat deze toestellen naderden, verdwenen de UFO’s als sneeuw voor de zon! Hoewel er nooit een spoor van de UFO’s is teruggevonden, heeft de woordvoerder van het ministerie van Luchtvaart verklaard dat er wel degelijk objecten in het luchtruim boven Brazilië zijn waargenomen. De radarbeelden maken onmiskenbaar duidelijk dat er sprake geweest moet zijn van bewegende, solide, metalen constructies.
10. Teheran incident - 1976
In 1976 – om precies te zijn in de nacht van 18 op 19 september – vond er een opmerkelijk ‘UFO incident’ plaats hoog boven Teheran. Het gesignaleerde object bewoog zich door het verboden luchtruim. Om die reden is er een bijzonder gedetailleerd rapport opgesteld. Na een aantal telefonische meldingen verplaatste Hossain Perouzi – het hoofd van de nachtdienst – zich naar het terras van de controletoren. Met behulp van een verrekijker nam hij een cilindervormig object van ongeveer twee meter breed en zeven meter lang waar. De uiteinden van het object kleurden witblauw; rondom het middengedeelte van de UFO was een rood licht. Perouzi aarzelde geen moment en gaf zijn waarneming door aan de luchtmacht. De toenmalige bevelhebber stuurde twee F-4 Phantom straaljagers het luchtruim in. Beide piloten waren niet in staat om het object van dichtbij te benaderen; alle instrumenten en communicatie vielen uit! In dezelfde nacht ondervond ook een burgertoestel een communicatiestoring.
Today marks World UFO Day, when hordes of people who believe the truth is out there, will turn their eyes to the sky in celebration of "the undoubted existence of UFOs". And nowhere have UFO sightings been more prolific than the tiny Central Belt town of Bonnybridge, now dubbed UFO capital of the world.
Every year, dedicated believers around the globe mark the day in a bid to bring awareness to their cause, arguing that paranormal activity should be recognised as a legitimate phenomenon and not as a fringe doctrine to be sniggered at.
Scotland will occupy a special place in the celebrations as it is home to the 'Falkirk Triangle', an area stretching between Bonnybridge, Edinburgh and Stirling where thousands of UFO sightings have been reported. Outdoing even Roswell, New Mexico, reportedly the scene of a UFO crash 60 years ago next month, and the Nevada desert home of classified US airbase Area 51, Bonnybridge has managed to claim the title of UFO capital thanks to a range of well-documented sightings of strange lights and flying saucers.
With a population of just 7,000 terrestrials, the town is looking forward to Scotland’s third National UFO and Paranormal Conference next weekend in Falkirk.
Hosted by a Scottish veteran of the cause, Bonnybridge councillor William Buchanan who has been documenting the paranormal activity in Bonnybridge since 1992, the conference serves to educate, enlighten and prove to attendees and sceptics alike that stranger things do happen in our world.
Alongside dealing with day-to-day constituency problems like bin collections and bus services, Buchanan has made awareness of UFO phemomena his main priority in office, writing to every Prime Minister since John Major asking that this issue be officially investigated.
He has featured in 240 paranormal documentaries worldwide after thousands of his constituents reported sightings to him.
“I’m not an expert," he said, "I’m just a wee councillor from Bonnybridge who was made to be involved in this. All I’m asking people is, what are these strange things in the sky? And I rule nothing out.
“Bonnybridge has gained notoriety over the years, but the UFO phenomenon here is just starting to gain some credibility.
“People have come forward who have far more authority than a wee woman living on Mansfield Avenue – astronauts, doctors, Steven Hawking; I mean, he’s idolised.”
Mr Buchanan has even gone so far as to write and record a single about UFO sightings in the area called The Lights of Bonnybridge which he says made it to number one in Azerbaijan.
Three experts will take to the floor on the day to speak on the conference’s main topics of angels, UFOs and how the supernatural has influenced famous people over time. Keen to stress that this is about a lot more than flying saucers, there will also be discussions on paranormal conspiracies, psychic mediums and the influence of the paranormal on world events.
Malcolm Robinson, a pioneer in UFO studies described by Councillor Buchanan as an "unsung hero", has written several books on the subject and will speaking at the conference next Saturday.
On the significance of holding the conference bang in the centre of the Falkirk Triangle he said: “There's no denying that we are dealing with something very real and tangible in Bonnybridge and it demands explanation.
“Our petition to open up a government enquiry into these UFO sightings has fallen on deaf ears. The government said that as these objects do not pose a threat to National security, they would not seek to open up an enquiry.
“This has annoyed me, because some of these UFO sightings have been so close that witnesses have said they could practically have thrown a stone at them.”
Robinson is the first Scotsman to deliver talks on UFOs to audiences in France Holland and America. As for any sceptics, he reminds them that John Logie Baird and The Wright Brothers were once mocked for their beliefs and ambitions.
“They are real, they have been recorded on radar by trained radar operators," he said. "They have been witnessed entering and exiting the oceans of this world. This mystery has been with us since the dawn of time.”
Scottish UFO and Paranormal Conference, Falkirk Town Hall, 8 July, £10. For more details and ticket information go to :
Although UFOs are no longer the fringe topic they once were, the official campaign of secrecy and ridicule against their becoming public knowledge, as described by former CIA director Roscoe Hillenkoetter, is still in effect. Recent episodes of Bill Nye’s new show, for example, openly ridiculing UFOs on national television, make this clear. The close relationship the CIA holds with the media is clearly at play here.
A wise person once said that “condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance,” and that is no less true when it comes to UFOs, a field so full of witness testimony and hard evidence that it’s a wonder mainstream media can still avoid covering it.
How anybody can still deny the existence of UFOs when the world’s brightest minds have been actively studying the phenomenon and the evidence available for decades is a mystery. Indeed, intelligence agencies like the CIA are recruiting the world’s top scientists to do so.
For example, a declassified secret document discovered in the CIA’s own electronic reading room titled a “Telephone Conversation With Dr. John A. Wheeler” shows how the agency was trying to recruit him to look into a “CIA attack on the flying saucer problem.”
The CIA has a long history of putting resources toward studying this phenomenon, as well as putting forth efforts to investigate what other countries know about it as well. For example, another unclassified document outlines:
Scientists of the PRC and the Soviet Far East have begun joint study of UFO’s. The first meeting of ufologists of the two countries has ended in the small maritime townlet of Dalnegorsk. The Soviet and Chinese specialists on anomalous phenomena have mapped out a program for investigating incidents that are already known and have also arranged to directly exchange video and photographic materials on new similar phenomena. Dalnegorsk has not been chosen by chance as the place for such acquaintance. In the last few years the number of cases of visual observation of UFO’s has noticeably increased there. In just the last four years alone no less than 10 UFO’s have been recorded. Specialists link their heightened interest in places here with the variety and wealth of useful minerals in Maritime Kray. Similar, incidents have also occurred in mountainous regions in China whose climatic conditions and natural landscape resemble our own. (source)
As for the Wheeler document, it shows how the agency really wanted him to work with the CIA on this subject, and that he regretted that he could not because of prior work comittments. It also mentions that “he would be pleased at any time to discuss the matter briefly.” It also states how Wheeler mentioned “two foreign nationals who were currently outstanding in related fields.”
The document goes on to mention a few other names, some of which are redacted, and others not, like former Director of Research at Cambridge, Massachusetts USAF research center, Dr. O’Day.
The document pertains to a “scientific attack” on the UFO problem.
Another document regarding the call with Wheeler states that he might actually have some time available to get involved.
The document doesn’t offer much information, but its existence itself proves that as far back as 1953 the CIA was looking into UFOs and recruiting the world’s top minds to study them.
“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)
The topic of UFOs lie within this world of classification that Senator Goldwater mentions above. Here is another video of him speaking on it.
The United States has had a history of government agencies existing in secret for years. Though the National Security Agency (NSA) was founded in 1952, its existence was hidden until the mid 1960s. Even more secretive is the National Reconnaissance Office, which was founded in 1960 but remained completely secret for 30 years.
We are talking about Special Access Programs (SAP). From these we have unacknowledged and waived SAPs. These programs do not exist publicly, but they do indeed exist. They are better known as ‘deep black programs.’ A 1997 US Senate report described them as “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.”
Just imagine the scientists working in the world of intelligence today, those who are examining these craft, and those who work inside, the ones dealing with the science that goes on in the black budget world. These people have no lives.
Take Dr. Norman Bergrun, for example. He’s worked for Ames Research Laboratory, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, now known as Lockheed Martin. He then went on to found Bergrun Engineering and Research.
You can view some of his publications for NASA, where he worked for more than a decade, here.
In this interview, he outlines what it’s like in that world, and how these scientists aren’t really allowed to have much of a life, as they are constantly kept behind closed doors.
The Sturrock Panel
Independent scientists have also investigated UFOs. Below is a clip from the Thrive documentary that has now amassed over 100 million views. I apologize if you’ve seen it before, as I’ve posted it multiple times.
Another great example comes from what’s know as the Sturrock Panel. In the 1990s Peter Andrew Sturrock, a British scientist and Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, met with other prominent scientists from around the world to examine the physical evidence that is commonly associated with the UFO phenomenon. One example used by Sturrock in his analysis is a photo taken by two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots on August 27th, 1956, in McCleod, Alberta, Canada. (“Physical Evidence Related To UFO Reports” – The Sturrock Panel Report – Electromagnetic Effects) (source) (source)
“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? If those facts are strong enough to lead to a firm conclusion, then will be the time to confront the more bizarre questions. If, for instance, it turns out that all physical evidence is consistent with a mundane interpretation of the causes of UFO reports, there will be little reason to continue to speculate about the role of extraterrestrial beings. If, on the other hand, the analysis of physical evidence turns up very strong evidence that objects related with UFO reports were manufactured outside the solar system, then one must obviously consider very seriously that the phenomenon involves not only extraterrestrial vehicles but probably also extraterrestrial beings.”
The 2011 Global Competitiveness Forum, at which a number of prominent scientists attended, featured a lecture by 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, on the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon. There, he also discusses the physical evidence we currently have.
“I must say that if your listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports coming in from airborne gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of which reports are being forwarded by us to the CNES (National Center for Space Studies), then they would see that it is all pretty disturbing.”
– Former French Minister of Defense Robert Galley (Dolan, Richard. UFOs For the 21st Century Mind: New York: Richard Dolan Press, 2014.)
Thousands upon thousands of previously classified documents related to UFOs and potential extraterrestrial beings have been released into the public domain by dozens of governments, as well as several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. In the United States, the NSA, CIA, and FBI have done the same, proving that these agencies put significant resources toward studying this phenomenon. The topic has exited the realm of “conspiracy theory” and entered into the realm of reality, largely due to the efforts of hundreds of military whistleblowers of all ranks, as well as politicians and academics. We’re talking about generals, pilots, professors, astronauts, world leaders, and more. If one thing is abundantly clear, it’s that something is going on here, and some people have known about it for a very long time.
It’s no secret that countries spy on each other, and use a variety of methods to do so. Take the American government’s STARGATE project, for example, which investigated parapsychology and then used their findings to spy on other countries. Of course, we can’t forget about the Snowden leaks, which showed how the U.S. government actively spies on not only their own citizens, but also on major corporations, financial institutions, and other countries.
When it comes to the topic of UFOs, this is no exception. Multiple governments have black budget operations, referred to Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (SAPs) in the United States, and they have absolutely zero oversight from Congress.
A document found online in the CIA’s electronic reading room outlines how the CIA was gathering intelligence on a joint effort between the USSR and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This was almost two decades ago, when scientists from the USSR as well as the PRC initiated a joint study on UFOs, and stands as yet another document showing how seriously global governments have investigated UFOs throughout history:
Scientists of the PRC and the Soviet Far East have begun joint study of UFO’s. The first meeting of ufologists of the two countries has ended in the small maritime townlet of Dalnegorsk. The Soviet and Chinese specialists on anomalous phenomena have mapped out a program for investigating incidents that are already known and have also arranged to directly exchange video and photographic materials on new similar phenomena. Dalnegorsk has not been chosen by chance as the place for such acquaintance. In the last few years the number of cases of visual observation of UFO’s has noticeably increased there. In just the last four years alone no less than 10 UFO’s have been recorded. Specialists link their heightened interest in places here with the variety and wealth of useful minerals in Maritime Kray. Similar, incidents have also occurred in mountainous regions in China whose climatic conditions and natural landscape resemble our own. (source)
If The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis Is True, What Are They Interested In and Why Are They Here?
“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.”
– Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer (source)
The document above was definitely an interesting find, particularly because it reveals that the experts who gathered in this joint effort linked the presence of these beings to the natural resources in the area. Now, if you’re thinking that extraterrestrials are going to invade us and use our planet for our resources, you’re probably incorrect. Why? Because the evidence suggests we have been being visited for a long time now. If some type of “invasion” were being planned, like the ones commonly portrayed in movies and television, it probably would have already happened.
It was also an interesting find for me personally because I’ve been researching this topic for a long time and have come across several stories regarding extraterrestrial craft landing, humanoid bodies exiting the vehicle, and the beings taking rocks and plants, almost like an ET scientist exploring our planet.
Other “experiencers” have also suggested many of these extraterrestrials are actually concerned with the well-being of our planet. This has been the sentiment of a large number of people who claim to have contact experiences, or telepathic experiences with extraterrestrial beings.
One of the most astonishing UFO witness cases comes from a supposed encounter with over sixty schoolchildren in the town of Ruwa, Zimbabwe, on September 16th, 1994. The children claim to have seen multiple hovering objects that resembled what we would describe as spaceships. Many of these children have now grown up, stating that they were shown images of a destroyed Earth in the future unless we collectively, as one human race, turn it around. You can read more about that specific story here.
There are literally thousands of these stories, most sharing similar details, and there are also countless whistleblowers adding to the evidence. For example, Colonel Ross Dedrickson, who, in the 1950s, was responsible for maintaining the inventory of the nuclear weapon stockpile for the AEC and accompanying security teams checking out the security of the weapons, among many other duties throughout his career, gave an interview about it shortly after he passed, stating that some extraterrestrials are primarily concerned with the well-being of our planet.
He has also been outspoken about UFOs and their constant presence around nuclear missile facilities. To read more about that in detail, you can check out this related article:
Strong Evidence Shows Extraterrestrials Have Been Shutting Down Nuclear Missiles Worldwide For Decades, But Why?
“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)
– Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon
I am going to leave you with this video, as I’ve done countless times before, so I apologize if you’ve seen it already. As the years go by, the evidence continues to get stronger and stronger, more so than the evidence we use to approve our prescription drugs, or posit the existence of black holes, for example.
UFO’s erg geïnteresseerd in gebieden die rijk zijn aan mineralen. Wat weet de CIA hier nog meer over?
UFO’s erg geïnteresseerd in gebieden die rijk zijn aan mineralen. Wat weet de CIA hier nog meer over?
Er zijn inmiddels vele duizenden documenten over UFO’s en buitenaards leven naar buiten gebracht, onder andere door de NSA, de CIA en de FBI.
Gebleken is dat deze overheidsagentschappen veel geld hebben geïnvesteerd in het onderzoek naar dit fenomeen.
Dankzij de getuigenissen van honderden klokkenluiders, politici en wetenschappers worden mensen die zich hiermee bezighouden niet langer gezien als complotdenkers.
Bespioneren
We hebben het hier over generaals, piloten, professoren, astronauten, wereldleiders, enzovoorts. Er is iets aan de hand en sommige mensen weten al heel lang dat dat zo is.
Het is geen geheim meer dat landen elkaar bespioneren. Neem bijvoorbeeld het Stargate Project van de Amerikaanse overheid, waarbij parapsychologie werd toegepast om andere landen te bespioneren.
Edward Snowden liet zien dat de Amerikaanse overheid niet alleen haar eigen burgers, maar ook grote corporaties, financiële instellingen en andere landen bespioneert.
Geheime operaties
UFO’s zijn in dit geval geen uitzondering. Veel overheden voeren geheime operaties uit. In Amerika heten deze operaties bijvoorbeeld special access programs (SAPs).
Op de website van de CIA is nu een document opgedoken dat toont hoe de CIA informatie verzamelde over een samenwerkingsverband tussen de Sovjet-Unie en China.
Bijna 20 jaar geleden besloten wetenschappers uit beide landen gezamenlijk onderzoek te doen naar UFO’s.
Serieus
Het gaat hier opnieuw om een document waaruit blijkt hoe serieus overheden in het verleden onderzoek hebben gedaan naar dit fenomeen.
Ufologen uit de twee landen kwamen bijeen in de stad Dalnegorsk. De specialisten wisselden videomateriaal en foto’s uit en werkten aan een programma om incidenten te onderzoeken.
Dalnegorsk werd niet zomaar uitgekozen. In de jaren voor de bijeenkomst werden daar steeds meer UFO’s gezien.
Nuttige mineralen
In vier jaar tijd werden er minstens 10 onbekende objecten waargenomen boven de stad.
Volgens specialisten waren de UFO’s erg geïnteresseerd in het gebied vanwege de schat aan nuttige mineralen die er in de grond zit.
Ze merkten op dat zich in bergachtige gebieden in China soortgelijke incidenten hebben voorgedaan op plekken die qua landschap lijken op Dalnegorsk.
Be Aware! US to Create Military 'Space Corps' In Air Force Overhaul
Be Aware! US to Create Military 'Space Corps' In Air Force Overhaul
Members of the US House Armed Services Committee have voted to create a "Space Corps," a sixth branch of the country’s armed forces focused on military maneuvers beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
The space corps, which has yet to gain full approval, would absorb all of the Air Force’s current space missions under the umbrella of a new US Space Command could be implemented as soon as January 2019 reports RTnews.
It is striking that under the plan all operations involving the Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane would fall under the control of the US Space Corps.
The X-37B space plane has flown four clandestine missions to date, carrying secret payloads on long-duration flights in Earth orbit.
Many people wonder whether the X-37B space plane is used for space weapon tests: It’s a secret project to make war in space or they wonder whether the plane is used as a shuttle service for the transportation of astronauts to and from the secret Solar Warden Fleet?
The payload bay which measures 7 feet long by 4 feet wide (2.1 by 1.2m) provides enough space for one or two astronauts.
With the announcement of the US Space Corps we might wonder whether it is a covert operation and actually a next step to unveil the existence of the Solar Warden Space Fleet which would fit perfectly.
Another reason for concern is the possibility that this new US Space Corps could be used for a false flag alien invasion whether or not in combination with the secret space fleet and advanced blue beam technology.
The space corps, which would be the first new military service since 1947, is not specifically banned by the Outer Space Treaty, a 1967 international agreement outlawing the use of the moon and other celestial bodies from being used as military outposts.
Be Aware! US to Create Military 'Space Corps' In Air Force Overhaul
Be Aware! US to Create Military 'Space Corps' In Air Force Overhaul
Members of the US House Armed Services Committee have voted to create a "Space Corps," a sixth branch of the country’s armed forces focused on military maneuvers beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
The space corps, which has yet to gain full approval, would absorb all of the Air Force’s current space missions under the umbrella of a new US Space Command could be implemented as soon as January 2019 reports RTnews.
It is striking that under the plan all operations involving the Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane would fall under the control of the US Space Corps.
The X-37B space plane has flown four clandestine missions to date, carrying secret payloads on long-duration flights in Earth orbit.
Many people wonder whether the X-37B space plane is used for space weapon tests: It’s a secret project to make war in space or they wonder whether the plane is used as a shuttle service for the transportation of astronauts to and from the secret Solar Warden Fleet?
The payload bay which measures 7 feet long by 4 feet wide (2.1 by 1.2m) provides enough space for one or two astronauts.
With the announcement of the US Space Corps we might wonder whether it is a covert operation and actually a next step to unveil the existence of the Solar Warden Space Fleet which would fit perfectly.
Another reason for concern is the possibility that this new US Space Corps could be used for a false flag alien invasion whether or not in combination with the secret space fleet and advanced blue beam technology.
The space corps, which would be the first new military service since 1947, is not specifically banned by the Outer Space Treaty, a 1967 international agreement outlawing the use of the moon and other celestial bodies from being used as military outposts.
Weird humanoid-like object caught on camera flying over New Zealand
Weird humanoid-like object caught on camera flying over New Zealand
A weird object has been observed in the skies over New Zealand on July 1, 2017.
The photographer who took images of the object has no idea what it is, though he got the feeling that it might be a kind of machine.
About the event the photographer states: I take photos of the sky quite often and decided to take some cloud shots in the afternoon. I did not see this object until looking back at my photos and noticed a pinpoint dot two photos. After I zoomed in and spotted an object of strange shape and red in color.
A few of my friends have seen the images too and they have no idea what it could be. I have tried to zoom in and filter with no luck at all I feel like it's part of a machine or something but it looks nothing familiar at all. At all, it's fascinating that I caught this shot which I have submitted to Mufon case 84734 and I will keep it forever.
Additional: I have also tried to analyze the object en to me it looks like something is carrying a body, what tends to be a humanoid form keeping his hands on some sort of laptop/notebook or could it be a control panel?
Did the witness accidentally has captured a so-called Manned Maneuvering Unit something like NASA Astronaut Bruce McCandless has used outside the Space Shuttle Challenger on the Shuttle mission STS-41B in 1984?
Could it be a secret test case of a Maneuvering Unit manned with a new technology resembling a humanoid or a robotic form?
Inflated aliens sun themselves at the Washington Country Fair in Abingdon, Virginia.
On a July night last summer, after watching the Elizabethton Twins beat the Bristol Pirates 6-3, a man in Bristol, Tennessee, reported seeing a slow-moving red orb floating above Volunteer Parkway, making its way northeast toward Walmart.
The man was walking his dog after the game and saw the orb coming toward his house, located just behind the store.
“I ran inside the house to get my girlfriend so that she could also see it as it passed over,” the man told the Davenport, Washington-based National UFO Reporting Center, which doesn’t release the identity of those who report UFO sightings. “As I came back outside, I observed [the orb] traveling at a high rate of speed, heading southeast … as it became a small dot and went out of sight.”
Such close encounters of the third kind have popped up from time to time in the Mountain Empire. In the Tri-Cities area, at least 26 unidentified flying objects have been reported to the National UFO Reporting Center since 2015, according to the center’s reporting database.
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO incident, when an “unidentified object” crashed on a ranch northwest of the city. Air Force officials at the time claimed it was a weather balloon. In the 1990s, the U.S. military revealed it involved a top-secret atomic espionage project called Project Mogul.
Alternate theories about the event have shrouded it ever since the crash.
This fall will be the 30th anniversary of the wave of UFO sightings near Wytheville, Virginia, in 1987, when scores of people reported various strange lights in the sky.
So, is there truth to these extraterrestrial tales? You’ll have to decide. Come along for the ride anyway. It’ll be out of this world.
‘Strange lights in the sky’
After Wythe County Sheriff Wayne Pike told the public in October 1987 that four of his deputies, including some with military experience, had witnessed a UFO, the floodgates were open.
In the following months and well into 1988, a wave of people reported seeing strange lights and objects in the sky.
Danny Gordon, then the news director of radio station WYVE, also reported seeing a strange craft. A news conference in mid-October drew national attention and by the following year, Gordon personally received more than 3,000 reports, according to news reports.
Paul Dellinger worked as a reporter for The Roanoke Times for more than 40 years, covering counties in Southwest Virginia out of the paper’s Wytheville office. After Gordon’s first radio story, Dellinger began reporting the events, like when Sheriff Pike said some of his deputies saw strange objects in the sky.
“All of a sudden, everybody started seeing things,” Dellinger said.
Gordon and Dellinger started working together. Gordon had people who claimed to have witnessed UFOs on his radio show. Dellinger was there to take notes.
Dellinger said there were “some strange lights in the sky.” He even saw something odd one night.
“I was driving home at night and saw a light down at end of our road that looked like a streetlight, but like a scintillating light,” he said.
Dellinger said the light came down very slowly over the road and moved at the speed of a balloon. He also described hearing a very quiet motor.
The Wytheville hype gained national attention. Dellinger said a reporter from the National Inquirer came to look into the reports, but left without a story.
“He said it wasn’t sensational enough,” Dellinger said, laughing.
Despite his own experience, Dellinger said he’s not sure anyone saw actual UFOs.
“I don’t believe this particular set of sightings were extraterrestrial, but I don’t know what it was,” he said.
People have come up with explanations from balloons to blimps to experimental aircraft by the government.
“But nobody has ever come to a conclusion on it,” he said.
Gordon and Dellinger wrote a book about the ordeal called “Don't Look Up: The Real Story Behind the Virginia UFO Sightings.”
Gail Cooke and het late husband Bruce, stand next to the flying saucer in Blountville, Tennessee in 2003. Bruce built the saucer by attaching two satellite dishesand attaching legs.
Seeking hard evidence
Is the truth out there? Peter Davenport thinks so. Davenport is the director of the National UFO Reporting Center. It was started in 1974 by a retired Seattle fireman who was interested in the UFO phenomenon and believed the issue needed a central headquarters to gather information, Davenport said.
In 1994, Davenport took over. He said he fields anywhere from 15 to 30 reports of UFOs per day. The online database that he maintains has more than 100,000 entries from all 50 states, the territories of Canada and some other countries.
“Once you start seeing the data and seeing what people are seeing and observing and experiencing, you begin to realize there is a larger reality than what our mere five senses suggest is the case,” he said.
When he was 6, Davenport, surrounded by his family and hundreds of other people, said he saw a UFO at a drive-in theater in St. Louis.
“I’ve been hooked by the subject ever since, I’m afraid,” he said.
Davenport is aware there are skeptics out there. His response to those who doubt the existence of UFOs is to look at the data; he’s not a fan of the term “belief.”
“What I seek is evidence,” he said. “Photographic evidence, radar evidence — multiple eye witnesses, all of whom seem to be independent and reliable, reporting the same thing — that is the type of data I aspire to collect.”
Occasionally, instead of taking a page from E.T. and phoning home or phoning the NUFORC, those who claim to spot UFOs call the police.
Chief Deputy Byron Ashbrook of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said calls about UFOs are rare, but they do occur — maybe once or twice a year.
Ashbrook said the calls are treated like any other air traffic incident, like a report of a low-flying plane, for instance. Deputies ask for a detailed description and any identifying marks. Sometimes, they’ll call local airports for information.
Capt. Charlie Thomas, of the Bristol Tennessee Police Department, said in the time he has been at the department, since 1992, he hasn’t witnessed anything inexplicable.
If something were reported, “we’d go look and see if we observe whatever it was they were reporting and go from there,” he said.
Thomas said he knows of one UFO story from sometime in the late ’70s or ’80s, when a man wrecked his car near King College.
“His excuse was a UFO ran him off the road,” Thomas said.
Blountville’s own UFO
Drivers who pass Blountville Boulevard and Birch Street may run off the road if they’re unprepared for the UFO and two aliens resting in Gail Cooke’s front yard.
It’s an odd sight: The silver UFO is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Each alien is painted silver and stands about 4 feet tall. These days, one of the aliens is missing a head.
The UFO and the aliens in the yard of Gail Cooke have seen better days with effects of weather. The scene is photographed several times a week by passers-by and those who seek out the location.
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The otherworldly scene has been in the area for 40 years, since Cooke’s husband, Bruce, built it from a variety of parts. It has become something of a famous photo opp. Cooke, 77, said most days, two or three groups stop to take a photo by the UFO.
Cooke said the site has been on the internet since the internet’s inception.
“People may not remember anybody’s name, but they know where the spaceship is,” she said.
Cooke’s husband, Bruce, died six years ago. Many years ago, he told her he saw a UFO near his work at Holston Ordinance Works.
“I don’t know whether he did or not or whether he was just sleeping or dreaming,” Cooke said, laughing.
As for her own belief, Cooke said she doesn’t think about it too much.
“It makes sense that we’re not here by ourself,” she said. “I don’t know what’s out there, but I’m not going to worry about it — I have a hard time taking care of my little corner.
“There’s a lot of things in the world and in the universe that we don’t know, and we’re not meant to know and not meant to understand,” she said. “But you can’t say no to anything.”
Cooke’s UFO is made from two large fiberglass satellite dishes and a furnace top. Its legs came off a big TV camera. The aliens are plastic mannequins with foam heads.
Cooke said a lot of people have offered to buy the UFO.
“It’ll be there until I’m gone,” she said. “Somebody else can sell it.”
The truth
Davenport said a lot of witnesses want to call and talk at length about what they saw.
He prefers to get them off the phone and start writing.
“The more you talk to a witness, the more you risk including information on the final report that may not have been there,” he said. “The more you talk to a witness, the less likely you are to get a written follow-up report.”
He receives photos nearly every day, but he’s often let down.
“The overwhelming majority of the photos are not very satisfying,” Davenport said. “They’re vague, of poor quality and often taken with a cell phone.”
When asked if he worries that people are calling in hoaxes, Davenport said he can’t know for sure that every call is legitimate, but that doesn’t matter.
“That’s the same in journalism, it’s the same in law, in business, in government service — that is a problem that plagues every aspect of our existence on this planet: a person telling you the truth.”
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Seventy years after government report of aliens, Roswell draws UFO faithful
Seventy years after government report of aliens, Roswell draws UFO faithful
By Robert Nott | The New Mexican
Brody Long, 9, of Roswell smiles as Ed Cook of Roswell, dressed as the Predator, pats his head Saturday in Roswell during the city’s annual UFO Festival. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
A welcome to Roswell signs greets drivers before entering the city. After the Roswell incident, residents has embrased the alien brand. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
R2-GN3, a distant cousin of R2-D2, greets visitors Friday at the museum in Roswell. Frank Renda of Fort Worth, Texas has built the robot and brought him to Roswell this weekend. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
Many Roswell storefronts feature images of UFOs or extraterrestrials on their windows , including El Toro Bravo, a Mexican restaurant on Main Street. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
ROSWELL — One hot day in early July 1947, rancher William “Mac” Brazel told Lincoln County Sheriff George Wilcox that he had found strange debris from some sort of aircraft crash at a remote site out in the desert, about 40 miles from Corona, N.M.
The sheriff called military officials at the Roswell Army Air Field, and Maj. Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer, went out to investigate.
Within a day, the U.S. Army Air Force sent out a news release announcing it had found the remnants of a flying saucer. The Roswell Daily Record’s headline July 8, 1947, said it all: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.” The nation, swept up by a series of reports on unexplained discs in the skies, was transfixed by the possibility of visitors from outer space.
But the excitement was short-lived. On July 9, the Army Air Force retracted the story, saying the debris was actually from a weather balloon. Maj. Marcel posed for a now-famous photograph beside the balloon wreckage, and interest in the crash faded.
For 30 years, the Roswell Incident, as it is known, remained nothing more than a vague memory, one of many so-called “flying saucer” sightings in the anxious post-World War II days that ushered in the Cold War.
Then, in the late 1970s, a number of investigators, including nuclear physicist, author and UFO expert Stanton Friedman, began taking a second look at the crash, interviewing dozens of witnesses. The talks renewed media interest and spurred theories of a massive government cover-up that included death threats and, possibly, fatalities of people who had seen alien remains. There have since been dozens of books about the Roswell Incident and a 1990s TV movie. The X Files, a long-running science-fiction TV series, covered Roswell in one episode. Some years ago, the town even presented a short-lived original theatrical production called Roswell: The Musical.
In the early 1990s, the Roswell UFO Museum opened on Main Street, drawing thousands of tourists from all over the world, and a few years later, the town held its first UFO Festival.
Businesses in the city, capitalizing on visitors’ curiosity, offer alien-themed souvenirs and sport signs that say, “Aliens Welcome” or “UFO and Alien Stuff.” King Treasure House on Main Street, which offers “inspirational books,” advertises its wares as being “not of this world.”
“The word ‘Roswell’ is synonymous with UFOs,” said Jim Hill, the museum’s executive director.
As Roswell began commemorating the 70th anniversary of the crash and celebrating the museum’s 25th year, about 15,000 visitors converged on the town late last week and throughout the weekend for the 22nd annual UFO Festival. The four-day event featured lectures by experts and enthusiasts, a panel talk by people who say they’ve been abducted by extraterrestrials, a discussion of “demonic” UFOs, a dramatic reading of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, an electric light parade and an “alien pet” contest.
“We are a town stamped by something that happened in 1947,” said Roswell Mayor Dennis J. Kintigh, a former state representative, FBI agent and Air Force veteran who worked in the aerospace industry. His background is enough to deepen the suspicion of conspiracy theorists.
“Roswell has a brand — and good, bad or indifferent, it is our brand,” Kintigh said.
That brand means money for a town struggling with a 6.3 percent unemployment rate — just under the state’s 6.6 percent average — and an uncertain oil and gas revenue base. The UFO Museum, which keeps handwritten logs of visitors, recorded more than 200,000 guests in 2016. The city’s 26 hotels reported a total of 248,476 room bookings last year.
Businesses particularly prosper during the UFO Festival. City officials expect this weekend’s event to funnel $6 million into the local economy. Juanita Jennings, a city spokeswoman, said every hotel room and rental car in the city was booked by Friday afternoon.
Jessie Payne, manager of The Alien Zone, where tourists can pose for photos with fake extraterrestrial figures in everyday settings — a bar, a living room, an outhouse — said the store doubles its profits during the four days of the festival.
Peggy Krantz, who runs the downtown Gallery-Main Street Arts store, said sales quadruple. “During the UFO Festival, every single artist will sell,” she said.
Even when the festival is not in progress, businesses benefit from the UFO brand.
Melissa Cobos and her husband run The Nifty 50s retro novelty store just a few blocks away from the UFO Museum. She knows which of her customers have been to the museum because they are still wearing the bright yellow sticker handed out at the entrance. And most of them come for the UFO story.
“I don’t need to do a survey to see how beneficial aliens are to us,” she said. “I am the survey.”
The UFO connection provides a financial lifeline that doesn’t even require much advertising.
“You couldn’t spend millions and get this kind of publicity,” said John Mulcahy, president of the Roswell-Chaves County Economic Development Corp., a nonprofit designed to create jobs and increase prosperity in the region. “Roswell and its aliens has an international brand,” he added.
Australia native Roo Kline, who visited the UFO Museum on Friday with her son, Jesse, agrees. “Roswell is known worldwide,” she said. “You mention Roswell, and everybody knows what you are talking about.”
Before there were aliens
Once just a cattle-drive stop for cowhands to wet their whistles and eat some grub, Roswell is now a town of not quite 50,000 people driven by oil and gas revenue, agriculture, dairies and tourism.
The flies are everywhere. They’re drawn to the dairies and the manure that ranchers and farmers use to fertilize their lands.
Van C. Smith and partner Aaron Wilburn are credited with founding Roswell — about 200 miles southeast of Albuquerque and 200 miles northeast of Las Cruces — after they built a couple of adobe structures in the area around 1869.
Smith became the town’s first postmaster and named it after his father.
When the bloody Lincoln County War broke out nearby, tiny Roswell remained a neutral refuge, local historian John LeMay said. That’s because it had the only post office in the area, and Smith told both sides that if they acted up, he would close down the service.
“Both sides were afraid to cause violence because they were afraid they would not get their mail,” LeMay said.
Billy the Kid, one of the most notorious men involved with that war, was never a problem in Roswell, LeMay said, because Smith’s successor, former Confederate officer Joseph Lea, warned Billy not to instigate trouble.
“I always joke that if Billy the Kid had shot up the town, we’d have something extra to promote today,” LeMay said.
The railroad came to town in the 1890s, about the same time the New Mexico Military Institute opened.
LeMay said “nothing much of interest” happened in Roswell between the turn of the century and the early 1930s, when rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard came to town to experiment with liquid-fueled rockets. Few locals were aware of this.
Whether any of them saw strange lights darting through the night sky at the time is unknown.
The Army Air Force opened an air base, later named Walker Air Force Base, in 1941. During World War II, the government built a German prisoner-of-war camp in Roswell, and you can still see the Cross of Iron those prisoners made in the rock wall of the Pecos River, which weaves its way through downtown.
If the town was known for anything at all in those days, based on a look at old Roswell postcards, it was for the military institute and for being “the gateway to Ruidoso.”
Today, it is known for its extraterrestrials.
They are everywhere, like the flies: on city street lamps, on storefront windows, on menus — many local restaurants offer Alien Burgers — and in even the choice of green — as in Little Green Men — or red chile.
A 3-year-old local dance troupe calls itself the Alien Evolution Dance Co. The ensemble recently purchased some green polyester costumes for a performance during the UFO Festival.
“If it weren’t for the aliens, we would be just like any other small town,” said 14-year-old Haily Gonzales, who dances with the troupe.
‘The universe is so big’
Roswell historian and UFO researcher Dennis Balthasar said the Roswell Incident has held the public’s fascination for decades because “it was the first reported UFO crash and the only one where the government went public. And that was a mistake.”
Friedman, who gave several talks during this weekend’s festival, said the Roswell Incident is the “ultimate” case in UFO history because the story broke at a time when people were confident in the government and then resurfaced amid growing distrust.
The initial news followed a terrible world war that took millions of lives, Friedman said. Postwar Americans still had faith in their government, so when the Army Air Force first said a spacecraft was found, and then explained it away as a weather balloon, the public bought the story.
“Right after the war, if our government said something, we believed it,” he said. “They wouldn’t lie to us.”
About a decade before the incident, film and theater actor and director Orson Welles wrote and produced a radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. The show terrified listeners, many of whom believed the broadcast was a real-life, on-the-spot account of invaders from outer space. If there were a UFO involved in the Roswell Incident, Friedman and others said, the public’s hysterical reaction to Welles’ radio show may have made government officials cautious about sharing the news.
The Roswell story was revived following the Vietnam War and the Watergate era, when Americans had grown wary of the government.
Interest in the story continued to develop as the government offered different explanations for the crash.
While some witnesses claimed to have caught glimpses of small, unearthly bodies scattered around the debris area, the Air Force — which became a separate branch of the military shortly after the crash — announced decades later that what people saw were dummies used in a high-altitude parachuting test.
But the Air Force did not initiate that test until the early 1950s, Friedman said.
In the mid-1990s, the government said the crash came amid a top-secret program called Project Mogul to test a way to detect Soviet nuclear detonations.
Still, stories remain of government men dressed all in black, warning locals and military personnel involved in the incident not to speak of it, leading many to fear they might face some sort of reprisal. Jesse Marcel III, the grandson of the officer who first visited the crash site in 1947, said during an appearance at the UFO Festival that this cloud of fear hung over his grandfather until the man’s death.
Many people at the festival said they believe something from another planet did crash in the New Mexico desert 70 years ago. They want to believe.
One of them was Katherine Diaz, 14, from San Antonio, Texas, who vividly recalled seeing a spacecraft hovering in the skies over the Nevada desert one dark night during a family road trip.
“It was triangular, with a light on each end of it and a big red light in the middle,” she said.
Her mother was driving, and her father and brother were sleeping. None of them saw it.
“They don’t believe me,” Diaz said as she walked through the UFO Museum.
She believes, she said. “The universe is so big, we can’t be the only ones in it.”
UFO City’s uncertain future
Younger generations, weaned on science-fiction films and animated shows in which extraterrestrials figure prominently, may be more prone to believing in life on other planets than their parents and grandparents, Balthasar said.
“For young people who grew up on Star Wars, Star Trek and The X Files, aliens is no big deal,” he said.
But Balthasar was one of few people who suggested that interest in the incident, and in Roswell itself, will wane over the years, likely taking a toll on the city’s economy. Looking ahead to 2047, the centennial of the Roswell Incident, he said, “Most of the researchers will be gone by then, and if nobody new picks it up, it could die off. And nobody new or young is picking it up.”
Most others disagree. Anne Baker, owner of the Stellar Coffee Co. on Main Street — which offers a refreshing Kiwi Alien Soda — said, “It hasn’t faded away by now, and it’s not going to fade away. There have been times in Roswell’s history when locals wanted to forget about it because there is so much more to Roswell than the UFO Incident, and it still didn’t die. It won’t die.”
Molly Boyles, owner of Once Again Consignment on Main Street, also has faith that the brand will stick forever. “Something — whatever it was that crashed — has helped keep Roswell alive and made it what it is. I don’t think that’s going to go away.”
Marcel III said he believes the U.S. government may soon reveal more information about the Roswell Incident, which would increase interest and attention.
“I almost think the government is ready to get this out … and I almost think that I may be one of the people they use to get it out,” he told about 75 people who attended a discussion about his father and grandfather’s involvement in the incident.
Roswell, he said, continues to fascinate people for one reason: “Roswell is about believing.”
Area 51 is one of the most secretive locations in the world.
Now, UFO hunters at SecureTeam 10 have released leaked footage which they claim shows an alien craft is hiding in the Nevada-based military facility.
The strange video appears to show a flying object hovering in the sky and then flying away - emitting a strange light as it sporadically moves side to side.
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UFO hunters SecureTeam 10 have now released leaked footage which they claim shows an alien craft is hiding in the Nevada military facility
SECURETEAM 10 CONTROVERSY
SectureTeam10 is one of the most viewed YouTube channels, with over 785,000 people subscribing to its conspiracy videos.
But the channel has come under fire, as Lions Ground, a rival channel, claims that it has been intentionally fooling its viewers.
According to Lions Ground, SecureTeam10 has been raking in an estimated £600 ($745) a day by posting fake videos that 'outsmart UFO believers.'
'It's one of the mysterious pieces in UFOlogy', said Tyler Glockner who runs SecureTeam 10 on the YouTube clip.
He described the footage, which was believed to have been filmed in the 1980s or 1990s, as a 'hidden gem'.
The unexplained object appears to be getting higher and higher and releases a strange light as the footage goes on.
The Nevada-based military testing facility has been a focal point of many conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists since the late 1970s, who claim that the base houses secretive alien technology.
The sprawling military complex sits between a dry lake bed to the North East, and a small mountain to the West.
Area 51 has been a hot spot for extra terrestrial enthusiasts because the government did not acknowledge its existence until 2013.
It has long been fenced off from the prying eyes of the public, with armed guards swarming the surrounding area.
'Area 51 has always been a magnet for those who believe the US Government knows a lot more about UFOs than they are prepared to reveal to the public,' Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline.
'People like the late Boyd Bushman, a senior scientist who worked for Lockheed Martin, have declared that Area 51 is a base where extraterrestrial spacecraft and technology is stored and examined.'
The strange video appears to show a flying object hovering in the sky and then flying away - emitting a strange light as it sporadically moves side to side
'It's one of the mysterious pieces in UFOlogy', said Tyler Glockner who runs SecureTeam 10 on the clip. He described the footage, which was believed to have been filmed in the 1980s or 1990s as a 'hidden gem'
The Nevada-based military testing facility has been a focal point of many conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists since the late 1970s, who claim that the base houses secretive alien technology. Pictured is the most recent sighting by SecureTeam 10
Claims of alien conspiracies around Area 51 have largely been debunked.
But the site has been confirmed as a historic test site for military aircraft.
Famous machines developed there include the U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter.
The unexplained object appears to be getting higher and higher and releases a strange light as the footage goes on
In this image, the base is shown in a small yellow square within the massive Air Force base at Nevada's Groom Lake. Area 51 is blanketed by a strict 23 by 25-mile (37 by 40km) no-fly zone for civilian aircraft
The extraterrestrial Highway is between Highway 6 and Highway 93 in Nevada, and is the closest main road to Area 51. The sprawling military complex sits between a dry lake bed to the North East, and a small mountain to the West
Area 51 is blanketed by a strict 23 by 25-mile (37 by 40km) no-fly zone for civilian aircraft, and nearby viewpoints Freedom Ridge and White Sides Peak, which provide vantage points looking down on the base, are off-limits to the public
Images of the base are extremely rare, with any photographers brave enough to travel there kept far back from the perimeter by the base's many armed guards.
Area 51 is blanketed by a strict 23 by 25-mile (37 by 40km) no-fly zone for civilian aircraft.
Nearby viewpoints Freedom Ridge and White Sides Peak, which offer vantage points looking down on the base, are off-limits to the public.
After a series of declassifications, official details of Area 51 only came to light in 2011. This image shows a suspended, upside-down titanium A-12 spy-plane prototype as it is 'prepped' for radar testing
The U-2 spy plane is photographed as it is tested at Area 51 in 1955. Early missions involving the plane were used throughout the Cold War for surveillance over Cuba, the Soviet Union and China
The U.S. Air Force's SR-71 (double cockpit training version pictured) was in many ways a product of Area 51 testing and an evolution of the A-12, which was decommissioned in 1968
The unique design of the A-12 made at Area 51. A mock-up of the aircraft is seen here upside down as it is tested. Ironically, this is is also how test pilot Collins had to eject in 1963
Good news, everyone! The X-Files season 11 is a sure thing, because Fox have actually properly officially confirmed it and so we're off to the woods to get abducted by aliens in celebration.
But before we do that, we're going to tell you everything you need to know about the next season of our very favourite FBI-investigates-creepy-stuff-while-the-two-leads-have-insane-chemistry show. We'll be updating this article as we gather more titbits from our Pentagon sources.
The X-Files season 11 release date: When is it on?
"Iconic characters, rich storytelling, bold creators – these are the hallmarks of great TV shows. And they are some of the reasons why The X-Files has had such a profound impact on millions of fans worldwide," Fox president David Madden said in April, following up on this brilliant announcement tweet.
"Chris' creativity, along with the brilliant work of David and Gillian, continue to propel this pop-culture phenomenon, and we can't wait to see what fresh mysteries Mulder and Scully uncover in this next chapter of The X-Files," Madden said.
Production is due to start this summer, with an air date set for in the 2017-2018 season.
It can't come soon enough – we NEED a resolution for season 10's deeply disturbing cliffhanger, please.
Since the announcement, we've have a few news pieces leaking out of that big warehouse where Fox keeps all of their secrets.
Producer Glen Morgan will be writing two episodes (he only knows what one of those two will be, but he will do another), and his brother Darin will also be getting back into action for the show.
"You know, we want do to mythology stories and stories that connect with each other, but I think we're still interested in doing standalone stories.
"I think the second episode I do will be more of a standalone story, and the first one will have some connections to the mythology, but not as connected as Chris's episodes."
WHICH IS VERY EXCITING ISN'T IT?
We also now know the show will run for 10 episodes, which is a definite improvement on 10's six-episode season.
We're sure there's plenty of writers who'll be pitching stories about skateboarding werewolves or whatever for the remaining six episodes that haven't been taken by Morgan and Wong.
The X-Files season 11 comic
Slightly confusingly, The X-Files season 11 already exists and you can "watch" it right now… as long as you're prepared to pretend that a comic book is a television.
Yep, when it looked unlikely that the show would ever come back to TV screens, IDW decided to create comic-book season sequels.
In that universe, season 11 revolved around Fox Mulder being turned into a Edward Snowden-style figure by the US government, and going on the run as a result.
It also saw a return for chess prodigy Gibson Praise as the season's big bad.
Do not expect to see any of these elements in the proper telly version, mainly because the comic wasn't very good – it's not going to appear on any best-of lists any time soon.
The X-Files revival doesn't work without Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny), so, yeah, they're definitely coming back.
We'd also expect our old pals Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), 'The Cigarette Smoking Man' (William B Davis) and the 'Lone Gunmen' (Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood) to drop in.
Season 10 had plenty of guest stars, including Joel McHale, Annabeth Gish, Rhys Darby and Kumail Nanjiani, so we'd expect equivalent names to turn up on the season 11 cast list. (Gillian Jacobs, Katey Sagal, Jemaine Clement and TJ Miller?)
Behind-the-scenes, the writing team has now been confirmed, with Chris Carter joined by classic series writers Glen Morganand James Wong ('Squeeze') and Darin Morgan ('Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose') — all of whom worked on last year's revival miniseries.
Glen Morgan is expected to write two episodes after penning the sublimely creepy 'Home Again' last year.
Newcomers to the writing room will be the sci-fi show's former writing assistants Gabe Rotter and Benjamin Van Allen as well as Chris Carter's own former personal assistant Brad Follmer.
Keep coming back to this page for all the latest X-Files season 11 news, because the truth, gossip and rumours will be out there, and then in here.
In UFO conspiracy theories, Majestic 12 (or MJ-12) is the code name of an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. PresidentHarry S. Trumanto facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft. The concept originated in a series of supposedly leaked secret government documents first circulated by ufologists in 1984. Upon examination, the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) declared the documents to be “completely bogus”, and many ufologists consider them to be an elaborate hoax. Majestic 12 remains popular among some UFO conspiracy theorists and the concept has appeared in popular culture including television, film and literature.
The story of how the original MJ-12 papers came to light is an interesting look into the mindset of some of the leading UFO researchers, and an excellent example of the quality of UFO evidence that is acceptable to some people.
The concept of “Majestic Twelve” emerged during a period in the 1980s when ufologists believed there had been a cover-up of the Roswell UFO incident and speculated some secretive upper tier of the United States government was responsible. Their suppositions appeared to be confirmed in 1984 when ufologist Jaime Shandera received an envelope containing film which, when developed, showed images of eight pages of documents that appeared to be briefing papers describing “Operation Majestic Twelve”.
In December, 1984, Jaime Shandera, a Hollywood movie producer and UFO researcher, received an unusual package through the post. Inside was just one roll of undeveloped 35mm black and white film. There were no accompanying letter or return address, the only clue to where the package came from was by the postmark which was Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Once developed, the film contained negatives of what appeared to be an eight page briefing paper, prepared on 18th November, 1952, for president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower. A warning on the first page read, ‘This is a TOP SECRET – EYES ONLY document containing compartmentalized information essential to the national security of the United States’. On page two was a list of 12 influential US scientists, military leaders and intelligence advisors. It was not until viewing page three that the subject of the papers became clear, ‘the recovery of a crashed flying saucer and alien bodies near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947’.
The final page of the briefing paper was a memorandum, dated 24th September,1947, from President Harry Truman to his secretary of Defence, James Forrestal. In it, Truman instructs Forrestal to proceed with ‘Operation Majestic-12’, but gives no hint at what that might be.
Alone, the Forrestal memo was meaningless. But when read next to the 1952 briefing paper, the story behind them became clear: in July 1947, a ‘flying disc-shaped aircraft’ crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico, and ‘extra-terrestrial biological entities’ (EBEs) are recovered by the military. When President Truman is informed about the crash, he authorizes Defence Secretary Forrestal to set up a committee to investigate and deal with the situation.
In 1952, when Eisenhower becomes President-elect, he is briefed on Operation Majestic-12. The briefing paper lists the 12-man committee and gives details of the saucer crash. The final paragraph stresses the need to ‘avoid public panic at all costs’, confirming that the government is covering up the truth about UFOs.
The Majestic-12 documents consisted of an eight page briefing paper to President Eisenhower detailing a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, another crash at El Indio, Texas in 1950, and listing the members of the government’s special Majestic-12 or “MJ-12” UFO group. It was dated “18 November, 1952”, and it named “Admiral” Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter as the briefing officer. There was also a memo from President Harry S Truman to Secretary of Defense Forrestal that authorized the creation of the MJ-12 group.
However, what is often ignored, glossed over, or has just been lost to obscurity, is the fact that the first mention of MJ-12 was in a document that was alleged by Richard Doty, an ex-special agent for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), to have been created as disinformation. He says he gave the document to UFO researchers while he worked for AFOSI, and was order to do so by his superiors. He says this was only one incident in acampaign that lasted years.
Hesitant to take his word for it, I requested documents related to his claims from AFOSI via the Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA). The documents I received supported some of what he said, but told a different story. They do document the interactions with AFOSI and one UFO researcher, but do not include passing him disinformation. In fact, they say two New Mexico state senators requested information about the nature of their interaction with the UFO researcher, to which AFOSI replied they received his information, but did not engage in any sort of formal investigation.
The documents purported to reveal a secret committee of twelve, supposedly authorized by United States President Harry S. Truman in 1952, and explain how the crash of an alien spacecraft at Roswell in 1947 had been concealed, how the recovered alien technology could be exploited, and how the United States should engage with extraterrestrial life in the future.
Shandera and his ufologist colleagues Stanton T. Friedman and Bill Moore say they later received a series of anonymous messages that led them to find what has been called the “Cutler/Twining memo” in 1985 while searching declassified files in the National Archives. Purporting to be written by General Nathan F. Twining to President Eisenhower’s assistant Robert Cutler and containing a reference to Majestic 12, the memo is widely held to be a forgery, likely planted as part of a hoax. Historian Robert Goldberg wrote that the ufologists came to believe the story despite the documents being “obviously planted to bolster the legitimacy of the briefing papers”.
Moore, Shandera, and Friedman altered the appearance of the MJ-12 documents in their first release of the Focus newsletter to give the appearance of government censorship. They later had to admit that they did it themselves.
At the ON UFO Symposium Proceedings, “MJ-12 and Phil Klass: What are the facts?” by William L. Moore and Stanton T. Friedman: They included a reproduction of the mail packet addressed to Jaime Shandera. The bottoms of the postmarks were blackened out on all three postmarks. This would have shown the state and city that the mail packet was mailed in. In the presentation, Moore and Friedman stated the package “bore no return address”.
In reality, there was a return address. It was Albuquerque, NM! Guess who lived in Albuquerque, NM. Richard Doty- associate of William Moore! If the address had been shown, people might have started checking more on Doty. But Moore and Friedman stated that the package bore no return address.
Aside from the suspicious origins of the Majestic-12 papers, there are several problems with the documents themselves.
The Date: Military documents were formatted using strict guidelines, including the structure of dates. At the time the MJ-12 briefing was alleged to have been written, the format was day month year. No commas, no place-holding zeros. But the date in the MJ-12 document used a day month (comma) year format. This brief was supposedly generated at the very highest level of the military; a level that would not have made such a fundamental error in format.
Hillenkoetter’s Rank: The document refers to “Admiral” Hillenkoetter, when his true rank was REAR Admiral. In casual speech or among civilians this error might occur, but a military man would never make such an error. It was the military that wrote the brief.
Verbiage: Two terms used in the document were not in use during the 50’s. The word “media” to refer to the Press did not appear until the 70’s. Likewise the term “impacted”.
Security: The Cutler-Twining memo is stamped “Top Secret Restricted Information”. There was no such classification in 1954. Not until the Nixon era was this classification used.
Code Word MAJIC: This appears to be the code name assigned to this project. However, this would constitute a major violation of the code naming scheme used by the military for well over a decade.
Secure projects are assigned code names from a one-time use list that is shared by all parts of the military and civilian government bodies. Just prior to WWII, the code name MAGIC was assigned to the effort to break the high security Japanese diplomatic code. The project was still under the wraps of Top Secret in the early 50’s so it could not be “re-used”. Yet, here we have the term MAJIC being applied to the Majestic-12, an assignment that clearly could not happen.
MJ-12 proponents point to the different spelling, but the code list was constructed to avoid phonetic similarities that could cause confusion in oral communications. It would appear that the author(s) of the Majestic briefing papers were conscious of the newly de-classified story of the MAGIC operation when this was concocted.
There are several other points that one might accurately call minor, but when you take all these errors together in one set of documents, the coincidence level redlines.
The most spectacular new MJ-12 document was posted in 1994 to Don Berliner, a longtime UFO investigator and science writer. The anonymous roll of film contained 23 pages of a ‘Majestic-12 Group Special Operations Manual’, dated April, 1954. It was a detailed instruction manual entitled ‘Extra-terrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal’.
Because most of the MJ-12 documents are on film, the original paper or ink cannot be analysed. However there are many factual details that can be checked, such as the background of the 12 members of the committee, the dates of meetings, the style and format of similar documents, and the validity of the signatures. Clearly, MJ-12 had an all-star cast, as well as Secretary of Defence Forrestal, there were the first three Directors of Central Intelligence, an Air Force General, an Army General, the Secretary of the Army and five of the US’s most influential scientists. This was the cream of the US’s military, scientific and intelligence communities. If there was to be a top-secret government group investigating UFOs, this would have been it.
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Microbotjes halen bacteriën uit het water
Microbotjes halen bacteriën uit het water
Tim Kraaijvanger
Vervuild water kan gefilterd worden met behulp van microbotjes.
In een nieuw paper beschrijven wetenschappers hoe de techniek werkt. Ieder botje bestaat voor de helft uit magnesium. Hierdoor ontstaan waterstofbellen in het water, waardoor de botjes door het water bewegen. De andere helft is gemaakt van verschillende laagjes goud en ijzer met daar bovenop zilveren nanodeeltjes. De bacteriën komen vast te zitten tussen de ijzeren en gouden lagen, waarna ze gedood worden door de nanodeeltjes.
Des te meer microbotjes er in vervuild water worden losgelaten, des te effectiever wordt het water gefilterd. De onderzoekers beweren dat de botjes in twintig minuten tijd tachtig procent van de E. coli-bacteriën in vervuild water kunnen doden.
Magnetisch Uiteraard kan het water niet gedronken worden met de microbotjes er nog in. Dit is de reden dat ieder microbotje voor een deel uit ijzer bestaat. Hierdoor kunnen de botjes met een magneet uit het water worden gehaald.
Geen elektriciteit Het grote voordeel is dat deze microbotjes geen elektriciteit nodig hebben om te werken. Toch is het de vraag hoe deze microbots daadwerkelijk ingezet gaan worden, want het lijkt ons alsnog een dure operatie om zakken vol microbotjes te vervoeren. Ook is tachtig procent nog geen honderd procent. Dan is deze filtermethode pas echt effectief.
Toekomst De onderzoekers beloven hun microbots verder te verfijnen. Als de botjes goed werken, dan kunnen zij de kwaliteit van leven voor 663 miljoen mensen verbeteren. Dit zijn mensen die geen toegang hebben tot schoon drinkwater. Maar dat niet alleen! Deze microbotjes gaan in de toekomst misschien wel medicijnen afleveren in ons lichaam.
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Het Wow!-signaal: een mysterie dat al veertig jaar standhoudt
Het Wow!-signaal: een mysterie dat al veertig jaar standhoudt
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het is bijna 40 jaar geleden dat het sterke radiosignaal gedetecteerd werd. En nog altijd is het in nevelen gehuld.
Het is 15 augustus 1977. Met behulp van het Ohio State University Radio Observatory speuren astronomen de hemel af op zoek naar radiosignalen afkomstig van buitenaards leven. Astronoom Jerry Ehman buigt zich over de gegevens die de radiotelescoop in de afgelopen dagen verzameld heeft, wanneer zijn oog valt op een sterk, smalbandig radiosignaal. Het intrigeert hem meteen. Hij omcirkelt het signaal en schrijft er in de kantlijn in zijn enthousiasme ook nog eens het veelzeggende ‘Wow!’ bij. Het Wow!-signaal was geboren.
Hier zie je de radiotelescoop die het Wow!-signaal in 1977 detecteerde. De telescoop – bijgenaamd Big Ear – is uitgerust met twee ‘oren’. Normaliter werd een radiosignaal eerst door het ene oor opgevangen en zo’n 70 seconden later door het andere. Maar het Wow!-signaal vormt hierop een uitzondering. Dat werd alleen door het eerste oor opgevangen. Dat wijst erop dat het radiosignaal vrij abrupt werd afgebroken.
Onverklaarbaar Inmiddels zijn we veertig jaar verder en is het Wow!-signaal nog steeds zo af en toe het gesprek van de dag. Astronoom Ignas Snellen, verbonden aan de Universiteit Leiden, denkt wel te weten hoe dat komt. “Het is het enige signaal waarvan SETI (het onderzoeksinstituut dat met radiotelescopen zoekt naar signalen van intelligente buitenaardse wezens, red.) beweert dat niet te verklaren is waar het vandaan komt. Als je kijkt naar alle signalen die SETI in de afgelopen vier of vijf decennia heeft opgepikt, is dit eigenlijk het enige signaal dat we niet goed begrijpen.” Volgens astronoom Seth Shostak, verbonden aan het Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (kortweg SETI-instituut) zijn er de afgelopen decennia wel meer van dit soort eenmalig waargenomen, mysterieuze radiosignalen opgevangen, maar springt het wow!-signaal er vooral uit vanwege die opmerking in de kantlijn, waar het uiteindelijk naar vernoemd is. “Het wow!-signaal is beroemd, omdat het zo’n bijdehante naam heeft,” vertelt hij aan Scientias.nl.
EEN TERECHTE ‘WOW!’?
Hadden Shostak en Snellen wanneer zij het Wow!-signaal voor het eerst onder ogen hadden gekregen er ook een enthousiaste ‘Wow!’ bijgeplaatst? “Ik had het signaal zeker onderstreept, denk ik,” stelt Shostak. “Het signaal is opmerkelijk en sterk.” Ook Snellen kan zich het enthousiasme van Ehman wel enigszins voorstellen. “Het signaal was niet alleen heel sterk, maar werd ook nog eens aangetroffen in een stukje hemel waar je geen radiostraling verwacht.”
Eenmalig Dat we na veertig jaar nog altijd niet met zekerheid kunnen zeggen waar dit signaal zijn oorsprong vond, lijkt misschien verbazingwekkend. Maar astronomen stuiten in de zoektocht naar de bron van het radiosignaal continu op hetzelfde probleem: het signaal is slechts één keer gedetecteerd. “We hebben het sinds augustus 1977 nooit meer gezien,” vertelt Shostak. “Je moet je voorstellen dat je op een avond in de kamer zit en een geluid hoort in de kelder. Je staat op om te gaan kijken, maar wanneer je de kelder binnengaat, hoor je het niet meer. Het is op dat moment onmogelijk om vast te stellen wat de bron van het geluid is.” En zo is het ook met het Wow!-signaal: zolang het geen tweede keer waargenomen wordt, is het onmogelijk om vast te stellen waar het vandaan kwam.
Een aards signaal? En dus zijn onderzoekers – en het publiek – al bijna vier decennia naar de bron van het signaal aan het gissen. Sommigen schrijven het signaal toe aan een buitenaardse beschaving. Anderen houden het wat dichter bij huis. “Meestal is dit soort signalen het resultaat van menselijke activiteiten die de waarnemingen van de telescoop verstoren,” stelt Shostak. Snellen is het met hem eens. “We hebben hier te maken met een heel sterke radiobron op een heel nauwe frequentieband, wat betekent dat het signaal een heel specifieke golflengte heeft,” vertelt Snellen. “Dergelijke signalen komen normaliter niet uit de ruimte, maar zijn afkomstig van de aarde en worden bijvoorbeeld veroorzaakt door elektrische apparaten of straaljagers.” Maar hoe aannemelijk het ook lijkt dat het Wow!-signaal het resultaat is van een op aarde gecreëerde verstoring: het is niet te bewijzen. “Er zijn manieren om dergelijke aardse verstoringen uit te filteren en dat is in het geval van het Wow!-signaal ook gebeurd,” legt Snellen uit. “En dan lijkt het signaal toch weer afkomstig te zijn uit de ruimte. Maar zeker weten doe je het niet. Daarom willen we het signaal ook graag nog een keer zien.”
DE EQUIVALENT VAN HET WOW!-SIGNAAL
Zijn er recent nog equivalenten van het Wow!-signaal aangetroffen? We vroegen het Shostak. “Het gebeurt niet vaak meer dat we een onverklaarbaar signaal tegenkomen,” stelt Shostak. “Als we nu een vreemd signaal detecteren, checken we het meteen nog een keer.” En meestal levert dat voldoende data op om wilde verhalen nog voor hun ontstaan te ontkrachten en de bron van het signaal te identificeren. Dat er in Ohio in 1977 niet meteen een tweede blik op het vreemde signaal werd geworpen, is te wijten aan de techniek van toen, die de nodige beperkingen kende.
Kometen? Terwijl Snellen en Shostak hun geld op een aardse verstoring zetten, zijn er ook onderzoekers die er heel andere ideeën op nahouden. Antonio Paris bijvoorbeeld. Hij beweerde recent nog dat het Wow!-signaal veroorzaakt werd door kometen. Snellen kan er heel kort over zijn: “Ik vind dat een heel raar verhaal.” Shostak is nog duidelijker over het werk van Paris. “Het is gewoon fout.” Er is geen hard bewijs dat kometen in staat zijn om zo’n radiosignaal te produceren. En zelfs als kometen in staat zouden zijn om zo’n radiosignaal te produceren, dan zou Big Ear dat met beide oren moeten hebben opgevangen. Het is namelijk ondenkbaar dat een komeet binnen anderhalve minuut (de tijd die verstrijkt tussen het moment waarop het eerste en tweede oor van Big Ear een radiosignaal detecteren) uit het gezichtsveld van de radiotelescoop verdwijnt. “Die hele theorie (van Paris, red.) werkt gewoon niet,” merkt Shostak op.
Loslaten En zo blijven we dus in een kringetje ronddraaien. “Zonder nieuwe data zal het heel lastig worden om dit mysterie op te lossen,” denkt Shostak. Wordt het dan misschien tijd om het mysterie los te laten? “Als je er elke maand uren over nadenkt en je persoonlijke relaties eronder gaan lijden, zou ik zeker zeggen: ‘Get over it‘,” merkt Shostak lachend op. Hoe je je precies over zo’n mysterie heenzet, lijkt Shostak – die nog regelmatig over het Wow!-signaal schrijft op de SETI-website, er regelmatig over spreekt met de grote media en nog altijd hoopt dat de SETI-telescopen het Wow!-signaal een tweede keer waarnemen – ook niet precies te weten.
“IK DENK DAT WE IN DE KOMENDE TWINTIG JAAR BUITENAARDS LEVEN GAAN VINDEN”
Ondertussen zoeken de radiotelescopen van SETI niet alleen naar het Wow!-signaal dat veertig jaar geleden werd waargenomen, maar speuren ze vooral de hemel af op zoek naar een echt Wow!-signaal: een signaal dat we wel herhaaldelijk kunnen waarnemen en dat (op termijn) onomstotelijk toegeschreven kan worden aan aliens. Wanneer dat signaal zich aandient, is koffiedik kijken. Maar het zal zeker niet nog eens veertig jaar duren, denkt Shostak. “Ik denk dat we in de komende twintig jaar buitenaards leven gaan vinden,” stelt hij. Snellen is het met hem eens, maar verwacht niet dat radiosignalen ons op de aanwezigheid van aliens gaan wijzen. “De kans dat een buitenaardse beschaving zich zo dichtbij bevindt dat we de radiostraling ervan kunnen zien, is echt heel klein.” Hij ziet meer in het bestuderen van de atmosfeer van exoplaneten. “Als we van een afstandje naar de atmosfeer van de aarde kijken, zien we dat deze zuurstof bevat. En dat zit in de atmosfeer, omdat er leven is. Over een jaar of tien kunnen we met nieuwe instrumentatie – zoals de Extra Large Telescope die in Noord-Chili wordt gebouwd – ook de atmosfeer van exoplaneten bestuderen en mogelijk aantonen dat daar leven is. Eigenlijk kunnen we dus pas over een jaar of tien goed gaan zoeken naar buitenaards leven en het is natuurlijk nog maar de vraag of we het gaan vinden. Maar als het er is, lijkt het me heel redelijk dat we het binnen een jaar of 20 vinden.”
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.
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.
Liquid water exists in two different forms, new research reveals. Here, an illustration of the water molecule in front of an X-ray pattern from high-density amorphous ice, created by creating high pressures and low temperatures.
Credit: Mattias Karlén
Liquid water comes in two forms — low density and high density, scientists have found.
The findings add to the anomalous properties of this ubiquitous, life-giving liquid, which is like no other on Earth.
"The new remarkable property is that we find that water can exist as two different liquids at low temperatures where ice crystallization is slow," Anders Nilsson, a chemical physicist at Stockholm University in Sweden, said in a statement. [The Mysterious Physics of 7 Everyday Things]
Essential element for life
Water is essential for life (at least on Earth). And wherever liquid water exists — whether it's in icebound lakes or scalding hydrothermal vents — tiny microbes have been found. That is why scientists have been excited by the possibility of salty water flows and other evidence of ancient water on Mars — it means there may well have been life early on in the Red Planet's history.
It turns out that water has strange physical properties found in no other liquids known to scientists. For one, it can exist in all three phases at Earth-like temperatures and pressures. For another, its molecular configuration — two hydrogens mated to an oxygen molecule — creates strong polarity, or a highly positively charged region and a highly negatively charged region. That, in turn, allows almost any substance to be dissolved in it; in that way, substances such as calcium ions can travel (dissolved) within water into and out of a cell, for instance, Brian Glazer, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who has studied astrobiology, previously told Live Science. Already, scientists have identified 70 properties of liquid water that differ from other liquid substances.
Researchers have long known that ice can exist in two solid forms: a highly ordered, crystalline form with individual molecules neatly lined up in a repeating pattern, and an amorphous version, where the molecules are scattered more haphazardly. In fact, this amorphous ice is the most abundant type on our planet, and can transform between both a low- and high-density version.
Two phases of liquid water
Scientists wondered whether a similar transition may occur in liquid water. To find out, Nilsson and his colleagues used X-rays to track the distance between individual molecules of H20 at low temperatures. Using this technique, they watched as the water transitioned from an amorphous, glassy, frozen liquid state (essentially, uncrystallized ice), to a viscous liquid, and then almost immediately to another, more viscous liquid with a lower density, the researchers reported today (June 26) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The findings shed new light on the bizarre behavior of liquid water.
"The new results give very strong support to a picture where water at room temperature can't decide in which of the two forms it should be, high or low density, which results in local fluctuations between the two," study co-author Lars G.M. Pettersson, a theoretical chemical physicist at Stockholm University, said in the statement. "In a nutshell: Water is not a complicated liquid, but two simple liquids with a complicated relationship."
New Conspiracy Theory: Children Kidnapped for Mars Slave Colony
New Conspiracy Theory: Children Kidnapped for Mars Slave Colony
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist’s illustration of (non-enslaved) astronauts on the surface of Mars.
Credit: NASA/JSC
Even in this age of free-flying conspiracy theories, this one's a doozy.
On Thursday (June 29), a guest on Alex Jones' radio show named Robert David Steele claimed that Mars is inhabited — by people sent to the Red Planet against their will.
"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," Steele told Jones, the founder of the controversial InfoWars website. [25 Space Conspiracies That Just Won't Die]
It's unclear why this "ride" would last two decades; it takes just 6 to 9 months to reach Mars using current propulsion technology. Perhaps Steele believes that the kidnapped children return to Earth, as adults, 20 years after being spirited away?
Whatever the details may be, Jones seemed open to the possibility.
"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," Jones told Steele, who the show billed as a "CIA insider." "There is so much stuff going on."
Jones went on to add that "clearly, they don’t want us looking into what is happening; every time probes go over, they turn them off."
The Daily Beast did some due diligence on Steele's assertion, contacting NASA for a comment.
"There are no humans on Mars. There are active rovers on Mars. There was a rumor going around last week that there weren’t. There are," Guy Webster, a spokesman at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who specializes in the agency's Mars-exploration activities, told The Daily Beast. "But there are no humans."
Alex Jones has supported and promulgated conspiracy theories in the past. He has claimed, for example, that the December 2012 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut — in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 27 people, including 20 first-graders — was a hoax. Mars has proven to be fertile ground for conspiracy theorists over the years as well. There's the famous "face on Mars," of course. And more recently, UFO enthusiasts have claimed that NASA's Curiosity rover has captured images of a variety of Red Planet animals that resemble rats, lizards, squirrels and crabs.
Asteroid Day Rocks! Here Are Some of the Cool Events Happening Worldwide
Asteroid Day Rocks! Here Are Some of the Cool Events Happening Worldwide
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
The star Vega, like Earth, has a rocky asteroid belt. On Asteroid Day, scientists around the world consider how Earth could defend itself from such celestial bodies.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Today is Asteroid Day, when colleges, museums and observatories across the globe are striving to raise awareness about the wonders and potential dangers of asteroids. From online broadcasts and lectures to hands-on activities, a number of events are happening worldwide.
Here is just a sampling:
The University of Arizona will host a weekend-long event with members of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return team.
At Kennedy Space Center in Florida, former NASA astronaut Tom Jones will examine the potential dangers asteroids.
Imperial College London will utilize a 3D projection system to study astronomical images
The National Autonomous University of Honduras will present asteroid art and impact simulations.
At the Brockton Public Library in Massachusetts, there will even be asteroid cookies!
The first Asteroid Day kicked off in 2015, after astrophysicist Brian May, best known as a guitarist for the rock band Queen, introduced director Grigorij Richters to the B612 Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit advocacy agency with the goal of protecting Earth from asteroid impacts through early prevention. Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Danica Remy — founder and chief operations officer of B612, respectively — joined May and Richters as co-founders of Asteroid Day. [Near-Earth Asteroids: Famous Space Rock Flybys and Close Calls (Infographic)]
"The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it became that the human race has been living on borrowed time," May noted on the official Asteroid Day website. "Asteroid Day would [be] the vehicle to garner public support to increase our knowledge of when asteroids might strike and how we can protect ourselves."
Every day, Earth is bombarded by tons of dust-size particles that burn up in the atmosphere. According to NASA, an automobile-size asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere about once a year, burning up before it reaches the ground. A larger object that would be capable of threatening the planet's civilizations collides with Earth once every few million years, the agency estimates.
To prepare for the risk of catastrophe, NASA has developed a Planetary Defense Coordination Office. Other space agencies have developed similar programs. On NASA's Planetary Defense FAQ, the agency writes that deflecting an asteroid would require changing its velocity by less than an inch per second years in advance of a potential collision. NASA is working to develop a so-called kinetic impactor, which would hit an asteroid slightly with an object to slow it, and a gravity tractor, which would put a large mass near an asteroid whose gravity would tug at it enough to change its path.
Both systems would require knowledge of an asteroid's deadly trajectory years in advance. "An asteroid on a trajectory to impact Earth could not be shot down in the last few minutes, or even hours, before impact," NASA officials wrote in the FAQ. "No known weapon system could stop the mass because of the velocity at which it travels — an average of 12 miles per second [19 kilometers per second]."
Because changing the course of a deadly asteroid requires advance notice, stopping a disastrous collision requires spotting the threat early on. International Asteroid Day was established to raise public awareness of the potential danger and how to avoid it.
"Early warning is the essential ingredient of planetary defense," Schweickart said.
Another way to prevent collisions is for scientists to gain a better understanding of the properties of asteroids and how they move. In 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission to the asteroid Bennu. Set to arrive in August 2018, the spacecraft will orbit the asteroid, studying it for two years before scooping up a sample of dust and pebbles that will return to Earth in 2023. While it will be NASA's first asteroid sampling mission, it won't be the world's first; Japan's Hayabusa mission returned an asteroid sample to Earth in 2010.
Together, these initiatives should help scientists and engineers prepare for potential dangers from asteroids. You can prepare by attending one of the many Asteroid Day events, found on the website here. But don't despair if you can't attend. The site will be broadcasting video clips, panels and even a movie all day today. And Space.com has a slideshow of asteroid movies you might enjoy.
GTA Online Hackers Activate Secret Alien Mission Early
GTA Online Hackers Activate Secret Alien Mission Early
Zack Zwiezen
After years of hunting, digging through the code and searching every inch of the game, GTA V fans have finally found life from beyond the stars. And because this is GTA, of course the discovery is tied to digital theft and murder.
A few weeks back, the Gunrunning Update added some new weapons, vehicles and massive underground bunkers to GTA Online. Buried deep in the new update were a series of files and code that seemed to hint at an alien UFO crashing just outside the Zancudo military base. Players were excited at the prospect of figuring out a long-standing mystery involving an alien egg, which was tied to the suspected event.
Members of Team Guru, a GTA V modding and mystery hunting group, spent weeks digging and searching for a way to activate these bits of alien coding. After many sleepless nights, they used a tool created by Guru member Polivilas to switch in-game variables until they were able to activate an alien supply mission by force:
Until GTA Online updates and this mission activates properly, we have no idea if this is the final version of the event, or if it will ever be put into the game officially. But this is conclusive evidence that Rockstar was indeed doing something recently with the idea of aliens crashing in GTA Online.
The actual mission is a bit underwhelming. Players are told to head to a location and steal some supplies—that’s where the alien egg comes in. When they arrive, they find a large UFO crashed in the swamp and dead scientists and soldiers. Once players have the alien egg, a small group of extraterrestrials spawns in and the player has to kill them. As missions go, it’s not incredibly exciting or different. But after years of searching it’s cool to finally see the theorizing and hard work materialize into something concrete.
While some players are happy that aliens were found, others are disappointed. Many mystery hunters wanted a big single-player easter egg or reward that could justify years of searching. Some are actually hopeful this new alien mission is just the start of something bigger, perhaps eventually involving the long sought-after jetpack.
For now, at least the citizens of Los Santos know they aren’t alone in the universe. And that these alien beings aren’t bulletproof.
Zach Zwiezen is a a writer living in Kansas City, Missouri. He has written for Gamecritics, Killscreen and Entertainment Fuse.
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Mars Opportunity rover has image of unidentified metallic object, puts internet in a frenzy
Mars Opportunity rover has image of unidentified metallic object, puts internet in a frenzy
Left Panoramic Camera Non-linearized Full frame EDR acquired on Sol 348 of Opportunity's mission to Meridiani Planum at approximately 12:45:41 Mars local solar time, camera commanded to use Filter 7 (432 nm).
NASA/JPL/Cornell
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.
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.
But even successful projects litter the landscape with debris as they plough through the thin atmosphere.
Looking for a lone signal from some far-flung alien civilization is one thing --- looking for its handiwork on galactic scales is quite another. But a handful of astronomers are still hopeful that if hyper-advanced extraterrestrial civilizations can survive through cosmic time, they might choose to macro-engineer whole galaxies in ways that would be detectable in the electromagnetic spectrum.
“If a civilization has engineered half a galaxy, some fraction of the energy being used should glow in the infrared,” James Annis, an astrophysicist at Fermilab, told me. Annis and colleagues conducted the first such search for KIII civilizations in 1999.
Stars are bright in the optical, and any civilization that uses or engineers the stars will eliminate starlight or change its natural appearance, says Annis.
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: Ray A. Lucas (STScI/AURA)
A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual ring galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of the galaxy's ring of stars.
“We assume that the majority of visible galaxies are natural,” said Annis. “So, we look for galaxies that are different from the majority. Usually this is easily explained as an ongoing galaxy merger.”
In 1964, Soviet physicist Nicolai Kardashev first put forth the idea that an extraterrestrial civilization’s level of technological advancement could be divided into three tiers --- from KI to KIII. We would qualify as a few decades away from being a KI civilization. That is, a civilization capable of harnessing all of its star’s incoming solar radiation. A KII civilization would be capable of directly harnessing its parent star’s energy, usually via a mechanism such as a Dyson’s sphere.
Such hypothetical artificial spheres were put forth by physicist Freeman Dyson as a means for completely encompassing and capturing all of a given star’s energy. Thus, such spheres would mostly be detectable via their waste heat leaking into the infrared spectrum. A full-scale KIII civilization would be capable of directly harnessing all the energy in their host galaxy or galaxies. They might possibly use billions of such Dyson spheres --- or some other means of harnessing their galaxy’s energy that would be impossible for us to even imagine.
Orange whorls of star-warmed dust fill the Andromeda galaxy's spiral arms in this false-color mid-infrared image from NASA's WISE space telescope. Such images could also potentially reveal the waste heat from galaxy-spanning advanced civilizations. Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
If the radiated starlight of the entire galaxy is collected, in the optical spectrum it will look abnormally dark, but will emit waste power in the thermal infrared, Brian Lacki, an astronomer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, told me.
In a recent paper, Lacki used data from the European Space Agency’s Planck spacecraft to look for microwave sources with a spectrum expected of waste heat. Lacki says he calculated that a very cold KIII structure that shrouded a grand spiral galaxy like the Milky Way would be detectable out to about 2 billion light years.
“If a galaxy had many of its stars [surrounded by] swarms of giant structures, you would expect it to appear dimmer,” Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University, told me. “At mid-infrared wavelengths, we would expect to see all that blocked light.”
A couple of years back, Wright and colleagues searched for excess thermal emission from 100,000 galaxies in the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) all-sky source catalog.
“We did not find any, but our sensitivity was very low, and we hope to do more sensitive searches in the future,” Wright told me.
In a separate search, Lacki also looked for very cold structures that would cloak entire galaxies.
We would then see a bubble hundreds of millions of light years wide, he says, where all the galaxies are invisible in the optical, but shine in the infrared or microwave spectrums.
“We don't see such bubbles, so they must be very, very rare,” said Lacki.
On the other hand, Lacki says if aliens chose to simply rearrange their galaxy’s stars instead of shroud them, such galaxies would have bizarre shapes. However, such macroengineering projects might also involve rearranging the stars in a given galaxy.
Hoag’s Object, classified as a peculiar ring galaxy some 600 million light years away in the constellation of Serpens has been proposed by some as being a potential macro-engineering project. Yet Annis says that it’s more like simply the merger of two galaxies.
The Galaxy Zoo Project, Lacki notes, also had volunteers classify nearly a million galaxies, all of which seemed to be natural.
It’s hard to fathom what would motivate such civilizations to conduct what by Annis’ estimate would be a 100 million-year project.
But Lacki says they might use such collected energy to power computation on unimaginable scales. Or even for hyper-advance particle physics experiments.
To experiment with physics on its most fundamental (Planck) scale, Lacki says one has to build a particle accelerator as bright as a galaxy, using energies at the yotta electron volt (YeV) level. That’s about 100 billion times the Giga electron volt (GeV) energies achieved at the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, which is currently humanity's highest-energy particle accelerator.
However, in a recent paper published on the online astrophysical site ArXiv, Lacki was able to show that these galactic accelerators are fairly rare.
What’s needed to further the search for such exo-technology?
More data mining of a variety of astronomy surveys, and searches for anomalies and transient, short-term sources, says Dan Werthimer, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley, told me. He notes that the idea is to look for glitches in astronomical data from existing and future sky surveys.
When most people think about searching for extraterrestrial intelligences, they imagine someone like Ellie Arroway searching the skies for radio transmissions. But what about looking in other ways? Perhaps a highly advanced alien civilisation might build structures large enough for us to see.
Over many trillions of years, Lacki says there may be no choice but to become a KIII civilization. As the expansion of the universe continues to accelerate, Lacki says most galaxies will lose contact with each other and the gas between galaxies will dilute away.
Thus, if a galactic society wants to prepare for the deep future, Lacki says, it might build up a reserve of galactic molecular gas. That way, the civilization could ensure that its galaxy had a steady and wide-ranging supply of stars that would continually generate metals and other elements that can’t be made artificially.
“Societies that learn to work on galactic scales may be the only ones left trillions of years from now,” said Lacki.
Image: Artists impression of a Dyson sphere, composed of a swarm of smaller satellites. Credit: Vedexent/Wikimedia Commons
Columnist Cheryl Costa continues her three-part series of articles on Project Blue Book.
A little after 11 a.m. on Sept. 10, 1951, a U.S. Army radar station at Fort Monmouth detected an unknown, low-altitude target. The signal corps operator and an Army officer in the radar clocked the target with an approximate speed of about 700 miles per hour. The tracking station lost contact with the high-speed target as it neared New York City.
The radar tracking event resulted in a great deal of interest, as well as somber military trepidations. For in that era, military jets didn’t fly anywhere near 700 miles per hour. While there were test aircrafts that had brief periods of that sort of speed performance, nothing the military had could fly and maintain that speed.
This incident resulted in the Air Force being severely criticized by the other branches of the military. At issue was the Air Force’s dismal handling of investigations related to a potential threat to national security, namely UFOs.
In a knee-jerk reaction to the threat to national security criticism, the Air Force appointed intelligence officer Captain Edward Ruppelt to assume command of the UFO investigation project. The effort was renamed “Project Blue Book.”
Captain Ruppelt took his new task seriously and put great effort into reorganizing and streamlining the internal reporting processes. In the spring of 1952, under Captain Ruppelt’s guiding hand, intelligence officers at all U.S. airbases were given clearance to file UFO reports to Project Blue Book via normal military communication channels.
This improved reporting system turned out to be fortuitous in the July 1952, when the “Great Washington, D.C. UFO Flap” occurred. From July 12-29, Washington, D.C. was inundated with UFO sightings. They flew individually and in formations right over the Capitol.
Air traffic radar controllers at the Washington National Airport tracked distinctive blips on their radar screens over several consecutive weekends.
The nearest Air Force facility was Andrews Air Force Base, but its runways were under repair. The nearest airbase that could respond was a base in New Castle, Delaware. F-94 jets were scrambled to intercept the lights in the sky and the blips on radar.
When the fighters got into D.C. air space, the bright UFO lights had “winked out,” and the pilots reported they didn’t see anything. Of course, after they left the D.C. air space, the UFOs came back and again appeared on National Airport’s radar screens.
On another UFO sighting occasion, scrambled fighter jets chased the elusive lights. Air Force pilot William Patterson told investigators during a debriefing, “I was at my maximum speed, but ... I ceased chasing them because I saw no chance of overtaking them.”
Naturally the press had a field day with the news. The Washington Post headline read: ‘Saucer’ Outran Jet, Pilot Says; Air Force Puts Lid on Inquiry.
Another newspaper in D.C. at that time, the Washington Daily News, commented on the Air Force’s lame explanations for the UFO sightings: “Recent attempts to explain ‘saucers’ as optical illusions have been shaken by recent radar sightings. Illusions don’t show up on a radar screen.”
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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Finally ... another UFO spotted over Darwin
Has Tony Waldron snapped a extraterrestrial visitor?Picture: TONY WALDRON
Finally ... another UFO spotted over Darwin
JUDITH AISTHORPE, NT News
TONY Waldron was relaxing on his boat when he accidentally captured the latest out-of-this-world visitor to the NT.
The smaller disc-like shape just to the left of the bright moon is the object in question.
Mr Waldron captured the object while taking a photo of the night sky because it looked interesting due to the clouds and smoke illuminated by the full moon. He took the photo from his boat in Bayview earlier this month and didn’t take too much notice of it at the time. It wasn’t until a few days later he realised he had captured something out of this world. “It was like ‘oh what’s that thing,’ and I had a closer look,” he said.
“It doesn’t look like something on the lens because of the reflection of the moon and the clouds are sort of in front of it.” His only explanation was that it could be a weather balloon, but he wasn’t convinced on that idea.
While he isn’t a extraterrestrial fanatic he hasn’t ruled their existence out.
“I don’t disbelieve. It’s hard to think that we’re the only ones in the universe,” he said.
And if there are aliens, it’s not hard to imagine them choosing to visit the Territory during the Dry.
It’s not hard to believe that NASA isn’t telling us everything about what goes on in space or that it may already know of the existence of other life forms but is covering it up. It’s a stretch to believe that NASA staged the moon landings in a studio and is currently doing the same out in some desert for the Martian rovers. However, it’s incredulous to consider a claim that for at least 20 years the agency has been kidnapping children and sending them to Mars to work in slave camps. What’s even more unbelievable is that NASA felt it had to publicly deny this accusation after it was made on the home of unbelievable claims … Alex Jones’ InfoWars.
“There are no humans on Mars. There are active rovers on Mars. There was a rumor going around last week that there weren’t. There are. But there are no humans.”
Not real
Guy Webster, a spokesperson for Mars exploration at NASA, was compelled to immediately speak to the Daily Beast, a media company that’s part of Newsweek, to officially deny a slew of incredible and offensive claims made on InfoWars by Robert David Steele, an alleged CIA operative, an activist for open-source intelligence and a presidential candidate for both the Reform Party and the Libertarian Party – he didn’t get either nomination. However, that didn’t stop Jones from booking him on the show to make statements like this:
“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.”
Really? If NASA has the ability to cover up something like that, the CIA should be using NASA scientists as operatives instead of people like this guy. While he correctly points out that video feeds from rovers and the ISS seem to cut away just as the cameras are approaching something unusual, his commentary deteriorates into the depths of depravity with these accusations:
“It goes straight into terrorizing them to adrenalize their blood and then murdering them. It also includes murdering them so that they can have their bone marrow harvested as well as body parts.”
Sadly, this show and its host apparently command such an audience that NASA, rather than shaking its collective heads and walking away, felt it had no choice but to respond to these claims with vehement denials.
Yes, there are cover-ups. Yes, there are top secret files. But a story about sending kidnapped children to slave camps on another planet for the purpose of harvesting their bone marrow is horror porn, not news. The news is that we’ve sunk so low that this moved a government agency to actually address it.
What have we become?
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DUITSE VLIEGENDE SCHOTEL GEVONDEN OP ANTARCTICA?
DUITSE VLIEGENDE SCHOTEL GEVONDEN OP ANTARCTICA?
Als er ergens een plek was waar je een gecrashte Duitse vliegende schotel zou verwachten, dan is het wel op Antarctica.
Een onderzoeker heeft een object ontdekt dat nog voor een deel onder het ijs ligt, maar wel verdacht veel lijkt op de bekende Duitse Haunebu schotel.
Soms vinden mensen die gebruikmaken van programma’s zoals Google Earth hele interessante zaken.
De eigenaar van een website die zich specialiseert in UFO’s en gerelateerde zaken, vond via Google Earth een vreemd object op de helling van een berg op King George Island, net voor de kust van Antarctica.
Dit eiland ligt als het ware tussen Antarctica en het meest zuidelijke puntje van Zuid Amerika.
En daar op die helling ligt het volgende object:
Dit object lijkt veel op een UFO en het vreemde is dat dit object niet voor komt op de afbeeldingen van Google in 2004, maar wel in 2005.
Het object heeft een diameter van ongeveer 16 en een hoogte van 3 meter, waarbij er vanuit wordt gegaan dat het grootste deel zich nog steeds onder het ijs bevindt.
Wanneer je er vanuit gaat dat het hier inderdaad een UFO betreft en je vergelijkt die met de modellen zoals de Duitsers die hadden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, dan ontdekt je dat er veel overeenkomsten bestaan met het type zoals de Haunebu.
Deze had, net zoals de meeste Duitse UFO’s, ramen in het bovenste gedeelte.
Is het daarom misschien mogelijk dat we hier te maken hebben met een neergestort Duits toestel? Een die misschien nog tot ver na de Tweede Wereldoorlog is gebruikt en nu vanwege het smeltende ijs langzaam zichtbaar begint te worden?
Wie zelf dit object wil bekijken op Google Earth of Maps, kan dit doen via de volgende coördinaten: 61°57'51.64"S 58° 3'42.73"W
Eerder dit jaar zagen we ook al een prachtig voorbeeld van dit type UFO, maar dan nog steeds vliegend en boven een Mexicaanse vulkaan.
Via een lezer (dank!) ontvingen wij een prachtige opname van een klassieke retro UFO bij één van de Mexicaanse vulkanen. Dit beeld is al wat ouder, maar hij laat heel goed de vorm zien van wat wij de klassieke of retro vliegende schotel noemen.
Dit ontwerp UFO wordt ook veelvuldig in verband gebracht met de Duitse varianten aan het einde en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Eén van hun meest bekende ontwerpen, de Haunebu, zag er als volgt uit:
Just short of Fourth of July, which is only a few days away, man-made auroras have been spread across the skies, causing much amazement along the east coast and parts of Virginia.
This amazing display of auroras, a rare sight, was due to a long-delayed launch of the terrier-improved Malemute rocket which had encountered many obstacles just before its launch, having been delayed an astonishing ten times before it finally launched just before Independence Day.
The rocket was launched to just above 100 miles above Earth, where the rocket discharged small canisters containing colorful chemicals that burst in the atmosphere to create an artificial aurora. However, that was not the main point of the experiment.
NASA’S ‘FAKE SPACE CLOUDS’ LOOK SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE A FLEET OF UFOS
NASA was actually researching on a deeper purpose and meaning: getting a better understanding of our Earth's atmosphere, vital to life on Earth and the health of the people and animals living on Earth. The second main point is to test equipment which will be used to study the auroras over Norway, an anomaly in our atmosphere that is vital for us as a species to understand it, such that we will be able to know how mother nature truly works, and the wonders it can do.
NASA has always ventured further, and above much of what humanity can truly do, in the vastness of our skies and beyond. Now, we can only hope that experiments are continued such that it can help our environment - and preserve it better.
Sadly, some parts of the east coast were robbed of the wonderful display as overcast skies blocked the view of the aurora. Let us hope that more chances will arise that will allow this spectacular view.
PURPLE RAIN -Incredible pictures show Nasa’s ‘fake space clouds’ that look suspiciously like a fleet of UFOs
PURPLE RAIN -Incredible pictures show Nasa’s ‘fake space clouds’ that look suspiciously like a fleet of UFOs
The space agency shot blue-green and red vapour into the sky to form artificial clouds visible from New York to North Carolina
By Margi Murphy
NO, YOU’RE not looking at an alien invasion.
These incredible pictures show Nasa’s fake clouds that lit up the sky over the US this morning.
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Christopher Becke captured this image from Williamsburg, Virginia
The space agency launched a Malemute sounding rocket from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in the early hours of the morning.
During the eight-minute flight, ten canisters about the size of a soft drink can were shot into space.
The canisters spewed out blue-green and red vapour that formed artificial clouds which were visible from New York to North Carolina.
The fake clouds create a sky-high portrait of the movements in aurora winds – so scientists can better understand how a phenomenon like the Northern Lights affects Earth.
There were more than 2,000 reports and photos of the cloud sightings after its launch at 4.24am ET.
Scientists at the flight centre breathed a sigh of relief after the rocket was delayed several times over the past month, soared to 188 miles into the sky.
NASA
The canisters dispensed barium, strontium and cupric oxide, which interacted to form blue-green and red vapours visible from New York to North Carolina. According to the space agency, the chemicals don’t pose any health hazards
NASA/TERRY ZAPERACH
The Malemute sounding rocket was successfully launched at 4:25 a.m., Thursday, June 29, from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
The cloud vapours were formed using barium, strontium and cupric oxide.
Nasa assured the public that the chemicals don’t pose a health hazard.
These fluctuations could make the Earth more vulnerable to devastating solar blasts and cancer-causing cosmic rays, according to researchers at the University of Reading.
The phenomenal light is one of Iceland’s biggest selling points, but the very north of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland get treated to a display every now and again.
BRITAIN'S X-FILES -UFO files reveal Cold War spy plane crew’s horror as mysterious craft ‘covered in 20 flashing lights’ closed in at 35,000ft
BRITAIN'S X-FILES -UFO files reveal Cold War spy plane crew’s horror as mysterious craft ‘covered in 20 flashing lights’ closed in at 35,000ft
Ministry of Defence dossier reveals a terrifying UFO encounter that took place 35,000 feet above the Mediterranean
By Margi Murphy
A TERRIFYING Cold War near miss witnessed by an entire crew of a US Air Force spy plane has been laid bare in a UFO dossier.
The once top secret file was released by the Ministry of Defence last week, along with several other declassified documents.
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An F-14 Tomcat was involved in a mysterious – and apparently unexplained – UFO incident during the Cold War
They include the gripping account of an unexplained incident on 19 October 1982 when a USAF RC-135 plane snooping on Soviet military activity was buzzed by “a big object” over the Med.
British troops stationed at RAF Troodos – a base on Cyprus – listened in as the American crew called for help as a UFO cloaked in “a multitude of flashing lights, 20 at a time” zoned in.
During the 90 minute incident, two US Navy F-14 fighters were scrambled and an RAF Phantom was diverted from a flying exercise to tail the intruder spotted on the south of the island.
As the three jets approached the American crew watched the UFO turn away and head toward the African coast, but nothing was seen by the fighter pilots.
An investigation was opened into the bizarre sighting and sent to the US defence bods, documents show.
Radar film, tapes and transcripts of the distress call were also analysed by intelligence officers – but removed from the files.
The incident happened in the Med, South of Cyprus
This undated diagram of a strange craft looks suspiciously similar to the latest toy trend – a fidget spinner
An RAF worker puts forward a suggestion, writing: “We have a strong suspicion that the “UFO” was a mirage effect from lights on the coast of Israel or Lebanon”.
But the results of the joint US and UK investigation do not appear in the file.
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University's department of journalism, said the incident was "a fascinating and puzzling encounter that was obviously taken very seriously by the US and UK military authorities".
An undated UFO sighting from a flight out of Heathrow which was released in 2013
The Ministry of Defence previously claimed that several of the files had been stored in a building contaminated with asbestos and could never be made available to the public over health and safety fears.
But following the insistence of the general public and the help of the likes of Dr Clarke, some of the files were eventually released in 2009 and 2013 can be found online.
Of these, 18 were withheld – sparking conspiracy theories that the government was holding something back.
But last week the MoD quietly made all but three of these missing files available.
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Several of the Ministry of Defence files on UFOs were released in 2009 and 2013
Dr Clarke said that the disclosure prompted as many questions as it answered.
He said: "like many of the more puzzling UFO incidents in the MoD files, mystery surrounds what happened to the evidence.
"Once again, we have a few tantalising pieces of paper but nothing else.
"Where is the recording and transcript of the tape and where are the images from the radar film, referred to in the file?
"I suspect they have been destroyed like many of the other records of these puzzling incidents.
"Not because they were trying to hide evidence of ET visitors but because they did not put any value on UFO records.
"If something was not of Soviet origin but could not be explained, then best ignore it and shred the evidence.
The most recent stash of UFO files reveal credible witness reports which the MoD investigated, including the Tornberry Vor incident
"Unfortunately by adopting this policy the MoD have created a stick for conspiracy theorists to beat them with."
The files are filled with mysterious eyewitness accounts as well as questionable doodles sent in from the general public, including depictions of fidget-spinner style spacecraft and flying saucers drawn by schoolkids.
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Alien Covenant: Prop & Costume Exhibition
Alien Covenant: Prop & Costume Exhibition
Check out this sneak peek at some of the props and costumes from the upcoming Alien: Covenant…
As a lover of practical effects in his movies, it’s clear that Scott’s passion for his Alien series has culminated in the creation of this beautifully designed film, which is echoed in the careful design of each of the props and costumes.
Earlier this month, Prop Store’s very own Stephen Lane was lucky enough to be invited to an Alien: Covenant pre-release prop and costume mini-exhibition (and was even given a sneak peek at the first ten minutes of the film!). From spacesuits to cryo pods to an animatronic Xenomorph head, he was able to get up close and personal with a number of the iconic props and costumes from Ridley’s latest Alien series film – check out some of the pictures below…
ECO All World Systems Survival Suit
Alien: Covenant Costume Designer Janty Yates
Alien Xenomorph Creature Forms and Animatronic Head
Alien Ovomorphs and Animatronic Facehugger
IVA Internal Spacesuit
Alien: Covenant Costume Designer Janty Yates
Covenant Cryogenic Hyper-Sleep Chamber
Alien: Covenant Artwork
If this tickled your fancy, and you love alien as much as we do, then make sure you check out our amazing collection of props and costumes from the Alien film series and see if you can find your very own piece of movie history!
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EXCLUSIVE: British Area 51? Claims secret ALIEN research base uncovered in Farnborough
EXCLUSIVE: British Area 51? Claims secret ALIEN research base uncovered in Farnborough
PARANORMAL investigators claim to have rumbled a top-secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) alien research centre hidden deep underground in a UFO hotspot.
The British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society (BEAMS) has released a bizarre 109-page report, following a “special investigation” into the former MoD Defence Evaluation and Research Agency site now run by specialist defence, security and aerospace developer Qinetiq.BEAMS claims Farnborough has had high UFO sighting and alien abduction activity for years and thinks this might be connected to the alleged secret base. The group is convinced there is as much underground as above and what goes on there involves aliens, UFOs, intergalactic defence and futuristic flight development.Their bizarre theory is based upon cryptic alien symbols they have “discovered” within the site, alleged intelligence service whistleblower testimonies, and the responses from psychic researchers, the report claims.
The BEAMS website says it was set up in 1991 as as a non profit-making studies group into the paranormal.
It said: “We have set up a network of active investigators who relay their gathered information through to our HQ.
“As reporters of the truth, duties of the BEAMS Team include research, interviewing, photography and journalism.”
Investigator Kenneth Parsons superimposed onto mock-up picture of a Farnborough ‘big’ alien sightingReport co-author Hilary Porter claims to have been abducted by aliens a number of times
Two of its key researchers, chairman Kenneth Parsons and his “alien abductee” partner Hilary Porter, carried out the “inquiry” and said evidence of the underground areas came from government whistleblowers.But they said the smoking gun evidence for the secret base were cryptic signs in the building and on site.The couple concluded that part of the site’s road system has been made to look like an alien being depicted in ancient Aboriginal paintings in Australia, as a sign of the base’s significance.On top of this they said part of the building has been made to look like a flying saucer.The report said: “As with the top-secret Area 51 in Nevada, and how that officially did “not exist” for decades…if what we are about to expose ‘does not exist’ either (as it is bound to be claimed), then our Government/military have absolutely nothing to fear from us talking about it – do they?”
The pair claimed the Qinetiq site was the biggest of three secret underground facilities, also in the UK, including two other suspected ones.
Case closed: The ‘smoking gun’ evidence for Qinetiq site being UK Area 51Drawing by Hilary Porter of one of her UFO sightings in Farnborough
Their report said Government whistleblowers had revealed: “Officers at Chicksands regularly simulated possible outcomes of nuclear war with their counterparts operating from an underground command centre beneath Qinetiq in Farnborough.“One source (who holds a sensitive government post) says that he knows several people currently employed at British underground facilities where acquired alien technology and genetics programmes are being carried out.”The couple said the Cody technology park was also under tight security with armed guards and secret cameras.But the clincher, in their opinion, was the roundabout system near the main building.
Referring to an aerial slide of the roadways on site, which highlighted this roundabout, the report said: “We suggest that this is a stylised, diagrammatic representation of a grey/reptilian figure – just like the Aboriginal supreme creator paintings attempted to portray – which is only visible like this from the air.”
Posing the question “why was it there?”, the report said: “Why incorporate a massive image of an alien, or supreme creator within a top secret subterranean military site – somewhere so sensitive that it is virtually our own British equivalent of the Area 51 complex in Nevada.”
They surmised that the powers behind the site were confident the public would never see through their cryptic code, but “those” who needed to would recognise it instantly.
Besides, if the roundabout did not do the trick, there was more.
The couple concluded the roof and canopy of the main building had purposely been designed in the shape of a flying saucer just to hammer home the purpose of the secret base to those in the know.
They said the existence of the “underground” parts of the site described by “sources” were further proved by Qinetiq’s involvement in mining coupled with a strange rumbling noise they allegedly heard a cross Farnborough over the last 15 years, which they deduced was it being secretly expanded.
The highway to the real Area 51 in Nevada, USATop Security? QinetiQ base entrance from the report
Three so-called psychic remote viewers given the name of the site, but no more details, as part of the research, also came back with descriptions of a highly technological and disturbing underground base, they claimed.Not convinced? Neither are some other UFO investigators.Nigel Watson, author of the UFOs: The Nazi Connection, said: “It sounds like they are trying to bring a lot of separate things to make (something) whole.”
But he added that “the idea” of alien or flying saucer bases being underground was “nothing new”, dating back to at least 1962, when Albert Bender, founder of the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB) in Bridgeport, Connecticut, claimed that alien beings took him to an underground HQ in Antarctica.
He said: “Sceptics think such stories are the product of malicious disinformation or fantasies, yet that doesn’t stop people believing in their existence. Perhaps if we all go under that flying saucer ‘shelter’ we might all believe.”
An MoD spokesman said: “We do not comment on UFO matters.”
Express.co.uk contacted Qinetiq to comment on the strange suggestions and awaits a further response.
A spokesman said: “We’re taking a look at the very detailed dossier and working on a response.”
Watch as Disney CEO Edomite Eisner announces the Alien Agenda with a knowing gleam in his eye.
Watch as Robert Urich narrates the show and tells many truthful secrets – specifically that UFO activity began in earnest following the Nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Watch as Disney “Imagineers” create an “Alien Encounter” exhibit in Disney Land to “prepare humans for the INEVITABLE encounter that will happen in the near future”.
Watch as the program explains TOP SECRET directives as to WHY the truth must be hidden from the public. (It would destroy their power base of lies and illusion.)
Watch as the Brooking Institute (primarily Coca Cola and other Big Business CEO entities) declare that telling the truth about UFO’s would “destroy society”.
If you haven’t seen this before, remember it was filmed to be aired on Sunday night “Wonderful World of Disney” tv show in 1995 – but was scratched – it only aired on a handful of select regional networks.
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